Speaker 1: You're listening to the Marcus Lush Night's podcast from News Talks.
Speaker 2: I'd be.
Speaker 3: Greetings, welcome, and good even my name is Marcus, and
Speaker 3: nice to be here. Actually, it's been a bit of
Speaker 3: a break too, so it's a breakfall sort of thing.
Speaker 3: So all sorts of reasons and all kind of combined
Speaker 3: to make it a much longer break than I thought
Speaker 3: it would be. So this has been a disruptive couple
Speaker 3: of weeks. So hopefully I am back and back for
Speaker 3: good for a while now. So I haven't liked the
Speaker 3: and it's involved a sleepit of illness, and then there's
Speaker 3: an awards night, and of course last night I took
Speaker 3: the night off because the elder boy was in show Quest.
Speaker 3: Now I've never been to a show quest before, but
Speaker 3: I was gonna leave it half time. Yeah, I quite
Speaker 3: enjoyed it. I don't know what that well, how would
Speaker 3: you describe that? They sort of perform in front of
Speaker 3: projections and yeah, I hate to say it. I might
Speaker 3: be that stage of my life where I look back
Speaker 3: at some of those things. I think, gee, may maybe
Speaker 3: the kids are with us too, because there was some
Speaker 3: sort of takes you back to what the people at
Speaker 3: school are kind of what's well. I don't know how
Speaker 3: much it's guided, but what they are passionate about. But
Speaker 3: there was some fairly powerful stuff, some well thought out, powerful,
Speaker 3: well put together performances. AH sort of thing I probably
Speaker 3: in the past would have been rather cynical about. But
Speaker 3: it was very good, So as going to take the
Speaker 3: younger boy home earlier but waited for admission watching the
Speaker 3: whole thing about hapasitien. So there we go. If that's
Speaker 3: the future, the future is very very good, indeed quite
Speaker 3: progressive thought and quite deep thought to there we go
Speaker 3: show quest very good. I don't know who funds the
Speaker 3: whole thing. It seems to take along quite well z
Speaker 3: information of course, well and lot of parents, lot of
Speaker 3: grandparents in the audience, but they're quite the night out.
Speaker 3: I think there were nine ten minutes performances from tennut
Speaker 3: different schools, although my major concern was the actual because
Speaker 3: there were schools from Mount A Sparring College and Tappanui
Speaker 3: and Dunston School well, of course Dunstan School from Alexander.
Speaker 3: They did a they did a dance performance about the
Speaker 3: grief of the gold mine has lost during the eighteen
Speaker 3: sixty flood. Of course they did. Yeah, well that was good,
Speaker 3: really good, dressed up, old fashioned and good all that,
Speaker 3: and mine is losing their claim and losing their family.
Speaker 3: Very moving, all very good. Blue Mountain College from Tappanui, Otargo.
Speaker 3: A lot of stuff about consumerism, a lot of stuff
Speaker 3: about cell phone addiction, a lot of stuff about female leadership.
Speaker 3: Very powerful anyway, So well done to all those people
Speaker 3: were in gold. He's my major concern when I walked
Speaker 3: out of there half past ten was how freezing it was.
Speaker 3: A lot of those porkids were there, beginning on the
Speaker 3: buses and driving for hours through frost and terrible conditions
Speaker 3: to get home. So I presume everyone got home safe.
Speaker 3: I didn't see the thing of the papers this morning.
Speaker 3: That was my major consumed because the weather down here
Speaker 3: has been extremely cold. It's been freezing those freezing days
Speaker 3: and or freezing nights and sunny days. But on Rockier
Speaker 3: Stuart Island there is a lot of snow, in fact,
Speaker 3: more than I've seen for a long time, so that's
Speaker 3: really got covered. So that's normally a harbinger of a
Speaker 3: fairly dramatic winter. So now there is that, and that's
Speaker 3: what happened. But yes, show quest, I said to my boy,
Speaker 3: locked me in for next year. Very good indeed, anyway,
Speaker 3: that's my ray for that, So thanks for all those
Speaker 3: people were involved. By the way too, there is traffic congestion.
Speaker 4: There's much reportage of this this morning at this evening,
Speaker 4: so if you're trying to get home, mainly in Auckland,
Speaker 4: there is significant congestion on Auckland roads.
Speaker 3: Several crashes on the Southwestern and Wesley So take all
Speaker 3: turn it roads and watch this speed and drive to
Speaker 3: the condition. So it's veryvery wet in Auckland. There's thunderstorms
Speaker 3: for the White Ketto and extremely frosty in South oh
Speaker 3: by the way too. Just while we are on the frost,
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be another very cold night. Do
Speaker 3: you think it's worth a hassle. It's been a while
Speaker 3: since we've done this show. But if it is frosty,
Speaker 3: because I'm not the sort of person thinks it's going
Speaker 3: to be frosty in the morning, I'm going to do
Speaker 3: sort mccara out and put kind of I don't know
Speaker 3: what people use these days they write. Do they put
Speaker 3: down frost cloths? What do you do to stop your
Speaker 3: windscreen icing over? I feel it changes every year with
Speaker 3: the critical advice. There's probably something you can buy from
Speaker 3: super cheap audo. But what you go to when it
Speaker 3: is freezing? Do you check something? I'm not worth the hssle.
Speaker 3: I had to get up yesterday morning and drive to
Speaker 3: the board to score. It took a long long time
Speaker 3: to the frosted poe took fifteen minutes. I couldn't be
Speaker 3: by the getting out of the car. I wasn't expecting it.
Speaker 3: You had to give the kid the safety lesson about
Speaker 3: how you actually don't just make a small hole with
Speaker 3: your hand because you won't get the peripheral vision. You'll
Speaker 3: hit some and you'll rear end someone. So it really
Speaker 3: is worth doing well. But yeah, I probably should have
Speaker 3: got it sort out the night before. I don't know
Speaker 3: if anyone's got any advice about that what you should
Speaker 3: or could do, But wouldn't buying some sure far advice
Speaker 3: about that windscreen advice for the winter nights, because I
Speaker 3: think I'm looking tonight like it's going to be fairly
Speaker 3: cold overnight also too, So yeah, if you've got something
Speaker 3: to say about that would be good to hear from you.
Speaker 3: If there's something else you want to chuck into the
Speaker 3: mix jumping. Let's hope my voice holds. He is down
Speaker 3: to two degrees overnight, so it's very free cold. I
Speaker 3: think they're down to minus one so and that's pretty
Speaker 3: much for it all week that for the next ten days,
Speaker 3: we'll call it that one. So if you do want
Speaker 3: to come through eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and
Speaker 3: nine nine two decks, I will keep you updated with
Speaker 3: the news around the world that happened today. Also too,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what's happening, but there appears to be
Speaker 3: a fearbit going on. So I'll do all I can
Speaker 3: to get you up to date with all the news.
Speaker 3: But yeah, just about that, frost goes, newspapers on the inside,
Speaker 3: newspapers on the outside, frost cloth and oakre you know
Speaker 3: what they are. I know some say with the hot jugs,
Speaker 3: you shouldn't be using that. But maybe you can use
Speaker 3: the hot jugs now because the new windscreens don't shatter
Speaker 3: because they're laminated. Would that be right? I mean, from
Speaker 3: year to year, I really have no clue, but you
Speaker 3: will have some advice about de icing gold. Tell what
Speaker 3: the buttons on the car aren't for good?
Speaker 5: All?
Speaker 3: They take for they take forever anyway, Get in touch.
Speaker 3: My name is Marcus. Welcome. Oh eight hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: to eighty nine two nine two detext. If you've got
Speaker 3: something else you want to say, get through jumping about
Speaker 3: feel free. Oh eight hundred and eighty Toddy. By the way,
Speaker 3: I see in Totong and there is new trouble with
Speaker 3: the roundabout at tod Eco. They've put traffic dividers that
Speaker 3: are causing chaos. I'm not quite sure why they've put
Speaker 3: them there. It seems to be an afterthought. So they've
Speaker 3: put traffic dividers stopping motorists from changing lanes on the
Speaker 3: roundabout and taking some exits down from two lanes to one.
Speaker 3: So that seems to be a bit of misplanning. I
Speaker 3: don't know if there's been any crashes, but that's not
Speaker 3: good at all. So as far as as far as
Speaker 3: windscreams will also chuck in. This new roundabout also something
Speaker 3: you might want to talk about, So get in touch.
Speaker 3: You want to be a part of the show for
Speaker 3: Team Past eight. As I say, Oh eight hundred and
Speaker 3: eighty to nine two nine to two detect. If you
Speaker 3: don't want to start the ball rolling tonight, and always
Speaker 3: tricky when you've been away for a whiles. I'm not
Speaker 3: qature what other topics people have covered. Hopefully we won't
Speaker 3: double up on stuff. Although I didn't get an email
Speaker 3: from the museum saying about something I'd said, was that
Speaker 3: it wasn't me. I've been away, so email someone else anyway.
Speaker 3: Keep those texts coming through too, if you do want
Speaker 3: to text. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine
Speaker 3: to nine two de texts if you do want to
Speaker 3: come through. But anything goes yes, full broad Church tonight,
Speaker 3: as long as you get involved. I've got time to say.
Speaker 3: I'd be lovely to hear from you. But yeah, that
Speaker 3: frost stuff, I'm pretty big on this time of the year.
Speaker 3: I think it's twenty every year. I think we've done
Speaker 3: that show about five years ago, but never really solved
Speaker 3: at how to defrost efficiently. I'm never quite sure if've
Speaker 3: got the newspapers on the inside of the windscreen or
Speaker 3: the outside. But where would you get newspapers anymore? Most
Speaker 3: of us don't have them, do we. It's a good point.
Speaker 3: All those things in your newsprint for lake dry on
Speaker 3: the inside of shoes, well that's all gone and starting fires.
Speaker 3: No one's got newsprint. Can't we get much of that
Speaker 3: junk mail anymore? All the junk mail seems have gone online.
Speaker 3: I miss it, miss it terribly. Oh by the way too,
Speaker 3: And I feel I haven't really been on air. I
Speaker 3: feel it's always the beginning of the end. Was the
Speaker 3: great butter give away, the Great emergency alert sweepsteak. The
Speaker 3: winner of that was Kathleen and her guess was what
Speaker 3: Dan was at? Six sixteen six fourteen, And Dan and
Speaker 3: company have been to Costco and they've got her her
Speaker 3: ten kilograms of butter, which she's really happy about. Was
Speaker 3: it salted or unsulted? That was salted? God, so I
Speaker 3: wanted her to get salted. I'm not quite sure about unsoulted.
Speaker 3: But what's that about, Peter, Marcus Welcome? Yeah, hell's going Marcus, good, Peter, thanks,
Speaker 3: thanks for asking.
Speaker 6: Nice and we're here at awkward never mind.
Speaker 3: You know you're not delayed with where you're going, are you?
Speaker 6: It's this raining quite eapily, but the roads are right.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And one of your favorites suburbs Greenheif Oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like Green Hives, the old golf course love.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but when when wind screens in the
Speaker 6: UK about thirty five thirty to thirty five years ago.
Speaker 6: Weeked over there as a research chemist and when access
Speaker 6: to loads of alcohols like ethanol, methanol, ice appropriate alcohol
Speaker 6: and we used to make concoctions with water with it,
Speaker 6: so the so the freezing point will be depressed and
Speaker 6: when you've got a good frost, you know, minus six
Speaker 6: to minus ten, it will still liquid. So you know,
Speaker 6: it turned the old car on onto the frost you inside,
Speaker 6: and with the super brew and the in the under
Speaker 6: the bonnet, that got rid of the ice pretty quickly
Speaker 6: because it solubilized the ice of it.
Speaker 3: That would be on you in your water thing for
Speaker 3: your windscreen water would have alcohol in it, right, and
Speaker 3: that would that would have the effect of melting it,
Speaker 3: would it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it depresses the freezing point, so it will turn
Speaker 6: some of it into liquid as it mixed in with water.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how quick would it happen?
Speaker 6: Ah, I'll still take a few minutes, but if you
Speaker 6: didn't have it, it'll take a few minutes more just
Speaker 6: doing it the conventional way soapy water.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen the additives for your windscreen water that's
Speaker 3: for that, because I think that would be quite an
Speaker 3: easily sold product, wouldn't you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 6: Some of the formulations that go around for things that
Speaker 6: are bars bugs are yeh, system accommodation of soaps and
Speaker 6: gelating agents.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't get many. You wouldn't get many wind frown
Speaker 3: would you get many wind frings? Windscreen frost? There only
Speaker 3: Peter any Oh.
Speaker 6: Not here because I've got a garage. It was in
Speaker 6: the UK. It was in the UK when I was
Speaker 6: eight years ago.
Speaker 3: So they're paradort about frost in the UK, aren't they,
Speaker 3: Because they salt the roads and do all sorts of
Speaker 3: things and that wrecks them.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Plus most cars are outside because they're having a garage
Speaker 6: as the luxury over there.
Speaker 3: All the houses so old too, aren't they. They've got no,
Speaker 3: they're sort of built before cars.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're an afterthought garages. But yeah, but they're nice,
Speaker 6: warm in side most of the time.
Speaker 3: Nice to talk, Peter, Thanks very much to the twenty
Speaker 3: three pass. They keep your calls coming through. Eight hundred
Speaker 3: and eighty today tis to the tricks to the frosting
Speaker 3: the windscreen or preventing it from getting frosted up. That's
Speaker 3: the main topic. For tonight or the main thrust. Minor
Speaker 3: flooding occurring ross Common Roading, Clendon Hearing, Mangley apps been
Speaker 3: hit hard. No text from National Arms Service yet from
Speaker 3: vill So Minor flooding ross Common Road, Cleandon, Mango the
Speaker 3: apps been hit hard. That means appliances or apps but anyway, Marcus.
Speaker 3: There used to be a tall coach driver throughout the country,
Speaker 3: must be tour and often wh When Queenstown was either
Speaker 3: sowing extremely cold, the winners of the bus would freeze up.
Speaker 3: I remember making the snake one afternoon. The mistake went
Speaker 3: after it of washing the bus and then packing it
Speaker 3: up with the heavy frost. It meant that I couldn't
Speaker 3: have any of the doors that had frozen shut, as
Speaker 3: the water from my washing had frozen the rubber seals.
Speaker 3: One thing we used to do to the frost the
Speaker 3: bus winners was to squirt them with warm water with
Speaker 3: a little bit of sunlight saber. We never use top
Speaker 3: water because it would shatter the mess of windows. I'd
Speaker 3: traded to do it once down in Queenstwn. It meant the
Speaker 3: bus couldn't be driven. Aha, Jason Marcus welcome.
Speaker 10: I was good evening.
Speaker 11: Marcus how are you good, Jason?
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 10: The old defrosts in business in my own town in
Speaker 10: February used to get down regular, so that mine's twelve
Speaker 10: miles fourteen. And what we used to do was we
Speaker 10: take our kind of d ice into the house with
Speaker 10: us at night, and then in the morning we'd go
Speaker 10: out and you'd have to spray around all the rubber
Speaker 10: seals so that you could actually open the door because
Speaker 10: it throws in position. And then you turn. Then you
Speaker 10: turn the engine on, leave the heater on cold, and
Speaker 10: go and have a cup of tea. And then when
Speaker 10: you finish your cup of tea you go back out. Magically,
Speaker 10: there's no frost on your car engines warm. You can
Speaker 10: flick the heater to hot. Don't risk damaging your windows
Speaker 10: so shattering them with the changing temperature. And you're in.
Speaker 3: And I presume that was summer in the UK, was
Speaker 3: a Jason.
Speaker 10: It was in the North Prayers where it's grim.
Speaker 3: I'd never heard that. I'd never heard the doors would
Speaker 3: free shut.
