Latest / Jeep Talk Show / Ep. 13 When Disaster Strikes: How a Jeep XJ Became a Rescue Vehicle!
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- 0:00I can't get it on top show
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- 0:50Gotta push the button
- 0:51Welcome to XJTalk.com
- 0:55The show
- 0:58Hi guys, my name is
- 0:59Tony Mutteroy on XJTalk.com
- 1:03And we have a special show tonight
- 1:05It's special because of the recent events
- 1:08in New Zealand this past week
- 1:11Yesterday, yesterday, yesterday
- 1:15We had a
- 1:16We did an interview with Wayne Lang
- 1:20Can't have 27, moderator
- 1:22extraordinaire on XJTalk.com
- 1:26And we recorded that
- 1:28about a little over a week ago
- 1:30And of course the big earthquake that
- 1:33happened here recently has
- 1:37Has caused a lot of issues in New Zealand
- 1:39as you've been aware of
- 1:40If you've been watching the news
- 1:41So we'll be playing that interview
- 1:45Wayne may be in the chat room
- 1:47It just really depends
- 1:48He's fortunate to have
- 1:49electricity and internet access
- 1:51So we'll get started
- 1:52here in just a second
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- 3:34hearing from you today.
- 3:35Well, let's see. We've got
- 3:37Dalton 4x4, Fireman Ray-1.
- 3:41I think Fireman Ray is the good one.
- 3:44Fireman Ray-1 is the equal twin.
- 3:47Punisher72.
- 3:50He told me what this was.
- 3:52"Are you get done?"
- 3:55I can't remember. I'm sorry.
- 3:59Rugged1. There we go. Thank you.
- 4:03Rugged1 and Weldman.
- 4:06Hmm. Big Jim was here.
- 4:08I wonder where he went.
- 4:09I wonder if he ran out of vodka. He had
- 4:11to make a quick run to the store.
- 4:13So guys, thanks for showing up.
- 4:14As you may have read, whether
- 4:17it be on the xjtalk.com site
- 4:22or if you follow XJtalk
- 4:25on Facebook or Twitter.
- 4:28I made the announcements there as well.
- 4:31But we recorded an interview, Wayne and I
- 4:34recorded an interview,
- 4:35a little over a week ago, certainly
- 4:38before this 6.3 earthquake that they had.
- 4:42And we talked about, you know, what's it
- 4:45like to have a Jeep in New Zealand?
- 4:47What do you do?
- 4:48And we also talked a little bit about the
- 4:50quake that they had back in September.
- 4:53I think we even discussed some
- 4:55predictions about
- 4:56another big quake coming,
- 4:58having to do with the gentleman that
- 5:01predicts quakes by
- 5:03where the moon position is,
- 5:06high tides, low tides, etc., etc.
- 5:09And I think I even poo-pooed it in the
- 5:11interview. But you'll get to hear that.
- 5:13But before we begin, I would like to play
- 5:16a couple of voicemails that
- 5:19several of our XJtalk members,
- 5:21xjtalk.com members were kind
- 5:24enough to call in and leave.
- 5:26So let's get started here with Big Jim,
- 5:29It's Clean. So don't get your hopes up.
- 5:32Yeah, this is Big Jim 350.
- 5:35Just wanted to tell Wayne that we're all
- 5:37praying for him over here and hoping
- 5:40everything goes well.
- 5:41And just letting you Wayne know that if
- 5:45you need anything, just know him.
- 5:47And we'll be happy to
- 5:48help you as much as we can.
- 5:50Talk to you later, buddy.
- 5:52Thanks, Jim. I know that you guys talk to
- 5:55Wayne a lot, and we actually we, I say we
- 5:59have been very fortunate because Wayne
- 6:02didn't lose his internet access.
- 6:05He still has a house. There's thousands
- 6:07of people that are homeless in the
- 6:09Christchurch area
- 6:10because their homes collapsed.
- 6:12And Wayne is one of the lucky ones, and
- 6:16he actually has a full
- 6:17house right now of 10 people.
- 6:19And he didn't name them, but I'm sure
- 6:21that he is trying to help out certainly
- 6:24his mother-in-law and friends and
- 6:27neighbors that perhaps
- 6:28don't have some place to live.
- 6:31When I spoke with him the other day, he
- 6:33was it was raining really hard out.
- 6:37And, you know, we kind of take our houses
- 6:40for granted. And when you
- 6:42don't have one, what do you do?
- 6:44I mean, it can be very depressing because
- 6:49even if you get something built back up,
- 6:51how do you know how long it's going to be
- 6:53there before it gets shaken apart again?
- 6:55It's very even though Wayne and his
- 6:59family are uninjured and safe, at least
- 7:03for the time being, because you don't
- 7:05know what's going to happen when there's
- 7:06earthquakes, there's
- 7:08still that frustration.
- 7:10There's still that I don't know. On the
- 7:12Gulf Coast, we kind of have it lucky
- 7:14because we get warnings of when the
- 7:16hurricane is coming and
- 7:18when it's going to be here.
- 7:19I mean, you can set your watch to it
- 7:20almost, and you have an idea how long
- 7:23it's going to last, and
- 7:24then it's going to be over.
- 7:25And it's probably going to be just
- 7:27several years before you
- 7:29have to go through that again.
- 7:30But people that are in quake-prone areas
- 7:32and actually New Zealand, from what Wayne
- 7:35was telling me, is
- 7:35not a quake-prone area.
- 7:38But if you're in a
- 7:39quake-prone area, there's no warning.
- 7:41I mean, there may be some tremors leading
- 7:44up to the big quake, and then
- 7:46certainly tremors afterwards.
- 7:47But it's not like a weather event. It's
- 7:51not even like a fire-raging trees forest
- 7:57fire that's coming barreling towards your
- 8:00house, or even a lava spill.
- 8:04Hang on, we've got Wayne
- 8:04coming in. Are you there, Wayne?
- 8:07Wayne just called in on Skype, and I'm
- 8:09just seeing if I can get a hold of him
- 8:11here. Hang on a second, Wayne.
- 8:13Let me just make some adjustments here
- 8:16and make sure I have
- 8:17this thing set up properly.
- 8:19I had made some changes to it. Yep, it
- 8:22looks like it should be
- 8:22fine. You able to hear me, Wayne?
- 8:25Hi, Tony.
- 8:26Hey, there we go. Yeah, it was a little
- 8:28misconfiguration on my side.
- 8:30I recently moved the equipment and wasn't
- 8:32able to... I didn't test it. I didn't
- 8:35anticipate a Skype call tonight,
- 8:37especially with all that was going on
- 8:39over there with you.
- 8:40I just quickly thought, well, how will it
- 8:42get to everyone that's
- 8:43been locked out for the night?
- 8:43You see, it's kind of good to unwind for
- 8:45a bit. So yeah, what a chat to you is.
- 8:47I've had mine off things.
- 8:48Well, you know, you sound good. You sound
- 8:50a lot better than what I thought you
- 8:51would with all the lack of sleep,
- 8:53and I'm sure the worry that you've been
- 8:55going through with
- 8:56wondering what's coming up next.
- 8:58I've called up with my brother today and
- 9:00delivered him some water.
- 9:02I know all of my rest of my family is
- 9:03safe. I've got one sister who's actually
- 9:05out of Christchurch.
- 9:06My brother who a few of the boys met last
- 9:08night on chat, she's got all her family
- 9:11here, immediate family here.
- 9:12We know everyone we know and love is
- 9:14safe, so we're pretty happy. We're pretty
- 9:15sad about other stuff, but
- 9:16we're pretty happy about that.
- 9:18Well, you're certainly very fortunate
- 9:21compared to a lot of the people there in
- 9:23Christchurch, and that's
- 9:25a lot to be thankful for.
- 9:26I know it's a hard thing to do right now,
- 9:28but your family is safe.
- 9:33Regardless of the concern that you may
- 9:36have about what's coming, you know, it
- 9:38may be over. I don't know.
- 9:39I know that's not what they're
- 9:40predicting, but at least you made it
- 9:43through, and everybody's good.
- 9:46We got a lot to be thankful for. We got a
- 9:48reef over our head. We're warm. We got
- 9:50food. We got water. We got power.
- 9:52There's thousands and thousands here.
- 9:54Well, that's amazing. I didn't realize
- 9:56that you had all the basic necessities.
- 9:59Yeah, we're really lucky out here. But
- 10:03you gave, I think, five minutes up the
- 10:05road, and then there's that rung now to
- 10:06power, and you see damage.
- 10:09Well, you certainly picked a good place
- 10:10to live. I bet you had no idea that
- 10:12anything like this
- 10:13was going to come about.
- 10:14Now, I know that we've talked about this
- 10:16before, but I just want to, since I have
- 10:17you here, I thought I would just ask
- 10:20again since we're live.
- 10:23This is not normal for New Zealand to
- 10:26have quakes like this.
- 10:28No, I haven't felt, I'd be lucky if I
- 10:30felt like five or six. We went through my
- 10:33small entire life, like 45, lived here
- 10:36the majority of my life.
- 10:37And nah, we just not, wasn't expected.
- 10:41It's not renowned for earthquakes,
- 10:43Christage, or New Zealanders.
- 10:45And we do get them, but little like twos
- 10:47and ones, you know, every country gets
- 10:48little ones, I think.
- 10:49Sure, sure. I've been told we've had them
- 10:52here in Texas. I've never felt one.
- 10:55That's one that's destroyed Christage,
- 10:56mate. She's a country, and a little town
- 11:00that's talking about just bulldozing the
- 11:01whole CDB area, the Central District.
- 11:05They've got buildings just waiting to
- 11:07fall over. But we've got a lot of
- 11:09international help here now.
- 11:10You guys are here now. Australia, Japan,
- 11:13Italy, numerous countries are flying over
- 11:17and helping looking for people.
- 11:18So that's really incredible, that.
- 11:20That's great. And I'm always very proud
- 11:22of the United States whenever we get
- 11:24involved in things like this.
- 11:26And, you know, that's one of the
- 11:28countries that is always involved in the
- 11:31help and the cleanup around the world.
- 11:33But still, a still rescue operation in
- 11:36town, that's what they're concentrating
- 11:37on. People are surviving
- 11:38with water tanks in the suburbs.
- 11:40And like we're housing people, a lot of
- 11:42that's helping. It's still rescue
- 11:44recovery in town at the moment. They're
- 11:45looking for people trapped.
- 11:47Are they having any luck finding people?
- 11:50They found another one today. They pulled
- 11:52120 out. They've confirmed 76 dead.
- 11:55There's about 300 missing, I think.
- 11:58Wow, 120. I like that
- 12:00figure. That's wonderful.
- 12:02Anymore from now will be a miracle. But,
- 12:04like, I don't know if you've ever gated
- 12:06Christage, where we got our... They're
- 12:07called the Port Hills,
- 12:09in a park called Subna.
- 12:12They've found some people over there,
- 12:13being killed by rocks. It's been rock
- 12:14falls as well. So they're discovering bad
- 12:18bits all the time, if
- 12:18you get what I've made.
- 12:19Right. Well, I certainly hope that
- 12:21they're able to... I know it doesn't
- 12:23sound like it's going to be very good
- 12:24news for the 300 that are missing, but
- 12:26I'm hoping that, against hope, that that
- 12:29will be... I'll be wrong
- 12:30in my assumption there.
