Bring on the Olympics! (24 July)

As the Paris Games get underway, Marcus talks all things Olympics.

He also reflects on the life of blues legend John Mayall who passed away age 90, the obsession with the Grateful Dead and where to get a torch fixed.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from News
Talks at B.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
It is Wednesday, Good evening. My name is Marcus. Seven
past eight eight oh seven. Greetings, welcome. If your day's
not going okay, I hope by twelve o'clock it's all right.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I came to work tonight and I kind of got
slightly discombobulated because apparently the Olympic events are happening this well,
like within four or five hours tomorrow morning there will
be events and I haven't yet done the old shaking
remote roundabout to work out where all the channels are.
So I've done a bit of a look and apparently
there's nine Olympic channels. I'm on my Sky remote. I

(00:44):
can only see nine, ten, eleven, twelve. I don't think
the channels are properly formulated yet. So yeah, I'm in
slight panic mode because I want to watch some of
this what it seems as though it's going to be,
and I'll take some time with us. I apologize if
you've already heard this or this is old news, but overnight,

(01:07):
what's happening, I can't tell you. So I just told
your horses. People do do do do do, Yeah, this
is what's happening overnight at one thirty in the morning right,

(01:28):
which is in five and a half hours, a match
that will be very important to people in New Zealand.
It's Australia versus More and the rugby seven's men. So
that's one thirty tomorrow morning. At two o'clock tomorrow morning,
Argentina Kenya rugby seven's men, two thirty in the morning,

(01:50):
rugby seven's men France versus USA. Now three o'clock in
the morning, which is five hour night, seven hours away.
It's football New Zealand versus Guinea. I don't know anything
about that. Whether we should win. I hope we would win.
I don't know how good Guinea are there African I
presume there are a small other African. I presume there

(02:11):
are a small nation. Then we've got four more rugby
sevens matches, all men. We've got the Kiwis versus Japan
at four in the morning. At five in the morning,
we got rugby seven We've got Australia versus Kenya at
five point thirty, Argentina Samour and seven point thirty New
Zealand versus South Africa. It is my understanding that those

(02:37):
matches won't be on designated Olympic channels. They'll be on
some of your runner them mill Sky channels like fifty
four fifty five. On those ones, I'll check on my
remote and tell you, because yeah, you might be panicked
just like unpanicked. It will be quite straightforward. The rugby

(02:59):
sevens is on Sky channels Sport four, which is normally
where the Warriors live, and the football's on Sky Sport five,
which is normally when the motor racing is the Formula
one and the So yeah, I don't think Sky has
done a very good job of this. But the question
I do have for you you can text or call this.

(03:20):
Is anyone watching it on YouTube? Is this something that
you can do now? Has anyone worked out and done
some investigation? What the I feel I've lost like an
explainer on the best way to watch the Olympics. So
if anyone can explain that to me, Are there designated
channels on YouTube or something like that you are going
to watch it? If you've got that information, let me
know you feel slightly panicked about this and what you

(03:42):
are where I'm gonna watch it. Sky seems to have
some of it and most of it, but probably if
you want to get into some of the more esoteric
and arcane stuff, you probably want to get on YouTube.
But I need kind of a heads up and explainer,
so someone could explain to me how to watch the
Olympics without having SKY. I'd love to hear from you,

(04:05):
because I presume they'll just have public channels, well they
or YouTube channels, So you've got some information about that,
that would be a great deal of importance to me.
Maybe you won't be able to watch it just on
the internet. There does appear to be some YouTube TV channels.

(04:29):
If anyone's got information about that, phone that through or
text at twelve past eight, that's what I want to
start off with tonight. I just say we all feel
kind of that we can relax. By the way I
see the British equestrian team, one of the greatest riders
has pulled out the day before. Charlotte Dujardin. She's whipping

(04:51):
her horse like a elephant in a circus. Well, you
wouldn't even whip an elephant in a circus anymore, because
I wouldn't be there. She hoped to become Britain's most
decorated female Olympian, but she's gon Burger suspended indefinitely and
I've watched the footage. It's not good whipping whipping the
horse on its hind legs as it kind of canters

(05:13):
around her flash kind of coven arena. Terrible. There's one
thing that shouldn't bet the Olympics. It's horses. I'm not
quite sure about surfing or yachting with the wind, but anyway,
if you've worked out how to watch it, let me know.
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine

(05:34):
tutor text is our only option, Skyer, as there's some
other option. I'm all into empowering the audience and letting
them know what they can do and where they can
watch it. So if you've got some information about that,
we'd love to hear from you, because you will have
thought about this yourself and have made some discoveries about

(05:54):
how to watch it. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty
nine two nine tutor text. There's other stuff we need
to talk about tonight, but I just want to get
that out of the way firstly. You might be able
to email that through Marcus at Newstalks hedb dot co
dot nz. Beautiful there'll be some free stuff I presume
on sky Open. I don't know how much. I hope

(06:16):
there's some there anyway, because kind of it used to
be good on free to wear. They should have got
it all on free to wear. So freeview channel fifteen
there's going to be like two hours a day. I
think sort of come around a bit quicker than I thought.
Actually actually so fifteen Channel fifteen, fifteen Channel fifteen not

(06:42):
even a channel I've even seen. I don't think fifteen
ce MTV channel is it? Or it won't be on
till tomorrow or the day after. So you're all confusing.
So if you can cast some light on that, that
would be great. By the way, if you've got breaking news,
we are, let me know what's going on for you.
Guinea has a population of thirteen point five million. Not small.

(07:04):
Is it smaller than what's its area? I look all
about Guinea. I'm wiki are they good at football? Are
they hit us on the charts? Sometimes referred to as
Guinea Kanaki right there on the little bit on the
far west of Africa there you go. Doesn't look big

(07:32):
forty five square kilometers, so it's certainly more populus than
New Zealand just talk about the Olympics and ask the question,
how are you going to watch them? Kind of curious
to know about something. I said. They've downloaded a n app.
Now that's I'm excited by that. Got no idea what
that means, Marcus, I've got no skyes to download a
nap onto my phone which works in the way. I'm

(07:55):
only watching a slick few sports. Mark marcusn't told me
what the app is and how much it was. There
won't be much on the radio, and I don't know
if there's going to be a lot on free to
wear TV, but he got some information about that. We
know too. Oh here we go, here, we go, here
we go here some information. According to the only reason

(08:17):
I'm so triggered and oh adamant about this is that
so many people missed out. Was it last time with
a Rugby World Cup? We had that spark thing you
want to buy special TVs? And I've kind of feel
traumatized ever since. Anything goes any international sport events happens
and how people should watch it. But this will be

(08:38):
of interest to some of you. According to consumer dot Org,
Dotti and Z, people without Sky can still access sport
through Sky's streaming service sky Sport Now in Olympic Games
Paris twenty twenty four passes available for thirty five dollars,

(09:00):
letting you stream sky Sport for the length of the games.
I haven't seen that promoted or advertised anywhere, mind you.
I might kind of who knows, I might kind of
focus out when that's coming on because I've got Sky. However,
if you haven't, for thirty five bucks, you can get
everything sky Sport Now and Olympic Games Paris twenty twenty

(09:25):
four pass for thirty five dollars. And I presume you
get that on your phone. And this is where it
gets a bit touchy for me. I presume that you
screen that or chrome cast that to your TV and
watch it on your TV if you want to, am
I right with that one? If I'm not letting me know,
because I think that's the way it works. So that's

(09:46):
the situation eight hundred and eighty eight, nineteen nine. I
want everyone to see what they want because they want
to count. We're going to get a lot of medals,
most of them on sports are not most of them
will be in sports that not many people do. But
who cares? As long as It wasn't like Sydney when
we got hardly any and poor old Murray Deca. It

(10:06):
was all about we're giving awards for participation, we're not
rewarding excellence. The nation had a great kind of looking
to itself to work out what was grong and what
was going on, and the country went to a downward spiral.
It was Sydney two thousand. I think we hardly got anything. Yeah,
that's right. It was a disaster. We thought we were

(10:27):
going to win a wall because it was so handy. Anyway,
we got nothing. We might have got one or two
in rowing, one or two and going backwards terrible.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
It was.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Rob Wardale rowing got a gold.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
Chee.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
We didn't get much and Todd on the horse and
Macintosh and Kindle in the adding that was it, Cheapers,
It's woeful. One gold, three bronze. Live Tate was a
flag beer. Has ever been a better flag beer than
Live Tate? And Ready Teddy twenty two past date, Johnny Marcus.

Speaker 5 (11:16):
Welcome, No Marcus, how are you sir?

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Ten out of ten? Johnny, oh perfect.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
That's the best way to be at this time of day.
I have the sky now application I have done for
a few years because I got over having a whole
I didn't need a whole Sky package and movies I
wasn't going to watch and Nickelodeon and stuff, so I
just turned it off. But I got Sky Sports now
to watch specific Formula One or Premiership or the Warriors,
and I kind of and I pay like an annual

(11:44):
fee of however much money. My wife gives it to
me on my birthday every year and that's when it
gets paid. And I think it's great because I can
I can watch it. I can just have it on
my iPad at work on a Monday morning and the
Formula one's playing and it's just sitting to the side.
Or I can have it on the TV at home
through Apple TV or through a smart TV. You just
have the app and you just sign in, so I

(12:04):
can watch it on any green just on a screen.
I can't watch it, and then my wife watched it
at home at the same time sort of thing. But
I think for me and just picking a few sports
here and that it's perfect.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
So modern you with you. You don't know how much
it costs, do you.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yeah, let's just trying to upgrade the subscription now and
maybe it's around the early four hundreds now, but it started.
When I first got it was like three hundred and
fifty for a year, so it would have been just
round under that thirty five dollars a month for the special,
but now I'm sure it's about four over four hundre
So it's given that I'm on that refresh. I'll be

(12:42):
talking to them saying, hey, well, if you're doing a deal,
do I get the thirty five deal for the rest
of the Olympics and then you can charge me an
annual feed from there, like do I get a special
loyalty something? But I love it. It's a really good application.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Tell me something just because we've got people that might
be not that ticks heavy listing and want to get
up to scratch. It's fairly straightforward to chrome cast it
to a TV, is it, oh, piece of cake?

Speaker 5 (13:03):
And then for example, if you're out knowing the lawns
on Saturday and you want to watch the Warriors and
you're just come in twenty minutes late, you want to
have a shower, you just start watching it immediately from there,
watch from start and you just start watching the Warriors
and keep away from any news alerts. Fast forward halftime.
You're back up to Live TV.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
For that thing, because because because Johnny, that twenty minutes
you've lost, you're making that up in the halftime, aren't you,
Because that's twenty minutes.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
I just go through precisely so then you can know
you can just finish off that little savenday job or whatever.
But it's really helpful. And I am looking forward to
the Olympics. But to be honest, who's at the Olympics.
So the key is I don't actually know. I'm a
bit ignorant.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
That runner, she's quick.

Speaker 5 (13:47):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
That sprinter, that's the fastest is iner we've ever had.
She won't get a middle but she hopefully gets in
the final. There's a high jumper. That's there's a high
jumper that's good. Oh there's the sentence, Oh yeah, we'll help.
And as sailing is still a thing. It's all kind
of with rigid foils, how isn't it?

Speaker 5 (14:07):
Yeah, true, true, it's more Formula one on the water,
not sailing.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
I think I think sailing's done. Its dash. I don't know.
I'll find out. Johnny Zoey Hobbs is the athlete I'm
thinking of. The sprinter she's class Dawn Marcus.

Speaker 6 (14:20):
Welcome, Hello Marcus.

Speaker 7 (14:23):
How are you Dawn?

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Good? Thank you really good, really good? Thanks for asking
it great.

Speaker 8 (14:28):
That's good.

Speaker 9 (14:29):
Now.

Speaker 10 (14:31):
Channel fifteen, which is free view for all us olds
that don't have Sky, has the rugby men's seven's on.
It starts at one thirty in the morning.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
I need a red bull or something to stay up
for that, won't you?

Speaker 11 (14:49):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (14:50):
And two fifty five is the new Zealand game in
the men's football.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Is it a time or it's two fifty five a time?
Or a channel?

Speaker 12 (14:59):
A time?

Speaker 5 (15:00):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (15:00):
Okay, channel it's Sky open. Channel fifteen, which is free view, was.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
The old prime Okay, and that's just say I'm playing Guinea.

Speaker 13 (15:14):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Now, there's something weird about Olympic soccer. Do you know
what that is?

Speaker 10 (15:18):
What's that?

Speaker 12 (15:20):
Well?

Speaker 2 (15:20):
You can't send your best team? No, do you know what?
Do you know what? The Raverfica? Do you know what
it is? Do you know what? Do you know what?
Do you know anything about it?

Speaker 10 (15:29):
No, Darling, I'm seventy serve and I'm over it.

Speaker 6 (15:32):
But I love people, love the game.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
I love it when people push their butt I love
it when people push their buttons. Rend you know you
just pushed your button? Random you don't you love it?
And Stawn men at five o'clock in the morning, Dawn,
listen to me.

Speaker 10 (15:49):
Yeah, okay, yes.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Olympic football right.

Speaker 10 (15:56):
Yes, yes.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Since nineteen ninety two, yes, male competitors have been required
to be under twenty three years old, and since nineteen
ninety six, a maximum of three over twenty three year
old players have been allowed per squad. Okay, so you

(16:18):
got three over twenty three and the rest of the
young uns. So it's slightly so it's slightly contrived.

Speaker 10 (16:24):
Yes, definitely, so just so you know, very nice.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Are you staying up to Are you staying up to
watch it?

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (16:33):
Doubt it, dear, but it depends if I'm not sleeping, I'll.

Speaker 11 (16:36):
Flick it on.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Flick it on. That's what we like to hear. Don
flick it on. Good on your don and thank you.
It's not often this time. I've already had two fento buttons.
Dawn pushed your button twice. I love it when they
pushed your buttons like that. I never quite sure what
they're doing with that? Is it with the ease? Tony?
It's Marcus. Hello, good evening and welcome higas good. Thank you, Tony.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Now there's a.

Speaker 14 (17:05):
Couple of things about watching the Olmpas. I watch it
on a being called vip box, and it's on you
can get it on Google or Crime and you can
get all the sports, like every single sport on the planet.
And you have to go through a couple of bits.
You have to sort of flip the heads off and
then go back there as usually I think about three

(17:28):
times and then you just cram carts as the TV and.

Speaker 15 (17:30):
Bog ron.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Other feed's gonna grippel for you wouldn't nows and arrest you?

Speaker 5 (17:36):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Is it sketchy legally?

Speaker 7 (17:39):
No?

Speaker 14 (17:39):
No, no, it's all on Google. It's it's that I've
been I mean, I know a lot of people that
have been watching it for years. What's the vip box?

Speaker 2 (17:51):
You've got to pretend to live some well have you
got to pretend? And it's free.

Speaker 7 (17:56):
It's free, you know.

Speaker 14 (17:57):
You just tipe up the vip box or vip stand
whatever device you're using, and yeah, all this will come
up all the Olympics, every single event, you know, all
the rugby league, any rugby league want to watch, it
comes on. It goes through Fox or you can watch
the New Zealand version on it. There's there's three type

(18:20):
of videos you can push to watch, so there's three
different they like. You can push video two, that'll be
the Fox Fox commentators. You push video on it'll be
other commentated by blah blah fo fort.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
How do I make any money?

