Make yourself a vest or something (31 March 2025)

The government is looking to create a hotline to enable reporting of overzealous road cone use, so Marcus tries to gauge how that would go.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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Speaker 3 (00:13):
Back on deck. Welcome eight past date. My name is Marcus.
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(00:35):
is it. Here's a question for you that I've just done,
something I've learned today. Here's a word for you. What
does this word mean? What is a it's a thing?
What and I don't know how to pronounce it? What
is an orry? Oh r e l y? Don't look
it up? Just if you do know or curious reinteresting
to find out about. That's not a word I've ever
heard or used. Orry. Yeah, no such thing that I

(00:55):
didn't know. There was no such thing an orray oh
r e l y orra y. If you know what
that is? People give me a hollo orry, just a curious.
Start to get the whole ball at rolling tonight. Something
I've never heard about. Orry, not with an h with
a no, oh r e r y orry. Parent's quite
a common thing, common word. No one no, text it

(01:19):
through or send it through? Send if you know what
it is? How about them? Worry is a boy? That
guy was all right? Want he liqua halasima. Anyway, they'll
be they get the two points from the buy next
week and they will be top of the table. If
not third top, there'll be third, I would think, so
any that's something to be excited about. Yeah, I didn't
get the chrome cast work to watch it on the phone,

(01:39):
but I get too nervous to watch it. So anyway,
if you know what an or is, give me a holler,
oh r e L y the orry Orry. I don't
know if I would have listened to the radio and
then said they wouldn't have known. Actually, so yeah, I
will tell you. I'm not going to taunch you for hours.
I'm just curious if anyone does know. Oh e y,

(02:01):
I'll see the text doors and bring your call, I
guess if you like to. No PRI's never a prize.
It's been too long on radio giving away prizes. Terrible
things trouble with radio when they give away prizes, they
give away to people that think are going to be
the most exciting one as it never works. Well, Ray,
I could give you an ray, although I haven't got one.

(02:23):
Oh why Ray A lot to report about this week
in two and tonight. So so as I wait for
people to talk about the ray firstly, just sorting dinner,
will call you in ten. It's a good text to Darcy.
Isn't that what that means? I was not Darcy was
it today anyway? But it's a good text Piney. About

(02:50):
three times a week I get texts that the meant
for someone else. So yeah, I like that anyway, Get
in touch eight hundred and eighty nine to text if
you want to come through Ray. No takers for Ray.
You'll know by the end of the night. Hey, just
before well we can talk about this also tonight. So

(03:12):
Brook van Velden, I always want to go Brook van Derveldon.
I always think there's something missing for that name. But
Brook van Velden what she has decided that she wants
to do as Minister of Health and Safety, And it's
probably something a lot of you are very very excited about.

(03:36):
And what she says is that she will do is
she will set up a road cone, a hotline for
road cones, a hotline for the public report over zealous
use of road cones would be set up and work
Safe would provide guidance where problems were identified. So I

(03:59):
saw this in the newsday and I thought, goodness, gracious me,
a road cone hotline, And I thought, how well do
I think that will go? Because in fact, what happened
with that very very thing is it just about sunk
John Major as the Prime Minister of Great Britain. That's

(04:25):
a very very famous thing. It's so famous it's got
its own Wikipedia page, and the Wikipedia page is Cones Hotline.
The Cones Hotline was a telephone hotline introduced by the
Privacy United Kingdom John Major in June nineteen sixty nineteen
ninety two to allow members of the public to inquire

(04:47):
about roadworks on the country roads and report areas where
traffic cones had been deployed on a road for no
apparent reason. The telephone number on the hotline usually O
three four five five, oh four oh three zero or
oh three hundred and one two three five triple i WI.
It is usually displayed on signs after sections of roadwork.

(05:11):
Between March ninety four to March ninety five, the hot
line was staffed by a single person during office hours
and by the duty staff out of hours. It moved
to an external contractor for six months before being brought
back at house in September nineteen ninety five. The hot
line was widely seen as been a waste of government resources,
costing several thousand pounds per year to run. In September

(05:34):
nineteen ninety five, having fielded seventeen thousand calls, it was
announced that the hotline would transition into a new system.
Was then transformed into the Hail Highways Agency Information Line. Anyway,
so there we go the situation. But the trouble was
they say it costs more than it actually saved, So

(05:59):
was widely seen as something that wasn't very good at all. Anyway,
that's a situation. That's the hot line, and it was
seen for John Major's as sort of one of the
reasons that kind of his government became unpopular. Yeah, anyway,
you might have something to say about that. That is

(06:20):
the Cones hotline. And I'm sure there's great punter voter,
member of the public passion for this. I just wonder
what it's going to achieve anyway, you might want to
say something. I don't think they do. I don't think
they provided a reward. The hotline was widely seen as

(06:47):
being a waste of government resources yep the service to inspire.
The term cone syndrome to describe a piece of legislation
made by a government that seems to serve no real purpose,
was mentioned in the TV series Old Men by Rick Wakeman,
who said that bloody that nobody knew what it was for.

(07:11):
I've spotted some cones, how many, about four and a
half million on the M six to absolutely nothing. Thank
you for telling us. There we go, So there we go.
There is going to be a Cone hotline, but I
think probably we all know that it's not going to
do much. The only other thing, too, I think, and
is it cone hotlines can do, is they can give
out a reward for cones that are stolen or found

(07:33):
in creeks and stuff like that. But then I think
what happens is people steal the cones to get their reward,
so that itself is a moral has it anyway? Could
be a fun job to run the Cone hotline. But yes,
the UK tried it and it was quickly disestablished because
it was seen as government excess. I did try and

(07:55):
speculate one night how many traffic cones there were in
the country. We're there more cones than people. By the way,
there are a lot of traffic cones on the Bluff
Road at the moment, certainly more than a number of
people in Bluff. There's probably a mind you the roads
a disaster thanks to heavy trucks, and they seem to
need to actually repair it continuously. It's like the Auckland
Harbor Bridge. So not is it a long road, but

(08:19):
it's a main highway. It's state highway one to apport
a lot of trucks on that was built on swamp.
It's also a curving road, so the forces aren't just
up and down their sideways as well. And just where
we're on trucking, is it just me that thinks it's
daft that trucks that are the double trailer trucks bring

(08:41):
the wheels and put them on top of the front
part of the truck when they're driving back empty to
say road miles, because surely that's just putting more pressure
on the one set of wheels they've got. Anyway, Ben Marcus,
welcome you.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
I'm just wondering if this road going hotline is more
of an incentive for the coning people to watch they
do and watch how many cones they're putting out, because
they could be worried about something dubbing them in.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
I think we're cone people. I think they have to
do a traffic management course. I think it's very prescriptive.
They do a plan of how many exact road cones
are supposed to put out. That's my understanding. Have you
got a different understanding?

Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah, well, what understandings are like, if you're going to
do anything, you're careful of what you do. If you're
worried about you know, someone might dive you in a
bit of reverse psychology. So maybe instead of you know,
people bringing it up, that might be an incentive not
to put unnecessary tones out unnecessary times.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
But the point I was saying is that most put
out cones following a traffic management plan, which is very prescriptive.
They need to put exactly the same amount the right amount.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Well, look, I've noticed the difference between lock of with
them and Magagley over the weekend and there's a stretch
of road outside the kmart that ripped up at the
moment and there was actually very few cones. And I
was actually surprised because when they rip a road up
in christ Church there's cones for Africa.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
It sounds it sounds to me like someone that you
are someone that can't wait for a cone hotline because
you would like ringing it up.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
I wouldn't say I would ring it up.

Speaker 6 (10:21):
No, I'm not.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
I reckon you would.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
Hey, if I've seen it, you know it was heat
of cones there and there's a week no one's working
there and there's no reason for them to be. You
might suffer photo and ket it on base, but I
probably wouldn't be.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Can't we trust the Cone people to know how many
cones to put out?

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Well, it's just I think it depends on more Eeriel
of them. Well, I said, you know gam and Macaba,
they seem to be using less cones because.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Over the weekend there's a lot of cones. Now, it's
just they went working in the week in these hundreds there.
Now I can promise you I've just come past k mart. Okay, yeah,
but then again I don't I don't know, Ben, I've
got to I don't know the right number of cones.
But what I do know is when roadworkers get run
over and killed, that's not a good thing. When they're

(11:12):
doing a job, and while during that job they get
killed doing the job, then that is a bad thing.
And that happened I think sometime around Katty Katty the
other year the other year, when someone came through roadworks
too quickly. So if people get annoyed by the number
of cones, and you've got to put that against how
many people get killed by people going through roadworks. I'm

(11:34):
not too concerned about a CONE hotline, But if the
CONE hotline enables some people while they are commuting around
the country to let off some steam, and you let
the CONE hotline person, that might be beneficial. I already
feel heated talking about cones. I don't know the rules

(11:58):
when putting down cones. How many per one hundred minutes
you're supposed to put down. Once upon a time, it
was barrels full with water and diesel lamps, and they
seem to work quite well. Must have been a performance
to put them all down, Although I don't think there
was as much as many roadworks in those days. Nineteen
past eight, Marcus till midnight eight hundred and eighty ten

(12:19):
eighty Marcus, have a photo of a roadside worker lying
down on the grass. You see a green Bunning's brolly.
Go figure. Gosh, Now we want to actually knock on
people lying on the grass, Marcus. I want a hotline
to report those vicious speed bumps that you need a
hummer to get over. What else do people want a
hotline for? How many callers deep will we get before

(12:44):
we're back to how many millions do we make from
charging each cone individually? Well, funny should mention that the
very next text the companies charge per cone put out
more out more money. Have we're actually proven that have we? Marcus?
Don't think this was the actual road cones. The real
issue was with roading companies starting work before other works

(13:05):
are competed, leading to a mess of unfinished work creating
issues with travel times. Well, there we go. I think
people want to start taking photos of road workers and
sending them to some sort of higher authority to post
and to shame. By the way, this word's back. Atmospheric River,

(13:25):
a large weather system set to strike New Zealand it's
going to be wet, but it's going to be warm.
It's going to be like a sauna late Wednesday or
early Thursday. There you go, So that's good. That could
be the drought buster. I'm calling it the drought buster.
Cones Cones road Cones Axel says won every three meters.

(13:49):
Someone wants a lost shopping cart hotline, Yes, but I
think if you had a lost shopping cart hotline, people
would People would stockpile them in the back of their house.
Then they go and get the rewards. That's why supermarkets
never give you any money for trolley. They started giving
your rewards and people would be removing the trolleys for
the rewards tomorrow. Hazard Oh Marcus hotline for grammar. The

(14:20):
number of cones, not amount of cones. If you can
count them, then it's a number. There are fewer cones,
not less same applies. Do we care, not so much.
But if that is something that upsets you'd probably be
upset by that. A twenty five dB Marcus welcoming, good evening, honey, be.

Speaker 7 (14:41):
Your cone situation is so descriptive of the hell. Then
they put out what shape they are where they know
how many per meter everything is in that book. Now
the problem starts where if you get it wrong and

(15:03):
there's an accident, the guy in charge get it in
the neck.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
The.

Speaker 7 (15:10):
Road manager in charge of the pons due to the
next way of passing it back. So that's why you
know there are more cones and looks like there needs
to be. But the idea is to stop from killing

(15:31):
road workers. And I spent about a year playing a
stopgo lollipop person, for which I had a qualification. So yeah,
like you've got to be qualified to operate stop go side.

