There's always a quake in Seddon (25 March 2025)

Plenty of songs have lyrics you've misunderstood or misheard, Marcus thinks the stadium conversation isn't worth having, and mascots really shouldn't be pushing kids over.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be no wait, greetings, Welcome Marcus hddle twelve on the deck.
Nothing to quibble about, apart from the fact that someone
had turned the kettle off. The who turned the kettle?
Who turned the work kettle off? At the wall? Anyway,
I coped so the quake. I've gone back and reverse
engineered this one. And I was on the farm and

(00:36):
felt nothing. And I've gone back in time and thought
where I was and what I felt, and there was nothing.
Of course, Bluff is a solid junk of crannit and
I don't think probably it wobbled too much. But anyway,
I drove to school for the pickup, had a lot
of texts from Auckland Are saying did you feel the quake?
Did you feel the quake? And I didn't, but I

(00:57):
asked someone to pick I said you feel the quake?
She said yes. Then grab a boy he hadn't felt
the quake. Then went to the four square and sent
us this stuff off the shelves. They said, no, we
didn't feel it. They didn't say that. They said no,
I didn't feel it. But someone in Auckland, did I say, yes,
you know that guy. Anyway, so that's the situation. But
there's nothing off the shelves. And then I thought nothing

(01:18):
of the tsunami and then went home and then got
the alert that there was a tsunami and to stay
well clear from the waterfront. So what would be in
the boy do We went down to the waterfront to
see if the sea was acting strangely, but it wasn't.
There was no great surge or of water. But yeah, anyway,
so I I yeah, what I'm saying, nothing happened. It's

(01:38):
a long way away that I mean the pusic of
Trench and the snares. That is very very remote. And
imagine the only place that would be defeated would be Fjordland,
and I guess big waves could go up. There's feuds,
but no one would know. There's no one there goodness
between about Jackson's Bay and Tiano. I mean there's no
one and in that area west of there. But anyway,

(02:00):
that's a good thing. I always think a good quake
in the remote place. So that's good because let's off
some steam. And I'm sticky how you're going people who
way work them to talk about me till midnight tonight,
oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty. There have been some aftershocks.
There's been a five, and then there's always there's been

(02:20):
a quake in Sidin, but there's always a quaken Sidin.
It seems I was felt more widely around Central Otag.
I don't know what that is. It's probably to do
with the geology. I'm no size monogers getting touched by
name is Marcus Hittle twelve oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty.
If you want to get in touch, I'll keep you
up to breaking news tonight too. There's any other breaking

(02:42):
news that happening, quakes, anything out there, I'll let you know.
If you know stuff, you let me know. Also, we'll
all each other let each other know if that's breaking
news now and midnight tonight. I'm anticipating a bright, tight
and sharp and real show tonight. Amazing story about the
mascot for the Rabbit. O's the new South Wales, the
Australian rugby league team. That mascot's eighty one years old

(03:05):
and it's quite a sprightly little bunny, but he's pushed
the guy he's supposed to shark supporter. It has not
gone well for him, and it's been caught on camera.
When everyone loves an eighty one year old mascot and
on the mascot goes rogue a little bug and he's

(03:26):
a tachum kid. The kids said he's going in for
a high five, but he didn't seem to be the footage.
I watched the footage.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
That's the big story from Australia today. Yep, when mascots
go bad, you do a whole TV show on those.
We're actually not really big on mascots, and new said,
I think that's probably a good thing. News even really
has mascots, do they When we've tried, it's never really
caught on I don't think. Of course there was, Yeah,

(03:57):
there was that mascot for Otago Rugby and that all
ended very very badly. You'll know the story. I don't
really want to go into it anyway, but if you
want to get by the way, he's I don't often
go down this road, but what the hell, it's a
Tuesday and gorgeous weather. I've never known some strike coming
to work like it twenty degrees down sound honestly that
the summer has just gone for months and months and

(04:18):
months and months and months. It's extraordinary. Anyway, I don't
want to become a weather ball, but I feel quite
lighthearted with the topic.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Realm.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Guess here's a question for you. What do you think
in Britain has been revealed as the most misquoted song
lyric of all time. Now I'm a sucker for a

(04:46):
misquoted souling story, but I read these misquoted song lyrics
and I think people are making up. I think most
times when people talk about misquoted song lyrics, they reverse engineer,
they find the song and they try and find something
humorous and trying to make out you. That's what's happened.
I thought they were saying that for me, they don't
seem genuine. But what do you think the most misquoted

(05:09):
song lyric and Britain is? They've done a survey. Yeah,
what do you reckon it would be the most misquoted
song lyric. I was surprised about that to read it anyway.
You might have something to say about that. I'd like
to hear from you. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eightian
nine two nine two de text. Yeah, I don't know

(05:32):
genuinely if I've ever oh maybe I have had a
misquoted song lyric or thought of something the wrong way,
but I'm unsure about that. But have us ifn guess
what the most common misquoted song lyric and Britain, what
the survey revealed it was, I'll give you a clue.
It's ever you ever got any ideas because I've looked

(05:55):
at this one hundred times. I thought no one could
get that so wrong. It's not so wrong, it just
doesn't make sense. Let me know if you think you've
got an eight hundred eighty tendy and nine two nine
two detext would love to hear from your here from
until midnight tonight. There we go, bing bong bing it,
bong it. Let's hear from you now now here we go.

(06:19):
This is breaking news people, This is not a misheard
song lyric. You might have your own examples and we'll
see how we go with it. I'd like genuine misheard
song lyrics because I think often people just make them up.
The National Advisory issued following the magnitude six point eight
earth quote quote near the west coast of the South Island,

(06:41):
New Zealand at two forty three New Zealand daylight time
is canceled as the threat has now passed. Well, no
kidding could have told you that two hours ago nothing
was changing was calm as mind you. I think with

(07:05):
the Bluff Harbor, we've kind of got now back to
that way. I think Riveton cops it, Riveton cops it bad,
Bluff shielded. That's what I tell the locals away, get
in touch. Misheard song lyrics. What do you think Britain's
most misheard song lyric is? It's an Abba song? Anybody? Anybody? Bulla?

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus? Remember the harbour
Master the Auckland Rugby mascot. Absolutely woeful, I vaguely do, Marcus.
The hurricanes had mister Hurricane the mascot. That's from Simon Marcus.
I checked Geonette after the quake. Only six of the

(07:45):
stoic folk of Bluff felt the quake. Someone in cap
Rieger said it was extreme. My first thoughts were for
you and your family. Pleased. All, okay, there will be
in the cargo students at Deep Cove because they all
go there on their holidays. But yeah, there we go.
I did get the alert on the phone, Marcus six

(08:08):
point eight shallow and you didn't feel it. I've been
waiting hours for you to come on here and didn't
feel it. Unbelievable that till I felt real pressure to
feel it. Had the boss call me, So, how are
ye is?

Speaker 5 (08:20):
Everyone? O?

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Cathak, Well, guys, that's pastoral care. But there was nothing literally,
but mind you. Someone said it was shallow. I think
it was one hundred k's deep, wasn't it. It's miles away.
I'm looking at it now on the Richterrathon it was
only twelve k's deep. Yeah, it's quite shallow, but one

(08:42):
hundred and fifty five k's northwest of the Snares. That
was a long way away. Direct line it would be
it would it be fifty k y actual, it's not quite,
but it's not that far away from Bluff. You think
that feel it in Stuart Island?

Speaker 5 (08:57):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Please? Everyone thought of me. Oh, I'll be backers and Bluff.
That'll be hell cop it. I kind of wish I
had felt it, Marcus. My uncle saying hives of industry
instead on islands in the stream, instead of what how
would where would you put hives of industry? Marcus Dancing

(09:20):
Queen Young and Sweet only seventeeth No, that's not quite right.
But if you if you think you know what Britain's
misquoted song, what Britain's most quote misquoted song lyric is
Number six, Living on a Prayer bond Jovi. It doesn't
make a difference if we make it or not, saying

(09:40):
incorrectly as it doesn't make a difference if we're naked
or not. Which is better? Number five, Johnny Nish. I
can see clearly now, I can see clearly now the
rain has gone as opposed to I can see, Deirdre,
now the rain has gone cheapest. Creepers reminds me of

(10:01):
that Goodies episode where the guy what was the Goodies episode?

Speaker 4 (10:06):
Was this?

Speaker 2 (10:09):
When they're working in the office and I think two
of the secretarial staff were leaving at the same time.
There was Tina and there was Marge, and I think

(10:33):
the song was Don't Cry for Me Margentina, which was
quite good. Was it the Goodies? I'm not quite sure.
I think it was the Goodies? Yeah, Tim Brook Taylor,
I think it was. He's singing Don't Cry for Me Margentina,
which is not bad. Is it anyway? Get in touch.
My name is mar because I let you go well
on this. But we'll see how we go. So the

(10:54):
number one misunderstood song lyric in the UK Dancing Queen
Feel the beat from the tambourine, saying is dancing Queen
feel the beat from the tangerine. Now, I don't reckon
that's believable because there's nothing in the song that would

(11:14):
direct you towards citrus. So I can't work out why.
I just think people make stuff up to seem more interesting.
They seems like they're a funny person that's misheard a
song lyric Dancing Queen young and Sweet only seventeen Dancing
Queen feel the beat from the tat you wouldn't feel him?

(11:35):
And it needs to be a musical instrument in there,
doesn't it anyway? Get in touch misheard song lyrics will
start with that. We'll see how we go. You might
want to say that you yourself have misheard that one evening, Andrew,
thanks for hanging on there. It's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
On. One is not so much a misheard song lyric
but a hand class what I.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Love this even better? Miss miss heard? Henclaps, Wow, Okay,
it's not the Friend. It's not the friend song, is it.
I've always struggled with the come in on that one.

Speaker 6 (12:19):
No.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Remember the old Daddy Cooled Eagle rock YEP and that
was re released sort of late eighties, early nineties. And
my ex wife said to me, oh, I like that
because she can you get a copy of it? So
I bought her an EP with it on, and I
gave it to her and shut it out and I

(12:43):
come back and I said, oh, here's your record, and
she goes, oh, it's got a mark on it. I said, oh,
he's it. So she played it and I said, I said,
I can't hear it. So she must have played it
six or seven times, and I'm just going, I can't
hear it. I can't hear it, while by this stage
her face is purple and she's just looking at me

(13:04):
as if I'm a moron. And then the penny drop
that was the hand clap at the start you thought
it was a scratch on the record. Wow, Wow, So
there you go.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
It's a special sort of a person because of me.
It doesn't sound that weird, does it.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
I wouldn't I wouldn't have thought so no, But yeah,
it was just that sort of. I suppose it was
the regularity of it, just that sort of like a
clip track almost.

Speaker 7 (13:32):
Yeah, there was like a mark on them.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
And you resolved it.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
We resolved and I broke it to it gently.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
And she believed you.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
Yes, okay, Well what.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
A special person, and thank you for that. There we go,
twenty five past eight misheard song wrecks. It's not a
topic I'd normally do, but just on the back that
they reckon that the most popular has heard song lyric
and the UK is dancing here and I find it
hard to believe. I reckon people just think it's fun
to mishear a song because no one's going to get
tambourine mixed up with tangerine. And they're not that stupid,

(14:04):
are they. You's with the heard of a tambourine. In fact,
I would have thought a tambourine was more common a
thing than the tangerine. By the way, don't get me
started with the tangerine. It's the devil's fruit. Neither used
to ornament that terrible skin. Without a clear barrier between
the skin and the flesh, you peel it, it just

(14:25):
all comes down your elbow. It's just disgusting. I've banned
them in my house. Do they respect that ban? It
not really? Oh it's so sweet though, I don't care
if they're sweet or not. By the way, good Fijo
is a new world giant fijoas got a kilo and
a half. And look, I tell you there's probably only
eight in there. What's fifteen hundred by eight jupers? They

(14:50):
are only about one hundred and eighty grams each. They're giants.
It's the kilor for joas goodness, Glenn, Marcus, welcome Marcus.

