Speaker 1: You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from News Talks.
Speaker 2: That'd be hump Day just about over. Welcome, well, welcome
Speaker 2: to Wednesday, nineteenth February, Marcus till twelve are they're expecting
Speaker 2: mass of thunder and hail and central land up the
Speaker 2: coast south Ganaby Gangery. If that's happening with you, I
Speaker 2: want to weather report asap right now. Let us know
Speaker 2: if it's come through. Seems like it arrived twenty four
Speaker 2: hours early, big rain yesterday, mess of flooding around Lumsden,
Speaker 2: clearing up the bikeway. If you've got some deeps, if
Speaker 2: you've got a thunder lightning happening now, let me know.
Speaker 2: Or giant hale. I don't know how big giant hale gets,
Speaker 2: but you know it's giant hale. Oh eight hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty ten eighty also too, on the Facebook page tonight,
Speaker 2: that plane lended. We've talked much about this. No one
Speaker 2: believed it was possible. The last of the Hercules has lended.
Speaker 2: It's landed at Wigram into a field, so it hasn't
Speaker 2: landed on Ester but it's landed on a field. If
Speaker 2: you were there, there seemed to be a fairly good
Speaker 2: crowd there, did a touch and goll gorgeous day there,
Speaker 2: then went back around and landed plenty of room. Didn't
Speaker 2: look sketchy at all. Then taxied round and they got
Speaker 2: off and there were hugs and it was quite a
Speaker 2: moving ceremony. So the video of that is on the
Speaker 2: Facebook page. If you're Johnny on the spot, if you're
Speaker 2: an eyewitness at that, let me know, because a lot
Speaker 2: of people said it can't land there, there's no airport.
Speaker 2: But what there is is there's the field next to
Speaker 2: the Aviation museum and the plane landed there and it's
Speaker 2: going into the aviation museum. It was incredibly moving. Now,
Speaker 2: why was that not in our state? Broadcaster Tonight, Absolute history,
Speaker 2: Absolute history. Maybe it was. I couldn't see it anyway.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what the field's called. It's the
Speaker 2: Canterbury blowcart Club, but it wasn't blowcarting. It was the
Speaker 2: herculing Let gorgeous plane, touch and go back around. Just gentle, Oh,
Speaker 2: fantastic to watch. So go watch you all of that.
Speaker 2: I watched about twelve minutes. They came off, there were hugs,
Speaker 2: It's quite moving. I'm pretty sure that's the last time
Speaker 2: any hercules will fly. I think the ones are already
Speaker 2: up in the one at blend Him's. This was the
Speaker 2: last touchdown. Now it goes into the Air Force Museum
Speaker 2: and they'll keep it going. I suppose. I don't know
Speaker 2: what will happen when it's a shape. It can't keep
Speaker 2: flying it There we go. It's going to be the museum.
Speaker 2: It's going to be hows for go and watch that
Speaker 2: on Facebook. If you saw that or want to comment
Speaker 2: on that, I'd like to hear about you from you,
Speaker 2: about you on next to the crematorium. Didn't know the
Speaker 2: old crematorium on Vickery's Road. Goodness, Oh there's the chimney
Speaker 2: getting touch people. If you want to start the whole
Speaker 2: discussion tonight about people love a discussion about a hercules.
Speaker 2: So that landed today, you might have lived in wigroom.
Speaker 2: You might have been able to see that. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: mind knowing how many people were there and what was interesting.
Speaker 2: And I watched the video quite intently. There was a
Speaker 2: big five yellow fire trucks and as soon as they
Speaker 2: landed they took off. I presume they were on secondment
Speaker 2: from krozger Gport. They must have come across just for
Speaker 2: the landing, then raced back. Very well planned, very well plotted,
Speaker 2: very well thought out, so well donder all those people
Speaker 2: they are. I've never been to an aviation museum in
Speaker 2: my life. Bad experience at motet, never been back.
Speaker 3: But if.
Speaker 2: You saw that, yay, very moving anyway enough for me
Speaker 2: about that. Some of you will have been there, And
Speaker 2: I'm disappointed and couldn't tell you yesterday it was on.
Speaker 2: We had no full warning. I'd warned you last week.
Speaker 2: But there we go. This is the last of you.
Speaker 2: Endeavor Hercules landing and Gomburger into the shed. Fix it up,
Speaker 2: keep the engines going. Who knows what they'll do with it?
Speaker 2: Of course I sound excited, don't they? By the way,
Speaker 2: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty the other thing always
Speaker 2: liked to hit you with a bit of history today,
Speaker 2: start with a quiz Quizzy wizzy woo. Today in New
Speaker 2: Zealand history, one of our worst yet least know and
Speaker 2: disasters happened. Don't google it. Twenty killed more than twenty
Speaker 2: killed this day in nineteen thirty eight. What was it?
Speaker 2: It means? Let me see if you know. Don't google it,
Speaker 2: but just if you want to guess. S ring up
Speaker 2: and tell me what do you think happened this day
Speaker 2: in nineteen thirty eight. Yeah, be curious to know, if
Speaker 2: you know. I'd never known much about it and did
Speaker 2: some research a few years back, and I'm curious to
Speaker 2: if you can actually guess that one oh, eight hundred
Speaker 2: eighty ten eighty or what disaster happened, and it'd be
Speaker 2: the top twenty worst disasters in this country, but a
Speaker 2: particularly unusual I guess form of disaster. So you might
Speaker 2: talk a bit about that. Let me know if you
Speaker 2: can guess what that was? Phone that through eight hundred
Speaker 2: eighty ten eighty coming in fast and strong tonight. Some
Speaker 2: of you will know, but some of you will guess.
Speaker 2: I like wrong guesses to start with, makes it more exciting.
Speaker 2: Twenty one kill, I think it was actually in the
Speaker 2: end there was twenty two killed. There was someone that
Speaker 2: was killed later on as often as the case. Umm, oh,
Speaker 2: eight hundred and eighty thirty and nineteen No, what was it? Marcus? Hi, Marcus.
Speaker 2: We have just come off a fixed home rate loan
Speaker 2: and seen the interest at five point four to nine
Speaker 2: for one year. I'm a very happy woman. It would
Speaker 2: have been seven point two five before last year or
Speaker 2: something like that. I'm a very happy woman today. We
Speaker 2: have been on seven point twenty five before. That's oozery
Speaker 2: you Marry Marcus. Welcome, good evening today.
Speaker 4: How are you tonight?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 2: Thank you Mary. How are you all right? All good?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Oh good good.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking, is is it a train wreck?
Speaker 7: It doesn't sound like enough fatalities, but there was a
Speaker 7: train that went off bridge or something or tongue Awai.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Tangawai was big. I
Speaker 2: think tangawa But Tangawai was in the fifties. This is
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty one, murray, but thank you. Get in touch
Speaker 2: if you can guess thirteen past eight. Wasn't a train,
Speaker 2: wasn't a train? Wasn't a fire? Yeah? No, one's got
Speaker 2: it via the text high train derailment.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 2: I thought he was going to go hide, but went
Speaker 2: tang Awai. Tangawai. No, that was nineteen fifty three, Marcus.
Speaker 2: Train crashed down south result of drunken train driver. Yes,
Speaker 2: they gave him hard labor. I think I think he
Speaker 2: died in prison. Wasn't good if you know, you know, oh,
Speaker 2: eight hundred and eighty we like a guessing game eight
Speaker 2: hundred eighty eighteen Eightian nineteen ninety two to text, what
Speaker 2: was it this day? Thirty eight, nineteen thirty eight? How
Speaker 2: well you know your disasters? I'm not quite sure. I'm
Speaker 2: so fixated on them. Not in a good way either.
Speaker 2: Let me know if you think you can guess fourteen
Speaker 2: past eight oh eight hundred eighty ten eight Chris, Chris Marcus, welcome.
Speaker 9: Ja Marcus.
Speaker 2: What do you reckon? It was?
Speaker 7: Judging for the body account, I'm thinking it's probably the
Speaker 7: Strongman mind disaster.
Speaker 2: I think it was twenty eight. It was sixty five,
Speaker 2: a run of mine. What year was Strongman?
Speaker 7: I don't know, to be honest, I know it was
Speaker 7: early twentieth century, So that's me guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not that, Chris, but thank you for that.
Speaker 10: Judith Marcus, welcome, Oh greasing Marcus.
Speaker 11: Was it the an anger who earthquake?
Speaker 2: He died? And I don't know how by the way
Speaker 2: for that last guy, Nineteen were killed at Rinunga, so
Speaker 2: his number was just about right. Okay, when was the
Speaker 2: when was a Nunger?
Speaker 12: Who are.
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 11: I've driven through there a couple of times, and the
Speaker 11: railway went through there and it completely annihilated the the
Speaker 11: railway lines here.
Speaker 2: Just three died in nunger Who I'm talking twenty one
Speaker 2: with this one, Judith, But thank you Rose, Marcus welcome.
Speaker 11: Oh hi Marcus.
Speaker 13: Hey.
Speaker 14: I was wondering whether it was the Nate earthquake.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I think a lot more died than that. Similarly, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I think there was. I think it was in
Speaker 2: their fifties or sixties, Napier earthquake. It wasn't a quake.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a quake, and it wasn't a mining disaster. Okay,
Speaker 2: although although hang on, okay, I think it was the
Speaker 2: same year. Oh no, it was seven seven years, seven
Speaker 2: years later, So yeah, that was seven years beforehand. Keep
Speaker 2: your guesses coming through. If you've got to say something
Speaker 2: about that. Someone said the Hindenburg question, Dunedin ooh, someone
Speaker 2: said the Tennery explosion or the Fairy disaster, Fairy Fairy disaster.
Speaker 2: Get in touch. You've got a guess about that. When
Speaker 2: I will reveal this halfway, I won't kind of prolong
Speaker 2: that for too long. By the way, if you saw
Speaker 2: the plane land today, let me know how many tune
Speaker 2: up for that one. Getting a lot of triggers a
Speaker 2: lot of reminiscence. Marcus. The anung Who earthquake was sixty
Speaker 2: nine form memory. I live in Greymouth. Remember all the
Speaker 2: brick chimneys crashing down lying on the ground, you know,
Speaker 2: that's why we used to head for the doorway to
Speaker 2: shoot it from chimneys coming through the roof. Think they
Speaker 2: got rid of most of the chimney's chimneys, John, it's Marcus.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Marcus, I think it was the Brindowins bush crush.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right now that I think that was in
Speaker 2: the when what what year? I have said nineteen thirty eight, Well, no,
Speaker 2: I think it was nineteen. I think that was in
Speaker 2: the I think that was in the sixties, wasn't it.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I don't have enough the head busses then all the
Speaker 2: bran Duwins, John, but I'm not quite right Mcmarcus.
Speaker 9: Welcome, okay, mate.
Speaker 10: I was just finding that it was the Branno mine disaster.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's a good point too, because that was
Speaker 2: that was early on, wasn't it.
Speaker 10: It might have been like eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 12: It could be out a few years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's eighteen ninety, but there's quite a few.
Speaker 2: I think about sixty died in that.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I was written the book on age over Christmas.
Speaker 2: Oh now yeah, okay, I've got that book.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Branner Mine disaster.
Speaker 4: I think it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know the guy that wrote that. It's
Speaker 2: pretty grim is.
Speaker 10: Yeah, mam leans it to me.
Speaker 2: Sheer coaster.
Speaker 10: No, no, that we're benched for Angela.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, that wasn't that. But it's always good
Speaker 2: to talk ABOUTNY disasters. Actually, which will we go and
Speaker 2: do next there?
Speaker 16: Then?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris, Chris, it's Marcus welcome.
Speaker 9: Hey, cheated though, I'm just walking inside.
Speaker 2: You can walk in sern are you?
Speaker 12: Are you Google to figure it out?
Speaker 2: That's disappointing.
Speaker 17: Yeah, so I'm guessing that's the first thing.
Speaker 12: They came a flash flat on the WIO stream at
Speaker 12: cop Far in New Zealand.
Speaker 8: But nineteen fear nineteen fty.
Speaker 4: Eight Destroidal railway construction workers killing and one woman.
Speaker 13: Mark for Quinn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're building it. They're building a concrete viaduct and
Speaker 2: there was a work camp and the rain came up
Speaker 2: and they all got switched to their death.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's horrible, and.
Speaker 2: No one ever heard of it, because there is a
Speaker 2: there is a monument to it, but it's hard to
Speaker 2: get to and no one kind of talks about it.
Speaker 12: True.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was right. But thank you for gooding that, Chris.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. There we go. That's a busy start
Speaker 2: to the old show. Yeah, cope, war for a public
Speaker 2: works camp. I think it's from our only fatal mud slide.
Speaker 2: There was Abbotsford, but I only anyone died at Abbotsford.
Speaker 2: And no one likes that guy for googling it. Oh,
Speaker 2: that guy's a party pooper, someone says.
Speaker 18: So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're building the railway between Hawks Bay and Gisbon.
Speaker 2: Of course that railway doesn't go anymore, which is even
Speaker 2: a poor testimony to those people's sacrifice. But that's rail
Speaker 2: for you. All those logs could be coming down that
Speaker 2: rail line, but I noticed chuck him on the road.
Speaker 2: We don't have a whole night on disasters. I wonder
Speaker 2: what the next disaster is going to be. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to suggest that it's a topic, but it doesn't.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make you wonder if you're a catastrophist. Mind
Speaker 2: a lot of the articles I'm reading about, you know,
Speaker 2: which way the world will end with Trump in charge.
Speaker 2: Will it be a plague, Will it be financial ruin?
Speaker 2: Will it be a war? Will it be the nuclear bombs?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: What is the next big disaster? It's got to be
Speaker 2: the furies going down? Doesn't It got to be the fairies?
Speaker 2: Although I'll tell you what my fury crossing there's brilliant,
Speaker 2: so good out the back on the Kataki under on
Speaker 2: the sun lounges that the magician. The magician was back
Speaker 2: because rabbit was sick the day before. It was so rough.
Speaker 2: I think the rabbit had thrown up and the magician
Speaker 2: had thrown up. It wasn't good, but the magician was back.
