A lawn mowing obsessive (16 December 2024)

Marcus talks mowing lawns, McDonald's soft serve, and MOTAT's Christmas lights.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus lush Night's podcast from News Talks,
that'd be.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Greeting's welcome Marcus Settle midnight tonight. I hope it's good
where you are. I hope it gets better by midnight.
And i'mre excited to hear Alison talking about the Wilston
band playing at the cathedral and that's tonight. So if
you're go into that and us know what that is like,
the brass band will play. So it's the first musical
performance inside the Chrostach Cathedral since the quake. This is huge.

(00:35):
A couple of points about that. Firstly, I'm looking at
the press. There are some pictures from inside the cathedral. Wow,
I had no idea. It's clear and clean and there's
strapping around all the columns with wood bracing. Looks really
really good. I know it's not gonna be good to

(00:56):
go for a long long time because they're millions short,
but if you look at that, it looks amazing. I
had an idea. The last time in Crossy it's six
months ago. You couldn't get closed. It's all boarded up.
Looks really really good. So that'll be live stream tonight, right,
So if you want to watch that, you can watch that.
It will be live streamed, so it's probably already happened.

(01:19):
It starts at six forty five, So there we go
on ccrl's Instagram and Facebook page. You've probably just missed
it and the CCRL will be the cons christ Church
Cathedral Reinstatement Limited. So get on there. There'll be a
performance of that. He's got to go. Have a look
at that. You might have been to that. Let us
know about that eight hundred and eighty eight n DE text.

(01:43):
So last week, so it's a patchy kind of a week.
Not much will happen because so much happened last week
with the greyhounds and the ferries. There was other stuff
as well. It was like a topic sky, there was
all stuff on. This week probably won't be like that
unless something happens so well, Bits and Bob at Threddle twelve.
But if you want to have been to that constant, let
us know. That's the Wolston band in the cathedral. God

(02:05):
look free safe. The cathedral all looks beamed up. If
you look at the article, it's extraordinary. There's those giant
RSJs outside they're holding for everything together and the inside
I mean the reassuring thing. It looks like it's structurally
safe and not going anywhere, and bearing in mind at

(02:27):
the moment now is the golden age of cathedral restoration,
because everyone has blown away by not to darn cathedral
because it's white inside, because beforehand it was filthy because
they had all sorts of lead. It was lead dusty
who had a lead roof, and I think they didn't
decided not to clean the lead off because that was toxic.
But they've got it all back to the white marble,

(02:48):
and apparently it looks extraordinary. Interesting enough, it's the number
one visit tourist attraction in France, well above the Eiffel Tower.
It's not to the darm So yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
If you're heading to Europe, I'd be putting that top
of my list. That looks sensational. By the way, I
was also listening on the news about these severe storms
in Mayot cyclone Cheeto. Several hundred people have died there.
It might be close to a thousand. I had no
idea where that island was. By the way, it's north

(03:20):
of Madagascar. If you've ever been there, I'd be curious
that you know what it's like Mayot, there's about half
a million, third of a million people live there. It's
in the Indian Ocean. It's just a volcano in the
middle of the sea. I think, well it's a volcano
that's been eroded in the harbor is where the probably

(03:41):
the crater was. Yeah, well that's very very interesting. Third
of a million people there. By the way, there's a
thunderstorm warning for Marlborough. The weather's all happening, isn't it?
Or their energy in the ocean thunder Everyone in Auckland
talking about the thunder long rolling thunder like right over
here at about two o'clock this afternoon. Doesn't rain at puors.
You might want to talk it the weather also, so

(04:01):
oh eight ten eighty if you ought to set the
agenda tonight and let us know. But there is a
severe thunder storm warning. It's just been issues. Just come through,
just come through. Hot off the computer as of seven
forty five met service where the radar detected severe thunderstorms

(04:22):
near the Awa Teddy Valley. They're moving towards the north
to expect to lie near way Hallpai. It's where the
spy bases at eight point fifteen and near Wado Valley
the Richmond Range in Waihaupai at eight forty five pm.
They're expected to be accompanied by torrential rain and hail.
Torrential rank can cause surface and or flesh flooding about streams, gullyes,

(04:45):
urban areas, and make driving conditions extremely hazardous. And here
we go. Here's the kicker. Hail can cause damage to
crops orchards and vines. So I imagine there'd be some
growers revery concerned as we speak. That'll be the grapes
and the berries and the stone fruit. I don't know
as much you can do about this. You can't see
the cho choppers up, can you? This is hail and

(05:05):
thunderst If you've got an update, if you're on the
Waidoa Valley, on the Oerterri Valley, let us know the
Richmond Range or way Haupe, let us know what's coming
your way, because it's all about the weather tonight. There's
something else you want to mention good, I'm all here
for that. Oh wait, one hundred eighty. If you've got
breaking news, let us know, Marcus. Have you've seen all

(05:26):
the drone activity over New Jersey in the States, any idea.
What's going on there, Joshy. Look, I've tried to read
some articles about the drones in New Jersey. I've got
no understanding. There seems to be one school of thought
as it's paranoia and people are just looking in the
sky more often, and it's venus and planets that are
always there. And I kind of subscribe to that a

(05:47):
bit because people will see what they're looking into. But
if you've done more of a deep dive into the drones,
it seems to be one of those topics. It's not
going away. Get in touch about that. Eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty says I say, we've we're a broad
Church tonight, Marcus, here we go weather forecast spot on
there was a massive boom and thunder, hail and torrential

(06:09):
rain still going strong central Blenham. So there is a
major weather event that's happening, major thunder, lightning and hail
all over those crops, all over those grapes. That's in Marlborough.
As we spoke, as I read out this warning, this
texture they got the lightning strike. Jupist, how do you

(06:33):
think that makes me feel? Johnny on the spot, carrying
on the corner, get in touch Marcus till midnight. As
I say, oh eight h n text stuff the cathedral.
Why does anyone even care? Bust it down and move
on If they can't hurry up and sort it out.

(06:54):
Someone's having a good Christmas, aren't they? Wow?

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Cheap? Is this person seems to text to everyone and
say people are pathetic cheapest screepers. You need to get
something else to text to. I wait one hundred and
eighty tenenty and nine two nine to the text mark
is still twelve. There is something different than you want
to bang on about tonight. I'm all heirs looking forward
to what you want to get the whole thing going
around about tonight? Also to it's what about this time

(07:25):
of the year. It's kind of a week before Christmas?
I mean, I don't think many people are going to
do work next week. You wouldn't go to work for
Monday and Tuesday and this you're sick because no one
wants to go back, have a weekend and go back
for two days before Christmas. However, what I wouldn't mind
touching base with today is just how retails. Has it

(07:46):
picked up yet or is retail dead and gone forever.
If you're involved in retail, let me know if things
are going fine for you, because I haven't heard any
reports about retail, and I'm not around the shops. I
don't do shops well. No, I don't do shops well. No,

(08:07):
I'd be an online guy. I don't think. I don't think.
Don't there's any reason I go to it. Oh, I'm
looking to buy a new lawn mower. I think lawn
Ma is a quite reasonably priced. Now, aren't they there?
Seem now the electrics are coming on. Everyone seems that.
It seems as though there are a diamer doesn't I'll
go petrol. I've got a big lawn. It was a choice,
been going petrol or a robot moa. But I don't
like the fact that the robot moers having got a

(08:27):
catcher for the grasse. I'll go a big aluminium bodied
one because I'm near the sea and I'm going to
do that in the new year, and I'm going to
mow lawns for a week. But I love the lawn
so much. I'm almost thinking of starting up a lawn
mowing round. I would, apart from the fact there's a
nice guy that does the lawns. I wouldn't want put
him out of business, but gee, I love doing lawns.

(08:48):
There's something about, isn't it. There's a relaxation, the order
it gives you. Once you can look back and there's
no daisies and there's no thistles. Wow, that's to good lawn.
About two days later it looks terrible again. But still
you go back and do it again, don't you frete
easy to become a lawn mowering obsessive, start fantasizing about
your tirement when you just mow lawns. Anyway, that's not

(09:11):
going to get me through. But there's already a few
things happening there. There's heavy thunder and lightning going on
in White Oat Valley. We're also talking tonight about not
anything else that's taken your fancy, this island Mayot and
also the cathedral with that concert that's in there tonight.
It's probably just been but you can watch it in
your Facebook page if you are coming home from that,

(09:31):
let us know how that was. But I think we
know the acoustics are all right. I don't know if
they're great, but your Bettery Moers better is a farm.
But they just don't feel there. They just don't feel
heavy enough. Actually, bettery moas are good, but they're not
as good as petrol moas. Ben Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Mate.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
I've I've just jumped on the electric. You know, I've
come from the petrol days. It was a bit of
a thing that I'm a petrol kid.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
You know, when you say you've just jumped on have
you got a ride on electrical? You mean you're just
jumped No, No, it's this is for the kids.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
See my old messport. Sorry, I'm careful to say names
here because I don't want to sound like I'm plugging
advertising and Whatnotuh So, yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
But you got I jumped.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
I come from the old messport and it's done me
sixteen years and sixteen that's about.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's about.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
Around it heads me and my head. Well, I lot candadose,
but of just sharpened the blade and thing. Uh and
that was I replaced that. Sorry, but the body and
everything had taken the beat, the the.

Speaker 6 (10:53):
Thing that it was.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
Though to try and get it started. You know, I've
had kids point now, so I'm trying to teach them.
You know what I was always talking. They want money
for it nowadays too. We were lucky to get to
kick up the kick up ejecting.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Hang on your scared of getting a bit? Ben? Are
you saying it stopped being able to stop being easy
to start?

Speaker 7 (11:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (11:13):
Mate, so and the Yeah, a whole lot of broken
bits involved, but it's still work trying to get the
kids to do it. And I just gave up.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Did you did you start, your bastard? Did what you start?
Your bastard? You know the engine starter?

Speaker 5 (11:35):
Mate? That thing broke, it broke off. You know the
thing that you believe it that you pulled back on.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
There's a spray you can get to start motivators. It
won't start. Called start, your bastard? Did you try that?

Speaker 5 (11:53):
I said, you know, let to plug things, Max, we're
on a we're on a radio.

Speaker 8 (11:58):
Are you drinking?

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Are you drinking early tonight? Ben? No?

Speaker 5 (12:01):
No, no, but no. The the self propelled these are
most electric. You push a button and it's all safe.
When you let go of this, that cuts out. You know,
I'm trying to teach seven and nine year old kids
had more lawns here?

Speaker 2 (12:18):
So have you brought an electric mower?

Speaker 8 (12:20):
So?

Speaker 5 (12:20):
I bought the literal one, mate, But itself propels you
push this button, and the thing takes off and you've
got speed. And my kids even susted out you like,
they think that they're speeding this thing up and going
to made the lawns faster. But when you speed it up,
when you hit that button, it jumps, and so you
get these You get these pictures in the loan where

(12:42):
you can see where you've pushed the button because it
lifts off the ground. You know it's got nitro. The
thing does really.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Being How long's jetary life?

Speaker 5 (12:53):
Mate? I'm one quarter acre? I get yeah, I do
the loans with one best we lost. You've got to
use forward. I think I've given away the name of these.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
How long do you get it? Is it an hour?

Speaker 4 (13:14):
Would I be?