Speaker 8 (15:52):
Kay.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
There seems to be a disconnect between the members of
the public about They all seem to think they could
do road management better than the people on the road
doing road management. Is that a fair assumption?

Speaker 7 (16:03):
That's not bad? Yeah, I agree, and I've had to
deal with some of them. In fact, I went because
I'm a smart ass and said, look, instead of having
the side say stop go, because people see the word
go and they go, it should say stop on one

(16:24):
side and thirty on the course.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
It showed you should have been given a congressional Middle
of honor. That's a smart thing that you could be
the stop thirty men or person.

Speaker 7 (16:34):
But the difference between people that I had to stop
going and blen them. And I've also done somehow run
and in the cargo is like talking cheese. Then the
cargo is the only place I ever went to where
people actively blew through the stop side.

Speaker 9 (16:54):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (16:56):
So and you know it surprised me, right, I get
it that people are in a hurry. I don't see
why in the cargo should be in more of a hurry.
But down here people actively ran stop sign.

Speaker 10 (17:14):
Would you start?

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Would you start? Triple five of them?

Speaker 7 (17:19):
I didn't. I just laugh and kiss quietly to myself.
That's just you know, they haven't killed anybody, good luck yet,
but yeah, the poor and I've forgotten their title. If
someone ran stop sign, instead of management of the road

(17:42):
in company getting it, the STMs in charge gets it
in the neck. That's why they They can't play silly
buggers with the book of rules that says you will
put out nine cones on a taper, you will have
one cone perse thirty meters. You will have extra sign

(18:07):
every one hundred or two hundred meters that give you
the speed of it. Blah blah blah blah blah. And
it's a book full of them and when they asked me,
did I want to become an actress? I said no,
I'm not that stupid. Now, what was liking you done
for us? Holding the sign up upside down?

Speaker 3 (18:28):
You should have made You should have made your own sign, don't.
It should have been stop, stop or thirty Yeah, I
mean that's a good one. Stop or thirty killings.

Speaker 7 (18:43):
Stop or slow and that I thought there was a
good move. But most of them say stop or go,
And you can see it in the front driver's eyes.
You turn the stop from stop to go and they
forget they're entering a thirty ksone and they go because
you've held them up for sometimes thirty seconds. Sometimes all right, yeah,

(19:05):
to be farpen three time minutes, but even thirty seconds
just gets people's blood going.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Nice to talk to TV the cone hotline? Would you
find it? What are the hotlines? Would you like? Is
it trouble with winds payments today?

Speaker 8 (19:22):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Is that what we are saying so in Christy just
seems to be problems with winds payments. The Cooperative Bank
have posted that just to keep you informed. You did it.

(19:43):
We didn't receive TOMORROW'SMSD winds payments at six forty Please
note that all of the payments of successy process whichd
inticeate the incoming payments are breaking smoothly, giving the usual
processing time of two to four hours. We are hopeful
to receive these payments in the next batch, which is
expecting around seven forty exact time could FLUCTU won't please
respect that based on misd winds, finalize their payments finds

(20:05):
into the bank for procing this afternoon. So there you go.
There might be able to a panic there, but I
think they're on to it. I think it's going to
come through. By the way, someone says there was a
wrong Chase question, Marcus. If my mother messaged me about
a question on the Chase tonight, it was about Julie
Andrews and what was her birth surname and the answer
was Wells. This isn't correct that she was adopted at
the age of four by my granddad's cousin, A Wells,

(20:29):
when he married her. Julie's mum, Well, maybe her maiden
name was Yes. I don't know how that would go,
but they're normally pretty good with their researching. But who
would know that is an answer? I wouldn't. It does

(20:50):
say she was born June Elizabeth Wells. In the Wikipedia,
it doesn't say she was four when she was adopted
by mister well Ted Wells the school teacher. Oh, now,

(21:16):
I this is interesting. It seems it might be a cohenkidinky.
Oh no, I don't know it, says June. Julia. Elizabeth
Wells was born in one October nineteen thirty five and
Walton on Thames. Her mother, Barbara Ward wellsnie Morris, was
born in Jertsy and married Edward Charles ted Wells in

(21:37):
nineteen thirty two. We'll then it gets quite complicated. Yeah,
I can't work out all of that with knee and
all that sort of stuff. But anyway, but yes, I
think they would affect checked it. But if you've got
I don't know what we can do about that. Does
it mean that someone didn't win the prize? Get in

(21:59):
touch marks till twelve oh, eight hundred and eighty? What
other hotlines do you want? And what about a traffic
cone hotline? Any good would you ring it? And what
are then they supposed to do? Going to hassle the
road works and say how many cones have you got out?
But people seem to think that the road people putting

(22:21):
the cones up are stupid, which doesn't appear to always
be the case, or ever is the case, and christ
Chicks just worry about a speed bump. Speed humps have
been approved for one side of a pedestrian crossing on
a busy cross chitch road but not the other after
two separate community boards could not agree. They say it's

(22:46):
worthy of Monty Python twenty four to nine. Ricketts, Marcus, welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 11 (22:53):
Hey Marcus, are you mate good? Rick Just I was
just having a laugh. I mean, she one of the
first times I've listened to your show. But I was
just driving through Gore telling your boat home a cargle
and just went through the center plot, the last one
the roundabout, and there.

Speaker 12 (23:13):
Would be fifty cones set.

Speaker 11 (23:15):
Up and someone's raked the garden. So I'm not sure
that anyone would walk over it anyway, but they would
have to leave the cones to it. I was very improved.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
Will they be doing that overnight?

Speaker 11 (23:31):
YEA, Well they must have been raking it up well,
probably for a safety reason, that's probably right. But that
bluff road, mate, I was on a Coastguard call out
on Saturday. That is not good.

Speaker 12 (23:44):
That road.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Seems as though you had a fairly good outcome, did you.

Speaker 11 (23:49):
Yeah, no, no it was, And it's not always a
good outcome down there, you know, how nasty to see it? Yeah, yeah,
really good. Yeah, it's really good.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Mate at a boat tipped at a boat tipped over
or something.

Speaker 13 (24:02):
No, well, he had been diving off the shore and
he had all the year, but all the year was
gone by the tom we got on and wow, really
nice guy, like he's a good kid. But just it
was three meters there here. It wasn't the wrong time
to be diving all the right up then.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
But had it come up? Had it come up suddenly
or was it always like that?

Speaker 14 (24:26):
No?

Speaker 11 (24:26):
Well, the beautiful thing down there, mate, as you know,
is in the mornings it's fantastic. Yeah, but you know
you get that equal week. When it comes up in
the afternoon, it can get pretty rugged pretty quick.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah. Okay, Oh that's a good outcome then. Okay, So
I appreciate that, Rick, nice to talk to you. Thank
you for that. Twenty two to nine, keep it going
the old road, Cones. Yeah, nice to hear from you
about that. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine
text and I think there is a misconception that people
think that the companies that hire out the road cones

(25:01):
they're all billionaires living in Monaco. But I'm quite sure
if that's in fact the truth. But anyway, you might
want to say something about that. Marcus Cones. Road cones
are designed to be hardly audible and hit to warn
the workers to get the out of the way. I
wouldn't want less if I was a worker. The book
is a guide to the mandatory setting up procedure for
all and any roading operations on primary or secondary roads.

(25:24):
All signage and notifications are laid out to be followed.
Compton is the name of the manual. Cones are spaced
at two point five meter spacing or five meter when
dividing a road. All layouts run to a taper when
entering or exiting a road closure. The Site Supervisor STM
is responsible for erecting any disassembling, erecting and or disassembling

(25:45):
the layout. The contractors are audited by Auckland Council and
set up without warning. All signage and come setups must
comply with Compton. If challenged by contract Council, Contrasts must
quite the particularly set out they're operating under in Compton. Marcus,

(26:10):
the governors tonight couldn't name Brunei's liquid expert. What a howler.
It sounds to me like people want to hotline to
dobbin the members of the Chase team. You know, I
get in touch. One name is Marcus. Welcome eight hundred eighty,
ten eighty and nineteen ninety six Marcus. It's the stupidity
of how many are used and where. For instance, I'm

(26:30):
working on the land of the country where there are
seven houses, powerpoles have been replaced in the paddock, and
there is road management, two guys and about ten codes.
Out does my hidden Someone says he sounds like a
stopg person. Probably was also an unloaded trailer can be
dangerous to drive on forestry ride, Dowie, thank you for that.

(26:51):
That's about the Marcus went from from Auckland to Great
Barrier on the ferry, one of the best faery rides Dolphins,
it's said, from the Great Destination. Any other good ones worth?

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Any boat trips good? I'd say, wouldn't you get in touch?
Marcs to twelve nineteen away from nine eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty By the way, oray is a mechanical
replication of the solar system. Did you know that? Did
you know that there is an atmospheric river on its way?

Speaker 8 (27:27):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
But the major thing is the hot line for excessive
road cone use. The government has declared a war on
a pet hate for many kiwis launching a new reporting
hotline and assigning two ministers to tackle a real issue
of over zealous road cone use. You can drive around

(27:56):
this country at different times of the day and you've
got whole road shut down. No one is doing any
work in the cones of frankly, just clogging up. The
joint luxon was joined by Workplace Relations in Safety mister
Brook van Valden, who said the issue of Sea of
Cones was brought up at almost every meeting along her
recent national road trip. Must be votes to today, So

(28:21):
there you go, would you call it? They must know
what happened in the UK surely, says in quote, New
Zealanders really hate road cones. He's gonna be bad if
someone gets bold and killed Doe. By the way, at
midnight tonight, I can tell you we've got Romance coming

(28:46):
in to be on air from midnight tonight eight hundred
and eighty to this day. In nineteen ninety nine, the
Matrix is released. I want to say that out of
any movie to not have seen, the Matrix would come
up in conversations more often than any other move I

(29:06):
hasn't seen. So often you're reading something that's referred to
as just like the scene in the Matrix. It's probably
one of the most important movies I've never seen, that
Et and Jaws. It's amazing once you haven't seen a movie,
how much you miss out on anyway, got no desire

(29:30):
to see it none whatsoever, but just put it out there.
By the way. The new plan for the Israel and Fairies,
we don't know the cost. I don't think any money
will be saved. I think probably once we pay the
break of contract and once they manage to get the
fairies a price for them to be built, and that

(29:53):
doesn't seem to have happened yet, when they're just at
that stage now where they're going to go and look
for the contracts. So it's not gonna be cheap. So
they are talking about saving money, but that's a moot
point at the stage, because we don't know how much
it's going to cost. Plus you've got the brake fee also. Yeah,

(30:14):
so you've got the cancelation for the previous contract, YadA yadi.
So yeah, it's going to be expensive for smaller fairies.
And look in twenty twenty nine. I'll be surprised if
they're ready by then. Back orders et cetera, et cetera.
So you might want to mention that. Also, the rail

(30:36):
enables a bit sketchy. I think the word is rail shunted,
which I presume they just go on. I don't quite
know what that means the future and rund fairies have
road and rail decks given the efficiency of single shunt

(30:58):
movements for multiple rail wagons for loading and unloading. So
it's still very much a work in progress at the stage,
and nothing really has been set in Stone seven Away
from night Grig, it's Marcus. Thank you for calling. Good evening,

(31:19):
and good evening Marcus.

Speaker 10 (31:22):
Marcus. You were saying, what is an oray?

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Yes, yeah, I was, well.

Speaker 10 (31:30):
I must, I must admit the truth. I looked it
up in an addictionary because I was getting it confused with oschery.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
Oh what's that?