Speaker 10: Oh hey, I used to work in a spot where
Speaker 10: they were free ship by foster in the afternoon. There really, yeah, man,
Speaker 10: here we still it doesn't get gold in New Zealand. Dude,
Speaker 10: I'm still walking around in shots and bare feet.
Speaker 3: What was the de ice?
Speaker 12: Was that?
Speaker 3: Some form of alcohol?
Speaker 5: Was it?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 10: So you're buy it in a can. It's like a
Speaker 10: spray cout, like a Dehordrean can, and you spray it
Speaker 10: on your window and it's an alcohol based and just
Speaker 10: heats the frost. It just makes it melt.
Speaker 3: Probably would work as the other one too, wouldn't it.
Speaker 13: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Probably, Marcus, I just did not use an old blanket
Speaker 3: over the windscreen overnight. Who's got an old blanket though?
Speaker 3: Be fairy organized have an old blanket just for the
Speaker 3: windows evening. Paul Marcus welcome, Hi Sore, you're Marcus. He's
Speaker 3: Paul welcome.
Speaker 2: It's Paul. Queen's down. We're get a few frosts up here.
Speaker 2: We have a think called ice scrapers. I work for
Speaker 2: a par rental industry, so I am amusing it every morning,
Speaker 2: just in the car on, put the heater on, and
Speaker 2: then and you set the scraper. They have them at
Speaker 2: the library here obviously, our rental firms. I'm sure car
Speaker 2: firons will have them. My niece just came down from
Speaker 2: Auckland and she really loved it. I gave her two
Speaker 2: on Sunday because she and she texted me so those
Speaker 2: scrapers worked.
Speaker 3: Although you are out and although you are out in
Speaker 3: the cold scraping though, aren't you.
Speaker 2: Well it only takes her about a minute the engine on,
Speaker 2: turned the engine on. I mean, I'm actually moving cars
Speaker 2: from the washpad to the airport at seven o'clock in
Speaker 2: the morning out at Franklin Queenstown and the isis thick
Speaker 2: as now. It's just interesting to listen to that englishman
Speaker 2: said he doesn't get cold. Well, I was up Blake
Speaker 2: Techapo the other day. It does get cold here.
Speaker 12: So is he in.
Speaker 3: Orpland it hard to tell, but he sounded something.
Speaker 2: You you take him down to bluff and see what
Speaker 2: that's like, Marcus, But you wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Paul, do you get the situation where the doors
Speaker 3: will free shut with the.
Speaker 2: Rubber Oh yeah, oh yeah, but yeah they can be tight,
Speaker 2: but with the keys, you just you know, they yeah,
Speaker 2: are actually tight. But I mean I used to live
Speaker 2: in Dunedin and I used to use warm water and
Speaker 2: never had a problem. In fact, I worked I worked
Speaker 2: somewhere late at night time at a casino, but I
Speaker 2: used to park against buildings because it was but the
Speaker 2: post office because the frost willn't come down. I'd be
Speaker 2: leaving my shift about three am in the morning, and
Speaker 2: what I used to do was if you park against
Speaker 2: the tall building, you won't get frost on your car,
Speaker 2: but obviously you do up here.
Speaker 5: So this is it?
Speaker 3: Because is it because the buildings are a heat soak.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, they just soaking, man. Whereas if you pat
Speaker 2: yourself up, you know, in a more open area, obviously
Speaker 2: come down. So if you've got a few full buildings there,
Speaker 2: you need a partner. The tall buildings. There's always a
Speaker 2: way around anything. But I've used I've used water in
Speaker 2: the past ahead of crack and we we have occasionally
Speaker 2: just put the water blaster on it or for in
Speaker 2: a hurry. But so the water works, but ice scrapers,
Speaker 2: I'm sure, I'm sure, Car, I'm really tailoring.
Speaker 3: Sure all you had a couple of Have you had
Speaker 3: a couple of heavy frost the last couple of mornings? Oh?
Speaker 5: Very yeah, very heavy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's been told the last week, since last Thursday.
Speaker 3: Seems unusually heavy to me, Paul, I've got to run.
Speaker 3: But nice to hear from you, God tech coming through,
Speaker 3: calls coming through goodness me flooding and ross com and
Speaker 3: road Clanton. So we do want to keep an eye
Speaker 3: on that. There does seem to be a weather event happening,
Speaker 3: so we're across that tonight. Also feels like our crack
Speaker 3: the winter stories. It's all about the frost, because there's
Speaker 3: been some very heavy ones that seem to be quite early.
Speaker 3: It's about the car and how you enage to because
Speaker 3: I'm surprised there's not a button that you can remote
Speaker 3: just stay in the house and click it that can
Speaker 3: actually stort itself out, someone says Marcus. So I tell
Speaker 3: my wife to go out and warm up the car
Speaker 3: for me every morning. I then slipping with my mug
Speaker 3: of coffee doing that. Guy's for real, kind of a
Speaker 3: shame thing to brag about. To see if he's mentioned
Speaker 3: his wife and they of the other texts, who knows,
Speaker 3: Oh wait, one hundred eighty said he's severe weather around
Speaker 3: the country also to we're not a stranger to that here.
Speaker 3: I'll keep you across that tonight throughout the course of
Speaker 3: the evening. Get in touch. My name is Marcus. Welcome
Speaker 3: head twelve. Keep those texts coming through. There are plenty
Speaker 3: fairly simple, ain't it. Go out five minutes before you
Speaker 3: need to leave, and start the car of the heater
Speaker 3: on and leave it running and go back and side
Speaker 3: and finish your bizo. When you go back out, the
Speaker 3: car is warm, the window clear, and away you go.
Speaker 3: I think most of us don't work like that. Most
Speaker 3: of us like for me, it's getting the kids to
Speaker 3: school and or something like that, and I'm just leaving
Speaker 3: it till last minute. I'm not actually aware that when
Speaker 3: I go out there the car is going to be
Speaker 3: all frosted over, So it's like always a surprise, Marcus.
Speaker 3: Good to have your back. I lived in Alberta, canad
Speaker 3: The best loose to frosted windscreen is to put a
Speaker 3: beach tail on the front windscreen when you get out,
Speaker 3: remove it in the morning, give it a shake to
Speaker 3: remove the frost snow. Everyone has a beach tail in
Speaker 3: the cupboard, Marcus. I do a bit of work in
Speaker 3: the prisons. When I go down to Tonganedo Prison, I
Speaker 3: always see the overnight workers with towels and blankets across
Speaker 3: their windscreens when it's cold. Apparently it means they when
Speaker 3: they get up and finish their shift in the morning.
Speaker 3: They could just walk out and lift the ice off
Speaker 3: the windscreen. Don't work if it works, but they all
Speaker 3: seem to don't know if it works, but they all
Speaker 3: seem to do it. Oh yeah, so I've got reports
Speaker 3: of flooding and ross Common Road and cleaning. Marcus, you
Speaker 3: use ice crabes with the engine fan on windscreen. I
Speaker 3: do it for my job at Easy Car Rentals, Queenstown.
Speaker 3: Marcus walk Katah. Fair thing about opening the new mana
Speaker 3: Are two Tarroro Expressway. Why, Marcus? The best thing for
Speaker 3: all seasons is a car cover. Could she be bothered?
Speaker 3: Could you be of it? Where would you keep your car?
Speaker 3: Covity keeping the boot of the car, Nigel Marcus?
Speaker 14: Welcome, Yeah, good evening, Marcus. So how many frosts you
Speaker 14: had to date this winter down and down South?
Speaker 3: Maybe four?
Speaker 14: Four?
Speaker 15: Ah?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I've only seen one Underneeden, so you've had more
Speaker 14: than us in the need and then and that one
Speaker 14: and that one the other day. I went off because
Speaker 14: time daylight come, it was raining and you don't normally
Speaker 14: get a wet day after a frost.
Speaker 3: That's when you get black ice, though, isn't it when
Speaker 3: it rains after a frost.
Speaker 14: You can do, or it rains before freezers.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Black ice, it's killed many dangerous. No, you can't see
Speaker 3: it coming.
Speaker 14: Have you driven in black ice? Yeah, you can lose control.
Speaker 3: Well, you got before you realize it. But there's normally
Speaker 3: about four cards in the ditch of hidiot.
Speaker 14: Yeah. Although when I was driving down boun mcurean Road
Speaker 14: and the nead and my neighbor ahead of me he
Speaker 14: went down all right and got around the corner. My
Speaker 14: car didn't. He was driving in this and I was
Speaker 14: driving a Toyota. Perhaps I should have bought a list
Speaker 14: and instead of a Toyota.
Speaker 3: What did you hit the curb?
Speaker 14: The curb? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Do your wheels? Do you do much damage?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I've done a bit of damage.
Speaker 3: Oh, hell, that's not good.
Speaker 14: I've done more damage than other accidents though.
Speaker 3: Good, okay, good?
Speaker 14: Ye Oh no, it's not good when you're in the
Speaker 14: wrong because about insurance costs with your insurance.
Speaker 3: Tell me something you do you go out and check
Speaker 3: a rug on your windscreen or anything like that.
Speaker 14: Never done that. I've done, newspaper and if I haven't,
Speaker 14: you know, sometimes you don't know. There's going to be
Speaker 14: a frost over line.
Speaker 3: You have to be pretty organized to work it out,
Speaker 3: I reckon, But yeah, okay.
Speaker 14: And if there's the cars covered and ice in the morning,
Speaker 14: I just use not too hot a water because, as
Speaker 14: you say, the old windscreen is just shattered or cracked
Speaker 14: and shattered at the warriers. But you're going to find
Speaker 14: it out about these new laminated windscreens whether they shatter.
Speaker 5: I don't think they.
Speaker 3: Do, but I'll find out with your news newspapers, Nigel.
Speaker 3: Are they on the inside of the car or the outside?
Speaker 14: I always had them on the outside.
Speaker 3: How did you keep them in place?
Speaker 14: Well, it's still it's all right, But if the wooden
Speaker 14: comes up, the frost normally goes off, doesn't it when.
Speaker 3: They But how would you stop them from sliding down?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 14: Well you can if you're inside and can't see it happening.
Speaker 14: If if you're aware of it, you just go out
Speaker 14: and do it. If you're not aware of the newspapers
Speaker 14: sliding down, it's just you know, you revert back to
Speaker 14: the warm not too hot a water on the windscreen.
Speaker 3: Oh you've got the ODT havn't you were just still
Speaker 3: quite a big paper?
Speaker 14: Yeah? Yeah, yeah?
Speaker 11: How much are you use.
Speaker 3: How many years lifts the ODT got?
Speaker 14: I have no idea. Do you reckon as until? Is
Speaker 14: there not many of the younger generation by the paper.
Speaker 14: They read all their news on their smartphones and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't read. I think probably the ODT would
Speaker 3: be a bit of a what would be a bit
Speaker 3: of a miracle that it's still going privately?
Speaker 14: Yeah, and it's sometimes I go into the shop Supermark
Speaker 14: on this sold out and other times the stacks of
Speaker 14: papers left to sell. So it's hard the same mar
Speaker 14: because your guest is as good as mine. Do you
Speaker 14: think the Southland Times will last longer than the No.
Speaker 3: I certainly don't. I think it's a year left. I
Speaker 3: got one the other days out a spell and I
Speaker 3: thought someone had had I thought someone had gutted it.
Speaker 3: There was so little in it.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's down to tabloid size there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's not a lot of it's international stuff
Speaker 3: or yeah it's but you know they've got an online presence,
Speaker 3: but yeah, physical papers. I think it's just a tic
Speaker 3: tick tic tick. It'd be days, would it months? I
Speaker 3: don't know. I think radio I'll outlive the newspapers. It
Speaker 3: would be my guests nice to talk even look at
Speaker 3: the NZTA webcams of the Southern Motorway looks unbelievably where
Speaker 3: the texts are texting this through also tonight too. Here's
Speaker 3: what they are saying people, Marcus, the rain is heavy.
Speaker 3: I have just driven back from Hamilton to Auckland. Wiper
Speaker 3: blades on four the whole way. So much surface flooding.
Speaker 3: So there we go. I'm expecting this is going to
Speaker 3: be a big event. Marcus. Cut potato and half smear.
Speaker 3: And there's a word that is s t a c
Speaker 3: t H on windscreen. Must be start a H. Marcus.
Speaker 3: Think the council should be on to it's sweeping the drains.
Speaker 3: It's autumn. All those leaves get a job. It can
Speaker 3: all be compost. Marcus. The near future for newspaper Sunday
Speaker 3: only edition good with brunch. You know, that's the thing.
Speaker 3: We're talking about the end of newspapers, and we're also
Speaker 3: going to talk about the end of brunch. How long's
Speaker 3: brunch got. Honestly, it's like a meal they invented that
Speaker 3: no one knew. They wanted. No wake up. I think
Speaker 3: actually we don't need brunch. What about a bottleless brunch
Speaker 3: after my time, jeepers seems sketchy. Get in touched by them,
Speaker 3: as Marcus Welke if you're going to be a part
Speaker 3: of the show, but verys There is a heavy there's
Speaker 3: a thunder warning. Now there was a thunder watch. Now
Speaker 3: there's a thunder warning. I got shots of dreary and
Speaker 3: man it's wet. So yeah, if you've got weather updates
Speaker 3: for us, please get in touch, Marcus. Windscreen old Scottish solution.
Speaker 3: Set wipers in the vertical position, lift off screen, placed
Speaker 3: two sheets of the local newspaper offsor's screen and secure
Speaker 3: in place with the wipers. Oh he didn't say that, NLGE.
Speaker 3: You didn't mention the wipers as the that's the thing
Speaker 3: to hold them in place. I set them up for that,
Speaker 3: didn't I let them on. Didn't take the bait. Ask
Speaker 3: too many questions, that guy. Severe weather Radar detect severe
Speaker 3: met Service wather radar detected severe thunderstorm near Cayo topoal Bay,
Speaker 3: Cahoe and fung Aroa. These you unders moving towards the
Speaker 3: east southeast to expect to line their Bay of islands.
Speaker 3: Put it on and Titia at eight thirty and then
Speaker 3: there fung at nine pm accompanied by Torrenti or rain. Now,
Speaker 3: by the way, someone's texted me and let me know
Speaker 3: how excited to let you know first, Smeg's back, Smeg
Speaker 3: kitchen where utensil rest, Minika, cotts, medium, baker. Got none
Speaker 3: idea what those things are? Very expensive way to buy kitchen.
Speaker 3: Where would be my advice on you with those ones?
Speaker 3: But people get obsessed with that but cash and quickly
Speaker 3: don't be sitting there with people with stickers that are
Speaker 3: alive and haven't got enough to get what they need
Speaker 3: and driving all around town to get this Smeg cockette
Speaker 3: or whatever that is cheapers. Pretty amazing when those potential
Speaker 3: riots and Los Angeles that they're ordering autonomous cars and
Speaker 3: then sitting light to them. I hadn't expected that is
Speaker 3: something that would happen. It's called weimo or something like that,
Speaker 3: but that just seemed extraordinary. I think that's the story
Speaker 3: that's going to resolve itself for any time. So anyway,
Speaker 3: just coming up towards the news people frost for cars
Speaker 3: and the ways to combat that's what we are talking about.
Speaker 3: And veryous, serious floods that seem to be happening right
Speaker 3: round the top of the North island at the moment.
Speaker 3: Be good to hear from you for that, Marcus. Those
Speaker 3: patted sunscreen shades us inside the windows to block the
Speaker 3: sun are great to use on outside windscreens for frosty mornings. Marcus,
Speaker 3: I goingn off cut for the local carpet store work wonders.
