The gadgets of shame (10 April 2025)

Marcus talks the useless gadget you thought was going to be amazing, leaf blowers, and marks the anniversary of the Wahine disaster in 1968.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be hey, Hoe, how are you. What's happening? I
hope it's good where you are, people of New Zealand.
If it's not good, I hope it gets better. Southland
Sharks forty two, Wellington Saints sixty five. My boy's there.
He's at the basketball like the younger one. Only Sharon
Town and in Vercaglo, and I'd prefer it if the

(00:32):
Sharks were doing slightly better. The oldest boy is supposed
to be the school disco but was unwell, which is
not like him. So anyway, Yes, a great evening was planned,
but it didn't go to plan. That's life anyway. Feels
very much like the end of term. Hey, what else
I have to say? Something else had to tell you
about that was kind of earth shatteringly important. No, I'll

(00:56):
keep you updated with news throughout the next three hours.
Fifty two people. I'm expecting a breaking news. I've got
no idea what it is. The foot Sea kind of
the last of the mark gets to kick on as happening.
It's up four percent four point two four percent, which
all the markets have done on the back of the

(01:17):
stable Genius. So that's all happening also, so keep you updated.
There's any great all seem to be about the block
bond market, I think, but anyway, I quest sure if
China was dumping bonds. I heard someone talking about that,
but then I never heard that readdressed anyway, So here
till midnight tonight. It's also the way any night the

(01:42):
anniversary of that day in nineteen sixty eight. We might
touch base on that later on. We had a lot
of talk about that last year and it was extraordinary.
But yeah, I don't necessarily fancy doing four hours of

(02:03):
that because she's pretty heavy going. But yeah, we will
give your space for that. By the way, I see
that one of the mayors from wy Macaedi has said
that he'd like the Littleton to Cook the Littleton to
Willington Ferry to return. Of course, when Littleton to Littleton

(02:25):
to Willington Ferry was a big thing, there wasn't the
railway track between Picton and christ Chians. That was one
of the last sections of the railway to go in
because it's very difficult with sort of slippy land to
put that railway in. So that's why there was the
faery because it was the only way to get the
wagons that way, well, the only way to get anything

(02:45):
that way, I think, So there's not quite the need
for it there once was. But yeah, look, and you've
gotta be careful because a lot of things aren't driven
by nostalgia, and you should never base decisions on nostalgia.
It's like where McDonald's brought back Georgie Pie. Was fine,
but no one's really then into it because the Georgie

(03:08):
Pie pies were fantastic, but probably better pies have since
come along. Tell me that I'm wrong, tell me that
I'm right anyway. So yeah, there's other things we can
talk about tonight also too, So yeah, buckle yourself and
I'll tell you something that I wouldn't mind starting the
whole discussion with tonight. I was up in my cabin
today and I found my I don't even know what

(03:36):
it's called. I found my Leatherman bracelet, because you know,
Leathermon is a multi tool, and this is a multi
tool in the form of a bracelet, and it's got
all your sockets and yeah, posit drive and you're alan

(04:00):
key and everything on the bracelet that you wear screwdrivers,
the whole shebang, things for dive bottles, the works, and yes,
there you go. I don't know what it was called.
It was called a tread, a leather and tread, and
I found that and I thought, wow, look at that.

(04:23):
How useless and it was. It was bulky, the drill
bits kind of wore away quite quickly. It wasn't made
of strong enough steel, and I think all in all
it was probably a fail. Although it has got one
function for breaking windscreens and windows, which is probably quite
good off your dog gets trapped and a guitar in

(04:46):
a car, so I'll probably use that sometime. And I'm
wearing I quite enjoy wearing it. But I just reminded
myself of how useless the thing was, and I under
out about buying it for a long long time, but
I couldn't not. I think in the end, I think
the scout shop was selling the cheap and I think
I'll get a bit of that. But anyway, the question
I have for you tonight, which might resonate with you,
what the most useless device or gadget you've ever bought?

(05:10):
Because we are in the age of gadget you get
on the end of you think, Wow, you get on
t mooge on teama or something that I think jeepers, creepers.
I need one of those. So I want to know
what is the most disappointing gadget you've bought. I brought once,
also for gadgets, I brought combined magnifying glass with tweezers.

(05:35):
I thought, God, surely that couldn't exist, and you google
it and you find that existing gin I'm going to
have one of those. No good. But also to the
leatherman bracelet terrible. So I question to you is what
would be think about it? Don't call straight away. I
don't want to be inundated. What would be the most
useless gadget you've ever bought? Because we are in the

(05:57):
gadget age, if you can think about something, someone will
have invented it. But not all things should have been invented,
particularly gadgets. So yeah, I don't know what you'll come through.
And I'm curious today what would be the most useless
one you've bought? Whether it be something for the kitchen
or something for the car, or something I don't know
for the holiday of the batch of the barbecue. If
you've got nance that would love to hear from you.

(06:19):
Think about it before you call, because I can't even
imagine what you'll ring with. Actually, I think probably a
combination with the Internet and manufacturing in China means it
just about everything that can be invented has been. Some
things will become essentials and will be with us for

(06:41):
the ends of time. Other stuff will probably last a
season and you'll have bought some of them and they'll
be useless. So there we go. That's the discussion for tonight.
The most useless gadget you've ever bought? And why is
it useless? You had such high hopes for this thing
and it's all gone bad. By the way. The funny

(07:05):
thing about the leatherm and I spent days reading the
reviews on them as well. Actually, in hindsight, I probably
think none of the reviews were that god, But anyway,
that's my question for you tonight. Seventy six fifty Wellington,
Saints of the South and Sharks. We've got Penrith tonight.
Also they are playing I think they might be playing
in Darwin, but they might be going for five losses

(07:30):
in a row and they are the four time premiership winners,
So yeah, that's going to be interesting. I'll keep you
update on that match also tonight too. I'm pretty sure
they take the game away. I'll try and work out
where it is. I read somewhere it might be there. Anyway,
get in touch if you want to talk about gadgets.

(07:50):
Be a safe warning for other people. Very curious to
hear here we go. Let me just work out where
that matches. I don't I want to fact check stuff.
I hate to give you wrong about that. I don't
know what.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Round draw.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
No sun caught Brisbane glad I checked. Not quite sure
which the Darwin matches the said day one. Anyway, get
in touch with you on talk. The most Useles gadget
you've bought Heutel twelve eight hundred eighty eight nineteen nine
sixteen past. Oh there was a long preamble, Sheila, it's Marcus, welcome.

(08:38):
Is this Sheila?

Speaker 4 (08:40):
Oh Sheila, Yeah, sorry, I can hear the name of
the beginning. Yeah, sorry, Hi. I just came on the
radio now and I thought of the thing that I
bought for my partner in the eighties, early eighties. It's
not a modern one that you get on the internet
these days, and it was a revolving ti rack.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
Wow, it was ridiculous, I thought, because these are in
the days where he had to go to work in
a shirt and tie, and I thought for his birthday.
But I'm a revolving tirak. And it had a battery
in it clean into the back of the wardrobe door
and you pressed the button. Now it was only about
fifteen centimeters in diameter, and so you could see all

(09:26):
the ties anyway, why you would have to have it revolving.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
With so it was solving a problem that wasn't even
a problem, right because you could just put here.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
Well, I always think of that revolving tirac. I've never
seen one since, And yeah, it was hilarious when I
think about it, because and.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
I would think with tis you just rolled them up.
I'm not a type person, but yeah, I mean, yeah,
literally a tireck.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
It was, and it was a circle, a circular one,
and you had to hang them over this this circular
contraption and it held about probably about twenty ties and
you just pressed the button and they just revolved and you
just chose the color that you wanted for the day.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
Ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Have you still got it? As a testimony? To bed design.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
No, I actually gave it away and as I went
to some well, I went to a party once where
they said please bring a useless gift and it's funny.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
It's quite a good thing for a party.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
It was.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
I mean the things like that and the fondue sets
and that you don't use anymore, but they've come in
to face.

Speaker 5 (10:38):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
It was the highlight of the party.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Actually, nice to issue to thank you. I think it
was one of those sold on sn on TV. I
think it was probably sort of quite a big deal
of that. Today there they're revolving tie wreck. I don't
know if you could still buy them? Could you still
buy them? Who we is a tie these days?

Speaker 7 (10:57):
No one?

Speaker 2 (10:58):
No one who is a tyro in radio? Who would
who would wear a tiron radio? Be some perfect chill jocks?
Probably I shouldn't say that sounds disparaging. I'll check if
you get them on temu Yes, yes, wall mountable revolving

(11:21):
tie hangar, goodness me get in touch Hittle twelve oh eight,
one hundred and eighty ten eighty nineteen nine. To text
on the old text A Rouney breaking news when that breaks.
Most useless gadget pie making machine used twice. I've often
thought of buying one of those, Marcus. I bought a

(11:44):
battery operated long handled scrubbing brush so could scrub the
shower out. Had a couple of different heads. While it's useless,
the head falls off of the battery doesn't last very disappointing.
Cheers Gilly, and she sent me the kmart thing for it,
breath Eliza from Temu. I bought two genuine whether the

(12:06):
men's belt from Timu last week for ten dollars free
shipping from China. I was expecting poor quality, but no
problems so far. Worst thing I ever bought a wind
up radio to listen to you. Wow, I had. I

(12:33):
don't understand this text, but I'll read it because you might.
I had uh inverted commas. Bye by stand by actually redundant,
meant to save you power on stand by functions, nut
ran on disposable batteries. What a piece of rubbish. We
have to google. I'm going have to google that bye

(12:57):
by stand bye. Oh it's a thing. Bye by stand
as remotely cut powdered advice and stand by mode to
save energy A twenty five David ats Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 8 (13:13):
Good evening, Good evening. I'm here to talk about my
Temu watch opener that is absolutely terrible, mass produced piece
of orange plastic.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
What's what's a watch opener to open a watch? To
fix it? Sorry, it's a watch opener.

Speaker 8 (13:38):
Yes, it's a watch opener to replace the batteries.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Of course, I was thinking about sort of fixing a
watch to get in there, and I thought, well, that's okay.
How do you normally replace a battery? Can you describe
it to me as I google it up.

Speaker 8 (13:58):
It's this small orange thing that's about the size of
a fijo and it has this clamp where you can
unscrew it, and when you unscrew it, then it opens
it more and you put the watch into the mechanism
and then you can tighten it to hold the watch
in place so you can unscrew it.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Looks quite good? Is it five dollars seventy?

Speaker 8 (14:23):
This was seven dollars?

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Okay? And it doesn't work? Is that the problem with it?

Speaker 8 (14:28):
It doesn't work? No, it just says it's a mass
produced piece of plastic. It just completely folds and brakes
and cracks when you try to use it.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
I'm looking at the one online has it got some
metal has it got some metal screw? But it's on
it as well.

Speaker 8 (14:44):
It only has just a single metal screw attached to
it that goes from one end to the other. That
that just pulls the two clasps together. Otherwise it's just
the whole thing is plastic and just terrible quality.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
How will you change your batteries now? If that's useless,
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (15:03):
I'm thinking of trying to go to a watch that's
actually near my house.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, I'd got.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
That guy.

Speaker 8 (15:11):
Well, a family friend knows the guy. I had to
get an exchange because he probably has a big watch
opening machine that can open.

Speaker 9 (15:18):
It for me.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
I'll get a mister minute, David. I don't know how
to change your betterry to watch. I don't have watches
with batteries. I don't say that in a judgmental way,
but it's something I think the kids have got them.
I don't even know how to change a watch battery.
But I just thought you went to mister minute. Were
they called mister minute? By the way, why are they

(15:42):
called mister minute? Because with their shoe repairs it takes
a long long time, doesn't it? Is it just a
minute to get there from where you're normally going. I'll
think about that one sixty eighty one Wellington Saints over
the Southland Sharks. Well, well, there's a few of the

(16:05):
seats in the house, Marcus. We always use paper straws.
When a child in the sixties, they were fine because
they were a coat and wax. Today's ones aren't. Yes,
I always say to people that don't like paper straws,
why are you using a straw? I'd go years without

(16:26):
coming across a straw. I always get a glass and
this gloog glug, glug glug. My lips work fine. I
brought a handheld small sighing machine which was advertise on TV.
I'd only sided ones out of the cloth, so stitches
pulled out. I was given what was a foot spar

(16:46):
that's ever been used. Who'd buy a breathalyzer from Temu?
Why would you do that? Would you think? Oh, well,
I'm gonna go drink right to the limit, and I'm
going to use a Temu breathalyzer just to make sure
I'm safe. For goodness sake. A three hundred t I

(17:06):
can trailers a day head from christ Chitch to Picton
for the Fairy with very few stops on route, why
not run a fairy little tin Dwellington drivers sleep on
the ferry than ten hours to Auckland, or why not
just put the stuff on rail. Trump isn't a stable genius.
He's called himself a very stable genius. That's right. It's

(17:27):
funny today on the Yippies was the O the Yips?
We got the Yips. The Yippies backed a classic Trump.
That's my leather man tread. What a terrible thing it is.
I love it, but it's useless. I send a photo
to down he can put on the Facebook page. That's
the thing for tonight, the most useless gadget you've bought.