- 12:32There's always a miracle out of, you
- 12:33know, if they just pull one person out,
- 12:35you know, in a couple of three days,
- 12:37there's always a miracle
- 12:38that needs kind of disaster.
- 12:39There always seems to be something like
- 12:40that, and that kind of lifts people's
- 12:41spirits. We're going to lose a lot, but
- 12:43if you get what I mean, that one-way
- 12:44miracle lifts a lot of spirits.
- 12:46Exactly. Well, it gives everybody hope.
- 12:48And I think that, you know, the human
- 12:50condition, the survival instinct, it
- 12:52means a lot. And if that one person could
- 12:55do it, maybe there's more.
- 12:56Exactly.
- 12:57Rini Arganard asked if
- 12:59you still have water.
- 13:01Yeah, we're... 60% has power now. They're
- 13:06really good doing the infrastructure.
- 13:08This is out of suburbs.
- 13:0980% is still without water.
- 13:12Ourself at home here, we've
- 13:13got water and electricity.
- 13:15So how are you doing on food?
- 13:19We traveled to another little town about
- 13:2140 minutes away and got some food. Took
- 13:24my partner, Bridget,
- 13:25about three or four hours.
- 13:26They're actually sitting at a service
- 13:28station and waiting to get petrol. I got
- 13:30up really early this morning and filled
- 13:31the jeep up on Taley Full and the jeep.
- 13:33We've got a piece somewhere I can go.
- 13:36We've got another car that's called it
- 13:37out for my brother-in-law, so they can be
- 13:39mobile tomorrow. And we just wait to get
- 13:41back. And we'll go back later on tonight
- 13:43and join another queue
- 13:43and get petrol on that one.
- 13:45Yeah, it's not fun. The only thing I have
- 13:48to compare it to is when we had Hurricane
- 13:51Ike and the hurricane before that that we
- 13:54were threatened with.
- 13:55It was not pleasant. And that was only
- 13:58the threat of a disaster that wasn't an
- 14:00actual disaster. So you'd be very, very
- 14:04safe. People will do crazy things when
- 14:08they get concerned for their livelihood.
- 14:12I mean, not the livelihood. Their lives.
- 14:14It was the day the earthquake was a
- 14:18mission. I went and got my mother-in-law
- 14:22out. I was riding through like two foot
- 14:24of water and the roads had disappeared.
- 14:26You see the fade over of that car
- 14:28disappeared on the road. You couldn't see
- 14:29those holes. They were just like suckles.
- 14:32So that was quite challenging driving to
- 14:35see where the road was. I was on the
- 14:37footpath half the time, churning up mud.
- 14:39I stopped, picked up an elderly couple
- 14:41who was struggling in water and dropped
- 14:43them a couple of miles down the road to
- 14:44where it was dry. Another lady was
- 14:46sitting in the middle of the road in a
- 14:47little car, just hysterical crying.
- 14:50We carried her out and someone drove her
- 14:52car and carried on. Finally got my
- 14:54mother-in-law out. Twenty-one drive took
- 14:55on two, two and a half hours. Then it was
- 14:58dark and it was raining so the trip back
- 14:59was quite exciting too.
- 15:00And you were doing all
- 15:01this in the Jeep, right?
- 15:03Yep. Love the Jeep.
- 15:06This is what I'm telling you, man. I
- 15:07mean, I went through this stuff with the
- 15:10hurricane, the threat of
- 15:11the hurricane, I should say.
- 15:12And I was sitting here with a stock
- 15:14four-wheel drive and I said, "Don't
- 15:16worry. I am not going to have a
- 15:18four-wheel drive that's not ready to take
- 15:21me and my family out of harm's way."
- 15:23And obviously this couldn't get you out
- 15:26of harm's way, but this is getting you in
- 15:28and around and it's certainly allowing
- 15:29you to navigate through this disaster
- 15:32area and help people at the same time.
- 15:35I was helping. I was getting looks at
- 15:37people going, "No. Wish we could do that
- 15:39kind of thing." I actually had some
- 15:41people who started following me, some
- 15:43officials in City Care Car, and they were
- 15:47following me real slowly and I thought,
- 15:48"Is that going to get stuck?"
- 15:49They turned around when I went over a
- 15:50bridge and there was, I'd say, a drop of
- 15:53weather bridge to the road meets.
- 15:55I just ploughed over there to my Jeep.
- 15:56They turned around to their stage and
- 15:57headed back. I thought
- 15:59that was quite funny.
- 16:00I bet you're very happy that you have
- 16:02that 12,000-pound winch on your rig now.
- 16:04Yeah. I haven't had to pull anything out.
- 16:08They're still wanting us to help, but
- 16:11they're still doing this stuff in town.
- 16:13Once they give us the okay and there's
- 16:14meeting points, the guy I work with,
- 16:17we're just going to fill our work hutes
- 16:18up and we're just going to head to where
- 16:19we've been told and start digging this.
- 16:22There's a lot of liquidation where the
- 16:25water and sand comes up and it's blocked
- 16:27roads and people's footpaths and it gets
- 16:31terminated and turns to
- 16:32dust and people get sick.
- 16:34That's what we've got to get rid of.
- 16:34That's what we'll be concentrating on.
- 16:37But still, having the winch, I'm sure, is
- 16:39a great feeling since you know that if
- 16:44you get yourself into a situation, you're
- 16:45probably going to be
- 16:46able to get yourself out.
- 16:47I did turn down a side road and I
- 16:49thought, "Oh, this could be tricky."
- 16:51This was heading back at night to pick up
- 16:53the brother-in-law. I must have made two
- 16:55trips on the day of the earthquake.
- 16:57I thought it'd be a quicker way to get
- 16:59there and it wasn't. There was cars just
- 17:00stuck and mud and blown
- 17:02out way past their tyres.
- 17:04That's when I thought, "Well, if I get
- 17:05stuck, I can always winch to a land post,
- 17:06pull up and carry on
- 17:08further if you get what I mean."
- 17:09So yeah, that was peace of mind.
- 17:10Yeah, and this is exactly the reason why
- 17:13I've started into a
- 17:15hobby, lifting my Jeep.
- 17:18But this is exactly the reason why I'm
- 17:20doing the things to my Jeep is because I
- 17:23don't want to be in a
- 17:23disaster and not be ready.
- 17:25I do not want to be that close to the
- 17:27road and get myself in a situation that I
- 17:30can't get myself out of.
- 17:32Some of the streets I went down, I went
- 17:33and got down in an honorary car. It was
- 17:35crazy what I was doing.
- 17:36Just to get to my
- 17:39mother-in-law's place, there wasn't one.
- 17:41The big units, dresses and drawers, they
- 17:46had all fallen. I was
- 17:46lifting them up, looking for it.
- 17:47We hadn't been in touch with it. I found
- 17:49out after about five minutes, two houses
- 17:51down the road, they must have heard me
- 17:52banging and yelling.
- 17:53I've seen photos, roughly, of that
- 17:55through, but there
- 17:55wasn't patches of walls.
- 17:57There was a big china cabinet where you
- 17:59have all your plates and stuff, and they
- 18:00were just buried through walls, TVs down.
- 18:03That was quite freaky when I
- 18:04first walked into that room.
- 18:06But we found it. We're all good.
- 18:07I don't doubt it. So your wife was in a
- 18:11high-rise building whenever
- 18:13the quake hit, wasn't she?
- 18:14Yes, she had a bad time of it. I was
- 18:18actually home with
- 18:19Jordan, so I was really lucky.
- 18:20That's our boy. We were just still in the
- 18:22middle of the road, hugging each other.
- 18:23I was really, really frightened in this
- 18:24one. Violent. Man, it was violent.
- 18:29She was in town. Obviously, I wanted to
- 18:32be in there and see if I could find her,
- 18:33but common sense said stay here.
- 18:36About two hours later, I think, we got a
- 18:37text from a strange number, and as soon
- 18:39as I got a text on
- 18:40you, she was all right.
- 18:41What they did is they put her into... We
- 18:44got a lot of parks in our
- 18:45town, like, open spaces.
- 18:47They put everyone in groups. You live in
- 18:49that part, north,
- 18:50south, east, west, whatever.
- 18:51Then they shoot a car and everything's
- 18:53still in town, and they just shuttled
- 18:54everyone out, one
- 18:55group by group by group.
- 18:56But their building was shaking and
- 18:58plaster and stuff was falling down when
- 19:00they were running down the stairways.
- 19:02Then when she got outside, by the time
- 19:05she had been able to get away, she'd seen
- 19:09some really horrible sights,
- 19:10like some bad belly hurt people and
- 19:11whatnot. She came home.
- 19:13She was pretty struck up.
- 19:15I went over to my brother this morning.
- 19:16He lives out by the ocean, and we had a
- 19:18wee aftershock, and she just looked at me
- 19:20and says, "Can we please go home?"
- 19:21She's pretty struck up as the partner or
- 19:23the wife. She's pretty tough.
- 19:27I just can't imagine. Everything's
- 19:30normal, and then the ground starts
- 19:31shaking. There's nothing you can do.
- 19:34There's no court to stop.
- 19:36I was sitting on the computer about to
- 19:39log into this, I think, to the site, and
- 19:41it just went "spang!"
- 19:42This was just one o'clock in the
- 19:44afternoon, and then Tuesday afternoon.
- 19:46We had that big one September, and we
- 19:48thought, "It's all
- 19:50good. The hell of the blue."
- 19:51This one is flat enough.
- 19:54Well, I'm hoping this one isn't as... I'm
- 19:57hoping this is the worst it is.
- 19:58I'm hoping there's not going to be
- 19:59anything worse than this.
- 20:01I'm hoping this has been the build-up
- 20:04with all these minor quakes that you've
- 20:06been having since
- 20:07September. I hope this is it.
- 20:08This one was so shallow, and it was
- 20:10closer to the city. That's
- 20:11why it's caused more damage.
- 20:12I know you work in miles, but it was only
- 20:14five kilometers deep from the surface.
- 20:17That's what's done all the damage.
- 20:18Yeah, I think that's only like three and
- 20:20a half miles or something,
- 20:21and it's been real measured.
- 20:23All those links I've put up on that post,
- 20:26that Crisis Youthquake post, if you keep
- 20:29hitting those, they get updated too.
- 20:30If you don't hear from me for a few days
- 20:32or if I don't know what I'm doing, if
- 20:35you're curious, they actually update, or
- 20:37they will go to the
- 20:37homepage from those links.
- 20:39We'll update. I'll put some new photos
- 20:40up, and you can kind of see what it's
- 20:42done to the city center
- 20:43and the other suburbs.
- 20:44I'm waiting for a video. They've had a
- 20:47chopper flying over in that town,
- 20:48changing how much water and mud's in the
- 20:51streets and whatnot.
- 20:52Yeah.
- 20:52I'll flick that up when I find it.
- 20:53I was going to ask you about this. I did
- 20:55watch some of the – looked at the video
- 20:58or was reading something on one of the
- 21:00links that you had posted on XJTalk, and
- 21:03a large part of the glacier came off and
- 21:08fell into the water.
- 21:09Is that what's causing the flooding?
- 21:12No, no, that's just hundreds of – 100
- 21:16miles away. That's just a freaking out.
- 21:19That's an incredible looking thing,
- 21:20though. It's actually quite a beautiful
- 21:22photo of that thing floating in the lake.