Speaker 3: Not a bad idea. Put that one of the wind
Speaker 3: screens on the outside, I would have thought, Marcus, for windscreen,
Speaker 3: use your folding sunscreen protection for frost. People seem to
Speaker 3: swear by flattened cardboard. I just say cardboard. I think
Speaker 3: you know it'd be flat, and I think people gonna
Speaker 3: put actually boxes on their windscreen with Yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: know if the word flattened isn't necessary there. Now I've
Speaker 3: been shot by a rubber bullet. We're pretty painful for that, reporter,
Speaker 3: isn't it. I haven't seen the bruise, but I imagine it's
Speaker 3: significant and certainly caused it to whelp. Yeah, it seemed
Speaker 3: unfairly barbaric, But just checking that out there as a
Speaker 3: side topic, Marcus, newspaper's going going gone nothing to wrap
Speaker 3: the fish and chips windscreen frost. Fore his prodection get
Speaker 3: up the bonnet get up on the bonnet and do
Speaker 3: what we do do best. Marcus. Oh, here's good of information,
Speaker 3: Marcus laminad windscreens will not shatter, will crack from stone chips, etc.
Speaker 3: If stone chips only damage the outer glass layer, the
Speaker 3: inner glass layer won't be affected due to plastic in between.
Speaker 3: All other glass on cars will share to a million pieces.
Speaker 3: Don't be lazy cover against frost, David Taylorville ps vesselin
Speaker 3: smeared on door, rubber stops doors freezing closed? Marcus? What
Speaker 3: can be done about food delivery service drivers parking on
Speaker 3: mobility parks? Most if not all, have mobility permits displayed,
Speaker 3: but they don't appear to be genuine, especially when they
Speaker 3: run to eateries to get the orders. Just witness the
Speaker 3: car displaying a mobility permit trying to find a park.
Speaker 3: The poor ladies struggled to walk to the shop. Not
Speaker 3: really good enough, especially when the uber drivers stood there
Speaker 3: and watched her. I have never witnessed that. If someone's
Speaker 3: got something to say about that, let us know. All
Speaker 3: the lines are free. We love to hear from you.
Speaker 3: By the way, someone said sex work old sex to
Speaker 3: stop your windscreens frosting up? So what of a chabby look, though,
Speaker 3: isn't it using sex? So iren Z reports that power
Speaker 3: is out and dozards of households in the Auckland suburb
Speaker 3: of Papa toy Toy is stormy weather HiT's the region.
Speaker 3: Energy company Vector says it's investigating to cause the outage.
Speaker 3: Much of the Upper North Island is under severe weather
Speaker 3: storm matchingtil watch until midnight, and the Bay of Islands
Speaker 3: two hundred and the story in the Bay of plenty
Speaker 3: two hundred and eighteen households in Pokahena and are without power.
Speaker 3: In Northland, a power outage is affecting part of Patawa
Speaker 3: and part of a bay near Farga Heads. That's the latest.
Speaker 3: Before you're looking forward to what you've got to say.
Speaker 3: I think I spent some of my holiday and part
Speaker 3: of a bay quite nice near fun A Heads. Do
Speaker 3: get in touch at windscreens, saving you wind screens and frosts,
Speaker 3: but run about tonight eight hundred and eighty twenty nine
Speaker 3: Text looking forward to what you've got to say? Lyle,
Speaker 3: it's Marcus.
Speaker 12: Good evening, Oh, good evening, Marcus.
Speaker 13: And it's good to hear you hale and hearty.
Speaker 3: Yes, good to be hale and hardy too lyle.
Speaker 13: Oh, thank you, I mean I say thank you anyway, Marcus.
Speaker 13: I just wanted to broke something with you that you
Speaker 13: actually had a bit of prescience about when you were
Speaker 13: talking a few weeks ago and I was just drifting
Speaker 13: off to sleep and it was nearly ten o'clock and
Speaker 13: you mentioned how silly it was that Fonterra is selling
Speaker 13: their their various brands. And I don't know if you
Speaker 13: remember that, Yeah, maybe, yep, yep, okay, so and this
Speaker 13: is this is interesting because I mean I was just
Speaker 13: sort of half asleep, and then the next day aren
Speaker 13: Z reported the sale extremely blandly, with no comment whatsoever,
Speaker 13: no editorial or anything like that. And you're absolutely right,
Speaker 13: it's extremely silly, and it's only there was an article
Speaker 13: in the Herald in November by one Andrea Fox, you know,
Speaker 13: completely castigating it. And essentially what they're going to do
Speaker 13: is they're going to sell the Anchor brand, which has
Speaker 13: been a brand since eighteen eighty six, Mainland and one
Speaker 13: other I can't remember now, but I mean and essentially,
Speaker 13: if you look at what they're saying, they're saying, oh well,
Speaker 13: and as Andrea Fox points out in the Herald article
Speaker 13: in twenty first of November. That's right there when it
Speaker 13: was that what they said. The argument seems to be
Speaker 13: for Miles Howell the CEOs, they're not very good at marketing,
Speaker 13: so they're not really going to bother anymore, which is
Speaker 13: absolutely ridiculous. And I just want to write it to
Speaker 13: my own experience. When I was in Britain in nineteen
Speaker 13: eighty seven eighty eight, you had lovely Kerry Gold butter,
Speaker 13: a tiny little bit I think it was two hundred
Speaker 13: grams or something like that, in a lovely golden wrapper,
Speaker 13: and you paid as much for that as you did
Speaker 13: for you know, a pound of New Zealand butter in
Speaker 13: the white in the white rap. Then fast forward to
Speaker 13: nineteen ninety seven, I was teaching in Japan, and when
Speaker 13: you went into a big, super big department store like
Speaker 13: Soga or something, by then you had a firmly brand
Speaker 13: butter in some foil, but it was still the leaders
Speaker 13: were still Kerry Gold, and most of their NEWSS and
Speaker 13: butter were still in the white rap. We are already useless
Speaker 13: at mark, I think, but there's no reason not to
Speaker 13: do it. And then Fontia sold there, you know, the
Speaker 13: ice cream business a few years ago to a Filipino
Speaker 13: firm and they're going to keep their ingredients business, but
Speaker 13: they haven't really factored them. And that there are three
Speaker 13: main parties that are really interested in it apparently are
Speaker 13: two French ones, ones called Lactalis and other ones than Non,
Speaker 13: and of course the Swiss Nestley now and also a bigger,
Speaker 13: bigger is a new one that's that sort of entered
Speaker 13: the market apparently from Australia, which is rather odd because
Speaker 13: they've got a less of a capital value than, you know,
Speaker 13: than the New Zealand operation. But I mean the whole
Speaker 13: point is if they do sell all that stuff off,
Speaker 13: they've supplied a lot of you know, commodity product to
Speaker 13: the Noon for instance, and if it's applied quite a
Speaker 13: lot to Nestley over the years, so you could have
Speaker 13: the prospect of the Non's got factories in Eastern Europe
Speaker 13: dairy factories, so they could have the prospect of anchor
Speaker 13: butter being produced in Poland for god.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the thing is that the thing is fontirases in
Speaker 3: o good at marketing. But we always heard that our
Speaker 3: clean green ki We brand was better marketing than anything,
Speaker 3: and that was awful what they said, but that just
Speaker 3: seems to be thrown out now. No one cares about that.
Speaker 13: Well, I mean is it clean and green? I mean
Speaker 13: I live in the extreme southwestern christ Church and when
Speaker 13: I regularly is part of work drive to say Timaru.
Speaker 13: All the old dry land farms, you know, the beef
Speaker 13: and sheep farms, have been replaced by these giant milk factories,
Speaker 13: and so they're not particularly clean and green. All the
Speaker 13: macrocarpa hedges that used to be there to shelter gone on, yeh,
Speaker 13: because they need to wheel around these great irrigation booms.
Speaker 13: So and I'm going to upset people now, but I
Speaker 13: probably already have. But you see them farmers essentially found
Speaker 13: for capital gain, whether they realize that or not, because
Speaker 13: there's no capital gains tax, so that they've taken their
Speaker 13: eye off the economic ball. They just continue that they're
Speaker 13: they're waiting for their big sort of lotto payout, which
Speaker 13: is absolutely guaranteed. So and also there are a cooperative too,
Speaker 13: and cooperatives tend to be conservative, but there are cooperatives
Speaker 13: that have been really good, like Kerry Gold for instance,
Speaker 13: you know, great marketing. They've got about five thousand farmers
Speaker 13: in Ireland, but they seem to be innovative in that.
Speaker 13: I don't know, is it just part of our colonial
Speaker 13: past or what. But something else is going to happen,
Speaker 13: you know, when they're in negotiations with say to None
Speaker 13: or Nestle or like Talis, it's like a game of poker,
Speaker 13: and they're going to know if they set up this
Speaker 13: year next year that that Fontira has got no aces
Speaker 13: or jacks anymore. If it sells Anca and Mainland, they
Speaker 13: might have a one or two in the form of
Speaker 13: their ingredients business, which they're still going to keep. And
Speaker 13: they know in negotiations that Fonterra, if they don't get
Speaker 13: a good price, can't say, oh, we're going to just
Speaker 13: pump more polity product into our own brands. And then
Speaker 13: they're going to be squashing their heads wondering why that
Speaker 13: they're going to get less money than they thought they
Speaker 13: would for their commodities because it's all very very commodity
Speaker 13: commodities now and they're going to be going, well, I
Speaker 13: wonder how they happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't disagree. I think it's a bit similar
Speaker 3: to that New Zealand. New Zealand Rugby that's great behemoth
Speaker 3: that we all know what's going to happen, and just
Speaker 3: bad decision making. I think we saw that and some
Speaker 3: of the lineup changes. Lyle, thank you so much for
Speaker 3: your call. I appreciate that. Keep them going. Switt's Marcus, welcome,
Speaker 3: good evening.
Speaker 12: I'm Marcus.
Speaker 3: Where did you say you were.
Speaker 16: In it?
Speaker 12: And Ricky Ringy after shaving done some rabbit shooting, and
Speaker 12: I just stopped from my dinner delicious, and I was
Speaker 12: just thinking about the weather because I'm watching the weather
Speaker 12: very close to the first or I want to talk
Speaker 12: without sex on your windscreen to stop the ice and
Speaker 12: you see it. That's not a good look.
Speaker 3: Just hang on the shoe. I just want to tell
Speaker 3: you too that someone's texted me extremely heavy rate. And
Speaker 3: Toto us in on flight five two six two from
Speaker 3: went into the Todonger, tried to land twice unsuccessfully now
Speaker 3: heading back south. So there we go. There's trouble with
Speaker 3: the airlines as well. Yes, sex under the windscreens here, yes, yes.
Speaker 12: And of course if you go to a garden's end
Speaker 12: of these days you can buy coffee husks for your compost.
Speaker 12: In a big sec it comes to the big issum
Speaker 12: sect and it would have free trade, organically sourced, and
Speaker 12: a brand of coffee. Now if you put those on
Speaker 12: your weskey, if you're going to say, now that's a
Speaker 12: touch a class.
Speaker 3: I see the sex, not the sex, not the coffee grounds.
Speaker 12: No, no, don't put the coffee grounds on the carry
Speaker 12: and to block the ecodishing.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's good.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, So you know, just use a husks on
Speaker 12: your garden like the compost and then put the second
Speaker 12: there field go. I would he's gone to the trouble
Speaker 12: of getting organically sourced, free trade sick, very classy and
Speaker 12: the brand.
Speaker 3: And honestly, here are you someone that goes out and
Speaker 3: does things before on the night before to stop the
Speaker 3: windscreen frosting up?
Speaker 12: No, I don't worry about that too much. And here
Speaker 12: in Ricky Irey is a couple of frosts. We've had
Speaker 12: a couple of frosts recently. Actually got a wall shee
Speaker 12: rin up here and that's pretty cold. But it's no
Speaker 12: just you know, back at the war she's right away
Speaker 12: we go and I don't think we get the frost
Speaker 12: like you're doing the needing for example, you know, and
Speaker 12: down there we don't you.
Speaker 3: You're in lend from Wyk and I a yep, probably
Speaker 3: about maybe twenty five twenty eight calumebras from the coastline,
Speaker 3: kepity coastline. There's nothing near, there's nothing there is.
Speaker 12: There nothing here in Rocky Ringy, Yeah, what is there?
Speaker 12: There's beautiful lifestyle blocks, lots of beautiful lifestyle rocks, two
Speaker 12: or three working farms still maybe six working farms. There's
Speaker 12: the main road that links Why can I over the
Speaker 12: Ekatara road to go that one over the hill to
Speaker 12: Upper Hut. So it's a it's an inland road. So
Speaker 12: whenever the other highways to cloth, who will try to
Speaker 12: go over that road even though it's big side that say,
Speaker 12: you know, don't bring tracks. Though it's a coach road.
Speaker 12: You know, it's an old coach road and it's narrow
Speaker 12: and treacherous, but it's great fun and it's through some
Speaker 12: beautiful country. But people come here and they take their
Speaker 12: camp events over here because if from somewhere else and
Speaker 12: they get stuck.
Speaker 3: No, I think I think I've done Haywoods, but not
Speaker 3: the one for the Ekatara. So that looks like a Philly.
Speaker 3: That looks like a Philly significant road.
Speaker 12: That's a that's a niggly little road, lofty heap and
Speaker 12: corners and big drop offs on the side. If you
Speaker 12: drop off, they's good bye, Charlie, Tom. But I want
Speaker 12: to talk to you about the weather. And the weather
Speaker 12: is really interesting. I'm sitting here and of course I
Speaker 12: have to watch the rep the weather as a rabbit
Speaker 12: color because I need to know when it's changing, go
Speaker 12: home before I start melting. And I watch the rain
Speaker 12: radar on the met Surface New Zealand Met Service rain radar,
Speaker 12: and it's very very specific. It's a real time radar
Speaker 12: and you can see the clouds coming in well, the
Speaker 12: clouds it was forecast and the three day forecast to
Speaker 12: come across Caperity coast nine o'clock was now after nine
Speaker 12: o'clock and the rain hasn't arrived. But the clouds are
Speaker 12: coming across the Taranaki byte and they literally parted and
Speaker 12: Palms the north and Marsden we're the top and the
Speaker 12: bottom of the cloud. And it went across towards each
Speaker 12: towards tell Us Cake Taliser and breathing from west to east,
Speaker 12: and it just parted over Capity and Carig didn't get
Speaker 12: any rain. And then it carried on. But if people
Speaker 12: want to have a really really good idea of where
Speaker 12: the heavy rain is, the met Service rain radar you
Speaker 12: can dial up your own town. Where you can dial
Speaker 12: up your own town one hundred and twenty kilos around
Speaker 12: your hometown, three hundred kilometers around your hometown, the whole
Speaker 12: of New Zealand, and you can see if you.
Speaker 3: I think it's fair to say we are on the
Speaker 3: golden age of weather information at our hands. We've got
Speaker 3: it all, haven't we. We know exactly what's going to happen.
Speaker 3: It bugus belief, the biggest belief.
Speaker 12: Big sorry, biggest belief that things like sandbars can't be
Speaker 12: dug out before the before the rain comes to let
Speaker 12: the river go out the sea.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 12: And so we get a flood. And so how's the
Speaker 12: councils and the people who are in change of the
Speaker 12: waters dis changed at the river mouth in sync with
Speaker 12: the weather forecast. The bloody brilliant It's.
Speaker 3: Not quite where I was going here, But yeah, no,
Speaker 3: nice to hear from you. I just think when golden
Speaker 3: a golden age, have next you knowing what the weather's
Speaker 3: going to be if you haven't got a close.
Speaker 16: Dar.
Speaker 3: It's perfect because it just tells you all the time. Marcus,
Speaker 3: no frost in the garage, just saying it's been very
Speaker 3: heavily raining here in Hamlet for the past three hours
Speaker 3: or more. Marcus. The anchor Brat milk brand is so popping.
