DGI but DCT (10 December 2025)

Marcus wants to know the amazing thing you discovered in 2025, and also why does everyone hate that Spark ad so much?

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
This is me and a very good evening to you.
I am Marcus Hittel twelve. You are who you are,
you are actually on talk about you whoever you want
to be. We don't fact check your names. That's just
something that we do. If you want a radio name,
that's fine. We'll just put you here with the name
that you choose. I don't know how many people's names
are real. I've got no idea. A lot I don't
know about this gig, and don't know how many people
are listening any one time. You can't see them. You

(00:34):
would have got no idea. Anyone's called it, and anyone's
calling from we just it's all based on trust and
I'm hit on Midnight tonight. Feel free. If you've got
any breaking news, let us know what that breaking news is.
If you're out and about doing anything, if you've got
anything exciting to report, I don't know what people would
report they'd be exciting. Maybe places have run out of
fans because it's so hot. Maybe shops have run out

(00:56):
of friitments. No shortage of things we can talk about tonight.
So if you want to join the fray first and
best stress, let's hear from you. Oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty, So this time, since the news was
so damned depressing, did you find that slightly depressing? You
might also have your highlight of the year. Now that's

(01:18):
hard for highlights of the year. I haven't kind of
got mine worked out yet. There's one particular thing from
the air, a particularly good news story that you've got
that you would like to share or say, and that
what has amazed me about this year was this? Or
the one thing that changed my life? Was this or
something like that? Or the one thing that I saw
that was amazing?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Was this?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Anything?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Good?

Speaker 4 (01:35):
All.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's good to get an enthusiasm for this time of
the year as people kind of come unstuck. Both of
my children are off school now that's they've finished. The
last one finished today with a water fight seems to
be the end of view thing. A water fight with
the brigade, the volleys. The fabrigay goes in squirts and
that was well received. Fairly hot day and bluff tonight.

(01:57):
There's people jumping off the wharf. There's a cruise shipping
here's a question for you that I thought was interesting.
I went to a seminar seminar, a presentation last night
about the cruise ship industry. She was the last night,
which you stand in the morning only because there's cruise

(02:18):
ships coming into Bluff and there were operators that you
need to know the river because what happens with what
seems to happen with the cruise ships coming to Bluff
as they all get on buses and all go up
to Milford Sound or to Queenstown. They don't really stay
on Bluff, which is fine, but there'd be some fun
things for them to do, particularly for the hardcore birders
or the people that little bit of nature. That was

(02:40):
kind of what the discussion was. However, here's a question
for you. Don't google it. This will be a good
starting question you can bring up with this one. There's
no prize, but I'd be curious to know. Don't google it, DG.
I don't google it. How many cruise ships do you
think there are around the world? Text will call me
because I'll be curious today because I was surprised by
the answer, and I've tried it on some people and

(03:01):
they too were surprising. Gave me quite disparate answers. So
there you go. How many cruise ships do you think
they would be in the world? By the way, these
news cruise ships, right, you get on a cruise ship
these days, like the Disney ones, you don't go anywhere?
Will you go? But you just go to see? You
just go like drive. I was gonna say drive, that's

(03:24):
gonna say steam. I can't think of the word. What
do you do in a boat? You you don't drive,
you don't steam, you don't I suppose motor. They motor
off shore for off north heead for North Cape for
two days, then come back in. So the Disney stuff
all happens on board. Now, I have never been on
a Disney cruise, but I could never think of a
cruise that I would be less likely to go on.

(03:47):
It's just me, but I was curious to how many
om cruise ships do you think they around the world.
This was just some person saying that, someone that went
in the cruise industry, but I was surprised that the answer.
So let me know if you want to say anything
about that, because I'd be curious to know what your
prediction was about that. Text them through I'll see what
the people are saying on the texts.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
Texts.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
How many cruise ships do you think there are around
the world? My Darcy appears to have been quite animated tonight,
oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty ninet two. How many
cruise ships would there be in the world, No prize.
I'm just curious to though, where people are with that
that we'll get about eighteen in the summer and bluff.

(04:25):
I don't think as many as coming down here as
they once did. I think probably things have changed. They
seem to be quite a prickly kind of it in
the drift. They're not happy. They'll go elsewhere. But that's
cruisers for you, I suppose anyway. That's what we are discussing.
That's the first thing off the bat tonight, oh eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty. If there is something else
you want to mention, if there's a very good news

(04:46):
story you've got for the night or for the year,
or a life changing thing that happened to you this year.
I don't want a SOB story. But do come through, DCM, DCT,
do come through if you want to talk Marcus till twelve.
There's other stuff happening tonight. Hopefully it's a breaking news.
I feel we need something because it's a great story
happen and it would be good for all of us.

(05:08):
A couple of days I can tell you about today.
This day in nineteen thirty two, the government in Australia
officially surrendered after a month long battle against the EMUs
famous web page. That quite a good story, that one.
I'll tell you more about that later on tonight. Actually,
the Great EMU War, the good firearms didn't win it,

(05:30):
though they are sent back with their tails between their legs.
And by the way, I think this whole debate between
Ruth Richardson and Nikola Willis says madness, what a side show,
all the troubles we've got. And it does make you
wonder what sort of financement. As she was of the gig,
now she's a spokesperson for the Taxpayers Union, so like

(05:53):
she's off running some world bank or anything. Anyway. You guess, no, no,
anybody anyway. Someone says, Marcus, at what point are you
going to determine the winner of their two hundred and
twenty twenty five predictions twenty twenty five, We've got to
say it that will be the first show of next year.
That's always the first show we decide the winner. When
I want to check a dinner, I'll put some time

(06:16):
into that over the summer and I'll come back all
guns are blazing. Fourteen Marcus. My guess is upwards of
ten thousand cruise ships. The MED and the USA allowsy
with them. So I've got a starting bit of ten thousand.
How many cruise ships you think they'd be in the world,

(06:37):
I guess, it says to put to find what a
cruise ship is. I guess some of them are. Some
people would call things cruise ships that aren't very big
at all. There are still bad bushfires in Tasmania. I'll
keep an eye on those today too. Never heard of
bushfires in Tasmania before. That's happening. And get in touch
you on to be part of the show. You're good

(06:57):
news stories and also cruise ships, anything else that takes
your fancy. Tonight Wednesday feels like Thursday. I don't quite
know what's going on there. Can't answer that one. I'm
afraid Marcus has from Mitch Marcus. The thing that has
been the most meaningful and our has changed our lives.

(07:20):
This year is lower interest rates for us. The struggle
is no longer a struggle. Looking forward to twenty twenty six,
have a good Christmas. This is Mitch, So Mitch has
seen the I think Mitch might be a builder. But
Mitch is part of the turnaround. But the average recessions
only nine months, isn't it. So it never goes for
that long, although it feels like a long time when

(07:42):
you're in it, in a long time building up to it.
I think thanks for that much. I'm excited about that. Yeah, Kristen,
you had a prediction. Did you how many cruise ships
do you think there would be in the world?

