Are the butts everywhere (24 March 2026)

Marcus reviews the announced changes to Lotto Powerball, and the government's cost-of-living relief package.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus lush Night's podcast from News
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Preetings, welcome Heed to twelve.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I hope you are good? Lotto Gee, surely with more
numbers will be easier to win, wouldn't it With Powerball
gone from ten to fourteen jeeps? You can choose your
topic tonight. That's what I think we'll do. I've got
three things first up, thanks for the emails to btw
By the way, get in touch if you want to

(00:37):
talk on eight hundred and eighty. What we can talk
about tonight. First and foremost is the lotto. A lot
of people call this show and think, well, the prizes
should be smaller, and I have to say, well, it's
all very well, you want the prizes smaller, but the

(00:58):
way lotto works is when they become indecently large amounts
and people get kind of hysterical. And then the shows
that interview people are always introducing or interviewing mathematicians to
say what are the chances? So I think it's gone
from ten balls to fourteen balls, and the upper limit

(01:20):
is going to be sixty million dollars, so it's going
to go. The top prize is going to go less frequently.
It's going to go probably every two and a half years.
And I guess what that will achieve. It will bring
the very rare lotto buyers like myself into the mix.
I probably bought five in my life, but normally when

(01:40):
it goes to a silly amount and I think, well,
think of the good I could do with that. That's
what's happening. It's going through the roof, literally through the roof,
sixty million dollars to change your phone number, wouldn't you
if I'll be asking for money. I like that family
that won latter when they brought everyone a waterbed and
spent the rest on fish and chips or they're good

(02:00):
on them.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
So the maximum the starting jackpot will go to five
million in and the maximum possible jackpot will also increase,
climbing from fifty million to sixty million. So once every
three or four years, I will go and buy lotto,
and I'll have the same boring conversation. I say, I
want a ticket. That means I'm going to win, That
means I might have the chance of winning all the money.
Then I walk away with a sad feeling in my

(02:25):
heart that those people selling the lotto for that day
and for that week. We have to put up with
the same stupid comments that people will make to the
lotto sellers, like just the winning numbers please, But anyway,
that's not me, so that's happening. The other thing you
might want to talk about tonight is the fact, and
this is actually quite a good story. The new stadium

(02:47):
in christ Church, which we love because the christ Church
people love it. The new stadium to Kaha, well, in fact,
it's called one New Zealand Stadium at Takaha. There will
be trains going to the matches. They will go from
Rolliston and rung Eurura. And the tickets are reasonably priced,

(03:10):
unlike the price of the ticket from christ Church to
invert Cargyl, although I see it's still more than Auckland
to Hamilton by considerable Although it is return, the prices
will be the war Retar's Game forty nine dollars for adults,

(03:31):
twenty nine dollars for children. It doesn't say whether that's
return or not. I'll just make sure I haven't misread that.
It's a practical when helping we have cast from roads.
Tickets for the war Retar's Game are forty nine adult,
twenty nine children, one two nine family. Now it's confusing
because you think in some ways that might re referring
to the price for the rugby, but I'm pretty sure

(03:51):
that's the price for the train. I'll go to their
website and check it out. It's called Mainland Rail and
you get off at Pilgrim Place. Now, unfortunately, if there
was some brains in the place after the earthquake, they
would have actually made the whole city rail accessible. But
that is about the closest you can get and you'll

(04:11):
have to walk, and I've tried to do it a
number of times. You'll walk for about nine hundred meters,
which you'll go easy, You'll have some beers, you'll sing along.
That's how far to get from the Crusaders Express to
One New Zealand Stadium at Takaha. It's not a great
If someone from Mainland Rail could ring and tell me
how much actually it's gonna cost as far as a

(04:33):
return or runway one way, and I can do that
on my website also, so that's something you might want
to talk about as well. Yeah, so that's happening. Tickets
for sale on Thursday, although their website hasn't got much
about that yet that I can see, So yes, I
would have liked to come to the show slightly more

(04:53):
prepared with details, but I haven't got those as I speak, unfortunately,
unless I can see it on this bit when I
click on this bit. But you know what it's like
when things drop down. Anyway, you might have some more
information about that. Get in touch if you want to
talk about that, so you can talk about the lotto,
and you can talk about getting the train to It'll
be like the old about the nineteen fifties, I would imagine.

(05:16):
And if those tickets are right on the on the
Crusaders express, if those prices are right, then that's probably
going to be a good thing. But I guess you
could actually price it according to what happens. I'm now
on the Crusader's Rugby website to see if I get
better details there from the newspaper story, and I can't

(05:37):
see that just yet. But get in touch if you
want to talk about this. Eight hundred and eighty eight
ten eighty and nine two nine to detext it says
tickets for the train are forty nine dollars for adults
twenty nine dollars for children now it doesn't mention of
their return, and I imagine that's probably the case. So
you might want to talk about lot or you might
want to talk about the train to the Rugby Rolliston

(05:58):
and rungi Aura with a bit of a walk in
between times. On the other thing too, I did want
to mention I knew there was three topics or three
beginning topics one two three. And they're going to change
the rules for young people and scooters. The government they've
been trying to kick that. They've been trying to work

(06:19):
this out for a while. There's going to be two things.
E Scooters will be allowed on cycle lanes and kids
under twelve are being allowed to bike on the footpaths.
I think most parents would be an approval of that.
It's a sensible thing, and most parents with young kids
do it anyway. There's also going to be mandatory passing
gaps around cyclists and horses. I've noticed more and more

(06:41):
people are indicating as they go around cyclists, because that's
always a bit sketchy anyway, isn't it, As they kind
of wobble out onto the road, but jumping if you're
on to talk minea miss Marcus hun til midnight tonight.
The numbers are eight hundred eighty ten eighty. You might
qualify for the extra fifty bucks. I've had a few
emails about that. Thanks for those, but get in touch
if you want to talk. Oh, eight hundred and eighty

(07:02):
ten eighty. It does say I've found it. Finally on
the stuff website about the train. A new train service
is also launching for Crusaders games, taking fans from Rolliston
and range Or to the stadium for forty nine dollars return.
That's a good ticket. That's a great thing. He'd be

(07:23):
mad not to do that. You get the old bike,
you'd bike to the stadia to the train, then you
get the train in, then you enjoy the rugby and
you go home. It'd be fantastic. Now at sixteen partight,
I'll get to the textacs. We want to start the
whole ball rolling with a conversation. That's what we're about tonight.
There was a earthquake and Tonga there is no tsunami.

(07:44):
He ride the old Chovy whatever. The price way cheaper
than petrol and parking exactly Marcus. Walking from Pilgrim Place
to Takaha Stadium, you have to cross Morehouse Avenue. That
would be fun. I don't know about you, but I
think most people would be able to cross busy roads,

(08:05):
wouldn't they. I reme, we're not going to not do
this because it's a busy road to cross. Cheapest creepers.
I'm looking at now on Google Maps. It's not complicated.
I think there's probably a pedestrian crossing across Morehouse, isn't there?
Maybe there's not, but I'm sure you'll cope. You go
down to Madras and cross there. Would you pass the
old broadcasting school till I'd be doing. That's the way

(08:28):
past Black Petty Cafe. That's still a thing. I'm looking
at Google Maps. Get in touch if you want to
talk on air. Seventeen past eighth, eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty Marcus. We just moved from Addington to Rolliston.
I won't use the train for our family. The ute
would be twenty dollars and twenty five dollars for parking.

(08:49):
Oh you see he got you got to use it now.
And one comment about the lotto. No, a couple comments
about the lotto. Who gives a toss? It's gambling and greed.
I'd rather give moneyes to my children on their birthday.
Good evening, Marcus dot impressed, happy with announcement today. It
does not help or benefit everyone, only for the load
of middle families with kids. This is going back to

(09:10):
COVID times. What about care workers who get nothing, no help.
There are single parents out there that work forty hours
a day plus get nine hundred week. It doesn't help
pitchers either, who get about five hundred a week. This
is thanks to America and is a round the rest
of the world suffering pay. Sorry for the rant, tim
as long as you're better out, Marcus. It's a cop out, Marcus,

(09:36):
putting it up with a population where not everybody plays lotto.
Jared makes an extremely good point, Marcus. You use three
different sites in Google searches to get your aunts on
the train ticket. Should have used chet GPT. Very good
answer there, Jared. Looking forward to your calls you and
start the whole ball rolling. I might have given you

(09:56):
too many things to talk about. But just to recap
Lotto up to sixty million dollars for the biggie, it
will be capped. It'll go about every two and a
half years. Also, kids on bikes on footpaths under twelve
game on. Thirdly, ring Ura Rolliston trained to the rugby.

(10:17):
That seems to be working. Well, that's the starters. Small
eruption for Caddie. Why Tarlan will keep your posts if
anything comes of that said, this is Marcus.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Good evening, Okaya, MICUs, how are you?

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah good, real good, said, real good. Dangerous pretty good?
Well dangerous. It's just something you say when you've read dangerous.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah, so I was thinking, one, I just get let
your bike for the kids. Yeah whatever, I don't know
about that.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
For me, I'll get electric, but you get a knee bike.
You'd be mad not to.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, absolutely, you're right, thank you, thank you sir.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yes, okay, Ben Marcus welcome.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
You're going to Marcus. Just two things quickly on this.
This payment increase to the family text credits today. Yeah,
I think it's a good thing. Like we don't qualify
because we're a two income households, so you know we're
outside the bracket.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
But what's what's the upper thresh eight eighty eight zero.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
Yeah, eighty zero and that's two.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Comino eight zero eighty zero zero zero.

Speaker 6 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah, eight eighty zero.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yeah, so're we don't qualify. We're outside that. But look,
I think it's a good thing. I got my mother
in law who's staying with us at.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
The moment, credit get her text credit.

Speaker 5 (11:41):
Her pensions makes you going up on the first of
April by forty six bucks fortnite all pensions are and
then she gets the winter energy payment from the first
of May. So she said, yeah, she's getting more than
what she would get from the fifty bucks a week anyway,
so she's happy. But you know, I thought, I think
the right call was made. It sounds like on the

(12:01):
first April benefits go up as well, so a lot
of people are getting, you know, but the extra and
come on the first April. So I think it's you know,
it's a good thing. But yeah, not so much for us.
I just think that maybe they could have done something
with the road users so we don't get stung at
the supermarket too much.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
You comment on the lotto as well, Yeah, so.

Speaker 7 (12:23):
It's the lotto.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Instead of buying it every Saturday, we're only going to
start buying it when it hits sort of twenty twenty
five mil now because now they've added some extra numbers,
you don't the chances of winning that.

Speaker 6 (12:37):
Is in.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
Well, it's gone from one in thirty six million to
one in like forty four million or something, or one
in fifty four million, so it's it's going to be
harder to win it.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, So why do you budget to win it each day? Anyway?
Why would you budget? Why would you budget not to
buy it? Because it's a fantasy you're not going to win.

Speaker 5 (12:59):
Well, you never know, Marcus, I do know someone. I
actually do know someone down in the Cagle why where
you live. I actually know someone that won, Marcus. And
you know that's just some random guy. He brought a
ticket in Bluff and he happened to Yeah, I think
I think you got half a million bucks or two
hundred and fifty thousand.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
So did he stay in Chicago?

Speaker 5 (13:21):
He brought a house in Bluff, so he lives in Bluff.
So he works at he works at a dairy stool
in Picago itself. Understand. So look, it does happen.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
On fast day by that through Ben, thank you for
that twenty six pass. D't get in touch hit till twelve.
Anything goes the train, the scooter and the rugby, the
train and the lotto forty nine dollars to travel fifty
four to the Stadium's a joke, right, two of you
is ninety eight. Family of four was one nine six
service for idiots. So already people triggered by the price

(13:54):
of the train. Well, I guess the thing about a train, right,
And this is not what said. If you want to
if you want to drink before and during and after,
you're good to go. That's what it's for. It's for
the people that like to drink. That's what trains are for.

(14:17):
Because he can go home partially shicked. That's what I'm saying.
You take the old chovy to get to the train station,
to leave from your pre load, your side load, your backload.
I hate to say it, Scott Marcus, welcome. Who are
you talking to?

Speaker 4 (14:34):
Scott?

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yes, great things.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
Not a big fan of e bikes.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
No, I'm not a fan of bite Well yeah, I'm
not a big fan of e bikes. Why do people
feel that? What do people feel They've just got to
put them where they can see them at the cafe
and then not use the bike crack? Why they just
put everywhere just stacked against things? Yes, and why do
people think they're the first people ever on an ee bike?

(14:59):
Can think they kind of split the add them and
sort of walk around like they've.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
I don't know, like they're entitled, I'm so eco friendly.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Well I don't know. But these are the people who
spent their whole life driving everywhere, driving the kids to school, driving, driving,
driving at sixty five. They discover e bikes and think
they've found the elextra, and that they seem so self
satisfied and smug with it. Ding ding ding ding ding.
They're on the bells like there's no tomorrow, ding ding,
here we come.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
So what do you What do you ride, Marcus, I've
got a bike.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, it's not an e bike.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
I've always been a single speed person, right, I've always
ridden a bike with no.

Speaker 8 (15:40):
Gears, yes, oh, my champion.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
But recently I've gone to a three speed hub okay, yeah,
which seems to go quite well for me. That's just
because I'm up mountain biking up the hill with the
kids and probably needed a couple of gears to go
around with it.