Speaker 3: Well know, it's sometimes reverred to as milk and general parents,
Speaker 3: shrill ankor. It's the most love dairy brand of the country.
Speaker 3: It's synonymous with milk anchor. Ah, it's snowing State Highway eight,
Speaker 3: quite heavy around or Matama and twicel. So she's four seasons.
Speaker 3: Let's hear from you back soon. By the way, they've
Speaker 3: got they've thrown good money out of the bed. They've
Speaker 3: tried to fix that roundabout in total longer by putting
Speaker 3: orange poles in it. That sounds like a Biggs muddle.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you which one is. I think it's been
Speaker 3: open for a while. I'll tell you the name of it. Oh,
Speaker 3: the tod Eco roundabout. I think it's an older roundabout
Speaker 3: with a new layout of Someone might put me more
Speaker 3: right with that, Colin, Marcus, welcome, Mark.
Speaker 6: How are you good?
Speaker 3: Thanks Colin?
Speaker 17: Yeah, mate, I can answer a question about the roundabout
Speaker 17: for you. I wasn't sure what your query was though.
Speaker 17: What was your query about the new round about at total?
Speaker 3: How long has it been there for?
Speaker 17: Oh geez uh.
Speaker 18: Ah ten years?
Speaker 19: Eight years? Ten years?
Speaker 3: So were their problems? Whether why have they tried to
Speaker 3: change it?
Speaker 17: I would say it would be a layout thing to
Speaker 17: to help traffic flow. I would imagine, okay, to help
Speaker 17: some cards, maybe have a free left turn or an
Speaker 17: easier right turn during peak traffic. It's actually really hard
Speaker 17: because people drive on to the roundabout and then wait
Speaker 17: on the roundabout so no one else can get on
Speaker 17: until they can go, But then people behind them have
Speaker 17: already joined the roundabound about, so it's it's a bit
Speaker 17: of a shmodel. Really.
Speaker 3: It sounds to me it's a symptom of a greater
Speaker 3: problem that all the traffic and total on it is
Speaker 3: sort of not really functioning that well because of a
Speaker 3: lack of planning.
Speaker 17: No, and it's you're exactly right, and that side of
Speaker 17: town is where it comes off. The comis on State
Speaker 17: Highway twenty nine, which if we've ever tried to get
Speaker 17: anywhere around that area on a Friday afternoon at five o'clock,
Speaker 17: don't make plans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, copy, okay, because it's going.
Speaker 19: To take you forever.
Speaker 17: I was updating you on the toting and weather. It
Speaker 17: is raining and has been for a while now, and
Speaker 17: it's quite chilly.
Speaker 3: Yep, sure, which is nice.
Speaker 17: Yeah, is it a real thing?
Speaker 3: Is hang on? Just before you got going to your
Speaker 3: really is it floody sort of weather.
Speaker 18: A little bit?
Speaker 17: Yeah, we've just bo and I've just been playing badminton
Speaker 17: at the Queen Elizabeth Center and it was sounded trential
Speaker 17: on the roof because obviously got no no antilation or anything,
Speaker 17: you know, tin roof. Yeah, sounded torrential. It's outside has
Speaker 17: quite flooded, but it's.
Speaker 3: Easing off now, okay of hearing it.
Speaker 18: Yep, it's been a very wet time.
Speaker 10: Just just throw this.
Speaker 17: Was getting some gas the other day and I noticed
Speaker 17: that some pumps, you know, it slows down without no
Speaker 17: leader and a half to go or something like that,
Speaker 17: the vengeful pump. Yes, yes, So I was just wondering,
Speaker 17: why do they have to make it slow down so soon?
Speaker 17: Last two leaders take nearly two minutes?
Speaker 20: Do they?
Speaker 17: I wonder if they expect people to walk away and
Speaker 17: leave their last fifty cents with a gas because they
Speaker 17: can't be bother waiting. Is it a money making employee?
Speaker 18: What do you think?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I've filled up today, and yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't know. If I wouldn't say it takes two minutes
Speaker 3: for the last leader and a half, would it?
Speaker 17: Maybe it's tight over exaggeration, but.
Speaker 12: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know. I don't know enough about
Speaker 3: the mechanics. I know some people are consumed. How much
Speaker 3: is left in the pipe?
Speaker 17: Yes, yes, I met it. Maybe one of our listeners
Speaker 17: knows more about her and could update us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know how that would work. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't know how they checked the volume that's going in.
Speaker 3: I don't know how it works. I'd never thought about
Speaker 3: how the outside.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I was standing outside. It was cold, it was
Speaker 17: raining sideways, and the last sort of leta took ages.
Speaker 17: I almost hang up the hose to just get out
Speaker 17: of the rain, and thought, what if this is some sneaky,
Speaker 17: big oil trick.
Speaker 3: Why are you standing outside? Why don't you just why
Speaker 3: just push fall and click the button on?
Speaker 17: This one had no about it. You know, some of
Speaker 17: them they don't have it.
Speaker 3: That's terrible when they haven't broken or yeah, Okay, isn't
Speaker 3: it just yeah, yes for thought, Marcus, appreciate it. Cod.
Speaker 3: I'll trying to find out that everyone knows how they work.
Speaker 3: I'd like to hear from you. Someone's emailed me kure Marcus.
Speaker 3: I was wondering if you'd be able to ask your
Speaker 3: listeners of that information regarding a friend of mine that
Speaker 3: went missing on the twenty eighth of March twenty twenty
Speaker 3: three from Fielding. His name is Stephen James Ryan. This
Speaker 3: is a copy of his missing person profile. Stephen James
Speaker 3: Ryan born nineteen eighty three, will be forty two, location
Speaker 3: Onne W two. Stephen was last seen at nine pm
Speaker 3: on the twentieth of March twenty twenty three, an address
Speaker 3: in Mane Over two. Police send family have concerns us
Speaker 3: well for an apeing to public and the signings information
Speaker 3: so one O five if you want a photo of
Speaker 3: him too, it's on the missing persons file on the
Speaker 3: Inded police website. So he's been missing for two years
Speaker 3: and two years three months. So there we go. Thanks
Speaker 3: for getting in touch with that too. I don't know
Speaker 3: if that's done any use. But and more about the
Speaker 3: Todico Roundabout roadworks have begun to add extra lanes and
Speaker 3: traffic lights to allow better flow to the Todiico Crossing mall.
Speaker 3: The lane changes and orange stickers are a nightmare, nightmare
Speaker 3: for people who are not aware of where to go.
Speaker 3: So council is now modifying the roundabouts to help the issues. Well,
Speaker 3: it does sound like the biggest model that doesn't it.
Speaker 3: I just can't quite work out how councils and traffic
Speaker 3: management could have no idea how cities are going to grow,
Speaker 3: because really they do and the pace they grow and
Speaker 3: not have the roading in place to help them a
Speaker 3: number of discussions they have with people about Queenstown because
Speaker 3: Queenstown's unworkable and they're spending millions and millions and hundreds
Speaker 3: millions of dollars to try and work it, and anything
Speaker 3: they do it just doesn't fix it because the planning
Speaker 3: is so bad. And I think Queenstown and Total Long
Speaker 3: and they're going to become two other places that people
Speaker 3: could well just walk away from because they've become unworkable.
Speaker 3: Remember on this show discussing whether people would rather live
Speaker 3: in Totong or Hamilton, and I thought it'd be a
Speaker 3: slam dun't for to longer, but people unanimously in favor
Speaker 3: of Hamilton because it's just impossible to get around Totong yet,
Speaker 3: you know, you can't go anywhere any time. And they're
Speaker 3: still developing, it still growing, and they're trying to fix
Speaker 3: everything retrospectively. And I had to say it, but the
Speaker 3: Meal lives in Clevedon. That doesn't no, not in Clevedon
Speaker 3: and Cambridge. That doesn't give you much hope. He won't
Speaker 3: even move there. I think he says he's going to.
Speaker 3: But still what a biggest muddle anyway, and also keeping
Speaker 3: you stopping the ice on your windscreen. All the lines
Speaker 3: are free to be nice to hear from you people.
Speaker 3: My name is Marcus Good Evening Marcus talking about missing people.
Speaker 3: Of the women from christ Church wrest Home that wanded
Speaker 3: off the sort have been found after a week. Police
Speaker 3: urging people to check their properties. Marcus, do you know
Speaker 3: where the new regulations are against tethering dogs for long
Speaker 3: periods will come into force? And how many people actually
Speaker 3: dib and neighbors or family members for dogs chained up
Speaker 3: outside and weather like this on any whether they shouldn't
Speaker 3: be chained up? Marcus, I lived just two minutes from
Speaker 3: the ton Eco Roundabout, which has been converted into a
Speaker 3: traffic light system due to rapid growth in the area
Speaker 3: with new housing developments of the stateho between nine right
Speaker 3: about connecting into ton Eco Industrial Area and the lot
Speaker 3: to a highway, there's expected to be a major increase
Speaker 3: in traffic and population since the road works began. I've
Speaker 3: seen multiple near missus trucks almost hitting cars, lots of confusions,
Speaker 3: spike car signage, and frequent tooting. The currencytu seems to
Speaker 3: be causing significant safety concerns. And how do bowsers charge
Speaker 3: for petrol? How do they know how much is going in?
Speaker 3: There must be some I can't quite work out how
Speaker 3: that works. I'm not saying it's inaccurate. I'm sure it's
Speaker 3: reaccur I'm sure there's weights and measures people are across there.
Speaker 3: I just like to know actually how it works for
Speaker 3: my own curiosity. Someone sent me an email about this roundabout.
Speaker 3: It seems to be a big story for the people
Speaker 3: of Totonga. Oh wow. What The red circle is the
Speaker 3: entrance to the Tonico Shopping Center, which is around about
Speaker 3: at the moment, and they are putting lights and going
Speaker 3: to take to October in the meantime, they put orange
Speaker 3: sticks to the middle of the road, which are two
Speaker 3: lane round about and if you get in the wrong lane,
Speaker 3: you're in trouble. We ever thought of this needs their
Speaker 3: head red, bloody joke. So why would you agree for
Speaker 3: a shopping center to go right next to a roundabout? Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I'll tell you what. The message it gives people
Speaker 3: about Totalong is pretty much, don't come and visit us
Speaker 3: because it's going to be a car nightmare. That very
Speaker 3: much seems to be the case. It's not a city,
Speaker 3: I know that intimately at all, but yeah, only because
Speaker 3: it's just such a such a hell to drive around. Anyway,
Speaker 3: get in touch with our talking about windscreens and the frost.
Speaker 3: Also tonight, there's something and Frederick Forsyth also too. You
Speaker 3: might have a deep dive into some of his book.
Speaker 3: That's always good to hear about such a fantastic movie,
Speaker 3: Dad the Jack. I think I read the book and
Speaker 3: watched the film. I'm pretty sure I did both of those,
Speaker 3: and the movie of was it the Odessophile kind of
Speaker 3: remember watching that. I can't remember that much about it, obviously.
Speaker 3: Memory for movies is not my strong suit. I feel
Speaker 3: like there's less and less space in your memory that
Speaker 3: you can take spinned up with movies. That's my take
Speaker 3: on that one. But yeah, I wouldn't mind talking about that.
Speaker 3: But it seemed to be a movie that we saw
Speaker 3: at school and was tremendous. The Odessaphile. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 3: the Dogs of War also sold six seventy five million books. Oh,
Speaker 3: I was curious about day how those fuel tanks work,
Speaker 3: the fuel bowsers, how they calculate how much fuel is
Speaker 3: going and if someone could give it a description of that?
Speaker 3: Also too total? What went wrong there? It's too many roundabouts.
Speaker 3: I think it seems that it was a tricky topography
Speaker 3: and tricky layout with the land and harbor. They never
Speaker 3: kind of got the roads right, and I mean clan
Speaker 3: ketchup maybe just grew too quick and the men playing
Speaker 3: ketchup every ever since. But if you're the council you're
Speaker 3: giving out planning consents, surely you know what's going on.
Speaker 3: If your zoning area is surely you're going to know
Speaker 3: when it's going to get big and how big it's
Speaker 3: going to get. Marcus get into the correct lane well
Speaker 3: before roundabouts intersections. Everyone should know where they're going. If
Speaker 3: you find yourself always trying to change lanes. You are
Speaker 3: the problem. Well, a lot of people look at Google
Speaker 3: Maps at the same time. That's till we get around now.
Speaker 3: I shop at the Tonico peckin Safe every week. Three
Speaker 3: weeks ago, I was in the same nan I always use,
Speaker 3: went around the corner and disappeared and had orange poles
Speaker 3: in it. Retically switched to the left lane to avoid them.
Speaker 3: And now he has been taken out by an eight
Speaker 3: whether truck. It's a complete and utter effing disaster zone.
Speaker 3: Someone's going to die, Marcus. The frigid evening has turned
Speaker 3: to balmy mild here in Auckland North. Thank you absolutely
Speaker 3: pouring down in cowdo torrential die Marcus. Most dumb decisions,
Speaker 3: such as a supermarket near a roundabout, are authorized by
Speaker 3: counselors who mates own the properties. They have zero regards
Speaker 3: for an area's infrastructure that's moved from McLean's Island. I
Speaker 3: think for a while there we got roundabout happy. I
Speaker 3: think roundabouts work up to a point, then you get
Speaker 3: too much congestion and too much traffic in a Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's a sweet spot for roundabouts, and then when there's
Speaker 3: too much traffic they failed to exist to work. Good evening, Roger,
Speaker 3: it's Marcus.
Speaker 19: Welcome, Hey Marcus, how you doing good?
Speaker 3: Thanks Roger.
Speaker 19: It's a wet night in Christ Judge, cheer to wetnight
Speaker 19: and Christ such yere.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the I hadn't heard that yet.
Speaker 19: Probably were everywhere things.
Speaker 3: Seems to be not down south, but.
Speaker 19: Ye yeah, hey, look just like I'm a truck drive
Speaker 19: around Christ huge. I've been driving around here for forty
Speaker 19: thousand years, quite a long time. And one thing I've
Speaker 19: always I've always thought about, and I have rung up
Speaker 19: talked back before about this is that when you come
Speaker 19: up to a set of lights, and there might be
Speaker 19: three or four lanes, and you come up to them,
Speaker 19: there is no lane layout for you to see approaching
Speaker 19: the lights. Right Sometimes you agree.
Speaker 3: You don't know, you don't have the left lane. It's
Speaker 3: going to be a left there, or it's going to
Speaker 3: be straight ahead and the left.
Speaker 17: I agree with that, yeah, yeah, And so I've always said,
Speaker 17: why don't they put it up on a sign over
Speaker 17: the lights.
Speaker 19: When you're coming up you can see the layout of
Speaker 19: the lanes so you know exactly what they Because the
Speaker 19: amount of times I have to let people and or
Speaker 19: people come up and then the well where do I go?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 19: You know, I've even seen buses get confused. To be honestly,
Speaker 19: saw a bus a while ago ended up stuck on
Speaker 19: the wrong side of the road.
Speaker 3: And I wonder if any country has done that successfully,
Speaker 3: because I don't even know if I've heard of that.
Speaker 19: Well, I think they do it, maybe in the States.
Speaker 19: I could be wrong. I've never been here, but yeah,
Speaker 19: I just think it'd save a lot of hassles for people,
Speaker 19: because you know, it is like or which was this
Speaker 19: lane going on? As this is only left turning, And
Speaker 19: of course the other thing you have now when you
Speaker 19: come up to a seat of lights and there's the
Speaker 19: green light to go, but there's a really narrow for
Speaker 19: turning oh yeah, yeah for a pedestrian, and so all
Speaker 19: the cars are sitting behind you and people don't really
Speaker 19: start turning or vanslap.