Speaker 6 (07:54):
Well, I was thinking about one hundred, but maybe a thousand.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Okay, there we got. What sort of guess is that?
Someone says twenty thousand I'm talking about in the ocean,
Marcus still twelve MTT fifteen thousand cruise ships. Two thousand
cruise ships. Yeah, what do you reckon? The answer is,

(08:21):
don't google it. We are going to have the quiz
before the end of the year. We've got fifty one questions,
fifty two questions. They are all questions that happened on
this show. If you listen to the show, you'll know
the answers. What I think we will do is I
will read out the questions and you'll write the answers.
It'll be a self marking test and then we'll find

(08:43):
out who the winner is. But it will be an
honesty system.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
For that.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
I'll be surprised if there was a prize. But could
be a bit of fun because not a question. It's
quite humorous because our things that we heard about on
the show, well all of the things we heard about
on this show. So it'd be good. If you're a
real eight to twelve fanatic finatic, this could be a
very very good thing for you. I don't know what

(09:09):
day it'll be, It'll be Thursday or something. Next year
weext week. I promise you that, Oh, eight hundred and
eighty eighty sixteen past eight, I'll tell you three hundred
and twenty cruise ships. Not that many, is it. I
was surprised. I thought they'd be in their thousands. Just
three hundred and twenty, so any one time, there's not
that many people on the ocean on cruise ships. And

(09:33):
the other news I'm finding quite interesting. Boy oh boy,
are people paranoid about these gold fresh water gold clams.
They are now draining Lake Rotomanu and Taranaki, and this
has been discovered the first time outside the Waikato River.

(09:55):
So I guess what's happening with boats is people are
taking their boats around and they are spreading, but they
breed like topsy, and they reckon once they get away
to be a disaster all over. And they do produce
young clams produce an invisible, sticky thread of mucus which
it attached to surfaces like boats and recreational gear. So

(10:20):
there we go there everywhere. That's sort of the new
thing to be terrified about. I don't know what more
to say about that, but looking forward to your calls tonight.
Great things to you that happened this year, maybe the
mortgage or the mortgage rates down. Keep those texts coming through, Yes,
this Thursday or next Thursday. That will be next Thursday, Marcus,

(10:41):
can I come and co host the first show of
twenty twenty six with you love the Show? Tyler? Now, Tyler,
the thing is, no, why do I say that? Well,
your last texts you say your favorite road trip was
when you've been transferred to prison, So I don't know

(11:04):
about that anyway. Then you say I joined the police.
Are fabricists fantasists anyway? No, I don't. I'm not reading
the market for a co host. I think where you
get a co host, it kind of shuts out the listeners,
can't becoming. But in the house, that's my take on it. Well,

(11:25):
well be in touch. You want to be a part
of the show. I think we do a lot of talking.
Do not have a problem with that? Your highlight of
twenty twenty five? We are on to that and cruise ships?
But fancy going to cruise We just go out to sea.
You might as well just go to a building. I
don't really understand that. It's like casino cruises too, where

(11:48):
you just go out to see and just kind of
play the ReLit wheels. They wont we e relitt wheels.
You pay the one unbendits. I guess it said what
most people will do nineteen past eight, being touched one
of them as Marcus welcome here at the end tonight,
here to the bitter Oh. You might talk about this
debate too between Ruth Richards. It just seems to be
I don't know why Nick was decided to do it.

(12:09):
What are hiding to nowhere? And I don't know if
she's going to win or not, but I mean, what's
a debate? Who knows what the conditions? Now, who knows
who's going to win? Are there not more important things
to do? You would think twenty past eight, I'll tell
what the thing I'm stuck on, and I'll probably get
in trouble for this, but that's fine. I'll tell you
about the worst thing about being a broadcaster is that

(12:31):
every year, at the end of the year, you have
to record your Christmas liners. And that is the things
you've got to say, like, Hi, I'm Marcus, I'm on holiday.
I hope you're having a great time. I'm such and
such and such and such. Well, you don't say away,
because that when your house to be robbed. So you say, well,
I'm having a great time in bluff and my favorite
Christmas song is, and my news resolution is And what happens.

(12:52):
It comes round every year and you always forget it.
I think, oh well, and then the email comes. So
you've got to come in early to work and record
your Christmas liners and no one loves it. No one
loves it because you don't want to actually, because what
happens is you just have to think of something sort
of humorous yet respectable, and you've got to say it.
And those things get replayed endlessly over the summer, so

(13:16):
you want them to be good because otherwise you come
across as been quite lame. But the last thing you
really want to do is be putting a lot of
thought into something that's going to be when you're off air.
So it's that time of the year that we are
doing those, and the problem is I've also got to
say not only my favorite tune, but my highlight of
the year. I've also got to say what my news
resolution is. Now I'm at that stage in life for

(13:38):
I think New Year's resolutions are for I don't know
what they're for, not for me anyway, So I've got
no idea what my news resolution is. So if I'll
say anything over the years that you might contrue might
to be my news resolution, I need one of those
for my Christmas liners. Hi, I'm Marcus, and my news
resolution is to be kinder to others. Hope you're enjoying

(14:01):
the beach, and that's kind of what I have to do.
So yes, if you've got one of those frommind me
of that would be of interest. Think that'd be great.
By the way, Mike, this is Marcus. Welcome and good
evening to you.

Speaker 7 (14:14):
Good evening to you too, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Our things, Mike, things are god. Oh that's good.

Speaker 8 (14:21):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (14:21):
Share the positivity around, that's that's what we need.

Speaker 9 (14:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (14:26):
No, I definitely got things totally incorrect with your your quiz.
I thought there'd be about ten thousand.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yes, it's not many, is it. No, Because when you
think of all those ones going out of Miami to
the Caribbean and all those ones on the Mediterranean, I
thought there'd be thousands. But yes, three hundred and twenty
one or something.

Speaker 7 (14:50):
Yeah. Yeah, I've never really researched it, but I thought
there were lots and lots. But now, fifteen years ago,
I worked in a rental I worked for a rental company,
property management and a few staff, and I clearly remember
the operations manager. And a friend said, right, I'm on holiday.

(15:14):
Now we're going on a cruise for a few days.
And I can't remember what the ship was called, but
for the purpose of this conversation, I'll call it Marcus
of the Seven Seas Explorer.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yep, okay, I've got that written down case you forget it.
Marcus of the Seven Seas Explorer. Yes, yep.

Speaker 7 (15:36):
And they had a cyclone and they came back and
they said it was the worst experience they had ever
had in their lives. Yeah and yeah, I mean yeah,
they came back home and they survived. But I after

(15:59):
I googled, I don't know what it was, Google YouTube
or whatever, and some staff member, a crew member on
the ship, had managed to get into the CCTV video
footage of the cruise and managed to put it online.

(16:19):
And I'm telling you now, it was just just chaos.
They were so the ship in the storm. The ship
would be at a forty five degree angle. Tables, chairs
and also gaming machines sliding down the floor of the boat.

(16:40):
People sliding from one side of the boat down to
the other, mixed up with chairs and furniture, and yeah,
it was just just pandemonium. There weren't any major injuries
or deaths, but someone lost a finger apparently.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, Now what I love what it was like? What
I love about the story. There's many things I love
that the I love the enthusias, but I love the
fact that Marcus of the Seven Sies. We never needed
the name of the ship really you named it, but
they never used it again.

Speaker 7 (17:16):
Well you always could again, who knows.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, I thought that was very good. Yes, not for
me the cruises, Mike, but I appreciate you coming through
with that. Thank you so much. Twenty eight past eight
hisittle twelve. My name is Marcus, Well has text through through.
Marcus sent you a Christmas card today They didn't have
any Christmas stemps about what the post office. Have a
lovely Christmas and Thordy love your show too. Merry Christmas, leone, Marcus.