(17:50):
I've stow a lot of emotion and invest in it
because I thought a long thought about it a long
time before I purchased it. I've just said two photos.
It's hard to photograph. You can open beer bottles with, Well,
that's not what I'm doing. I'm not really a beer
bottled guy. It does have all the screw drivers, including

(18:20):
a Phillips, but they're just a bit rounded. I feel
like it's not manufactured from good enough material anyway. And
the internal ferry running from Littleton to pick to Littleton
to Wellington. Is that a good thing?

Speaker 9 (18:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
I don't even know. It seems with Fairy so much
of the expenses and getting something to get the stuff
on and off. It's all the infrastructure at the port.
Text if you've got them nine two nine two which
stands for zb ZB. Some people don't know that. You
can buy plastic straws on Temu. If anyone needs straws,

(19:05):
go there. Go buy some plastic straws. Can tell you
what the Americans won't be buying them. Could have about eight
dollars each. Listening to the call of re tim We've
got to love Timo. For years we've sent all our
rubbish to China for a cycle. Now they're sitting it
back to us. They were paying for them to send
it mister minute to replace a battery. They told me

(19:28):
to come back in an hour. It should be called
mister hour. Text to texts high markers, you should try
having a McDonald's thick shake without using a straw. There's
definitely a need for plastic straw their cheers. Jay, You
know I'm inclined to concede that to you. Jay, you

(19:48):
could use a spoon, a long spoon. But no, I reckon,
you probably need the straw. I'm not a thick shake man.
I probably listen to some of the propaganda about the
thick shake. Also, I was there from the made from

(20:11):
pig tallow kind of conspiracy, so I know it's not.
But yeah, I've always fait a bit sketchy about the
McDonald's thick shake. The Marcus the most useless thing I've
brought as a set of silicon fruit and vegetable storage
containers in the shape of the fruit or vegetable like
a lemon, tomato, avocado. They are impossible to shout once

(20:33):
you've put the fruit in, even a small piece. Like
the sound of that. I like a silicon fruit container
that's shaped like the fruit, Marcus. Not really gadget but
car freshness. Some sound really nice. Open them, tony, disgusting,
straight in the bin. I do like those ear freshness

(20:53):
that look like jelly beans. I see a lot of
those around now. I thought that's a good side pivot
from the jelly bean people to go into air fresheners.
Marcus look up the useless box and has a switch
which opens the box. Then a finger comes out and
switches off again portless but readdictive. Wow. My shame purchase

(21:23):
was a clear tar Paulin that teared as I unfolded it. Lowell,
good on you, Kim. The leatherm and super tool was
crap to engagement present. I'm always a sucker for those
sorts of things, always a sucker for a multitool. But

(21:45):
promise more than they deliver. Oh, I actually quite like
my leather man. It's been replaced twice because they're very
good with that. The skizzes broke and the blade broke. No,
the scissors broke, and the plyers broke. The pliers broke
straightening a tent peg, which I thought was normal wear
and tear. I can't remember what the scissors broke on.

(22:10):
I can't think what would have been doing with the
scissors to break them. Anyway, Lines Free if you want
to get in touch twenty two to nine, I'll keep
you updated with the news to the foot Sea. I
just like going about the foot Sea because such a
fun word to say. It's off a bit down. It's
up almost three and a half percent, three point seven
seven percent. It was up a lot more, but slid down.

(22:34):
I don't know what that means. False hope forget what
it was called, but it came out in the late
nineteen eighties. Was advertised as essential aid for car breakdowns
at night or on a light for the workshop. It
had an orange flashing light on one side, a single
white tube on the other, with a torchlight at one end.
Problems were one it took six D batteries and decker

(22:58):
weren't cheap even back then. The Frezent tube wasn't bright
enough to the point actually hurt the eyes. None of
the could be replaced. The tube light was too small, expensive,
waste of money and storage space. Sixteen to nine edits
Marcus Good Evening Welcome high.

Speaker 6 (23:17):
Ed I make. I could never work at yo yo
when he's a kid, you know, when he goes up
and down on a streight, I could never.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Damn you need to do that. Now you need to.

Speaker 10 (23:30):
You need to.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
You need to get a yo yo. And just because
it's quite straight, it's quite straight.

Speaker 11 (23:35):
I never no, I never never got it.

Speaker 10 (23:39):
No.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
You oh, it's great with the yo yo. And still
from time to time we'll pick up a yo yo
and I'll do tricks with it and a yoyo. Once
it was that when it would go down. These arms
would slick out and make a circuit and be a.

Speaker 12 (23:55):
Light all right, because you wal.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
I'll tell you what with a yo yo. You don't
want a carved wooden one. You want a very good
one that's got a good weight to it, because its
thing worse than an unbalanced yoyo that doesn't really that
just goes down, leans to a side and then just
peters out. You want one that can really flip their
cap excitedly. I love it. Yeah, I'm buying one tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (24:22):
For one.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
It's pretty straightforward. You just drop it down and as
soon as it gets to the bottom you just pull
the stream string up about ninch jerk it up.

Speaker 11 (24:32):
All right, yeah, I'll try.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Do you want me to post you one? Are you sure?

Speaker 13 (24:39):
What?

Speaker 11 (24:41):
Get rid of me?

Speaker 2 (24:43):
That's I'm not finished with you are trying to get
rid of me. That's all right mate, Right we're too.

Speaker 14 (24:52):
Oh so.

Speaker 6 (24:56):
What do you have to do?

Speaker 2 (24:58):
That's really doesn't sound well? Put your feet up?

Speaker 10 (25:03):
What you plan?

Speaker 2 (25:06):
What do you planned?

Speaker 13 (25:06):
With?

Speaker 9 (25:06):
The EV.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Came in? Strong? Goodness?

Speaker 7 (25:14):
Bad?

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Here are you going? People? What's happening?

Speaker 9 (25:17):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (25:17):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (25:17):
One hundred and eighty ten eighty that we think?

Speaker 9 (25:21):
What else?

Speaker 2 (25:22):
I can tell you people, Oh, the worst gadget you bought,
the most useless. You wonder why anybody even invented it? Dion,
Hey Marcus Joyos.

Speaker 13 (25:37):
Yeah, well I was thinking.

Speaker 15 (25:39):
I used to have a couple of yoyo's. I got
given three yoos when I was about seven or eight,
and I used to be able to walk the dog
and do the loop, the loop and around.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Around the world walk the dog.

Speaker 15 (25:48):
Yeah, it was great fun, but it did take a
little bit of practice and bit of technique. I think
I got given a book. At the same time. I
was also trying to wrap my brain for what useless
gadgets I bought over the years, and I think probably
the thing that I've bought the most of is vegetable peelers.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah, I see what you're saying, Different things.

Speaker 15 (26:06):
Different vegetable peelers, and some of them are just really useless.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Hey, can I just deon? Can I just high five
you and just say that My partner's always gone on,
She says, why don't you just get them going on
here about these useless can openers and things. Because you
need a canoe, You're run down the local four square
to buy them, and they're just what do they make?
Why do they make stuff that doesn't work? Can openers,

(26:32):
terrible peelers, terrible speedulas. I mean, there must just be
no joy in the people running these business. Who would
want to run a business running things that are building
things that are useless? I totally agree, And it can
over the canlet is a heartbreaking thing.

Speaker 15 (26:53):
Or the ones that open open a partway through and
then stop and.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Have a little and then you cut yourself and then
you got to open it then you or.

Speaker 15 (27:00):
You press it and you get Tomorrow's pumping up in
your face.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
And I've always thought the standard peelers were quite good
though those chip brightly color. I've always thought they go
pretty good.

Speaker 7 (27:11):
Me too.

Speaker 15 (27:12):
And my wake's partner and I would have a couple
of little Barney's about what was the best peeler, and
I'd be using one of those, and she'd be using
something else, and.

Speaker 7 (27:21):
I'd be, I'm not sure, why are you using one
of those?

Speaker 15 (27:23):
Should be tapping away and I'd just be gently peeling
the thing off nice and easily.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
So it's never meant.

Speaker 15 (27:29):
You and her, No, it wasn't meant to be.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
We had peeling the.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Very good deal. And if you're finding over the peeler jeepers.
Most useless thing everyone vin has to be the leaf blower.
Half my neighborhood seems to have one. Drives me nuts.
I don't think anyone on Bluff's got a leaf blower.
I think it's pretty safe to say, now, Margaret, what's
the Margaret has said Marcus, the worst gadget ever bought

(27:59):
home had two legs, and sadly I married him. Wow,
we are talking useless gadgets. I'm looking for a better
word than gadgets. Contralt When I had it in my mind,
I had a different word, and I forgot what that
word was. It wasn't gadgets, wasn't contraptioned.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Because so many things you can buy these days, and
a lot of them are no good useless. I when
it was the last time that they invented something that
really thought that was a game changer. Remember all those
people were getting those things to cut through their seat
belts when they went down and a that never happened.

(28:42):
I think that's a particularly despicable thing when someone invents
a useless gadget then tries and fees you into buying it.
Marcus is nothing wrong with the yo yo, But nowadays
the kids have fidget spinners. I enjoyed a fidget spinner.
It's disappointed that didn't last long with the fidget spins,

(29:02):
they're only around about four years. I remember stopping a
kid restricted and saying, what's that as a fidget spinner? Well,
by that afternoon I had one bought is some guy
text bought an electric card shuffler to speed up the
repetitive and tedious part of the game's night. It was
so loud we couldn't better into using it together dust
on the shelf. Ever, since I'd quite like a send

(29:25):
that my way, would you quite like a card shuffler?
I've always wondered what's the point of a leaf blower?
A leaf sucker, moto gizmo, yes, but not a blower.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
Surely.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
I guess someone thought would be good to suck the
leaves in, because then you've got them in a vista
you can throw them away. I think the point of
I see what I'm loving at the moment, my rake.
I love a rake, Love a rake, one of the
most underrated of the garden tools. Love a rake. But anyway,

(30:04):
I think people find sweeping boring because it is. And
the trouble with sweeping, it's like rowing. You've got your
back to the action to revulnerable position to be like that,
you're going backwards, whereas a blower you're facing or you're
heading with you're sweeping, it's a more commanding position to
be in. So yeah, I'm vulnerable to buying a left blower.

(30:27):
I could probably turn on the mic one of these
days and say I guess what I've bought yep, and
it'll be a left blower. Welcome people with even you.
My name is Marcus. The number is eight hundred and
eighty to nine nine to the text you want to
come through. We are talking about the most useless gadget
you've bought. You see these things and anything that's going
to be a better fun what is it? Is it

(30:48):
going to be good or not? By the way, someone said,
there's a big collision Drury. That's where the cops will
be going for that's where they'll be heading. Someone asks
the question, ask the question, has anyone brought a mystery
box off Tim?

Speaker 7 (31:01):
And what was in it.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Seems to be junk through So yeah, mystery boxes that
would be a good thing. Get in touch I have
found USB fans of re vexing unwanted product don't know
what they are. Could someone tell me about that? There's
an accident before the dreary motorway turn off, but a

(31:25):
lane of two block Thank you for that. Has anyone
bought a mystery box off Tim and what was in it? Marcus?
I find leaf blowers free handy for drying off vehicles
after they've been watched, Much quicker and more effective than
a shemy. What's the point of a SHEMI, Marcus? Who

(31:46):
would need a wooden blower and bluff? Surely there's enough
wooden from the Anarctic to blow the leaves to the north.
That was the point I was making. I thought you
would have got that. How are you going, people? What's happening?
My name is Marcus, Welcome Hill twelve. Marcus. The most
useless object the wife bought was a boiled egg cracker.
I still use a knife. People are gadget crazy, especially

(32:11):
when you gonna go any way to find a reason
to use a gadget to make a gudge. Gadget work
good get gudget. How you're going out there in the
world tonight? People? What's happening? Marcus. I used to yo
yo from a guy at school once and tried to walk.
The doll hit the ground first drop smashed it. Mum

(32:33):
at Obama, you one night mo the lawns for three
months to pay her back. Well, that's a bad yo
yo experience.

Speaker 16 (32:44):
He does it?

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Say yoyo, this is a yo mega brain. What's a
yo mega brain? So that sort of thing. I'd like
your a mega brain?

Speaker 7 (32:56):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Oh, it's a fat flesh yo yo. Wouldn't mind buying
you yoyo? Actually, and I'm thinking about it. I think
we have gone through one yoyo face with the kids, Marcus.
To fix the normal everyday Pello Pela, get some side

(33:20):
colors and cut through the side of the blade you
don't use it will work like a dream fan of
your show Key. We living in doors at UK. How
would that make it better? Because because that acts as
a break, doesn't it. I think if you've got a
left handed person in the house, that makes it difficult

(33:40):
with a with a peeler because they blunt one side,
don't they.