Speaker 3: We'll talk more after the news. Thanks Roger. Large volume
Speaker 3: of texts about driving in Totong and what a shimozzle
Speaker 3: it is, so you might want to comment on here
Speaker 3: about that. I guess the question is why is it
Speaker 3: so bad? How bad is it? And the question that
Speaker 3: we don't really that we're not good at asking this country.
Speaker 3: That's what's the solution. Because I know about some people,
Speaker 3: but I suspect the people of todong Are are the
Speaker 3: last people in the world that would embrace public transport.
Speaker 3: So I can't see what the options are. Here's a
Speaker 3: sample of the texts Marcus Totong are Poolong Tom planning
Speaker 3: of a city. City has grown too quickly, Traffic doesn't flow.
Speaker 3: Gary Totong has screwed one hour minimum drive every morning
Speaker 3: to drive six k's dropping kids off at two different schools.
Speaker 3: No wonder the roller won't live here, Marcus. Now that
Speaker 3: tot Long as a pography haphas of development. An absence
Speaker 3: of functioning public transport makes sensible roading impossible. Marcus, I've
Speaker 3: been tot On the large part of my life. The infrastructure,
Speaker 3: especially roads, didn't grow fast enough compared to population, so
Speaker 3: much red tape. Remember the councilor has now been run
Speaker 3: by a commissioner, was run by commissioner and Tolly for
Speaker 3: about four years. She didn't do anything to improve roading.
Speaker 3: Drivers of tot Long were just bad drivers, regardless of roads.
Speaker 3: They can't use indicators especially. I don't think that's particular
Speaker 3: to Totong. I think there's no shortage of people that
Speaker 3: they can't use their indicators, Marcus during congestion. Roundabouts should
Speaker 3: be emerge, one goes past, one goes in. Oh, that's
Speaker 3: not a bad idea. Could we change roundabouts? So actually,
Speaker 3: I think when roundabouts first were invented, on the roundabout,
Speaker 3: you give way the drivers coming into it. I think
Speaker 3: that's the way it worked. Vaughn AT's Marcus, welcome.
Speaker 18: Marcus, here you go, good, thank you, Vaughn. Yeah, that's
Speaker 18: roundabout and totong. And that's caused a bit of a
Speaker 18: hornet's nest and I stirred it up.
Speaker 3: Well, that seems it seems they've spen forever teaching people
Speaker 3: how to use it, and now they've changed it because
Speaker 3: there's the more next to it, they're going have to
Speaker 3: kind of retrain people.
Speaker 18: Yeah, but I mean, you know, you have you trained monkeys. Hey, yeah?
Speaker 18: But you know when you've got a sign that says
Speaker 18: center lane, no right to what do you reckon?
Speaker 3: That means okay, can you see this? Can you see
Speaker 3: the sign?
Speaker 8: Oh? Mate?
Speaker 18: Yeah, look it could be better. Well, grant you there,
Speaker 18: you know, but there is pretty clear signage you know,
Speaker 18: I take a truck and trailer through there every day,
Speaker 18: and yeah, to change people would have saying, look, I
Speaker 18: had to go around twice, so we'll go around a
Speaker 18: third time, packing up and walk right, because that's what
Speaker 18: you should be doing.
Speaker 12: Are you?
Speaker 3: Are you into city? Where is all? You're driving around
Speaker 3: around in Totna?
Speaker 20: No, I'm line Hall.
Speaker 18: So I'm up in Auckland now just going through all
Speaker 18: this weather which is lovely heading back to tot On.
Speaker 3: And now how much whill you get there? How much
Speaker 3: of a shamozzle? How much time do you waste trying
Speaker 3: to just get through the urban part of that city?
Speaker 21: Oh?
Speaker 22: Look, we go.
Speaker 18: From tar Ricos pet Mara. When we started a run
Speaker 18: at four o'clock and what should take should take about
Speaker 18: twenty minutes, could take anything up to half to three
Speaker 18: quarters of an hour on a bed day. Coming back
Speaker 18: we leave gone.
Speaker 3: That's four pm, yep. And coming back.
Speaker 18: It's already sort of yeah to coming back, we leave
Speaker 18: pet Bar at five and it should take us about
Speaker 18: half an hour, but you know, you get a bit
Speaker 18: of a bad run, it can be forty five minutes.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 18: It's ye, traffic's a shop and there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: But okay, so you'll so you're what you're wasting an
Speaker 3: hour in your track because of an efficient roading.
Speaker 18: Ah, I would say we're probably wasting a good half
Speaker 18: an hour because of the I mean there's distance involved
Speaker 18: and that's so. Look it is what it is, but
Speaker 18: you know, yeah, it's but a lot of it is
Speaker 18: just people just can't drive. We need to get over
Speaker 18: ourselves and realize we're actually bed drivers in New Zealand.
Speaker 19: Yeah, we really are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I wouldn't disagree with that.
Speaker 18: You know, when when you've got a roundabout and there's
Speaker 18: a yeah, they've made a change, but people have to
Speaker 18: go around twice or three times, then they need to
Speaker 18: pay more attention.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 18: It's like there's people that are saying, oh, crackey, I'm
Speaker 18: going to shop somewhere else, So great idea, try Hamilton.
Speaker 18: You don't get out of out here just you know,
Speaker 18: I mean it's confusing and yeah, that's right, but it's
Speaker 18: just pay attention. WA's what you're doing. There's a sign
Speaker 18: that shows what it is. The science says, you know,
Speaker 18: there's actually a couple of lanes of heaven change and
Speaker 18: people are still complaining about that. It's like, for goodness,
Speaker 18: eight people. You know, you just concentrate on what you're doing.
Speaker 18: And you know, I got halfway around the roundabout and
Speaker 18: all these the lane delineators there, it's like, well it's
Speaker 18: a big science saying road when it's what were you
Speaker 18: going to expect? You know, Yeah, it's not handling the
Speaker 18: volume the traffic traffic organizers that ain't need a bullet,
Speaker 18: I'll tell you, but you know it's not handling the volume.
Speaker 18: One lane can't handle enough cars per hour, as simple
Speaker 18: as that. Surely there's mats that says one lane can
Speaker 18: handle ex number of cars per hour.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty basic calculation, isn't it. You think there'd
Speaker 3: be one O one roading. We've got this capacity. If
Speaker 3: it's more cars than that, we're going to do something else.
Speaker 3: How bad's the weather at the moment?
Speaker 18: At the moment, it's pretty good. Actually, I came up
Speaker 18: so here it's the airport at at the airport at
Speaker 18: nine and it was torrential, but it's it's buttoned off.
Speaker 18: It's only there's only just splitting now the work's on
Speaker 18: Intobdon but it's so it's going to pack it in
Speaker 18: again told we know a couple of guys on the
Speaker 18: CV it's not good.
Speaker 6: So yes, it is what it does great report.
Speaker 3: Appreciate that, Von, Thank you, Laurie Marcus welcome.
Speaker 15: Yeah, hi Marcus. Yeah he's funny. Just when you think
Speaker 15: that the road planners have exhausted themselves a roundabouts and stuff.
Speaker 15: I mean in Parmi it was used to be wonderful,
Speaker 15: very easy place to get around. But one of the
Speaker 15: main streets the planners come up with this idea of
Speaker 15: sticking bus stops and traffic lanes and sis Fetherss Street.
Speaker 15: It's been a great consternation. But yeah, hey, on the
Speaker 15: old window frost, we just use a you know, you
Speaker 15: buy frost cloth off a roll about the width of
Speaker 15: your car and put that over the and we're going
Speaker 15: to some magnets and just you need four magnets. No,
Speaker 15: the magnets. Actually I deconstructed a microwave, but that very
Speaker 15: very strong magneture. But you probably cleaner. You get some
Speaker 15: small ones. But these magnets we just leave there stuck
Speaker 15: on the wall of the shed, just by way with
Speaker 15: the carreras. So you can just flop the old frost
Speaker 15: cloth over, so you.
Speaker 3: Put it on the outside, and these magnets hold it
Speaker 3: on the inside of the outside, Is that right?
Speaker 15: Magnets hold it just you know, on on the door pillars.
Speaker 3: Basically, you understand.
Speaker 15: Otherwise you've got to fold it inside the door and
Speaker 15: close the door on it, if you know, you want
Speaker 15: to keep it there in the wind. But that sort
Speaker 15: of cloth, it doesn't sort of absorb much water, you know,
Speaker 15: it's very easy to you can just.
Speaker 8: Is it white?
Speaker 15: Is it like from te No, No, it's a black
Speaker 15: or that you know, sort of a that's well off,
Speaker 15: a very dark gray, I suppose, and reasonably rereadomly porous,
Speaker 15: quite cheap, very very light.
Speaker 3: Is it from like a super chip cash shop, like
Speaker 3: a might of teen?
Speaker 15: Well, no, that's frost class. You buy it from the
Speaker 15: garden centers. Yeah, you look it over the plants aft
Speaker 15: if you go to super Cheap Auto. The I mean
Speaker 15: they've got the old c C the ice aerosolt can
Speaker 15: five dollars, amaze me. The buzz bugs one I've got
Speaker 15: the five hundred. I mean theirs is about eighteen bugs.
Speaker 15: But the old I haven't used to have to use
Speaker 15: the iSER so much in New Zealand. I've used it overseas.
Speaker 15: But now I find that, you know, the frost is
Speaker 15: a really good solution, and pretty quick.
Speaker 3: You're going to have to find the weather to know
Speaker 3: it's going to be frosted. I have no idea a
Speaker 3: lot of the time.
Speaker 15: Yeah, well it's just you know, the night it gets
Speaker 15: quite crisp, you know about it. If you it's I
Speaker 15: realized you're not really organized.
Speaker 3: So sometimes to be really to be really on the story.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I'll leave work and I'll be frosted up, so
Speaker 3: it'll be middy. But I'm quite happy to sit in
Speaker 3: my car for five minutes they have a look on
Speaker 3: what's sending around the world and just you know, because
Speaker 3: if I get home at half past twelve or twelve
Speaker 3: forty doesn't really make much difference to me. So but yeah,
Speaker 3: but sometimes it's just starting to form about midnight, and
Speaker 3: really sometimes it's really thick.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, so funny. We've just got a new watch.
Speaker 15: It's a new second hand Honda Jairs, but they've got
Speaker 15: a messive front window on the may just takes an
Speaker 15: almost long time to properly clear. You know, if you
Speaker 15: do get frost on it and you haven't had something
Speaker 15: even with the old eater on four but.
Speaker 3: Either the jairs or no good looks. All right, that's
Speaker 3: a little bit the same little car run around cheap
Speaker 3: on the guests, I suppose.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, we got it. Well, we bought the sound
Speaker 15: of a good deal of somebody too old or I
Speaker 15: couldn't get that renew their license.
Speaker 3: So oh buyers dark Yeah.
Speaker 15: Yeah, and it's twenty nineteen, but it's only got twenty
Speaker 15: thousand k on it now. But first came first carave
Speaker 15: ever had that. You can't actually put a towbar on. Hey,
Speaker 15: you know, it's not structurally strong in that area. Really,
Speaker 15: I think the earlier jazz as he could.
Speaker 3: But how does that conversation go?
Speaker 15: Well, I didn't really think about it when we bought it.
Speaker 3: Did you did you go to automobile place?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 15: No, No, this is we bought the vehicle through you
Speaker 15: know for some people.
Speaker 3: We know, Yeah, did you go and try and get
Speaker 3: a towbar on it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 15: Well it's in the in the handbook, oh wow, yeah,
Speaker 15: and quite bold print. Yeah, and I checked with somebody
Speaker 15: else that's got one. And in fact they had an
Speaker 15: earlier version that it did ever towbar on. They loved
Speaker 15: the jazz and it's not going to get another one.
Speaker 15: But I did ask the agent, you know about the
Speaker 15: Toba business. There's no way, you know, just it's some so.
Speaker 20: Yeah, well it's just.
Speaker 15: Something that's you know, you suddenly think something you've always
Speaker 15: been used to with a car. I can always remember
Speaker 15: the last vehicle around, you know, which that had a
Speaker 15: crank handle that ever had anything to do with and
Speaker 15: which was always a good sister have you know on
Speaker 15: frosty warnings if you couldn't start the car, but Spence,
Speaker 15: it was a larder. My sister had a larder that
Speaker 15: had a crank handle it. But that was the very
Speaker 15: last ones I think never ever had it.
Speaker 3: What you had the crank handles go out early seventies.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, it would be. I guess I've never cracked
Speaker 15: a car.
Speaker 3: I don't think.
Speaker 15: Yeah, no, it's it used to be a very common
Speaker 15: thing to do. You just had to watch where you
Speaker 15: put your thumb on the you know, like if they
Speaker 15: kicked back.
Speaker 3: You know, oh, I can imagine they could be all
Speaker 3: sort of that. You'd leave the cat crank handle on
Speaker 3: the bonnet. You'd found where did the where did the
Speaker 3: crank handle live?
Speaker 20: Well, you fitted it.
Speaker 8: Would you.
Speaker 15: Usually it was clicked in on the body somewhere, or
Speaker 15: in the back, in the bladder. I think it was
Speaker 15: in you sort of headed in the boot, but and
Speaker 15: then there was a whole in the usually the the
Speaker 15: bumper or come the bumper.
Speaker 3: I think it'd be quite a satisfying thing to do,
Speaker 3: is to crank a crank a car.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, well that was a very cold start for
Speaker 15: a lot of people. You know, when the battery is
Speaker 15: getting a bit flat, it was just turn over.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: The road I suppose for a while there were people
Speaker 3: that wouldn't buy a car without a crank. Cannle I
Speaker 3: didn't trust today.
Speaker 15: Get well, this is the thing. Now you've got to
Speaker 15: think about a car that you can there's no way
Speaker 15: you allowed to put a Toba on it's.
Speaker 3: Has he got a speed Has he got a speed tar?
Speaker 3: A lot of them have speed tis now No, well.
Speaker 15: This one does because it's a it's a petrol version
Speaker 15: of it. But no, the hybrid, which is the latest
Speaker 15: Jazz that that doesn't have it doesn't have a spare
Speaker 15: And a friend of mine's got one and he got
Speaker 15: caught out a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a great conversation. Start a few of
Speaker 3: your jazz there regard that could just spend on the
Speaker 3: microwave for as magnets. I thought you could probably find something.
Speaker 3: Someone says, the hound of jazz has a CVT transmission.
Speaker 3: Never put a toe bar on a vehicle with CVT
Speaker 3: four thousand dollars rebuild what CVT? Would that not be
Speaker 3: up for it or something?
Speaker 15: I guess I thought that it wasn't the transmission issue.
Speaker 15: I thought it was to do with this. You know,
Speaker 15: you had the body. It was the strength of the.
Speaker 3: That's a contiguously variable transmission.
Speaker 15: Okay, okay, okay, yeah, okay, well it's yeah, so you're
Speaker 15: getting you're getting.
Speaker 3: Fuel efficiency with that. But yeah, what did you want
Speaker 3: to tell your kayak?
Speaker 15: No, well, just not just a trailer with some rubbish
Speaker 15: and stuff. You know, in the kayaks usually go on
Speaker 15: the roof wreck. That's most of my daughters. He's got
Speaker 15: a ute for that sort of stuff. Yeah, yeah, Actually,
Speaker 15: she just back from Tahiti a couple of days ago.
Speaker 15: She won the race up up there, nearly two thousand
Speaker 15: dollars worth of This is a sort of masters woman.
Speaker 3: Like walk walk with an outrigger or a single.
Speaker 15: With an outrigger and rudderless. Yeah, it's all rudderless and Tahiti. Yeah,
Speaker 15: so it's you've got to be better at it.
Speaker 3: And right around an island or something.