Speaker 2: And mind you, with magic these days, a lot of
Speaker 2: magic is actually tying balloons. I don't know what the
Speaker 2: magicians feel about that. You think, hang on, I'm supposed
Speaker 2: to be a magician. Now most of my work is
Speaker 2: tying balloons. But what the magician would do is you'd
Speaker 2: tie the balloons to kids that had been chosen to
Speaker 2: be the assistant for some of the stunts. So they
Speaker 2: tied balloons, but we didn't get the balloon to laughter
Speaker 2: because I guess you thought people would kind of play
Speaker 2: with the balloons and make squeaky noises to pop them.
Speaker 2: So I thought that was smart John at smartus. Good evening.
Speaker 2: Welcome John.
Speaker 19: Yes, I think the disaster you might be referring to
Speaker 19: was was a Ministry of Works camp was flooding in
Speaker 19: I think war or at the east coast there somewhere just.
Speaker 2: By Maha, my heir here, Yeah, did.
Speaker 19: You don't know much about it?
Speaker 5: Was?
Speaker 19: I only told about it at school? What were you
Speaker 19: the big disasters?
Speaker 2: Where were you at school?
Speaker 19: At school?
Speaker 2: And oh, okay, you know I didn't realize that.
Speaker 19: Well.
Speaker 2: I thought you might have been in Mahia, John, Nice
Speaker 2: to hear from you. Someone's texted three thousand sheep were
Speaker 2: lost in the valley in the Kope war for a flood.
Speaker 2: Three thousand sheep that'd be floating out to sea. It's
Speaker 2: a lot of sheep, Marcus. The next disaster is the
Speaker 2: National Party chairs Patrick good dunk. It's become a punchline
Speaker 2: to a joke. Now, hasn't it that happened? Quick? Wow?
Speaker 2: There is a monument, but you can't get to the monument,
Speaker 2: which I think is bad. Anyway, that was a big
Speaker 2: frenetic session of talk back. Now I'm waiting for the
Speaker 2: thunder and lightning and heavy hail in central Otago or
Speaker 2: in Kendby. That's happened. Let me know. Also, if you
Speaker 2: saw the Hercules land at Wigram in the field, that's
Speaker 2: quite They did a touch and go and they went
Speaker 2: back around and then landed at beautiful landing, a lot
Speaker 2: of people watching, and then the engines would tune off
Speaker 2: for the last time ever. I don't know what happens,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if you, I don't know if
Speaker 2: there's some I don't know if a plane has just
Speaker 2: taken its last trip, if there's some ceremonial thing you do,
Speaker 2: like you remove the joy. Look, I don't know what
Speaker 2: there was. I was watching it, but the photographing was
Speaker 2: quite a distance away. I was singing, watched the protocol. Marcus, Mima, Dad,
Speaker 2: come from Copoua framhe my aunties and uncles still live there.
Speaker 2: Sarah Marcus, my mom, my eighty seven year old mum,
Speaker 2: and three plane spotting sons observed herk OH one make
Speaker 2: its final landing. Special great flying. I hope they've got
Speaker 2: the kids out of school for that. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: as much of aviation history as you ever seen brilliant,
Speaker 2: get in touch, marks till twelve, Full of the wonders.
Speaker 2: I've talked back tonight eight hundred and eighty eighteen eighty
Speaker 2: nine two nine two to text. There's breaking news. I'll
Speaker 2: bring that to you. I'm friendly scuts or they've had
Speaker 2: to kill all the ninety whales stranded at Tasmania. False
Speaker 2: killer whales. Yeah, Arthur River the usual story tried to
Speaker 2: reflect challenging condition. Didn't want to go back home. Euthanase
Speaker 2: always seems a bit grim, doesn't it. Since the euthanase
Speaker 2: will be carried out using firearms, no kidding, what else
Speaker 2: would you use? Twenty seven past eight o'clock. Governet's Marcus Welcome, Hi, Gavin, welcome.
Speaker 13: Hello.
Speaker 10: I just some time called.
Speaker 2: Yeah, god, that's good for NASA phone met you.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah. We saw the plane dive and I
Speaker 10: couldn't believe it and went over twice. Yeah what We
Speaker 10: were in Sydenham and it just comes one way and
Speaker 10: went back the other way. And my mate, he's actually
Speaker 10: an ex pilot who used to fly little planes. He
Speaker 10: knew what the plane was.
Speaker 9: It was awesome.
Speaker 2: Did you know? Had you heard the show? And we
Speaker 2: talked to depth about what was about the head? Keep up?
Speaker 2: This is big news because there's not.
Speaker 10: Even because it was really low where we were actually
Speaker 10: sitting in the bar and it come over really low
Speaker 10: and it just flew around. That is so awesome.
Speaker 2: Did you say you're sitting in the bar.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we're having a drink one the afternoon?
Speaker 5: What bar.
Speaker 10: Sandwich?
Speaker 20: Hotel?
Speaker 13: Is it?
Speaker 2: Is it called the sandwich?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Yeah, they come across.
Speaker 2: What's got such a night? Was it called such a
Speaker 2: waking name?
Speaker 10: I don't know, because it is? But they reckon the plane?
Speaker 10: Won't someone else will get that plane, won't. I won't
Speaker 10: sit down and nothing way over do it. Someone else
Speaker 10: will get it somewhere overseas will get it, and they'll
Speaker 10: use it for.
Speaker 12: Other stuff as well.
Speaker 10: Apparently, what of you whether it's true or false?
Speaker 2: It is that what you heard in the pub? Given?
Speaker 10: Yes, and I know the guys who are exploited it,
Speaker 10: and they said no, I'm pretty sure they won't just because.
Speaker 2: Given given everyone in the pubs and ex pilot.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2: Well not really, I'm ex piloting between jobs. Everyone in
Speaker 2: the pubs and the ex pilot for goodness sake. So
Speaker 2: did you say it's called the Is it really called
Speaker 2: the Sandwich Hotel?
Speaker 21: Yes?
Speaker 2: Was it not on Google?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 10: And it's in Sydn.
Speaker 2: I'll look into that. By the way, bt W Luxon
Speaker 2: wants to get his favorability, he should have been involved
Speaker 2: with that. On the plane and walking out of that
Speaker 2: did the shake and house. That's a big thing for
Speaker 2: our forces, the last of the planes. He's not plane aware.
Speaker 2: People love a plane story. If he was there, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I welcome you know, and I don't even know what
Speaker 2: you do, but that's what that's what people want to
Speaker 2: be a part of history. Still can't find the Sandwich
Speaker 2: bar Jeff Marcus, Welcome.
Speaker 5: Marcus. I just hadn't listen to listen to the show
Speaker 5: for a while and switched and heard you're talking about
Speaker 5: I knew executive what it was. The cop My interest
Speaker 5: is that we have the lease up of the rail
Speaker 5: from our here up to the Copple Viaduct and just
Speaker 5: short of the monument. You can't quite get to the
Speaker 5: monument now because it's because the track is so damaged.
Speaker 2: But damage damaged by what.
Speaker 21: Look a lot of it would be slash. Should it
Speaker 21: be fair to say, don't say so? Slash come down,
Speaker 21: block the colvits. Everybody blames kel It's not quite the case.
Speaker 21: You know, Slash was the biggest unforeseen consequence of forestry
Speaker 21: and it's caused a lot of damage in that section
Speaker 21: of railway between between Maheir and Gismon. But anyway, we
Speaker 21: do have the use of that line and we can
Speaker 21: get you close to the monument. You're dead right.
Speaker 5: The monument is totally overgrown now and it's very hard
Speaker 5: to see and it's about a two kilometer walk from
Speaker 5: where we can get to. But we've got plans to
Speaker 5: actually sort.
Speaker 2: Of Jeff, was the monument always designed for pedestrians to
Speaker 2: walk from the road or was it designed for people
Speaker 2: to access from the rail.
Speaker 18: No?
Speaker 5: From the road, Okay, because the road it's so there's
Speaker 5: a belly that sort of goes up and this was
Speaker 5: the coppwire for a stream that came down and was
Speaker 5: the reason for the desire. So the rail is on
Speaker 5: one side, the work camp was on the other side,
Speaker 5: and it was too low to not that they knew
Speaker 5: it at the time, but it was too low to
Speaker 5: the river and they didn't see the level that the
Speaker 5: river could actually sort of it was a tremendous flash flood.
Speaker 5: And it was two o'clock in the morning. There was
Speaker 5: a huge downpour and it broke a storage down. It
Speaker 5: was above the river in the copper of a stream,
Speaker 5: and it was almost like a tsunami, and it came
Speaker 5: down and it just hit the camp, hit the lower
Speaker 5: they hit the lower part of the camp, which was
Speaker 5: the single men's quarters, and just literally it was like tsunami.
Speaker 5: It just actually swept twenty one guys out of their
Speaker 5: beds and down the river. The married men's quarters. They
Speaker 5: were okay, but of course it was just three minutes
Speaker 5: absolute indemonium. And the next day it was just chaos.
Speaker 5: You know, they were just bodies and fences and gods,
Speaker 5: it was terrible.
Speaker 2: Did you did you say you're planning to liberate the monument?
Speaker 2: Is that going to become accessible again?
Speaker 5: Is that yeah? Yeah, yeah, we've got to know we're
Speaker 5: going to sort of get up there very shortly. And actually,
Speaker 5: because it's got hardly overgrown, it is so where we
Speaker 5: get to on our little rail journey where you can't
Speaker 5: quite see it, So it's a bit of a walk.
Speaker 5: It's start to took along with a walk further from
Speaker 5: where we can get to to to see the monument,
Speaker 5: but we want to actually sort of clear around the monument,
Speaker 5: so it's actually brought back to its klory.
Speaker 2: Are you involved in rail tours there? Is that what
Speaker 2: you're saying?
Speaker 22: No?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah without sort of sort of blowing.
Speaker 2: The trumpet on on bikes.
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, because me rail bikes as what we are.
Speaker 5: So but anyway, you know that's been the thrust of
Speaker 5: that journey is to actually because that's the whole story
Speaker 5: behind behind this little trip that we've got.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a bit, it's a bit of distance. Do
Speaker 2: you go all the way from Gisbone south on that
Speaker 2: we go?
Speaker 20: No?
Speaker 5: No, we go north from Marhire peninsula of a little place
Speaker 5: called Obatana and you go about sort of beady en
Speaker 5: kilometers north to as far as close as we can
Speaker 5: get to the tragedy side.
Speaker 2: Good on you for tying something quite good with old
Speaker 2: rail with a bit of history. That's brilliant.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, No, it's look that the thing will never
Speaker 5: be reinstated for trains again because of basically Gabriel actually
Speaker 5: just absolutely destroyed the sudden end down the Naper end.
Speaker 2: And also the Toedo worm had churn through the piles.
Speaker 2: Hadn't it wrecked the piles a whole.
Speaker 5: On the holes? Yep? And look slash is a big
Speaker 5: part of the reason too. I always feel sorry for
Speaker 5: Cuba because they gets, you know, slammed for not looking
Speaker 5: out of the track. It wasn't next to game at all.
Speaker 5: It was basically us.
Speaker 2: We stopped chasing it, you know, to who are your tourists,
Speaker 2: your tourists local or international?
Speaker 5: Fifty to fifty, Yeah, and.
Speaker 2: It goes good. You're busy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the first year we've only been going for six years.
Speaker 5: The first year was brilliant, and then that was the
Speaker 5: year before COVID, and then COVID sort of send everything sideways.
Speaker 5: But then the cyclone was particularly bad for Gismond because
Speaker 5: you couldn't you know, that connection through to two maybe
Speaker 5: was closed for about five months and that sort of
Speaker 5: stopped people coming because you have to you have two
Speaker 5: around your head to go all the way back.
Speaker 2: And around your website looks great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're sort of there's the only one
Speaker 5: in the world. That's that's our claim to fame, and
Speaker 5: it's it's it's pretty because.
Speaker 2: All the others, all the others, all the others, are
Speaker 2: golf carts, aren't they? Y qright white? Because there's two
Speaker 2: golf there's three golf cut. You've got double bikes sort
Speaker 2: of with a connected haven't you yeah?
Speaker 5: Okay, well yeah yeah yeah, And people say, you know what,
Speaker 5: don't you do the gold cuts and you know we
Speaker 5: want to be sort.
Speaker 2: Of bikes don't go, don't go e bikes? Have you
Speaker 2: done that?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 5: I had had to go e bikes. We didn't originally originally,
Speaker 5: but of course had to. You know, it's about fifty fifty,
Speaker 5: you know, fifty fifty percent take the e bikes and
Speaker 5: fifty percent take the standard bikes.
Speaker 2: And do you go on the railways? Did you go
Speaker 2: on the way?
Speaker 5: Yes, well Gisbone. Gisbane's lucky like that because you know
Speaker 5: we don't get too cold, you know, not as called
Speaker 5: as he goes down there down the bottom it's.
Speaker 2: Twenty out degree stage. If I've got a rumble, look,
Speaker 2: that's great for you guys that don't know. He was
Speaker 2: so kind to ring Gisbane rail bikes as the webs
Speaker 2: sounded like a set up there, didn't it. I'm sorry
Speaker 2: about that. Sound like I'm going to mention something and
Speaker 2: give him mate some publicy never heard of him. Gisbane
Speaker 2: Railbike Adventure. It's a beautiful railway line. And then you go, Jeff, sorry,
Speaker 2: I just had you on mute there for a while
Speaker 2: the videos, and I suppose to you right near the
Speaker 2: rocket launching place too, aren't you.
Speaker 5: Yes, although that's sort of never really works because you
Speaker 5: know when they launched, it's always seventy two okay, our window.
Speaker 5: You know it's going to be those o'clock on Tuesday,
Speaker 5: Well it sort of can be Wednesday twelve o'clock or whatever.
Speaker 5: You know, So you've got to be a patient man.
Speaker 5: Actually break around and see what love your talk.
Speaker 2: I've got to run, but Jeff, that's been tremendous talking.
Speaker 2: Do you thank you? I hate to say it, but
Speaker 2: it wouldn't be wrong to start a eight to twelve
Speaker 2: tour company. We got to hobbiton then we go on
Speaker 2: the bike rail. Then we're what else would we do
Speaker 2: up in that part of the country, because after that
Speaker 2: woman last night that rung up on the recommendation of
Speaker 2: Hobbit and she was she has a cockerhoop about that,
Speaker 2: and then we go to the Sandwich bar. There'd be
Speaker 2: the South Island version of it wouldn't it. Peter Marcus welcome.