Speaker 6 (15:56):
I'll bet your thighs look quite sexy at the moment.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Once upon a time, I went to the airport to
buy a ticket, right, yeah, before you actually hit to
use a Kiosk when you checked in with people, and
I came into check and at the end us an
encounter and the woman looked at my name and looked
at me, and she says, Marcus. She says, this is
without a word of a life. She says, Marcus. My

(16:20):
husband's got very thin legs also, and he can do
most things. Strange, strange thing to say, hey, unprompted with nothing.
I think about that the other day, talk about giving
someone a complex. Yeah, my husband has very strange legs
and he can do mostly. I think she thought she

(16:40):
was trying to give me a film, a bucket, give
me your heads up in life, make me feel better
about myself. Well, I thought I had very good legs
in the right link they touched the ground. But yeah,
so when the Kiosks came along, I did a quiet
little fist pump. You're about time we had kaosks without
that woman gaslighting me about my legs. What amazes me

(17:04):
about a lot of was people like Ben and they
factor into their housekeeping how much they're going to spend
each week on lotto. Is that not crazy budgeting? Because
the ideal amount to spend on lotto is no money,
Because it would be the world's worst Well, it wouldn't
be the world's worst investment, but it would be a

(17:25):
pretty poor investment. What is it return fifty percent or something.
You've got grant carry amor with the trumpet on the
commercial saying goodness clation. It all goes back but cheap
as creepers. Really, it's a con. You're better off actually
save well. Yeah, they say they're returned a hundred percent

(17:48):
of their profits, but you know it's going to take
a lot of money out of it for the whole
paying for the silly ads. But yes, I don't know
what you want to say about that, but I've got
a lot to say about it. Someone said, you're more
likely to be in an accident at Legardia. Yeah, and
I don't know how that's coming with the old fact
that they've diminished air traffic control. By the way, By

(18:10):
the way, I'm not going to be catching this train.
We're a only getting people coming through all sorts of
versions of the train. The trouble with the train, it's
a private operator. Okay, it's not Kiwi Rail. It's guys
brought trains and he will have to hire the rail
corridor from Kiwi Rail Costomer King's ransom and then they
have to build a special off ramp for the passages
because we got rid of all our rail infrastructure. So

(18:33):
it's not straightforward, but if people use it might be
the beginning. And who knows then what's going to happen.
I don't know the answer, but at least they're doing something, Marcus.
Scratches are where it's at for us, we seem to
win more often. It's from Milan. Yeah, and a lot

(18:53):
of people putting what they are. Wouldn't you have better
odds with more marbles? And a lot of people are
telling me all the places that the lotto pros that
the lotto money goes to, you'd be better off making
donations to those places straight up, Jeff Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 7 (19:10):
They're good evening, Marcus. I'd like to say something about
this loto. I think it's just putting crazy.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
I think it's it's not compulsory. But are hearing you?

Speaker 4 (19:21):
Well?

Speaker 7 (19:21):
This way you probably won't find people buying as many
tickets as they used to. And I spend ten dollars
a fortnight out of my pension on strike because I
think he got more chance.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Is it picked up that you've got more chance to
do the s debts.

Speaker 7 (19:43):
Say that, well, this way instead of people wasting money
on lot I would say no, damn well, I'm never
going to want it. Why not open up kids' bank accounts?
That would be more useful as far as I'm concerned.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Providing you got kids. That providing you've got kids.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Oh yeah, well you wouldn't want.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
To random kids. You got on one and two point
one million for Division one and Loto stroke? What is
Lotto strike?

Speaker 7 (20:12):
A strike tonight, tomorrow and night? It's only what do
you do?

Speaker 2 (20:17):
What do you do? You got to pick six numbers
and a bonus?

Speaker 7 (20:20):
No, you just you've got to pick the first four
numbers that come out an order? Yeah, an order?

Speaker 2 (20:26):
How easy would that be? Either one, if you've got.

Speaker 7 (20:30):
One number or two numbers, you can get a bonus ticket.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Okay, well that sounds ridiculously easy.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
Faulty evening, Marcus, Now are you good things?

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Faulty? You sound like you said good evening? Then you
tell that you fell over.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
No, I actually moved my phone and hit something with it.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
What do you hit with it? Out of interesting day?
You started?

Speaker 4 (20:59):
See what did you hit my asstrakers I'm the smoker.
I'm very sorry.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
No, a not much. I'm smoking on you do what
you want, faulty, you want to smoke, knock yourself out.
I'll try and there's no judgment here.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Well you did ask me what I did I want?

Speaker 2 (21:18):
No, exactly, No, you got you got the but have
you got the butts everywhere?

Speaker 4 (21:23):
I'm a very honors person, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Are you dangerously honest? You know that's nice?

Speaker 4 (21:29):
Hey, I'm going on further with that. Can you tell
me what year that lotto started in New Zealand? Please?

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Sure, I'd say it'd be about nineteen eighty six.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Eighty six? Ok Okay, Now.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
What year do you think?

Speaker 2 (21:48):
What year do you think it started?

Speaker 4 (21:50):
I don't know. I was actually asking you because you
seem pretty clever.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
August first, eighty seven.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
Thank you very much. Okay, Now further to that, For
each lotto that's been drawn since then, if you had
put five dollars in the can under your bed, how
much would you have now you'd have?

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Well, it's say forty years, because next you'll be forty
years to be five times fifty two hundred, two hundred
times forty eight grand.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
It's not a bad winning is it.

Speaker 9 (22:20):
No.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
I have never bought a lot of ticket ever. That
was my own.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
You're eight grand up, so you ought to go to
the shops and spend that grand because that's what you've
made yourself.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Thank you, Thank you very much, And that was my point.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Have you put five Have you put five dollars away
every week?

Speaker 10 (22:38):
No?

Speaker 4 (22:38):
I save it in other ways by getting food. I
don't have to pay for our going together.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Oh forager, hunt together a Marcus, really like with a
with a gun or a bow and arrow or a
trapper shop.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
I used to hunt when I could, but breaken body syndrome,
so now I go for smaller stuff. I'm there currently
at Medicona Beats, and I've managed to get myself some
power and things like that, so two I don't have
to buy and it's a safe bet.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
There's a guy in Vera Cargo at a place called
Pioneer Pies, right, Yeah, he's doing power hot cross buns A.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
Sound good.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
He reckons. You're delicious.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
I'll be there. People are very creative, Marcus. I know
you are as well.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Not that, but you've got to be these days. If
you're in the business, you've got to go viral. You
got to say. I mean, I would have repeated if
I haven't known.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
I've looked by myself a long time. I've diversified into
being my own wife, been your own wife. Yeah, and
then I come up with things to surprise myself.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Like you're married to yourself. Yeah, you maybe try maybe
try a power hot cross pard. I'm just looking at
the picture. They're like, yeah, it's in the middle of it.
It it looks pretty interesting. Well, I'll give it. I
might give it a go tomorrow if I can work
out my plan of attack. Power hot cross buns calling

(24:16):
it a world's first combo. Believe that to be true. Yeah,
Marcus often see people checking multiple a lot of tickets
to think, how can they afford that? Winning is a dream.
It shouldn't be a plan, Marcus loto ads suck the
snowman not good. Yeah, people get really triggered by that

(24:37):
guy be naked. I can't work out what the problem is.
Someone's asked about the High Country Muster. I'll tell you
more about that twenty to nine. Now, someone texted me
and asked me how the High Country Muster went. I
don't feel that good telling you about my farming exploits.
But it's going to bring the sheep down from the
top paddock. It's about a kilometer from there down to

(24:58):
the bottom paddock. So we went up there on Sunday,
my boys in the ute. I was going to lure
them down with the sound of sheep nuts, but they
hadn't been fed sheep nuts for about six months because
the pasture has been good. So I went up to
the hut, the high Country hut, and there were no

(25:21):
sheep nuts. It was the first bit that went wrong
with my plan. So I got some small stones and
sticks that sounded like sheep nuts and rattled those of
the container. But the sheep were having a bar of it.
They followed me for a while, but not through the gate,
so then I rounded them around the paddock, but they

(25:44):
were having none of it. So they are still there. However,
I've opened both the gates so they'll be free to
walk from the top bed to the bottom paddock, and
I'll go up there and check if they're still there
tomorrow with sheep nuts. So either i'll feed them that
for a week so they get used to the sound,
or hopefully they'll go down their own volition. But it's
a long process, so that's not a problem, Marcus. The

(26:06):
guy making power hot cross bunds need to be arrested
by the food police. Surely that's going to be a
food crime. I don't know how much they are now
get in touch by ms Marcus. Welcome. A lot of
world news is happening around the world tonight, so we'll
keep an eye on that now. There is apparently sirens
blearing in Tonga and evacuations are under way despite there

(26:28):
being no word of a tsunami warning or not no
threat to New Zealand anyway. I think it does remain
in place for vaval, so I'll keep an eye on
that story. There's no tsunami risk for New Zealand. So
that's happening now. If you want to talk on air tonight,

(26:48):
that's a good thing. We're talking about the train to
the new rugby Stadium in Christchurch from Rangiora and Roliston.
We're also talking about Lotto and scooters and bikes on footpaths.
You're speaking sense, Marcus. I think lot of marketing is
very good and convincing people that buying ticker this is
a sensible thing to do. Part of being a Kiwi

(27:10):
thirty dollars a week is often fifteen hundred dollars a year.
That's a lot, a lot of groceries, a lot of sensible,
helpful purchases, a lot of petrol, but not as much
petrols at once was. And you chances of winning are
down to one in fifty four million, Yeah, which is
about the same chance as getting struck by lightning while

(27:32):
you've been eaten by a shark. If you think of
the most ridiculous thing that's ever happened, and then another
most ridiculous thing, and then combine those, that would be
the chance. So yes, more balls, higher jackpot, so it
will go to sixty million, which isn't a life changing
about it's a life ruining amount. So yeah, you'd be

(27:53):
worried about it, and Peter'll be asking about it. That'd
be my take on it. Fourteen to nine, we are
waiting for the big wet in the north too. There's
going to be thirty three hours of rain. I don't
know that starting tonight or tomorrow deep and on that
if you've got weather updates. I'm worried about McCain's and
the closing of the other frozen vegetables. It's all very fine,
that all our food manufacturing goes overseas until we do

(28:15):
run out of petrol. Then what do we do. I'm
sure those aren't production lines that you can bring back
up for every quickly. If you want to comment on that,
if you are affected by the situation in McCain's, let
us know about that. If they still advertise on I
haven't seen the ads on TV for a while, mind you,
I'm not watching TV. I think they are a fairly
good brand. A lot of people say every time we've
talked about Watties or people say I prefer maccaines, But

(28:38):
now I guess it's OSSI Vgy's. Is it right? At Chinese?
But they are they going to close their Hastings processing
factory where they got two sites, Teamadoo and Hastings And
they're under a global company who was the world's largest
manufacturer of frozen foods and Twif would they do peas, beans,
sweet corn and carrots, they say, say shift in how

(29:02):
McCain will supply its vegetable portfolio, eachable portfolio with in
Australia and New Zealand. So that's kind of hard to
know what it's all about. I don't know what world
forces are going on. There is at the price of labor.
You might want to comment on that too if you're affected.
But it's nine away from nine lines are free. If
you want to come in and join the freight tonight,

(29:23):
Oh eight hundred and eighty eight and nine to text.
You want to partake here till twelve o'clock tonight, looking
forward to what you've got to say? Three topics. Choose
the path, but there might be something else. I only
ever got three Lotto tickets. I really got more of
a chance of winning the Melbourne Cup with a donkey.
That's probably right. Be a good donkey, though, wouldn't it? Dugreens,

(29:43):
You've got more than the chance of winning the Melbourne
Cup of the donkeys. I have the odd bets on
the nags. Well, i'll tell you what. It's probably more
excited watching a horse race and watching Sonia Gray draw
the numbers from that modified gentle Anni washing machine. Do
they still use that emmett a lot? So lucky Dip
is cheap enough, Just buy one a dream, a cheap
dream for a few days. So that's the situation there

(30:06):
and the power hot Cross bun I guess we could say,
what's the most disgusting thing you've had in a hot
cross bun, But it almost does seem sacrilegious. I don't
quite know where we are with hot cross buns. Everyone's
trying to go viral. We're doing something weird to them?
Aren't they just good?

Speaker 11 (30:24):
Like?

Speaker 2 (30:24):
They are? Not all year round good, but a couple
of times a year good. That's the whole beauty of it.
They're not on the present. Just eat them occasionally. There'd
be my take on it. You might want to disagree.
By the way, it is Flatmate's Day, Chocolate covered Raisin Day,
and world to Berkulos to burk your losest Day. Last
time I mentioned that last year we had some calls

(30:46):
on that, So just putting that out there anyway in
case it's something you want to talk about. But yeah,
then we take my jacket off six away from nine
o'clock here till midnight tonight. Who's on it? Twelve t
beat and beverage. There you go. Just for those that
do know, if you put five dollars away for every
lotto draw there ever has been, you would have twelve
and fifty dollars. There have been two, five and seventy

(31:08):
lotto draws. You'd probably invested that. Well, you double that
with interest. Now you triple that and fitured four times
over forty years. So yeah, it's simple interestrates. You probably
have fifty grand I would think if you invested at
four percent. There would be my take on that one. Now,
just coming up towards the news people, if you want
to talk out, that's better. Walked away and pulled my
headphones out. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine to

(31:31):
nine to de text, looking forward to what you've got
to say. It's about Lotto and the trains. They're going
to go regularly to the Crusaders games from Rangiora and
Rollston go to Pilgrim places. It called Pilgrim Place something
like that, and that's the place you're going to walk
from the stadium. It's going to be eight hundred meters.
Makes perfect sense. It could be for every good, So

(31:51):
good on them forgetting that together. Forty nine dollars for return.
If an individual that'd be the cost of driving the
car and parking, it wouldn't it. Maybe his families wouldn't
work out as cheap. But there you go. That's a situation.
By the way, twenty one year old man is missing
in Cromwell, so police and family have concerned for his welfare.

