A lathe on the bus (25 June 2025)

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I'd be welcome a Marcus here till twelve o'clock. App you're good, Hope you're better by twelve, Hope you're fantastic by twelve. Just quickly on the news, I was quite heartened to hear that central government and Ate of them had stepped and enforced intensification around the rail stations on the Auckland Loop. That's great. What you want when you got trains is you want people to live nearby them,

Anyway?

Oh?

Eight hundred and eighty Tad He keep those texts coming through too. Camper van holidays. If you've had a camera van to go and see the country, how did that work out for you? Marcus? Longtime? Listen. The first time I've heard you say something positive about the current government. Well, I need a cup of ten and app Well, I'll tell you what's not much positive to say, but this is really good what they've done with the intensification. And I was always very quick to commend Stephen Joyce when

Welcome, Hi Marcus, how are you well?

Good?

Kathy? Really good? Thank you, that's good.

I'm just calling about the camper bands as well, like the Maori camper banks. You know, I often go to Hamner and start the camping ground there in a caravan, and you see all these amazing flash Maori campervans, and like the night between, it's three hundred and four hundred or two hundred to four hundred a day to higher and then they have to spend another seventy to eighty

So I don't get it doesn't stack off.

It must just seem a good idea. They must think, oh, we've got everything there, it's going to be easy. But it sounds like it sounds like a terrible holiday for expense.

I believe so, and unleash you are going to stay somewhere remote, which I don't believe most of them do. It's double the price of just having a car, hiring a car and staying in a hotel or a hotel from place to place, so they're doubling me price in my eyes anyway.

Because these people coming across Australia. I think they're family are for they're paying four fifty a day for it. That might be Australian money as well.

Well.

That's expensive, yes, yes, plus seventy dollars at the top town I'm sorry, top teen holiday part.

On top of that.

Plus you've probably got fuel and you've probably got kilometer as well.

Yes, yes, so that's five hundred dollars a day. We knew could get a car, say, hire a car and then start at motel for say two hundred dollars a night, and then maybe you know, it's doubled. And to me, I thought that was crazy for a very long time. But only time it wasn't crazy was through COVID and in christ Church. Now we were hiring the bands for next to nothing, and everybody in christ Ch well a lot of people in christ Church took advantage of it and got them for next to nothing and just for

That, but I was mad.

I think, Kathy, you can also get relocate ones if you're a key where you can redeliver them and spend a week fair thing around that seems I don't know what the website some of the publicly tell us, but that seems like quite a good way to do it as well.

Yes, absolutely, yes, I have seen that as well. That relicating, But other than that, they just seem like an extravagant waste money to me. I would the holiday like that.

You know, good old, good old Hamn and La always god yeah, h to.

Their own, but I would. I'm too stingy. I'd just rather, you know, go mot hell and have a higher car and do it that way.

But you know, like to talk. Thanks Kathy twenty three past eight. Experience with camera van holidays people, That's what I'm curious to hear about the expense of it. Have you hired a camera van? How did it work out with you? Wasn't exorbitant? I guess it's many Aussies or people from China? Am I right?

Think?

I might be eight hundred and eighty ten eighty And what about getting guests from China? From Iran to China must go by Raila. They don't need the straits of all moves, which I think will be saying a lot in the next couple of weeks. The straight to of Hormuz oh eight one hundred and eighty taty nine to nine to sixty. You ought to get Marcus till twelve looking forward to what you've got to say. Also two of that, that singer that died, you might have some

Yeah?

Using it two weeks a year. I'm sure there's also Airbnb for camper vans. I don't if they work out well or not. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine to text Brad Marcus, welcome here you go, good brand, Thank you.

Yeah.

Last year, at this time last year, we did a teen eight year camper van trip around Western Australia across of fifteen hundred bucks to high for the whole.

That's reasonable. That's really that's reasonable. That's really reasonable. Was that in the winter?

Yeah?

Yeah, So we kind of do one here north this year and it was going to be six k for a smaller campa van than we hired in Australia. So it wasdiculous.

Six thousand for how long? Brad? That's six hundred a day. That's crazy, isn't it.

It was ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. Yeah, So we ended up taking the horseboat, putting the bead on the horseboat and just slept in that.

Did they say why? Did they say why the price was so exorbitant peak peak time? Well sounds sounds that I need to invest in a few more camera vans. Then if that's what the peak, it's probably in their interest to not have many, because then they can charge more a yeah, exactly.

My parents have bought their own one, and I said to them, just coming out when you're not using it the money back.

Well, I'm sure that's a service too, And I don't know how many days a year you'd want to use one that would make it worthwhile if your own one. I'm sure a lot of people have been doing those equations themselves, wouldn't There the appearance use a lot.

As much as the Actually you go to a caravan rather than having the camper, but it's better of an extra class seventy plans. They are getting to the point where they've got to start thinking what's.

Financially why does the caravan make more sense to the campa van though.

Uh, registration's only thirty much a year. It's essentially a trailer. And I've got two vehicles in any way, and neither of them will self The vehicle will go to one because a.

Stubborn Yeah, and I guess if you've got a campavean, you've got to if you've got a campra van, you've got to register it and ensure it and warrant it. That's three things, isn't it.

And all that sort of stuff.

Have you gonna do maleage A little desera do maleage A ye.

Yeah, yeah yeah, So it does get expensive.

When you think about it that it's less glossy. Okay, bread, thank you, we're talking kemper Vans goes. Have you hired one? Have you bought one?

Watch?

How did the number stack up? You'll have done this. You'll be thinking about this people. Did you watch the footage of ac DC Goodness? May that looks sad, isn't it? How old are they? I watched the video terrible. The fans are saying, give up, you're too old anyway, this video gone about the foot about the concert and him in the shorts Angus looks terrible, and Brian Johnson's singing but you can't hear him because his voice is gone. But you know, Angus young and in the shorts looks

Then?

Has he done anything recently? Marcus? Cambravans have rein spensive and summer currently would not pay much more one hundred nights so to highest, so probably only three months over New Year's at the top rates. So there are websites people can go to. You might want to ring and tell me about that. Also, also chucking a back topic of Cambra Vans is not your gem. You want to talk about ac DC. When did I see them? I saw them when Keanu Reeves was supporting them? Was it

Gee.

ACDC played Auckland's nineteen ninety two I think it was Marcus and it was a memorable year for me because Brian Johnson wore the t the band T shirt of the legendary Holache band on stage.

Wow.

Nick Brown was our singer at that stage, and he was doing a lot of the promotional stuff for Haldache and Brian Johnson saw the T shirt on him and said can I Can I have it and wear it? That was given him the band. I shouldn't really use that, No, probably not. Yeah, that was a thing that made that show memorable.