Speaker 14 (18:35):
I would never cleave. But yeah, well I haven't been
charged when I say, and I've been doing it for
I found out about this available seven years again now,
so I mean I used to have Sky and I
just said it was just athetic, especially.

Speaker 16 (18:49):
When it was raining.

Speaker 14 (18:50):
You know, you'd lose. You know what would it say,
would say something unavailable and the screen would go blue
when you'd lose. You know, it'd be right on when
someone scoring or try or something. Honestly that it would stop.
Why I just had an enough the sky? Yeah, because
I mean three you couldn't watch Sky.

Speaker 15 (19:11):
He just couldn't.

Speaker 14 (19:12):
It would always stop because of the weather. The weather
would always under.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
I see if I can find a bit more about that.
It says is VI box safe? Is it legal? Of
course on this show, we don't confess to be streaming
experts or sports experts or enthusiasts. I don't know much
about John Mayil either. I kind of feel I should,
but it's a good age in it. John Mayl. I

(19:39):
don't know anything about vip box. But when the guy said,
well a lot of my mate choose it, that's a
great justification of something that's illegal, and say it's not
yet a lot of my mates are doing it. Yeah,
that made me feel that. So sketchies all get out anyway,
How are you going? People? The Olympics? Fancy Sydney two thousand.

(20:01):
We won one gold and three bronzes. Wish there were
memes in those days. The Canine there were memes picture
of it doing there on New Zealand's Olympic medal cupboard.
Be totalal draw or something, wouldn't it. Gee, they're lucky
they didn't have memes anyway. The hip box. Everyone explained

(20:22):
that to me once. While there's kickboxing and I'll try
and watch it for free, but I never have any luck.
But yes, so the Olympics. You could buy a pass
and that's thirty five dollars for all the Olympics and
you get there on your phone and then you chrome
cast that to your TV. How exciting does that sound? Marcus?

(20:46):
No Rain fade with sky anymore, haven't had it for years.
The last guy's watching legal site will get closed down,
Silli or later Mike there is. We get a lot
of rain fade and bluff. But when it rains and bluff,
I mean it hasn't rained recently, but when it rains, jeepers,
you get rain fade or all right gets for every

(21:09):
fady Marcus, is Sarah Olmer or Lisa Carrington our Greatstlymber athlete.
Well look when it comes to me, and thank you
for seeing the Olympic questions. When it comes to me,
if you're asking me our greates Olympic athlete, I go
straight to track and field because to me, that's what
it's about. That's the heart of the Olympics. And I
go Peter Sell every time. I'm sorry, might sound sexist,

(21:34):
might channeled sorts of things with a bike, but running
what it's about. That's for me personally greatest devote You
go that way, But I imagine you could justify there'd
be Sarah Olmer or Valerie Adams or all manner of people.
You could say, well, our greatest in terms of medals.
But I always think it's a combination of the medals

(21:56):
one as well as the participants in that sport. And
I'm sure there's great algo algorithms you gonna work out
to work out who is the best. But anyway, all
the way also too, we'll just check in the mixt
to John Mayl. You might want to talk about John Mayle,
because I I know when artists die people might ring

(22:16):
up and say I saw him perform such and such.
I don't know him at all, but did he tour
in New Zealand? And did you see him perform? You
see sometimes in my ear John Mayle, then you hear
John Mayer, And there is a connection there. Of course,

(22:39):
John Mayer. He was the guy that I kin't of remember.
What he did wasn't good? Did he mistreat Katie Perry
or something? All this? I don't know why I remember
all this stuff, but I think John Mayer, there is
a connection. I want to talk about this. John Mayer
is performing in the Grateful Dead show in that giant

(23:00):
stadium at Vegas. And I also had on my list
of things to talk about tonight to ask if anyone
had been to that. I wouldn't mind talking about Grateful
Did I know nothing about Grateful? Did either for them
and John Mayer if you want to talk about them. Also, sure,
I feel I've said too much. I've got a million

(23:21):
texts saying how dodgy whip boxes. So thanks for all
of that, Marcus. Vip box is an legal way of
watching sport. Vip box is not legal and most likely
not safe. The constant pop upbands you have to quickly

(23:42):
cancel befo. It takes you to a dodgy website. Ah, yeah,
they are dodgy website. Vip is redodgy and probably illegal.
Likely you'll get viruses or at least lots of annoying ads.
It's a website that pirates sports channels and the ads
are invasion invasive, potentially have viruses. Marcus, it's hope there's

(24:04):
not a repeat of last Friday night outages during the Olympics.
Whereas let's hope that old CrowdStrike don't try and download
some more patches because that didn't go so well, did it.
Lot's happened in a weekends in the world, hasn't it?

Speaker 7 (24:22):
With that?

Speaker 2 (24:23):
And then Biden tapping out and then Carbla Harris coming
back in and cheepers. Anyway, thank you for those texts.
Marcus vip boxes what I would call a pirate sports
streaming website. Every sport in the world is on there,

(24:45):
but you just have to navigate three to four different
pop up ads and it allows you to watch it.
It makes money of advertising. Na Is Free probably had
viruses by han't had any from it that I'm aware of.
Marcus Eric Clapperton always claimed that John Mayle was a
ten time better guitarist than he was. Have you come
across the food recalls sesame seeds sesame seeds to waste

(25:10):
hummus or sesame seeds or barbierganooche, isn't it?

Speaker 17 (25:13):
So?

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Where's the hummus that seems to be coming back? But
I think old my food bag is that when they
seed you all that packaging and food. I think they've
had a recall with sesames or barber ganoosh or something
long though I don't know. Ah backetch you if you
want to be involved with show, my name is Marcus. Welcome,
just listening about the ways you might be watching the Olympics,
and the good and the bad ways to do that.

(25:35):
I think it's gonna be an hour bullets and every
morning on Sky open for an hour and then I'll
tell you what's happened. Now. By the way, sky open
that hour between seven and eight. That will be ten
o'clock at night, nine to ten in Paris, so most
of the results will have happened, so you get a
good roundup. I think there's gonna be a lot happened.
I think there's gonna be a lot of news happening

(25:56):
with these Olympics. I just suspect that. You know, it
feels like something's gonna happen. I don't know if it's
gonna be good or bad, but it's gonna be a
big story. And beyond the sport. Oh by way of course,
some Selene Dion she'll be performing, Lady Gaga will be performing.
So they're wedding out the heavy hitters. And what's also

(26:16):
been refreshed youse had Normally before the Olympics, there's always
stories how nothing's finished and it's all a disaster, it's
all gone to hell on a handcart. There's been none
of that. So well done, France.

Speaker 18 (26:26):
Go you.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
And you've had to repear your Notre Dame cathedral as well.
Nineteen to nine. Marcus vip box is one of God's
gift to humankind. As long as you know how to
naviget the website, you can access Global Sport for free.
That text of no rain fade on sky must have
come from the CEO up in West Harbor and Auckland

(26:52):
with clear lines of sights straight to the sitting Get
rain fade with almost no rain drives me nuts. I
reckon it should give you a disher tap because in
the studio at work we had rain fade the whole time.
I had to get the onto it and they move
the dish. I think, mind you, there's some pretty heavy rain,

(27:12):
and now I really get it. Even when I wanted,
Even when I wanted, I don't get it, But yeah,
there we go. Also talking about John Mayle and the
Grateful Dead, and the Olympics that start in the morning,
just five hours away. Some of those sports like football,
you go to the whole round robin. They're starting a
bit earlier, always the way. That way, they won't go

(27:33):
to the old opening ceremony. I kind of feel with
opening ceremonies, we've pretty much seen it all, haven't we
Holding up bits of card and nothing comes close to
creed Super Bowl Show, one of the all time great
halftime performances. Go and watch it on YouTube if you
get a chance. Anyway, Hope things are well where you are.

(27:56):
People lines there free, we are talking about how to
watch the Olympics. It's important, and John Mayer and also
to talking about to the Grateful Dead, just because I'll
be curious to know if any of our audience have
been to the Grateful Dead. My first kind of a
chance to talk about that tonight. Also there might be

(28:16):
something different you want to mention and talk about, and
that's your that's sure wish. If that's your wish, that's good,
that's exciting. You might have a question ask the audience.
That's always good. But yeah, I think we've gone pretty
well in the Olympics recently. Now they've got rugby in
them normally guaranteed a couple of silvers and those we've
got canoe and we get something there normally pick up

(28:38):
one a sneaky bronze and track and field and yeah,
and something in sale. So there's always five or six
what tends to happen. So first week we get nothing
and talk about goes nuts and peopling up and say,
oh we've become a nation of mediocrity. It's because we're
too busy rewarding participation. It's because when the kids are

(29:01):
three or four and rip a rugby, we don't get
out there and make sure they win. And then what
kicks and towards the last week, some of our sports
seemed to get involved and we do really well, apart
from that time in Sydney when it was a disaster,
and I'm not quite sure what that was. Over confidence,
I would assume, but yeah, that's what we're about. That's
my guts of that's my guide to the Olympics. I

(29:24):
don't know who's commentating it. What tended to happen with skies.
They had commentators commentating it from Elleslie, which was never
quite good. Then they're one of the yachting guys commentating
in the rowing that didn't go so well. Remember any
bets on who will represent the British royal family at
the Olympics. I think normally it's Princess and that goes.
But now she's lost her memory after that thing with

(29:45):
a horse. I guess they'll all be over there, won't
they mind you? You notice that Prince King Charles continues
to be grumpy in everyone now disappointing he turned out
just always cross Ah. He's been seventy years waiting for
your job. You finally get it, you know, with the
grace to behave well. Anyway, enough for me before I

(30:11):
get into travel. Fifteen to nine Marcus till midnight. Someone
sent me a YouTube channel. Watched the Olympics on YouTube.
Good luck with that, because you've got to be in
mind with the Olympics. They make all their money from
TV rights, so I can't imagine there'd be a lot
for free. That's my gut feeding with that anyway. But yes,

(30:32):
that's what's happening. Nine nine to text. You want talk
on air? How are you going to watch it? And
John Mail anything you want to say about that. I'd
love to talk to you about that. Kamla Harris one
hundred and seventy million dollars, she's gotten two days wow,
and fit less than two days forty one hours.

Speaker 14 (30:58):
Now.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
I need to say that I've ignore everything I've said
about the opening ceremony. For the first time ever, it's
not in a stadium. All the athletes and the performers
are on boats on the river, the scene river, so
that's where there's got no surgeon to the going down
that and that's where the start to be fantastic. Five
thirty in the morning, sad Day. That will be a
must watch. The French do these things well and this

(31:19):
will be exciting. Hello Barbara, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 8 (31:24):
Yes, hi Malthus, And you were asking about John Mail.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Yes, right now.

Speaker 8 (31:31):
I was living in England in the sixties and listened
to a lot of John Mal. He played with Eric
Clapton as well. He was one of Britain's biggest rock
band and he was very good looking when he was young.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
So apart from Eric Clipton, did he perform on his
own or did he have his own bend or was
he always kind of with Eric Clipton.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
In And.

Speaker 8 (32:01):
Yeah, Eric clipped and broke away from him after a
few years because Eric Clapton was going to his own
emotional drama with his wife, you know who he's married to,
went off of one of the other singers. Yeah, it
just doesn't that, but I just thought i'd give you

(32:23):
that bit of useless information.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
But there's also that sort of music that's sort of
where you really kind of ring the neck of the guitar.
It's always really quite intense and quite kind of that blues.
It's quite sort of not indulgent but self involved listen to,
isn't it.

Speaker 13 (32:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (32:46):
I love that era. I like the Birds and all
that sort of you know, very different kind of rock.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
It was quite different from the pop of the Beatles
and stuff, wasn't it was very.

Speaker 8 (32:58):
Much It was not into the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. No,
I like that really way out kind of music.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
And did Barbara did you see him perform?

Speaker 8 (33:09):
No, No, only on television. Okay, okay, yeah, too far away,
too far away, you know he was in London North,
the north of England and all that distance to travel. No,
I just enjoyed his shows on TV.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Well, thank you so much for coming through. And I
think I can remember that I've often seen advertise advertisements
for John Mayle tourings and I might be wrong or
right about that, but someone I'm sure we'll know. And yeah, yeah,
I listened to a bit on the way home. I
think tonight John mail because we were discover our musical
past from time to time, don't we, and listen to

(33:49):
some of the stuff we never really listened to in
the past. Anyway. Five from nine Louise AT's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (33:55):
Good Evening, oh, good evening.

Speaker 12 (33:57):
Marcus. Yes, John Mayle, he was ninety. Sorry he had
a good for sure, But yeah, I saw him twice. Wow,
seventy one or seventy two. I liked them so much
I went back for a second lot.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Where were you what we're wearing?

Speaker 12 (34:18):
Oh God, I have a blow. This is we're talking
fifty years ago?

Speaker 2 (34:23):
It was all about their So was it was?

Speaker 15 (34:25):
It?

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Was it in a no arena?

Speaker 17 (34:29):
No?

Speaker 12 (34:29):
It was in a stare of oil and christ Church?

Speaker 3 (34:32):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Lovely the royal? Okay?

Speaker 12 (34:35):
Yeah? And I didn't care about the fashion. And I
just love music, you know.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
And who was he performed? Louis? Who was he performing
with with his.

Speaker 12 (34:46):
Band The Blues Breakers?

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Okay?

Speaker 12 (34:49):
And he was with them the whole basically. Eric Clapton
was a member, but then then left. I don't know
if he came in with them that.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
Tour or not.

Speaker 12 (34:59):
I can't. I'd have to look it up somewhere. But yeah, great, great,
great guy.

Speaker 6 (35:05):
That's the blue So was that really?

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Was that really popular music at the time or was
it quite a niche?

Speaker 12 (35:14):
It's always been niche. It's still not popular. There's no
blues station radio.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Yeah, somethinging you don't you don't hear him played on
the radio. Do you don't hear him played on any
of the frequencies?

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Not?

Speaker 12 (35:26):
None of the blues people really. You might get the
occasional one, but not really. I don't understand why I'm
not growning. Old blues men from nineteen forties are just
thrown on and on, you know. No, I'd rather have
the up tempos stuff than the latest stuff is much
more up tempos.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Do you know how you got into it?

Speaker 12 (35:51):
Probably probably that concert? Yeah, the first concert I ever
went to was Don't laugh Edison Lighthouse and Mungo Jerry
double Bill.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Wow, Lucky you Ah.

Speaker 12 (36:10):
Terrible, And then John Mayo, I mean John Mayel, not Mayer.
And then so I saw I saw Chuck Berry it
was amazing, and and Bo Diddley, Yeah, three blues.

Speaker 19 (36:27):
Man all the oro.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Oh yeah, you're really into that, aren't you. Do You
still get out of the house, You still get out
of the house, Louise.

Speaker 12 (36:33):
Once in a while, yeah, once in a while. Yes.
I went from Guns and Roses a couple of years ago, uh,
eighteen months ago, I think it was.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
I think it was. I think it was in Wellington
or in Auckland and Wellington and yeah, surprising, surprising, surprising.
So there. I love Roger Whittaker. Yeah, I read in
there that was it, probably John John Mayle, then Roger Whitaker.

(37:03):
That's a big year in it. I'm going to run Lays,
hold your horses shore to be with you soon after
the break. Get in touch people. My name is Marcus
Head or Midnight Talking. I don't ever know who I
laughed about Edison Lighthouse. I like lighthouses. Love grows, where
my rose and where he goes. I don't really know
their back catalog, but there ago so talking John mal Estabish.