(32:15):
And if you see someone, I don't know why. There's
not really a description for him, but there is a
police code number. You can go and call there or
quote that number. So there we go. Oh eight hundred
eighty Teddy, my name is Marcus. Welcome nine to nine text.
If you want to come through it be nice to
hear from you. Brent Crude, he's back over one hundred.

(32:36):
It dropped, but now it's heading north again. It dropped
suddenly after Trump spoke from one o four. Now it's
went below one hundred. Now it's over one hundred again.
They are reporting, well, we don't know if he talked
to anyone who he talked with, how would you know?
But Tehran has struck Israel and Israel has retaliated. That's

(33:00):
the latest information I've got out of there. Fifteen people
have been killed in a rack, so there's some confused
about what's caused that. That's the information I've got for you.
If you want to talk on air tonight, need to
get the whole ball rolling. Oh eight hundred and eighty,
ten eighty with you till twelve. I I've mentioned and
nine two nine two is the text number. Looking forward

(33:22):
to what you've got to say. Greetings the people, welcome,
eight past nine three topics so far, kids on bikes,
on footpaths, trained to the stadium at christ Church and
loto more balls less chance like one and fifty four million.
I don't know if we can get the ads the

(33:43):
I hate to say it. We want to ask, can
you trust chat Ai? What one fifty four million? What
would be what is one activity that have a chance
of one fifty four million of doing that? If it
give us an answer or not, we shall find out.
Good evening, Helen, this is Marcus. Welcome. Yeah, hello.

Speaker 12 (34:00):
I am dismayed at this news about McCanns. I've been
buying there for their pete and they're really like and
I will miss them as they go.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
There from Australia. I don't know, would you buy them
China now.

Speaker 12 (34:15):
Another food processing firm? Clothing anyway? Can I talk about
your sheep?

Speaker 9 (34:20):
No?

Speaker 13 (34:21):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Because it's I don't want to talk about that. I
want to talk about the other topics.

Speaker 12 (34:26):
Oh, it's just had some hints about getting them down.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
What are your hints? I don't want to well, I don't.
I don't want this to become to take over my life.

Speaker 12 (34:34):
No, no, no, no, no, I know. I find that
livestock are infuriating ebscuse about going through gates sometimes, so
you might have to resort to getting a feeder, putting
the nuts in and hoping I'll get on the gate
and hoping the sheep will just keep going downhill.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Had on they run out of food, so there's not
much grass up there.

Speaker 12 (34:55):
Oh okay, but they're still the buddy sick about going
through gates. Another thing is to put some hay hay
on one on their side of the paddic and then
feed it through the gates so they get the body idea.
Oh anyway, good luck.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
No, I've got I've got electric. I can also fence
off another part of it too, so they haven't got
I can do that, so they've just restricted and they'll
go through the gate. I have great I rate myself.
I backed my stock handling abilities. I'll just get the kids.
We just grabbed them. Last time we put one, it
had to put one. The last I put in the

(35:32):
wheelbarrow to take it down. We're quite well. Actually, you'd
be surprised how well that worked upside down. They're not
going anywhere. Jon, It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 10 (35:41):
Oh Marcus, how are you joan.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Ten out of ten? The scenes yourself? Out of ten?
What would be a market? Give yourself seven?

Speaker 10 (35:47):
I'm ten out of ten.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
I think not much room for movement, not much room
to get better if you give it ten. But anyway,
I'll take that.

Speaker 10 (35:52):
No, Well, we just have to make the boasts of
every day. Yes, And why are they changing lotto and
putting more I won't buy a powerball, don't believe in it,
and they're putting extra powerball numbers in?

Speaker 7 (36:05):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (36:06):
I think they want the hype. They want it to go.
They want it to be so rare that when it
gets up to sixty million people, it stops the nation feeling,
oh my god, it's sixty They want it to become
an absolute media free that's my belief.

Speaker 10 (36:21):
But that's far too high. That's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
I think, why is it ridiculous?

Speaker 10 (36:27):
Because I will buy strike in a lotto each Wednesday
night and saiday night, the same numbers, and then I
when the strike is a million, they put it down
to second division. And so you've got a chance of
winning a good amount. And I just don't buy powerball
and I buy Strike in lotto. It's my only advice.

(36:49):
And I haven't won one for a few weeks, even
little prizes, I get lines and stupid things. But so
I just have the same number with my lot up
on the strike And how much do.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
You how much are you in the market? What's the
most you could win for what you're doing.

Speaker 10 (37:05):
I could win one million on strike one million, but
when it gets to a million, they do divide it
down into second division, which is very good, and that
happens every few weeks, although people lately somebody in christ
Church on christ Chich they've got seven hundred thousand getting
the four numbers in the line. And also one said

(37:27):
day night, I went out and I rung the number
on the back to get the numbers, and would you
believe that two numbers come out and then thirty thirty one,
thirty two, thirty three come out in that order the
next door.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Number they couldn't come out in order.

Speaker 10 (37:42):
That's exactly what happened. Yep, that's what happened. I couldn't
believe it. But anyway, I'm not winning much lately, but.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
I've got to have they're not winning changing numbers.

Speaker 10 (37:54):
No, I'm going out tomorrow. I take my Malaysian friend
out with me, go and get my lotto and then
we're both on the souper. We go up to McDonald's
and have our three dollars on coffees.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Do you have anything to eat there?

Speaker 10 (38:06):
No? No, no, no, we've had our lunch at home.
No yellow, Yeah, the gold three dollars. You can have
a large, any size. We have the large, a larte cappuccino,
flat white, whatever.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
And we've got to know them and that which McDonald's
is that.

Speaker 10 (38:26):
Well, you can go to anyone that makes the coffee,
if not all of them have a coffee machine. Now
we go to the airport because I'm I'm really one over.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Where do you pack in?

Speaker 10 (38:37):
You're parking in McDonald's. Just come up Memorial Ass.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Did you say you go to the airport.

Speaker 10 (38:43):
Airport McDonald's because I've got a block of shops. They've
got a countdown out there and everything at the airport. Yep,
at our cross at airport?

Speaker 14 (38:50):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (38:51):
And is it in the terminal?

Speaker 6 (38:53):
No?

Speaker 10 (38:53):
No, No, you're going up Memorial ab your turn left
to go into parking to get your planes and things.
But you turn right and you go into McDonald's and
kentuck you for our chickens beside them.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Can you pack when you go on holiday there?

Speaker 10 (39:07):
Oh no, no, you can't pack. And well, actually the
girls are the lovely stuff, even the young men at McDonald's,
and they know that.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
So why don't we just go for It's opposite from
the old rusty the golf course.

Speaker 10 (39:18):
That's right up from the rusty golf course here up further,
but it's on it's not actually near the airport. It's
actually before you get turning off to the airport, people
park down Memorial AV. Bumper to bumper. It's only a
ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
It's on Ron Memorial EV and Ron Guthrie AV Peter
living on the corner of the air Yeah.

Speaker 10 (39:38):
But anyway, back to lotto. I like to buy my
lotto and if I win, I win, and I'll get
a wee bit disappointed. I have won for a few weeks.
Now I might get four numbers and get thirty or
thirty three dollars and that go towards buying it for
the next week. I'll buy it on a Wednesday for
the Wednesday night and the Saturday, and if I stay
home and I said tonight and that the strike's gone

(39:59):
up to be drawn at a million, I will buy
PEPs one or two ten dollars strike just to be
in that drawer. And you know, I just something that
I just do.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Do you watch the drawers live if I'm home?

Speaker 10 (40:14):
I do, Well, there's not much on TV to watch.
Saturday night's terrible. They have at eight o'clock on a
Saturday night, and they have it eight twenty on a
Wednesday night on TV one. But if there's cricket on
or sports on one, which they've had recently, they draw
the draw on TV two. But there's a number on
the back of your ticket. You can ring and they'll
give you the numbers.

Speaker 6 (40:35):
They come out no after that, What did you say?

Speaker 2 (40:40):
I said, before they come out? Hey, Joan, how much
would you spend a week?

Speaker 10 (40:45):
Twenty five dollars a week?

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Yep, oh flip, that's you could get. You could get it.
You're in the Malaysian Free could get a combo wach.

Speaker 10 (40:52):
For that even and it doesn't always buy a lot.
So I do know.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
I'm thinking you could shout if you spend twenty five
a week, that's a lot. They go a long way
at magers.

Speaker 10 (41:00):
Oh no, but I'd rather have my loto than having it.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
How much you how much you think you've won? Though
on your you never win much.

Speaker 10 (41:08):
No, I haven't won a big prize for a long time.
But there's a chance that I'm chance that I might. Though,
I mean, when you buy a raffle or a lotto,
you know it can't be guaranteed to win. I mean,
I mean, it's just one of these things that is available,
and I do it, but I don't believe in powerble
and I won't buy it. It's just ridiculously high. And

(41:28):
the chances of you know, it goes too often. And
that's why they're putting up another three numbers, is it?
And one chance in thirty eight? Now it's gonna be
one chance in fifty four. They don't want people to
win it so often. So are people going to buy it? Well,
they're stupid to buy a powerful I just I can't
believe they waste there.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
I'm stupid to buy You're one when you Yeah.

Speaker 10 (41:49):
But anyway, I know, each to their own.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Have you chosen your numbers from birthdays?

Speaker 7 (41:55):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (41:56):
Yes, my birthday might date my son's birth dates and
the months. And yeah, I've got all the numbers that
I know, only on one line because the rest is
just that I just filled out the forms. This was
probably twenty years ago, you know. I mean I've had
and I keep a copy in a drawer in the
bedroom as well. I don't change the numbers because I've

(42:19):
got a birthday line which is a month of our
birthdays and dates. But I don't know my other lines
because you don't know what your strike. I know my
top line starts with a three and ends with the
twenty three. But I mean I've got you've got to
get the four numbers. You get two numbers in a
line of strike, and they give you between sixty and
seventy dollars strikes. Very good start, better than payable.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Okay, I live with there, jone' sir. Yeah, I think
that you've got to payoff between how often you would
and how much you win. Seems like Joan went Like's
for about sixty or seventy bucks. Occasionally, I think the
scratch he's a daft, aren't they. You see people always scratch, scratch,
scratch provently at the shop, just scratching to know how

(43:04):
they're allowed to do that anyway. Clear they're hooked. Oh wait,
hittil midnight people the train to see the crusaders, bikes
and children on the footpath. Get in touch, Marcus. We
are witnessing the dander d industrial Asia. D industrialization of

(43:26):
the economy is a dig result of having either the
highest minimum wage or second highest minimum wage in the world.
The high cost of unskilled or semi skilled labor, along
with the very high energy and transportation costs are just
driving manufacturing businesses either out of the country into liquidation.
We have to get evaluated economy or we need to
significantly drive us tent of living in line with our

(43:46):
ability to generate revenue from our commodities and tourism based economy.
Kindness regards Dave high Marcus only ever in capitals bought
what is hawks both fruit, but in capitals only by
Tally's frozen veg as Capitals. New Zealand only please promote
te Marcus like you are a main confused supermacs have

(44:09):
not reacted to these closures. Who's going to fill the freezers?
New Zealand promotes five A davege weird a a lot.
It was a bit of fun with a big chance
to win big I love it, got to be in
to win it, and you never know when you might
win the big one. Well you do know when you
might win the big one. Never that's the odds. Eighteen

(44:31):
past nine if you want to partake. Oh eight hundred
eighty ten eighty hetel twelve. Still a lot of talk
about the tsunami, but something's going on to because Fakarti
White Islands also erupted. YEP, it's a live story and
get in touch Marcus till midnight tonight. Oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty. The tongue and tsunami alert has
been called off, although there have been sirens blaring in Tonga,

(44:57):
but that's no longer a thing now. This is more
news that's coming through from the world. They've mined the straight.
Iran has laid it at least a dozen mines in
straight of hor moos that I've been putting that in
front of straight. Iran has laid at least a dozen
minds and stread offul moods is the US. The Strait,

(45:17):
which serves as a conduit for fifth of the world's oil,
was paralyzed after Iran threatened to destroy any vessel using
the critical shipping lane. So it's been mined, so that's
a escalation. There was some discussion about how much oil
goes through the Straits or horn Moos and why that
oil affects everything so much. I was reading today about

(45:42):
the oil and what I thought was interesting is that
many countries in Europe and Asia don't produce any oil
and they have no option to import it. Taken together,
the oil importers purchased about forty million barrels a day,
of which least fifteen million originates in the Gulf. So

(46:05):
though it's only twenty percent, for a lot of the
countries in Europe and Asia, it's three eighths of their supply.
So it's a big deal. You cannot lose fifteen million
barrels overnight and not see major repercussions. Twenty one past
nine nine twenty three. Hello, Jeremy, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 5 (46:25):
Hi, Marcus Hijray.