I must have seen them in ninety six. They must have played motes, but that would be right, would it ball break?

Well?

Yeah?

I think they would have been back once every sort of four or five years around about that time. But that brand of high energy recommend the singing that Brian Johnson sort of used to do and probably can't do anymore. It's not surprising, really, it's pretty tough act to continue.

And did you look at the footage?

Yeah?

I did, And unlike you with the shorts, I mean.

It was funny in the begincause it's not even a school board uniform anymore. It's just like a short to the blouse.

It is.

Yea, yeah, it's inappropriate for a person in his age.

Undignified, Thanks Tony twenty act to nine, eight, one hundred and eighty ten eighty nineteen nine. Looking forward to what you want to say, ac DC. Camp E ends brilliant. Trump is flapping his drawl right now on Al Jazeerah. Of gosh, we've got people monitoring every he's on CNN as well. He looks unwell because he's got the white where he wears his goggles with his tan, so he's got that white round the eyes. It's kind of disconcerting. You notice that freaks me out? Marcus till twelve, What

Yeah, hello.

I want to talk about caravents and camp.

Events, right, and you've run the right show, Mark.

I've done four trips to Australia and bought the I've done two camp events over there, and I've bought two caravans over there, done the trip and then sold them and then come home back to New Zealand. And I've done the same thing in Canada.

You're a brave man.

Well, it's so easy to buy it. Well, in both countries. It's so easy to buy a caravan or a camp event and then sell it before you come back. It's a piece of cake. Well it has been for me. Anyway.

Did you buy the money? Did you buy them?

You?

No?

Secondhand? And I sold them and I actually made money on each one of them.

Got questions for you? How many years old were they when you bought them?

They were well used. Oh they'd probably be at least twenty years old. Oh wow, okay, and they came with fully equipped with all the gear, so you know, the sauces and knives and forks and things, Linen and stuff was all in them. And yeah, it was easy. But I have to admit I prefer the caravan over the campra van. It's just a small room in the caravan and the carse It's easy to buy a car in Australia, but you just got to buy the right vehicle to

Where would you where would you buy and sell caravans and camper in Australia. Are there specific places you go and sell them? Or you just do it in the privately? Or how would you do it?

Well, you'd probably do it on the net now, and I did it on the They had they had a weekly publication sort of like a newspaper that sold everything in.

Like the like the trade Exchange, Yeah, like the trade in Exchange.

Yeah, I can't quite remember what it called it. And just put it in there. And gosh, the phone, I remember figured the last vehicle I sold. The phone rang at court at the seven in the morning. The guy was there at seven o'clock and he was gone at seven fifteen with the car and I had a big pile of money.

He had a caravan with no car.

Well, no, I sold the caravan before the car.

Oh okay, caravan. That's the timewise. Otherwise you'd be left with nowhere to stay. Would you get that? It's sort of your home, isn't it.

Yeah, No, I sold the I sold the caravan in Brisbane and I had friends in Sydney because the problem was when I bought the caravan, which which was in New South Wales, it had Queensland plates. Oh yeah, but that wasn't a problem for me because of that. But I bought the car in that New South Wales plates. So when we came background, we went straight up to Brisbane and I offloaded the caravan there and that was that was so easy because we had about forty people

We're lucky. Were you're smart and you know what's happening.

Well, I had a fair idea.

Yeah, are idea?

I know.

Are you a mechanical type person.

Yes I am, yes, yes, I am a mechanical engineer, electrical engineer.

Yeah, I'm sure that helps too. Hey, Mark for interesting. Thanks and I've got commercials. But nice to talk. Oh wait, eighty today carrot akbot cares and camera vans in ac DC. So not going be along before someone says a long way to the shop. That's what they always say, we talk about ac DC. But that's all right. I can handle that. Get in touch if your either of these

I dare I think Venus would be a wonderful romantic place through a wedding.

No, they don't want them there. Oh okay, but anyway, I hear what you're saying.

Yes, when I traveled around Europe with my friend, we hired from the Ford Motor Company and it was a special deal if you agree to buy a new Ford card car when you get home, and so super cheap, brand new off the floor, and so we just started traveling around Europe in it. It's one of those I don't know if you can get them now, those long station wagons are.

We talking about? Are we talking about the eighties.

Late seventies?

Goodness? And you had to buy a car new back in New Zealand, is that right? You could use one while you go around Europe.

Yeah, to break it in, they need people to hire them to break them in. And so we could sleep in the back.

Wow.

And so it was very cheap, was it apart from all? Yeah, with the food we had stacked up in here as well, it was a bit a bit difficult to fit two people. And amongst all the tins and dried.

Food, did you get robbed?

No?

No, zooming around Europe?

What was it?

What was the highlight?

Well, my friend was a bit of a risky driver. And you know those bridges that open in the middle.

Yes, it's like a lifting brice.

Yeah, we were going over, just about to go over it, and it started opening up and instead of waiting, she put her foot down and we assoomed over the gap and down the other side, and there was a build up of cars on the other side and we smashed into the back of it. Wow, it was terrifying. I thought I was going to die. Very risky driver, that won't I tell you.

See that sounds like quite the story says it. Okay, thanks very much for that. Seventeen to nine. Marty Marcus, well them.

Marcas going good.

Thank you, Mardy.

Hey, I don't like camper vans or caravans or tents, but they go camping. But what my big idea is is to have you seen slide on campus or the back of your ute. So you get you you find your double cab as the BT fifty, and you back it into your calf sheet or your hay barn, and then you.

Slide on a fiberglass thing like that fits on the I love that. I love those.

Slide on and then you can get one that when you found your spot, you can either like slide off and get your car, drill out and one on the legs and then take off again, or you just leave it on the back of the ute.

In the In the.

They have some of the top tops and some are quite minimalist.

And hang on, Mady, this is something from the seventies or is this a recent thing? You see at the field days they beg Yeah.

But the beauty of the whole idea is you don't need a warrant of fitness because it's just the tray on the back of you and you don't need you just need a shed to put it in when you're not using it.

Yeah, but I see a lot of people have those, have those Feldons, those tents you put on top of your car, but you can't get them off because they're too heavy, and now people are sitting in them. So I reckon, I reckon that might be a bit of a fail.

Yeah, I felt, and like they go, yeah, it's a problem. It's harder to take on it off because you need like a shack or a winch to pull it off, or about four four locks to give off the top of your roof. Yeah. Yeah, put other ones. I've got a conundrum from my Airbnb, so I've got three names. I've narrowed it down to three names. Falcons, Rest Falcons, crest Or, Falcon's Nests, Rest, the crest.

Or nest.

Because it looks over the roundabout where the falcon is.