(37:25):
He did come here in seventy one and seventy two,
played at the Theater Royale and christ Church at least twice.
But I think we've had a long history in this
country of blues festivals. Has never been my thing, just
probably through ignorance really, but I think he was always
coming back and forward to those. Someone will know. I'll
get to the text. Soll so ALSOK about how you're
going to watch the Olympics. But the opening ceremony is

(37:47):
on boats on the River, which I'm really excited about.
So watch that five point thirty Saturday morning. A video
it Sean Marcus, Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 9 (37:59):
Yeah, Marcus, who'd you talking something about Grateful Dead?

Speaker 5 (38:05):
Yes, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Watch well, I've been reading reports there's that huge, extraordinary
concert venue in Vegas called this very familiar.

Speaker 5 (38:19):
With that.

Speaker 9 (38:21):
No, yeah, big, big, big ball thing.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
It's a big ball and you two had a residency
there which was an extraordinary and I think Chaos had
a residency there. But now there is a very big
Grateful Deed. Well they're not called the Grateful Deed now
obviously because Garcie is not there, but John Mayle is involved,

(38:46):
and there's quite a bit and it's a it's a
big kind of Grateful Deed kind of experience. It's happening
there that people are raving about.

Speaker 7 (38:56):
Sounds great, Yeah, yeah, doesn't that?

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Well, well, I reckon because they are a bit. Because
it's my understanding, the Grateful Deed were very much into
their iconography and their visuals, weren't they They had their
own instead.

Speaker 9 (39:06):
Right, Yeah, I saw them once. I was in the
early nine I lived in New York for four years
and in the early nineties, and I got dragged off
to Grateful Dead concert with the few of rugby mates
that were over there, and it was a very interesting

(39:31):
old you know, sort of heavily into the Grateful Dead
or anything like that. But I just went along because
you know, it's another another show, another party, and it
was an interesting event. And that you go into the
concert and then they have the Grateful Dead. They tour

(39:53):
every year and go around all the bloodies, you know
places in the States and do all that stuff. And
they got all these followers, which I believe they call
the dead Heads.

Speaker 5 (40:04):
Yeah, yep, yeah, these Deadheads.

Speaker 9 (40:09):
They follow them out and you know, I'll do you know,
fifty or one hundred concerts in the season, so that
go and come around the around the States. And they
have this bunch of people that are called the Spinners.
Now these guys have they've all bought a ticket into

(40:32):
ye go and season owing and sat down in the
seat and sort of watched them. My heir great and
I went out at one stage repairs on it and
they you go out into the outer concourse and there's
all these the spinners are out there and they don't

(40:54):
go into the concert because they've seen the Dead so
many times and they just stand out in the concert
in the outer concourse. Yeah, we can buy beers and
hot dogs and all that sort of crap, and they.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Just spit around.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Oh wow, I wonder whether they actually stand and they
put their arms out and they.

Speaker 9 (41:15):
Spin yep, and there's just a heap of them all around.
The concourse is always you know, I'm also looking Philly
sort of drugged out type where you hippi and.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Yeah, we don't don't knock until you've tried it. I
suppose would be what I could say about that. But
I mean, when you're not in the concert, those things
we'd done that.

Speaker 9 (41:41):
Yeah, yeah, they've obviously seen them so many times, you know,
and they follow them around it and go to every
show and rather than go into the show, they just
stand out in the concourse and spin around. And they're
just known as the spinners.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Because the thing that surprises me about the grateful deed, right,
and people are obsessed by them, you know, but the
music doesn't seem to be that extraordinary, am I right?

Speaker 17 (42:09):
There?

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Have I got that one?

Speaker 5 (42:10):
Right?

Speaker 19 (42:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (42:11):
Yeah, totally on the on the money there and he
goes here and he had you know, there was a
couple of good, good sort of that's that they did.
But you know what, what were their heads oh, I
can't remember. It was bloody things?

Speaker 2 (42:30):
No, okay, but were they good? Were they good? Live?

Speaker 3 (42:34):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (42:35):
No, it wasn't there.

Speaker 7 (42:38):
To rate.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Okay, they were in New York. He had a great
ways got were you there? Were you there playing rugby?
Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 5 (42:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (42:49):
I did a lot of sailing over there, and then
after the sailing gig finished, I've been invited to go
and play rugby jobs for the boys, and I'm working
the bar.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Sounds like a dream.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
It was a dream. It was great.

Speaker 9 (43:12):
Gosh, it was a great.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Nice to hear from you. Sean thing, and thanks hanging
on there as well, talking grateful deal in John Mayle
and the Olympics. There we go, got three things. What
was the ahead, Ralph Marcus, Welcome afternoon.

Speaker 20 (43:27):
Oh goodness, say at this stage, I just heard that
you mentioned John Whyle had died back in twenty ten.
I was sitting in Paris and authors matter of fact,
because he was playing there that night, and Roger Fox
was telling me, he said, I want to see this guy.
He goes out he sells his own CDs before every

(43:49):
show in the afternoon, and so I wandered over there
and I happened, and it happened. I had a shop
just near and I had a Yamaha guitar, so I
took it down there and he signed it for me.
I think it was about February twenty ten. Wow, the
cool guy, really nice guy, so.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Just touring because he loved it, but also like that
interaction with his audience to sit there and sign stuff
for them.

Speaker 20 (44:16):
Yeah, but every show a bit roger said that he's
not with us either. Now last year we lost him, yes, oh,
two weeks ago. Two weeks ago. Any he said every
show he would get there and get a walls it
is lined up and he checked everybody. And it wasn't

(44:37):
well known, but he still did it all the time
every time he played.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
But I guess too with blues music, they seem to
be it's a passion that doesn't go well, They've got
more passion.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
I mean, it seems as like like it's a calling
or some sort of spiritual quest for them, isn't it.
They're just right and they don't lose it.

Speaker 20 (45:00):
And the people he had played with them, I couldn't
remember half the names, but oh jeez, he had this
big fat guy, you know. I think he was touched,
but he played the guitar and or there were three
or four of them that were all equally as good.
And I think he was seventy five that when I
saw him at that concert when he signed my guitar

(45:20):
for me, So that makes.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
That makes sense. Yeah, if it's fifteen years and the music,
what does it does it? It's sort of the indulgent
long songs and long guitar guitar solo. Is Is that
what it's like when I got that? You know it
really is?

Speaker 20 (45:33):
It's no, you've got to bang on? But they were,
of course the various players there. They would do different
songs and turn them into their feature for the night
you and just jam up and his as the crowd
went mad with them.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
They loved them.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
I could have imagined they must have always had a
big follow it. It seems like he always had a
big following in New Zealand because you always sort of
come across people that were huge fans of his. Yeah.

Speaker 20 (45:59):
Well, I didn't really didn't know much about him. I'd
heard his name a lot, and it's only because all
the crowd I was mixing with we were there and
we had differs. Also, we went along and Oh, I'm
so glad I did one of the so it was.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Yeah, it seems as though, I mean, I don't know
if people under that they're not listening to as much
on vinyl on record, it seems to be it seems
to be better live, Is that right?

Speaker 3 (46:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (46:27):
Definitely, definitely. All I've got is that I've got the
best of his bullies. That's so I could find. But
it had all the songs on it that he played well,
So I was really very very happy with the whole thing.
And then he was such a delightful guy and long,
long silver hair and it was in a sort of
a ponytail thing, and he had the shirt over the

(46:50):
neck which he shouldn't have had, but anyway, he looked
apart and he certainly acted it as a as a
blues guy. Was very delightful man.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Really nice call Ralph, thank you, and a nice thing
to say on his death too about that. That's good,
thank you. But texts for your people evening, Marcus, All
this talk for legal excess reminds me of the good
old days of Mega download. What have you happened to
that guy? Watch the space? Marcus, check out mail and
Clapperton on fire l Marcus. We were stoked to see

(47:22):
John mail and seventy two and total are so lucky.
Where would that be town Hall? Marcus. I remember watching
the nine ninety four opening ceremony in Los Angeles and
seeing the guy in the rocket backpack. I'm still waiting
to see that availer in the shop Spike. I remember
that vividly. There was a crowd stopping moment when he
arrived in the Los Angeles Olympic Arena on his jetpack.

(47:43):
We thought, Wow, welcome to the future. Forty year ago,
nine twenty Christ's Marcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 21 (47:50):
Hih Chris, Oh yeah, am mate. John Mayle, he didn't.
Eric Tapton was only a small part of it. Actually, probably,
in my opinion, the greatest player that slayed with him
for quite a long time was Peter Green, who set
up Pink Floyd. Not Fleetwood, mate, but he had lots

(48:13):
of guitarists and drummers, and he had lots of musicians
over the years. But the Grateful Dead they had a song.
A friend of mine was into Joe Satriani and Grateful
Dead and all that sort of thing that was acid related,
marijuana smoking.

Speaker 7 (48:31):
Style music, and uh he yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (48:38):
The song that came to mind was something of gray,
a shade of gray or something like that, And that
was about the only song that.

Speaker 7 (48:51):
I liked out of those albums. And that song actually
was a Billboard song.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
And that's what a Grateful Dead song is it?

Speaker 14 (49:01):
M M.

Speaker 7 (49:03):
Yeah, shade of gray or not not shade gray? Something
of gray?

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Yeah, touch of gray? Sorry, touch of gray?

Speaker 3 (49:15):
Touch of gray?

Speaker 7 (49:15):
Was that the name of it?

Speaker 12 (49:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (49:18):
As I say, it's not my strong so Grateful Dead,
but if you reckon touch a gray is the one.
They wouldn't have two songs mentioned in gray, would they?

Speaker 17 (49:26):
No?

Speaker 21 (49:26):
No, no, no, that was a And that was the
only song on the albums that he used to play
when I was over there that I could even fathom.
A lot of the music was unfathomable.

Speaker 7 (49:42):
It was I think you had to be on acid
or or quite a heavy dose of marijuana to actually
get all into all that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
But John, was it not available to you?

Speaker 7 (49:55):
Well that was but but I'm not a dope snowger.
I was a drinker, and.

Speaker 21 (50:02):
I was a drinker, drinker to make me hungry and tired.
So yeah, there are two things that I don't want
to be.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
So it wasn't very good, but good en capsulation.

Speaker 7 (50:18):
Yeah, yeah, Well at the end of the night, its
start to get a bit boring. Mind you.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
I can imagine sitting around someone's house just all like
listening and getting started listening to Grateful Deal. I mean
a lot of people spent their whole life doing that.
But it's not for me.

Speaker 7 (50:34):
Yeah, not for me. He's a brother, No, yeah, listening
to talk back. Don't put yourself down.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
That I'm saying that this is at least you don't
know what's going to happen. At least at least you
don't know the unexpected. Did you see John Mayol?

Speaker 7 (50:53):
Chris I actually saw him three times. Rob Roberts a bricklayer.
He dragged me along and.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Who dread you along?

Speaker 7 (51:06):
Who is a bricklay?

Speaker 21 (51:07):
Yeah, he dragged me along term at least twice. And
Christ it didn't improve live In fact, I think it
was better on album in the room with all yeah,
because those spinners, as the guy said, those spinners and
the other ones, the deadheads, they didn't make the experience

(51:31):
much happier for me.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
Hang on it we flipped from what we flipped back
from Beck. I thought you were talking about John. Did
you go to John Mail with a bricklayer or Grateful
Deed or both? Okay, wow, Cheapers.

Speaker 21 (51:43):
Well we used to go to a lot of concerts, yeah,
we in Sydney in those days. Yeah, lots of concerts.
I remember even Guns and Roses out of.

Speaker 7 (51:53):
The Old Park there. I think they had two hundred
thousand and it took us bloody. It took us two
hours to get home from the stadium to Paramatta and
it's only a ten minute drive in a car. Goodness,
but there was two hundred thousand people.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (52:12):
Anyway, yeah, yeah, I was incredible, incredible. Yeah, that was
the That was the venue of the first motorcycle races
they did in Australia before they took it to well
Of Island.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Okay, what was the venue again, Chris, Ah.

Speaker 7 (52:29):
Well, it was out from Tara Matta and I forget
what it was. A motorcycle track that and a racecourse track.
I can't remember, mate, but but yeah, I was fantastic arena.
But that that Guns n' Roses concert was just I
didn't even think I liked Guns n' Roses. I went

(52:53):
to that and I bought three albums the next day.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
You didn't see Agent sen your live, Chris, you seem
to be going a lot of You seem to be
going to a lot of things you didn't really want
to go to.

Speaker 7 (53:02):
Well, it has been a part of my Life've just
been some woman that I didn't want to deal with
that I did.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
But I mean, you know, and I said, okay, well
leave it there, Christ, but thank you. I got to
get through them all. But nice to talk. Oh oh wait.
One hundred eighty nineteen nine to the text by name
is Marcus welcome, hit on Midnight getting touch anything you
got to add here for you? Edit's Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 16 (53:30):
I'm Marcus, welcome you two makes a dem good job.
He's always had a son just like to probably yelling
for are there?

Speaker 3 (53:40):
Yep?

Speaker 16 (53:41):
Marcus. I like Cat Stevens. He is a great solo singer,
Cat Stevens Packington taking the subject here a little.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Of it, but I love you if you really are
taking in a funny direction. What's that about?

Speaker 18 (53:55):
Well?

Speaker 16 (53:55):
He is great artists?

Speaker 3 (53:58):
No great?

Speaker 2 (53:58):
But why have you come through with that?

Speaker 16 (54:01):
It's wonder one talk about okay Stevens? Yeah? No great?
Is that Marchas is that it to hold you up
too long.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
No nice dear from you. Good on you, brilliant, brilliant,
like a free it's like a free form Wednesday. My
name is Marcus. Welcome here on midnight. How are you going? People?
What's in there? And listen to land here on midnight.
That's the way it's going to be. Oh w eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two nine to the
text Marcus or midnight. Oh get in touch with there's
anything else you want to mention talk about? Say DoD

(54:35):
be great to hear from you. Oh okay. So I
was asking about the concert in the Sphere in Las
Vegas where John Mayer and it's of course not called

(54:57):
The Grateful Dead. It's called Dead and Company, but with
some original members and their songs. But someone has texted
the Dead and Company show, Harry, that's fear in Las
Vegas is incredible. I was able to make three shows
one week in in June, not one song repeated.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Oh, by the way, I had to. I meant to
apologize as I was thinking about great cities in New
Zealand with the river's running through it, like Paris. Of
course we've got Hamilton you know the trouble with the
white caturs. It's too fast flowing. You want to river
like the say, you got boats, you got people swimming
in it. Oh gosh, you watch Emily in Paris. She

(55:38):
just lives beside the river. What if Hamilton could make
more of the river because you go to Hamilton even
see the river. What's that about the need to embrace
it more like Paris? I feel quite strongly about that. Oh,

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get in touch. Backs till twelve Oh eight hundred eighty
ten eighty nine two nine tow to text. What do
you got here for your people? Get in touch? Oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two
to text. Hurdle twelve. If there's any other breaking news,
will bring that to you. It's all for apart for
the British equestrian team. A woman was caught whipping her horse.

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They saved the video until the day before the Olympics
and then sent it to the papers. I think, so
she's been pulled out or she's kind of gone pending investigation. Yeah,
that's happening. It's a big story. So a lot's happening

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around the world. And get in touch if you want
to talk here till twelve o'clock tonight. Oh eight hundred
eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two is the
text number tonight. Anything else you want to talk about too,
I'm up for that. So there's going to be Olympics
early tomorrow morning, like at half past one. There's rugby sevens,

(57:13):
men's rugby sevens and the key Wes are playing, and
also men's football. New Zealand's playing Guinea and it's under
twenty three tournament with three older players, so that it's
slightly contrived, I think, but it'll be very good football.
You'll see the future stars and the current stars. In

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Spain's case, I would imagine we're sixteen that guy.