Speaker 12: Was it like a.
Speaker 15: Course off of Maria?
Speaker 8: I guess it was.
Speaker 15: I think Yeah. I mean it was a hell of
Speaker 15: a big event. There's about nine hundred people, you know,
Speaker 15: in different classes. But and it's it's the biggest professional
Speaker 15: sport in Tahiti. It's you know, quite a league. You know,
Speaker 15: the men's prizes are pretty high.
Speaker 2: Is she is?
Speaker 9: She is?
Speaker 3: She kneeling and no, no, it's walker.
Speaker 15: So it's sort of you're sitting down, you know, it'skind
Speaker 15: of out rugger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I just flashbacks of that terrible Olympics when
Speaker 3: they're that rowing standing up. I never really we had
Speaker 3: to put people there standing up, roaring and it made
Speaker 3: no sense.
Speaker 13: Yeah you have.
Speaker 15: There is a version of that that.
Speaker 20: Canoe.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 15: Yeah, no she doesn't. She has done it, but she doesn't.
Speaker 15: It's not her choice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, did she did she take her her out rigged
Speaker 3: up where she gets one when she's there?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 15: No, she one. Most clubs provided went up here.
Speaker 3: She was invited up that would be fairing around if
Speaker 3: you had to take your own vehicle, wouldn't it.
Speaker 15: Yeah, but just amazing. And I when see some of
Speaker 15: the shots, I mean because they race, you know, kids
Speaker 15: right down the five year olds are sort of right
Speaker 15: through to the scene as it's just a mess of
Speaker 15: sight sight to see sort of something like nine hundred buddy, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Nice to talk blurry, Thanks so much for it. Someone said,
Speaker 3: lots of cars with CV treated CVT transmission of towbars.
Speaker 3: So already this controversy there. It's really raining. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: tongue has been for the last three hours. Marcus during
Speaker 3: cogestion round about talking about total Now, what's the solution
Speaker 3: that I reckon? People walking from home, working from home,
Speaker 3: probably buying less, people buying rubbish from the malls. I
Speaker 3: was parking outside of fruit shop today. Next to the
Speaker 3: fruit shop is one of those.
Speaker 6: It's like a.
Speaker 3: It's like a the word is not at market, but
Speaker 3: it's like a more complicated two dollars shop. I was
Speaker 3: looking in the window and I don't want to be
Speaker 3: judgement love. I thought, I thought a lot of things.
Speaker 3: I thought, what a lot of rubbish. Most of it
Speaker 3: was like giant plastic display swords and stuff. And I
Speaker 3: looked and I thought, I bitch, I just could not
Speaker 3: work out what function that shop performed because none of
Speaker 3: it was useful stuff. I guess it was just ornamental.
Speaker 3: And I looked at that window and I just thought,
Speaker 3: what are people buying? And I thought, well, what does
Speaker 3: this do to the economy. I've got no idea. What
Speaker 3: you know, well that it must be a pretty miserable
Speaker 3: shop to working, because all those shops just smell to
Speaker 3: high heavens of chemicals that the things are made in.
Speaker 3: But anyway, why am I telling you this. I've got
Speaker 3: no idea. I got to shoot with someone. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it just sort of weird. I guess it's not no
Speaker 3: different from TMO, I suppose, but yeah, I looked at
Speaker 3: and I thought, wow, anyway, it wasn't even like stationary.
Speaker 3: It was just like weird ornamental stuff. I'll tell you
Speaker 3: what the shop was called, because I looked and looked
Speaker 3: and looked at it. It was a mad butcheres for
Speaker 3: a long time, but that couldn't work, but this maybe
Speaker 3: shop will work. And there was a half priced sale.
Speaker 3: I thought, wow, anyway, some emails all the roads and
Speaker 3: totong a go from two lanes to one, back to
Speaker 3: two lanes, back to one. I drive all around totong
Speaker 3: of Friday's worst day to drive. They built too many
Speaker 3: houses for the roads. The problem is the volumes of cars.
Speaker 3: Meredith absolutely bucking down in West Auk and now after steavy,
Speaker 3: heavy rain, it has just picked up around ten oh
Speaker 3: five and boys a loud. There will be surfers, flooding
Speaker 3: and more out there, So drive carefully, Flokes. If anyone
Speaker 3: is out there and it's got any reports of flooding
Speaker 3: around the buses or anything like that, that would be
Speaker 3: of interest to me. Marcus. Some shops that sell junk
Speaker 3: money laundries, well you look at the stuff and this
Speaker 3: shot you think cheapest creepers, Marcus. Honda Jazz hybrid cannot
Speaker 3: fit tob out to these cars as batteries are under
Speaker 3: the boot floor. Also, there is no speed tire for
Speaker 3: the same reason. I think Laurie said his wasn't a hybrid,
Speaker 3: but I don't know why. He kind of a towbar.
Speaker 3: I don't feel bad. Don't have a good toba and
Speaker 3: normally your bike's gone that don't they That's where your
Speaker 3: bike carrier goes. Also, the other time we can talk
Speaker 3: about that is crank handled cars.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think our car we had from that with a
Speaker 3: crank handle must have been from the late sixties. Didn't
Speaker 3: need it often, but it was always kind of a
Speaker 3: bit of theater. I quite liked it. It was exciting
Speaker 3: when it went too I mean, yeah, I don't know why. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well maybe it's not I guess he's not the demand
Speaker 3: for them now with batteries. Tony Marcus, welcome.
Speaker 9: Thanks Marcus. My first car was a nineteen thirty seven
Speaker 9: Chef coupe and the damn heavy motor. You couldn't You
Speaker 9: couldn't start on the battery because it was only a
Speaker 9: six fold battery in those days. And I get my
Speaker 9: mates come around and put the handle in and turn
Speaker 9: it at the same time as I pushed the start button,
Speaker 9: and I would slowly wind up and get the motor go,
Speaker 9: and you'd whip the crank handle out. But the key
Speaker 9: part about cranking it was that if you put your
Speaker 9: thumb on the other side from where your fingers were,
Speaker 9: they would often kick back and break your thumb, so
Speaker 9: you had to be careful. You'd very careful your thumb
Speaker 9: and your fingers were aligned, otherwise you're eat up a cripple.
Speaker 9: And the Vasa got sick of that car, and I
Speaker 9: sold it, and I bought a nineteen fifty two Prefect,
Speaker 9: and I thought that my problems are sold. Now with
Speaker 9: the fourth son, the car more modern, this will start
Speaker 9: every time. It did through the summer, but come in
Speaker 9: the winter the cold seeped into it, and again there
Speaker 9: was a crank handle job, and it was every morning,
Speaker 9: and even got that desperate that I put carpet on
Speaker 9: the on the roads and those days packed on the road,
Speaker 9: piece of carpet on the road underneath the car and
Speaker 9: a sack over the top of the motor to try
Speaker 9: and stop them moist chicking up and making everything wet
Speaker 9: and making it hard to start. There was always a
Speaker 9: crank handle start and never it never fall In the winter,
Speaker 9: I went that, I went to it out there, got
Speaker 9: on the crank handle, spart over over and over and
Speaker 9: over and over, and eventually you started and I was away.
Speaker 9: But that crank handle was an important part of my
Speaker 9: upbringing with cars.
Speaker 3: So with you, Tony, with your thirty seven Sevrolet Cope.
Speaker 3: So if you're going out to do messages, you only
Speaker 3: just need to crank it at the beginning of the day.
Speaker 3: Afterwards the engine was warm up. If you went for
Speaker 3: a break for ten minutes too, start straight away again.
Speaker 9: Would It's an interesting thing about that car was the
Speaker 9: starter button. It's not like today's modern cars were you
Speaker 9: either turn the key or push a button. The actually
Speaker 9: had a button on the floor between the brake and
Speaker 9: the and the clutch, and you pushed it with your
Speaker 9: foot to start it.
Speaker 3: But you don't need to crank it once. Today you
Speaker 3: wouldn't need to crank it when you turn the engine
Speaker 3: off and after a short stop it would you just
Speaker 3: have to crank it the first time of the day, right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right. It's only where it was cold or damn,
Speaker 9: that's right.
Speaker 3: Yell and tell me how the how your thumb would
Speaker 3: get broken.
Speaker 9: If you put your thumb on the other side of
Speaker 9: the crank handle to your fingers. In other words, you
Speaker 9: script it as you would normally grop a hammer. For example,
Speaker 9: the motor would kick back off and say it straight away,
Speaker 9: and the motor would kick back and the crank would
Speaker 9: turn the opposite direction you're trying to push it in
Speaker 9: break your thumb.
Speaker 3: So where would you put your thumb.
Speaker 9: You put it in the same position as your fingers,
Speaker 9: so you grip if you're putting your hand on the
Speaker 9: top of the table, we just script it with your
Speaker 9: summon your fingers together.
Speaker 3: Understand. I'm doing that myself as I'm talking at yes,
Speaker 3: so I can see okay, yeah, okay. So that's a
Speaker 3: bit of that's a bit of learning required, Tony. I
Speaker 3: appreciate that. Thank you very much for that. Ten away
Speaker 3: from eleven Marcus. We have two main highways of traffic
Speaker 3: coming to Totonga from the north with jets to our
Speaker 3: traffic wore. These people might be driving I don't and
Speaker 3: Gisbon from up north and don't live in Totonger. Also,
Speaker 3: Mount mung Andu is a big tourist town of free
Speaker 3: popular for surfers who might be from other towns. Cheers, Joe.
Speaker 3: Marcus spent the week booking evening booking. My south is
Speaker 3: camping holiday leave the twelth December. I'll be glamping from
Speaker 3: seventy to January. If you could please organize me back
Speaker 3: on our ear around then, Marcus. All small cars should
Speaker 3: have a towbar because they don't have the strong enough
Speaker 3: breaks to stop a freeloaded trailer. Cheers Steve oh In
Speaker 3: the weather, there's very strong weather, very strong rain, thunder
Speaker 3: rain happening, Marcus. The tarrichial rain has easeden totally over
Speaker 3: the last hour. We're heading to Waimana and the truck
Speaker 3: tomorrow deliver goods Tofano. The gorge open this morning but
Speaker 3: maybe closed by tomorrow. The puddle jumper at eight to
Speaker 3: be seems less than adequate. Thanks for that good evening
Speaker 3: in it's Marcus. Welcome, Yeah, how you going good? And
Speaker 3: thank you?
Speaker 21: But bloody red up fro Christians at the moment, what.
Speaker 3: Are you doing?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 6: Sorry, it's it's fine.
Speaker 3: I don't worry about that.
Speaker 21: So when step of car think it was an often
Speaker 21: a forty, I don't know what year. It was like
Speaker 21: a bubble car.
Speaker 3: Yep, know them yep, yeah, there was a crack.
Speaker 21: Hit on him there cranking them stuff. We used to
Speaker 21: take it to Lake Eider and just picked up ice
Speaker 21: skates on my way on Bareley ed somewhere in the
Speaker 21: house I remember what house it is. Then go up
Speaker 21: to the Idea and bloody I was skating and the thing.
Speaker 3: Would you put chains on it?
Speaker 15: No?
Speaker 3: It was straight right up there don't away with na.
Speaker 20: No, I don't know.
Speaker 21: It's all flow apart from the hill. But no, it
Speaker 21: was always yeah, it was only that hell over the top.
Speaker 21: But I remember chains on it.
Speaker 3: The thing about the cranking, it always seems quite reliable.
Speaker 3: It always seemed to eventually work, didn't it. I mean
Speaker 3: cranking would get it going.
Speaker 21: Yeah, he had it for years. He's put Lamar in
Speaker 21: the back and big old bloody rotary mud. I don't
Speaker 21: know how he picked it up and stuff I tried
Speaker 21: to work out already picked it up, and I've still
Speaker 21: got the home, but I don't know where the car
Speaker 21: is now. Got flipped off their while.
Speaker 3: It could be a long time to be a long
Speaker 3: time to dove Sidney. One crank a car, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: think I had.
Speaker 21: I had a Riley off, and I think there was
Speaker 21: crank show.
Speaker 3: It would it would have been I reckon. The cars
Speaker 3: in the sixties and the early seventies had cranks, didn't.
Speaker 21: They Then about the seventies, someone would I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind it more emphatic kind of an answer
Speaker 3: to that.
Speaker 21: Actually, yeah, my ostin eleven hundred, that definitely wasn't the crank.
Speaker 3: What year would have that terrible car. What would have
Speaker 3: that been?
Speaker 21: Oh it was a beautiful car made around bloody South all.
Speaker 17: In that car.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but still it didn't look much good, did it.
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 21: It made it from Christius to friends Joseph, through through
Speaker 21: the whatever way down that way, Mount Cook and stuff.
Speaker 20: And then made it all the way back.
Speaker 3: And back up over the hill with roof wrecks we.
Speaker 21: Got No, I didn't. I had to put seat belts
Speaker 21: in it.
Speaker 12: Nuts that.
Speaker 21: I wasn't a land crap.
Speaker 12: But it was the year.
Speaker 21: It was big enough for me, even.
Speaker 20: Hundred dollars for it.
Speaker 3: And how long was the holiday?
Speaker 21: Probably about two weeks. I think we had to take
Speaker 21: another car back. So yeah, stopped off only to shave.
Speaker 3: These days the glasses aren't worth going to see.
Speaker 21: Yeah, we managed to get up there as well. It's
Speaker 21: quite goodly.
Speaker 3: Thought were damn good on their days before they retreated.
Speaker 3: I mean they were quite the thing to go and
Speaker 3: see those.
Speaker 21: So looking back at eighty five maybe yeah, so it's wait, yeah,
Speaker 21: they're way down when we went to send them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, you said raining and christ jurge.
Speaker 21: Yes, it got quite figh year.
Speaker 11: It was quite bad deal.
Speaker 3: We will ago not hear from you and keep it going. People,
Speaker 3: fourteen past eleven are the last car, the most recent
Speaker 3: car you had that came with a crank. That's what
Speaker 3: we're on about tonight, and long may that last get
Speaker 3: in touch. Marcus, my grandfather and Tim who used to
Speaker 3: rub dishwash the car windscreen icing up on cold nights
Speaker 3: worked a treat. Marcus just driven from Auckland to Carver
Speaker 3: car and the rain has gone amazing. This is the
Speaker 3: temperature currently eighteen degrees not bad for a night temperature
Speaker 3: in June. It's good temperature, but hot for me, but
Speaker 3: wet for me. Also there we go. So cars with cranks, Yippia,
Speaker 3: get in touch here till twelve fifteen past eleven, be
Speaker 3: nice to hear from you. It takes all sorts of
Speaker 3: make their will go around, get in touch. It's been
Speaker 3: a shooting at a school in Austria, a bullied school pupil. Apparently,
Speaker 3: that's the reports. He has deceased himself. By the way
Speaker 3: I say he, I assume it was a he. I
Speaker 3: think that was specified. I see people now. Orlando Bloom
Speaker 3: is that Katie Perry's husband. He's getting microplastic removal surgery.
Speaker 3: You now get your blood cleans for microplastics. I didn't
Speaker 3: think that would be a thing, but there'd be a
Speaker 3: market for that. It took him a of hours to
Speaker 3: get his blood cleaned. People be wanting that here, no doubt.
Speaker 3: Good evening, Geraldine, it's Marcus. Welcome.
Speaker 7: Good evening, Marcus. Nice to see you back.
Speaker 16: Nice to be back, Marcus.
Speaker 7: I want to talk about Ben Bailey, a chef. I
Speaker 7: don't know him, but who had the restaurant that makes Mistakes.
Speaker 7: And I thought he did an awful lot for people
Speaker 7: with dementia and they had lost their self esteem. And
Speaker 7: I'm surprised he wasn't in the King's Birthdays sort of recognition.