Speaker 8 (15:03):
This is a beauty this one.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Is it genuine?

Speaker 8 (15:07):
Genuine? They honestly happened would probably about eight or eight
years ago around Christmas time, and it was the poet
or not. I think that the song I don't know
if it's called dirty Old town Tan but this check
she started singing, and then she said dirty old towel.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Wow, well like an old towel, that's dirty.

Speaker 8 (15:28):
Dirty old tael up against a brick whits war or I.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Met my love by the guessworks warm and.

Speaker 8 (15:36):
Dream yeah something I'm not quite sure. I know there
was most of the lyrics, but I wouldn't be able
to say them.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
But did somebody did someone correct, you ordered you? Did
you come to your senses?

Speaker 8 (15:48):
No, it wouldn't me. It was a check. I played
it all night long. I couldn't stop swinging it.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
With when okay, I say, when you see this, when
you see this check which is not a word here
after I thought you were faring to someone. It was
a duet with a poke. Sorry I've gone in the
wrong direction. So she thought it was dirty old towel.

Speaker 8 (16:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
I think it's better like that.

Speaker 8 (16:11):
Oh it is. You kept the lyrics here, lyrics the
song men a love.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
That was good.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
That was I like that very much, Glenn, thank you,
Mike MICUs welcome.

Speaker 9 (16:23):
Yeah, okay, I'm just you bought back my childhood was the.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Goodies, Goodies, goody good again well.

Speaker 9 (16:31):
Taylor bo Oy, Graham Golan. Yes, and basically about that time,
you'd also the Kinny Evorite Show.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah, well are you going? Are we going to talk
generally about comedy of the seventies.

Speaker 9 (16:48):
Oh, and you know you're the Greenny Hill Show as well.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yes, s's be right, yes, three yep yeah, and.

Speaker 9 (16:54):
Then your money Fools and horse starting and yeah, now
the Goodies are pretty ou there weren't they.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
I don't know how well it stands up if you
what recently?

Speaker 9 (17:09):
No, I haven't.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, I wonder It's not one of those things you
go back and you see I think jeep is you
wonder what all the fuss was about.

Speaker 9 (17:17):
I'm basically like mid mid simneis late Simneys, comedy of pom.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
So we don't know how well at age, But Mike,
thank you for that. Yeah, well, there we go. Get
in touch, Marcus till midnight. To shame, there's no sport.
I found the sport the last couple of weeks, quite
elevating the football qualification. The guy running sub for got
plenty of texts for this topic, like some calls too. Yeah,

(17:49):
but yeah, I'm sorry that I can't come to work
with great experiences of the quake. I wanted to feel it,
but yeah, there was an I must have been in
the ute, might have been on the chainsaw. Actually I
didn't feel it. Who knows. But I can't even go
back and feel it ret respec everything. Oh that's right,
I must have been doing that when that little jolt
came through. The sheep didn't feel it. They didn't because

(18:13):
normally the animals panic don't they There was no panic
from the end. I don't see the birds fly or
I don't think.

Speaker 10 (18:20):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Oh eight hundred eighty tenny nine nine to text, I'll
tell you what. I thought we'd have a night tonight
on the proposals for the venues for sport in Auckland.
But neither the venues look like they're going to happen. Yeah. Sorry,
I'm surprised about that. Well, I'm not really surprised about it,

(18:43):
but I'm surprised that we're not moving your head that
far interesting article about washing things beyond washing in your
washing machine, anyone washed their lego? I'm kind of curious
to know about that. Make a hell of a racket,
wouldn't it anyway? Oh eight hundred To get to the texts,

(19:04):
Marcus is could chuse or song Kesha had the verse
and each one found me aimless I always thought it said,
and each one found anne. Think of something that rhymes
with aimless. It's a part of the body, Marcus. In
my youth, I thought that the clicks and Maria mckeberth's

(19:25):
click song were made by a percussion instrument. That's quite interesting.
I'm liking people that not only are mishearing lyrics, but
are missing voices for instruments and vice versa, and scratches, Marcus,
when dimes were hardly held, When dimes were hardly heard

(19:47):
of outside of America. In the song Penny Arcade, I
used to sing roll ups of spenders last time instead
of roll up and spend your last dime, Marcus. In
the eighties we had a covers band playing in the
local pubs and Fakatani. The only way to get the
lyrics of songs was by recording the song off the
local radio into a tape cassette. Can you hear that? People?

(20:11):
Because for a long time there were no lyrics searchers.
There was no the Internet. You couldn't search lyrics. That's right.
Many schoolyard discussions about what songs really meant. Someone's big
brothers swore they knew. Often we could not understand the lines,
so we just made up the words. Never got caught.
Great time had by all, Mark, Mark, What was your

(20:33):
covers band that played Fakatani in the eighties, I'd be
curious to know, Marcus. My dad in eighty eight brought
me the bon Jovi album of Slippery When we went
legend as he went to the record store, unsure what
the record was called, but knowing what he thought the
lyrics sounded like, he asked for the song that went Shakalaha.
The song was bon Jovi Shot through the Heart, Get

(21:04):
in Touch. My name is Marcus, welcome, oh eight one
hundred and nine to the text, let's Mascott, Laurie Marcus welcome.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
Hi Marcus. You've got a bit of a Messcott story
involving Captain Hurricane in Palmerston, North. They came up, it's
a game Hurricanes played against think it was in two thousand,
played against the Cats from South Africa. I've been engaged
to go and take an euro photograph at the start

(21:41):
of the match. I was supposed to do it in
a light aircraft. Was far through windy that day and
I told the organizers couldn't do it in the plane
and they said, oh, you can jump in the helicopter
that's bringing them upon the mescot and they had a
heavy duty. It was a privately owned Iroquois type of

(22:04):
hit the doors off and so so I could joined
with him and which was quite good. So the appointed
time we went out was just out of PARMI guy
Rick Lewis used to run the shoppers in and they
were assembled and various people had to fly in, but

(22:25):
the main operator was was the Captain Hurricane, who had
somebody else filling in on the day. It was his
first time.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Because I've got to say, for those that don't know,
it's a terrible Messcot. Captain Hurricane sort of looks like
a Biggles type guy and a flying helmet with a
big what mustache is called a big sort of Peter
Plummy walker mustache really in a big gin yeah, terrible,
that's the one.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
So he had his head off. He had his head
off at that stage, and they were sitting around at
the barbecue tables waiting for the appointed time because it
was all done on a strict countdown. Had to fly
and you know, right at the start of the match
and drop off the mescot. But so uh, because he
was a new guy, uh and a bit sure I say,

(23:20):
they were getting a couple of whiskeys into him, which
he seemed to be accepting quite willingly anyway, So you
old Rex Sudd he said all aboard basically and stuck
his head on him up And that was really windy.
Was that things sots swaying around, and then the old

(23:42):
mascots well like he had a head set on, said
he he needed he needed to vomit. So we landed
in some farmers field, just on the outskirts of farming,
pushed old. He got his head off and bomba all

(24:06):
the place and there was no time to missing around.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Have you had he already been sick heady? Had he
been sick in the helmet?

Speaker 8 (24:13):
No, he hadn't.

Speaker 9 (24:14):
Quite.

Speaker 5 (24:14):
No, We've managed to get on the ground and he
let it all out there. We got his head off,
but because there was no time, you know, the countdown
was on for the.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
You stepped in and said, don't worry, I'll do it.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Is that right?

Speaker 5 (24:27):
No, they decided what side he hit to be on,
because when the chopper came in, he was supposed.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
To be for him because he's nervous at the first time,
he's partly drunk, he's sick.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
Got the hit big on the literally made it as
far as the stadium, and they didn't mess around. Actually
the window changed a wee, but so is it turned round.
I was on the other side of the door off. Uh,
you know with the camera. Really it was supposed to
be taking photos and they actually popped down in front
of the main green and I was sort of looking

(25:03):
at them and they were looking at me, wanting the
supposed to be doing because of the other door. You know,
it was aside the the messcot was supposed to come
out and you know, jump out and start racing around
doing his business. But he was that sick. He sort
of fell out of the chopper under the crowd, thinking
all together you would do you'd.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Feel really you'd feel really bad.

Speaker 5 (25:27):
Okay, wow, crawling around trying to get to you know,
some sensibility. But anyway, at that stage, you know, the
the old part, get get him all out of the way.
You know, we had to take off, so I start,
I was staying in and we said it. Then went
into a couple of circuits and photographed the you know,
the crowd and all the smoke going off that stuff.

(25:50):
But I really felt sorry for that. I don't know
the rest of his performance was like that day.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
But what was his stick? He would put his arms
out pretend he was flying. Is that I think that
was his thing? Is that right?

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (26:03):
Yeah, the different and race round to stir up the crowd.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
To do a salute. I think was this thing that
sounds horrible.

Speaker 5 (26:09):
Yeah, yeah, but pretty hard to do if you do.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
You know what his name was.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
I know, I don't know, and he wasn't the He
was a new guy at the time. And this was
the year two thousand and it was certainly the game
against the Things. Might have been the first of the
South African teams that had been over certainly to play
in Paris and off. But yeah, big day. I mean
they had a very full crowd in smoke and flames

(26:36):
and all sorts of waity for the take off and that. Yeah,
and he would certainly remembers very.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Good lurry like a lot good story. Someone said, Captain
Hurricane look like Dick Darcity from Worky Races. That's exactly right. Oh,
so they covers band, Marcus. Our band was called after Hours,
of course it was.

Speaker 10 (26:58):
We were the.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Resident band for Theti Commercial Hotel and the Tunney Tour Pub.
Lots of stories for other time, Marcus Queen. This one
vision can only hear hot Chicken. Also, if you want
to watch a Lego and a delicates bag on four
hundred revolutions per minute, noisy as heck, Marcus. Many years ago,

(27:22):
my teenage son thought I was lame when he was
playing freestyle. Of the words were rock the microphone, but
I sang rata matafoo. Whatever that was meant meant meant
to mean. Marcus. I work in New childhood ten and
we put our dupplo brackets, large lego in cotton bags
and put in the dishwash. A great way to sterilize it, Marcus.