Speaker 8 (46:29):
I'd like to talk about the electric scooters. Sure, my
kids have got a couple of electric scooters. We find
they're very effective at saving US fills.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
And they're remarkable how quickly they go.

Speaker 8 (46:50):
Yes, yes, we got ours. When we brought them. We
brought them from Auckland and they can go very quick.
The biggest one could do sixty kilometers nour and the
second one with the single engine does forty. But I
definitely teach my kids not to travel with that kind
of speed. They are a little bit unstable going at

(47:14):
that speed.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Well, the roads aren't The roads aren't great, are they?

Speaker 8 (47:21):
Well, we have been towering you. The roads aren't too
bad for where they go around in the urban environment.
But I do find a lot of these flamingos scooters,
you know, the people who are running on those ones.
You know, you get a mixture of people who are

(47:43):
safe with them and a mixture of idiots, to say
the least.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
Yeah, I don't disagree. I think they're one of those things.
Are the more you do than the bitterer you get
out that I think probably for newcome as they can
be a bit risky.

Speaker 8 (47:57):
Yeah, yeah, definitely. I've got a autistic son and a
few kids they have. He's he's quite fair for them,
and he's tried to write them, but he he struggles,
so he goes very very slow. If he does use.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
It, what does it cost the scooter? As you brought
the sixty K and the forty K one. How much
are they?

Speaker 8 (48:21):
Well, the ones I brought, I brought them from Kiwi
Olive wards up in Norphant. And the big one that's
got a bountry range of about sixty kilometers, and and
that was back when we bought it a few years ago.
It was two thousand dollars sure, and the other smaller

(48:43):
one was about fifteen hundred dollars, So pretty quickly you
could save a lot of fuel for a family of five.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Are they are your kids at school?

Speaker 7 (48:54):
Jeremy, Yes, yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Are they using them to get to school?

Speaker 8 (49:02):
One of my daughters does sometimes, but we don't live
too far from the motoriicology.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Sure, I just run. I just wonder if a lot
of school kids we're using them, it'sause I'm sure it's
become probably easy than biking.

Speaker 8 (49:19):
Yeah, yeah, my daughter did say that quite a few
of them. They've got a special I've actually got a
special bund park for them now at school and there
are quite a lot of children using them.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Now can you charge them at school?

Speaker 8 (49:34):
Oh, you've mentioned that on the taxpayer money.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
We wouldn't take much charge, though, would.

Speaker 8 (49:40):
They Yeah, No, they're not too bad. You don't notice
the power bill. I mean when you've got as many
many people as us living.

Speaker 4 (49:51):
In the house.

Speaker 8 (49:52):
You know, we we spent about three hundred on power
A fortnights.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
Do do the lot? Do you do the lotto?

Speaker 3 (50:01):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (50:01):
Yes, yes, definitely. I was listening to a person before
they said they spent well, was it twenty eight dollars
or something? I spent forty eight or fortnight on? You know,
played it for the last twelve years.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
No big win.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
But what would have what would you have to do
to stop? Or they got you?

Speaker 4 (50:27):
If?

Speaker 6 (50:27):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Howked have they got you? For life?

Speaker 4 (50:31):
Well?

Speaker 8 (50:33):
I don't. I just look at it as just sparing
money to the side. Who you know, who cares at
the end of the day.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
I don't.

Speaker 8 (50:39):
I don't go down by alcohol. I don't smoke. I've
got I've got a pretty good job. Yeah, wife works.
We're very fortunate and very grateful.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Okay. And you get that enjoyment to thinking about what
you're going to win.

Speaker 8 (51:00):
Well, I I don't get that kind of buzz from that.
I just I just look at the long odds. So
I think you know it maybe one day, maybe not,
But you've got to spend the money.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Yeah, okay, interesting, nice to hear from a Jeremy. I
appreciate that, thank you nine eight oh wait yeah, and
enjoying us these people there and their attitude towards Lotto, Marcus,
I buy the occasion a lot of ticket run back
in home in Australia, the a lot of websites that
refuse a sale. Refuses a sale from Australia to worry
that you have the same chance of winning with your
own choice of numbers, a lucky dip or just choosing

(51:36):
one two, three, four five six. Well, it's not really
a worry that if you choose one two three four
five six, if you do win it, you'll share it
with a lot of others. Marcus. Iran mining hor moves
is stupid. Now ship's carrying their royal that they were
letting through won't be able to theyre sabotaging their own economy.

(51:58):
Every week I go to my lot, I ask for
another twenty dollars of disappointment. But people seem to It
does seem to be an essential spend. People seem have
just put into the essential spend every week that they do,
which Loto must love that they become habitualized at Loto
be in touch. If you want to be on ere tonight,
I shall rego through the topics. Jeremy will have spent

(52:20):
fifteen grand over twelve years, but if that was invested,
you double it, actually triple it. Yeah, that's interesting how
people budget. I think probably there is some of the
psychology that people are buying it each week and they
feel if they stop buying it, they will have wasted
all those times that they've brought it, because it's only
going to be a matter of time before they won.
Maybe that's the psychology that people will just spend the

(52:42):
same amount every week. Maybe you can explain that to me.
My ninety year old grandfather still buys a lot of
religiously and says when I buy a lot of I'm
going to all the time. God to admire has eternal optimism.
But don't think it's going to happen. It's twenty got
away from ten.

Speaker 15 (52:58):
Now.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
It's an interesting point here. Someone makes Iran minds are
technically advanced, not of the old days. Iran can turn
them on and off to allow approved chips through the
world's advanced since World War Two. It's a very good point.
I don't know that minds had changed like that. Switch
them on, switch them off. I spend six dollars per week,
which is the minimum for Powerball. I picked my own

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numbers for line one, then random for the other three lines.
I feel like I'm in it to win it without
breaking the bank. I only play strike, but not all
the time. A dollar a line five or ten dollars
max I win more on that usually went about fifty
plus sixty plus dollars. I won't bother with a powerball
lotter at all. For those that play, they're buying into

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a dream. If you've got the dollars out of no
problem to when the war may necessity and necessitate using
nuclear weapons watch and see. Yeah, I don't know that
it'll come to that. I hope not. That would be
my real fear. But yeah, there's been no talk about that.
I guess there probably isn't before they use them. It's
twenty five away from ten people, Marcus till midnight. They

(54:03):
are talking now that a run has I feel it's
the wrong use of word to say they've mined the
straits of the Strait of Hormos. Now you might want
to correct my grammar on that they've mined it or
they've laid minds. I don't feel that's the right thing
to say, because I haven't really mind it, have they.
So I don't know the answer there. But get in

(54:25):
touch Marcus till twelve. If there's other stuff you've got
to talk about, you know the drill. Get him on,
get them on, get them on, get on, get off.
Say what you need to say and I will update
you through. We are talking about the train going from
Rangior and Rolliston to the rugby at Christjurch forty nine
bucks return seems I don't know if it's going to

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be stopping on the way. I don't know where it
would stop on the way. Let's hope that runs smoothly.
It's going to let people off on a small street
of Moorhouse av which you're going to have to build
a passenger platform for people to a light, which is
not the word I thought I was going to be using.
There tie little lane and that's where they'll be getting

(55:08):
off Pilgrim Place. Then you walk along Manchester Street down
Tuham Street or Cheam I think it's called to how
it's called, and you're good to go about eight hundred
meters so that is the train line that goes to Littleton.
So they haven't got what I can see, a railway siding.
Maybe they've got a railway siding there, a passing loop.

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I'm sure it will be causing disruptions to their coal trains,
but I guess they've got a plan, I hope. So Hello, Michael,
this is Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 5 (55:40):
Oh yeah, hi Marcus. Yeah, just McCain's frozen vegetables. I
think you probably find that they're going to be around
for a while yet, because in Canterbury they grow a
heck of a lot of vegetables like peas, corn and
carrots and they process those down up there. They've got
a processing plant down at Washdike yet to Marie, sure, okay,

(56:01):
So I just I don't know if so, And there's
no word of that closing as far as I know.

Speaker 10 (56:07):
And.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
I just I just thought, hang on, let me just
see about tim, because I thought that might be close. Yeah, okay,
I have to refine the story because I have to
refine the story and reread it.

Speaker 5 (56:22):
Yeah, I think it's the processing plant up in the
North Island there.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
Yes, it has two sites. Yes, well, yeah, it does
say that the one in Twyford does peas being sweet
corn and carrots, right.

Speaker 5 (56:35):
Okay, yeah, that's that's that's the one on the North Island,
is it Okay? I think it is, yes, But the
one in South Island is at washt Oke near Timri.
And also just last week I bought a packet of
frozen Brussels sprouts with McCain's on the label, but head
look on the fine print and they're actually from Belgium. Okay, yes,

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so they probably bring bring a few things in that
is that are out of season just to keep up there,
keep to try and keep their customers.

Speaker 16 (57:10):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
Yeah, you'd have to. You're probably going to read your
read your ingredients lists here, you do that quite I'm sure.
It's also says that often you read them and you
won't know where it's come from. It says packed and
such and such locally by imported and local ingredients, which
means you've already got no idea.

Speaker 5 (57:29):
Yeah, that's that's right. And and sometimes on can stuff
they'll say from an undislow.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
Source actually yeah, okay, which is yeah, it's sketchy, isn't.

Speaker 5 (57:38):
It it is?

Speaker 17 (57:39):
Yeah it is?

Speaker 5 (57:40):
Yeah, yeah, okay, Well I'll literally get on with it.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Yeah, I appreciate that. I just said, I'm looking at
some of the labels sort of on their website to
see what they do say where they're from. I've got
ingredients beans, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, Harry Covert, they've got the
in France. Just see if it does say where they're
they're sourced from. Keep Frozen packed in New Zealand from

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imported and green dance. So that's the winter vegetables, so
packed in New Zealand from imported ingredients. That's the beans, carrots, broccoli,
cauliflowers so to pieces though all those are in because
I don't say summons is packed from overseas ingredients. So yeah, gosh,
I don't know how the international finance works that they're

(58:26):
getting cauliflowers from half world away, because it's not my
riddle to solve. Planted minds is the correct usage? Okay,
planted minds? That's past ten?

Speaker 11 (58:41):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (58:42):
How much goes to charity from each lotto ticket my
friend buys twice a week, thinking is giving to charity
as well as contributed to the pro that will be
and that will be discoverable. I imagine sixty percent goes back.
It might be more processing plant WASHDG only process crinkled
chips and frozen chips. But look, I will have a
quick search about the If anyone knows about lotto, I

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could probably do that quite quickly, googling how much New
Zealand Lotto goes to charity. Let's see what they play?
A lot to have TV ads all the time, don't
they that guy skiing down the mountain a grant, grant
carry on or the trumpet. Twenty five cents of every
dollar goes to the community, fifty four percent goes back

(59:27):
to players as prizes, so then twenty one percent of
it is profit for the retailer and advertising. I would think, so, yeah,
seventy nine percent seems a twenty five percent. That goes
seventy nine percent now and of that a third goes
to charity and two thirds goes back. That's two thirds

(59:49):
of that seventy nine tending to know that. Actually a
while ago there was a TV pro one Loto winners
a lot weren't happy ever after their stories and how
it has caused family and friends friction. I think what
happens if you win a lot of people ask you
for money, and I would imagine need to be quite
robust around that and be prepared to lose friends. The

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other thing that's tricky if someone gives it to you.
If someone gives you a lot of ticket it wins
five million, to give them half, you'd need to, wouldn't you,
because they've brought you that ticket to know how you
work that one out. I don't know what the amounts
is that they'd be happy, whether not resent you or
you start resenting them, unless you's a world of problems.
Seventeen to ten just thinking about this. I don't know
what people feel about this, but if you're spending money

(01:00:32):
each week on lotto, if it's something that you instantly
go and pay each week even though you're not really
getting anything for that, I mean, does that mean you'd
be hooked? I don't know what it needs to break
that habit. That's some I'm kind of curious to know about, actually,
if anyone's got any comments about that, because it becomes
a habit, doesn't it. I don't know where you can
actually take yourself out of yourself to look at whether

(01:00:52):
it's worthwhile or not. Kind of curious to know about that,
Although what's happened tonight. Is people aren't saying they're going
to spend more, They're just going to change the way
they spend it. Yeah, Janet's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 18 (01:01:05):
Welcome, Hi Mankis, Thank you. I was just talking to
Dan about the Minister of Finance with a side here
of fishing out fifty dollars a week to all these people.
That is it middle and low income with children?

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
I don't know the full details. I know it's those
that middle and low income. I'm not sure that it's
if you have to have children. Yes, it is, Okay,
it does say families is a family after a children? Yeah, yeah, okay, yep.
So it is middle and low income people who work

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who have children. Yep, that's it. Yes, work at the
workings for family's bracket. Yes.

Speaker 18 (01:01:57):
So do they get the cash or is that to
se come out of their taxes. That's what I'm wondering.
I think they can pick up playing out cash. That's
a hell of a lot of money and we haven't
got it. We're deep, deeply in debt, and al they
seem to do is spend more money. And there's a

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huge uproar about people who are low income, but they
don't have children and they're not going to get any help. See,
so it's stupid all round. Really, it's totally.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
I think it's I think it's been quite well received
as being a fear a fairly fair and quick delivery
of money just while there's fuel prices is around. When
the price of fuel drop drops long, when the price
of fuel drops below a threshold, I think it's going
to go back to.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
What it was.