- 21:24What is it? It's a liquefaction. It just
- 21:28gets sand and it just gets forced out of
- 21:30the earth and water, plus you
- 21:32burst water pipes and all that.
- 21:35We're a low-lying city anyway. We're
- 21:36built on swamp in the 1800s, whatever we
- 21:38were built. That causes a
- 21:41lot of problems, I think.
- 21:42It drains after a few days, but it's just
- 21:44bizarre. There's just big
- 21:45piles of sand everywhere and mud.
- 21:48Then it clogs everything
- 21:49up. It's quite bizarre stuff.
- 21:51Yeah, I was thinking
- 21:52liquefaction was the –
- 21:54Thanks. Well, you don't have trouble
- 21:55saying that word, don't you? Thank you.
- 21:58Yeah, liquefaction. I have problems
- 22:00saying a lot of words.
- 22:02I'm very careful not to say – I'm very
- 22:04careful not to say it soon. We're gym
- 22:06singing to say it, because I'm pretty
- 22:07much on edge, but I'm
- 22:09being real careful here.
- 22:10I think Jim's probably already said it
- 22:12several times while we were saying it.
- 22:13You're mispronouncing that.
- 22:15While we're on that subject, thanks,
- 22:17guys, for all the messages and everything
- 22:18you've seen. Thanks to – I think it was
- 22:20Scott, Jim, and not sure you want to be
- 22:23brought in or the other guys who were
- 22:24chatting to my partner, Bridget.
- 22:26She felt really good after that last
- 22:27night, and that really helped, eh? I just
- 22:28appreciate it. Thank you.
- 22:29Oh, that's great. That's wonderful to
- 22:31hear. I'm glad that we can help. I mean,
- 22:33we're just a bunch of
- 22:33jeepers playing around.
- 22:35Some of us are probably too old to be
- 22:37doing this stuff,
- 22:38playing around with jeeps.
- 22:39And in the midst of all this, we're in
- 22:41the middle of a catastrophe in New
- 22:44Zealand, and we're actually able to help
- 22:45out, if not directly, indirectly.
- 22:50I just took a reminder of everything for
- 22:52half an hour. She got off and was
- 22:53smiling, eh? I ain't seen her for a
- 22:55couple of days. That was really cool,
- 22:57guys. I really appreciate that.
- 23:00Dalton. Well, Dalton, you're not old.
- 23:02Dalton says old. Us, never.
- 23:04Old hardcore. How you doing, fella?
- 23:08Let's see. Oh, yeah. Rene Arganard says,
- 23:13"Is she going to join XJ Talk?"
- 23:16We got one go on the bank, that's enough.
- 23:20Yeah, there was some discussion in the
- 23:22chat about her joining XJ Talk, and then
- 23:26I think that was, "Well, Wayne's going to
- 23:27get in trouble, and all
- 23:29Wayne's fun will be gone, then."
- 23:31Well, XJ Talk, that's my happy place.
- 23:33That's where I hide.
- 23:36That's what, "We won't last domain taken
- 23:38over." I can't even hear.
- 23:40That's exactly what I was thinking, was,
- 23:42you know, it's, we all know how to act,
- 23:45but sometimes we like
- 23:45to act like we were born.
- 23:49Speaking of domains and whatnot, Big Jim
- 23:54posted the link to a local TV station
- 23:57where you had done an interview, a phone
- 23:59interview, with Sherman Chow.
- 24:02Oh, yeah, yeah. The lady
- 24:05who had to done a name.
- 24:07Exactly. The buffet. And I thought it was
- 24:11pretty cool. I was watching the segment,
- 24:13and of course you were in just a very
- 24:15small part of it at the end, but they
- 24:17didn't mention the XJTalk.com site by
- 24:20name, but they did show your post that
- 24:23you had put on there.
- 24:25And briefly, the XJTalk logo was shown.
- 24:29So it only required a disaster of epic
- 24:34proportions to get some, about half a
- 24:37second of airtime, television airtime for
- 24:39XJTalk, and I just wanted to thank you.
- 24:41I was just wondering, we have been, Jim
- 24:43and Rini, who you organize, where you
- 24:46going to pay the funds to,
- 24:48you know? What do you call it?
- 24:50Right.
- 24:51We always in the build, Tony.
- 24:54So when I missed all this, the important
- 24:57thing was that XJTalk.com got TV time.
- 25:00Yeah, I did see the link, and I had that,
- 25:03I think it's a photo of that squash bus
- 25:04almost. I think it was there, you can
- 25:06just see the yellow, the extra, the
- 25:07biggie, XJ.com. Did you
- 25:09mention it by name, didn't you?
- 25:11I think she said a Houston-based website,
- 25:14and they actually said that you were a
- 25:16moderator on the website,
- 25:18which I thought was very cool.
- 25:21She rang her in the blue, and I was like
- 25:228.30 in the morning, I hadn't slept. And
- 25:25I honestly thought to myself, "Hey, the
- 25:28*******
- 25:28was having me on here?" You know, kind of
- 25:30thing, because it was main disaster.
- 25:31Then I looked at the phone number, and
- 25:32then she rang back on the landline, and
- 25:36there's about a thousand phone numbers,
- 25:37and you know, numbers, and you know, when
- 25:39you can see the number ringing.
- 25:40And yeah, as I said, the line will
- 25:42probably cut out, I'm pretty busy, but
- 25:44yeah, just a few quick things I answered.
- 25:47It was kind of cool, actually.
- 25:48How was she? Was she nice?
- 25:51She was really, really nice.
- 25:53She seems to be here. She's been on
- 25:55Channel 11, the local CBS affiliate here
- 25:59in Houston for many, many years.
- 26:02Diane thinks you can
- 26:02understand me half the time.
- 26:05None of us can, Wayne.
- 26:07You speak proper English.
- 26:10I think she was hanging on me beer. What
- 26:11are you ringing about that, mate?
- 26:13Did you hear that, Bear? She was hitting
- 26:16on him. Just reading the chat room here.
- 26:20I can't see now. I'm just staying on
- 26:21Skype, so don't fall off.
- 26:22No, no, no, I understand. I was just
- 26:24reading through here, so I didn't have
- 26:25some, so people wouldn't be
- 26:26wondering why there was silence.
- 26:29Do any of you guys have anything, any
- 26:31questions for Wayne
- 26:32while we have him here alive?
- 26:36Bear says, "Dad getting
- 26:37hit on by Asian women."
- 26:39I knew she was a bit short of you.
- 26:43Rene would like to know if you're okay.
- 26:45Yeah, we're okay. Look, it's just a
- 26:48waiting game now. Rene, we feel helpless,
- 26:52but it's just a waiting game now.
- 26:53We just wait till the authorities tell us
- 26:55what to do. We're sensible. We'll stay
- 26:56off the roads unless we have
- 26:57to, which we'd be nice to do.
- 27:00I've got all my, my mobile, one of my
- 27:02family texts me, I'll be away. They've
- 27:03all got my numbers. They've no, not
- 27:05friends, or the same thing.
- 27:07If they need a hand, they'll know I'll be
- 27:08there straight away, and I'm just sitting
- 27:09around waiting kind of thing, you know?
- 27:11Paul in Florida, Punisher72, says, "Yeah,
- 27:15come move to the US."
- 27:17Yeah, California's quiet, isn't it?
- 27:20Yeah, you know, I wouldn't, I think I
- 27:22would disown you if
- 27:23you moved to California.
- 27:25That shakes just as bad.
- 27:27Exactly, but it would be
- 27:28for more than one reason.
- 27:29We're going to sit down in a week, two
- 27:32weeks in time, and wait till we get our
- 27:35mother-in-law and everything back to
- 27:36their house, up and running the power,
- 27:37and I think we will take off for a couple
- 27:40of weeks or something.
- 27:40If I get stuff, I can again, I'll get my
- 27:42family out later, they'll go off.
- 27:44Farman Ray here in Livingston, Texas
- 27:48says, "Hang in there, Wayne."
- 27:49Cheers, Ray, appreciate it, mate.
- 27:51Actually, I was just in the middle of
- 27:53playing some of these messages, and now
- 27:55that you're here, you
- 27:55can listen to them live.
- 27:56Let me let you hear this
- 27:58one from 4x4 Dalton Bear.
- 28:02Hey, this is 4x4 Dalton from Virginia,
- 28:04just calling to tell Wayne, glad he's
- 28:06alright, hope everything works out for
- 28:10him. Good luck, y'all.
- 28:13And I got another one
- 28:14here from Mark, Payless4x4.
- 28:17Hey, Wayne, this is Mark, Payless 4-wheel
- 28:18drive here in Chico, Northern California.
- 28:21I just wanted to say, I'm glad to hear
- 28:23you guys are okay. If there's anything we
- 28:26can do for you, give us a holler.
- 28:28I'd be happy to help any way we can.
- 28:30Other than that, stay strong, and we'll
- 28:32be praying for you. Take care now. Bye.
- 28:35That all means a lot, these kind of
- 28:38messages means a lot. I did Warren, who's
- 28:40on the site, CJ4, he's
- 28:42building the Miranda Jeep thing.
- 28:44He pops in there, and again, he's got his
- 28:45gold, I got a text from him yesterday.
- 28:47My mate, where that red XJ is, his
- 28:50workshop got destroyed, it's flat
- 28:51apparently, but they got out alive, so
- 28:52that's the main thing.
- 28:54That's too bad. I hate to hear that, but
- 28:56yeah, I mean, if you're alive, you can
- 28:58continue and do
- 29:00something hopefully better.
- 29:02Yeah, you can start again. But yeah,
- 29:04Warren's good as gold, I think.
- 29:05Steve, and Warren talk a fair bit about
- 29:09the mighty might in his Jeep, so if
- 29:12you're listening, Steve,
- 29:12Warren's good as gold, mate.
- 29:13Excellent. I'll make sure I get that up
- 29:17on the site as well. We have one more
- 29:19message here from Kurt
- 29:20Weldman from XJTalk.com.
- 29:23This is Kurt or Weldman. I just wanted to
- 29:25call Colleen and Bridget that hope things
- 29:31get better, and I'm sure the whole group
- 29:34here will agree with me, and we'll send
- 29:36you love and hope
- 29:37everything turns out good for you.
- 29:40And I think this is the one that was
- 29:42playing whenever you called. This one's
- 29:44from Big Jim 350. It is clean.
- 29:47Yeah, it's Big Jim 350. Just wanted to
- 29:51tell Wayne that we're all praying for him
- 29:53over here and hoping
- 29:55everything goes well.
- 29:57And just letting you Wayne know that if
- 30:00you need anything, then we'll be happy to
- 30:03help you as much as we
- 30:05can. Talk to you later, buddy.
- 30:06That was a last minute thought that we
- 30:09had, and that was all that we were able
- 30:11to get in before showtime.
- 30:13But I know that there's been lots of
- 30:16people reading your posts and very happy
- 30:19that you were able to communicate with us
- 30:22so far away and
- 30:24through so much devastation.
- 30:26It's been a blessing for us because I
- 30:29know several of us were very concerned
- 30:31from the 7.1 hit, and we were very happy
- 30:34that we were able to continue to
- 30:36communicate with you.
- 30:39That first one, on September, it feels
- 30:42like years ago now after this one, I know
- 30:44just what I've seen and what's happened.