(17:45):
The best thing in twenty twenty five the Orc EFC
starting and winning the league. I think they won. They've
got a hiding in the semi. Might have been the final,
actually I think it might have been this anyway, match's
atmosphere is brilliant. I go with my sons and girlfriends.
Thanks for good year of entertainment. All the best for
twenty twenty six, Trudy Marcus. Not a huge story. But

(18:08):
the best thing for me is I bring a preat
lunch at the retirement village in Paklanga. Amen forty people
next Wednesday, looking forward to all the different stuff. Have
a nice Christmas, Frank, nice Frank, Marcus. This will sound absurd.
But a great thing I discovered this year was the
power of classical music. When the madness of the world

(18:30):
starts to get on top of I've started tuning into
classical music, even if only for a short time, things
wind down and I cope better. I consider it a
great discovery. Yes, I often switch on to concert the
radio station if I'm driving. I find it relaxes me
surprising how long you can listen for it, and then you
can start actually recognizing particular pieces of music. All hang on,

(18:52):
that sounds free Stravinsky like, quite good with that, actually,
always impressed with that that you do end up getting
an air free every baroque sounding anyway, So there's that, too.
Good on you for that, every RESTful. I think it
does different things to the brain, realigns the brain, makes
the brain kind of do different things. Is it listens

(19:15):
to music? Who that's just a tip. I think feel
like I've been quite honest tonight. I feel like I might
get in trouble tonight. Oh well, keep that on their toes. Yeah,
maybe my resolution is to think of it next year's
resolution earlier. That might be a good one. Half past eight,

(19:35):
we'll call it. Nina headlines please your great Discovery for
twenty twenty five. That's kind of where we're going to
with this, and I'm quite enjoying this. Actually, I think
there is potential for this also to about cruises, and
that's good too. And yeah, I think the world seems
Oh I was gonna say the world seems calm, but

(19:57):
actually it was quite an angry news bulletin tonight at
six o'clock one on the news anyway, not angry, but
a lot of bad things happening do come through. If
you want to talk, I can tell you what the
most complained tv ads were. There was a lot of
ad and the KFC's Colonel Hacker. I kind of feel
that the complaining about tv ads is a every eighties

(20:21):
thing to do. Some people complained about Tina from Turner's
because of offensive song lyrics she'd been using end of
the year, wouldn't she and Rix Oonna's whole body deodorant
received a number of I've never seen that, which I had.

(20:43):
Most people seemed like not like bad language or sexual references,
And you'll be pleased to know that on the show,
I do my best to avoid bad language or sexual
references only because what I've noticed in broadcasting if that
becomes your stock and trade is bad language and secret references.

(21:06):
It only goes one way and you can't come back
from that stuff when the ruin of any young broadcast
are going down that well trodden path being touched hit
on midnight, which was the usage you complained about, Dan,

(21:28):
do anything complain about me? That's a very task master
thing is I'm just saying to DP on your top
on your co host anyway, Hamish as Marcus, good evening, Mike,
here you go, mate, good, thank you Hamish. You sound
like a Hamish.

Speaker 10 (21:45):
I sound like a Hamish. What does amous sound like?

Speaker 2 (21:47):
I don't know, but it's not at That is your name.
It's not a made up name.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Is it.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
You have Scottish name and you sound like one. Anyway, Yes,
hey Marcus.

Speaker 10 (21:57):
The reason one, Paul and is I heard that you're
talking about people complaining as and be my partner every
night at the moment when that's horrible, can say if
it comes on about Christmas and it's does that little
squeaky bit of foon, I just have to just like
crems and close my hands.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Now this is now I think I might have heard
that does it go into an ELF's voice or something.

Speaker 10 (22:19):
I don't know what kind of voice it goes until
it's something that's not human, that'srature. But is that I
forgot his name, the one that voices the second man.
But oh, I'm sure the country knows what I'm talking about,
because it's just every time I hear it, I just
cringe and I just die a little inside.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Well, you should bring them and say you're going to
boycott them if they don't change the air. If it's
that annoying.

Speaker 10 (22:40):
Another good thing is Christmas Wall obviously the ogre so
they can only had an airing for so long.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Correct, I'm just trying to is it on radio or
just on TV?

Speaker 10 (22:49):
Well, I mean it could be on the radio, Marcus,
I'm not sure, but I've just unfortunately heard it on
the TV sing this time.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Okay, and your partner? Did you say your wife? She's
not into it either? Is that right?

Speaker 9 (23:00):
Is it a guy?

Speaker 2 (23:00):
But yeah, I mean that's been so what's the word
for that? Hitro nor to that I said that? So
I apologize for that anyway.

Speaker 10 (23:09):
Except the market. I'm a big fan of be my friends,
so that's all good.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Funny thing is Hamish is that if people get my
name wrong, they will call me Hamish. It will happen
like five times a year.

Speaker 10 (23:23):
But they'll call up and say high Hamish's blah blah.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
But they'll introduce me to someone not on the radio saying, oh,
this is Hamish. So there must be similar with the
ess between. If there is one name people confuse me
whether it's Hamish not Marcus. That's weird, isn't it.

Speaker 10 (23:37):
Oh, you're very blessed Marcus because it's a good name name.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
But doesn't happen you always will? You don't get Marcus,
do you?

Speaker 3 (23:45):
No?

Speaker 11 (23:45):
No?

Speaker 10 (23:45):
But I mean, like I mean, I don't get other
names confused. But what happens is quite often, like in
the past, I've worked on like and like calls in
the jobs and things like that when I was a
bit younger, and people used to be like, oh, what
part of India are you from? Because a similar like
an Indian name.

Speaker 11 (24:02):
It's really and like Hamish or Hamish. Yeah, yeah, I'm like,
I'm actually born in Bridey Zealand, but I've ever been
in there. But I'd like to serve one time in my.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Life freak diplomatic like that Hamish. Thank you. There we
go twenty three away from nine. I was follow an
interesting thing. He's just to talk about Hamish and names
that confused. There's a strange Facebook post I was looking
at today and a woman in the cargo's posted this,

(24:37):
and a friend of hers, who was a man I
don't think it's important to the story, has spotted her
in the street and come up and had a discussion
with her, only to realize that person wasn't her. So

(25:00):
the person now is desperate to find the doppel ganger.
Now that's weird, isn't it. So it's on a public page.
You're saying, look if you with that person, because you
get in touch with me, if you're that person such
and such and such, and that's came up there and
thought that was me. So yeah, it's interesting. So the
more I thought about there must be more to it,
isn't there Because you wouldn't be that keen on spotting

(25:22):
a double ganger unless she were twins split at birth
or something. I've been thinking about that a bit today,
So it must be a Christmas mystery that's about to
be solved. So, yes, I had a double gammer experience.
Who sent me a picture. Oh old Wells. Jeremy Well
sent me a picture of a doppelgangerho'd spotted in a
bar in Texas, which I thought was surprising. They did,

(25:45):
said to me, maybe posted it, and I looked. I thought, gee,
I'm not there. So I actually looked at the phone,
thought you, I don't remember being in that bar. But
actually then it wasn't me, but even I recognized the
person as being me. Marc is best thing. In twenty
twenty five, my daughter at least her first song Spotify
artist Coco song Boutique Ceo Coco and Capitol's Song Boutique.