(27:44):
The twenty thirty feet for World Cup will involve sixty
four teams on account of it been one hundred years
since then Augura World Cut. Wow, that's good, that's really good.
We should be back there again. Then, eh, I don't

(28:04):
know how that would work. This one's forty thirty two.
This one's forty eight. So what's interest about the World
Cup next year is that if you get out of
the pool play, you've got to win five matches in
a row. What a lottery that is. Even the best
teams in the world can't win five in a row.
To be the luckiest team or the team with the
best subs or the team with the greatest depth, or

(28:25):
the team with the best coach, it's gonna be fascinating.
Forget about taking the Easter Anzac day break. You want
to be getting your time off for that, because it'll
be in the middle of the night. It's wrong to
be eight hours ahead in the middle of the night. Marcus,

(28:46):
can you please advise about a power cut? And monks Bay?
Christ kind regard to Christine, I've given it you the best, Christine,
you know it all. What's the worst name for a
covers band? All covers bands have bad names, don't they.
It's kind of part of the course if you're a
cover back covers covers bend sectastically. I'd like to hear

(29:15):
the Maria mckeeber click song again O eight hundred and
eighty eight, breaking news when it breaks, if that makes sense.
Paul As Marcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 11 (29:35):
Yeah, hi Macas, Good Paul. I'm out pondering and walking
the dog and just got an interesting once for you tonight,
something that's a bit of a bop you of mine
for a while. So two young kids signing their birth
up to winter Sport, which is a good thing at
the moment. Do you put the names in the sheet
and the online stuff nowadays? And then you get to

(29:58):
the part about ethnicity and I class myself as a
kibis in New Zealand and proudly. Uh, I don't have
an option to snect my kids. It's nest New Zealander.
I can tick them as a European. And I just
wonder if it's about time there was a conversation here

(30:21):
that we should be proud and able to call ourselves
New Zealanders or Key Weeks. I don't know how Australia
gets on if they call themselves European Australia. Where much
to think? All the problems?

Speaker 12 (30:33):
Why don't Paul?

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Whereabouts? Is this?

Speaker 13 (30:37):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Whereabouts?

Speaker 11 (30:38):
Is this on your online forum?

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Online?

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Where about? Where abouts? Your kids playing.

Speaker 11 (30:44):
Sport in the Wellington region? Okay?

Speaker 2 (30:47):
So Wellington football?

Speaker 11 (30:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Okay? And there asked your age and if this is
it right?

Speaker 14 (30:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (30:55):
Your normal signing up stuff, ye know, your name, your age,
where you live, all of that kind of stuff, and
then when you get down to have to tap the ethnicity,
which is either head or there. But I think it
would be nice to have an option that allows you
to take that you're a proud in Zealand.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
I don't know, I don't necessarily know that you've got
to say you're proud. I mean, you just don't think. Yeah,
I mean, it'll just be for it will just be
for some sort of survey of participation in sport.

Speaker 11 (31:24):
Oh, absolutely, it's correct.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
You're probably ever.

Speaker 11 (31:27):
Thinking online online form nowadays, whether it's something that you
know in Australia. Do you t that you're in Australian,
that you're in European Australia.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
I haven't come across it. I have enrolled the kids
a lot of school. That's why I asked you where
you're from, because down south and I haven't experienced it. Yes,
So I just wonder how those forms are.

Speaker 11 (31:53):
Yeah, that's all right, thank you for your time.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah, well, and what your kids are patriotic New Zealand?
Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 11 (32:00):
Well, yeah, I'm in New Zealand. My parents were born
in New Zealand, so I'm born in New Zealand and
my kids in New Suitland. So I wouldn't class myself
as a European.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
You should just did you fill it or just leave
it out? I'll just leave it out. If it was
a hssle. I mean, the kids will still play sport,
won't they. It's optional, isn't it?

Speaker 11 (32:18):
And it's one that's not optional?

Speaker 2 (32:20):
But no, it does it say it's not Does it
say it's not optional?

Speaker 11 (32:26):
Yeah, it doesn't that you leave it blank, But it's
probably a general comment around any kind of online form
that you need to you fully ass and that asks
you are your ethnicity, you know, sensus, etcetera, which small
sensus question relates. So are you in New Zealand, European
or you know a definitely ethnicity?

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah, okay, Well, thanks very much for their twelve Away
from nine. Surprise of its reaction there is to washing lego.
I couldn't really be bothered. Someone says it must be
washed inside a pillow slip, but I'm not quite sure
if you do it in the dishwasher or the washing machine.
But there you go on the gentle cycle. Oh wait,
someone I said, also the sixty four team proposal for

(33:09):
the twenty thirty Cup is pie in the sky. I
don't know if that's true or not. It's amazing. It's
almost one hundred years old, but they have gone from
thirty two teams to forty eight teams. But certainly it
looks as like we'll be going to most of them
if we can stay in that pool. Just by the
strength of player numbers. You'd think if I guess the
second most populous country in Oceania would be New Caledonia.

(33:33):
Is that right? Al Fiji? I don't know how the
numbers stack up. They both about a million. I think
Oh eight hundred eighty eight ten eighty nine two nine
two detext and misheard song lyrics just because the fact
that I still can't believe that people would think it
was tangerine instead of tambourine. It's a long time ago
for people still be mishearing those lyrics. Get in touch
if you want to mention it. Oh eight hundred eighty

(33:55):
ten eighty and nine two nine to detext. Pretty interesting
story about all those people whose cars have been damaged
from the chip seal and the roadworks. A tire specially
says the damage caused to dozens of cars from driving

(34:18):
through roadworks and napiers the worst he's ever seen. There
is no solution for drivers who were caught in it.
Napor City Council received thirty five service requests from drivers
who've been traveling through the works and many road on Sunday.
I don't know what a service request is. Can you

(34:39):
hit the council up for recompense? Those caught inate have
described loose tar and chipsy were piling onto their tires,
slowing their cars to an almost undriveabled speed as stones
slowly shaking loose from others. Cars began to chip at
their paperwork and windscreens. Have you got recompense from the council,

(35:05):
So it's pretty crazy. A council spokespresson said, well, it
had insurance for this type of instant. Impacted drivers should
speak to their own insurance. In the first instance, Marcus,
did you feel the quake today?

Speaker 9 (35:21):
No?

Speaker 2 (35:21):
I didn't. I'd love to have, but no I didn't,
and I went straight to the four square. There was
nothing off the shelves. They are pretty sharp, and actually
I knew everything about that straight away. They said, out
two eway, Marcus, you feel the quake?

Speaker 4 (35:42):
Day?

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Was watching YouTube yesday in the Southern Alps. Alpine Fault
is apparently the longest natural straight line on Earth. That
is incredible. Funnily enough for me, when the quake happened,
I picked up my boy from school. We went home
and we having afternoon tea and it was the furthest

(36:07):
thing from my mind was about tsunamis until the tsunami
warning came through. Oh that's right, actually long and strong,
get gone. But I hadn't felt it. But then the
alert came through. I thought, well, we actually live on
the waterfront. It said take your bike and head for
the hills, but I decided not to. I don't think
anyone else had, although there was someone on a bluff

(36:29):
Facebook page said is it safe to drive to town?
I thought, well, go knock yourself out. So yeah, people
get quite freaked out, don't they, Because one time all happen,
this UNARMI will come. So yeah, it's funny that they
put through an alert like that when it's not a

(36:50):
problem at all. Forget what the alert said. I've got
it somewhere. Where's my phone. I am getting a tremendous
intel from the lists about the sub station, so I
can tell you a little bit about that. Someone wants
to know. I've ever felt an earthquake while driving in
a car. I haven't believe those in christ Church would have,
but have to be a pretty massive quake. We've damaged
the roads to fit in the car. Am I right?

(37:13):
Interesting in the news I heard when I was out
making a cuppa, they said that you've got to avoid
the coast between Phusaga and Milford Sound. Well, that coast
would be some of the most inaccessible coast in the world.
The only time that anyone there on that coast would
be perhaps if people were white baiting at Martin's Bay,

(37:34):
But then even then is north of Milford Sound, so
I can't quite work out who'd be there for that.
There isn't really any coast, it's just mountains down into
the sea anyway, Just some information about the substation. Marcus's
substation is at the bottom of Mulgan's Track Monks Bay.

(37:56):
No cars involved regards Christine and another Peter from Levin
has texted Marcus from the past experience, the fire service
would be providing lights the Sparky's repairing or replacing the
fouled substation brackets the case when one near me was
hit by a cara whileback Marcus, I felt an earthquake

(38:18):
and the carrot felt like someone was twisting the steering
wheel from side to side. Wow, it's interesting uses for
the washing machine. That's not the washing and genuine misheard
song lyrics because I believe a lot of them are
made up and feeling quakes and cars Marcus and blinded

(38:48):
by the light. I thought it was wrapped up like
a douche. It's revved up like a juice. Neither make
much sense. It's a good point, Marcus. My mother heard
the song when the Going gets tough by b the
Ocean and said, oh, that's not very nice?

Speaker 6 (38:59):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (39:00):
When I asked why, as you said it said go
and get stuffed, you know, midnight. My name is Marcus welcome. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty eight. There's something else you want
to talk about, feel free to get involved. Hu till midnight.
My name is Marcus Welcome. There's breaking news. I'll bring
that to you. Seems to me there's been a lot
of car crashes this year, and also when roadworks damage

(39:24):
your car, particularly with windscreens and tires. What repress have
you got if you got some information about that, would
love to hear from you. Quakes and cars mm hmmm, oh,

(39:44):
eight one hundred eighty justin, Marcus welcome, Good evening, Good Mark, good, Jason, Jason, Justin.

Speaker 13 (39:53):
I'm just talking about feeling quakes and vehicles. I was
right on top of the portholes when christ Is had
a favorite quake that was pretty much right on top
of the but I was probably about two or three
hundred meters away from it, and I never felt a

(40:13):
bloody thing.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
Is that right? What sort of car that I was on?

Speaker 13 (40:17):
A fuel tanker?

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Wow? And you were moving?

Speaker 3 (40:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (40:23):
Well I was moving until the until the road got
blocked by by boulders here, and then I had stopped.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
She's you in a fuel tanker. We're driving on the portholes.
Let part of your route not through the tunnel on
the porthills.

Speaker 9 (40:41):
Now.

Speaker 13 (40:41):
I was going over Evan's Pass between Sumner and Middleton
because I had petrol had I'd had a petrol delivery
into marou and I couldn't go through the tunnel with
empty petrol vapors.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
So it's interesting. I've never known that that empty ones
didn't go through the tunnel. That's really interesting. That's a
terrifying scenario. Were the boulders, because the boulder would have
hit there the spe I could it could have been
It could have been a kaboom, couldn't it.

Speaker 4 (41:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (41:09):
I got half a dozen times, but it was just
a small strip and it didn't pierce the barrel or anything.
But yeah, it was so to be honest, I didn't
actually know what was happening. I never felt anything it
was just really windy.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
So okay, so was your So you saw dust and
things rising from christ Central?

Speaker 13 (41:31):
No, no, because I was around the other side of hotel.
I was put on the little on the harbor side
of the hills. So it wasn't until I got back
up to the top and there was a policeman there
that he here we actually seen all the dust and stuff,
and that's when I was radio started cranking and wheel.
You knew what was going on.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
So you felt something You've had a sense that something
weird was happening.

Speaker 9 (41:53):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 13 (41:55):
By the time I got to the top, which was
probably in the space of a couple of minutes, but
already head Blowe Bergarth to Shock and I certainly felt that,
but I didn't see anything. Le was actually driving but
while I was scare on the on the road itself
locker seel it standing ahead on the road.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Or really interesting justin thank you for that fitting past
nine Dave Marcus welcome.

Speaker 15 (42:17):
Yeah, Marcus, it's a long way to the shop if
you want a satage roll.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
But that's not that's not that's a reversed fun one.
That's not a genuine one, is it.

Speaker 15 (42:30):
Well, I don't know sometimes when it comes along my
heir and I can't.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Help it, and the kids love it.

