Are you feeling it? (30 September 2026)

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from Newstalk ZB.
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Speaker 2: Greetings, good evening, welcome. My name is Marcus here till midnight tonight. I'm here until October. That's literally true. October tomorrow, October 1. Who knew September just had 30 days? I always thought if I was going to guess, I'd guess September would have 30. I never worked it out. Don't want to hear anything about how you remember it. It's just a nonsense. For me, I'd regulate the whole calendar. It could be done. I think every month would be 30. There are a couple left over. I'm sure we could handle that. Anyway, so yes, October till tomorrow. By the way, tomorrow there are four new road rules. These are the road rule, and remember, most of you still can't do roundabouts. Yes, if you're going straight through, you indicate off. Yes, it seems weird. Yes, we sometimes do it, but the police never do. Going straight through, indicate off. If you're passing someone that's not a car, you give them 1.5 metres off. That probably will be a horse or someone on a bike. So 1.5, how far is that? Six foot, is it? Five foot, who knows? So normally that will be a horse or a jogger in the wrong place or a cyclist. The other rule, right? If you're under 12, you can ride on the footpath and the under 12 year old's parents can ride with them. Controversial. But it's law now from midnight. Who's getting up at midnight to take their under-12s along the footpath? You can ride with them. So if you're coming out of your driveway, be careful because there will be pedestrians, but there also could be young children, their parents coming at you at a rate of knots. E-scooters can be in bike lanes and road users have to give way to buses leaving bus stops. Is that a good law? Who knows? So yes. The bus driver must indicate their intention to move for at least three seconds, giving other drivers time to react and bus drivers time to check that the way is clear. So they are the four new rules for the roads. If you could come up with one road rule that you would want to be law, what would that be? One road, what do you think of those? If you come up with one road law, what would that one road law be? Now, I don't know what I would ring up about because I don't know what my new one road rule would be. After 7pm, you could ignore traffic lights in small towns and traffic lights could flash because sometimes I drive home from work and it is crazy. So yes, I think red lights after dark should be optional. Yeah, call me an idiot. You will. But I reckon it would make people safer because they realise that their destiny would be their own hands. And you'd make, because otherwise people just get sick of waiting. So there we go. I think that's the situation in America. Someone will tell me you can turn on a red light and if it's flashing, you don't use it. Like red lights are just an option. So there we go. That's the starter for you for tonight. If you could come up with one traffic road rule you'd want adopted, what would that be? Mine would be traffic lights at night, just flashing, and that lets you know that you can do what you want. I'm sick of waiting for traffic lights that don't mean anything with no one coming by the other way. That's the question for tonight. Oh, 880. By the way, listening to Stu's bulletin, Quite a few stories about political debates. Now, I listened to that and I thought, I'm not feeling it. Are you feeling it? Because I'm not. I reckon it doesn't feel like the election is that close. It's 38 days away. Bearing in mind, this is the first election after National got in power. Normally that first one after they've got in is a bit of a damp squib. It's just that National aren't going so great that there's probably more interest. But do you feel that you're into it yet? Or do you feel it still feels like a long line? I mean, would you go to a debate? And would you go through the red light if it was flashing red when you got there? Get in touch, Marcus, till midnight. 0800 8080. 8.12, 12 past 8. Looking forward to what you've got to say. Head to the end, the bitter end. 0800 8080 and 9292 to text. And the one traffic law you would change. Sometimes if you're at an intersection and you're turning right and the car coming towards you is turning right, that feels a bit weird, doesn't it? Someone said all road drivers must be retested every 10 years. Marcus never thought of that after dark rule, but it seems a great idea. the four new road rules are just common sense. Most people already apply. Someone says, turn left on, oh, lots are coming through. I'll take some. Someone says, my new road rule would be, don't be a dick. Some great suggestions. Your new road rule, what do you think they should be? Fill me up, light me up, full board me. This is your chance. I'll be listening. It's election time. The pollies will be listening. Let me know what is your suggestion. What should the new road rule be? Mine would be, Turn left on a red light. Red light's flashing after dark. Red light's optional. I'll come up with some more. I also think it's good to indicate when you're passing a cyclist to show that you're going out, to show oncoming cars you're coming out, then coming back in. Marcus, traffic lights after 11pm give way to the right everywhere. I like that. New road rule, never give way to Canadian geese.
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Speaker 3: Brilliant.
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Speaker 2: So if you come up with one, come on some of you asphalt pirates, what do you reckon the new road rules should be? Because this is your chance. They'll be listening. They'll be writing, because there's all sorts of suggestions. They wanted others. These are some of the other ones that they thought that they turned down after consultation. One change that was mooted but did not go forward was to give councils more power to find people for parking on grass berms. Didn't go ahead with that. So what are your suggestions? 0800 80 1080 and 9292 to text. Road rules, what have you got? Three or four, give me your best shots. I kind of like the old way when we had that weird giveaway rule, but Stephen Joyce got.
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Speaker 3: Rid of that.
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Speaker 2: Now, say what you like about Stephen Joyce, but he's the chairman of this company. And that was sensible what he did with the left-hand turn rule. Is he the chairman? I think he is. I think that's the way it rumbles, but anyway. 0-800-80-9292 to text if you want to come through. Still a lot of antagonism. New road rule, flipping the bird at cyclist riding to a breast is compulsory. So your new road rule, what would it be? 0-800-80-1080. What's your plan, Stan? Most people seem to love a free left turn. I love a free left turn. After dark, I don't even worry about it. But, you know, there's more and more speed cameras out. Not speed cameras, red light cameras. They freak me out. Anyway, 15 past eight. Jeff, it's Marcus. Good evening.
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Speaker 4: Hey, my friend.
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Speaker 5: I reckon one simple rule, man. Motorway, 120 from when you get on to when you get off, man.
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Speaker 6: None of these split speeds anymore.
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Speaker 2: Compulsory, bang, vroom.
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Speaker 7: Just get on and go, man.
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Speaker 2: Go for gold. Does that seem quick?
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Not really, man.
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Speaker 5: When I was in Texas, we were doing like 75, 90 mile an hour, so no worries.
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Speaker 2: What's 90 mile equate to?
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Speaker 8: It must be about 160, 170K, around that.
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Speaker 2: It sounds like you had a ride of a time there, Jeff. What were you driving?
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Speaker 9: Well, what did we have?
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Speaker 5: We had a Ford 150.
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Speaker 4: Sure.
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Speaker 2: Any good?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was great, mate.
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Speaker 5: But, I mean, I think the speed limit is either 65 or 70, but everybody cranks it over there.
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Speaker 6: Everybody just goes, and it's an accepted rule.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I see.
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Speaker 2: So they don't even enforce it.
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Speaker 5: No, if you're at the speed limit, they just come straight up on you and run you up. So you're expected to go over the click of a button.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant, liking that. Jeff, never driven in Texas, but I appreciate your go-get attitude. I would struggle driving on the wrong side of the road, I think. I've never tried it because I'm chicken. DB Marcus, good evening.
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Speaker 10: Good evening, and how are you?
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Speaker 2: Good, thank you, DB.
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Speaker 10: I only ask because I'm the second caller and nobody's asked you yet, so it's just being polite.
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Speaker 2: That seems to be your thing, doesn't it? Really? Well, asking how I am, but that's good.
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Speaker 3: No, I like it.
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Speaker 10: It's the first time I've done it.
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Speaker 3: Okay, there we go.
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Speaker 2: Well, maybe it's going to become your thing.
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Speaker 10: Anyway, and now I've forgotten what I was going to say. Thank you very much. Completely derailed my.
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Speaker 6: Train of thought.
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Speaker 2: That's part of my MO. Catch you on the back. I'm not going to hit you with something debilitating like a real question. Anyway, you would be ringing up to say something about overtaking on a country road or one lane bridges or traffic lights. There we go.
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Speaker 10: They should be yellow flashing like everywhere else.
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Speaker 3: In the world.
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Speaker 10: And I got to the bottom of the Ngaringa Gorge one night at two in the morning going to work and the lights were red and I wasn't going to stop until in the far distance I saw some traffic lights on headlights. So I stopped anyway and as I got up to the headlights on came the red and blues and they said, we're not stopping you to tell you off. We were impressed that you stopped at a.
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Speaker 6: Red light in the middle of the night.
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Speaker 10: And I said, thank you very much.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to work. Could you let me go now? I'm already late.
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Speaker 2: That is a great police interaction.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: So, yes, I absolutely agree. But even in the city, after 11 o'clock at night, turn the damn things off.
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Speaker 2: Were there two cops?
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Speaker 10: Yes, in the one car.
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Speaker 2: Were they saying, let's stop this guy for a laugh, do you reckon?
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Speaker 10: Well, no, they told me they had a bet going. Is he going to stop?
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Speaker 3: Is he not?
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Speaker 10: And I wouldn't have stopped had I not seen headlights in the distance. They were parked. They were, yeah, they were, I suppose, having a pie and a cup of coffee. But because I saw another vehicle in the distance, I did what was required. But yes, and then I get, in those days, but why did they, why did they miss them there? But I was using the, oh, that's right, because where I worked I had access without going down the old main road. And so I stopped, and then I'd get going again, and on came the blue and reds, and I went, ah, I'm not even speeding. But they were just telling me to say thank you.
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Speaker 2: I love that. That's the sort of cop I'd be. Let's stop the air, okay.
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Speaker 12: Well, I've had the opposite.
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Speaker 10: I was going to work another time in Auckland, There was someone who had hit the road sign. It was across the road, so I stopped. This was, again, 2 o'clock in the morning. Got out, picked up. It was a good way, so I picked it up, put it on the side of the road, turned around, and there's a cop car behind me. And they said, why did you hit the sign for? I went, it didn't hit the sign. I was moving it out of the way. And there started a, why are you driving at this time of the night?
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Speaker 3: Where are you going?
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Speaker 10: And unfortunately, when they say this, I said, I'm going to work. Who works at this hour in the morning?
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Speaker 6: I love that one. Couldn't help myself.
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Speaker 3: I went, you do.
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Speaker 2: That's a very good thing to say. When you talked about stopping for that light, it did remind me of a book I read once. The chance of you having read that book, in fact, I don't think anyone would have read that book. But the guy used to drink at the Masonic Tavern in Devonport. Is that the only pub that was in Devonport?
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't have thought so.
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Speaker 2: You think there might be more than one. But he invented a game.
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Speaker 10: Devonport, it's a sailor bar.
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Speaker 2: There was a corner bar, and he invented a game, and you took bets on whether the car was going to stop or turn around without stopping. And this game became so good that I can't even realise where the book went, but I've always felt quite compelled to talk about that story and the book, because I've got no recollection of what the book was.
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Speaker 12: But anyway.
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Speaker 2: I've said it now, so someone might know something about that.
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Speaker 10: Was the Masonic Pub opposite the ferry terminal?
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Speaker 2: No, I think it might have been further down.
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Speaker 10: I'm just trying to visualize it.
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Speaker 3: What a great game.
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Speaker 2: It was a great game, and then it became huge. It became like international, and this guy invented it. And it was a road that came down. There'd be a corner that some people, and it just, yeah. And I can't for the life of me remember what the book was.
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Speaker 11: Boxall Labs.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that's it. Anyway, I'll put that out there because someone can ring up and talk more about that. I'd appreciate that. Anyway, thank you there, DB22. Oh, I've got some stuff to move. If you could invent, if you could have one traffic rule that was yours, what would it be? So 0800 80 1080 and 9292 to text. I think it was the Esplanade. I think it was the Esplanade. But it was a game invented at the Esplanade Hotel in Devonport and it was all about cars not indicating. Now, if you know that story, it was a great book. And I've been thinking about that often, but I can't remember what the actual game was or what the book was called. I think it was self-published anyway. And then we can talk about games you've invented at pubs and anything else. AI has got no answer. I had a bad day with AI. It's been useless to me today. Anyway, get in touch. Mark is still 12. Yada, yada, yada. And how do we think the elections are going? Do we think people have peaked too early? So if you come up with one traffic rule that you'd want to implement, what would it be? But I think turning left on a red light, everyone's up for that. I'm up for that. Can't wait. Particularly in small towns. Small towns don't have traffic lights to make them feel important, but they're useless. I mean, Invercargill is over-traffic lighted, I reckon. Don't quote me on that. Anyway, get in touch. Mark is still 12. But there are new road rules starting tomorrow, and I'm here for it. Michael Jordan's jersey from the last dance is sold for $ 21. 7 million.
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Speaker 13: Yep.
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Speaker 2: The most expensive basketball jersey to ever cross the block. And when we say jersey, we mean singlet. Goodness, be some Bitcoin type person, won't it? 23 past eight. I've already had my first text that says compulsory third party insurance, which I love because that's a talkback joke. When Talkback hosts get together, they say, what are you going to talk about today? And the first thing people ever say is, I thought I'd give compulsory third-party insurance a go because it is such a regular topic and such a mind-numbingly boring topic. Because where do you go with compulsory? I mean, it makes perfect sense, but there's nowhere to go with it. You don't get any humorous anecdotes about compulsory third-party insurance, do you? Not like DB and the cops stopping. Ben, it's Marcus.
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Speaker 3: Welcome. Good evening.
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Speaker 9: G'day, Marcus. Look, I've got a rule that I think should change if an intersection is governed by traffic lights. So if you're on a side street that's one lane each way and you're coming up to like a road or a main road that's got two lanes each way, you're expected to turn into the right-hand lane, right? The lane closest to you. That's the road rules. Now, I think if you're out of traffic, if there's traffic lights governing that intersection, well, there's going to be no one coming, isn't there?
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Speaker 12: You should be able to go.
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Speaker 14: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, and that's my argument.
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Speaker 2: Are you just governed by the arrows?
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Speaker 9: No, Marcus, I actually got a ticket about a year ago for this.
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Speaker 2: Oh, don't pay it.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no.
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Speaker 9: Well, I had the argument to the same argument.
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Speaker 2: You should have gone to ring me.
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Speaker 9: No, well, the cop's argument was, yeah, it sounds pretty common sense, but I don't make the rules, I just enforce them.
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Speaker 2: Oh, whatever.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well, why is he enforcing rules he doesn't agree with? I suppose it's his job.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, but no, I think if there's traffic lights governing that, then.
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Speaker 9: Why should it matter what lane you turn into? Because you turn into the right-hand lane and then you've got to indicate over to the left-hand lane. So I just don't see the point.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't seem right to me.
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Speaker 9: No, no, but there's the rules.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, Ben. For me, that scenario you gave, right?
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Speaker 15: Yep.
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Speaker 2: Was quite hard to visualise. It's a cross intersection, eh? Two one-way roads, two one-lane roads coming into a two-lane road, eh?
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Speaker 9: So you've got a main road that's got two lanes each side, right? And then you've got a side street that comes onto that main road that's got one lane each side. So if you're in the side street and you're turning onto the main road.
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Speaker 3: That's got two lanes.
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Speaker 9: Are you turning left or right? So if you're turning right, you have to turn into the right-hand lane, the closest lane to you, and then indicate over and change lanes over to the left-hand lane. But there's no one coming because the traffic signal's red.
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Speaker 3: So, yeah.
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Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't have paid. I've taken it to the Supreme Court. We've still got one of those. Carlton, this is Marcus. Good evening and welcome.
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Speaker 16: Hi.
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Speaker 17: One simple rule. I would like to see your indicator lights before I see your brake lights.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Is this on a hill?
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Speaker 3: Anywhere.
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Speaker 2: I indicate early. I'm one Mississippi kangaroo, two Mississippi. I'm a five-seconder.