Speaker 18 (01:02:57):
Well, but they say they're going to do this for
a year starting the beginning of April.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
It's cost about three and seventy million or something like that.

Speaker 18 (01:03:08):
Oh, there's it'll be more than that. There's a lot
of people in that brain.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Well that it would have to be costed out.

Speaker 18 (01:03:14):
Yeah, well, I think they're pretty damned hopeless.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
It's one hundred and forty three thousand families.

Speaker 18 (01:03:20):
Yeah, there's going to be a lot of resentments for
people who are struggling who you have to have the
petrol to get to their low income job and they're
not getting anything. It's just ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
So what do you think they should have done?

Speaker 18 (01:03:37):
Well, what are they doing about limiting the use of it,
stopping people from going to work and school like other
countries are doing, and help them do it from home,
so they're not going out to school and work and
reserving what we've got and trying to make it last longer. Okay,

(01:04:01):
but wreship's coming with more supplies, Well, that's not going
to last very long. And how much petrol? She all
we've got started off being fifty days, although it would
have finished at the end of April, and then halfway

(01:04:22):
through she's now saying seven weeks worth left.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Yes, what the amount will changes ships arrived, depending on usage,
if people are stopped punning when ships arrive. But look,
I'm happy for you to start the discussion, Jen, and
I appreciate that. Thank you. Ten to ten. Yeah, James,
it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:04:39):
You know, Marcus. Hey, look, just wanted to creek the
last lovely lady that caught up. She was spot on
with most of the things she said that Nikola Will
have made it absolutely clear in today's statement that she's
not taken on any debt whatsoever to fund the help
that she's given out to kiwi's around the country. She's

(01:05:01):
not taken on any debt. It just comes out of
the operating allowance. She budgeted herself for last year.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Right, yeah, I saw that the Thomas Coglan item about that.

Speaker 4 (01:05:12):
Yeah yeah, but.

Speaker 6 (01:05:13):
Your previous caller, and I think that there's like a
misconception around a lot of people in the country, especially
the people I've just spoken to today, Right, is that
she's going to be like, oh, no, look, we're increasing
the the debt by however, one hundred million, three hundred
million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
It's just we're not doing that, although the government is
still the governor is still borrowing to fund its deficit.

Speaker 6 (01:05:39):
Oh well, yeah, that's one thing, absolutely, but we're not
adding to the deficit. We're not adding to the debt
or anything like that. We're just it just comes out
of last year's operating allow once. It's so that debt
that we're borring for was debt that we procured for
other projects, right, black roads and public transport, that sort

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of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
But there'll be some other planned spending they'll have to cut.

Speaker 6 (01:06:06):
No, no, no, no, no, no, that that all that
happened last year. She's budgeted for all this. This This
is operating allowance.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
This is what the article says. Well, what it will
mean is that the new initiative. We're three and seventy
three million or so will need to come out of
the new spending pen and the budget, or Willis and
the cabinet will have to look at some existing baseline
spendings and cut that or some combination of these two things.

Speaker 6 (01:06:30):
Sorry, how much did you say? Because what I understood
from today's press release or not press release, but stand
up media conference from Willis was that none of it
was coming out of debt. It was all just coming
out of last year's operating allowance.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
No, this year's operating allowance.

Speaker 16 (01:06:49):
I think.

Speaker 6 (01:06:51):
This financial Yeah, that means budget.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
It's not been funny five budget, it's not been funded
with borrowing that wasn't already planned.

Speaker 6 (01:06:59):
Yeah, all right, fine, done, and we've already borrowed the
money has been budgeted. Nothing else is changing except for
the money from the future that we would otherwise have
to take out of the operating allowance. Right uky So,
I mean, look, it's definitely I'm not saying she shouldn't
add to the debt for this particular situation, but it's

(01:07:21):
just it's just like a what do you call it,
a strength weakness positive negative sort of thing. Right, She's
got to toss up the pros and cons of anything
she of any decision she makes, and in this particular situation,
she just Willis decided that it was better that she
was better off just to take money out of the

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last of well the last budget's operating allowance than she
was to take on more debt to give more relief.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
Right, And the thing that's complicated for me for all
the costing is we don't know how long the petrol's
going to stay up for. Because it will last for
twelve months or until ninety one petrol goes below three
dollars a liter, which Act insisted on. This could be
in two months time. I mean it could be. It
could be a very quick thing. So when we talk

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about how much money it's hard to cost, it isn't
it beaun't know how much?

Speaker 6 (01:08:14):
Can completely you agree? Do you agree that when Willis
said that it was prudent? Do you agree with her
when she said that it was prudent that she said
either it's going to go on for three hundred and
sixty five days or until it dropped between below ninety
one ninety one drop below three dollars a lister. Do

(01:08:37):
you agree that that's prudent. Well, do you think she'd
be better off doing something else? Because I think that
that's well, it's prudent, but it's not far enough. I
think it should go below three dollars a Lisa, right.
I think it was below three dollars a Leasa, well
below three dollars a Lisa before this whole thing happened.
I think, yeah, I think it was pretty prudent of it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
I don't know why you're fixated on the word prudent.

Speaker 6 (01:08:59):
Because I think I think, no, no, I'm not well.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
I feel like you want to get some sort of
voice grab from me. But yeah, I think probably the
three dollars. What it's up to four dollars in some
places now, isn't it. They've gone Stuart Island, it is.

Speaker 6 (01:09:12):
Really Yeah, I'm shocked. I used to live down in
the South Island, like literally a couple of years ago,
but moved up to Auburn today. So I'm just saying
I'm just moved.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
You moved up today a couple of years ago. Okay,
I've got a run, but thanks for your call. Hit
till midnight tonight, Heitel twelve. People are also talking about
scooters on bike ways and bikes on footpaths and the
train to the christ Church Stadium. Niri, thanks for hanging
on there. It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 13 (01:09:40):
Hi, good evening, Marcus. I just wanted to quickly say
a few quick comments, basly a doubt the lady that
I listened to.

Speaker 16 (01:09:51):
Talking about the.

Speaker 13 (01:09:54):
Percentages of people in New Zealand getting extra money, you know,
for the petrol et cetera, et cetera, to help about
what's the families or incomes, et cetera. I just thought
i'd call because I live in I live in a
lower hut in the community where in the morning a

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lot of the parents walk the children to like primary school,
and I have the high school boys coming from Pattoni
walking through my town to get to hut Belly High
And I thought to myself, you know that this is
what happens in our town. So I understand. You know,

(01:10:38):
the latest topics been all about peach or Peatchburll, Peachell,
But what happened, What's happened to you know, the parents
walking to the children to school after school, the sun
shining and have the kids playing in the backyard.

Speaker 19 (01:10:53):
You know, it.

Speaker 13 (01:10:56):
All depends on you know, your family's size and stuff
like that. And quickly, Marcus, I wanted to just say
to you, I really enjoy listening to your so and
I you know how you had you had the news
come on and just that a little bit of music
that you play. I just wanted to say, I really

(01:11:18):
enjoy listening to you. So it's all mapped out, it's
worked out, and I enjoy getting up to listen to you.
So I just want to say to the people out there,
come on, you know where to get up and do
do what you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
Have to and I'm I'm going to live it there
and Iri, but I appreciate it. Thank you. Ten past nine, Matthew,
it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 17 (01:11:41):
Really a couple of points on it. That's some poor incidence.
Both missed out on the whole thing. Really, you know that,
And I guess I guess now, I guess the.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
The reasoning is that they don't need to go to
work each day and that would be the major factor
for for for their expense for fuel going up. I
guess that's the thoughts.

Speaker 17 (01:12:07):
And the other one is what about these parents that
are in work in it and they don't have a car,
don't any get it? As well.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
So people that get that or just get public well,
the price of public transport might go up if the
price of petrol goes up, so they might be affected.

Speaker 17 (01:12:27):
The point too. Yeah, petrol prices are not good. You know,
you've got people like some of up at the brewery
my closest towns eighty k meters away. I don't think,
Mike quall. I think there's a lot of people that
potentially needed it that will miss out on it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
And pinchers who their car is a lifeline for them
for shopping and socializing and things like that, and they
probably don't have the option to always to pick up
the old chovy the bike or do things like that either.
So yeah, they really are dependent on their car.

Speaker 17 (01:13:03):
You know, there's some of them are probably struggling with
Eaxtra twenty dollars now let alone. Yes, got a credible
one hundred kilometers for their grandkids.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Yeah, hope, but hopefully it's a Hopefully this is a
short thing. I don't think it will be, but hopefully
this could be done and dusted in three months.

Speaker 17 (01:13:22):
Petrol force is interesting. I live in the middle of
the South Island, so my closest care station in the caves.

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
And sorry, I just were you What did you say, Matthew?
You're in the middle of South Island.

Speaker 17 (01:13:33):
Yeah, I'm in a little junction, yes, and okays brings
junction to get reef and was going to get a
medicine and the last twice I've gone in two weeks
for a week and a half to reef them past.
The local petrol station pulled up the other day at
three twenty come back hour later it said three twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
You're quite You're quite isolated there, aren't you. Are you
retired as what? Are you retired as well? Okay?

Speaker 17 (01:14:03):
But still going to get petrol in the equals too?

Speaker 5 (01:14:08):
So how far?

Speaker 4 (01:14:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
I mean that's that would be one of the most
nice places there is because Reefed is your supermarket shop?

Speaker 11 (01:14:15):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (01:14:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:14:16):
Recent? Yeah, that's human p four kilometers one.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
Way and is a decent supermarket?

Speaker 11 (01:14:23):
There?

Speaker 17 (01:14:24):
No decent You're going to go to Nelson or christ.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Stretch And how far is Nelson? Two hours? Two and
a half year?

Speaker 5 (01:14:30):
Wow?

Speaker 6 (01:14:32):
You really?

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
You really are on the boondocks?

Speaker 20 (01:14:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:14:36):
Is that whole?

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
Is that whole? Value? Is that intensive? Not intensive? I
don't mean that disparagingly, but that's A, that's a lucrative
dairy area.

Speaker 13 (01:14:45):
Is it.

Speaker 17 (01:14:47):
A lot of grisstop fans is not? Okay, I know
about eight or nine day, but they'll all be struggling
with the price of people picking. Their delivery cost will
go up. And if I'm picking that even getting it delivered,
they're looking at the main center.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
That was do You're probably not the person to ask this,
but just since you're on the phone and you are there,
do farmers that are more remotely the farmers that are
more remote do they pay more to have their milk
picked up by Fonterra?

Speaker 17 (01:15:20):
Pretty sure? It's of Spain. Okay, so we're with Whisky Whistlands.
We're a bit different here and they haven't challenged extra currently.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
Oh you go to hooka teka for but to become
butter Do you for the old warehouse? For the costco?

Speaker 17 (01:15:37):
The Costco?

Speaker 11 (01:15:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
Have you metthew Have you been to Costco yet?

Speaker 11 (01:15:42):
Yes?

Speaker 17 (01:15:42):
When I looked up in Taranaki, it's my favorite place
to go.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
Impressed A. Yeah, yeah, could, but that's farmers. That's what
farmers do, isn't it. You do your three monthly shop,
you'd love it. It's not worth your while going from
Maruya up to Costco's because you do well up there.

Speaker 17 (01:16:04):
Been thinking about it, but now the private private people
and the Perry Crossings.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
I don't know, can't get a booking. We're down to one.
Very nice it took Matthew. Thank you enjoyed that. Den
it's Marcus. Good evening, Yeah, Marcus.

Speaker 21 (01:16:19):
And just just going back to you're talking about a
lot earlier are yes? You said about people like you know,
you have to split it between people, and I'm a
lot of person that both directly. But I do remember
a case of years ago where people bought more than
the syndicate, oh yeah, for five people, and then there
was massive court missy court case because the guy went

(01:16:42):
to found that they had one he wasn't willing to
split it with any of the other then to the syndicate.
That's a danger. Sometimes people shave their true colors.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
I'd be really because imagine if there was a syndicate,
right and you paid in money every week in your
grip to work together.

Speaker 21 (01:16:56):
Yeah, it was what they had done and was meant
to be split between five and this one of them
wouldn't split it in and when they had a court
that shows people you'd never be friends. And it shows
people to people's true tellers though, what they're like when
it comes to the money. He's agreeded.

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
And imagine if someone decided that week they are sick
and they didn't put their money in, and then they
said they.

Speaker 21 (01:17:18):
Were you you can't get your share of it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
Oh, well you've put that money in any way.

Speaker 21 (01:17:24):
Yeah, but this is what you wouldn't never going just
shows people some people when it comes to the money,
they get Yeah. So I'm sad, but that's what happens unfortunately, Sean,
thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
So much for that Mug's game fifteen past ten. Oh,
get in touch? What happened to all the Remember there
was a while there when you do talk back and
everyone was putting editives in their petrol. It's kind of gone. Ah,
remember that you get those sort of syringe orange syringe

(01:17:56):
you'd put in there. Get in touch. If that's still
a thing, you're a clown. You think the country runs
on petrol. The trucks, train delivery goods run on petrel.
Quite know what you mean if you apply and they
run on diesel. I think when we're talking about fuel,
we mean that all embraces, all of it. But ye,
I don't think we call people clowns. Okay, crunchy Marcus.