Speaker 15 (42:36):
But yeah, yeah, but I know anybody goody but Marcus
all jokes aside. Driving up dis road by the ponds
and all a lot of many cars in front, I
noticed we're pulling over, and that's when that struck me.
It was like my suspension on my car was going
haywire and my steering wheel was taken over, and I

(42:58):
too certainly slowed down and I didn't stop, but about
a four point five quick hit us, and I feel
afterwards I thought the car was crop you know, something
suspension or something. But yeah, driving during an earthquake, you
certainly do.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Not all of them, though I guess, I guess it'll
depends on that, yeah.

Speaker 15 (43:23):
Exactly, because you imagine there's a ripple grun or ripping
along the road, and you know, as I say, perhaps
that others before it hit me, But certainly I thought
my car was some certainly wrong with it. But then
I put that others had pulled over as well, so
they had experienced what they thought perhaps was car issues,

(43:47):
but it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
I wouldn't be surprised in time if we don't get
an alert from the screen on our car, because that'd
be able that sort of kit, wouldn't they.

Speaker 15 (43:56):
Well, yes, I see someone in Wellington is trying to
predict earthquakes. Something is a box they're putting in. But
I don't think I think it's just an act of nature.
But Marcus, I see there is a lot of volcanic
and some seismic activity at the moment White Island, et cetera.

(44:17):
And what happened to you guys down south? And I'm
just reading a lot happening in Alaska.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Yeah, I just when you mentioned the seismologists, and they're
always wise after the event, aren't they?

Speaker 15 (44:30):
Yes, exactly, mate, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
The nature that the nature that they always say, oh
well that's there's a fault line there we didn't know existed.
That always seems to be what they learned from it.
Are even that, you know?

Speaker 15 (44:41):
But anyway, Yeah, but they didn't know what existed here
in Chrost, It's right.

Speaker 8 (44:47):
Yeah, Well that.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Big one in Karakota there or the one off blend him,
there was a fault line that didn't know existed out
that way.

Speaker 16 (44:54):
Mmmm.

Speaker 15 (44:55):
That list lifted that short lineup incredible.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Tell you what there was the one of the I mean,
I know I bore you with my bus to it,
but one of the joys for getting the bus from
and we did blend him to Dnina in the day.
But the view from the top of the bus looking
down and seeing how much landed it lifted up north
of Kaikotta was in south and how many baby seals,
thousands of them. Marcus, I feel a big after shock

(45:21):
while sitting the bus opposite the escape more in christ Church.
The bus rocked and I thought it might tip. Marcus
noticed how it's never any longer risk of tsunamis, but
warnings of wave surges to avoid the cry wolf syndrome
and sirens post RJA earthquake twenty thirty four, and you're

(45:43):
right south of Milford. Warning is absolutely pointless. Murray, that's right,
I mean, yeah, you can't get to that coast. The
only people would be the spiky gold the kinder divers
would be out that way. I felt the six point

(46:08):
three quake and christ Chitchen June twenty eleven while sitting
at traffic lights. It was frightening, just trying to control
the car. The driver in front jumped out and panic.
I was on my way to see my mother and
dementia care couldn't get there quick enough, shaking like a leaf.
The aftershot continued throughout the day. Never forget that, Marcus,
I always liked the cold chisel, miss heard, cheap wine,

(46:29):
and a three legged goat, three day growth rod, smoke
in the water, far in the sky. My friend used
to think it was slow motion Walter fire engine guy.
It'd be great if there was a guy in the
fire engine called Walter who was slow. Windscreen cracked last

(46:50):
week on newly metaled road surface. Windscreen cracked last week
on newly metaled road vehicles. The opposite direction, going well
under the fifty K was a sitting duck. Insurance paid,
but my small turner is ninety six a month to
ensure if not insured or would have to pay. No
idea how much, Marcus. We were sitting in the car

(47:10):
with my mother in law and the dog in the back.
The car started bouncing up and down. I thought it
was mother in law and Dole being silly, but they
went moving. Was hard to steer. A very large after
shock around magnitude six. Marcus, blinded by the light. The
lyrics reaved up like a juice referred to the hot
Rod Juice nineteen thirties, two Door. You know, it's not

(47:36):
so much miss heard misshard song lyrics, it's misunderstood ones.
I remember as a child always been perplexed by drove
the Chevy to the levee and no idea what that was.
I'm still kind of jury out on that one what

(47:59):
it meant. But I guess that's not a load as
far as that song goes. Woo, how you're going, people,
what's happening out there in the world, Give me a
call if you want to. Eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty Marcus. Regarding quakes and cars, it depends on the
direction of the quake in relation to the road. Is
how much you feel it pretty amazing that guy on

(48:20):
the pittil tank around. No idea that empty tankers couldn't
go through the Littleton tunnel makes sense now, Actually keep
going song lyrics, also song lyrics mascot. I'm still looking
for interesting uses for washing machines apart from washing clothes.
Legos seems to be possible. Marcus always thought Bad Moon

(48:43):
on the Rise was Bathroom on the Right until two
years ago, age forty six. I believe that one someone
says Marcus drove me Chevy to the Levy, but the
Livy was dry. Means Levy in the is the gas station.
I don't know if that's right, is it? I don't
know if a Livy's a gas station? Is it? Could

(49:07):
someone explain that to me? That's American? What would you
call a Livia gas station? Because that means I've still
misunderstood it. So if you've got songs that you actually
or songs you got the wrong meaning from, I don't
know what the Livy is. The Livy is to stop flooding.

(49:31):
I think Levy's ever a guest station. Of course, songwriters
a hope, a hopeless and explaining these songs so they
like the ambiguity makes them sing deeper. Twenty six past nine,
George Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 14 (49:46):
Yes, o Livy. You're right, it's the barrier of a river.
So I didn't flood the area. So you drive to
the Livia's just like you know Friday night, you drive
to the I don't know where people went and packed
up some obscure little the places.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
To break the break It's like going to the breakwater,
isn't it. They're at their brain mouth or something they'll
be right.

Speaker 14 (50:05):
Yeah, Parmis and North would drive at the top of
the hill of Messi.

Speaker 4 (50:09):
To pork chops.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
That's right. Famous, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 14 (50:14):
I remember being up there one day on a Sunday
afternoon and somebody who had gone fishing, gone swimming or whatever.
It was the Albert Street what was it the Albert Street.
They dugged all the sand of the rock and gravel
out and the police were there with a boat and
fishing him out of the water. Funny color. He wasn't

(50:36):
the normal color he did. But yeah, he's dear right
because he had his boots on. He went swimming with
his boots on. Well you ain't going to come up
when you were in boots, so yeah. But anyway, washing machines, yep, Well,
in the nineteen seventies Messy, one of my friends was

(50:59):
a washing machine mechanic and he used to service to
washing machines at Messi University. You love this. It was
really they put all these different machines in the emotion
when it wouldn't last long. And one of the reasons
was because after the winter sports they would go in
and all the rugby teams and stuff, all their boots

(51:19):
and everything else. Soon as well as the clothes. These
things had to hammer these boots around to get them clean,
you know, your rugby boots, soccer boots, any boots. So
they ended up throwing all the washing machines out and
importing from America ones called maykeg which are built like
a brick, you know, and don't walk across the floor.
But you got to bolt them down, and these things

(51:41):
lasted were fine. So I always remember that, you know,
ah washing, you washing your boots and washing machines. But
I remember someone on your program a while ago put
their boots in the dishwasher and if you remember that.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Yeah, I wouldn't do that.

Speaker 14 (51:58):
Well, not a few want to.

Speaker 8 (52:04):
There.

Speaker 14 (52:05):
Yeah that's the one. He put your Neppi's in there
if you really want to get carried away. But you know,
it's funny what people do, you know, and the life.
I remember one of the old seguey for a little bit.
One of my friends in Parmesan North was an inspector
at that stage with state advances they're housing and I said, so,

(52:25):
what's the funniest things you've seen? He said, well, one
of my customers, well, if you can call my customer
had a wheelchair, and he couldn't get it through the
doors properly, so he took to the door frames with
a chainsaw or set of saws, and he cut chunks
out of them so he could just go straight through,
and you know, doors closed the big chunks out the

(52:45):
left hand side or the right hand side so he
could get his wheelchair. Another one was a guy loved trains,
model trains, and he'd cut use shapes at the floor
level to let the trains go from one room through
to the other, right round the whole house. His model
trains could go all through all the rooms and out

(53:07):
the other side again.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
And quite like the sounds of that.

Speaker 3 (53:12):
Oh.

Speaker 14 (53:12):
He had a number of stories. He had people that
are coming from overseas and and hadn't been shown how
to use the stoves, and they're using them as a
fire stove, so they put fire inside the oven.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
I imagine that one's an urban myth, George. But yeah,
prof I'm prepared to be changed on that one. There's
great disagreement amongst the textas is what a levy is
Marcus and the song by Don McClain the levy was
a bar. How would you know, Marcus? I think the

(53:46):
Levey is dead. Marcus O. Levey is the big concrete
waterway light they race cars on the movie Grease. That's
the Los Angeles River for the California Highway Patrol were
always down there is called Jonavan pont are always down
there on the Kawasaki eleven hundreds. Have I got that

(54:12):
one right? Marcus Levy was the name of the baron
New York that Donna Clayton and his friends would drink it.
I don't think so. John, Hello, yes, look no John.

Speaker 17 (54:29):
Here, My sister and parts and North her husband and
got brain damage and he won a case. This is
before acc Helen Sinson I was. Anyway, they bought flats
and Linton Street for for Ellen because there was no
ac seed then. Anyway, what happened was these island is

(54:51):
what they used to do. They would punch holes in
the bottom of the oven and they would put slide
up barbecue a barbecue bricks and that and the warming
drawer and the heat would go through the holes into
the oven. And I've seen it myself.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
There we go, twenty eight away from ten. Keep your
calls coming through, as I say, oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty Olivia is a stopbank if if is Marcus,
I sharpened my knives on a broken plate today, made
a good job too, Pierce. Olivia is a text. Yes
you want to use the broken plate to sharpen your knives,
the un glazed but perfect. Can you find out dan

(55:39):
on chet Gpt what Olivy is? And the Don McClain song,
please he's on it? Who loves sudemol? The exponent? I
thought it was weird. For years the Exponents would be
singing about a cold and flu medicine. I think sudomol
is called suda feed today, of course it is so

(56:01):
no one knows what the livy is. But also not
only mishard lyrics, but misunderstood songs. Be much fun discussing
the meaning of songs and what they really mean. By
the way, the Canalos beat South Sydney, thanks for that.
I wonder at the time why the I wonder if
the Rebbelis had won away while the mascot was so punchy.

(56:28):
I don't know what the life of I mean? You
do it like I mean. I reckon the life of
a mascot would be fine until all the teenagers and
young people of the world become consumed by high fives
when twenty years ago, now I tried to get my
I'd try to ban my kids from high five and
it didn't really work. Forever high fiving. It's like, what

(56:50):
is it, Peter Marcus welcome.

Speaker 18 (56:55):
Yeah, misas Levy and that Don mcsain song is a
bar and is spelled A L E A V E.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
How do you know?

Speaker 18 (57:09):
Because I just know?

Speaker 2 (57:11):
But how do you know?

Speaker 10 (57:14):
I've worked for.

Speaker 18 (57:17):
I say records years ago, well Pie Records, and we
used to print them. If you look up probably if
you looked up on the on the net, you'd probably
see it. That's how it spells.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
From that, well, you can see all sorts of different
things that people say it's for or means. Yeah, but yeah,
I mean I've never heard of that one.