- 30:46That first one just seemed like one of
- 30:49those mild aftershocks we
- 30:50get. It's just so bizarre.
- 30:52So yeah, bizarre as well, I think.
- 30:55Well, certainly you've experienced
- 30:57something that few people will experience
- 30:59in their lifetime, and
- 31:00I'm sure once is enough.
- 31:03Yeah, well, this is where we're in
- 31:06National Disaster Zone at the moment.
- 31:08They've left it at the Army's inn. They
- 31:12haven't had a couple of Navy boats in the
- 31:13port at the moment, so
- 31:14they've opened their boats up.
- 31:16Because 60% of the buildings in the port
- 31:19area got destroyed. So we were lucky in
- 31:22some places it was kind of things were
- 31:25up, but some of these people got killed
- 31:27where builders and the likes were
- 31:28repairing the damage from the first one,
- 31:30which is just crazy
- 31:32if you think about it.
- 31:33That's horrible. So they were actually
- 31:36involved in repairing the damaged
- 31:39buildings from the initial, the 7.1, and
- 31:42they were killed while they were doing
- 31:43the repairs during the 6.3.
- 31:46Yep, the worst stories coming out, it was
- 31:49like the guys who were walking down the
- 31:52road after it happened, and they seen a
- 31:53pushbike and some rubble, and they
- 31:54thought, well, chances are they won't.
- 31:56And they did find a deceased person, and
- 32:00that's just yuck if you ask me. They had
- 32:02to look, I figure what I mean.
- 32:05To see if the person
- 32:06was alive or whatever.
- 32:08But this happens at every disaster. We'll
- 32:12be happy. It'll be light at the end of
- 32:14the tunnel. You're
- 32:14just going to be positive.
- 32:16Yeah, and there's so many more people
- 32:17that are alive than those that have
- 32:20passed away. I know that it's very
- 32:23concerning because you see those people
- 32:24and you think, that could have been me.
- 32:26But the point is, it wasn't you.
- 32:29We're going to look
- 32:30after him. He's alive now.
- 32:31Right, and chances are very good that it
- 32:33won't be you or your family. Because if
- 32:36you look at it from a percentage
- 32:37standpoint, very, very few people were
- 32:41killed in the total population.
- 32:43So all in all, it's still very lucky. I
- 32:46know it's hard to look at it that way,
- 32:47especially if it's a
- 32:48loved one or a friend.
- 32:49I was laughing a few minutes ago because
- 32:53Fireman Ray says on the chat room, "Tell
- 32:55Wayne I posted a picture of the 50 piece
- 32:58nugget meal for him."
- 33:00Finally.
- 33:01Just before all this happened.
- 33:04I have to have a look at that because
- 33:06that blew me away. Geez, 50. And it had
- 33:09one of those little,
- 33:10little mustic ones. Mustic pecs.
- 33:13I think it was the night before Super
- 33:17Bowl. So like on a Friday night, my wife
- 33:20went and got a 50 piece McNugget for us.
- 33:22That was for the five of us.
- 33:25F*** yeah, I like them things.
- 33:28I remember one time we went and it was
- 33:30back and I like it better whenever you
- 33:31got the bucket. I don't know if you guys
- 33:33have bucket of chicken over
- 33:34there like they used to sell.
- 33:36Yeah, the kennels got that.
- 33:37Yeah, exactly. But they used to sell it
- 33:39in a big bucket like that. I really like
- 33:41that. I mean, just, you know, the fat
- 33:43redneck in me just likes the
- 33:45idea of a bucket of nuggets.
- 33:47Sounds good too.
- 33:48Yeah, a bucket of nuggets.
- 33:52And I told my, I think my stepson was the
- 33:55one that actually went to get it. And I
- 33:56said, "Michael, whenever you go, tell
- 33:58them that you want 20, 25 or no."
- 34:02Maybe it was more than that because I
- 34:04think I told him 100 of the sweet and
- 34:07sour sauce because, you know, it wasn't
- 34:10100. I guess it was like 20 or 30 of them
- 34:13because, you know, it's 50 nuggets.
- 34:15And, you know, you don't want to just eat
- 34:16a nugget. You want some stuff on it.
- 34:19I love their mustard stuff.
- 34:20They've mustard sauce, man.
- 34:22Yeah, that's good too. But anyway, he
- 34:25came back with literally 100 of those, a
- 34:28mixture of the
- 34:29buffalo, the sweet and sour.
- 34:31It was the sauces, there was more sauces
- 34:34than there were, you know, physical size,
- 34:36volume was more sauce than there was
- 34:38nuggets. It was great.
- 34:40Oh, that's good.
- 34:41They don't do that anymore. I think that
- 34:43they, I think that somebody got, found
- 34:46out that that happened and they just,
- 34:47they don't do it. You know, that you're
- 34:48lucky if you get very mean at all now.
- 34:50Just reading the chat room here. Fat
- 34:52redneck, who's calling me? That's, that
- 34:53was big Jim 350. Jim, you're not, you're
- 34:56not fat. You're just big bound.
- 34:58He's just big bound. He's chunky.
- 35:00There's a waiting to get out.
- 35:07Yeah, I feel good.
- 35:10Dalton four by four says, LOL Jim, I was
- 35:13thinking the same thing.
- 35:17Brothers.
- 35:19Just looking here, we've got, if
- 35:22anybody's joined. No, same, same group.
- 35:26Well, Wayne, I am really tickled that you
- 35:28were able to call in, into the show. I
- 35:31would much rather talk to you live than
- 35:33listen to the interview,
- 35:34although it is a good interview.
- 35:37This, this is good. Cause like I said,
- 35:39it's taken me mind off things for 15, 20
- 35:41minutes, mate. You guys, I always get on
- 35:43here and get a laugh. I even
- 35:45though it gets it out of me.
- 35:47My humor comes out when I type it away
- 35:48and it's kind of cool.
- 35:49Yeah, you sound like you sound like your
- 35:52old self. I remember when I had my wife
- 35:54sitting here watching you.
- 35:56That interview that you, the short, the
- 35:58brief interview you did with Sherman
- 35:59Chow, I said, you know,
- 36:01that doesn't sound like Wayne.
- 36:02His voice isn't usually that deep and
- 36:04that doesn't go that slow. You're
- 36:06actually able to understand what he's
- 36:07saying. He's usually
- 36:07talking faster and a higher pitch.
- 36:10So I could tell you
- 36:12we're stressed and down.
- 36:14Now we'll get some sleep later and I ate
- 36:16my first meal last night
- 36:17too. So that was pretty good.
- 36:19So have you been, you've been
- 36:20having a lot of aftershocks?
- 36:22Yes, just like September mate, Tony, you
- 36:25just, you just, um, you hear him, you
- 36:27rumble, you brace. Some of you don't
- 36:30feel, some of you feel, some of you
- 36:31think, oh, here we go.
- 36:33We had a good couple during the night
- 36:35where we, um, I was awake anyway. I got
- 36:39up to check and they'd woken everyone up.
- 36:41So, you know, just say, you know, it's
- 36:42all cool. We're all cool.
- 36:43And everyone just falls back to sleep and
- 36:44you just go back to
- 36:46that while you're doing.
- 36:47Well, I don't want to ask you too
- 36:49personal a question. I think that we've
- 36:51talked about this in chat or something
- 36:53maybe before the interview last time, but
- 36:56let's say that you're a, um, a man in New
- 37:00Zealand and you're, you're
- 37:01with your wife or your girlfriend.
- 37:03Would a, would a person try to use a
- 37:06tremor to make the lovemaking a little
- 37:08more like you made the earth move for me?
- 37:11I don't need that mate. I already got the
- 37:12t-shirt, Tony. Trust me mate.
- 37:16The thing is it's, it's, it's not New
- 37:17Zealand. It's just crosshoot. The other,
- 37:20they're feeling it now that's subbies,
- 37:22but it's just, it's one little town. The
- 37:25ones are getting smashed. It's like, um,
- 37:27New Zealand, the rest of New
- 37:28Zealand is as good as gold.
- 37:29That's interesting. I didn't realize
- 37:31that. I mean, quite often when you see
- 37:33things on the news, especially in, of
- 37:35course, you know, no offense, but New
- 37:37Zealand is a real small
- 37:38place even compared to Texas.
- 37:41We're tiny.
- 37:42Yeah. So I'm thinking, you know, that
- 37:44it's affecting the entire island and to
- 37:47understand it's just the, what is it like
- 37:49a 40, a 40 mile
- 37:50radius around Christchurch?
- 37:53No, it's not bigger than you got your wee
- 37:55little suburbs, you know, like where I am
- 37:57and what? No, it's just, yeah, you look
- 38:01on that last link I put up there's some
- 38:03photos and through the photos, someone's
- 38:06taken a photo of what I call the Port
- 38:08Hills and it's just after the earthquake.
- 38:11And there's just a cloud of dust over the
- 38:13wee city. If you find that picture, that
- 38:15is so surreal. That picture is quite
- 38:16freaky. And the one of a lot of people
- 38:20who do travel with a renowned for a sense
- 38:22of our big cathedral in town. That's home
- 38:24to me when I see that. It's just a pile
- 38:26of rubble. That's been there for
- 38:28Christchurch was here kind of thing.
- 38:30Yeah, I think they were saying on the
- 38:31news it was there for 130
- 38:33years or it's been there.
- 38:34Yeah, that's right. She did mention it.
- 38:37The dinner pack lady,
- 38:39I can't say her name.
- 38:40Sherman Chow.
- 38:42I was just saying, she did
- 38:45mention the cathedral actually.
- 38:47That was very sad to see because I mean,
- 38:50I'm almost sad that I was using Google
- 38:54Earth to view your city. I think one of
- 38:57the conversations that we had on Skype
- 38:59was I just couldn't believe how beautiful
- 39:01the city is. There's so many
- 39:05architectural, I don't want to say
- 39:07wonders, but it's very, very nice to see.
- 39:10And that church certainly was a
- 39:12centerpiece for the city.
- 39:14I think there's 22 people in there too.
- 39:17It's quite a bit. That's why they sit on
- 39:19one of the updates not long ago. As in
- 39:21they'll be deceased. And the worst thing
- 39:24is most of those will well.
- 39:26We'll be tourists. In the CTV building in
- 39:30town, which they've given up on, they
- 39:32don't think anyone will be alive in there
- 39:33anymore. There's an international English
- 39:35class in there and that will be full of
- 39:38Japanese people I think.
- 39:40That's why they've got the Japanese
- 39:42rescue people who are specialising on
- 39:44that one. So this has all touched the
- 39:47world in one way or
- 39:48another, it's sad to say.
- 39:50Well, I think I mentioned it on the site
- 39:53and in chat, I may have mentioned it to
- 39:56you. I find it very personally disturbing
- 40:01that the news coverage of the quake that
- 40:05you had in September and all the
- 40:07thousands of aftershocks that you've had
- 40:09since then wasn't anything like what it's
- 40:12been since people died.
- 40:15It required people to die in that town
- 40:18before that was coverage.
- 40:20I think we were chatting about that,
- 40:21Tony. I remember you chatting, yeah.
- 40:25That's crazy enough.
- 40:27I mean, I understand ratings. I
- 40:29understand ratings, but it's important to
- 40:32somebody. It's certainly important to you
- 40:33guys. And it's been important to me. And
- 40:36I feel that with all your friends here on
- 40:38XJ Talk that it's been important to them.