(26:14):
Marcus got home this AVO and my old cobb of
Freddy Cox advised me that we don't won a lofty
prize at the lotto. We've got one fifty each. Yeehow
brought a drip to Eastbourne and had a skinful just
got home. We always enjoy your show, Ray and Sparky Marcus.
My great discovery for the year is cooking homemade picks,
up picked pizzas on the webber homemade bases, cooking on

(26:37):
a piping hot barbecue. Nothing better, gosh for a nation
of food is now, aren't we anyway, Oh wait, tattered
eighty ten eighty twenty to nine, we are talking about
your great Discoveries of twenty twenty five. That seems to
be the topic that we've lended on and complained about
ads and the peck and save Air, which I was
nominally I don't remember here well, I do remember slightly

(26:59):
hearing of it. There are a lot of other people
that have come up and agreed with Hamish, so it
hasn't because sometimes, as if something strikes a near if,
we'll get a lot of big responses, but not a
big response so far to that. But that's all right,
that's fine. I don't watch enough TV to know bad ads.
The car that splits in half I think's rather good,

(27:23):
and I'm not complaining about that at all. I know
that some people did even though they close the Harbor
Bridge for a morning. I've enjoyed that at the times
i've seen it. The other ad I could comment on,
probably there's one for Vodafone or one with the old guy,
the old Codjure and the spar Pool. I feel it's
too long before they update us with the next chapter.

(27:48):
It feels like the same one goes for six But
I think everyone's trying to wait for a conclusion. That's
my that's my beef with that one. So apart from that,
I'm happy with that. I don't mind the guy. If
that's the lotter of that's a situation. I'm not offended
by that. It's a guy skiing down the mountain. We
wouldn't ski up the mountain, would you? Sixteen to nine?

(28:09):
If you want to be a part of it, your
Great Discoveries for twenty twenty five, that's the first topic
for tonight. Could graduation? To all those people that managed
to sit through prizegiving today or yesterday or the day before,
it's the parents that want them apparently, Why do they
make them so long? First role as principal for today,

(28:33):
Ban the prize giving. Sure the teachers hate it, a
lot of organization. The only people that would like it
would be the engravers. What a performance anyway, I think
the parents love it. Be in touch with anything I
shoul want to mention tonight, as I say here till midnight,
my name as Marcus, Welcome your great Discovery for twenty

(28:56):
twenty five. Already I always feel like I should be
saying twenty twenty six because it feels like that year
already breaking news. If you've got it, if you got something. Oh,
by the way, there's a mystery hum in christ Church.
I tried to read a long artict about the mystery humm.
It appears there's no hum that people actually hear hums.
It could be something for the audiologist. I do love

(29:18):
a mystery hum story. It seems like it happens often
in Canterbury. Probably something bouncing off the porthills or something.
But yeah, I don't know if you want to talk
about the mystery hum. I haven't experienced one, but you
might have fifteen to nine if you want to be
a part of it. If there's any other stuff that
you want to talk about, yeah, I'm not fussed really Actually,

(29:42):
whatever you want, we're up for it. But your great
discovery of twenty twenty five and cruisers, would you want
to go to a cruise where you just went out
to see then came back after two days because that's
the Disney ones. Now I've never done one of those.
I've never done a cruise actually, but yeah, you might

(30:03):
want to mention those. So that was quite strange. You
just go without a destination. But I guess it's probably
the sense of going somewhere. You're not going anywhere. So
there we have it. Be in touch if you want
to there's something different you want to mention. Basically, if
you've got some gripe or topic, I can fit it
in today to the show. I'll put it around you.

(30:28):
I'll tailor the show to your topic if you like.
If you just get me a bit of quick squizz.
Who's on after me tonight? All Tim Beverage from Midnight Andrew.
This is Marcus. Welcome, Good Maddie, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Andrew My discovery for this year. I've never really done
podcasts for whatever reason, and I still don't really, but
I have found one which has kept me entertained for
many an hour. It's called The Rest of History and

(31:06):
hosted by these two British historians who are sort of,
you know, some quite hard case characters, got that sort
of British dry hum and going on, and they just
go into historical stories. It might take sit of four
or five episodes or one or two, and it's been

(31:27):
absolutely fascinating some of the stuff I've learned because I'm
a pas a pastory geek anyway, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
And I see there's eight hundred and twenty five. And
the good thing about that, Andrew, is there not going
to date? Are they.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
No? Either? Is that they're always current? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Your history is current, isn't it? Okay, I will give
that a go. You just listen to them sequentially, do
you or you can? They're all self self contained.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
I listen to them on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
They put a lot of them onto YouTube. So I'm
a truck driver. So when I drive from here in
the lot of the room back, yeah, I can go
of get through four or five episodes and yeah, it's
just brilliant stuff.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Great suggestion that saved me andrum into that. I will
do that. That'll get me off Lost culture easteras thank
you for that twelve away from nine. Well it's only
taken fifty minutes, but we've got to sound quite a
well worn topic tonight. It's the great discovery of twenty two?
What's your great discovery of twenty twenty five? Being the
great thing? The highlight that I measures a truck driver too,

(32:33):
you know, that's a great thing to do on the radio.
Then onto the podcasts, so cheapest creepers, that's a good
thing to talk about. So yeah, if you've got something
to add about that, that's good, oh eight hundred and eight,
and then also adds that you don't like not radio
ads because that's our stock in trade. Marcus. Yes, short

(32:54):
cruise is re tempting. Anyway, How do I listen to
the previous news bulletins? Could you go online?

Speaker 8 (33:01):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (33:01):
You go the website I think dubbed the previous news Yeah,
week on demand. You go to zb dot co dot
and z week on demand And is it salt water
the hornets don't like? I'm not reallying the hornet done, Marcus.
I have a question about prize giving. My kids are
at primary school. Our prize giving is the night before
the last day of school, from seven pm to about

(33:23):
nine pm. Kids are time and parents too. It's always
hot as no egg on our halls and there's always
a young kid crying. Just wondering if other schools have
them at night time or are they moving them to daytime,
which is better day or night? Well not everyone can
get to the dayta ones too, that's the other thing. Anyway,
Bear catch your people Headle twelve oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty eight to nine. Gosh, the UK News

(33:46):
is depressing. Then we'll talk about a superflu outbreak across
the country. It's going to reignite the trauma of COVID.
It's a superflunise. You're Farage just declared it nonsense, but
like it'll strike him. Get in touch if you want
to do. We are discussed discussing your great discovery of
twenty twenty five, and then more I think about it,

(34:07):
I think, well, this is quite a good topic because
I'm thinking what my great discovery of twenty twenty five is,
and as yet I'm not sure I'm gonna mention what
that is, but I'm curiously what yours is. I have
had great discoveries. I think it was a scrub daddy.
My discovery of this year. I think it might have
been we have got a Christmas tree. Scrub daddy. There's

(34:31):
not a scrub daddy Christmas tree. I mean, actually, I'm
not sure what it is. It's not a it's not
a it's not all I trying to think what it is.

