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Speaker 2: That'd be first and foremost just a warning. There have
Speaker 2: been solar flares, so that's been happening. Shortwave radio on
Speaker 2: five continents have been shut down because of solar activity
Speaker 2: from the sun. This is something we monitor. It could
Speaker 2: be ramping up. That could mean that everything could breakdown.
Speaker 2: I don't know this is true, but I'll keep you
Speaker 2: posted on that, guys. Happened about four thirty today American time,
Speaker 2: although I think today is used today in America. So yeah,
Speaker 2: go figure. Shortwave radio blackout to be reported part of
Speaker 2: North America, South America, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East.
Speaker 2: So that there's solar flares and they could cause all
Speaker 2: sorts of hassles, GPS, the whole shebang they reckon. The
Speaker 2: planes in the air will be fine, but some of
Speaker 2: the other stuff not so much. So all across that,
Speaker 2: thanks to all the feedback about the flags. We discussed
Speaker 2: the flag last night, Change the Bag. People very very
Speaker 2: triggered by that. People said we had no right to
Speaker 2: discuss it, which is interesting. So there we go, ten
Speaker 2: years on we can't even talk about it. Flip go
Speaker 2: figure anyway, we won't be talking about flags tonight. Go
Speaker 2: to the Facebook page if you want to vent it's gosh,
Speaker 2: some of the comments. They are unbelievable anyway, Gosh, people
Speaker 2: are quick to take offense, now, aren't they. No one
Speaker 2: can be neutral, by the way, speaking of taking offense
Speaker 2: and not being neutral. I don't know if you've been
Speaker 2: following this story, but I need to talk and in
Speaker 2: fact know what I need to say. However, for those
Speaker 2: of people that follow Auckland based media, which is probably
Speaker 2: most media these days, there is this obsession about the
Speaker 2: reporting of the businesswoman and her husband who is an
Speaker 2: all black former who want to get a helipad, and
Speaker 2: that is in their house in West Mayor. Now, if
Speaker 2: you don't know Westmere, I'm not quite sure where it is.
Speaker 2: It's like in a west never used to be a suburb,
Speaker 2: but now it's a suburb that people seem to go to.
Speaker 2: It's a bit mudflatty, I think when the tides out,
Speaker 2: but it could be all right the high tide. But
Speaker 2: West Mayor it's the suburb of the moment, it seems.
Speaker 2: And these people want a helicopter pad but cheapest. I
Speaker 2: spent some time thinking about this today, not a lot
Speaker 2: of time. And by the way, there seems to be
Speaker 2: a pr offensive with people doing well, who knows what
Speaker 2: they're doing, but you know it sort of seems to
Speaker 2: be a charm offensive. And by the way, with the
Speaker 2: whole council hearing on whether they should have a helicopter
Speaker 2: pad a helipad or not, they do pay for this process.
Speaker 2: They foot the bill for the consenting process. But the
Speaker 2: question I have, and I don't even know what the answer, is,
Speaker 2: who is so busy they need a helicopter in the
Speaker 2: front lawn? I mean, I can imagine if you were
Speaker 2: the president or the Prime minister, or if you were
Speaker 2: some extraordinary surgeon that could name their price and value
Speaker 2: their time at home and wanted to just fly into
Speaker 2: organ transplants at a second's notice, But who else. I
Speaker 2: don't get it, And maybe the whole point is I
Speaker 2: don't need to get it. But I would imagine that
Speaker 2: if you wanted to go somewhere and a helicopter, you
Speaker 2: would drive across town to the heliport, which I presumed
Speaker 2: on the Monaco Harbor, which looking at State Highway twenty,
Speaker 2: you go into the water of your tunnel to take
Speaker 2: you five minutes. Okay, fifteen minutes. It's not going to
Speaker 2: take you long at all. But where would you need
Speaker 2: to be if you're just the general run about town
Speaker 2: socialite that you couldn't afford to dispense with fifteen minutes?
Speaker 2: And obviously the neighbors don't want it, and some of
Speaker 2: the reasons seem nefarious. Birds and trees and some of
Speaker 2: them seem tall. I mean, I'm not saying I don't
Speaker 2: want too little birds and trees, but people kind of
Speaker 2: people hate to see their neighborhood go in a different
Speaker 2: direction when the money moves in. They think, oh, well,
Speaker 2: hang about, we're going to lose as well. Lose that.
Speaker 2: But who's who has a lifestyle that's so urgent because
Speaker 2: I presume most people with helicopters they fly to play golf,
Speaker 2: which is a three hour walk anyway, so they're saving
Speaker 2: ten minutes to waste three hours playing golf, or they
Speaker 2: go to arrest one on way Hickey. So I can't
Speaker 2: quite work out why people need helicopters. You might have
Speaker 2: because I presume what we actually really need to know
Speaker 2: is that it's a status symbol. And that's fine as well,
Speaker 2: I suppose, but should you have a status symbol, if
Speaker 2: you're having the status symbol adversely affect your neighbors, I
Speaker 2: guess that's the question I'm asking. But it seems to
Speaker 2: be a huge about a pilava to save ten to
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes. I don't know that I'm necessarily opposed to it,
Speaker 2: but a lot of for a lot of me, it's
Speaker 2: about it's a sense of ga. Some people must have
Speaker 2: no spare time, but then they go and they're the
Speaker 2: sort of people that go and sort of socialites, And
Speaker 2: a lot of the life of socialites is about having
Speaker 2: spare time and spending that sort of anyway looking like
Speaker 2: you've got spare time. Oh well, I don't know. In
Speaker 2: Bluff we have anyone with helipads. I don't think an
Speaker 2: in Vcago we've got anyone with helipads. Queenstown probably although no,
Speaker 2: probably not. Actually I've never seen anyone landing and taking
Speaker 2: off with the helipad. They normally the aerodrome. Sarah Marcus, welcome,
Speaker 2: good evening.
Speaker 3: Hello, how are you make good Sarah? I just thought
Speaker 3: I I can be talking about that Hallihead thing with
Speaker 3: a few people because I do live in Aucklands and
Speaker 3: I know West farewell, and I found a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Some people are saying, you're envious, if you you're just
Speaker 3: being green eyed, if you if you want to stop
Speaker 3: these people getting so I'm not at all events. I
Speaker 3: don't care if they had temporaries or five year old
Speaker 3: roses in the garats, whatever, you know. And I don't
Speaker 3: care if they have a gazillion dollars in the bank.
Speaker 4: Good to them.
Speaker 3: My thinking is West Bear is quite a unique little
Speaker 3: part of office because it's got quite an ecological area
Speaker 3: where is a lot of scouting and you know, children's
Speaker 3: scouts and stuff like that, and I just think the
Speaker 3: infringement on the area from a noise and ecological point
Speaker 3: of view, it's unacceptable, and I think it's a pretty
Speaker 3: selfish move.
Speaker 2: But from a love style, from the community, from a
Speaker 2: lifestyle point of view, why would you need a helicopter?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's probably none of our business, but I'm
Speaker 2: curious that I'm curious to know where you need to
Speaker 2: get to so quickly.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. I think the idea is that
Speaker 3: they can fly to an airport in the helicopter, but
Speaker 3: I don't think, well, that's what I believe is the case.
Speaker 3: I think that apply to an airport and not have
Speaker 3: to drive from the traffic in Auckland.
Speaker 2: But then you get to the airport, you're waiting around
Speaker 2: forever anyway for customs and stuff.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, okay, well, hey, there are plenty of people
Speaker 3: in Auckland, believe it or not, who can afford a helicopter.
Speaker 3: So does that mean that these people can need a
Speaker 3: helicopter and a helipas that suddenly we open up diskies
Speaker 3: to anybody with the dollars for a house to buy
Speaker 3: their helicopter. Suddenly, I mean the left dozens are serving
Speaker 3: around and well I don't get it.
Speaker 5: I don't understand it.
Speaker 2: They need to have a pilot as well, though, wouldn't
Speaker 2: they When does the pilot order? Do they fly it themselves?
Speaker 2: Do imagine if you're flying a helicopter, you've got to
Speaker 2: get keep your hours up, which is probably quite arduous.
Speaker 2: You've probably got to fly a lot to remain match fit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think so there's been quite a few
Speaker 3: people who are people wealthy, people of leisure, spend that
Speaker 3: time I'm getting their helicopter or a pilot.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so he or she would have their license
Speaker 2: and that fly away at the drop of her head
Speaker 2: on too, or are wealthy and oh god, I'm pleased.
Speaker 2: I haven't got that that moral dilimma of getting my
Speaker 2: own helicopter. How much do they cost?
Speaker 3: Look, I think they're a bagon Marcus. I think they're
Speaker 3: only you know, you can hit runs for a.
Speaker 6: Couple of hundred thousands or so.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that's what it is.
Speaker 2: Okay, I like those ones within closed back and closed
Speaker 2: back helicopter. What about the eurocopter the Black Propeller. Thank you,
Speaker 2: Sarah Andrew Marcus welcome.
Speaker 7: Oh hi, I.
Speaker 8: Guess I just children and just now on the helicopter thing,
Speaker 8: I think the saying that you might be missing is
Speaker 8: that some people like flying helicopters.
Speaker 2: Okay, I've missed that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, just if I I.
Speaker 2: But people people also like flying People also like flying planes,
Speaker 2: but very few of them, apart from John Travolter live
Speaker 2: next to the airstrip.
Speaker 8: You previous scholler, your previous scholar makes a point about this,
Speaker 8: you know, the noise and stuff. But yeah, I mean yeah,
Speaker 8: I mean, if you're on a more remote area, if
Speaker 8: you're not going to have that problem. I actually think,
Speaker 8: you know, find helicopters into and too, you know, areas
Speaker 8: that are high density and now lights of Auckland or wherever,
Speaker 8: whatever city. I think New York's really sort of you know,
Speaker 8: just landing pairs on top of roofs, you know.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't it wasn't sorted for that family last month.
Speaker 2: They had that shot of them all about to get
Speaker 2: in the helicopter, next thing another or did. It was hard?
Speaker 9: So my point, right, I don't.
Speaker 2: Actually if I was mad keen on flying helicopters, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure they are, because I don't think they've said
Speaker 2: they fly them. I'd buy a property rurally and I
Speaker 2: would live there. And if I want to go and
Speaker 2: get on the Sangreas, I'd fly into a heliport and
Speaker 2: get a text into an uber into town. Would be
Speaker 2: living in a thawing out space. Well I'm just talking.
Speaker 2: I just think about any drink spring to bind.
Speaker 10: Okay, the irony is there, but yeah, what what.
Speaker 11: Well?
Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, so.
Speaker 10: Anyway, I've got I've got helicopter in Spain, so anyway,
Speaker 10: but none the less, they're not very expensive to run,
Speaker 10: and you know, if you do the maintenance and there's
Speaker 10: a lot of study involved in it mechanically wise.
Speaker 8: You can do yourself or you can pay someone else.
Speaker 10: To do it.
Speaker 2: You are you are you a helicopter pilot?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, good, oh okay, we should have seen that at
Speaker 2: the beginning. I know this.
Speaker 10: I've got duke bites, yeah, after the deer bikes for
Speaker 10: my pastime.
Speaker 2: So how how far do you have to drive to
Speaker 2: fly your helicopter?
Speaker 8: Well, no, it's in it's it's my garage.
Speaker 2: And you lived you live rually or urbany? Is that
Speaker 2: the right and rural?
Speaker 10: How many three helicopters in there?
Speaker 2: How many hours a month do you have to fly
Speaker 2: to keep your license current?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 8: Well it's not any zeal One thing? So in in Spain, I'm.
Speaker 2: Not sure in Spain? Okay, I can see the irony
Speaker 2: was okay, it's all coming coming together now, Andrew. Now
Speaker 2: you've actually revealed your card to hens.
Speaker 10: I don't know if I have a helicopter in.
Speaker 2: New Zealand, No, nor would I what could tell you?
Speaker 2: What them? A lot of a lot of helicopters aren't there.
Speaker 2: I was working on the firm yesterday there was two
Speaker 2: I'm going to one huge numbers of helicopter because I
Speaker 2: think all the mutton birds are coming back home, so
Speaker 2: they all seem to go down there mutton birding and
Speaker 2: they yeah, they were back and Ford, you know, flying
Speaker 2: south of Stuart Island all Yesterday's nice to hear from me, Andrew,
Speaker 2: Thank you helicopters your thoughts twenty past eight eight hundred.
Speaker 2: Of course you know the word helicopter, don't you. It
Speaker 2: derives from hellico, meaning spiral and pte r to fly,
Speaker 2: like in tyodectyl, So it probably should be pronounced helicope
Speaker 2: because it's helico like terodectyl. Who's who's so? And it's
Speaker 2: up for the tributal to work out if they're out
Speaker 2: a helicopter pen or not. But who's so busy they
Speaker 2: need one? That's well, I can't quite work out. But
Speaker 2: as Andrews says, it's not so busy, they won't love flying. Well,
Speaker 2: if you love flying, then you go where you need
Speaker 2: to fly, would you. Someone says that the boy racers
Speaker 2: can't have their allowed exhaust. How the hell allowed are
Speaker 2: they allowed to fire a helicopter? Cops should slap it
Speaker 2: with a sticker, Marcus. Why has the question not being asked?
Speaker 2: Where are they landing. Only so many places of business
Speaker 2: that have their own helipads cheers in. I think why
Speaker 2: Heike has a lot that they go to golf courses too.
Speaker 2: If they're into golf, you go to golf courses and
Speaker 2: fly your chopper and then play a round of golf.
Speaker 2: And Marcus, good evening.
Speaker 13: Hello, Well the interim music was as bad as the
Speaker 13: helicopter noise. I had actually done the text as I
Speaker 13: decided i'd ring up and I started off, Hi, Marcus,
Speaker 13: this is a residential area, not like about it's ten
Speaker 13: cars or oversized cars. But the big thing is the
Speaker 13: decision will or set a precedent and the invading nature
Speaker 13: of noise, etc. And this is that's on the other
Speaker 13: residents in the area. And it's only a personal demand,
Speaker 13: as you said, if it was an operating specialist or
Speaker 13: a surgeon serving a public benefit, that would be a
Speaker 13: different matter. But there's no extending circumstances. Lots of negative
Speaker 13: in impacts the environ meant in the pleasure and the
Speaker 13: safety of the area. That's what I think.