- 40:40I would certainly like to have known more
- 40:41about it. And I don't know why. I don't
- 40:44watch some of the other like MSNBC and
- 40:47CNN, but I do watch Fox News. And I don't
- 40:50know why Fox News wasn't covering that.
- 40:52I just couldn't con answer that. We're
- 40:55only a small little country down here. I
- 40:58think we're connected to Australia. And
- 41:02it's actually a fear. How many of you
- 41:04have actually had news New Zealand or
- 41:06where New Zealand was before I joined the
- 41:09site? Don't be. I don't want to do a poll
- 41:10on that one day when I'm feeling better.
- 41:13Yeah, that's probably true. Now, I've
- 41:16been an amateur radio operator since I
- 41:17was 16 years old. And I've actually spoke
- 41:20with people in New Zealand from a long
- 41:22time ago in Australia. So I kind of
- 41:24learned my world geography to simply buy
- 41:27how far am I talking to. So that was
- 41:30always a lot of fun for me.
- 41:32Bear used to talk to someone in New
- 41:34Zealand with Christchurch here as well.
- 41:35He did say something to that man about
- 41:39that a while back. Him and his wife used
- 41:40to correspond with someone from
- 41:41Christchurch years ago. That's how he
- 41:43knows about those Tim Tams. Those
- 41:45biscuits, I'm meant to be sending them.
- 41:46But yeah, okay. They'll
- 41:47be squashed now, Jimbo.
- 41:49And Brian says the feed is pausing.
- 41:54Punisher says you froze. Rene says, oh,
- 41:59okay. So Rene says it did lock up on
- 42:01anyone besides me. Yeah, me too. Looks
- 42:04like chat's still going, guys. Are you
- 42:06able to, is the feed still going for you
- 42:08now? Or is it back going, I should say?
- 42:10Nobody's typing anything. So
- 42:12maybe it has froze for them.
- 42:13They might have froze up on them. I get
- 42:15that there and again on my one and it's
- 42:17like, usually when it gets to quite a
- 42:19funny point or a good point and then
- 42:20it'll freeze. And one time you get back
- 42:22there, you know, that was kind of hard.
- 42:24So you gotta listen to the recorded one.
- 42:25Oh yeah. Well, the good news is guys that
- 42:28it will be available. We're recording all
- 42:31this. So you will be able to watch it on
- 42:34the Ustream recording or YouTube or
- 42:37listen to it via the platform.
- 42:39This is why we're at it. This is a good
- 42:43advertisement for Skype. I'm in New
- 42:45Zealand talking to you and we're hearing
- 42:47each other really, really well. I think
- 42:49if they get a chance, download Skype and
- 42:51we could correspond some more with the
- 42:54other members if you get what I mean.
- 42:55Oh, absolutely. Guys, basically Wayne,
- 42:57what Wayne is saying here is load Skype.
- 43:01Get on Skype so that you can call him and
- 43:04talk to him and get you something to do.
- 43:07You could talk to Jim and Brian can talk
- 43:11or we should actually get you Shriek or
- 43:14Shriek or the other guys you live
- 43:16overseas. We could get talking to them
- 43:18guys. It'd be really cool.
- 43:20Yeah, exactly. We're getting more and
- 43:23more international members and I think
- 43:25that's great. They say, I just typed in,
- 43:28is it working now? I'm
- 43:29getting a yeah and a yep.
- 43:32One finger tied in from the read and the
- 43:34access would all be.
- 44:01I don't understand what the thrill is.
- 44:14You have to be a young man
- 44:19to keep doing that for hours.
- 44:23Jim says he's too shy.
- 44:23Jim's not paying for that one.
- 44:26Jim says he's too shy.
- 44:30You're not paying for that one?
- 44:30And he's not paying for that one.
- 44:30He gets enough liquid
- 44:33courage in him, he'll be okay.
- 44:36Although the equipment might not work.
- 44:41Rainy says, "Not me."
- 44:42And then he says, "Bull," and then he
- 44:44looks like a parent censored.
- 44:49We were lucky here, too.
- 44:51We had rain for two days after the quake,
- 44:53but it's really, really nice and warm out
- 44:55at the moment.
- 44:56So that's going to be helping people.
- 44:57Were you all expecting rain, or do you
- 44:59think that was
- 45:00connected to the quake at all?
- 45:02It was really bizarre, because the day
- 45:03before we were in the
- 45:04high 90, I think it was about
- 45:0791 Fahrenheit.
- 45:07It was a really stinking hot day.
- 45:09It was a cold, and we had a quake, and we
- 45:13had two days of rain,
- 45:14today's beautiful, rain
- 45:16coming tomorrow.
- 45:17But we are in the funny season, which is
- 45:18like summer to autumn
- 45:19at the moment, or fall as
- 45:20you call it.
- 45:21But it's the season is just changing now,
- 45:24like the leaves in
- 45:25there are changing color
- 45:26and you're supposed to be coming into
- 45:27spring, so we're off to
- 45:28leave when it comes to that.
- 45:31Right.
- 45:32Well, you're almost directly on the other
- 45:33side of the world from us.
- 45:35I know, you should hear a shake.
- 45:36Do you not feel a little bit?
- 45:38Well, I would think all of New Zealand
- 45:42would have felt it, so I
- 45:44don't understand how this
- 45:45stuff works.
- 45:46Oh, I was going to ask
- 45:47you, how's the house?
- 45:49House is all right, again.
- 45:51They haven't really had a look at it.
- 45:53We've got a few more cracks and stuff.
- 45:55This one, like I said, threw more stuff
- 45:57around, like we lost a
- 45:58lot of TVs and stuff again,
- 46:00and threw more stuff off walls.
- 46:01We lost a lot of plates and crockley and
- 46:04stuff this time, because
- 46:06it just, it was that violent
- 46:07that threw so much out of the walls and
- 46:10knocked things over.
- 46:11We were in the lounge, I had my grab of a
- 46:13young fellow, as we
- 46:14were getting out of the
- 46:15house, it was that violent.
- 46:16But we were banging into the walls,
- 46:17trying to get out of the
- 46:18house, it was just crazy.
- 46:19And then we just, like I said, we got
- 46:21into the middle of the
- 46:21road, because we got no
- 46:22power lines or anything
- 46:23at the end of our driveway.
- 46:25And we just, we just stood there and just
- 46:26hung out there, must
- 46:27have gone for about 30
- 46:28seconds, I suppose.
- 46:30It was crazy, they're crazy.
- 46:31They're so scary, mate.
- 46:32They're just like, I know my heart's
- 46:33good, mate, because she
- 46:34was pounding and it didn't
- 46:35collapse on me, so
- 46:35that's a good thing I suppose.
- 46:38I just can't believe you had to go two
- 46:40hours not knowing if your wife was okay.
- 46:43That had to have been
- 46:44very difficult to stay there.
- 46:46That was real scary, but that was, the
- 46:48phone was beeping that
- 46:49many times, like other people
- 46:51were finally getting
- 46:51hold of me and texting me.
- 46:52Then we were getting shakes as well, and
- 46:55I finally got the text
- 46:56from here, so that was
- 46:57really cool.
- 46:58Darrell Bock Yeah, but I'm
- 47:00not sure I would have been
- 47:01able to stay.
- 47:02I know it's exactly what you should do,
- 47:04because you don't know
- 47:05what you're going into, and
- 47:06she may make it back to the
- 47:08house, and now you're gone.
- 47:09So that's what I was talking to the guy
- 47:13down the road here,
- 47:14because we're checking in on
- 47:15each other at night, and I says, "Look,
- 47:16mate, I want to go into town."
- 47:18He says, "You'd better off staying here."
- 47:20I listen to him, and I'm glad I did,
- 47:22because eventually she'd come home.
- 47:25Darrell Bock Punisher, 72, Paul in
- 47:27Florida says, "How's
- 47:28the TV on the floor?"
- 47:29Paul Yeah, it's still on
- 47:31the floor, but it goes.
- 47:32We didn't put it back up.
- 47:33That was crazy.
- 47:34It's a crack, but it still goes.
- 47:35Darrell Bock Yeah, I would
- 47:36not put it back up, that's
- 47:37for sure.
- 47:39Paul We've always done
- 47:40it at my mother-in-law and
- 47:43her daughter's house.
- 47:44We've just turned all the power gas and
- 47:46fuel supply off, and
- 47:48anything that's on our brake
- 47:50I've picked up all the broken stuff, the
- 47:51glass, and got all the
- 47:52other way, and whatever's
- 47:53on the ground, I've left on the ground,
- 47:54whatever looks like it's
- 47:55going to fall, I've just placed
- 47:57on the ground.
- 47:58That's the case, we'll get more big ones.
- 48:00Darrell Bock Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
- 48:02Oh, I'm sorry?
- 48:04Paul As I was just
- 48:04saying, it's just pretty crazy
- 48:05times.
- 48:06Darrell Bock I believe you
- 48:08were telling me about your
- 48:09trip to your mother-in-law's house that
- 48:11you had to use the Jeep
- 48:12to get there, and what
- 48:13was it?
- 48:14It took you like two
- 48:14hours on a 20-minute trip?
- 48:16Paul Yeah, it took a
- 48:17little over two, and probably
- 48:18a little bit more on the way back,
- 48:19because on the way back
- 48:20it was dark and on dark,
- 48:21and there's no lights, street lights, no
- 48:24electricity, so the
- 48:25XJ's have got a headlight
- 48:26to the best of times anymore, there's a
- 48:28beep at the best of times.
- 48:30So I just went real slow,
- 48:31you know, it wasn't a race.
- 48:34Like I said, I can see it out the window
- 48:36now, and it looks like
- 48:36it's been wheeling, it's
- 48:37covered in that much crap.
- 48:40Darrell Bock Did you have
- 48:41any fun at all, or was it just
- 48:42too nervous?
- 48:43Paul No, it was just too nervous.
- 48:45Don't tell anyone, I
- 48:46was quite joined on it.
- 48:49Darrell Bock See?
- 48:50I knew it was a bad question to ask, but
- 48:53just the feeling of being able to go �
- 48:55Paul Anytime you've got
- 48:55to put it on a four-wheel
- 48:57drive, you know how it's a black thing.
- 48:59Darrell Bock Exactly, yeah,
- 49:00and to be able to know that
- 49:01you're going to get from point A to point
- 49:02B, or at least have
- 49:03some confidence that you're
- 49:04going to, and you know, I'd be pretty
- 49:07busy batting myself on
- 49:08the back for doing this,
- 49:10having this silly hobby that allows me.
- 49:12Paul It did feel good,
- 49:14because my partner was
- 49:15home and I was going � I hadn't had
- 49:17from the amendment law
- 49:18by then, but it did feel
- 49:19good to help those elderly people, you
- 49:20know, they had trouble
- 49:21getting in the car, the jeep,
- 49:22you know, and the water's pouring past
- 49:24the, you know, your
- 49:25sails, just under the wheels
- 49:27there.
- 49:27It felt good to get them in, they had
- 49:28trouble getting in and
- 49:29out, but you know, it was just
- 49:30coming to help people.
- 49:31Darrell Bock Exactly, yeah.
- 49:32Paul I thought I had a vehicle like that.