Speaker 18 (57:47):
Yeah, that's one of this well, as sid as I
can recall, I've worked for it back in the seventies,
and I was working for somewhere in there mid seventies
or something late as seventies, somewhere around there.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
Anyway, Okay, Peter, thank you for that of course too.
The song I think is deliberately supposed to be ambiguous.
Drove a Chevy to the levy for those not from

(58:26):
the term of levy as a dam built to prevent inundations,
but sometimes the term refirs the steep bank of river
during the Chevy to the levee refers driving the Chevy
to of Levey refers to romance. But the lyrics have
a double meaning because the levy was also a party
spot where McLean would listen to music with his friends.
Sometimes the levee would close the levy was dry, they

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would drive across the river in such a place to
drink and rye New York twenty two to ten. Lennar
AT's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 19 (58:55):
Oh hi, Marcus, you're just mentioning the misheard lyrics. I
don't know if you've heard of a die. He's an
English comedian called Peter Kay.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
Yes, yeah, have and I have seen that.

Speaker 19 (59:08):
Oh you have seen it. The cheers were just rolling
down my cheeks. Think that it was hilarious.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Although I do wonder if they just make that. You
know what I'm saying, that they're not misheard. They's generally
found different, potentially different lyrics, hasn't he.

Speaker 19 (59:26):
Well yeah, yeah, well yes, but when I mean when
they played it, it certainly sounded like the one team.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, I'll see if we can fight,
but yeah maybe, yeah, Okay, I appreciate you coming through
for that, Jason, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 20 (59:40):
And Mike has said the man good Jason. The driving
the Chevy to the levee from memory, there was actually
an empty videos or video that goes with that song,
and it shows them pulling up to what's basically a
stop bank and a fifty five Chevy. Now to me,

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the meaning out of it was basically we'd say we'd
go down the river and have a few beers. Well
they go down the levee and have a few beers.
But it's like a dirt stop thinking. Like you said before,
that's what a levy is. That's what they're referring to.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Although it could be referring to two things being the
song songs all about cleverness, aren't.

Speaker 20 (01:00:21):
They Well could be, but I mean that was that
was on face meaning of it as far as I knew,
even as far as what I saw, So yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Don't disagree there, Jason. Thank you. The other side topics feeling,
quakes and cars, Yes, Unfortunately for me, when did American
Pie come out? It came out during my childhood, and
I never really understood it. I was more a Mornington
ride person train whistle blowing that made more sense. God

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to Love, Judith Darren, What you was? American Pie released.
I'll google that myself. Not the movie, said the stipid
movie in Lance Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:01:13):
I grew up, you know, like, I was pretty young
when it come out, so I had no idea what
it meant. So I just used to come along to it.
I thought I knew what it was. But years later,
I think I looked it up in about the Levy
and I just thought it was straightforward drive up to
Levy stop bank. The boys are drinking whiskey and rye

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because they know they're probably going to be not make it.
I didn't think it was a bar. I just thought
it was like a stop bank.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Why were they not going to make it?

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
Well, left a war.

Speaker 6 (01:01:49):
The water was going to come up. I just assume
the water level was.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:01:57):
And because it's quite a melancholy song, right, it's quite sad,
so they obviously knew they were going to die. But
that's just how I assumed. See, we all got different interpretations.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Locally, and that's a good thing. That's a good thing
about it came out in seventy one. You'd be nearly sixty,
would you.

Speaker 6 (01:02:17):
But over that Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just over Yeah.
So I was just quite young, and I thought I
knew what the song was about. But when I really
listened to it, I realized I had no idea. Yeah,
and that's when I looked it up. Yeah, you know,
quite a while ago, not tonight. So I'm just sort

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of talking off, you know, top of my head here,
but just thought i'd just ring in with.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
My I appreciate lance and then you get that sort
of and again into Pink Floyd's lyrics. Goodness me. Marcus
would ask what American pie means. McLean would say, it
means I never have to work again, that's from But
it turned out he turned up bad in the end, McLean.
What happened to him?

Speaker 10 (01:03:03):
Was it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
He's a bad partner, wasn't He was he arrested for something? Yeah,
domestic violence charges and played guilty to avoid jail. Yep,

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mistere meaning domestic violence in Maine. Marc the same song
as other wedd lyrics, Sry that Yester sang for the
King and Queen and the Cody borrowed from James Den.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
We are talking about misshard song lyrics, I know, but
only because it's back in the news with Dancing Queen
from Amba and Tangerine and all of that, but also
misunderstood songs. I'm finding even more interesting because you hear
songs as children think wow, you got some of us
an explanation there. As an adult you realize they have been
quite over every different thing. The other thing is about mascots.

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Everyone's got a good mascot story. Fortunately, I think that
into mascots, it's great. The warriors haven't got when I presume,
But yeah, I think the New Zealand mascots have always
been a bit try hard. They've got to come a
bit organic. So I don't think we've ever really had

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good ones. But the rabbit Os mascot on the back
of a loss to Cronuller at Shark Park, he pushed
a young guy nine year old who was wearing a
Cronella jersey. But what is the extraordinary thing of that

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story is the guy that is the rabbit. The rabbit
O's a mascot and he's kind of got leggings and
shorts and a rabbit's head. He's eighty one. That's Biden's age.
Biden couldn't work walk on the beach. This guy is

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doing cartwheels. I don't know for years, but yeah, that's
an old mess. God, he's Biden's age. I been cheap
as creepers and seems to love the team. He's a lifer.
Scottie Marcus welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Hey, hell a mate, good Scotty, Yeah, good court.

Speaker 21 (01:05:42):
I just thought I'm giving an update. The famous Richmond
stick me in are back in action the fool team
this year, so I thought I'll just give you an
update andly you know how we're going. Oh good, Yeah,
So we just had our first game of the season
tonight and yeah we won twenty eight to twenty three
against the Richmond Vikings.

Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
Home game.

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
Oh that'd be hard at home home for your team?

Speaker 4 (01:06:05):
Would it home for home for both teams?

Speaker 21 (01:06:08):
So you're both play out of the freshmand clubs. So yeah,
both teams good players, and yeah that was a good
good night. So hopefully hopefully went for a good season
and see how we go. And we're defending defending three
years in a row, so we see we can.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Okay, how how many weeks is the season?

Speaker 21 (01:06:27):
Oh? It feels like half a year, which kind of
is about twenty three weeks or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
It's tough at the time.

Speaker 21 (01:06:35):
Yeah, it's a long time. I've got a mascot for you.
What about what about the old Canterbury Barney the Ram with.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
It for the Canterbury Crusaders.

Speaker 21 (01:06:46):
Well, it was for the Canterbury rugby team originally. Yeah,
we're talking sort of like through the nineties and May. Yeah,
maybe to the nineties. So you used to go to
Lancaster Park and Barney the Ram would be there and
he was a pretty he was a pretty good mascot.
But I think you're right. I think we don't do
it like the States.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
No, and I don't know why. I think in the
States they're professional consultants that come up with the mascots
and they're a bit better is for us they just
there's always it always seems to be some of the
work experience on marketing's job is to come up with
the costumes seem badly made and then there's people inside.
It don't seem to have the essence have been a mascot.

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That's my take on it. There's more high fiving kids.

Speaker 21 (01:07:35):
Yeah, maybe, I mean I don't know. You'd think with
all the production skills we have, you know, like the
weather workshops and co.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
We can make some.

Speaker 21 (01:07:44):
Really good costumes we call Mescots. But are we as kiwis?
Are we a little bit more I don't know what
the word it's like, you know, subdured or humble or
you know, we're not quite out there? Are We're very
conservative as well?

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
The other the other point, you know, for a Mescot,
it's going to be fairly hard to keep the Eden
Park crowd, get to get them going. Where there's a
stadium for fifty thousands, only four thousand people there, it's
kind of there isn't much buzz in the crowds anyway,
is there.

Speaker 21 (01:08:13):
No, that's it, Yeah exactly. I mean yeah, I'm personally
I'm looking forward to our stadium opening. It's going to
be one of the most amazing things for Canterbury, the
South Island, for New Zealand as a whole. I think
it's going to be fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
So, yeah, what's going to get I think you'll be disappointed.
What's going to come there?

Speaker 21 (01:08:31):
I I'll challenge on that. I actually think a couple
of things. So obviously we're going to have the sports matches,
the rugby. I think that there's a really really good
opportunity for New Zealand to get the Sevens back. And
I know that was a really good thing in Wellington.
They killed it, they took it to Hamilton, it didn't
quite work, it fizzled out. But having the Sevens in

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christ Church has got a really good ring to it.
Brings a lot of people, a lot of diverse people
from around the world to it. It's under a covered roof,
so it's guaranteed not you have to wear a out
the weather. And that's the draw card with the stadium
is that you can have it's a multi use arena,
not just a rugby stadium, so you can have all
these concerts. And I think we are going to get

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some thick names, you know, some names that are going
to come here because they are guaranteed not to get
wet or have to deal with the wind or the weather.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
Okay, I just don't know who the big bands are anymore.
I mean, you had a Daly Avage share and who
else is there? The Rolling Stones are all about eighty
But yeah, good luck to you and good luck for
the old pool games. Also, nice to hear from you.
I try not to sound too cynical, but when it

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comes to new stadiums, they're always sold on promise and potential,
and we're going to get all these things we've never
had before, and our city deserves it, Like all that
discussion before it even got forsythe Bar. The trouble is
in New Zealand, we haven't got any regular events that

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thousands turn up to. We've got an NPC that cost
a fortune to host every match, and cities don't watch
the match and they lose money hosting the matches, and
hard anyone turns up. You got huge stadiums with a
fortune to maintain with no one in them. So rugby

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is our big game, but not many people turn up.
All Blacks will sell out and still sell out and
that will continue for a while, but there are only
a couple of games every couple of years. So yeah,
I mean, there was all that excitement when Forsyth Bar

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opened and they're going to have everything, and what they get.
They got the Rugby World Cup, then they got out
in John then they got Id Sheeran. Then things went
a bit haywire and they got the Lingerie, the Super Bowl,
the Lingerie super Bowl, but that got canceled and things

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got sketcher and sketchier until there's hardly anything. And I
think probably that will be the same with Jade. There'll
be a few big acts, but what are the big
acts now? Most people have seen the big acts, right,
You've got ed Sheer and you've got Fleetwood, Mac, You've
got a deal, You've got Out and Joel, and you've
got the Rolling Stones with the Rolling Stones on their
last go round out and John's on his last go around? Adele,

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what's she doing? She's nesting? Is that right? Ed Shearon? Well,
we've all heard his songs. You've got cold Play where
you wristbands it up and you've got Pink when she
swings across the air to add it. But good luck
to you. I hope christ drid Is. I hope it
is good for you. And also too, just on the

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back of that, it's been incredibly bad for promoters. We
had Drake pull out, We're that Fresh Festival canceled. So
I think probably promoters won't want to bring acts down
because people won't buy tickets because so many acts have
canceled and we're not going to get the big acts
like Taylor Swift because the promoter told people within our
organization that Auckland's not big enough, not enough hotel accommodation,

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so the real big acts won't come here. Those ones
we get fifty thousand over four or five nights, it's
not worthcoming. So yeah, Christchitch might get some acts. But basically,
if you could fly from Dunedin, from Queenstown to Sydney
to see Taylor Swift, do you really want to go
to Jade Stadium to see Luke Colmbs? I don't know anyway.