Speaker 2: So are these people so busy that they needed to
Speaker 2: say themselves ten minutes or is it just a state
Speaker 2: of symbol.
Speaker 13: I've got no idea. I read they they're talking about
Speaker 13: for I don't know. It's not for or trips. They
Speaker 13: talk about movements, which is in and out up to
Speaker 13: four and it may be that it is to fly
Speaker 13: to the airport because it's limited to ten ten a months.
Speaker 13: But I personally, I live in a rural area on
Speaker 13: an orchard and at one stage suddenly got helicopters in
Speaker 13: too frost fight and they come down low and horrendous
Speaker 13: noise and.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, no. When I lived in Cromwell and there's
Speaker 2: a frost coming, it was like apocalypse. Now they came
Speaker 2: over low gee, it was like where there new Born.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 2: Anyway, if I if I was made helicopters, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: move to Westmere.
Speaker 13: It's a purely personal thing. Yes, well, I mean, let's
Speaker 13: face it, the police have their helicopters, but they're doing
Speaker 13: a public service.
Speaker 2: Worked out the police helicopter. It's always above your house.
Speaker 2: You never see anything in the paper the next day.
Speaker 2: I wonder if they just fly around for the hell
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 13: Well, they're not telling you. You're the secrets.
Speaker 2: No, but you think it was a big deal. If
Speaker 2: you think of there's some escape prisoner out. You'd read
Speaker 2: about it in the paper all.
Speaker 13: Quite often they're apprehending or following somebody.
Speaker 2: Are they really though in conjunction.
Speaker 13: With forces on their ground?
Speaker 7: Really?
Speaker 13: Definitely?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm you to be convinced, but yeah, they tried
Speaker 2: run and christ you it s freaked everyone out, took
Speaker 2: it away because most places don't have a police helicopter
Speaker 2: and they get by whether this is true, and I
Speaker 2: don't know, Ah, get in touch, oh eight hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty to eighty nine nine two to text. We are talking, heal,
Speaker 2: what's the point And I don't know if that if
Speaker 2: the way the world's going. In ten years we'll all
Speaker 2: have one, or in ten years have flying cars, or
Speaker 2: in ten years a helicopter will be superseded, or people
Speaker 2: will come to their senses. I know, I'm wayhiki. A
Speaker 2: lot of people have heli pads and you go to
Speaker 2: a restaurant and the people come to their helicopters, and
Speaker 2: they wander down from the hill and they have their luncheon.
Speaker 2: Then they go and think, well, gee, what do you think?
Speaker 2: You think? Well, actually, those people have really made a
Speaker 2: commitment to come here today, haven't they spend that much
Speaker 2: on a helicopter. But anyway, the Robinson R sixty six
Speaker 2: helicopter was specifically designed for transporting golfers. Really, I don't
Speaker 2: know much about the Robinson sixty six. Is that the
Speaker 2: one with boom, mast, bang or whatever it happens. I'm
Speaker 2: not necessarily sure I'd go running to get into one
Speaker 2: of those. But was it designed for golf? I like
Speaker 2: to affect check everything these days could well have been,
Speaker 2: by the way, BTW golf golf, golf, golf, golf. Does
Speaker 2: it say that? Maybe? Oh eight hundred eighty tennion nine
Speaker 2: two nine two ticks about talking helicopters, they're quite remarkable
Speaker 2: bit of engineering. Just don't necessarily know that the neighbors
Speaker 2: need one, but maybe they do. Talking helicopters. Who needs them?
Speaker 2: And I'm not even quite sure at the by laws,
Speaker 2: but I think probably you get permission from your neighbors
Speaker 2: and you're good to go. But I imagine too, if
Speaker 2: you're in a neighborhood like that, it gives the neighbors
Speaker 2: something to talk about, doesn't it out walking your dog
Speaker 2: with your plastic bags? Oh what do you think about
Speaker 2: the old neighbors wanting a hella? Then suddenly that cushions ensue.
Speaker 2: You couldn't be without an opinion. You have to have
Speaker 2: something to say about. Oh, very much opposed of course
Speaker 2: the noise. Oh good on them, Good on them. They've
Speaker 2: worked hard, where have they? But you see they're so
Speaker 2: handy to that motorway to get to the airport. You
Speaker 2: go into that tunnel, you're there in twenty minutes, say
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes. dB. It's Marcus, welcome, good evening.
Speaker 12: The cars you got a new garage.
Speaker 2: Weren't every garage all right?
Speaker 12: Every cars you got just abothering nosy, it's turned into
Speaker 12: what I would better say. So there are people out
Speaker 12: there who's the helicopter is no more or no less
Speaker 12: than a car. Of course, they just hop in it
Speaker 12: and go. You do it on the road, they do
Speaker 12: it in the wild blue yonder. They sell places land.
Speaker 12: The only one I can think of straight off the
Speaker 12: top of my head is Current Eco in Picton. You
Speaker 12: buy a house that has a taxi way to your
Speaker 12: house and you have your commuter aircraft.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I know places. There's places in pau And
Speaker 2: I saw last time I was at the Alexandra Airport.
Speaker 2: There are houses going and there that you can go,
Speaker 2: you can go and use that great est. They're not
Speaker 2: quite sure why they're in New zillunt flying there, but yes,
Speaker 2: they have places you can fly there. Also you can
Speaker 2: fly and go to your house.
Speaker 12: Yes, So it's sort of like a mindset. It's a
Speaker 12: take away the fact that most people don't fly an
Speaker 12: aeroplane of any type, and therefore it's very strange to
Speaker 12: those that do fly aeroplanes, who are who can and
Speaker 12: quite normal people fly them. When I was of railways,
Speaker 12: I think three most of it. They all drivers. Three
Speaker 12: of them had private pilot licenses. One of the monitor's
Speaker 12: own air power a craft. He had a sister, and
Speaker 12: two of us had gliders.
Speaker 2: So but a lot of people, a lot of people
Speaker 2: are passionate about flying as a hobby. But do you
Speaker 2: need the helicopter on your front lawn? Yes?
Speaker 12: No, maybe, I think if you get away with absolutely.
Speaker 12: I got taken by I made him story anyway, we're
Speaker 12: just glune dropping on the maid's place. And he landed
Speaker 12: on this guy's front yard and he said, you're the
Speaker 12: third helicopter here today.
Speaker 2: Wow, where was that?
Speaker 12: We we'd flown out of power ram and we landed
Speaker 12: in a piggery at the mountain southern portal of the
Speaker 12: Wilimsack Tuddle, and we were the third aircraft in there
Speaker 12: that day. That wasn't his.
Speaker 2: What was the attraction of the piggery.
Speaker 12: I think it was just the guy who was quite
Speaker 12: a friendly. That's what he did for a living. He
Speaker 12: was relatively well off and he had his own helicopter
Speaker 12: which wasn't sitting out of the yard. He says, No
Speaker 12: other people just fly in here. Yeah, just say hello,
Speaker 12: have a couple of coffee and back off again.
Speaker 2: Are you governed by air traffic control and urban areas?
Speaker 12: Sort of depending on how close you are to the airport.
Speaker 12: So it's an upside down Christmas cake. The closer you
Speaker 12: get to the airport, they have over you. The closer
Speaker 12: you get so you can fly across the mouth of
Speaker 12: Porri Rua as long as the por have as long
Speaker 12: as not above two thousand feet the air traffic control.
Speaker 2: Do you mean you think they'll get it?
Speaker 12: I know there was trouble at way Hecki when a
Speaker 12: guy got caught out living music is resource said more
Speaker 12: than he had. Says that he was allowed to think
Speaker 12: ten movements a month, and the neighbors were sitting in
Speaker 12: their accounting and when they got to fifteen, they potted them.
Speaker 14: So I think.
Speaker 12: Those that haven't got a helicopter, like, it's not no
Speaker 12: real difference to having your next doorabor with a very large,
Speaker 12: noisy motorbike.
Speaker 2: Yes, and that's not good, is it?
Speaker 12: And that is not good? But for those who can
Speaker 12: fly or do fly, and they're not in all rich,
Speaker 12: I mean I was never rich.
Speaker 2: Did you a helicopter? Did you have a helicopter?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 12: I wouldn't trust those things.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the other thing. That's the other thing too.
Speaker 2: It's you know, to wake up and see that some
Speaker 2: some prejudices happened.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 12: But as my last comment is, and I know it's
Speaker 12: very trite, you're in more danger driving to an airport
Speaker 12: than you are getting into any aircraft, commercial or private
Speaker 12: driving there than getting in that aircraft. And that even
Speaker 12: includes me.
Speaker 2: Why does that include you?
Speaker 12: Because everybody who knows me knows I'm a complete nutcase.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't know that. You didn't say that that. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: are you a driver?
Speaker 12: I'm an average driver. I'd like to try and be better,
Speaker 12: but I when I concentrate, I'm an okay driver. But
Speaker 12: when I don't concentrate, I'm as dangerous as the guy
Speaker 12: next to me try to overtake me on the inside.
Speaker 2: Okay, what about a helicopter. What about it? If you
Speaker 2: are you safer driving to the airport than flying a Robinson.
Speaker 12: I've done it over this show into helicopters, only to
Speaker 12: say that I'm held the controls. The Robinson is very
Speaker 12: easy to fly outside its safety zone. But having said that,
Speaker 12: in Australia they use them to herd cattle and they
Speaker 12: fly them like a motorbike, and once in the while
Speaker 12: they kill themselves. But people on motorcycles hurting kettle kill
Speaker 12: themselves too.
Speaker 2: That's definite. Someone says the helicopter's not going to be
Speaker 2: kept on their property, or that's not the case, they're
Speaker 2: not helicopter pilots. Then there goes a spontaneity because I
Speaker 2: presume if you want to go somewhere, you've got to
Speaker 2: ring your pilot, who I presume is not going to
Speaker 2: have their helicopter on their property. They're gonna have to
Speaker 2: drive to the heliport across town, getting the helicopter fly
Speaker 2: across town to pick you up. So in that much
Speaker 2: time you could drive to the heliport yourself. Couldn't. I can't.
Speaker 2: I just can't work out the advantage. Just can't work.
Speaker 2: It makes no sense to me, and probably that's not
Speaker 2: what they're trying to understand it. The tribunal is whether
Speaker 2: it works for them or not. They're trying to work
Speaker 2: out if it's going to affect the scouts or the
Speaker 2: birds or the wetlands. But I just can't work out
Speaker 2: what sense it makes for a practical point of view,
Speaker 2: because if you're going to have to organize what's going
Speaker 2: on when old Peter of the pilot comes across, it's
Speaker 2: not gonna be that spontaneous, is it. You might have
Speaker 2: changed your mind considering the noise the helicopters making it
Speaker 2: around in the hospital and coming to land on the roof.
Speaker 2: I'd hate to live in one of those bays in
Speaker 2: Auckland where some people have helipads in their backyard by
Speaker 2: the water. Someone said must be worse than some Uranga
Speaker 2: Tamadiki houses. That's from Kate. Brilliant Marcus. Have you ever
Speaker 2: seen the movie Blue Thunder? I don't know what's that
Speaker 2: one about. I have to google it up. Someone's trying
Speaker 2: to have discussions with you about my dream team All
Speaker 2: Black first fifteen, and I made the mistake of texting
Speaker 2: how I thought would be the best two wings, and
Speaker 2: now I can't get it out of it. Someone said
Speaker 2: one or two million for a dezel Haacre. I think
Speaker 2: you can rent them as well. Can you used in
Speaker 2: a high country for mustering, dropping off shepherds and dogs
Speaker 2: fearing timber supplies to backcountry guts. Also, I think we
Speaker 2: know what helicopters are used for. I'm just not sure
Speaker 2: what social like couples need them for. But good luck
Speaker 2: to them, Marcus. I imagine they'd get to the airport
Speaker 2: in their chop and then they would jump into their
Speaker 2: private jet. Marcus, on the subject of helicopter pads, I
Speaker 2: watched a really interesting YouTube video and what they do
Speaker 2: to land at the White House lawn to allow for
Speaker 2: helicopter landings while not damaging the lawn for other uses
Speaker 2: of interest. Biden changed the landing location when the press
Speaker 2: started filming his gait. He says, reading the trick today
Speaker 2: about old lot's been written about buy and they tried
Speaker 2: to coach him to take bigger steps because nothing takes
Speaker 2: away confidence in your leader when they do tiny Inseypancy
Speaker 2: little steps like he did. Was the beach not good? Marcus?
Speaker 2: There is a commercial helipad Mechanics Bay and north Shore,
Speaker 2: both closest. Just rubbish. They need one on their own.
Speaker 2: I don't know if the commercial one at Mechanics Bay
Speaker 2: is still there. I think the police might be there,
Speaker 2: but I think the helicopter port moved to the Monaco,
Speaker 2: the north side of the Monayico. I think I am right.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm wrong, but there is a big heliport there.
Speaker 2: Get in touch, heittled twelve helicopters. Do you care? By
Speaker 2: the way, it's probably not going to affect you. It
Speaker 2: might affect the neighbors. What I've known with people Sometimes
Speaker 2: with people like this, they have a big campaign to
Speaker 2: get something for the neighborhood and polarize everyone. Then they
Speaker 2: finally get right about two weeks houtter they shift out
Speaker 2: anyway because they find the neighborhoods not quite the same
Speaker 2: after they've gone through the whole process. Oh yeah, they've
Speaker 2: been up in Queenstown, wouldn't they chopping around top top
Speaker 2: Welcome Chrisus Marcus, good evening, How are you good, Chris?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm just just about the helicopter thing. I live
Speaker 4: in her Bay, which is obviously close to west Mare
Speaker 4: and very close to the Caronov Street off off ramp
Speaker 4: and the motorways, and numerous times I've been woken up
Speaker 4: by the Eagle helicopter three in the morning, following people
Speaker 4: around and buzzing around. But I'm sure they these people
Speaker 4: aren't going to be allowed to fly that early in
Speaker 4: the morning and stuff. I don't really see a problem.