Speaker 3: Well maybe, of course, there's a lot of people that
Speaker 3: might get nominated, but they might tune them down.
Speaker 7: Yes, but I think a lot of I'd be interested
Speaker 7: to hear what some of the listeners thought, because he's
Speaker 7: done an awful lot of people with dementia. It was
Speaker 7: just a fantastic thing to give them their confidence. He
Speaker 7: had them working in the front desk and waiting on
Speaker 7: the tables. What a wonderful thing. We've got a lot
Speaker 7: of people with dementia, and I thought it was this
Speaker 7: marvelous thing that he did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I I didn't catch any of it. It passed
Speaker 3: me by it, And I don't know if it will
Speaker 3: be something i'd watch.
Speaker 7: Oh, honestly, Marcus, it was wonderful and wonderful to see
Speaker 7: the way people got their people got this just to
Speaker 7: sept their confidence back. They enjoyed the company of people,
Speaker 7: and they did extremely well in the restaurant. And I thought,
Speaker 7: good on him. He's a chef. He didn't have to do.
Speaker 3: He's a good restaurant. I think he's got a restaurant
Speaker 3: in Auckland. I think that I've been too very good.
Speaker 7: Yes, And I thought i'd like to have seen him
Speaker 7: give him some sort of recognition in the King's Birthday honors.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I'm sure.
Speaker 7: A lot of people will agree.
Speaker 14: With me on that.
Speaker 3: We'll see how they go, Geraldine, thank you.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I've never heard people come saying
Speaker 3: this person should have got the honor. You've got to
Speaker 3: drive it yourself a lot these days with honors, don't you.
Speaker 3: Always seems people say they're surprised, but they'd be in
Speaker 3: the background, gonde of advocating for it, haven't they. So
Speaker 3: I always thinks about to fight about it all holly
Speaker 3: good evening. It's Marcus.
Speaker 8: Welcome, there are Marcus. Yeah, yeah, I think the last
Speaker 8: cars might have been late forties.
Speaker 3: There any more recent than that, wouldn't they?
Speaker 8: Oh, I don't know about that. They seemed to driving
Speaker 8: up a bit quicker, but I had to. Morris had
Speaker 8: the suicide doors on it and the tootled windshield at
Speaker 8: the front. It was a nice little girl. Nam bought
Speaker 8: it for my first job, you know, to get to work.
Speaker 8: But I learned how to be a mechanic pretty quick.
Speaker 8: I got to set the tools at the same time,
Speaker 8: and every weekend I was more less underneath it. And
Speaker 8: one day it wouldn't start, So I got the crank
Speaker 8: handlet and craking away in it. Backfire or whatever they
Speaker 8: do and whack me in the wrist. I pulled the
Speaker 8: women crank handlet and went to freight at the bottom
Speaker 8: and downstairs. The bottom was right through the bloody windscreen.
Speaker 8: Special wind screen, because we just got more for the
Speaker 8: windscreen than what it did for the whole car. But
Speaker 8: it was a beautiful car that was racing green, but
Speaker 8: it wasn't very fast and liver upholstery and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: But now I what a suicide was that happened out.
Speaker 8: Towards the wind opened. Yeah yeah, but if you went
Speaker 8: down to pull you out of the car because they
Speaker 8: had no belt stack in those days either. But I
Speaker 8: was driving up fund the scorner one day and I
Speaker 8: went in and there was this eighth part of the
Speaker 8: nineteen fifty one, so I had to talk to me.
Speaker 8: So you to your deally to give you eighty one
Speaker 8: hundred pounds or something for the series E and give
Speaker 8: us eighty for the V eighth part of nineteen fifty one,
Speaker 8: and you can drive away. It's just the only thing
Speaker 8: that told you go was her radio. So I ended
Speaker 8: up going home in this V eight pilot. Nether than
Speaker 8: I'm a nice car. When you are, man saw that.
Speaker 5: You do?
Speaker 8: You figure you can handle it. He was driving a
Speaker 8: little way Humber fifty two.
Speaker 5: Did you do?
Speaker 3: Did I take an accent with your father?
Speaker 21: And I just put that on?
Speaker 3: Okay? I thought you thought Hungarian or something? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: you then we got no.
Speaker 8: But I had that for the VA pilot. But yeah,
Speaker 8: I think that might have been a cranker. Yeah, that
Speaker 8: was fifty one that I didn't have to crank that
Speaker 8: fil But yeah, that's the most story about cranking get
Speaker 8: tractors here, Matthew ferguson stuff like that. But you learned
Speaker 8: was if you didn't get your PUMBI out of the
Speaker 8: day man, you lose your tomb.
Speaker 3: The pilot's a Ford, a Ford pilot, right Ford.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but I think this one might have been an
Speaker 8: English one. But it had a twenty six, had American
Speaker 8: motor in it by Jack again, and the medal on
Speaker 8: it was a real metal Dick can I mention.
Speaker 3: Thanks for Harley. David Marcus welcome.
Speaker 5: Yeah, David here, just talking about crank handles and cars.
Speaker 5: The BMC Austin a forty Forina from about nineteen sixty
Speaker 5: to sixty three. It was called a forty Countryman and
Speaker 5: it had a lift back. The window went up when
Speaker 5: the towlgate came down. So it was a very useful car.
Speaker 5: But it came It was a front engine and it
Speaker 5: had a crank handle as part of the toolkit. And
Speaker 5: we actually we actually end up with a flat battery
Speaker 5: one morning. We're dead going to work. So he cranked
Speaker 5: it and thought, yeah, just like the old model A.
Speaker 5: But yeah, so that was the A forty Farina had
Speaker 5: had a crank handle in the early sixties, and you
Speaker 5: did you go to.
Speaker 3: Use it occasionally?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it.
Speaker 3: Was it was the theory because the batteries weren't good.
Speaker 3: All the engines were a lot heavy to turnover.
Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know. I mean the engine
Speaker 5: in the A forty Fourina was the same as the
Speaker 5: engine and the Morrison Austin eleven hundred, so yeah, they
Speaker 5: were fairly light, light engine, but there was no problem.
Speaker 5: It was just I don't know why they had a
Speaker 5: crank handle, but they did, had all the fitting there
Speaker 5: and yeah, so here we just put the handle in
Speaker 5: and spun it over and she started.
Speaker 3: And it's a bit like kickstarting and motorboard, so it's
Speaker 3: just like kickstarting like That's have been quite a satisfying
Speaker 3: way to start a car.
Speaker 5: Well, well, especially when you had a fat battery and
Speaker 5: you had to go to work and work at seven
Speaker 5: and so it was ideal. But he only used it once.
Speaker 3: Did the land drivers have Did the land drivers have
Speaker 3: crank handles? They must have, must they? Is that right?
Speaker 5: I think they did. I think the early ones did,
Speaker 5: but you never used them. I mean, they were sort
Speaker 5: of a standby with flat batteries and that sort of thing.
Speaker 5: So yeah, but the batteries weren't there great. You know,
Speaker 5: they didn't last. We went through a period, didn't we
Speaker 5: wear the batteries had a fearal life. But now we're
Speaker 5: in the new vehicles, with the with the Carfa that
Speaker 5: got stopped starting that they can go through batteries. You know,
Speaker 5: a battery in three years. There's been a bit of
Speaker 5: a change. But the old battery you get two years
Speaker 5: out of it or so. Someone else might have another view,
Speaker 5: but yeah, they went great, but then they were quite
Speaker 5: expensive relatively to what the battery is today.
Speaker 3: Agreed. Yeah, nice to talk David. Thank you some texts. Marcus,
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure the Pugo for four had a crank
Speaker 3: start in those old was well, we always had a
Speaker 3: Pugo four O three and that was always a cranker.
Speaker 3: That must have been about nineteen sixty six, might be
Speaker 3: one or two years earlier. We hadn't got it new,
Speaker 3: but that would be occasionally cranked, was my memory of that.
Speaker 3: I'll get in touch yutill twelfth, Richard. It's Marcus, good evening, Hi, Marcus.
Speaker 11: I had a nineteen seventy six Citron Gus station wagon
Speaker 11: fantastic ided a ten to fifteen in it and it
Speaker 11: would start with the cran candle if you just about
Speaker 11: to do it one handed.
Speaker 3: The French seemed to like the crank candles.
Speaker 11: The French had some weird ideas. It was actually an
Speaker 11: amazing cardinal. Or do you know about the old Bradford
Speaker 11: vance you know, do you remember those Jevans horizontally opposed
Speaker 11: the equal motor and they were very popular, but the
Speaker 11: Ford company brought them out because it was competing with
Speaker 11: the Fords.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 11: In nineteen seventy three the patent ran out and two
Speaker 11: car companies picked up. One was Citron and the other
Speaker 11: was Sabari, and that motor lived on for quite a
Speaker 11: long time after the old Brady.
Speaker 3: Did your Citrons? Yes? Have that also?
Speaker 11: Yes, he had had the bread you opposed, Well, yeah,
Speaker 11: it was. It was a force that the Bradford engine
Speaker 11: was a Tucson and the jow had a force on it.
Speaker 11: But they were they were sort of like a low
Speaker 11: you know, they were different to the volkswagons, and they
Speaker 11: had a very distinctive sound, sort of a poppies that
Speaker 11: little Citron ten fifteen move and you could cruise out
Speaker 11: at seventy five miles an hour.
Speaker 3: Did you always have to crank it?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 11: No, no, but it was bloody handy. I can tell
Speaker 11: you there are a few times that I was pleased
Speaker 11: to have.
Speaker 3: It because you left your lights on or on cold mornings,
Speaker 3: col Yeah it was.
Speaker 11: I took it up to a ski field once and
Speaker 11: they got it wouldn't start. Yeah, set over an idea.
Speaker 11: So but you know, I miss it.
Speaker 3: Actually again I'm missing and I think there's almost almost what.
Speaker 3: I got a feery meat or something and just crank
Speaker 3: an engine to tune something over to get it going again.
Speaker 3: Break my thumb.
Speaker 11: It's that sort of like satisfied feeling as you pull
Speaker 11: out the clan case and walk back and hop into
Speaker 11: your car and drive off. Something about it, because the
Speaker 11: other thing.
Speaker 3: Is that, because I mean it was always I often
Speaker 3: do it with motorbikes too, but very satisfying to to
Speaker 3: crash that engine, which no one can do anymore because
Speaker 3: is all the cars are automatic. You can't you can't
Speaker 3: start a car on a hill anymore. And that was
Speaker 3: incredibly satisfying to do. Timing it right before you let
Speaker 3: the clat and away. I mean tremendous when it engaged
Speaker 3: and you went.
Speaker 11: And then you get that sort of little moment of
Speaker 11: hesitation and she burst into beautiful.
Speaker 3: You don't get that on your cell phone these days
Speaker 3: on Instagram, do you. That's what they're missing, Textile things
Speaker 3: that you remember forever. What happened to you said, probably
Speaker 3: cost too much to make to keep maintained in it.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 11: A guy, a guy persuaded me to sell it to him.
Speaker 11: He was a fanatic, and I was getting a bit
Speaker 11: small for me, and because I had I actually got
Speaker 11: a boat, you know, I couldn't really tow the boat
Speaker 11: with it. So he bought it off me. And I
Speaker 11: kept bringing them up and asking about and yeah, they
Speaker 11: sell it, give me a call, but I never heard
Speaker 11: from me.
Speaker 3: I had mate with one of those old Citrons, you know,
Speaker 3: the station wagon, the earlier ones, what a I think
Speaker 3: it was called a Safari or something. What an extraordinary
Speaker 3: car that was?
Speaker 11: Oh yes, yeah, well yeah they were. They were much
Speaker 11: bigger car.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the Dsafari, but that was because that
Speaker 3: was that had the evil looking front. But was the
Speaker 3: station wagon. And I mean you put your whole student
Speaker 3: loan through one of those and it still wouldn't go. Boy,
Speaker 3: they took a bit of maintenance.
Speaker 16: Do you know what I had.
Speaker 11: I've still got a Citron. I've got a a C
Speaker 11: five station mega now and I take it to the
Speaker 11: garage and you go in there sometimes and they've got
Speaker 11: a really mint version of one of those DS's, you know,
Speaker 11: and it's not meaning them about sixty grand, yeah, facts, no, no,
Speaker 11: sixty grand they were.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can imagine.
Speaker 11: Even those that all you know, the old you see these, yes,
Speaker 11: there was about twenty.
Speaker 3: It's Citrus Citrons still a big calm manufacture of their
Speaker 3: French scene their day. Is it all over filled Africa
Speaker 3: or their old cars, didn't they?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mine my Citron. The seaside was the last
Speaker 11: one was the hydro and numatic extension. Oh yes, and
Speaker 11: now that, to be honest, they just rebadged the tabushies. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 11: which is sad.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, look, I think I think you could anywhere.
Speaker 3: I mean, no one's built a car that looks like
Speaker 3: a Citro, and those those earlier ones, those were just done.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The ones that looked like giant irons were just amazing looking. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know, and that's really good to drive. And
Speaker 3: they did the races and them didn't they because they
Speaker 3: they were smooth. You put the cameras on them for
Speaker 3: Scott Royal Escott and stuff.
Speaker 11: I think, yeah, well, I mean mine, you can drive
Speaker 11: over anything and you had you notice it.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 11: The Es like you were talking about were the first
Speaker 11: ones to come up with that what they called hydro
Speaker 11: hydro and pneumatic suspension and they just float.
Speaker 3: I wonder why I didn't catch on. Was it? Was
Speaker 3: it the maintenance problems with it or probably too expensive?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Well, I mean my cars A two thousand and thirteen models,
Speaker 11: so it hasn't been gone that well.
Speaker 3: So yours are still yours of the last one? Would
Speaker 3: that still that technology?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 3: And when you turn the ignition as the car kind
Speaker 3: of lift.
Speaker 11: Up when it starts, it's sometimes does, but not as
Speaker 11: not as noticeably as it did in there, and that
Speaker 11: the yes, and those it comes up a little bit.
Speaker 3: And it handles juttabars and things like that and smooth
Speaker 3: them out.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, you don't even know they exist.
Speaker 3: Brilliant, that's what that's what you want. Nice to hear
Speaker 3: from you, Richard, Thanks so much, evening, Norman, it's Marcus. Welcome.
Speaker 23: Yeah, good a Marcus. Look I'm going back many years.
Speaker 23: But I had a nineteen twenty nine Hudson with a
Speaker 23: you know, with the old starter handley. And I'll tell
Speaker 23: you what. I never used it once. Really no, I
Speaker 23: never used it once.
Speaker 22: And that car.
Speaker 23: If i'd have known more about it after I bought it,
Speaker 23: I would have I would have kept it because it
Speaker 23: was it was the one of the originals that went
Speaker 23: or that drove from christ Church to Achara, and that
Speaker 23: was its job.
Speaker 11: Yep.
Speaker 23: And it had the well I suppose you call them
Speaker 23: silver steps, you know you stepped on to get into
Speaker 23: the car. Yes, it also had a in the front.
Speaker 23: It had wooden covers that you operated from just a
Speaker 23: handle in the car, and that was to keep the
Speaker 23: frost out.
Speaker 3: I would have thought cars from that era would be
Speaker 3: cranks outed every time you used them.
Speaker 23: Nope. Well, and I'll tell you what it had. I
Speaker 23: don't know whether it was part of it. I'm not sure,
Speaker 23: but you could turn the key on and away she go.
Speaker 23: And anyway, at one stage there I couldn't get it
Speaker 23: to go, so I went to I found out that
Speaker 23: it was the Ford company that had the you know,
Speaker 23: their parts and that sort of thing back in those days,
Speaker 23: and they believe it or believe it not said to
Speaker 23: me that they had a very new start of motor
Speaker 23: sitting down the back.