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I just think it's a great thing for counsel to
say we're going to do this and everything's going to
be fantastic, but it's often not. Anyway we are talking also,
not only why is someone texting me about the Sydney airport, Dan,
what's that about? Oh yeah, the suburb of Mascot. Yeah,

(01:13:11):
I see what you're saying. The play on words we
are talking tonight, misheard song lyrics, but also songs you
never really understood to only have been an adult that
you've really and also much speculation about American Pie that
no one really understands. That's the whole point of the song.
I think He just a gret got a grab bag
of metaphors and put them all in with a melody.

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It's like a time capsule that he sings. So there's
that also about the loss of innocence or something. So
miss under misheard songs and misunderstood songs. To broaden it,
Marcus lyrics to longer boats Cat Stevens. I always thought
he was singing Mary dropped their pants by the sand

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and let a possum take her by the hand, and
the soul of nobody knows just where the possum goes.
Thought it was not about the possim, but then the
whole song's a bit odd. Later found out it was
a pars and not a possum much sense. Marcus put
that to need and Stadium on Traby. Now she's all
over a rover. When christ Church opens Scrost, it's the
biggest city on the way up. They can actually host

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the out of town visits with a bed for night,
rather than having a camp out in your mate's backyard
and winter as all the accommodation is booked out. Marcus,
it's Larry the Lamb. It was this christ Church mascot,
never Barney the ram Sillibilly Owen, So Larry the Lamb.

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It was the Canterbury NPC mascot. So there you go,
get in touch. My name is Marcus Hadle twelve. You
gotta picture double stop banks with a dry overflow water
course in between them. The levee was dry. Murray, thank you.
Oh eight hundred eighty plenty there stadiums, mascots, songs and

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misheard lyrics because most people thought that the that the
Dancing Queen the l well, the majority of people that
got song wrongs songs wrong thought Dancing Queen. The lyrics
were you are the dancing Queen, young and sweet only

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seventeen dancing Queen. Feel the beat from the tangerine. Oh well,
I don't believe that's true. I don't believe anyone could
be that stupid. But there you go, Marcus. Another good
song to try and figure out the Stairway to Heaven.
That movie is good, that Zipp and movie Man. I

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meant to go and see the second half of that one. Yeah,
but they're in a funny old place lead Zip. Then
when they're writing those sorts of songs, wodn't they run
into Lord of the Rings. They were into Tolkien. Weren't they?
Is that right? For got that one right? If I
crossed my bends, then I'm sure they're into Tolking. Everyone

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was into Tolking, weren't they. But get in touch marcustall midnight.
If there's something else you want to riff about. I
ramble on the Battle of Evermore and Misty Mountain hop
were all to do with Tolkien. A lot of bands
were into Tolkien. But there you go. Get in touch

(01:16:28):
Marcus till twelve. There might be something different you want
to mention that taught me on about tonight. I'll keep
you updated with breaking news when that happens. They're saying
to stay off the coast between Pusica and Milford. You
couldn't get to that coast if you tried. That's kind
of weird. But I didn't see any evidence of any

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strange seas after that quake. I haven't heard of anyone
in their fishing community say that there anything was weird
that was happening. The fleets didn't come in or anything
like that. Yes, so come on, let's hear from your people.
Maname is Marcus welcome eight hundred eighty. And if there's
anything else you want to mention to I'm up for it. Yeah,

(01:17:18):
Hi William, it's Marcus. Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 10 (01:17:21):
How good owning, How are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
Thank you, William.

Speaker 10 (01:17:26):
Just listening to the program about the coffordability of stadiums
and and things. So it's just thinking about Wellington, which
is in a bit of a mess. When they built
their stadium, it was at the right price. It was
hugely efficient because it could load and unload easily. It

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was affordable, and it was a great thing because Ziby
and it was a great investment. Kerry Prendergast was a
mayor at the time, and Robert Armstrong was a I
was on the council and he was also very smart.

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And so Wellington's got a great stadium that was affordable,
called the nickname the cap the Captain. But you know
it's I just think that there's a time and a place,
and when you can afford it, you should, and when
there's other things that are a priority maybe you need.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
Now it seems too big and it seems too overwhelm
any the occasions because there's no one ever much in it.

Speaker 10 (01:18:40):
Well, how much did it cost?

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
How much did it cost?

Speaker 10 (01:18:44):
By the way, I don't know that it would have been.
It would have been very affordable for the Way to position.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
How much more than more than a hundred million?

Speaker 10 (01:19:02):
Oh, nowing near that one.

Speaker 2 (01:19:06):
Hundred and thirty million, William was Yeah, twenty four past ten,
Matt Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:19:15):
Yes, good evening, Marcus. My source for understanding what a
levee is is Lewis Lamore, who wrote about a Western
novels and did a lot of research into his writings.
I've read most of his books. Now, a levy, according
to Lewis Lamore, is the redundant curve of the river.
The river's changed its course and so that curve is

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no longer used by the river can contain water semi permanently,
but during a flood it's used again. And the led
Zeppelin song when the levee breaks simply yeah, of course,
and simply just means the flooding has you know in
that dated the flat lands and we've got broken out

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of the old redundant curve of the river.

Speaker 4 (01:20:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
I love that song.

Speaker 9 (01:20:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:20:04):
Yeah, they are still magic all these years.

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
Yeah, and that movie is really good about Yeah, I
don't know, just there's something primal about the just yeah,
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:20:16):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:20:16):
I guess I was late to led Zeppa lateish, but
because it seemed a bit pomped when I was young,
they seemed a bit pompous and overwrought. But when you
listen to some of those songs kind of sneak up
on you, don't.

Speaker 12 (01:20:25):
They just tune or really groundbreaking and still relevant.

Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
I agree, like you've got you? Really I laughed too
much then, didn't I? Anyway? Get in touch? My name
is Margus, Welcome, there we go. Songs you've only just
understood in hindsight. That's kind of more we're going on
and also misheard song lyrics that old trope Marcus slightly

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off topic. But in your opinion, with all the knowledge
you have been a wise gent, why is it christ
Uch's only building a stadium to the capacity of forty
thousand max and the new UK and proposals for fifty
five thousand. I respect the cost factor, but with one
or two chances to get it right the first time,
shouldn't it be for capacity of seventy thousand minimum? To
compete in the Australasian and Asian market for sports and concerts.

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Australian stadiums have a minimum of fifty five thousand upwards
to eighty thousand. Yeah, I think the opposite should have done.
I think what christ should have done is they should
have done a stadium for twenty thousand people that's brilliant
for concerts and also can host rugby. But they've gone
for a stadium that can host rugby that also might
be okay for concerts. I think they've become to rugby focus,

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that's my understanding of the debate, and they really want
something where you can get all those twenty thousand and
you know, you can do two or three nights, but
there won't be many sporting events that you need more
than twenty thousand people for apart from the All Blacks
versus England or versus South Africa, and that happened once
every five years. But that's me and the christ Chich

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people have spoken chosen what they want to have. Someone said, surely,
Sir Cliff Richard's good for a few sellouts at the
new stadium in christ Church with your Stepfann. Thanks for
the text. Marcus blinded by the Light has some great
lyrics that go off. Pieced Marcus to just see the

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t X three. Mitch Speedway got second on the night
re Super Saloon's Taranaki terrence. Anything from the earthquake or
White Island today. By the way, how long did those
rocks go up in the air for? That seemed none
heard of men a man get in touch. Marcus till twelve.

(01:22:51):
Good to hear the country, good to hear the Western
Rider mentioned. Always good to hear about a Levy. No
word on Liam Lawson yet. There's a lot of the
drums beating that he will be demoted. But I have
seen anything yet tonight, and I've been keeping a lookout
for that, by the way, and all they've said neither

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of their stadium options are suitable and in Brisbane for
the Olympics, that could be worth going to the Olympics
in Brisbane twenty thirty two. But they're going to have
the Olympic rowing in the Paralympic rowing on the Fitzroy River,

(01:23:36):
which is in crocodile country. The premiere said, if it's
good enough for Central Queensland kids, I reckon it's good
enough for pier from Paris. It's a great expression. So
that's the story. Their quick swimmers, the crocodiles. We make

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the Olympics. Wouldn't it if a crocodile I took an athlete,
they're a huge they go viral, wouldn't it? How about
talking about the new pyramid discovery. Well, I saw that
story and I thought it was a prank. What is
the pyramid story? Could someone educate me on that?

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
I saw that and I thought that must be some
sort of wacky doodle thing. What have they done X rays?
If anyone's across all that, could they fill me in
on it? To international disbelief, scientist announced at the weekend

(01:24:52):
that they had mapped tunnels, pillars, pathways in the halls
that extend under the central Kafra Pyramid and probably stretch
beneath all three. The mind boggling discovery, made with satellite
radio technology by researchers from the University of Strathford and
Glasgow and the Tellian of his Pias are. When we

(01:25:17):
magnify the images, we will revealed it. Beneath it lies
what can only be described as true underground cities. The
vast network he claims to send two point one k's
into the sands, and it might predate the pyramids. Could

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it have been constructed there? Three thousand or years earlier,
thousands of years earlier. So who on Earth constructor? And
how I kind of haven't seen many stories about that,
apart from in the Daily Mail and on Facebook. So
if there appeared to be vertical shafts underneath it, if
anyone's got any more information about that, that would be

(01:26:05):
that would be a well discussion for me. Yeah, I
had no idea because I'm not seeing it on the
New any of the media here. So yes, if you've
got some information about that, that would be really fascinating.

(01:26:29):
Just doesn't seem like a lot of the media have
picked up on it, which I can't quite work out about.
So I don't quite know the authenticity of the reports,
but there seems to be a vast city beneath the pyramids.
You're JT. Marcus. Welcome a Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:26:51):
What about that guy, Robert bean Sprout that lives down
at Gorge.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
River, that's right, although he was north of where they
said Milford to Pusager, But yeah, I don't know. You
imagine he'd be all on the internet, now, wouldn't you.

Speaker 7 (01:27:07):
Yeah, Yeah, beyond the old Starling, he's probably the southernmost
person living on the.

Speaker 2 (01:27:14):
West Coast yes, I think he would be.

Speaker 10 (01:27:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:17):
I think it's kids left as kids left to right
their own box, didn't they.

Speaker 7 (01:27:22):
Yeah, and he was on that TV show where the
wild Men Live with that guy.

Speaker 2 (01:27:27):
Ben Oh yes Fogel.

Speaker 7 (01:27:31):
Yeah, that was last one was probably a filmed about
seven years ago, so they might they need to resurrect
that program and he needs to go back and visit them,
visit them. As far as the old stadium goes Auckland
has got Eden Park and that'll be fine till twenty forty.
What are they talking about needing the see in one

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hundred million? There's nothing wrong with it. It's a great stadium.
I mean it was used three times at the weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
Yeah, look and Church, hang on, just hold your horses there.
I think stadiums are one of those things you've got
big thinkers and eagertists always come up with big plans
and big ideas, but they never amount to anything.

Speaker 4 (01:28:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:28:20):
They try to spend other people's money. Yeah money, yeah,
and for no reason.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
Yeah, and I agree, and I think, yeah, I've always
been quite strong about the and everyone think it's a
great a great thing to have, but the costs never
stack out because they always try and make out it's
going to bring this many people to the city in it,
but there aren't many things that will fill a stadium.

Speaker 7 (01:28:42):
Eden Park will be a lot more accessible once this
city rail loop opens.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
Yeah. Absolutely.

Speaker 7 (01:28:49):
By the way, I think it's about two years since
Transmission Gully opened, although it seems more like five years.
That christ Church Stadium. You know, you've got to remember
that Canterbury's growing. There's a catchment area of seven hundred
four people or the stadium seeding about thirty five thousand,

(01:29:10):
so that's five percent, whereas in Doneedan their stadium seats
thirty thousand out of one hundred and twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
Population, So twenty five what a wide elephant.