Speaker 4: From what I've read is that they've organized they flying
Speaker 4: over the water, so when you go over Westmere itself
Speaker 4: and they just land in the lawn and take off
Speaker 4: and fly over the water, so the disruption is not there. Really.
Speaker 2: That means they'll be coming up the harbor past your place, though, Willard.
Speaker 4: What's already there's already doing that.
Speaker 2: Yes, So there's just there's one Helly does he use
Speaker 2: it often?
Speaker 4: Not that, not that often. But like I said, it's
Speaker 4: more more the Eagle helicopter more than anything else.
Speaker 2: So the people the Whoon, they are they excited because
Speaker 2: they think it means that their neighborhood's getting ahead and
Speaker 2: progressive and becoming aspirational. These helicopter type types or they
Speaker 2: sort of think, oh, well, this is the beginning of
Speaker 2: it becoming very, very noisy.
Speaker 4: It's like I said, it's no different to the Eagle helicopter,
Speaker 4: so you know, you know, one more that flies during
Speaker 4: the day at the minimal disruption. I don't see a
Speaker 4: problem with it.
Speaker 2: Last from you, Chris, George Marcus, welcome a god, Josh how.
Speaker 16: I live in Marlborough, a sunny old town of Mulba
Speaker 16: and where a marker and what we put up with
Speaker 16: a noise from my market. But it's not that I
Speaker 16: don't keep to themselves, so I don't see the point
Speaker 16: in the way you such out of the noise.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they are upset. I think they've
Speaker 2: got yeah, okay, no, that's not quite right. I guess
Speaker 2: you've got to go for a consultation process. So they
Speaker 2: ask people what they want. And if you ask people
Speaker 2: if they want a helicopter coming and learning next door,
Speaker 2: most people probably the first thing would say, well, thanks
Speaker 2: for asking, but actually probably now I think of it, no,
Speaker 2: I'd prefer not to have it. Yeah, because they haven't
Speaker 2: moved next to the era of drone like you have.
Speaker 16: I suppose yeah, well, yeah, so you signed a contract
Speaker 16: when you move there, but a lot of people now
Speaker 16: have moved on since then, and touching your money about it?
Speaker 2: Are you? Are you ones mainly coming and going for
Speaker 2: horticultural work out there, George, like spraying and frost fighting.
Speaker 16: Yes, and other recreational GISs.
Speaker 2: Because I think probably people are slightly more sympathetic to
Speaker 2: frost fighting because it seems to have some tangible use.
Speaker 2: But it's just someone to save ten minutes on a journey.
Speaker 2: You think, well, actually, why should I give up my
Speaker 2: piece and quiet so someone could just get somewhere to
Speaker 2: the upside the reason for it, That's what I can't
Speaker 2: quite work out. I can't quite work out what their
Speaker 2: great need for a helicopter is. Altho it's probably none
Speaker 2: of my business, but I can't help but wondering why
Speaker 2: have they got so little time so they've got to
Speaker 2: save ten minutes. I don't know where they're going to
Speaker 2: the airport or to mud brick or to carry cliffs
Speaker 2: cold E cliffs. But yeah, that's what I'm wondering about.
Speaker 2: But anyway, hope, but I don't need to go through
Speaker 2: these hurdles for permission to get my donkeys. But anyway,
Speaker 2: nine away from nine Hedle twelve sean good evening.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm Marcus just on this helicopter debate. There are
Speaker 17: some reasons why they'd use one. I mean, these guys
Speaker 17: rub shoulders with the rich and the famous all around
Speaker 17: the world, business investors, so and so forth. So they'll
Speaker 17: be fining them up to the Dariedy golf course, yikey,
Speaker 17: holiday destinations all over the place. These guys don't want
Speaker 17: to sit in our traffic.
Speaker 2: But would you say, okay, say Bill Gates or Elon
Speaker 2: Musk's coming over right yep. Would you say, we'll meet
Speaker 2: you at my front lord at West Mayor and we'll
Speaker 2: go to Cody Cliff's Or would you say, actually, we'll
Speaker 2: meet you at the airport and we'll go straight up.
Speaker 2: They're not going to drive across They're not going to
Speaker 2: drive across town. I go to Westmere, are they Well.
Speaker 17: Not necessarily, but you know they've got I believe they're
Speaker 17: tied up with the dot com x, dot com mention
Speaker 17: things like that. They'll be in and out of all
Speaker 17: sorts of exclusive properties. I would have thought, not necessarily
Speaker 17: just coming in and out of Herne Bay. Herne Bay
Speaker 17: might be a nice location to come into because they're
Speaker 17: going out with dinner down the viaduct somewhere. I think
Speaker 17: it will just, you know, open things up for people
Speaker 17: in a couple of shorebirds. I mean, the kids jumping
Speaker 17: on the sand dunes at over Are on the weekends
Speaker 17: do more damage than the helicopter's going to.
Speaker 2: Oh, I see, yeah, so you're.
Speaker 17: I'm all for it. I think it's great.
Speaker 2: Are you involved in the neighborhood.
Speaker 17: I've worked in and around the neighborhood in the trades,
Speaker 17: but I don't live there myself.
Speaker 2: No, Okay, you think it will happen.
Speaker 17: I think eventually it will. I think it might be
Speaker 17: restricted a bit somewhat, but I think I'll get there
Speaker 17: in some capacity.
Speaker 2: Nice to hear from Mi Sean seven away from nine
Speaker 2: oh eight hundred and eighty to ten eighty nine to
Speaker 2: nine to text for it's pretty much like a kind
Speaker 2: of an Auckland novel, doesn't it. Here in Tiatitude, refer
Speaker 2: to the helicopter is the ghetto bird. Marcus police helicopter
Speaker 2: now lands in the industrial are of only Hunger mounts
Speaker 2: about Penrose. My brother looks an onny Hunger and groans
Speaker 2: about them all the time. Marcus having a helicopter, boat,
Speaker 2: motor home, motorcycle in your backyard is often more about
Speaker 2: spontaneity than practicality. If you want it, you got it,
Speaker 2: and you're gone. Yeah, but they're not going to fly it.
Speaker 2: They need to get your pilot across wouldn't you. He
Speaker 2: wouldn't be living there, would he. He'd have to go
Speaker 2: to the heliport somewhere else, drive across town. It's not
Speaker 2: gonna be that spontaneous getting on the bike or getting
Speaker 2: on the uber or something. I just can't see how
Speaker 2: it's I just can't see the practicalities of it. Well,
Speaker 2: each to their own, but I reckon it's probably more
Speaker 2: a status thing, is it. If people can afford to
Speaker 2: fly a chopper for coffee, then they can afford a
Speaker 2: wealth tax. Brilliant John Marcus could evening welcome here there, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm here, John, you're there.
Speaker 18: Oh yeah, Marcus helicopter business. I've owned light aircraft and
Speaker 18: we used to live at Point Chief. First thing I'd
Speaker 18: say is the eagle is a big bird, and when
Speaker 18: we lived at Point Chief you could hear it flying around.
Speaker 18: But anyone that's someone's flying in there the house, it
Speaker 18: won't be anywhere near that size. They don't make any
Speaker 18: anywhere near as much noise. It's like comparing them. That's
Speaker 18: sound of a Harley Davidson too, a vest. But really
Speaker 18: so it's the first thing. The other thing is a
Speaker 18: lot of people use light aircraft just like use planes,
Speaker 18: because they're not expensive. You can buy a really nice aircraft,
Speaker 18: take you miss us around for thirty or forty thousand,
Speaker 18: and keep it out north. Sure it are more somewhere.
Speaker 18: People do that all the time. We had planes by
Speaker 18: wife Ester. We lived down in Cabny Coast. Now my
Speaker 18: wife takes a plane and goes up to new planets
Speaker 18: and to see grandkids. That flies home and just on
Speaker 18: our own and it's not expensive made. It's just something
Speaker 18: that people do.
Speaker 2: I guess the difference John, with your sister and you
Speaker 2: is they don't They don't have them at their home normally.
Speaker 2: I mean there'd be one or two instances where they would,
Speaker 2: but to go and to go to the aerodrome and
Speaker 2: jump in.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 18: But here in White and Ize, the guy's had a helicopter.
Speaker 18: He's up on the side of the hill. I don't
Speaker 18: if it's still they haven't seen it for a while,
Speaker 18: but it was there for years, just use flat off
Speaker 18: his front lawn and I'm fly in and out and oh.
Speaker 2: That's very big down South where everyone got their own
Speaker 2: air strips with their own planes and the hangar.
Speaker 18: Yeah yeah, yeah, Well this was in a residential area
Speaker 18: we had. But it's it's not a big deal. I mean,
Speaker 18: what's what's the problem and what's John?
Speaker 2: I think it's a big deal to the neighbors because
Speaker 2: there's there's been a fairly long consent process. So it's
Speaker 2: not a big deal to you. I mean, I couldn't
Speaker 2: care either way, but it seems that the people who
Speaker 2: live in Westmere are concerned because it's noisy. And it's
Speaker 2: probably also the change of the neighborhood that suddenly the
Speaker 2: you but rich are coming in. I don't know why
Speaker 2: they're not in Queenstown or Sydney, but you never know.
Speaker 2: But you're good to hear from you, Marcus. Just because
Speaker 2: they're wealthy doesn't mean they get to disrupt lives of
Speaker 2: potentially thousands of people just so they can fly the
Speaker 2: little toy. Thanks Stuart Marcus of the Territories in the
Speaker 2: Ages had the privilege of two flights in Iroquoit. What
Speaker 2: you do both times the door was open, exhibarating there
Speaker 2: we go. You should live in a vineyard town. Windmills
Speaker 2: and choppers can go from ten till seven the next day.
Speaker 2: That's frostbusting. I suppose we're going to get a helicopter,
Speaker 2: But Mum and dad, you got a two thousand and
Speaker 2: eight Camra Toyota instead the old ghetto bird.
Speaker 5: Eh.
Speaker 2: People quite split on this. Would it be fair to say?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And I guess because he's in all black people there,
Speaker 2: he's a bit of a hero for people, is he?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I guess so, always fairly smiling his media appearance. Isn't
Speaker 2: he happy, go lucky sort of a unit? Would that
Speaker 2: be right? That's him, isn't it? It's rid? It's got
Speaker 2: it all the well known couple and their helipad, and
Speaker 2: they're campaign to get it. Yeah. No, I don't care.
Speaker 2: I presume most of us and they don't care category,
Speaker 2: But it's interesting.
Speaker 20: What do they need it for?
Speaker 2: What's the hurry? That's what I don't really get. But
Speaker 2: you never know. I think people quite admire the jet
Speaker 2: set lifestyle, don't they. All goodness, you're gonna be there?
Speaker 2: They get high exciting people coming in. Marcus I would
Speaker 2: not call a person charged with position of cocaine a
Speaker 2: good role model for young children. Thanks, Oh, well, they
Speaker 2: all make mistakes. Do you have the richest subject to
Speaker 2: the same lads or the land as everyone else, and
Speaker 2: you're doing their money counts for nothing. Well, no, that's
Speaker 2: not quite right. They are paying for this whole tribunal.
Speaker 2: I mean, anyone can have a helicopter if they just
Speaker 2: get permission, and there's a consenting process or whatever it's called.
Speaker 2: And there in the middle of that they're trying to
Speaker 2: get permission to get a helipad. And they're right, you've
Speaker 2: got to get your neighbors approval of pill have the
Speaker 2: right to protest, and goodness, gracious me, in neighborhoods like this,
Speaker 2: people can't wait to have this. Say you've got the zoo,
Speaker 2: you've got the mudflaps flats, you got the scouts. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone tunes up to the sea scouts.
Speaker 2: I think many people to have to sea scouts anymore,
Speaker 2: do they? Goodness, el Baden, Powell, Marcus and Parwanui houses
Speaker 2: are built on the waterfront with a private mooring. Whist
Speaker 2: has been having a sports fisher outside your balcony or
Speaker 2: a light aircraft park there. I don't understand that, but
Speaker 2: it's a good spinning of parwanui. Oh eight hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty nine detext your comments the other topic that you
Speaker 2: might want to to go at. Why do we get
Speaker 2: so freaked out by people wanting to name their kids
Speaker 2: prince or royal? Every year we get those of the
Speaker 2: names that the government or the law society ever is
Speaker 2: involved saying they can't make them Christian names in this country.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't people have to call their kids what they want?
Speaker 2: Apparently the United States they're very common Christian names prince
Speaker 2: and all sorts of other ones. So it's surprising, eh,
Speaker 2: but we're yeah, we we're not into it. I don't
Speaker 2: know why. So why are we so uptight about what
Speaker 2: people call their children? We names come and go, but
Speaker 2: prince is a fine name, isn't It can't quite work
Speaker 2: out what people are going on about with that one
Speaker 2: eight hundred and eighty to nine two nine two de text.
Speaker 2: Looking forward to your comments, I've got to say, actually,
Speaker 2: surprisingly looking at the text, people are very um triggered
Speaker 2: each way or not triggered, but people have strong opinions
Speaker 2: each way. No one's that neutral about the heliport. People
Speaker 2: are either strongly opposed or they or they worship this
Speaker 2: guy and think it's a great kind of right to
Speaker 2: have your own heliport. So make of that what you will.
Speaker 2: As I say, oh, eight hundred eighty tatty and nine
Speaker 2: two nine two to text, first names Christian, I will
Speaker 2: still call them Christian names and heliports. I presume it's
Speaker 2: your front yard, not your backyard.
Speaker 7: Is that right?
Speaker 2: Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine two
Speaker 2: to text, looking forward to what you've got to say?