(34:52):
It's not a topiarid Christmas tree shaped like a scrub daddy.
It's a scrub daddy the shape of a Christmas tree.
So I guess you couldn stay it's a scrubdaty Christas tree,
but it's lot smaller than most Christmas trees, and we're
not using it to hang ornaments off and presents under.
We're using it to wash and pens. Yeah, although yeah,
I wish we hadn't be gonna look good and it's

(35:12):
pristine form. So your Great Discoveries of twenty twenty five
texts those through or call them particularly, I mean Andrew
and Amosh. It nice to hear their voices of people,
the enthusiasm. Someone says Jesus was born on the twenty
fifth of December. I'm not quite sure that that's true,
but if you want to see religious stuff, that's fine. Marcus.

(35:37):
I went awkwardto Melbourne four nights, five days with P
and O two years ago. Can't wait to go on another one.
The days at sea are the best you unpack once.
There's so much to do on board, so much to
take in, like cocktail making classes, all sorts of stuff.
That's a relapse right there. Not to mention the fantastic entertainment,
from cabaret shows to karaoke. I always think if the entertainment,

(35:59):
if the entertainments are so good, why are they working
on cruise ships. I hate to say that that sounds judgmentally. Well,
if you're so good way on a cruise ship. That's
me though, But I know people love it, not me
for now. But while we're talking about that, Oh, that's right,
because of the whole cruise ships, A number of cruise
ships around three twenty Your Great Discovery for twenty twenty

(36:22):
five topic number one breaking news if you've got it
and cruisers. I someone's won sixteen million dollars. Loto's gone,
Loto's gone, a single ticket five, six thirteen, twenty seven,

(36:43):
thirty one and thirty two, three primes, Bonus three, Powerball
four more to come. We'll be waiting with ten dogs
for that. It'll be some I don't know who's going
to won, that'll yeah, But anyway, the probably say word
it's gone. That'll be good to know what that is.

(37:06):
I'm not in the market, but I can't help you
with that. The singer of the Mavericks has died. The
Dance the Night Away hit maker. Greetings people, how are
what's happening?

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty and ninety Your Great
Discovery of twenty twenty five, So do come through if
you want to talk, Oh, eight hundred and eighty eight,
someone says, my discovery of twenty twenty five was finding
one of my Himalayan color point eshes I have a
little box has been replaced with stones. What's a Himalaya

(37:43):
Himalayan colour point esh don't know what that is, but
your great discovery of twenty twenty five, you've got something
to say about that. We are talking about cruisers, and
we are also talking about TV commercials. You don't like
that was always stock and trade for Fiargo, was it?
But Fiargo is gone, Figo is now fear gone because
that was the that was one show a year. We'll

(38:04):
all their bed. They'd love to talk about the commercial. Well,
it's aimed a bit low with that one, but yes,
that's what's happening. KFCs. Colonel Hacker is the most complained
about ad and then lotos are promises a promise forty
eight people complained that's the man skiing. Then ricks Owner's

(38:29):
whole body deodorant, which highlights that only a small percentage
of sweat comes from the under arms. Then there was
Tina from Turner's, so she was complained about muchley. It
was interesting Tina from Turner was so famous. Not only
was she famous, but in fact, when Tina Turner died

(38:52):
a lot of people thought it was Tina from Turner's
that had died because the generation that's young don't know
who Tina Turner is. Ha is that interesting? I thought
it was. But yes, your great discovery from twenty twenty
five and anything goes on the show Tonight. I'm hit
on Midnight Bubba. Of course we know Tina is from

(39:12):
when she was on Taskmaster. If there's just something generally
you want to chat about as well tonight, but all
the lines are free. This is your great talk back night. Yeah,
do get in touch. If there's something else you want
to mention, I'll chuck everything at you. Also, have you
got a mystery hum because there is a big one

(39:36):
in christ Church that no one knows where it's from.
There's either a mystery harm or someone is a mystery boom.
But Canterbury Tonight's got the mystery hum. Yeah, so that's
what we are on about. But yeah, if you want
to be involved, that's the kind of the gist for tonight.
This is also the day the anniversary. This day happened

(39:57):
was the Great EMU War. They'll probably be a good
one for your podcast. Andrew, it's a fascinating story that one.
Do you know about great EMU War? I said, I'd
tell you about it. I don't know that much about
it apart from what I've read on Wikipedia. But happened
this day in nineteen thirty two was a month long battle.

(40:19):
The Emu War. Three members of the Royal Artillery Austra
Artillery were signed to carl twenty thousand EMUs using machine guns,
but both the weapons and tactics employed proved wholly unsuited.
The assignment was made response to petitions from local farmers

(40:40):
complaining of EMUs destroying their crops. After two months, fewer
than a thousand EMUs were reported killed. The failure was
a subject of national and international ridicule. Yep, so it
wasn't good. These were experienced soldiers, yeah, just free, hard

(41:03):
to shoot. It's quite and read the reports. It soon beclaim.
It soon became clear that one EMU in each group
served as a lookout to warn the others, giving the
time to escape. The organizer stated that publicly the EMUs

(41:27):
could face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks. Such
statements made military action against the EMUs increasingly unpopular, opponents
arguing that such treatments of EMUs was inhumane. Ultimately, the
EMUs were considered the victors and there we go. I

(41:50):
think in the end they gave farmers a bounty on
EMUs and that kind of worked. But yes, if you
want to talk about any of these things, as I say,
your great discovery of twenty twenty five. By the way,
if you've gone to Costco, no, if you've been to
ikea Ikia, they are saying it's going to take a
long time to get your goods because the demand has
been so big. Well, I could have told you the

(42:11):
demand was going to be big because you hadn't talked
about it for about a month. So you're not going
to get your Christmas presents in time for Christmas. That
deliveries around the country. So it's not going well for that, Yeah,
because of the demand. It's just a news story. Through

(42:32):
they've been bowled over by the response from New Zealanders.
The sales and orders secured over the first few days
have surpassed our expectations, and our fulfillment operations are taking
longer than anticipating to meet these orders. Sort it out
Swedish efficiency. That's kind of lame. You haven't got that
sort of out. Or of course you're going to be busy.

(42:53):
What else have we had to do for the last
one hundred years? Fidget Spinner, you might want to mention
that all the lines are free. Fourteen past nine here
til twelve, here to the bitter end, looking forward to
your inputs tonight eight hundred eighty eighty two text your
great discoveries of twenty twenty five? Marcus, Could we have

(43:16):
a conversation about staff Christmas bonus?

Speaker 4 (43:18):
Is?

Speaker 2 (43:18):
What do people normally get? It's a good question. What
is a Christmas bonus? It's not something we ever getting broadcasting.
I don't know much about it either. By the way,
I don't think it's something that's mandated by government law.
Is it unless people are just giving you a holiday

(43:40):
pay and a fancy envelope? Marcus? The current spark d
with the cast spliting in half, I don't really understand.
If anyone could explain it, that would be great, very
good question. Could someone explain to me the spark ed
with the cast spling in half? I like it, but
I don't really understand at a deep level. That's me talking,

(44:01):
not the text. Could someone explain that? I would imagine
that it's just showing they've got good coverage. I think
that's the guts of it, is that they've just tried
to have a humorous take that you go right around
the country and your calls don't drop out. I don't

(44:21):
know if anyone else wants to go explaining that. Yeah,
So if that's something you want to mention, I know,
looking at the Reddit feeds, people like to make fun
of commercials like they could do better. I'm sure it's
a very difficult thing to do, come up with a
sort of our original and get people talking, and certainly

(44:43):
that sixteen past nine marks. I don't like the new
road safety yea, the guy injured looks dreadful. I turn
the TV off, Thank you, Lynn, turn off and listen
to us any breaking news we or let us know too,
and your great discoveries for twenty twenty five or anything else,

(45:05):
cruisers or another topic that you might want to embark
on that's your own topic. I don't have a problem
with that. Actually, close to Christmas, the the the hurdles
to go through before you get on air are probably lessened,
so boom. That's something you want to talk about. I'd

(45:26):
like to be a part of that, oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten, eighty and nine text if you want
to get involved with the show and looking forward to
your contributions tonight, discoveries, cruisers, commercials, or anything else. Marcus,
I don't like scratches. I think they're actually illegal. Tickets

(45:48):
is one of the prices twenty five thousand. But if
it's been one, nobody knows. They keep selling tickets. It's
a very good point, that one. I don't know what
more to say about that. Seventeen Chris, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 12 (46:02):
Oh hi Marcus, how are you tonight?