Speaker 5 (13:15):
Well, it depends that you're drinking.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Okay, you gab too hard to talk to twenty past day.
Keep your calls coming through eight hundred and eighty eight
that we're talking with the delay. It sounded like with
that one oh eight hundred and eighty tady nine to
nine two decks. Electric lawnmowers versus fuel lawnmowers will go there.
The robot lornmowers they've got no catcher. I don't like that.
I don't like the fact that one day anyway, do

(13:40):
get in touch by Dame's Marcus. Welcome also to met
the cathedral and Christ Chis the concert that was there
tonight and the severe hail that'sit in the Waideo Valley
as we talk, this will be damaging crops. I would think,
I think we've got ki fruit, We've got grapes, we've
got stone fruit. Could there be apples that the Richmond
range also marks. I'd like to recommend the aluminion bodies
steel forought. Lord Moo's with brigs and straight and how

(14:02):
that long. I've known my wife sixteen years? No service,
no oil change. That's the more. I've just decided last
week to put a new blade out and give it
a birthday. But it still runs well, Ben Marcus. Good
to see the newspaper day of the airlines are going
to clamp down on overloaded carry on bags. Some passagers

(14:22):
have the carry on case in a backpack and a
handbag that is a big one, stuff with stuff. This
holds up boarding. No over her head space left. What's
the airlines fault? They should have enforced it better, Marcus.
I think clothes shopping is something you cannot do online.
Different brands fit different Marcus, New Jersey drones. They could
be military espionage, alien elon or all those spectators need

(14:47):
to go to specsavers. Marcus living in Redwood Town, Blenham.
Very heavy rain and lightning, etc. Not used to this JH.
So if you are in Blenham, now about this weather,
this live event is happening, Marcus. I'm and Blenham. I
just look out sign saw thunder both to the east
and the south a few seconds between each other. Very impressive,

(15:08):
thanks Andy. So Blenhim is ground zero. But look, I
would imagine if you are a cropper, a fruit cropper,
what are they called, an orchardist or a viticulturist. Let
me know how devastating this will be. I can't remember
from my time with grapes how set on the vines

(15:30):
the fruit is at the moment, if they would be
damaged by how I imagine they would be, or the
leaves would be anyway pouring down here and put you
to a So, yeah, whether event's taking over that central
part of the country they are expecting, they are expecting
flooding with it. Late warning we just had about the
situation there, so we got some information about that phone

(15:51):
that through eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. Marcus eimo'd
lawns for thirty years with various petrol mowers. Now with
a small townhouse, I've bought a fifty eight vault battery mill.
It's okay, but plastic toy compared to the old one.
I'm pretty sure there's a lot of people like that.
They've tried the battery moer as we have and gone

(16:14):
back to the petrol one just because it feels more right.
That's kind of where I am. I kind of feel
it's funny saying that, but just feels more convincing. Marcus,
speaking of nature, have you heard of Archie and native frog?
Of why he there should be a big statue of
Archie at the entrance? Of why he liked the carrot,
the kiwi fruit? And how many fish are there? Marcus

(16:37):
is a half year old nephews given his very own
mess port moa by his grandparents last Christmas. He loves
mowing lawns. Six and a half. Wow, that's young to
be wont to be doing it?

Speaker 8 (16:56):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Are you good? I don't have a problem with that.
Marcus bought a battery operated lawn Maready this year. Now
I can mow the lawns whenever I want without disturbing
the neighbors. It doesn't quite cut as low as the
petrol mob, but I'm happy with the results. It is quieter.
I think if it's a Sunday morning or something like that,

(17:17):
it's a good point to be made that that's probably
a more polite form of knowing petrol versus the battery ones.
Which way have you gone? Be keen to hear you
talk about that trouble in the UK with a Royal
Variety performance and the choice of hosts seems like a
very modern British thing to do, to go online and
complain about the hosts. I think in the UK they

(17:41):
think Bradley Walsh should host everything because I love him
so much on the chase. That's my take on that.
Something else I wanted to mention tonight and I wasn't
quite sure when was the right time to mention this.
And I'm sure it's something that everyone's got an opinion on,

(18:05):
and that is McDonald World's soft serve ice cream. Now
I've never tried it. I've never thought to try. It
always seems like a baby's kind of a snack to
me soft serve ice cream, and I've always heard reports
that it was made from sheep fat or beef fat

(18:31):
or something and was gross. And I've heard stories about that,
you know, the soft serve McDonald's is made from beef
teller or fat or and I thought, well, that sounds disgusting,
but I don't really cares. I'm never going to try it.
I never heard any pushback from McDonald's or anything like that.

(18:52):
That must and the fact they never pushed back on it,
I thought, well, it must be true, otherwise they would
have challenged those beliefs. Anyway, I happen to be reading
the flight magazine today, the un Using in Flight magazine,
and within that there was a one page I'll see

(19:16):
ad But it was written like an article, a bit
of public relations for McDonald's to explain everything about the
soft serve ice cream that they make. And it seems
to be entirely New Zealand milk from Fonterra with sugar added,
which I was incredibly surprised by because I always thought

(19:39):
the fact they called it soft serve and not used
any words that alluded to the fact that it was
made from milk or dairy or anything like that really
meant that it was some sort of robot food, that
it was some sort of artificial Frankenstein type food that
they're embarrassed about so much to my surprise, I read

(20:00):
the article. It's all based from milk and sugar. It
seems to be made, according to this article, with a
great deal of love and care. By the time I
finished the article, I thought, gee, I wouldn't mind trying
one of those. I haven't so far today, but yeah,
if I've got to text straight through McDonald's soft servers
not made from ice cream, find out what's made from

(20:20):
you'll be shocked. Well, yeah, that's the myth. The myth
is it's made from creepy stuff. But the reality in
the article I saw today is it's just entirely made
from milk and sugar. So I can't quite work out
why McDonald's allowed those myths to go on for so long,
and why they never challenged them, and why they have

(20:42):
now they just changed their recipe. So if you've got
some comments on that, because I think it's probably one
of those conspiracies that did they never bother to correct.
And I'm always amazed how many times I've heard it,
but I think it's just milk and sugar, and that

(21:05):
seems to be what was this article today. I don't
think it's vegan or vegetarian, but yeah. So the other
thing that selfs soft to McDonald's is so often the
machines break. I think there's an expensive machines that gets
serviced by one companies. That's problematic as well. So if
you do want to comment on soft serve ice cream,

(21:26):
but I'm already getting texts that do say that it was,
it's not made from ice cream, so obviously people are
wrong on that, so there you go. Go figure. So
it seems to be made from milk from Fontier that's
made in a factory in Hamilton. On the cones are
made in Hamilton, the ice cream is made in Tuck

(21:47):
and Ninny or something like that and then goes right
around the country. Not evil at all. Marcus tried to
get a park at Motet Christmas lights, total chaos, chees
for miles, decide to head back home to fung Apaha
and it's still runing. They should have opened the field
for closed parking. So does who do want to go
to Tet for Christmas? Lights are they all right. Every

(22:10):
time I've been to Motet's always been hugely disappointing. Marcus
always had petrol moers and not biased either way, but
wouldn't go back from my still battery mower. Different powered
models to suit your lawn size. As a catcher, I'm
making around with fuel and much quieter. Just charge the
battery and go professional. Mo is probably a bit more robust,

(22:33):
I would think, though, Steve Marcus. I've electric robotic lawn Morrow.
It's the best freeze up a lot of time. Come
back from Holliday and the Lorna's nice to the mote.
I wouldn't be without it. There you go, Marcus. I
always bought three ice creams at McDonald's, one for one
for me and one for my dog Gasper. I went

(22:53):
to old McDonald's once and there was a guy from
Bluffy buying two ice creams. He loved them so much
like people driven in from Bluff to McDonald's in town
for the soft serve, just like mister Whippy. I guess
that's a question I'm asking and are it's Marcus. Welcome,
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 9 (23:12):
A long time ago, when I was slim, I worked
at the techaninny factory and I was in the lab
so testing.

Speaker 10 (23:19):
The products and wow, McDonald's yep.

Speaker 9 (23:22):
Taste testing, fat testing all of that stuff. It's made
out of largely cream actually, so cream sugar and vanilla
pretty much. And it's absolutely delicious even when it's not
been made into a thick shape.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
So why have they not? Because even when you go
and look at all the advertising from McDonald's, they never
the whole dairy point of It's never alluded to, is it.

Speaker 9 (23:47):
I've often wondered whether some of those miss come from
overseas where maybe it's a different formula.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yes, and maybe some of those overseas rumors have come
to New Zealand.

Speaker 9 (23:57):
I think that's what it is, because I mean I
was working there twenty five years ago and it was
just pure cream, sugar and milk to dilute it to
the right fat level with the vanilla flavoring. It was
beautiful stuff.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Can know people go there specifically in ravo Gosh, I
can't believe we've got the mother load with you so quickly.
So if you compare that to a mister whippy, it's better,
is it?

Speaker 11 (24:24):
Well?

Speaker 9 (24:24):
I was testing the sick shape mixture. Yep, you're supposed
to spit it out, but sometimes you.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Know, wow, that's gross. His disease is swallow it anyway.

Speaker 9 (24:36):
Yep, delicious, absolutely delicious. I don't know what mister Whippy's
got in there's I've had some mister Whippies myself that
seemed like not a dairy fat by the mouthfeeld, which
is one of.

Speaker 12 (24:48):
The things that.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Mouth feel, a mouthfeel. I love that word.

Speaker 9 (24:51):
Yep, mouthfeel. That's really important with food.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
It's pretty much all of it isn't even if you're
talking about I can I can imagine what the mouthfeeld
feels like for the for the McDonald's cones.

Speaker 9 (25:04):
Yeah, I'm happy to be shot down about the mister whip,
but a couple of times I've had it, it's felt
like more like a vegetable fat or something. It just
doesn't melt and the mouse the same as a dairy fat.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
You I've had bad experiences with mister whab because I've
gone right to the front of the queue with a child,
trying to talk to him about the choices he will have,
and then he's got to the end has failed to
make a choice. I've gone back to the bad. It's
just done my head. And because it's just whether it
any flake or the chocolate up and the kids get
the kids get choice paralysis.

Speaker 9 (25:33):
Just go to McDonald's.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah, well, well no, I'm all in now, okay, And
it wasn't tucking and and that's where you went, and
you're in it. So it's milk. It's cream and sugar
and vanilla and milk.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
Okay, beautiful dairy product.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
I wonder why they didn't push back more because the
number of people told me it's sort of beef fat,
that's all larder down and stuff. I've heard that thousands
of times.

Speaker 9 (25:57):
It's made in a dairy factory.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Exactly good on. Well, so who else believes that rumor
it's all bad, evil stuff? And why don't they fight
that rumor?

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Early?

Speaker 2 (26:08):
I've never really wanted to sit here and defend the
evil clown, but yeah, and that got so transformed by
the article. Part of me even wanted a Kiwi burger.
I don't think I've ever had a Kiwi burger. But
as soon as my thoughts started thinking about the Kiwi
burger in my mind, I started singing this song how
evil is that? How kind of how evilly brainwashed. We

(26:35):
all are, so I won about five calls about soft
Serve and your thoughts on it, please, because I thought
people thought it was made from beef fat but still
found it delicious. But then I can't work out why
they've taken out full page ads in the inflight magazine
tell you about how good it is, got some very

(26:57):
good text. Wouldn't mind that, backed up by a couple
of calls, but you do you? I don't care what happens, really,
Marcus Burger, king of the best soft sif cones half
the price. It's so good, I'm addicted. David Marcus. I've
just driven from Dunedin to totong Is, staying in kaik
Colder last night, and when I got to Tye Happy,

(27:18):
I saw a sign for a Kiwi Berg and I
had to stop. I wish I hadn't. It looked like
they had kicked it around the floor before they put
in the box. Certainly not like the Phio or not
like they used to be. Here we go. But when
are McDonald's going to start caring more about when they
assemble their food? Because I quite often twice a year

(27:38):
get a pilet o fish well, I pronounce it the
French way. I think something you would call it a
philate filip of fish. I call it filet just because
I felt ironic that McDonald's could try and garner some
old dunk and garner some French kind of sophistication. We
call it a filet o fish. But looks like they
put one end of the bun and the tati sauce

(28:00):
in one half of the Okay, they get that box,
that clam box, and they open it up. They put
one half of the bun in one side of the
box and the other half of the bun on the
other side of the box. They put the cheese in
one side and the fillt a on the other side,

(28:23):
and then they just flick the two sides together. They're
never actually making the burger and actually assembling it and
then kind of putting slight pressure down to make it one.
So you're quite right. The quality control of the ingredients
is shocking. Maybe they'd be better off having a sea

(28:45):
through a sea through container. They have a quick look
at it before it goes out there, because it does.
They are so badly assembled, with no love showing at all. Marcus,
how could you ask cooler as I'd heard the rumors
and believed them. Marcus from Donald's soft Survi ice cream.
Twelve months ago. It cost a twenty kids love them.

(29:08):
Now they're three dollars forty Marcus. I make the McDonald's
soft serve at Tatua Dairy Factory. We also supply Wendy's
definitely made from Waika tol cream. McDonald's make enough money,
so no worry, no need to defend I'm not defending them.

(29:28):
On discussing them, Marcus. The urban myths around McDonald's legendary
was always told the soft serves were made from chicken fat. Yes,
that's what I always thought, but it was delicious of
people didn't mind. Here is a list of the myths
about their food. Torrential rain heading up a hut right now.

(29:49):
I think the thunder and lightning is not far off.
Get in touch by name is Marcus, Welcome Hill. It's
just so you know there is still in the middle
of Blenham, a massive, massive blenhim worse than ever, treential rain,
a massive claps of thunder still happening there. So if
you are in the eye of the store, let us know.