Yes.

Yeah, and there's a TV program called Falcons Crest.

Yes, are only people of a certain age. I actually know what that means because I googled it because I don't know what it means.

But you're you're targeting, You're targeting Christian surfers. You probably want something from the scriptures, don't you.

Ah, yeah, that would, but that would be more towards Falcon's rest.

Okay, I've targeted.

I've asked my American mate from a question and something not and they say Falcon's nest because you're sort of overlooking the falcon and I could do some tricky things with big rocks from the volcano and that it looks like.

Do you want Search optimum Google Optimus search optimization because you want.

To I want it to look good online. Yes, I do want search optimizations.

So I'm worried that.

I'm going to take all three names is by the way, but I need just one the best name that people so I found hell so I can make is it textage?

Because you guys are rolling and the money, aren't you? With the white gold?

You need to do?

You need a homestay as well, but it will be.

Old workers cottage that we can't be bothered doing up. But the rules don't apply for Airbnb's. You know, your ventilation, your heating and all that stuff. So we've got an empty fan workers cottage and it's the Airbnb, but it's actually quite nice.

What don't you call it the manger?

A manger?

No?

No, I want to do something with the falcon Okay.

Old stuff. It was the old style. You call it the manger. Then you can actually serve two masters. But had a stable, Yeah, that's right, it's not it's not a stable, it's you call it falcon stable. I suppose, but that, but the Falcon's are to stay with the nest, aren't they?

Yeah?

Yeah?

How you?

How are your bookings for Christmas?

Uh?

We haven't actually gone live yet. We're still testing testing the market. But I just need a name. Yeah, So my plan is just to use Facebook and no no agency because I don't want to I don't want to look it out.

On my I.

We'll do it. We'll book it out for you.

Marty.

Just use this show because you want to go to Hobbit. How far are you from Hobbiton.

Ah got three farms away at ten minutes.

Yeah, and when that's it, why don't you do something with hobbit The lawyers will get down you, won't they.

I'll use Hobbiton as one of my marketing funnels. Hobiton is a marketing funnel towards us.

I'd say, let me think about that, Marty. I'm booking. I'm not quite sure when I'm booking. We're coming there to go to Hobbiton, but to head the air for the I'll discuss with the head office tomorrow. I think about it because I think it could be good for us. Anyway, We'll tell you when Trump next says something, he's coming off TV, he's probably gonna be on Truth Social next it'll be capsules. We are talking about caravan now, we

Marcus. It's belts and roads by.

That's it's a strange. It's a strange expression. That's ever any belts and roads this is called that, isn't it?

Yeah?

Yeah, the Belt and Roads program. It's coming to bits a bit, to be honest, but I.

Think, hang on, I think we're part of it now for the Chinese to go to South America of values in in via planes.

Yeah, the Belton roasting is all about sea transport really and infrastructure in those in those countries to target it.

But luck about Lucky when he spoke to the leader, said that we're becoming part of it by the with the you've got none, you don't need a visa to come through. And he's even to go straight to South America or something. We're coming but anyway, Bardi Bardi bar, Yeah.

That's not trade. Belton Road is all about controlling the mass production of product and resources.

But he did refer to it his belt, having the premiere ReFood to it his.

Belts and yeah, oh yeah, yeah, he's been nice to the Chinese, but we're not really part of However, what I called it was a your falcons go he needs something suggestive. The irin thing. An eagle has an iri is an iri is an S. A falcon has an s is an s.

But the.

Why not something a little more suggestive and arming at falcon's feather or what was the other came up with or rest, Yeah, I think I think they're also an honor for Falcon's crest that are sort of a very Yankey Americans eighties drama. It doesn't run for me. I wouldn't. I wouldn't feel that.

I don't think any of the names of Redcod. I think he's got to go with where he is and the fact is close to Hobbiton and a dairy farm with eight kids.

Okay, call it the Falcon's Rabbit.

You know.

You got to You got a camper van, Allen, Yes.

Yes, I do have a camper van. And the economics are bizarre, they really are. That they might be worse than a boat. Yeah, and I've got a boat as well,

How long to clean? How many hours to clean it?

If they're really nice people, it's it's two or three hours. If they just you know, if they just lock up and leave kind of thing, Yeah, four or five hours.

Do you do that yourself or do you pay someone.

To do that? No, we do that ourselves, but we we we charge it a little bit of nomenal fee, but we try to rent to gintal people. You know, nice people leave it, and that comes into that comes It's very interesting. The people that have been nicest to rent it to and have left it in the best condition have always been the people who for whom it's a really special occasion. It's not just yeah, right, we'll just take a camper for a week and our money's

You've got to read the linen and towels and everything as well. Do you. I'll beg your pardon, you redo. You've got linens provided with that too, with a cabravan, is that right?

Oh?

Use linen all the basics. You walk in and you bring your own We like to put a bottle of wine in there and that kind of thing, you know, and you really bring your own second meal. We you know, we like people to go away and there's a nice little steak or a nice checking or something in the fridge and that kind of thing. It's just, you know, it's an affimal way to do it.

Early weeks a year, you're renting it.

Well less and less to be honest, probably only about eight weeks a year, okay, maybe ten.

And the point of that is just to get some money back for your investment.

Right pretty much? Yep, yep, yep. That's that's the answer.

Because if you had it, you weren't renting it, it would you couldn't justify owning it, would that be right?

Well, we'll get another justification. We use it as as our own recreation and also we use it as a sort of a residential office. And when when when we're washed out of town on business, etc. She seas away two or three days a week and she uses it then.

So in fact, okay, thanks nice to hear thirtying past night Markets, Marcus.

Welcome club Market's Mark. It's Mark again. Bobby Shevin was the I think by Jane Fox had.

A lot to do with him.

He made commercials and then he appeared on American Bandstand with Dick Clark. But I know him as appearing in He Comes to Brides, which was a sitcom done by the ABC what nineteen sixty eight to nineteen seventy, and he appeared with David sol they both gone, and the theme to that was produced by Hugo Monteguero and his Augustra. It's a blood curdling TIV thing, but I remember watching it went about two three seasons, starred is It, Mark,

Is she Barbara Barbara.

Lost? Johan Lockhart?

Yeah, you're doing is she one hundred?

Wells she's two hundred. And of course the passing of Gary Aherne. Yes, he passed away to the sports.

The Arranine Sports Broadcaster.

Well god, no BC stuff.

Oh yeah, okay, that's I mean, yeah yeah.

Jeff Robinson and of course Maggie Barry were a a team anyway, Getting back in a big.

SEQ was a big segue from DBC from Lost in Space. I was still on you. That woman turning one hundred so June Lockow.

She's stoic. She appeared the movies Backers, Backers nineteen years and years one hundred.