Speaker 2: And I say, oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine
Speaker 2: two nine two to text, looking forty input anything else
Speaker 2: you want to mention, feel free jump in there. But yeah,
Speaker 2: what's your what's your vibe on the heliport or not
Speaker 2: the heliport, heliport land. I don't even know what you
Speaker 2: call it, heliport line area. I presume big city is
Speaker 2: going to get busier and busier and noisier and noisier,
Speaker 2: and some of those people will move away because of that.
Speaker 2: But yes, Christian names and peerl been told they can't
Speaker 2: call their kids prince. I'll find the article for you
Speaker 2: if you like, I mean, some of the names are
Speaker 2: some of the names are kind of well. There's all
Speaker 2: sorts of reasons and names are turned down, but some
Speaker 2: of them are turned down just because they think someone's
Speaker 2: going to be confused with Prince Harry or some ridiculous reason.
Speaker 2: New Zealand is forcing a band on names that resemble
Speaker 2: officials titles, such as king, Prince, and princess. This contrast
Speaker 2: with the United States, where those names are rising in popularity.
Speaker 2: King ranked two sixty six amongst the most popular baby
Speaker 2: names in twenty twenty three, with Royal at four h two,
Speaker 2: Prince at three sixty four, and Into is a nine
Speaker 2: one nine. So we seem to be particularly restrictive when
Speaker 2: it comes to names. I've got no idea why, apart
Speaker 2: from in this country we take ourselves way too seriously.
Speaker 2: Nathan Marcus, welcome.
Speaker 6: Hey, how's it going good? Nathan, Yeah, So about the heliport,
Speaker 6: like wanting to put a helipad on their place, I'm
Speaker 6: all for anyone do what even they want. If they
Speaker 6: buy the place and want a page for money for
Speaker 6: can sing, let.
Speaker 20: Them do it.
Speaker 2: Although they need you need to go through the process
Speaker 2: to get neighbors approval. Wouldn't you.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, of course all those neighbors approve all But
Speaker 6: that's the same thing as like any other thing. It's
Speaker 6: like when people have like they want to get something,
Speaker 6: there's always going to be a negative response on It
Speaker 6: doesn't matter what it is. If it's a shoe, a boat,
Speaker 6: how it really doesn't matter. People just have a set
Speaker 6: to be jealous.
Speaker 2: Well, it's like when you're building, when you're built, when
Speaker 2: you're building something that that's that goes beyond the boundary
Speaker 2: or something, you've got to get the neighbor's approval for
Speaker 2: the ability to do that. And that's every right, isn't it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're right to it, and that's up of the
Speaker 6: council if they say not yeah or no. But at
Speaker 6: the end of the day, there's a lot of people
Speaker 6: that are angry about it.
Speaker 2: I'm just like, well, oh, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 2: actually know that there are are they are the people angry?
Speaker 17: Well, there are a.
Speaker 6: Few people because they want take one they like help
Speaker 6: the homeless, etcetera. And with the money instead of doing that,
Speaker 6: it's like, well the money they can do what they want.
Speaker 5: Sorry say that again, there's people they want like I
Speaker 5: saw in my work notes, and they're like, well, one,
Speaker 5: they just instead of paying for the consent, help the homeless,
Speaker 5: or like give it to a charity, or instead of
Speaker 5: paying for all this to happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, how much is it costing?
Speaker 14: I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's mega bucks. We know that much because I can't it.
Speaker 2: Do you know why putting all this aside, Nathan about
Speaker 2: whether they can do or they want what they want
Speaker 2: or whether they can't do. You know what the advantage
Speaker 2: would be of having a helipad on your house would
Speaker 2: at your house would be.
Speaker 6: Noticeent than having a garage. You can just go out
Speaker 6: and just go for a flight.
Speaker 2: But I presume these but these people aren't flying the helicopters.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, that's what they may do, or they may
Speaker 6: well no, they.
Speaker 2: From what I can hear, they're not going to. So
Speaker 2: you'd need to arrange someone to drive across town to
Speaker 2: pick up the helicopter and come and pick you up,
Speaker 2: wouldn't you. So it's not going to be any quicker
Speaker 2: than driving to the heliport. That's the part I can't understand.
Speaker 2: Is it just a status symbol? Because I can't work
Speaker 2: out practically that it's going to be any quicker.
Speaker 6: Well, also a storage fees, hang a seat, they're expensive.
Speaker 6: So having on their own property where they can do
Speaker 6: their own get the mechanics to do their matenance and
Speaker 6: get everything done. Okay, So that attacks because when you've
Speaker 6: got a helicopter stored at an airport or heliport, you
Speaker 6: pay by the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tho, it's yeah, okay, Yeah, that's just my thoughts
Speaker 2: on that. And what do your workmates think. They think?
Speaker 2: Probably money to the homeless, is that what they're saying.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're like that, And I'm just like, well their
Speaker 6: money if they more hard for it, didn't.
Speaker 20: Do what they want?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, worked hard. Okay, fifteen past nine if
Speaker 2: you want to come through eight hundred and eighty Teddy
Speaker 2: Marcus till twelve Marcus, do I not have to use
Speaker 2: the scrappons anymore? Do what you want? An zech is
Speaker 2: not allowed, Marcus, and picking up my daughter from the
Speaker 2: air equivalent ecodets go you, Marcus. Yes, they are still
Speaker 2: called sea scouts. I know they're still cold sea scouts.
Speaker 2: I just ask if many people still go to Sea Scouts,
Speaker 2: if they're still a big deal. This surprise you, but
Speaker 2: by my family's pretey much involved in Sea Scouts. Yeah,
Speaker 2: true story, true story. Yep, you heard it here. First.
Speaker 2: What do they call the chief? What are they to
Speaker 2: call the person that runs the Sea Scouts? Yep, they've
Speaker 2: got quite a strong Sea Scouts chapter and bluff obviously
Speaker 2: because we are a maritime town. Yep, you got that
Speaker 2: Marcus at our beach and the Corrimandel and developers started
Speaker 2: to come and go in a helicopter. It lands two
Speaker 2: to three meters away from us and the noises terrible.
Speaker 2: I would hate to have it leand in extoors somebody
Speaker 2: to load and not fear another residence. That's from Dave, Dave, Dave,
Speaker 2: get in touch Marcus till twelve Steve. Good evening.
Speaker 21: It's over the friend over in Sydney. They're on a
Speaker 21: very precipitous sort of a cliffyede house. It's on four
Speaker 21: evels and they packed their cow on the roof. They
Speaker 21: come off the road straight onto the roof of the house.
Speaker 21: But three houses down they have a helipad on the
Speaker 21: top of the house.
Speaker 2: Goodness.
Speaker 21: And there are others in the same area of that
Speaker 21: same sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Is it on the North Shore beaches? Or like Tamama or.
Speaker 22: Something like that.
Speaker 21: It was all sort of quite hilly, silly. We've had
Speaker 21: a few here and Thames actually apply for permits to
Speaker 21: have helipads on in the Hill suburbs above us, up
Speaker 21: on Hill Street, but nobody's ever got a permit to
Speaker 21: do it. But you could see the point. I mean,
Speaker 21: we're not that far from Auckland, you know, a twenty
Speaker 21: minute flight. You can see it happening. Eventually.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't get a helicopter flight of Thames though, would you, Well,
Speaker 2: would you be I don't know, would you have a
Speaker 2: flesh house and Thames or what would be? What would
Speaker 2: you be going to teams?
Speaker 23: You wouldn't to go to golf house.
Speaker 2: But no, I mean I'm just trying. I just tried to.
Speaker 2: I didn't know. Yeah, okay, I just tried. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: can't work out. I just can't work out how it
Speaker 2: fits in with your lifestyle.
Speaker 21: Well, if you're a business person and you like the
Speaker 21: lifestyle of the country here and on the Coromandal, you
Speaker 21: know you're twenty minutes right from from work in Alburn,
Speaker 21: why not I guess. So we have to put up
Speaker 21: with the helicopters going to the hospital at all hours
Speaker 21: of the day and night. Nobody seems to make any
Speaker 21: noise about that.
Speaker 2: I think people are quite in supportive of the work
Speaker 2: they do and people for I don't think anyone would
Speaker 2: be would be opposed to them picking up the roads
Speaker 2: and taking them, do you.
Speaker 21: I don't think anybody would be opposed to up from
Speaker 21: the hills someone having a helipad on the top of
Speaker 21: the house or beside the house.
Speaker 2: I wonder why they've turned them down in the past.
Speaker 21: I have no idea. That's a council decisions.
Speaker 2: Who's your mia then soul? Any good?
Speaker 21: Yeah, he's I get on well with him, yeah, you know, yeah,
Speaker 21: I know him personally is yeah. Age, Oh, he's a
Speaker 21: he's an. He's an Auckland though, well we're the same
Speaker 21: age and no. But he really has his hat and
Speaker 21: soul in the town. He's here for the benefit of
Speaker 21: the town.
Speaker 2: Did they get that more? Did they get gold Fields
Speaker 2: sorted out? It's still terrible.
Speaker 21: No, it's coming on all right. We we we haven't
Speaker 21: had a ram Rade for a little while. Things are
Speaker 21: going on all right.
Speaker 2: So is it fully occupied?
Speaker 14: Yep?
Speaker 21: You know, we haven't got any empty shops in them.
Speaker 13: All it's full.
Speaker 2: It's good. Okay, it's not all full of two dollar
Speaker 2: shops or anything, is it.
Speaker 19: No?
Speaker 21: No, we've got them in the main street, in Pollen Street.
Speaker 21: We've got four of them, I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anything worth buying in them?
Speaker 21: I wouldn't buy anything in them. Sorry, I don't support
Speaker 21: child labor. You go, You'm very staunch on that. But yeah, no,
Speaker 21: it's like stuff made in China that doesn't last very
Speaker 21: long and then you can't repair it because there's no
Speaker 21: spar parts. I'll buy something made locally.
Speaker 2: There's a coin mixing them all. That's a two dollar shop,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 21: I prefer to buy something that I can. Is it
Speaker 21: made in New Zealand? You can get the spear of
Speaker 21: parts for it and you can repair it, you know,
Speaker 21: but that's getting very hard to find.
Speaker 2: Oh, there's a dreadlocks place in the in the gold Fields,
Speaker 2: Queen's Dreadlocks and Haircuts.
Speaker 9: Oh is that right?
Speaker 21: I haven't see that. I must have a look at it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you want to get yourself dreadlocks. Steve, thanks
Speaker 2: for eight hundred and eighty to twenty three past nine
Speaker 2: here at the end midnight. Whatever names would you call yourself,
Speaker 2: prince or king?
Speaker 19: Why not?
Speaker 2: Marcus said, the folks we are going to fly themselves.
Speaker 2: So thinking of the helicopters and a Newbert, you order
Speaker 2: it for a particular time it arrives, it takes you
Speaker 2: to the airport directly. Time saved for some I imagine
Speaker 2: timers money leave helicopters for life flights. Maybe they should
Speaker 2: try electric scooters. Thanks Kurt, Kurt Kurt, twenty five past nine.
Speaker 2: If there's any news happening around the wood or all
Speaker 2: across it, what does that mean? I don't know exactly,
Speaker 2: but will there be a quake tonight? The little one yesterday?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: Levin? He pulled to Italy will host a thudieth edition
Speaker 2: of the America's Cup. It's going to Italy. Let's ta
Speaker 2: prior to get a look. And I always liked Prata.
Speaker 2: They've done it for long enough, you think they'd win eventually.
Speaker 2: So that's happening. Eight hundred and eighty Taddy in nine
Speaker 2: to text Trump where is he now? Qatar? They had
Speaker 2: a mobile McDonald's. Did you see that? They put a
Speaker 2: mobile McDonald's. They took that with him, So get McDonald's
Speaker 2: when he wanted it. Yep, that's right. Oh, by the way, too,
Speaker 2: there's an article, a big article, they say, the talk
Speaker 2: of Sydney Fashion Week crocs. Everyone's wearing crocs. So yet
Speaker 2: we talked about crocs this week, whether they last long
Speaker 2: within the generals, not in terms of wear and tear,
Speaker 2: but in terms of their ubiquitousness. I think we decided
Speaker 2: they probably would. Well, it's been a week of divisive topics,
Speaker 2: hasn't it? Divided the nation with chicken sandwiches or chicken burgers,
Speaker 2: divided the nation with crocs versus journals, divided the nation
Speaker 2: with re energizing the flag debate, very little passion for
Speaker 2: a new flag. I knew you'd wrecked the chances of it,
Speaker 2: and our division over a helicopter, And I guess that's
Speaker 2: to do with our attitude towards people who are successful.
Speaker 2: I suppose what rights does that give you? Yeah, it
Speaker 2: might be something you want to mention as well. But
Speaker 2: here till midnight. By the way, who's excited about Mission
Speaker 2: impossible tomorrow? With the ageless tom Cruise. I don't know
Speaker 2: if I've ever seen one. It's only hanging off planes
Speaker 2: they mission him. I don't know if I've seen one.
Speaker 2: I'm not really one to comment, but but they've done
Speaker 2: very well with the hype. I'm real ware it's typening
Speaker 2: to I've seen all sorts of footage of him doing
Speaker 2: stuff anyway, helicopters and Christian names. Should you to call
Speaker 2: your kid king or Prince Marcus? The drive from Taomojune
Speaker 2: to play with every one of the best of news
Speaker 2: in and yeah, the wipe of Delta down through the
Speaker 2: King Country in the coastal Taranaki beautiful, you're the limestone
Speaker 2: and is impressive? That gorgeous? Yeah, no, I've got your
Speaker 2: big tick on that one. I don't know why they
Speaker 2: don't make more of it. Actually, one of the great
Speaker 2: trips get in touch helicopters. What's the point I can't understand.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously people got a lot of fuss to
Speaker 2: get one, but what would it change your life that much?
Speaker 2: You must really hate the drive to the airport because
Speaker 2: these days you got your you got your laptop, you
Speaker 2: watch a movie or something, could you There's no downtime anymore.
Speaker 2: You can do anything the whole time, watch your movie,
Speaker 2: do whatever. Oh yeah, I quite like a bit of downtime.