Speaker 9: Yeah, hello Marcus. It's the Sandridge Hotel.
Speaker 2: Our sand Ridge sand Ridge.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right. Ridge. It's about one hundred meters from
Speaker 9: Columbo Street. Also not far from Sydenham Park, which is
Speaker 9: a great sporting arena and apparently before it was built,
Speaker 9: all when it was built, there was a sand Ridge
Speaker 9: somewhere nearby, and so the smart public had decided to
Speaker 9: call it that sand Ridge.
Speaker 2: Well, everyone that's texted says it's a it's not the
Speaker 2: best pub in the world.
Speaker 9: Well, it depends, doesn't it if you want to drink
Speaker 9: beer or even wine. I drink wine when I go there.
Speaker 9: And incidentally, one of New Zealand's great double all Blacks
Speaker 9: used to drink there. He's now dead. It's a funa
Speaker 9: named Keith Thompson Hockey All Black.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry, I said, jeepers, jeepers.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he and his brother and actually Dean tild his
Speaker 9: brothers and other sporting people. So yes, it's not I mean,
Speaker 9: it's not a fancy pub. It does have the motels
Speaker 9: behind it alongside it, and it's pretty popular. You had
Speaker 9: a lot of people going there, a.
Speaker 2: Lot of pilots are there these days.
Speaker 9: I suppose, is that right?
Speaker 2: Yes, that's what the guy said. They're all pilots. Keith Thompson,
Speaker 2: known for his unusual crouching stunt at the crease.
Speaker 9: That's the man, Yes, indeed he He was one of
Speaker 9: New Zealand's best hockey players too. He was a brilliant
Speaker 9: hockey player who could pass a ball like nobody. But
Speaker 9: that's another matter, isn't.
Speaker 2: It sixty Olympics? Nice to hear from you, Peter san
Speaker 2: Gridge love to mention a pub, I think I'd liken
Speaker 2: the ter of the show is to have every pub
Speaker 2: mentioned eventually. That's the great thing about public Oh a
Speaker 2: great all Black drank there, or something double International drank there.
Speaker 2: Every pub's got a story. Some of the stories aren't
Speaker 2: very good, but everyone's got one. Peter, Marcus, welcome.
Speaker 22: Today, Marcus. Dang that fellow, that other Peter just stole
Speaker 22: up under Africa Standridge. But never mind. I'm parted diagonally
Speaker 22: across from it right at this very moment, and I
Speaker 22: was going to draw to everyone's attention the correct name.
Speaker 22: I sort of had a giggle to myself. How things
Speaker 22: get lost in translation, perhaps, But never mind, it kind
Speaker 22: of seems to thee.
Speaker 2: It seems to be in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 22: Well, yeah, it's not the most salubrious of neighborhoods. I'm
Speaker 22: not too far from it myself. It has a wee
Speaker 22: bit of a reputation as being a rather hard shot
Speaker 22: institution at times.
Speaker 2: Imagine ninety bucks a night to stay there, that's reasonable.
Speaker 22: Yeah, I can't imagine that there's any branch of the
Speaker 22: Cairo Club out the back, but looking at it. But hey,
Speaker 22: the other thing is the other thing that amused me
Speaker 22: about all these pilots apparently, and none of them had
Speaker 22: really seemed to have the correct idea about the future
Speaker 22: of that. Actually, well, it's been pretty well publicized. The
Speaker 22: reason I actually landed at Wigram because it's going to
Speaker 22: become part of a static display at the Air Force
Speaker 22: Museum there. So it was donated to the as it
Speaker 22: were donated to that museum, And at this stage, I
Speaker 22: think they're going to have to store it outside. They're
Speaker 22: in the process of designing, and then we'll build sufficient
Speaker 22: hangar space to house it from there on. Apparently that's
Speaker 22: that's the story anyway.
Speaker 2: But that's public bars during the day it's not the fact.
Speaker 2: It's the self belief, isn't it. Oh No, they're sitting
Speaker 2: in overseas, that's what they'll be doing with it.
Speaker 22: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't I don't know what
Speaker 22: the equivalent.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the.
Speaker 22: Equivalents among airline pilots is. But when I was younger,
Speaker 22: there was a we always talked about Chinese secrets, and
Speaker 22: perhaps one pilot came in the door and he had
Speaker 22: a slightly different version of the story to the pilot
Speaker 22: that was already sitting in the pub. And as it
Speaker 22: went through, you know, that's what I can be.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a hell of a building for that.
Speaker 2: You think they would have got the building because I've
Speaker 2: known these planes are going to end for a long
Speaker 2: long time. I'm surprised they even't started on the building.
Speaker 22: Yeah, but but I but I mean, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 22: But I imagine for most of its life that that
Speaker 22: plane has been outside anyway. Yeah, And I think there's
Speaker 22: also another plane that they were donated in, some plane
Speaker 22: with quite significant history. Somewhere last year they were donated
Speaker 22: another plane. And I think therefore the designing a whole
Speaker 22: new wing, well, doing a revamp, I think of it
Speaker 22: and putting in more hangar space for these particular aircraft.
Speaker 2: On your shaky welcome, it's Marcus, good evening.
Speaker 17: Okay, Marcus. When you were asking about the what happened
Speaker 17: on the date? I actually I thought it was the
Speaker 17: Valentine's Fire, that's not definitely not No, there's a because
Speaker 17: they had a few deaths with it. And also I
Speaker 17: don't know if you've ever been around the mount at
Speaker 17: Mount on the Neuis and there's a plant there dedicated
Speaker 17: to the Rahan Nui, which was a motor launch that
Speaker 17: went out on Boxing Day on some somewhere in the
Speaker 17: fifties on its maiden voyage. And I believe there was
Speaker 17: twenty one on that buy and only one boy survived,
Speaker 17: the captain's son survived on that. But I like finding
Speaker 17: those those memorial plaques and places. And the next one
Speaker 17: I'm going to look for when I managed to go
Speaker 17: out my back door at Katkenny is the EC eight
Speaker 17: try and find where the DC eight creation in the
Speaker 17: ci Mins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a memorial for that, and it's on
Speaker 2: that road on the other on the other side of
Speaker 2: the Rangers, I think on the Tierra has side. I
Speaker 2: think I have looked for that. That's sad about the run.
Speaker 17: Yeah yeah, I haven't even known about it until I
Speaker 17: went walking rid on the one day and I saw
Speaker 17: that memorial. Yeah but I'm coming over the Timelin's now
Speaker 17: hitting into tower. All were they probably truck and trailer
Speaker 17: load of tea movements for all those people who buy
Speaker 17: tea move But.
Speaker 2: Do you sharky, do you actually know it's t MoU stuff?
Speaker 17: Well, could be anything. It's all New Zealand career boxes
Speaker 17: and stuff. So yeah, they're making plenty of money, so
Speaker 17: I guess. But you know it's got to be something
Speaker 17: to do with.
Speaker 2: Nice any idiots on the road sharky every day? Great answer,
Speaker 2: someone said, Marcus, is tonight's subject dive bars because I've
Speaker 2: just turned the radio one? And who did you talk
Speaker 2: about the Sandwidge? People seem to know it, dB Marcus
Speaker 2: evening welcome.
Speaker 9: I was just watching the Hercules lean a couple of times.
Speaker 2: Thanks for those people that film that.
Speaker 9: Of course, Wigram being then next air Force base is
Speaker 9: pretty roof on airplane. I've been there to what gliders
Speaker 9: take off that those speak of it and it was
Speaker 9: used as christ Church or Southland's Guide of Port. But
Speaker 9: I had soon had feet to play with, and I
Speaker 9: was just watching that I reckon he handles of that
Speaker 9: and just a little over five hundred feet, so not
Speaker 9: a bad piece of work. The first landing I think
Speaker 9: was more of a thump and go as opposed to
Speaker 9: a touch and go.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 9: But what I rang about was I've forgotten the name
Speaker 9: of the place up north of the line. I was
Speaker 9: in another lot one of my many lives. I was
Speaker 9: a train controller for that piece of track and I
Speaker 9: haven't heard that name in obviously years. So I'm going
Speaker 9: up there to go on those bicycles to have a
Speaker 9: look at the piece of track I used to control.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's one of the greatest stories I've ever heard.
Speaker 16: dB.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So that brought tears to my eyes because I
Speaker 9: was up there a couple of years ago and I
Speaker 9: was looking at some of the other stations, but I
Speaker 9: never thought of cop and I never heard about the
Speaker 9: disaster there.
Speaker 2: It's a gorgeous it's a I'll tell you. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you a bit about it because I got because I
Speaker 2: know the area quite well because of doing documentaries. But
Speaker 2: it's amazing because there's a tunnel and you come out
Speaker 2: of the tunnel and right when you come out of
Speaker 2: the tunnel, the concrete viaduct is just there and it's
Speaker 2: a bit like graft And Bridge. It's a poured concrete bridge.
Speaker 2: I think it might be one of the first or
Speaker 2: the longest port at the time. You know, it's a
Speaker 2: significant bridge and wow, yeah, it's beautiful.
Speaker 9: I've got a.
Speaker 2: Gorgeous I've got a gorgeous photo of a photo of
Speaker 2: it at home, which is unbelievable. But it's a it's
Speaker 2: a knockout bridge. It's a shame more people can't see it.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 9: I'm a short story for one of the drivers was
Speaker 9: the senior driver at wairo. He was going up to
Speaker 9: that tunnel because to be mentioned that I hadn't realized
Speaker 9: it was that tunnel one day and he had a
Speaker 9: train that had an over gauged load, so he had
Speaker 9: to stop at the end of the tunnel and I
Speaker 9: think he had a bulldozer of and as he stopped,
Speaker 9: all these people came out of the tunnel. And what
Speaker 9: had happened is the train control has given people a
Speaker 9: position to walk through the tunnel, but forgot there was
Speaker 9: a train right so he picks up the telephone and
Speaker 9: he goes copraafer and the train controller says, how many
Speaker 9: did you get? And he says, it's your lucky day, Bud,
Speaker 9: I didn't get any.
Speaker 2: Don't they know? Don't they know?
Speaker 9: Tracks for trains no radios in those days or line
Speaker 9: side telephones. So once the train had left the previous station,
Speaker 9: no where to tell him there's people in the tunnel.
Speaker 2: Was it your responsibility when the railway track went over
Speaker 2: Gisbon Airport one of only two places in the world
Speaker 2: where that happens.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, I had to get hold of gives in tower,
Speaker 9: tell them there's a train expected. And I have a
Speaker 9: friend who was an air trip controller Gisbon Tower, I think,
Speaker 9: says there was never a problem. We didn't have any
Speaker 9: air places. You didn't have any change.
Speaker 2: So you will do you will do that. You will
Speaker 2: go on the bike ride.
Speaker 9: Yes, I'm absolutely Oh good, good good, And I'll report
Speaker 9: back after I've done it, maybe a month.
Speaker 2: It's a shame they can't get bikes individual bikes that
Speaker 2: go on railway tracks. It's shame you've got to join
Speaker 2: two bikes together. I can't quite work out how they
Speaker 2: could get wheels, but you think they could get individual
Speaker 2: bikes because anyway that's fine.
Speaker 9: Because RA is so parochial about tracks. They don't even
Speaker 9: use about letting people have fun on them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's not start d be But thank you, and
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward muchly to you going and look up
Speaker 2: in fortune. Have to walk across across that vibe under supervision,
Speaker 2: and it is beautiful. But I'd be very keen to
Speaker 2: get to the get to the monument because it's just
Speaker 2: there in the middle of nowhere. When that guy was
Speaker 2: talking about slash, he's not talking about guns and roses
Speaker 2: se Ya'll leftover stuff from forests or forestry. I guess
Speaker 2: you'd say, well, that's a good hour. Gee, a lot
Speaker 2: more of those. Good evening, and welcome to you, ll
Speaker 2: Manamus Marcus. I hope it's good where you are. If
Speaker 2: it's not good, I hope it gets better quick Lee, Well,
Speaker 2: soon as the show goes on. Get in touch Hettel
Speaker 2: twelve oh eight hundred and eighty eighteen eighty. We are
Speaker 2: talking about the mudslip that called all that killed all
Speaker 2: those people in nineteen thirty seven. I think at Kopewha
Speaker 2: fra other or thirty one or fact check that in
Speaker 2: two ticks. We're also talking about the sand Ridge Hotel
Speaker 2: and what it's motel? Is it because you can stay
Speaker 2: there nineteen thirty eight and also talking with quite a
Speaker 2: Christrich focus show and talking about the Hercules that landed
Speaker 2: at Wigram and then Sharky came in with how bad
Speaker 2: the traffick is and that's always a good thing for
Speaker 2: us also, So if you've got something to add to
Speaker 2: any of those topics. A lot of people are saying
Speaker 2: that the Sandridge Sandridge they were going to demolish that soon.
Speaker 2: Sounds like quite a story pub sounds like they had
Speaker 2: quite a long and interesting history in Sydenham, So that
Speaker 2: might be something you mentioned. All So, I don't know
Speaker 2: that guy that drank the drank their played hockey, cricket
Speaker 2: and rugby or just hockey and cricket. I think ash
Speaker 2: Burton topped out thirty two point one degrees today now
Speaker 2: it's twenty. There you go. Marcus was a DC three
Speaker 2: that questioned the kaimos. Didn't he say that? Also the
Speaker 2: other big plane at the airport for Air Force museums,
Speaker 2: the Orione pethe free surveillance aircraft trucked in last year.
Speaker 2: There you go. Sand Ridge Pub, not sandwich, no ex parts,
Speaker 2: but probably all flying high there. How good was that
Speaker 2: guy that texted through yesterday that it was a guy
Speaker 2: has made it started vaping and I can't even remember
Speaker 2: what the pattern? Yeah, Flip Peter w with the guy's
Speaker 2: handle front handle, probably one of us thinking about that today,
Speaker 2: one of the great texts. I don't know if he
Speaker 2: made it up himself for if it's his own material.
Speaker 2: But cheap is what a rip of text? I'm just
Speaker 2: doing the search for it pretty slowly. The old search
Speaker 2: button on the text in it that doesn't work at all.