Speaker 10 (31:41):
Yeah, ray is well. My dictionary said it was a
clockwork model of the solar system.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Yeah, what's what's an chery?

Speaker 10 (31:55):
Any I thought that was what they put bones.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
How's that spelled?

Speaker 10 (32:04):
I think it's O doubles you.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Oh yeah, I've never heard of that either.

Speaker 15 (32:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Well, it's like a it's like a crypt, a chest
box building or site serve as a final resting place
for human skeletal remains. So there'd be an ostery. There'd
be an osary in the crypt, wouldn't there. Okay?

Speaker 10 (32:31):
Yeah, well I saw watching was mentioned in a an
archeological site in Israel. So they were down underground and
in a turn so and they had an ochery. I
think it's like a marble box kind of thing to

(32:51):
put all the bones in.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
I was just looking at an auction catalog and someone
must be flogging off the collection of osiris. There must
have been big in Victorian times that would show you
how the you know, the moon revolved around the Earth
and the Earth and all the other planets revolved around
the son, and how you can sort of crack it
and whin I would actually visualize it all.

Speaker 8 (33:11):
Yeah, you can.

Speaker 10 (33:12):
You can still still get them, you know, like you
know how you can get a globe of the world. Well,
it's sort of like it's just extend it out. You
know what the sun is the center and you've got
all the planeuts moving around.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Yep.

Speaker 10 (33:31):
Yeah quite.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
In fact, Greg, I think my boys got given one
out of lego that you made that was an ossery
that was that did the same thing. You'd turn it
and it would show you, you know, the earth had
spin once and I'd go around the sun every three
and sixty five days and yeah, yeah it was pretty good. Well, yeah,
that's a new one. That's a new one to me,
osur So I quite they're very similar words.

Speaker 10 (33:53):
Yeah, well that's what was confusing me. So that's why
I thought, well I'd better look it up just to
be sure.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Appreciate that, Greg, thank your road Cones and the road
Cone Hotline be a great job to have, hi road
car not line. How am I help? Oh my god,
I've just because there must be a thousand cones on
this right year. Sure? And how's that making you feel angry?

(34:19):
And why do you think you're angry? Because it's the
government waste? Okay? And how do you feel about me
being paid to run this hot line? It's more government waste.
It might be Ai, it might just be a computerized voice. Hello,
this is the hot line. Hello, this is the Cone Hotline.

(34:44):
What can we do for you? Yeah, I don't know.
I'd like to develop something to be made with old
traffic cones, because there must be hundreds of ones, like
a little bit, a little bit rooted that they need
something to do. I don't know what they do with.
They melt them down to make something else, make yourself

(35:06):
a or something, or jewelry or earrings anyway, Like they
make all those earrings you see online made from old
pool and snooker balls. That seems to be all the raise,
doesn't it. I might make an osery out of old
road cones. Get in touch. My name is Marcus. Welcome
HDDLE twelve your osiries. Fancy people love when someone on

(35:31):
the chase gets something wrong? How are you wait past night?
My name is Marcus. Here till twelve o'clock. Like talk
about the EH road Cone Hotline, someone said the best
what they should use is the old plastic road cones
to make new road cones. But I thought it's an
extremely good idea. But there's going to be a hotline
that you can phone up. Gee, I reckon. It's going

(35:52):
to lead to a lot of disappointment because actually probably
not much they can do. George Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 16 (35:58):
Ah, sort a bit of levity, wouldn't it if you're interested? Yes, yes,
road cones, road tones. Yeah, you wanted to know what
to do with road cones. Well, if you took a
couple of them and put them in the windows of
a shop and turn into the road cone burger bar,
you're going to have road cones which are stopped stop

(36:19):
burgers and go burgers. You could have sunny side up
burgers with the eggers done with the sunny side up
for a good day. You could have sunny side down
burgers which of mayonnaise over let us for a rainy day.
You know, you could just go for it.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
So you think people are so obsessed with road cones,
you could actually turn that to your advantage by turning
some sort of burger bar based on road cones.

Speaker 16 (36:38):
Right, Yeah, that's it. Well, the thing is, if you
go nationwide when you're traveling and you're looking at all
these road cones, it's going to be worse than McDonald's
because it'll just remind you going to get a burger.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
How many times do you curse the road Cones.

Speaker 16 (36:52):
Well, I had this picture in my mind when I
was a kid, when you're talking about this earlier, and
what I remember is that there was two baudy gallon
drummers painted white, were that piece of water across the top,
and there was a couple of kerosene lanterns with red

(37:13):
lenses on them, burning away all nights. Gluted them with
a used They ended up putting a chain on it
and flogged them and.

Speaker 15 (37:20):
That was it.

Speaker 16 (37:21):
Nobody drove into them. They just went slow over the roadworks.

Speaker 11 (37:24):
And drove out the other ink.

Speaker 16 (37:26):
This carry on that we have with.

Speaker 17 (37:28):
These huge trucks with lead lights.

Speaker 16 (37:29):
And you know, we had a scenario while back where
a lady actually drove into the back of one of
those I don't know she was on the cell phone
or what.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
She's probably calling. She's probably calling the road cone hotline.

Speaker 16 (37:41):
Probably, but she drove into the back of one of
those hues lit up, you know, lane diversion trucks.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
I reckon, George, I don't know you, but I reckon.
You'd call the cutline.

Speaker 16 (37:54):
Yep, what the what the burger barne?

Speaker 3 (38:00):
I reckon? You'd call it? I reckon, you'd say, George,
here yeah, anyway, there's too many. There's too many.

Speaker 11 (38:07):
How take your order?

Speaker 2 (38:08):
How take your order?

Speaker 16 (38:09):
How many cones do you want?

Speaker 10 (38:10):
What do you want on them?

Speaker 16 (38:11):
And you could have you road cone lighting in the shop,
in the burger bar and on the.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Cone, I know, and on you And when you put
your order, you put your order number in the top
of the road. There'll be a road car on each
take each table, we.

Speaker 16 (38:26):
Got, yep, and you take you know, if you got
to sit down the table with the number, it'll be
a road cone sign with thirty or fifty or sixty
or teen on it or something like that.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
I've googled road cone burger bar. They're none in the world, George,
So you're onto something.

Speaker 8 (38:42):
Oh, there you go.

Speaker 16 (38:43):
You could go into national with us. I'll tell you
every country could have road cone burger bars and everybody
would know exactly what it was.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
Would you ring a hot line?

Speaker 16 (38:55):
Of course you would, but that would you me?

Speaker 8 (38:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (38:59):
And for ordering one of those burgers.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
You're sticking with the extended metaphor, right you. I appreciate
your commitment to the joke. It's really good. I mean,
you're there for it.

Speaker 16 (39:10):
It's not quite April the first, but it's close.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
I don't reckon. I reckon the world's too serious. I
don't reckon there's going to be anything tomorrow.

Speaker 16 (39:19):
I think there might be, but I might give it
a go in the morning with next, but I don't think.

Speaker 8 (39:27):
Look.

Speaker 16 (39:28):
I did a beauty with Helen Head what's her name?
You're one that does the host well. But she's pregnant,
not with the you know, not available at the moment.
When she was down on Wellington, I wrung her up
on her You won't know, but I wrung her up.
On April the fall at half at eleven, she was
complaining that no one had brought a joke up or anything.

(39:51):
So I rung her up and I said, Heather, have
you seen the new council promoted electric pogo sticks? She goes, what, yeah,
battery powers, so you don't have to do much work.
They just popped along for you. There's you know, you
can change how fast you want to go, how big
the leapers from the pogo stick. And so when you

(40:12):
come to do cubs and everything, it doesn't worry because
you just go up and over them, you know. And
all this when it comes to parking it there's a
piece of cake you just leaning across the bed of
the building, you know, because they shared you know, application
on visin just pay for using it. You just stack
them in windows whatever it doesn't take in use easy
in the rain, easy you know to use. You could

(40:33):
even have double wins if you wanted to. But the
electric pogo stick is the thing, and that's going.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
She must she must have checked out and been planning
where to go to lunch. If you thought that was funny,
because that's pretty unbelievable.

Speaker 16 (40:43):
J wats hang on, let me finish. She wanted to
know where she could get one.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Oh yeah, well she's humoring I reckon. But anyway, that's
just me George. I appreciate your moxy. When they talk
about Nick, they talk about Nick Mills. So some different countries,
different parts of the country have different morning hosts. Yew,
did you know that Auckland has Kerry what a Wellington

(41:08):
as Nick Mills? Christ Church has John McDonald. I presume
he goes into dneed milso I don't know. I don't
who Invert Cargill has Marcus. The Cone hotline will have
background music, waiting music, then press two, then press two,
then press three, and you are now number fifty five
of the line. It will be like that. Your call

(41:29):
will be taken in two hours. Marcus. If that woman
can drive into the Prediction Protection truck, imagine who would
be injured if the truck wasn't there. Exactly, we need
a hotline for George's lame jokes. Exactly, there should be
a lame joke hotline, Marcus. I just actually, sometimes my

(42:01):
job feels like it cross between the Cone Hotline and
the Sky Help Desk. I have just driven through roadworks
just how they're Roliston, and they had those permit road
cones sticked with every road cones besides two road cones
side by side. Road cones make good scratches for cats
if you cover them a rope round round to the top, Marcus.

(42:34):
As I said, if we changed from two large threws
to three smaller ones for the same price, that could
have been feasible too, and used the spear backup all
able to use the existing terminals may have saved the penalty.

Speaker 11 (42:43):
Null.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
Noddy Napier, get in touch Marcus till midnight. Jan would
you phone a Cone hotline?

Speaker 15 (42:54):
No?

Speaker 3 (42:56):
Would you like to work in the Cone Hotline?

Speaker 8 (42:59):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (42:59):
Yes, wouldn't that be some, Well, it would.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
Be really I don't know how often the phone would ring,
but yeah.

Speaker 18 (43:08):
And you'd get awfully bored.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
Anyway, I get bored with my job and it involves
phoning people. So maybe I don't know, maybe you would.

Speaker 18 (43:17):
Yeah, you'd just start imagining things. Anyway. The last time
I drove my car and I ran over about four
cones on the side of the road. Didn't know what
i'd run over, but it went crunch, crunch and hobby hobby,
and I thought, oh heck, what have I squatched?

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Could be a person? Crunch hobby hobby.

Speaker 18 (43:42):
Yeah, yes, And I turned the car around and I thought,
oh no, those horrible, damn things. But I decided I'd
put the car back in the garage and I've never
driven since. Wow, And I thought it was far too dangerous.
You know, I don't know what damage I did to

(44:02):
the car, but it still went.

Speaker 19 (44:06):
Anyway.

Speaker 18 (44:06):
I wanted to tell you. Remember we were talking when
you came to wang Nui and you asked me how
I get about Do I go on the bus? And
I said, no, I go on the driving mistakes.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
Oh now I'm crazy with what's there? How's the song go?
For the commercial?

Speaker 18 (44:26):
I can't remember. It's a nice tune.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Now I'm driving with Miss Daisies. I'm familiar with that
little bit service. I don't use it, but I have
known some of those used it.

Speaker 14 (44:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (44:36):
Well, it's very, very popular here in Wanganui, and unfortunately
the owner wants to retire and he needs somebody to
buy the franchise here. Wow, and we're desperate for someone
to buy because otherwise it's closing on the sixteenth of April.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
Oh, this is a good social message. What sort of
car have you got the garage?

Speaker 14 (45:00):
Jen?