Ye is nineteen twenty five, June twenty fifth. She is born so year, month, birthday today. This is one hundred today.

My mother was born in nine twenty five too.

And also.

The theme from He Comes the Bride was a hit with Perry too the Blue Whisky Receiver. Ramsey had a log abu full child, growing up, free and world, full of hope, Sam sort of fears, full of laughters, full of full of dreams.

Yep, what's the premise of Here Comes the Bride, Here Comes the Bride? What's the show about?

It was set in America about a logging, a logging logging about logging. It was a comedy. Apparently I was only seven like a remember the same tune to it?

And yeah, like a whold of them? Hold of like male order Brides arrived and I got that one right. There was a short woman, was it you? I think I made right.

That's right, that's right. The blood the same tune to the TV series is really blood turdling anything produced by you want to get to Guiro and his orchestra. He did the thing to the good, bad and the ugly. But if you could play a little bit of it, I'm sure bring if you if you can bend the rules a little bit.

There's no rules, there's no roles. You just gotta do what you want. I'll tell you about something about my job, Marke. You don't want to make a rod for your back like someone rings up and does a poem. If I want to a pilot will kill the show.

But no, I'm not. I'm not sure. I'm not sing that Bobby shemans it as I can remember, it was Julie Juley, Julie. Do you love Julie, Julie, Julie, do you care Julie.

You think about?

That was the one that I think was a video.

So he was like he was like a manufactured pop star.

Was he?

Well he was.

So you've lost three, You've lost Brian Wilson, You've lost Louke Christie with his false set over voice.

Again.

He was a mediocre sort of pop star with lightning strikes and baby, I'm Gonna make you mine, Make you mine. But you know it was that era, that sort of bubblegum stuff. But well, hey, uh yeah, he comes, here comes the Brides. Yeah, just Hugo Monteguerro and his orchestra.

Yes, I vaguely remember it.

How old are you?

What are you're born? What are you born?

Mark?

I was born and I was born in sixty one.

Oh my god.

Yeah, it's not much sense.

It sounds very.

Well.

It sounds older than I thought he was. Really, it sounds more like these kind of stuff like lounge music.

Well, well that's that's what it was back then. But I'd rather hear the scene too, he comes to bride.

You're still like that.

I like, it's a good thing. And well that was the theme, but Pierry Cone may be that had in nineteen sixty eight, the bluer Skys, whoever. It's just rememborable, and I'm sure a lot of people will remember the said he comes to Brians and it seems it's and it seemed, and the words too well, the same song to the Seattle isabe, but he made it a nineteen sixty eight Perry came Omer.

I love Perry cam Have you got a camp a van story, campra van?

Oh, camper vans are not really? No, no, no, no, no camper vans. No. I'm not going to stand a backpacker somewhere around Budapest or or Hungary or Prague. But that's my sort of thing.

When are you going then next? I want to mind going.

Next year, But I don't want to fly anywhere supposed to be in the America. But no, you don't want to go anywhere around you're.

Supposed to What are supposed to do in America? One guy got kicked out because he had a JD Vance meme on his phone. Well, social media before you go.

Now, Well, I love a friend over there. His wife's Chinese, and if she goes through the border, it goes from Canadian side Buffalo through into the border into New York side of America. Well, I might want to the porter as an immigrant. So things are a little bit dicey.

Over there, she go the falls on a barrel. Nice to talk to. Twenty past nine. My name's Marcus. Welcome. The show has lost a structure. I'll have a problem with that. Oh Atz, you go play one song, Marcus, I've alwaysted this show.

I really joyed.

I was switching off tonight, not as in someone singing it was ten seconds. Hey, I tell you what they well, I'm switching off people playing.

I'm switching off cheapers. Any pick.

Marcus, welcome again in Marcus, see you magage you putting off bigots that buying a camper home. But they they are ex expensive. Actually I know mechanic, he said, And this. You can put them in a shed. Also, you've got to keep them on concrete. If you don't put them on or ash felt or something, they don't you stick them on lawns. The moisture from on the ground it rusts the bottom of them out, so you have a lot of maintenance on the rust treatment and stuff. So

Yeah, I don't reckon i'd buy one living because we're just right across from the ocean. It just rust out, I reckon, So you detail somewhere in town to put it up. It just wouldn't be good.

Yeah, No, I say, especially where you are, you definitely have to put it in a sheet'll just rust awnly like trailers, not galvanite. Before you realize you got a rust bucket, you know. But yeah, so that's it. I just reckon that guy in Australia did had idea he is buying them in Australia, those caravans and buying something that tow them. I reckon he is right on to that guy.

I think it's probably philly easy to justify yourself how much done you're going to have. But when you look at the numb was like that guy said that with I especial if you're renting it out for insurance and stuff, must not mind you there's something to end up in crashes. Well, it's probably for charging high insurance. Always going across the road and heading some other truck, aren't they.

You've got to get wits about you're too. You're driving a caravan because you know.

You're appreciate at a strong crosswind. You're on your side, aren't you.

It's in Australia. It's full flattery. No, you can't coper driving around Australia the caravan behind you. When you're here in New Zealand, you've got all sorts of terrain and that you're gonna you gotta be you basically got to be like an experienced truck driver or something. They've got a little bit of, you know, a little bit of initiative to how to handle them, or you're not driving like a truck. But you gotta be very careful buying caravans.

An ac DC fan, I saw them in Wellington.

They're probably last time they're down there must have been five years ago.

Do you cause any trouble?

No, No, it was a good show. But Ben Wellington and that in that tin can been windy and that they had the wind came up and the rain came they said, have been down for about an hour. Then there's no communication at all what was going on, and it sort of calmed down again and then they had they finally got it going again. But what was the remaining was left of the concert they'posed to be lost an hour of the of the venue, you could say. So, I'm very wary of going to contint in Wellington because

Where's your park, pete.

Oh, we said that was then we had the youth posts was still going. The apostles don't.

Go any stayed at the.

One of Wellington is really really good there, it's really done. If you'd been there yourself, that was really right next to that seat market. You will chop them up in the bottom down there.

It's one of the first things they did in COVID sold them all often they're the youth hostels. They seem to be going quite well now.

The reason why when COVID came along, like most motels and all those sort of facilities like that, they couldn't afford to keep them anymore. They weren't making any money, so they were going to pay the rates and everything, and I think it closed a lot of those good as savings. There's a pet because there's such a good organized Once.

Upon a time there the youth hostels. Yet to have your own bead cheek, yes, to take around with it. It was weird, won't remember those Oh that.