(01:18:19):
I have a picture of frieda was about to embark
on twenty five can to treatments over five weeks. Her
turnaround trip from where she lives to the city hospital
and back and her town is eighty ks. She does
not know how she will afford the petrel that's from Chris.
If anyone's got the advice for her, she says she

(01:18:39):
doesn't know how to afford the petrel. I don't know
what support there is, but I'm sure there would be some.
I'm just looking on the Kansas Society website, look, and
I don't know if that's the thing that they do support.
We offer one on one support coping, transport to treatment,

(01:19:03):
transport to treatment, I think they provide transports. Doesn't want that,
She just wants the petrol paid for. Yeah, I don't
some of them will know something about that, because that
sounds like a terrible thing to be in a situation
like that. Someone said fuel sticks. A guy in nightcaps
sold them to me. They blew and worked. Who was
the guy in nightcaps? My relative parent wrote all numbers down, Well,

(01:19:25):
it needs punctuation that one. Sorry about that. Seventeen past ten,
ten twenty Sam, it's Marcus. Good evening, good evening.

Speaker 22 (01:19:34):
Thank you for taking my call mate pleasure you were
First of all, what triggered me to give you a
call was you were questioning about the little Lawrence syringes. No,
those were when we removed the lead editors out of
the fuel came. Remember the ad distinctly with an old
Holden Belmont or kings With whoever it was. It was
to stop what they called valve seat recessions.

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
But there's been a more recent one since the post
fuel that post the lead fuel that people were big
on that would give that was advertised on the radio
a lot that would give more mileage. To remember what
those were, I.

Speaker 9 (01:20:08):
Don't I know.

Speaker 22 (01:20:08):
They had this stuff they from the diesels called ad Blue,
which I'm not familiar with, but I think they put
that in the some of the commercial vehicles, I think.

Speaker 17 (01:20:18):
But first of all, I.

Speaker 22 (01:20:21):
Just want to have a bit of a crack at
the greens in regards to having a bleat about the
most vulnerable in the community not receiving this payment. I'm sorry,
but this is the people that are going to work
just quietly. And I spoke with my month tonight. She's
a pensioner now and they live in Rye Valley, and

(01:20:42):
she said, well, you know, I do volunteer work and
as people can't do these volunteer jobs and helping out
the community in that sense because obviously she's got to
drive and now one way to blend them or and
now the other way to Nelson. But you know, my
father's got health appointments for cancer and stuff, and there

(01:21:02):
is stuff available if you had to go to these appointments,
and there is yeah, you have to pay the fuel,
that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:21:09):
That's what I'm trying to explore. Sam is about that too,
but yeah, I've got another call about that. I think
the point was made to that if you are in
some form of benefit, you do need to have a car.
You do need to make trips to a work and
in come iforts still called that for appointment, So that
was another point that was made that those people will
require to use cars and fuel. There is some driving
required for that. Denise, it's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 20 (01:21:33):
Oh h Marcus, Yes, I was just ringing about the
thing you mentioned about getting help with travel for you know,
having cancer treatment or any other treatment. You can get
a form that the DHBs will give you or whatever
they call themselves now, and every time you go to

(01:21:56):
your appointment, you fill it in and they will stamp it,
and you know, and every so often you send that
form in and they pay you. I think it's I
think it's twenty eight cents a kilometer, okay, And my case,
I had to go from Kerry Carey to wan ger

(01:22:16):
Ay and back and that's about or three hour round trip.
And you know I got petrol money back from that.

Speaker 2 (01:22:25):
That did that cover your the whole trip?

Speaker 7 (01:22:29):
Yes?

Speaker 11 (01:22:30):
It did?

Speaker 4 (01:22:30):
Yeah, I mean because.

Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
Obviously that would probably need to go up a bit
in price now because the fuel's gone up. But I
don't know what the price per kilometer is now because
it's also the wear and tear of the car, So
it wasn't there.

Speaker 20 (01:22:41):
Well there is there is as well, but they there
I don't know. W My cancer treatment has just finished.
But I can't believe how much they bend over that
woulds to help you. They're very very good like that.
So anybody anybody who's going through that and is saying

(01:23:01):
I can't afford the petrol, well, you know, just speak
up and on coologist or whatever and will help you out.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
And what happens in the circumstance if you are eighty
ks away, which is probably about how far you were
as well, and you feel unwell enough to drive, does
that happen? Often? Are their contingencies for that?

Speaker 20 (01:23:22):
Well, there are tens of volunteers that can take you.
There are shuttles also, but it depends on where you look.
It's not quite so good up here. I'm a kirikiri
and they don't have a shuttle that goes to one
ar a. But yeah, they do have things like that,

(01:23:46):
and there are cancer volunteers who can also take you.
But most people have someone that can take them, and
you know it's not a problem.

Speaker 2 (01:23:57):
Appreciate that, Denise, Thanks very much for that. Twenty five
past ten nine nine two is the text number, Marcus.
Will people on jobs that you can still be expected
to canvas, jobs that are diminishing job market with extra
travel costs still get sanctions, Marcus. The kanserciety of volunteer
people whoil drive cancer treatment patients to their treatments. They
also have free combination Auckland. Yeah, imagine that person probably

(01:24:21):
wants to drive themselves, and good on them for that,
but thank you for that Marcus. In regards to fuel sticks,
a concrete truck driver sold them to me. He was
in his late seventies, about fourteen years ago. Oh this
was an nightcaps.

Speaker 13 (01:24:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
So I think there have been additives after valve Master.
If anyone wants to talk about those petrol aditives that
would they'd give you more keys. Do you remember those?
I presume they. I presume they were. Well, I don't
know what they were. You want to talk about that,
That's something that I would like to embark on. I

(01:24:59):
just don't remember the names of them. They seem to
be something, you know, I don't know what the science was.
I can't google. I can't google them at the moment
as I'm trying to desperately look twenty six past ten,
Some hospitality businesses are seeing a loss of business due
to petrol and travel costs, so some will pay petrol
costs for customers to come. Uber Eat cost is now

(01:25:21):
through the roof. Is any if any uber Et drivers
are out there, I'd be curious to know how it's
working out for you. I imagine times are tough, are
they because or he's your fee gone up? Do you
want to mention that too? That's something that I could
talk about. Oh wa eight one hundred and eighth. Remember
the emails to twenty seven past ten. I am looking

(01:25:45):
forward to your comments looking forward? Is that the right word? Yeah,
looking forward to your comments on I don't if I
should say look looking forward. We are talking about a
lot of how it's changed your odds of winning the
big prize. I think it's called powerball. I think it's
gone from thirty one and thirty six million to one
in fifty four million, which is about the same odds
vering identical quadruplets, which is an infinitely small chance. But

(01:26:10):
I guess if the money is that big, probably you'll
be blinded by the odds. Am I right, it's the
information I missed. So yeah, it'll be kept at sixty million,
not fifty million. And they reckon the odds, well, they
will have. I presume they employ statisticians or they've got
someone that's good with the calculator. But that sixty million

(01:26:30):
dollar draw they reckon that will happen about once every
two and a half years. So they're trying to get
one of those big events that everyone talks about and
they will too, because you know, there comes a moment
when you start everyone starts to go, oh, you've got
your lotto all your big big draw this weekend, and
people get excited about that. So that's kind of what
we are talking about tonight, all those things and more.

(01:26:52):
If you want to be a part of it, be
in touch. I'm with you till midnight tonight, looking forward
to what you've got to say. There's something else you
want to mention, be my guest. Oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty and nine to nine text. I look
forward to what you've got. So, yeah, any of those topics,
it might be something different. Dealer's choice.

Speaker 13 (01:27:13):
Do we have that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:14):
I don't know what that means. You know you might
want it. There might be something else that you want
to talk about. And if you want to talk about
something that I'm up for that also tonight. Be a
part of it. Get in touch. Oh eight hundred eighty
staty and text if you want to. I'll keep an
eye before the news comes up at eleven o'clock on what'
tapping in the Middle East? Very confusing. What confuses me
is I don't take what Trump says free seriously, but

(01:27:37):
the markets do. He does seem to have some ability
to affect the price of oil and the Dow. I
don't quite know what that is. He did say that
there was a chance that we'll head talk to Iran,
but the Iranian leaders said fake news. So if you
want to, yeah, I will check in before twelve about
that or sorry before eleven. As I said, it's a situation. Oh,

(01:27:59):
eight hundred and eighty ten eight if you want to
be a part of it, nine two nine to text,
if there's something different you want to mention, not pausing,
just suppressing a sneeze. There we go twenty seven away
from eleven, and Tim's along at twelve. People, so do
come through if you want to add to the discussion tonight.
I embrace it. I'll look forward to it. Areas often

(01:28:22):
have Facebook pages, ask if anyone's going this way or
that way, would like to help with the guests? Yeah,
I think probably that's not what you want to be doing.
If you want to go for chemo, you should just
have that. So it's not something you worry about, Marcus.
Things are also relative in Europe. This is the normal
fuel price. Interesting to see that people suddenly start seeing
that public transport, car pulling and cyclings are options. I

(01:28:45):
win twenty five dollars every single Saturday. I don't buy lotto.
Oh oh yeah. I was also asking about uber drivers.
If that whole economy's gone out the window now because
of the cost or because the And someone said the
price of petrol in Europe. I don't know what the
price of petrol in Europe is. I don't know if

(01:29:06):
it would have been higher or lower than what it
is here. I would imagined it would be higher because
it's very hard for you to work it out what
it was. It's also going to transfer the prices from
the euro So yeah, I can't tell you what the
price of fuel is relative to Zinder, but I would
be curious if someone knows about that. Twenty five to eleven, PJ.

(01:29:28):
It's Marcus good evening, Hu.

Speaker 7 (01:29:33):
Hi, pj's EJJ.

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
For echo. Yes, okay, Hi, EJ, It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:29:44):
Hi doesn't have too much to say, really, but I
just think in regards to the lotteries.

Speaker 13 (01:29:50):
You know, I just.

Speaker 11 (01:29:53):
I think what person leaves sixty is a billion dollars
or million dollars million? Why don't million million?

Speaker 16 (01:30:00):
Okay?

Speaker 11 (01:30:01):
I don't buy tacos. I have no idea, but I
know there is a big, big drawer if everyone rays about.
I know a lot of people buy the tickets, and
I just think, why are they giving so much money
to one person when they could spread it out, like
a lot of people would even be happy with five
hundred thousand dollars if they gave it to more people
and there's been a lot more people would be better off.

Speaker 13 (01:30:21):
You know.

Speaker 11 (01:30:23):
Do you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 10 (01:30:24):
Why don't you do that?

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
Because people wouldn't get excited about that much money. I
think the way when it goes to sixty million, there's
a lot of people talk about it. It kind of
transcends lotto and becomes news and everyone talks about it
and people want So it's a very clever, clever marketing idea.
It would It wouldn't work if.

Speaker 11 (01:30:43):
They it increases odds though, but you know, it increases
the odds big time, so then people, more people have
a more bigger chance of winning. Still a decent amount
of money, you know, I mean even a million dollars
sixty sixty millis you know?

Speaker 2 (01:30:57):
I mean, I don't think I don't think people rationally
think about the odds. I think they just rationally think
about what a huge amount of money it would be,
and how how incredibly luck serious their life would become.

Speaker 11 (01:31:08):
Oh one out how many billion, did you say, chances
they have?

Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
It's fifty one out of fifty four million.

Speaker 11 (01:31:16):
Fifty four million, okay, okay, just another.

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
Thing which is no chance at all. Really, yes, I know,
I still.

Speaker 11 (01:31:24):
Don't think it makes sense that a lot of things
human beings do don't. Just so, it's just the world
we live today. I just wanted to say too about
the petrol. You know how much I just thought about
it because I just put eighty dollars in my calf.
Oh my gosh, I've got problems with my seat out
light going off, sorry if you can hear that in

(01:31:45):
the background, And it filled up my tank halfway. And
so therefore I'm wondering how much more money am I
actually paying to full up my tank?

Speaker 19 (01:31:54):
You know?

Speaker 11 (01:31:55):
So I would cost me one twenty to fill up
my tank. Now what does it cost? Would it be?

Speaker 13 (01:31:59):
One?

Speaker 11 (01:32:00):
Maybe?

Speaker 3 (01:32:00):
One?

Speaker 17 (01:32:01):
Happy?

Speaker 2 (01:32:01):
How much have you put in?

Speaker 7 (01:32:03):
Well?

Speaker 11 (01:32:03):
Actually I thought I'm half a tank was eighty dollars,
you know, so I thought, okay, So then if I
filled it then it probably would be two age sixteen,
one hundred and sixty.

Speaker 2 (01:32:14):
You just double it, you'by one sixty?

Speaker 11 (01:32:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so, I mean so usually it's one twenty.
So I'm really only paying each to forty dollars to
fill the tank. You know, we kind of freaking out
about how much more we're paying. But have we ever,
you know, calculated really how much it is overall and
to full the tank? You know what I mean, it's
really forty dollars.

Speaker 17 (01:32:35):
I think it's got up different.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
I think it's got up thirty percent.

Speaker 11 (01:32:40):
Okay, well that's a huge that's a that's a big job.
See I haven't I haven't actually calculated the figures. But
how much more is that? My mess is terrible?

Speaker 6 (01:32:50):
Have you missed?

Speaker 2 (01:32:51):
You missed? This terrible, isn't it.

Speaker 11 (01:32:53):
I know, I'm not even thinking. I'm driving and I've
got lots of things. The radio.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
Yeah, I can't drive very well when I've got the
belt on. But to drive and be on the radio
as well, at least you haven't got the radio on.
That's the that's a real blessing.