Speaker 3 (45:01):
Jen Jen Toyota Rom Rom?

Speaker 10 (45:05):
What year rom?

Speaker 18 (45:06):
I don't know. I don't know details about anything.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
But how are you going to sell it?

Speaker 10 (45:16):
No?

Speaker 18 (45:17):
I think I'll just leave it to deliver and it's
all my stuff. Somebody.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Have you got someone in mind to inherit, to inherit anything?

Speaker 18 (45:28):
Oh, I tell you, I'm trying to get my will ridden.
And boy, what a job at her trying to find
trying to find a lawyer that can do it properly,
almost impossible.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Other worlds were pretty straightforward.

Speaker 18 (45:44):
Well, I don't too, but I can't find anyone to
do it.

Speaker 3 (45:48):
So have you got some weird stuff going on?

Speaker 18 (45:53):
No? There's a lot of trickery, you know, lawyers or
legal executives that don't do their job right and dishonest.
Cause me, knowing me, I catched them out. Yeah, very dishonest.

(46:14):
My hell, warn people be careful. Well, one of them
he wouldn't let me have a copy of my will.
So I rang another lawyer and he said, you can
if it's a photocopy of the original when it's all signed. No,

(46:36):
he wouldn't let me have copies. So I could have copies,
but not signed one. Then he wouldn't put my life
insurance policy in the will, and that was dodgy. I
left him and went to the next one and she

(46:57):
left out my home and content altogether out of the will,
left a big gap there where she could probably add
to it after I'm dead. Dropped her now. So terrible
things going on in this country, so much dishonesty, and
I can't trust anybody.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
Just can't you get to make make your own will
kit and do it yourself.

Speaker 18 (47:26):
Well, you can just just write it out. You just
need to go to a JP who has a witness
as well and write it out yourself, which is what
I'm going to do next.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
And then will you then? Will you keep it?

Speaker 18 (47:43):
Well, I've got a executor, executor of the well, she's
a JP and she can have a copy and she'll
make sure that what I want happen.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
Are you going to be around for a while.

Speaker 18 (47:59):
I'm hoping because I want to go on a cruise
next year, the Mediterranean. Wow, flight to London and then
cruise will if it has been blown up and some.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
Bomb, well there'll be a line call again. Of course,
there are all those ships that got hijacked on the
meta drug. Always think of the Achillie Lara. Remember that
when they hijacked it? Oh remember remember that when the
cheap as Oh no, Jen, that makes it more exciting
because you need your well then, Jen, nice to talk,
Thank you. I'll good on Jen, Jan Gang on a holiday,

(48:37):
you sell the car, you probably pay for it, Jen, Jen,
it's gone. Oh, there's very good text about the road
Cones Cones, Cones. Tell it to get a wool peck
and do it yourself. I haven't eve read that text.
That's exactly what I told her. Someone says they weren't Cones.

(49:00):
What's that referring to? Oh, there's a website called Safewilds
dot co dot Nz. How do I feel about Wills? Well,

(49:21):
I you know, I went to make a well I
couldn't work out and if I had to be wanted
to be buried or cremated, and I never really resolved that.

Speaker 8 (49:28):
For me.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
And that's what I say about that sort of indecision.
Probably want these days. They probably want to mediicate me
for that sort of indecision, wouldn't they? But no, I
reckon that's I could not work out the answer. I
still can't. You know what people say to me, oh,
you'll be did anyway, which really shows I understand any
of the quandary. Wellthough I don't really understand what the

(49:52):
quandary is anyway, you know, I don't really I can't
really work that one out. Yeah, I don't like the
New Bluff Cemetery because they've moved it from the old one.
Now it's kind of an indeterminate part of the country.

(50:15):
There is a nice cemetery and Clyde, which I quite like.
But anyway, I see that the White Committee is just
about full and they're going to close it because every
time you drive around Why Committee it goes from that's
the big one in Auckland where the people for the
I won't say that's that's insensitive. A lot of people

(50:37):
from the ninety and eighteen flu pandemic there because the
check them on a train and train them out there
and then bury them. Very interesting cemetery, but it's full
and the council's despute trying to but they've got no

(50:57):
Ford plane out the district to buy some more land
to bury people. Twenty five past nine, Jamie, it's Marcus. Welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 20 (51:05):
Hey Marcas, there you go.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
I think good. Thank you, Jamie.

Speaker 20 (51:08):
So I'm listening to your comments about cones and it
got me thinking in Australia, I thought it was real
strange because we don't have stop go signs.

Speaker 12 (51:18):
We have stopped slow signs.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Really wow, okay, well okay that makes sense.

Speaker 20 (51:24):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I've seen it. It didn't make sense
to me, but now it.

Speaker 12 (51:28):
Kind of does.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
Have they always have? They always been stop slow signs?

Speaker 20 (51:33):
Yeah, yeah, there was some time moved here. I can
because I remember it being quite a talking point with
me and my me and my wife.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
Never seen one.

Speaker 7 (51:44):
Yeah, and yeah there.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
Was MAYBELD and should be doing that rather than doing
the Cone hotline.

Speaker 20 (51:52):
The Cone Hotlines ridiculous. I know, I can't understand it.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
Because I'm glad you said.

Speaker 20 (51:56):
It a few years ago. It was I know there
was a roadworks site. I don't think it was not
set up right, just set up in the wrong spot. Anyway,
truck came over the hill no warning and killed a family.
Because that will stop at the Anyone who's complaining there's

(52:17):
too many cones is yeah, it's crazy to me.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
I agree.

Speaker 20 (52:26):
Yeah, and yeah, a lot of probably the same thing
we have with the your illina. And then did you
come over hill? Traffic stop because the road works because
there's the signage hasn't been put up the street properly.
Probably not that they haven't set the side up. Probably
they just haven't quite thought about the amount of traffic
that's going to be waiting. And then your heart on
the breaks and can get pretty.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Herey are you going to vote for the election? Jamie?

Speaker 2 (52:53):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (52:53):
Can you vote?

Speaker 12 (52:55):
No?

Speaker 19 (52:55):
I'm not.

Speaker 20 (52:56):
Yeah, I've got to try and do my citizenship before
before may or been a bit lazy.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
And if you do then it's compulsory in Australia, isn't it.

Speaker 20 (53:07):
Yeah yeah, yeah, So because Albanezy changed the law, so
Kiwis can fast track citizenship.

Speaker 7 (53:15):
Yeah, and I was like, oh, yeah, that's good.

Speaker 20 (53:16):
I'll get to that. And then now there's talk the
other guy what's his name forget his name, but doesn't
the other like the policy and he'll change it. So
I have to pay the fifteen hundred bucks before they
go to the polls just so, and then locked in
to become Australian.

Speaker 7 (53:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
One vote's not going to change it though, was it.

Speaker 15 (53:41):
No?

Speaker 20 (53:42):
No, no, that's it. But yeah, apparently he was against
the policy of changing letting Kiwi's become citizens so if
he gets then he might reverse that. Yes, so yeah,
I'll try and get in before before that.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
Yeah, I don't even know that about the stop slow signs,
So I find that quite interesting that someone would have
told us that by now.

Speaker 20 (54:07):
Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty funny when you when they flip
them over and you still cracks me up.

Speaker 7 (54:15):
But I a little bit.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
Are you out driving now, Jamie, Yeah, I'm.

Speaker 20 (54:20):
Just north of Coss Harbor, just went through Coss Harbor.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
Do they grow bananas there?

Speaker 14 (54:27):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (54:27):
Well?

Speaker 3 (54:28):
The bananas you see them with the bags on?

Speaker 20 (54:31):
Yeah, yeah, on the hill thet Yeah, I got the
big banana the big banana. Yeah, I'll stopped there once
with the kids.

Speaker 12 (54:39):
We were kind of look around.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
Pretty be pretty boring, wouldn't it.

Speaker 20 (54:44):
Oh yeah, they were closing when we got there. But yeah,
there wasn't much at all.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
I don't know why they don't do tin bananas often
that they might be good anyway, Thanks Jamie, nice to talk.
Getting touched. Hit'll twelve. My name is Marcus. Welcome Wait
eighteen eighty the road Cone Hotline. It's sunk John Major
Brook Friendveild needs to study your history. Oh yeah, gosh,
we're listening to the people. They think that's going to

(55:12):
raise in the polls, but no, we can't. We can
see through it, I would think anyway, twenty nine away
from ten here till twelve the Cone Hotline. That's what
we're on about tonight, and I don't quite know how
it will work. It's thit on details. But they're gonna
have to be careful about that because if you're a

(55:35):
party that's opposed to reckless government spending and you've got
a Cone hotline, I mean needs to achieve something. And
if all the cones are laid out officially according to
traffic management planning, then what's a Cone hotline going to achieve?
Please discuss eight hundred and eighty todaighty nine ten nine

(55:57):
two de text market is still twelve. There's something else
you want to mention here for it, Marcus, how much
to use crystal balls go for on trade? We Jan
could be sitting on a fortune and Portman choosing a
barrel site would be the neighbors. Glad Act are saving

(56:18):
government money with their Cone hotline. Ironic. There's a great
cone tree way out in the WAPs in the far North.
Every time we've gone down the road the cone decorations
have increased. Great fun. Damn, I was going on a
Mediterranean cruise next year. Get in touch, Hittle twelve. Sometimes

(56:42):
I forget what we are talking about. There must be
some of us of a certain age group that watched
the news when the Akilie Laro got Do you remember that?
Before terrorism day, before they started blowing up planes and
themselves in the seventies, it was all about hijacking. Then
they release everyone but the killie. It was very famous.

(57:07):
I forget who got on board, but they they kidnapped
the cruise liner was breaking news for a long long time.
I think everyone escaped I hope they did. It would
be terrifying to be I know that would be someone
listening to the show that was probably on it. There's
Marcus welcome, good, thank you.

Speaker 17 (57:33):
This hot line is going to be gold, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
What they should do is they should they should broadcast
it live. Yeah, exactly so they could tune in find
out what's going on the hot line.

Speaker 17 (57:47):
I'm just going to get every Karen and every Kevin
with are the reconds? Bring it up?

Speaker 9 (57:54):
And then and then.

Speaker 17 (57:57):
And then works like we're going to madly rush out there.
They go, oh, you've set them up first through the
traffic management playing. Yeah, great job to joke there, to
joke another attack on road workers who already face abuse
on a daily basis. There's this massive pylone on the

(58:20):
TM industry that come on at the moment. It's only
going to get worse than the local body elections when
all the all the candidates want to get voted in
and they want to run down what they call excesses
spending on traffic management. And then the staff in the
field where every single day from everybody that drives past
throwing shit at them and abusing them and telling them

(58:42):
they're all useless of too many cones. And the leaders
in this country need to realize what they're doing by
running this policy.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
And look, does it work for Wayne Brown?

Speaker 17 (58:56):
Wow? Yeah, But it hasn't worked for the people in
the field who.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
Look absolutely. I mean, it's an easy thing to say
when a gay rid of road cones. Well, of course
there's no way to do that because because it's a
ridiculous thing to say that's right.

Speaker 17 (59:13):
Because what happens when nobody's going to say, okay, so
don't put out any road cones and whoever gets hurt
and nobody will be responsible. That's not what it's right.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
I just don't know what the mentality of people as
they think they know more about traffic management than the
people do in the traffic management. That's I can't work
out and luxe and speeding out by going along with
it one hundred percent.