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Speaker 17: I can understand that because the three-second rule comes in, but there's lots of occasions where people brake first and then they indicate.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if she's listening, but I think my partner sometimes indicates as she turns.
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Speaker 17: A bit late, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: I think it's the one action. It's the indicator and the steering wheel at the same time. To me, it's crazy. Why would that be your point of pride, to be a late indicator?
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 17: A bit like the guy who likes driving. Not 160 or 70 k's, it's more like 150 k's, but it's still very fast and.
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Speaker 11: Not a great idea.
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Speaker 2: Nice to hear from you, Carl. Love your name, too. I love a surname as a first name.
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Speaker 3: Brilliant.
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Speaker 2: James, it's Marcus. Good evening.
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Speaker 12: Hi, Marcus.
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Speaker 3: Can you hear me?
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Speaker 2: Yes, receiving. Loud and clear. Thank you.
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Speaker 11: Hi.
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Speaker 4: So I've got, it's more of a pet peeve of a road rule, and I don't necessarily know if it's a road rule more specific to this particular road, but.
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Speaker 18: The weeds of it. So I live in Northcote, which is just by the Harvey Bridge in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm familiar with the old Cote of the North, yes?
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Speaker 18: Yes, and are you probably familiar with Onewa Road?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm familiar with Onewa Road.
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Speaker 18: So there's a road that kind of turns onto it, and in the morning, as you'd expect in Auckland, it queues, I'm going to say, probably 150 metres, and that's been kind.
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Speaker 2: Yep, yep, I'm familiar with the scenario.
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Speaker 7: Yep.
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Speaker 4: Sorry, I think I just lost you. Yeah, so 150 metres, and I think that's been kind. And there's a series of roads that turn onto it. So every morning the traffic's backed up to the rafters all the way back.
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Speaker 2: So it's about whether you let people in or not, is it?
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Speaker 18: And yes, I think it's quick to cut in about 10 metres from the lights.
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Speaker 2: You think it's what?
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Speaker 18: I think it's bonkers.
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Speaker 2: Oh, people coming in from a side road or coming in, are they coming in from a side road?
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Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 4: So they're turning in about 10 metres from the light, so 10 metres in the queue. And I think it's absolutely criminal because, I mean, the analogy I would have, so firstly, I'll explain probably what I would assume the argument to be, is that, well, we own a house here on this street and, you know, we, you know, what do you want us to do? And I would say to them, go to the back of the queue. If you owned a house... outside a highly popular bakery, and you just happen to open your door and be at the start of the queue when it's gone.
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Speaker 2: James?
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Speaker 19: James?
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Speaker 2: I'm liking a lot of what you've got to say. It felt like you were speaking better when you first started the call. From then on, it's got a bit sketchy, but I need to revisit some of the extremely important issues you've brought up. Can you get back to how you were?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, sorry, it keeps flip-flopping. I'll try.
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Speaker 6: That's better.
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Speaker 2: Just don't move. So these people in the side roads, right, should they drive elsewhere or should they drive through the traffic and drive down away from the Harbour Bridge and then join the back of the queue?
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Speaker 18: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yes, you've got it. So I think they should be joining the back of the queue.
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Speaker 2: Of course they should. Of course they should.
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Speaker 4: I might have cut out, but the analogy that I would use.
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Speaker 2: No, you're still here. It's the only fair way.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the analogy I would use, you might have missed it, is if you owned a house.
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Speaker 2: Yes, no, in a bakery, and why would you get priority at the bakery just because you live next door?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, to me, that argument does not hold any legs. Like, you can't just cut a queue because you happen.
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Speaker 12: To buy a house.
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Speaker 6: Who lets them in?
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Speaker 4: Oh, everyone.
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Speaker 3: Not me, that's for sure.
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Speaker 2: Mind you, you're not allowed to queue over an entrance, are you?
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Speaker 6: Is that right?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, that would be right.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's to do with the lines on the road. So I think my issue is probably more something I should bring up with the council.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no, I reckon what you need to do is invent a dirty look.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, or I'm thinking a sign.
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Speaker 18: Clearly for them, the old bakery one.
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Speaker 2: You can get a sign that's got like the fingers that light up on the back of your car, but I think that is provocative and you could end up in a road rage incident.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I just think, yeah, I don't know. To me, it's just, it reeks of privilege.
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Speaker 2: James, I like you a lot. Where do you work? What's your part of the town?
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Speaker 4: Well, I actually work in various places around Glenfield.
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Speaker 2: Okay. Oh, that's against the flow though, is it?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but sometimes, you know, I've got to go over the bridge and Well, I more observe this from a distance, and I've got family close to me that are caught up in it all.
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Speaker 2: So you've actually picked up someone else's problem?
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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, people that are close to me have to experience it. You've got to stick up for these people.
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Speaker 2: No, I love your passion. I love your passion, James. Thank you. 24 to 9, if you could change one of the laws of the road, what law of the road would you change? Onewa is famous. You've got Birkenhead, you've got Birkdale, you've got Beechart, you've got all the B's all come in there, and it's just one road. Chatswood, you've got Chatswood. You've got all the suburbs. Cody Park. Anyway, get in touch, Marcus, till 12. Hold your horse a few, I'll get to you soon. A comment for James. What that geezer is saying about going to the back of the queue and not letting people out from the side roads is exactly what is wrong with New Zealand driving and the arrogance of it. Can you imagine the length of the queue, how far back it would go if everyone had to join one line? That's pathetic. What a stupid thing for him to say.
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Speaker 20: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Good on you, James. Like your passion. Hi, Tim.
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Speaker 3: Good evening, Marcus. You well?
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Speaker 14: Good.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Tim. Yes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, good. You sound well and all the rest of it. That's good. Now... Yeah, that's the spirit. I got a little bugbear. I don't think it is a law. And I've almost changed my view thinking about it. But I realise I have a bit of an issue with people wearing headphones while driving. And then I thought to myself, well, they could be on like a hands-free call. Maybe I should just handle the jandal, you know? I don't know. I don't know whether I'm right or wrong.
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Speaker 2: What's your worry about people wearing headphones?
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Speaker 3: Well, distraction mainly.
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Speaker 2: Because you know deaf people are allowed to drive.
00:23:16
Speaker 3: Yes, so this is what I'm thinking about.
00:23:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I support you, but are you wondering because they haven't got their audio facilities?
00:23:27
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and in terms of, and they may be absorbed in their music or an audio book or a phone call.
00:23:34
Speaker 2: Or adult content or something.
00:23:38
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, who knows what people do in the privacy of their own vehicle while they're sitting in traffic. So I don't know. I started out pretty strong. No, I'm with you.
00:23:47
Speaker 2: And they look like dicks.
00:23:49
Speaker 3: Well, that's the thing. You don't necessarily notice the in-ear, you know, the buds. But the ones you sit down and you put on, you know, the over-ear ones while you're sitting at home with your old quad amp and that kind of thing. I don't know. You keep it in the lounge. But who am I? So this is probably not against the law.
00:24:08
Speaker 2: I'm just wondering what things I do when I drive that annoy people.
00:24:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure I do things. I try not to. I tell you what, one thing I think I do that annoys people, I live in Te Puke. and I come up the towering lock. So I'm approaching Bayfair, and the motorway runs out, and you've got a very long merging lane. And I'm not joking, for probably 300 metres out some mornings, and I don't travel every day up there, but people stay in the right-hand lane rather than use the merge lane. Now, I'll just hang in on that merge lane and pass, you know, maybe 100 cars. And I don't feel bad about doing that because it's legal.
00:24:53
Speaker 2: Wow, but is it the ethical thing to do?
00:24:56
Speaker 3: Well, I think it is the ethical thing to do.
00:24:59
Speaker 2: As long as you can sleep straight at night knowing you've actually overtaken all those people and probably ruined their day and raised their blood pressure.
00:25:08
Speaker 3: But that's on them, I think, because it's there for a reason. And if half of those people used it, everyone would get along quicker anyway. Anyway, that's where I'm at. I am an imperfect human being, I can tell you that.
00:25:22
Speaker 2: Join the club, Tim. There we go. The road rule you would like changed or implemented and enforced. Conversely, your worst driving confession. Marcus, I hate to say this, but I am someone that never indicates. Or Marcus, I'd hate to say this, but I don't know what your confession will be. Marcus, my one law road change would be failing to indicate left when exiting a roundabout is an instant loss of licence, having to re-sit from learners. Someone also says, having to slow down or stop for a railway crossing when trains don't operate on there anymore, a sign should be up to say, line not operational. Nightcaps in Ojai are a prime example in South and Wakiri Rail don't pick up coal anymore. That's right, the bridge got damaged. I'm just trying to think if that would, I don't know about that because maybe if people got used to going through old lines, then they'd go into east and south and there would be a railway line. In fact, where someone got died recently. Anyway, enough from me. I'm enjoying it 16 to nine. My bad driver confession would be I indicate like a pensioner. I indicate too soon. I'm an over indicator. So yeah, and I need to, I don't know why I do that. I'm unrelaxed about turning. And yeah, I'd rather be an over indicator than an under indicator. Yes. Anyway, there looks like there might be something to do with the potential hijacking of a plane heading to Tel Aviv. Now, it seems to be quite a big story. Well, a kind of a breaking big story. But it sent an emergency signal and scramble jets were scrambled. I guess that's what scramble jets do. So there seems to have been a security incident and the plane is diverted to Saudi Arabia. So it seems to be a mid-air emergency. I don't know if that'll come to anything or not, but I just thought I'd better warn you about that or let you know about that. Hedl 12, we are talking about the one traffic rule you would instigate and your bad driving confessions. Marcus, the ridiculous newest law about indicating coming out of roundabouts, the only time you should indicate coming out of roundabout is if it's more than one lane. It causes so much confusion for people. If you're going straight through a roundabout, why indicate at all? You're technically going in a straight line. What's the law? Marcus, saw a video recently saying to get a full New Zealand driver's licence, everyone should have to successfully navigate through the Royal Oak roundabout in Auckland. And hard to bike through too sometimes. particularly if you're uphill, you haven't got your speed. Should be a law to ensure animals are restrained in a moving car annoys me to see people driving around with dogs stretched across the driver with the dog's head out the window. I've always heard that if your dog's out the window, it's dangerous to get things in their eyes. People free angry with Tim. If you see Kay Tim... If I'm not blocking the lane from people doing what he does, then they'll get a long honk to the point out what's wrong, how wrong what they're doing is. I'm ready for fisticuffs if the other person wants to escalate.
00:28:25
Speaker 6: Wow.
00:28:26
Speaker 2: Turn away from nine. Said Marcus, a law change last year means you're no longer required to indicate. Is that for a roundabout or any? Because I'm not familiar with that. I'm such an indicator. Love a good indicator. Anyway, get in touch, Marcus at 12. Jumping before the news, I've got eight minutes.
00:28:42
Speaker 3: Oh, 880.
00:28:42
Speaker 2: Keep those texts coming through. Bad driving confessions and the law you'd like changed. Towing boat trailers or tandem trailers should require an endorsement on the driver's license. Marcus, I was just about to say going straight through a small roundabout, why indicate left and right, which is absolutely stupid. I like it. Everyone knows what's going on. Marcus is a road policing officer currently working. These messages are awesome to listen to. Two things I would change would be compulsory third-party insurance and make it an offence to be an impatient driver. Impatient driving causes more crashes than anything else. How do we make people less impatient? Because I kind of feel that it's some of the badly designed roads like Onewa and Gilles Ave. Now, I hate to be Auckland-specific, but Gilles Ave. In fact, it's not Gilles Ave, it's Alpers Ave. And if you know Alpers Ave.
00:29:41
Speaker 2: Al-Fazab is famous for bad driving, and that is the road between Gilead Zav. Oh, I've lost it. I've lost the road I wanted to talk about. Hold your horses, hold your horses. Just got to find out what I'm talking about. Where are we on this map?
00:29:56
Speaker 3: There we go.
00:29:56
Speaker 2: Down through there, down through there. Yes, it's the road between Manukau Road and Gili Zav. It's called Alpazav. And that's where the.
00:30:07
Speaker 2: Oh, that hotel was that Murray Deak is always going on about the Seafree Chowder, and the spoon stands up in the Seafree Chowder, a very famous place. It was the Boulevard Hotel. But anyway, so you come to Alpazav, and it's a one-way street, I believe, right? And at the end of it is a left turn or a right turn, and then you get into Gilles Avenue, and you get on the motorway. But people do the roads. It's hard to explain. I wish I hadn't started explaining it. So there's one lane that goes hard right to go on towards Newmarket, there's one road that goes left, and there's one middle road that goes to go on the motorway. And people come down the other one, then cut in. It's terrible. It's heartbreaking, anyway. I tried explaining it. I don't think I fully captured the annoyance of Gilead to Alpazav, but you've been on it. It's not a good thing. If you could explain it to me better via text, I'd like how that would... Because I felt I wasn't truly replicating the experience. But yet there's three lanes. But it's the middle lane you want to be in to get on the motorway, and then people come down and cut in. Oh, it's not good. Leaves everyone feeling terrible. Marcus, I would like us to adopt the American rule which allows you to travel left through a red light if the way is clear. Exactly. Someone said you can't be prosecuted for not indicating. Is that right? Policeman, could you let us know? I'm sure you could be. That was my seat. Can you be a prosecutor in New Zealand for not indicating? I'm sure you can. Failing to indicate? Yes, you can be fined for failing to indicate. Yeah, of course you can. You get due for careless driving. Head to 12. My name is Marcus. Good evening. I've got two. Marcus, just driven back from Marlborough to Christchurch. There are permanent 60km speed limits on State Highway 1 in parts. That should be a crime. If you can't drive at least 90km on State Highway 1, you should hand in your licence and get driving mistakes or a bus. Number two, if I could indulge another, when contractors repair patches on State Highway, they leave 30km speed limit signs up for weeks. They should be fine if they leave the signs up for more than 48 hours. Enjoy the night. Tractors shouldn't be allowed to drive on the open road or without a pilot vehicle. Cyclists should have a mirror on bikes or helmets. Yes, I tell you what, you get a lot of tractors going back to bluff and they never pull over. And they're bad. Well, of course, it's harvest or I don't know what the agricultural activity is, cropping or something. But yes, they just don't seem to care. I don't know what the answer is. Indicating on roundabouts, if the roundabout is the size of the base and reserve, how do you know if someone is going straight through? Exactly. That's someone that is pro-indicating. First score on the basketball, Breakers 19, Taipan 18. Let me get you more of that. Oh, by the way, too, that situation on the plane, CNN is saying it was a violent incident between two pilots that caused it.
00:33:07
Speaker 6: Wow.
00:33:08
Speaker 3: Goodness.
00:33:08
Speaker 2: I'll get you more intel about that. It's the last thing I do. Hessel 12. What channel's the basketball? Can't see it. Is it something weird?
00:33:16
Speaker 6: Oh, flip.