Speaker 5 (57:39):
You know.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
Now that we've stopped watching free to air TV, it's
hard to know what's going on things like the Olympics
in it. If we've got a Minister of sport over there,
who is our minister of sport, let me google that
up because they normally go across there to have a
bit of a look at what's going on. Oh, Chris Bishop, anyway,

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welcome be a part of it. As I say, oh
eight hundred and eighty eight, I guess Swang and we
also have a river running through it, thank you. And
Dargaville was dark. We've got a river running through it
or a harbor. Would you say it to the river,
would you say it's one of the reaches of the harbor?
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (58:20):
But that that.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
Sphere thing in Las Vegas, I reckon. It sounds amazing
like one hundred and fifty thousand speakers in the sphere,
and they reckon. They're going to go around the world.
Now there's going to be a whole lot of them
being built, like one in Sydney, one in London, and
the cargo should get one. But that's the great thing.

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And yeah, they reckon concerts and they're amazing because you've
got so many graphics that go with it. Twenty eight
to ten. If you want to be part of the show,
my name is Marcus Hddle twelve. Don't forget white to
that great river, rowing, fishing, swimming, yachting and a boat
launching into the tasmand to catch snapper. Very good point
you make. Thank you for making that too, and backatch

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if you want to be involved in the show. Marcus
still twelve free coplicad to watch the Olympics, but you
can get a pass. Even if you don't belong to Sky,
you can get a pass to let you watch all
the events for the Olympics. Seems like quite a good
option because I'm sure plenty of people will love that

(59:28):
sitting down watching the Olympics. Be good to hear from
you anything else you want to talk about eight hundred
and eighty eight eighty nine to nine to the text
Marcus still twelve get amongst it. We'll keep you updated
with the news also too, between now and midnight. So

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for those that don't know, the opening ceremony for the
Olympics is not till Saturday morning at five point thirty.
But the events start first thing tomorrow morning, half past one.
So if you want to be a part of that,
you want to be a part of that. If you'll
watch that, you want to watch this morning. It's on

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those Sky documentaries on those Sky Sports channels. Marcus. Northern
Wado River flows through Dagal, longest navigational river in the
Southern Hemisphere. Don't forget the Boller westward of course, good

(01:00:33):
Point Marcus Hamilton has a new artisan type food court
called made That Sorry is a mark I read that
Baddie Marcus Hamilton has a new artisan type food court
mall called Again Marcus. Hamilton has a new artisan type

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food call court mall called Made that opens to the
river in Hamilton East. And there's also a reinvention of
an eighties mall, the Riverbank Moor, which has a place
called Mister Pickle that overlooks the river in central Hamilton.
It's happening. Thanks Claire good On, you're clear.

Speaker 7 (01:01:13):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
They always said it was the city of the future
and everywhere. I can't remember that talkback show we did
one night and it was where would you rather live?
Todong or Hamilton and Hamilton smoked it. Yeah, that's exciting.
Marcus last year spoke about potatoes. It was the first gem.

(01:01:37):
My twelve year old son became conscious to your broadcasts.
He reckons you were random, which I thought was called
away We're at a pieme and got chat gpt to
analyze it. Here it is WHI is. I'm not going
to read that, but thank you, Marcus. Cromwell and Arrowtown
have a river running through it, don't they. Graham Well

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Cromwell has an artificial river running through the mall, which
is weird. It's a great more but it's always empty.
How you're going people? Twenty two to ten Tim Beverage
along from twelve o'clock tonight talking John Mayle and the
Grateful Deed of all things but musical themed. And also

(01:02:21):
the Olympics. I don't know what you need to know
nineteen the eight two thousand where I worst Olympics, just
one gold and three bronzes and everyone was all woe
as me on the talkback saying how bad it all was,
that we hadn't won anything. We've done much better since
thanks for about three athletes, it seemed to win everything.

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So the matches start first thing tomorrow morning football with
the Ollie Whites, not a word I like but them,
and also the rugby sevens, the men's rugby sevens. And
then Saturday morning is the opening serm. It's not at

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the stadium, it's on barges on the river. Although the
athletes must be going into the stadium because they are well,
they are going in order, and the order is the
order that athletes go. I don't know if they're going
into their air on the barge is the order they
go in os is alphabetical order in French, so South
Africa is fourth because it's Africa du sad. It's a

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bit tricky and we are new Villes are laund So
we're after Norway because Norway and French must be Norway.
Found that very interesting. Yeah, good evening, Paul, it's Marcus.

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Welcome high Paul.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
Yeah. John Mayle ninety years and gone. I saw John
quite a few times in the UK before it came
out here, and lots of times here Over just outside
of London, there was a pub that had blues nights
every Wednesday.

Speaker 22 (01:04:12):
It was it was the Toby Jug. I think it's
probably it.

Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
Went through a period of being a bingo parlor, but
it's probably just a roundabout now. But they had bands
like jeth O'tull one Wednesday, Fleetwood Mac in its early
days of the blues when Pete Green was with them
and John Mayle would play there. One of the old

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rootsy blues bands, Savoy Brown it was. It was a
great pub. I went to a grammar school in Surrey
and one of the guys left us in the sixth
form to go and play bass with John Males Blues Breakers.
They were very popular around southern England. His name was
Keith Tillman. There was a guy who used to play
in John Male's band, who made his way to New

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Zealand and did do a bit of music here. I
think he did reside around Taupa a guy called John Mark,
which was John Mark, And it made me pull out
some of his CDs that I've got in my collection here.
And yes, I mean people like Mick Taylor who went
onto the Stones went through John's band, Mick Fleetwood, the

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big massive drum set from Fleetwood Mac turned out quite
a few times. John had a big following. Andy Fairweather
Low played with him from Amen Corner, you might have.
I think they made a few hits this way. Some
big names turn out with him. But that story about
the gentleman who I saw John play at the Saint

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James in Wellington some years ago, it's probably the same tour.
And I wanted to get the CD and I wander
up before the concert in the foyer and there's this
scruffy urchin with a double bags selling CDs and then
I realized it was John.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
But I think, Paul, what I took from your callers
that you said there was a pub and that pubble
the blues musicians would go there and performance that that's
got that collegiality with that music. You wouldn't get other
bands all going together for what, but they love to
get together and all jump up and join each other.
It's got that kind of that sense of what do
you call that that it's it's not his ego base.

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It's all about getting in together and and and interpreting
the songs. I suppose during the Blues.

Speaker 4 (01:06:27):
John John nurtured so many people through his group. He
was always a fairly humble guy. And you know Pete
green Clap. I mean, there's the famous Bino album with
all the bands sitting by the fence by brick Wall
was one of the early ones of John Mayle and
the Blues Breakers, and Clapton was in that one, and

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they're sitting there reading the Bino an old comic from England.

Speaker 6 (01:06:54):
But he he just I mean he was here.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
Was here an extraordinary musician?

Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
He was an absolute savant, was he?

Speaker 4 (01:07:03):
I wouldn't call him an extraordinary musician. I mean he's
stamina to carry on for so long. He could play keyboards, harmonica,
pretty good on the guitar. I mean he was nowhere
near the standard of the guys that he nurtured like
Pete Green or Mick Taylor or Eric Clapton. I didn't
feel so. I mean, I'm the connoisseur. I don't play

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the guitar, but he he was just that doying of
I mean, he had Clapton lived with him for a while.
I remember reading one of his one of the bios
about John North. It was perhaps that was one of
bios about Clapplan. I'm not sure that John's has written one,
but I mean he was just regarded by those people

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who were riding into the blues that he was. He
was the white man of the blues through the UK.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
What God happened to it? There was there a a
conversion experience with him that got him into it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:58):
I don't I can't answer that question. He just seemed
to appear. He just seemed to appear. It was he'll
be missed. I think I might actually organizer's some celebration
for him down here in Wellington. Get out some of
the CDs and just yeah, he was just great to
listen to live.

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
Are you involved in a blue circuit and Wellington and
you hang with those people.

Speaker 4 (01:08:22):
I would go to Yeah, I mean there's a good
music scene around Wellington with the jazz, the folk, the blues. Yeah,
I mean there's the there's a there's a name that
you might remember. That guy who's the playing shoot the
Climax Chicago, Darren Watson, who is great absolutely and he

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posted some comments about John, you know, having having lost him.
But you know, it's good to I mean I listened
to your program lots of different times, but it's good
to hear you talking about John Mayle.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
It's always good if you connect with people's passion, you know,
because people have always got something to say about the
passion rather than what they're angry about. And people are
passionate about music, aren't. They often get an outlet for
it because it's something we often do solitarily. And when
musicians die, most of them have too in New Zealand,
and most people have always been to see them or
met them, or they've People have always got interesting stories

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with the musicians.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
I mean I heard someone mention Roger Fox having passed on.
I mean Roger got into a bit of the blues.
He bought another great blues mos decision out here some
years ago. Long. John Baldery, who played in the early
days with Rod Stewart in a band called Steam Packet,
and you know there's there's I mean long. John Baldrig

(01:09:43):
got tarnessed when he won the Eurovision Song Contest for
the UK with that song that he did, Don't Let
the heart Aches Begin or whatever. It was something like that,
but yeah, the I was I was pretty miffed. Deva
Mahal lives here in Wellington, but she's on the international

(01:10:04):
circuit and she got married at a place not far
away from where I live. And Taj, her father, came
out here to the wedding and came into the country
and left without anybody realizing. And I know the folks
at the venue and I castigated them for not letting
me know that Tarj was here.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
I think also I could also say that because blues
music is sort of it's chemi started depressive what they've got.
But it's a remarkable age to live. For someone to
be in that style of music and look to live
to ninety. That's got to be acknowledged as well, doesn't it,
Because it's a great age you're a musician, because no
musicians lived that long apart from Keith Richards Well.

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
Yeah, when John Mayle had his seventieth birthday. He played
in Liverpool and he got Clapton with him, Mick Taylor
and a guy from the jazz era from the trad
Chris Barber, who you might have heard of was Yep,
joined in with him. So because Chris Barber brought a
lot of the blues musicians across from the US to

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the UK in the late sixties early seventies, people like
Muddy Waters, etc.

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
And Paul, I'm gonna jump in there on which we're
right behind with commercials. But look lovely to talk to you,
and I appreciate your calling. Sorry about the quick exit,
but nice to hear from you. Ten away from ten
o'clock here till twelve. There'll be sport first thing tomorrow
morning with the Olympics. It came sooner than we all expected.
And the opening ceremony will be on the river. Yeah,

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who would have thought? What if they regretted art going
for the Olympics the French, I guess not. I guess
It's gone without fuss. Grouped on boats with the national teams,
the athletes will arrive opposite the trocaderera the Espinaut across

(01:11:59):
the Eiffel Tower with official prodocols will be carried out.
The Olympic Caldron lit in the twenty twenty four Paris
Games officially open. All you need to know it's all
on boats. Can't believe we haven't heard about this. Some

(01:12:21):
of you will know this ambitious, historic spectacular. These are
the words described used to describe the opening ceremony, first
time it's held outside of stadium.

Speaker 5 (01:12:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
A traditional parade of ethics takes place in boats along
the Seine, passing the most iconic Parisian landmarks. I guess
that's the Eiffel Tower and the arct Tree. I'll visit
so Rippa. What a good idea. I don't know where
Lady Gaga will be and Celine dion yep and the

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Olympic called one hundred boats carrying ten thousand athletes. The
larger of the committee in the parade will have boats
to themselves, while the smaller ones will share boats. It's
gonna be huge, absolutely huge. It's focused on sustainability, although

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I don't think all the athletes would have walked there.
How would you know? Huge carbon footprint for Olympics, it'll
be the end of them. The amount of fossil fuel
used anyway eight to ten Olympics. She's all along, guys.
By the way, Snoop Dog will carry the Olympic torch

(01:13:48):
in the final stages before the opening ceremony. He's also
the special correspondent for the NBC SO and News. You'll
probably be surprised to hear Snoop Dog will carry the
Olympic torch through the final stage when through Paris before
the opening ceremony on Friday. The US rapper We'll be

(01:14:10):
hoping you might drop it like it's hot when he
holds the torch in Saint Dennis to mark the start
of the thirty third game. He's there as an NBC.
Snoop Dog posted a photo on X on Tuesday of
himself standing alongside the City Hall City Haladville where they
capture You're Ready Paris twenty twenty four Olympics. You dig
with gold medal and boxing glove emojis unbelievable. The Satany

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mayor Matthew Huntington wrote on X that after Snoop carries
the torch, there will be a concert by French twenty
twenty four Eurovision singer Sliman in front of the Basilica.
Yet it would be the last step before the Eiffel Tower.
Snooper was born in Los Angeles, limbered up for his

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Olympic stint by posting a time of thirty four point
four to four seconds over turred meters. Is it a
good time? It's not bad. Other hip hop musicians who
carry the Olympic torch during previous games include Sean Diddy

(01:15:17):
Combs and Dizzy Rascal and the Black Eyed Peas and
will I Am in the London twenty twelve. Well that's excited.
I guess what they're doing is a desperate to get
kind of it. Make it relevant when your audience from
exiting about Stoop dogg Snoop Dog. I mean normally it
says boring old officials, isn't it sport bureaucrats. I mean
they're a special breed, aren't they. They travel a lot
and go a lot of meetings. But cheapers, what's all

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that about. I'm just heading towards the halftime stretch. People,
coffee time for me. Do the same if you want,
I'll be back for more of this. John Mayle and
the Grateful Dead and also the Olympics. If there's something
else you want to mention, good I'm up for that.
Keep your text always good to be busy on the texts,

(01:16:04):
good to be relaxed on a Wednesday, Marcus, I want
to have part of the something Cerimoni pay homage to
Joan of Arc whose ashes were thrown into the river.
Didn't know that, Marcus. I thought Celinda was sick with
stiff body syndrome Sydney. Well, she is cyddy, but she's
obviously managed to pull herself together for one last performance.

(01:16:28):
A lot of time in that document she's just lying down,
can't move. I'll have a backup plan, no doubt. Or
maybe they can have some sort of pharmaceutical aid for her. Marcus.
Olympic Games are also free on channel fifteen sky Open.

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It was known previously as prop Prime Old Prime sky Open.

Speaker 5 (01:16:56):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
I'll tell you what I have got a question for.
It's a kind of silly question with LED torches that
get the how do you repair an LED torch? I
got myself on YouTube to try and work that. That
made no sense, But I always thought that LEDs were
better because the bulbs didn't blow like torches. But you

(01:17:20):
had to go somewhere on Saturday night and tried to
fix a torch impossible. I tried everything. I don't know
if there's a bulb as such on an LED, but
I certainly couldn't replace it, So that was frustrating. It's
quite a good torch I'd bought. Now, guys get into
torches that can shine one hundred meters or something. Worked once,
never worked again. The things about you get a torch

(01:17:43):
that's broken. The first thing you wanted was going by
a whole new batteries. Well that's eighteen dollars gone, and
those batteries will never see the light of day again
because I'll stay in there and that broken torch until
they all kind of go get estified. So not happy
with torches. There you go, that's my torch. Spilled terrible things.
But what do they break so easily? The number of

(01:18:07):
tortures And I only think about that because I think
of your security guards with your long torches. But the
number of torches I've brought and they all broken. So
the MPI finished the inspectation expect inspection of iran a
wildlife park. They're promising regular checks and the tiger was

(01:18:31):
found to be underweight slightly underweight. The investigation, which came
after allegations of poor animal welfare standards, found the facility
to be fit for purpose, and says that the investigation
has cleared around a wildlife park of current animal welfare concerns.

