<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>17:56 hello jo <&>18:00 tut yes george i i agree with you what you're saying there yesterday i listened to er talkback and um they had this this rubbish in the morning tut um and then they went on to the boy about manners and um then someone rang you up and said about a woman that had been um an asian woman that kept a bloke a woman waiting in a service station oh dreadful woman yes <{><[>well i think that i agree with you that we need more asians in the country they are workers <[>yeah especially if they hold people <{1><[1>like that up in <{2><[2>service stations <[1>yes <[2>that's right and um i have been in shops lots and lots of times where i have been waiting my turn to be served and someone comes in and rushes in front of you to be served and pushes their way in um and they weren't asians well indeed you know yes <{><[>this happens all the time and you know you take australia australia wouldn't be such a good country if it wasn't for all the italians and greeks and they have made australia <[>i <&>19:00 absolutely right <{><[>i think and they've have also made the u s a i have to say <[>so yes yes you know without the mafia what would they have over there <{><[>wouldn't have an f b i laughs <[>laughs yes it's so onesided and stupid if these people didn't come you know er new zealanders need to get off their butts and australian people are just the same um a bit lazy and voc um someone comes in and pushes in <.>but and works voc <.>the they're er they're bad people i tell you what though raised an interesting point about er service stations becoming supermarkets yes and it Irritates the HELL out of me when i pull into a supermarket to get forty bucks worth of gas in the car yes put the gas in the car then i have to stand in a queue a mile long while the while the person plays checkout operators yes for all the goodies that they sell in the <{1><[1>service station now <{2><[2>that annoys me <{3><[3>and service stations have got to sort that <{4><[4>out <&>20:00 <[1>mm <[2>yes <[3>it is annoying <[4>mm but i don't i'm not an asian i'm a new zealander but i don't think that they should pick on on er on just one specific <&>pronounced pacific asian in a flash car i bet they would like to be in that flash <{><[>car and they'd probably do the same thing <[>laughs absolutely right jo thanks for calling nice hearing from you this is radio pacific the talk of new zealand three oh nine three oh double nine is the phone number <&>20:17 <&>two minutes forty eight seconds of greyhound racing results plus community notices and commercials not transcribed <&>buzzing sound in background comes and goes during following section <&>23:05 three oh nine three oh double nine radio pacific the talk of new zealand at twenty minutes past four what do you want to talk about john good afternoon john hi oh is that you er george <{><[>is it <[>it is me george er look er i want to talk about this power business mercury power yep is that all right yep i couldn't get through to allan dick and um mark bennett <{><[>i just spent word eh <[>no gee look i tell you what i've tried getting through to allan dick for twenty years oh yeah but he's all right i didn't say he wasn't you just can't get through to him yeah but i i just want to <{><[>ask this question you know <[>when you ring i mean yeah okay all right go on can you spare me a minute absolutely i i got a thing in the power board you know from the power board saying vote for these nineteen people which ones do you want <,> right mhm now if they were good enough to send that out <&>24:00 why couldn't they send out if i wanted to have a share in it you know in the in the power board like they got in waitemata and bay of plenty and other boards you know they got all got shares for about a thousand bucks where do we get auckland we get mercury power i mean we get thirty two bucks i don't understand what you mean here what are you talking about i er <.>y <.>y you've got me <{><[><.>com <[>well you know waitemata power board yeah they they they they been getting um voc next month they get about fifteen hundred bucks shares who does people at waitemata power board get <.>to get GIVen shares is that what you're saying yeah <,,> yeah? yeah <{><[>word <[>i'm unaware of that but if that's the case <{><[>you know <[>well i i would say at least a thousand well voc where do you get that from well it's been in the papers it's everywhere <&>25:00 <{><[>but why why why can't mercury power this is what i'm trying to ask you know um i got i i i've got a thing here i've got to vote for different people out of nineteen <,> all right but if they they're quick to send it around why couldn't they send around it to the consumers saying do you want to have shares in it or not is that fair enough question <[>has it has i i haven't seen it <.>i well i don't know the answer to that well maybe i'm asking you to look into it cos i couldn't get through to mister dick or to mister bennett <,> <{><[>this morning they were quite busy on that business <[>well mister oh they're always busy mister dick and mister bennett <{><[>er are <[>yeah well they have mark and voc you know well whoever <{><[>maybe i'll have to get sinclair on to it <[>word well i i voc as i said know absolutely nothing about that which you are talking about but if someone can ring me and explain it i'd be more than happy to hear from them yeah well you know there's interest in it but it's been going through my mind you know i <&>26:00 going crazy <,> <{><[>in fact word turn them around but they they never ever sent around why why can't you VOTE if you want to have shares in mercury power <[>okay well we can't have you doing that well that's a good question <{><[>but and i'm not <[>yes maybe if <.>mis <.>mis mister collinge do you know his name <,,> <{><[>if you er <[>it rings a bell yes yeah he used to be the the big boss at <{><[>the auckland er you know what i mean eh <[>yeah oh yeah <{><[>yeah <[>in the national party that's the one yeah yes i know <,> well really no <{><[>i <[>i'm not i'm not really a alcoholic you know <,> well who said you were some people call me that do they yeah they call me crazy well they might be right about that i don't know <{><[>about much about the other <.