Speaker 2: How are you going? People? If you want to come
Speaker 2: through my name as Marcus welcome. Eight hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: ten EAD, nineteen nine to two to text Hedle twelve.
Speaker 2: You got something I SHO want to talk about rather
Speaker 2: the good topic standing room only. But you might be
Speaker 2: just absorbing what people are saying and you might have
Speaker 2: something to add, and that's not a problem.
Speaker 5: I wait.
Speaker 2: One hundred and eighty ten nineteen nine two to text
Speaker 2: Hedle twelve. The last hour went so good. I don't
Speaker 2: even know what we're going to do this hour. Let
Speaker 2: it take its own form. I'll keep you updated with
Speaker 2: us two. When that happens, I was expecting a lot
Speaker 2: of thunder and lightning. That hasn't eventually it, which is disappointing.
Speaker 2: Loto is being drawn six million dollars kind the kind
Speaker 2: of the right amount?
Speaker 12: Is it?
Speaker 2: Not too much, not too little? Get yourself a villa
Speaker 2: somewhere anyway, do come through if you want anything to
Speaker 2: add to this. And they've euthanized all the whales in
Speaker 2: TASMANI a false killer whale. Yeah, and Philip Polkinghorn's houses
Speaker 2: for sale. He was from that trial. But of course
Speaker 2: there's no open home because they've got to be desperate
Speaker 2: to go and look at that. So yeah, you'd have
Speaker 2: to probably show them your bank account to get looked through.
Speaker 2: That one. Just putting that out there. Eleven past nine.
Speaker 2: If there's something of interest you've got to say or
Speaker 2: ring and talk about, would love to hear from you.
Speaker 2: I apparently he's a bit more information. They plan to
Speaker 2: build a large hangar that will house the Orion, which
Speaker 2: is trucked in twelve pieces last year, and the Hercules.
Speaker 2: A date of twenty twenty seven is given. I have
Speaker 2: quite strong views about museums for machines that are used
Speaker 2: to go, whether it be trucks or cars or planes.
Speaker 2: Are they museums or are they graveyards? Because they never came,
Speaker 2: they're alive. They go on there and ever see them again.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'll watch salvage hunters. There's always people with car
Speaker 2: museums or truck museums that can't sustain its selling everything.
Speaker 2: I've no I wants to go and see them anyway.
Speaker 2: It's kind of heartbreaking. It's a shame. You can't think
Speaker 2: there's not some billionaire that will keep all those planes
Speaker 2: flying around like the Hercules. All our aviation history has
Speaker 2: just all become static. But do get in touch if
Speaker 2: you want to add to any of these things. Oh
Speaker 2: eight hundred and eight ten and nine two nine two
Speaker 2: to text Hittle twelve and you were the last hour
Speaker 2: discussion is very very much, And get in touch of
Speaker 2: you do anything to add to that or something else.
Speaker 2: Who eight hundred eighty ten eighty and those massive thunderstorms.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, rain and Warnica, thanks for that. This come
Speaker 2: through so expecting. They said before nine o'clock was going
Speaker 2: to be their heavy deluge. It's nine o'clock now high
Speaker 2: from Ouamadu. Very heavy rain here at the moment, so
Speaker 2: it's just coming in. So the tempest has started. I
Speaker 2: love a bit of roll in coverage of the weather,
Speaker 2: and you want to add to that too, would be nice.
Speaker 2: But thirty two degrees in esh Burton today Marcus cyclone
Speaker 2: Gabriel made a mess of state Heyweed two after Napier
Speaker 2: and the Devil's Elbow. It will always need work. It's
Speaker 2: good the guy can still run his bike traps down
Speaker 2: the railway. That must have been like it's the railway
Speaker 2: wouldn't be as affected with it because it's not. They're probably
Speaker 2: pretty easy to remove landslips over it, but you do
Speaker 2: get in touch. Thirteen past nine Marcus thoughts on military spending.
Speaker 2: I think we need to increase it and worry with
Speaker 2: Australian Defense Force use the same models EJ helicopters, jet fighters.
Speaker 2: It must be work. Also, the class of ship for
Speaker 2: Navy makes logistics of parts easier. Neighbors can be infandagual.
Speaker 2: I'd be worried getting too close to Trump. He's blaming
Speaker 2: Ukraine for starting the war and we're part of Orcus.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I think you want to lie low for
Speaker 2: a while. It's it blows over Otherwise I guess involved
Speaker 2: in a war we don't want to be involved with.
Speaker 2: It's not looking good. That's just my opinion. It's not
Speaker 2: company policy. Good evening in it's Marcus, Welcome.
Speaker 23: From Gisbone. When I was a young fella, the railcard
Speaker 23: dropped us off and I think for anglong and we
Speaker 23: camp down to the track and we camp somewhere near
Speaker 23: the monument and we actually walk to the monument. Probably
Speaker 23: got picked up at Oba Tama.
Speaker 2: And the other thing is is that with scouts or
Speaker 2: a claustrip or.
Speaker 23: Oh just just a couple of mates. Yeah. And the
Speaker 23: other thing is that about maybe about thirty years ago,
Speaker 23: the steam train left Gisbon with about eight carriages on
Speaker 23: and they went to we went to Wyraw and we
Speaker 23: had lunch at Wyraw and when they came back, they
Speaker 23: stopped at Black's Beach and took a lot of photos
Speaker 23: and then came to Opatama and everybody got off and
Speaker 23: walked to the beach because there used to be a
Speaker 23: railway station there or platform. And then we came up
Speaker 23: to the memorial and they stopped there and everybody everybody
Speaker 23: took photos and what have you. Marcus, OK, yeah.
Speaker 2: So would Opatama be the closest station, probably to the
Speaker 2: way that the monument is. Would that be right?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 23: And that track I'm not too sure if it's where
Speaker 23: you go through there. If it's private land, you know,
Speaker 23: from there's a metal road you can head towards there, yes,
Speaker 23: but after that it's probably private land.
Speaker 2: Good point, okay, But I don't think.
Speaker 23: They can stop you walking on the track.
Speaker 2: Ah, well, not if there's no trains. I guess that's fine.
Speaker 23: But I think the Canoe and Tramping Club and some
Speaker 23: of the clubs walk through the organized thing and walk
Speaker 23: through there sometimes.
Speaker 22: Market Oh, that.
Speaker 2: Would be worth doing, wouldn't it Because it's beautiful. It's
Speaker 2: a beautiful and it's a shame that that trip's not
Speaker 2: it's a beautiful bit of railway line.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 2: You dry? Are you and Gisbet at the moment?
Speaker 23: In Yes, we live in Gisbone.
Speaker 12: Yes dry, yes?
Speaker 23: Tis and warm.
Speaker 2: Okay, unseasonably warm.
Speaker 23: Yeah, it has been this last few days. It's normally
Speaker 23: hot like this in the summertime, but we've had a
Speaker 23: real bad summer here this year with a lot of rain, oh,
Speaker 23: okay and cool.
Speaker 2: Has it affected the orchardists and the growers.
Speaker 23: No, I think the squash has been pretty good. I
Speaker 23: was at the squash factory this morning and they tell
Speaker 23: me that might run till Normally it's by March, it's
Speaker 23: all over, but they're talking about running till April. And
Speaker 23: Leader Brand do watermelons and they reckon it's the best
Speaker 23: season they've ever had for watermelons.
Speaker 2: Oh, they're great the watermelon. The quality of the watermelons
Speaker 2: and the souper markets have been great. What are you
Speaker 2: and the squash thing for? Are you just? Is it
Speaker 2: part one of your responsibilities?
Speaker 23: No? No, no, I'm retired. But you can buy squash
Speaker 23: from the copy understand.
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 23: Yeah?
Speaker 2: How much were they stay in the watermelon there for?
Speaker 23: I know you can't buy them from You've got to
Speaker 23: buy them from the supermarket.
Speaker 2: But you can buy the squash from.
Speaker 23: The warehouse Yeah, from their factory.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 23: Pretty pretty cool of the neighbors and a lot of
Speaker 23: the old people that can't drive there.
Speaker 2: Pretty boring vegetable A squash, though, isn't it? What do
Speaker 2: you do with it? Do you love it?
Speaker 23: It's nice and dry?
Speaker 12: Really?
Speaker 23: Yes, better than the soggy pumpkin.
Speaker 2: What do you do with your squash?
Speaker 23: Usually?
Speaker 2: Bake it well, cut it and then bake it.
Speaker 23: Yes, yeah, like for a roast.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I guess yeah. Is it like a
Speaker 2: butternut you're into.
Speaker 23: Yeah, yeah, it's around. They used to export a lot
Speaker 23: from Grisbone to Japan.
Speaker 2: Not a butter cup, but a butternut. Is that right?
Speaker 2: Or a butter cup?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 23: I think they probably call it a butter cup.
Speaker 2: Everybody just looks like, so, yeah, yeah, you've had a
Speaker 2: spaghetti squash No quite good comes out like spaghetti comes
Speaker 2: out and strands bizarre. What's going on there? And I've
Speaker 2: enjoyed talking squash with you. And that place name I
Speaker 2: hadn't heard before. I'm just going to repeat that again.
Speaker 2: What was it called? Fuddy Oer Onnger rail Country A
Speaker 2: get in Touch Marcus till twelve. Fancy that guy not
Speaker 2: only saying how much he loved squash, but really shoving
Speaker 2: it to pumpkin terrible soft stuff. It was a DC
Speaker 2: three that hit the chimes, but and he his wrecked
Speaker 2: DC eight on the mark of the airstrip just after
Speaker 2: they introduced it in the late sixties, something about throwing
Speaker 2: the motor in reverse. Someone ll know that details good
Speaker 2: shoe Marcus never crashed one of the hercules all those years.
Speaker 2: So good on the air Force for yeap, What wasn't
Speaker 2: lux in there? Because he thought he used to run airline?
Speaker 2: You think down there for the old landing, what wasn't
Speaker 2: seven sharp there? You think they'd be interviewing the pilots?
Speaker 2: What's going on with the stories? We want to see? Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: in christ Church today, part of the aviation history aimed
Speaker 2: to an end crossing now to oh that's right, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just we love that sort of stuff these days.
Speaker 2: If it doesn't ever it happens outside, Auckland's not covered
Speaker 2: for goodness sake, very important not to become bitter, isn't it?
Speaker 21: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you living these end times? Twenty past nine?
Speaker 2: My names Marcus, welcome. If you got anything to add
Speaker 2: to these topics, Great God, knock yourself out. There's something
Speaker 2: different you want to mention, Great Good, knock yourself out. Oh,
Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty ten eighty ten percent of all Kiwi's
Speaker 2: affected by fraud or deception in the last year. We've
Speaker 2: got a we've got a global reputation has been easy
Speaker 2: targets for scammers. Yep I reckon they'd be right, and
Speaker 2: the sea one thirty. Hecus there at Wiggram Eerodrome this afternoon.
Speaker 2: The videos on our Facebook page. How many watches has
Speaker 2: that head? I'll go and check that myself. People, what
Speaker 2: about I'm begging pumpkin like that soggy stuff sound a
Speaker 2: good one, it though, I should eat more squash, love squash.
Speaker 2: I'll just see how many people have left the interesting
Speaker 2: comments about the plane landing. Oh yes, oh yeah, going
Speaker 2: quite well as a post. It's a beautiful plane. We
Speaker 2: live in an obstinable point and would often see the
Speaker 2: sea one thirty flying overhead, will miss it. Thanks for
Speaker 2: keeping us up then, I can't wait to see more photos.
Speaker 2: Spot the hair running for its life. That's right, they're
Speaker 2: cleared it. That's probably why they did the touch and go.
Speaker 2: Thanks Marc as sad day. Clearly not important enough to
Speaker 2: have on the news tonight. I'm not normally one that
Speaker 2: rings up to talk. He said, oh, why wasn't this
Speaker 2: on the news? But why wasn't this on the news?
Speaker 2: The ocr and the Ukraine and the pope that was
Speaker 2: it happened this afternoon. They could have had a reporter there
Speaker 2: send out one of the mcveigh's package it up. Goodness,
Speaker 2: just there for the offering great visuals. By the way,
Speaker 2: here's something. Is anyone else having a big problem with
Speaker 2: ants at the moment? It seems to be ant season
Speaker 2: And I wonder if anyone's experiencing a particularly high infestation
Speaker 2: at the moment, and what you want to do, how
Speaker 2: you've managed to combat that. Are you sure there are
Speaker 2: summer thing ants? Or is that just because we leave
Speaker 2: more food out the summer. I think there are summer
Speaker 2: thing I think most animals are more active in the summer.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's such a thing as summer ants, and maybe
Speaker 2: in winter they kind of die off. I don't know,
Speaker 2: I'm not the bug man. Obviously, a lot of texts
Speaker 2: calling luxon Luxton, which is weird that people hear that
Speaker 2: name so often. They put the t in there. Don't
Speaker 2: know what that's about. Like they always said John Keyes,
Speaker 2: I always said just Center, and now it's always Luxton,
Speaker 2: which kind of slightly amuses me or amuses me when
Speaker 2: people come through some great points. But I think, well, actually,
Speaker 2: and what about the fact that golf has gone indoors
Speaker 2: all these tournaments now where they and even like Tiger
Speaker 2: Woods and Roy McRae they're all playing indoor golf. Were
Speaker 2: just bang the ball at a screen. Does that mean
Speaker 2: that golf courses are going to be a thing in
Speaker 2: the past? Turn them in there. And I haven't heard
Speaker 2: anyone talk about this, but looks like it might be happening. Janey,
Speaker 2: it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome, Hi Janey.
Speaker 15: Hi, Hi Marcus. My late mother was a teacher at
Speaker 15: Corporal Ava when the flood came through.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 15: And we actually I've moved back into the area and
Speaker 15: I'm now living on this peninsula and my peninsula. But
Speaker 15: Corporal Memorial is something that's very strong in our our
Speaker 15: area and certainly gets a lot of tourist attraction, although.
Speaker 2: The actual monument you can't get to, is.