(30:10):
It seems unseasonal and unexpected to get. Often hear of
Marlborough getting hale and thunder another there's hale, thunder and lightning.
Is there hale as well? Let me know that would
be a worry for the farmers. Well, I mean farmers
have really been hought a culturalists. You know what I'm
talking about, Marcus. I think it's important to remember a

(30:32):
lot of McDonald's restaurants are staffed and managed by teenagers.
They're the ones doing the assembing, quite friendly, don't care.
They're all about the money. I'd like to do a
shift at McDonald's just to see what's required in there.
I've often thought that I don't know if they can
just let you in for a casual shift. I suppose

(30:53):
I could just do a Trump. My moster of Trump
was just waving at the drive through window, wasn't there?
And ter I think interesting enough that of course Lux
into that too. Someone texted me and they'd been to
Burger King b K and Invert Cargol and Burger King.

(31:19):
Now is only payWave. You can't use a card. You've
just got to have it on your phone and wave
your phone at the teller. So there's no touchy touchy anymore.
It's just what and that interesting because I think if
people are excited about not getting cash now, it's already
gone one step further not accepting f post cards. They're

(31:40):
just accepting the invisible transaction when you wave your phone
over something. It's a fast changing world. Ah, it's just
to get an unhealthy burger. How dare they serve us
junk and don't take our cash? Marcus my son commented

(32:03):
on that recently when he was home from London. He said,
how roughly McDonald's are put together here compared to there? Wow,
must be a key we thing to just chuck it together.
I mean some of them do it. They've been kicked together,
you know. They do look disengaged from the food. Where's
the quality control, whe's the ownership? Where's the boss? Wandering

(32:25):
around saying do that again? Marcus? I think the cardboard
straws and wouldn't spoon to a bigger talking point. The
straws give you limited time to finish your drink, and
the spoons make the ice cream taste horrible. The straws
must collapse, do they?

Speaker 8 (32:46):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah, well, I think to be honest, you said I
think you coped. I think you coped pretty well with
the straw band. I mean for a while you didn't
like you're going to I think, actually I'm surprised how
well you coped. Didn't cope so well with the mandates,
but yeah, I thought you did pretty well with that.
They're just softening up for your mandates with the straws.
Probably what if you don't have a phone. If you

(33:08):
don't have a phone, you can't go through the drive
through at b K. If you don't have a phone,
you can't get the burger. That's it. They don't care.
They just didn't having not. I don't know what they're
worried about, because I think some of them have the
f possibly seene on a long stick look quite undignified.
Massive hail and lightning or massive lightning, maybe hale hitting.

(33:30):
Blend them. If you've got some news on that, that's
of interest. Anything else, it's of interest. My name's Marcus,
welcome soft serve McDonald's. Where you are with that? Also
motat the lights there, we'd better talk about that as well.
People seem to have fallen out of favor of Franklin Road.

(33:53):
Marcus just left at Woolworth Cox's Bay Auckland. No tellers
taking groceries. We all have to do our own swipe
and pack. Teenagers standing around near the supervisor complaining they
are board McDonald's with a world of burger. They also
used to promise a second burger if not out of minutes.
New Zealand standards just embarrassing. Now wow, and more texts

(34:14):
like that all to come in this fun filled show
till twelve. A lot of people want to know if
anyone's tried the chocolate soft serve that to be advertised. No,
and people are curious but not quite brave enough to try.
It's all about soft serve tonight. I've read the article
about that Donald's one. It's not made of chicken fed
it's actually made from cream cream from MW Zealand cows.

(34:37):
Which added is the cream? That's right, it's the top
is at the top of them. They separate it. Ah wow.
If you are a pensioner, I shouldn't say that. If
you're a senior citizens, they've got good news for you
about McDonald's coffee. You've got a couple got some extremely
good texts tonight. Light on calls, but very deep on

(35:00):
informative texts. People are in a texting mood, which is
nice to know. Keep it going. Oh wait, I'm going
to call you a fellow. Is that all right?

Speaker 3 (35:11):
Ah?

Speaker 4 (35:12):
Yeah, that's all good.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Your name, Hi, fellow, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 7 (35:16):
Hi.

Speaker 4 (35:16):
Yes, I used to be a technician for the ice
cream machines and we know why they keep breaking.

Speaker 12 (35:25):
But we just wanted to like sort of discuss.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Some issues with like the machines themselves, because I think
it's some popular media that they keep using the outdated
machines because of their contract.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
So I think it's because quite often people will go
and they'll go to McDonald's the machines closed, right, yeah,
And that's because the machines take every time they break down,
they take four hours to be serviced. I think.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
Yeah, so we'd get like a call up when the
machine broke down, and well, instance, people like me we
live in promote areas thoroughly, and so it will take
us a couple of hours to get prepared to get
all our tools from the office and then get down
to the stores to the machine.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
But I believe if you had a McDonald's franchise, you
were forced to buy ice cream machines from run from
one manufacture. Is that correct?

Speaker 11 (36:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (36:34):
Yeah, that's that's perspectly it and we would often be
told to replace, like if we didn't have the brand
new parts for available, would occasionally be taught to like
replace them with broken parts just to say that we
fix them and then net work for a while, and
then we'd have to fix them right back up here.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
What was wrong with the technology.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
It's just really outdated sometimes it's like the lubrication and everything,
and so it gets like old jam up really really easily,
and we'll have to go and fix them because the
work has done how to do it?

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Okay, So the McDonald's machine, right, these machines, I'm just.

Speaker 4 (37:20):
Getting pulled over all quick. I'm able to call you
back and I'm speaking sorry.

Speaker 10 (37:33):
Is that all good?

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Are you okay?

Speaker 12 (37:36):
Yeah, We're just getting pulled out of that class.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
I'm gonna have to call you back.

Speaker 7 (37:43):
Farry good try.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Oh that's good. I mean that's the guy I put
it into its call, isn't that? It's excellent? How you
put you don't called a fellow? Greetings, Welcome. My name
is make WHI talking about soft serva McDonald's and the
fact that it's just made from cream, but apparently it's
got a lot of sugar, and that's why they can't
call it an ice cream. Is this true? I don't know,

(38:07):
but yeah. And it's all about the machines because the
machines are made by a company called Taylor, and if
you buy machines from Taylor, you've got to get the
Taylor text to fix it. That's why they're always broken,
because it takes four hours to run the tests. It's
been major legal cases in America because rival companies can't
fix them. It's quite a complicated story anyway, to the texts, Marcus,

(38:40):
great news for gold card holders McDonald's. You can buy
a large coffee made by a barista for three dollars.
I get a soy milk flat white for three point fifty.
Best kept secret. At the local coffee shops, the same
products are twice the price. Well, it's probably not a
bad idea of peting to the gold card holders because

(39:00):
they are kind of a calming presence in the McDonald's.
Contact Less payment is the dumbest idea ever. If you
lose your card anywhere, one can purchase things with your card.
payWave has no security measures, Marcus, first world problem. I know,
but well into at least, the new McDonald's model seems

(39:21):
to ignore customers who go up to the counter to order.
They seem to think, if you don't order on the machine,
you don't matter. Steve. That annoys me. Good evening, Paul,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (39:31):
Welcome, good a Marcus, Paul right, ass keeper here?

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Can I Paul light house keeper.

Speaker 7 (39:37):
I've spoken to you before, and I'm going to change
the conversation a little bit into power pies.

Speaker 10 (39:48):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (39:49):
And you know I've spent a year Pusic Point and
I brought kilograms and kilograms out of that place, took
them home.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
But kiligrams what so kilograms of what power? Yep? Okay?

Speaker 7 (40:08):
You know peusic A Point big swells and you could
only gather them when the swell died down about once
a month. Yes, but you know they were everywhere there.
But i haven't been down your way as such yet.
But I've been up north and I've a bit of

(40:30):
a connoisseur power pie now. So I was up at
Ho Horror at Pokanui and that's the best one in
the country I've found so far. But there's also Taipa
a little bit further south, which sells them and other places.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
But I think where was the power? Where was the power?
Did you say? Ho horror?

Speaker 7 (40:53):
Yes, that's the best power pie I've come across. Was
wondering if there's if you come across power pies and bluff.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Where's the power pie at Ohora? What's the name of
the shop?

Speaker 7 (41:09):
It's about two caves north of O'Hora and it's a
they've got a thing on the side of the road
from a container shop. Really yeah, and they're bloody beautiful
and they've got other good piles there as well. But yeah,

(41:31):
pretty good shop.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
How come I can't see is it on Google Maps?
Is it like what's it called?

Speaker 7 (41:39):
Oh goodness?

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Is it called Pacific?

Speaker 7 (41:44):
Could well be? Uh it's on the main road going north, Yeah,
just north of Poky Shops. I think, what.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Isn't a power pie? What's the base, what's the what's
it made of?

Speaker 7 (41:59):
Well, it's a real real good pastry. They've got a
good pastry going down and what's.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
The body of expresimccann will be power because about one
hundred and fifty bucks a kilo.

Speaker 7 (42:09):
Oh yeah, cream power.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Oh yeah, So it's got like flour and milk and
egg and stuff.

Speaker 7 (42:15):
Is it well, yeah, just cream do white sauce was
cream power and it's pretty solid. A cost thirteen dollars,
but plenty worth it.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
I'll tell you what some of our pie makers. And
in Vericago, right, there's a company called the Pioneer is right,
a company right yep that they do pies from a
container and the Christmas pie right yeah, is Lamb Kumita
and Marshmallows.

Speaker 10 (42:51):
Okay, it sounds a different.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
It sounds a bit different, don it. Oh are you
there right, Marcus?

Speaker 3 (42:55):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Eight? Mark Halo, Marcus.

Speaker 8 (42:58):
Welcome, Hey Marcus, listening in and on the story about
McDonald's and the hate tree or the ice cream machines.
So I was part of a group in Parmist North
that developed in conjunction with a local McDonald's franchise. What
they were looking for was a better way to clean

(43:19):
the machines, and we came up with a machine and
we sold I don't know, maybe eighty in New Zealand
and a lot in Island, like four hundred in England.
But they could never get through the United States. It
could never get past Taylor.

Speaker 10 (43:36):
Now.

Speaker 8 (43:37):
The thing was that our system was based on cleaning
like washing heat, hot water, detergent. What Taylor came up
with was this concept they called heat treat, and heat
treat was actually not about seeding at all. It was
about superheating the milk mix in the machine at night.

(43:59):
So what they said was, look, if anything does get
a bit cranky in it, we will superheat the machine
and we will kill the bacteria in the mix. Now,
the problem was that, so you had a machine that
for like ninety percent of the day sat cold, it
was running cold, and then for ten percent of the

(44:21):
day you superheated it. So basically you put all the
parts under a normal stress to go like a washing
machine that becomes a dryer. You know, it's running in
verse and basically we could see that it was going
it was going to cause them problems because of the

(44:42):
whole thing of you know, the parts, every component had
to have this ability to go from super cold to
super hot and anyway. At the end, then they issues
with the quality of the mix. But Taylor were big
enough and powerful enough in the world of soft serve
to basically convince McDonald's and they it by the fact

(45:07):
that their whole network basically put momentum behind it and said,
well we're we're all in on the super on this
heat treat. Other companies didn't didn't do it to the
extent that McDonald's got into it. So McDonald's got themselves
into this thing with these really really complex machines that

(45:28):
went from from freezing to the boiling. And then they
had parts issues, and the parts issues led to service issues,
and on it went, and the franchisees were all caught
with machines that basically they had to spend an enormous
amount of money keeping up to bay and it just

(45:50):
got very very ugly.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
And then you know, so you empty the machine of
all the product before your superheated.

Speaker 8 (45:56):
No, no, they left it in. They left it in,
so you just yeah, yeah, it's like and and so
the next morning, you know, you've got you've got this
taste issue because the has been it's like milk on
a stove. You know, you boil it, we don't take
it to a certain temperature, and it's and it scores
the milk or scores the mix. So they had, you know,

(46:17):
nearly days, they had huge complaints about product quality and
stuff that was to me, it was I mean, it
sounded good and fairy, but you know it just from
a from a thermo thermodynamic point of view, and from
certainly from an equipment maintenance and support. You know, you're
just pushing. Everything has a life and a tolerance, and

(46:40):
basically they just pushed, pushed and pushed and pushed the
tolerance of the parts, and then they had problems and
then they you know, once you've got yourself a problem,
then you try and you're always battling up to try and.

Speaker 10 (46:53):
Sort it out.

Speaker 8 (46:54):
So yeah, and we had you know, it was a
great you know, it looked like we worked really hard
to try and battle through the tailor you know story.
But we were on the other side of the world.
Parmers North Whares that New Zealand or and they were
just down the road from McDonald's in Chicago, So it

(47:17):
was we were on a bit of a hiding. We
could never get and if you can't get something running
inside the US with McDonald's, it's it's really hard.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Yeah, but Blake, I do know that I do know
that soft serve ice creams, the machines can be really
vulnerable to lasteria or to disease because because you've got
you've got to have it a real narrow bound the temperature,
it's not within that temperature. Those those you wouldn't want

(47:48):
to be giving listeria to pregnant women in America because
if they if they lost the you know, if there
was a problem with a child, then you'd be in
for a huge court case, wouldn't you do.