Speaker 17 (59:36):
Everybody's an expert man, And you know, when you think
about it, there's not a whole lot of jobs that
get done in the public eye all the time, like
they say, particularly when everybody is such an expert. You know,
the guy's building the roads, you see them talking about
it all the time. Well, I don't miss down and
do it. That will be terrible. And then the next
one is a faulk and Haagen do it. Oh, that
will be terrible.

Speaker 19 (59:55):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (59:57):
It's just junk.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
And I guess because everyone can actually see the road cones,
I'll have an opinion like everyone's an opinion on TV
because they can watch it. They've never made it, but
they can watch it.

Speaker 17 (01:00:08):
Yeah, that's right, man, it'll be a joke. A lot
of people lighted up from the call scene because I'll
need a few, judging by the Karens and Kevin's around
in this country.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
Nice to hear from your desk. By the way, I
didn't realize the male form of Karen was Kevin, but
thank you. You're probably right. I try not to use
the word Karen because I think that, Yeah, but if
it's Karen and Kevin, it's probably better. It's there's sexist,
I guess, But yeah, I guess there's Kevin's and there's Karens. Yes,

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I did tell the kids that we are no, I
won't say that. Actually, I'll send to myself about that
that we're a going to blow that out of proportion.
Since it's blowing out of proportion season. Dave Marcus, Welcome,
good evening, Hi Dave.

Speaker 7 (01:01:07):
See how you doing. At the risk of being accused
of being an expert from that from the last call,
I've got a couple of points to make about the
road cones. So if you go to Australia and you
have a lot of having a road cones they have
over there, you just about to see none. The speed
limit to sixty kilometers an hour or even eighty that
have got residential houses next to it. So if the

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traffic cones were as important as they were in terms
of safety, then you'd be giving a shitload of people
going in Australia. It just ain't happening. And on the
second point, this is something that I observed myself outside
of my work. We had to transformatively. So this is
not a main road or anything, but from eight o'clock
to one o'clock in the morning they had traffic management
for a transformer on the side of the which is

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off the side of the footpath where what they were
doing is protecting people from standing off to the footpath
and probably going into the hole. There was three of
them during the day and two of them until one
o'clock in the morning. They sat under the treaty the
entire time. So you know, while they still do things
like that, could be situations where the cones are logical
and they are perhaps for value for money. But at

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the moment when you get a situation like that, you
have a total of five people spread across, you know,
give will take sixteen hours. It's no wonder people think that.
You know, it's just a ridiculous waste of money. There
was no safety aspect there, and you certainly didn't need
three people and even you said they didn't even need
any And what Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
What's your get around to make those judgments?

Speaker 7 (01:02:34):
Well, so in general, I'd like to think I'm a
logical base guy that the basis has come INtime data.
So the number of cars that were driving up and
down that road at one o'clock in the morning would
have been one to two an hour because I had
to stay there because of the transformer. It was part
of my role to get it up and running. So
if you got one to two cars per hour, and
remember we're talking about off the footpath here, so you

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know they're trying to prevent so there was no logic
to it. Whatsoever.

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
Do you think the problem? You think the problem in
New Zealand is the fact that you think the road cone,
the traffic management plan right involves too many cones. Is
that what you're saying.

Speaker 7 (01:03:13):
No, I just think that.

Speaker 16 (01:03:15):
I think.

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
If you're saying there's too many cones here and that's
following the traffic management plan, then you think the traffic
management plan needs to be changed.

Speaker 4 (01:03:25):
Right, that's correct.

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
I think it needs to be so then that's that's
not a hotline solution, that's changing your traffic management plan.

Speaker 16 (01:03:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:03:36):
I haven't heard much about the hotlines. I can't really
comment to it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
That's what we're talking about. We're talking about we talk
about the hot line, and the hot line is a
hot line that if you see an excessive use of cones,
you can phone it in. But I don't think most
members of the public know what's an excessive use of
cones because they don't know the traffic management plans you
need for certain cambers and certain road use.

Speaker 7 (01:04:05):
Yep, get your point. So, but an example that I
gave would have been defined as success if by anyone's terms, right,
I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
I don't know what the traffic man it seems that
you're more concerned that people would't do anything for a
long time. Is that right?

Speaker 7 (01:04:19):
No, you didn't need it at all. There was no
logical reason for them to have bones, less alone people.
And even if you did have to have people, we're
talking about three people who literally sat under the treaty
entire day. I remember at one o'clock in the morning
there was no one. There's no one on the road,
and they had two people. But that was for Victor,

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so it might be a different issue, but it's still
the same kind of concept, is that it's absolute safety
at what price, at what cost? And you know, why
not have ten times as many cones as what they
do now. It's just there's got to be a point
where logic takes in.

Speaker 3 (01:04:57):
What was wrong with a transformer?

Speaker 7 (01:05:01):
The connection from from the cable in the ground had
sort of melted a little bit, and it took them
quite some time to figure that out.

Speaker 3 (01:05:09):
Were they concern that it was a live wire situation?

Speaker 7 (01:05:14):
No, not at all, because the transformers inside a concrete
a block house opened there was no roof on it,
so there was no live wires exposed at all.

Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
Okay, thanks Dave, seventeen away from ten o'clock eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty Road Cone Hotline, she's on its way.
I think that someone said that's going to be announced tomorrow,
so they might have got the jump on this for
a story. But yes, John Major, remember him. He came

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after Maggie Thatcher. He started a road cone hotline. It
was ridiculed and was the beginning of the end for
him because what it really came to signify was ridiculous
government spending, which you think Act was opposed to. So
here's the facts about the British Cone Hotline. The Cone Hotline,

(01:06:08):
but of comedian jokes, was allowed to die. Was announced
by John Major a Tory party conference after a spade
of delays on Britain's motorways. But far from being a
political winner, it became an embarrassment after it was revealed
that out of seventeen thousand calls to the service, five
resulted in any cones been removed. Seventeen thousand calls, five

(01:06:32):
were able to be acted on. So yeah, and I
just can't believe that they didn't know how much ridicule
that called to the I mean, it's famous. Every comedian's
got material about the Cone hotline Funny dwelve Away from
ten Franketts Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:06:51):
Oh good evening. I've got a arm in queens Down
and a year ago, I guess a bit longer. The
roadworks everywhere and cones everywhere, and what the guys were doing.
The one contractor he'd bring his curents in, another contractor
he'd bring his currents in, and some of them would

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stack them in the evening and leave them by the
bins by posts. And we were we were plagued by
cones everywhere, and hence said be on rooves and you know,
because there was a lot of them. And I had
several arguments with various different cone people contractors, and in

(01:07:45):
the end I spoke to the council and I got
this one guy who he was actually I did he
part opposite me as I as I was ringing the council,
and I thought, well, that's that's pretty good. So I
went over and spoke spoke to him and he was

(01:08:06):
a senior home man. Well he was, you know, a
road safety person, and he agreed totally that it is
disgusting that it's New Zealand's premiere tourist destination and there's
cones around every bin. And anyhow he changed their contracts

(01:08:28):
and they had to pick them up, they had to
take them home with them at the end of the
day when they finished.

Speaker 15 (01:08:36):
And now where.

Speaker 6 (01:08:39):
Everyone's much happier.

Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
There's a huge amount there's a huge amount of roundabouts
have been put in there. At the moment, there's there's
big perfet happening there, right, big perfect change, is that.

Speaker 6 (01:08:48):
Right, it's yeah, it's a little bit difficult. At the
moment was they opened the new bypass and everyone was
saying road to nowhere, but it actually worked really well.
But then I think it was a week or two
later that they closed the original rode down down the

(01:09:12):
hill and now it is a bit of a bit
of a problem, always a problem getting into function and.

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
Yeah, yeah, and I think that's the story of Queenstown
as just no planning, no Ford planning at all. You
report your so nice to talk. Thank you for that.
Ten from ten David's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:09:34):
This is a road cone hotline.

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
Yes, we're getting one.

Speaker 15 (01:09:39):
Well, well, well, what is someone going to say, we're
no phone, like I'm phoning now. In my opinion, in
my opinion, well opinion based on what I mean, in
my opinion, found too much really road cones and they
spread everywhere. What's the any of this and costing me?
Costing us too much money? I mean, this is just

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that on whose opinion?

Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
And based on what have you got any photos?

Speaker 13 (01:10:04):
Yes?

Speaker 15 (01:10:04):
Photos are.

Speaker 9 (01:10:09):
Some in the river.

Speaker 15 (01:10:11):
There's a market.

Speaker 3 (01:10:12):
There's a lot in the river. And that would be
different if that would be different, if there's a reward
for hotline for codes. But then people would steal them.

Speaker 15 (01:10:19):
Hey, markets, I wish there was. I'll tell you, I'll
be collecting tonight. You would mission. I'll make a special
mission market. Goodness me, I'll be correcting. There won't be
too many road cones in hey, Marcus. What came out
with the Nichol Willis was the grocery business with a
grocery business, you know, the the the big announcement that

(01:10:41):
we're all I did hear.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
The Aussies having another inquiry into that, because we're always
taking the Ausies are cheaper than having yet another inquiry
into their shopping Joppa, and I thought they went.

Speaker 15 (01:10:51):
All right, well there, I'll tell you two lead the
milk over there is too later two dollars and there's
certainly our green fruit and veggies. The people who've come
back from Europe say you can't get over just how
expensive it is. But I was expecting that to be
big news, big come out to what the government plans

(01:11:16):
to do, or a third player in the market. Market.

Speaker 3 (01:11:20):
Yeah, she sought external.

Speaker 15 (01:11:22):
Advice, Oh goodness.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
And they're open to a range of interventions.

Speaker 15 (01:11:30):
That's an active incompetence, does it not? Or do you
just say you're useless?

Speaker 3 (01:11:35):
And this morning's announcement, which was yesterday the Finance, but
I said Cabinet was issuing a formal request for information
to our supermarket companies. Look at end of the US
in the market, what regularly changes were required to compete nationally.
So they're just appearing to look like they're concerned, but
they're not doing anything meaningful.

Speaker 15 (01:11:52):
Surprise, surprise that I was not holding my breath anyway.
And that Commissioner, for all his work, might as well
go as well. And savors a few bob more brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:12:02):
I suppose you're on the high from the warriors win
and them pacifica win, Old Tarna, Look cappy, didn't he
look real happy? It is April fools tomorrow. Just beware
of that. I imagine there'll be some headlines tomorrow that
you think, Oh, actually, however, you've got to kind of

(01:12:26):
read the rum. But it's not the season for pranks,
is it. It feels like it might be a little
bit the wrong time with everything being so serious, you
might want to mention that text us if you can.

(01:12:47):
What about the phone? The Cone hotline should be called
the Cone Phone, shouldn't it? Marcus? I have several road
cones in my garage. I use them to stop tradings
parking too close to my driveway. A very good text.
Here will the hotline be based in the Philippines? Marcus?

(01:13:10):
Longtime is the first time text? A big fan of
the road Cone Hotline. Awesome use of money. Next up,
Ministry of silly walks? If only act spend that money
on kids lunches? Love your work?

Speaker 10 (01:13:19):
Is he good?

Speaker 3 (01:13:22):
Evening? Bennett's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:13:24):
Hi. About that sign stop slow?

Speaker 3 (01:13:30):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (01:13:32):
Do you think it means the opposite go fast?

Speaker 3 (01:13:39):
Tell me? Tell me a bit more about what you're thinking.

Speaker 8 (01:13:42):
Okay, the sign stops slow can mean stop going slow.

Speaker 14 (01:13:51):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
Good point. But they're not on the same side.