Speaker 10 (33:49):
Can?

Speaker 2 (33:49):
I just say, and I'm not trying to get some
sort of reputation as being the better living person. We
probably we probably peel too many vegetables. I think most
vegetables can probably eaten with the peel on them. That's
what I'd be saying. I really peel the potatoes, carrots,

(34:12):
th re really peel them ky we fruit. The peela
doesn't work in the fijoa. I peel those, but with
a sharp knife, top and tail. Then like staves off
a barrel, round, I go, great believer in peeling a

(34:33):
fijo like that. Good evening, Gareth, this is Marcus, Welcome,
this is the radio. Greetings Marcus.

Speaker 17 (34:41):
How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Ten out of ten? Gareth? Three good? Thank you.

Speaker 13 (34:45):
Very good.

Speaker 17 (34:46):
How are you talking?

Speaker 10 (34:47):
Peter Living?

Speaker 17 (34:48):
And you've spoken about leaf blowers. When was the last
time you've been camping?

Speaker 2 (34:59):
When was the last time? Probably four weeks ago.

Speaker 17 (35:08):
Yeah, you didn't wait for the soulsit down of leaf
flowers in the morning.

Speaker 10 (35:14):
No.

Speaker 17 (35:16):
So when I've been camping in the last couple of years,
I noticed that leaf flowers are the new in things
for campers. Really, the morning I wake up, I hear
leaf flowers. People are blowing leaves off the top of
their tents and are blowing uh just you know, grub
off the bottom of the tent. It's what what I

(35:36):
wake up to every morning when I'm camping. So what
I was taking my leaf flower camping?

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Are they doing that? So they come, so they get there,
so they're not pecking it up with.

Speaker 17 (35:46):
No no, no, just every morning you blow your tents out,
all the leaves and the sand out, blow the leaves
off the top.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Oh, I'm seeing what I'm seeing what you are. That's
a good idea. Okay, so you get a bitter operated one,
do you.

Speaker 17 (36:00):
Yeah, it's brilliant. Get the makida out every morning, blow
the leaves off the top of the roof, blow the
sand out the floor of brilliant, wake up every morning
everyone's blowing it, tents up, the left flower off.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
I'm off. I'm off Kevin this weekend then for Easter,
so I will. Could you dry your tent too before
you pack it? Because often when it's weird, that's not good,
is it?

Speaker 17 (36:24):
But I've actually done that as well. Yeah, brilliant, you've
got to You've got to pack up and try it off.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
You leaf that we get, we get a maquida leaf flower.

Speaker 17 (36:37):
I go what we call in our house to the
iron shop where we're minus ten. We don't go the
green one.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
What's the green one?

Speaker 17 (36:47):
It's Australia.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, into that so it's called the orange shop. Yeah, okay,
I'm I'm go to the.

Speaker 17 (36:54):
Iron shop and get yourself a makida and blow the
tent out.

Speaker 6 (36:57):
Brilliant.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
I'm liking that, Gareth. I'm going to be a leaf
blower guy. I'm going to be the leaf blower guy.
That's a great idea. I hadn't thought about that. Good
way to get the kids awake to it. And she's
more a case a good way to get dad awake.
This did you watch that show? Last one? Last one?

(37:22):
Laughing that comedian pretends to about a roller coaster using
a leaf blow It's quite good. It's the thing she does. Excellent.

Speaker 7 (37:31):
Good evening, Paul, how am I guess?

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Good ball?

Speaker 10 (37:36):
Now?

Speaker 18 (37:37):
This is the best thing out for leaf blower. The
at the Mighty ten or wherever you get the you
get the little packet of yellow wasp killing powder and
you just squirt some of that down the end of
the leaf blower pointed towards the wasp pie, turn it on,

(38:00):
blows all that powder into the wasp pie. You're you know,
you're a good meat or more away and you've only
got to literally wait five minutes and the wasts are
falling out of the high heat. Wow, and it's just
fant efort.

Speaker 10 (38:18):
Did you do it?

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Did you invent? Did you invent that?

Speaker 5 (38:22):
No?

Speaker 18 (38:22):
I didn't. What happened was I had a wash five
in the wall of the house and a good friend
of mine who who had beehives, he says, I'll get
rid of that and I'll show you away you'll never
ever forget. And that's how he doesn't put a leaft
blower and PRITI ticket. You have got the right idea here,

(38:43):
and since then I would have done fifty lost fives,
No worries because you know people run around bottles of
petrol and put that down in a sack over the
top and in the ground. You to do any of that,
You just put the end of the leaf blurry.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
I haven't seen the anatomy of the leaf blow pool,
but is it quite Is it quite straightforward to powdered
down the spout and it's not going to come out
the intake area further down the leaft blower. It's closed
down there, is it?

Speaker 10 (39:15):
You know?

Speaker 18 (39:16):
Like that guy was just talking about the makeya one.
One's got a spout on which is about six hundred long, yeah,
or tooth, and it's actually got quite a thinning on it.
We can get like the DeVault one that actually he'd
be a good met along but the end of him
would be the diameter of a say, a can of coke. Yep,

(39:37):
he's quite a beefer. We've seen the have no trouble
with the Makeity one. He's just a good.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Tool, brilliant.

Speaker 10 (39:49):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
We've got a good use. You've got a good command language,
Paul out the way you explained all of that sixteen past.
And I would talk about leaf blowers now and interesting
uses for leaf blowers. But I think I'm into something
because it's such a backward thing, sweeping because it's more
efficient going backwards and forwards, and leaf blowers camping here

(40:15):
guys right, he had me said, when was the last
time he went out? Oh God, the guy thinks I'm
not a kemper. What about the key fight of the
beeps when you whistle? What if you can't whistle? Regarding
useless skedgets, do you remember portable foot spars? No one

(40:35):
that had one ever used it. The guide of the
Peter that's not peeling is guiding the side that is
peeling to not peel too deep. It's a good point
you make, is it. Yeah, it's a good point you've made.

(40:56):
What about those other peelers are shaped like a horseshoe
and it's across that end. I'm not a big fan
of that. There must be some vegetable choppers and things
that you've seen at amp shot. I've got a buy it.
That's been the demonstry. They're all got to buy one
of those useless always someone coming up with someone. I

(41:18):
enjoyed that show we did one night on product demonstrators.
Remember that there were good people that we heard do
that night from them, Marcus. Most useless was a silicon
muffin baking tray. When you lift the trout of the oven,
the tray buckles and you have muffins popping out on
the floor. Audrey, Yeah, I don't like silicon. I don't
trust it. I don't like silicon. I like a rigid

(41:41):
muffin tray and a rigid loaf. Ten And how come
it doesn't meunt worries me. This is me and it's
twenty one past night. Hi, Jamie Marcus, Welcome Hey Marcus,
there you go on, good Jamie, thank you.

Speaker 13 (41:59):
You need two leaf rowers and hopefully petrol ones and yeah,
starting your arms out, pull the trigger on both of
them and they send you around like a helicopters.

Speaker 19 (42:13):
Are you on a chair, You can on a chair.

Speaker 13 (42:17):
We just need to do it. When I was doing
train work, whenever another truck locked up those leaf flower
out and you, yeah, you know, do that for a trick.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
So you'd stand up with two leaf flowers, wh would
spin you around?

Speaker 13 (42:32):
Yeah, yeah, you like starts to move and then it's
like just keeps from telling you around. More and more.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
Is on YouTube? Are you on YouTube doing that?

Speaker 13 (42:40):
No, this was before YouTube or the other one. You
do as you old got that such in the air
of the leaf flower and you cut that on your
part of sat us and then you cover your mail
and sort us brilliant.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
That's a good thing to do. What's that? What's what's that?

Speaker 10 (42:58):
What's that?

Speaker 9 (42:59):
On the r T.

Speaker 13 (43:01):
Oh, that was my DPS telling me I've got off here.

Speaker 10 (43:04):
Something to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
That's considerate. Are stopping at the truck stop for the night.

Speaker 13 (43:11):
No, I'll keep going to yard. Yeah, I'll run out
and get a crunchy bar, though I think I feel
like something.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Have you tried a Mars bar raspberry flavored? I see
that's an Australian one that's now taking off in England.
If you tried that, no, I might go.

Speaker 11 (43:28):
And buy on.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
I mean, yeah, get in touch if you would. I
think they're naussy things. I'd like to know. Jamie might
be better than the old crunchy bar. So the most
useless gadget you've bought, because we are in the age
of peak gadget, aren't we, and there's always someone on

(43:53):
a blog recommending something that's useless, like they've taken a
secret payment for it. The most useless purchase for the
kitchen the gourmet party plan crape maker. The crapes and
pancakes are perfectly fine in the pan, Marcus. I use

(44:13):
my leaf blower instead of a vacuum cleaner, and my
son room as I get the as I get leaves
and as well as what the dog brings, and blowing
it out is more efficient than vacuuming, Marcus. Last Wednesday,
one of your listens was complaining you could no longer
get banana milkshake flavoring. Seen it three brands Today Supreme brand,
the longest drink brand in Gilmour's brand, Happy Milkshaking. Well

(44:40):
he's a good text. Here's a challenge. Only ever seen
one guy do this yo yo in one hand while
playing a harmonica with the other, similar to simultaneously patting
your head with one hand and rubbing your stomach in
a circular motion. Good Evening Market's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (44:59):
Welcome Marcus the Oxo Julienne cutter slicer. I'm not sure
exactly what the word is. It's changed my life, like
in Julienne carrotts, like in Julienne cucumbers.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
What brand is it?

Speaker 20 (45:18):
Oh XO?

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Because I thought that was like a stock que But yeah, okay, now.

Speaker 7 (45:24):
It's I bought it at a fancy little.

Speaker 10 (45:32):
Plates and.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
It's not for the lucks of you and those sorts
of shops. That's that's daunting.

Speaker 7 (45:39):
No, I felt very alien going in there. I did.
It was Quie, this one item that has changed my life.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
How did you feel when you went in there? You
felt the shops not for me, They're not going to
talk to me. I feel like that in.

Speaker 7 (45:54):
Kitchen eternal shame. I felt eternal shame, which I do
feel to this day. Because many three hundred dollars?

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Yeah, what what was three hundred dollars?

Speaker 7 (46:05):
Well, all that luck ruse stuff.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Oh yeah, I could hang on, hang on, Mark, Mark, Mark,
I can see how people can get into that stuff.
Oh I can't do I mean, you get one, you
want a hundred?

Speaker 10 (46:19):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (46:19):
Who wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Who wouldn't you see that?

Speaker 9 (46:23):
You think?

Speaker 2 (46:24):
Oh you know, Yeah, I mean I've seen that, and
and I've looked at that and I thought that's not me?
What am I even doing looking at La Cruse? But yeah,
you can see you think, well, yeah, I can imagine
doing my beans in there. But anyway, yep, I'm hearing
you though, I'm hearing your pain.

Speaker 7 (46:38):
Well yes, but so after entering the environment, I.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Wouldn't even know how. I wouldn't even know how to
pronounce it. Is that what you say? I'm not trying
to make out how more ignorant I am. But would
you say la crusee?

Speaker 7 (46:49):
Actually, I don't know, would.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
Be lucky LuSE?

Speaker 21 (46:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (46:53):
Okay, oh no, there'd be crude, wouldn't it. I don't know.
Didn't we used to call it missiles?

Speaker 21 (47:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (47:01):
Yeah, I think I think strand of bucks. I think
they're more like six hundred bucks.

Speaker 7 (47:08):
No, don't know. Sale you to go for one of
those running out of business ones.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Like when Ancient Jays closed down. I didn't have a
look at the Lark Cruise set stuff. I thought, well,
that's going to be half priced, but they never really
got down that.

Speaker 7 (47:21):
Confessions always come out slowly.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
But you've got it because you've got You've got a
trusting voice and I feel comfortable with you. You were
brave enough to talk about your going into one of
those shops and I'm hearing yeah, anyway, it's cheap. Your
oxo Julian was like twenty eight dollars on Amazon. Yeah,
I think I've got no hang on, hang on, hang on.

Speaker 22 (47:42):
Hang on.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
We've got an earthquake. We've got an earthquake people, So
I'm going to come back to you with your Lark cruise.
I'm just going to go to the drums. Could have
got an earthquake? Have people texted Dan it's a biggie.
It's so while ago. It was five minutes ago, and

(48:05):
there's no half an hour ago. But it's a at
nine twenty two, a three point nine, just twenty k's
north of Seddon, So I'm surprised I haven't heard people
ring up about that because normally pretty people are pretty
good on the quakes, although there's been a lot lately,
so no one's texted about that. That's bad because I

(48:26):
normally see you guys as the human Geige calendar, not
Geige Calendar Richter Scale. Hold your horses, Mark, I'll come
back to you to find out about your duly end
thing after I've confessed about the li Crusette. I've never
bought one. Occasionally think I get them at a second
end shop for a garage sale. All there we go
the mother load. Hey, so a quake, I'm just getting it.