Speaker 12 (48:00):
Well.

Speaker 8 (48:00):
Their whole strategy, though, was you knock offhsteria by superheating
the product, so you take it above a certain temperature
and if there's any bacteria, you kill it. And and
on theory, that's right. It was just what to be equipment,
and how how how badly you know, how how hard
it was on the on the on the on the

(48:22):
actual machine, and that's where it came unstuck. But you
could see it. I was there in the early days,
and you know, we used to go to meetings in
Chicago and get in a room and be Taylor would
be sitting in the corner, and you know, they'd be
looking at what we were doing. And we were probably
just that little bit too late. I think if we'd
been there a year earlier, before the idea had really

(48:45):
taken hold, people would have said, Hey, this is fantastic,
this is Kiwi innovation, this is we called it McDonald's
c IP cleaning place. And I'm just working on another
you know, I mean, I veritable kiwi and ter and
we're just doing another thing. We're calling trickle c I
P so swimming out stuff in the in the poultry

(49:07):
industry relation to all the problems they're having with influenza
and things. So basically, it's like anyone who's got a
swimming pool knows that basically your problem with water is
that biofilm, particularly if the water is slow moving like
it is for chickens and pigs, you get biofilm in

(49:29):
the lines, and that biofilm then get exactly the same
thing bacteria to get in the biofilm. What people haven't
realized is that if you don't clean those signs constant,
not constantly, but on a regular basis, you will get
that terrier that drops off and goops, gets into the feeders,

(49:51):
the birds drink it, and then they've got you know,
you're having to give them antibiotics. The best way. I've
just come from a conference in Germany and the Dames.
I was looking at the Danish and they've slashed the
amount of antibiotic they're using. And the way they've done
it basic bes. You deal with the biofilm, you deal
with the green slime, You kill the bacteria and the

(50:12):
green slime, and basically, all of a sudden you've got
clean pipes. And if you've got clean pipes, you don't
have this bacteria stuff coming through the waterline dropping onto
the into the birds drinkers, and then all of a
sudden they're getting sick because they've had a sort of
a mouthful of salmonella or whatever which has been in
the line and hidden by biofilm. Because biofilm has a

(50:36):
protective coating and bacteria sanitizer doesn't actually kill it. You've
got to get You've got to break open the biofilm
and then have a material that will We'll do it,
and there are you know, there's some fantastic new materials
based on colouidial silver hydrogen peroxide that are harmless and

(50:57):
you can give them. What we're doing is giving them
in very short bursts to the birds for like three
to four hours intermittently during during the week and getting
at the bacteria, knocking it off, getting the lines clean,
so you're not getting to use antivirucks because the birds
aren't drinking or water with salmonella or E.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Coli in it.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
It's very interesting but beyond our brief but thank you
for calling about that. Marcus and I have just got
three quarter pounds and paid in cash. That was in Thames.
Is that called? Is that? Is that burger King? We're
talking about Burger King being being cashless when you drive through.
Marcus Gold card holders get ten percent discount at Burger King.
We need to pay waive it o hold a Honeybees

(51:45):
is the power pie shop for you own to thank you.
I've don't even know what would be in a power pie,
how you'd make it if someone knows about that, Marcus,
a big thank you. Have had a burd issue at
home for years, tried everything, but a few weeks ago

(52:06):
you had a good segment and the farmer rang up
about the product. Wingo work brilliantly, very happy cheers Amish.

Speaker 13 (52:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Well, the information people come up with it's always good.
I mean eventually we get there. I've still got the
problem with the birds. I'm not going to put by
a product that can't be bothered. But you also have
to part the car somewhere else. Not going to go Wingo,

(52:38):
but there are some birded terrents out there? If the
birds keep checking the meatow muffins on the car getting
touched by name's Marcus Huddle twelve o'clock, or there is
something different you want to talk about. What are these
Christmas lights like at MOTET? That seems to be a
thing everyone's good for those that don't know. MOTET is

(52:58):
like the Museum of Transport and Technology. It's been around
in Auckland forever in a day. I think it was
sort of a volunteer outfit. I think the council board
under their wing, and I guess it's rate payer funded now.
It always seemed to be kind of a bit of
a cobbled together thing. But they've done Christmas on the

(53:19):
lights and you can't do there's cues for miles. I
suppose it's one of those things people think, well, what
should we do. Let's go to MOTET for Christmas lights,
something new, something but fun. The whole family can do.
I couldn't think anything worse. I mean, no, I don't

(53:41):
want to. I don't want to come across badly, but
yeah I don't. Christmas lights don't do it for me.
Each to their own. Imagine everyone's sick of elf on
the shelf by now, aren't they? I think we're all
sick of that. I just got an email through someone said, Marcus,
when we're up north, we wanted to stop for a

(54:02):
parlor pivot. They were closed. We'd seen great reviews, so
I don't know if they're making the power pie is not.
There is some discussion that the power might be too
expensive to make a pie a power pie. Some text
has come through Stefan and Marcus. I got a Ninja
blender and I'm making my own frozen cokes now by
freezing cokes ice cubes and adding one to two normal

(54:25):
ice cubes with some Coke cola not too much. Could
you explain that again, Steffan, what are you doing makes
no sense freezing cokes ice cubes, adding one to do
normal ice cubes. What are you actually doing? It says
having one now. Side note bad news. The Southampton manager
was down five nil at halftime today and lost his
job at full time. Talk about a bad day at

(54:47):
the office. We're talking about soft serve ice cream and
whether you think that McDonald's is the pick of all
of them, because just that still want to talk, because
I know people are fanatical about it and will go
just for that ice cream. So your opinion about that?
Who have you tried the new chocolate one? Also, I've

(55:10):
got to say that when it comes to my I
always like at a country you've got the giant screw,
you know, at a fruit stall in the country to
get strawberries, they chuck it and it goes in the cone.
They other giant screw that were in Auger and puts
it out that way. I always think that's good. It's
a lot more it's a lot less hassle than those

(55:33):
soft two machines. Don't just spend the whole time cleaning
it because those machines have McDonald's. I mean, they just
seem to be a nightmare. That's what we are on about.
Name is Marcus. Welcome other questions about the weather. It's
now haling an upper hut to come through Blenheim. If
you are experiencing where they let us know about that,

(55:54):
particularly if it's legendarily bad weather. That's one of the
key topics for tonight. If you've been to the Christmas
lights at Motat I kind of met what they'd be
like last time I was there fifty years ago. It
was all just like historical villages with people dressed up
creepy and old making SCons and stuff. I don't know

(56:19):
why why people want to dress up like old times. Yeah,
you know, I'm saying it's creepy. That's just me though.
Get in touch, Marcus Till twelve, eight hundred eighty ten
eighty and nine to nine two de text. Get in

(56:45):
touch with this something different you want to check into
the mix tonight. Also, anything goes pretty amazing. The blind
guy and the UK one Strictly Come Dancing was always
going to happen with quite a good pre Christmas story,
that one. I thought any who oh eight hundred and

(57:07):
eighty to any moments Marcus headed twelve o'clock tonight. If
there is something different you want to mention good but
good the oldies to get a coffee at for three
dollars fifty at McDonald's. We've got to publicize that lightning
and thunder, heavy rain now in Richmond, Marcus, I'm in
christ Church where there's a seafood shop here which sells

(57:28):
frozen power meat for one hundred and ninety eight dollars
per kilo. At that price, I'm not paying for a
power pie Marcus. It sounds like staff is freezing coke
ice blocks and normal ice block cubes, and then but
what's a coke ice block? Can you buy them?

Speaker 4 (57:54):
No?

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Well, I think he's buying a Coca colar ice block.
Why would you bother you guys with your nutral bullets? Oh,
of course you can get a McDonald's frozen coke. That's
what people trying to replicate. What are they called when
you make takeaways at home? Fakeries? Fake aways? But I

(58:17):
wonder if you guys getting a tip top popsicle col
of fizz ice block. That's probably what I think he's
doing and putting. Well, no, I'm reading the email. The
email makes no sense. This is the email. Okay, what
are you doing? Stefan? I read the email word for
word because it made no sense to me. Now my

(58:39):
computer's not bufferings. I've tipped on the chip job. Hang on, people,
which is the emails? Here we go? Stay signed in? Yes, yes,
hi Marcus, I got a ninja blender and I'm making
my own frozen cokes now by freezing cokes ice cubes

(59:05):
and adding one to two normal ice cubes with some
Coca Cola. Why would you need to water it. Why
would he put the normal ice cubes in there? But
you can get an ice block of coal of fizz
popsicle which looked delicious, coal of fizz, coal of flavored

(59:26):
ice confection. No reviews have been submitted yet, Well that's
tomorrow's job lines free. My name's Marcus, welcome head on midnight,
rain stopped and blend him. Thunder has stopped as well,

(59:50):
lightning and thunder the heavy rain now in Richmond. Marcus,
I was the one trying to get to the motet lights.
Went to Franklin Road instead, easy parking and totally gorgeous.
Didn't he go ab rogue the Franklin lights of people
after dark, robbing people or something or notbbing people? But
you know who's been to the motet. I don't even
know what the motet lights are like, but yet sounds depressing.

(01:00:19):
Christmas Lights Motet twenty twenty four, over twelve spectacular lights
Motets Great North Road will be transformed into a winter
wonderland with stunning light displays, live music, entertainment, much much more.
It sounds terrible, but guess what it's sold out? Well,

(01:00:41):
they put lights on the tram that's disrespectful for the tram.
There you go sold out. Goodness me, my god, it's
cheap tickets three to six dollars. What's three to six
dollars now? Like nothing? Get in touch. My name's Marcus.

(01:01:01):
Who's made their own frozen coke? That seems what that's
what roant. Marcus drove past Motet about eight PMQ was
about twenty minutes long along the footpath. Marcus. The guy's
pouring coke into the ice cumaker, freezing them, putting them
into a blender. Be's a going to McDonald's. Wouldn't get
it to people like a frozen coke. One of the

(01:01:22):
best things I watched when I got caught watching TV
on a Sunday afternoon on one of those random channels
on Sky that's not as high as the movies, but
not as low as the BBC as UK TV, like Real,
not like Roxy or one of those really budget channels.

(01:01:44):
They had a show on the best food you could
get at some sketchy fears in America, like every year
ats the competition to invent new food, and someone was
doing deep fried frozen coke, which sound delicious. You know
that was a long story, wasn't it, Marcus. I think

(01:02:04):
he's freezing coke. Marcus, did you hear what Radar the
Australian breakdancers did to the comedian talk about an inflated ego?
I think it's ray Gun. That's funny, Marcus. Motet used
to be good until they got rid of all the cars.
After all, what have cars have done for transport? Now

(01:02:26):
it's just a big, needy, empty hall with a few
silly connectivities. Marcus. You can grab a large mcfloat for
McDonald's frozen coke top with soft souve only three dollars.
The dude who emailed you was freezing coke and an
ice cube tray. They're putting it in a blender with
regular ice for body and regular coke for flavor. Pointless

(01:02:49):
but fun to fakery fake aways. There must be an
easy way to make frozen coke. Maybe it will know
soda stream machines or something. Oh, what you want to
do is you want to go to ten for frozen
fruit frozen drink maker? Basically these days, if it's not

(01:03:13):
on Temo, it's not worth being invented. But just don't
ask to look in the factory. Yeah, you get something.
You probably get a candy floss machine while you're there
missed out. Yeah, there's some great things, don't you love Temu?

(01:03:40):
Here we go, here's the best text I've seen. Motet
is a depressing junkyard from the past. When I was
a kid, schools used to persist on school trips there yearly.
Some of my worst childhood memories. Yeah, one of my
worst memories is at Motet and I can't even remember
what the memory was. I have a vague I got

(01:04:01):
yelled at for doing something. I don't know what it was,
but none of it was good, and they got yelled at,
and there were people in old costumes making scones and stuff,
all of it. It's just terrible, that golden triangle of
the sort of the Motet and the zoo in Western Springs.
None of it was good for a kid. We went
on a school trip to the zoo. Well, I recognized

(01:04:25):
back in the bus within three minutes and it to
sit for the whole day in the bus. I don't
know what I did, just get excited driving across town.
I mean, these days had medicate kids like us, wouldn't they.
That's what they do. Put on something that we documentaries
about it. Next thing. People going on a lot about
it anyway, Nothing wrong with the kid with a bit

(01:04:48):
of excitement or a bit of enthusiasm. It just wasn't
that well handled. Marcus. I put coke and my ice
boke in the fridge and it broke in the ice
cube makeer in my fridge. I'll tell you something else.
I don't often talk about beer, but I did see
there was an advertisement on the TV last night, right,
and if you buy one, and I thought this was genius.