Speaker 2: Someone's driving you catch up to your emails. We really
Speaker 2: set an email. It's why I quite like roadworks or
Speaker 2: red lights. You get on your phone, check things out,
Speaker 2: catch up with the news, where you go again? Never good.
Speaker 2: When the light's gone green for a while, you realize
Speaker 2: you'd forgotten it. But anyway, there probably should be an
Speaker 2: app on your phone that gives your text when the
Speaker 2: light's gone green. They'd probably be quite easy to do.
Speaker 2: Sharewear or something. Oh wait, one hundred and eighty Teddy
Speaker 2: Women's Tonight. I keep you updated without forget who won
Speaker 2: the first one? I remember watching you just don't remember
Speaker 2: who won. I think it might have been. Might have
Speaker 2: been the Queensland emails if you've got them, Hi, Marcus
Speaker 2: can't stand tom cruise to what We headed to the
Speaker 2: cinema tomorrow. Not many helicopters in this part of the world,
Speaker 2: and thankful for I do find drones annoying, though, when
Speaker 2: social media crowds stay nearby. If parients are stupid enough
Speaker 2: to give their child a ridiculous name, then they need
Speaker 2: to be prepared for the ridicule that will come when
Speaker 2: the child reaches school age. Mind you yesterday's ridiculous name.
Speaker 2: I mean names come and go. I mean Look at Wayne.
Speaker 2: No one's called Wayne anymore, are they? Or Kevin? But
Speaker 2: fifty years ago you couldn't get finer class without a
Speaker 2: Wayne or a Kevin. It's all changed. Your names are
Speaker 2: quite different now, are they.
Speaker 15: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's all sort of alo and otto. These they are
Speaker 2: all sort of valley words, I think, Marcus. I'm still
Speaker 2: freaked up by the caller from last night. Change and
Speaker 2: progress is bad? Yeah? Wow, what a New Zealand first voter.
Speaker 2: She was cheapest. Imagine spending Christmas Day with her stuck
Speaker 2: hearing her nonsense. Any takes for first names? Want to
Speaker 2: talk about that? Nineteen to ten? Them might be something different?
Speaker 2: Want I mentioned? I'm not fussed. If that's what you
Speaker 2: want to go on about. They'd be good to hear
Speaker 2: from your head. Of twelve oh, eight hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: ten eighty nine ninety two to text helicopters. Why would
Speaker 2: you want one at your house? Yeah, that's the question.
Speaker 2: How much time would it save? Or is it one
Speaker 2: of those things you think, well, why not? Why shouldn't
Speaker 2: I have one? So I guess there's places you could
Speaker 2: move to it becomes easier to have one. I think
Speaker 2: I probably could lend a helicopter in our place, actually
Speaker 2: what I want to do. I think the only problem
Speaker 2: was becoming a helicopter part. I think it's quite hard
Speaker 2: to keep your license, isn't it. You've got to fly
Speaker 2: quite often. I think it's you've got to fly more
Speaker 2: often than when you fly a plane. I don't know
Speaker 2: how many hours as a month, but I thought it
Speaker 2: was a few and I made it would quite quickly
Speaker 2: become a liability because you've got to fly the whole
Speaker 2: time to keep your license valid, differently doing it commercially.
Speaker 2: But yeah, there's actually a helicopter pad next door to us.
Speaker 2: They come and go all the time, particularly with the
Speaker 2: Mutton booers coming home. I saw two planes lending simultaneously,
Speaker 2: which is something I hadn't seen for a while. Anyway,
Speaker 2: be nice to hear from your people. One of as
Speaker 2: Marcus welcome, Oh eight hundred and eighty. Terribly wet for
Speaker 2: the state of origin. This is the women's state. I
Speaker 2: don't know where it is, but it's just she's bucketing down.
Speaker 2: Every time I watch League in Australia these days, it
Speaker 2: seems though it's raining. It seems though the climates turned
Speaker 2: very wet over there. But yep, get in touch. You
Speaker 2: ont to be part of the show. If there's some
Speaker 2: different topic, you gonna run up the flag. Good. I'll
Speaker 2: be good to hear from you always. Yeah, this looks
Speaker 2: like the picture is not going to hold up, Marcus.
Speaker 2: The newer helicopters with an enclosed tail rotor a significantly
Speaker 2: quieter I like those. I think they're the eurocopter. Oh
Speaker 2: why they follow the motorway. It's just the fastest route, Marcus,
Speaker 2: the lowest level of a few thousand meters. Marcus. I
Speaker 2: regularly buy granulated instant coffee from New World. Ninety grams
Speaker 2: in pay between two fifty three fifty mechs eight dollars
Speaker 2: for one hundred grams of instant coffee must be top
Speaker 2: of the line. Yet makes a good story. By the way,
Speaker 2: did you know a New World will make cakes for
Speaker 2: your on request? Is that something people know? Only found
Speaker 2: that out today? Evening? Sam, welcome, Hi, How are you?
Speaker 22: Marcus?
Speaker 2: Good? Thank you? Sam?
Speaker 20: Good?
Speaker 24: Hey about this helicopter SGA, I haven't been following it
Speaker 24: too much or two because you're working. But I mean,
Speaker 24: one would imagine if forgot that much money would not
Speaker 24: buy a big pad in the country, and I mean,
Speaker 24: no one would really care, would they know?
Speaker 2: It seems like they've they've got their dream place and
Speaker 2: kind of a recently fashionable part of Auckland. And yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: change yourself would change the world. Often say, but you
Speaker 2: just move into the country, wouldn't you.
Speaker 24: Well, no, I really camplained. I suppose you get the
Speaker 24: old neighbor that would complain. But yeah, I mean imagine
Speaker 24: if I'd imagine if you got that much coin, you'd
Speaker 24: you just buy a big pad in the country and
Speaker 24: and live everyday life, won't you.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what I imagine most people do that get
Speaker 2: a big, a big slab but bend a mere resort
Speaker 2: in Queenstown or something like that. You'd fly and you
Speaker 2: chopp it from the airport to your house and spend
Speaker 2: your time there. You go to Europe for the rest
Speaker 2: of the year, if you're serious about, you know, doing
Speaker 2: the money bit.
Speaker 24: Yeah, I I haven't been following it too much, mate,
Speaker 24: but yeah, that's just my opinion.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think a lot of people think I
Speaker 2: think a lot of people are on song with you
Speaker 2: about that one. Sam. It just seems strange that you're there,
Speaker 2: want to go and live right in the middle of
Speaker 2: the city, and you'd want a helicopter. The two seems
Speaker 2: slightly incompatible, or maybe they won't be incompatible. Maybe they
Speaker 2: will get permissioned, but surprising.
Speaker 24: Well, yeah, that's the way the world is, Mascus.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 24: I think they will get no matter how much people
Speaker 24: throw up their arms and complain, you know, and they
Speaker 24: have to get permission. And what's going to be done
Speaker 24: about it?
Speaker 2: Well, often what happens with people, they spend the whole
Speaker 2: time fighting, and the fight takes out, and they get permission,
Speaker 2: and then the house goes on the market. They move
Speaker 2: somewhere else because it changes the perception of their neighbors
Speaker 2: and their neighborhood. Often, I think that's what will happen.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that's one of my predictions, but I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised. Marcus, good day, Marcus. I live on
Speaker 2: the West Coast, and sometimes it feels like every second
Speaker 2: person here owns and flies a helicopter. It's great, what
Speaker 2: can man can do when he sets his mind to it.
Speaker 2: Although it rains here all the time. Can you let
Speaker 2: your nimby Auckland listeners know they that, so they don't
Speaker 2: move down here, Charlie. Where are you? Charlie? What coast
Speaker 2: west coast and northid of West Coast of South Island,
Speaker 2: Marcus free easy to keep the license current? No minimum
Speaker 2: hours to keep up You sure that's the change since
Speaker 2: I was looking into it. Faulty Yeah, good evening, Mark.
Speaker 7: It's long time no here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm never quite sure how I should reply to that,
Speaker 2: because I mean, you're bringing me after all, But anyway,
Speaker 2: it's just small.
Speaker 7: Quote to you. Was in cyclone Gabriel when I was
Speaker 7: stuck on the Mohocker coach.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the mighty more hocker. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: ye ye ye. Where are you now?
Speaker 7: Faulty Tuty between Jenny Verurk and Prolong. I look five
Speaker 7: hundred meters?
Speaker 2: What's five hundred millies?
Speaker 7: That's where I love A five hundred meters altitude? Yeah see,
Speaker 7: I live in the clean here, not down amongst the Towny's.
Speaker 2: No, wow, five hundred meters are you're on the top
Speaker 2: of a hill or on the side of a hill?
Speaker 18: Ye?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm exposed to up to two hundred and forty
Speaker 7: kN now ones where.
Speaker 2: You can see who's coming into a tech? Can't you?
Speaker 2: From there? Your command of the hill.
Speaker 7: You've got it dead right, mate. But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 7: I've got a two million dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, three billion, now the way it's going. What do
Speaker 2: you want? What do you want to say about helicopters?
Speaker 7: Can I put a bit of a towny aspect on this? Please?
Speaker 7: A country a country aspect on toppers? I used to
Speaker 7: work out I one in Live Deer Captain nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 7: I won't go into that. I've also been rescued by
Speaker 7: one save me life twice, and when we hear them
Speaker 7: in the country out here, it means that's either doing
Speaker 7: work or helping somebody out. So I think it's perviosed
Speaker 7: to use the chopper as a luxury after we see
Speaker 7: what we see out here.
Speaker 2: That's a different angle. It's there now, they're not They're
Speaker 2: not some sort of rich kid's toy. They're in a
Speaker 2: sexual work tool saving lives.
Speaker 7: Yes, thank you very much, Richard Chopper putting fertilizer on.
Speaker 7: We're talking worktoppers. Now, something else I want to try.
Speaker 2: You did you have one of those guns?
Speaker 5: Was no?
Speaker 7: I used to jump on on the blooming things I need.
Speaker 7: He sworn in up until you that we were specking
Speaker 7: to river honey and a millionais seven nothing.
Speaker 4: I was doing no good.
Speaker 2: Who is your top of pilot?
Speaker 7: Uh, Peter somebody for Lakeland Helicopters. And and then he
Speaker 7: had to go. He got employed in Aleska, Toma.
Speaker 2: Master caribou that's right, caribou muster.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I am one o the things quickly. Steve Wan Harris,
Speaker 7: do you know that name?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 7: Have you heard about his book he's launching this weekend
Speaker 7: something about meteors. You know he's a meteor taser yep? Okay,
Speaker 7: it's a tid's book about a meteor. I can't remember
Speaker 7: the name of the heard it on the local radio
Speaker 7: of the station this morning, and he's launching it this weekend.
Speaker 2: I thought you might be interesting, brother, there's a brilliant update.
Speaker 2: That's great, okay to meteor Chase the book is it?
Speaker 21: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's something something like I lended here or something.
Speaker 7: I carry remember the name that I hit her on
Speaker 7: the local radio station centrally off him this morning.
Speaker 2: You know who does the breakfast there?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 7: Seveh and Harrison now part.
Speaker 14: Owner of the.
Speaker 7: Radio station.
Speaker 2: I know that he's because he retired.
Speaker 7: The son's taking over the farm.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, he's a citizen signed to seize fireballs are
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, he's a close neighbor. I live in Central
Speaker 7: Hawk's Bay by about a one and a half case
Speaker 7: from Taru area.
Speaker 19: So he.
Speaker 2: How far are you from the coast to put on
Speaker 2: the hoe?
Speaker 7: Twenty eight k thirty road. Hey, the sun comes up
Speaker 7: over the sea in the morning and shines in my
Speaker 7: back window up onto my ceiling.
Speaker 2: Cheap as creeper, the old ceiling so brilliant.
Speaker 7: And I think, yeah, I shouldn't say too much because
Speaker 7: I'm happy here for a reason.
Speaker 2: But I see you'll see them coming, Faulter. You'll see
Speaker 2: them coming. You have time, plan your plan, you exit
Speaker 2: and you'll be right. Ouldest trick in the book defending
Speaker 2: a hell Beck Catch your people Hddle twelve six Narl
Speaker 2: Queensland up over and you and names to an America.
Speaker 2: You can call yourself right, you can call yourself royal
Speaker 2: or king or prince. In New Zealand you can't do it. Oh,
Speaker 2: but to uptate on the names we let people have.
Speaker 2: I don't care. Call yourself what you want. You always
Speaker 2: changed if you're not happy with it, for goodness sake.
Speaker 2: Fancy been so precious about because I might confuse you
Speaker 2: with Prince Erry chief is Way eight one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty Teddy nine nine two tacks lines for you, mainly
Speaker 2: about the helicopters. Why you'd want one? I don't care
Speaker 2: where they have one, or I just don't quite I
Speaker 2: just don't know who's so busy a helicopter in their
Speaker 2: front yard. People say it's for the enjoyment flying the
Speaker 2: thing themselves. Think someone comes across to pick them up.
Speaker 2: Oh well, Marcus, power just went out into the attitude South.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Here we go, We're away. Marcus. Believe our
Speaker 2: motorways in major stays and six is both nationally collectively
Speaker 2: have quietly surpassed residential and domestic electricy usage. What's that mean?
Speaker 2: Tell me what I understand that? Mac Mac mac Welcome
Speaker 2: people eight one hundred and eighty Today your timo's Marcus welcome,
Speaker 2: Good evening.
Speaker 12: Hey Marcus.
Speaker 25: Interesting about these names, yes, in particular Royal King.
Speaker 22: I can recall I went to the school with.
Speaker 26: A young man.
Speaker 22: His name was Blue Boys.
Speaker 25: Oh yep, after that famous song.
Speaker 2: What's the song going?
Speaker 22: Oh jeez, I can't remember now.
Speaker 2: It's a famous song. But I don't think I've heard it,
Speaker 2: but I'll look it up.
Speaker 22: A yeah, anyway, that's what I heard. Anyway, he was
Speaker 22: named after a famous song, so that's why they gave.
