<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>12:04 irene good morning perhaps i could coughs excuse me tell you something that might help you get to sleep at night excellent many many years ago when i was had a business <.>of of my own and i used to go to bed at night and my mind was <.>s <.>s so <&>pronounced as stowe so full of everything that had happened during the day that i couldn't get to sleep because my brain was too active is that what it is and so er i spoke to the doctor it was a woman doctor and many many years ago when there weren't very many woman doctors and she was a very sensible lady and she said if you want to get to sleep at night she said when you go to bed and your brain starts overreacting like that she said shut your brain off yourself shut your mind off and think of something really nice that happened to you in your life that you thoroughly enjoyed she said start at the <&>13:00 beginning and relive it in your brain <{><[>don't <[>visualisation pardon? <{><[>visualisation yeah <[>yes she said go over it to yourself in your own brain and she said i'll guarantee that before you get halfway through you'll be asleep and believe me it works do you know what i occasionally do i offer myself a theory in my mind and i debate the theory with myself and that normally sends me to sleep which probably goes to prove i'm not that interesting <{><[>laughs but no it's it's <.>n <[>mm so <.>it so it saves you er er losing a lot of sleep yes it does the more you think about losing sleep the more anxious you get <{><[>and the less you sleep of course <[>that's very very true you do you worry about it <{><[>don't you <[><.>wonde wonderful advice irene okay <{><[>you're very welcome <[>thanks bye bye it's interesting though i mentioned yesterday the movie with jodie foster and little er fred tate was a genius at the age of eight years old and he had a ulcer because he worried about stuff too much and the greenhouse and er gases and the er the hole in the ozone and why innocent people die at the hands of murderers maybe that's what i'm <&>14:00 like not a genius i'm talking about maybe i just worry too much there's a wonderful song that paul simon once wrote actually in an album that never did anything it came out er <,> just after graceland the album he did just after graceland and it was sort of south american music and it was called i must play that song actually it's a very good song <&>14:18 <&>two minutes twenty one seconds of news items read by HM and HM's commentary on these news items not transcribed <&>16:39 who's this denise? good morning mike <{><[>and how are you <[>voc i'm top of the pops actually voc you sound as though you're going on motor motor mechanics hundred and nine what's that mean oh you're just going <.>y your brain is still going so fast you don't know where to go well no i <.>d i'm i'm sort of heading in the right direction i've got all this stuff to say and i just want to get it out before one <&>17:00 oclock i get myself in dreadful dreadful problems you see <.>m by not being able to get enough done by one oclock mhm you know this article on john banks i read about three days and i said i'd read it out every day and talk about it <{><[>you haven't word <[>i still haven't got around to doing it yet right anyway cos i'm talking to you denise oh it's disGUSTing isn't it i'll blame you i think well everybody blames me so it's nice to be in the blame sometimes <{><[>isn't it i mean i've got to have a shoulder around here otherwise i'd be falling over christchurch by now <[>laughs would you <{><[>now what did you ring for <[>yeah i rung to tell you did you see on the news their new little quirk tut you know how we've got a lot of timber in this confounded country mm well now they've got a new idea tut inhales some bright ignoramus <&>pronounced imboramus decided that the timber business needed a boost because they weren't getting enough money out of the timber when they were selling it and they made a new order to japan tut but then <&>18:00 they overpriced the whole timber business so now they import <.>t <.>t um timber from chile that's right but that means now er <.>s two hundred and fifty to three hundred people will now lose their jobs well you got a you got a plus and a minus there the er what happened was that they're getting very good export prices for their logs er internationally they're getting top prices and so you balance that up against er the import export business yeah but <{><[>you <[>so what <.>do what do you do if i'm growing logs and somebody in japan's gonna pay me top dollar do i not sell to save a few jobs here yeah but the thing is you're going on about unemployment in this country yeah and it means it's just making more unemployment it is <&>pronounced tis and it isn't i mean it depends what you want to do i mean we could say for example to the people who buy those logs and want to pay top price no we won't sell them to you because if we don't sell them we won't have to import from chile and therefore but the advantage is or the potential advantage is i can sell some logs to japan for top dollar get some good money back into the country and employ people that way and <&>19:00 at the same time what i can do is import logs from chile add value to them and then export them again but i just think the whole paper mill is stupid because we had a a paper mill place right <{><[>that made you know <.>mill mill and papered and that well now it is cheaper to send our logs to japan get them to do the processing and they send it back to us <[>mm not strictly true not strictly true at the moment it is but potentially we could er make it worth our while to do it the only reason that er countries like japan succeed in areas like this is because they do it in such bulk mm and therefore er we're a little country but if we started turning over logs in big numbers we could do that we could add value to them we could chop them up we could er shape them we could turn them into furniture we could do all sorts of interesting things with them if we really wanted mm but the thing is it's just getting voc the whole country is money <.