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Good? Thank you, Chris? How are you going all right?

Speaker 5 (46:07):
Very good?

Speaker 12 (46:07):
Very good? Just made me think that I laughed before
you were talking about Tina from Turners and the younger generation, thinking,
you know, Tina from Turners wasn't Tina Turner, And I
was thinking about knot Bush City anyway. I was talking
to a young guy at work and he's just back
from New York and he'd been in Central Park and
he's trying to explain to me the size of Central Park.

(46:28):
So they didn't understand the size of it, and I
said I do, and he said, how's that. I said, well,
Simon and Garfunkel did a concert free concert there in
the moons Ago, two hundred and fifty thousand people there.
And he said to me, who's Simon gar Funkle?

Speaker 13 (46:43):
You with that?

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Hang on, christ did he say who's Simon Garfunkel or
who's Simon and Garfuncle?

Speaker 8 (46:50):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (46:51):
It could have been either, But the fact was I
I realized I'm getting all these people don't know who
Simon and Garfunkle are.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Hello, darknes, smiled friend, love it. Eighteen past nine, Ricky,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 14 (47:03):
Gooday Marcus, Hey you apologies already relay this information that
you've got anything special plan for the break?

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Yeah no, no, just the normal, just normal standing, bit
of camping, bit of staying, bit of family YadA YadA. Yeah, yeah,
a little bit of beautiful. I'm better discussing my holidays
once they're over, I think.

Speaker 14 (47:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, lovely, that's a good question. Thank you,
long time.

Speaker 15 (47:37):
What'sen?

Speaker 14 (47:38):
My first time for.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
Nice to hear from here.

Speaker 14 (47:43):
Thank you mate. Hey, I was quite interested about the
council chat our council water chat.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
Last week.

Speaker 14 (47:51):
For I think there was a little bit of elements
of truth was sort of what some of the callers
were talking about, and as well with what you were
talking about. But after a week I just wondered if
you had any takeaways or any learning from the chap
around council water.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
I thought quite a lot about it. I thought quite
a lot about it.

Speaker 7 (48:15):
I have.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
I thought how that all this hysteria and misinformation, it
really affects people quite deeply, and a lot of people,
because they're scared of chlorine and fluoride, are going and
buying water in plastic bottles, which I just think is crazy.

(48:38):
So yeah, I think I think people are making I
think people are making because they listen to extreme voices,
They're not making it making informed choices. That's my thoughts.

Speaker 14 (48:48):
Sure, sure, sure, I think, like with anything in life,
there is probably elements of truth in both sides. And
I heard one caller in particular talk about the quality
of water being depleted from the supply to its house
just through the pipes, and I don't think that should

(49:09):
be entirely written off because I think definitely our water
top top top tier water in the world. There's a
drinking strict from the path, but there definitely is chlorine
to keep it safe, which I think if people want
to filter that out as a fear argument, but therefore

(49:32):
twining that in the bottle is potentially counteractors to that argument.
But yeah, I just thought it was an interesting chair
and there was elements of true in both sides of
the story.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Appreciate that, Ricky, thanks for that. Twenty past nine. I
once worked text I once worked with someone at the
music count at the warehouse. They thought that Siblin Garreth
Funcle was Simone and Gareth Uncle. I'm into that twenty
one past nine. Your Great Discoveries of twenty twenty five down, Phine.
It's for interesting because if you've got something that's a

(50:06):
discovery other people, I'm sure we'll find that of interest,
including myself. So if you've got a great discovery of
twenty twenty five, what is that discovery? I might share
mine later on. So well, I don't know what they
are yet, but do come through now, texts. I've got texts.
I just watched that Spark ad where the car gets

(50:28):
cut clean and half, and somehow the coverage is still
stronger than my emotional stability and Honestly, it spoke to
me like sometime life slices you write down the middle horizontally, vertically, spiritually,
yet the signal bars of the universe keep whispering you
are still connected. As I watched those two drifting halves
of the car contine on the separate but together journeys,

(50:50):
I've felt understood, because aren't we all just trying to
maintain full reception while navigating the potholes of existence, occasually
losing our back end on a metaphorical gravel road. Anyway,
shout out to Spark for reminding me that even if
my life splits apart like a poorly glued ike bookshelf,
the OSA still has me on unlimited data. Good on you,

(51:10):
text heads up, there's a car breakdown right on the
Blind quarner on State High fifty five just south of Upiki.
That's south of Palmerston North. It could be a bit
dicey for anyone not paying attention around the corner. Once again,
loving the show, question mark, smile, smile, smile, smile your
Great Discoveries of twenty twenty five or any other back

(51:32):
topic you want to opine on. There might be something
else that's been mentioned always topic rich be a part
of it. Now. A lot of people banging on about
the pooterkawa blossoming, aren't they. That's something people love to
talk about this time of the year. My tree is
not yet in flour and bluff, but I was just

(51:52):
trying to look. I think it'll be in mid January.
I don't know if they tend to flower earlier north
of the country, but there was a real I'm always obsessed,
and I'm not always obsessed. I'm always interested in cars
that are a different color. And I read a very
interesting article on the weekend. I love the yellow ones

(52:15):
an interesting article about the poodakawa over the weekend. And
because there was always a famous story that the poodakawa
that was yellow was originally a genetic freak on Mortiti

(52:37):
Island near where the rent around the ground, and that
the guy from Duncan and Davies Nursery and New Plymouth
asked permission, was given permission to graft it and made
a number of graftings and sold it in his successful
plant nurseries, and it spread around the world. But according

(52:59):
to this article, it actually originated from Gisbon. So yeah,
like everything is often a different explanation. So yeah, and
there is also one of pohutakawa that has an orange flower,
but apparently that's not a true boudhakawa, but that is
in fact a type of podacaua from Hawaii. That's a
slightly different plant. It's not quarterhudhakawa. But yeah, you quite

(53:22):
often see the yellow ones, not down south because there
aren't very few of them, but when your travels around
you'll see them, and that they're beautiful. I don't know
if they come out at the same time, but there
that's just something of interesting for me. Math had interesting
at twenty seven past nine being touched your Great Discoveries

(53:43):
of twenty twenty five, Marcus. Wow, that insight into the
spark ad will have me watching it with new eyes. Marcus.
You will has a great textas a bit of a
man's plaiting for you, Marcus, your pohutakawa is more likely
a Southern Rata hybrid. Pohutakawa are North Island trees. I think, well,

(54:05):
I know to put because we planted it. And there
are a great deal of poota cars in the South
Island right round the waterfront from Duneedan, right round to Portobello,
a large number of planted and of course while poota
cars would not grow on the South Island because of
their seed distribution, plenty of plenty of plants have been

(54:30):
planted in the South Island have done for every well,
providing they near the sea and the salt, that's what
they need. They don't do well inland marks. At the
start of the U had people ringing or texting with
the predictions for twenty twenty five. How many came true?
We will find out in the first show of twenty
twenty six ten. Do we know how many came through?