(01:05:11):
If you buy one brand of beer it might have
been dbxport, right, and you put it in the freezer,
and you text a four digit number when you put
it in the freezer, then Vanilla Ice will call you
back after thirty seven minutes and tell you when it's

(01:05:31):
cold enough to start drinking it. Whoever came up with
that campaign is an absolute genius. So they'll bring you
back to tell you get it out of the because
how many times are with all that's a nice drink,
I'll just put in the freezer to call it down
and forgotten about it the next morning. It's expanded on
your sausages. One of the cleverest campaigns I think I've

(01:05:51):
ever heard of, So after thirty seven minutes, they'll call
you and say, get your beer out of the freezer.
I was almost tempted to text the number, but I said, oh,
well sorry. What I should be doing is texting a
beer line to us to pretend to put beer into
the freezer. Ah Stefan has sent us as frozen. Marcus

(01:06:13):
say about the confusion, I am making my own frozen
cokes at home. If you own a blend, what you
do is freeze coke into ice tubes overnight. Next day
until they are a frozen you put six to eight
ice tubes into a blender with two normal ice tubes
along with a splash of coke. It seems complicated, doesn't it.
I just put a couple of those coke ice blocks

(01:06:34):
into the blend that will take the sticks out. There
was a taste like swordust, good eating.

Speaker 11 (01:06:40):
Dave Marcus, welcome there you go, Marcus. I was going, yeah, good,
you're not being a bit of where that comes through
about five o'clock, but it seems to have come down
out there now here in christ Church. I was going
to suggest those frozen cokes are called slushies. Let's say,
how I used to know them and now I've always

(01:07:03):
been passional to the carebl Sundays that McDonald Yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
What are they are They just a soft of ice
cream with a carible flavoring on top?

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, hot caramel.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Marcus, hot caramel. Yes, you didn't tell me that.

Speaker 11 (01:07:22):
Oh well it is Marcus and yeares he is quite
partial to them. Now did you say something about the
ice cream? But I missed something in the air that
has made a chicken fat or something.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Always I always thought it was something evil. That's why
they didn't call it ice cream or dairy flavored. I
was reading a big article or a big pr thing.
It is just cream and sugar, well some other stuff.
So it's it's all Fonterra. They're a big consumer there,
so I'm never quite sure why they haven't made a
bit more of a fuss about that when there was
so much misinformation about it.

Speaker 11 (01:07:53):
Yeah, yeah, but I don't. I haven't been to McDonald's
for years.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
But you're impartial to those things.

Speaker 11 (01:08:02):
Yes, I am diabetic and I've discovered it good Hamburger
place just down the road on Bear After. They do
very good burgers Hawaiian Burger, and I can do without
the ice cream, Hey, Marcus, I can think back now,
I'm going back to your years. We would see the
odd years. We used to get parlor off the rocks

(01:08:24):
at Boulder Bay and easy to get about bots steet water,
reached down with a flat bladed knife and flick them up,
bring them home. We used to miss mince them up
with the old screw minsa that you used to be
able to wind onto your table and min that way.

(01:08:46):
And the powers were no big deal. But when I
hear incredible money now for power and power paddies, it
blows me away.

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
We don't think.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Where's Boulder Bay, Boulder Beach?

Speaker 11 (01:08:58):
You know Taylor's Misteak Water yep. And there's a few
batches out there right at.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
The end there.

Speaker 11 (01:09:07):
I'd love I'd love a betcher the market.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
So that's the beaches. You walk to the head you
walk past that second beach. Is that the one?

Speaker 10 (01:09:14):
Yes it is.

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
Yeah, it's a nice much.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
It's it's one of christ It's best and best walks
that under the headland and a lot of people do it.

Speaker 11 (01:09:23):
Yes, And you can go up and around as well, Marcus.
Around that there's some old bettery insallations, the gun installations
from the world War two.

Speaker 3 (01:09:34):
I think it is up around the air.

Speaker 11 (01:09:36):
You can see where they were like you know, yeah,
and where they used to have the magazines for the
for the guns.

Speaker 6 (01:09:46):
It is a great walk.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
I think there's a camping ground up there. They're about
to redo as well. Dave, I've got to run, so
thank you for calling. So yes soft serve ice cream?
How would you compare it to mister whippies the stuff
at McDonalds. I'm pretty interested in this, And what's the
chocolate stuff?

Speaker 8 (01:10:01):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
Deluge of rail and thunder is just a riding masts
and we need the rain. Those who you're Jim Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:10:11):
Marcus are tuber Jim Hi Jim good good good, Hey listen.
I just to run past Motad Choose and it looks
pretty damn good to be honest. And there's a heap
of people there, Yeah, a heap of people there. I
got to tell you a story. Back in the early seventies,

(01:10:31):
I used to belong to Motat in the fire section. Well, mate,
the place was a den of iniquity, can it It
was a great place to be a teenager.

Speaker 5 (01:10:44):
I going to tell you.

Speaker 6 (01:10:46):
There were horse girls, there were all sorts. It was
it was a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
So why were you because a teenager, why would you
want to be involved in historical fire engines? The girls
make the girls okay, but you wouldn't have known it.

Speaker 4 (01:11:01):
Looked after that.

Speaker 6 (01:11:04):
The girls looked after the horses. And they used to
have a place there called Snibbo spelt s n i
b O, and that was the bar. So all us
underage drinkers we'd go there and and we'd get licked up,
and yeah, it was fun.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
So we hey bun and really.

Speaker 4 (01:11:25):
All sorts of things you really made.

Speaker 6 (01:11:27):
There was a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
So why was it called Snibbo?

Speaker 6 (01:11:33):
God knows, I don't know where the hell that name
came from, but it was. Oh, we had all sorts
of me and there was you could write a book
about it. And when you used to get actually.

Speaker 2 (01:11:45):
When you say there were horse girls, did people with
was it like a horse of enting thing?

Speaker 10 (01:11:51):
There?

Speaker 12 (01:11:52):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:11:53):
No, no, no, they used to have, you know, the
horses that guarded the carriages around it and the people know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 6 (01:12:03):
Yeah, it actually used.

Speaker 5 (01:12:04):
To be pretty damn good in the day.

Speaker 6 (01:12:07):
And yeah, the fire section was a lot of fun.
We even had a pole to slide up and down
on and yeah, lots of fun mate you would have
loved it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
Yeah, because I think what I think what Motenant started
as a volunteer organization, didn't it, And then I think
the council took it over.

Speaker 8 (01:12:25):
Is that right?

Speaker 6 (01:12:27):
That's absolutely right. And the volunteers were quite passionate. Some
of them are quite weird.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
Well, they weren't passionate. I think the situation with most
volunteers as they ended up stealing everything, didn't they.

Speaker 6 (01:12:39):
No, no, no, no, I don't think so. I think there
was a bit of mismanagement. But I think that the
people that got their hands dirty were pretty good actually
and pretty honest people.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
Okay, so I remember there was a Bob Harvey article
on Metro about that that you know that a lot
of stuff people would donate their whole things and then
go along to see where it was they couldn't find it.

Speaker 6 (01:12:58):
That's that's right. Yes, there was a bit of misappropriation. Yeah,
memories a bit vague. You could probably research it. I
actually think there might have even been criminal charges.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
Again, I'm sure they're management. I'm sure they were. And
it's the problem with places that when you get people
that are enthusiastic about something, and they're volunteers. There's never
you know, there's never good bookkeeping and people are so
patient they think they'll have it themselves.

Speaker 6 (01:13:25):
No, no, no, I don't think it was that. There
was actually professional management they had. They had a proper
management team. So I wouldn't like to speak ill of
the volunteer enough. I know we all worked pretty pretty hard,
but a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
Mate, So what will you do when you're restoring fire engines?

Speaker 6 (01:13:45):
Yeah? And we used to have an old V eight forward.
I mean, Jesus was only about sixteen and I used
to drive the thing around the round motet with kids
on the back, and you had a siren going and
it was all sorts of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (01:14:04):
And then of course the horse girls.

Speaker 3 (01:14:06):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
Yeah, okay, now tell me how's the ubering tonight? Is
it busy?

Speaker 6 (01:14:11):
Yeah, it's actually not too bad. Maybe I've just got
to ride. I'm just going to get and pick someone
up now from France of Street and gray Lin.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
So the city. So the city has been quite busy,
he has it?

Speaker 6 (01:14:21):
Oh, mate, you should have been here on Saturday night.
It was mentel.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
Really because of.

Speaker 6 (01:14:30):
Christmas.

Speaker 8 (01:14:31):
Ah.

Speaker 3 (01:14:31):
Yeah, they had Christmas in the park.

Speaker 6 (01:14:34):
They had the speedway and I've never seen so many
drunks in all my life. Yeah, k Road Ponsby Road
was just mental.

Speaker 10 (01:14:46):
All that's good.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
Because people have been complaining how quiet is so it's
finally kicked in like a week before Christmas.

Speaker 6 (01:14:52):
Yeah yeah, so thankfully it'll continue.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
Okay, nice to hear from you, Jim. Thank you Marcus.
Just to let you know, all McDonald's ingredients are public.
Unlike burger King. The Sunday isn't just cream. Most of
it is. You got some numbers down the bottom and
it's just flavoring and stuff. Good evening, Sheryltte's Marcus. Welcome,

(01:15:19):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:15:20):
I heard you're talking about the weather. I have just
come to pick up my son with a delayed flight.
Oh get to the airport. His plane was just due
to land and they've just turned it around and sent
it all the way back to Auckland.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
Oh wow, this.

Speaker 14 (01:15:36):
Is lightning and they don't see nothing in the airport.
I feel so sorry for my son, who spent all
night in Adelaide airport, had to wait all days to
get back home to New Zealand to have his flight
be turned around at the last minute.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Now where is where does he live?

Speaker 14 (01:15:57):
He lives here, but he had been on holiday in
Adelaide And yeah, his plane has just been divertical all
the way back to Auckland. I hope in New Zealand
is really nice and puts the passengers up because it
was already delayed by about half an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
The flight is a small Is it a propeller plane?

Speaker 15 (01:16:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:16:22):
Yeah, yeah, it's one of It was the last flight
into Nelson.

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
Did you see it?

Speaker 14 (01:16:28):
And I just arrived at the airport just to be
just walked in and turned The plane has now been
turned around and sent back to Auckland. A minute.

Speaker 2 (01:16:39):
How far down to get Dan dannelby on flight radar?

Speaker 4 (01:16:42):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
Well it was.

Speaker 14 (01:16:43):
It was only eight minutes away from landing, so it
was just about ready to lean and because there's a
little bit of lightning out there, they turned the plane around.

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
Unreal many others there. Did you get inside the terminal?

Speaker 14 (01:16:58):
I walked into the terminal just to hear them make
the announcement the plane has been turned around. And I
spoke to some of the people and everybody's leaving now,
people driving past me. Yeah, there's a little bit of rain,
the lightings. Honestly, it's not that bad.

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
Well the pilots, the pilots are pretty good. I don't
think that turned back if they didn't need to at
the airport.

Speaker 14 (01:17:19):
Yeah, yeah, I look, I know that we've we've had
the spring threatning all days. So it was meant to
come this afternoon, the lightning, but it decided to come
while my son was on that plane. He said it
was his birthday yesterday and he had to sit in
an airport all night and now he's gone all the
way back.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
So why was he stuck in the airport at Adelaide?

Speaker 14 (01:17:42):
Because we has my family live in Adelaide. It's really
way out of town. And it was easy just to
drop them off at the airport at ten o'clock last
night and just let him sit at the airport until
it's the flame flow out because everybody's got work. Oh okay,
And would it cost over one hundred dollars for an uber,

(01:18:05):
you know to catch his fly? So he just get old,
just go and wait at the airport. So I spoke
to him via video before he flew out, and he
looks like he's a wreck. Has not been a nice
birthday for him at all.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
Could they not get a bus out to the airport
from Adelaide?

Speaker 14 (01:18:23):
No, no, because it's the place where he was staying
at is Wallanga and it's like a little town Wlanga.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
What do Yeah, you got famie Langa.

Speaker 14 (01:18:33):
Yes, I do. Indeed, I have a daughter, and i
have a niece and a nephew. I've got a lot
of family and Adelaide. So yeah, it was his first trip.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
Yeah, okay, how old is he?

Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
Is? He not a cat?

Speaker 16 (01:18:49):
No?