Speaker 15: That right, Yes, it takes a bit of walking in
Speaker 15: a bit okay here. It was when the railway was
Speaker 15: open and running and functional. It was hugely popular and
Speaker 15: very much people would sort of stay awake if they'd
Speaker 15: come from Willington to Gisbon on the train, which it
Speaker 15: used to do and begging my day, people would certainly
Speaker 15: stay awake to watch it and train would slow down
Speaker 15: and I understand.
Speaker 2: So it was the monument was mainly for people to
Speaker 2: watch as they went past on the train. That makes sense,
Speaker 2: doesn't it.
Speaker 15: Yes, Yeah, because we were, you know, where the actual
Speaker 15: flooding was was sort of quite quite sort of spread out,
Speaker 15: but it was sort of put there to remind people
Speaker 15: that walk, even people that walk along the track. Most
Speaker 15: people now just walk along the railway track or what's
Speaker 15: left of it to the monument. It's certainly not accessible
Speaker 15: by anything else.
Speaker 2: Was the school there specifically for the children of the
Speaker 2: people making the viaduct?
Speaker 15: Yes, it was, And there was some her rumous stories
Speaker 15: of people leaving your families on the other side of
Speaker 15: the world to come over and engage in this because
Speaker 15: it was quite a If you know that in the
Speaker 15: rail line in this area, which I'm sure you do,
Speaker 15: it's quite a it's quite difficult terrain and it was
Speaker 15: quite specialized work that was going on in those days
Speaker 15: in terms of building the rail line.
Speaker 2: And was your mother there for it? Was your mother,
Speaker 2: wasn't it? Was she there for the flood? Was she
Speaker 2: there for the flood?
Speaker 6: Yes, she was.
Speaker 15: She never really spoke about it much because she said
Speaker 15: it was so traumatic and she lived and so many
Speaker 15: people didn't. So it was something that we're always very
Speaker 15: aware of but she never really enlarged upon. She just
Speaker 15: said it was just she just so so sad.
Speaker 2: So she was in the camp with all the others.
Speaker 15: Yes, yeah, but she was fortunate that.
Speaker 11: They have been.
Speaker 15: They used to have quite sort of it was quite
Speaker 15: a social establishment, and they used to have uthah nights
Speaker 15: and social activities, and she was being a school teacher.
Speaker 15: She was called upon to be the you know, quiz
Speaker 15: nights and things like that. She was called upon to
Speaker 15: be the sort of moderator of these activities. And she said,
Speaker 15: it was it just happened so quickly.
Speaker 2: You need to do all those things too, because isolated community,
Speaker 2: wasn't it.
Speaker 15: Oh yes, yes, yeah it was. Yeah. And our farm
Speaker 15: at Marhanger actually backed down and overlooked on to where
Speaker 15: it happened. So, oh, I guess we've got a more
Speaker 15: personal note than a lot of other people.
Speaker 2: Well, I really appreciate you coming through, Janie. It's amazing
Speaker 2: about the show. That meant you any event that was
Speaker 2: summer with a connection to it, So thank you for that.
Speaker 2: We just talked about the were just talking about the
Speaker 2: disaster that happened in nineteen thirty eight. They're building the
Speaker 2: railway track through Copewafa between Marha and Gisbon and a
Speaker 2: damn gave way and there was a landslide or a
Speaker 2: month slide, I guess you call it, and twenty one
Speaker 2: people killed. That happened this day in nineteen thirty eight.
Speaker 2: Corpoo after I guess it's probably from that pass. It's
Speaker 2: probably long oh at the beginning.
Speaker 9: I think.
Speaker 2: So there you go. Also talking about ants tonight and
Speaker 2: the plane landing at Wigram. If anyone saw that, any
Speaker 2: eyewitness said, some people that saw it from the pub,
Speaker 2: the Sandgridge Hotel, and you yourself might have seen that, Marcus.
Speaker 2: One memory I have about aircraft was at Milson Parmerston
Speaker 2: North the air show. Dougas Bader was a guest. A
Speaker 2: Globe Master made a low pass over the runway with
Speaker 2: any one of its four engines turned on, displaying its
Speaker 2: power plus it wrong opening. We're in ever Odell to
Speaker 2: touch the runway. Damage in the undercarriage, got photos Knoll, Marcus.
Speaker 2: Ants hate salt, So sprinkle salt where they are and
Speaker 2: they'll be the last time you see them Rose Gisbon.
Speaker 2: It's not me with the ants when I get them
Speaker 2: down south, Marcus. When I was a child before cyclone
Speaker 2: bowler hit. I would hear the train toot from my
Speaker 2: nana's house in Copahafra. That's from Sarah Marcus. The reason
Speaker 2: for indoor golf, the reason for its rise and popularity
Speaker 2: is due to the gulft cost of course fees and
Speaker 2: places like China and Coorea and maybe New Zealand seeing
Speaker 2: ants coming through the kitchen window and ever had ants
Speaker 2: before in the house. Eat wave might have something to
Speaker 2: do with it. A lot of people recommending raid for
Speaker 2: the ants, not just raid, it's raid liquid ants. What'd
Speaker 2: be in it? I always thought it was never wrong
Speaker 2: for ants or never Yeah, that's something that I've just
Speaker 2: got to say about that, never wrong. I think the
Speaker 2: Orange and Black Bottles cricket's about to start Champions Trophy
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. I don't know too much about that. Actually,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to quite sure what I'm still getting
Speaker 2: myself in for, so I should do some research about that.
Speaker 2: I don't know that we've done anything to qualify for
Speaker 2: there just a three cut I look into that. I
Speaker 2: should have done some research. But maybe someone can tell
Speaker 2: me about that. Oh yeah, there's a lot of teams
Speaker 2: the okay, okay, okay. It's the ninth edition of the
Speaker 2: ICC Champions Trophy, hosted by Pakistan and Ua from the
Speaker 2: nineteenth to February of the ninth of March. Will be
Speaker 2: contested by the top eight ranked men's national teams qualified
Speaker 2: for the twenty twenty three Cricket World Cup. So it's
Speaker 2: fifty over. It's one day matches, is that right? I've
Speaker 2: got that one right, So there you go. Two point
Speaker 2: two four million per team for the winners. That's from Wikipedia,
Speaker 2: fourtey away from ten. If you saw the plane land
Speaker 2: at Rigwam, that's what we're about. And ants. I love
Speaker 2: that guy from train Control too. But if you want
Speaker 2: to add to that, and it's always interesting the list
Speaker 2: of the different disasters, it's mainly ships, isn't it? Ships?
Speaker 2: And quakes on them planes? But of course you wouldn't
Speaker 2: call the Arabas disaster and he's head a disaster because
Speaker 2: it happened in Antarctica, which makes it even odder because
Speaker 2: it's Antarctica's worst disaster by a long long way. I'm
Speaker 2: sure more people died in Arabis than an Antarctic combined
Speaker 2: everything else, even all those adventurers, oats and the like
Speaker 2: good evening, hell and it's Marcus well them.
Speaker 6: Hey, hi Marcus. I'd like to talk about ants. Don't
Speaker 6: ants pay some very important role role in the ecology,
Speaker 6: in the environment. Don't they sort of clean up things,
Speaker 6: you know, rotten logs and or is that cockroaches?
Speaker 2: They don't often say that that all the ants combined
Speaker 2: would ray more than all the people. I don't know
Speaker 2: what ends do.
Speaker 6: I have a feeling they're sort of play an important role.
Speaker 2: I think I think people don't hate ants, they just
Speaker 2: don't like them in their food.
Speaker 6: No, well, I feel very sorry for them. People are
Speaker 6: always trying to wipe them out. I just take you know,
Speaker 6: if they come in and they I just take whatever,
Speaker 6: a bit of whatever it is outside, and they sort
Speaker 6: of follow that and go outside, and then maybe they
Speaker 6: come in again and try something else, But I just
Speaker 6: take it outside and I don't use Do you have
Speaker 6: any problem with them? And then they just go away?
Speaker 6: You know, I feel feel sorry for them.
Speaker 2: Do your ants like the sweet stuff or the savory stuff?
Speaker 22: Oh?
Speaker 6: The sweet stuff?
Speaker 2: A lot of the ants these days have more savory.
Speaker 2: The different one that like the savory, Yeah, but that
Speaker 2: there might be your ones. You might have a different
Speaker 2: I mean, you'll sound tame.
Speaker 6: They're lovely, I like ants. Yeah, I don't. I mean
Speaker 6: I'm not I'm sounding very judgmental.
Speaker 2: I think you're sounding very fair.
Speaker 6: No, No, what I mean is, you know people have
Speaker 6: people who kill them.
Speaker 2: You sound about pious.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean have a valid reason for it, you know,
Speaker 6: because some people think they bring in diseases and stuff.
Speaker 6: And I think, oh, yeah, well that's right, that's fair enough.
Speaker 15: You know.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm not prepared to condemn everybody who kills them,
Speaker 6: but that's how that's just how I've dealt with them.
Speaker 6: And I I just to get to get a bit
Speaker 6: worried that we're trying to wipe them out. And they
Speaker 6: play some very important ecological role. So maybe somebody who
Speaker 6: knows a bit more about that. Do you want to
Speaker 6: know about whippets?
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 6: They're like very tiny little greyhounds, like half a greyhound
Speaker 6: of be a whippet, very small, and they I think
Speaker 6: they shiver because they haven't got any body fat on them.
Speaker 2: Oh they're lean, aren't they.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And they've got fragile little bones and things.
Speaker 2: Where were they bred?
Speaker 6: I haven't got no idea, And we were talking about pumpkins.
Speaker 6: There is a butter cup pumpkin which has like got
Speaker 6: a sort of green skin, you know, it looks like
Speaker 6: a pumpkin. And then there's a button nut pumpkin which
Speaker 6: is sort of shaped like a good and there's a
Speaker 6: kind of tan colored skin. Sorry about all these topics.
Speaker 2: No, it's good. That's good to get a recap, Helen.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you for that. So getting some really strong
Speaker 2: advocates for the ants, Marcus. I like ants too. I
Speaker 2: feed them, they go outside. They are only trying to survive.
Speaker 2: I don't know why we can't live alongside instincts and
Speaker 2: kind of killing everything. Marcus. We went on a rampage
Speaker 2: when we first moved here where ants everywhere. So we
Speaker 2: ripped out any plants, forming a bridge to the house.
Speaker 2: People aren't gonna like this. Then put trapped throughout and
Speaker 2: around the house. Found on any bait that worked permanently
Speaker 2: was ants in your pants. I've never heard of ants
Speaker 2: in your pants. I've heard of ants in your pants,
Speaker 2: but not. It's a great name for isn't it. If
Speaker 2: they're having me on? If that's a real thing, ants
Speaker 2: in your pants? How are you going people? My name
Speaker 2: is Marcus. Welcome, Oh wait her an eight taty and
Speaker 2: nineteen nine to de text. Oh so oh, it's from
Speaker 2: the wet and forget people. I think ants naturally socially
Speaker 2: distanced themselves from each other. I didn't believe it either.
Speaker 2: When you watch them, it seems to be true. I
Speaker 2: think ants around the fence rails, and I baked them
Speaker 2: with exterm an and key weekend, no ants and more
Speaker 2: teine spray, little glass jar, put holes in the lid.
Speaker 2: Five teaspoons, white sugar, one teaspoon. Bor X works every
Speaker 2: time wherever you have an issue, even in the garden.
Speaker 2: Get bor X at Bunnings. Christine, Christine Evening, Johnny Marcus,
Speaker 2: welcome evening.
Speaker 8: Yes, we've got Argentine nts that come in from the
Speaker 8: ships around Koller. And they first started coming around two
Speaker 8: thousand and two, I think, in large numbers in a
Speaker 8: suburb called NATUCKI at mounta mong Annoy, and it was
Speaker 8: three people working on the wharf. I was one of them,
Speaker 8: sure of it because they didn't get into your car.
Speaker 8: And you get it from unloading ships and so on.
Speaker 2: And they're the ones that have the like the savory
Speaker 2: stuff is that right.
Speaker 8: Well, they're in my kitchen occasionally. I'm always getting blown
Speaker 8: up if I leave anything on the bench. But yeah,
Speaker 8: they're sort of the yellowy color and the color or
Speaker 8: more of a dull yellow. And yeah, there's a few
Speaker 8: of them around, but I've noticed in Welcome Bay here
Speaker 8: there's significantly more than satan space.
Speaker 2: They are like the brown, yellowy brownie, waxy looking, aren't they.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yes, the glassy looking, and they're a little bit
Speaker 8: older than your average black ant. But yeah, they've they've
Speaker 8: been in my garden and I've noticed, Yeah, there's a lot.
Speaker 8: I don't use sprays or anything. I've got natural privitice,
Speaker 8: but I see there's quite a variety of some interesting
Speaker 8: ants tuning up. And I took a photo of one
Speaker 8: of them and tried to find out, but I couldn't
Speaker 8: really tell what species it once.
Speaker 2: We might talk more without it the next Dowy Johnny.
Speaker 2: But thank you for that, Laurie Marcus.
Speaker 18: Welcome, Yeah, hid Marcus. According to that blurb on the
Speaker 18: ants and the pants packets, there's one hundred thousand different
Speaker 18: species of ants.
Speaker 2: That's a few.
Speaker 18: I assume ruine Rude climb pass has an association with
Speaker 18: that company. So yeah, yeah, he tests some of their
Speaker 18: products and well, and I think he has when people
Speaker 18: go on his show and have trouble ants, that's that's
Speaker 18: something he recommends.
Speaker 2: Oh, I see, but he's got he's in their camp
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 18: For that particular product. I know he gets a bit.
Speaker 18: I know he's not that keen on the Miss Muppets Revenge,
Speaker 18: which is a product to spray to get rid of your spiders.
Speaker 2: Likes the spiders.
Speaker 18: He's pro spider here. So I've got yeah, but just
Speaker 18: I don't know if if you've heard there's a number
Speaker 18: of people it's sort of a genetic trait where you
Speaker 18: can smelant. There's a phomic acid and I I can
Speaker 18: smell them when they're in large numbers, but there's people
Speaker 18: that can't smell them at all. But it's it's when
Speaker 18: when you look up about it, they say it's it's
Speaker 18: a genetic trait.
Speaker 2: What percentage can smell them?