(54:51):
Was it any striking ones? One go was on the
money with one thing, wasn't he?

Speaker 8 (54:56):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Yes, Dan predicted that Berling and Tuk would do a
Coots and Butterworth and leave team. News happened they did.
They both go, one went, So that's true. That's as good.
That's probably as good a predictions we've had. That's Dan
and Todong. I've caught him the current lead. What was
other predictions? Well, he's a text door the only one

(55:19):
he had. The pope died? Did he die this year?

Speaker 3 (55:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Two people got the pope had died. Some of prected
Trump would swear in a live TV interview. Did he
do that? I guess he probably has. He's boarding the
plane that's happened. Someone printed Liam Lawson will get dumped
from the Red bull ting that happened, and some of
prected Lidia co would be Sports post of the Year

(55:44):
and that Rory McElroy would win a major and he
has done that. So yes, it's been as far as
successful predictions go, it's been even better. And the prize
goes to the most unlikely thing that was predicted. So
watch the space, Noel. This is Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 8 (56:06):
Marcus.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 4 (56:10):
Yeah. Look, I'm in Kora tonight for a couple of nights.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
And anything to report there. I spy the road, the seals, everywhere.

Speaker 4 (56:20):
My discovery for twenty twenty five there's the Humble Cabbage.
So I've got a daughter who's a very strict vegetarian
who lives in London, and she introduced me to So

(56:40):
you get a cabbage, you quarter it into quarters, smother
it with mezo paste, butter, salt and pepper, throw it
on the oven. About one hundred and eighty maybe thirty
minutes made it gets all in black, wonderful accompaniment. I
absolutely thought, oh this is going to be a disaster.
But I've tried it about three times.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
Wow, that's a lot of when you say it to
great is that a is that dinner? Or that's you got?
You got something else with that?

Speaker 4 (57:09):
Oh, something else with it? But it goes with all
sorts of things.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
But for you, for your daughter, that would be the mate,
that would be That's it, isn't it? That's the meal?

Speaker 4 (57:18):
It probably is poor beggars. I feel sorry for them,
but I'll tell you what it's. It's damn good.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
And the thing about a cabbage, I used to red
cabbage once, man I reckon. I got about from one
cabbage ialk going about ten meters out of it. You
get a lot from what I mean. It's like a tartis.
It gives out more than you. It's just so.

Speaker 4 (57:37):
Dense, so over over winter. I've never been a great
cabbage grub, but I've come across these sort of mini
cabbages which are perfect for a bachelor like me, and
that was superb. They actually grew so that they're.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
Perfect for a.

Speaker 4 (57:56):
Guy on your head called for it. Perfect in the oven,
mes o paste, a bit of butter.

Speaker 3 (58:04):
Why it goes?

Speaker 2 (58:05):
They called him in? Is that little qut or pixie?
I'm googling tho is that what they call.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
A little cuty? Something like that?

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Terrible name, isn't it really?

Speaker 4 (58:16):
I didn't spin on us, but it's probably right.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
Nice to talk nol. Thanks so much for that there.
Well that's the answer. That's the enthusiasm, your great discoveries
of twenty twenty five, the mini cabbage, the little Pixie.
If you got something else to wed, that's we're on
about to not keep it going. Oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty nine text anything else you want to
bang on about tonight feels like it's a Christmas season
and that's a good thing. Oh Yellow poutaka Sumna and

(58:42):
Heathcit Cricket Club. I don't know if I prot ount
teth kit right have I is a heathcoat heathkit. I'm
not good with pronunciation of suburbs in christ Church, Marcus,
I'm waiting on a Queen mattress and base from Ak's
online store. It was meant to be shipped to our
house in christ Church. This week. We got name emails

(59:05):
saying delivery now early January. I'm not concerned as we
head off for three weeks, Zach. Of course, I'll be
waiting for the delivery of the super Tramp, which I'm
excited about. I recommend people do Christmas Club at Peck
and save the Wife and I do eighty a week.
We have a good amount at this time of the
ear for groceries. It's fantastic. That's from Chris. She has

(59:27):
to be a big shopy A four grand? Would you
eighty a week? Wow, that's a big that's a number
of It's multiple trailers, isn't it? Multiple trailers? Twenty six
to ten? How are you going people? What's happening your
discoveries of twenty twenty five? That's what run about tonight
in the More than Merria. But going well with the predictions.
I think I was impressed with that list that Dan

(59:52):
read into my ear. So yes, if you got that,
let's hear from your people. Hittell twelve anything else that
you do want to talk about. As I've always said,
I'm up for it, so yeah, be a part of it.
As I say, eight hundred and eighty eighty sixteen million

(01:00:15):
in Powerball text in early October, you were talking about
a new bridge, a new high level road bridge and crossish.
I predict it won't be there. In twenty twenty six,
in mid June, a high level bridge was swept around
to reach Will reined my question as was it the
same bridge? I don't know, Hi, Marcus. Listeners may be

(01:00:38):
interested to know that the music on the Spark advert
is Seabird, sung by US twins Elisi Brothers in nineteen
seventy six. I was convinced it was a female singer
until I looked it up at to Catchy Tune. Frank
says a mini cabbriage as a Brussels sprout. I think
he meant bigger than that. No, I think Nolan know

(01:00:59):
a Brussels sprout. I look up that song. I don't
know much about the Elisi brothers. Is that what the
text said? I thought they made kettles Alasi brothers pop duo.
Never heard of them, Oh, Laurie, identical twins. There wouldn't

(01:01:20):
be many identical twins that are performers. Never heard of them.
Down the Broadway cast of Heir Great Musical. They did
about twelve albums and Seabird. I think that's a song.
I might have heard of twenty four to ten be
a part of it. I'm going to listen to it

(01:01:41):
during the commercials. Oh no, I've got some Let's just
take the break now we'll come back without hold your horses, Richard. Oh,
that is a great song of Just listen to that
right through. That's a fantastic song. Never heard of them, Richard,
it's Marcus. Good evening, are you.

Speaker 16 (01:01:59):
I look up that song shortly after the age came out,
and I think I've watched it that song about ten
was because I just couldn't give my head around the
feet that it was a couple of blokes singing it. Yeah, yeah,
I thought that they look kind of weird too.

Speaker 14 (01:02:14):
Anyway.

Speaker 16 (01:02:16):
I don't know if I'm missing something or white differently,
but I can't really understand the concept of the advertisement
where the car splits them two and or food comes
off it that drives around without the other piece. I
don't know, am I missing something with it or the
other people out there there the concept of that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
So here's what I'll say to you, right yeah, yeah,
it's a great song, and we know the song. You've
listened to it ten times? Yeahs a pigtick to that
the woman that blows into the side of her helmet. Yeah,
she gets great reception wherever she goes.