(48:48):
It's yeah, I'm surprised people haven't felt it. Three point
nine nine two twenty K's northeast of Seddon felt widely
from hex Bay down to Jackson's Bay, so right down
the main fault line it's been felt. We'll get more
details if you've got anything. Oh eight eight eight think

(49:08):
about Hey back, Sorry to intrust you, Mark, but thought
it was important to get that out. So you bought
the oxide Julian, Why peel is that the one?

Speaker 7 (49:16):
I think it?

Speaker 18 (49:18):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (49:18):
That with what it would be, it looks it's deadly.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
Yeah, it looks deadly, it looks sharp.

Speaker 7 (49:24):
And you have to be blood careful using.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
So it looks like a ship. It looks like a
shanghai with a blade a cross, doesn't it. Yeah, it
does well described mar Yeah, well said you'd go up
and down the vegetable with that, and it was Julie
in it is that right?

Speaker 10 (49:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (49:42):
Bit like chefs you'd seen a restaurant. It's fantastic in
which you lay your sandwiches with all sorts of things.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Even thought I'd never thought of doing a sandwich like that,
but how good is that to have subtle carrot like
that rather than like big chunks.

Speaker 21 (49:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Yeah, it's getting out the crater which is hard to clean.
And you grate your hand.

Speaker 7 (50:01):
Yeah yeah, yeah. You do have to be careful when
you pulled off the end of the beach. As you
talk about your hand getten underneath the end of the thing.
But you know you'll learn swiftly.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
Oh that's been life change if you hasn't Mark it is.

Speaker 7 (50:18):
Actually it's what a great product. I've been telling my family,
I'm going to buy you all one for Christ.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
You know that when you find something like that, that's
a good thing because you can actually, not only can
you give it to them, it's also you know this,
you can look them in the eye and say this
will change your life. Thank you, Margas, Thank you Mark
God not offing to call her self terminates too. That's great.
To the drums. Big quake three point nine. It's always

(50:48):
good to get a quake that size because it means
the big one is not going to happen. Got little quakes,
that's what we want. God, whiz it, Wizley, feel it?
Do you feel the quake? Whisley.

Speaker 19 (51:01):
I've actually felt a number of a number of earthquakes recently.
In the last twenty five, for thirty minutes, we've had
a small swarm of earthquakes occurring in the Cooks straight.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Yeah, okay, I mean seeling. It's a lot, doesn't it.
But it's been it's been a rattly odd time for you,
has it.

Speaker 19 (51:24):
Yes, it has. It's been off and on over a
number of days.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Actually, okay, so yes, so there was a long going Yeah, no, okay,
Well you've had a lot. There's a three point nine
at nine twenty two, at two point four, at nine
twenty three, at two point two, at nine twenty five,
at one point four at nine twenty seven, at three
point three at nine two. That's a long series, isn't it.

Speaker 19 (51:49):
That's why I classify it as a swarm.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Yeah, I think you're right. I think I think you've
I think you've classified it correctly.

Speaker 19 (51:56):
Because I've actually I've actually been through the twenty thirteen
swarm that occurred while working at McDonald's, and we've just
had another one as we speak.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
I'll go to the drum. How do you know what
it is straight away? Because you can tell.

Speaker 19 (52:11):
I've just got the notification from Denet as I'm talking.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
To you on your phone.

Speaker 10 (52:17):
On my own cad.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
Yeah, three point one okay, So they tell you that,
do they?

Speaker 19 (52:25):
They send out preliminary information and then they double check
it just to verify to make sure the information coming
in is correct.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Did you get any warnings? Did you get any pre
warnings for any of them?

Speaker 9 (52:39):
Uh?

Speaker 19 (52:40):
No, I just get the alert as they happen. I
don't have the I don't have android.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
That's a strong series of quakes. Three point nine, two
point four, two point two, one point three, three point
three three, and the three was at nine thirty one.
There's probably another one still to come, isn't there.

Speaker 19 (53:00):
Yeah, and this is the same fault system that had
the seven point eight in twenty sixteen.

Speaker 10 (53:05):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
They could even say it could still be after shocks
from that, don't they. They could say that sometimes it
takes a long time for it to settle down.

Speaker 19 (53:14):
It can, but also sometimes these events can be treated
as separate avou yep, because of where they are occurring.

Speaker 10 (53:22):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Okay, I'll keep an eye it. We no more now, Whizzy,
how about now anything?

Speaker 10 (53:25):
Now?

Speaker 19 (53:29):
I haven't had anything new come through as of yet.
How about now I am monitoring despiration.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Okay, we'll keep you across it. Wuzy, thank you. Oh
it's brilliant to be live with Whizzy's he got one,
didn't feel it and blend him Marcus. The most fun
we've had is having turned on the spinning office chair
propelled by our industrial leaf blower. I've had an Oxo
peeler for years, fantastic. Bought it from Farmers, not some

(53:56):
fancy pants home where store. The most use of schedule
I got was one of those foot spars. Also in
nineteen sixty eight on the Star, I remember the way
he need I was a policeman who went down to
the beach by Eastbourne. We never really talked about. He
never really talked about what he saw. Wouldn't a three
point nine and siden'by just another day, another earthquake for them?
That's right, it's shaky. Who was the broadcast ward? Hey, Marcus.

(54:24):
We inherited an old two stroke leaft blow with a
house we bought in Queensland. I was pulling it apart
to see if I could get it going, and came
across some random brown wires. I was a bit puzzled,
but carried on, pulling another cover off. When the wires
started moving turned down it was a big huntsman spider
curled up in there. I got a heck of a
fright after evicting the spot, I got the leaft blow
working through and brought it home. When we moved home.

(54:47):
It's still in the shed. Good on you, Peter. Imagine
buying a house and getting a leaf blow, and then
getting that leaft blow and go going again. That's the spirit.
That's what you want in life. How are you going? People?
And listening land we're talking about leaft blowers and gadgets

(55:10):
that you've brought that are absolutely hopeless. But I don't
mind pushing out the boundaries and talking about gadgets that
have changed your life as well. Because you go to
some people's houses and they love a gadget, don't they.
And they'll cook down, they'll use this. They think, gee,
what are you getting all this stuff? They have that,
and they have that. I love a gadget. Family. They're

(55:32):
into everything, aren't they? Well what about this? What about that?
Like they've got a lazy Susan the fridge to turn
the sauces around, all those sorts of things. That's not
our family. We're back to basics. People have been quiet
on the Easter eggs this year, haven't they. No one's
been kicking Cadbury like they normally do. Mine is still time,

(55:55):
no shortage of eggs. The warehouse is still full of
those all budget ones, aren't they. What are they? Happy
Valley or Meadow Valley look terrible? What about that woman
that called it has hot spongsors tate the cross off? Yeah, no,
I think that's I think she's at Jehovah. It's he

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been there that you couldn't have a cross on your
hot cross bun. I'll tell you what's sneaking into the
supermarkets about the time of the crumpets. You always know
winter's coming when the crumpets are out. When they get
that giant blow up guy. He comes out, the crumpt guy,
and they always check the crumpets out exactly the same
time you feel you feel like a crump of that.

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There you go, there's a crumpit guy. You're bomb in
your mouth. Put them on the toaster, a very slow toaster.
Then put them on the top of the toaster, just
to do the one side a bit more. Toast is
not quite right with the crumpets. I need to go
to buy the special toaster. But I had a bad

(57:01):
experience at the at the kitchen shop. No one had
talked to me. Marcus. When it's really hot and you're
working away, shove them a kid to blow down your
boots and give it a blast. Amazing. And by the way,
just so you know, I'm not someone that likes to
be reckless with hot Cross buns. I don't like chocolate

(57:27):
in them. I don't like any of the other stuff
that people are doing. I don't like a mesh up.

Speaker 10 (57:30):
For me.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
I just like a hot Cross bun. They have probably
two a year. But I don't like anyone that discophies.
I'm not a big fan of that at all. The
special taste. It needs to be that taste. If you're
doing all that sort of other rubbish, that's that's no,
that doesn't serve me at all. Anyway, chocolate goes in

(57:52):
everything now, I'm never quite sure that it enhances any flavors. Brent,
Good evening. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 20 (57:59):
Yeah, you know, Marcus, you want to talk leaf blowers?

Speaker 10 (58:02):
Yep. Wow.

Speaker 20 (58:03):
A couple of years of guys to do some maintenance,
had our local recycling depot and it's all the cans
and a plastic bottle stuff. We'd go around and difn't
conveyor belts, and we again, we couldn't do it in
the day because they were working. So we used to
go out after nine o'clock a night night to piment

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because a lot of stuff would fall down. Some places
you'd meet deep and ends and bottles. And they had
this leaf blower there. It was made by Still. It
was a ittil powered one and they had about a
one fifty diameter nose on into this hose. And if
you didn't stand up with a brace, embrace yourself like

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a boxing stance, that would blow you over. There's that
much power. And I made a mistake when you put
it on your back. It's got a strap hardness. You
put it on your back and strap it on, and
it's got a hand on your rev like a chainsaw motor,
and you're widen this thing up and would push you over.

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You need to blow all of rubbish out the way.
I had to fix it bearing or something. And this
thing had so much power. Would just blow bottles and
cans for miles. Was fantastic. Good rats would then you'd
expose the rats and you're aiming at the rats and
you blow the rats away. And that thing was awesome.
If you beat mcdingny on a lake and put out

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the back, you just blow yourself along the lake.

Speaker 10 (59:32):
Did you try that?

Speaker 14 (59:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (59:37):
Did you try it in the boat?

Speaker 10 (59:39):
No?

Speaker 20 (59:39):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
What a shame? Thought about So as the motor on your.

Speaker 20 (59:43):
Back, Yes, you have to strap it on because you
got it up.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
What about an escapeboard? If you could propel yourself.

Speaker 7 (59:50):
Couldn't you easy?

Speaker 6 (59:52):
Easy?

Speaker 20 (59:53):
Well, you can't just stand sideway with your feet shouldered
with the pie otherwise you you'll blow you over backwards.
The thing you had to stand like a boxing start
the other way and you.

Speaker 10 (01:00:04):
Pull a trigger yourself going backwards.

Speaker 20 (01:00:08):
But what it could blow stuff away, Brent?

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
What was actually therefore? Was it there to help you
clean up?

Speaker 20 (01:00:13):
That's well, that's why they had it because the staff
during the day would use it to blow stuff up
for stuff around. But we used it and not because really,
well we had to get to this machine, so we
would get this leaf blower thing out when we're just
blast evening everywhere and underneath is always raped and he
can blast the rats.

Speaker 7 (01:00:35):
It was awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
You got any videos?

Speaker 20 (01:00:39):
No, No, that should have been like I should have.
That's a good idea.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
It should be on TikTok, Bret. Nice to hear from you.
Fifteen to ten. Here we go all about leaf blowers
and use the scheduts. How are we going to leaf blowers?

Speaker 10 (01:00:50):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
Because people don't like them. It's the noise. I think
someone uses their leaf blow to get their fire going.
Get to cranking. Nine to ten. Hello, Michael, it's Marcus.

Speaker 23 (01:01:02):
Welcome Marcus on good evening to you. How are you
doing tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
Thank you, Michael.

Speaker 23 (01:01:07):
Yeah, you asked the question, is it any gadgets that
you are happy with?

Speaker 21 (01:01:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (01:01:14):
Well, and I'm coming up to the season where I
will be using his gadget. I used to like run
to humidifiers all over night, but I brought the catch
here cut here, like the window back.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
Yeah, I never quite would who was buying those?

Speaker 23 (01:01:31):
Yeah, I know, I think it's well, I'm very happy
for it because like you stuck up all the condensation
and it saves running a to humidify overnight. And it's
one gadget that I am pleased with.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
And it's have you got to plug it in or
is it remind just sits on a port, sits in
a in a housing.

Speaker 23 (01:01:51):
Oh no, mine's like like you charge cell phone and
you charge it up and it's got like a little
water water holder and then you and like during during
the winter time when you're running your oven, the oven
throws out like eat or like all the thing comes
so that the oven throws makes quite a bit of conversation.

Speaker 10 (01:02:12):
Yep.

Speaker 23 (01:02:12):
So yeah, so even though I've got double glazed windows,
I get less condensation.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
Now brilliant. Okay, So it's a it's a good, good
bit of kit.

Speaker 7 (01:02:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:02:23):
Yeah, I'm so rep with it.

Speaker 11 (01:02:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:02:26):
Yeah, it's about one hundred and one hundred and twenty
or something like from one to ten or Bunnings.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
Yeah, it's a good brand, isn't it. They're fairly reliable, right.

