1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: From the Zitium podcast network. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 2: It's Fleechborn and Hayley's a little bit of pod. 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:08,800 Speaker 3: Welcome to ate a little bit of pod. 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 2: At the weekend, we stumbled across the piece of history. 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 3: We really did. 6 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: We didn't even know we were. We're doing like we're 7 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: going to be part of something special. 8 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 4: Were part of the one of the final days of 9 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 4: an iconic Auckland or regional. 10 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: Pub, Murphy's Law and Drury, which the building has been 11 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: there for ninety nine years currently and the pub before 12 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: that was there for an extended period of time as well. 13 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 3: And back in the. 14 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 4: Day, I feel like this would have been ages away 15 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:38,959 Speaker 4: from the city, whereas now you're on the motorway. 16 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 1: It was like it was near the railway station apparently, 17 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: and it was popular, like people would stop and have 18 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: a point there on the way to the tour from Auckland. 19 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 4: I feel like on the way tour from Auckland there 20 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 4: was before the motorway got that far, you went past 21 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 4: this pub. 22 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:52,279 Speaker 2: Yeah you did. 23 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. 24 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:57,279 Speaker 4: He had an iconic lock Yeah, really massive, really kind 25 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 4: of British locking pub. 26 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 2: We were out in the area for a Judah style. 27 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 2: That's that. 28 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:05,199 Speaker 3: Style. 29 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 1: We're out there for a baby show. And yes, you're 30 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: probably thinking it's a flincher a baby show. Yep, there 31 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: wasn't a baby and it was not your traditional baby show. 32 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 3: Be honest. 33 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,759 Speaker 4: I was told this was a barbecue, a party barbecue, and. 34 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 3: Then everyone's like, have you got prisons. I'm like, you 35 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,959 Speaker 3: don't take fucking presents to a barbecue, and then everyone's I. 36 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 2: Was called a baby cue. 37 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, babies. 38 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 2: I was mislated to barbecue some babies. 39 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 4: And also we wanted to see our friend's new house, 40 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,679 Speaker 4: amazing new house in the middle of nowhere house, almost 41 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:35,479 Speaker 4: like we were driving to Hamilton and on. 42 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: The way out needed to stop to get the Battle 43 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 1: of Wan, and someone across the was we said we 44 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: should come back here for dinner. And then everyone at 45 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 1: the party was like, no, no, no, they've had a closing 46 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: part of they're shutting down, and I said, we'll say 47 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: about that. And on the way back from the baby show, 48 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: we called into Murphy's Law, which was indeed in the 49 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: final throes of its existence. 50 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, like they'd shut off the restaurant already and you 51 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 4: can just have you could still get meals in like 52 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 4: the pub. 53 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: Yeah. 54 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 3: God, it was like walking into us oh dude, I like. 55 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 2: A rural pubs, like the character pub. 56 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 3: Everyone swings around and looks at you. 57 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 2: We walked in with with Mattie McLean. 58 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 3: Yes, former TV one weather presenter and breakfast presenter. 59 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: And if there's a sort of person that rural New 60 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 1: Zealanders love to hate, it's the weather person. 61 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 3: Yeah. 62 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: He's beloved, though he's a beloved, but he's told he's 63 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: constantly got it wrong, even though he hasn't. 64 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 2: Done the weather for years. 65 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 4: Well, I walked in early because I needed to use 66 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 4: the bathroom because we've been in the car a while, 67 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 4: and I walked in quite a hid and when I 68 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 4: came out, I heard one of the old men in 69 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 4: the corner saying, oh, that's the gay one. Yeah, is 70 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 4: that the gay boy? 71 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah it was. 72 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 2: It was that sort of response. 73 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: Very friendly, but we're all real friendly, very friendly, but 74 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: just yeah, and you forget, I forget this. I'm from 75 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: rural New Zealand, you go home. Some people use some 76 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: language that peraps isn't used in the more liberal Yeah 77 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: that's fine. Often and often it's not said with a 78 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: lin tint. 79 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 3: Yeah no, it's love it. 80 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 4: And then we learned that they're basically tearing it down 81 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 4: in a couple of days to become a KFC in 82 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 4: a McDonald's or both or something. 83 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 1: And then they were just like, you guys want to 84 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: have a go behind the bar. And I was like, 85 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: I've always wanted to pull a pull a pint of guinness. 86 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 2: Yep, you did that, nailed it. 87 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 3: We got some photos. Now, it's fun. 88 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 1: It was a great time at Murphy's Law. And I think, 89 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: what do they say, Thursday? 90 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 3: Is it? Yeah? And then yeah, And it's a. 91 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,079 Speaker 1: Weirdly like I've told a couple of friends about, oh, 92 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 1: we went to this thing and they're like, oh, yeah, 93 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: I know that, like I've been there or yeah. 94 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, we know it. 95 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 3: It's been here. 96 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: It's been around so long, one hundred years, three one 97 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: hundred years. It'stry. And I started asking them because my 98 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: dream I would really like to build a miniature Irish pub. 99 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a minute's year. 100 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: But they were keeping everything because they're going to like 101 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: the one way down down the road a little. 102 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 2: Bit and refill it with all the old stuff. 103 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 4: I'll tell you what I like the most, apart from 104 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 4: the characters or the prices, because I got a handle 105 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 4: of signer for twelve dollars, and I wasn't. 106 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 1: Big sety, It wasn't the big said of prices, because 107 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: I got a bad pint of guinness and it was 108 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: like eight dollars. 109 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 4: Like you'd be paying thirty dollars for a pint of 110 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 4: cider in the city in the Beg Smike. 111 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 3: Yeah that you can't. You can't beat rural price fries 112 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 3: for ten bucks. 113 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they'd be fifteen, sixteen, twenty bucks easily. 114 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 3: Yeah. And the Big Smike and that guy when we were. 115 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: Leaving that said he had only even been kicked out 116 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: of a bar twice in his life and both put tonight. 117 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was while to have a rural public bouncers. 118 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 2: Did you can't see why? 119 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, you can see what they were needed. 120 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: A couple of large, strapping Polynesian lads. They have to 121 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 1: sort out those those sort of semi rural trunk Yeah, 122 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,679 Speaker 1: white man who probably you know, Yeah, get a bit mouthing. 123 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 3: It's enough to make me want to move rurally. 124 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 2: It was just lovely. It was just could it couldn't 125 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 2: be beaten.