Speaker 11 (01:33:08):
It was like, can you hear the beeping in the background?

Speaker 2 (01:33:11):
What don't you just put your belt on?

Speaker 11 (01:33:13):
No, I don't know why. It's just there's a faulty
thing happening.

Speaker 4 (01:33:17):
Are you.

Speaker 19 (01:33:19):
Or are you?

Speaker 11 (01:33:20):
Yeah, I'm driving, I've got my seat bet on the
hands free.

Speaker 2 (01:33:24):
You know, I don't care about that. I just couldn't
work out what's what? What do you think is is
a door open?

Speaker 11 (01:33:28):
No? No, it's the seat belt, the something sitting.

Speaker 2 (01:33:32):
On groceries on the seat.

Speaker 11 (01:33:36):
No, it's in the back seat. I've got the seat
down and I've got stuff and sitting on it.

Speaker 14 (01:33:40):
So yeah, what what's on it?

Speaker 11 (01:33:43):
It's a water blaster?

Speaker 2 (01:33:49):
I had to ask, are you going to do some
water blasting? If you've just done some water.

Speaker 11 (01:33:52):
Blasting water blasting the greenhouse getting it ready for the apocalypse?

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
Oh wow are you?

Speaker 10 (01:34:01):
Yes?

Speaker 11 (01:34:02):
Absolutely, we all need to go towards that way.

Speaker 13 (01:34:04):
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:34:06):
It's a funny time with the end of your tunnel house.
We normally do ours in spring.

Speaker 11 (01:34:11):
Well, you know, if you do your greenhouse then you
can grow food in it all year round.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
Yep, I appreciate your organization.

Speaker 11 (01:34:21):
Well sorry, yeah, it just makes up for my mess.

Speaker 2 (01:34:25):
It's not your strong so, but you that beeping is annoying.

Speaker 11 (01:34:29):
Yeah, it is really annoying. But sorry, I can't help
you there.

Speaker 14 (01:34:33):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
Such an odd sound?

Speaker 10 (01:34:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
You tell me what's huge? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:34:44):
What year?

Speaker 11 (01:34:46):
Two thousand and.

Speaker 2 (01:34:51):
Hear people with often these days.

Speaker 7 (01:34:54):
Is it real?

Speaker 2 (01:34:55):
Is it like a sedan a saloon?

Speaker 11 (01:34:58):
Yeah, drives so good. I love diesel.

Speaker 16 (01:35:01):
Yeah, drives so good.

Speaker 11 (01:35:02):
But just annoying that sea felt the plug see that in?
But yeah, so there was something else I was going
to tell me about.

Speaker 2 (01:35:12):
Do you remarkable that you can keep cond straight with
that going?

Speaker 11 (01:35:15):
I know, sorry about that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:19):
No, it's good.

Speaker 15 (01:35:20):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:20):
I've never heard of call like this. Most people have
given up a long time ago. But you're doubling down.
PU show five.

Speaker 6 (01:35:28):
O eight yeah, silver five?

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
What are you doing with it? What are you going
to move to?

Speaker 11 (01:35:42):
I've just I've got a van, so I think I'll
just stick with my van. Yeah, set that up as
I've got a high end highlight O light high load.
A stick with that, or I might even go for
a electric car. Sell the both of them get electric car.

Speaker 6 (01:35:58):
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
Never I've never heard a sound like it.

Speaker 11 (01:36:05):
Singer tring to match it.

Speaker 9 (01:36:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
It just comes and goes apparently there are scents of
bars under the rest seat you can actually disconnect.

Speaker 11 (01:36:14):
Oh that'd be good. Yeah, let's just sell the thing
and be rid of it.

Speaker 2 (01:36:19):
It's loud. Yeah, okay, I've got to think of I
can out of you there, AJ So thank you for
that echo. Juliet unletted Pittland, Belfast, Northern NMS A dollar
forty seven. That's three thirty eight, So maybe there's price here.

(01:36:45):
A lot of people thought she should have plugged that seatbelt,
and I'm kind of inclined to her. I just couldn't
we go to myths, so you can't double something. I
just thought I hang about. Let's just it wasn't quite
what I was dealing with.

Speaker 11 (01:36:57):
But she was.

Speaker 2 (01:36:57):
She's pretty got everything else. She's got on cars, good
on providing for your knees, got on water blasting, the
just bed on doubling and bed on the seat belled anyway,
seventeen to eleven, it's fifteen from eleven. Anyone thought of

(01:37:19):
putting in a bunker. That's something that we haven't discussed much.
There's always a real estate story someone selling a house
with a bunker. I couldn't think anything worse. Touch Ward
life believe that I've got probably no chance in my
life of needing a bunker. But you never know. I
don't know how it's going to change. I can't work
out what's going to happen for us to need a bunker.

(01:37:40):
You kind of pre made ones now that you dig
into your backyard. Now, let me have a bit of
a quick look at what's the rolling news for the
Strait of hor Moos. Most of the world seems to
be reassuring their population that they have enough energy supplies.
Has it on went on? Australia, there's been a bit
of a set to there a missiles at the streets

(01:38:00):
of tel Aviv. Yeah, I think in Australia things have
got a bit testy, but it doesn't There are reports
too that Iran have mind the Strait of Hormus or
laid minds, And I'm not quite sure the right adverb
ran walked mind. Yeah, that's the right way. It goes

(01:38:21):
past tense. So that's a situation with that. If anyone
knows more about that, what the right word is, What
is the right word to describe laying of minds? I'm
not quite sure about the lexicon laying of land mindes
deployment of minds. The most accurate my military term for

(01:38:44):
the active laying minds is mind laying, or mining or
planting or sewing. Yeah, not that enchanted by those or
booby trapping. The verb to mine the approach was heavily
mind as the most commonly used, while mine laying serves
as specific and encompassing noun for the action. Okay, I

(01:39:05):
think I prefer mind lane, but they have mine the
straight up her moves. That's all I've got to tell
you for now, for my hourly update. Who wants the
price of Brent crude? Have a guess what you think
it'll be, and I'll tell you. You think it'll be
a dollar six? What do you think it'll be ninety nine?
Have a little game with yourself. I'll tell you the
price of Brent crude. Pick a number, damn water. A

(01:39:27):
dollar one. It's been as high as a dollar eleven today.
Now it's down to a dollar one. That's the price
of the crude. That's Brent, the Brent that's crued named
after a seagull. Catch you soon.

Speaker 4 (01:39:43):
See.

Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
If it's Marcus good evening, O goody Marcus?

Speaker 17 (01:39:46):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:39:47):
Steve good?

Speaker 4 (01:39:49):
Good?

Speaker 14 (01:39:50):
I just said you're talking about bunkers before. Yes, and
I still to tell you a little story about it,
like I work on like the periphery of construction.

Speaker 11 (01:40:04):
And.

Speaker 14 (01:40:06):
That I know was the bolt was a build for
a bunker just outside of one a cut and the
owner of it just made of mind reckons. He's spent
upwards of twelve million dollars on the bucker and it

(01:40:30):
had to be done all under the radar.

Speaker 3 (01:40:32):
So there was no.

Speaker 14 (01:40:34):
Transsent process, there was no council didn't know about it.
Everyone had to sign like NBA's and yeah, and you
could hnd twenty people down there pretty much.

Speaker 7 (01:40:57):
For no need to.

Speaker 14 (01:40:59):
Access the outside at all, and they could live there
for nine months.

Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
Where did you say us?

Speaker 14 (01:41:08):
Not far from Wanica?

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
Yeah, and I believe that. I believe that would be true.
And I believe you wouldn't boy the getting it consented
because it would just be new territory. It would be
a nightmare, wouldn't it.

Speaker 15 (01:41:19):
Well?

Speaker 14 (01:41:19):
Yeah, yeah, because like all the air conditioning units, the
heading units, air purification, the like the glass doors. Yeah,

(01:41:42):
it's like something out of like a movie. And it
had like indoor grow rooms to grow like Biggis. It
had its own water plant to purify water. Yeah, yeah,

(01:42:02):
it's I mean I haven't been the probably never will.
But yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:42:08):
Yeah, with.

Speaker 14 (01:42:10):
A pretty bloody of.

Speaker 2 (01:42:10):
Prisons like it's in a place like you have a
lot of trade is involved, you'd have to rely on
the trades not to say anything.

Speaker 9 (01:42:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:42:18):
I wonder how they did manage to get it past council.

Speaker 14 (01:42:22):
Well they didn't. Yeah, it wasn't involved at all.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
Yeah, but you think one of the trades would have
told someone a small community are where we're building this,
they think, hang about we might have for did it
because you want to make sure it was probably safe
as well. But good on them.

Speaker 14 (01:42:35):
Yeah, but if you pay people enough to keep quiet.

Speaker 2 (01:42:41):
Yeah, I guess well I someone told you.

Speaker 14 (01:42:45):
Well yeah yeah, yeah, but yeah I think that. But
I mean I think that the like they had all
non disclosure agreements and the worst of carry.

Speaker 10 (01:42:58):
On and so.

Speaker 17 (01:43:00):
Yeah, you know, I think that that.

Speaker 14 (01:43:04):
You know, if you're if you're willing to, you know,
spend that sort of dosh on a on you would.

Speaker 2 (01:43:17):
And that guy, that guy's an American. That guy's American.
Is he that owns it?

Speaker 14 (01:43:24):
No he's not, Well he's Asians.

Speaker 2 (01:43:27):
Yeah, it'll be interesting to know when he moves to
New Zealand and when he realizes it's probably going to
be a time that he needs it. There would be
curious to know when the guy's going to move in
because think, you know, hang on, things must be going
bad if he's going to activate the bunker.

Speaker 14 (01:43:40):
Yeah, yeah, well, I mean the house, the house above it.
I think it is pretty special. But I mean just
the value of some of the properties down there, like
around Airburn and.

Speaker 7 (01:43:53):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 18 (01:43:56):
You know.

Speaker 19 (01:43:56):
I hear that there's there's quite a few properties around
Airburns that are worth an excess of a one hundred
million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:44:04):
I kind of believe. I was had the chance to
have a look at some houses doing some judging for
the Architecture Awards, and there's a place called Bendermere I
think it is, which is sort of a an just
near air Burn, and some of the houses there they
had big sellers wine cellars, but not bunkers. But I
imagine they were between fifty and one hundred million, and

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they were the ones that people wanted the awards for.
I imagine there'd be other people spending more that just
wanted to be out of the lot. So I reckon
one hundred million to be totally feasible.

Speaker 19 (01:44:33):
Now, yeah, yeah, because they read an article in the
paper a while ago and there was a guy that
was involved with designing and I think there were three
houses that he built and thought or he designed and
they're also seven eight nine bedrooms with their own cinemas
and wine cellars and stuff like that, and I think

(01:44:55):
the starting price for them was about forty five And
architectus was saying that water you know, you might not
believe me, but it's there. You know, at least three
or four houses that cost an excuse of one hundred

(01:45:17):
million dollars that I can walk to from here.

Speaker 2 (01:45:21):
Well, i'll leave with this devoting at Jenne before the news,
but thank you for that. Janet's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 15 (01:45:26):
Yes, Marcus, the lady with the noise in our car
as she if she can't solve each other to put
the safety belt on ran the head. There's something heavy
on the seat and there's not a person and the
alarm will go off.

Speaker 2 (01:45:43):
Yes, she needs to plug it, and I agree, Janet,
would be just a water blast and say you could
do that. Thank you. Measuring in talk back and not
pluging the seat belt in with that beat. I mean,
it doesn' seem extraordinary I think about it. It's just
kind of occurred to me. How are you going? People?
Seven past eleven? How are you going? Hittell twelve? We
are talking about anything at all between now and twelve. Lotto.

(01:46:06):
A lot of people say, why don't they get sixty
many won don't they split it between two hundred people
and get a thirty million each? Well that's socialism because
you continue that. I mean, why don't we just give
everyone five million people four dollars each or a dollar each?
Because that's when you extend that. But so, yeah, you've
got to it's got to be a crazy amount for
people to get because you're paying for the fantasy, I guess.

(01:46:28):
But bearing in mind, a lot of people out there
will be addicted to lotto there, they'll be buying it
and they'll be going without another areas. But that's just
the nature of the beast. Now, there is a storm
gonna hit Auckland. A day of rain as a subtropical
storm brings downpours in severe gales, a fresh threat of
flooding and slips. What's the bet that brend Douwin closes

(01:46:52):
a thirty eight hour heavy rain warning has been issued
for North and starting from seven pm tomorrow. Two footy mills.
How far is that? Twenty five centimeters? Oh, it's a
bit of rain. It's a foot not quite. It's going
to hit the coast. And Nelson and you were talking
that guy from Maruya. We drove from Tarkat to to

(01:47:13):
Hemner over the holidays and I thought, ye, it's a
long way. You are, I statum. We were going to
stop at the hot springs, but the kids didn't feel
the love of it. We pushed on to go to Hemmer.
I'm glad we did anything interesting. Heptn and Hemna know,
walked up Conical Hill like in the old times and
forgot to get the crayfish pie. Well next time. Hello, Bill,
this is Marcus. Welcome here you go.

Speaker 7 (01:47:36):
Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:47:36):
Hey, your favorite subjects. Oh my god, he wants to
put us into into the biggest depression since the nineteen thirties.

Speaker 4 (01:47:46):
Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:47:47):
Yeah, wow, goodness, Yeah, I'm into the depression. You want
to talk about You want to talk about petrol?