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It's not out of the woods yet. They've been had
to provide this, had to provide all its records, including
all deaths and injuries to animals and what follow actions
we've taken, which they are going to assess. That seems passive.
They're acting quickly and there might be some good news

(01:19:15):
there for them. They did say, yeah, so that's the
latest from the zoo also, but yep, that's about it
for me at fifteen past ten. You've got something of
interest to say tonight eight hundred and eighty eighty Ady,
my name is Marcus hedlm mid Day and snoop Dog
carrying the Olympic torch one day an extreme boredom. We're

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not really bored. I was just I went to one
of the international auction websites to see what the value
of Olympic torches were worth, because there's quite a few
websites itself sporting memorabilia, including medals and Olympic torches. It
seems to if you've got enough money, you can buy
an Olympic torch from any old any old Olympics. It

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seems though there's thousands of them are made, everyone gets
to carry one. Inevitably some of those people will sell them.
So there, I thought that was interesting. I've never touched one,
but I don't think I have. Maybe I have, but
Snoop Dog, I think is going to be the last
of the torch bearers for this Olympic rally, which I
think goes from.

Speaker 14 (01:20:24):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:20:24):
I think that goes from Greece or anyway. Enough for
me sixteen past ten, catch you soon eighteen past ten
if you want to help me out with fixing torches,
I kind of I guess they must just kind of
rust in, but I don't even know what happened with them.
But it's what I thought was, it's normally the bulbs
that blow. Must have brought twenty great torches in my

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life and none of them have lasted. Might be pilot era,
who knows, But anyway, I thought you might want to
mention something about that. Eight hundred and eighty eight twenty
nine two nine to detext Marcus still twelve. So something
you want to add to that be good to hear
from you. Any other topics you want to mention. Were
talking about on Male and the Blues legend that has died,

(01:21:09):
and also talking about the Grateful Deed. I don't know
if anyone out there is into the Grateful Dead. I
kind of wouldn't mind knowing a bit more about the
people's obsession with the Grateful deaed. And obviously, of course
the main man has now died, but certainly the phenomenon
still continues with this big thing at Vegas at the sphere,

(01:21:29):
So yeah, that might be something you want to mention too.
The Olympics, they are starting about to start, so yep,
starts in like three hours. Rugby seven's and football with
the Ollie White terrible name. That's the New Zand Olympic

(01:21:49):
football team, which is a team of under twenty three
year olds with three people over twenty three. It took
me a while to understand that, but that's how that
one works. Also, that's starting sometime tomorrow, want like three
o'clock we play Guinea. So yeah, let's up. We do
better than we did in Sydney in the year two thousand.

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We just got four medals, three bronze and a gold.
Are worse for a long long time. I think we'll
do a lot better this time. As I've said before,
what tends to happen is we get no medals in
the first week and then everyone says, oh gosh, we've
become soft as a country. Then what tends to happen.
We get a couple of golds in one hour and

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the headline riders go huge on New Zealand's Golden Hour.
Anyone walks a bit taller again, and I'm pretty sure
that's what always happens. But yeah, that's enough for me.
And looking forward to your course, if you want to
start the whole wall rolling, there might be something different
you've got you want to talk about. Good Get in touch, Marcus.

(01:22:59):
It's the nature of LED's either work or not another
throwaway item. You're terrible, aren't they LED's because it was
nothing to break Marcus. I understand they having breakdancing as
event at the Olympics, perhaps to attract the younger orders
you said, forgotten about the breakdancing. I think the Japanese

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and the French of revery good at that. And of
course there was much discussion about breakdancing because the initial
the initial sense of breakdancing. It wasn't really a competitive thing,
so I think some of the real people that started
the sport off thought it was a bit weird having
at the Olympics. But you know, no doubt it'll be

(01:23:41):
fantastic cos I'm glad you text it. I forgot about.
That'll be fantastic looking forward to the just like I
looked forward to the skateboarding four years ago, well eight
years ago. I think it might have been Rio that
was fantastic, and I think the breakdancing will be great
as well, especially if they break dance on the party
once they've got their medal. Someone says, put the batteries

(01:24:03):
in the right way. Led bulbs don't break what they do.
I did everything, I did every possible thing, and I
can't get the damned And where would you take a
torch to get fixed? Well, there's questions to ask myself, Marcus.
I think we all know what Snoop will be lighting
up with his torch. I don't think you enlightedy thing
with it. I think it's just kind of got batteries.
I think it's got a flame. It might have the French,

(01:24:24):
the way they do things well, loving my coffee. We
pleased to know, but I need your calls now tonight.
Get me back up and running, John Mail. We've been
talking about and we've been talking about the Grateful Dead,

(01:24:47):
and we talk about the Olympics and Paris with the
opening ceremony on the river. And if you've got anything
else you want to talk about, I am here for that.
It's my job. So again the might be your topic
on a chuck into the mix. I'm quite happy to
get you going with that. Also, whatever that be, take
a chance, oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine

(01:25:09):
two detect is I say, Tim Beverage long from twelve tonight,
but in the meantime it'd be fantastic to hear from you.
Anything goes hit till twelve. Keep those emails coming through too.
By the way, a lot of people enjoyed that video
we posted of the of the drag line, the bustin

(01:25:32):
Buckerist drag line on the Utaki River. That's on the
Facebook screen at Facebook page. You want to go and
check that one out. And apart from that, it's pretty
much all I've got people. I see there's new stories
of Campravan drivers driving appallingly on the South Island. A

(01:25:57):
drive was left so shocked by a speeding camper vans
near miss. He followed it to where it stopped and
spoke with the other driver. This happened in twice, all
in the same area, with three crashes took place in
recent weeks. This person is the overtaking camera vans near

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miss with an oncoming van came at the worst time.
The person followed the camera van to a scenic stop
and spoke to the driver. I basically told them they
can't get away with that, especially since they had three
kids in the back. He reported incident to the police
at the time, but really what was needed was a
greater law enforcement present on the roads as a deterrent.

(01:26:40):
The police are nowhere to be seen. Fair call actually
about that. I think the police are given up on
the roadside policing. You don't see them around anymore anyway,
enough for me. Twenty five past ten catchising ten to
twenty seven led torches? Why do they break? And I

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think the thing I've torture, even the more expensive. I thought,
I'll get a good torch. It's gonna last forever always
because the filament would go. But I didn't know they'd
go in led ones, but got no luck with them
at all. Callum, it's Marcus, good evening, got it, Marcus.
How are you going to good things? Callum? You're going
all right?

Speaker 5 (01:27:22):
Yeap, going real well.

Speaker 22 (01:27:23):
I was just apparently talking about torches, and I was
just talking thinking about the old days when the best
torch he used to be able to buy was a
mag like like you said, the security give you a
whack on the head if you're a bit cheeky.

Speaker 2 (01:27:36):
I was obsessed with about three of them. You know,
they've got the six six of those big batteries. Are
fantastic torches. But then they went led and I don't
think they were as good.

Speaker 22 (01:27:47):
I don't think you're good. But I'd just love to
have a headlight torching. Now it's all the rays to
have a lead lenser. Don't know if you've seen those
in the shop.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
I think that might be the one I bought that's broken.

Speaker 3 (01:28:00):
It is it is.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
It is a lead lenser. And that's the one that's
that's yeah, that's the one that's stuffed. Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 22 (01:28:07):
Well, I just bought one last week because the holy
grail in the headlight torch is one that has one
AA bettery in it. You remember you used to always
have those little triple a's in there painting the butt
because they're always run out. But now they've got the
one a last forever in a seven year warranty on
the one I just bought.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
What is it a lead lens, a lead Leans with
one bettery yep.

Speaker 22 (01:28:32):
One bettery double A. I don't know if you remember.
They always used to have like used to have a
headband and have like a damn triple on those triple
a's and the painting the bum they always run out
and you can't put them in and you drop them.
How much it falls on the round?

Speaker 2 (01:28:46):
How much was the lead Leans with one bettery?

Speaker 22 (01:28:49):
It was one hundred bucks. But they had like models
that go up and down really flesh, not so flesh.
But I just tried this one out. Goes for ninety
four hours I think on low mode, about four and
a half hours on power mode.

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
Okay, would you where'd you get it from? Kellum?

Speaker 22 (01:29:06):
I got it from Rivers to Rangers in Hawk's Bay.

Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
Is it like is it like a sports shop?

Speaker 22 (01:29:15):
Yeah, little hunting and fishing shop.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
Great, Okay, I'll go see my hunting and fishing that's world.
It's where I should have gone the first place. But yeah,
I might say, if I get that one fixed, because
I said I spent hours on it, I was for
a strad looked at it and got no joy. Come
thank you? Nice to talk up past ten topics which
were swiveled to torches. The best torch is the worst
torches torch stories. There used to be a fantastic torch

(01:29:38):
you might remember, called the big Gym, which was just
like literally a bulb strapped onto a mess of battery.
It always seemed like the most no nonsense torch you
could ever see. But then they went to those mag lights,
which were good kind of for a while. Trouble with
Meg Night should always let leave them on and they'd
burn out. And then those lens of ones, which I
had one of and was just hasn't worked. Kind of

(01:30:02):
trying to work out where here we go. I trying
to work it where I could take it to get
it fixed. Marcus, will the n Zed sevens be on
TV in the morning? Have looked through the channels but
can't find anything. Cheers Lynn, Lynn, I can tell you
about this. The Sevens is on Sky fifty three, so

(01:30:22):
Sky Sport. I'll just confirm this for you, Sky Sport
fifty three. Yeah, it's all a bit sketchy how it works. Yeah,

(01:30:44):
Rugby seven's on sky Sport fifty three. Now the other
thing is I'll check on sky Open. I'm just going
to go through my remote to say on sky open
where that is also because I know it's been kind
of sky And here we go. I got sky Open,

(01:31:07):
which is channel four. That's the old Prime coverage for
we start our coverage Rugby seven. So it's on sky Opens.
It appears to be free to wear on Prime, the
old Prime which is now called sky Open. So there
you go. I've done God's work for you. Marcus the
equestrian woman band for whipping a horse four years ago.
Every horse race I've ever watched, the jockeys mercilessly whip

(01:31:30):
the horse down the home straight. Gaveg yes. But that's
not Olympic sport? Is it horse racing? But a questrian
is supposed to be a cut above that. Marcus, haven't
found a decent durable torch yet. Stainless steel russpastic goes brittle,
and cheap rubber gets sticky. I'm with you, David, Marcus. Welcome, Dave, Dave,

(01:31:50):
Dave Dave.

Speaker 3 (01:31:52):
Yeah, yeah, hi Marcus. I just did you see that
thing on ol Jazeera this morning about that young black
woman that was shot and killed by an American police officer.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
No, I saw the story pop up. One of my
things I didn't. I didn't click on. I didn't want
to see someone shot on a video. Is actual footage
of someone dying?

Speaker 3 (01:32:16):
Well, we don't actually see her in the shot. We
see we see the him shoot the woman, but we
don't she's standing behind her stove, but she calls down.

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
I'm not going to watch. That's too upsetting.

Speaker 3 (01:32:34):
Well, it is upsetting, but it's it's very, very real
and it should never have happened. She's just an innocent Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:32:43):
No, I mean how I mean, but jeeps, creeper is
what do you do with that outrage about stuff like that?

Speaker 3 (01:32:49):
Well, I mean, it's it's George Floyd all over again.
But it's a girl and she she called the police.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely understanding.

Speaker 3 (01:33:04):
She said there was an intruder in her house, and
she appeared at the front door with this police officer
and the next minute she had to go to her
stove to tone down the water was boiling and she
had to tone the water down. And then the next

(01:33:24):
minute he's saying to put the pot down.

Speaker 2 (01:33:28):
Yeah, okay. Has he been charged?

Speaker 3 (01:33:31):
Well, yeah, he's been fired and he's just he's just plared,
not guilty and.

Speaker 2 (01:33:38):
To murder a manslaughter or what's the charge.

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
Ah, well, I'm not too sure if it's murder or
a manslaughter. But you know how the American courts operate there,
they're completely wacko, and he'll probably get a lawyer who
may get him off. It's just a terrible, terrible thing.

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
Yeah, okay, yeah, no, I just look, I know, yeah,
I don't even know what to say about that. I mean,
there's enough our trade in this country. Leadlane, what's happening overseas?
You know that's the thing that I can't kind of
just get outraged about everything.

Speaker 3 (01:34:24):
Well no, no, you're right, we need you as as
our rock.

Speaker 2 (01:34:31):
But what what I find now that happens more and
more often, Dave, And you're you said that was on
Al Jazeera, So you're watching a bullet Yeah, but you're
watching a bulletin. Quite often. I'll be on websites now
and there'll be a story and you click on it
and before you know it, before your eyes, you're watching
someone get shot and killed. I've got no appetite for that,

(01:34:55):
you know, because because it seems as though there's no
they don't center any videos anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:35:01):
No, no, they don't. It's it's everything is always in
your face all time.

Speaker 2 (01:35:07):
It's too it's too full on for me of shots
of people, you know, assault and all that stuff. It's
and even I find on quite often on things there's
sort of situation where where there's sort of car xx
people say, you know, funny videos and you're watching something
there's cars killing, hitting people and killing and it's just
really disturbing.

Speaker 5 (01:35:28):
I know it.

Speaker 3 (01:35:29):
Look at television, it's television is a is a shadow
of what it wants.

Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
I think with television you've got the broadcasting standards and
there's timeslots, so they're not gonna they're not going to
broadcast stuff that's of people dying, whereas a video.

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
They want to protect you.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
Well, no, it's like there's there's the government legislations because
at certain timeslots you can't just such and I think
I'm happy for that, But when you can just click
on those videos that are that are not policed. It's
just horrible. Anyway, What what are you going to do
with your outrage, Dave? What are you going to do

(01:36:11):
with your outrage about this? It's another country. There's not
much you can do.

Speaker 3 (01:36:15):
Well, No, I can't really get outraged.

Speaker 11 (01:36:19):
I just.

Speaker 3 (01:36:23):
I just watch a video, you know, I watch a
happy video.

Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
Okay, I'll live it the day, but thank you. Twenty
two to eleven Torches, John Mail. Yeah, and maybe you
want some comment about that video. But it happen, seems
to happen all the time in the United States, and
there's sort of well, some get charged, some don't get charged,
depending on what. By the way, someone said, some of
the led lends of torches have a lock mode. If

(01:36:49):
you press and hold the button for two to three
seconds at locks unlock the torch so it can't be
turning by mistake.

Speaker 3 (01:36:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:36:57):
I appreciate that. So I thought about that. That could
well be what's wrong with it. I wouldn't think so,
but I would. Yeah, I kind of all apart. But
there's a frequent Someone sent me the website for a
frequency asked Frequently asked question page. I'll go and look
at that and look looking forward to your call to

(01:37:18):
torches as part of the topics as well tonight and
John Mail and the Olympics, but anything at all tonight. Basically,
it's not a topic sky, not like Monday. Godness, Monday,
we had topics like there was no tomorrow tonight. Well
we'll see how we go. Just looking at how to

(01:37:42):
fix a torch anyway, Oh, eight hundred and eighty to
nineteen nine two detect Marcus till midnight nineteen to eleven
tim from twelve. Hi, Tony, it's Marcus.