>thing laughs yes john <[>laughs well i'll tell you what i'll give you a ring back in about <.>half about an hour's time and we'll have a bet on a horse oh no get out of here okay bye mug's game thanks for calling three oh nine three oh double nine mug's game taking advice from other people on who to bet on that's the <&>27:00 that's the mug's game i always choose my own horses that's why i never get rich <&>27:02 <&>rest of side one five minutes thirty six seconds of HG's monologue and commercials not transcribed <&>side two <&>0:32 <&>six minutes sixteen seconds of HG's monologue plus news and weather broadcasts commercials and greyhound racing results not transcribed <&>6:48 hello sarah hi hi how are you good thank you good is this george it is hi george hi sarah um you know that prank caller <.>y er you know <&>7:00 that um person who you up yesterday maylee yes um you know how she was talking about prank calls yes <.>well i i've been having prank calls too really? yeah and do you know what they say <{><[>sometimes they go hello is mister wing there please and then <.>you'll you'll go no and they'll go hello is mister wong there please and they'll go <.>n you go no and they go oh sorry i must've winged the wong number <[>i oh that kind of nonsense yeah okay <{><[><.>l the the <[>do you have any advice for that yes i do you ring telecom and let them know that you're having problems as <.>l er the first thing you do is look at your clock or your watch to establish what time it was then you let telecom know oh yeah because er the telecom computer these days can er record where a call's come from um once the connection's made and they can trace all of these calls so if some idiot's making these calls from their home they're likely to get their phone disconnected for it if they do enough of it oh yeah so you lodge a complaint with telecom <{><[>but keep keep a time <[>word okay so know what time it is okay then <&>8:00 that's the way to go yep right oh sarah thank you george see you bye bye er hal is it yeah yeah it's hal er speaking <{><[>george a a very good evening to you and to all radio pacific listeners it's good to to hear somebody positive er talking about the economy <[>hi hal well you know i get quite frustrated i mean i know i look i tell you i understand that there are some people who are still having a great deal of difficulty making ends meet i also understand that er that you know there are people who are never going to be able to make ends meet and it's easy for someone like me i have an income and i'm comfortable to sit here and pontificate on these sorts of subjects but glory be if the economy's not working then it ain't going to work for anybody the the minute you mention the the recovery <.>w in the economy you're accused of wearing er rose er tinted glasses yeah or of of being on the government's side or in the prime minister's pocket or something like that you see but these these same people george are wearing blinkers <&>9:00 laughs yeah see <.>th see that they're not noticing the economy <.>w <.>w the economy is moving no <.>ma no matter what political <.>per persuasion you are <,> <{><[>whether you're labour national or alliance the the economy is moving and it's <.>a it's moving in the in the er retail business and the building sector and it's very noticeable in auckland and christchurch where the economy is er is going ahead <[>that's true well i tell you what i was er in christchurch doing some d i y stuff around the house over the weekend and i had to go to er to to placemakers to pick up some bits and pieces well i'll tell you mate you couldn't move the place was just flat out <{><[>now that doesn't happen if the economy's not moving <[>yes see these these people these people that criticise the improving of the economy are the er doomcasters and the jeremiahs <.>i i'm not referring to jeremy there laughs laughs take just take a look at <.>w <&>10:00 at the at the hoyts cinema complexes all over the country they're always full yes they are er er er they are er george and and there are positive things going on absolutely look at <{><[>the turnover on the t a b every week <[>yes that's correct yes pubs are still doing okay aren't they and the lotto and <{><[>the er and the er the gambling's up <[>yeah so my only <.>thing <.>you you're quite right a lot of people are blinkered of course i i i have a bit er of an advantage in that particular perspective in that er i i i only have one eye anyway cos i come <{1><[1>from canterbury <{2><[2>laughs <[1>yes <[2>yeah and we gave them the ranfurly shield absolutely be a good game on sunday it will be too be a humdinger that <.>and that that loss last week jeez i don't know if i should be talking out of class like this but er you know it was all designed just to give them a false sense of <.>se security well keep it for a while george and auckland will come down and take it <{><[>off you again <[>laughs laughs nice talking to you yeah right oh <{><[>bye <[>see you hal bye bye <&>10:52 <&>nine minutes twenty seconds of HG's monologue plus greyhound racing results scratchings commercials and rural news not transcribed <&>20:12 in tauranga ken good afternoon to you yes hello george how are you good mate i'm glad there's a lot of good news but when you look at the share market there's no confidence in the economy since the twenty fourth of june the um voc economy's collapsed the share market's collapsed we've made all sorts of excuses under the sun tut and the share market's in <.>a <.>s pretty sodden state then we look at the thing <{><[>look <[>what do you mean it's in a sodden state it's sodden <{1><[1>there's no movement we have lost dollar after dollar after dollar it's <{2><[2>crashed <[1>how's it sodden <[2><.>y you've lost dollar after <{><[>dollar after dollar oh yeah <[>that's right because the share market since twenty fourth of june <.>six if you were track back on this you'll find that we have gone down slightly up but on the down <&>20:57