Speaker 14 (01:18:49):
He just turned fifty forty two yesterday. Oh yeah, okay,
he's not. But he's dyslexic, which is how does age back.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
Oh yeah, I understand what you're saying.

Speaker 14 (01:19:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So to me, he's like a big kid.

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:19:06):
I just feel so sorry for them. I don't even
know what time I'm going to have to get up
in the morning to pick them up.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
Now, Now, are you close by?

Speaker 7 (01:19:14):
No?

Speaker 14 (01:19:14):
Actually I live outside of Nelson, I live in Wakefield.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
Oh, for goodness, it seems to have come down, you know,
fearwell spit. Yeah, it's come down like on that. It's
come down level with that and then turned back.

Speaker 14 (01:19:30):
Okay, okay, so.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
They're up over, they're up over our Kino now heading
back up to Auckland.

Speaker 14 (01:19:37):
Yes, are you still in bluff? Yep, well I'm a bluffy.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
Really goodness sake, did you what street did you live in?

Speaker 14 (01:19:46):
I lived in Foyle Street?

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
Who are your neighbors?

Speaker 14 (01:19:51):
Who are of my neighbors? Are the Spirits the Rhines?

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
And it's yeah, because it's three pretty pretty straights, aren't
you cheap? It's really in the When did you what
did you leave?

Speaker 14 (01:20:06):
I left South and twenty thirteen. That got a bit
too cold for me.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
For goodness, it's just getting it was just warming up.
So we were you by the Catholic School?

Speaker 3 (01:20:18):
Were you?

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
I said? Theresa's No, we were.

Speaker 14 (01:20:21):
We were west End, We were the west in and
we all went to Kenninee.

Speaker 2 (01:20:25):
Oh you went to Kenninney. So you're wow, are you
between along from Shannon Street?

Speaker 14 (01:20:33):
Right, you've got it right at the end of Foyle
Street before you go down Sewer. He is the last three.
The second last house is actually down a driveway there
where we lived.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
Oh, for goodness, a nice views of the port from.

Speaker 14 (01:20:48):
There, absolutely stunning. My brother actually owns that house now
and he's he's he's modernized it all and looks absolutely lovely.
The big pine tree has been cut down eath. It's
a fantastic view.

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
Okay, so your next flight from Auckland annwn SO will
arrive at eight fifteen tomorrow.

Speaker 14 (01:21:07):
Oh thank you, Marcus. I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
Nice to talk, Gabriel. It's Marcus. Welcome, good evening, Good Marcus,
A good things. Gabriel.

Speaker 10 (01:21:21):
You're talking about Mott and that back in the mid eighties,
I think it was. I had a car on Dispray
there and it was there victually for two years. But
nearing the end of that time we went in to
have a look at it and the rare hub cap

(01:21:42):
had gone, one of the home caps were taken off,
and the rare ashtray was taken out of it, and
I said to them, you know, well, you guys have
got the key for it. I had to leave the
key with them in case they moved it around for
whatever using display purposes. And I said, well, you're not

(01:22:02):
going to find one of hooses in New Zealand. It's
going to be American only. And so that long story short.
They gave me five hundred dollars to replace the hub
cap and to get a new astray unit for it
as well, and yeah, it was good of them. Actually,

(01:22:24):
they were really good to deal with. But what they
were doing too was on some days they were telling
me that they'd have all four doors open, but that
still have the rope around it so people could see
closely right inside of it. And I think it could
have been taken then, or I don't know, one of

(01:22:45):
the staff may have opened it up and perhaps necked
it or whatever. But yeah, they were really good to
deal with. And I ended up getting a hub cap
from the States at that time for twelve dollars and
the astray unit I got for sixteen sixteen dollars, So

(01:23:06):
I was really I had no idea I'd be able
to get it at that price and to get it
so quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:23:14):
Gave me what's the car was it?

Speaker 10 (01:23:16):
I was a sixty one Lincoln okay.

Speaker 2 (01:23:18):
And why did you put it on Why did you
put it on show at motet just because it was.

Speaker 10 (01:23:24):
Because one day one day we were there and one
of the workers, I don't know who it was, but
he came over and he was talking about it being
a nice car and he mentioned, you know that it's
similar to the one that JFK got assassinated in and
so we started talking and I was actually looking for

(01:23:47):
a place to store it because I was in between homes,
and he said, yeah, we can, you know, we can
certainly do something about that, And that's how it got
in there.

Speaker 2 (01:23:59):
I think it's I think that the article is because,
you know, because it was all just there was four
thousand volunteers at motet before it all got included, all
got cooperated, and they sort of called it, you know,
a swap meet for volunteers if that you know, that
seems to be the way it kind of work before
it all got organized and made a lot more professional.

Speaker 3 (01:24:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:24:18):
Yeah, I've always loved the place ever since I was
a kid.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
We should have been wish your car now.

Speaker 10 (01:24:27):
I sold that about twenty years ago and got another car.
But yeah, that was it was rare because it was
right hand drive and it had all the accessories switched
over to the right, you know, the power seats and windows,

(01:24:48):
cruise control.

Speaker 2 (01:24:49):
Yeah, hood switched Hood switched it over.

Speaker 10 (01:24:54):
It was done on Naussy because I remember I was
done and Nussy done done. Good job of it. You
couldn't yeh nice car, big engine. It'd be to run
it now. But yeah, it was good at the time.

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
And do you know where it is now?

Speaker 10 (01:25:13):
No, I don't, but it's got to be the only
one in New Zealand at right hand drive. I know
there's probably about three or four of them in New Zealand,
but they're all left hookers, you know, they're all left
hand drive because their recent imports. But so yeah, no,
as soon as it's a right hand driver, it'll be mine.

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
But the one that JFK got shot on it, it didn't.
It was a convertible, was that right? Yeah, it was
yours a convertible.

Speaker 10 (01:25:43):
No, No, mine was a sedan. But the body is
The body was the same excep. JFK's one was extended
and length and that a whole lot of differences, but
the overall body look of it it was the same
as mine. Mine was the same color as well, black. Yeah,

(01:26:05):
it is.

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
Nice to talk, Gabriel. Thank you. A lot of texts
about soft served Marcus. I worked at mcdonaldon and need
It as a team in the early nineties and when
I was pouring a thick gell like liquid at the
top of the soft serve machine, asked the manager what
was in it, and she said animal fat. I have
never eaten McDonalds until I worked Their fish and chips,
always popular as a kid in the eighties. I guess
that was fat too lull. Anyway, I have a lovely

(01:26:27):
Christmas everyone, Rachel, Marcus, two of the four daughters, and
I had a soft served cone each on the way
through the pookakohe McDonald's drive through Saturday night on the
way back to order Ark. I haven't had one in years,
just fancied when it was delicious. The last time I
had one, though fifty cents. They were two dollars twenty each.
On the weekend. I worked at Mecca's nineteen ninety two

(01:26:49):
to ninety ninety five Meadowland Shopping scent and now closed down,
and often cleaned and filled up the dairy products machine.
Never knew the ingredients, but I'm surprised to hear they
are one hundred percent cream. They were pretty gross machines
to clean and keep clean. Noise a bit whiffy. Thoroughly
enjoy your show this year, Marcus, excellent season greens, the
Beasts from the Family and I jk ork Penny. It's Marcus, Welcome,

(01:27:14):
good evening.

Speaker 15 (01:27:15):
No, that's no, it's North.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:27:24):
Yeah, Hi MICUs. I'm just wondering if anyone else has
seen what I'm seeing. I'm looking self Hamson off towards
the hospital. So I'm looking south on at the hospital
in Paris and north and there's a lot of flesh lightning.
There's no rain, there's no thunder, and it's just flashing

(01:27:46):
the flesh lightning every thirty seconds or so. And it's
quite strong and quite large, but it's just over the hospital.
It's really weird, so weird.

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
Sounds like you're quite alarmed by it.

Speaker 15 (01:27:57):
No, I just haven't seen anything like that before.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
You Are you in Milson?

Speaker 15 (01:28:03):
Yeah, that area looking towards the hospital.

Speaker 2 (01:28:06):
That that is out if you're in Milson, that is
south with the hospital as well. Okay, so there's lightning,
but there's no thunder and there's no rain.

Speaker 15 (01:28:13):
Yeah, and it's flash lightning. It's lighting up.

Speaker 13 (01:28:15):
When it goes.

Speaker 2 (01:28:18):
Wow, and you're not hearing the bang.

Speaker 15 (01:28:21):
Nothing, no rain, nothing. It's just a just a night.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
You know, just like the End Times, isn't it. I
wonder what it is? How far away is it?

Speaker 15 (01:28:29):
If anyone could just explain it, it's probably I've never
seen it in my life before, and there's probably a
simple explanation. But if people could just look that way
and just say what that is, that would be hindy.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
Is that on the ranges?

Speaker 15 (01:28:44):
Yeah, it would be. It's just as far as I
can see from where we are, just looking at the
hospital from Milston, looking towards the hospital, and just there's
an amazing flash lightning over the hospital every severy seconds.

Speaker 2 (01:28:57):
It's still going now is it still going?

Speaker 8 (01:28:58):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:28:59):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (01:29:00):
Going?

Speaker 15 (01:29:00):
We've been looking at for the system minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
Yeah, you know, Okay, keep it, keep it tuning on
seeing get some more intel on the heck on the lines.
It's lightning.

Speaker 10 (01:29:09):
Watch.

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
Our daughter had a flight delayed by over an hour
from Nelson to Christage boarding now exclamation mark, exclamation mark,
it's all happening. Hello, Paula, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 17 (01:29:24):
Hi Marcus. I've just listened to your last caller. So
I've just left Armerston Hospital and I'm just about Shannon
and it is pouring and she's right, there is lots
and lots of fresh lightning, but it's holding down.

Speaker 3 (01:29:41):
Now.

Speaker 17 (01:29:41):
Okay, I'm here, doubtful.

Speaker 2 (01:29:44):
Of ins Okay, do you work or your patient okay,
that's what I thought. Well, good on you for driving out,
coming out of hospital and driving through to the lightning. Okay,
So are you hearing thunder as well, Paula?

Speaker 17 (01:29:56):
And no, And I usually funnily enough wound the windows
down to see if I could hear it because there
was so much lightning.

Speaker 2 (01:30:04):
You don't often get the lightning without the thunder, do you?
Not often?

Speaker 9 (01:30:07):
No?

Speaker 17 (01:30:08):
No, So I don't know. I don't know if there
has been down here. But I had a text from
a friend and she said something about the rain and
the vim so I'm picking that it's been raining in
the Rims for a week while. But no, it was
definitely not until O're halfway home that the rain has
kicked in and it's very heavy.

Speaker 2 (01:30:27):
It probably looks that it sounds the penny are beginning
the rain shortly anyway, it sounds like it'd be moving
up the country. Neat stuff, Paula, Thank you you drive carefully? A.
You got a little bit way to go there from
Shannon down goodness? No, almost time almost at living get
in touch Ony Hame's Marcus where in Tarka current can
see a huge electric storm heading north over the ranges.
Lots of spectacular lightning, Marcus. Lightning and rain is all

(01:30:52):
the way in Carperty Coast. Someone says it's called heat lightning.
I don't think it is called heat. What's heat lightning?
Everything's got a lame name now, hasn't it heat lighting?
It's called heat lightning?