Was quite a while back now. But they had two good ones in Auckland too, here by Waverley Street. There they won and got the one in the bottom. Always they spent a whole lot of money on that top one. And no they did the bottom one up first and then they did the top one up. And there was such good facility. It's really really good.

You all the terrorists and you can always you can always put on a funny voice of pretend you from overseas to Pete, can't you, you know? And that's always fun.

You had the kitchen there, there's such good facility, and.

People leave, people leave food behind. You can eat, don't they. There's the abandoned food cupboard.

I shouldn't say out there, Marcus. I'm at Dutch too. Quite often they put it on the fridge there, like when the snowfall they had a pre section here.

It was actually quite good.

We know your Dutch. Everything you say kind of comes back to you doing things on the cheap.

Oh, I'm bloody proud of it too. Their markets as well.

So where will you stay next time if you go to Wellington?

Oh they're still backpackers. But I just I always use the youth Fossils and so pretty hope that someone hears it in the Youth Fossil Organization. What I'm saying to another good pluck. They might reopen or get buy some more than they're such a good business. I thought they always were busy. They always were clean. You know, you couldn't fault them reord the shells, and they have people going around cleaning. We don't do that anymore yourself. They paid people for doing it.

When you used to have to study, used to do duties in the morning, didn't you clean the showers or something?

No, that was No, that's going back twenty thirty years ago.

You didn't have to do that.

Pete.

Listen anyway, keep in touch people, you want to talk. Oh wait to hundred eighty ten eighty jay, Yeah, they live that cupboard for food that people no longer wanted. That was always good. Anyway, get in touch. Here ll twelve. Someone said, does it irk gamblers that even though its advertised everywhere to start eight twenty every Wednesday evening the lotto draw comes on at eight sixteen.

Just talking about caravans and motor homes markets. I think the laser beam was actually invented to get rid of them, because I can't think of a worse thing, worse way to spend a few weeks things going around the country in one of those.

And also are they going to say, tell you in your time and what you've done is you've brought a camera van with your dogs and if you go.

No, they are ludicrously expensive. But also I think they're part of the reason why they the hiring them costs so much is because it's focus on overseas people and if you come down here it's and it's three dollars to the pound. It doesn't matter if it's sixty hour dir it's dirt cheap.

Yeah, oh ye, So it's just when Keywi's go to do it's too expensive for us.

This is just like butter, isn't it over it's cheese chips, but here it's not. So that's the way it's focused with the with the motor homes.

What would you what did you say about the laser? You want to destroy them?

Is it weird? Yeah?

You get them, get them out of the way, melt them down.

Oh, terrible, shit on the roads behind them, terrible on the bluff. Royer always getting blown here and they're terrible drivers.

They're all awful things.

Yeah, and I just when they get to town, they're looking for a place to parks. The drive about twenty k's right, but I'm just trying to get home exactly. Drives me crazy. Thanks Tony twenty had away from ten Head on Midnight Camper Vans Camper Vans, Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. Someone sent through their predictions for twenty twenty five, their mid year predictions. I think this guy said he did predict that Trump will swear in a live TV interview. Liam Lawson will get dumped. He

I just started ring I'll live it all out of a Ford Ranger. So I just started ringing. Say hello from living.

On the road.

Tell me it is a forward Ranger one that you've built yourself into a chembasine.

Not really, I'm in the process of modifying it to suit my needs. But it's like a mobile storage unit. Really, I'll live outside. Oh okay, the vehicle's just something somewhere to store my gear.

So you camp outside.

Yeah, yeah, I sleep outside, I cook outside, and like the resin is really really bad, and then I retreat it could I've got a canopy on the tree, so I retreat into there if the weather it's real bad.

So it's got a try.

You know, the back of you. Yeah, okay, so it's got a canopy on there, so I can I can just slide down with my feet poking out at the back.

Have you got a matress in there? You do a blow up?

Yeah, just a little hiking, you know, a little and matt pats camping, hiking, mattress.

And do you move around? Are you pretty much in the same place?

I like to move around. I choose I like to observe the beginning of the day. I like to observe the dawn every day, and so usually in the afternoons, I decide where it is I want to witness the genesis of dawn, and that's where I go asleep.

And what are the places? Are the places just off the beaten track or.

It varies hugely, like right now, I'm indorning and I'm on my way. I'm going to park up at the top of the I'm out the hill road because the hills over the they are incredible in view.

Yeah, Okay.

I think that's a cool place to work up to the dawn, you know, So that's what I'm going to do.

So will you throw a tent up tonight?

No? No, no, I'll just grab my baby bug out and doss on the ground next to my truck.

Always it would. Are you worried that someone's going to run you over if you're in an accessible place in a bivvy bag?

That's all good, mate, I.

Wondering about that. Oh, you'll have a good night, Jason, Thanks for that. Twenty five away from nine ten twenty five from ten.

Oh.

The Harbor Bridge could close Friday. Wild weather set to lash r t and O and New Zealand over the next forty eight hours, with severe weather covering the South Island warnings covering the South Island. Southland regions could experience one eight four kilometer winds cheapest creepers. What a day to go sailing and get in touch Heit'll twelve If you want to talk marcust midnight? What is the local

Hi.

How are you good?

Ellen?

Yeah?

How are you.

Any good?

Oh?

We'll talk about super Tramp. Yes, super Tramp is a big bus. Oh twelve meters long, bose. I don't know how big it was, be quite honest, had a tandem excel at the back, twin the twin axel in the front. They spent three years building this bus, chopping chopping the floor out of it. They put all the tanks and things and braces and what have you and underneath it.

Think of.

A big solar panels on the on the roof. Between the axles.

They had.

Many submarine batteries. They had four of them there.

So who's who's done all this?

Ellen?

Because when you said super tree, I thought you were talking about the band. So it took me a while to catch out what you're going on about. Are these mates of yours?

Yeah, just some people I met on the cat and well I was way care of any okay, yeah, and anyway, on the had they had a washing machine and the slide out a drawer on the side of the bus. It went in underneath the bus with the washing machine on it and the clothes dryer on it. Its loots slid out like you know on rollers. They had a lathe in it. He marcked around. Oh that time, did a bit of wood turning. At the back of the bus.

They must have given you a good turtll. Where'd you meet them? We was the camping ground.

Uh twenty spush happened Nelson twenty s bush. Yeah, and uh oh they had and underneath. When they moved it around, they lifted the bed up on the back and back there land cruiser tracking underneath it really and under the bed I put the I put the I had big softy couch and all that sort of stuff.

Were they like a retired couple.

No, they were eleven the young couple. They had young kids, a family, Yeah, a family. This is their home. And I was moving around the countryside. My god, it has cost a lot. I had big seven leader V.

Eight motor in it.

And what were you and what were you?

What were you in?

Oh?