Speaker 7 (01:29:22):
Well, but you're not thinking about what would have happened
if they hadn't have built it. The Highlanders probably would
have moved to Queenstown in the Shaggle, so they would
have they would have lost a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:29:34):
Well, they still still would have been They still would
have still had Karrisbrook, wouldn't they?

Speaker 4 (01:29:38):
Was that? Was that? No?

Speaker 8 (01:29:39):
That was a dog.

Speaker 2 (01:29:41):
I liked it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
Dog.

Speaker 7 (01:29:44):
But you were saying that yesterday that you thought that
stadiums are better built out of the CBD. Yeah, I think.
I think there's a global trend to have stadiums in
the downtown area, and I'd like to cite Detroit as
being an example. In the Lake Seat even they moved

(01:30:07):
out to the Palace of Auburn Hills, Michigan, which was
about thirty calimeters out of the CBD, and then about
five or six years ago they moved downtown to the
Little Caesars Arena, which is in an entertainment hub, shop
and complex and hotels and new zeands and all that.
So I think that's the way to go.

Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
But if I could just talk to you about places
like Jade Spark Arena in Auckland, which is the one
that's about ten thousand, It's this giant building and the
outside of it is all just this giant wall to
the whole area. It's a dead zone around it.

Speaker 7 (01:30:48):
It's close to the Britain Mark, though we're.

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
Not that close, and that whole area is that easy walking.
That whole area around the stadium has become every unpleasant area.

Speaker 7 (01:31:00):
Well what about the Britain Mark, the general the way
the area was developed by that guy, that architect that
that seems still worked very well.

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
Yeah, Cooper, But it's just it's just near the railway
as well. But yeah, that's my thought. It's just got
when you put a stadium, it's got a big external
wall that cuts everything off.

Speaker 7 (01:31:20):
And if that when I'm saying about Detroit, that was
the Detroit Systems. But also in San Francisco recently the
Golden State Warriors have moved from Oakland to the downtown
San Francisco area. We're near the transport hubs and but
I suppose it works well. And like New York and Boston,

(01:31:41):
really dense cities that have good public transport. But if
you're in Texas and you've got those big cities that
are spread out, the automobiles king yep.

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
But JT say that you're in charge of running events
for the new christ Church Stadium, what are your events
you would get? You get a couple of rugby matches?
What else would you get that would that would utilize
its capacity?

Speaker 7 (01:32:05):
Well, they'll get concerts. One of the reasons why Dunedin
messed out on concerts is because they couldn't get wide
bodied jets in there. And there's a lot more hotels.

Speaker 2 (01:32:16):
So what bends are you going to get?

Speaker 7 (01:32:21):
Madness? I see that going onto it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
I made this, wouldn't fill out that. You wouldn't get
that many that many scar fans in christs would.

Speaker 7 (01:32:30):
You, Well, for ten thousand people that might be, would.

Speaker 8 (01:32:40):
You put that in the ticket?

Speaker 2 (01:32:41):
Would you put that in the Castle of the Horn
the Horn Castle?

Speaker 7 (01:32:46):
Yeah, well that's true. You're gonna have to be a
little bit bigger than ten thousand, I suppose, wouldn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:50):
Yeah, And I don't know who those acts are anymore
because of Taylor Swifts come to New Zealand and all
the ones that people want to see have been so
I don't know who.

Speaker 7 (01:32:58):
They have been getting lots, yes, yes, but that's they've
got a million over a million and a half every
when heaps the hotel rooms.

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
And all the people from christ Church flew up to
Auckland for those and they probably will still have to
because I'm sure cold Play would rather play two nights
at Auckland than one night in Auckland on one night
in christ Juche.

Speaker 7 (01:33:20):
Yeah, that's that's yeah. But the good thing, Yeah, the
good thing to look forward to is the opening of
the city Railroop.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
Can't wait.

Speaker 7 (01:33:27):
That's the first thing that's opening in about three months time.
Is at Palms and north of Woodville Expressway.

Speaker 2 (01:33:35):
Brilliant looking forward to that too. J T. Thank you
very much that night, Yeah, evening, John Marcus, welcome here.

Speaker 22 (01:33:42):
You know, Marcus, I wanted to challenge you saying that
we didn't have a decent A decent what do you
call it? For the for the rugby mascot, that's the
word I want.

Speaker 2 (01:33:59):
To Thanks for challenging me.

Speaker 22 (01:34:02):
Yeah, Now I reckon that Captain Hurricane was bloody fan
and what a time we had with Captain Hurricane. So
we've been members down there at Wellington Stadium for I
think twenty two years now, and Captain Hurricane used to
waft around the edges of the playing field in the

(01:34:26):
little plane with his big head.

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
He didn't he so strapped into a plane, wasn't he?

Speaker 22 (01:34:32):
Yeah, he was strapped in the plane and he used
to actually the plane used to drive around the round
the edges of the over while they were playing, and
he'd get out of the plane and wracked the crowd up.
You had the big head. Do you remember the guy I.

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
Know with the mustache, the handlebarm it, Well, the what's that?
What's the mastache? To go? Yeah, the big the Plumbey
Walker and I remember him well.

Speaker 22 (01:34:55):
Yeah, I would have said to you that he was
an excellent mascot and I don't know how many years
he went for, but anyway, and then they changed him
for a woman and that didn't last long.

Speaker 2 (01:35:08):
Which she should have died. And what was the woman called.

Speaker 22 (01:35:12):
I don't know what her name was, but she had
a woman's head on her. But they still parked a
plane around the edges, but it stopped going. So so
that was all that was my plug there. But another
thing you mentioned about an out of town stadium. We

(01:35:34):
wanted to zee Dolly Partner and couldn't see her when
she came to New Zealand, so we went over to
Brisbane to see her. And I recall at that stadium
was about sixteen kilometers out of town, right out in
the bush, Hughesburg Stadium. And boy, that worked well, I
have to say, And yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:35:53):
Reckon that would work well. I argue that's the way
to do it. But was there public could you get
out there with public tread sport?

Speaker 22 (01:36:00):
Well, we were in a taxi which was sixteen k's
which was long, but if you knew, like if you
were locally out there there was a train service.

Speaker 2 (01:36:09):
I think that works. Well, I'm going to run, but
nice to hear from you, Jen Marcus, Welcome, Jen, Jen.

Speaker 15 (01:36:14):
Hi.

Speaker 23 (01:36:14):
There interesting story about the pyramids and what's under them.
So that's great.

Speaker 2 (01:36:24):
I think it's probably I think it's probably fake news.
I'm just not quite sure about the robustness of the
academics behind it.

Speaker 23 (01:36:30):
But all, well, oh, oh, that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
You would have always you would have always suspected that,
wouldn't you. There'd be a giant beneath it. I mean
that's you and.

Speaker 23 (01:36:41):
I that the tunnels. Yeah, I knew that years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:36:46):
Did you tell Did you tell anyone?

Speaker 23 (01:36:48):
Yeah, heaps of people.

Speaker 2 (01:36:50):
Did they listen?

Speaker 23 (01:36:52):
Well they're used to me because my friends. Yeah, they're
used to me knowing about stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
What else do we need to know about the evn't
told anyone?

Speaker 23 (01:37:04):
Well, I was watching approm on TV about over in
Australia how there used to be at sea in the
middle of Australia and you know, an internal sea, and
they've discovered all these dinosaurs buried all around the edge
of it where it went was and they were all

(01:37:26):
sort of sunken into the mud around the edge as
it evaporated. Of course, the water all disappeared and they died.
But they discovered all these dinosaurs fully intact, and they
formed immut to store them all in. And one of
them is so fully intact they were able to open

(01:37:49):
it up and see that what was in its stomach,
which was a whole lot of vegetation that it had
been eating. Yeah, fascinating.

Speaker 2 (01:37:59):
Is usual? Is this something you imagined? This is this
is fact? Yeah?

Speaker 23 (01:38:03):
It was on TV.

Speaker 2 (01:38:05):
That's you said that. Yeah, okay, that's good, thank you.
By the way, I can tell you the world record
this has just come up. The world record for visiting
pubs and twenty four hours. A sixty nine year old
Britt has just broke that. He did it in Sydney
and he's done one hundred and twenty pubs and twenty

(01:38:27):
four hours, which is a pub every twenty form every
twelve minutes. I don't quite know how he got around
them all. I wouldn't mind seeing his map for that,
but yeah, you'd have to be at a place where
there are a lot of pubs that realized he'd be

(01:38:49):
one hundred and twenty, it would be open twenty four hours.
You could get to he just had a soft drink
at each one. I think because of logistics, take a
bit of organizing, but there we go. I don't know
if he's on trains or just walking.

Speaker 10 (01:39:07):
Wheah.

Speaker 2 (01:39:11):
A retired account and he planned his route with licensing data,
pivot tables and Google maps. He celebrated his one hundredth
pub with a loud cheer, recruited mates his official witnesses,
and made sure every Republican signed off on his journey
finish at the Sussex Garden Bar, however, and misheard song

(01:39:35):
lyrics and the songs you've always had wrong? But yeah,
the story through from England Today the UK that Dancing
Queen is the most often misheard lyric, with people mistaking
tambourine for tangery. But how could you when it makes
the song less meaningful. Cn't really answer that. One's not

(01:39:56):
my job to answer it. I just often think with
misheard song lyrics, people kind of hear them but think
it would be fun to hear in a different way.
That's my take on it. Hi, don Marcus, good evening,
and welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:40:12):
Good evening, Martus. Thank you for your welcome. This is
a call I've put off for quite a number of
years actually, but I just wanted to take you in
a little trip back when you did a television program
where you went to Egypt and I forget the name
of the program now, but there were two episodes. One

(01:40:33):
you spent some time in Cairo and another time, which
is what I wanted to just say thank you for,
you went to mans and and I down on the
down on the Red Sea area. Do you recall that, Yeah,
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:40:47):
I say the show was called on Tripper Journeys.

Speaker 16 (01:40:51):
That's right, You've got it right.

Speaker 7 (01:40:52):
Yeah, Well, and.

Speaker 2 (01:40:55):
It was just the one episode.

Speaker 16 (01:40:59):
It seemed to be in two pieces, but that didn't
that didn't matter. My wife and I had the opportunity
to go to England on a number of occasions, and
once we decided we'd go through Cairo, because Cairo was
always a place that had some interest to me. I
had an uncle who fought there during the Second World War,

(01:41:20):
and we had to poke around those areas and then
we went down to Shovel Shake and from there we
caught a We're taken from there up to the monastery
and that some unearthly hour of the morning started to
climb Mount Sinai, which you had done.

Speaker 2 (01:41:37):
Yeah, I thought it was. It was a spectator. I'd
forgotten i'd done it. But I loved it.

Speaker 16 (01:41:42):
I know. Well, I've still got a copy of the
video of it, and it's you took us back a
long way. Actually, it was quite an experience, and you
were a bit of an inspiration to say, well, if
he can do it, so can we. So away we went,
and we drove in from in a van from Shamel

(01:42:03):
Shake up to the monastery, up through the border between
Israel and Egypt where we were searched and what have you,
and then drove on up to as I said, to
the monastery. I had a meal there and we left
it somewhere around about I think it was about midnight.
I think we had a torch and we started that
long climb up that long long track that went up

(01:42:27):
to Montsano, up through the gaps in the rocks, past
the and you recall them these little stalls where they
sold coca cola.