Speaker 25: Him the name blue Boy. But I guess the rules
Speaker 25: have changed over the years. I can record going to
Speaker 25: school with two girls. One was Tennessee and one was
Speaker 25: I think it was Mississippi or something. And you know,
Speaker 25: there's been a few Mercedes Porsches obviously, so there's never
Speaker 25: been anything wrong with those names.
Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people are named after geographical places.
Speaker 2: For what did you say, Mississippi? Yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: that became medicine at Medicine Avenue, London. A lot of
Speaker 2: people are named after towns and cities, aren't they.
Speaker 22: Yeah, it's quite like like you just said, I think
Speaker 22: they're being they're being a bit precious mate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, because I find someone wants to call themselves prince.
Speaker 2: I mean that seems to be like, yeah, I got
Speaker 2: no problem.
Speaker 22: With it, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 25: And just on the helicopters, I mean, if I ever
Speaker 25: owned one, i'd probably use it just to fly from
Speaker 25: I don't know, Queenstown, Towanica or the Day of Isolence.
Speaker 25: Fun it a or something like that. But man, it
Speaker 25: scared me once I saw that incident over the huts
Speaker 25: and they when the propeller came off the the actual helicopter.
Speaker 2: What was amazing about that was they had shots. It
Speaker 2: was a terroist thing. They had shots. They had They
Speaker 2: got them all on the helicopter with their headsets and
Speaker 2: they took publicity photos for it and they published. I
Speaker 2: don't know how they got out. They might have posted
Speaker 2: on social media for they took off, but it was
Speaker 2: horrible to see these people so happy and moments later
Speaker 2: that all died.
Speaker 22: Oh terrible, terrible, and you know young family as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, okay, Yeah it happened.
Speaker 22: That shouldn't hold you back from doing what you want
Speaker 22: to do in life.
Speaker 25: There's you know, how many people this great country.
Speaker 2: How many people die yere in helicopters.
Speaker 22: Oh, I couldn't tell you, mate too.
Speaker 25: I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be much.
Speaker 2: Well, there's always well, I mean, there can't be that
Speaker 2: many helicopter pilots in the country. But yeah, okay, I'll look.
Speaker 25: At the steps.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think well, I think he does also, I
Speaker 2: mean does he work. I think he's involved with the
Speaker 2: rugby union running that. Yeah, yeah, I don't know too
Speaker 2: much about what he does. I imagine if you had
Speaker 2: him employed in your company, it would be good for business,
Speaker 2: wouldn't it, Because you know, I mean to be a fairy,
Speaker 2: you'd be a fairy capable pilot, one would imagine. It
Speaker 2: seems to be calm, calm under fire. If you think
Speaker 2: about all black you want to be driving your helicopter,
Speaker 2: you rather Mitch McCall than some of the others, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2: Who'd be the worst helicopter? Who'd be the worst all
Speaker 2: black to drive a helt fly helicopter? Can't think of
Speaker 2: the answer there, but there will be someone anyway. Get
Speaker 2: in touch, Laurie Marcus. Welcome hear of Arcus.
Speaker 20: Would you mention all blacks with helicopters? Isn't it the
Speaker 20: Williams that's interested in?
Speaker 2: Yes, that's what we are. That's yeah, he's the one.
Speaker 2: It's a big old clinch story, him and his wife.
Speaker 2: It's gone on forever and it's in the consent process now,
Speaker 2: which they have to pay for. But there's people being
Speaker 2: kicked out. It just goes on and I kind of
Speaker 2: work out what why they wanted?
Speaker 20: Well, it could be just straight recreation. I mean, did
Speaker 20: you realize that John, Sir John Key's got his license
Speaker 20: a little while ago, that's right, And he took Samantha
Speaker 20: Hayes for a ride round. And he's just doing it
Speaker 20: as a as a hobby. It's quite nice to little
Speaker 20: just a two seater help chopper. But hey, guess what
Speaker 20: flag he's got on the back of it. It's on YouTube,
Speaker 20: the one you were talking about last night. He's got
Speaker 20: a He's got that. That's the US got got that
Speaker 20: flag on his helicopter.
Speaker 2: The Mozambique one.
Speaker 13: That the.
Speaker 2: Jesus. Let it go, John, let it go. But I
Speaker 2: would imagine if for them living in Westmere, they don't
Speaker 2: want to fly the helicopter themselves, So to get picked
Speaker 2: up you need to phone your pilot, you have to
Speaker 2: drive across town pick up the helicopter from the Helles.
Speaker 2: You'd fly across the get you. There'd be two hours.
Speaker 2: That's not that spontaneous, is it. Yeah.
Speaker 20: No, i'd expect that he'd probably want to fly himself.
Speaker 2: I don't think that. I don't think that's the case.
Speaker 20: But just straight recreation, you know, I mean, just like
Speaker 20: people with jet skis, you know, they go out and
Speaker 20: just go around in the circles and come back again.
Speaker 2: Don't get missed out on skis. Look, you're not a
Speaker 2: jit skier, are you?
Speaker 14: Certainly not?
Speaker 2: What a moronic form of transport. Knuckledraggers on their dwing,
Speaker 2: such a terrible noise.
Speaker 20: Yeah, but for the small, these small choppers, it's almost
Speaker 20: getting into stage. Looked like the jetsums, you know, sort
Speaker 20: of it's if you're it was this one. He didn't mention.
Speaker 20: This has been across a million dollars, the little French
Speaker 20: shopper that since Joe KIE's gone, But for a pretty
Speaker 20: neat little thing.
Speaker 2: But yeah, have you got you? You have you a
Speaker 2: helicopter license?
Speaker 20: Hell no, why not?
Speaker 7: They probably?
Speaker 20: Actually, I I am quite I mean, even though I
Speaker 20: do a hell a lot of flying, I'm I'm revolutely
Speaker 20: apprehensive for about being in at the controls. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 20: I've done parachute jumps and I spend a lot of
Speaker 20: the time looking down through a hole on the floor
Speaker 20: of an aircraft. But yeah, I just did a couple
Speaker 20: of trial flights but didn't didn't feel moved to sort
Speaker 20: of take lessons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am. I actually always felt quite comfortable, and
Speaker 2: I spent a lot of time with helicopters, always felt
Speaker 2: quite comfortable in them, but I've never really felt I
Speaker 2: think it's quite hard to fly them. You've got to
Speaker 2: get that sort of stalling thing going, which is quite
Speaker 2: hard work. I think requires a bit of skill.
Speaker 20: Yeah, yeah, I mean a lot of hours of practical
Speaker 20: used to be quite expensive years ago when I was
Speaker 20: in Canada working back in the late sixties, basically that
Speaker 20: the North they were getting ferried around with helicopters. But
Speaker 20: there's quite a few guys learning then, and they used
Speaker 20: to go down and the place to learn was down
Speaker 20: at Niagara Falls. Yeah, that's where people would get their
Speaker 20: hours up. You know that you learned to fly, and
Speaker 20: then you've got the job of flying the tourists, flying
Speaker 20: the tourists around.
Speaker 2: And which a lot of the guys, a lot of
Speaker 2: the guys I've met in the South Island that are
Speaker 2: that are pilots. They've spent they've spent years in the
Speaker 2: middle of the Atlantic with the big fishing boats going
Speaker 2: to look for soon. I forget what they're doing, but
Speaker 2: it sounds pretty boring just flying around looking for schools
Speaker 2: of fish, I presume.
Speaker 20: Yeah, they're spotting spotting tuna. Yeah, I've seen those.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 20: Yeah, when I was up in Micronesia, there was they
Speaker 20: they came out of out of Seattle.
Speaker 10: Usually.
Speaker 20: Yeah, the civilian families I think that sort of run
Speaker 20: that deal. But yeah, they catch their fish. Well, they
Speaker 20: go out and they spot the birds working and then
Speaker 20: you know, the guys will direct them to the haller up.
Speaker 20: But they actually sell it.
Speaker 14: You know, uh.
Speaker 20: Online, you know, from the ship. It's bitually. The it's
Speaker 20: sold bually when they catch it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they are they a school fish. They just get
Speaker 2: one at a time.
Speaker 20: No, they're school fish. Yeah, yeah, yeah, a bunch of them. Yeah,
Speaker 20: I mean when they sometimes they use when the guys
Speaker 20: fishing for them, they use it like a live bait.
Speaker 20: They have it in tanks when they find with the
Speaker 20: schoolers and they let that stuff out and then they
Speaker 20: just sort of guys just they can sometimes lean across
Speaker 20: this with hooks hook and the fish you know, off
Speaker 20: the surface. So it's a very like a feeding frenzy.
Speaker 20: They get them times not.
Speaker 2: To watch on YouTube, but sometimes I think it needs
Speaker 2: a good edit. Yeah yeah, here, I'll leave it there, Laurie,
Speaker 2: but thank you. Seventeen past ten six all New South
Speaker 2: Wales Queensland women's state of origin. Why don't we just
Speaker 2: call it the state of origin? Anyway? How are you?
Speaker 2: What's happening worst? All black to fly helicopter justin Marshall,
Speaker 2: Perhaps five hundred and fifteen helicopters per year average since
Speaker 2: two thousand and six. Death and Helicopter. Marcus I reckon
Speaker 2: to be awkward being named king on the off change,
Speaker 2: you'd become a king. That's very good text. Then you
Speaker 2: name would be king King brilliant. But then if you
Speaker 2: name your son prince, his name would be prince Prince.
Speaker 2: But then when you died, he'd become King Prince. You
Speaker 2: follow me, I think it's very good. By the way,
Speaker 2: chop of deaths decreasing down two percent per year. Blue
Speaker 2: Boy was the son of Buck Cannon and the High Chaparral.
Speaker 2: The thing was because they had red ginger hair. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: blue yeah, if your ginger you called your kind blue boy.
Speaker 2: But were they not at birth? Probably it's normally fairly
Speaker 2: a parent in it that they're going to be of
Speaker 2: weird headed persuasion. Marcus I went for a quick supermarket
Speaker 2: run tonight, was amazed at the number of street lights
Speaker 2: out must be a storm hangover. No demand for hell.
Speaker 2: He got repats here in upper hut oh jab with
Speaker 2: the hut Zach Guildford. Good on you. Apparently you can't
Speaker 2: call your kid justice or judge or anything that sounds
Speaker 2: like an honory titled what about Earl? Exactly? You can't
Speaker 2: call your kid Fanny either, which I thought was weird.
Speaker 2: My name is Earl. You call your kids what you like, Marcus.
Speaker 2: I think the worst all Black to be a helicopter
Speaker 2: pilot would be Dan Carter. He can't fly all of them,
Speaker 2: he can only fly half. Quite good. I mean, I
Speaker 2: see what you did there? You worked on it, Well done,
Speaker 2: well done. Everyone's in the joking mood. I had a
Speaker 2: good joke today. What was it who told me a joke? Someone?
Speaker 2: Where was someone that got told a joke?
Speaker 22: Oh?
Speaker 2: I can't remember it? Oh damn? Did I screenshot and
Speaker 2: I read it and screenshot it? Maybe? Joy o Joys?
Speaker 2: How are you going? People? You've got something interesting to say?
Speaker 2: Be nice to hear from your Marcus till twelve helicopters
Speaker 2: and strange names, not strange names. They've caught footage of
Speaker 2: a to atara fighting at Takahey, go figure anyway, get
Speaker 2: in touch, you on to be part of it. My
Speaker 2: name as Marcus welcome. Oh what about? That's why I
Speaker 2: did ask, and I've got no replies. What about who's
Speaker 2: coming across all these raffles for butter? Apparently what happens
Speaker 2: is you all sell tickets and then someone goes to
Speaker 2: Costco and buys heaps of butter because it's like four
Speaker 2: dollars for five hundred grams. And then you go home
Speaker 2: and you wait for the lotto drawer and the last
Speaker 2: ball for Powerball. That's the person that wins, and they
Speaker 2: win all the butter. This is butter, people, This is
Speaker 2: what's happened in this country. Butter. It is like the depression.
Speaker 2: Raffles to win butter, like it's some sort of Christmas emper,
Speaker 2: like it's some sort of special delicacy. Butter frigid spinner.
Speaker 2: It's not good. It's a sad world we live in now. Marcus.
Speaker 2: I live one kilometer away from wests and Milk Products
Speaker 2: who make butter. And you know I'm paying eight fifty
Speaker 2: for a pound Luxe and has done nothing for this
Speaker 2: country to text from the coast. Eight fifty pounds it'll
Speaker 2: go up to thirteen dollars in some places, people asking
Speaker 2: why some want to call a kid Fenny Marcus. My
Speaker 2: nephew's name is Bishop, and by no means is he religious.
Speaker 2: His parents had a fight on their hand when regis
Speaker 2: during him, but in the end they got their way.
Speaker 2: Cheers Bishop. They might be into chess. Bishop is the
Speaker 2: bad name Bishop? Well they've fled up at the old
Speaker 2: state of origin. There's a fight. Well it's pushing, but
Speaker 2: it's a fight. You don't know about the name bushop Bishop.
Speaker 2: I think Fanny used to be quite a popular name
Speaker 2: in the past, but I think it might have I
Speaker 2: think it might be short Fenny short for something. I
Speaker 2: don't know that. I think we get Fanny's on here
Speaker 2: from time to time, don't we. I still think it's
Speaker 2: a short form of Francis or a diminutive of France.
Speaker 2: Was Stephanie and called Stephanie Fenny or Stefania. Yes, it
Speaker 2: means free one, So there you go. You might want
Speaker 2: to talk about that. Also, Fanny is a name, but
Speaker 2: you say it's one of the ones that's benned. How
Speaker 2: do they ben what we want to call our children?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what people don't do much now ballooning.
Speaker 2: I often think of the Wizard of Oz when balloons
Speaker 2: first arrived, pre flight, when balloons become big, was everyone
Speaker 2: buying balloons in their house and just taking off, because
Speaker 2: it must have seemed been quite incredible that you just
Speaker 2: go up in the air and fly people privately owned balloons.