00:33:17
Speaker 2: If you could change the traffic rule, what is the traffic rule you would change? They are listening. Evening, they really should get rid of the 90K rule around towing. I feel it's outdated and creates confusion. Sorry, I think it's outdated. I'll read again. They should really get rid of the 90 kilometer per hour rule around towing. I feel it's outdated and creates frustration. Think about overtaking a truck or towed boat. It's too difficult if you only stick to 100, especially during the holiday periods. Here in Australia, you can tow at the same speed as the speed limit. Are we poor towers? Are we poor towers? And it was a violent incident between two pilots caused to fly Dubai aircraft from Dubai to Tel Aviv to divert. And Israeli officials said the incident was not a hijacking. They understood it to be an internal personnel incident on board. The incident prompted Israel's prime minister and defense minister to hold a security consultation. Israeli fighter jets were scrambled after the emergency signal was sent. Pilots don't seem to be getting on at the moment. What's that about? Marcus, I would reduce the speed limit through intersections controlled by traffic lights to 70 k's by default. Anyway, your voices, please. The changes you have. And does it feel like the election is building up? Do you feel like it's taking longer to get going or have we started too early? I see there's a lot of debates already, but I feel that that's probably stuff you'd want in the two or three weeks before the election. You might comment on that also tonight. 0800 80 1080 and 9292 to text. If there is other stuff you've got, jump in. 0880, 80 and 9292 today. It is International Pet Tricks Day. If you've got pets that can do tricks, what are those tricks? I'd like to hear about those. But be in touch, Mark. It's still 12. Get in touch here at the end. Bitter end.
00:35:06
Speaker 13: 0880, 1080.
00:35:06
Speaker 2: 2728, close game. This is the Breakers versus the Taipans. They haven't done so well. They lost two on the trot, I think, in Australia. The Breakers, so. There's something different you want to mention also tonight. You are more than welcome. We'd love to hear from you. 0800 80 1080 and 92. The rules are you can ride your bike on the footpath if you're a kid and they're parents. You've got to give 101.5 metres between you and a horse and a bike on the road. E-scooters are allowed on bikeways. And you indicate, sorry, you give way to a bus that's indicating and coming out of a bus stop. They're all good. They all make sense. That's what we are on about. So yes, come through. They all start tomorrow because it's the 1st of October tomorrow. January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August. So we're three quarters gone. The year is three quarters. I feel I'm just kind of starting it, but it's three quarters over. But yeah, be in touch. I want to hear your calls. If there's something else you want to talk about, yep, that's the one. Get in touch. 0800 80 1080 and 9292 to text. But yes. Oh, by the way, it's 40 years since Whispering Jack. which is pretty amazing. So 40 years ago, of course, Johnny Farnham, his career was drifting. He'd been in a, it was a teen idol, his career was drifting and the record labels weren't interested. But then he started fronting Little River Band. It didn't kickstart his career. But Whispering Jack was his one last chance. Because his first hit was Sadie the Cleaning Lady, best selling Australian singer of the 60s. Um, but then taste change, he moved into musical theater and TV, but sort of wasn't a recording artist to watch and he needed a reinvention. Um, and 1985, they thought his biggest successes were behind him. Anyway, next thing you know, you're the voice. So you might want to talk about that too. Um, pretty extraordinary song.
00:37:12
Speaker 3: Yep.
00:37:13
Speaker 2: Um, so that's the situation with him. Um, It says, by 1985, many in the industry believed Farnham's biggest successes were behind him. We all knew what he had. We had to find the right songs. From finding songs wasn't hard. Finding someone to back the project was another story. Neither label nor producers showed much interest. Eventually, Wheatley and Farnham decided to do it themselves. They got $ 150, 000 together, and that's the situation. This is about 2,000 songs all over the world. Yep, and they came up with that. So there you go. That's the situation there. Whispering Jack was still missing something when a tape arrived from England. The last song we found was You're the Voice. A publisher insisted Farnham would love it. When I first heard it, my heart almost stopped. I felt like I'd discovered a lost treasure. So there we go. That's the song. Made the cut. When it was released, it was an easy sell. Radio wouldn't play it, but once they did, there was no stopping it. You're the Voice became a phenomenon and its success propelled Whispering Jack to number one where it remained for 25 weeks. Follow-up singles, Pressure Down, A Touch of Paradise and Reasons kept momentum rolling. Great song. Anyway, so that's there also. 40 years from You're the Voice, Johnny Farnham. There was a movie about him I will watch because I do kind of like the backstory of that. Anyway, get in touch if you want to talk. But mainly it's about the traffic laws or anything else you want to talk about. 0800 80 1080. and 9292 to text. If there's something different you want to mention, get in touch. 0800 ATE 1080 and 9292 to text. Yeah, Bob, it's Marcus. Welcome and good evening.
00:38:53
Speaker 13: Good evening.
00:38:54
Speaker 2: Good, thank you.
00:38:55
Speaker 21: Bob?
00:38:55
Speaker 13: Yeah, the thing that really irks me when I'm going for a drive are these people. If you've got a pushbike, you have to have a helmet. Why are these e-scooter people flying around the main streets, not even on the footpaths, Without helmets, they look so dangerous. They need to make helmets compulsory for them as well.
00:39:16
Speaker 11: Yeah.
00:39:17
Speaker 2: They do come with helmets.
00:39:19
Speaker 13: Yes, well, it's a pity that people don't wear them, Marcus.
00:39:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder about that. How do I feel about.
00:39:24
Speaker 6: That, Bob?
00:39:26
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know.
00:39:26
Speaker 13: Because they go quite quick. They wrap around the middle of the jolly roads and that. I think, my God, look at that idiot, I think to myself.
00:39:33
Speaker 2: But they're only going to kill them. They're not going to kill you, are they?
00:39:36
Speaker 16: Well.
00:39:36
Speaker 13: Preferably not, no. But, I mean, it just doesn't look right when you're told if you're going to put a kid on a push bike, the cops will pull him over immediately for not having a helmet. And they're doing probably $ 15, 000 an hour.
00:39:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm not convinced that people on bikes should wear helmets, but that's probably.
00:39:52
Speaker 13: Yeah, well, that's another thing, isn't it? Yeah, that's another thing.
00:39:55
Speaker 2: That is the law.
00:39:56
Speaker 13: The other quick subject was I bought $ 500 worth of new fishing gear and getting back to Twithall, and I've got to the guy who owns a fish shop in Blenheim has done all my lures for me the way that he does and told me where to go. So, hopingly, within a month, I'll be able to report I've caught my very first salmon.
00:40:15
Speaker 2: Ha, ha. What was the key? The key was sending something down that looks like little eggs. Is that right?
00:40:19
Speaker 13: Well, you can roll the eggs, or what I've done is I'm using a flyer, but I'm using a flyer with a very small weight. This guy owns Henderson Fishing Shop in Glenham. Very good people. And he's made the lures up and everything for me. All I've got to do is click them to the line, have a little bit of patience, and hope something happens.
00:40:38
Speaker 2: So the lure looks like eggs rolling down the canal floor. Is that right?
00:40:43
Speaker 13: Some of them do, yeah. Some of them do. It all depends which method you're using.
00:40:47
Speaker 2: That's what works for Clark Gayford, isn't it?
00:40:50
Speaker 13: Yes, it's quite successful, apparently.
00:40:52
Speaker 2: Why are you hell-bent on catching a salmon, Bob?
00:40:56
Speaker 13: Well, it's my happy place. I get down there, I don't worry about anybody, anything. No e-scooters? No, I just enjoy spending a week, week and a half down there in a ton of fun.
00:41:09
Speaker 6: But you've never caught a salmon?
00:41:12
Speaker 13: No, I told the guy in the fish shop that I'd been going to a Porsche race with a mini-miner. I said, so it's time I updated my equipment.
00:41:20
Speaker 2: But has it been years and years since you never caught anything, or is it a recent happy place?
00:41:25
Speaker 13: I have never caught any bloody thing anywhere just about. I've caught kawaii in the sea, and that's my lot. And I'm not interested in catching them anymore. I've done that, been there. But I'm going to catch a trout or a salmon down the Twizel. I'm going to keep going there until I jolly well catch one.
00:41:41
Speaker 3: Okay, good.
00:41:41
Speaker 2: Will you keep us posted?
00:41:42
Speaker 13: Okay, then mark it.
00:41:43
Speaker 2: Have you spent the $ 500?
00:41:44
Speaker 13: Yes, all done. Bought it during the week.
00:41:48
Speaker 2: When are you heading down?
00:41:50
Speaker 13: Probably at the end of next month. Because the school holidays are now, then you've got Labor Weekend. It'll be just after that because then the crowds go and then you've got all of November you can go down. There's hardly anyone there. But, of course, if you go at Christmas, you can't even move down there.
00:42:04
Speaker 2: For the idiots. Yeah, OK, good on you, Bob. Thank you for that. 17 past nine, the number is 0880. If you could change one traffic law, what would you change? And the elections, I don't feel like it's happening. But get in touch, Hessel 12. And also talking about Johnny Farnham and The Voice. Yeah, because it's 40 years ago. I don't know the actual day. Oh, 15th September, 1986. So it's 40 years this month. So I don't know when the actual single was released. I don't think the original release of the song had the bagpipes.
00:42:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway.
00:42:37
Speaker 2: And by the way, 20 years since Farnham had done Sadie the Cleaning Lady, anyway, he's in a lot of debt, the guy, when he did it. Make or break moment having sold his house to pay down debts. He went to the basement of his house he was renting and recorded the song. He made the decision to swap out the bass and the demo for bagpipes, which turned out to be a masterstroke. They changed one note on the bass and put in the brilliant bagpipe solo.
00:42:59
Speaker 3: Great.
00:43:01
Speaker 2: There we go. Revived his career. 1.68 million sold in Australia alone. Third highest selling album of all time in Australia. Whispering Jack, what do you think is number one and two? Wouldn't it be the one and two biggest selling albums in Australia? I'll tell you. Better to hell. Meatloaf. Come on over. Shania Twain.
00:43:22
Speaker 4: Anyway.
00:43:22
Speaker 2: Get in touch. Markets till 12. 19 past nine. Let's remember, Darren Hinch is in the video for you, the voice. There we go. Sally, this is Marcus. Good evening and welcome.
00:43:31
Speaker 22: Hi, Marcus. How are you?
00:43:34
Speaker 6: Very good.
00:43:34
Speaker 2: Thank you, Sally.
00:43:35
Speaker 22: I was just calling you about John Farnham.
00:43:38
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:43:40
Speaker 22: I was like his biggest fan when I was at Intermediate. So like back in like 1987, 1988, I think it was.
00:43:47
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:43:49
Speaker 22: And I went to see him at Lancaster Park. He was opening for Billy Joel.
00:43:56
Speaker 3: Wow.
00:43:57
Speaker 22: And I was way more excited about seeing him than I was about Billy Joel because I absolutely loved him.
00:44:04
Speaker 2: Goodness. You tell me more.
00:44:08
Speaker 22: I remember at Intermediate, I went to Intermediate in Christchurch and we were in metal work class and we had to make a little metal key chain And I always remember that I, you know how you had like the little metal inscriber thing and you had to like write your name on.
00:44:33
Speaker 6: It or something?
00:44:34
Speaker 20: Yes, yes.
00:44:35
Speaker 22: And I wrote, I love John Farnham on it. That's how much I loved him.
00:44:42
Speaker 10: Wow.
00:44:43
Speaker 18: But I actually forgot.
00:44:44
Speaker 23: Sorry.
00:44:46
Speaker 2: You actually forgot that you loved him, is that what you're saying?
00:44:49
Speaker 22: No, yeah, I forgot all about it really until I heard you talking about on the radio about him, and I can't believe it's been 40 years since You're the Voice.
00:44:57
Speaker 2: So at intermediate school, was that.
00:45:00
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:45:01
Speaker 2: Was he... Were you, in a group of your own, been obsessed with him, or was he popular? Because I thought.
00:45:08
Speaker 22: No, he was really popular, yeah. Like, my whole group of friends, yeah, we all loved him. We used to, like, we'd have his concert on videotape, and we'd all come around to each other's houses and watch him.
00:45:22
Speaker 2: Over and over and over again. And was it a big radio hit? Because I was actually living in Australia at the time. I wasn't here for that. Was it a big radio hit? Is that how you learnt about songs in those days?
00:45:31
Speaker 22: Yeah, and do you remember Take the Pressure Down? That was a really big song as well.
00:45:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
00:45:39
Speaker 22: Yeah, he was huge. I think he must have been quite old, though, when I was an infant.
00:45:44
Speaker 2: Yes, because he had the hit with Sadie the Cleaning Lady 20 years earlier. So he would have been mid-30s or late-30s, yes.
00:45:53
Speaker 22: Yeah, that's a bit crazy that we loved him so much.
00:45:55
Speaker 10: Yeah.
00:45:56
Speaker 22: And he had that really long hair as well, didn't he?
00:45:59
Speaker 2: Well, it was sort of like a.
00:46:00
Speaker 22: He had kind of like a mullet.
00:46:01
Speaker 2: Like a Jason Donovan mullet. Yes.
00:46:04
Speaker 15: Yeah.
00:46:06
Speaker 22: Yeah, actually, that was probably around the time of Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue and Neighbours and all that as well.
00:46:12
Speaker 3: It was all.
00:46:13
Speaker 22: Like, back then, sort of around the 80s, everyone loved Australian music. things like sort of like Australian pop culture.
00:46:23
Speaker 2: And the gig was good.
00:46:26
Speaker 22: Yeah it was really good but I remember I fell asleep during Billy Joel so I really regret it now because I would love to see Billy Joel.
00:46:37
Speaker 2: Yeah that's right John Farnham the opening act that was the bridge tour the bridge tour 1987 so the year after it yeah yeah Okay.
00:46:50
Speaker 22: Thanks for reminding me.
00:46:52
Speaker 2: Do you still have the concert on VHS?
00:46:57
Speaker 22: Mum and Dad probably do, actually.
00:46:58
Speaker 12: I should check it out.
00:47:00
Speaker 2: You're the voice is a great song. The bagpipes is fantastic. It's got a feel. I mean, he was a bit of a daggy old guy, but the feel-good factor of that song, whenever you hear it on the radio, it lifts the day. I love it. I just love it.
00:47:14
Speaker 14: It's great.
00:47:15
Speaker 20: It's great.
00:47:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. And I think he's just officially retired. I think he's unwell at the moment. I think he's got some form of cancer. I think he's just officially retired. But there we go, anyway.
00:47:24
Speaker 22: Okay, I should get in touch and get all nostalgic with him.
00:47:28
Speaker 2: Were you part of a fan club?
00:47:32
Speaker 22: I'm pretty sure I, like, back in those days, you would write them letters. I remember writing him a letter.
00:47:38
Speaker 11: Wow.
00:47:39
Speaker 2: Did he reply?
00:47:40
Speaker 24: Don't think so.
00:47:44
Speaker 2: Nice to talk, Sally. Thank you so much. Johnny Farnham, 40 years since The Voice. Australia's greatest single, I'll call it that, that and the horses. That's the other one that's great. Well, that's the other one that I love, but Johnny Farnham I love. We had two about the road rules you would change in Johnny Farnham, text or call, mainly call. You might have seen him perform. I think he was always back here. But get in touch. I just was looking at that concept. I went to one athletic park. Epic night. Billy Joel gave it everything. In the room of the night. Marcus John Farnham, Riverton Racecourse 1991.
00:48:22
Speaker 13: Wow.
00:48:28
Speaker 11: Jeepers.
00:48:31
Speaker 2: That's what we are talking about. Anyway. Best song was Age of Reason. I don't know what was the best song. I don't get into bests because it's all opinion. Oh, actually, I do get into bests. I'm quite, oh, that was the best sort of a guy. Anyway, Heddle 12. Johnny Farnham, if you could change one law, what would you change? So that's the plans, Dan. 0800 80 80 and 9292 to text. Is there something else you want to mention too? I'm just sort of putting my foot into the election. Do we feel that it's full noise yet or are people kind of a little bit about getting into full on election talk? Although bearing in mind, remember three years ago, all the parties there were? There was all those sort of anti-vax parties. There was Liz Gunn's parties. They've all disappeared, haven't they? None of them survived. It's interesting. I think they've all gone. New Zealand first way. There was New Zealand loyal. I'm just trying to think of all the parties. It seems simpler this time. Well, not simpler, but less cluttered. I might have that one wrong. The second score, Brake is 42, Taipan's 35. That's the score, people. Just half time there now. And if you want to be in touch, Mark is still 12. Johnny Farnham, where else did you see him perform? That's the major topic. And if you could change the law, what would you change?