Speaker 2 (01:42:35):
I good to leave. There were venders the whole way
up there was amazing, I know.

Speaker 16 (01:42:40):
But the thing to me that was, I wasn't feeling
too well when I got there, and as we got
closer to the top the track and the climb had
become a bit difficult, and there was Abdul complete with
his camel, not far behind me, and so I climbed
onto this camel. When we were taken up so I

(01:43:02):
guess somewhere around about two or three hundred meters at
the top, and off off I got, and away the
pair of us went up through the rest of the land,
set up there for the sunrise, and one remarkable view
that was to look out across the Arabian Peninsula and
see the sun come up. It was absolutely stunning. But
the thing that struck its most was the number of

(01:43:24):
people who were up there. I think that there must
have been at least a couple of hundred people up there.
It was astounding. We didn't cross past any of them
on the road up, of course, but it wasn't until
the sun rose that you realized that the number of people.
All these people were there to to have this experience
of the sun coming up across the desert and across

(01:43:46):
the mountainous area there, which was quite spectacular to sea.
But it was an amazing experience. And I often looked
back when I when I hear you on the radio
and say, well, hey, thank you about.

Speaker 2 (01:43:58):
This, I've forgotten. I've done it myself. So and did
you have before you started? Did you have a mealts
and Catherine's Monastery that?

Speaker 16 (01:44:07):
Yes, yes, we had had a meal there. It was
a terrible meal. Actually, the Egyptian guy that took us
up that far and dropped us there, we had a
night there where we stepped there, and I don't know
whether it was something I'd had in a shovel shake
or back in cairorover. I was not feeling too good,
but haven't got that far. I wasn't going to stop.

(01:44:28):
I seemed to record. It was about a four hour climb.

Speaker 2 (01:44:30):
Yeah, yep.

Speaker 16 (01:44:33):
But to go up in the dark was one thing,
but to come down in the daylight you kind of
wonder why on earth you undertook the trip because it
wasn't it wasn't a steep trip down, but my goodness,
it was rough. And how we got up there in
the dark with the torch and a few other people
around us. It's might was standing because the road, the

(01:44:54):
track ap is not clearly marked at all. There's no
posts on the road. You just find your way up
through this beaten piece of desert area and you're there.
But as I said, the view of the sunrise across
the Arabian Peninsula looking out towards the the towards sorry,

(01:45:16):
up to the north, up towards Jordan and places, was
really quite spectacular. I just want to say.

Speaker 2 (01:45:22):
It made me feel I want to go back. The
only but I can remember Saint Catherine was tortured on
the wheel, wasn't she. That's what they call it, the
Kitherine Wheel.

Speaker 16 (01:45:32):
I don't recall that. I do know that within the
within the monastery, which is is a very big place.
It's it's how they've been erected it there years ago
I do not know, but it's a huge place. But
in't there they had what they believe was part of

(01:45:52):
the original burning bush, which is recorded in the Old Testament.
And it's the only place in the peninsula where the
bush will grow. They've tried to take cutting them off
and grow it elsewhere, but it will not grow. And
it sits there against a wall within the monastery, and
you can go up and into the area. You can't

(01:46:13):
get right into the monastery, but just to walk around it.
The spectacles, the stalls everywhere, of course, but this is
and the road going and is believe it that it's
tar sealed all the way. It's quite astounding.

Speaker 2 (01:46:29):
Enjoy your recall that don I like that very much
that you can remember time much. You obviously got a
good memory for those details.

Speaker 16 (01:46:36):
Well, it struck us as something. I mean, we come
from a Christian background, and this business of Mount Sinai,
the place where the Ten Commandments were so called given
to to Moses. There's a big contention over that that
that is not really the spot where it was given,
where they were delivered, but they are one of the

(01:46:58):
experts in the area indicated it was further up the
Gulf of Akabar, up towards the Jordan border. That's where
they think it was. But this Mount Sinai has always
stuck historically as being the place to go to. But
we didn't go up for any other purpose, for anything,
just to experience the sunrise and to and encourage by

(01:47:20):
you to go. Egypt itself was a pirate is a
diddy old place, it really is.

Speaker 4 (01:47:25):
It doesn't.

Speaker 16 (01:47:27):
It doesn't rain, The dust of the years is clogged
up all the windowsills and oh no, Cairo. I didn't
enjoy Cairo at all. But once you get out of Cairo,
head out towards the pyramids and places like that, and
go a little bit up or down the nile. The

(01:47:49):
greenery and the growth of vegetation and so forth is
really astounding. But the sea, these pyramids, and the sphinx
and so forth, sitting there having been put together my
human hands, is astounding. I have a photograph of my
wife's standing beside one of the blocks at the bottom
of the pyramid. Goodness me, she's five foot two and

(01:48:12):
it's almost half as tall as her. Again, how they
got those things there and then mounted them onto the
height that they go is one of the amazing engineering
exercises that you'll ever see.

Speaker 2 (01:48:24):
I agree, Don I've got to move on, but lovely
to talk to you. Thank you for that, Ben, Marcus.
Good evening and welcome Hi Ben.

Speaker 3 (01:48:30):
Hey Marcus. How's it hanging tonight at Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:48:33):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:48:33):
Pretty good? Thank you, Ben.

Speaker 3 (01:48:35):
How can you feel that earth quat Well?

Speaker 2 (01:48:38):
I think I might have been at the top of
the farm. I was removing roots with a maddock, but
I don't think I think bluff is like on a
solid hunk of grantite, and I don't think it moves.
I thought you would have heard that, Yeah, but no, Yeah,

(01:48:59):
I kind of felt disappointed. I didn't because then everyone
started calling and saying, you're still alive, and I felt
bad for her, and I thought, what are you talking about?
I felt bad that kind of I hadn't felt it.

Speaker 3 (01:49:10):
Yeah, okay, ah, but I have felt.

Speaker 2 (01:49:14):
Quakes when I've been in Beard, I felt, you know,
and I've certainly felt that. I felt real jolts. But
but then again, I've also been going to sleep and
then you feel your and I thought, gee, that was
a jolt, and looked up on the get and there's
been nothing. It's just been a truck going pass or something.
Or sometimes you feel like sometimes you're lying down and
you feel your whole body drops. You get that body drop.

Speaker 3 (01:49:37):
Yeah, I sometimes get that when you go just before
you go to.

Speaker 2 (01:49:41):
Sleep, right, yeah, yeah, what's that? What is that?

Speaker 4 (01:49:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:49:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:49:49):
Okay, what can you tell me?

Speaker 3 (01:49:53):
You're talking about mascot. A few years back, I was
over it doesn't you at d You're a park in
l A. I could see all these people hanging around there,
and I thought, what's going on there? And put a
commotion going on and Goofy actually had a heart attack.
Or something like that had his masktop. I remember looking
at his feet and has feet. It must have been

(01:50:14):
like soy twinkies. They're just sticking out in the air
and they're just waving around the wind because they look
like they're giving them CBR or something. I don't know
if they were or not. I was sort of too
many people around, but what I could see was his
feet just wabbling around, and they threw him in an
ambulance and took them away.

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
Oh that's tearum. I shouldn't have laughed at it.

Speaker 3 (01:50:32):
Did you say that was at Disneyland, Yeah, Disneyland Beulah
Park in l A.

Speaker 4 (01:50:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50:39):
Yeah, what's what's the park called.

Speaker 3 (01:50:44):
Euler Park. It's like it's like the area.

Speaker 2 (01:50:47):
Oh yeah, I understand what you're saying now, I get
it's a Disneylanders Yep, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 22 (01:50:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:50:52):
Yeah, So that was quite you know, there's all sorts
of things. But I know I went over to dream
World a few years or three, four, oh, probably seven
years ago now. It was the dream World and the
Joker is walking the street, and for some reason he
took a liking to me. I don't know what it was,
but I was sitting there and with the kids and whatnot.

(01:51:13):
And I was sitting there and he came over and
he looked at me, and he came and sat beside me,
and I says, Oh, you're a lovely looking man, aren't you.
And he sort of looked at me sort of like
I like you.

Speaker 9 (01:51:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:51:25):
It took a real shining to me. And then later
on the head to parade and he was walking down
the street and he saw me again. He come flying
over and he says, I don't want to see you,
and he just ran off.

Speaker 2 (01:51:37):
Who was this? Was this another messot?

Speaker 3 (01:51:41):
That was the Joker?

Speaker 2 (01:51:43):
Joker?

Speaker 3 (01:51:44):
Yeah, Batman? Wrong, Yeah, that was the Joker. It was
quite funny anyway. But for some reason he took a
shining to me. I don't know why.

Speaker 2 (01:51:53):
Yeah, I wouldn't take it. So where was there that was?

Speaker 4 (01:51:56):
That was?

Speaker 2 (01:51:56):
That was a Disney Oh that was you said the
movie studio?

Speaker 3 (01:52:01):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, pretty well, that was straight And.

Speaker 2 (01:52:05):
I've always hated that. I've always hated the Joker.

Speaker 3 (01:52:09):
Yeah, of my old man used to say to me
because I used to sort of watch them, you know,
reading the cartoons as a kid, and nold men used
to say it back bullshit, boy back bullshit. I never
really got it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:25):
What do you mean by that?

Speaker 3 (01:52:28):
It's just a yeah, well I wasn't going to be
even doing Scouts because it was like, you know, how
to time, you know, boy scouts. My old man wouldn't
let me do boy boy scouts.

Speaker 2 (01:52:41):
It's, you know, because of predatory people.

Speaker 3 (01:52:48):
No, well couldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:52:52):
I mean they have, they have had their issues.

Speaker 3 (01:52:55):
Wow, that was that was down your way down in
South would so I don't know what he's got going
on down there, margus. No, he said to me. Always
used to say, I don't know how to tie Kno, yep,
get up the back gate and rety.

Speaker 2 (01:53:10):
That not for me, Yeah, well because I never did Scouts,
probably for the same sort of reasons. But the kids
are My kids are both sea scouts. Oh well, it
is a maritime it is a maritime town, and they've
got a lot of boats and cutters and things like that,

(01:53:31):
so they love it.

Speaker 3 (01:53:33):
Well, that's the thing. As they get older, if they
get their own boat, they know which one is the
right side and which way.

Speaker 2 (01:53:38):
I just want them to learn learn the knots so
they can if I got to tie anything down like
they can do it rather than I've got to do
it because because let's face it, most of us have
never learned knots properly. We always got to tie something.
We always think, well, I wish i'd learned that, and
you'd end up just doing reef not after reef lo
looks terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:53:56):
I know, I know, I don't got the trucky stuff,
and I'm the same.

Speaker 9 (01:54:00):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:54:00):
That's probably why I couldn't go to boy Scouts. I
was probably too stick to even understand.

Speaker 6 (01:54:05):
It.

Speaker 2 (01:54:08):
Sounds like you've done a right for yourself with all
your overseas trips though.

Speaker 3 (01:54:12):
Oh yeah yeah, but yeah, yeah, well you just I
just make it up as you go. How you just
ling that day? I don't know. Just do what you've
got to do to make it happens.

Speaker 2 (01:54:23):
Good on you're being nice to talk to your ten
away from twelve markets to midnight? What do you call anyone?
What do you call that? When you're just why do
you just drop before you go to sleep and you
feel like your body drops about three inches? What's that?

Speaker 9 (01:54:34):
For?

Speaker 1 (01:54:34):
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