Speaker 18: Well, I'm quite sure, but I mean they usually large concentrations,
Speaker 18: and like say you're here, you get the north wall
Speaker 18: of a building, and if I've gotten there in big numbers,
Speaker 18: you know it's I mean the times I smell them,
Speaker 18: it's it's it's there's no, there's no question about it.
Speaker 18: Then you say there's other people and they can't smell anything,
Speaker 18: But I think it's you know, it's I'm not quite
Speaker 18: sure hair rere that is, but yeah, I see it.
Speaker 2: Twenty percent of people can smell them.
Speaker 18: Yeah, yeah, I mean in the mann or too. Well, well,
Speaker 18: there's we just speak for a part of Parmi that
Speaker 18: I live. And it's been the year of the quietly
Speaker 18: end really this year, yeah, because it was quite wet
Speaker 18: and over spring and we haven't had many in the
Speaker 18: house at all. In fact, there's another product which is
Speaker 18: quite good. It's called ripcord Plus, which you know, if
Speaker 18: you can spray to stop the ants sort of moving
Speaker 18: in and let's keep the cockroaches and other things out too.
Speaker 18: But it's it's pretty effective here, you know.
Speaker 2: Because you can smell the end. Say from how far
Speaker 2: can you smell them?
Speaker 18: Well, they have to be in pretty big numbers, no,
Speaker 18: normal small numbers. I don't, although I could remember a
Speaker 18: particular occasion. I worked in Farmy for a government department
Speaker 18: that got closed down being reorganized, and we had to
Speaker 18: put a whole lot of office cabints, cabinets and storage.
Speaker 18: We hired a garage up and Terrace end and stuck
Speaker 18: all these great cabinets in there, and they were going
Speaker 18: to Originally the head office was going to send a
Speaker 18: truck up to have to take them bad in Willington
Speaker 18: in the process. Terrace is a pretty good place for ants.
Speaker 18: When I went around when the truck arrived to unlock
Speaker 18: the doors to load these things on, and said, you know,
Speaker 18: I mean I smelled them straight away. The whole place
Speaker 18: was just riddle with them, and all every seal cabinet,
Speaker 18: every layer had you know that he nested ends. And
Speaker 18: I just sort of visualizing because we I wasn't on
Speaker 18: such great terms with the department that it shut us
Speaker 18: down that we put them in the truck and sent
Speaker 18: them off to visualize what they're going to be like
Speaker 18: when they've got hit Wellington.
Speaker 2: Very good at Larry, thank you for that. Who can
Speaker 2: spell ends? Why can't you smell? And who can spell
Speaker 2: out spelling nts and Argentinian n or Argentine nts? Oh
Speaker 2: wait one hundred and eighty ten, nineteen ninety two to
Speaker 2: text someone texts, I can smell them. Of course you
Speaker 2: can get in touch here till twelve thirty past ten.
Speaker 2: My name is Markers. Seems to be a wicket in
Speaker 2: a cricket. They're appealing, are they no betting?
Speaker 8: That?
Speaker 2: Good evening, Alan as Marcus, Welcome, Hi Marcus.
Speaker 12: How are you good?
Speaker 2: Alan? Thank you? How are you going all right?
Speaker 18: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Pretty good? Yeah. I've got ant Siri, little tiny black things.
Speaker 12: God can they move? Yeah. One night there I had
Speaker 12: a lot of ants. They came in. I've got them
Speaker 12: all around my section here the patches of them running
Speaker 12: around the concrete and.
Speaker 8: What have you.
Speaker 12: But one night here I got them in the They
Speaker 12: come into my bedroom and they're all along in the window.
Speaker 12: Sell them and they got on my tall boy, you
Speaker 12: got into my hair. I could feel them running in
Speaker 12: me here. I woke up during the night. You could
Speaker 12: feel them in your hair.
Speaker 2: Sounds good.
Speaker 12: They were in there. They were starting to eat me.
Speaker 12: And I just got in the share. I got some
Speaker 12: disinfected and I just sprayed the whole. I cleaned my
Speaker 12: room out and pulled my room to pieces that day.
Speaker 12: Next day, Uh, yeah, the cat goes out and rolls
Speaker 12: on the concrete in the nice warm day. Yeah, and
Speaker 12: he got some on me and he was running for
Speaker 12: a while. I had to put some stuff on the
Speaker 12: on the back of his neck. You get it a
Speaker 12: new world and yeah, just give it a little tube
Speaker 12: tiny we Chube.
Speaker 2: What part of the country you on? Ellen? And gray
Speaker 2: here cheapers, they're in Graymouth. Yeah, I don't think they'd
Speaker 2: be pretty empty at all.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I've got millions the things here.
Speaker 2: And when they're on you Is this just recently.
Speaker 12: A week ago?
Speaker 2: Yeah, sheep as, I'm feeling for you.
Speaker 12: But yeah, I sprayed them in pretty much every day.
Speaker 12: I get nem o well outside and spray the spray
Speaker 12: them outside. There there's lines of them. They come along
Speaker 12: and from under there's under the bottom wall weatherboard that
Speaker 12: sits on the near the foundation. They go up under that,
Speaker 12: under there, underneath my veranda. I'm sure they're under there
Speaker 12: or under underneath by there's some run by the sitting
Speaker 12: room there too.
Speaker 2: They sound very will they sound very well organized.
Speaker 12: Oh they are, they really are. They're in the trees too,
Speaker 12: and my up and my nectarine trees and my but
Speaker 12: is a camellia tree there they're up and there. I
Speaker 12: sprayed them my love and there the other night. But
Speaker 12: see they get in a big line. There's lines of
Speaker 12: them a ride alonger at my front from the house
Speaker 12: right out to the front gate and along on the
Speaker 12: alonger each of the boards, on each of the guards.
Speaker 12: And there's swarms, absolute swarms of them.
Speaker 2: Have they just started getting worse?
Speaker 12: I spray them every night, you know, every day.
Speaker 2: But how long has this gone on? For?
Speaker 12: Weeks and weeks and weeks? All us all summer, all summer?
Speaker 2: Okay? And well, thoughts are with you? Elements. That's good?
Speaker 2: I mean I enjoyed your story. Venty they're going on
Speaker 2: a kid. Hello Jill, Jill.
Speaker 10: Hello, Hello evening. Marcus product. I have a product here
Speaker 10: in my hand which is put out by Pee Week
Speaker 10: Care and it's called no Ants gel Bait. And how
Speaker 10: many grams doing it?
Speaker 24: Ready to use?
Speaker 10: Ten grands? I think it's ten? What was it?
Speaker 22: Oh?
Speaker 8: M hm?
Speaker 10: And anywhere they just squeamed out you see where the
Speaker 10: ants are running and you just put a spot a
Speaker 10: dab of this gel and they pick it up and
Speaker 10: take it back to the nest and so they all die.
Speaker 2: You get the lot. To get the lot, someone comes
Speaker 2: back with that.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: So you've had you've had problems and this has worked
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 10: No, not in my house. No, but sometimes they're outside,
Speaker 10: not very often. I haven't had any lately, but I
Speaker 10: just keep this in case. But I couldn't bear them
Speaker 10: in my house because I have had them in homes
Speaker 10: I live in Auckland, and they're dreadful if they get
Speaker 10: into your house, and the smell they make is just unbelievable,
Speaker 10: and they will eat anything, any sugar jam. They'll get
Speaker 10: into all the products of your pantry. But no, my
Speaker 10: house is Bullock Prosperence.
Speaker 2: What's the name of the product again.
Speaker 24: There, gen, Jill, It's key We.
Speaker 10: It's put out by key We Carey, we care And
Speaker 10: no ants, Okay, miss killer brilliant.
Speaker 2: Appreciate that, Jill, So for wrong naming you to your
Speaker 2: aunt proud Wow, no ants.
Speaker 10: Valerie her name Marcus. I just thought you like my
Speaker 10: story about inks. I went to go to the toilet
Speaker 10: one day, and this is going back now about three
Speaker 10: years ago, and the bowl of the toilet was absolutely
Speaker 10: laden black with inks. So I lifted the lid you
Speaker 10: know where you flush the toilet. I lifted the lid
Speaker 10: right off and there was thousands of them all over
Speaker 10: the lid. It was just jet black. And yeh. The
Speaker 10: following year I went to have a shower. I got
Speaker 10: a week to go to get a towel out of
Speaker 10: the cylinder cupboard, and there was about ten thousand inks
Speaker 10: in between my towels and the cylinder cupboard. I could
Speaker 10: hardly believe it. So I rang the people that run
Speaker 10: our plats and the man came down. And after that,
Speaker 10: every year they come around and spray us, and I
Speaker 10: haven't had one since.
Speaker 11: The bug man.
Speaker 10: They get the bug man and the sprays all around
Speaker 10: by your back door and your garden. It doesn't kill
Speaker 10: any branchs or anything, and we haven't. I haven't had
Speaker 10: any trouble since. But why would they go on my
Speaker 10: cylinder cupboard?
Speaker 2: Well, why they go in the toilet system because it's
Speaker 2: witting there with the on top of the water.
Speaker 10: Yes, I was sitting on top of the water.
Speaker 13: All of them.
Speaker 10: There were thousands of them. That took me three weeks
Speaker 10: to get rid of them completely.
Speaker 2: And they must have just appeared quite suddenly, if they
Speaker 2: were just suddenly there.
Speaker 10: Yes, that's right, that's exactly right. I've never seen so
Speaker 10: many in all my life. And I'll tell you another
Speaker 10: place I loved that where they were bad was took
Speaker 10: a coey I lived there for a few years and
Speaker 10: the windowsills or brack with them feels quite empty.
Speaker 2: It feels like quite an anty kind of a place.
Speaker 17: Wow.
Speaker 10: Yes, so they're everywhere, I think, aren't they. I think
Speaker 10: all towns have got them.
Speaker 2: I know of them down south. I've never seen an
Speaker 2: anton bluff. We don't have ants, we don't have mosquitoes,
Speaker 2: we don't have something else. I can't think what the
Speaker 2: other thing is. Flies, And that in itself is a
Speaker 2: reason to live there. I would to say, to be
Speaker 2: free of ants is re freeing. You've been involved in
Speaker 2: the house and an ant fes stations, just sources everywhere, events, stuff,
Speaker 2: and it never works. They get used to it. In fact,
Speaker 2: I think after a while they start drinking it just
Speaker 2: to taunt you. Yeah, if you've ever been taunted by ants,
Speaker 2: it's not pleasant. Don't want to jinx it with the
Speaker 2: keis off to fly. They're playing Pakistan and the champions
Speaker 2: trophy thirty two without loss, us even batting first Young
Speaker 2: twenty one Conway ten ten off ten young twenty one
Speaker 2: off twenty three run a ball, run a ball. Years
Speaker 2: ago I worked in a rest home and ants would
Speaker 2: set the fire alarms off wasn't so great. On the
Speaker 2: night shift, the fire service automate and notified it would
Speaker 2: turn up to check things out. Then of course all
Speaker 2: the res a would wake up bringing this cool bells.
Speaker 2: At least it made the shift go fast to fun times.
Speaker 2: Ah yuck. Get in touch. My name is Marcus hit
Speaker 2: On midnight tonight, oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.
Speaker 2: If you want to text, it's nine two nine two.
Speaker 2: Do you want to see the plane landing at Wigram
Speaker 2: Go to Marcus slash nuts on Facebook. Good evening, Jen,
Speaker 2: Jen Jay, and it's Marcus.
Speaker 25: Welcome, Hi Marcus. Now, if you want to get rid
Speaker 25: of ents, you go to the supermarket where the fly
Speaker 25: spray is and get a container of ants sand. You
Speaker 25: go right round your house, down your drive everywhere, get
Speaker 25: rid of the whole container, and you'll never have another NT.
Speaker 19: What's it called ant sand?
Speaker 2: How do you hear about these things? I never heard
Speaker 2: of it?
Speaker 25: Well, I don't know, but round the windowsills, down the
Speaker 25: drive way, right the way around the whole house and
Speaker 25: you will never have another end.
Speaker 2: And send and send, And.
Speaker 25: That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 2: Send and send and send sand freends.
Speaker 25: Yep, And it's but where the fly sprays are in
Speaker 25: the supermarkets. Absolutely fantastic goodness.
Speaker 2: I wonder what it is.
Speaker 25: Well, I don't know, but thet don't like it. I
Speaker 25: can tell you you'll never have them better again.
Speaker 2: Good to work with a sand case. Just pour it
Speaker 2: around like saying.
Speaker 11: And said, that's right.
Speaker 25: It's just just got holes in the top of the container.
Speaker 25: And you shake the sand around on your windowsills, down
Speaker 25: the drive, everywhere, everywhere, and you will never have another end.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of advertised sounds for you.
Speaker 25: Well, I'm advertising.
Speaker 2: You are doing very well, Jane. Thank you. Marcus money
Speaker 2: a tall or no ants, fleas, slugs or snails too cold.
Speaker 2: I can believe your antsand ant sand Hi beef. You're right, yep,
Speaker 2: Marcus welcome.
Speaker 24: It's right, yeah, my market. I can smell ants. Wow,
Speaker 24: they have the most horrible bitter acidy kind of smell.
Speaker 24: And I accidentally ate a couple not realizing they were
Speaker 24: in it, and just as I put it in my mouth,
Speaker 24: I could start to smell the smell, but I was
Speaker 24: already too bad on and oh my god, they taste
Speaker 24: just like they smell, and.
Speaker 2: I know that kind of that taste. I think we've
Speaker 2: all inadvertently tasted them. But I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: think I can smell them.
Speaker 24: Oh no, I can smell them, and took ages for
Speaker 24: the taste to go out of my mouth.
Speaker 2: How far away could you smell them? Could there be
Speaker 2: one on the saw also and you'd smell it?
Speaker 24: It was probably more if there were quite a few
Speaker 24: of them, like the other man says, And I know
Speaker 24: this sounds horrible that I'd pour boiling water on them.
Speaker 2: Wow, that doesn't sound horrible.
Speaker 24: Yeah, that kills them straight away though, so I don't
Speaker 24: feel quite so bad. But they when that happens, they
Speaker 24: set off that smell as well. Yes, like when it's
Speaker 24: almost when they die, they do a little pain.
Speaker 2: Could you go to someone's house and think, oh, that
Speaker 2: smells quite anti?