I had on the had a twelve caravan.

Oh, you're telling a caravan envy with them with the great one.

Oh, it was fantastic.

It was.

It was unbelievable, saying, I tell.

You what year was this that people might still see it around? Ahs are back in the eighties, I think talked about the eighties. Say that's not that relevant. Okay, Ellen, nice to hear you. Thanks for that. Gee, Oh caravan is kemraven nostalgia by the sounds of things goodness, get in touch if you want to talk eight hundred you know the rest title twelve ac DC throw on the towel, what do you reckon I laid on a bus? Someone sees exclamation mark. Someone said the youth hostel news In

Marcus, how are you good? Thank you in terms of cambra vans and that kind of stuff. The Australians are top of the world in that kind of space because they go out into the outback and these completely self sufficient vehicles and they usually use trailers. There's a brand called Brewder Brudeer. You should look it up, a Brewder XP eight. It's fully functional, fully solar powered. It can suck up three hundred liters of water into the and filter it into the storage part of the walls of

Three hundred and forty three thousand Australian.

Yeah, chief at the price market.

Looks good. The two exels are quite close together.

But you should see the excursion in them for going up and down where you want to go. And you can tilt the trailer from the control in your car so you can get it to go through any kind of bush or It is pretty phenomenal. I looked at getting one turned into a food truck. Actually, they customize them and they've got a military version called the XP ten, which is just the amount which is even more ridiculous.

Do you see many of them, Bruce.

I think there's a couple of you. They've gone ballistic the worldwide. Now that's a three year wait to get one if you order one.

How long have they been around.

I couldn't tell you. I've known about them for about four years, five years. But I got interested in that. I was interested in a food truck. And you can so they fully customize it if you want to.

But it all comes at a price, sad least, it's nice looking.

There's a there's room for eight bottles of wine.

Yeah there, and you can get it's got a full laundry, you can store a barbecue in it. As I say. It pulls up water from streams or rivers, and it's got a massive soul of potential, so you can even charge your own solar vehicle you're pulling up.

With, if you really want to.

How many does it sleep?

And there's a big double bed and then there are pull out beds for kids in that. You could get probably four in there easily.

I worry that it would be too hot in the outback in the daytime, you know, because it's it's fully.

It's got all that it's the way it's made. It's cold in the cold, in the hot, and it's it's warm in the in the cold, so you can take it up into the mountains into the snow.

It's so it's it's it's it's got a aircut and stuff, all powered by solar, right, yeah.

Correct, But just the way they've made it, what it's made out of, self insulating, pretty phenomenal about Do you.

Know where they're made in Australia.

I think you have to go to Brisbane for your demo of them.

Look, I've never seen anything like it. I mean, look, that's next level, isn't it. It's extraordinary.

It is ridiculous for those to be a U D. E.

Brewder. I don't know what this story is.

Yeah, they started out, I thy literally started out, I think, as you know, going people taking them out into the outback, and then they're very big in Scandinavia. They've just gone into North America and have a mess of it in those trade shows.

You know, can imagine one line people go to go crazy for them. Yeah, especially those sort of like off grid types of vivalists. They'd want a bit of that too.

Wouldn't they Exactly they who knows where they're going to end up. As I say, you should look at the XB ten there's the military which.

I look up at it. Now I've got to go to news. But that's really interesting. I appreciate you coming through about that one. Bruce, good on you, thank you like that. There we go brew to XB ten to military one. Wow, goodness, seven past ten. Plenty of comments internationally. Trump is not enjoying people doubting that the nu kilar

A small town near Nelson is deciding whether to get rid of one of only two statues in the world of former US President Richard Nixon. The statue has amused residents of Wakefield, south of Nelson for more than a decade. It was put there, reportedly to recognize Nixon's underappreciated peacemaking role with Russia and China. Of course, it was later overshadowed by Watergates, and now it could be replaced by a new community hub. Who knew only two others?

Was that not on the chase?

Yeah?

It's bizarre, isn't it. You'd have thought there'd be statues of Nixon everywhere. I mean, there was a great sort of you know, re sort of review of his presidency, and everyone thought he actually wasn't a bad bloke apart from Wateringgate.

Well, yes, and apart from the fact he looked so unpleasant always didn't he with that long peanuts sharp had in that nose. He never came well in cartoons, did he?

And he was not a croc.

Where's the other one in the world that I do not know?

And that it would be something someone's bound to be able to tell us.

Okay, we'll get into that. We'll find it. Well, that's for a good Tonny, thank you.

There we go.

There's a statue in Wakefield. I never knew that. It's life size twenty k's south of Nelson, him holding a double peace sign. I'll leave it there. That's history. You wouldn't get rid of it. It wasn't like that he was bad in New Zealand. Anyway, A karam, it's Marcus. Welcome, good evening. Hang on, karam you good evening. It's Marcus.

Yeah, hi Marcus. This is yeah just I watched her twenty eight years later yesterday. Sure, yeah, yeah, I actually liked it. I don't really remember the previous ones. But anyway, I treat, you know, each movie, you know, as a separate one. You know, I don't really follow, you know, just go back and watch all the old ones or whatever.

Okay, so it's so the last one was a zombie movie, and this is a zombie movie.

Yeah, yeah, I think I think so. Yeah, I don't really remember the previous one because I think it was a while ago. I might have watched it, but I don't really you know, follow it religiously. So, but it was it was kind of really interesting. It wasn't just

Of them, you know.

Is it terrifying?

No, not really. I think it focuses more on the relationships you know, of the humans. Yeah, it's not really much to do with what's going on with the zombies, and then the father and some kind of you know relationship kind of falls apart for some reason, and then it's all about the mother and some you know, and they kind of go and deal with something else on the mainland around all the zombies. And yeah, so that the whole movie is about, you know, the relationships, you know,

Is it quite I mean it's quite a hype for a lot of people there for the movie.

No, not really, no, No, I'm in Auckland, so I just went along because obviously, you know, Tuesday's a half price. So no, there's only like a couple of people, you know. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, but I found it much better than Sinners or The Sinners was kind of I didn't really like Sinners and that was I think overhyped, you know, everywhere. But I kind of like this much better. At least

Okay, I appreciate you coming through a very interesting crown. Thank you for that, Brian. Good evening, it's Marcus, welcome you know.

Marcus, just on your motor homes, it's a subject which you could go on all night about. I'm pretty sure they are actually just for the pretty well healed type of people. I started looking to buy one about two years ago, and I thought our thirty to forty thousand would be ample for me. I'm on my own and just travel around New Zealand and But oh my god, what you get for that is not worth having because

On and on and on.

I'm pretty sure that the rental wonder down.

Let's break it down. So you spent one hundred thousand on one and you had to spend twenty thousand on.