Speaker 17 (01:37:53):
Good evening, Hi, Marcus, Good evening, Marcus. I'm just phony
in about the character swoop Dog, who's going to be
the last torch bearer.

Speaker 2 (01:38:04):
Yeah, I don't think he's the last, but seems like
he's going to be the He changed his name to
Lion for what slip dog yep, sure, what, yep.

Speaker 17 (01:38:11):
He's interesting character. That guy's been around for a long
time and they must love him in France to have
him there.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
And I don't know, but well, he seems to be
very good at reinventing himself and along the way he
also reinvented Martha's Stuart because shaven Martha Stewart did a
marijuana cooking show.

Speaker 5 (01:38:30):
Well I didn't know that, Yeah, because she'd.

Speaker 2 (01:38:32):
Sort of been she'd been in prison, so she was
sort of had sort of that credibility. They got together
into this crook cooking show where they would do edibles.

Speaker 17 (01:38:41):
Well that's cool. Yeah, well not that I'm into that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:43):
But well, each to their own their own.

Speaker 17 (01:38:47):
Yeah, no, no harm. But yeah, what he seems to
have made has comeback time and again. And he I
think he's one of the original you know guys over there.
I'm not sure he did rap, but he was one
of the guys who've been around for years. And he
even come out on the Nineteen Crimes wine bottle. They
had a special Snoop dog one the wine the what

(01:39:11):
nineteen crimes, the the Australian wine that they had a
Californium white wine with his photo as a picture on it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:21):
Okay, yeah, I think I want to hear something about that.

Speaker 17 (01:39:23):
Yeah, yeah, that was a pretty rare one. Because they're
always selling the nineteen Crimes in the supermarkets. I'd buy
the red ones and thought I did buy a Snoop
Dogg And yeah, he's pretty cool, that guy. You know,
he's hears all that. You know that good clothing and
the chains and he looks he looks pretty cool and

(01:39:45):
he's got some good songs.

Speaker 2 (01:39:47):
And yeah, how come I've heard about nineteen crimes wine?
Not that I drank, but what is it? Is it
like in Australian is Australian wiry?

Speaker 17 (01:39:57):
It's an interesting one. It's all about the convicts who
come over from England to Australia the out. They're the
ones who built Australia. If they just if they committed
nineteen crimes or just petty crime, small petty crimes, they
got shipped over. If they survived that the boat Tripota,

(01:40:19):
they had to seven penal colonies and they used to
there might have been a Tapmania or Sydney and they
had to build up the city. So yeah, they they
did it hard, those guys. But yeah, nineteen crimes is
a really good label. Not that I drink it either much.
I'm interested in wine.

Speaker 2 (01:40:39):
But is there a bit a history of the criminal
on each label? Is there or something?

Speaker 17 (01:40:45):
There's a photo of each each.

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
I never heard of that, mind you again each one.
I live an Vcago and in the supermarket there's no
wine because we've got a license in trust.

Speaker 17 (01:40:58):
Oh, it's like West Auckland.

Speaker 2 (01:41:00):
Oh, don't get me started. So I'm not into I'm
not into the bottle stores either, but I'm not even
just looking past whine just to get where I need
to go, so I never see it.

Speaker 17 (01:41:10):
Yeah, well, nineteen Crimes is a good label. It's got
lots of interesting you know, we've got a photo of
a convict on each bottle. And you might have a
red like read that's been aged and barrels or a
charaz or a red yeah chardonnay. And they've all got
convict picture of a convict on the on the front,

(01:41:32):
let on the label.

Speaker 3 (01:41:34):
So why snoop on?

Speaker 2 (01:41:35):
Why snoop on one?

Speaker 17 (01:41:37):
Yeah? I did he say? Did he served a bit
of a crime? I don't know, but I don't really know. Yeah,
A good point.

Speaker 2 (01:41:44):
I thought I'll find out, Tony. Thank you. Fifteen to
eleven mon. Name is Marcus, Welcome some texts, Marcus, the
fringe is toll of the Olympic Games were on no offense?
The athletes for zoo and care anymore? Chris, you know
what's really gone off? As a fashion steering wheel covers?
I think they might be illegal. I don't know that, Marcus.

(01:42:06):
I work at see and have an led lens of
ps PR five four on deck. A fantastically great torch
worth the money, Marcus, Dolphin torches the best directly, have
a few of them and they last for like ages
a few sleeps. Anyway, rowdy, thank you. Marcus wanted to

(01:42:28):
get the Warriors package Las Vegas today, saw the packs
coming out town eleven am was working, got home and
all sold out. Checked in his in for flights only
almost more than the package. Talk about in New Zealand
cashing and not fear. What about the New Zealand young
man that got shot? Mate, tell me more about that.
We should be guaranteed a gold medal with Scott robertson

(01:42:49):
the break dancing. There you go, get in touch by
name's Marcus, Welcome, Hit'd twelve torches, Snoop Dogg, the Olympics,
anything else? I wait one hundred eighty ten eighty non curated,
non curated talk. I guess we'll call it that tonight

(01:43:14):
jump and if you want to be a part of it, Marcus,
till midnight. Keep the texts coming through. M Yeah, I
wait one hundred eighty ten eighty nineteen ninety the text
emails as well. If you've got them if you want
to send those through. Now, why is someone sending me

(01:43:38):
shots of art from secondhand shops? Tell me about that.
I don't know what that's about, but thank you for
sending me that, and get in touch if you want to.
Thirteen to eleven and I hope your knight's going well,
welcome if you want to give it a bit of
aar tickler long tonight. The only Olympic news I can

(01:44:01):
retell you is that the British British olympian's hopes are
in tened. She's been found with a video of her
whipping her horse and she's like Britain's most successful Olympian.
I would be much happier if they didn't have the
horses at the Olympics. Just doesn't seem to be in
the spirit of it for me. I know that we

(01:44:23):
always like, we like it if we get a horsey medal.
This woman, who name is Charlotte doujar d'n sounds like
a blue bud. She was hoping to become us to
Britain's most decorated female Olympian, but she's been suspended because
the video emerged of her whipping her horse. It looked

(01:44:46):
like it was very much a part of the training.
Looks like it was just a regularly regular whipping session.
She's kind of you know, it's not done in anger.
It's just not part of the training. Looks terrible. And
also talk about the father of British blues, John Male,
who has died at his home in California. He was

(01:45:06):
ninety lead the Blues Break Abandon influenced Blues Breakers, banned
influenced stars including Eric Clapton and mcfleetwood stop stop touring
three years ago. So he turned for a long long time.

(01:45:27):
And plenty of calls tonight of people that have seen
him here and loved him. From Greater Manchester. Formed the
Blues Breakers in the early nineteen sixties, credited with helping
develop a blues revive of late sixties, and has been
described as the father of British blues. So I fear
to talk about that, and also, funnily enough, also talking

(01:45:47):
tonight about the grateful deed. But ten away from eleven,
we've got anything to add And torches, torches that don't break,
torches that break, And how where would you take a
torch to be fixed? Nine ten fifty two Rather hope.
It's good to be our Wednesday hump Day Marcus till
twelve ten beverage from Midnight also too, I'll keep you

(01:46:08):
updated with the Olympics. This won't mem my third Olympics
doing it on the show. Would that be right? No,
I wouldn't be right. Oh yeah, because the jepand I'm
thinking about the Rio one. But the rare one was here.
Maybe I have been here that long he so will
have been.

Speaker 5 (01:46:25):
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
Rio. Of course, Rio was the one that was weird
that there was no one much there in some of
the events, and they also had lifeguards at the swimming,
which was bizarre considering they're the world's greatest swimmers. Considering
the swimmers and the pools would have been greatest swimmers
than the guards. But yeah, that was that. And then
of course they had the Olympics in Tokyo. I don't
know if that was twenty twenty or twenty three. One

(01:46:48):
might have been held back because of COVID and they
had no spectators there, but it went very well. Everyone
remembers them quite fondly. So these ones in Paris. I
think he wasn't expecting the going to be the best ever. Well,
the best of recent years, because it'd been a bit
patchy for the last few times. Of course there was chinay.
One's worried about the smog. But this one seems good.

(01:47:11):
They've cleared out the river. There's going to be swimming
in the river in the same in the mirror of Paris.
She's swumming there. Didn't get sick, So that's something's that's
going to happen. What else can I tell you about that? Oh,
by the way, the opening ceremony is in the river.
All the teams don't go into a state, and they
go down the river on a barge or different barges

(01:47:32):
and boats. Then Lady Gaga will sing and Celine Dion
will sing. So there you go, There you go. Marcus,
nineteen Crimes Wine has talking labels. There's an app which

(01:47:52):
appointed the label covering it comes alive and tells the story. Gosh,
you've always thought one was just marketing, and that's made
me kind of think of agreed with that. Marcus Snoop dogg.
When did Jamaica met? When of Bob Marley survived? Whalers
who gave Stoop the title Lie in the Haze of Smoke?
Thank you? Someone wanted enough I vape and I don't vape.

(01:48:20):
I was keen to vape, but never liked the flavors.
I thought of there was a more authentic flavor. It
might be a bit of me. But no, And I'll
tell you what the other thing about vaping for me? Right,
I found the whole vaping shop experience completely dispiriting. I

(01:48:43):
went to a shop and don't eeden to buy a vape.
I say you, it went like a pipe, like a
not like a like a pipe to smoke, it like
a wooden pipe. But I went to the vape shop
and had a chat to them, and they were completely unhelpful,
and it seemed and it might have been a generational thing,
but I had a great deal of trouble explained to

(01:49:04):
them what I wanted, and they said there might be
a shop in South and Eden, it'll help you. I thought, well,
could you ring them? If you go on their website,
how can I find out? But they were Yeah, the
workers at the vape shop always looked disengaged. But that
might just be retail. And you might be right. I
might be better off on Temu because all these vape
shops there's sprinkts. They're sprouting up like tops all over

(01:49:28):
the country. But boy oh boy, they're all empty, with
just one person on a cell phone behind the counter,
looking completely bored and disengaged. But fair enough, it's probably
not a great job, is it selling an addictive product?

Speaker 12 (01:49:43):
But there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:49:43):
That's my rant about vaping. You've probably heard it before.
But each to their own. I see how people are
getting into that, draw into that, the ones that heat
up the tobacco. There we go, five away from eleven o'clock.
My name is Marcus. Welcome here till twelve oh, eight
hundred and eighty. So to keep the text emails whatever
you got tonight, they'd tut me, get a pretty last hour,

(01:50:07):
and let's be hearing from you if you do want
to add something to it. Oh, Jason and Mag, I'm
not quite email from Jason and Mag. Thank you Jason
and Mag. I think I'll answer that off air, but
thank you for that, and keep those emails coming through too,

(01:50:30):
but just mainly have emails you want to be read
out on. Here is probably more. It's probably more interesting
instead of asking me if I'm operaking Airbnb, which certainly
I am not, but thank you, but hold your horses
back after the break and looking forward to what you've
got to say. Gosh, we didn't know the Canada Geese night,
don't we I feel? But yeah, get in touch. Oh

(01:50:51):
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. My name is Marcus.
Welcome here till twelve o'clock and there will be Olympic action.
There will be the rugby sevens from about one thirty
men's rugby sevens, and there also will be the men's
Olly Whites, which is a New Zealand football team. But
it's an under the twenty three year old football team

(01:51:13):
including three people that are over twenty three. I don't
know why they did it that way. I guess they
want to make it different from the World Cup or
oh yeah, it must just be what the Football Federation allowed.
But that's the way the Olympic football has worked since.
But we're lucky, we're qualified to be brutally honest. But
that's going to happen along from we're playing Guinea in

(01:51:35):
the morning. So straightforward question for me, we should I
take my torch to get fixed the led lensa So
there we go. That's the question. Who's going to fix it?

Speaker 4 (01:51:52):
For me?

Speaker 2 (01:51:52):
I've become slightly obsessed about this now, having spent a
good hour. When you've got kids, you spend a lot
of time looking for torches. So there we go. So
that that's the torch. I guess it's probably no where
you can take it. The wires going to the LED.
But why have they snapped or why would have they
come unstuck? It's not the batteries. And the good thing

(01:52:14):
about those I was going to say about the news
the good night before the news the good Night, about
those mad lights like the cops had there was always
a spear bulb in the foam in the spring at
the bottom. But the LED lenses has been disappointed at
work once, very disappointing. So we are talking about John
Mayle and the grateful deed and the Olympics and torches,

(01:52:36):
how to fix torches, good and bad tortues and this
wine with criminals on the label, which I hadn't heard
about in Snoop Dog. So yeah, she's a bit of everything.
Boy wow. And the cop that shot the person the
states Marcus, where can you take war clocks, old radios,

(01:52:58):
grammarphones or PlayStations to get fixed? Where can you take
old mobile phones to retrieve photos? Good question, Marcus. Talking
of torches, I ended up in a research loop about
EMPs last night. Was gonna build a Faraday cage from
my generator as asult, but then thought what would be

(01:53:19):
left to power regards. I don't know what that's about, Marcus.
Too funny repairing a torch. They barely repair cars. Washing
machine on TVs Nowaday incredible waste. Good luck with that, Pete.
Don't fix a torch. I can't sleep until my torch

(01:53:40):
is fixed, Marcus. My husband and I flew to christ
At twenty years ago from your plymouth c John Mail
at the town hall. A great night. He signed my
husband's ticket and shook his hand. Lovely talent man, like
a talent man. Torches the best torch, the worst torch.
Where would you get a torch to fix? And I've

(01:54:01):
gone on the led Lens's website and all their parts
are sold out? Idiots. The only thing I've ever bought
that I'd be happy with, In fact, I wasn't brought.
I was given a leatherman and I returned that to
tight Lines in Hawks Bay, and they sent me a replacement.
They are the leathermon people, without a doubt, are the

(01:54:22):
best people for it, and I broke the saw. No,
the scissors. Now I've broken the pliers trying to stay
straight in the tent pegs. I'll send it back again, Jason,
it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 6 (01:54:35):
Hey, Marcus siding man with Jason. Hey, I thought i'd
ring up and give you some hints on how to
fix a torch. I was actually just about to go
to sleep, but I've heard you need a bit of help,
so I thought i'd ring up and tell you. You
can't really fix electronic products just by looking at them.
You have to have electronic testing tools like a multimeter,

(01:55:00):
and then you can test the individual wires to make
sure there's not a break in the wires, and tests
to switch gear and the battery voltage. That's how you
fix electronic things.

Speaker 2 (01:55:13):
Well, according to YouTube, you're supposed to get sandpaper and
file down the top and bottom. So they want some things, okay,
you know, Jason, Jason, Am I going to send it
to you?

Speaker 15 (01:55:30):
No?

Speaker 14 (01:55:31):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (01:55:31):
Why not? You got all the.

Speaker 6 (01:55:33):
Gear fixed torches. You don't just give a year electronic electronic.

Speaker 2 (01:55:40):
But what a beautifulness, what a beautiful thing this would
be if suddenly, how's the torch, Marcus, how's the torch
going that you're fixed? No good things you need?

Speaker 6 (01:55:49):
You need to learn how to do it yourself, and
it's not hard.

Speaker 2 (01:55:52):
Then I got to go buy all the testing gear
just rather.

Speaker 6 (01:55:56):
It's like fifteen dollars for a multimeter, maybe less.