00:49:58
Speaker 12: Yep.
00:49:58
Speaker 2: 0800 80 1080 and 9292 to text if you do want to come through. As I say, 0800 80 1080. And 9292 to text if you want to be a part of it. So yes, if there's something else you've got, what is that that you've got? But be in touch with it, as I say, 0800 80 1080. Anything else you want to mention tonight? Good, be nice to hear from you. Oh, school holidays, of course, as well. I always forget about that. School holidays is always a bit of a different beast on radio. People doing different things. But yeah, it'd be nice to hear from you if you want to talk about that or anything else. So yeah, 0800 80 1080 and 9292 to text if you want to be a part of it. John Farnham and Driving. 40 years since You're the Voice, and there were several other, Whispering Jack, there were three or four hits on the album, but You're the Voice was, and the video's very good, actually, with Darren Hinch. So yeah, if you want to talk about that or anything else, that's the plan for tonight, people. Johnny Farnham's main backing singer in the Farnham band is a Kiwi, Lindsay Field. He's on all his records. Brilliant harmonist. Marcus, we also went to the Lancaster Park concert. He sang... Give me a reason. It was great. I remember it reverberating through the ground. Billy Idol was also great. Wonderful memories. Did they do a duet? I only say that because quite often when singers go to Australia, they'll sing You're the Voice and Johnny Farnham will come in from a duet. Who did that? I think Celine Dion did it. Did she? I think she did the voice with Johnny Farnham. It was great. Well, people love Celine, don't they? I'm not quite sure about Celine. I don't know what I'm not quite sure about, but I think you've got to have a great ear to realise how good she is. I'm sure it was her that Johnny Farnham came out with. Yeah, I think they sing it quite often with him. Yeah, Greg, it's Marcus. Welcome and good evening.
00:51:50
Speaker 6: Hi, Greg.
00:51:50
Speaker 16: Yeah, g'day, Marcus.
00:51:51
Speaker 3: How are you?
00:51:52
Speaker 8: Good, Greg.
00:51:53
Speaker 7: Just a little story on Johnny Farnham. Um, so my dad bands, uh, for quite a number of years and would, um, often end up sort of playing backing keyboards and things for various bands that came out and played in New Plymouth.
00:52:09
Speaker 12: Sure.
00:52:10
Speaker 7: And, um, one time, uh, yeah, I got to meet John Pertwee, who was.
00:52:15
Speaker 11: A, um, Doctor Who at one point.
00:52:18
Speaker 7: Um, but anyway, this particular time.
00:52:20
Speaker 2: And Wurzel, and Wurzel Gummidge.
00:52:22
Speaker 7: And Wurzel Gummidge, yep. Uh, so anyway, yeah, this particular time, um, John Farnham was out when he was with Little River Band.
00:52:34
Speaker 2: Little LRB, yep.
00:52:36
Speaker 7: Yep, and they were playing at the bowl, and so I'd gone off and done the sound checks, and they had a bit of time to kill. Dad had been talking to him, and it came out in the conversation, they were talking about possums, and Farnham was like, well, you know, they're an endangered species, you know, you can't go shooting them. And so Dad offered to take them out to my uncle's farm, and take him hunting possums. True story.
00:53:04
Speaker 2: Such a Kiwi thing. It's like, oh, we can't shoot him there. I'll tell you what, let's go. We'll go to my uncle's and we'll shoot some for you.
00:53:10
Speaker 6: Here we go, bucket list.
00:53:11
Speaker 7: Exactly right, eh? So anyway, it was like by this stage, it was still afternoon, it was still daylight. So I went off to my uncle's farm and there were obviously no possums out. So my uncle set the dogs out, and they tracked down a possum. And my uncle pulled this possum out of its hidey hole, and he basically held it there. And then my dad handed the.
00:53:37
Speaker 12: 22 to John.
00:53:38
Speaker 2: That's so grim.
00:53:39
Speaker 7: And he's like, what am I going to do with it? And he said, well, you've got to shoot it before it rips my uncle's arms to pieces. So, yeah, John Farnham can proudly say that he shot a possum.
00:53:50
Speaker 2: Such a grim story. It puts him in an awkward position, doesn't it? He's sort of carried along with it. He's in the middle of nowhere with a possum, which is nocturnal.
00:53:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, what do I do?
00:53:57
Speaker 7: These Kiwis have got guns and a possum that's going.
00:53:59
Speaker 15: Crazy, so what do I do?
00:54:01
Speaker 12: Yeah.
00:54:02
Speaker 2: But by all accounts.
00:54:03
Speaker 7: He was a really nice guy.
00:54:04
Speaker 6: Lovely, I was going to say. He was a really nice guy.
00:54:05
Speaker 2: A nice guy, get along with everyone, sort of. Yeah, that's what I would suspect.
00:54:10
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:54:11
Speaker 3: No, he was really nice.
00:54:11
Speaker 7: He was me and my brothers, and we all got autographs with him. Yeah, no, he was a really cool guy.
00:54:16
Speaker 2: Did you see the concert?
00:54:18
Speaker 7: No, because I was probably too young.
00:54:20
Speaker 22: Okay.
00:54:22
Speaker 7: So, yeah, I didn't get to that one. But, yeah, it was always nice to meet some of those guys before they went on stage.
00:54:29
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a good story. It's a classic Taranaki story. But, yeah, I'm surprised. I'm disappointed you weren't there to hear Cool Change, because I love that song. But, anyway, that's a good story. What year do we think that would have been?
00:54:41
Speaker 7: It would have been mid-' 80s, so probably like– I want to say like 80, well, Whispering Jack did come out.
00:54:52
Speaker 3: Okay.
00:54:53
Speaker 2: So it'd be, yeah. I'll find it out. I'll look on Google. Thanks, Greg. Keep in touch, people, 25 to 10. My name is Marcus.
00:55:00
Speaker 6: Welcome.
00:55:02
Speaker 2: No, Johnny Farnham and Billy Joel did not do a duet at Lancaster Park. Billy Joel opened with Piano Man playing the piano. Of course, brilliant. Yes, but he should have. Oh, by the way, Coldplay did the duet at the cricket ground with Johnny Farman. Great version. I'll watch that during the news. I mean, not that your news is not interesting, but, and I don't love Coldplay, but I'm sure they do a good, I love it when you're somewhere and they bring out Johnny Farnham. That's the thing, isn't it? With the bag bites come out. I mean, I always like when they do, I always enjoy when they do Throw Your Arms Around Me in Australia and they bring old, the guy from Hunters and Collectors out. Who does that normally? Those American singers. I forget what they are, but there's some crackers. In fact, there are better versions that he did himself. Yeah, Paul, it's Marcus. Good evening.
00:55:49
Speaker 3: Good evening.
00:55:51
Speaker 2: Hi, Paul.
00:55:52
Speaker 14: Hi. Yeah, I'd like to change.
00:55:57
Speaker 6: The law, you know.
00:55:58
Speaker 2: You'd like to change your voice?
00:56:00
Speaker 25: No.
00:56:01
Speaker 2: Hey, Paul.
00:56:02
Speaker 11: Hey.
00:56:02
Speaker 2: Whereabouts in Ireland are you from?
00:56:04
Speaker 9: No, no, not Ireland.
00:56:07
Speaker 3: Just UK.
00:56:07
Speaker 10: I was born in Ireland.
00:56:10
Speaker 2: Whereabouts?
00:56:10
Speaker 4: Edinburgh.
00:56:11
Speaker 2: You were born in Edinburgh?
00:56:13
Speaker 14: Aye.
00:56:13
Speaker 2: Edinburgh, Ireland?
00:56:15
Speaker 3: Roundabouts.
00:56:19
Speaker 2: What road rule would you change?
00:56:22
Speaker 14: I'd reduce the speed a little bit, you know. Just my eyesight's not too good. I look a little bit nervous going around corners.
00:56:34
Speaker 2: What's wrong with your eyesight?
00:56:35
Speaker 3: Oh, I've got.
00:56:39
Speaker 20: Nothing much, really.
00:56:40
Speaker 14: It's just the long distance.
00:56:42
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:56:43
Speaker 12: Anything else?
00:56:45
Speaker 2: How do you think this call's gone for you, Paul? Do you think it's been a good phone call?
00:56:48
Speaker 14: It's pretty good.
00:56:50
Speaker 11: Mark, it's Marcus.
00:56:52
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome.
00:57:20
Speaker 3: Hello.
00:57:21
Speaker 2: Hi, Mark.
00:57:22
Speaker 3: Good evening.
00:57:23
Speaker 12: Hi, Marcus. I'll just point something out. It's a bit sketchy, but there was a wonderful singer, Lisa, from 2005. She just had a clip on Channel 200 on Freeview. Lisa Grenfell or something. Beautiful, chilling voice.
00:57:39
Speaker 3: Great.
00:57:42
Speaker 2: Is there that?
00:57:42
Speaker 12: I just thought you'd like to know. You don't often get that sort of voice once in a lifetime.
00:57:48
Speaker 2: Where did you come across her?
00:57:50
Speaker 12: Well, I just had the Channel 200 on, on preview, and she was just on one of the clips, you know, the video clips. And she really, you know, she's got a voice one in a hundred, yeah.
00:58:04
Speaker 2: One in a hundred's quite common.
00:58:07
Speaker 12: Oh, oh. I haven't heard anybody that appeals to me like her for a while.
00:58:12
Speaker 2: What is Channel 200? I'm interested in that.
00:58:16
Speaker 12: It's for, I think they call it for songs, you know, music, Channel 200. They call it Juice, Juice Channel.
00:58:26
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, Juice. It's got juice and some other bubble writing with it.
00:58:29
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know.
00:58:30
Speaker 12: That's it.
00:58:30
Speaker 3: That's it.
00:58:31
Speaker 12: I'll let you go. I just thought you should be aware. Hang on.
00:58:34
Speaker 2: I just want to, because I can't Google her up. Lisa Greenfield?
00:58:37
Speaker 6: That's it.
00:58:38
Speaker 12: That's it.
00:58:39
Speaker 2: No, I can't see anything under that.
00:58:41
Speaker 12: Well, it might be just Lisa. I might have the second name wrong, but. It just blew me away.
00:58:46
Speaker 2: What would a song be called?
00:58:53
Speaker 12: I don't know. It was a series of things. She was playing a keyboard and then she was singing. But, yeah, really good. Really good.
00:59:03
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:59:05
Speaker 2: I'd like to know, how long ago was it on 200? About 10 minutes ago. Shall I see if I can find their track listing?
00:59:12
Speaker 12: Oh, thanks, Marcus.
00:59:14
Speaker 2: No, I don't know if I can.
00:59:15
Speaker 3: Now we'll try.
00:59:17
Speaker 2: I want to have you there so I can actually ask you.
00:59:19
Speaker 14: Yes.
00:59:21
Speaker 13: What it was.
00:59:22
Speaker 3: Yep.
00:59:24
Speaker 12: She was quite a good looking woman. I think she was a young woman.
00:59:31
Speaker 2: What nationality did she appear to be?
00:59:33
Speaker 26: European.
00:59:34
Speaker 12: European.
00:59:37
Speaker 2: I've clicked on a button that says watch live.
00:59:40
Speaker 27: Yeah.
00:59:42
Speaker 2: Can I go back on that?
00:59:43
Speaker 3: I don't know.
00:59:45
Speaker 2: I think I can. I'm going back.
00:59:48
Speaker 25: Yeah.
00:59:53
Speaker 2: I found a go back button.
00:59:55
Speaker 11: Oh, yeah.
00:59:55
Speaker 2: Now I've lost it.
00:59:59
Speaker 12: I'm a bit hyper with computers and things.
01:00:04
Speaker 2: She's not wearing a leopard skin coat, is she?
01:00:08
Speaker 12: I don't think so. A leather coat, I think.
01:00:16
Speaker 2: We're closing in. Don't go anywhere. I'm just trying to work out how I can actually go back. Oh, I found the go back button. I can go back 10 seconds at a time.
01:00:28
Speaker 8: Yes.
01:00:29
Speaker 2: I've done my dash. I'll just see if anyone's texted it in.
01:00:33
Speaker 16: Yeah.
01:00:34
Speaker 3: Go on.
01:00:36
Speaker 14: Okay.
01:00:37
Speaker 3: Well, thank you for your good programme.
01:00:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, my absolute pleasure, Mark.
01:00:39
Speaker 11: Thank you, too.
01:00:40
Speaker 2: He's double screening. He'd be able to have the juice on and listening.
01:00:44
Speaker 3: Hi, Mark.
01:00:44
Speaker 2: I just arrived home from Melbourne tonight. Rumour has it that John Farnham is very ill in hospital with a stroke, cancer, his family by his side. Well, I hope there's a good send-off because what a song that is. That would be, yeah, that'd be a great thing. Marcus, mate, would you live in Dunsandal, upcoming town of the future? I would say that Dunsandal is not high on my list of places I would live because you'd be stuck there. What would you do in Dunsandal? If I was in Canterbury, I'd be in the town itself. Christ, I don't know. Well, that's just me. We're talking about Johnny Farnham and The Voice, the album 40 years ago today, this month. Whispering Jack, Australia's third, the highest selling Australian album by an Australian artist, although I think Johnny Farnham might have come from England. Oh, here's the sort of emails I like. Wow. The fact they've flatted here, they must have been staying in New Zealand for a while. Love that. Love that, love that, love that. Anyway, get in touch. Marcus till 12. By the way, do go and watch Eddie Vedder. His version is just unbelievable. Here till 12. That's the plan. Wallace, it's Marcus. Good evening.
01:02:10
Speaker 8: Hello.
01:02:12
Speaker 10: Hi, Wallace.
01:02:13
Speaker 28: If I could change one rule on the roads, it'd probably be the speed. I'd probably lower it because, you know, getting older.
01:02:27
Speaker 2: How old are you, Wallace?
01:02:28
Speaker 11: 50.
01:02:31
Speaker 2: You're 50?
01:02:32
Speaker 12: Yes.
01:02:33
Speaker 2: What year were you born?
01:02:34
Speaker 8: 1822.
01:02:41
Speaker 2: Sorry about that, people. School holidays. Anyway, get in touch if you want to talk. 0800 80 1080. If you want to do silly voices and things, the way to do talkback, guys, what you do, okay, here's the way to cause problems on talkback. You've got to call twice, so you've got two lines blocked, then the first guy goes on, and, or woman, for the school holidays, and they say something ridiculous, and the host dumps them, and then the key is, what the host will probably do is to get the flow of the show going back. They'll take another call to air, but that other call to air is your mate. And what will happen is they won't have gone into delay, so then you can actually jump in and say whatever you like. That's the key to do it. But you've got to have nerves of steel. And if you're going to go with a different accent, you've got to do some work on it. You can't just make it up as you go. And you've got to actually speak to the producer in that accent and carry it through. The chances of those amateurs succeeding in something like that would be very, very slim.
01:03:45
Speaker 13: Anyway.