Speaker 2: I was ready about a woman that too in New
Speaker 2: Zealand and balloons and oh this is quite interesting. I
Speaker 2: forget what her name was. She has avia tricks and
Speaker 2: she had two of the country with the balloon.
Speaker 15: Right.
Speaker 2: But the weird thing was to go ballooning, first thing
Speaker 2: you'd have to do is dig a trench and full
Speaker 2: of wood and create the hot air for the balloon
Speaker 2: to go. So it wasn't straightforward because it was They
Speaker 2: didn't have bottle guests in those days, so yeah, it
Speaker 2: must have been quite exciting. What her name was Laila Adir,
Speaker 2: the Aerial Queen. She toured New Zeland in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 2: Her as sense were known for mishaps in cleaning a balloon,
Speaker 2: being blown out under the ring of toeto and think
Speaker 2: I talk to her channel in Auckland and bursting during
Speaker 2: a decent in Hamilton. Yeah, I've never heard about this.
Speaker 2: I was reading a book about Great South Throw the
Speaker 2: other day, just in the bookshop. Where was that a bookshop?
Speaker 2: What was I read in that book? Somewhere? Very interesting?
Speaker 2: I thought it was. But yes, she was like like
Speaker 2: in the day, ballooning was a big deal. But I'm
Speaker 2: thinking about the whole of Wizard of Oz because that
Speaker 2: was how you kind of could go into different worlds
Speaker 2: because it was a balloon. The Wizard arrived in a balloon,
Speaker 2: didn't he? But yeah, you might want to talk about that.
Speaker 2: And June ninete eighty four, American woman Leila add traveled
Speaker 2: us in and performing acrobatic act on a trapeze bar
Speaker 2: runner in front of balloon. I was unsuccessful in her
Speaker 2: master's attempt after the boon caught fire at the park
Speaker 2: over and then it was abandoned. Apparents is quite compelling,
Speaker 2: this woman Pixie here caut they say on the articles
Speaker 2: Good Evening, Jim AT's Marcus, welcome, Hey, MICUs.
Speaker 12: I just want to talk about the game show The Chase.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm across the chase. Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Bradley yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 12: Yeah yeah, funny.
Speaker 14: It was one episode here we was talking about an
Speaker 14: Olympian I think it was or.
Speaker 2: Something fish Finnish Shima or.
Speaker 24: Something Fannish smeller.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and I don't know that's why the way
Speaker 2: they banned the name, but that seemed to go viral
Speaker 2: a with with the Governess.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a funny episode.
Speaker 2: And he's you have to be the best quiz host
Speaker 2: has ever been one. And he's got a tremendous manner
Speaker 2: about him.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I like him.
Speaker 4: I like as human. He's real funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, never lose it to you. You're right, Jim been
Speaker 2: that touchy guy from Tipping Point, the octopus end all
Speaker 2: over the contestant. He's terrible for what they call the octopus.
Speaker 2: I forget his name? Did eyes Pete.
Speaker 23: Marcus here?
Speaker 2: Guy, good Pete, thanks for asking.
Speaker 23: Ye just regaining Ellie with his helipad. You know, even
Speaker 23: these people think they are they shouldn't even go on.
Speaker 22: To the way.
Speaker 23: It's got to the stage. The character just Jersey walked
Speaker 23: with the application say sorry, that's a residential area if
Speaker 23: you want to do that, going by a block of
Speaker 23: land somewhere out in the country somewhere, but not that much.
Speaker 23: It's disrespectful. You've got to draw the line in life.
Speaker 23: And I think these people who think they can do
Speaker 23: what they like and when they're like he's on the
Speaker 23: rugby team, now he's going to pull his head in
Speaker 23: and say no, he's out of line.
Speaker 2: You sound quite sensible on this.
Speaker 23: Pete, Well, what do you think you know? People are
Speaker 23: doing shift work. You have your washing out there, next
Speaker 23: minute comes up with his chopper and next minute're going
Speaker 23: to go. Look, we're gonna go all around the neighbor
Speaker 23: looks be washing. Its being blown off the line. Who
Speaker 23: do they even thinking of that idea? Are they normal people? Really?
Speaker 2: You think he's got some sort of lack of perspective
Speaker 2: for others.
Speaker 12: Definitely.
Speaker 2: So oh, thanks for your passion, Pete. I'm liking this.
Speaker 2: You ever thought of learning to fly? You ever thought
Speaker 2: of getting your helicopter license?
Speaker 23: There's a time and a place for everything. I used
Speaker 23: to go out on the rigs and that when you
Speaker 23: have a chopper or where you get picked up, you
Speaker 23: go out to the industrial where your chopper pair is.
Speaker 7: With it exactly.
Speaker 2: You go to some other buildings, not daycares and people playing.
Speaker 2: Then you get on your hell cut and out to
Speaker 2: Maui one platform.
Speaker 23: No, I was doing the pipeline from Mary A Mary
Speaker 23: Beta when they're doing the laying the pipeline and they're
Speaker 23: dis insulation on some of the one on the aura
Speaker 23: on that as well. But there's a time and a place,
Speaker 23: you know, that's where're playing, that's what your airports for,
Speaker 23: that's where you have helicopter hangars, not in residential area.
Speaker 23: So the council simply put their application and they say, sorry,
Speaker 23: we're not even going to proceed it. In the story
Speaker 23: going for Goings and I said, repeat myself, you're going
Speaker 23: by a block of the lanes and where you're not
Speaker 23: disturbing people in the residential area. It's that simple. The
Speaker 23: ball's going crazy, marketers, really are.
Speaker 2: You're going for count love vote for your peak. You
Speaker 2: make a lot of sense. You have you ever been
Speaker 2: to West Mayor.
Speaker 23: No, I have, and I'm messing hearing you from up
Speaker 23: So I'm actually thinking about it really because we have
Speaker 23: the same thing in this council here. If these cycle
Speaker 23: lanes are putting in here. The stain has been in
Speaker 23: the media a yet I didn't realize there's a meeting
Speaker 23: on Tuesday. I smoke one of our councilors. They know
Speaker 23: that I'm against it, but they won't. They don't like
Speaker 23: guys of common sense. They won't invite you to the meeting.
Speaker 2: Them you make too much sense for them.
Speaker 23: Well, I think that's I think you're dangerous.
Speaker 2: Ah, good on your feet, A siren's Marcus.
Speaker 7: Welcome evening, Marcus.
Speaker 4: How are you you good?
Speaker 2: Yourself?
Speaker 7: All good?
Speaker 14: Not too bad? A little bit upper arms about this
Speaker 14: butter though, Yes, you know, I'm one of my I'm
Speaker 14: twenty four now, ah, and I specifically remember being I know,
Speaker 14: twelve years of age, and butter would have been two
Speaker 14: dollars forty a block.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't think it's cost six five times
Speaker 2: as much for the farmers to make it.
Speaker 14: Also my point, I think you make it could observations here.
Speaker 14: You know, even ten years ago, Marcus. You know, supply
Speaker 14: and demand seemed to be the parameter that by the
Speaker 14: things we pay for are set, you know, and now
Speaker 14: it seems that supply and demand doesn't mean anything. Don't
Speaker 14: mean jack, Well.
Speaker 2: If they can flog it over seas, if they can
Speaker 2: flog it overseas for higher price, they can, it's crazy,
Speaker 2: But we.
Speaker 14: Pay the same prices.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: We seem to pay more. It's cheaper in Sydney. Apparently
Speaker 2: it's it's four dollars.
Speaker 14: Yeah, so what what has gone on? And I mean
Speaker 14: it's it's totally skill worse.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the farmers always there's always this love of
Speaker 2: the farmers, you know, expect their good will, but it'll
Speaker 2: run out. If people got to pay thirty dollars for butter,
Speaker 2: the good will's going to go.
Speaker 14: Well, but I don't think. I don't know if it
Speaker 14: is engineered by the farmers.
Speaker 2: No, but they belong to Fonterra and and you know,
Speaker 2: and they're always kicking up about costs on the farm
Speaker 2: and rules and stuff like that, and you know, and
Speaker 2: they're expecting, they're expecting a febrius sympathy from you know,
Speaker 2: your average kiwis. But you lose that sympathy when you're
Speaker 2: paying thirding bucks for butter.
Speaker 14: Well, this is the point is that you know, you
Speaker 14: look at look at the Australian government. They have a
Speaker 14: they've got a federal side. Yes, you know, so as
Speaker 14: soon as you introduce a federal government aspect to the
Speaker 14: whole picture, well things seem to change quite a lot.
Speaker 14: And I might not send it to the average purpose.
Speaker 14: But when you when you hear when you have sort
Speaker 14: of an entity that can operate outside of the government
Speaker 14: and start to tap into some of those levers that
Speaker 14: should be good patted into, changed dramatically. You know, I've
Speaker 14: just come back from Australia. I'm going, what what is
Speaker 14: so different about us? And then their economy is booming.
Speaker 14: You go over there. There is a lot of wealth here.
Speaker 14: You know that money exists and it is prudent in
Speaker 14: everyday life. And I've just landed back and I'm going,
Speaker 14: it's all mineral wealth.
Speaker 2: It's all mineral wealth, though, isn't it. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: all apart from that, they don't have much else. It's
Speaker 2: just huge amounts of mineral wealth.
Speaker 14: True, true, But I mean, like, why haven't we why
Speaker 14: haven't we been mining for the last thirty years?
Speaker 2: I don't think we're blessed in that same way. We're
Speaker 2: not a massive kind of a desert like they are.
Speaker 14: But but I think I think the question do it
Speaker 14: literally market? How is it that people outside this country
Speaker 14: can buy our butter for cheaper than we cand? Is
Speaker 14: that not morally wrong? Well?
Speaker 2: You reckon that probably be Fontier is not working. Maybe
Speaker 2: it needs to be broken up.
Speaker 14: Well this is well, yeah, that's that's probably a good point,
Speaker 14: but it's still it's still like, no, what's happening? Is
Speaker 14: we the average day New Zealander is getting starsted like
Speaker 14: Boo blomberates wanting to It's just profiteering, that's.
Speaker 12: All it is.
Speaker 2: And that's why the small towns of the country getting
Speaker 2: stripped by everyone moving to Australia. They can't see any
Speaker 2: way out.
Speaker 14: Well, no, this we're getting pleased, weet pleased mst.
Speaker 2: What we're doing in Australia, sir, what we're doing in Australia?
Speaker 14: Holiday or yeah, well I was just going there to
Speaker 14: visit some family and you know, spend a bit of time.
Speaker 2: Do you think do you think are you going to move?
Speaker 20: No?
Speaker 9: Not at all?
Speaker 2: Okay, Jenny, it's Marcus.
Speaker 15: Hello, Oh good evening, Marcus. I've just seen listen to
Speaker 15: all the prices of buttrom there, didn't the government appoint
Speaker 15: a commissioner for looking into all was sort of our
Speaker 15: overpricing the things and what's ever come up with or
Speaker 15: looked into anything?
Speaker 2: Always trying to make the supermarkets more competitive. But when
Speaker 2: you've got a single, a single manufacture of things like
Speaker 2: butter that's got such a market share. I don't even
Speaker 2: think a third player in the supermarket business is going
Speaker 2: to make any difference. I think it's still going to
Speaker 2: be expensive.
Speaker 15: So why are we paying probably paying and big money
Speaker 15: for doing what?
Speaker 2: Oh well, I think this is probably even They couldn't
Speaker 2: fix that because this is I mean, but it's not
Speaker 2: going to be competitive because Froonter is monopoly. That's my understanding.
Speaker 2: There's a few other minor manufacturers that make it.
Speaker 16: But so what what sort of.
Speaker 15: Things does he look at or what has he found
Speaker 15: that is wrongly priced or outpriced store?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. I guess he's looking at it.
Speaker 15: It wasn't me to sort of look on the consumer's behalf.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think it's about making sure there's free
Speaker 2: competition amongst the supermarkets.
Speaker 15: Oh oh, that's not working, is it.
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 15: They all just put their prices up because I know
Speaker 15: their pans butter, which is nothing wrong with it. It
Speaker 15: used to be about four dollars sixty amount. It's over
Speaker 15: eight dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's double.
Speaker 26: It's a short time.
Speaker 24: Yeah, okay, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: That labor might have gone up and feed and stuff.
Speaker 2: But gog evening, Craig Marcus, welcome.
Speaker 12: Good, here's a go good Craig.
Speaker 27: And yeah, the butter is a little bit expensive. I mean,
Speaker 27: but I finds quite interesting is where we live in
Speaker 27: New Zealand and stuff. But it's expensive. Like lamb for
Speaker 27: roast lamps on Sunday dinners is expensive. Seafood is expensive,
Speaker 27: and we grow war the ingredients here, so not any butter.
Speaker 27: It's like a lot of big quality meats and seafood
Speaker 27: as are expensive as well.
Speaker 2: So if they do defy as logic because everything you
Speaker 2: think would be cheap is really really expensive, right because
Speaker 2: they can sell it overseas. That's the trouble with our lamb.
Speaker 2: You can sell it over you because remember when they
Speaker 2: stop buying it overseas, we're getting legs of lamb for
Speaker 2: eight dollars.
Speaker 27: Yeah yeah, and you're like really, yeah, that wasn't there
Speaker 27: a isn't there a place down I'm at bit unsure
Speaker 27: of the details, but down in west like down the
Speaker 27: west of the South Island, there's a community called West
Speaker 27: Gold or something makes butter. They're shipping containers of butter overseas.
Speaker 2: For certain I think the Chinese bought it. I think
Speaker 2: it's the Okay, so that's theirs. They can do with
Speaker 2: it what they want.
Speaker 27: But yeah, yeah, they would explain. I thought, well, you know,
Speaker 27: you think, well maybe there's a demand for butter, and
Speaker 27: you bet the prices, you think they've be able to
Speaker 27: sell it locally and try and compete with Fonterra. But
Speaker 27: if it's owned by Chinese coming.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that a bit of fact check that,
Speaker 2: because you've got to be careful.
Speaker 27: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Westland Milk Products a dairy company based in Hokit ticket News.