- 49:33Darrell Bock And the woman that was
- 49:34there, you know, being
- 49:35hysterical crying, I mean, you had to �
- 49:38she's going to remember
- 49:39you for the rest of your
- 49:40life, and she's going
- 49:41to remember that jeep.
- 49:42I mean, I know what it is,
- 49:43but she'll still remember it.
- 49:44Paul I just stopped in
- 49:45front of her, stopped the
- 49:46traffic, just put my hands on, and we
- 49:47carried her over, mate,
- 49:48and then we moved her car,
- 49:49then I just jumped back
- 49:50in and carried on going.
- 49:51You know, stuff is, you
- 49:52go around me if you want.
- 49:53Yeah, well, you can try it.
- 49:54That's just like, you know, a lot of
- 49:56people helping people, it's really cool.
- 49:58But see, that's just a good point to be
- 50:02made that it pays to
- 50:03know how to put your jeep
- 50:05in a four-wheel drive, but yeah, just in
- 50:06case things like this
- 50:07happen, mate, you want to
- 50:08go outside and put this.
- 50:09Darrell Bock Bear, we need
- 50:11a video or something from
- 50:12you showing us that you know, because we
- 50:13want to know that
- 50:14you'll be safe in a situation
- 50:15like this.
- 50:16So we need a video or something, a
- 50:19certificate that's signed
- 50:20off by somebody that knows how
- 50:23to put a jeep in a four-wheel drive that
- 50:24you know how to do that.
- 50:25Can you work with us on that, Bear?
- 50:30I think Bear's thinking about it.
- 50:32The four-wheel drive lever, the one in
- 50:33the middle, it says �
- 50:35Paul It looks like a T.
- 50:36Darrell Bock You pull it up.
- 50:38Anyway, we'll get back to that.
- 50:40Yeah, like I said, it has to � maybe
- 50:44fun isn't the right
- 50:45word, but at least proud that
- 50:47you're able to be in that situation.
- 50:49And it's a great feeling to be able to
- 50:52help people out,
- 50:52especially whenever they're in
- 50:54such dire straits.
- 50:56Paul The money I've paid
- 50:56for it, or what it owes
- 50:57me now, is every cent's been, you know,
- 50:59what I've put into it,
- 50:59every cent's just for the
- 51:01last two days, it's earned its jeep kind
- 51:03of thing, if you get what I mean.
- 51:04You kind of think, well, yeah, that was
- 51:07worth doing that, whatever I did to it.
- 51:11Because I didn't struggle.
- 51:11I didn't struggle once with other cars.
- 51:13Down holes and not much
- 51:15mud, but they were struggling.
- 51:17Whereas I wasn't.
- 51:18It was great.
- 51:19Darrell Bock Those
- 51:19sinkholes were amazing.
- 51:20They weren't very big.
- 51:21They were just big
- 51:22enough to swallow up a truck.
- 51:24Paul Yeah, what probably
- 51:25happened there is the road's
- 51:26been unstable, and he's
- 51:28driven, and it's just collapsed.
- 51:31People didn't get out there and put
- 51:32things up, so people
- 51:34were throwing, I don't know
- 51:34if you got your wheelie bins, we call it
- 51:36wheelie bins where you put
- 51:36your rubbish into and they
- 51:37get collected.
- 51:39But I don't know if you call
- 51:39them people just doing that.
- 51:41Some places I'd been down and there was a
- 51:44big sinkhole and
- 51:45someone had just thrown an
- 51:45old lounge chair in there
- 51:46just so people could see it.
- 51:47Just this kind of thing, you know, I
- 51:49should have actually got a
- 51:50photo of that, but I wasn't
- 51:51thinking that's where I had to go around
- 51:52and I was in, like,
- 51:53going up on the footpath and
- 51:55mud on people's lawns, and
- 51:56I was just getting there.
- 51:58Darrell Bock May I suggest
- 51:59a person, perhaps yourself,
- 52:01sitting there with a beer in their hands?
- 52:03Paul Yeah, I'd like to
- 52:05have beers, but I just want
- 52:06to keep a clear head at the moment.
- 52:08Darrell Bock You don't have to drink it.
- 52:09It's just for the picture.
- 52:10It's just for a fact.
- 52:13Paul I actually wouldn't
- 52:14mind having a couple of
- 52:16beers and just, like, switching off, but
- 52:17I'll keep him wits about
- 52:19me for a couple more days.
- 52:20Darrell Bock No, you're absolutely right.
- 52:21And I was going to ask you about this.
- 52:23There was the same gentleman that
- 52:25predicted the quake, I
- 52:26think, that was around this time.
- 52:27Was it?
- 52:28Or was it March that
- 52:29he was predicting it?
- 52:30Paul He was predicting
- 52:32one last weekend, and he
- 52:33still that match one bit.
- 52:35Like, that s*** is my
- 52:37partner, so hooked up.
- 52:38She reads that stuff and
- 52:40the pay for him believes it.
- 52:41I think Scott or Jimbo, they might have
- 52:44put it right last night.
- 52:45They were quite angry
- 52:47when they'd seen that link.
- 52:49They kind of put it right on that one.
- 52:51She felt really good after that.
- 52:53She said, "You can't predict it.
- 52:54It's like tomorrow's going to be, well,
- 52:56for me, it's going to be Friday."
- 52:57I think, you know, it
- 52:59just can't be predicted.
- 53:00It can't be.
- 53:02So she's feeling a bit happier.
- 53:03I still wouldn't be surprised if she
- 53:05disappeared out of
- 53:06Christchurch for that weekend though.
- 53:08Darrell Bock Well, I mean, we never know.
- 53:12When somebody comes up with some new way
- 53:14of doing something, we
- 53:16don't know for sure that
- 53:17they're going to be right.
- 53:17But I think in the interview that we did,
- 53:20I actually mentioned
- 53:21he's not a scientist.
- 53:23Paul He's not.
- 53:24There's never nobody.
- 53:25Darrell Bock Yeah, it's
- 53:26just somebody trying to throw
- 53:28some stuff out there that, you know, they
- 53:30may or may not be right.
- 53:32It doesn't mean they won't be.
- 53:33It just means that they're likely that
- 53:35they won't based on –
- 53:36you know, is their scientific
- 53:38merit to the prediction
- 53:40model that they're using.
- 53:42Paul They've said from
- 53:44day one, from talking from
- 53:45experience, that you can expect big
- 53:47earthquakes or this is a
- 53:49totally new earthquake because
- 53:49it's a totally different spot, but to
- 53:51expect big shakes up
- 53:52to a year afterwards.
- 53:53Darrell Bock Right.
- 53:54And at the 7.1, there's a huge quake.
- 53:57Paul Yeah, there was a big one.
- 53:58The other one was just a bit thinner to
- 54:01the ground and my partner just walked in.
- 54:02She just walked out again.
- 54:04Darrell Bock Do you need to go to her?
- 54:06Paul No, she'd come back in again.
- 54:08You all right there?
- 54:10Darrell Bock Wayne's just
- 54:11talking to his life bridges.
- 54:14Paul No, it's all right.
- 54:15She was just doing tea.
- 54:16She was looking for the telephone.
- 54:17She only just got home from doing a
- 54:19petrol run for my son's car.
- 54:21Darrell Bock Well, I was just
- 54:21going to say, where the hell
- 54:22has she been?
- 54:23There's quakes out there.
- 54:24She shouldn't be outside.
- 54:25Paul No, no, no.
- 54:26It's funny.
- 54:26It's in the little town up the road.
- 54:29When you Google it, you see the Big River
- 54:31and we're in a town
- 54:31called Kaipoi, which got
- 54:33totally smashed in the first earthquake
- 54:35and it's got us going.
- 54:37It's up and running.
- 54:38Darrell Bock Well, that's great.
- 54:38I mean, I was kind of concerned about you
- 54:40being in such a
- 54:42ravaged area that you were
- 54:43going to be without food
- 54:45and all kinds of stuff.
- 54:46So it's actually very good for me to hear
- 54:49that it's very
- 54:49localized and you have other
- 54:51things that you can go.
- 54:52But Christchurch is the
- 54:53largest city in New Zealand, right?
- 54:55Paul No, second largest.
- 54:57Auckland's the largest.
- 54:59Auckland's got a
- 54:59population of 1.7 million.
- 55:02It's Christchurch and then it's Dunedin.
- 55:05I think we've got – I know
- 55:07Wellington might be after us.
- 55:09I think we've got something like 400 and
- 55:11something thousand live here.
- 55:12Darrell Bock Okay.
- 55:13Well, good.
- 55:13That's actually better news because if
- 55:16the 400,000 are trying
- 55:17to find gas and food and
- 55:19gas, and if they're not the largest city,
- 55:20then there ought to be
- 55:21enough goods and services
- 55:23in the other cities so that
- 55:24there won't be a huge shortage.
- 55:26I mean, I know it's not going to be
- 55:27pretty, but it may not be devastating.
- 55:30So it's very good to hear that you have
- 55:33places that you can
- 55:34go to get food and gas.
- 55:35And if there's nothing else, just get out
- 55:37to go see something
- 55:38else, especially something
- 55:39that isn't broken that gives you the hope
- 55:42that you're not living in the middle of a
- 55:43disaster area.
- 55:45Paul A lot of people are leaving.
- 55:46A lot of people are just gone.
- 55:50The worst thing is when it starts
- 55:51running, there's going to
- 55:53be no – people are still
- 55:54beginning to wonder.
- 55:55There's going to be no jobs.
- 55:56There's going to be no
- 55:57income for a lot of people soon.
- 55:59So that's working on a
- 56:00lot of back of people.
- 56:01I won't be working
- 56:02for a long time, I say.
- 56:03My partner Bridges, there's no way she's
- 56:05just going back to working in a building,
- 56:07in town.
- 56:08So that's another thing we're going to
- 56:10worry about in a couple of weeks.
- 56:12I know the government
- 56:12and we're all right.
- 56:13The government and they're well.
- 56:14But that's on the back
- 56:15of people's minds as well.
- 56:16So it's a bit more stressful.
- 56:17I'm not worried about that at the moment.
- 56:19I'll worry about that later.
- 56:20Darrell Bock No, no, I understand.
- 56:21I mean, but you're in survival mode and
- 56:23that's the main thing right now.
- 56:25Paul Yeah.
- 56:25We're warm, we're dry, we're
- 56:26tummy's are full, you know.
- 56:27Yeah, and just to make a
- 56:28saying, you know, we're cool.
- 56:30Darrell Bock Yeah, and I'm
- 56:31sure it'll continue to be
- 56:32that way.
- 56:33But like anybody that works for a living,
- 56:36you want to be able to
- 56:37continue to make your
- 56:38own way.
- 56:39Paul Exactly.
- 56:39Darrell Bock And certainly
- 56:40that's going to be in the back
- 56:41of your mind.
- 56:42Paul Yeah.
- 56:42But you'll cross that
- 56:43bridge when we come to it.
- 56:44Darrell Bock Yeah,
- 56:44I'm sure it'll be fine.
- 56:45Paul Yeah, we will.
- 56:46Yeah, we will be fine like that.
- 56:47I just want to get out there and start
- 56:50helping as soon as we can.
- 56:52Darrell Bock Just looking
- 56:53here at the chat room to see
- 56:54if there was any questions or comments.
- 56:57Oh, by the way, Raney, I do know how to
- 56:59put it in four-wheel drive.