01:03:46
Speaker 2: That's my suggestion for you. Why am I telling you that? I've got no idea. I just think people need to be better at that sort of stuff. My name is Marcus. Welcome 0800 8080 and 9292 to text. He's beating the delay. Then you can video that, put yourself on YouTube, go viral. If that's where you get your giggles going viral, that's the way to do it. Text if you want to. Johnny Farnham and the traffic lawyer would change. Marcus, I had a school teacher in the late 80s who said in a test one day, first prize was a night in Dunsandal. Second prize was two nights. No one goes to Dunsandal. They go, oh, yeah, there we go. John Farnham is in hospital. According to the internet, he's having home care. All this is good. Get in touch. You want to talk. Marcus, till midnight. Nine away from 10. Back soon. Score, 64-52 to the Breakers. So one minute left. 40 in the third quarter. It looks like it's been a fairly good game. So there we go. That's what's happening there. Get in touch if you want to talk on here. Marcus, talk 12. I'll take you quickly before the news if you do want to talk. 0800 80 80 and 9292 to text if you want to be a part of it. So yeah, be in touch. Anything else you want to mention? Keep those texts coming through.
01:05:02
Speaker 26: Yes.
01:05:03
Speaker 2: Someone says makatu pies up for sale. Damn, another pastry bites the dust. Sorry to see the 21 jobs. I think there's been a number of different attempts to revive Makatupai. I don't think I've ever had one. But there we go. People want to talk about Dunsandal and Johnny Farnham. For those who don't know Dunsandal, a rural supply town, would you call it a town? South of Christchurch. That's a situation with that.
01:05:27
Speaker 3: So, yep.
01:05:29
Speaker 2: Anyway, get in touch. You want to talk on it. And also, if you could change one traffic law, what would you change it to? What's annoying you the most on the roads and how would you change that? Get in touch with that also. 0800 80 80 and 9292 to text. That's the plan. Get in touch. Any breaking news from around the world, I'll bring that to you. But yeah, if you want to be a part of the show, that's what we are doing tonight.
01:05:53
Speaker 3: 0800 80 1080.
01:05:53
Speaker 2: Oh, there's the Daily M Awards tonight also. So that is happening. I'll tell you more about that. I'll get that on the TV so we can get that going. So yes, that's the promise. I'm not quite sure what time the awards will start. I would imagine that– actually, I'll get that on the TV. I imagine that Nathan Cleary will not be there, but I'll keep going. Yeah, I don't know who's the lead contender. Yeah, Gav Marcus, welcome.
01:06:26
Speaker 6: Hi, Gav.
01:06:28
Speaker 3: You all right? Yeah.
01:06:29
Speaker 20: Did you say Dunsandle before?
01:06:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of talk about Dunsandle. People ask me if I'd move there.
01:06:35
Speaker 6: Would you?
01:06:36
Speaker 13: No.
01:06:37
Speaker 2: I'd like to be by the sea.
01:06:38
Speaker 11: Well, it's not far off.
01:06:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's not at this. It's just you're in the middle of nowhere.
01:06:44
Speaker 20: Well, think about the pies.
01:06:45
Speaker 2: Are they pies at the pub?
01:06:47
Speaker 11: Well, they used to be.
01:06:48
Speaker 20: What happened to them?
01:06:50
Speaker 12: Well, I'm not 100% sure.
01:06:51
Speaker 20: I just caught you talking about Dunsandle.
01:06:53
Speaker 2: Is it where you live?
01:06:56
Speaker 9: No, I'm not far off it, though.
01:06:59
Speaker 2: Do you live in a town or like a rural area?
01:07:04
Speaker 11: Yeah, kind of rural.
01:07:06
Speaker 2: How many acres?
01:07:07
Speaker 16: Four.
01:07:08
Speaker 20: Ten.
01:07:10
Speaker 2: Gee, not many.
01:07:11
Speaker 20: Well, any more, that's a bit of a pain.
01:07:14
Speaker 2: Tell me about it.
01:07:15
Speaker 3: Well, upkeep.
01:07:16
Speaker 2: But you sound like more of a farmer than me.
01:07:18
Speaker 20: I'm not much of a.
01:07:22
Speaker 2: Farmer. How much stock have you got?
01:07:25
Speaker 20: I'll tell you. Good question, that is. So we had to shear the sheep the other day, and we've got four ewes. And the shearer come around and shore them, and he had a look in their gob to see if any teeth that they had left in their gob.
01:07:44
Speaker 26: Yeah.
01:07:44
Speaker 20: And he goes, why haven't you got a ram here?
01:07:48
Speaker 3: Why aren't you having any lambs out of these ewes?
01:07:51
Speaker 11: Because it's more of a pain.
01:07:53
Speaker 20: It's better just to have ewes there nibbling around the grass because the less upkeep you see.
01:07:59
Speaker 2: You sound sensible. Nice to talk, Gav. Back after the break. Good evening and welcome. Breakers leading 7261. Hello, New Zealand.
01:08:07
Speaker 12: Hello.
01:08:07
Speaker 2: I hope you are good.
01:08:08
Speaker 26: Welcome.
01:08:09
Speaker 2: So far tonight, we've talked about the first day. We talked about, because there's four new road rules coming in in two hours' time. One is that children under 12 can ride on the footpath with their parents or guardians. So be aware of that. Also, if you're overtaking a horse or a cyclist, you need to give them 1.5 metres. e-scooters can ride on bikeways, and if a bus is leaving a bus stop, you need to give way to them. They'll have to indicate for three seconds. So I've also asked you what road rules you would want introduced, and that's been great. Then we've got talking, and then we're blooded in a new topic. I guess that would say about that kindly. We are talking about Johnny Farnham because his album, Whispering Jack, came out 40 years ago this month. It's the third biggest selling album in Australia ever behind Meatloaf, Bad Outta Hell, and Shania Twain. That's interesting. I think ACDC, one of those ones, would have been the biggest selling, but no. Whispering Jack is there. Number of hits on it, the biggest one was You're The Voice, which has become kind of Australia's anthem, or to me it has anyway. Pressure Down was a song that still gets a bit of radio airplay. And yeah, it was his last gasp. He'd been a teen star and then did nothing and then worked for LRB for a while and that didn't pan out. And then did his own album, Pressure Down. So yeah, that's the situation. And the album went huge. Reason's also a big song, I think. Touch of Paradise, sung often. So that's what we are talking about. Pressure, yeah, Pressure Down. We're talking about Johnny Farnham, The Voice. He toured New Zealand often. And I think, yeah, someone said he played Riverton in 1991 at the Racecourse. How many people would have tuned up for that? You wouldn't think it'd be many. Anyway, I've never heard of a concert there, so all this stuff's exciting. I think he might have even sung at the Soundshell at the Millennium as well. Maybe people have got their wires crossed there. So that's what we are talking about tonight. So that's two topics for you. Yes, performed at the Riverton Racecourse as part of his Chain Reaction Tour. I don't know how many would have been there. It's amazing you can go anywhere now and get the set lists for concerts. I love that. I love a set list. Must be a good time to be a musical obsessive. Louise, it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.
01:10:37
Speaker 21: Oh, hi, Marcus.
01:10:38
Speaker 29: Yes, I'm a music obsessive. But anyway, I haven't seen Johnny Farnham, though.
01:10:43
Speaker 2: Why not?
01:10:43
Speaker 21: I don't know.
01:10:45
Speaker 24: I just never got there.
01:10:47
Speaker 29: It just didn't happen.
01:10:49
Speaker 3: But anyway.
01:10:49
Speaker 2: I guess if part of Johnny Farnham's... as he always seemed to be slightly daggy and a bit ordinary.
01:10:57
Speaker 13: Is that right?
01:10:58
Speaker 24: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd say that.
01:11:01
Speaker 20: Yeah, that's right.
01:11:04
Speaker 29: I thought he was going to be around forever, but obviously not.
01:11:08
Speaker 2: Hang on, what do you mean he's sick? That's not a nice thing to say, is it?
01:11:13
Speaker 29: No, I thought I would catch up with him eventually.
01:11:16
Speaker 2: I see what you're saying.
01:11:17
Speaker 6: I can understand.
01:11:18
Speaker 4: I see.
01:11:19
Speaker 2: You thought there'd always be time because he seemed to tour endlessly like Rod Stewart.
01:11:23
Speaker 29: Yeah, the road rule I'd like to change is the one on 100k roads when you're turning right into maybe a driveway or somewhere where there isn't one of those right turn arrows that you're allowed to sit In the middle.
01:11:43
Speaker 24: No, you're allowed to sit in the middle.
01:11:45
Speaker 2: Really?
01:11:46
Speaker 29: Which is, yeah.
01:11:47
Speaker 2: That's terrifying.
01:11:48
Speaker 13: I looked it up.
01:11:49
Speaker 2: Wouldn't someone, oh, you are allowed?
01:11:51
Speaker 24: Yes, and they need to change it.
01:11:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't understand.
01:11:54
Speaker 29: Oh, just, yeah, I looked it up. Somebody did that next to me. I was pulled over, and they came up beside me into the middle and turned right.
01:12:05
Speaker 20: And I thought, what the.
01:12:06
Speaker 24: Heck are they doing?
01:12:07
Speaker 29: And so I checked, and they were in the right. And I thought, that's just crazy.
01:12:12
Speaker 2: They need to change it so you pull to the left and wait, right?
01:12:16
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes.
01:12:18
Speaker 6: I agree, Louise.
01:12:18
Speaker 2: Thank you. Kate, it's Marcus. Good evening.
01:12:21
Speaker 21: Hi, how are you, Marcus?
01:12:22
Speaker 2: I'm good, thank you, Kate.
01:12:24
Speaker 21: That's good. Just calling about John Farnham playing at Riverton.
01:12:30
Speaker 2: Yes.
01:12:31
Speaker 21: It was about the 16th of January 1991. And it absolutely poured down in Riverton. And, of course, back then there was only lasers, nightclub. So for the city council to organise that at the time, that was huge. And I believe there would have been 8,000 to 14,000 turn-ups.
01:12:56
Speaker 2: Really?
01:12:58
Speaker 24: Yes, that was huge.
01:13:00
Speaker 21: Absolutely huge. And if I remember, there was a few months afterwards, controversial run at a loss but then they managed to break even and it was a fundraiser at the time for something but that's what I recall 33 or 32 years ago and it was magnificently.
01:13:26
Speaker 2: Are you saying the council put it on? It would have been the regional council. It would have been the combined council in those days too.
01:13:32
Speaker 26: Yes, it was.
01:13:33
Speaker 21: Yes, they were the ones, the older ones, that organised it for the young kids or teenagers, young adults. And it was well supported, but it did run at a loss. And it was all in the papers for months afterwards, but they come even if you Google it and look. Yeah, it's an interesting read.
01:13:53
Speaker 2: What did you say? Oh, you've got to Google it. Is that what you said you've got to do?
01:13:56
Speaker 21: Yeah, just Google it and read the accounts. Yeah, it was quite contradictory. They'd run at a loss, and they'd come out even in the end, but it was a fundraiser for somebody or something. But, oh, boy, did we think we were great being a teenager to have somebody like John Farnham come to Riverton of all places. He was big in his day, too, back then. He was in his prime. And it was like Robbie Williams or anyone coming.
01:14:25
Speaker 2: So he played on the field and everyone sat in the main stand, is that right?
01:14:31
Speaker 21: No, he played in front of the stand and we all congregated on the field with umbrellas. I was third row in front of him and it was just fun.
01:14:48
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard of another concert being played there?
01:14:50
Speaker 9: No, no.
01:14:51
Speaker 21: That was the only big starlight there in my era that I ever recall, except for Split End's, I think, Civic Theatre. That was fantastic too.
01:15:05
Speaker 3: Okay.
01:15:05
Speaker 2: I never had no idea about that. I didn't realise you'd play there. That's 1990. Yeah, okay.
01:15:11
Speaker 21: And it poured down, but it was hot.
01:15:14
Speaker 4: It was really, really hot.
01:15:15
Speaker 21: It was like thundery, really hot, but it poured. But we had such fun. And yeah, I think there was a huge crowd, thousands.
01:15:25
Speaker 24: 8,000?
01:15:27
Speaker 21: I reckon more than that, maybe 40.
01:15:28
Speaker 2: Well, people would travel for Johnny Farmer. He was in his prime then, wasn't he?
01:15:33
Speaker 24: Absolutely.
01:15:33
Speaker 21: He was right number one at that time. We just thought, we thought a number car, we were made to have him there. It was huge.
01:15:42
Speaker 2: But once again, but once again, the rain ruins it.
01:15:45
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:15:46
Speaker 6: Oh, well.
01:15:46
Speaker 21: But anyway, I just.
01:15:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good. Good intel, Kate. Thanks so much for that. 15 past 10 here till 12. 84, 65 breakers are winning this. Just five minutes left to go. I think they will take that one. I haven't even looked at the ladder yet. Aussie basketball, that basketball thing's not so much for me. I prefer the local sales thing. Don't like going back and forth to Australia. Get in touch here till midnight, 15 past 10. Marcus, evening, I think those reckless teenagers on their electric motorbikes need to be aware of the danger they put themselves and others in. What frustrates me is when slow traffic speeds up on passing lanes. Now no one can pass the legal speed limit. Sometimes they're doing about 80 and 90 in a 100k zone and then increase to 110 when they get to a passing lane. Maybe someone could ring and tell me why you're doing that. The law should be if no one's in front of you and you are in a passing lane, you must pull to the left and let the car behind you pass. If you don't, you are fine. Have a good night. Someone thought the singer that guy talked about might have been Lisa Stanfield. I've got no idea about that. Marcus, I love the show. I think pie companies are really struggling. There's one in West Auckland. They just closed up owing 5.8 million Westie pies. Yes, I don't know what's going on with pies, but it's like what went on with Craft Brewery. They were closed. I thought the beer wasn't that good. It's flesh, but not that drinkable. But the situation with the pies, I reckon the pies have improved so much. There's so many boutique pies that the mass-produced ones aren't cutting it as much. It's probably a good thing. The pies have evolved. And the key to pies... I've said this often, is social media. I can be a baker. I can have a shop. I can come up with exotic pies and get it to my legendary followers just with a photo on my iPhone, bang it on Facebook. Look what's in the cabinet today. It's so good for that Facebook, the things to promote things. If you're a baker, you can get the word out with your great, and that goes viral. Like the guy with his screen power and the hot cross buns, 18 past 10. Johnny Farnham in Road Rule said it's the plan for tonight. The plan's working out for me. 89.68, three minutes left to go. Marcus, isn't it bad taste to talk about someone before they've died? Aren't you meant to wait until someone's died to reminisce about them? And the 1.5 rule passing cyclist isn't nor has ever been practical. Well, it's now the law, so you better get used to it. We're talking about John Farnham because it's 40 years since Whispering Jack, the third biggest selling Australian album, was released. It had the song, You're the Voice, that became such a world icon song. That's the situation. Pete, it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.
01:18:32
Speaker 15: G'day, Marcus.
01:18:33
Speaker 18: How are you?
01:18:34
Speaker 2: Good, thank you.
01:18:34
Speaker 6: Pete?
01:18:35
Speaker 15: Yeah, just regarding people in the right lanes are going up passing lanes and all that. Yeah, it's inconsiderate. I was going to put them at exactly the same thing, just dawdling along in the right lane. You know, they've got all the time in the world. So I reckon the police, New Zealand wants some extra revenue. I reckon, I'm not picking on the police, but I reckon what we should be doing in New Zealand is people doing that, that's a habit they've got. It's called consideration of other people. The police should be pulling those people over.
01:19:12
Speaker 2: Pete, I don't reckon you got your heart in this call.
01:19:15
Speaker 15: I really have.
01:19:17
Speaker 2: I reckon your heart's not in it.