Speaker 3: Goodness.
Speaker 23: So I bought the starto matter and as he said,
Speaker 23: you do know, he said that these cars have two
Speaker 23: stardom and I said no, and he said, well, one
Speaker 23: starts and the other goes into it. He said, I
Speaker 23: don't know why, but they did have two start them. Anyway,
Speaker 23: in the village. I ended up saying it and got
Speaker 23: nothing for it, of course, and a guy turned it
Speaker 23: into a truck. Well you made As far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 23: I thought that was good. And I also had a
Speaker 23: nineteen twenty eight Dodge sameful the thing, but they didn't
Speaker 23: have the extras that the other one had. And anyway,
Speaker 23: I thought it was just nice to let you know.
Speaker 23: Going back back par Yeah, they were quite long.
Speaker 5: I wish I kept it not to hear from you.
Speaker 3: Norman, Thank you sir very much. That twenty two to
Speaker 3: twelfth J Marcus.
Speaker 22: Welcome, believe me Marcus and Flowers. Well, I got to
Speaker 22: confess I was a very naughty schoolboy. My father had
Speaker 22: a one hundred e prefect and one day got very
Speaker 22: bold and somehow for crank handle got it going and
Speaker 22: took it to school. And it's only a fourth form
Speaker 22: of no license or anything. All the way over the
Speaker 22: wine knew he held to laugh, hut, great thing back.
Speaker 22: I used to drive it around. So I'm confessing my
Speaker 22: sons as a very naughty schoolboy. But it was a
Speaker 22: fantastic little caw thee hundred e prefect, little square one
Speaker 22: to remember those.
Speaker 3: One yep, easy to crank start.
Speaker 22: Yeah, it was really good. But he probably thought I
Speaker 22: wouldn't know what to do, and I'm not really mechanically minded,
Speaker 22: but I had great joy, joy riding around. Either knew
Speaker 22: going to college and name something home before he got
Speaker 22: back from work. They had to make sure I got
Speaker 22: home in time.
Speaker 3: Did you get caught?
Speaker 22: Confessions to everyone, It was a fantastic little car. Could
Speaker 22: you if you're your crank? And I really used to
Speaker 22: enjoy learning how to drive it. I never was taught
Speaker 22: how to drive and just did my best and hope
Speaker 22: for the best.
Speaker 3: And there you go, yell, didn't catch you?
Speaker 22: No, No, it's not alive any Also, I can confessed
Speaker 22: by sense to everyone who knows to go over the
Speaker 22: wine that we held was a big adventure and you
Speaker 22: didn't know really how to dribal. I never taught, but
Speaker 22: I was very careful. But it was just such a
Speaker 22: joy when you're young guy who wanted to get a car.
Speaker 22: So I really enjoyed it. And I've had some wonderful cars.
Speaker 3: Would you normally go to school on the bus?
Speaker 24: Yeah?
Speaker 22: Yeah, bus and train.
Speaker 8: Up.
Speaker 22: But I got a lovely cow these days. It's called
Speaker 22: a max I called it Maxi boy. It's a beautiful blue. Uh,
Speaker 22: there's a maximam boy. It's a flying machine of fish.
Speaker 22: Second year, just about lose your pants and your take
Speaker 22: off on it. Goodness, and I'm just doing that at
Speaker 22: the moment. Give me another radiator. It's wonderful to hear
Speaker 22: the guys sharing a different cars and my set for as.
Speaker 22: They had a Citron, an old Citron, and it's going
Speaker 22: to turn up the ony hell once the on every
Speaker 22: side and next minute the panels flying off from the
Speaker 22: engine flying back behind us. I got some great stories
Speaker 22: from the younger days.
Speaker 25: Yeah, how are you now?
Speaker 22: Yeah, I couldn't guess. I'm nearly seventeen. I've still got
Speaker 22: them here.
Speaker 3: I thought you might be younger day, but look lovely
Speaker 3: to hear. I'm going to take another break. It's nineteen
Speaker 3: to midnight evening. Brian as Marcus Welcome, Hello mircaus helly
Speaker 3: and good thanks Brian.
Speaker 24: I just talking about crank handles. I remember in the
Speaker 24: workshops we used to use the crank handles for setting
Speaker 24: the timing and the valve settings on the side valve
Speaker 24: and the overhead valve motors, so you'd have to wind
Speaker 24: the engine over to get the valves in the right position.
Speaker 24: So when they finally stopped making them, it was another
Speaker 24: option to get used the fen belt turn the engines over.
Speaker 24: But came back to the design of the crank handles,
Speaker 24: I recalled that they really needed a support on the
Speaker 24: crank handle, one up right by the crank itself by
Speaker 24: the front pulley, and back which was usually where it
Speaker 24: went through the front bumper or the front grille or
Speaker 24: something like that. So it's actually was had to be
Speaker 24: supported in two places. So I guess that's when the
Speaker 24: crank handles went out. When the designers came a factures
Speaker 24: changed their designs because remembering back in the in the
Speaker 24: late forties and fifties, they all had front bumpers. Yeah,
Speaker 24: and that was the outer position that the crank handle
Speaker 24: fitted through, and then it was supported again by another
Speaker 24: support just for the front pulley. Of course, the crank
Speaker 24: kendles were depending on the different models and so forth.
Speaker 24: They were quite different lengths, somewhere quite short and others
Speaker 24: were longer, depending on Oh so you.
Speaker 3: Need a particular you need a particular crank handle for
Speaker 3: your make of car, correct, Yeah, because of how far
Speaker 3: in they would go.
Speaker 24: Yeah, okay, exactly, yeah, And I mean some of them.
Speaker 24: I recall they used to have a nut that held
Speaker 24: the front pulley on and convery in which model was,
Speaker 24: but you actually had to take that nut off and
Speaker 24: put in the adapter that would take the crank handle
Speaker 24: only for service, not for starting, you know. And the
Speaker 24: other thing with the batteries you were talking about batteries
Speaker 24: and stardom motors. As the motives become more high compression
Speaker 24: and so forth, it was more difficult to actually start
Speaker 24: them on the crank handle. And that's when the start
Speaker 24: motives become more efficient, batteries become more heavy duty and
Speaker 24: so forth, and that's when they finally went out. But
Speaker 24: I think it'll be over a few years that they
Speaker 24: phased out with the different models and so forth.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there's be some people that wouldn't want to
Speaker 3: car without a crank because I'd still to thinking, oh well,
Speaker 3: I need that just in case. It probably was some
Speaker 3: resistance I could imagine, but like people going from manual
Speaker 3: to automatic, you know, some people still opposed to automatic
Speaker 3: cars because I think, oh, well, I'm not going.
Speaker 12: To lead it.
Speaker 3: Oh, I appreciate you explaining that to me, Brian, to
Speaker 3: thank you for that good evening. Jeremy, it's Marcus. Welcome.
Speaker 22: Okay, Marcus.
Speaker 20: I'm sure that one of my old vehicles down there
Speaker 20: in that museum in the cargol are nineteen twenty nine
Speaker 20: Dodge Brothers straight eight eight cylinders in a row, and boy,
Speaker 20: if you wanted to start that with a crank candle,
Speaker 20: you had to have everything in line because because you
Speaker 20: know what happened if you got it wrong, the crank
Speaker 20: would go the other way and break your arm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could mention, I could imagine you.
Speaker 8: Could do that.
Speaker 3: Did it do that to you?
Speaker 15: No?
Speaker 20: My father he's helped me when we bought I bought
Speaker 20: this vehicle. He'd had all this sort of car and
Speaker 20: he knew and he said, hey, you line it up
Speaker 20: this way and you just have to get everything just
Speaker 20: in line and then give it just one little and
Speaker 20: where did it go?
Speaker 3: Because you get that's like kickstarting a motorbiate. You get
Speaker 3: the feel for it. Don't you know when it's going
Speaker 3: to come around? Here?
Speaker 22: Yeah?
Speaker 20: Yeah, even my wife is here next to me in bed.
Speaker 20: She made it crank the bloodything.
Speaker 3: What years did you own it, Jeremy.
Speaker 20: I was just trying to work it out, and I
Speaker 20: think it was about nineteen sixty eight sixty nine. I
Speaker 20: was about eighteen nineteen years old, and it was an
Speaker 20: real Elliot Nest type, great big black thing with a
Speaker 20: big long bonnet and two spare wheels on the on
Speaker 20: the running board and that. Oh it was just the
Speaker 20: most beautiful car, which I still owned it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what she's saying, lucky.
Speaker 20: Anyway, another little track because I drove it. I drove
Speaker 20: it all over the place. We had to go over
Speaker 20: the hill to Gismond and we're getting near the top
Speaker 20: of the hill and it wouldn't go any in. My
Speaker 20: mate said, turn around. We had to back it up
Speaker 20: the hill because the petrol was in the back and
Speaker 20: the PETREL's room had to run back down to the motor.
Speaker 3: Goodness, oh well you're mad to sell it. You'll be
Speaker 3: nice to hear from me. Thank you. Seving away from twelve,
Speaker 3: Donald Marcus, Welcome.
Speaker 16: Hi.
Speaker 25: My father had a Mark five Jaguar. It's about a
Speaker 25: nineteen forty nine to fifty one model, not very common now,
Speaker 25: only made ten and a half thousand. Anyway, it had
Speaker 25: a crank candle and he had occasionally started with it
Speaker 25: and said it was to save draining the battery. They
Speaker 25: started in the garage, standing in front of the car,
Speaker 25: and just behind it was a solid foundation, concrete foundation.
Speaker 25: I was always scared that the thing would be in
Speaker 25: gear and they'd fall and pin them against the concrete wall.
Speaker 25: He quite often used to pull his starting handle and
Speaker 25: crank it up. That was a forty nine to fifty
Speaker 25: one jag Now I reckon starting cran candles went about
Speaker 25: during the fifties. He had Morris Minor convertibles. I think
Speaker 25: they had a cran candle. This was early fifties. But
Speaker 25: I've just looked up the history of box All cars
Speaker 25: Row forty five to eighty five and it said In
Speaker 25: December fifty four, vox All brought out their first Crest,
Speaker 25: which is a knee model. They called it, and it says,
Speaker 25: here's Boxel's top model and the factory's first model not
Speaker 25: fitted with a start handle, and that was a fifty
Speaker 25: four Crest. The wy the envelops were the same shape,
Speaker 25: so they presumebly had them.
Speaker 3: I wonder why your father was into Murray convertibles. What
Speaker 3: a strange car to be into.
Speaker 25: Well, I hated them too that I was only about
Speaker 25: three or four. I've got thhoes of me standing up
Speaker 25: with them. I don't know that people like Morris Miners.
Speaker 25: They reckon, they're great car.
Speaker 3: I'm not converted, not convertibles in this weather.
Speaker 20: Well this is in the fifties.
Speaker 25: Well, I've got those of me standing up in a
Speaker 25: convertible car with below and well, I don't know, maybe
Speaker 25: the summer's a devil in the fifties. I've got pictures
Speaker 25: of me as I had a three year old, standing
Speaker 25: up with head out the top in front of the
Speaker 25: new house. And these old Morris Minor convertibles I vaguely
Speaker 25: remember them. I think their little cow on the on
Speaker 25: the dashboards where the god box was. I think there
Speaker 25: was some little emblem there, but I think it started
Speaker 25: handled by the sixties or nothing. I don't think anything
Speaker 25: had to start handled by the sixties.
Speaker 3: I think I think our car did. Al Pugio did.
Speaker 14: It.
Speaker 25: My European cars, yeah, yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: The Citron and the Pugios used to have crank handles
Speaker 3: right up till about sixty five, and the larder right
Speaker 3: until the right larder right until the eighties.
Speaker 12: Larder yeah, yeah, they were.
Speaker 25: They were one two five feet shape. God, I drove
Speaker 25: one for a guy a few years ago.
Speaker 12: No idea about that. Look.
Speaker 25: Grandmother had a thirty nine Cries when I was young.
Speaker 25: They sold it when I was about seven. I remember
Speaker 25: clearly writing it. It must have had a crank candle,
Speaker 25: but I don't remember.
Speaker 5: I've got a.
Speaker 25: Thirty nine DeSoto sales brochure of all Things and Colors,
Speaker 25: my oldest brochure. There's no no mention or no provision
Speaker 25: in the bumper for a crank candle. Probably you could
Speaker 25: start one, I'd say, I think a thirty nine car,
Speaker 25: but bumpers of maybe you do it behind the bumper.
Speaker 25: You know, they were gone by the sixties. I reckon
Speaker 25: the most modern cars.
Speaker 3: You know, I'll try and find up. But thank you,
Speaker 3: Donald Andrew Marcus.
Speaker 16: Welcome, good evening, Marcus. It's Andrew, the audio's enthusiast guy.
Speaker 15: Hey.
Speaker 16: Back in the early eighties, my dad bought a farm,
Speaker 16: an old farm or tractor. I don't know what would
Speaker 16: that be, the big bread ones. I can't remember the years.
Speaker 16: I think it was probably the late forties or fifties. Anyway,
Speaker 16: I bought it an oxtion and pooka koe and we
Speaker 16: towed it down to Thames where we used to have
Speaker 16: a heart in the bush down we're near where the
Speaker 16: Swedes were murdered sort of thing, and we used to
Speaker 16: take it up this road and occasionally, when then it'd
Speaker 16: been a big storm, you couldn't get out of the road,
Speaker 16: but we could get up in the tractor. Anyway, when
Speaker 16: we bought this thing, it wasn't particularly good easy to
Speaker 16: start at first, and we were taking it up this
Speaker 16: road and my dad had to you know, it was
Speaker 16: just a crank start, and he went to crank it
Speaker 16: and it backfired and it threw the crank out. And
Speaker 16: I was just old enough, you know, really to remember.
Speaker 16: Probably it broke the fly and his genes, but he
Speaker 16: was still standing, so I guess it was a pretty
Speaker 16: close call, straight up true story. I remember him looking
Speaker 16: at his fly and his genes and yeah, he wasn't
Speaker 16: writhing around on the ground and pain. So how close
Speaker 16: could you have got to be honest with that? And
Speaker 16: I think with the larder, the larder Neva's there, four
Speaker 16: by fours. They still had a crank handle into the eighties.
Speaker 16: I think they still make the Neva actually, but they
Speaker 16: won't be crank anymore. But yeah, they certainly still had
Speaker 16: it into the eighties up to about eighty five, eighty six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think eighty eight they went to.
Speaker 16: Yes, I think they did. Yeah, I've got one of
Speaker 16: my brothers, one of my brother's mate owned a place
Speaker 16: that did Italian cars, alf Romeos and fiates and that
Speaker 16: sort of thing, and they wrecked larder than that, and
Speaker 16: so they've got a far better knowledge.
Speaker 5: That from what I know.
Speaker 16: Like, we've had a couple of larders in the family,
Speaker 16: I think as well. I think we were not maybe not.
Speaker 16: We've had a lot of fiats and that sort of thing.
Speaker 16: We're all car enthusiasts and Nutters saw three brothers and
Speaker 16: my father. But yeah, certainly the Neha did.
Speaker 12: Yeah're right.
Speaker 16: I think it went to eighty eight eighty nine. The
Speaker 16: last ones they called a Cossack was the model they
Speaker 16: called them. But even a lot of people probably listening,
Speaker 16: I only know them as a three door, but actually
Speaker 16: in Russia they made a five door, so they made
Speaker 16: a four door body one and they.
Speaker 5: Were still around.
Speaker 16: I was still quite amazed. Yeah, a little while, a
Speaker 16: couple of years back, I saw them on the internet,
Speaker 16: so it's possibly they're still even going.
Speaker 3: But I'm going to go andry nights. Tot'll get it
Speaker 3: for me. People. Thanks for everyone.
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