Speaker 8 (01:13:55):
Oh okay, okay, I thought it was one time.

Speaker 3 (01:13:59):
Now they stop on you know how we've got you
know how, we've got stop and go right. Yeah, it's
like stop go you think you're going to floor it?
In Australia, it's got stop on one side and slow
on the other.

Speaker 8 (01:14:12):
Oh sorry, I thought it was one sign.

Speaker 3 (01:14:18):
What that'd be a good conversation for the hotline.

Speaker 10 (01:14:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:14:23):
What did the Rastafarian Christmas Tree say to the other
Rastafarian Christmas Tree?

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
Let me think what Rastafarians say? What did they say?
What did the raster fan and Christmas Tree say to
the other Rustafaran Christmas Tree?

Speaker 8 (01:14:44):
Would you like a corn man?

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:14:47):
Very good? Okay, I didn't tell it was a joke.
You made it yourself being. I think we need a joke.
We need to be Yeah, you need to be funding
the joke hotline because it wasn't very good at all.
I mean I don't normally take jokes, but normally think
of the jokes. They're going to be jokes that are funny,
not like a handmade joke from a guy that understands
stop slow sign. The first half was funny. Keith, good evening,

(01:15:10):
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:15:12):
Oh yes, good evening, Marcus. What I'm ringing about is
the cones? Now, I've got no aversion to the amount
of cones that the council. But what worries me is
whether the council own the cones and don't have to

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pay for them. But if they are hiring the cones,
it's a different matter, and it would be hard for
them to keep a record of how many cones are
used and how much money. It would be extravagance if

(01:15:58):
they had to hire them. That's all I've got to say.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
Would you ring a cone hotline?

Speaker 5 (01:16:07):
Well, I never thought about it.

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
I've never thought I wouldn't I spend I mean, for me,
phoning someone's like work, because I do. I'm on the
phone at work. I wouldn't want to have to phone
people on the day off. I don't use the phone.
It's like a break from the phone. It's like a
bustman's holiday for me. It's the opposite of a busman's holiday.

Speaker 5 (01:16:27):
Yes, yes, Well what city you It's just like I'm
bringing my family. When I'm bringing you, it's You're easy
to talk to and.

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
That's a nice feeling.

Speaker 5 (01:16:39):
What relax?

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
What city are you in?

Speaker 5 (01:16:43):
I'm in Dnaden, I'm in the arrest home and moscule boy.

Speaker 3 (01:16:48):
I tell you what I was in the week I
wasn't needed the weekend. There was one extremely nice day
of weather and one not very nice day.

Speaker 5 (01:16:55):
That's right. Yes, it did very yes, and today it
was it was quite colder as seventeen degrees. But I've
managed sick McLeod watching Joy which was.

Speaker 3 (01:17:11):
Well I managed. I managed to get to the Green
Island Guinea Pig Show, which was quite interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:17:17):
You ever been to that, No, I haven't.

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
Actually pretty interesting. I think they're really into the guinea
pigs in Dunedin.

Speaker 5 (01:17:29):
Well, I didn't think that there was a lot of
guinea pigs around.

Speaker 3 (01:17:35):
Really, I surprised how many there were. It was a
very well organized event. There's even coloring in for the
kids of guinea pigs. It was very good and I never,
in my wildest dreams sort I have any interesting guinea pigs.
But I surprised how interesting I found the people. Yep,

(01:18:01):
do you get in touch. My name's Marcus Huttle. Midnight tonight.
It's all about It's all about road cones actually, but
nice to hear from your Keith, not hear that you're
keeping well. Yep, yep yeby yep, yep. Get in touch
of this something different than you want to talk about.

(01:18:24):
They're called cavies. They're not called guinea pigs because they're
not from Guinea. They're not pigs. I think it don't
make extremely good pets. By the way, when you at
these guinea pig shows, I presuve it's like the rabbit shows.
You don't they're not for sale. They're for adoption. Seems
to be a subtle difference, but you pay to adopt them,

(01:18:46):
so pretty much they're for sale, but they call it
an adoption.

Speaker 7 (01:18:50):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:18:54):
The theme was pigs in space, so there was themed
exhibits as well. Marcus, can't we have bright green cones
or pink cones?

Speaker 5 (01:19:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
I've often wonder why they're all There must be a
reason for that because of visibility. Marcus Way West and
road cones and went into With all the changes to
roads with bike and bus lanes, lots of lane markings
have changed a lot, and in some places the old
cats size have been removed, so at night those lanes
look like the old layout and are confusing. How many

(01:19:29):
calls to the cone hotlight asking for a trumpet a
tip top trumpet? Good point if you got anything Cone related,
This is the chance for you to call. It feels
almost like we've been I mean talkback hosts to be
happy because we can, because often we become the Cone
hot line or the sky fault center, and someone wants

(01:19:54):
to know if the call center the phone hot The
Cone hotline will be run from the Philippines because that
would be the cheapest place to run it from. Marcus
Noddle cones are orange. They have blue penguin cones along
the New Wellington to hut Walk cycleway. Marcus, would there

(01:20:18):
be a charge to ring the Cone line? The government
could then buy new ferries. Marcus, I feel like the
Cone Oh that's why people say it was going to
announce tomorrow though it was April Fools. I feel like
the Cone Hotlight is a pre loading for April Fool's day.

Speaker 5 (01:20:32):
Loll.

Speaker 3 (01:20:33):
There's nothing better than seeing a road cone that's been
dragged down the road and worn down to a nub.
Michael the Milkman, Well, the Cone Hotlight is sending Cone
police wardens out to investigate every call. I can't wait
to call and send them on wild goose chasers. It'd

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be good if there was a car like an is
cargo or a cube with a cone on the top
that was a siren was cone shaped and the people
wore sort of cone hatsu. There's nothing they can do,
is there? Marcus. I work to traffic management a lollipop

(01:21:18):
sign flipper for about six weeks post hip replacement surgery,
and so I go back to my normal work, and
I was told the reason there's so many cones close together.
It gives the drivers a sense of how fast they
are going, so they tend to slow down a bit
if they see things bright cones flashing past their peripheral vision.
Tom O, you play with good explanation, Tomo, but someone

(01:21:43):
feels like it's April Fool's day. Pre loading, Marcus can't
wait for the hotline. Excessive road cone use in student
filled and needing cones aren't used for pedestri in safety
or traffic management here, Marcus O nine hundred got cone gone,

(01:22:04):
carn out of talk. Good news is some redundant public
servants just got their job back. Marcus. I work at
a safety shop. Cones are worth sixty dollars each brand new.
We sell them in bulk for about twenty seven bucks
if you buy more than five hundred. Sell them my marketplace,
make a fortune. Who'd buy them?

Speaker 12 (01:22:24):
Though?

Speaker 3 (01:22:24):
You just take them, wouldn't you. I've never stolen a cone.
Have I ever thrown any just in a mad way? No,
I don't think I have. I've retrieved some from rivers
and mudflats and stuff. I've never put one up the
top of a tree because it kills the tree. In

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Bluff we have a statue of the Prime Minister, Sir
Joseph Ward. I don't think he was very good. He
wasn't born in Bluff. He was born in the gold
fields of Ballarat or something like that. But his mother
was a solo mother, and she moved to Bluff, yep,

(01:23:12):
And he got involved in the grain trade in the
cargo and he became prime minister anyway, raised by his
mother in Campbelltown, which is what Bluff used to be
known as. So there's a statue of him in Bluff.

(01:23:38):
But it always looks better with a coat on its head, always,
as most statues do. Is it disrespectful to her? Not really.
I think it makes the young people notice. Some of
the kids often say who's that dad? I say that's
then they glaze over by about then he's buried in

(01:24:00):
the Bluff Cemetery, the old Bluff Cemetery. Yep, there you go.
I don't know what his great legacy is yep, but
he's got a cone on his head now. Anyway, he discovered,

(01:24:26):
he established the world's first Ministry of Health and Tourism,
presided over a period of economic prosperity, and provided state
fund and help new Setans of the country. Don't know
if he is pro the railways. It's hard to tell.
Here we go. Here's another informative text Marcus full stop traffic.

(01:24:48):
Road work sites are governed by legislation. When traffic management
set up sites, they photographed the site set up back
to their office which is used by police have investigated accident.
I can't believe comb commentators haven't thought the process through. Well,
what's happened is Brook van Velden has gone around country
and a lot of people have talked about cones. It's

(01:25:09):
just for votes, I mean, the story of the whole
last year and a half for ACT and USAID in
first are to return and be above the five percent threshold.
Although it's not so important for ACT because I'll get
the cozy deal in Ipsoen. But that's what they're desperate for.
It's just about votes. It's just about one of those
because everyone, I mean not people know about the funding

(01:25:31):
of health because that's complicated. But road cones people think, oh,
there's too many cones. It's a very easy thing to
get people wound up about. If you can meme it,
you can turn it into policy. A friend and I
traveled to Napier recently, had a lot of fun personalizing
the cones e g. Cone knocked up against the hell,

(01:25:55):
always climbing the wall, other lying flat, sleeping cones. There
were flat men lying those there were there were flat men.
Those lying road wards had death wish. Those in groups
only gossiping. Others readomly placed where creating a dodge and
track made the trip quick good. My thirty year old

(01:26:17):
son seems to have an obsession with collecting road cones,
most of which retrieved from the Fanginary River and now
adorn my property. Do you think I could call the
hotline to have them removed? I don't think it'll be
anything as useful as that.

Speaker 15 (01:26:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
I mean, you could have this, you could, it could
be in oh, eight one hundred number, you could go.
It'd be an automated voice. Hello, this is the Cone
hot Line. If you have a cone you want to
report that's in a weird place. Push one. If you've
passed a roadwork site you think has too many cones,

(01:26:53):
push too. If you what else would they be asking?
I kn'd even think. I kind of think how a
cone hotline would work. If a statue near you has
a cone on its head, Push three. If there's a
Norfolk pine near you with a cone on the top,
Push four. Yeah, that's prilliot. It's about the best I

(01:27:22):
can do. Government plans hotline for public. You can drive
around this country different times a day and you've got
whole roads shut down, no one is doing any work,
and the cones are frankly just clogging up the joint.

(01:27:44):
So that's a pretty vague thing to say. What's he
referring to. I mean often they're probably waiting for deliveries
of bitchumen or I don't know what they are doing,
but I'm not an expert. Where we've got small businesses,
we've got some really silly stuff going on. We've got

(01:28:04):
signs that are actually there to warn you about hot
water taps. We've got signs to say please hold on
to the handrail. This is where we've jumped the shark
and it's gone mad. And Van Velden says these health
and safety reforms could not be complete unless we do
something about road cones. It's crazy. Anyway, I'm sure people

(01:28:30):
will like ringing it. Twenty two to eleven, Isaac. Hello,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:28:35):
How's it going good? K?

Speaker 3 (01:28:36):
Isaac? Thank you?

Speaker 12 (01:28:38):
That's good. Well, I'm going to treat you as a
Cone hotline because I'm driving through Packernger right now and
I want to die whatever number. There's too many cones?

Speaker 3 (01:28:49):
Hi, Isaac, Hi, Isaac, how can I help you?

Speaker 12 (01:28:53):
Hello?

Speaker 3 (01:28:54):
Your Cone hotline? Isaac Cone Hotline? How can I help you?

Speaker 12 (01:28:59):
I'm driving through Packranger and they're far too many cones.
I'm seeing four rows of cones face less than a
meter of part.