01:19:18
Speaker 15: No, it's in it.
01:19:20
Speaker 2: Where were you driving to?
01:19:21
Speaker 15: I was going to the Waumakao here, which is double lane. It's 60, then it goes to 80, then it goes to 100 in a short period of time, which is a bit confusing. But it happens all the time.
01:19:32
Speaker 3: So where were you heading?
01:19:33
Speaker 2: Were you heading to the mall?
01:19:34
Speaker 15: No, I was heading towards Bell Block.
01:19:37
Speaker 4: Goodness.
01:19:38
Speaker 2: And how late were you? Were you in a hurry?
01:19:42
Speaker 15: No, no, that's besides the point, Marcus.
01:19:45
Speaker 2: Well, that is the point. I mean, you suddenly, yeah, I can't quite work out. I wouldn't get upset about that. That's just part of driving. You always held up cars or on the bluff road, there's always someone that's a tractor or a tourist on the Jeep. It's just what happens. But you've got to give yourself 10 minutes extra so you're not rushed.
01:20:05
Speaker 6: It's just the averages.
01:20:07
Speaker 15: What does it say in the New Zealand road code? Stick to your left unless you're overtaking or whatever. So that is the road code rule.
01:20:17
Speaker 2: Are you 70 yet?
01:20:19
Speaker 15: No, not yet. Thank God they're going to change that rule.
01:20:23
Speaker 2: But you should be more relaxed. You should be more chilled out about things because it sounds to me like you're a menace on the road because you're too agitated and impatient.
01:20:31
Speaker 15: That's where people get agitated because those people are hogging the road when they should be in the slow rain. So the police want to make some money, pull them over, give them a warning or two, and then after that, yes, hit them with a fine, and they will soon start to learn to pull over to the left. It's an old habit, bad driving habits.
01:20:51
Speaker 2: But my philosophy, Pete, and you could embrace this, is change yourself or change the world. You're never going to get everyone driving to your satisfaction, so you need to change yourself to become more chilled out.
01:21:03
Speaker 15: No, it's not about chilled. The rules are the rules, Marcus. It's in the road code.
01:21:08
Speaker 6: Simple.
01:21:08
Speaker 15: Don't sort of feel lent on them. The rules are the rules. Just stick to the left lane unless you're overtaking.
01:21:16
Speaker 2: Does it actually say that in the road code?
01:21:21
Speaker 15: Stick to your left unless you are overtaking and passing. That states out very clearly. So there's revenue there to be made for the police and New Zealand. If you need money, give them a ticket. They'll soon learn. It's that simple.
01:21:34
Speaker 2: I'll look at the road code.
01:21:35
Speaker 15: Yep, it's there, black and white. There's too many people just dawdling along their own little world out there.
01:21:40
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to think where it is in the road code.
01:21:45
Speaker 15: Oh, no, you're looking at it. It's been in the road code for ages and ages.
01:21:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, but maybe it's just something that's assumed and it's not there.
01:21:52
Speaker 15: No, it's definitely there. Look in the road code. Stick to your left. And at the end of the day, overtaking lanes are overtaking lanes. The people just dawdling along there, picking their nose, whatever they're doing, they're not concentrating on the actual road rules. So it's the police, as I said, and I'm repeating myself here, start ticking them. Give them a $ 500 fine. They'll soon start pulling to the left.
01:22:12
Speaker 6: Simple.
01:22:13
Speaker 15: Be like Australia. Get hard. There are $ 1, 000 fines and stuff over there. Get a few of those in the post.
01:22:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's for things like people texting, which is really dangerous. All that's wrong with this is it means that you're kept back a bit.
01:22:25
Speaker 3: Yep.
01:22:25
Speaker 15: At the end of the day, the government needs revenue, easy money. The police start pulling people over, that's money, and they'll soon adjust around their bad driving skills. They're doing it. They're not getting pulled over by the police. There's a job for the police to do. They start issuing out tickets for bad drivers. Lack of indicating, another one. People don't indicate right before they turn.
01:22:46
Speaker 2: Listen to how worked up you've got.
01:22:49
Speaker 15: I'm not worked up. I'm just saying, there it is. You'll get a lot of callers after, so I hope.
01:22:53
Speaker 12: No, we won't.
01:22:55
Speaker 2: It says you can be fined $ 150 and receive 20 demerit points for driving in the right-hand line without passing.
01:23:02
Speaker 11: Yep.
01:23:03
Speaker 2: Drivers must keep left unless they are actively passing or turning right.
01:23:07
Speaker 15: That's exactly what I just said.
01:23:10
Speaker 2: I'm agreeing with you, but I don't care.
01:23:13
Speaker 15: When I make a statement, I merely know what I'm saying.
01:23:17
Speaker 2: This is not the cross I die on. It's about people going slow.
01:23:20
Speaker 15: But the rules are the rules, mate. That's the rules in the road code.
01:23:25
Speaker 2: How long is your drive from where you live to Bell Block?
01:23:29
Speaker 15: Don't make any excuses, Marcus. There's no excuses. The rules are the rules. I don't care. Don't try to make out the lenient on the rules are the rules in the New Zealand road code.
01:23:39
Speaker 3: Driving.
01:23:40
Speaker 15: That simple. Rules are rules. Okay, Marcus, I've got to fly.
01:23:43
Speaker 16: Where are you going?
01:23:44
Speaker 6: Good night.
01:23:45
Speaker 15: Ah, I'm just busy, busy.
01:23:49
Speaker 2: Love you, Pete. Thank you. John Farnham saying at the Hastings Showground 30 years ago, it was a fabulous contest. Sounds like he must have had a fairly good promoter taking him to some interesting places.
01:23:59
Speaker 11: Anyway.
01:24:00
Speaker 2: Irene, I think your texts has come to me rather than Tracy. But just so you know, 28 past 10 o'clock. Mark is still 12. Yeah, well, he's fired up. 0880 Taddy and 9292 to text if you want to talk. Breakers have finished. They have won. convincingly, that's a good thing for them. 100% agreeing with him that road heading to Bell Block is full of idiots in the right lane slowing down. Townies or country folk? Anyway, get in touch, you want to be on air, that's the plan for tonight. Ooh, 0800 80 Tati at 929. Oh, how's your daylight savings coping? People, are you adapted yet? I still don't sleep well with that first week after it, don't know what that is. We're all getting ready for the, oh, I'll switch to the, I'll watch the old Daily M's. That's the big rugby league awards night. I don't know who from, I don't know who will be getting the, I don't know who'll get the Daily M. I presume it'll be Nathan Cleary, but I'll get that on. I'll enjoy watching that. I think it kicks in about the last hour. It's just all the dresses at the moment. That seems to be big for them. It hasn't even started yet. It doesn't start for two more. I'm right on time.
01:25:12
Speaker 3: Oh.
01:25:16
Speaker 2: Kieran Foran's wife stuns in metallic gown. There you go. And she does. Now, be in touch if you want to talk on air about this thing or anything else tonight. Here till 12. Looking forward to what you've got to say. Good evening, Marcus. What do you do in your free time? My father is a big enjoyer along with me. I have no free time. Marcus, you accused him of not having his heart in the call. He was definitely a bit excited about it. Exactly. He got passionate. You know what annoys me about Pete? G'day Marcus, how are you? Then I answered, and there seems to be a little special sentence he needs to say after that, because he goes cold from how are you to what he's got to say. I don't want to teach people how to do small talk, but I sometimes think he could have an extra thing in there. I always think it sounded jazz a bit with me. So yeah, everyone agrees with Pete. Pete was on fire tonight, I love that call. He has things to do, that is classic. How can we get ourselves calmer tonight? I want to talk about Johnny Farnham. That's my pet topic for tonight. 40 years since Whispering Jack. That's what I want to talk about. Also, it's Aaron Patterson's birthday. Happy birthday, Aaron Patterson. Anyone got any pets that can do tricks at his International Pet Day? The rules you would change. Pete didn't want to change your rule. He just wanted to enforce a rule, which is good. I don't have a problem with that. I like his passion. Passion drives talkback. We want more of that. Be in touch if you want to talk about this or anything else. but with you till 12, 0800 80 1080, and 9292 to text, but get in touch. So, if you've got something else you want to talk about, what would that be, do you reckon, tonight? Marcus, I think Pete might be an ex-traffic officer. In the days before road policing, when they put them in black and white uniforms and black and white cars with their black and white attitude, you can see with a moustache, can't you? Oh, he certainly had his heart and his cool.
01:27:09
Speaker 3: Ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:27:13
Speaker 2: People already had to duck off at an auction closing. He's big on Trade Me. Pete, don't know what his handle is. Don't know why he hasn't gone to Marketplace. I don't like Marketplace, by the way. Trade Me through and through. I was thinking as I drove to work tonight, and this is nostalgia and this is boring, but it just shows you how far we have come. In 1995, when I was working at TVNZ, we would go to a website on the internet called And that website was called Website of the Day. And you would go to it and it would show you a new website. That's how few websites there were. Website of the Day. And one would have anagrams or, yeah. I feel there was probably 100 different websites. It's changed a lot, eh? In those days, you could watch all the internet if you had enough data and if the speed was quicker.
01:28:09
Speaker 3: Oh, yep.
01:28:09
Speaker 2: Just thought I'd mention that. Back on road rules. Hello, outfits, Marcus. Good evening.
01:28:14
Speaker 11: Yeah, hi. I thought I'd just, you know, we're doing nothing much at the moment. But look, I had a good idea. I think it's a good idea today. I am an Aucklander, but I moved out of Auckland a few years ago. And I've been in Auckland running around a bit just lately, and the bus lanes are doing my head in. And And then I had this idea, why don't they have LED sort of bright lighting or something that shows up when cars are allowed to drive on the bus lane?
01:28:49
Speaker 2: Great idea. So easy to do.
01:28:51
Speaker 11: So easy to do.
01:28:54
Speaker 2: Put LEDs, just turn them on. It's open for all traffic. It's a great idea.
01:28:58
Speaker 11: Isn't it a good idea?
01:28:59
Speaker 2: It's a great idea. So simple. It could be actually even, yeah, it'd be so easy to do.
01:29:04
Speaker 11: Because, I mean, when you're driving in the traffic, who's got time to read those little white.
01:29:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, and make it clear. Try and communicate with the driver rather than trying to trick them. It's a great idea.
01:29:15
Speaker 11: The thing is, they're revenue makers for the council.
01:29:20
Speaker 2: I don't think they are. I think the amount of... Well, maybe with some of those... Yeah, but it doesn't really work, does it? People get.
01:29:25
Speaker 4: I.
01:29:28
Speaker 11: Never know whether to go on one or not to go on one, and I can't be... I never seem to have time to read the... the sign that says 7 to 9 a.m. or some bloody thing. I don't know why they just don't do something like that, just make it a bit easier for people.
01:29:48
Speaker 2: Especially if you're new to a city, you're new to Auckland, there's stuff on the graft and bridge and things like that. It puts a real bad vibe to you, eh? To your trip.
01:29:56
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:29:58
Speaker 11: It makes you feel like an interloper or an outsider or.
01:30:01
Speaker 2: And who wants to feel like, I never want to feel like an interloper. Half my life I've felt like an interloper. No, I actually haven't really. But I'm hearing you, Alf. Thank you. John, it's Marcus.
01:30:09
Speaker 3: Good evening.
01:30:10
Speaker 16: Oh, hello, Marcus. Yeah, I'm calling about, I haven't been listening properly all the time, but I never heard you mention Johnny Farnham's, my favourite song of his is Sadie the Cleaning Lady.
01:30:28
Speaker 2: He did that as a kid, didn't he? And it was a one-hit wonder. Is that right?
01:30:32
Speaker 16: I'm not sure about it as one hit wonder, but I think he's had more than one hit.
01:30:37
Speaker 2: No, but I mean that he had to, he, he had to leave England and he had to, he was a victim of his success with that, I think.
01:30:45
Speaker 26: Oh, I don't know.
01:30:46
Speaker 16: He, he hated the song.
01:30:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.
01:30:48
Speaker 16: When people asked, asked him to sing it at concerts, um, live concerts, he, uh, he didn't want to, but I, I, that's my favorite song of his. And I've, 1968, I reckon that was.
01:31:05
Speaker 2: But no one seriously could like that song, could they?
01:31:08
Speaker 16: Oh, well, I do. It's a great song. It's Sadie the Cleaning Lady with just a scrubbing brush and pail of water.
01:31:19
Speaker 2: Are you serious? Did you really like it?
01:31:21
Speaker 16: I really do like it. It's on my MP3 collection.
01:31:26
Speaker 13: Is it?
01:31:28
Speaker 16: Why don't you like it? It's a great song.
01:31:31
Speaker 2: I don't know it that well, but I think the lyrics are problematic, aren't they?
01:31:35
Speaker 16: No, not at all. It's quite a story, how she got involved with Sam the Elevator Man, and he turned out to be another schemer, and she used to look after her daughter. I don't know why... Well, it's not a great song.
01:32:01
Speaker 26: Okay.
01:32:02
Speaker 2: Well, no, I appreciate your passion for it, John. To me, it's No, You're the Voice, but.
01:32:07
Speaker 16: No, I'm not all that keen on that song. And I'll tell you what, Marcus, I really.
01:32:13
Speaker 2: No, I like your passion. I like where you're coming at with this one. Yes, tell me what.
01:32:18
Speaker 16: I really dislike the way you play that awful song.
01:32:26
Speaker 2: Can you imagine the fuss we'd get if we played Sadie the Cleaning Lady every hour?
01:32:31
Speaker 16: Oh, no, I wouldn't want it every hour either.
01:32:33
Speaker 22: No.
01:32:34
Speaker 2: God.
01:32:34
Speaker 3: Okay.
01:32:35
Speaker 2: Thank you, John. You're toxic, John. 22 to 11. 22 to 11. Hello, Damien. This is Marcus.
01:32:41
Speaker 3: Welcome.
01:32:41
Speaker 20: Hi, Marcus.
01:32:43
Speaker 8: How are you?
01:32:44
Speaker 6: I'm driving at the moment. Can you hear me all right?
01:32:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, we seem to be receiving you pretty good. Thank you for your consideration. Sounds good.
01:32:52
Speaker 6: Two things, please.
01:32:53
Speaker 11: One.
01:32:54
Speaker 8: One of my gripes on the road, and I'm a professional driver, I drive most of the day, every day. When I'm in my car, and I'm in a normal car at ground level, I don't have a 4x4, I don't have a station wagon or a truck or anything like that, I come to an intersection.
01:33:13
Speaker 2: Oh, I know what you're saying.
01:33:14
Speaker 8: And I'm getting ready to turn left or right.
01:33:16
Speaker 2: I know what you're saying.
01:33:17
Speaker 8: Suddenly, a higher car... A larger car, a 4x4, comes.
01:33:22
Speaker 6: Up alongside me.
01:33:24
Speaker 2: A bigger car, not a higher car.
01:33:25
Speaker 6: Absolutely. It completely blocks my view.
01:33:27
Speaker 8: And I just think it's so bloody arrogant and rude. And I just think, hang on.
01:33:32
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
01:33:33
Speaker 8: I'm here, I'm trying to turn, suddenly you're blocking my view and I can't turn until you've gone.
01:33:38
Speaker 13: Yeah.
01:33:39
Speaker 8: Do you understand what I'm saying?
01:33:40
Speaker 2: Oh, look, Damien, can you not hear the... the noise of empathy i'm making i've been there it's all the time now because everyone's got big and then they go to the supermarket and there's two and you can't park between.