Speaker 24: Well, I haven't noticed it at anybody's house, but I mean,
Speaker 24: I'm not going around sniffing for ant feeder.
Speaker 2: But did you know that it was a superpower that
Speaker 2: twenty percent of people are ant smellers?
Speaker 24: No, I thought everybody, No.
Speaker 2: No, you're a rare breed.
Speaker 24: Yeah, but I am. Where I used to live, there
Speaker 24: up a lot of ants, and sometimes I put a
Speaker 24: whole lot of sugar out to feed them, and then
Speaker 24: when they're a whole lot there, then I just wipe
Speaker 24: them out. And I felt really bad doing it, but
Speaker 24: you know, you just sometimes have to. You've got to
Speaker 24: do something to get rid of them, and they just
Speaker 24: were everywhere.
Speaker 2: I don't know genetically what the advantage to be able
Speaker 2: to smell ants would be.
Speaker 24: Yeah, I don't think most people even think about it.
Speaker 24: They just go, oh, I can smell them.
Speaker 2: Do they smell like blue cheese?
Speaker 24: No, blue cheese smells better?
Speaker 2: Okay, Wow.
Speaker 24: Yeah, it's a real bitter, really bitter, acidy kind of smell.
Speaker 24: So they taste just as they smell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I appreciate that. Ant smellers twenty five to
Speaker 2: ten eleven, Malcolm.
Speaker 13: Hello, get a Marcus Howei.
Speaker 2: Good, Thank you, Malcolm.
Speaker 13: The simplest, most easily sensible way to get right around
Speaker 13: is just go out to any supermarket and buy a
Speaker 13: bottle of white or malt vinegar. They hate vinegar. Oh,
Speaker 13: for goodness, they run now, they run the hills. I've
Speaker 13: been doing it for thirty four years. Works every time.
Speaker 12: Wow.
Speaker 13: You don't have to go and buy a branded product,
Speaker 13: just get because most of them if you actually look
Speaker 13: at them, will be vinegar? Just going to buy a
Speaker 13: bottle of vinegar?
Speaker 2: Gone, you're Malcolm, Thank you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Someone says ants smell chocolate. Well, I guess it depends
Speaker 2: on which different ances ship smelling the a lot of
Speaker 2: different ends. I don't know what the definition of an enters.
Speaker 2: There's probably something to do with it to body makeup.
Speaker 2: You're an insect, aren't they? What's it? An insect and
Speaker 2: a spider. That was always a bit vague, wasn't it.
Speaker 2: What surprises me, right is people are so brand loyal
Speaker 2: to some ant cure. Now bless her Jan, I think
Speaker 2: it was you'll never see an ant again? Well, I
Speaker 2: reckon you will. But she swears by the ant sand.
Speaker 2: Would you go ant sand for Jan or Murray's melt vinegar.
Speaker 2: I'd go to the ant sand because your phone line
Speaker 2: was better. Marcus. They's ants are like aliens. They love fish.
Speaker 2: I had some bait in a poly but and they
Speaker 2: got through a tidy crack. Can't believe about twenty of
Speaker 2: them actually froze to death marching over the ice. Marcus.
Speaker 2: Ant sand would not be that great for the used
Speaker 2: of crops and birds. Good point? Would the bird eat it?
Speaker 2: They might well ant rid is the best Marcus blue
Speaker 2: liquid and tube from New World World or Bunnings. Once,
Speaker 2: like Kate, the ants squirt that near them, then more
Speaker 2: and more arrive. They love it. They take it back
Speaker 2: to the nest. During the next two days, less and
Speaker 2: less arrive until none re effective. Similar concept to wasp kill.
Speaker 2: By the way, I have no ants. It's not me
Speaker 2: that suggested suggested that I've got ants. I said, people
Speaker 2: are saying that ants are a problem this summer. No say,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, Marcus, got ant o every anty. I've got
Speaker 2: no ants, no zero ants to bring. Men say you're
Speaker 2: forty for one, there's a wicked you, and say you
Speaker 2: what you're going to try? Is this? Because I don't
Speaker 2: need to try anything. I've got no ants. But if
Speaker 2: I had them, don know what I'd be trying. Never on.
Speaker 2: I've always rated when I've lived in more empty parts
Speaker 2: of the world. But even in Craig.
Speaker 4: Hi Marcus, I reckon. I introduced ants to my house.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: I loved monarch butterflies, and I bought some swamp plants.
Speaker 4: And ants will farm the aphids that get on the
Speaker 4: swamp plants. And so originally we had the proper so
Speaker 4: called ant, you know, the large ant that you can
Speaker 4: see quite visibly. Never come into the house, you'll always
Speaker 4: see it in the garden. And then we started getting
Speaker 4: it was a smaller end and if you squash it,
Speaker 4: to me, it smells like bananas. It has this sort
Speaker 4: of fragrance, like you know when you go to supermarket
Speaker 4: and you go to grab your bananas at Pack and
Speaker 4: Save or New World or wherever, and you've got that
Speaker 4: real pungent banana smell. Well, that's what they smell like.
Speaker 9: If you're squashing.
Speaker 4: And then there's a third ant that we get, and
Speaker 4: it's even smaller again, and it seems to be faster.
Speaker 4: It's very vigorous, and if you squash that it almost
Speaker 4: smells gingery, like a ginger smell. So I'm in the
Speaker 4: eastern suburbs of christ Church. I'm in the Bromley area
Speaker 4: of christ Church, off Land Whatev. So it'd be interesting
Speaker 4: to see if anyone else gets that kind of event
Speaker 4: in that area. We're kind of on a sandy soil
Speaker 4: and it's also that volcanic like the red sort of
Speaker 4: soil as well. Yes, it'd be interesting to see if
Speaker 4: anyone else has similar experiences in the area.
Speaker 2: I'll find out, Craig, but thank you. I just got
Speaker 2: to tell you that Cain Williamson's gone out second ball,
Speaker 2: got an edge caught behind. That's heartbreaking. He looks devastated
Speaker 2: also too. So that seems so we're like forty for two.
Speaker 2: There's a situation there forty So yeah, that's a worry.
Speaker 2: Lennard's Marcus.
Speaker 9: Hello, Oh hi Marcus.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 14: About seven or eight years ago, I had my home
Speaker 14: inundated with ants and it was a really really dry summer.
Speaker 14: I ended up by calling in an insect test controller
Speaker 14: guy and we put that weakened to get product all around,
Speaker 14: and he sprayed everywhere. I had a two story brick house.
Speaker 14: I had them everywhere. It wasn't a cleanliness thing. It
Speaker 14: was so dry outside. They were coming inside looking for water.
Speaker 2: System.
Speaker 14: Yeah, yes, you find their way into the shower, around
Speaker 14: the taps in the pantry, everywhere, just black insect. They
Speaker 14: smell like for melder hide or for melodic acid or something.
Speaker 14: You can smell them coming. I had him in twice
Speaker 14: that summer and he re sprayed, and the next summer
Speaker 14: I called him in again because they were still around
Speaker 14: and he said, you kind of clear out their massive
Speaker 14: underground nests. But of course then there's a spare hotel
Speaker 14: around and all the local ants and further afield come
Speaker 14: in and take over there.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 14: So every time it's really really dry like we're having
Speaker 14: in South Auckland this year, I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 14: the ants are out again, just one of those psychic
Speaker 14: insect problems. Oh and the other thing he told me,
Speaker 14: and I can't remember exactly, that there are where there
Speaker 14: were really really tiny ants that were either sugar ants
Speaker 14: or protein and the other bigger ants were different as well.
Speaker 14: He was, you need a pest control guying up. It's
Speaker 14: interesting to learn about them.
Speaker 2: There's some sweet, there's some savory. Yeah, and the big
Speaker 2: ones are the Argentine ones that came for the common
Speaker 2: the commonalth games at Mount Smart. That's what the first
Speaker 2: spotted came with a competitor. I don't know what event.
Speaker 2: If you regularly fly spray common column of ants and
Speaker 2: their sauce when they're coming from they get the message
Speaker 2: they stay clear of your food stuffs. And the ten
Speaker 2: years I've had this, I've had two infestations. Dealt with
Speaker 2: methods both times. Ants are sugar hollocks. If I leave
Speaker 2: a can of bourbon out, it's a it's ants maniac rush.
Speaker 2: They're easy to catch then, though. People are liking bed
Speaker 2: with the boiling water Realy clearly even I got a shock?
Speaker 2: Was she the super Speller? Forty five for two abra
Speaker 2: is bowling. I don't know what happened with Caine. I'm
Speaker 2: not happy, though, but Young's established. He's thirty one on
Speaker 2: thirty two bulls Mitchell's two for four. It's Ants tonight.
Speaker 2: Marcus opened the back door and on the porch for
Speaker 2: around one hundred and more ants taking parts of a
Speaker 2: dead bomb of moth back to their nest. A lot
Speaker 2: of people rave about that movie Ants. I don't ever
Speaker 2: like that a little bit. I'm not gonna say unbelievable,
Speaker 2: a little bit sort of corny. No, I reckons there's
Speaker 2: lots of people with entirety he's done to play on
Speaker 2: anxiety and antiety. Good at least he's trying get in
Speaker 2: touch by name as Marcus. Welcome hitded twelve oh eight
Speaker 2: hundred eighty ten eighty nine nine text. Anyone't got anything different?
Speaker 2: They want to talk about that's fine by me, Marcus.
Speaker 2: A panel including James Cameron was on Stuff Live tonight.
Speaker 2: Patty Gower was the moderator. More than a thousand people
Speaker 2: in the MFC with the Michael Fowler Center. It was
Speaker 2: a difficult watch with bright lights and no table. Gower
Speaker 2: and the panel, except for Cameron, looked down most of
Speaker 2: the time, slouching trying to get out of the lights.
Speaker 2: It was poorly moderated. Speakers were allowed to go on
Speaker 2: and on, off and repeating themselves in the process. Gower
Speaker 2: was restrained and keep his ego and check which was great.
Speaker 2: Potentially an amazing opportunity for the world to look at,
Speaker 2: to look and on Cameron will be followed by millions
Speaker 2: here as yet to be grunded a citizenship. How crazy
Speaker 2: is that? The passion was there, but boy at dragged Peter.
Speaker 2: Why do we rely on an overseas persa? Do us
Speaker 2: what to do with Wellington? He said what he said?
Speaker 2: Does they need more car parks? Cheapers? How many car
Speaker 2: parks are going to build? I saw ants attack monarch
Speaker 2: butterflies while it was making a cocoon. So many ants
Speaker 2: they completely covered their caterpillar and ate it. Good evening billets, Marcus, welcome.
Speaker 3: Good evening. Every time ants come into my house, I
Speaker 3: simply pushed some of my son kill every one of them,
Speaker 3: and they don't come back.
Speaker 2: So you can't have some of the infestations that are
Speaker 2: big because sometimes people have trails with thousands of them.
Speaker 3: Well, it works for me, and no matter how many I.
Speaker 2: Okay, are you in a colder climate though, Bill.
Speaker 3: No, I'm a The other day I came into the
Speaker 3: bathroom and the ants are starting to run into the basin.
Speaker 3: I just swit for some gown and killed them all
Speaker 3: and they haven't mean back. Sense.
Speaker 2: Does it take a long Does it take a long time?
Speaker 3: Well, just a little of the time. They were just
Speaker 3: starting their run a couple of years ago. They came
Speaker 3: into my pantry and I just put my son on
Speaker 3: them and that did take a bit a lot more
Speaker 3: of them. And they haven't mean backed since a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago.
Speaker 2: So last time a couple of years you got.
Speaker 3: Brains O the yeah, brains, they won't come back.
Speaker 2: Brilliant. Okay, appreciate that, Bill, Thank you. That's Bill the
Speaker 2: old thumb hemmer. We are talking about ants and the
Speaker 2: problem with ants at the moment. Oh, By the way,
Speaker 2: sky Sport is getting more expensive. I can't quite work
Speaker 2: out why, because they're paying less for the rights for
Speaker 2: the all blacks, so it should be less cost. A
Speaker 2: lot of parents are saying that landlines are great things
Speaker 2: for their children, that they enjoy always people ringing for them.
Speaker 2: They enjoy the phone ringing at odd times. So not
Speaker 2: getting their children's cell phones to just let them use
Speaker 2: the landline, Well, I'll get bored with that soon or later.
Speaker 2: I wasn't they sooner enough. Capital letters are falling out
Speaker 2: of favor. I'm a big user of not using capital letters. Yep,
Speaker 2: lower cases the way to go, according to people under thirty,
Speaker 2: feels more relaxed. Someone said, when I start using proper capitalization,
Speaker 2: it feels I'm trying to make a point strong that
Speaker 2: it needs to be.
Speaker 12: Yep.
Speaker 2: To cultural marker, I've always been lower case. Like ee Cummings.
Speaker 2: You're studying him at school anyway, good a Pete Marcus, welcome.
Speaker 16: Mars will go from ants to rets.
Speaker 2: To work rets.
Speaker 16: We'll go change the top, will go from from ants
Speaker 16: torets regarding what basically, what's I'm refearing to hear what's
Speaker 16: going on with the Ukraine now and how Donald Trump
Speaker 16: is letting Putin doing what he's doing. I regon, it's
Speaker 16: shocking for the world's going down there, very worrying. He's
Speaker 16: an agressive basically what he's a I shouldn't say it,
Speaker 16: but it's a very sair day for the Americans. I
Speaker 16: thiees actually allowing Trump to take most of that land back.
Speaker 16: He said he's had nothing. He should be head up
Speaker 16: for war crime for what he has done to the
Speaker 16: Ukrainian shockdown hospitals and you know already are rare by Trump.
Speaker 16: So he's basically what he's doing, he's allowing Trump. I
Speaker 16: just listened to the I've been following us for a
Speaker 16: long time now and since Trump's got back, and which
Speaker 16: is worse Trump for Biden? I have Biden. And what
Speaker 16: Trump's doing hours wrong.
Speaker 2: Well, I can't quite work out why he blames Ukraine
Speaker 2: for the war. Say that again, I can't quite work
Speaker 2: out why he's blaming the Ukraine for the war.
Speaker 16: Well, as far as I'm concerned, he invaded Ukraine and Putin.