Speaker 3 (01:29:07):
And how Isaac, how far apart are they?

Speaker 9 (01:29:11):
Probably about like a meter even if that probably even less.

Speaker 3 (01:29:15):
Because they are supposed they are supposed to be a
meter apart.

Speaker 12 (01:29:19):
These look like half a meter.

Speaker 8 (01:29:20):
And then really is it?

Speaker 3 (01:29:22):
How fast you? Because if you drive past them quickly,
they will seem closer together.

Speaker 12 (01:29:27):
Oh mate, I don't know, but there's four rows of them.
Do you think that that's that's too many?

Speaker 3 (01:29:33):
How many cones would they be all together?

Speaker 8 (01:29:37):
Ah?

Speaker 12 (01:29:38):
Too many? Like over over one thousand. It's not like
the whole road. You've got cones on either side of you,
and then there's rows of cones behind that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:49):
Is this the Is this your first time calling the hotline?

Speaker 12 (01:29:52):
This is my first time calling the hot line?

Speaker 3 (01:29:54):
Because these calls might be recorded.

Speaker 12 (01:29:57):
Off for training purposes, For.

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
Training purposes, that's right. What would you like us to
do about that? Would you like us to send someone
out tonight and count the cones?

Speaker 12 (01:30:06):
Yeah, that'd be good. Count them and get rid of them,
because I think that's you're going to see that there's
too many?

Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
Are they doing roadworks at the moment?

Speaker 12 (01:30:14):
There, Isaac, They're never not doing roadworks, packering it it's
it's constant, it's a it's a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
I think that's progress and growth, is it? That's me talking,
not the Cone Hotline. I've gone back to my ordinary
character because I've enough, but very hard to keep it
be harder than talkback. It's hard to come with things
to say. You need your small talk? Wouldn't you mind?

Speaker 19 (01:30:35):
You could?

Speaker 3 (01:30:35):
Probably I could probably go hang on, let me just
bring up that roadworks on my computer, right road you
actually in, Isaac? So what road you actually on?

Speaker 12 (01:30:45):
Packering a highway?

Speaker 3 (01:30:46):
Do do do? Bringing that up?

Speaker 14 (01:30:48):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:30:48):
Okay? Those cones will be there for the next two weeks.
They're doing resealing, right, all right, Okay, but what what
we'll do. We'll get someone out there tomorrow and we'll
just make sure that they are following the Cone management
plan and there aren't too many cones there.

Speaker 12 (01:31:06):
That's great. I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (01:31:08):
Thank you for calling Cone Hotline. Thank you, see Isaac. Yeah,
I think I'd ruther have this job. That would be
exhausting when we're talking about cones the whole time, and
you get the idiots talk about marijuana. Oh is it
the Cone? I could do with a cone? So there
be those people who wanting ice creams exhausting, exhausting high markets. Marcus,

(01:31:34):
welcome not the Cone Hotline. Good evening.

Speaker 9 (01:31:37):
Oh really, I'm disappointed.

Speaker 15 (01:31:40):
Hey yeah fuck?

Speaker 9 (01:31:42):
Wait what did what menu number did you get up
to in the.

Speaker 3 (01:31:49):
I think there's only the one thing is there's too
many cones or there's no cones, or I've found some cones.
I think there's only three things.

Speaker 9 (01:31:54):
Right, yeah, okay, well I'll give you one thing about
cone alone. You know, you drive around town and you see.

Speaker 3 (01:32:04):
One cone I got alone?

Speaker 9 (01:32:07):
Yeah yeah, drive out in the countryside is another one.

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
But they're not it's not going to be worth coming
to pick them up, is it? Because they're only worth
twenty eight bucks?

Speaker 21 (01:32:17):
Well?

Speaker 9 (01:32:18):
Probably not, because those cones that are alone have obviously
got the messages.

Speaker 7 (01:32:22):
But yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (01:32:24):
What would they do? Would you say? Could you you
couldn't post it to people because you couldn't take it
to a post box and seend it back to someone
because it costs more to get They don't care.

Speaker 9 (01:32:33):
Yeah, no, they don't care.

Speaker 3 (01:32:35):
It's like a bad Timo purchase. They could just years.
We'll just keep it. They'll see you the money bag.

Speaker 9 (01:32:40):
Yeah, Now, what what were you saying? The cost of
a cone.

Speaker 3 (01:32:42):
Was sixty dollars if you're buying five hundred or more
twenty seven dollars?

Speaker 9 (01:32:48):
Well, how about this one, one single cone in a
particular store I saw with one hundred and seventy five dollars?

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
Really?

Speaker 7 (01:32:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:32:58):
Wow? What store was it?

Speaker 12 (01:33:00):
That?

Speaker 3 (01:33:01):
It must be a designer stare? Was it Pharaoh?

Speaker 10 (01:33:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:33:06):
Probably a designer stool for electricians.

Speaker 3 (01:33:09):
Yeah, no, I don't know. They mean that might be
a high one or a special what I'll tell you,
there's nothing is said. If you've seen those collapsible cones,
they look pathetic. No, I got wire in them in Februc.
You just pull them up and then they become a
cone and then you can collapse them. But they're not
they're not inspiring.

Speaker 9 (01:33:27):
Weism for sure, and yes they did, they would not
last too long.

Speaker 3 (01:33:35):
Would it be fair to say that most people have
driven over a cone just to see what it feels like,
and would.

Speaker 9 (01:33:41):
Say that would be a fairly good assumption.

Speaker 5 (01:33:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
You see how close you can go to one? Elpos
there's one? What is that for you? I imagine a
lot of people have done that. Good evening, Becketts, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 14 (01:33:53):
Oh yeah, I just turned the station on and I
heard you're talking about find the road Cone subjects because
we did like it was a creative artist topic about
the road cones and it was weird. Could you put
the road cones and new yelling and like, you know, Everest.

(01:34:13):
We could go to the top of I don't know,
like the beehive and put a road cone people. You
just find road cones everywhere, really, and I just I
found it humorous. In the days when we were young,
I know that friends couldn't park somewhere, so they've put
a road cone outside the house or two so that

(01:34:37):
when you get home, you move the road cone and
you park.

Speaker 3 (01:34:41):
Yes, people do that, don't they. Yes, they have their
own cones for that.

Speaker 8 (01:34:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:34:45):
So I'm sorry of a butted and in the moment
where I haven't had anyone else.

Speaker 14 (01:34:48):
But there is a lot in Auckland City and they're
covering the city. It just shows that maybe the mirror
isn't doing the job properly and getting those jobs done
quick enough.

Speaker 3 (01:35:00):
You know, Well it seems as though they're needing. I
meant the city growing very quickly at one point seven million.
They're doing a lot of roadworks. Of people spend their
times in cars.

Speaker 14 (01:35:10):
Yeah, but but then you look at even like Ovid Tampooner.
It's tuning into a ghost town, which it never used
to be.

Speaker 3 (01:35:18):
But they always been the ticket poon of shops.

Speaker 14 (01:35:21):
Yeah, ghost now they've always.

Speaker 3 (01:35:24):
Always been a ghost, always been terrible. That more was terrible,
The main street was terrible always. They shouldn't have got
rid of them on.

Speaker 14 (01:35:33):
Oh that was stunning, of.

Speaker 3 (01:35:35):
Course it was. That's what you want to bring down there,
and beautiful with the rock stars.

Speaker 2 (01:35:40):
That's it.

Speaker 14 (01:35:41):
Absolutely, it's I'm glad they didn't get rid of the
camping site.

Speaker 3 (01:35:45):
Well, yes, they tried very hard to. I spent a
year at the camp site. It's good.

Speaker 14 (01:35:49):
Oh it's great. I've done two nights here for a
little wedding gathering.

Speaker 3 (01:35:54):
I love a wedding gathering.

Speaker 14 (01:35:55):
It was so cool. So yeah. So the ROCs, I mean,
nothings sound everywhere just like those super market trolleys. You know,
how much are they? Does the council actually wrink them
or are they actually who knows?

Speaker 5 (01:36:08):
Who knows, I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (01:36:10):
Yeah, yeah, but I reckon the supermarkets don't care about
the trolleys. They'd rather get insurance than bothering going out
to get them. They don't seem to care.

Speaker 14 (01:36:18):
Well, you know, I did a subject where I went
to a council meeting to discuss about a rubbish bin
and in the ays back when I sent the nineties,
the rubbish spin was fifteen hundred to two thousand to
put one in. And now the government seemed to have
removed the rubbishpins so that there's less work. But the
rubbish bins that they design, as you can see, and

(01:36:39):
if you go down I think High Street, you look
at a rubbish bin on a Friday night or whatever,
it's absolutely choker flying all over the streets because the
rubbish bin is too small.

Speaker 3 (01:36:50):
Yeah, but I think the rubbish bin's quite interesting, Beck,
because it started in like places like Fox Glasser and
Friends Glass they got rid of rubbish bins because every
rubbish bin always just people threw rubbish at it. So
now the movement is to not have rubbish bins anywhere
and people just take their rubbish back with them, and
I think it works much better. I think the streets
are cleaner without rubbish bins. I know that sounds like

(01:37:12):
a weird thing, but I think that's the reality. Thank you, Beck, Marcus.
That packer, that packet unger call was the exact reason
you need a form or apt to submit pictures. As
per my last message, your hotline is just stupid. There
should be a web form an app that you can
fill in to report any excess cones but also traffic

(01:37:33):
and or health and safe issues. Whether somebody can upload
a picture of the offending issue exact locational map, and
then it should route roots it to the appropriate counselor
agency to deal with. Marcus are a bit concerned to
see random road works pop up around the Upper Hut lately,

(01:37:55):
no pre warning or speed restrictions, just the workers digging
the road behind the truck with some directing traffic. I'm
a bit worried the staff are taking risks to deliver
on time frame set by management. Someone said, if there's
no cone, someone's throwing them over the cliff, which is
probably right, Marcus. I think the road cone hotline could
also deal with stray Supermarket Trolley's Marcus facts way to

(01:38:18):
a road cone is four point five kgs Tommy the
tongue and from CELS Traffic Control all cank thirty two
of them at one hundred and forty four kilograms. His
cousin is Manuverve eight to eleven. Good evening, Paul, It's Marcus. Welcome,
Hi Paul.

Speaker 22 (01:38:38):
Hey, Marcus, here you go, mate, good, thank you. There's
just way too many of them.

Speaker 3 (01:38:45):
What you mean, well, is this going to be your
phone call to the hot line.

Speaker 22 (01:38:50):
I'm trying to get there.

Speaker 3 (01:38:53):
Yeah, there's way too many of it hotline.

Speaker 22 (01:38:56):
Here's the hot line. Yeah, are you ready? Yeah, yes,
good evening.

Speaker 4 (01:39:02):
It's Paul.

Speaker 22 (01:39:03):
I just want to report cone incident.

Speaker 3 (01:39:07):
Yeah, and whereabout is this pool I.

Speaker 22 (01:39:10):
Ran over a person?

Speaker 3 (01:39:12):
Well, we're going to make fun about that. Cheaper screepers
that I ran over twenty seven cones before I actually
got to them. Yeah, you can run character now.

Speaker 22 (01:39:23):
They don't protect anything. They don't actually serve a purpose.
I've seen cars hit them.

Speaker 7 (01:39:32):
They fly.

Speaker 22 (01:39:34):
I think that was it Jen Jen a while ago.
You know, she went over three and did the right thing.

Speaker 3 (01:39:41):
There are cars and the garage.

