<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:14 word banks let's let's have a let's have a look at his record mm remember the cell phone cell phone incident well i remember it i was the one that made the call to him laughs <{><[>it wasn't you was it yeah there oh you see <[>laughs yes indeed yeah and then then the watch my lips episode nine hundred cops i will resign well he's getting nine hundred cops let's be fair to <{1><[1>john banks he's got six hundred new bobbies bopping to the beat so far <{2><[2>and he'll have another three hundred by next election <[1><.>but <[2>yeah and how many cardboard cops did he bring in no now come on let's be fair about this one <{1><[1>ace we know you're a labour party man <{2><[2>now let's try and be objective <[1>he <.>did he didn't tell us about <[2><.>he <.>he he told us about nine hundred cops but he didn't didn't tell us about the cardboard cops he <.>b he was bringing in and then the laidlaw slagging which i heard every word of it mm <&>1:00 and then the clearing of the streets voc the kids before the byelection that's crazy stuff now that that that's voc voc <.>th that that was shades of er er what was that nineteen <{><[>eighty four <[>place yeah yeah <{1><[1>yeah shades of nineteen eighty four um you know that's that and then the threat to mike moore's press secretary <{2><[2>quite <.>qui <[1>laughs <[2><.>let let's be fair here though ace i mean voc whatever john banks may think or <.>s er what he says on radio is pretty light hearted and is voc on many occasions er done for entertainment purposes oh barry when he when he slagged laidlaw that sunday <{1><[1>i i yeah i i you know it gave me the impression that the man was unbalanced <{2><[2>it really did he he really sounded as <.>i as if he was unbalanced <{3><[3>and er i i think he's not suited to the job <[1>i listened to it i heard it myself <[2>laughs <[3>mm mm i don't think he's suited to the job i mean when you when you line him up alongside the minister of justice like doug graham mm i mean god <.>th they're they're two different people <&>2:00 doug's the flavour of flavour of the er moment though isn't he well yes er i i i think he should be leader of that party you know <{1><[1>he's a very very astute politician <{2><[2>and and a very caring one too and you never hear him er slagging people you know he he's he's a very astute politician and i think he should be leader of the national party inhales myself but john banks you know they're they're <.>they're <.>b <.>they're they're worlds apart i mean just imagine if um how would john banks handle a er voc voc say a <.>n a nineteen eighty one tour situation <[1>mm <[2>mm easy he'd go mad he'd go BOOMPH he'd go bonkers laughs <{><[>laughs <[>he'd go out of his bloody brain barry <{1><[1><.>y he'd he'd put he'd put the the er the bloody <{2><[2>s a s the whole lot in <[1>yeah <[2>laughs i've never actually when you think about it you're quite true i mean imagine john banks in charge of the police er back in ninety eighty one i mean honestly <{1><[1>the mind boggles i was out in molesworth street <{2><[2>the first night outside parliament when the police fronted up against the protesters and a number of them <&>3:00 were clubbed and left bleeding in the gutter <[1>yeah <[2>laughs mm john banks would be out there i would imagine <{1><[1>cheering them on laughs honestly when i think back it would who was the minister of police then er oh ben couch was <{2><[2>laughs oh dear the mind boggles well i tell you what you've tickled my fancy this morning ace <{3><[3>laughs thanks for your call mate <[1>yeah <,> he'd be out there with a baseball bat laughs he would be laughs <[2>yeah ben couch that was right yeah yeah yeah <[3>laughs thank you bye inhales oh dear what a dangerous situation we'd have you imagine it those of you who had anything to do with the nineteen eighty one springbok tour if old basher banks was out there in charge of the cops there'd be no stopping them they'd have their bulldozers out they'd be mowing these DREADFUL anti tour protesters down four triple nine seven eleven is the number you can give us a call the lines are open you're listening to radio pacific seven eleven on your a m dial wyn i haven't forgotten about you but i'll come back to you after this <&>3:56 <&>two minutes forty nine seconds of advertisements and HS monologue not transcribed <&>6:45 wyn good morning hello gidday yeah yeah <,,> come on then oh sorry sorry um er do i do i speak to to barry yeah <{><[>i thought you were starting to go to sleep wyn <[>oh i think that oh <{><[>yeah i was about to <&>7:00 <[>you're on air wellington is waiting er <.>th the story was about that noise i just wanted to mention as a quick reminder that er all word people can do damage to their hearing <{1><[1>by listening to that er loud music <{2><[2>it is particularly dangerous er with earphones that go right into the in into the <.>o er ear channel <[1>mm <[2>mhm they do <{><[>yeah <[>and they um er not only they they do they er er er sort of um <.>immu immunise the hearing nerves yes er if they happen to word over over a longer period of time the hearing nerve gets actually damaged mm and they they become <.>s er slowly more and more and more deaf do you have some experience in this area wyn yes <{><[>i'm i'm an audio technician <[>voc oh are you audio <.