Speaker 2 (01:56:01):
I'll give you a hundred, I give I'll give you
a hundred to fix it, Jason.

Speaker 6 (01:56:06):
No, no, and then you can go onto YouTube and
learn how to use a multi meter.

Speaker 2 (01:56:12):
Okay, okay, I probably So where do I put the
connection between because there's no wires. It's just that the
cylinder seems to be the wire from the bottom to
create the loop. I've looked at this.

Speaker 6 (01:56:25):
Yeah, well I have fixed torches before, and you have
to come across that problem. And the problem what you
just said is a lot of the times that those
two connections aren't touching when you put the torch back together.

Speaker 13 (01:56:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:56:38):
Okay, so that's a bit hard to test with the multimeter,
but if you do a bit of fiddling around with it,
you should be able to check out that it's got
a connection there. But a multimeter is a really useful
thing with electronics or anything with wires because you can
just do simple tests like there's no brakes in the wires,

(01:56:59):
you know, so it's really handy, tall and you can
do voltage with it as well.

Speaker 2 (01:57:04):
What goes wrong with LED light bulb? Well, they would
have put a light bulbs just like a little bit
of a square, aren't they? What goes wrong with those?

Speaker 13 (01:57:12):
They're actually a life and missing diode so the select
and there's not really a lot does go wrong with them,
So it's probably not a burnt out of LED.

Speaker 6 (01:57:23):
That's what I think, probably a connection problem.

Speaker 2 (01:57:26):
I got kids watching me. I say watch this, kids
are going to fix this? Where they get bored after
an hour, I lost.

Speaker 6 (01:57:32):
Really frustrating.

Speaker 2 (01:57:33):
There we go, these are just you're gonna help me out, Jason.

Speaker 6 (01:57:38):
I just have helped you out, Bud. I'm giving you
a trying to listen by phone.

Speaker 2 (01:57:44):
Thank you. There we go on to torch yesterday, how
to fix a torch. He'll fix the torch. I feel
like I need to get this torch fixed. Get in
touch to you on a fix with torch, Marcus. I'll
do your torch for one hundred guaranteed, and I make
a video of the fault. See what this person's other
texts are they haven't sent me Oh yeah, are they.

(01:58:13):
That's just saying as they've shown much well they've said
text through about power cables, electric keiw goodness, John, Marcus, welcome,
Hello Marcus, John, Good John, How you do?

Speaker 16 (01:58:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (01:58:34):
Yeah, I've got like I seem to be like a
little bit of a holder. Actually I've got so many torches.
I mean if you're sort of.

Speaker 2 (01:58:44):
Like John when you say a bit of a when
you say you're a bit of a hoarder, I reckon
that means you're a full blower hoarder. Is that right?

Speaker 7 (01:58:51):
Wow? Not really?

Speaker 6 (01:58:53):
My house is like my house is like, you.

Speaker 23 (01:58:55):
Know, pretty tidy. You know, Okay, you know I've got
quite a large house and it's you know, it's party.
You know, people come around and go, you know, you
know myself and it is a tiny how but I
do you know when it comes to tools and you know,
like flashlash, you useful things, I've got a lot of
a lot of things, and I've got a number of torches.

(01:59:19):
And yeah, if you give me an address, because what Dad,
my dad, before he died, he brought me this like
a truncheon, a truncheon type type torch.

Speaker 2 (01:59:29):
There's like a Meg. There's like a meg like, but
are you are you to repair John?

Speaker 8 (01:59:38):
What I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:59:39):
Are you going to repair it?

Speaker 7 (01:59:41):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:59:41):
No, no, it's working.

Speaker 2 (01:59:43):
It's just to Are you going to repair my torch?

Speaker 17 (01:59:47):
Ah?

Speaker 23 (01:59:47):
No, I'll send you this this thing.

Speaker 2 (01:59:50):
I know I want to.

Speaker 7 (01:59:51):
I want to.

Speaker 2 (01:59:52):
I want this torch fix. I don't want your torch.

Speaker 3 (01:59:55):
Okay, well I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:59:58):
I'm not only trying to scrounge your torch. I just
think I'm so frustrated's being an error on this one
that I want to get a new one and I
want to fix. I want to get this one fixed.
That's the but nice to hear from you. Fifteen past eleven.
I just feel I want to drop it into a shop.
What about the mister minute. They've always got torches where
they fix them as well. They seem handy at mister minute, Marcus,

(02:00:24):
you don't need a torch. Phone ones work brilliant.

Speaker 7 (02:00:26):
Gary.

Speaker 2 (02:00:26):
Yeah, you're quite right, Gary. I think probably what I
need is a poorer phone with a better torch. But
he's quite right. The only reason I wanted the torch
is because we went to something called Orion Scaring, which
is a Halloween based nighttime orient tearing right, and it's
said on that I see brochure. It's not really a

(02:00:47):
brochure because it was on a website on a Facebook page,
but it said cell phone torchu is not suitable. But
in the un I did it with a cell phone torture.
It was fine. But I'd like to and you make
a good point. I don't know why I want my
other torch fixed, but it's one of those It's a
guy thing, is it. Men feel they need Zippo lighters

(02:01:07):
and torches for no reason because we're not going anywhere.
You need a torch, Well I'm not, but yeah, I
just feel that it's the stage in your life. You
buy a good torch and you want it to work anyway.
If you want to talk about that, then that's what
I'm here for tonight. If you don't, fine, We're also

(02:01:27):
talking about John Mayl and we are talking tonight about
the Olympics and about the Grateful Deared. So if that's
a topic for you, good, get in touch now you
might have something entirely different. I'll be well and truly
up for that, like up for it, like you wouldn't believe.

(02:01:48):
So get in touch. Marcus Still Midnight but mainly, if
I can find someone tonight who could fix my torch,
that means that my night will be complete. But I'd
like it for someone that's local and that guys right
I did. I like to fix it myself, but I
just can't, for the life of me, work out how
I do it. Because I tried everything. I had the sandpaper,

(02:02:09):
outers doing the connections, I was squeezing things, dismantled the
switch mechanism. I really thought I was going to show
kids the power of fixing something, but the longer I went,
the kids had got no confidence been at all. It
was sad, heartbreaking even anyway, Marcus, if you can't fix

(02:02:40):
a torch, I didn't buy a vape no one. No
one can fix my torch. It's not just me, Marcus.
I've just tuned in. What model is it? It's an
led lens. I don't even know why I brought the
stupid thing. It's got a verap elaborate pouch. Marcus, now
understand why torch and torture sounds similar. Drop this topic, please, Marcus.

(02:03:04):
More and more town cities have rebet repair cafes, mostly
stuff by volunteers. We don't have one, just had both
these replaced at lunch time, been up for a stroll already.
Surely your torch can be fixed, Marcus, I suggest going

(02:03:24):
to a TV repair workshop. They get all sorts of
electronic stuff to repair. Where would you go to repair
a torch? I'm going to become fixated on this now.
I can feel it. Not in a bad way, but yeah,
I need that torch fixed. What will I do with that? Marcus?

(02:03:51):
How long have you're on the torch? And how much
did you pay for it under the consumer guarantee? I've
got no idea where I bought it. I have probably
had it for ten years at work once, but I
can't actually have to go think back where I bought it.
Vanessa might remember. I've got no idea. I can almost
imagine I can feel the weight of it in my

(02:04:12):
hand when I received it. Where was I? No idea?

Speaker 5 (02:04:18):
Where was I?

Speaker 3 (02:04:18):
Liz?

Speaker 19 (02:04:21):
I don't know, but we'll come in the stiric cod
of it. Miss A Minute's the minute from my knowledge,
and I haven't been there. Do respect remote controls for
doors for garrette doores? So I would suggest that we
worth going to. But my theory is, why don't you

(02:04:43):
just pull it to boots.

Speaker 2 (02:04:44):
I have pulled it to bits a hundred times on.

Speaker 19 (02:04:48):
What's happened when you pulled it to burs, Well, nothing's happened.

Speaker 2 (02:04:52):
You get the batteries, you take those out, the springs,
you check the points, you check the connections, you remove
the bit with the bulb, with the bulbs just an
LED light emitting diode, so there's nothing there, and then
you screw it back together. Then you screw it back
together with great excitement and hope, and you turn the
switch on, knowing it's going to go. It just doesn't go.
The world laughs at you.

Speaker 19 (02:05:14):
Is there any more? Is there extra place you can
pull it to bits?

Speaker 12 (02:05:19):
Is only that place you can pulled?

Speaker 19 (02:05:21):
The bits mean well to me, i'd pull it to
visit and if I beg it, i'd say good, I've
had to go. But I haven't got one of those torches,
so I can't.

Speaker 2 (02:05:32):
You're lucky. You're lucky you haven't got one, because it's
been in my life.

Speaker 15 (02:05:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (02:05:36):
But what my theory behind it is that pull it
apart just a minute, because you must be able to
pull it somewhere and see more. And if you recond world,
then you can tail too bad I've wrecked it now.

Speaker 2 (02:05:53):
No, I've taken it apart to all. It's every single
part apart I've taken it. Yeah, I've taken a part
more more part than you take it, torch. I wish
I never mentioned it. Thank you. My torch is on
charge for six hours a day between shifts. Charging is
meant to be bad for the battery long term, but
I've had it for four years and use every day anyway. Yeah,

(02:06:18):
I got to think it where I bought it, that's
going to be that's going to haunt me as well.
Twenty one past day. We're talking about fixing, but nothing
can be fixed now, and I know that's sort of
a hopeless So the world's gone a hell in a handcart.
At least no one said I should buy a torch
from Temu ten years old. And you've used it once,
you don't need it. Well, I only used it once

(02:06:40):
because they haven't worked since I've used other ones. Simon Marcus,
good evening and welcome.

Speaker 11 (02:06:47):
I'll get it makes sell you good.

Speaker 2 (02:06:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (02:06:50):
Part from the porch. I'm going to seduce you about
the torch. Can you get into the bulb and withdraw
the bulb from the reflector at all.

Speaker 2 (02:07:01):
No, the the bulb was just a square led bit
that sits proud of the the thing it's on. And
the two screws to get that are like a screw
that is a star shape, a tiny one that's a
star shape, which I haven't got one of those. I've
got most, but those a titt of watchmakers. What are
the star shaped ones. I've never come across one like that.

Speaker 11 (02:07:24):
Oh, it's just a year screw.

Speaker 2 (02:07:27):
But it would have but like a star, would like
shape pointed star, not like a phillips or not like
a one.

Speaker 1 (02:07:35):
Of the other.

Speaker 11 (02:07:36):
It's a few more sides in there.

Speaker 2 (02:07:38):
Yeah, what's that about.

Speaker 11 (02:07:41):
It's just to make them foolproof so people can't Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:07:46):
I'm not happy about that either, because normally the normally
a kitchen knife will work on one of those screws,
but not in this case. I tried everything.

Speaker 11 (02:07:55):
It might be a bit loud, Jane, but something. Yeah,
because the bold on the it's just a couple of wires.
I think we're going to the holders and when you
to scrape, you know, there might be a bit might
have been a bit of moisture getting or something, and
it might be a bit loose for something you.

Speaker 2 (02:08:15):
But I'm obsessed about it now. It might what will
you call a star shaped screwdriver?

Speaker 11 (02:08:23):
Oh? I think you just call it call that. They
might They might have an idea if you called it
to scoll it bed.

Speaker 2 (02:08:36):
Okay, well I'm obsessed now, so I'm going to fix
it un determined Simon to thank you, But yeah, that
was a good thing about the Meg lights. They were very,
very easy to fix. You take it all apart. You
have the spear bulb in the bottom. Nothing was better.
But then these stupid lead lenses came along. If you
can buy the meg lights anymore, Chris Marcus, welcome a Marcus.

Speaker 7 (02:08:58):
I've got probably what might sound like a little bit
of a diver hack for you to try out on
your torch is to fold up a piece of tinfoil
and put it in between the batteries. Is this the
one battery or a two battery torch?

Speaker 2 (02:09:14):
Four batteries? No, eight batteries eight batteries to.

Speaker 22 (02:09:23):
Yeah, yeah, and so fold it yeah.

Speaker 24 (02:09:26):
So that's not big.

Speaker 7 (02:09:28):
So fold it up a few times because that may
work as a conductor, and also push the batteries closer
to creating the connection because it might be just a
little bit off the actual connection to the actual LED themselves.
That's that's sort of what i'd give a go. I mean,
there'll be a one minute, not a sixty minute hat

(02:09:49):
and if that doesn't work, maybe there's the LEDs themselves.

Speaker 2 (02:09:53):
I think was miserable that guy said he wouldn't fix it.
That ring me up with all the talk about like
seat like testers and stuff.

Speaker 7 (02:10:01):
Look, if you were going to send me a hundred
bucks and the torch, i'd fix it for you. Send
at home with a piece of tinfoil and if it worked.

Speaker 24 (02:10:10):
But yeah, I don't know, it's.

Speaker 7 (02:10:14):
It may be just a dud. It could be, So
get home to give the tinfoil a try and if
it works, you know, that's a that's a point on you.
Whenever I come back from New Hill.

Speaker 2 (02:10:27):
Brilliant, Okay, I mean you know what it's gonna happen.
I get home tonight. That's going to go be up
till five in the morning when the kids get up.
I was still be there, slavery over the torch. Get
the cold range going in a freezing cold house. David,
it's Marcus, good evening and welcome.

Speaker 7 (02:10:43):
Yeah, I've got the answer what you do with your
torch on?

Speaker 2 (02:10:48):
Hang on, Dave, can I just talk to you a
bit right?

Speaker 11 (02:10:51):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:10:52):
No, hang on because I'm excited to hear from your David.
This is important. Okay, are you ready? I've went. You're
in christ Jews. I went to your fair city, right,
spend a week there?

Speaker 3 (02:11:02):
You went to to here?

Speaker 2 (02:11:04):
Yeah, but that does at you bright Bright. They're sensational.
They are sensational.

Speaker 6 (02:11:14):
They're expensive.

Speaker 2 (02:11:16):
Oh well I didn't pay Vanessa does the money. We
had two kids. I thought they were fairly reasonable compared
to Hamner.

Speaker 18 (02:11:24):
I compared to handle the half priced at least you
reason than twenty some dollars.

Speaker 16 (02:11:28):
But you get it even cheaper.

Speaker 18 (02:11:31):
If you got you can prove your resident.

Speaker 5 (02:11:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:11:34):
Well, if Fanessa said something, we've got to tip, we've
got it. Because quite hard to book them. But if
you if you buy a concession ticket. But the thing
that I liked about it is everyone in there was incredible.
The people I met there was incredibly friendly.

Speaker 7 (02:11:47):
Jenny Jenny Jet jed Yes, the Yeah, there's a social scene.

Speaker 18 (02:11:52):
It's a little bit that way where I go. Juey too.

Speaker 3 (02:11:54):
See, Oh I get you.

Speaker 2 (02:11:57):
I thought you went to the New Brighton Hot Polls.

Speaker 7 (02:12:00):
Yeah, and Pioneer.

Speaker 18 (02:12:01):
I've got a membership for them all, but your Brighton's
a little.

Speaker 14 (02:12:04):
Bit different that.

Speaker 2 (02:12:05):
Okay, I thought i'd see you that. I thought i'd
see you there. That's why I was excited.

Speaker 7 (02:12:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (02:12:11):
Well, if you were at the right time when you
went to q E two or Pioneer, you probably would.
And when you sitting the tour and aren't having a chat.
You see, we solve all the world's problems, including tortures
and what to do with them, which is what I'm
going to do with you for you to save you
and agree and let us build a bonfire and burner.