01:33:53
Speaker 8: Them exactly exactly here's my other little comment when you come from an on-ramp onto the motorway and you've got those traffic lights that take cars and let cars go a little a few at a time I'd like to ask what your opinion is of the signs that they have, because the signs say one vehicle per green per lane. So how many vehicles does that mean can be released each time they turn green? If you've got two lanes.
01:34:30
Speaker 2: One vehicle.
01:34:32
Speaker 8: Per green per lane.
01:34:33
Speaker 2: I think it's two, isn't it?
01:34:35
Speaker 6: That's what everybody does.
01:34:37
Speaker 8: However, you look at those on ramps, they always have two lots of lights, one above the other. And there's always two greens on each lane. My argument is there should be four cars released every time it turns green. Does that not make sense to you?
01:34:56
Speaker 2: Tell me that last sentence.
01:35:00
Speaker 8: So one vehicle per green per lane, and there's always two green lights on each lane.
01:35:06
Speaker 6: There's always two green.
01:35:08
Speaker 8: Lights or red lights, one above the other, on each lane. So why do they have two sets of lights on each lane, deliberately, one above the other, if they only want two cars to.
01:35:21
Speaker 6: Be released at a time?
01:35:22
Speaker 8: They're obviously insinuating it should be four cars being released each time the light changes.
01:35:31
Speaker 6: Don't you agree?
01:35:33
Speaker 2: I've got to find an image.
01:35:39
Speaker 8: Creating it in your mind, or are you looking it up?
01:35:42
Speaker 2: Well, where I live, we don't have motorways.
01:35:45
Speaker 4: Okay.
01:35:48
Speaker 6: So they're all over Auckland, coming.
01:35:50
Speaker 3: Onto the motorway.
01:35:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm familiar with it.
01:35:52
Speaker 11: Yeah.
01:35:53
Speaker 3: But....
01:35:55
Speaker 6: I just think everybody's got it wrong.
01:35:57
Speaker 8: I think it should be four vehicles, and every time the lights change and a guy in front of me takes off, I'll go with him.
01:36:04
Speaker 14: I always.
01:36:05
Speaker 8: I always go two meters.
01:36:06
Speaker 6: At a time.
01:36:07
Speaker 2: Hang on. I've got the map up. I'll go to Gilly's Ave because I know there's an on-ramp there.
01:36:11
Speaker 9: Okay.
01:36:13
Speaker 2: Are you in Auckland? Are you a.
01:36:15
Speaker 11: Jaffa?
01:36:16
Speaker 8: I'm a Wellingtonian, but I'm living in Auckland now, yeah.
01:36:20
Speaker 2: How's that working out for you?
01:36:24
Speaker 6: Wellington's always going to be my home.
01:36:26
Speaker 2: Now, I can't find Google Street View up there. I might be able to. Oh yes, here I go. I'm coming up the motorway on Google Street View. Oh no, there's not a merging light there actually. I've gone to the wrong.
01:36:47
Speaker 6: Wrong intersection.
01:36:48
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if it is the wrong intersection actually. Oh no, here I'm coming back. I just went too far. Yeah, I found the bit.
01:36:54
Speaker 17: OK.
01:36:55
Speaker 16: OK.
01:36:56
Speaker 6: They always have a double set.
01:36:58
Speaker 2: Of lights on each lane. Yes, there is. I'm seeing exactly one vehicle per green each lane. And I presume, why are there two lights on top of each other?
01:37:09
Speaker 8: Always two lights on top of each other.
01:37:11
Speaker 11: Why?
01:37:11
Speaker 6: And it's obviously deliberately done.
01:37:13
Speaker 2: Is it so you can see from further behind?
01:37:16
Speaker 15: Yeah.
01:37:17
Speaker 8: Well, no, I don't think it's that at all, because otherwise they'd be much higher. They're always one above the other.
01:37:23
Speaker 2: But otherwise, why would you just do one light and say two vehicles per green? It's an extremely good point.
01:37:32
Speaker 8: Because then you'd have four vehicles on each lane taking off. That wouldn't make sense. If you had two vehicles per green per lane, you'd have four vehicles going each lane every time it changed colour.
01:37:46
Speaker 6: It's one vehicle.
01:37:47
Speaker 8: Per green, per lane. And there's always two greens for each lane.
01:37:53
Speaker 2: I'm looking at Gillies Ave now. One vehicle per green each lane. And there's two reds on top of each other.
01:38:02
Speaker 13: Yeah.
01:38:04
Speaker 8: So why do they do that unless they're intending for two cars to go every time per lane?
01:38:10
Speaker 6: And I just think people are not reading it.
01:38:12
Speaker 2: Can you answer it?
01:38:14
Speaker 8: No, I don't know the answer to it, but I deliberately will always go when the car in front of me goes, and I'm just waiting for a cop to stop me.
01:38:21
Speaker 6: I'd love a cop to stop me and say, hey, you've broken the rules.
01:38:26
Speaker 2: You sound like a professional driver.
01:38:29
Speaker 26: I am.
01:38:32
Speaker 2: One vehicle per green each lane.
01:38:34
Speaker 11: Yep.
01:38:38
Speaker 6: And there's two greens on each lane.
01:38:40
Speaker 2: It's a shame it's not a very good shot because it's got.
01:38:45
Speaker 2: I'm going to put this on.
01:38:48
Speaker 3: Facebook.
01:38:49
Speaker 2: It's a shame it's not a very good light because when the Google Maps car is there.
01:38:56
Speaker 2: It's got the light coming into it. But look, I really appreciate what you've done there. I will try and jolly up some controversy with that one because that seems weird, doesn't it?
01:39:05
Speaker 8: I've always thought that everybody's got it wrong and nobody reads the actual sign. It's like if you read the sign, it's like doing exams at school. You have to read the instructions.
01:39:15
Speaker 2: Well, that's what you want to spend the first 10 minutes doing.
01:39:17
Speaker 6: Reading the instructions.
01:39:19
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:39:21
Speaker 6: Anyway, nice to talk.
01:39:23
Speaker 2: Lovely, Damien. Thank you so much. Could someone answer, Damien, please? I think he makes good points. I'll try and get that on Facebook too. Rosalie, I haven't done that yet. Rosalie, it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.
01:39:32
Speaker 24: Oh, good evening, Marcus. I'm just going on about that guy that you just spoke to. It speaks for itself, doesn't it? He said one light, one green light per vehicle per lane. Well, if there's two green lights, does that not mean that two cars going because there's two green lights.
01:39:54
Speaker 2: Why would you do it in such a confusing way though?
01:39:56
Speaker 12: I don't know.
01:39:57
Speaker 24: But that's what I would take it as anyway. There's two green lights there and he said, well, it should be two cars going.
01:40:06
Speaker 12: Well, when it.
01:40:07
Speaker 24: Says one car per green light and there's two lights there, surely that means two cars can go per lane.
01:40:15
Speaker 2: But that's not what anyone does. They all go one at a time.
01:40:19
Speaker 24: Oh, gosh, if I was there, I'd be going two at a time then.
01:40:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's why he's made quite an interesting point, because no one's ever thought of it, I don't think.
01:40:26
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:40:27
Speaker 2: I've never heard of it anyway.
01:40:28
Speaker 24: We don't have that in Dunedin, as you don't in Invercargill, but yeah.
01:40:35
Speaker 2: At least you have a... No, but it sounds like you've... What I liked about you is you didn't understand what he talked about, but you've rung up. That's what I love.
01:40:43
Speaker 13: Thank you.
01:40:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I love that, because good on you, because, I mean, it does seem daft.
01:40:47
Speaker 4: It does, of course it does.
01:40:49
Speaker 2: Hopefully we'll get some of the Aucklanders to say what they want to think about. I appreciate that. Thank you. Get in touch. 0800 80 1080 and 9292 to text. I'm just trying to find my street view. Back at you. Back in a bit. Seven away from 11. I'm just trying to print this out. Sorry, it's confusing times. I'll see what the texters are saying. Quite a strong reaction. to both Sadie, the cleaning lady, and Damien. Yeah, so I'll get up to this. Why are there two lights? I can't work out. Someone says it's a case of light blows, but that's not the situation with traffic lights. But yeah, I've got no idea about that. If you want to talk about that, that's probably important, if you can. 0800 80 1080 and 9292 to text. So that's the plan, if you want to come through and talk about that or anything else. yeah be in touch here till midnight tonight I'll try it's very hard to find a screenshot I've found it on my computer but can't find it on my phone but now I've taken a photo with my phone of the computer which is not very good and now I can't do it in landscape anyway get in touch if you want to talk Marcus till 12 I am struggling I am struggling with this but yes anything else you want to talk about that would be the plan tonight 0800 80 1080 and 9292 to text the daily M's are on And I'll keep you updated with that. So, yes, that's what we've got. But also to about 40 years since John Farnham, since his Whispering Jack album that was such a reinvention for him and such a huge album, the third biggest selling album ever in Australia. After Meatloaf, Bad Outta Hell and Shania Twain, I think it was Shania Twain album. I don't think it's important.
01:42:40
Speaker 6: So, yes.
01:42:41
Speaker 2: Anyway, be in touch if you want to. My name is Marcus. 0800 80 1080 and 9292 to text if you want to come through. Anything else you want to mention? Get in touch. Oh, 880, 1080. Let me think what else I can tell you. There's emails coming through too, by the way. And we'll get ready for the hour of power. But he's quite right. It does say one vehicle per green, but there's one camera on top of the other. So I know he's probably splitting his, but I can't work out why they would have two cameras. So text through if you can, or otherwise I'll try and get this up on Facebook also tonight. So be in touch if you want to talk, as I've said. Tim Beveridge along from midnight tonight on this Wednesday hump day. Hope your daylight savings is going well for you. Hope your school holidays is going well for you. So get in touch if you do want to talk. So yeah, here until midnight. And if there's something different you want to mention, that's the plan. Oh, there's Mark Nawata-Nwaze. He'll get something. He should get the Dallium. He's so good.
01:43:41
Speaker 26: Anyway.
01:43:42
Speaker 2: Back after the news, look forward to talking to you. As I say, 0800 80 1080 and 9292 to text. So until 12, good evening. All the numbers 0800 80 1080. Brian, it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.
01:43:54
Speaker 26: Hi, Marcus. First time caller, long time listener.
01:44:00
Speaker 2: Nice to hear from you, Brian.
01:44:02
Speaker 26: Just ringing about the motorways and the on-ramp lights.
01:44:06
Speaker 12: Just a thought, but.
01:44:08
Speaker 26: Perhaps when the motorway is really, really busy, they only operate one.
01:44:13
Speaker 17: Light on each lane, and.
01:44:16
Speaker 26: When it is not so busy but still needs.
01:44:18
Speaker 10: Some control, they operate two lights on each lane.
01:44:22
Speaker 2: Okay, wow. And I can't see any evidence of that, and I think, yeah.
01:44:28
Speaker 26: I don't live in Auckland, so I can't comment personally about what actually happens, but That's the only reason I can think of why you'd have two lights each lane.
01:44:37
Speaker 2: I can't work it out.
01:44:38
Speaker 13: Yeah.
01:44:39
Speaker 2: And I'd never thought about it.
01:44:42
Speaker 26: No, well, I've only ever used them coming from the airport onto the motorway south.
01:44:47
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay.
01:44:48
Speaker 26: And I've never noticed there was two there, to be honest.
01:44:51
Speaker 2: No, I've never noticed either. I just sort of think, oh, there's a couple of lights to see them. So, yeah, okay. I'll find out some more information. But I appreciate you coming through, Brian. Thank you. 0800 80 1080.
01:44:59
Speaker 13: Yeah.
01:45:03
Speaker 2: Get in touch. Rajiv, it's Marcus.
01:45:05
Speaker 3: Welcome.
01:45:06
Speaker 15: Hey, mate.
01:45:07
Speaker 3: Can you hear me clearly?
01:45:08
Speaker 21: Yes.
01:45:08
Speaker 19: I'm driving and you're on my Bluetooth.
01:45:11
Speaker 13: Sure.
01:45:11
Speaker 12: Yep. Yep.
01:45:13
Speaker 19: I'm a professional truck driver.
01:45:17
Speaker 23: I just want to share.
01:45:18
Speaker 19: I do not live in Auckland, but I do travel in Auckland a lot, and especially on motorway. When my truck is loaded, my gross weight is around 44 tonnes. which I'm carrying and you know because it's a big vehicle so we need to maintain a safe distance to the following vehicle that the vehicle you're following in and what happened is people they just think that I'm leaving a space for them so they can merge into my lane and they always keep merging in but it's a safe distance I've been following this other vehicle and one day I don't know Why people do not understand, it's so hard to break a big vehicle, you know, on a motorway, and people still keep merging in my lane.
01:46:12
Speaker 3: I don't know if you get it.
01:46:14
Speaker 18: What I'm saying.
01:46:15
Speaker 2: So people are merging wrongly.
01:46:17
Speaker 23: Yes, because they think that I'm leaving a space in front of me for them, but it's because I'm keeping a safe distance because I drive a big vehicle.
01:46:28
Speaker 2: I can understand.
01:46:29
Speaker 12: You can't?
01:46:31
Speaker 2: I'll see what people respond to with that, Rajiv. Thank you. John, it's Marcus. Good evening.
01:46:35
Speaker 27: Is that me?
01:46:37
Speaker 6: Yes, John, welcome.
01:46:38
Speaker 15: Yeah, welcome.
01:46:39
Speaker 27: I'm from Christchurch. And I wonder if you'd ever heard of the singer Marcelito Pomoy when you mentioned Celine Dion singing earlier.
01:46:49
Speaker 2: No, I haven't. Well, I can't remember recognising that name.
01:46:53
Speaker 27: Well, I'll tell you, he came from the Philippines and his dad was put in jail wrongly and he was left on the street. His mum left him and for 10 years he survived there and learnt how to sing with no training. But he can sing Celine Dion like the power of love. You would think it was her. And it was much better than she sings it in the same voice and pitch and everything. But he also did the prayer as a duet, which was sung by her and by Andrea Batali, the blind chap. And you would not believe if you didn't see it that it was not a duet of two people.
01:47:31
Speaker 2: Now, how have you come across him?
01:47:34
Speaker 27: I came across it just on YouTube by sheer luck. I've been a bit of a singer, and I had a four-octave range before I got cancer, which I've survived anyway. But the way he can get that type of range, but he can change it instantly. Within a word, he can change from the female voice to the male voice and switch back and forth.
01:47:53
Speaker 3: Wow.
01:47:54
Speaker 2: You better tell us his name in case people want to Google him.
01:47:57
Speaker 27: Marcelito Pomoy, P-O-M-O-Y.
01:48:00
Speaker 7: Okay.
01:48:02
Speaker 27: Actually, recently, they've got a recent one. He actually sang... to Trump, unfortunately, in a special guest performance, and he sang to the.
01:48:13
Speaker 6: He what, sorry?
01:48:15
Speaker 27: He got to sing to Mr. Trump around New Year or whatever.
01:48:20
Speaker 2: It seems to me the Filipinos are good at that, because there's also the other singer who's a Filipino guy who was called Arnel Pineda, right?
01:48:29
Speaker 3: That's right, yep.
01:48:30
Speaker 6: You heard of him?
01:48:31
Speaker 13: Yes.
01:48:31
Speaker 2: Because he became the lead singer of Journey. They were looking to replace their vocalist. They found him on YouTube.
01:48:37
Speaker 3: Yep.
01:48:38
Speaker 2: And he was homeless as a teenager.