Speaker 23 (01:02:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And your house do you have
double single glades, double glazes? Do you get much condensations?

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
No, we don't. And there's a few things we did
about that, and I can't remember what all they were,
but you know, I yeah, some people had it. It
was an issue for a while and we did a
number of things to to just spend to it. I
guess a lot of that's just having windows open and

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stuff like that. But yeah, no, I don't. I don't
think it's a problem at all at the moment, but
which I'm relieved about. But we would get one of those, Michael,
thank you for that. By the way, the league start,
if you want to know, Dolphins versus Penrith Edwards back.
I think they're excited about that too, So I'll keep
you updated with that. One Penworth four losses on a trot.

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They haven't done that for a long long time, up
for five perhaps, but looks like they're back on form.
Marcus Alinga, We're a bakery at Matakana Village. Do the
most delicious hot cross buns and they do noughts and
crosses on top of the buns. Brilliant out e cheers Karen,
Thanks Karen. Yeah, I just like mine straight. But I

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don't even know if I've had one this year. I
don't think I have. I'm not really on the hot
cross buns circuit. Texta is just texted through, Marcus. I've
just seen a UFO over the west coast of Auckland,
bright purple light moving round. I'd say it's probably a
drone or one of those paper lentterns. But yeah, you
never know someone else might have that might resonate with

(01:04:14):
someone used to schedets. What we're on about tonight, all
life changing gadgets, just since Mark took in a different direction. Ben,
it's Marcus. Welcome, good evening, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:04:27):
How's it hanging?

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
Yeah good, Ben? How's yourself? All good?

Speaker 9 (01:04:30):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:04:30):
All good? Just get a bit.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
I think I've stopped feeling the cold. It hasn't been
it hasn't been unpleasant down south all year. But when
we were at a fire going we had fire going
one day, but that was just to kind of the house.
It would have a blow through. But you know, it's
not cold. But anyway, yet, where are you, Ben.

Speaker 10 (01:04:51):
I'm in Nowson Market. Okay, it's even jowing up. I'll
get up the early in the morning and I can
see it there. Yeah, I haven't gone into the alarm yet.
I'm short. Good on you. You stay loyal to that,
you fliscategets. Well, I'm going to put this in part
of the glass and beef flowers. Yeah, I think I

(01:05:14):
think they're a beef pool either. Oh yeah, multi multi purposes.
I've got two of them. I've got a little battery
run and I've got a big one. I used the
big one everything from cleaning out the batch, open up
all the doors, throw everything out and then let the
wakers go and get all the bugs, and then use

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it around the lord. Everything like that. And then I
got a little one and the beef that the little ones.
If you're going to drill whole, so you drill a
hole with a piece of wood, right, and you want
to blow it out, think your least flower and where
it sucks the air and it over the hole and
it will suckle the pop out of the hole and
blow it out. Brilliant.

Speaker 9 (01:05:56):
What else is it?

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
What else to use it for?

Speaker 10 (01:05:58):
Ben, I use it drive machinery and at the end
of the week, I like to give it a good
dust out, so I just get that in the care
and just blow it all out.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
So you're saying it's more useful than a vacuum cleaner
for cleaning cars.

Speaker 10 (01:06:17):
I'm just on my whit truck heaps.

Speaker 14 (01:06:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:06:19):
Yeah, Like if you get real, like if you get
money and then in your heir and it goes to dust,
just open up your doors and just blow the heat
out of it, flow it all out and then just
give you a bolstery of a wipe down on the
cross at the because it goes everywhere. But why are
you selicate spray in my truck? So the dust it
just slides off?

Speaker 9 (01:06:39):
What do you use?

Speaker 10 (01:06:41):
Look it and spray? Yes, you know it's a it's slippery,
so you can even do the outside of your car
or truck or whatever. Then you spray it on and
then what happens is the dust it just slides off.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
So are you saying that a leaf blower is more
useful than a vacuum cleaner for cleaning the cabs of
of your trucks?

Speaker 10 (01:07:06):
Yeah? Hit me, Judy, stuff like use it heavy Jrty
get rid of all the bulk that you got in there,
and then just get your back in and finish office.
If you use it, I don't. If I'm at home
and I'm doing my own personal rugs, probably will. But
if I'm doing the machines at work or whatever, bulldozers

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flower it out, shut the door. Yep, easier?

Speaker 9 (01:07:31):
Is that being?

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
What brand have you got?

Speaker 10 (01:07:34):
I would rob it's one of those what do you
call it? Battery eighteen volts? I think it is, yes,
from Bunnings. It's cheap as you know, battery and then
and I don't know how long it will. I mean
it sits in the back of my work truck for
about a week to two weeks, but I had to
bring it in and charge it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
So both you're big and your small one are both
battery ones.

Speaker 10 (01:07:58):
No, the big one I run on too smoke.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:08:04):
I wasn't sure.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
I wasn't sure about.

Speaker 10 (01:08:05):
Yeah, that that one there. It's good for the nieces
and the fuse chasing around. They love the hitting, blowing
over feeling.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
We're about to the wickers been around the West coast
or they around Malverra sounds oh, where's the bet? I
guess where's the betch? Is what I'm asking.

Speaker 10 (01:08:25):
At Rye Valley. Yeah, yeah, it's a it's a bush one.
It's in the middle of nowhere. We just run a
gent for the pair.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
But yeah, yeah, it sounds like you're living the dream.

Speaker 10 (01:08:39):
Yeah, well you just you just leave the doors open
and and no waker for a local resident Wicker, he'll
come on and he'll go and give up the food,
scratch under the table and get the old spiders under
the window stills.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
They're a likable animal the week. I haven't come across
any Wickers for a while. I haven't been up the
coaster and wicker zoned for we don't get them down south.
I don't know why, No, no, don't.

Speaker 10 (01:09:01):
I have noticed this year is a lot of hawks around.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Yes, you ever seen the hark? Actually, I've got two
hawks that are always every time I'm on the phone,
there's two hawks just beckon for the whole time. But
you really really see them dive and catch anything when
they must because they survive.

Speaker 10 (01:09:18):
I don't know, probably about once every couple of months
I got off and see hawks and falcons they ever
go to each other.

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
Yeah, the year.

Speaker 10 (01:09:26):
They must.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
They must have unbelievable sight. I mean they always say
sight like a hawk boat. I wouldn't mind seeing some
sort of representation of what they can see from that
distance when they're moving. They're pretty extraordinary birds.

Speaker 10 (01:09:39):
Yeah they are. They are and look quite funny. You
can see them sitting on a deep poss them on
the side of the road. They howler off till you
get close to them with your card, aren't they. You
see the bigger ones, they just glear it you and
just as you get near them, they just went off.
You know, They're just like, oh they're gone. Yeah, but
now that I don't mind now hawks that yeah, watching

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the dog for hawks. And that I saw a falcon
actually not long ago, a couple of years ago, sorry
heavy go to Kia well. And that the mix can
stand off and the falcon just were whack. You had
to get the key just standing there, and the key
just shook a tear weaver and then it just danced

(01:10:22):
over there and just gave that the old falcon heat
of a whack, and the old falcon was off. It
was gone and didn't want no bar of it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
Is the bigger leaf blower Ryobi as well, no, the bigger.

Speaker 10 (01:10:33):
One is a I think it's a John three. I
think they're a home like one or the other. Yeah. Yeah,
it's not a usually run still gear. But lett I've
got to give my brother in law gave it to
me for Christmas. Sreason one year.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
Not a bad thing to get for Christmas.

Speaker 10 (01:10:51):
Oh it was awesome, awesome. Yeah, the kids love it.
You taxed them around them. They just love it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
I hope they are loving it. But I hope they're
not just saying they loving it because it sounds pretty
terrifying to me. You got them the bush out of
the out of the middle of no where. You're chasing
them with a leaf flower. Sound terrifying. Nice to hearf
of you Ben the old too smoke? Oh gosh, we'll
start with one of mine. That's a classic, and I
suppose it's as old as the hills?

Speaker 10 (01:11:17):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
The old two smoke reliunt hi, Marcus. I agree leaf
blowers are useless. Best thing is to use a rotor
cut lawn mower that chops the leaves and then into
the catcher, then straighten the compost heap from Jack the Mainlander, you,

(01:11:40):
I'm a great fan of using your moa for everything. Actually,
I love using the moa for malt stuff up. I
think that's incredibly satisfying. Kate from Hoker tick Here husband
bought an electric leaf blower home from work. Transformational. After
five years of leaf raking for about two to four

(01:12:02):
hours each week, five to six weeks each autumn, it's
now done in half the time and lot of fun
when you get the leaves rolling along in a way.
Bridid't never thought I'd say it, always thought they're a
waste of time. What I don't understand about leaf blowers,
and I'll ask this because I'm free for calls. Do
people just kind of blow them out onto the street
because no one seems to be collecting them. They're just

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blowing them, And then what are they doing raking them?
Or what are they doing?

Speaker 18 (01:12:25):
Then?

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
I don't quite know if a good catcher thing there?
The old too smoke anyway, if you want to talk
heat or twelve o'clock. By the way, the dolphins are
doing extremely well against Penrith. It's sixteen six. They've scored
three tries, they hammers scored two and there's a kick

(01:12:54):
to come. I think with this one evening. Jerriet's Marcus.

Speaker 24 (01:12:58):
Welcome, Oh, good evening, Marcus. I would have to say
that the most interesting gadget of all time has to
be the k Tael record selector, because I.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Write a big song and dance about it. Would remember
where the record win, didn't they?

Speaker 10 (01:13:18):
That's right?

Speaker 9 (01:13:19):
Yep?

Speaker 10 (01:13:21):
What was that when I was there? You go?

Speaker 24 (01:13:25):
So, when I was fairly much younger, my my mother
bought a children's oven for my sister, and it was
the Betty Crocker Oven, and it claimed that it would
actually heat up and work, you know, and obviously it
probably didn't, but the advertisement said that it would, so

(01:13:47):
she bought it. And my mother never bought anything really,
but on this case, in this occasion, she bought the
oven and took it home and and it but it
didn't work. It was it was a children's cooking oven.

Speaker 2 (01:13:59):
No surprise, is they. I'm interested in the k tail
record thing because it would Yeah, how many records would
it hold?

Speaker 13 (01:14:08):
It?

Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
You'd flip through them, wouldn't you.

Speaker 24 (01:14:11):
That's right about fifteen or twenty, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
Okay, I'm going to google up an image. Jerry, thank
you for coming through. I appreciate that.

Speaker 10 (01:14:18):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:14:19):
Leaf Blower texts Marcus great discussion on left blowers. In
South Korea, we use leaf blowers to blow the snow
of footpaths and around our house. It is so cold
and dry and winter that the snow blows away easily.
Cheers Jay Marcus. My wife and I bought a black
and Ducker decker leaf blower, and sucker blows the leaves

(01:14:41):
into the corner and then sucks them up. Brilliant. Yep,
you blow them into a pile, pick them up, and
you put them into your compost, into your gardener's mulch.
Blowing them into a piles way cracker than raking, and yes,
great for blowing leaves off gravel areas. Marcus, you can

(01:15:05):
use a leaf blower for no other reason than it's fun.
How can a leaf blow be so much fun when
vacuuming is so boring? That's the but I don't understand vacuuming.
I hate everything about the plug, all of it. Marcus.
Update on monich butterflies. My main plant has nineteen chrysalis.