- 57:00I was getting on Jones Road today and
- 57:02it's a very slippery
- 57:03road when it's wet and it
- 57:04was mildly wet, so I put
- 57:06it in four-wheel drive.
- 57:09I'm not sure if this is the one you guys
- 57:10are referring to for me to read, but I'm
- 57:11going to read it.
- 57:12Raney says, "Hey, Tony, tell Wayne when
- 57:14he comes to the
- 57:14States, I'll show him how the
- 57:16four-wheel drive works."
- 57:19Paul I don't want to go shopping in beer.
- 57:21Darrell Bock Which means
- 57:22he'll say, "Wayne, is this it?
- 57:23Is this it?
- 57:23Don't tell anybody.
- 57:24Is this the lever?"
- 57:27Raney Yeah, I'll freak him out.
- 57:28It's steering wheel.
- 57:29If you're in beer, your
- 57:29steering wheel is on the wrong side.
- 57:31Darrell Bock Raney
- 57:32says, "We're way behind."
- 57:33I bet you the video that
- 57:35they're watching is way behind.
- 57:38Oh, no.
- 57:38He's saying, "Only one red light."
- 57:40Okay, so they're
- 57:40talking about something else.
- 57:42Raney There's a picture
- 57:43and that cluster of photos
- 57:45I linked up, there's actually a photo of
- 57:47a traffic light that's quite funny.
- 57:49I didn't have to do that, but I thought
- 57:51Raney might be going to
- 57:51chuck all about that when
- 57:52I see that one myself.
- 57:55Darrell Bock Well, guys, I
- 57:57don't know what it was that
- 57:58you're referring to for me to look up.
- 58:00I would assume that
- 58:02means look up in the chat.
- 58:03I don't see it.
- 58:04Maybe that was the one from beer, but if
- 58:06you want, type it in
- 58:07again and I'll try to read
- 58:09it.
- 58:10Honestly, we've got a new viewer, EZ
- 58:12Over, thanks for
- 58:13joining us here, if I can call
- 58:15you EZ.
- 58:16Raney You've got Nai Samara with that.
- 58:17They're a real cool truck.
- 58:19They're always semi, they're always zig.
- 58:21Darrell Bock Yeah, it's
- 58:23nice seeing other builds.
- 58:27It's interesting to see how other
- 58:28vehicles are put together.
- 58:29Raney So it's good when
- 58:30I see that kind of stuff,
- 58:31because we've got lots
- 58:32of those ones down here.
- 58:34I think he put in the picture up of the
- 58:36old cruiser, the FJ4020,
- 58:39and then we've got lots
- 58:40of those modified down here, and it's
- 58:41really good to
- 58:42recognize some other trucks.
- 58:44See what other people think of them.
- 58:46They're doing an update on the news now.
- 58:48Darrell Bock So how many
- 58:48shocks have you had today?
- 58:51Raney I've stopped counting them.
- 58:52We would have been, they'll give us a
- 58:54figure, it would have been
- 58:55probably about every half
- 58:56hour an hour still.
- 58:58It heaps over during the night.
- 58:59Darrell Bock And you never
- 59:00know if it's going to be an
- 59:02aftershock or another major earthquake.
- 59:05Raney They're customizable aftershocks.
- 59:08Some of them are going
- 59:09to be new earthquakes.
- 59:10There's going to be a new earthquake
- 59:11there, because it's
- 59:13miles away from the epicenter
- 59:14of the first one, so hey.
- 59:16I don't know.
- 59:17Darrell Bock Amazing.
- 59:18Is this amazing?
- 59:19Maybe one of these days we'll understand
- 59:21how all this works, and
- 59:23we'll have predictions
- 59:24like we do with hurricanes.
- 59:26Raney Yeah, that would be good.
- 59:27It's just Mother Nature when it's angry,
- 59:29you can't do much
- 59:29about it, but are you going
- 59:30to enjoy the ride kind of thing almost?
- 59:32Darrell Bock Well, I know
- 59:33that I can speak for myself,
- 59:35and I think several members on XJTalk
- 59:38that if you want to
- 59:39sacrifice a virgin, we'll get
- 59:40together and buy a big
- 59:42gym a ticket and send him.
- 59:45He claims that he's still a virgin, and I
- 59:49think that's good enough.
- 59:51Raney I find it hard to
- 59:51believe, because I'm not
- 59:53that way inclined, but
- 59:54he's a very attractive man.
- 59:55Darrell Bock Jim, did you pass out?
- 59:59You're being complimented here.
- 1:00:02Nothing.
- 1:00:03I've got nothing.
- 1:00:04Raney I'm just reading
- 1:00:06the news as it's going past.
- 1:00:08It's 2,500 people leaving Christchurch
- 1:00:12each day or something,
- 1:00:13or they're trying to get
- 1:00:13them out.
- 1:00:14Darrell Bock I don't doubt it.
- 1:00:15They've got a – I mean,
- 1:00:16there's lots of people without
- 1:00:17places to stay.
- 1:00:18They need to go
- 1:00:19someplace where they can stay.
- 1:00:21Raney You've got to
- 1:00:21leave a hundred force.
- 1:00:24I would assume the government is pretty
- 1:00:25active as far as taking
- 1:00:27care of the people there?
- 1:00:29Darrell Bock Yep.
- 1:00:29Our Prime Minister, which he's the dude
- 1:00:31who charged you, he is
- 1:00:33actually from Christchurch.
- 1:00:35He's got a lot of feeling for our little
- 1:00:37city, which is kind of cool.
- 1:00:38He's down here.
- 1:00:39He's pretty cool.
- 1:00:39He's pretty incredible what he's doing.
- 1:00:42He's promising this thing the
- 1:00:43next thing, and he's not a man.
- 1:00:45You kind of believe him for
- 1:00:46a politician, if you know.
- 1:00:48Raney Right.
- 1:00:49Well, that's good.
- 1:00:49He was – he said it all on the
- 1:00:52September, and the stuff
- 1:00:53he was saying was beginning
- 1:00:54to happen, so you kind of put your faith
- 1:00:56in him, and maybe does it.
- 1:00:58Darrell Bock Ah.
- 1:00:59I just saw what I did.
- 1:01:01I'd scrolled up and chat, so I wasn't
- 1:01:03seeing the new messages.
- 1:01:04Raney 80% of the city has no mains water.
- 1:01:07Darrell Bock I'm sorry.
- 1:01:08Say that again.
- 1:01:09Raney 80% of the city has no water.
- 1:01:11Darrell Bock My goodness.
- 1:01:12Raney 80% of the city has no water.
- 1:01:13Raney Yeah.
- 1:01:14We're very lucky out here.
- 1:01:15And now they're just
- 1:01:17sending tankers around.
- 1:01:18Just talking to boil water.
- 1:01:20I'm just reading what's going to have
- 1:01:21crossed my TV at the moment.
- 1:01:23People will panic buying, and they're
- 1:01:25just saying there's no need to do that.
- 1:01:28The little tin ports close, so we may
- 1:01:31have trouble later on
- 1:01:32for certain stuff, as in
- 1:01:34– a lot of it will get roaded in,
- 1:01:35because none of the roads
- 1:01:37coming north into Christchurch
- 1:01:39have got as gold.
- 1:01:41The other side may be a bit dodgy.
- 1:01:43Darrell Bock Raney says, "Tell Wayne him
- 1:01:46and his are in my thoughts."
- 1:01:49Raney 80% of the city has no water.
- 1:01:49Darrell Bock I appreciate it, Raney.
- 1:01:50Darrell Bock I'm not sure
- 1:01:51this is a helpful statement,
- 1:01:53but I'll read it anyway.
- 1:01:54Weldman says, "Drink more beer."
- 1:01:57Raney 80% of the city has no water.
- 1:01:58Darrell Bock I'm all in a
- 1:01:59couple of days, I think.
- 1:02:00I'll go away somewhere and unwind.
- 1:02:03Darrell Bock What I'd like
- 1:02:04to do is actually go get in
- 1:02:06my jeep and go off a big track and take
- 1:02:08it out in the jeep, you know?
- 1:02:09But I kind of need it at the moment.
- 1:02:10Yeah, okay, wheeling a bit
- 1:02:13hard out, that kind of relaxes me.
- 1:02:16Darrell Bock Well, all this
- 1:02:16off-road stuff that you've
- 1:02:18done has been a good
- 1:02:20teacher for this situation.
- 1:02:21Raney 80% of the city has no water.
- 1:02:22Darrell Bock Yeah, I'd say
- 1:02:22it's actually a surprise.
- 1:02:27Well, I'm not in a club.
- 1:02:27I know some clubs that have offered help,
- 1:02:29but kind of a
- 1:02:31surprise is just Wayne, they
- 1:02:32see all the cops or something, "Oh, we're
- 1:02:34going to use that
- 1:02:34vehicle," kind of thing,
- 1:02:35but no, they've got new
- 1:02:37ones like these anyway.
- 1:02:39We did offer that.
- 1:02:40They did run out of ambulances and they
- 1:02:41were pulling all the
- 1:02:42four-wheel drives they did
- 1:02:43find in town.
- 1:02:44I'd say they've been loading 81 to those.
- 1:02:46We ran out of ambulances when it first
- 1:02:47happened to ferry people,
- 1:02:50which is kind of, well, I
- 1:02:52suppose most places,
- 1:02:53well, we're only a small town.
- 1:02:56Darrell Bock The
- 1:02:56ambulances weren't four-wheel drive,
- 1:02:58were they?
- 1:02:59Raney 90% of the city's in town.
- 1:03:03The roads are busted up, but
- 1:03:04they haven't got that liquid.
- 1:03:06You say that word again, Tony?
- 1:03:08Raney liquid faction?
- 1:03:09Raney Liquid faction?
- 1:03:11Raney That's the one.
- 1:03:12They haven't got that in the town.
- 1:03:14Darrell Bock So
- 1:03:14where's the hospital located?
- 1:03:16Are they having to take
- 1:03:16them out of Christchurch to...
- 1:03:18Raney Right.
- 1:03:19It's hospitals where the cathedral orders
- 1:03:21and it's just down
- 1:03:23from there, but it's been
- 1:03:25rebuilt and earthquake-proof numerous
- 1:03:27times, and they've stood
- 1:03:28up well and they've flown
- 1:03:30and a lot of people have been flown
- 1:03:32straight to other cities like the North
- 1:03:34Islands, Wellington,
- 1:03:35Northern Alsons, or just they've been
- 1:03:38flying out to patients.
- 1:03:39So the hospital's still there.
- 1:03:42They can still cope.
- 1:03:43They reckon they're coping quite well.
- 1:03:44They've got the Burnham military camp.
- 1:03:46This is about 30, 40
- 1:03:48k's out of Christchurch.
- 1:03:50That's where they set up the temporary
- 1:03:51morgue to the army's
- 1:03:53dealing with that side of it.
- 1:03:55Darrell Bock So were there a
- 1:03:56lot of head injuries from the
- 1:03:57falling debris or...
- 1:04:01Raney 90% of the city's in town.
- 1:04:01Raney 90% of the city's in town.
- 1:04:05They've got broken bones, back injuries,
- 1:04:08and there's been, I
- 1:04:10think, three amputations
- 1:04:12on site to get people out of there, you
- 1:04:13know, the crushed legs or
- 1:04:14whatever they were stuck
- 1:04:15by.