>or <.>and i know you got to have money right mm but it means then that everybody like furniture <&>20:00 now for wood is so expensive that you just you know you just can't buy it if you did buy you gonna pay an arm and a leg <{1><[1>for it and it's not quality like you know in the old days when your ma grandpa <&>pronounced as grandcar and grandparents made furniture to last and it was really <{2><[2>decorative <[1>mm <[2>you can still you can still buy that yeah if you were to pay an arm and a leg for it depends what you call an arm and a leg i suppose well for example from um to buy a cabinet that is mahogany yeah and dressed you know and that would cost you about two and a half to three thousand dollars nah depends where you shop depends all right but anyway no i just thought you know <{><[>i just <.>thought <[>no it's an interesting point and what you're talking about to a degree is isolationism yeah and that is to the ability of a country to stand on its own two feet and look after itself before it starts er involving itself in the international economy or community well another thing too we're this country has one big advantage to any other country at the <&>21:00 moment which people forget right we're nuclear free like when chernobyl went up right they bothered a whole lot of countries and caused you know contamination of <{1><[1>food we are a nation who has more bartering than any because <{2><[2>we have <,> <.>y we <[1>mm <[2>absolutely correct you <.>sti you stick a picture of a er clean voc snowcapped mountain with blue skies and sunshine and fresh water on the er the the covers of some cheese or some wine or something like say it's from nuclear free new zealand there's big money in that you're dead right you know because it's this i've even seen tourists <.>they've you know just stand there and they just say golly you know where did you get this we haven't got this you know yeah and it's amazing when you see them going around queenstown mount cook um fox glacier all around there it's just so this country and this is what really saddens me is so beautiful i've <&>22:00 walked it i've seen it you know i've mixed with the people and the people are so genuine but we <.>ha we've seem to have got our eye on the wrong emphasis and that's money and when you've got a beautiful country money is part of it but isn't it better to keep our country like it is priorities very good call denise have a good day bye come back after nine thirty <&>22:22 <&>three minutes twenty six seconds of news and weather broadcasts and commercials not transcribed <&>25:48 inhales very dramatic sky coming to work this morning you can see why the west coast got DRENCHed yesterday VERY spectacular stuff if you're an oil painter you would have wanted to <&>26:00 er capture it er er capturED <.>d it <.>mi laughs mona good morning mike um i want to want you to find out something about lotto for me yes now lotto's losing money hand over fist no it's not well they reckon they were no they're not <{><[>they're making a fortune the er the only thing that's happened is that their profits have dropped slightly they're still making many millions of dollars every year <[><.>bu well i would like you to find out for me why every <.>ma er every <.>mun number on lotto is not in the barrel now what? voc no this is honest a <{><[><.>coup <[>every number in lotto <{><[>is not in the barrel <[>yeah no it's not what's that <.>mea i'm not sure what you mean well <{><[>there's <.>f <[>oh sorry you're saying there aren't forty balls in the barrel no there weren't how many are there well there are eight or nine in two two in one week two er five dollar <.>lot lucky dips there are eight or nine numbers that weren't even in the barrel how do know that though well a man with a <.>b big er <.>be er better brain <&>27:00 than i have and i mean i think he's up with the top brass i won't tell you who he is he's worked this out for himself and this hasn't happened once so would you be able to find out <{><[><.>wha <[>well there's no point in me doing anything about that i'll ring david bale at the lotteries commission i'll say david <.>mo mona here in christchurch don't thinks you don't put forty balls in the barrel and he'll laugh at me well i'll <{><[>tell you what <[><.>you you're charging him with corruption well it's true well no it's not you're alleging it's true <,> <{><[>you <.>g <[>all right then voc you you got to you got to come up with a lot more than that don't you you can't <.>ge you just can't simply charge the lotteries commission with rigging a game of lotto every week and er potentially gypping people out of millions of dollars well that's exactly what's happening <&>pronounced happing no it's you're alleging that's what's happening all right then it's very important we conduct ourselves properly or else we're gonna get our butts sued aren't we well no good they can't sue me i haven't got anything <{1><[1>no that's not that but <.>it it has been pointed out to <{2><[2>me <[1>well that's good <[2>you well pointing things out and things voc is simply not good enough you got to come up with some pretty factual information when you're <&>28:00 talking about something this serious you can understand what i'm saying can't <{><[>you <[>yes i i can and so if if you can present me with documentation that proves that er voc it's being rigged and the forty balls aren't going in the barrel each week then i'll be i'll be <.>b right behind and we'll have the lawyers and we'll truck up to wellington we'll <{1><[1>we'll make national headlines but but until we can start getting something concrete apart from the bit <.>of a vague allegation then we can't go any further <{2><[2>can we <[1>laughs <[2>well i hope somebody else gets on this one well if if somebody knows that there are BALLS missing in lotto then er then then then listen we'll have hilary timmins on we'll get her on and we'll grill her okay she still present lotto does she i think so good on you <{><[>okay mona bye bye extraordinary <[>thank you bye <&>28:40