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I've moved thirty caterpillar indoors and have approached approximately twenty
five transitioning caterpillars, all away from the wasps. I'm saving
heaps of seeds for next year. Silly sight. On my
travel to work recently in enthusiastic guard of local church,
a gale was blowing. However he was using a leaf
blower in a futile manner. Karen with a y. And

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also is the anniversary of the Wahini going from Littleton
to Wellington and that terrible storm and hit the reef
about six o'clock in the morning, and then it took

(01:16:19):
a long time for the events of that day to conclude.
Was out there for a number of hours before it
capsized as people throwned the water battled between eleven and
twelve o'clocks. It must have been a fairly it's been

(01:16:45):
horrific to be on the ship. It must have been
a fairly confusing and challenging time for those people watching
on or getting ready to assist. Yeah, after recent discussions,
it's always been a fairly different scenario than the one

(01:17:09):
I always imagined. So yeah, and if you want to
mention and talk about that, that is fine also if
you are someone that wants to do that. But yeah,

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so departed Littleton, six hundred and ten passages, one hundred
twenty three crew on the ninth. On the evening, two
violent storms merged at Wellington at the same time as
other storm that had driven up the west coast. The
two came together. The winds in Wellington were the strongest
ever recorded there. The winds reached two hundred and seventy

(01:17:50):
five klumpters per hour and the wind ripped off the
roofs of ninety eight houses. Three Amblances in a truck
were blind to their side when they tried to go
in toto the area to rescue injured people. So yeah,
howe a storm. As that storm hit the way he
he was making a way out of cook Straight on
the last leg of a journey. Although there had been

(01:18:13):
weather warnings when she set out for Middleton, there was
no indication the storms would be severe or any worse
than those experienced by vessels crossing Cooks Straight. Five point
fifty in the morning, the captain decided to enter the
harbor twenty minutes staid of. The wind had increase to
one hundred and sixty k's and the way he lost
her radar. A huge wave pushed her off course and

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in line with Barrett Reef. Captain was unable to turn
the ship back on course. Decide to keep turning around
and back out to sea. For thirty minutes the way,
HENI battled to the waves in wind, but by sixteen
she was not answering her helm and the engine had
stopped responding. I don't fully know what that means, but

(01:18:56):
I guess it means that there is uncontrollable not answering
her helm. At six point forty, the ship was driven
onto the southern tip of Barrett Reef, near the harbor entrance,
less than a mile from shore. She drifted along the reef,
shearing off her starboard propeller and gouging a large hole
in her hull on the starboard side of the stern
beneath the waterline. Passages were told the ferry was aground,

(01:19:19):
but there was no immediate danger. This is six forty.
It's a long mourning for them. They were directed to
don their life jackets and report to the Musta station.
The storm continued to grow more intense. They're on this
for hours. The wind increased to two fifty klombus per hour,
and she dragged her anchors and drifted into the harbor

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at about eleven am, close to the western shore. Its
seat and the anchors finally held at about the same
time the tug reached her and tried to attach a
line and bring her in tow, but after ten minutes
the line broke. Other attempts failed, but the deputy harbor
master managed to climb aboard from the pilot boat. Throughout

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the morning, the danger of the ship's sinking it seemed
to pass, as the vessel's location was an area where
the water depth did not exceed in meters, and the
crew's worst case scenario was the cleanup once the vessel
entered either arrived in Wellington or grounded in shallow water.
There was no indication that the ship would ever even
sail again that evening as usual. There was indication that

(01:20:25):
the ship would even sail again that evening as usual,
albeit later than scheduled, while the damage done by the
reef was repaired. And then around one fifteen pm, the
combined effect of the tide in the storm swung the
way Hendy around, providing a patch of clear water shedd
from the wind. As she suddenly listed further and reached

(01:20:45):
the point of no return, Robertson gave the order to
abandon ship. So there we go. That's a situation that's
kind of what happened. So it was a long time.
They went aground it before six o'clock. It was one
p fifteen where the core was to aband. So for

(01:21:07):
a long long time they've stuck there in terrible winding conditions.
But the sense was it was a redeemable situation. Anyway,
that's a bit of a background for you. I just
think we need to acknowledge that, and also acknowledge how
many are on the ship and how many managed to
be saved through extraordinary bravery and all manner of people

(01:21:29):
heading out to a remarkable condition or terrible conditions to
provide assistance, almost like a Dunkirk type effort with sort
of fishing boats and all sorts of people heading out.
So yeah, that's a situation there. It's a fairly good
Wikipedia page that one. And if even that museum and

(01:21:52):
willing to that Museum of the Sea or whatever it's called,
there is a documentary that shows there that's extremely moving.
So yes, eight hundred and eighty eight nine two detect
halftime in the League eighteen six Alimoti head off from
the Warrior, off from the Penrith for high contact. He's
in the bin. I think he's back on about now,

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so it's a situation. They're twenty away from eleven. If
you want to mention and talk about the way heny,
you are more than welcome also tonight. And gadgets. Marcus
listening in from oubboard balley as usual, useless gadgets are
owned Ginzu two thousand knives set only used once as

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the knives only as one of the knives. The rest
just took up space. Handheld vacuum Queen of the nineties.
One couldn't suck anything after a few charges. Wireless dog
Barker's silencer never worked. And what happened? All the CD
holder towers when we move to digital must have been
millions worldwide and people's homes. The thing I never understood

(01:23:01):
about CED holders, right, Why did we not just stacks
CDs like books? Why did they need their own individual slot?
I've never understood that was it because they were so
revened when we first got them. Why would you need
a CD tower? I would just have them on bookshelves
where we could step them all along and you could

(01:23:22):
see their spines. Made no sense to me. By the way,
there was some discussion by one of the mirror of
Wymak and Edi, which I don't even know where that is,
to be honest, I know it's a river. I don't
just know where the what the region is the Mirror overlooks.
I could google it up, but just can't visualize where
he is. Anyway, he wants to bring back the Littleton

(01:23:46):
to Wellington Ferry. I don't quite know why, because if
you want to get from christ Church to Wellington, you'd
fly because to go on an overnight ship would cost
a fortune because you're getting a room, you're getting meals,
you're getting all that sort of stuff. So people just
fly and see what the market's for and the freight

(01:24:10):
can go up by training across the on the andrealid
or by road. So I don't actually know what. It
sounds to me like nostalgia. But nostalgia's good for local
body elections because it's the oldies that vote. But yeah,
I don't thin anyone's seriously thinking about that. But anyway,
maybe it was just an offul. I mean, I don't

(01:24:31):
think there's anything wrong about saying. I just don't think
it's very well thought out. Good evening, Ken, it's Marcus welcome, Hi.

Speaker 12 (01:24:40):
Hi Ken, Yeah him Sorry, I'm driving hands free. I
remember the way easy days.

Speaker 10 (01:24:49):
Probably sixty eight, so it's probably about fifteen, attending.

Speaker 12 (01:24:54):
Title College, and my best friend, whose first name was Johnny,
he had his license and he his parents had an
early nineteen fifties Vanguard. Know they were built like a
tank and they weighed having those cars. Anyway, we were
sent home from school and he dropped a friend of

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ours up to so funny and I remember as we
were coming down a hill. The name of the roads
escapes me now so long ago, but we were coming
down the hill and a big gust of wind came
and I kid you not, the car was airborne and
he was spinning the wheel and nothing was happening, and

(01:25:38):
then it dumped the down again. And I've never forgotten that.
It was a horrendous day.

Speaker 2 (01:25:44):
So hang on, kinder, But I didn't understand you were
sent home from school because of the window. Were buildings damaged?
And what was that about?

Speaker 12 (01:25:51):
Oh no, just because of the stormy weather.

Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
I'm not exactly sure, but I remember because school's never
seen people home, That's what I'm surprised by. So that
must have been a hell of a storm.

Speaker 12 (01:26:02):
Yeah, well, I remembered that we were coming at we
were driving and we were in school uniform. I remember that,
and then I remember watching it on televisied black and
white television when I got home.

Speaker 2 (01:26:14):
Were you aware when you were coming home that there
was a ship stuck on the reef?

Speaker 12 (01:26:18):
No, we just knew that there was, you know, Well,
it was a very bad day that we were sent
home from school. The school closed and we were told
to go home for I guess just for general safety.

Speaker 7 (01:26:34):
And you're at college.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
Yeah, I'm just a work Well, I can get a
bit hazy with my Wellington suburbs, which I try quite
hard not to be so tight to. College is up
in the hut, Is that right? Yeah, it's halfway way up, yes,
near the start.

Speaker 23 (01:26:55):
Yes.

Speaker 12 (01:26:56):
And it's on that road that runs along the hill.
It's sort of nettled into the hills that the college was.
And then you went up the sort of little short
motorway and then turned right into Soaks Valley before Silver Streak.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
That's a surprising thing is even without the Wahini, it
was a massive storm. There was roofs lifted, there was
ambulances knocked on their sides. I mean, it was a
major weather event, even without that.

Speaker 12 (01:27:23):
But wow, yeah, well one of those day you know,
like that from the sixties if you liked The two
big events I remember, of course was the JFK.

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
I was going to say that, but it was JFK
and that, yeah, I was.

Speaker 12 (01:27:41):
I was very moved by that and also the Wahini day.
They were my big memories and then things got better.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
With nice to hear from you, Kin, Thank you, good evening,
ron Ats Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:27:56):
Yes, good evening. I was coming to you Hayward Shool
to go to Stokesvilly and the wind was blowing so
hard I had I had to change an angler van.
I had to change it into second hill checking gear
to get down the hill. Wow, that's how hard the

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wind was blowing. And then of course when I got
down to the bottom of the hill, all I had
to do was keep using the brakes or designed to
slow down until I got around by the silver stream
there to go into Stokes Valley.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
And you were aware of what was happening at sea
at the time.

Speaker 11 (01:28:38):
I yeah, it was on the radio that something had
happened to the ship, but I wasn't aware that it
was on the rocks.

Speaker 2 (01:28:46):
Or what have you did you have a car. Did
you have a radio in your car in those days?

Speaker 11 (01:28:52):
Yeah? I did.

Speaker 22 (01:28:52):
I had.

Speaker 11 (01:28:53):
I had a little transistor radio. Well what a car radio?
A transistor radio like.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
On the passenger seat. I have it on the passenger seat.

Speaker 11 (01:29:05):
Well, I had it up. I had it on where
the sunvisor is stripped.

Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
Yeah, and the area worked all right there.

Speaker 11 (01:29:15):
Yeah, we're good.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
Yeah here Is that what people did before car radios?

Speaker 10 (01:29:20):
Well?

Speaker 11 (01:29:21):
I don't know, but that's what I had. From that's
what I had. I had a little transistor, a national transistor.
It wasn't very big. It was only about well, probably
about one and a half inches by three or something.

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
Where did car radio has become a thing?

Speaker 11 (01:29:42):
I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
No, I don't know. I guess they weren't always around,
were they.

Speaker 11 (01:29:48):
No, But I had this little transistor. I used to
put it up on the up on the sunriser was
rubber bends around it, and I could listen to the radio.

Speaker 14 (01:29:59):
In the car.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
You know, I can picture that. That's a brilliant thing
to do.

Speaker 11 (01:30:04):
Yeah, why he any day? It is certainly brew And
I certainly remember remember it having to come down Hayward
chill In's second gear to get down the hill and
I'm coming down a hill and I'm coming down and
seekond gear and when it was blowing that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
Hard almost seems unbelievable.

Speaker 11 (01:30:26):
You have a great day. I enjoy your show.

Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
Thanks Ron, nice to hear from you. Another self exeter.

Speaker 7 (01:30:33):
Brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
Just a league update for you. The Dolphins over Penwrith
Panther the Panthers twenty four to six. Doesn't look like
the Penwrith Panthers all in a fifth premiership in a row. There,
Well they were. I don't think they'll win this. Well,
there's still twenty seven minutes left to go, but they
not doing it. We are talking about the way he
need that happened this day in nineteen sixty eight, So

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if you do want to talk about that, then also
talk about the storm that hit Willington and also too.
And I mentioned this because it was something I didn't
know last year and since do know it, how do
I say this delicately? Well not delicately, but also it

(01:31:20):
was the same day that a pupil I don't know
the full details, but his pupil shot the principle at
a school I think in Tara Neck at Inglewood, which
was just a extraordinary thing to have had, which has
been you know, a very big news story, but that

(01:31:44):
of course was all buried well because there was so
much more attention given to it as it should be,
you know, to this major maritime disaster, the Wahini, which
would be the I don't know where it fits in
with the maritime disasters in New Zealand. I mean there's
been some, there's been some terrible ones, but it's probably
the biggest of the disasters within the last one hundred years.
I would have thought, well, eighty years. Anyway, that's what

(01:32:06):
we are talking about tonight, nine past eleven, if you
want to talk eight hundred eighty eight and nine to text.
I think I've got that right. About the shooting, it
was something I wasn't aware of, aware of until we
discussed this last year. Is Steffanie Marcus welcome?

Speaker 25 (01:32:28):
Yes, Marcus, you're correct. It was a pupil at the
high school that chopped the headmaster.

Speaker 2 (01:32:33):
Is that your neck of the wood, Steffanie?

Speaker 25 (01:32:36):
Yep, my school.

Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
But you oh yeah, you were like younger than that.

Speaker 25 (01:32:42):
Yeah, I was still primary school when that happened. But
my mum was a cleaner up at the high school
and what I remember that day, I've gone around to
a friend's place to play and it was getting late
and I was getting agitated because I had to go home.
It was getting too late, and my friend's mother wouldn't
let me go home because they hadn't thought the guy

(01:33:05):
at that stage. And my mom came around and picked
me up, took me home because she had been turned
away at the high school gates. She wasn't allowed him
to do the cleaning that night.

Speaker 2 (01:33:17):
Wow, that's a huge tragedy for a small town that
must have really had reverberations around that town.

Speaker 14 (01:33:24):
It did.

Speaker 25 (01:33:25):
But in later years I have found out that the
guy that did the shooting there was psychiatric disorder. I
can't remember what it is, but if he hadn't been
treated for that, this may never have happened.

Speaker 2 (01:33:44):
Was he someone you used, Tiffany, No, you're.

Speaker 25 (01:33:48):
You're older than me. But I know where he lived. Yeah,
it was just around the corner from.

Speaker 2 (01:33:53):
Where either and was he in carcad or was he
involved in some sort of psychiatric institution From then on?