Speaker 22 (01:39:42):
Jen, maybe you should pack their cars up.

Speaker 3 (01:39:47):
Well, that's exactly right, that's what they should do.

Speaker 15 (01:39:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:39:53):
No, no, we should get some Memphis structure that'll be different.
But look, I went to the sepmaker the other day
up in Albany and and these guys at the top
where the problem actually was. It was about one hundred

(01:40:14):
and sixty meters upper hill with road tones at about
a foot apart, and went down from two lanes to
one lane. And by the time you got there, because
there's a set of lights going and they can't adjust them,
there's eight guys fixing a pole that was no wider

(01:40:34):
than I a meter by a meter that would be exaggerating,
and a truck, and they were sitting there. But I
went into the supermarket, long story short, came back out
and there was like four or five guys sitting under
this tree. It was a hot day and they were
still there. There was an hour and fifteen minutes they

(01:40:57):
were still there, the same guys under the tree. Something
wrong with management.

Speaker 3 (01:41:06):
Hey, I'm just doing the lights. It's the excitement of
it all. So what's your point? You know, how they
should be doing the job. You're not their boss, though,
are you.

Speaker 7 (01:41:15):
No?

Speaker 22 (01:41:15):
No, No, I'm not, Marcus, And I don't criticize them.
They're they're really nice people. But I'm just making me
wonder why so many cones, why so many delays, and
why the efficiency isn't there. I mean, it's just it's staggering.

Speaker 3 (01:41:33):
You're seeing those videos of them making roads in China
when they do it overnight.

Speaker 22 (01:41:38):
Yeah, it's astounding.

Speaker 14 (01:41:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:41:42):
I'm not sure if I want that either though, because
that that could be a bit unsafe. But I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:41:50):
Look, I presume with roadmaking there's a lot of waiting
around for things to dry and stuff.

Speaker 22 (01:41:57):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. So I don't understand why
those guys were sell under the tree if that wasn't
their specific.

Speaker 3 (01:42:06):
What were they I zoned out a bit. What were
they doing on the under the tree?

Speaker 22 (01:42:11):
They're just sitting there on their phone.

Speaker 3 (01:42:12):
But what was the job they're supposed to be doing.

Speaker 22 (01:42:15):
I don't know if there was another three guys around
this hole that two of them were still there when
I drove passed, because I.

Speaker 12 (01:42:25):
Was trying passing.

Speaker 22 (01:42:27):
There's guys are still there and the traffic was still
backed up.

Speaker 15 (01:42:33):
Wow.

Speaker 22 (01:42:35):
But road cones, they weren't a meter apart. Because I
was stationary, I was watching them. They would have been
the length of a chair apart, went right.

Speaker 7 (01:42:45):
Up the hill.

Speaker 3 (01:42:46):
How BIG's the chair a meter?

Speaker 4 (01:42:53):
I wouldn't say it's a meter, would you?

Speaker 3 (01:42:56):
I don't know, but if you're looking at a meter apart.
But I got to run for the news Marcus. When
road cones were on the Wolf Street corner Fong and
knew he did a water let. Kids chucked them in
the river and a part of them ended up at
both North and South Beach. Other cones were stuck in
the river mud. So the cone the road paper replaced
the cones at the water leak, and when the job
was be the cones that were stacked up didn't get

(01:43:17):
taken away. See enough in the refer as well, Oh yeah, okay,
fair enough. Greetings and welcome hit'd twelve. It's all about
road cones. I'll get to your texts. Jimmy, it's Marcus. Hello,
Hi Jimmy, welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:43:37):
Oh marks about the cones, I don't know. I've got
to laugh myself because are they cones or nuns? Because
they both look alike. They're both motionless. Nothing's ever happening
on the road, so you gotta laugh. Made a few
of your callers a bag on, mate. You see all

(01:43:59):
the cones and nothing's happening, mate, the work of the veil,
the line, the line down fagging or on their phone.

Speaker 3 (01:44:08):
But I think if you go into the modern office, right,
most people are just done trade me.

Speaker 7 (01:44:15):
It's right.

Speaker 21 (01:44:17):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:44:17):
There was a guy that was a window cleaner in
England and he reckoned. He looked what people did. He
reading from nine to eleven o'clock they were busy. Then
for about eleven thirty they're just buying stuff online, and
then from twelve o'clock they often weren't there. The only
reason they're not doing much work is because you can
see them. Most people don't do much at work.

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
Well, maybe they're all codes.

Speaker 9 (01:44:39):
Yeah, have a good one, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:44:44):
Good, good laugh, Jimmy Marcus supersity awkward. I have a
couple of months left to Wayne Brown deadline to move
from paper bag at four dolls a bag to rate
paid one hundred and twenty liters wheelbins at sixteen dollars
hundred and sixty two dollars per year. Can I predict
that my Christmas flight tipping and orcile could ruple the

(01:45:06):
amount already seen dumped on back country roads eating Marcus
christ Church Post Quakers said, a ridicuous amount of necessary
traffic management, obnoxious blinding lights on the back of trucks,
killing meter of road cones. A month ago, Bridge Street
in south View Bright had a nice ensemble of signs
and cones spray strategically for seven days. Not one of
those seven days, whether any workers or machinery, needless to say,

(01:45:29):
there was no work done whatsoever. People were slowing down
for thin air. The last thing we need is more
road cones, leadline ghost works, Greg and the three Marcus,
that's how my son found all those cones in the
Pogonary River. People like to complain about roadworks, they also

(01:45:50):
like to complain about poor infrastructure. That's right. One leads
to the other. Roadworks lead to well, you know what
I'm saying. They go to fix the infrastructure and people
complained about that. That's the irony, good evening inanit's Marcus. Welcome.

(01:46:10):
You can hear me, you see and thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:46:13):
Yeah, okay, I called you years ago, but you cut
me off quick.

Speaker 3 (01:46:20):
Okay, I would I would have done that. It seems unlikely.

Speaker 2 (01:46:24):
Well, please bear with me. I had a plate in
my head.

Speaker 3 (01:46:28):
Right yep, absolutely, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:46:32):
I I was waiting for a guy and I had
to go and do a TC TCM course so I
could do road cones stop and.

Speaker 9 (01:46:45):
Go sign.

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
When I went for the course, but he set up
the signs and the guy goes, is there anything wrong
with this? And I go, yep. If the wind blows,
the sign will fall on the car that's parked there,
right yep. So then they moved the sign away from

(01:47:10):
the cars. Then we hadn't got a job. We already
hit the job doing the road cones in lollipop sign,
and I thought, when I stopped working, this is out
in the country, not in the city. It's road to

(01:47:33):
Number one is the highways and stuff. I said, I'll
put two signs at the end of the day, two cones. Sorry,
it's got roadworks, so the lakers will know that we're
not working. And the boss come along and he goes,
you only only have to put one road cane there.

(01:47:55):
So I picked the candy with the second cone, I
shot them. They were into the river. On the way home,
I pitched and negg and because I hadn't been paid
for he owed me like four thousand dollars. I wait,
so ho And that was the end of that job.

(01:48:16):
And that's my experience of rod cones. Now years ago,
I was at the White Hat Pub and New Plymouth
and it placing time. Me and me mate walked out.
He put a rod cone on the roof of the car.

Speaker 3 (01:48:33):
Yeah, great thing to do.

Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
So I thought it was funny, right, I couldn't stop laughing.
And I've come to and you take me serious. If
you've been done for drink driving, you should mandatory have
one road cone bolted to the roof of your car.
Idea if you've if you've been convicted twice, you should

(01:48:58):
be driving out two roy cones on the roof of
your car and as you know, strike.

Speaker 3 (01:49:05):
Three year out back at the end of the big house.

Speaker 2 (01:49:09):
Yep, and that seemed more story, Marcus. Thank you for
bearing with me.

Speaker 3 (01:49:16):
Nice to hear from you, and you take care. Good
on you, Marcus. Seriously, the road cone situation really is overload.
If you only speed spend time down south, you may
not have the same problem as up here. Between Wellington
and Hamilton. They are way less than a meter in part,
in fact, barely a foot apart. My thoughts are it
saves I'm employing road management people. It sure as a

(01:49:39):
growth industry. The funniest thing I saw years ago was
a road cone caught on someone's toebar going through several
sets of lights. You'd be a good one to bring
the hotline, Ruth. You'd be perfect for the hotline, Ruth.
But yes, there are a lot of road cones down south.
I don't know what we do. This seems to be

(01:49:59):
a lot of resealing going on. But I'm not a
I'm not triggered by road cones. I just go, oh yeah, well,
I'm not going to buy into that. Marcus with local
body elections due as Wayne Brown, as said of Orkander,

(01:50:22):
will his style tune people to vote for others? What's
the word? What's the word in the media worth it?
I've got no idea. I think Desley Simpson was going
to run against him. Then she said you had a
bad case of shingles, which I thought, well, whill you
need to do it then as a job. But I
don't quite know if those two things were related. I

(01:50:44):
don't know if she's announced or she's registered, registered the
the main name, but she is the deputy, so she
is sort of, I think, from the similar part of
the political spectrum as Wayne Brown. She seems very popular

(01:51:06):
and he seems unpopular. But I guess people think he's
sort of managed to portray himself as a get thing
done guy, although really, from what I can see, they
think he's got done. Is that freshwater pool downtown. I
don't know if she's announced it or she's going to run.
There was a lot of talk about earlier on, but

(01:51:26):
then of course there's a situation. The last thing I
heard she had shingles the old mix and mingled, So
I don't know what's going to happen.

Speaker 14 (01:51:35):
With that.

Speaker 3 (01:51:38):
Anyway. Do you get in touch if you want to
talk man him as Marcus hit or Midnight, Good evening, Brent.

Speaker 19 (01:51:44):
Hello, Yeah, Marcus. I was a little bit of a
road coring story. This happened many years ago. I was
call in pre traffic Gown Wellington and round about the
roundabout and I was on the wrong lane inside indicaracter
going the other lane. There was a police obvious that

(01:52:07):
morning and he said, no, you have to go beat
He pointed the other way, and now I'm going this
way and he pointed back. So I went to the
lane I wanted to go. We were walking place traffic
and he said look, and he had a row of
road cones. He took one up and throw through that
gap and go. I said, don't want to go that
way anyway. We get a bit of a to and fro,

(01:52:27):
and I took off that I ran over one of
the road cones and I was in the work van
with me made and it got stuck under the van
and I took off a hut road and then it
was I can hear it dragging underneath nicknamed the cops
chasing me, and I tried to get away and then

(01:52:48):
the big back around and of course there's only one way.
You have to go back across the river again, across
the Hunt River and Jaffon and I was halfway across
the bridge and this roadname was still under there, and
it come out and he picks it up. And he
walked up to me and holding this road cone and
it was shaved neatly in half worn bother and he

(01:53:09):
said to me, this is wilful damage. And I thought,
oh well, I'm for it now. And he had five charges,
he said, hopping my car, and just as the hop
in his case hang on them, is radio goes and
then he hops back and he says, look, I've got
to go, but I'll just see you for failing to
obey the command of a police officer. That's my road

(01:53:30):
cone story.

Speaker 3 (01:53:31):
How much was the how much was the ticket?

Speaker 19 (01:53:34):
Seventy bucks?

Speaker 3 (01:53:36):
Did you keep the cone?

Speaker 8 (01:53:38):
Now?

Speaker 19 (01:53:38):
I didn't, I told the boss, and he laughed his head.

Speaker 3 (01:53:41):
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