>tech well you'll see them all yeah sort of yeah yeah voc for for thirty years now i am doing that job mm and er voc er it is it is er is a a simple thing to remind them look er my friend you don't do yourself a favour would you ever use yourself wyn a um walkman <&>8:00 oh yeah there there is a place for everything but you've <{1><[1>got to watch out that you keep the volume at bay <&>pronounced buy because er it's easy to forget about it and crank it up and crank it up and <{2><[2>er the thing is <.>w if you hear one noise one <.>cer given noise at a certain level <[1>yes <[2>mm yes and you want to overcome that particular noise mm you do not need to er you it's not enough to double the volume mm no you have to make it four times it's like doing it's doing anything in moderation isn't it wyn of course it is that <.>i that <{><[>is the whole thing and just keep in mind that it IS <.>th <.>th the hearing is easily damaged <[>mm mm <,> yeah i totally agree good on you wyn nice to have your call mate great and it'll make people think about that marvellous good on you wyn see you see you mate look after yourself and look after all those people with hearing difficulties four triple nine seven eleven is the number morning eddie good morning sir how are you this morning box of fluffy ducks yeah dead ones or laughs i prefer live ones laughs what can we do for you this morning eddie i listen to your <.>in this interview with <&>9:00 mister graham lee minister of internal affairs <{><[>a very an appropriate name for him isn't it <[>yes yes internal affairs yes er he suffers from acute rigor mortis he should have been in the government of queen victoria do you think so oh good god mm i mean <.>h he confuses gays with er with er people who interfere with kids and high heterosexuals who do the same thing exactly i couldn't agree more and <{><[>that <[>and i was absolutely so terrible <{><[>how can we have <.>a <[>i <.>think <,> sorry eddie carry on how can we have a guy like this in the government mm the other curious thing eddie was that out of that interview when i said to graham lee do you believe that homosexuality is learned and can be er unlearned and he went along with that totally now er <.>y all medical evidence would say that if you are gay it's a um it's a quirk of birth it's not something you <&>10:00 learn you don't suddenly become gay you you to me you are gay from birth and er of course he doesn't accept that at all and um he believes with counselling people if they are gay can learn the error of their ways well i i i give you an example this happened about twenty years ago <,> and there was a guy in opposition who said such and such wants a job he's quite a good traveller mm so but he's been in prison so um being broad minded person i interviewed him and i said you been in prison and he said yes well i said i insist i want to know why mm and he said i'm a homosexual so i said well that's okay what have you done he said well i like little boys so i didn't take him on mm can you see my point oh i definitely do that so but that but that's like any aberrant i mean it's like um er if you voc interviewed a heterosexual for a job and er they were a paedophile you wouldn't take them on i wouldn't take them on either to put it mildly nobody what they do in their bedroom is nobody's business mm except if they're not deviant like with children <&>11:00 yes or or boys then um if they're if if they are with consenting adults whatever their proclivity i think people should understand and and um open their minds to this is just i want to say what er mister lee <.>sl let let him do a few more things instead of worrying about <.>p people's private affairs couldn't agree more eddie and have a lovely day and you too mate bye bye and er have a good game of bridge eddie's a bit of a bridge player he is they tell him he's a <.>b they tell me he's a bit of a gun around the bridge table eddie didn't tell me that people that know eddie and of course i associate with people that play bridge i do and have the odd sherry they do sit around and talk and they've told me that eddie is a bit of a gun on the bridge table four triple nine seven eleven is the number up to otaki we go and we're going to have a chat to jane oh good morning barry good morning jane i think what people are trying to say is that what we know to be both morally and <.>i <.>i wrong <&>12:00 and against the laws of nature mm um the homosexual act is wrong mm and the homosexuals however and especially the militant <&>pronounced emilitant ones and their supporters and bit like you barry <{1><[1>are trying <,> to force the community into saying what we <.>n that their behaviour is okay and it's not <,> and that's i think that's the crux of the matter i am not against <.>gay um homosexuals <{2><[2>per se inhales but i do believe what they are now trying to do and especially if you look in countries like england and america they are terribly militant and <{3><[3>they're going to make us all bow down and <{4><[4>say what they do is right and it isn't right <[1>laughs <[2><.