Speaker 25 (01:34:00):
I believe he went to Lake Alice in the psychiatric
secure unit. Can't where the kids got abused and that, Yeah,
I think my brother told me that he was there.

Speaker 9 (01:34:16):
Wow, yeah, wow, it is true, and like we never had.

Speaker 25 (01:34:27):
That storm like Wellington had it, because I remember that
afternoon it was a nice clear day. We were standing outside.

Speaker 14 (01:34:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:34:38):
And did the school did that school where? Because you
went to that secondary school Ontomate, did you, Stephanie?

Speaker 25 (01:34:43):
Yep, yep, yeah, I did.

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
Must have it must have left it. It must have
kind of it must have left a shadow over the
school as well. Knowing that that had happened there in
the place, I presuming the principal's office and everything.

Speaker 13 (01:34:57):
Well not really.

Speaker 25 (01:34:59):
I think by the time I got there that it's
sort of all gone. But yeah, yeah there was still
no one wasn't he knowing what had happened. But yeah, yeah,
it was just that's where we were went to school.

Speaker 2 (01:35:14):
Okay, I appreciate you coming through stiffitely, no dramas on
the road, not.

Speaker 25 (01:35:19):
Tonight, just really white up the state away four tonight
there was going back to the States.

Speaker 10 (01:35:23):
Oh way one.

Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
Yes, nice to hear from it. Thanks so much that
Alister Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:35:28):
Welcome, Hello Marcus. I used to short mail and a
water side of very large shed and the mail used
to come off the ships from UK and Scotland and

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you know Ireland and all around there, and the lad
ship freight trip used to carry hundreds of bags of
mail and when it arrived the wind the ship arrived
the wharf is used to put these large mail bags

(01:36:11):
into very large wire no rope knitting, and then a
crane would swing over the over to from the ship
over to the wharf. And we used to had to
short the mail from London to the leading London to

(01:36:39):
we even Scotland to the leading Scotland to one even
Ireland to wherever they go, and they used to we
used to have to sort hundreds of mail bags looking
out as.

Speaker 2 (01:37:01):
Can I interrupt you? Please? Where did you work?

Speaker 14 (01:37:05):
I worked for the poet for us, but we used
to go down.

Speaker 6 (01:37:08):
To the wall.

Speaker 2 (01:37:09):
Okay, so you're working in Wellington, were you?

Speaker 10 (01:37:12):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
Okay, thank you yep.

Speaker 14 (01:37:15):
And we used to and we saw the why he
need listing while we were working during the day.

Speaker 2 (01:37:29):
Wow, tell me more.

Speaker 10 (01:37:32):
It was a.

Speaker 14 (01:37:35):
Very murky, cloudy, horrible bloody.

Speaker 2 (01:37:40):
Day and you spent the whole day storting the mail,
did you?

Speaker 20 (01:37:45):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (01:37:46):
Inside the water side is very large shed.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
Okay. I wasn't quite sure where you go. I thought
it must have been Wellington, and so you in Wellington?

Speaker 14 (01:37:57):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
Were you involved in any way or were you keiped
up to date with it or what was your experience
of that?

Speaker 14 (01:38:02):
Did you have any I was some distance from the
actual why he knew both and the rescuing of the people.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
But you must have been aware of the ferocity of
the storm because Wellington must have been the absolutely strongest
winds ever in Wellington.

Speaker 14 (01:38:21):
Yes, it was very bad, Okay, Alice, to.

Speaker 2 (01:38:25):
Thank you for that. Hi, Marcus. I was seventeen year
old hairdresser in Willington when the Way Henni founded on
Barrett's reef. My dad took me to work that morning.
We knew the Way Henni was in trouble, but had
no idea what was going to happen in the harbor.
We had a Worsley, big English car. The wind was
atrocious that morning going down the Nardonger Gorge. Lots of
cars had been pushed into the gorge. I was the

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only one at worked that day, as all trains, buses,
et cetera. Were off the road. The sea was washing
across the Hut road, extremely dangerous. The radio broadcasts were
telling people to stay home. Saneade schools were closed too,
so it must I mean you very really did ever
hear a school closed because of weather? Marcus wondering if

(01:39:14):
everyone out there would mind starting their call with their
name and current location helps form a mental image of
the speaker. Well, I don't think. Sometimes people don't like
to stay where they're from. It leads to more nanimity,
especially if you're from a small town with a made
up name. Marcus. People had car radios in the fifties.
They had a big aeriel on the front of the car.

(01:39:36):
Although funnily enough, I can visualize that guy with a transistor.
I knew it would be on the sun visor with
rubber bands. Marcus Cure Marcus. My granddad who a ship
was in trouble and walked up behind our house in
Strength where and got blown over Orever. We all went
to school, but Saint Mary's College was evacuated. When we're

(01:39:58):
all sitting home, my dad drove about eleven girls in
our station wagon home anyone out towards eastern S. When
we got to Strength wore. All the trees around Scott
College were blowing down and we had great difficulty getting
up the Streatham Hills. When we got home, the front
door was smashed and the pot of milk for my
baby brother's bottle was sitting in the fireplace. Dramatic memories evening, Marcus.

(01:40:25):
Whymac Adia is just north of Christich. Whymac Bridge is
the one you go over ten minutes north just before
Kaiapo Ranging or wood End in Pegasus.

Speaker 10 (01:40:34):
Mp up.

Speaker 2 (01:40:35):
There is a bit loose great show tonight, although it
says great shoe remember why Henny Day. There were ropes
across the roads in Courtney Place to hold on to
to cross coming down from Mount Victoria. It was very scary.
I've never known about ropes across with their cars going anyway.

(01:41:01):
Marcus have a book on the Way Heni disastered on
the outcome of the inquiry into it, written by Max
Lamb but Jim Hartley. Very interesting read. I remember the
Waheni storm. I was in christ Church. It just turned forward.
Was one of my earliest memories. The storm was fierce
in christ Church. I remember watching the TV with my
parents glued to watching images of the Waheni and grained

(01:41:24):
with memories forever. Katie Marcus. When I drove to work
part Athletic Park in the Waheni storm. There were sheets
of roofing iron stuck in the power lines along the road.
I was scared one would come down through my windscreen
and cut my head off. It was scary. Twenty four
six dolphins running away with this one over Penrith. When

(01:41:45):
they got all their stars back Penrith, They're just not
doing it. Colleen good evening.

Speaker 26 (01:41:52):
Hi. I was in Wellington working in Todd Motors when
the Wahini went down and we couldn't do any worked
there because that was actually right on the line, like
the railway line ran down behind our factory, right beside

(01:42:16):
it really and then you know, you just had the
water coming up there. Well, it was so bad that
there was sheets of iron coming past the factory. They
couldn't let us go home, but we couldn't work. But anyhow,
one of the boys said the wahnis we knew it
was having in trouble, and one of the boys said

(01:42:40):
it was going down. So we actually which was stupid,
but we ran up on the deck. There was a
they used to put the new cars up on the
roof of Todd Motors, and we went up there and
we were watching it and you know it you could

(01:43:02):
see it, and you could see the boats trying to
get out to it as well.

Speaker 2 (01:43:07):
You know too, must have been quite harrowing to watch
that with boats trying to get out there to savee.
You where was Todd Motors down wather? Is it right
down on the harbor? Is that where that was?

Speaker 26 (01:43:19):
Yes, right on the harbor And it was a big
concrete sure building if I remember, I mean it was
a few years ago now, and it was so close
and it was right you know, we sort of turned
off the motorway you went into Lower Hut.

Speaker 2 (01:43:41):
Really, I know, I can't I and visualize the place
and so and so, Colleen. The weather was so bad
they wouldn't do anything. They're just waiting for it to
get safe for you guys to go home.

Speaker 10 (01:43:51):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:43:52):
Have I got that right?

Speaker 14 (01:43:53):
Yes?

Speaker 26 (01:43:53):
Yes, that's how I remember it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:57):
Well, it's a hell of a storm.

Speaker 26 (01:43:59):
Yeah, And the boat you could see it sort of
listening to a sigh and the waves were crashing over it,
but you know, around it. But at the same time,
when everyone started going out to it, all the smaller boats,

(01:44:24):
I felt that that the wind went down at the
you know a little bit, and it was like an
act of God. You know, that's how I saw it,
and remember it as you know that those people were
all washed over to Eastbourne, weren't they. Yes, that's right, yeah,

(01:44:48):
and they you know, it's just terrible for anyhow, that's
all really.

Speaker 2 (01:44:54):
Always I often think, Colin when I talk about this,
and you know, I was really alive when it happened,
But I will often think that you haven't gone down
on the It could have been a lot when they
you know, it was it six hundred I think it
was over six hundred people on board. They certainly got
you know, I mean it was an absolute disaster, but boy,
it could have been so much worse in those conditions.

Speaker 26 (01:45:17):
Absolute they I believe a lot of them have come
to the cold more than anything at Eastbourne. But I
don't know, but I just remember why we were up
on the roof. I don't know because we shouldn't have been,
because there was sheets of iron going down the road

(01:45:41):
because where Todd's was, it was it was a narrow
piece really. You came down the motorway and then there
was a bridge that went across and onto the motorway
down onto it from Paraparamway.

Speaker 5 (01:45:59):
You know, it was.

Speaker 26 (01:46:02):
Just where it was.

Speaker 14 (01:46:03):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:46:04):
It was horrendous noisy too, with iron coming down the
road and stuff like that.

Speaker 26 (01:46:11):
Oh yeah, it was. Yeah, it was scary. But when
you think of the poor people on the.

Speaker 2 (01:46:18):
Boat and to think that they to think that they perished,
but already they'd been through six hours of drama and
thinking it was going to be terrible than the ship
going out to sea. Then they thought it was going
to be all right. It just sounds like an awful ordeal.

Speaker 26 (01:46:31):
That's right. And now the view wasn't long after. We
were on the old Maori boat coming back. We'd gone
over to christ Church Way and just spent the night there,
just a group of us and we were on the

(01:46:51):
boat and they wouldn't go through the heads. They took
us over this rough weather. The boat was going from
side to side one minute and then up you know
at the front of it was stuffing as well, and
the waves were coming up over the boat. That's how

(01:47:11):
bad the weather was. And they took us back. They
wouldn't go through the heads, so you know, and I
think it was because of what happened. Would do why
hey could.

Speaker 2 (01:47:23):
Well Qulin, lovely to talk to you, Thanks so much
for that. Good evening, Glenn. Hello, welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:47:28):
Yeah, how are you good?

Speaker 10 (01:47:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:47:32):
I remember the way any day really well. It was
my fourth birthday and we were living on the Mirmar
Peninsula and were him in the birthday party, and I
remember we could see it from our house, and I
remember being very upseck. So I set the table trying
to celebrate my birthday, but everyone wouldn't come to the

(01:47:52):
table when we were watching the boat.

Speaker 9 (01:47:54):
Oh wow.

Speaker 3 (01:47:57):
And it was a horrendous weather. I don't know how
the people got to my party. They must have been
just local kids. But one of the houses up the
the road lost its roof. Remember going up the living
my dad after the storm and standing in the house
and it was saturated and looking up to see the sky.

Speaker 2 (01:48:17):
So okay. So that was before school, so it would
have been a morning party if you're looking out there,
I suppose like a ten o'clock party or something with
your mates from the neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (01:48:28):
I would say. So my older brother, a brother, and
sister went to school that day.

Speaker 13 (01:48:32):
That was sent home.

Speaker 2 (01:48:34):
The other kids, the kind of straight away were they.

Speaker 3 (01:48:41):
I can't remember. I was I was four at that stage. Yeah,
fair enough, But one of the sheets from that roof
up the road hit the side of our house and
I remember seeing the big jungle wood taken out of
the weatherboards and it was like that for years. There's
also a lot of stuff washed up on the beaches
down below. I found a cabin door floating in the

(01:49:04):
sea a.

Speaker 20 (01:49:04):
Few days afterwards.

Speaker 10 (01:49:06):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:49:08):
Yeah, really scary. So every birthday, of course, I remember.

Speaker 2 (01:49:14):
The boy he Happy birthday. Happy birthday. By the way, Glenn,
forgotten about that. How old are your six?

Speaker 20 (01:49:22):
How do you do today?

Speaker 9 (01:49:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:49:24):
Okay, yeah, so yeah, it was a bad storm, right, Yeah,
took them years to remove it. Remember the boats out there,
cranes and cutting it up piece by piece and bringing
it back to Wellington. The family could go down and
he could he see it all, you know, all and pieces.

Speaker 9 (01:49:51):
Was there?

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
I don't know. Yeah, look, I haven't even looked about that.
You won't know because you're for at the time. And
there must there must have been an oil. There must
have been some form of oil got out of there
as well. I would think too, that would.