What towbars radio is?

Getting the gas fixed had an oil leak into the water.

Oh so it was secondhand the one you paid that money for.

Oh god, yeah, there was a forward train to quite old two ten.

Yeah.

You know.

You're not getting much for one hundred thousand dollars in a motor home because they're just going to cost you more and more and more. They're just the money, but they really are.

So what happened for you in the end? Did you end up having to sell them? You've still got it?

Yeah?

No, No, I sold it and sold it to the people who were looking for exactly what I had. I'd give them all the issues that i'd had done with it, and they're all quite happy with it because I've done a lot of stuff myself, which is just to send it to a shop to get fixed there, you know everything.

How much money to know you.

And oh, mayor, I would like to put them figure on plenty. Okay, So I loved about twenty grand on it.

So yeah, as you say, you'd be better off hiring one for six grand for three years in a row, and you still would have been better off.

Yeah, without a doubt. Yeah, then if a transmission, if a transmission and these later model one like it can be off the road for four or six weeks while they get parts for them. They can be up fifteen thousand or something to get a gearbox fixed.

So I thought there would be a good market for ex high ones. But have they been threshed the.

Earlier The first one I bought was next higher one. Yes, I'd say they wouldn't be threshed, but the ex higher one is still depending on how much you want to spend, they range from forty thousand to two hundred and forty thousand. You know, that's the problem. Very expensive piece of machinery that leaves sitting outside and only for a couple of weeks of the year.

So there must be a certain amount of timing that you can use one for. Are you retired, Brian, Yes, I am, But you weren't away the whole time you were No.

No, no, only went away for a couple of weeks at a time.

Yeah, I've probably got to really commit to a A and think, Okay, I've got to be waiting for yeah.

And join them, join the motor Home Motor Club Association.

Or they're like a gang, the motor Association. Boy boy, they're alaured for themselves, aren't they?

Apparently they are, but they are certainly good to belong to.

Yeah, I'm just putting the chamber because I do get quite riled up when you mentioned them.

Yeah, but I just find you why more people have wrung on this question. Now that that may set somebody alike and disagree with what I'm saying.

But you know, I think it's I think it's really interesting. The finances, Brian, So I appreciate you coming to I've got commercial commitments, but thank you. It is nineteen to eleven. Good evening, Graham, Good evening, How are you autist? Good things?

President Nixon, he's got several statues or whatever you like to call them, around, made him two shoulds around the world. And I've seen the one in London, but even Nelson, just outside of well, just a wakefield just outside of Nelson, and we've had this statue there for quite a few years. And it was an American came over here and built a big house and put this in his front garden. And we had this problem with people getting upset about Nixon,

So it's in private it's in private property. It's on private property, then, is it.

Well it was then, but I don't know what they've done with it now.

Well property, so they could do with that. And I presume this guy still owns the building, the same guy that built it. Does he?

Oh, well, I don't know that. I don't know that at all. But it comes up every now and again about this statue out there of Nixon, but they forget the good things that he did. Okay, we all make mistakes, but they might be big mistakes by big people. But he made some good things too.

Yeah.

I've had a look at it from Google Maps, so it seems to be in the front. I mean the guy that this guy, Tony Keanovitch, is that as they seem to work for Nixon and then he moved to New Zealand.

Well that's what I understand, Yes, because it's quite a few years ago now, when it all started.

Wakefield a nice place, yes it is.

Yeah.

Nelson South is just south and Nelson. It is a nice place. It's a growing place, and a lot of people commute from Waitefield to Nelson OWNSA. It's about twenty five minutes, but the traffic's getting heavy and heavier. We've got a lot of people in Libya.

Now need a train. Thanks Graham. I paid one hundred and five thousand for a four year old Mercedes four berth Ex rental, used as much as I can, sometimes just to a local beach at Howick. Dreamed of owning one, and super gawn. I went ahead with a purchase when I was in my fifties, young enough to enjoy it. Cheers Heather Pierre. Spending three nights at Miranda this week

There you go.

Marcus just heard a conversation about Quiney's bush. I met the create of this bush and mister Ray Quiney. Lovely gentlemen. Purchased a point five seven seven caliber antique Snyder carbine CCT rifle from which I still have. According to my records, this was a nineteen seventy four very old gun collector. Thank you. That's fifty one years ago.

Now.

I don't know too much about I hope I've mentioned THEO point five seven seven caliber antique Snyder Cavalry Carbine CCT rifle. I don't know what the CCT pertains to, but you gun people will know, doubt good evening shoe, Hello shoe, you man?

Can you hear me?

Yes?

Gud and clear receiving, haven't you?

So?

I've just come in for evening around shooting rabbits with Eco Hunter's a fifty eight rabbits night one possum, and I'm now hitting up by shivings by a frying pan full of onions and some veggies from my dinner. And you mentioned just before as I came through the door, you mentioned antique firearms, and I thought, why, word, that's something I could talk about. Where did you get up to with antique firearms?

Marcus Well?

I was just reading what the texter had texted through YEP about the garden that he brought from the guy that's got Quiney's bush.

Oh yes, okay, well, well it was an.

Antique Snyder Cavalry Carbine CCT rifle. What does a CCT stand for.

You'll have to have somebody more experience antiques that one. But you know, Gabary Rider three C really fives, you know, all all very famous stuff. I am not an anti collector, but I've kind of fallen into owning a cap of antique rifles by accident. The oldest one I've got is a eighteen ninety three three to zero three the Infield rifle Wow, actually made by the BSA Company of England

Where did you pick it up here? What's the story with it?

Well, a fellow who I played darts with that Winnington Darts Association had to give up hunting the because his knees packed up and his mate died of cancer, so he kind of lost the interest in hunting heaven hunting for years. And he also didn't want to go through the rigma role of re licensing, licensing, having a new legislation, you know, gun safe registering firearms, since he wasn't really

No?

What's how's it spelled?

O Z.

And a pause? And it's interesting, you know, firearms. And this is why antique people are interested in firearms is because they track the history of the world. And you can go three O three, you know, Bull War, First World War, Second World War, you can go tos and the tours that I've got. You can basically find out the age of a rifle off the SERO number on it.

Stocks or print or predator a three D printer.

Or three D printer, and you get arrested for that, well, the reason I think, oh.

Yeah, yeah, well that's a really really major threat to the safety of the New Zealand's.

Community, aviation or anything like that. I think it's probably Harley. I don't know how you. I don't know if you can make plastic uh, plastic ammunition, but you probably can, can you?

Yeah? Yeah, And this is one of the big threats that face the MU Zealand police in their day to day life. And this is again why we've come to have a firearms registry, which was overned by the then Labor government in full support by all the other parties, to band military style weapons and to introduce a firearms registry.