Speaker 2 (02:12:35):
Thanks David, Jeff, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 25 (02:12:39):
Yeah, there you go, Marcus.

Speaker 5 (02:12:40):
Good Jeff, your torch.

Speaker 4 (02:12:45):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (02:12:46):
Yep?

Speaker 25 (02:12:47):
Yeah, you can send that back to the company and
walk stay called Tipelines and they'll fix it for you.

Speaker 5 (02:12:54):
Is it good? Good?

Speaker 2 (02:12:56):
Are they the same ones that do the Leatherman?

Speaker 5 (02:12:59):
Yeah, they're really good to deal with.

Speaker 2 (02:13:03):
I've said I've sent the Leatherman back and it was
back and brand you replacement. I've got to leave them
and that's broken. So yeah, I don't know they were
the importers of that. Well, I wonder why it's never worked.

Speaker 25 (02:13:15):
If it's never really worked from just a faulty one
made on a Monday or a Friday or something.

Speaker 22 (02:13:20):
Yeah, okay, but yeah, they're really good to deal with.

Speaker 16 (02:13:25):
The new torch beat.

Speaker 2 (02:13:27):
Okay, Jeff, I agree with you. Thank you. That's I'll
get one of those. I'll get one of those envelopes
with the bubbles in a Yeah, brilliant makes sense. Thank you.
Twenty nine to twelve O eight one hundred and eighty
eighty nine nine to the text iPhone repair kit and
stock deal on trade Me has star shape. Someone please
fix Marcus's torch. Where can an e scow to be

(02:13:51):
taken to get repaired? They were Christmas gifts and I
never know where they were bought from. I don't know
where you'd get to fix an e scoot. I mean
that's the thing. We need to have a website we're
gonna get fixed. Scotti says it's a talks d screw
t X. Sounds like you need to buy a talk

(02:14:13):
spit and multimeter of the other thing. I probably need
a discussion about too, is battery recharges. They're never good,
are they? Anyway? You might want to mention that too,
So there we go. Another one gets fixed. My torch
gets fixed. What else do we need to get fixed?

(02:14:36):
I think that's to be sorted tonight. By the way, Marcus,
also ensure the transport lock is not on a hold
down the main switch of the headlamp for five chickens
and engage a transport lock or remove batteries. I think
it's said that eleven though. If the lock's on, it
will just it will just light up for a second.

(02:14:58):
It hasn't lit up at all. Oh, how are you
going people? What's happening with you are? My name is Marcus.
Good evening. I hope things are good. Welcome, welcome, welcome,
anything goes for the final flurry. How to get a
torch fixed? Or how would you fix a torch? I
reckon there might be no. You probably wouldn't make any
money if you sit up a torch fixing kind of
a But yeah, the great torches we've owned now, Marcus

(02:15:31):
Nigley from Sky. Places like hospitals and motels only have
Sky fifty one and fifty two sometimes, so those people
are going to miss out, Pete, Yeah, but they will
see it. I think we've got quite a generous prack package.
They will have it on they will have it on Prime.

(02:15:55):
That's my idea, Marcus. I've got High Being Torches, an
Australian company which I recharged with very bright, great light.
Check out the website. I then surely there would be
something that you could design, a torch called the unbreakable
torch that would just never that's what people would you know,

(02:16:18):
ber licensed to print money because everyone's spent their fortune
on dud torches. There's a company called Vata Varta unbreakable torch.
That's what you want. One of doesn't eat batteries. Why
have so many batteries? The unbreakable torch. That's going to
be my next thing. But anyway, if you might have

(02:16:38):
gone and brought yourself an indestructible torch, that would be
of interest to me tonight. I don't even know why
I want a torch, by the way, that's the that's
the irony. As someone point out a prob however, use
a torch. Who's got your cell phone? Torch? Anyway? But yeah,
get in touch, you got anything, torch, inspire anything else
you want to mention people. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Hitdle twelve

(02:17:01):
eighteen away to midnight ahead of the end. Tim Beverage
along from twelve o'clock tonight, John Mayle, We've discussed, We've
discussed the Olympics and how to watch them. Everyone's got
any more questions on that how to watch the Olympics.
I can't help you out with that. We can crowd
sauce it and let you know. But there seems to

(02:17:22):
be ten or nine channels on Sky but it's not
really kicking in just yet, so for tonight it's just
on a couple of the regular channels fifty two and
fifty three, sorry, fifty three and fifty four to get
the rugby and the Ollie Whites who are playing Guinea.

(02:17:44):
I don't quite know how all that's going to go,
but I think, well, you know, be able to lost
the first match are out, but I think it's probably
a round robin thing, but you'd want to win the
first one just to get your confidence up. That would
be my take, Marcus. Here in Australia, there's a lot
of bars and coverage about the Olympics. Ozzie's already proud

(02:18:05):
of their Olympia dedicated free channels to watch them on.
As I'm listening to you now and watching the Olympic
Channel interviewing athletes and showing past events. I feel like
New Zealand's coverage could step it up a notch. Yeah,
I agree entirely. I think we've missed the boat. But
there's no money in TV and the government hasn't made
it a priority to cover the Olympics, which is kind
of crazy because they're always giving money to the Olympics.

(02:18:27):
There's always millions of dollars for the athletes, and they
should spend some money to secure the rights so we
can have it free to wear to watch it. I
think it's a very very good point you've made, Thank you, Marcus.
Different towns have an icon of fisher carrotell and pea bottle.
Is there a town anywhere that has a statue of

(02:18:47):
a torch? I guess it's lighthouses. Not quite the same.
Someone says, thinking of torches, it's International Security Guard day
to day. That's how I got onto it. Thank you.
That was the segue from that to torches. But how
would you fix the torch people? Someone would have done that.

(02:19:11):
How do you do that? Someone sent me a link
for an LED service. I'm looking at that now.

Speaker 7 (02:19:22):
By the way.

Speaker 2 (02:19:24):
But yeah, the torch didn't work well. I think one
worked once and maybe I dropped it, but you know,
I can't remember it. But they should have handled that,
shouldn't they torch can't handle being dropped. It's not much
of a torch. By the way, Guinea are the favorite
for this football match. Guinea is paying a dollar sixty

(02:19:45):
five to win New Zealand five dollars seventy five, so
we're not favorites. That'd be a good result if we win.
That that happens. Actually, I'll find the whole timing for
you for that. That's because I think some of you
people stay out this light will be interested in that.
Let me just bring up that information about what top

(02:20:05):
exactly starts, Marcus Senior. Torch to school with your kids.
Some teachers will know how to repair it. Yeah right.
I'll just give you the schedule of who's playing when
tonight because I think they will be of importance. Just
bring that up email. People, hold your horses overnight. Here's

(02:20:30):
what's happening. Australia versus Summer and the rugby sevens at
one thirty am, Argentina Kenya in the sevens at two
am France Usa two thirty am, and then at three
am New Zealand, Guinea and the Football. Then in four

(02:20:51):
am New Zealand, Japan and the sevens, five am Australia.
Ken you're at the sevens five thirty am Argentina. Some
are in the sevens and seven thirty am New Zealand
versus South Africa and the sevens. So yes, so that's
quite late, because I think probably it's I think it's probably.

(02:21:12):
Oh no, it's only one in the afternoon now, isn't it. Yeah,
it's one in the afternoon now, so it's not late.
It's early. I'm pretty sure there's ten hours behind. Let's
break ten from twelve ten beverage along from Midnight Markets,
Marcus good evening.

Speaker 3 (02:21:29):
It's Mark.

Speaker 15 (02:21:30):
There is a statue of so many with a tort
it's a New York Harbor and it's called the specul Limited.

Speaker 2 (02:21:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, year year year, and it's made in France.

Speaker 15 (02:21:41):
I see it does. Now it's well, I've got to
did you go to Frock House?

Speaker 17 (02:21:48):
No?

Speaker 15 (02:21:52):
Did you go to Fox House? No, I've got the
wrong person. I thought you did. Never mind.

Speaker 2 (02:22:00):
Hang on, hang hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, Mark,
did you go to the reunion.

Speaker 15 (02:22:05):
I went to the reunion and it was avery fantastic.
I've heard the three people there.

Speaker 2 (02:22:13):
I've heard good things about it.

Speaker 15 (02:22:15):
It was Margaret and I was Mark.

Speaker 2 (02:22:19):
There's a guy who's called Roman Travis, who's on the
who's on on the mid dawns not tonight. He went
to Flockhouse.

Speaker 15 (02:22:27):
Oh, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (02:22:29):
Good was he at the reunion?

Speaker 15 (02:22:32):
I'll have to look at the list. There was just
on three hundred people there. Well, they gave you the
list with all your names on and rich table at
t SFE and the oldest runs for on table twenty
five and the three of us and I was the
oldest one there and they gave me the job of

(02:22:55):
cutting the big cake.

Speaker 2 (02:22:57):
Oh god, and what Mark? What year were you there?

Speaker 15 (02:23:00):
Two forty nine?

Speaker 2 (02:23:02):
Oh okay, so you'd be twenty nine, you've been your
nineties ninety one. I'll go you eh, okay, Well, yeah
you should ring romance sometime about that. He's I don't
know what nights he's on this week, but he's the guy.

Speaker 12 (02:23:17):
Good.

Speaker 2 (02:23:17):
I thank you very much, my absolute pleasure. Mark, Thank
you lovely. Stuart Marcus welcome, gooday, how are you good?
Stuart ten out of ten. This in yourself?

Speaker 24 (02:23:27):
Yeah, yeah, can't complain. Loving the dream been New Zealand's
top top radio host. You can afford to buy a
new torch, so why are you worried about trying to
fix one?

Speaker 2 (02:23:43):
Only one planet? There's landfall you buy a torch that
there's a point of pride in buying a too. You
think you've brought a good torch and it stops working.
I mean things should be able to be repaired, shouldn't they.

Speaker 24 (02:23:56):
It's a throwaway society, Marcus. There's just if it stuffs out.

Speaker 7 (02:24:00):
Show away and not with a torch.

Speaker 2 (02:24:02):
Though a torch is not part of it. It's metal.
It's not a throwaway thing, Yes it is. I don't
would you throw away a torch?

Speaker 7 (02:24:11):
Yep?

Speaker 24 (02:24:12):
The only thing I'd keep is if it If it
needed bad trees, then i'd replace the bat trees. But
if it was something technical, i'd try out.

Speaker 2 (02:24:22):
That's heartbreaking, Stewart, that you've become like that. I thought
you'd be more more so what else so you wouldn't repeat?
What about a washing machine?

Speaker 24 (02:24:34):
I know I definitely get there first. They're expensive, the.

Speaker 15 (02:24:38):
One with the dry.

Speaker 2 (02:24:42):
What about a like a kitchen.

Speaker 24 (02:24:45):
WHI was, uh, kitchen was like a food process or
the food process is there about one hundred odd dollars.
So you just because by the time you take it
into say someone that's technical, it's going to cost you

(02:25:06):
just much again to buy a new one as the
place to get it repaired markers.

Speaker 2 (02:25:10):
Yeah, but then you but then the world's better off
they've had to make another torch. I'd be I'd prefer
to pay what it costs to have it repaired.

Speaker 22 (02:25:19):
Yeah, but you could be.

Speaker 24 (02:25:20):
You could be looking at quite a quite a lot
of money to get it repaired, though, as.

Speaker 2 (02:25:26):
Long as it doesn't cost more than a new one,
I'd be happy with that.

Speaker 24 (02:25:31):
Yeah, but you're sort of paying or what did you
pay for the last one? If you don't mind me asking.

Speaker 2 (02:25:37):
It could be anywhere between one hundred and too hundred dollars.
I can't remember, but it was a lot I think
for a torch.

Speaker 24 (02:25:42):
Yeah, yeah, okay, And it's must be big because it's
not eight batteries are eight sized D batteries are the
small batteries.

Speaker 2 (02:25:52):
It's not that big. It's they're like it's it's like
eight eight double a's not triple a's eight double a's.

Speaker 24 (02:26:01):
Oh yeah, okay, I thought you eight decized batteries. Yeah,
crush all nuts with.

Speaker 2 (02:26:07):
Them, I really said. I think that's Stuart. That's probably
the saidst call. I've had my talk back days that
if anything breaks, you just throw it away like a torch.

Speaker 14 (02:26:18):
Ye.

Speaker 24 (02:26:20):
Yeah, that's what's he's in nowadays, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (02:26:23):
That's what.

Speaker 24 (02:26:26):
Look up on the side of the road that people
where are you?

Speaker 2 (02:26:29):
Where are you taking your cues from to just throw
stuff away like that? What if your jeans, what if
your jeans lost? But what if your shirt lost a button?

Speaker 24 (02:26:39):
I know, I know that's different. So that on, Yeah,
that's it's it's just the costory peers that someone is
going to fix your or call it equipment for one
of a better expression.

Speaker 2 (02:26:56):
You know, I still think you're better off, you know,
I think you're better off repairing stuff.

Speaker 24 (02:26:59):
I think, come on, Marcus, with your.

Speaker 2 (02:27:05):
God, with what.

Speaker 24 (02:27:08):
I was going to say, with your money, you're going
to afford it that a one hundred torches.

Speaker 2 (02:27:12):
Yeah, but it's not about that. It's about something rather
than going to buy another one. When we want to
create less waste, it's about fixing the things we have
that's the whole This is the whole mentality that we
need to change that we're not just throw away something.
Of course, you're going to repair the current things. It's
going to be as good. That's why I'm really sad.
But you just think of there's money, you just buy

(02:27:32):
a new one.

Speaker 24 (02:27:34):
Yeah, but then they may not be able to fix
it full stop. So then you're still going to be
faced with one and new torch.

Speaker 2 (02:27:42):
Yeah. But if it's I mean, they would surely build
those torches with spares so they can be fixed. That's
the whole point of it. And that should be legal
as well. That should be. It should be and some
countries are endorsing that they're putting in things, so every
item that's made needs to be repairable. Jack Thames into
this too, by the way they see the interview with them,

(02:28:02):
He's into things that last forever. Forgot the website, he
goes into the Reddit feed or something. Anyway, Oh it's free,
disappointing new Stewart, I'll throw away Steward or not. Like,
sick of that, throw it away. Let's just throw that away.
That car is not going so well, let's just throw
that away. Where would we be if we did that,

(02:28:24):
we want to reuse everything. Gosh, no one's learned anything.
That's it for me, people, I'm going to have to
fix a torch. I will give another hour. I'm going
to get the foil out now. No, I'm probably going
to get one of those special star screwdrivers so irying
to get round to your wall. But yeah, there's another night. Well,
I'll tell you what Tim's on after me. Wish I

(02:28:47):
had gone to Flockhouse. The number of pool the ring
going about flock House goodness for those that don't know.
It was a farming training place in the southern half
of the North Island that change people's lives, not mine,
though a less. I wish I had gone there. Tim

(02:29:10):
Beveridge is along next, and there's sport. Don't be confused.
The Olympics starts in about an hour and a half,
just not the opening ceremony. So there are events happening.
Go to Prime or fifty three and fifty four on sky. Okay,
she's all happening. It's all on, and I shall return

(02:29:31):
tomorrow night. People for the Thursday free for all, So
enjoy your Thursdays just moments away and thanks everyone that called. Yeah,
we got there in the end, and looking forward to
talking to again tomorrow. Good night.

Speaker 1 (02:29:44):
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