Speaker 3 (01:50:01):
Have caused Yeah, i'd I measure so yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50:04):
Okay, I'll do. Someone reading about that tonight, Glen. Thanks
for coming through. I appreciate that. Mary, And it's Marcus. Hello,
good evening, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 5 (01:50:13):
I remembered the way any storm very clearly. My husband
was remember of the Hot Valley Underwater Club, and that
was before the day that the police had their own
dive teams. So quite a few of the Hot Valley
police also were in the Hot Valley Underwater Club and
they all got called out around to Eastbourne and they

(01:50:35):
were in the water for several hours helping people come,
you know, getting people out of the water. And I
remember when he came home and we'd had no power
all day, so it was no hot water and all
he wanted to do was have a shower or a
bath or something, but there was no hot water. And yeah,
I think, you know, I remember him saying, oh, I

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don't know how many lives will be lost, but there's
a lot. But I don't think there was many as
he actually thought maybe there would be. But the people
at Eastbourne apparently were just absolutely marvelous. They were bringing
police kits down and all sorts of things to help
the guys getting the people out of the water.

Speaker 2 (01:51:19):
Now were they Mary and I was the underwater club?
Were they called? Because they were did they have equipment
like wetsuits and stuff that they would have had to kick. Okay, okay,
I understand and.

Speaker 5 (01:51:30):
At the time that the police didn't have a dive team,
but quite a few of the Wellington and hut Fairly
police actually belonged to the Hot Fairly Underwater club and
so they were quite a few police involved in it
as well. But I know that, you know, I can't

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remember what time it was that he came back, but
it wasn't till early hours of the morning, and they'd
been long water really hours were they the freezing cold
and all he wanted was to have a shower, but
we'd had no power all day so there was no
hot water.

Speaker 10 (01:52:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:52:09):
I can't think of a more I can't think of
a more haunting thing to be in a storm with
boats been blown across, with people out of boats, and
it would have been harrowing.

Speaker 5 (01:52:21):
Yeah. Yeah, I know for a couple of nights he
couldn't sleep, you know, worrying was thinking about it, going
over and over and over and thinking, you know, if
there was more things they could have done, But I
think at the time they thought there would have been
a lot more bodies. Loss of the actually were.

Speaker 2 (01:52:40):
Yes, Oh, look, and I think I think it's also
a story. There are remarkable stories of survival because you know,
to get so many of those people out and some
of those people that you know, and with those small
boats out there. I remember last year taking of people
just going out in small boats and just grabbing people
as they went past them in the water and stuff
like that. But yeah, I hadn't heard that side of things,

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Marian about the dive clubs of thank you for that.
Are you still in Winnington? Okay, yeah, yeah, I'd never
realized because Wellnington gets to windy, I've never realized that
that's still the record worst storm ever. So that's pretty amazing,
isn't it.

Speaker 5 (01:53:18):
Mm And in those days, the police didn't have their
own dive team, so a lot of the members of
the hut Fairly Underwater Club were actual policemen, and I
think that was probably one of the reasons also that
helped the police to get their own dive team, because
there were a couple of there were the crew murders

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and then the Wahini storms, and there were a few things,
and eventually the police actually started up their own dive teams,
but some of them still remained in the local you know,
underwater clubs, but that was before any of them actually
had proper police dive teams.

Speaker 2 (01:53:59):
Love to hear from you, Marion, thank you so much
for that good evening.

Speaker 9 (01:54:02):
Warren.

Speaker 16 (01:54:07):
I have a couple of respectors that are a little
bit out of left field regards to the Waheni incident.
And my mother at the time was a member of
the team in the in the booking office of the
of the shipping company, and and my father had in

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the taught prior to the sinking, had traveled to the
South Island on her annual which was given staff members,
and then on their return within a fortnight, the ship
went down, and I recalled for well, the rub trout

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effect that it had on the three women and the
supervisor from the booking office and at at the at
the shipping company. It was, it was, it was, It
was notable, for they were all very much affected by

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it for for so many weeks as they had they
all repelled booking people on that mill of sailing.

Speaker 10 (01:55:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:55:37):
Yeah, But beyond that, my father at the time was
safety officer for the Up Valley Electric Power Board, and
he and a colleague from from the power board.

Speaker 10 (01:55:53):
Drew a.

Speaker 16 (01:55:55):
Bedford for before heavy construction vehicle. It was actually a
pole erecting vehicle. And they proceeded around to to Eastbourne
and and of course as you you will have i'm
sure have read the storm they closed the road. But

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they they proceeded around to Eastbourne and then for the
for that day, they they they traveled up and down
the coast on the on the pen Carra coast to
assist with them hauling or carrying deceased bodies out to

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the gate where they were picked up by undertakers and
and transported off.

Speaker 2 (01:56:54):
So they had they got the power. They got the
power because they had the truck. Well, because it was
just all hands. What was the reasoning for that?

Speaker 10 (01:57:03):
Do you know?

Speaker 16 (01:57:04):
I think there was hall put to them by the
poliss to to respond there. I think they had two
heavy four before it might even have been two by
six cab over engined construction vehicles that were their pole

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trains on the back and and of course being four
before drive they were they were able to make it
through even though the roade that they were driving through
the seat through seawater across the road. So quite quite
quite a and what dramatic Warren.

Speaker 2 (01:57:46):
What did you did you say they were farying bodies
on that truck? Is that what you said they were doing?

Speaker 10 (01:57:50):
They?

Speaker 2 (01:57:51):
Yes, they did back to the hospector at the morga
temporary morgue set up in Wellington.

Speaker 10 (01:57:57):
Is that right?

Speaker 16 (01:57:58):
No, No, there was. They brought them off the Coast
Road and the Coastal Road. There's a there's a gate
at Eastbourne where the road comes to an end for
public transport. They would they would bring them back to
there and they would be transferred to I presume Hearses

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or for other vehicles to take them off to the walk.

Speaker 2 (01:58:26):
You weren't around then, were you?

Speaker 16 (01:58:30):
I was, But I wasn't. I wasn't in Wellington at
the time. Hawks Hawk's Bay, but.

Speaker 10 (01:58:38):
No.

Speaker 16 (01:58:38):
Certainly within family circles the story was well repeated on
a number of occasions.

Speaker 2 (01:58:47):
I find it a really harrowing time.

Speaker 14 (01:58:49):
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:58:49):
I do find all these stories. I mean just I
don't quite know what it talks about. Yes, that's right
with Eastbourne and then there's that Coast Road. Isn't there
that round to the lighthouse.

Speaker 16 (01:59:02):
Burdens Gate. That's it, Yes, you know, that's yeah, you
do a remarkably good job of drawing stories out of people.

Speaker 2 (01:59:13):
But you will imagine there's all those people too when
it comes to that day and they probably don't even
remember that day. Then they remember what the day was like,
remember all this stories, because yeah, I can even remember
what day of the year it is. It seems a
forgettable day, the tenth of Akepril. But yeah, I appreciate
that worrying, and that's kind of what you say, thank you.
I'm just looking on Google Maps to see how up
the harbor Barrett Barrett reefs. But it really is very much.

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I mean it really isn't the entrance of the harbrug
is It's fair to say if you draw a line
between Breaker Bay and the lighthouse on the other side. Yeah,
anyhow do get in touch if you want to talk here.
Till twelve thirty twelve, the Dolphins had lost five in

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a row. Now they've won two on the trot. But
thirty twelve day bit with Panthers, and even Ivan Clary
in the coaching box looked like he was chewing his fingernails,
which you never see him. He's always he's always a
picture of contented cool. But yeah, they rattled even Nathan

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Clary looked rattled. Marcus. I was in my first working
year as a technician technician in Wellington Hospital in the
way any went down. I have two abiding memories of
the day we were summoned to casualty, now a and e.
My first memory was a lady in her seventies who
came walking in having swum from the boat to Eastbourne.

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She was still wearing her glasses and had been a
champion swimmer in her teens. She was extraordinarily cheerful and undramatic.
My second memory was a suscitating a little boy about
two years of age, who I believe had been thrown
in the water and picked up by a person a
lifeboat and water ashore. Dwena, thank you for that, Adweena.

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Marcus were setting home from college and supposed use a
footbridge across the railway line at two Windy, and we
walked across the railway lines instead. You're probably sensible, John
AT's Marcus, Hello, and good evening.

Speaker 21 (02:01:23):
Yes, good evening, Marcus. My word, you're bringing back some
sad memories for me. I can remember that day. I
don't think I'll ever forget it. I was working for
the Gisbone Herald at the time, and the reports were
coming through that the Waheny was sinking in the Wellington Harbor.

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And I said, oh, what nonsense is that the Waheney
wouldn't be thinking. Goodness, maybe someone's exaggerating the storm or whatever. No,
he said, it's right. And anyway, these young reporters were
coming sticking their heads around the door of my office

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and saying, you'll never guess what's happening now. I said,
what on earth are you talking about? He said, the
Wahini is definitely thinking, and people are refusing to leave
the ship. The captain has given the order to abandon ship,
and they say to try and get the people off

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the ship because it was definitely thinking. And next thing,
another reporter said, guess what they're doing now. They're actually
throwing old ladies off the side of the ship because
the ship's sinking and it's the only chance they've got
is to get them off the ship, and even in

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the water. So it was a terrifying a picture they
were painting of what was taking place there. And then
pregnant women and babe and arms and all that they
were pushed off the side of the ship. It's like
a horror story for the Gisbon Herald. The reporters were

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flat out trying to get the information coming through on
the lines.

Speaker 2 (02:03:23):
And oh, how how was information coming up to you, John.

Speaker 21 (02:03:29):
How was it coming up to me?

Speaker 10 (02:03:31):
To us? Oh?

Speaker 21 (02:03:32):
Well, working for the Herald, they had the phone linkage
coming through for the like national news, and so we
were getting firsthand information of what was happening. It was

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terrifying the thought of an old lady's being pushed off
into the harbor.

Speaker 2 (02:03:59):
Yeah, wow, John, nice to hear from you. Thinks at
least get one more call before I go, Jimmy, it's Marcus.
Good evening, Good evening, Marc.

Speaker 22 (02:04:10):
I remember it well, even though I was living in
Auckland and it was a heck of the year because
my grandparents came out from Scotland. I think it was
the year decimal currency came in. And I remember the
following day on the news on TV because TV used

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to finish about ten those days, and they got the
reels and I've seen it and I can still picture it,
crying my heart out seeing the people that were getting
carried off, people jumping from the boat and God, and
you know, it was something that always always has always

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been in my mind, and it was one heck of
a thing, you know, for those people on board that ship,
and God bless their souls. You know, it was funny
and as a child, I wish I could have been
there to help them.

Speaker 2 (02:05:07):
So big on went into you know, even so long ago.
It's you know, because it's the way that city is constructed,
you can you know, everyone seem to be aware of
what was going on, didn't they They could see the
ship and they could you know, he went, was there
both sides of the harbor. It's heroin.

Speaker 22 (02:05:26):
It's I think it's something probably because I was so young,
you know, I think believe it or not even affected
me because you don't realize, well, you don't know. I
think it was my first time to ever see something
so dramatic and so disastrous.

Speaker 2 (02:05:50):
Nice to hear from you, Jimmy, Thank you, Ralph. It's Marcus.

Speaker 6 (02:05:52):
Good evening and welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 10 (02:05:58):
Our life.

Speaker 6 (02:05:58):
We were always the based surf club. I'm surely four.
I was sixteen and I was at suppressed College and
tried to get out to the surf club and resurvey
and I couldn't because there was no transport. But a
lot of the guys managed to get out there and
had a rag tag team and they sent out two

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surfboats which could handle the conditions, and some of the
guys dived in and rescued a lot of people and
they got them into Seating beach. But the guys who
actually died with the surfboats and rescued people would never

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talk about it. And the reason they wouldn't talk about
it is because a lot of the people they sew
up to had broken necks because they jumped off the
side of the WAYI with cork light life jackets, and
the cork life jackets were faulty and what happened was
they hit the water and it broke their neck. And

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after that the whole life jacket industry in the world
changed that they realized that they were faulty. And these
guys who did that will never talk about it because
they sent out to people and they had broken necks

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and they rescued a lot of people. Two surfboats, ragtag
teams through.

Speaker 2 (02:07:34):
Ralph surfboats propelled by oars.

Speaker 10 (02:07:37):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (02:07:38):
No, no, no, There were surfboats that they competed with
motors or with just with oars.

Speaker 6 (02:07:47):
That's with ours.

Speaker 2 (02:07:47):
Ye okay, yep wow.

Speaker 6 (02:07:50):
And they could handle the conditions. A lot of the
small boats that went out there couldn't handle the conditions.
Surfboats could and they rescued a lot of people. And
there were guys like Paul Kent, Grant Cooper. They rescued
a lot of people out of the water.

Speaker 2 (02:08:08):
I've got to leave it there, Ralph, because we're right
out of time, but I really appreciate you coming through.

Speaker 1 (02:08:12):
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