Speaker 16: Really the only way to be going to make the
Speaker 16: world stronger is by letting him taking a lot of
Speaker 16: that land back. The majority of that land back of
Speaker 16: Putin wins that with Trumps, I reckon, what's going to
Speaker 16: happen again and be like Crimemea, he will just wait
Speaker 16: till he build his army up again. Here we back
Speaker 16: in there again. So there's the agreements that he makes
Speaker 16: now with the U n and all that, and even
Speaker 16: by not even letting Lynsky in there for the for
Speaker 16: the for the negotiations with the EU and the United Nations,
Speaker 16: and that I reckon, who that hell does this Trump
Speaker 16: think he is? He's out of control?
Speaker 2: Well, I think I think he overrates his own ability
Speaker 2: understand understanding of world politics and thinks everything can be
Speaker 2: done as a deal. But it's kind of weird and
Speaker 2: kind of worrying.
Speaker 16: Very worrying Marcus, because what's He's got this word called aggressor,
Speaker 16: which is not a good name to have if you're
Speaker 16: a leader of United States, I can guarantee then you
Speaker 16: know the Americans wouldn't like being called as as aggressive.
Speaker 12: Well.
Speaker 2: The weird thing is too now they're talking about, you
Speaker 2: see in the military spending two percent of our GDP,
Speaker 2: but would we want to spend two percent of our
Speaker 2: GDPD go into an alliance with the United States to
Speaker 2: follow them whatever conflicts are going to go into because
Speaker 2: it's looking fairly unstable at the moment.
Speaker 16: Oh, very far as I'm concerned, I don't blame the
Speaker 16: what's happening with the you know, if the EU were
Speaker 16: for or the allies that around there, Basically what they're
Speaker 16: realizing now is they cannot rely on the US anymore
Speaker 16: because he's basically backing people like Putin. So it's I
Speaker 16: think it's really been a shock for the for the
Speaker 16: EU and the UN and what happens how Trump is
Speaker 16: handling this right now, it's not to say right now,
Speaker 16: it's not a good look for the world. If we've
Speaker 16: got a man in power like that in the US,
Speaker 16: he's going to pick size of Puot. And it's very
Speaker 16: very shaky world right now. We've got a man of
Speaker 16: power like that running the place.
Speaker 2: Have you spent time in the Ukraine?
Speaker 16: No, I've not been there. No, it's one place I
Speaker 16: had not been. I traveled pretty much. It's one place
Speaker 16: that did not go through there, you know, But I've
Speaker 16: been through Russia and through there. When I did in
Speaker 16: the OE and all they went to Moscow and Satan's
Speaker 16: Petersburg and through there and mince whatever it was called.
Speaker 16: But yeah, but what i've what's happening right now is
Speaker 16: it's not good for the world. And I think basically
Speaker 16: and what Trump is saying is too. He's saying this
Speaker 16: war should have ended from day with some ways he's
Speaker 16: wiped by staying that. But I reckon what's happening now
Speaker 16: is that they should have ended that war from basically
Speaker 16: day one and putin end and that when he when
Speaker 16: they entered and then stopped them, he threating with nuclear power.
Speaker 16: He would not have done that because he knows down well,
Speaker 16: if he'd tried that, he would have got he would
Speaker 16: have got burnt badly for doing that. And now what
Speaker 16: he's done is he has actually realized he's playing with
Speaker 16: the world. Now he's actually getting away with it right
Speaker 16: now and he knows it. So it's really unless they
Speaker 16: do something really bad with him take a most of
Speaker 16: that land back, he's gonna, he's gonna. He's going to
Speaker 16: come back, guarantee it.
Speaker 2: No problems with nts at home, Pete.
Speaker 16: No, not really. I think we all have them have
Speaker 16: them outside. Well, I reckon fly spray is pretty good.
Speaker 2: Never ever used fly spray.
Speaker 16: Now we'll just go around around the door and you
Speaker 16: just go around and just basically where actual the e
Speaker 16: I should know, I shouldn't say it. Actually they actually
Speaker 16: do most places. And you have got ants. I gotta
Speaker 16: watch out too if I don't with my sugar and
Speaker 16: out of my cupboards and that you just got to
Speaker 16: make sure basically a containers all you just got to
Speaker 16: you put a user bread wrap of my sugar bowl.
Speaker 16: Just oh, you've got to wait for a long time.
Speaker 16: But one day I don't. I had an old lolly
Speaker 16: at the back my cupboards there. It must have been
Speaker 16: there for a while, and they little buggers, they must
Speaker 16: have you where. That was the next one I opened
Speaker 16: that the cupboards. There's ants everywhere. The clean hole to
Speaker 16: throw a whole lot of food out, and you know
Speaker 16: the process you have to do once you get them
Speaker 16: in your cupboards. And yeah, so the clean all those
Speaker 16: cupboards out and yeah, so ever since it they smell it.
Speaker 16: They blood, you know, they know, they know when you
Speaker 16: have they I know, they just seem to smell it.
Speaker 2: Nice to talk Pat seventy three for three, Sorry, seventy
Speaker 2: five for three, Young on forty nine La for them
Speaker 2: on two to the last book. It was but there
Speaker 2: was one Marcus. I event. They come into my kitchen,
Speaker 2: they clean up my benches in place that are hard
Speaker 2: to get into, and they disappear. They are my home.
Speaker 2: Help Marcus. The timu aren't farm might look good, but
Speaker 2: when it gets it, it might be tiny. Marcus and
Speaker 2: I canceled my myesport my sport now subscription. It's more
Speaker 2: expensive than any other streaming service fifty five a month.
Speaker 2: I think Netflix is about twenty. Don't know what's wrong
Speaker 2: with them. Just rewrote my text without capitals.
Speaker 12: Very good.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Yeah, the skull should be going cheaper.
Speaker 2: Is again the rugby for cheaper? My friend, all use
Speaker 2: capital letters because we read the message easier. Might be
Speaker 2: an old folks thing. Taking talking to somebody live takes
Speaker 2: away any misconception that happens when texting. I got a
Speaker 2: wasp nest on a post under my desk. Nest looks
Speaker 2: like a wavy holy triangle. Use spray killed the wasp.
Speaker 2: They are still persisting. Any tips what to drench the
Speaker 2: nest with. Marcus woke up in the wall, was crawling
Speaker 2: toutle black now exaggeration threw I was hallucinating. Sprayed with
Speaker 2: ray never seen again true story Eke pouring with rain
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Speaker 2: earlier are eighty seven for three. It's gonna be late night.
Speaker 2: Few people watching that, Dave Marcus, welcome.
Speaker 20: Hey Marcus, Hi, Dug, it's me again. I've I knew
Speaker 20: when you got the news about Quincy Jones, so this
Speaker 20: will probably be my fourth time now listen ants. It's
Speaker 20: about seventy three. And then the missus had bought a
Speaker 20: little house south the back of and the bush said
Speaker 20: about that backer turn. First thing we wanted to do
Speaker 20: was get the floors done right. So we sanded the
Speaker 20: floors down and we sprayed it with this poly European
Speaker 20: extreme high grass what's beautiful. Got there the next day,
Speaker 20: left the windows and the doors wide open. It had
Speaker 20: all set an ancherl right down the middle. Ants right
Speaker 20: down the middle of it, and they were in a
Speaker 20: straight line, and there it was. The line was nine
Speaker 20: foot seven inches long and the wall was eleven foot
Speaker 20: two inches away. Was so they had I got the
Speaker 20: whole lot, We got the whole woman thing there and
Speaker 20: we tried to cut it out. But the job that
Speaker 20: was so woman good. You know, and when we did,
Speaker 20: we cut it out like a with a knife and
Speaker 20: a straight edge was only around about an eighth of
Speaker 20: an inch two millimeters. So when the sunshine at a
Speaker 20: certain place and we filled it back up again when
Speaker 20: the sunshine and all these little black specks were in it,
Speaker 20: like a straight line of black specks. And when I
Speaker 20: had a look with them, we're gonna fine glass. It
Speaker 20: was all the little weate and legs that we had left.
Speaker 2: Wow, you have to send it off.
Speaker 20: No, we we were trying to. We're trying to do
Speaker 20: it and do it as gently as we could. But
Speaker 20: so we ended up leaving it then throwing a woman
Speaker 20: at sheeps get over it, you know. But yeah, that
Speaker 20: was my story. Anyway, what they've done is they had
Speaker 20: sacrificed themselves.
Speaker 2: Eh, must have died for the people.
Speaker 20: And of course the next day they had sunk down
Speaker 20: so that they were all standing on the floor, tiny
Speaker 20: little things to the tiny little hands.
Speaker 2: Are you still as it were still lived from there?
Speaker 20: From there years ago?
Speaker 2: Were you?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 20: No, No, we're up and that the Becker grieton.
Speaker 2: Now, oh yeah, that's still kind of the same here
Speaker 2: a little.
Speaker 13: Bit, is it?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 20: Yeah, here back and we're happy. Other end a welcome.
Speaker 2: Baby, yeah, because it's pretty anty there though, is it?
Speaker 2: Someone was saying before welcome Bay with the Argentine ends.
Speaker 20: Well, I've never we've never had that's the only problem
Speaker 20: that we've ever had with ends. Okay, the only time
Speaker 20: I've ever seen them around there. But yeah, when you
Speaker 20: were talking about answer, I thought, oh, are you my
Speaker 20: old end story?
Speaker 2: Good story, Dave, thank you for that. Hello, Halger, it's Marcus, welcome.
Speaker 10: Oh Hi, how are you good?
Speaker 2: Hell? Go, what's happening?
Speaker 10: I've done research on it. In the Bible it appears once.
Speaker 10: Can I read it to you?
Speaker 2: Of course?
Speaker 10: Proverbs six six go to the end, you lazy one,
Speaker 10: observe its rays and become wise. And then there's a reference.
Speaker 15: Can you hear me?
Speaker 10: Yep, it's a rep as well. And the references like
Speaker 10: didn't go to the teeth and smoke to the eyes
Speaker 10: of the lazy person, is well, is to the one
Speaker 10: who sends him, sends him? Sorry that again, but vinegar
Speaker 10: to the teeth and smoke to the eyes. So the
Speaker 10: lazy person is to the one who sends him. So
Speaker 10: you know you employ someone and they're lazy, Well, it's
Speaker 10: a problem.
Speaker 2: May I thought you'd know it off by heart by
Speaker 2: now Helga.
Speaker 10: Oh, that's so much to remember. I've done research. I
Speaker 10: read in one of our weight magazines yesterday years ago
Speaker 10: that scientists studied ants and that's how they get created. Roundabout, ah,
Speaker 10: copying the ants, because they say they never bang into
Speaker 10: each other. They all do a wise and they go
Speaker 10: round each other, which is interesting. I did that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know about that. I mean, they just
Speaker 2: follow each other, don't they.
Speaker 10: No, they Actually that's how they got the idea of
Speaker 10: the roundabout.
Speaker 2: From the end, what do you got coming two different directions?
Speaker 2: What happens then?
Speaker 10: Well, they avoid each other give way? What is the
Speaker 10: word for giving way? Yeah, but there's another word too,
Speaker 10: like if you're walking along the road and someone's coming
Speaker 10: towards you, you move aside because they're not clashing to you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: So that's what I learned. And one of the interesting
Speaker 10: point to do with stars and satellites. After our meeting
Speaker 10: last week, one of my friends was telling me in
Speaker 10: the western sky he saw twenty one satellites all in
Speaker 10: a row a few nights in a row, passing over
Speaker 10: west out here. Yeah, twenty one satellites, and he said,
Speaker 10: I feel those are coming from the direction of America.
Speaker 10: And on Monday they let off Last week five rocks
Speaker 10: ron Gisbon. They told us after on the news that
Speaker 10: they let them off from Gisbone taking satellites up from
Speaker 10: New Zealand. Okay, so that's interesting, isn't it.
Speaker 2: It's all interesting. I think those are those Elon Musk's
Speaker 2: things Starlink, when they all go in a row, I
Speaker 2: think that I've never seen them. I've always meant to,
Speaker 2: but I've always been at work.
Speaker 10: I think, Well, I'll tell you. I found out our
Speaker 10: Apple smartphones and their phones won't get starlink, and actually
Speaker 10: Consumers Institutes taking them to court because with your Apple ifephone,
Speaker 10: you can't contact the satellite in your car under a tree,
Speaker 10: in the building and away from a tower. And if
Speaker 10: you read the fine front, they're trying to promote the
Speaker 10: starlink to businesses and you go down really small and
Speaker 10: you've got to get a phone called wet Retics, Okay,
Speaker 10: and that well, yeah, a very expensive one and matt
Speaker 10: will mixed with starlink.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard it was problem I heard it was
Speaker 2: problematic because also you can't it'll just be for texting.
Speaker 2: You can't talk on it because it's not instant.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so were texts?
Speaker 24: Have a were texts?
Speaker 10: And you look up the fine print boona phone for
Speaker 10: businesses getting connected to starlink.
Speaker 2: You've looked for me.
Speaker 10: Ah, I do a lot of it. I always read instructions,
Speaker 10: and I said to my son, aren't you going to
Speaker 10: read the instructions? Don't need to. And I also found
Speaker 10: that when I bought my first cell phone or got
Speaker 10: one from work. So used to do work at bus
Speaker 10: stops and railway stations, marketing, ten years walk and fair sports.
Speaker 10: And I read that you never put your phone on
Speaker 10: your skin. You never have it by your heart because
Speaker 10: it's very dangerous.
Speaker 2: What's what's danus? By your heart?
Speaker 10: Your cell phone? Never put it in your top pocket
Speaker 10: and against your body, even in your.
Speaker 2: Trouser pocket were you supposed to put it?
Speaker 15: And a bag?
Speaker 10: I put mine in the bag I had. You don't
Speaker 10: mind if I see this? It might cut off my friend.
Speaker 10: Her brother got tense of the gesticles little having is
Speaker 10: in this pocket?
Speaker 2: Did they prove that though, Yeah.
Speaker 10: Well it was her brother.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they wouldn't know what the cause was. Helga By
Speaker 2: the way, Trump COVID vaccines banned for all Americans. It
Speaker 2: seems to be the latest. It'll go well, some of
Speaker 2: you besides yourself with excitement about that, not me.
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