I'm going to I'm going to go through because a lot for me to consume with us. But I'll tell you what that guy and Gord that had five hundred firearms, that was a surprise for the police. Did you see that story?

How the hell did he do that?

What was he what was he thinking? I don't even know where he lives. But two, that was one seventeen past eleven evening. This is Marcus, nice to have you on board.

Welcome, Thank you, Marcus, congratulations on your order.

Thank you for that. Yeah, that's nice to have recognize for that. Thank you so much.

Now just one tell you one thing and ask or tell you three things. I mean, you've been around the coast in Tarranniki.

Haven't you? Yes?

Yes? Yes?

Do you think a silly question? But do you think because they called the name the All Black team yesterday it was in ray Hushu in the Coastal Town Coastal Sports Team. It was actually at rae Huhu. Now do you think it's because of the.

Bear it boes.

I think that was I think that was the connection.

Okay, that's another one. Pairful rayn came out today good dated today, yes, and nineteen We are Held nineteen eighty four.

What tremendous album that was never seen. The movie album was tremendous. Do you thank you?

And also our New Zealand boy Keith Urban married Nicole Kidman today goodness in two thousand and six and they'll be married nineteen years.

They get seemed to go well together, don't they.

Hmm.

But that rahu has been me being Taraneki. I think it's because of the Barrett brothers. Pame can sort of day.

Yeah. I thought it was a ridiculous moving all the All Black sea to be I thought was a complete waste.

Of they all would have had to travel here.

Yes, what a lot of plava to make look down into the grassroots when we know they don't care about grassroots.

I mean, how many of them would have got lost and living?

And if you lived in Rahuta, you'd never see the Barretts play because they never played for you, Plymouth, for they exactly don't get me started. Evening Lowist Marcus, welcome.

Hello Marcus, have got a strange request for you tonight.

Yes, you were a few few calls back.

You were talking to some guy that had been out FIS controlling. He'd shot so many rabbits and possum and do you remember, yes, yeah, Well I'd like to know if there's anyone around the Heart Valley that could go and shoot me a couple of rabbits so I can make some.

Rabbit stew Okay, I'm sure he could.

Or where is he from?

I think he's from there. What was the last When was the last time you had it?

My mother was alive?

How would you do it?

Just we will cut it up and cut the meat up and Stewart put it in apart. Well, you could do it anyway now, could.

Have got slow cooked and whatever cooker.

My mother. When my mother used to cook them, she used to cook rabbit stew and cut the rabbit up and put onions and carrot and stuff and a bit of bacon, A little bit of bacon. Rabbit stew is absolutely beautiful.

Wow, if you could buy, if you could buy a rabbit these days, can you buy a rabbit?

I don't know tried?

Have you?

Have you eaten rabbit?

Oh?

Yes, but not for a while.

I haven't either, but I'd like to.

We'll see what we can find out for your lowest. Look at lower did you say upper hud or lower hunt upper hutch? Okay, we'll see what we can do. It's like buy, sell or swap. Lowest wants a rabbit or two shapers? Get in touch. I don't know if you need the rabbits now, can you I suppose you can go. I suppose they're all good to go. How are you going? People? What's happening in your neck the woods? My name is Marcus Httle twelve. Welcome to it. Awkwady

Kevin, Yeah, I go, I go past President Nixon just about every day when I go for a walk.

So what is that building?

Is it?

Is?

It?

Is it use the building for? Whatever? Is it used?

It's it's a chap, I know it's he told me he does a lot of work there. It's idea. A very very wealthy guy from around the area built it. And it's like a conference sort of center. Okay, yeah, I wondered what it was. So they have the owner has now and then they get people turned up for like a convention sort of thing or or a whole lot of friends will turn up for a gathering like a nice, big, fancy dinner or something. You know, but it's just such an empty dormant. It's a huge section.

You know.

It was a guy. The guy's quite a famous American that was living there for a while that was involved with all sorts of things quite a controversial character. That what's the place called Fort.

Fort Yeah? Oh god, you got me near laurel Dale, Lauderdale or something. Oh yeah, Well, I'd like to have a lot of this time ago. But Roger, that was going to be. It wasn't going to be because I'm at the rest home just up the road, a couple of hundred meters up the road. And at one stage it was going to be a hospital area and there it was going to be a big supermarket for there in because the area is growing. But we've got a four square but it's just sitting there, just sitting there.

Know the guys it's called Fort Halderman.

Right, that's the one. I don't know what it means.

No, I think it might be pertaining to him. But the guy that the guy that owns it, Yeah, I could find that, but the article I've come through so I can't find the article of it. It's quite a it's quite he was quite a famous kind of American that had moved to Wakefield.

Okay, radio yep, yep.

Well, I think you're sold to take a statue. It's solely to take a statue with you, wouldn't you.

You don't know whether or what I would never do.

Say it might have been sold the current owners. Right, here's the situation.

Oh okay.

There was a guy called Tony Kennevic who was a businessman who was controversial.

Oh okay.

The parent owners approached the council this year about the probably of building the hub on this site instead. Oh yea, so maybe it's got different owners. So there's very work I would do with the statue.

Yeah, they were talking about building some retirement villas right next to their wrist home.

Yeah. I think it's only value would be for script, wouldn't it.

Well, so, yeah, I didn't even know who it was for. I walked head the house, someone said, what's it? Person? Mother's arms here and they said, oh, there's prisoners next, and I thought, oh my god, is.

He doing the police. He's doing the victory thing, similar, isn't he.

Oh I'm tell you what. One thing annoys you a bit bloody Donald Trump. He always walks around punchers first in the year.

There's a lot of there's a lot of annoying things about Donald Trump.

Oh you know it just looks like he's turn and sit. You know, let's get you know, come on, not not make great, but come on, just get fighting. Let's get into it. You know, it just doesn't look right. You don't see the queen.

He doesn't seem very resolved or calm in his later years? Does he mad?

Brain? He'll be getting park insensible mutual or something?

Problem?

Do you think I would?

Well, he loves on McDonald's, doesn't he.

Well that's what they say. But how long can you live just any McDonald's.

I've read an oracle with her his one of his medical staff or something.

This is that.

Well, I've seen Pats on the Air Force one and they've got his elon musk and they're all having McDonald's for lunch on the Air Force one. I don't know.

I imagine. I imagine he'll be mainly a steaky Do they when that's one of those blue bloods? Are like that with those those wealthy people like they like this sort of steak restaurants? I think, oh they do.

Ye.

Anyway, leading to a market, you might.

Have a statue. You might have a statue of him on your walk before too long, Kevin, thank you for more from Marcus slash Night.

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