Speaker 2: It has been known by the Chinese dairy company Yearly
Speaker 2: Group since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 27: Okay, well that makes sense, but yeah, I've got a
Speaker 27: right of mind. Lives in Springs and he said, can.
Speaker 4: Buy in New Zealand butter.
Speaker 27: They're cheaper than here. When you work out the exchange rate,
Speaker 27: you think Ella Springs is pretty much off the beat
Speaker 27: and track.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean, yeah, it's going to have to go
Speaker 2: on it's going to go on truck, I go on rail.
Speaker 2: It might but it's expensive to get there.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 27: Yeah, And I was looking that game really and where
Speaker 27: I live in the White Shadow, I'm sort of only
Speaker 27: about probably ten k's away from the Fontier effectory.
Speaker 2: You know, crazy. What's he doing in LS Springs? Anything interesting?
Speaker 3: No, noa day.
Speaker 27: He's got a job over there as an electrician in
Speaker 27: one of the one of the companies that does work
Speaker 27: for one of the mines over there.
Speaker 2: Could be raking it in.
Speaker 27: Oh yeah, he's basically over there with they supply more
Speaker 27: food and accommodation for freezers. But they're just trying to
Speaker 27: wreckon enough money to come back to New Zealand and
Speaker 27: buy a house because it's so expensive.
Speaker 2: How how many years are going to take him to
Speaker 2: get a house?
Speaker 27: I have no idea. I had another friend of mine
Speaker 27: when I got ten years ago, we to do buy
Speaker 27: four five, sorry, sixty years and he came back. He
Speaker 27: did enough money to buy a house and Orkham cash
Speaker 27: because obviously because they've got free medical and everything over
Speaker 27: everything's free and all that. So but yeah, so a
Speaker 27: lot of things.
Speaker 2: What was it what was his than Dubai?
Speaker 27: It was on it doing computer software development and stuff
Speaker 27: like that. So that's always a specialized field. But you
Speaker 27: think it's pretty bad and you've got to go all
Speaker 27: the way to another country right on the outther side
Speaker 27: of the world. You get enough money, sess, buy a
Speaker 27: house in your own country.
Speaker 2: Crazy, it's not working, Craig, thank you some good points
Speaker 2: nine thirty half thirty past half past eleven final school
Speaker 2: state of origin, New South Wales twenty six Queensland, Sex.
Speaker 2: That's that they've gone two out of two. Good game
Speaker 2: btw it sure, that's I always get caught out because
Speaker 2: it's only thirty five and it halves evening Shaw and
Speaker 2: Marcus welcome.
Speaker 19: Price of butter high up and shut up because what
Speaker 19: we did for our butter is based on overseas price
Speaker 19: and it's all income. It is an exporting nation short.
Speaker 2: Sure, and people can't afford it. So you know, we
Speaker 2: get we get degradation of our farmland, we get rivers,
Speaker 2: we can't swim, and and we can't afford butter. So
Speaker 2: you know, it's not really working for people to fontierror model. See,
Speaker 2: you can't say put up and shut up because a
Speaker 2: lot of people aren't actually making money from the economic miracle.
Speaker 2: So and that's not what the people in the supermarket
Speaker 2: are saying. You going to tell them that they can't
Speaker 2: afford butter, that they've got to put up and shut
Speaker 2: up because it's going to go down pretty well. People
Speaker 2: had a guts full of paying thirteen pounds dollars for
Speaker 2: five hundred grams. Anyway, off you go twenty eight away
Speaker 2: from twelve. If you want to come through, my name
Speaker 2: is Marcus. Welcome helicopters and names and butter. I know
Speaker 2: all these people are trying to extend butter and do
Speaker 2: stuff like that with it. I was kind of interested
Speaker 2: in that person that had butter that a butter warmer
Speaker 2: to make it go further. And I'm thinking, actually, I
Speaker 2: don't love butter because butterque often goes rents it. You
Speaker 2: notice that I can't stand butter if it's sort of
Speaker 2: I've got a sort of a super taste when it
Speaker 2: comes to butter, so I occasionally use it, but I'm
Speaker 2: not a big fan of it. That's my take on butter.
Speaker 2: A ton of texts, Marcus. The possum in the powered
Speaker 2: pole was too sal that's why it's gone out. Should
Speaker 2: have mentioned earlier. Thank you for that, Marcus. I'm thinking
Speaker 2: butter might be best shaped in an ingot. These days,
Speaker 2: the prices are just wrong, and usen we should never
Speaker 2: have to cower at buy at buying butter eggs, milk,
Speaker 2: and bread. Keep the helicopters away from the housing. If
Speaker 2: they have that much money, move to the country and
Speaker 2: have as many as you want, Sam Marcus, a bottle
Speaker 2: of wine is cheap than a pound of butter. A seskin?
Speaker 2: What's seskin? Marcus, you're talking about the balloon travel reminded
Speaker 2: me of the Hindenburg disaster. We're a couple that survived
Speaker 2: the Titanic only to end up on the Hindenburg twenty
Speaker 2: five years later, and Die doesn't even know about the story.
Speaker 2: I've never heard that story. I'd love to know more
Speaker 2: about that, Marcus. I've been eating butter for years. But yes,
Speaker 2: I've bought a large march for half the price of
Speaker 2: a pound of butter. Jenny. Yeah, people aren't happy. Remember
Speaker 2: when cheese and butter with staples are not luxuries. Pepperidge
Speaker 2: Farm remembers Marcus what to object to the most, how
Speaker 2: people are gambling using butter or using butter as a
Speaker 2: currency that Lato drawn the bonus number goes back to
Speaker 2: the nineties. Oh, I'm not a poster all. I think
Speaker 2: it's fantastic. I just want to know how it works.
Speaker 2: I'm just curious to know how the system works. Think
Speaker 2: you buy tickets and you go to Costco. Marcus put
Speaker 2: a five hundred g of soften buttered to a cake
Speaker 2: mix with pharograms of milk and beat that till it's creamy,
Speaker 2: and you'll double your butter. It really works. Cheers and
Speaker 2: Marcus that seven four seven present to be converted to
Speaker 2: the Air Force. One will take an ungoldly amount of
Speaker 2: time and money to complete the US Air Force. Are
Speaker 2: we have to under construction? It's a pretty and piece
Speaker 2: that They're a pretty impressive piece of kit. Yeah. Trump
Speaker 2: happens to have it flying by the end of the year,
Speaker 2: but there's a lot of avionics needs to go in it,
Speaker 2: all sorts of stuff. It's it's not a quick convert.
Speaker 2: As butter has increased in price, I've made a promise
Speaker 2: and told others that when it's the same price as
Speaker 2: the Danish lupak, but I'm buying Danish. I remember when
Speaker 2: there were coupons in the South in times for three
Speaker 2: founded butter for ninety nine cents. Wally Marcus, welcome.
Speaker 9: Oh here, damn Marcus.
Speaker 2: Good Wally, are you going all right?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I'm do any dancing tonight, just tending the night off
Speaker 9: good butter, butter, butter water water water. People paid two
Speaker 9: over two dollars for a bottle of water.
Speaker 2: Oh they're mad.
Speaker 9: I've had butter for the last couple of years. I'd
Speaker 9: just use avocados or peanut butter or something like that.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 9: Also, you can if you're not happy with something, buy
Speaker 9: shares in the company.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you. But people won't have the money to
Speaker 2: buy shares. They're just trying to save up to buy butter.
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, yeah, you just got to learn how to budget.
Speaker 2: I suppose what happened to this fonterier shares. The fire
Speaker 2: farmers were opposed to that when they came in. I
Speaker 2: don't know what happened to those.
Speaker 12: At the end.
Speaker 9: I'm just looking at the graph Fontier. At the moment,
Speaker 9: it was on five dollars generary January, February, March and
Speaker 9: Febry was on five dollars, and it's now on six dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what about over what about over ten years time?
Speaker 9: It carries up and down with the price of butter.
Speaker 2: I think it's quite communicated because there's farmers. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: it's quite communicated that the frontier shoe model.
Speaker 9: I think but I've also bought shares in power companies.
Speaker 9: I get sick opone and power Bull. Say you buy
Speaker 9: shares in the power company and they send your dividends
Speaker 9: and you pay for the power of that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 9: I'm also buying shares of en Z and me really yes,
Speaker 9: tell me more about this.
Speaker 2: This will be interesting.
Speaker 9: You're going to have a meeting in a couple of
Speaker 9: weeks time. Yeah, but I quite like your show, Marcus.
Speaker 2: What do you think is going to happen at the
Speaker 2: meeting in a couple of weeks time?
Speaker 9: You make me smile. There'll be a few big changes, I'd.
Speaker 2: Say, hasn't it already been resolved?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I've already. I think they've already got the directors
Speaker 9: and all that. All the directors sort it out.
Speaker 2: I think they've got haven't they got that National Party
Speaker 2: guy coming Seawan Stephen Joyce Joyce?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think he's going to be the big big
Speaker 9: man there, I think.
Speaker 2: So what's he going to do? Who's he going to fire?
Speaker 21: Oh?
Speaker 9: I'll just when they have the meeting. They they just
Speaker 9: voted whoever's going to be voted in.
Speaker 2: But how are they going to how are they going
Speaker 2: to increase the profitability from ends and me, what will
Speaker 2: they be doing?
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, I thought you might have. I thought you might
Speaker 2: have some ideas if you're a shoe older.
Speaker 9: I've only just bought shares in the last three or
Speaker 9: four weeks. I'm just talking because when I buy shares,
Speaker 9: I look at the what the yields? Pain and all that.
Speaker 9: I said, look not pun too bad a yield?
Speaker 2: What do you hope to happen? Media companies aren't with
Speaker 2: what they were ten years ago, and I'll just I'll just.
Speaker 9: Go back and have a look in said me. Hang on, wait, yeah,
Speaker 9: let's go to the chart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're working that app well, Okay, ten years ago,
Speaker 2: I was on forty seventy seventy was it?
Speaker 9: Two thousand and seventeen was on fifty cents? Two thousand
Speaker 9: and it's double, yes, a son of a dollar, and
Speaker 9: twenty twenty was right down to twenty five cents.
Speaker 2: I think, okay.
Speaker 9: I then from there, from twenty twenty to twenty twenty
Speaker 9: two went up to dollars sixty or dollars seventy.
Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure how I feel about shareholders as
Speaker 2: talkback callers.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm sorry. I shouldn't be going on about it.
Speaker 2: That's fine. Why it's nice to hear from your forty
Speaker 2: three eleven forty three Joan Marcus.
Speaker 11: Welcome, Hello Marcus. I've got a friend, she's late eighties
Speaker 11: and I was talking to her yesterday it was her birthday.
Speaker 11: But she uses a pound of butter a week on
Speaker 11: her toast and sandwiches. Cooking. She uses a pound of
Speaker 11: butter a week. She got no weight, no cholesterol, and
Speaker 11: she's healthy. And that's amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 2: What do you do with if you cook with it
Speaker 2: and have it as a spread on toast sandwich?
Speaker 11: I mean, I love butter. I love the smell and
Speaker 11: taste of butter, but I limit my butter. But she's
Speaker 11: extremely well and butter is more of a natural than
Speaker 11: a margarine or olivio. Olivio spread would be better than margarine.
Speaker 11: But I used to churn butter on the farm because
Speaker 11: we didn't have bought butter on the farm in North Canterbury.
Speaker 2: But you can say it's natural, but it's meant for
Speaker 2: a young calf, isn't it.
Speaker 11: The milk, yeah, yes, but we do have milk. I
Speaker 11: have the light blue milk for everything.
Speaker 2: I just when people say things like it's more natural,
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means.
Speaker 11: Well, the butter is better. Well that margarine, that's.
Speaker 2: What that's what the that's what the marketing board would
Speaker 2: lead you to believe.
Speaker 11: But yeah, but margarine wasn't very good when it first
Speaker 11: came in though, was it.
Speaker 2: Oh no, And I know there's all this thing against
Speaker 2: seed oils, But when it comes to what's more natural,
Speaker 2: I guess that's the debate that's up for it, Joan.
Speaker 2: But it's interesting what you make with the pound. Mike Marcus, welcome,
Speaker 2: Oh hi.
Speaker 26: Marcus, how are you good?
Speaker 19: Mike?
Speaker 26: Yeah, hey, Look that's the thing. It's just nonsense, absolute nonsense.
Speaker 22: Okay.
Speaker 26: If you are somebody that goes to a bakery and
Speaker 26: you like your songs, yeah you're going to be paying
Speaker 26: fifty percent more.
Speaker 21: Or more.
Speaker 27: It's just crazy.
Speaker 26: I can't see why. It's something that is produced in
Speaker 26: this country is now unaffordable for the people in this country.
Speaker 27: It is crazy.
Speaker 26: I mean I went to a supermarket today. Am I
Speaker 26: allowed to say the supermarkets?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 26: Please, I can say, Oh, they've just had heads on
Speaker 26: the we're the last year we have.
Speaker 24: Been the lowest price per basket.
Speaker 26: You know, for the last two three years, a block
Speaker 26: of butter Hams brand just knocking on the door of
Speaker 26: keen dollars unbelievable and to me that is criminal. So
Speaker 26: what is our Minister of Grocery doing.
Speaker 2: They seem they seem to have no idea about it.
Speaker 2: They've got no idea about cost delivery.
Speaker 26: No, they have no idea because they're in La la land.
Speaker 26: They've been paid by US voters and tax payers and
Speaker 26: don't go to the supermarket probably, I'm saying, and they
Speaker 26: just have no idea of the chast cost of food items.
Speaker 26: I'm just besides myself. I mean, I'm an eat cheer
Speaker 26: for twenty six years and I'll tell you what, No
Speaker 26: way would you use butter in the bloody kitchen because
Speaker 26: of the senior food costs right out the window?
Speaker 19: You know.
Speaker 26: Yeah, I'm just dismayed besides myself.
Speaker 22: And feel sorry for the rest of the population in
Speaker 22: New Zealand.
Speaker 2: Cheers Mike. I found very interesting that what people did
Speaker 2: about but people see to be furious about butter.
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