Speaker 7 (01:31:04):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (01:31:07):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
Yes, they're right. Heat lightning is simply cloud to cloud
lightning that occurs for you, vara away with thunder that
dissipates brought reaches the observer. It's exactly what it is,
heat lightning. Of gosh, you're never too old to learn,
are you? Or they sometimes think you are. Marcus. I
still ask at Meccas for a fifty cent soft cone,

(01:31:30):
even though they're two dollars in nowadays. I had one
tonight dead this. I'm going to start doing that fifty
cent cone. Please mind, you have to find someone to ask,
and not a machine. I quite like technology, but those
McDonald's machines, I mean they're ghastly, aren't they. Fans having
to tap that tap tap tap tap tap feels wrong

(01:31:51):
for the sideways to the counter tap tap. Just want
to talk to a person when we talk about bks.
For those that don't know BK's is Burger King, but
remember when you are going through the drive through at BK's.
Now it's AI. You're not talking to a people, you're
just talking to an algorithm. So not only can you

(01:32:13):
not touch the buttons. Oh, that's why they don't hang
out the machine, because you just got to wave it through.
So they can't hang out the I F post card.
They've just got to do payWave or contactless because you're
not talking to a person, you're talking to a machine.
It's pretty interesting. Ah wow, we're not about tonight. But

(01:32:36):
mainly I'm won trust about the soft serve because I
never tried it. But I was surprised to read an
article on a magazine to an article of like an
article McDonald's himself had done that to say that it's
made by cream or milk from fonterra. I've always heard
rumors it was chicken fat or something, but I don't
even know why they didn't deny those rumors. More also,

(01:32:56):
I don't know why they don't call it ice cream
or dairy cream or something. Call it soft serve, and
it sound like a food, sounds like a texture. Mike
if he used to be an iron lung with a
mannequin and a motat terrifying. I met my girlfriend who
I'm still with there. She was selling popcorn. Bob, you
wonder why they couldn't get a young volunteered address and

(01:33:17):
put them in the iron lung, Marcus, strange quiet, rapid
flashes and so bright the dark clouds become white. Amazing
of vexs via my solid tube Cindi and Parmi thanks
to caller who got out to be to have a lock. Marcus.
I think it's called sheet lightning. Cheers, Max thunder lightning
and heavy rain just passing through white and up our chairs,

(01:33:39):
Deb Marcus. When we came home from Willing to Upperhut,
just prior to your show, we were caught in the
rential rain. We turned into Upper Heart. The rain stopped,
but lightning was striking. I think the rain must have
followed the river. Unusual, Marcus. Should we boycott supermarket self
checkouts if it means more jobs for our locals? I

(01:34:00):
feel really bad for those that struggle to find work,
and it's not like the supermarket cartel in his can't
handle the extra overload. I'm all right about sick self
checkout because every time i go to the supermarket. The
aisles are full of workers compiling orders, so those that

(01:34:21):
have been relieved from the checkout are now compiling orders
for internet shopping. He's like, there could be thirty people
and with the little carts some nights pushing around compiling orders.
They never go that quickly. If I wers in charge,
I'm a bit more of a race, Marcus. I cannot

(01:34:42):
seem to find iHeart Fine News talks. He'd be on
my iHeart app. It doesn't appear when I search for it.
I'm wondering what am I doing wrong. I used to
listen to the app, but it's disappeared. Dan fully closed
and reopen the app? Does that mean you flick it
up on your phone? Fully close and reopen the app? Marcus,

(01:35:02):
I don't think I've ever seen in there anywhere for
the mecha's soft serve you. Craig, what are you at about?
Good evening? Welcome, Hi, Craig.

Speaker 16 (01:35:10):
Hello Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:35:11):
Thanks, Craig.

Speaker 16 (01:35:14):
Marcus. Has anybody talked about the crazy thing about the
drones over America? Currently?

Speaker 4 (01:35:21):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
I've flown the flag a couple of times over the
last four or five days because I've been curious to
get to them until myself. I've dived into a couple
of articles and seen nothing really substant substantive, And see
some people speculating that it's just because more people are
looking into the sky and it's paranoia. What is your take?

Speaker 16 (01:35:44):
I look at TikTok and I don't know what to
believe on TikTok. There's so much crazy footage you don't
know what to believe. But you've got mainstream media in
America box talking about the fact that America, American Chilians

(01:36:06):
aren't talking about what is going on. You've got millions
of people talking about these crazy drones or if you
call them a drone in the air, it's madness.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
And if you come up with anything is a good
footage on TikTok? I suppose you don't know if it's
good footage because it could be AI generated these days,
is couldn't it?

Speaker 16 (01:36:37):
Exactly so? But I'm not I'm not looking I'm not
excuse me, I'm not looking at TikTok. I'm looking at
Fox News and I'm looking at Spy News and the
cabbage on there. It's basically implying that the government, the
American government.

Speaker 8 (01:36:54):
Is not.

Speaker 16 (01:36:56):
Saying anything about what these things are in the air.
They're not saying they're UFOs, they're not saying they're from China,
they're not saying they're from Russia. Yeah, potentially they could
be their own government drones. Who knows. But talking about is.

Speaker 2 (01:37:16):
There an is there a inference that it could be
Trump getting ready for his roundup on immigrants? Is that
has that been mentioned?

Speaker 3 (01:37:29):
How would that be pattern.

Speaker 16 (01:37:32):
How would that be the case?

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 16 (01:37:36):
Well, well, no, that's nonsense.

Speaker 2 (01:37:38):
Well hang on, hang on, hang on, Craigs asking why
everyone we have all sorts of drones up as there
is a change of government. What people are speculating? That's
the question I've asked.

Speaker 16 (01:37:53):
Are you aware that there's multiple millions of people around
there you looking at these crazy looking drones?

Speaker 3 (01:38:05):
Are you.

Speaker 2 (01:38:07):
Very much? That's why I keep asking people what they
think they'refore and what information they've got about the reasons they're.

Speaker 16 (01:38:13):
Up there to do with Donald Trump?

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
Oh, sorry, Craig, it was just a question I was
asking if people were speculating that, because that's some of
the inferences that I've seen. This is not something that
you need to get upset about. Is just ask you
a question.

Speaker 16 (01:38:27):
And then well that's nonsense, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Okay, if you go, we have a fairly intelligent discussion, Craig,
not for you to come through with your agendas. Off
you go, oh eight hundred eighty. Although if anyone's gonna
have information about that wants to discuss it in a
uneasily triggered way, you can get in touch. Although I

(01:38:52):
wouldn't be surprised if there's no drones at all and
people are just looking at the sky a bit more
and seeing things. Oh, eight hundred eighty today, also to
the weather up and down the country. Planes have been
turned back. Marcus. Wind and rain just hit Castle CLIFFGANI

(01:39:13):
face to say the least. Oh, Marcus, I phoned just
as the thunderstruck. I think it was yourself, I heard
on the radio. I live in the foothills. The White
Tarket's loudest ever heard. Felt the percussion made the garage shake.

(01:39:35):
Marcus having buying soft served cone from BK. Hornby for
a long time one dollar of regod value, very tasty.
No rain in Napier, all big fire risk, Marcus. You
should have asked Craig has thoughts on chem trails. Marcus,

(01:39:55):
what was the reasoning behind the greyhound banning. Surely the
closing of entire industry can't just be stopped overnight. I've
retired greyhound called David, and I support the rehoming of
ex racing. Marcus live about six hundred meters from Palves
North Hospital and got to see lightning, as mentioned my
previous caller, lots of lightning, silent, no rain or thunder.

(01:40:17):
Quite eerie really, Mary, it's brilliant, airy ary. Merely eerie really,
Mary Graham, it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:40:28):
Yeah, Hi, the a greenish selve then our first you're
quite correctly. It's warm and lightning and it dances between
a couple of cumulo numbers thunderclouds that are very close
together as opposed to going drag down the ground. That's
why it makes no sound. Three thirty two meters per

(01:40:50):
second yep, so that's one kilometer is three seconds, but
rain ringing up about.

Speaker 2 (01:40:55):
Two three three boom.

Speaker 3 (01:40:58):
That's done one second.

Speaker 2 (01:40:59):
Because it was five seconds and the old way one
at mile way one. Yeah that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:41:04):
Oh, anyway, you can count the interval between the flash
and the bang when the starts hitting down and then
it's getting close to you and you need to get
the heck out of there, or duck for color somewhere,
mo Cat. I remember being their way back about oh
just before nineteen seventy. I think to remember inert the

(01:41:29):
one noodlebug out the back somewhere as I helped some
people with a crane or shift the thing, and they
had it carried about two thousand pounds of explosive, fully army,
it wasn't that had all been emptied out. And yeah,
those things used to fly over well across the channel

(01:41:51):
and land in London, not the howd of London in
the or the littlebug sound. And some of the planes
used to go into a powerdive polong either about four
hundred knots and put them over on the back.

Speaker 2 (01:42:10):
So it did you say it was a doodle bug propelled?

Speaker 3 (01:42:15):
It was powered by I think called a pulse chet.
If you google that will explain what the pulse yet
is That sounds sounds like a bit of chin motorbike.

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
Were they were they cause? But I presume they caused
much damage? Did they?

Speaker 3 (01:42:32):
And quite quite a bit a loss of life, none
of quite as much explosive as a B two that
was the big rocket thing which you couldn't when it came.
That was pretty bad. Three one was bad. They were
cheap produced. Now about that time I got to sit
in the link after bomber that's apparently being restored just

(01:42:54):
to got completed. I don't think ether he made flight ready.
It was only two link aster bomber he saw flowing
the world design know that one is called just Jane,
which is well, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:43:05):
What's crazy about plane in playing museums? Do you bother
keeping them up as they slowly rust away? That's why
I can't work out. I mean once the plane di
finished flying even worth saving, I don't reckon they are.

Speaker 3 (01:43:16):
Well we were. We were given the one that that's
an Auckland at Motet by the French government that was
actually flowing out to Auckland Airport as a retired a
weather plane and then it was clothed up onto some
big cart. The wings were taken off and it was

(01:43:38):
just trucked out to Now, hang on, how come.

Speaker 2 (01:43:42):
You're talking about Dunedin and Motet. Are you in two
different places?

Speaker 1 (01:43:46):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:43:46):
I spent some one that Motette as a volunteer. But
were you living in we're studying up in Auckland.

Speaker 2 (01:43:52):
Ah Ye, what you're studying.

Speaker 3 (01:43:53):
Anything erin Les Monroe from six one seven Squadron. We
sent some time of cockpit together and what they used
to do for the first two years was they would
put some food back in the engine and then they
would fly them up, run them up for about a minute,
a few blips, and then turn the engines off and yeah,

(01:44:18):
do it again next year sort of thing. Now those
things actually have split for our engine.

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
Hang, what are we on to now?

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
Because you're first thought about the I'm talking about the
Lancaster bomber.

Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
Okay, because you're fast aging conversaated Okay, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:44:33):
I'm trying to stay on subjects and it's good. Now
I know your type Lancaster bomber. I've been in there
and I'll fly at number three engine with Bertman rolling
the cock Lesbon rolling.

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
The cock and the six one six Squadron.

Speaker 3 (01:44:45):
One seven six one seven and the gambusters.

Speaker 7 (01:44:49):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:44:50):
He was one of the pilots. Now at about one
thousand and pm, which is just a bit faster than idol.
The kinematic action of the propellers slows down the propellers
to the eyeball and about eleven about the thousand, eleven
hundred pm, the counter rotates.

Speaker 2 (01:45:13):
With all the love in the world. This is quite
technical stuff. You're saying, what's the.

Speaker 3 (01:45:17):
Starting to be? Is it just give you a fly
on the wall?

Speaker 2 (01:45:23):
So tell me so, Roben Auckland studying what.

Speaker 3 (01:45:27):
I was studying radio radio reglatory stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:45:30):
And okay, and you volunteer and motet and you're in
the Lancaster and Liz.

Speaker 3 (01:45:37):
I was, I was, I was driving the I was
driving actually in the at the back behind the cop
but driving some of the radio gear, the restoring. Are
you still into radio it's one of my passions. Yep. Yeah,
I'm still a radio ham fully fully qualified grade one. Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:45:57):
That's going on in.

Speaker 3 (01:46:00):
Uh yeah. We had one hundred cnniversary of the world's
first while transmission, which took place in October the eighteenth,
nineteen twenty four from kirk Valley from Valley Kerral Shagg
Valley is just slightly inland from Palmerston.

Speaker 2 (01:46:21):
That's right, that's right, I remember actually honoring that is
the building still there?

Speaker 3 (01:46:27):
Well check valley stations still there? The building where it
was done where it was done from Shagg value is
still there. I've been in it and I've seen the
transmitter which is sitting.

Speaker 2 (01:46:39):
There gathering disc You should have restored it, well, I just.

Speaker 3 (01:46:45):
Said about five six years ago, and I was talked
out of it. I said, just just let it rust.
It's been discanted. It was going to be modeled up
in nineteen twenty eight, but the owners decided they had
enough of ham Radio and I needed to get the
ship station running sweep and the start of the family out.

Speaker 2 (01:47:07):
Only what the other what are your other obsessions? Graham
Strong was.

Speaker 3 (01:47:14):
Since my stroke about two years ago and there he
killed me. I haven't done much astronomy, but.

Speaker 2 (01:47:20):
No, you're in recovery mode.

Speaker 3 (01:47:23):
Uh yeah, sort of staggering about. But at least another
one was in a frame and I'm not in the wheelchair.

Speaker 2 (01:47:28):
Is your mobility good?

Speaker 3 (01:47:31):
Uh? It could be better, but I'm not a fully
paralyzed as I've had another three or four x here
on top of two years ago that we just does
keep tracking on. That's all you can do. Absolutely, So
I just want to give you a bit of a

(01:47:51):
cook's tours that were of the Moquet because of being
things don't. I've had some people ring out your show
tonight and yea, some shunking stuff could go on, some
stuff that's miss appropriated. But I believe it's now run
under the council, and.

Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
I think it had to be. I think I think
that to straightened the whole thing out, because I think
I think there's the trouble with museums when people donate stuff,
you know, because people inherent stuff from there, from your
parents or grandparents die and think, well, we'll put it
to somewhere where a place they'll really appreciate it. But
you never you know, you've gotta have all your systems
and balances. I presume these days things are a lot better,

(01:48:30):
but you know, it is a real worry I reckon
those sorts of places.

Speaker 3 (01:48:35):
Yeah, well, I was saying, as important thing is that
it can be restored. It's better stored back to for
working order than a lot of stuff does not belong
to lanfill.

Speaker 2 (01:48:47):
But what's the point of restoring. Do we restore everything
we've had? There's all history need to be restored, Like
all that old radio gear that you've been involved. It's
not that interesting, is it, Because it's it's technology that's
been that's been assert because it wasn't very because better
stuff has come along. So what's the point of restoring
old stuff?

Speaker 3 (01:49:07):
Well, it's very rare worth having a go at least
give it a bit of a crack if you can,
and if there are parts out there that are available,
or you can modify parts to fit and work. I
do a lot with a lot of ham rated us.

(01:49:28):
You know, it's good getting some of the old stuff
going again, even the World War two stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:49:34):
I think it's valuable if it's a hobby, if you
keep yourself amused by restoring stuff. I can understand people
doing that. But then if you got whole legacies of
collections who inherits, those in lock get donated, and they
will require insurance and looking after and having somewhere to
house them that's dry and stuff like that kind of
becomes a problem for places, doesn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:49:57):
Well, can be, but more people tell me it's impossible.
I'll just use that from motivation.

Speaker 2 (01:50:02):
Good good on you, gra have you have a good Christmas?
A nice to talk to you. Cheap is twenty four
past eleven. My name is Marcus. Welcome, how you're going
people in this landhead on midnight? Soft serve ice cream
mo tat the Big Museum in Auckland. That's got Christmas
lights going on. Marcus so interesting the syntagram in the planes.
Wish him well with his health. Robin Marcus fantastic thunderstorm

(01:50:25):
and Pata part of the mood tonight. We thought it
was all over, could hear it moving north And it
was the loudest peel of thunder I've ever heard. Marcus
Nelson's had some fit impress of thunder in this evening,
along with night lightning and a decent hail storm. I
hope all the stone fruit's all right also had thunder
and to rench rain earlier in the day. Also across

(01:50:46):
the old Oceans getting heated up all that energy. Hottest
year ever, no one knows quite why it got so hot.
So quickly watch this space good evening ray when it's
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:51:00):
Ches highlights. Just with regards to soft said ice cream. Yes,
fifty years ago we had the carry Lands dairy into
Tangi Wow, and we put the first Taylor soft served
ice cream machine and new galent into the dairy. And

(01:51:22):
the day we put it in these local primary school
carry Lands and then the Titterangi Primary School closed early
and the kids filed in one by one and were
given a free ice cream to promote us. And it

(01:51:44):
was peter Pan and it was a cream mixture that
went in the top of the soft served machine.

Speaker 2 (01:51:51):
A fantastic story. How did you How did you become
aware of it to get the first one?

Speaker 3 (01:51:58):
I don't know. My husband was quite a.

Speaker 13 (01:52:02):
Person that dealt with a lot of things, and that
it was just something that he did. So our girls
were at the time were ten and eight and they
were the kingpins in the school because mom and dad
had the dairy. Yes, so yeah, but the kids came
in one by one child and one by one they

(01:52:23):
closed the school down at different times and they came
down and that was the promotion to let them know
that we had it in store.

Speaker 8 (01:52:32):
Yeah, but it was.

Speaker 2 (01:52:34):
All cream and it was very successful.

Speaker 13 (01:52:37):
Wasn't very successful? Year is here? Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:52:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:52:41):
Was it a hard machine? Was it a hard machine
to clean?

Speaker 13 (01:52:45):
Not to clean? I found it very hard to maneuver
the yet it was a risk movement to actually get
the swirl of the ice cream. I took a long
time to manage to do it. I made a mess
of the ice cream all the time. But the other
stuff in my husband, they were really got at it.

(01:53:07):
I just didn't have the sticking for it. But I
did overcome it eventually. But yeah, but that's fifty years ago.
Now he is here.

Speaker 2 (01:53:15):
And is it on Atkinson Road where you were.

Speaker 13 (01:53:20):
Yes, on the corner of Carryon's and Atkinson years Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:53:22):
Okay, so I'm still that's now the Carrion super Rede,
isn't it. That's right, that's what it always.

Speaker 13 (01:53:26):
Was, yes, yeh yes, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:53:28):
And people came from far and white.

Speaker 13 (01:53:31):
Well the school kids don't. Yeah, the schools leave the
mouse early.

Speaker 2 (01:53:35):
I'm talking about it. Afterwards it became very successful, did it.

Speaker 13 (01:53:38):
Oh yes, people knew about it, yes, yeah, no, that's yeah.
They certainly don't.

Speaker 11 (01:53:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:53:43):
Now, so that's fifty years ago. So and my husband
who passed away two years ago, in his last probably
six months actually twice a week, I had to go
down to McDonald's to get him a Wow Camel Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:54:00):
He loved it.

Speaker 2 (01:54:01):
So he rated the McDonald's stuff as well.

Speaker 3 (01:54:03):
Did they Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:54:05):
Absolutely, yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:54:06):
Too much?

Speaker 2 (01:54:08):
Oh wow, what a story. And did the machines break
down much? Or you had to get the Taylor experts
to fix it all, could you.

Speaker 13 (01:54:14):
Find No, they were branding news, so we never had
a problem with them. He did all the cleaning and
that of it, and it was very time consuming. But
with anything like that you have to be precise with
the cleanliness of it.

Speaker 2 (01:54:31):
Yes, I really appreciate you coming through Raymen made night.
Thank you for that soft serve ice cream. There we
go the originals. Lovely email from Steve Marcus. Don't tell
the dairy owners, but a few of us Street Smart
Cody Lynn Primary kids got in that free snow freeze
line two three times push you imagine a big story

(01:54:55):
that fifty years ago, the first snow freeze ice cream
there And I don't ever I menagine would just be
a little village up there in those days, would it?

Speaker 5 (01:55:07):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
Yeah, free ice creams, get in touches. You want to
be on air, Marcus. The government wrote me the books tomorrow.
That's right, and it won't be good what I'm doing.
Borrowing a million dollars an hour. I think that's the latest. Yes, indeed,

(01:55:30):
get amongst if you want to talk. My name is
Marcus Hurdled twelve. You know the rest. You know the
drill eight hundred and eighty eight. Good evening, Sharky Marcus. Welcome,
you know, Marcus, just.

Speaker 12 (01:55:44):
Ringing about the drone.

Speaker 2 (01:55:45):
Now.

Speaker 12 (01:55:46):
I read yesterday or no, actually morning yours an AI
check in America and he was found dead in his
apartment on the weekend. And last week he actually released

(01:56:07):
some information about a AI program that was to do
with drones. Uh, and it quickly got taken off the internet. Uh.
And all of a sudden he tuned up in his
apartment on the week and that was in that in
the news, and they tried to say it was nothing suspicious, ah,

(01:56:31):
and that was natural course, So I don't know what's
done on.

Speaker 2 (01:56:38):
So was he a whistleblower that was found dead.

Speaker 12 (01:56:42):
Yeah, and it was to do with that AI program
related to drones. Actually, it was in the news he
was on the held side that I saw him, and
I thought that was really weird. And then now you're
talking about tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:57:01):
What would what would drones? How would drones and AI?
What would they have in common?

Speaker 3 (01:57:06):
And I have no idea, No, I can't think.

Speaker 12 (01:57:11):
I just read that article this morning, and with you
talking about it now, it's sort of you know, brought
back news.

Speaker 2 (01:57:20):
You know, I suspect. These are the stories that sort
of stories that are going around Shark and the sort
of threads that people are putting together. You can see
why there's something happening out there, can't that people are
kind of focusing on something.

Speaker 12 (01:57:32):
Well, yes, you know, it's unexplained. It's like a lot
of things, and in this universe they're unexplained.

Speaker 2 (01:57:40):
Or although or the the other thing is shaky. They
might be unexplained, or they might just be normal. But
people are more absorbed that. People are more observed, and
that's where paranoia starts. When people it's like in the
with the flying sources in the fifties when people started
seeing them all.

Speaker 12 (01:57:55):
But yeah, yeah, you know, I was talking to you
one night and I was the round. Yes, the traffic
is backed up for ages here at the moment.

Speaker 2 (01:58:11):
Roadwork tonight.

Speaker 12 (01:58:13):
Yeah yeah, I'm sitting in it right now.

Speaker 2 (01:58:15):
So whereabout? Where is that the one off the tee though?
Is that where we are?

Speaker 14 (01:58:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (01:58:21):
Highway twenty nine and stay Highway one.

Speaker 2 (01:58:24):
Yeah, that's the big new roundabout. Okay, So really, so
it's why are they working on that today?

Speaker 12 (01:58:33):
I don't know. I have no idea that it's really
slow traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:58:39):
How long you've been backed up for.

Speaker 12 (01:58:41):
I've been sitting in this for about ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:58:46):
Could have if you'd know, and you could have if
you'd known, you could have gone another way? Could have you?
Is it a diversion?

Speaker 12 (01:58:51):
Well, not really. I'm in on a trucking trailer. It's
hard to take round spots.

Speaker 2 (01:58:57):
Yeah, I'm thinking, And.

Speaker 12 (01:59:00):
There's a huge amount of contrailers behind me. It's like
being in a convoys.

Speaker 2 (01:59:05):
But wouldn't have if you'd known, you'd gone twenty seven,
wouldn't you?

Speaker 12 (01:59:10):
Yeah? Yeah, but I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (01:59:12):
No, But that's that's so I'm telling others that are
going up there that, yeah, because if it's scheduled roadworks,
you should have known.

Speaker 12 (01:59:19):
Yeah. Yeah, but but these roadworks have been off and
on anyway, it doesn't matter in twenty seven and two
roadworks as well.

Speaker 2 (01:59:29):
So yeah, twenty seven would be suter, wouldn't it. Distance wise?

Speaker 12 (01:59:36):
It's a rougher road when you're in at tracking trailer units.
Was a little bit rougher the roads and quickly great
And I loved what he was talking about the radio
communications thing, because that's that's history. But you're right, you
know that the future generations. It's it's sad really that

(01:59:59):
they're not you know, they're not going to take interest
in what happened in the past.

Speaker 2 (02:00:03):
No, they were almost few. The people have these great
desires to open museums for old trucks or old cars
and stuff, but there's actually what's the point, people, is
that old people are interestingly Oh that's the trucks we
used to drive, because of nostalgia. But but it doesn't
serve any purpose, doesn't. I mean the people that like
to collect and restore stuff, they enjoy it because it

(02:00:25):
gives them a thrill because they own all this stuff.
But there's not much point to collecting.

Speaker 12 (02:00:31):
I collect heaps of stuff actually eat like radio grams
and old tape deck players and all that sort of stuff,
and matchbox cars and records and so much stuff that
I have in my man case. But I know that
when I go, my chids aren't going.

Speaker 14 (02:00:50):
To know.

Speaker 2 (02:00:52):
And it won't and it won't be of much value either,
just going to skip in and go to the dump.

Speaker 12 (02:00:57):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Well, let's the same thing about it,
because to me it's available, but to them, you know,
and I've spoken to the kids.

Speaker 2 (02:01:05):
About it, and this is what are we going to
exactly nice to talk sharky?

Speaker 3 (02:01:10):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:01:12):
Evening, Marcus texting from Willington, And where on earth has
all this nasty weather come from? Thought it was supposed
to be summer now well, decend A was always petchy,
isn't it. I just hope January is what we've expected
it to be because I need some good weather only
because spring and summer so far down south have been atrocious.

(02:01:33):
I'm actually feeling some sympathy for farmers because I spend
a lot of my time i'll say, working the land
or whatever that means. I mean, don't make out that
I'm not sat sounding grandiose, but I'll tell you what,
when the weather turns bad, it's hard to get off
the couch. You find a lot of things to do

(02:01:55):
to put off going out there and doing the things
you need to do. I mean, it's great once you
get out there, but just the getting yourself together in
the rain, I'm not good at it.

Speaker 8 (02:02:05):
I am.

Speaker 2 (02:02:05):
Yes, I don't know why I'm sharing this with you people,
but just that's what I'm putting out there. That's what
the second half of this year has been for me.
It's what it's been like with the weather being so
I found my motivation has been left wanting. I guess
it's the safest way to say it without getting into
too much of a confessional.

Speaker 1 (02:02:26):
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