Speaker 9 (01:47:56):
No, I want to talk about your mate Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:47:59):
Oh how'd you know?

Speaker 9 (01:48:01):
Well, I'm worrying up because I've sort of I'm liking
by Nelson America. Marcus was all been betrayed.

Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
Are you in America?

Speaker 9 (01:48:10):
No, I'm a New Zealand, mate, But my heart's in America,
you see, Marcus. Until now now I'm down back to
the old Democrats. But they're not. They're all paid off
to Marcus. The black guy, what's his name? That Cory Booker,
he got five million off the old maypeg.

Speaker 12 (01:48:29):
Mate.

Speaker 9 (01:48:30):
They all got paid off, mate, And so they had
to go and see me.

Speaker 2 (01:48:34):
All where are you getting your information from?

Speaker 9 (01:48:37):
Oh, from a lot of places, Marcus. So what this
is the apech I'm talking about, Marcus, the old Israeli
the ones that corrupt the American politics.

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
How high do you think fuel's going to go? Bell,
what's your fuel take?

Speaker 9 (01:48:55):
Well, well, they can't really do anything, Marcus. He said
he was going to bomb the.

Speaker 4 (01:49:01):
Hell out of something of their energy if they don't
open it.

Speaker 9 (01:49:06):
And twenty four hours and they just laughed at the Marcus, what.

Speaker 12 (01:49:10):
Are we going to do?

Speaker 2 (01:49:11):
They mind laid it? Bill? Thank you, Richard, it's Marcus.
Good evening, Hi, Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:49:17):
I'm just bringing up about the lady with the chemo
treatment scenario. I've been dealing with cancer for four years.
I live in the Far North. There's a couple of
options that she may be eligible for. There's the NTA,
that's the National Transport Association. She can sign up through

(01:49:37):
her hospital. Now you go to the appointments, they stamp
a form and she claims it back. It's not all
her money, but you know you'll get a lump of
it back when she sends the forms.

Speaker 2 (01:49:54):
And I'm seeing that online, the National Transport Assistant Claim form.

Speaker 14 (01:49:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:50:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:50:01):
And I was also under the Cancer Association and I
have doubt tried to help people in different regions and
I've my fraid up North seems to be the best
set up. They actually supplied a driver for me to
either go to Fong Ray or even Auckland to take

(01:50:22):
me to operations. And my treatment was in fire A,
so that was it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:29):
Is it volunteers driving you, Richard?

Speaker 16 (01:50:31):
Yeah, there's someone that's either been there, done that, or
they've lost somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:50:37):
That would be that would be quite comforting, is it?

Speaker 16 (01:50:40):
Well they get it?

Speaker 19 (01:50:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:50:42):
Okay, that's that That's our saying with as cancer people
is talking to someone that gets that gets it. Like
I was, like, I have a fantastic wife who drove me.
But so the Cancer Foundation gave us petrol virtures just
to take the heat off.

Speaker 2 (01:50:59):
Because because I hoped. Sorry to direct you, but I
hoped with the National trans Travel Assistant Claim form. With
the price of petrol going up so dramatically, I hope
they have commensurately increased the amount they're paying out because
that would be the fair thing to do, wouldn't.

Speaker 16 (01:51:12):
It, You would like to think. So that is our
biggest bug bear. They haven't kept up with the cost
of living. That's quite often a talk in the cancer group.
And as you know, you've been ut the far North.
Anywhere we travel here is a distance it has to
be a minimum of eighty riuk's return Like I'm seventy

(01:51:37):
six k's returned from Kai Tyre Hospital, so I don't
it doesn't qualify.

Speaker 2 (01:51:43):
But they wouldn't be canter treatment there. They'd be fun
at a for all of it, wouldn't you.

Speaker 16 (01:51:48):
Yeah, you got Jim Carney and Fong Array. But they
do do some chemo treats and Kai Kra. Depending on
the juice you're getting, there's a there's a huge rains
of chemo Jesus and you know, I don't know her situation,
whos could be quite intense and she may.

Speaker 17 (01:52:07):
Need a driver.

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
That was the point I was thinking, because you wouldn't know,
would you, because you could be.

Speaker 16 (01:52:15):
And I don't like like I've realized that Auckland. I
tried to help my parents out through the Cancer Society,
and all have been so big. They don't seem to
be able to do the handout that I got, you know,
because it's obviously so large. They don't have the funds
to be able to cough up. Yes, petrol vouchures, food vouchures.

(01:52:39):
I know they supply drivers, but only the boundaries was
was quite quite small. I learned more as I go.
I've been doing it for four years, but also try
to help people that don't know about it because you
don't get told about it when you get cancer. You
battle on until I happen to have someone whispering my

(01:53:01):
year about these things, and I'd already been doing it
for three years.

Speaker 2 (01:53:04):
Did the cancer start to get in with you straight away?

Speaker 16 (01:53:08):
Yes, it was. They happened to sit beside the people
that helped you quit smoking, and he passed my name
on and it all went from there. And it's been fantastic.
I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:53:21):
And you talk about the group that meets. It's an
online group.

Speaker 18 (01:53:23):
Is it?

Speaker 11 (01:53:25):
Ah?

Speaker 16 (01:53:25):
Yeah, we meet like we're meeting tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (01:53:27):
We meet.

Speaker 16 (01:53:28):
It's and sit around and sometimes talk the bad stuff
and other times just just a place for people that
get it to talk.

Speaker 2 (01:53:39):
But so is it rich? Is it online or is
it meeting? And is it actually meeting in real time
and real places?

Speaker 16 (01:53:46):
Yeah, you're face to face.

Speaker 2 (01:53:48):
Good. You have to drive to that as well, though,
wouldn't you.

Speaker 16 (01:53:54):
Yeah, so we're actually like, I'm in Monganoy, so we're
actually meeting and Mongonoi is Unfortunately, it's it's everywhere, Marcus,
and so these little groups are happening where where people
can do it and I get to whatever. But it's
it's it's it's a rough one. We started out with

(01:54:14):
like twelve thirteen and we're down to three.

Speaker 2 (01:54:17):
Oh wow. And those people of the others have died.

Speaker 16 (01:54:22):
Couple have decided it wasn't for them but they didn't
need it. But yes, unfortunately we have lost the rest.

Speaker 2 (01:54:28):
And what's your prognosis are you on that? Is it
one that you will recover from or it's ongoing?

Speaker 4 (01:54:34):
Ah?

Speaker 16 (01:54:34):
Yeah, it's it's ongoing. They keep finding it. I got
dowel cancer and they said, and they said they had
it all. But then it massmesthetized to my liver and
my lung and I've had nine surgeries in four years.

Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
Wow.

Speaker 16 (01:54:51):
And the chemo is vicious and I'm going to lose
my hair. But and it affects all your nerve nerve systems.
I can't feel my feet, my hands and my fingers
are all numb, which affects me from I'm a painting.
My last job was painting. I can't climb trestles or
scaffold because I can't feel well. I'm putting my feet

(01:55:14):
up the safety those sort of things. So but there
was a lot of people getting a lot more intense
jupes than I was. And yeah, it's rough. So like
I said, she she made need a driver. I was
able to drive if I had to after a treatment.

(01:55:35):
But like I said, I'm repeating myself. But like I said,
depending on the intensity of the juice for giving you.

Speaker 2 (01:55:43):
Yeah, okay, Look, I appreciate you coming through Richard. Thanks
so much for that call to I appreciate your honesty
about that too. Hello, John, this is Marcus welcoming good evening.

Speaker 3 (01:55:53):
It's really marcus. I had to get out of me
because I can't win you. You know, make my wife up?

Speaker 2 (01:56:01):
Your clock?

Speaker 4 (01:56:02):
What's that?

Speaker 17 (01:56:03):
That your?

Speaker 12 (01:56:03):
That was it?

Speaker 2 (01:56:04):
Your your grandfather clock just went off?

Speaker 3 (01:56:06):
Oh no, I got a time o' clock. There no work.

Speaker 4 (01:56:10):
I'm a bit of a clock in mad person.

Speaker 2 (01:56:11):
Does it go off on a quarter hour? Or you
caught of an hour head?

Speaker 3 (01:56:14):
It goes only be caught with there?

Speaker 20 (01:56:16):
How could you live with that?

Speaker 3 (01:56:18):
Well, it's down in the lounge, it's not in the bedroom.

Speaker 2 (01:56:21):
When you say you're a bit of a clock person,
what does that mean you just got the one? Or
you've got multi clocks?

Speaker 10 (01:56:25):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:56:26):
Yeah, no, I like clocks. I've just I've just bought
a wristwatch and it's one of those medical ones.

Speaker 4 (01:56:31):
Have you ever seen them?

Speaker 3 (01:56:32):
No, you haven't seen them.

Speaker 2 (01:56:34):
What tells you when you did?

Speaker 3 (01:56:36):
Oh no, it tells the lots of things about your
heart break.

Speaker 2 (01:56:40):
Oh you don't want to know that. They're just make you.
I couldn't. That would be the worst thing possible for me.

Speaker 3 (01:56:46):
Well, I'll let you into a secret. You would you
like to know how I sound so good and I'm
actually ninety years old? What do you think about that tiger.

Speaker 2 (01:56:56):
Let me guess what it is your secret would be?
What is it something you ingest?

Speaker 3 (01:57:04):
Well, I mean, you've got to eat the right food
and instables and stuff, and you've got to have it
in your jeens.

Speaker 4 (01:57:08):
I guess you know.

Speaker 3 (01:57:09):
I mean, But anyhow, I want to talk about the lotto.

Speaker 2 (01:57:13):
How do you sound so good?

Speaker 3 (01:57:15):
Well, I'm just sort of pretty positive what I haven't
been doing and I'm just stupid. You know, there's many,
many things, you know. I think about people that end
up in a wheelchair that can't move, and I think
to myself, I wonder if they ever think to themselves,
I wish that I'd have walked more and been more energetic,
you know, at the time of my life when I could.

Speaker 4 (01:57:36):
Walk, you know, I think about things like that.

Speaker 2 (01:57:39):
So are you walking a lot of your counting steps?

Speaker 13 (01:57:43):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:57:43):
I haven't been. But this this thing on the risk
it does that.

Speaker 2 (01:57:46):
But how many steps down to day?

Speaker 4 (01:57:50):
Very few?

Speaker 3 (01:57:50):
But I'll tell you what what I need to do,
because since COVID, I've got a very flash TV and
we like watching it. But nobody can do that for you.
I mean, you can't. You can't send the way for
a bodybuilding course, and they've seen you. They say, here
is the muscles, will send you the course later. You've
got to you've got to do it yourself. So since COVID,

(01:58:12):
you know, I should be walking at least and half
an hour a day, if not an hour, and that's
what I need to do, but I haven't done that.

Speaker 16 (01:58:21):
Get rid of the TV, watching the TV too.

Speaker 2 (01:58:24):
Very much, get rid of the get rid of the TV,
get a new clock.

Speaker 3 (01:58:29):
Well, come down and help you out, I reckon, I could.
I don't mind doing those sort of jobs what you're doing.
So you were a mushroom and I know blackberries. We
used to get the black.

Speaker 2 (01:58:38):
Berries and make nothing. I'd rather a pie than a gym,
I reckon.

Speaker 3 (01:58:43):
And we've got the you know the the mushrooms as well.
But anyway, can I tell you about the Loto?

Speaker 2 (01:58:50):
Yes, please say, as far.

Speaker 3 (01:58:55):
As I am concerned. You know, if you say I'm
a key with Rugby racing and you've heard those terms,
there's nothing worse for your smoker, because that's bad for
you trying to stop smot There's nothing worse if you're
an addictive gambler. If you want to stop gambling. Now
to me it's it's very annoying that lotto should work

(01:59:16):
this way. It just worked. It should be drawn every Wednesday.
There should be a prize, even if it's one hundred
thousand or a million, but it should be drawn. It
should never be allowed to jackpot because it only encourages
people to gamble, and the things don't gamble. You don't gamble.
And I see you're going in going in there spending

(01:59:37):
over one hundred bucks, and that may only be just
the Wednesday, it might be on a sad day as well.
So I think it's stinks. And to turn around and say, oh,
well it's all for charity, that's why. That doesn't make
it an excuse. No, I agree, it's it's it's a
it's a.

Speaker 2 (01:59:55):
I think it's how people justify their pokes too. They go, well,
it's the charity, it was a disaster.

Speaker 3 (02:00:01):
And the other thing. As far as that goes, I
know a lot of people that have not off smoking
and very intelligent people, very very intelligent people, and a
number of people that are sucking on those vape things.
So you know, if they want to do a good
service to society, they should close all these bloody rape
shops up and and and have it go at these

(02:00:25):
tobaca companies, because that's a very serious problem, extremely serious.

Speaker 2 (02:00:30):
What's your favorite TV show? John, you watch on your
big TV? Is it The Chase?

Speaker 3 (02:00:34):
Well, you wouldn't. You wouldn't believe it or tell you
about watching just forget of the human interest on it.
It's a single marry at first sight. If you want
to boody up.

Speaker 2 (02:00:52):
Though you should. You should be ashamed of yourself, John.

Speaker 3 (02:00:56):
If you want to study up for when those kids
of yours get old enough, you study that bloody program
and your kids will say.

Speaker 2 (02:01:04):
Maybe night. John, Straight to the quiz.

Speaker 1 (02:01:07):
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