01:48:40
Speaker 27: Yeah, and they do a lot of karaoke and stuff there. They learn from doing that. It's almost like a party thing. They'll all sing karaoke.
01:48:49
Speaker 2: Has he put out albums, this guy you're talking about?
01:48:52
Speaker 27: Some recent ones he has, and duetting. And he's done some where in more modern, finally in modern type of thing, where he sings one part and sings the other, and they mix them in a proper way so he can sing duet literally at the same time.
01:49:08
Speaker 26: Yeah, okay.
01:49:09
Speaker 2: I'll have a listen. I appreciate you coming through, John. Thank you. And good luck with everything. 12 past 11. The lights, these lights are only on motorway on ramps, which are always two lane. The rule is one car per light per lane. So always two cars per light. Well, why are there four lights? That's what Damien is saying. There's four lights, not two. Because there's two lights on top of each other. He's got a very good point. Someone said there are two lights so truck drivers can see the top light in other vehicles, the lower one. You stop so close to them you need to cater for different height vehicles. He was just another arrogant and patient Wellingtonian. He needs to understand the sign. Wow, that's a good point. I wish I'd thought of that. But legitimately, he's right. It's very clear on the Waka Katai website on the ramp signalling page that this guy is wrong. Interesting how he thinks everyone else is wrong but him. I just think he's to the letter of the law. Mark, as a traffic conversation, some of your best walk with corner Gs. That is as messy as this election. Anyway, the call, that call from Damien was awesome. I cannot believe I did not notice the screen light thing myself. He's so right. I just looked on Apple Street View also, and he's so right. The double lights can now be for people further back to see. The double lights cannot be for people further back to see. Why do they need to see if one or two cars are allowed to go? Yes, because you only want to see it if you're first up. From the NZTA website, and I quote, the placement of multiple lights at on-ramps is to assist with sight lines from vehicles further back in the queue in the same way it has done at signalised road intersections. Okay, there we go. That's from the NZTA website. Case closed. Should have read a bit of text. That's fine. Thank you. Marcus, there's nothing wrong with your intro song. Quite like it, but do whatever suits. Better than Shady the Cleaning Lady or Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter. You're out of my hands. So if it's on the NZTA website, we've got that one answered and solved. I hope Damien's still listening. Marcus, I can't believe no mention of opening day for fishing, yet duck shooting seems to get heaps. Fishing opening has heaps of additional habits too. Surprisingly, has it come up tonight? What season's open? I've got no idea about fishing seasons. If you want to talk to me about that, that would be good. Get in touch. 0800 80 1080. So there we go. Funny text to Roman who ever sent that through. Anyway, back at you, 15 past 11. Yeah, don't worry about it.
01:51:29
Speaker 3: That's fine.
01:51:31
Speaker 2: The Dell Ems are currently on also, too. That's the Rugby League big awards after the NRL, although it doesn't look to be great coverage, so I'll save you from that. Here till midnight, my name is Marcus. Good evening. The number is 0800 80 80 and 9292 to text if you want to come through. Oh, what a night. Johnny Farnham and if you could change one traffic rule, what would you change? Four new rules coming tomorrow. Adults and children can bike on the footpath, but it's got to be adults with children. You need a 12-year-old or under. Also, scooters can go on bikeways. Also, you've got to stop and give way to a bus ahead of you. Also, If you're passing a horse or a donkey or a bike, you have to give them 1.5 meters, and that's what I need to tell you now. We're also talking about Johnny Farnham because The Voice, or the album that's on, which was, let me think what I've got to say here. The album's called Whispering Jack. The hit was The Voice. That came out 40 years ago this month. And he had a fairly storied career. Well, storied, I don't think that's the right word. He had a one-hit wonder with Sadie the Cleaning Lady, then moved to Australia into TV and acting. Then for a couple of years was the singer for Little River Band, all good. And then, in fact, what happened was he kind of ended up with nothing, late 30s. Borrowed some money, auditioned for songs, listened to 2,000 songs and decided to do The Voice.
01:53:11
Speaker 12: Wow.
01:53:13
Speaker 2: And a couple of others, and became a huge, huge, huge star, and it was a huge album. So there is that. That's what we are talking about tonight. So if there's something you want to mention, get in touch, 0800 80 80 and 9292 to text. So there we go. Also, I think they're probably about to announce the Dallium winner in the NRL. That's probably the one that Nathan Cleary, I think, probably won. is likely to win, although I presume he will not be there. I don't know if he's still in hospital or what. I haven't got the information on that. Marcus Damon here again. If the NZTAE means only one vehicle to be released per lane when the lights change, they need to change the signage. It's not that it's ambiguous. It's simply giving a totally different instruction. Someone said, perhaps it should read per light change to clarify. Quite often, people just ignore it anyway. Thank you. Anyway, if you want to talk on air, all the lines are free. Free, available, I guess is more what I wanted to say. So yeah, you come through. Yes, the NZTA website. Well done the people that found that. So, yeah, 0800 8080 and 929 text mark is still 12. Yeah, the placement of multiple lights at the on-ramp is to assist with sightlines and vehicles further back in the queue. So, isn't Google amazing?
01:54:25
Speaker 3: Is it?
01:54:25
Speaker 2: Anyway, 22 past 11. Now, the other thing, I had something else we'd talk about tonight.
01:54:29
Speaker 3: Oh, the election.
01:54:31
Speaker 2: I asked this earlier and there was no responders. So the question I'm asking you quite simply, I don't know how to phrase this in such an interesting way that you would call, do we feel that people are interested in the election yet, or do we feel that it's too soon to be elected? Because what I've noticed is that there's a lot of debates on, but I don't think people are really engaged with the election process yet. So you might want to talk about that too tonight too. So yeah, all the options are on or something entirely different, but yeah, get in touch. All the lines are free, 0800 80 or available. I weigh 180. I hope you're coping well with daylight savings too, by the way. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, daylight savings. It's certainly not mine. I hate it. I feel more opinionated every year with that. There was something else I was about to say that was interesting. Now I've forgotten entirely what it was.
01:55:17
Speaker 22: Oh, yes.
01:55:18
Speaker 2: So there's been a mid-air situation. It's a fly-Dubai flight. Now this will be a big news story tomorrow, I believe. Deals news is sketchy. I'm just trying to think about the latest news story I can find about this from a credible website. Yeah, so this is a big story. You heard a bit of it in the news. I'm just trying to look for the details. It's quite complicated, this stage. They're talking about an incident. One woman said her daughter, who was among the passengers on the flight, had told her that she heard screaming and then a man holding a knife had forced one of the pilots onto the floor and there was blood everywhere. Israeli media published a photo purportedly taken from inside the plane, which appeared to show a passenger's blood-soaked shirt. Reuters could not immediately verify the image. Israeli Prime Minister said the situation was under control and all measures would be taken to bring the Israeli passengers back to Israel. Now, initial reports were it was pilot on pilot. Is that right, or is that now details different? It was one pilot stabbed the other pilot. So it seems at this stage it's one pilot stabbed has tried to attack the other pilot. Um, yeah, pilot stabbed his co-pilot and attempted to hijack the aircraft with over a hundred Israeli passengers. Israelis on board helped subdue the would-be hijacker. So yeah, fly Dubai commercial passenger aircraft flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv diverted to a land in Saudi on Wednesday after what Israeli officials said was attempted hijacking by one of the pilots that led to a mid-air altercation. Um, The growing assessment among the Israeli security establishment is that the incident was intended as an act of terror. During the altercation, the aircraft plunged 4,000 meters in altitude. So that's the situation there. That's sort of just come out in the last hour or two. So that's the story there. Anyway, back at you. Oh, by the way, 0800 80 30 and 9292 to text if you want to come through. Oh, rookie of the year, Ethan Sanders. The other question I was asking you was about the elections. Do you feel you're engaged with the process yet or does it feel too early? I don't know what you want to say about that. Anyway, 26 past 11. Let's just call it past 11, people. That's almost what time it is.
01:57:35
Speaker 6: Welcome.
01:57:35
Speaker 2: How are you? Get in touch if you want to be on air. If you've been trying to get through now, it's a good time. All the lines are free. We'd love to hear from you. So get in touch if you want to talk. Johnny Farnham, the traffic rule you would change I'm about to drive home through traffic lights and no cars, which drives me crazy. So there is that. And also, when do you think people will get excited about the election or do you think that they won't? Does this election feel different? Do you feel that people are disengaged or do we get more engaged as time goes on or do we become disengaged because it's a government that's only been in one term and people see those as being always a bit of a cakewalk so if you want to talk mention say something about that i'd like to hear from you there's something entirely random or different you want to report on also good for me half past 11 if you want to be a part of it but yeah if there's other stuff that you've got to mention too But by the way, that's the big story too. Warplanes were scrambled to that.
01:58:40
Speaker 26: Attack.
01:58:41
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, lottos changed too. I wonder how that's worked for you with extra balls. And Dunedin, Forsyth Bar, what a dog that is. 939 days since the last concert, but the new stadium boss says an announcement is imminent. That'll be 660, won't it? But that's, yeah, what a waste of money that place has been. Pink was there in 2024. So they're saying a major concert would be announced within weeks. That concert, a South Island exclusive, would appeal to a younger demographic, particularly the nearby student market. Be 660, won't it? That'd be my take on that one. Anyway, get in touch, 0800 80 80 and 9292 to text if you want to be a part of it. The other thing that I was thinking of just quickly, let me just Google this up, this information. Oh, I'm a bit ahead of myself, but I was just looking at the dates. I was looking at the dates from when COVID appeared. I thought it was October 2019, but it was mid-November 2019. It's interesting from the timeline, it's almost seven years since COVID first appeared.
01:59:59
Speaker 7: Extraordinary.
01:59:59
Speaker 2: It's not a long way off a decade. See, it emerged from that wet market with the pangolin mid-November 2019, and now we're in 2026. So, yep. It's a long time, eh? I don't know if the Wuhan wet market is still a thing. Most famous wet market in the world there, anyway. I'm voting for Labour. I voted for National last time, never ever again. Someone said that. Thank you. So, what's that? Oh, and the wet market's pretty close.
02:00:30
Speaker 4: It's 2020.
02:00:30
Speaker 2: So there we go. I think they kind of obliterated it. They're moving quite quickly with Wuhan and those sorts of things. 27 away from 12 markets till midnight. 0800 8080 and 9292 to text. Look forward to your calls. It's 25 to 12. Hello, Marcus. Marcus, welcome.
02:00:51
Speaker 25: Hello, Marcus. A bit of info on John Farnham for you. He didn't just suddenly choose the You're the Voice song. He wrote to the writer of it. A group of people wrote it, but the main person was Chris Thompson, who was singing for Man for Man at the time, and he was the lead on Blinded by the Light, which you'll probably remember. And he wrote the song with these other people, You're the Voice, back in 2000, way back anyway.
02:01:26
Speaker 6: Oh, sorry, before that.
02:01:28
Speaker 25: But it was a part of a group of songs that Johnny Farnham was looking at, and he actually wrote to Chris Thompson and said, can I record your songs? And Chris Thompson looked at it and looked at the fact that he'd saved the cleaning lady and decided that he wasn't the right person for the song. But eventually he got approval for it and he went and made a big hit of it. But the key thing about Chris Thompson, he was born in the UK, but he was raised in Hamilton. So there's a Kiwi there who wrote You're the Voice. So the Aussies like to call it their song, but I'd like to think it's really ours.
02:02:11
Speaker 2: Did Manfred Mann record it?
02:02:14
Speaker 3: No, they didn't, no.
02:02:16
Speaker 2: Do you know why?
02:02:16
Speaker 25: No, I don't know why. I think he wrote it by him. Well, he wrote it as part of the group with Andy Quinter and Maggie Ryder, I've read it. It was a response to an anti-nuclear demonstration that Chris Thompson had been to. So he sat down and wrote the song. And there is a version if you go onto YouTube or somewhere, you'll find the original Chris Thompson version of it. But it was obviously John Farnham who picked it up and made it famous. But anyway, Chris Thompson comes back to New Zealand from time to time. So he's still got friends and family.
02:02:57
Speaker 2: He wasn't just here for a year or two. He was here for a significant part of his life, was he?
02:03:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was.
02:03:04
Speaker 25: He grew up here and then he moved to Australia and then to England and joined Manfred Mann. So he did pretty well.
02:03:13
Speaker 2: It's not a band I've known a huge amount, Manfred. I mean, it's always a strange kind of a name for a band, weren't they? I mean, Manfred's man, yeah.
02:03:20
Speaker 25: Manfred Mann was a real person from memory.
02:03:23
Speaker 19: Okay.
02:03:24
Speaker 25: And he was part of the band at.
02:03:27
Speaker 8: Different times, but.
02:03:30
Speaker 25: As far as I know, Chris Thompson's still alive and well and pops back to New Zealand from.
02:03:34
Speaker 3: Time to time.
02:03:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems to be what the Googlers... So Chris Thompson would have become very, very wealthy from the other voice.
02:03:42
Speaker 25: Ah, yes, he would have. Well, he gave the writing credits to three or four others as well, but he was in charge of the song, was the main writer, so it was something he had to decide whether to give it to... to Farnham or not. He originally said no, but he must have been.
02:03:58
Speaker 9: Talked out of it or something.
02:04:00
Speaker 25: Oh, yeah, he'll get writing credits for the rest of his life.
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Speaker 2: You know, you obviously know a bit about music. What was the key for Farnham making that song such the hit that it was?
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Speaker 7: I don't know.
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Speaker 25: I think it was just the style he put together, and as you know, he had the bagpipes and all the rest of it made a huge production, and it just took off.
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Speaker 2: It's one of those feel-good songs. It's uplifting, isn't it, when you hear the bagpipes and everything coming? There's something about it that makes it very special, and maybe he could see that in it that other people couldn't see it.
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Speaker 9: Oh, exactly.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's huge.
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Speaker 25: You get a group of people together, everybody sings the chorus and everything, don't they?
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Speaker 3: It's fantastic.
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Speaker 2: Lovely to talk to you, Mark. Thank you so much for that. 21 away from 12, Johnny Farnham, The Voice, 40 years since that album came out. We're also talking... So... Help me out with the election. No one seems to want to talk about it. Is that because you're not caring? Are we too early for that sort of stuff? I'll just put that out there because I am kind of interested. Or we're at that such stage with social media and everyone that's so polarized, everyone's turned off. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, is that the situation that we just, I don't know. Look, I'm just asking because that's kind of what we're about in this industry. We try and work out where people are at in themselves. Even TV debates that no one's, I don't know if they rate that well. Um, there are very graphic shots now on the newspapers of this knife attack between two pilots that has just happened. So that's becoming the, uh, later, you know, I presume, I presume pilots go through air traffic control. So I don't know how a pilot would have taken a knife onto a plane, but that's something else to be worried about. I don't know what we're supposed to do about that. Not fly, I guess, but get in touch 19 to 12, if you want to talk and, um, If there's other stuff you've got that you want to go on about, then that would be lovely to hear from you. 0800 80 1080 and 9292 to text if you want to be a part of it. He gets landed in Saudi Arabia after a fight between pilots. So that is that. And I'm just looking if there's any other news for you people.
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Speaker 3: So, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Tokyo succumbs to rain fatigue after a record 35 consecutive days of showers. Oh, I think in South that we know how that feels, although today seemed to be good. And everywhere you went, you could always just talk about the weather. It was all anyone was talking about because it was a sunny day after months of rain. Amazing how quickly the whole countryside dries out. Well, kind of dries out, but yeah. Get in touch, Marcus, till 12, 18 to midnight. You want to come through with the final flow? We'd love to hear from you back in a bit.
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