>s course not <[3>mm <,> damn nerve <[4>yeah do you think society should have the right to discriminate against them jane i don't i think <{><[>like anything else if they're wise they don't have to go declaring themselves <[>well that's what the argument's about oh you should you reckon they should stay in their closet and keep the door firmly closed <&>13:00 well like drug takers don't go round yeah applying for jobs saying look i'm a drug taker yeah but drug taking is illegal <.>sex <{><[>yeah <[>homosexuality isn't this was though wasn't it <{1><[1>until your friend who you often <{2><[2>applaud for her actions and is voc i think quite despicable she's made it okay but look <.>dru as i say drug takers <{3><[3>or perhaps people of a religion if you want to apply for a job in a jewish community <{4><[4>you don't run in and say i'm a christian i'm a <{5><[5>christian not that they would mind anyway <[1><.>i <[2>fran laughs inhales yeah <[3>laughs <[4>yeah <[5>laughs yes yeah but i mean this is what i think the <.>g er the homosexuals are trying to do they're trying to force us into saying their behaviour is right it's okay <{><[>and it isn't and i'll go to my grave saying what they do is against the laws of nature <[>mm mm and that's all i've got against them all right they can join the police force <{1><[1>i don't mind that but i think it's silly and this is what they are doing they're trying to make us say no you're just <.>as what you do is <&>14:00 perfectly natural <{2><[2>if you actually <[1>mm <[2>have you ever talked to a gay jane beg your pardon have you ever sat down and had a yarn with a person <{><[>who is gay <[>yes yes and i've met some wonderful one i've met ones who've sublimated their <{1><[1>um their acts <{2><[2>into doing great works of mercy <[1>oh <[2>oh mm tut <{><[>word <[>and i think that you know that's the thing it's the ACT it's not the person it's what they do <{><[>the sexual act <[>it's how they carry out that sexual act yeah that <.>revol <.>r <.>r revolts you well it's against nature <{><[>let's face it and nothing on this earth can tell us it's not <[>voc voc well it certainly doesn't procreate but er there you go yes and look how militant they are overseas oh they are they'll say so and so's gay <.>i <{><[>in the you know and so and so's gay and wanting them to come out and declare it <[>mm mm no i think if i had a <.>prolicl i can't think of the word proclivity er that's it <{><[>that's it for something that wasn't quite right i wouldn't want to scream and tell everyone i'd keep it to myself <[>laughs all right thank you for your call jane right thank you for calling from otaki bye <&>15:00 i suppose the weather's DREADful up there is it <{><[>northerlies <[>oh it's overcast <{><[>but it's going to be a lovely hot day <[>yeah good on you jane <{><[>you get out and enjoy it <[>bye yes but watch melanoma four triple nine seven eleven is the number now that jane's gone there is a line free and i'll be back with your calls after this <&>15:14 <&>two minutes forty eight seconds of advertisements and community notices not transcribed <&>18:02 four triple nine seven eleven is the number there was is one line free it's er five away from ten oclock that means that we have got time to take a few calls good morning mary oh good morning barry er i rang yesterday about the motorbike racing at lower hutt and i was a bit sorry after when i heard that lady ring er and she <.>sa she said it was only a one off event <{1><[1>so i mean if if that's all it is we we're not worrying about it but we imagined an influx of noisy inhales spectators on <{2><[2>noisy vehicles <{3><[3>you know into lower hutt <{4><[4>and <[1>mm <[2>mm <[3>well she <.>sh <[4>she obviously set your mind to rest then mary yes well if it's only a one off thing i mean it doesn't matter does it well you let us know if it's not a one off thing um mary good to have your call four triple nine seven eleven jim good morning hello barry? yes oh you know barry there's been a lot of talk about discrimination against gays yeah but <&>19:00 nothing is ever mentioned about gays <.>discriminagat er discriminating <&>pronounced discriminigating against nongays mm do they <.>y well what's to stop <&>pronounced sop someone who is a homosexual getting a good position in the government <{><[>perhaps a departmental head and then surround himself with the gay type <[>gasps do you think they do that though well i don't know your mate the director of security he could have you know the s i s he could be a gay and then MY MATE and then hound people like you and me that are not gay who says the director of security is my <&>pronounce moy mate what <{1><[1>well i don't know you were talking about him one day i thought he might have been <{2><[2>a mate <[1>who <[2>was i oh yeah yeah no no i would agree with the i would agree with the national party guy that said legalising all this homosexual stuff is just like opening pandora's box <{><[>you don't know what's going to happen next <[>mm you'll have a lot of gay's jumping out in pretty little tutus <{><[>probably <[>yeah that's right <{1><[1>but no give it a bit of thought <{2><[2>and you can't say that none of them are not <,> <.>y you can't say that none of them are not that way inclined <[1>mm <[2>i have i've given it a lot of thought in my life <&>20:00 well no <.>y of COURSE you can't it's just as the same as you can't say er <.>n no homosexual is that way inclined whatever that way is good to have your call though jim four triple nine seven eleven <&>20:12