- 1:04:15Darrell Bock Sure.
- 1:04:17Darrell Bock Yeah.
- 1:04:17They did a pretty good job.
- 1:04:19I'll tell you my hats off, they'd be
- 1:04:20like, "Our fire brigade
- 1:04:21out well by us are voluntary.
- 1:04:23We...
- 1:04:24My...
- 1:04:25See if someone's Jordan.
- 1:04:26His mate's dead.
- 1:04:27He's in there now.
- 1:04:29He needs help him with his body recovery,
- 1:04:31but he's been in the
- 1:04:32voluntary fire brigade."
- 1:04:33I'll take my hats off
- 1:04:34to these guys, you know?
- 1:04:35Raney 90% of the city's in town.
- 1:04:35Darrell Bock Oh man, that's
- 1:04:36just got to be a horrible thing
- 1:04:37to go through.
- 1:04:38Darrell Bock He's got to be stressed out.
- 1:04:40We'll sit in one day and get him ran.
- 1:04:42We'll have a barbecue and a beer and, you
- 1:04:44know, we'll do the
- 1:04:45bloke thing and unwind that
- 1:04:46way.
- 1:04:47Darrell Bock Yeah, that's
- 1:04:47going to take a long time to
- 1:04:48get over.
- 1:04:49Darrell Bock Oh, yeah.
- 1:04:51Raney 90% of the city's in town.
- 1:04:51Darrell Bock It's got to be
- 1:04:51done and you have to celebrate
- 1:04:53those times.
- 1:04:54Darrell Bock
- 1:04:54The wee milestones, yeah.
- 1:04:57That's got to be a long one, this one.
- 1:05:03Raney 90% of the city's in town.
- 1:05:03Darrell Bock What's the death toll now?
- 1:05:0576 or is it higher than?
- 1:05:06Raney 90% of the city's in town.
- 1:05:07Darrell Bock 76? Yeah.
- 1:05:07That's 76 confirmed.
- 1:05:09They have got more bodies, but they're
- 1:05:11not confirming the
- 1:05:12numbers until they've been
- 1:05:13identified for some reason.
- 1:05:15No, it's that's cool.
- 1:05:16Darrell Bock That's interesting.
- 1:05:18I don't know why that
- 1:05:18would be, but whatever.
- 1:05:20Darrell Bock I'm pretty sure there's a
- 1:05:22lot of international
- 1:05:22people, terrorists and whatnot, caught in
- 1:05:25there because it was a
- 1:05:26central city and we're
- 1:05:27quite a turtle.
- 1:05:27We get a lot of tourists into town and
- 1:05:29the part was devastated.
- 1:05:32A lunchtime period and there would have
- 1:05:34been a lot of tourists in
- 1:05:34there taking their photos
- 1:05:36of the big church and that's real kind of
- 1:05:39older buildings and
- 1:05:40statues and that's where
- 1:05:42they go to, you know, well that's where
- 1:05:44they actually stay as well.
- 1:05:45Motels, hotels, get dropped in.
- 1:05:47So there would have been a lot wandering
- 1:05:48around taking their
- 1:05:49photos and just enjoying the
- 1:05:51day.
- 1:05:52Raney 90% of the city's in town.
- 1:05:5276% of the city's in town.
- 1:05:52So the 76 that they've confirmed are
- 1:05:56people that they can
- 1:05:57account for either being New
- 1:05:58Zealanders or tourists and they don't
- 1:06:00want to add to the
- 1:06:01count because, you know, who
- 1:06:03knows what they are.
- 1:06:05Darrell Bock Yeah, to the
- 1:06:05next, and some of them, they're
- 1:06:08going to have to be like dental records
- 1:06:10because some of the
- 1:06:11buildings were burning and the
- 1:06:13crush, you know, concrete bodies just
- 1:06:15don't really mix, do they, and steal?
- 1:06:17Raney 90% of the city's in town.
- 1:06:17And there's going to be people that just
- 1:06:19like happened in the
- 1:06:209-11 when the 20 hours went
- 1:06:22down, there's going to be people that are
- 1:06:25identified from fragments.
- 1:06:27So we got one of the guys who involved in
- 1:06:30the 9-11 here helping
- 1:06:32as well say, hey, this
- 1:06:33is good.
- 1:06:35Experts helping and a bad thing.
- 1:06:38Darrell Bock Weldman says,
- 1:06:39well, if he needs stuff, Tony,
- 1:06:41tell him we can ship him stuff.
- 1:06:43And then he...
- 1:06:45Raney 90% of the city's in town. Darrell Bock Wait, wait, wait, wait.
- 1:06:46And then he follows up
- 1:06:47with besides XJ parts.
- 1:06:50Raney 90% of the city's in town.
- 1:06:52Darrell Bock He knows me, doesn't he?
- 1:06:55Raney 90% of the city's in town.
- 1:06:56Darrell Bock I knew where you were going.
- 1:07:00Raney 90% of the city's in town.
- 1:07:01Darrell Bock Thanks anyway.
- 1:07:02Darrell Bock Hey, man.
- 1:07:03You know, Wayne's been through a lot, but
- 1:07:05we can't send him a G part.
- 1:07:07Darrell Bock That's all good.
- 1:07:08I'm going to have to jump off, Tony.
- 1:07:10I'm going to go see if I can help out
- 1:07:11with dinner and stuff.
- 1:07:12I ran up some kids to
- 1:07:13bother not to get out there.
- 1:07:15Darrell Bock No problem.
- 1:07:15I think Raney was wanting to know what
- 1:07:18your Skype name was, and
- 1:07:20I told him and everybody
- 1:07:21else that was in the chat room.
- 1:07:23So you may be getting a call from the city.
- 1:07:25So I'm going to get back to you, I will take the time talking. Darrell Bock No problem. I think Raney was wanting to know what your Skype name was, and I told him and everybody else that was in the chat room. So you may be getting some Skype calls.
- 1:07:28Darrell Bock I've put it on
- 1:07:30the laptop now, so if I don't
- 1:07:31answer, I will get back to you.
- 1:07:34I will take my time talking.
- 1:07:36Darrell Bock Okay.
- 1:07:37Darrell Bock Okay, so.
- 1:07:38Raney 90% of the city's in town.
- 1:07:40Darrell Bock No, of course.
- 1:07:41No, you can't just enjoy yourself. You
- 1:07:43need to go be depressed.
- 1:07:45No, I've got it
- 1:07:45exactly. I've got the laptop.
- 1:07:47And if the boy wants the
- 1:07:48laptop back, I lose it.
- 1:07:50The other one's in the main room.
- 1:07:52Wayne, thank you very much for calling.
- 1:07:53It's wonderful hearing you
- 1:07:55and it's good to hear you laugh.
- 1:07:57And I needed this. I need to...
- 1:08:01I think I read your post where sometimes
- 1:08:03it's better to switch off and yak and...
- 1:08:05Yeah, thank you. Thank you guys.
- 1:08:07Honestly, mate, thank you. It's good to
- 1:08:09laugh again, actually.
- 1:08:10Well, there's going to be lots of times
- 1:08:11to laugh in the future.
- 1:08:12And everything's going to be fine.
- 1:08:15I mean, look at all
- 1:08:16the things that you have.
- 1:08:18I mean, the earth shook
- 1:08:19and buildings crumbled
- 1:08:22and you still have water
- 1:08:23and power and Internet.
- 1:08:25My God, you've got Internet.
- 1:08:27You're talking to people
- 1:08:27halfway across the world.
- 1:08:28So it's going to be fine.
- 1:08:31We're very lucky out here.
- 1:08:32Thanks again, guys. I
- 1:08:33really appreciate it.
- 1:08:34All the comments and
- 1:08:35everything you've been posting.
- 1:08:36I've been Sean Moy, Paul
- 1:08:37DeBrigitte, Michael C. Dealy.
- 1:08:38You really helped here
- 1:08:39out, too. It was really cool.
- 1:08:40Well, thank you very much, Wayne.
- 1:08:41And you guys be safe
- 1:08:43and stay in touch with us.
- 1:08:44We will do, mate. I'll be on chat,
- 1:08:46popping a new renown
- 1:08:47again just to say I'm OK.
- 1:08:48Excellent.
- 1:08:49OK, thanks, guys. I'll
- 1:08:50talk to you all later.
- 1:08:52And there you have it.
- 1:08:52There is an impromptu
- 1:08:55live interview with Wayne
- 1:08:58after the devastating earthquake in
- 1:09:01Christchurch, New Zealand.
- 1:09:03I personally was very happy
- 1:09:05to see that he was calling in
- 1:09:06because, you know, like I said, the
- 1:09:09interview that I have is a good one.
- 1:09:11But everybody right now wants to know how
- 1:09:14he's doing, how his family's doing,
- 1:09:17how the city of Christchurch is doing.
- 1:09:20And we were able to find out tonight.
- 1:09:22And we were very, very fortunate to be
- 1:09:26able to have Wayne call in.
- 1:09:29I mean, with all that's going on over
- 1:09:31there, his dedication to XJ Talk
- 1:09:35and calling into the show.
- 1:09:37I mean, I made it very clear to him that
- 1:09:40it was not necessary.
- 1:09:42And please don't feel like you're it's
- 1:09:45it's required for you to be here
- 1:09:48after the interview to take questions.
- 1:09:51I mean, there's just too much going on.
- 1:09:53But I'm very happy that he called and I'm
- 1:09:55even more happier to hear that
- 1:09:58we made his his night a little better.
- 1:10:01And, you know, he'll take that that joy
- 1:10:04that he has now from talking to us and
- 1:10:10shooting the with us here for the last
- 1:10:12several, several minutes.
- 1:10:13He'll take that joy into the next room
- 1:10:15and he'll share it with those 10 people
- 1:10:17that are staying in his house and maybe
- 1:10:19they'll feel a little better.
- 1:10:21So all you guys should feel really good
- 1:10:24about all that you've been doing to help
- 1:10:27which is just be his friend, just talk
- 1:10:30with him on chat, just being here tonight
- 1:10:32and interacting with him.
- 1:10:34And, yeah, feel really good about that.
- 1:10:39Well, Goldman says, I'm the man.
- 1:10:40Well, you're one of them.
- 1:10:44Well, guys, the show ran a little long.
- 1:10:47I didn't want to to end
- 1:10:49Wayne's enjoyment that he was having.
- 1:10:52So I was just going to go
- 1:10:53as long as he wanted to.
- 1:10:54And really glad that he was he was able
- 1:10:58to call in and spend a
- 1:11:01little time with us tonight.
- 1:11:03So thank you very much for being here on
- 1:11:07the show and
- 1:11:09experiencing this this disaster in
- 1:11:12New Zealand with Wayne
- 1:11:15sharing a little bit of it.
- 1:11:17And I'll catch you on the
- 1:11:19site, which is XJ talk.com.
- 1:11:22This is Jeep Cherokee XJ talk.com show.
- 1:11:28It's getting so long that I may forget
- 1:11:30what I'm saying while
- 1:11:31I'm saying it, but it helps
- 1:11:33on the searches to use all those words to
- 1:11:37get people in and
- 1:11:38interested in seeing the
- 1:11:39seeing and listening to the show.
- 1:11:44Everybody have a very good night and
- 1:11:46we'll see on the site.