Speaker 16 (01:03:00):
Oh okay, yeah, I tink about that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
So I think she's up the mountain. Does she get
something to help her with the car? She hasn't flipped tire.

Speaker 16 (01:03:08):
She possly a snow chain on the wheel.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Yeah, well maybe she's phoned for that. So I think that.
I think it's just I think it's just a very
clever way of showing that they've got the wreck together
with the reception around the country.

Speaker 16 (01:03:22):
Oh yeah, I never thought of it like that. It
doesn't at all.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
I don't know why.

Speaker 16 (01:03:29):
Surely surely be a need for a Chelle Communications company.
They should have been at the forefront.

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
Well, well, I think you're going to come in more
subtly these days. Otherwise you'd be like, you know, you'd
be like that guy that just talks down the camera
and tells you what you should buy, you know, like
an infomercial, So that you're gonna be slightly more subtle.

Speaker 14 (01:03:48):
Yeah, I under said, Yeah, I think that's so.

Speaker 16 (01:03:54):
When the calculats back up on that Harvard Bridge or whatever, what,
what's the idea behind that?

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
Well, I guess you got to resolve the whole thing. Look,
I couldn't tell you. I really couldn't tell.

Speaker 16 (01:04:08):
You were maybe people out there listening to you tonight, Marcus,
see could shed a lot of it because it's got
me dump others brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
Well you've asked for it, Richard, we shall find out
everyone else could explain that. I did have the explanation earlier, Marcus,
serious studying research along with scriptural references to put the
birth of Jesus at sixth of April as the lamb
of God. This was at the time of the Northern
Hemisphere lambing and it was a recorded census date. Marcus,
if you're interested to see just into our Journe will

(01:04:37):
be the guest on Graham Norton on Friday. Thank you
a lot of texts about that. I thought most people
watch been online. I think I don't think we will
be watching, but I guess some people still watching TV
traditionally out the pipe. So thanks for that. Be in
touch of this other stuff. We're talking about the great

(01:04:58):
great discovery of twenty twenty five, Someone's great discovery as
Peck and Save Christmas Club, Crystal's great discovery. We changed
our power from electric Key. We to power Shop last month.
Just got our first power ball today. We saved one
seventy dollars just by changing peak rate electric Key we

(01:05:21):
forty nine per unit point four to nine per unit
at power Shop point twenty six. This is messive for us.
This is Crystal. I think it's a messive for Crystal.
I think the last email should have been scammed too,
so that might be some of the money going back there.
Seventeen to ten. So it's interesting looking at YouTube about
the Alessi I don't know what happened to them. They're

(01:05:42):
huge in their day. They we did a track for Ghostbusters.
I guess they've really become arrangers and producers and they've
worked on jingles. This is the Alesi brothers who were twins.
Don't know why didn't call themselves Alesi twins, identical twin brothers,

(01:06:04):
Billy and Bobby Alesi from New York. Pretty interesting all
across the news for you two people. Seventeen to ten,
it's all about lotto. Nicola willis telling people to shop
around after west Pac lift the mortgage rates. There hasn't
gone to plan not shopping around, but the fact they've

(01:06:26):
lifted those. And of course the social media ban is
in Australia. I think we're second talking about it now.
There's not a lot of you. But they won't know.
I mean they won't know. I mean it be years
before they enough it's to good or a bad thing. Yes,
And the Trump administration's published a requirement for foreign tourists

(01:06:46):
to give up a half decade of their social media
history before they get in to the country. A lot
of work to administers. I guess they get AI to
do it, wouldn't they social media would be quiet for
any people in in the United States. Have been countries
like the United Kingdom in Germany, So even if they
don't have visas from those you don't need visa, you've
still got to do it. Be worrisome for some people

(01:07:09):
having their tickets to their World Cup, the World Cup
fifteen to ten. Get in touch, Bears looking forward to
Graham Norton, Go On your Bears. The song Seabird plays
on the closing credits of Hunt for the Wilder People.

(01:07:29):
Tony says text from Tony, have you seen location, location location, Auckland.
It doesn't look like they're enough funding to go outside Auckland.
If they sell the program overseas, people think that there
was nothing south of the Bombays? Is that a great fear?
My new type of landline is telling me to check
the phone line because it doesn't work. Anyone tell me

(01:07:50):
what to do. The internet and modem work okay, and
the phone is charged, okay, being okay? Before today Cindy
and Parmeerster North Dan, what does she do? I've got
no idea phone you before. You can't phone you provide
to be frustrating. Is your phone charge? I said? Modem worker?
Canphone is charged? Okay? It used to work. Someone might

(01:08:13):
know market text. It seems regarding TV ads that the
guiding principle is if it doesn't make sense, it sells.
Can't understand the song in that ad either, it's not
spoken clearly. Whole thing has me perplexed. Do you feel
freaked out about everything? Maybe sometimes it's good just not

(01:08:33):
to know. Have you thought about that? Just enjoy how
well it's filmed, the commercial and how fun it is,
and the lyrics probably back up the song or the
ad the theme there's a road I know I must go,
even though I tell myself the road is closed. Seabird

(01:08:55):
seabird fly Home. Seabird Seabird fly Home says more than that,
that's just an inkling, that's just a refresher. Seems to
be some fuss about Hastings getting one hundred eighty bus stops.
Why would someone complain they're going because they're geting a
bustop outside your house. Can't work that out at all.

(01:09:16):
It's probably a good thing they're getting bus stops, isn't it.
Or well, ten to ten, it's my job to inform
me that Tim Beverage will be along at midnight tonight today.
This is the day that the EMU Wars ended. They
put ex Australian soldiers up against EMUs with machine guns,
but the EMUs were too clever for them. The EMUs

(01:09:37):
would send out sentries that would divert for every smart bird,
so they killed hardly any. It seems were gruesome raally,
But and the Australian forces they are ridiculed because of
how poorly they did, because don't think they'd be a
very easy bird to kill because they're so big. It's

(01:09:59):
not the case. I'm sure there'd be a book about
that would be a very good reader. I would think.
In fact, there's all almost There has been a film.
I didn't know that. Yeah, I had no idea it
was a movie. It's called The Emu War. I don't
think it's very good. It's a bit over the top apparently.
I don't know how the population of EMUs are in Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
I think there was problems with camels, did they The
camels were brought in obviously for the railway, but they
adapted well and now I think there's a large number
of them wandering doing what camels do, clippery club. I
know what noise. Camels make it gay. This is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:10:44):
Just listening to that. I can remember a story when
we're in Western Australia. I'm on a farm and it
was like doing the setting. You no part in the
weight and it was very boring and was stuck there
and just for a laugh, the old cook said, jump

(01:11:04):
from the ute and we'll go and try. And I
just wanted to surname you you know, Oh yeah mate, yeah,
so big petica right and big bird. You can see
them everywhere, but you try to run one over. That's
what he tried to do. We couldn't get anywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
Near them, and dodgy, they weave, they look really weavah, they.

Speaker 5 (01:11:33):
Look make scafferers.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
So you got you got nowhere, you got nowhere close nothing?

Speaker 17 (01:11:42):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (01:11:44):
That did they get run over by accident?

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
Did the guy think he was going to be able?
We never see did ones On was.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
Trying to show me.

Speaker 5 (01:11:53):
You know, I was from New Zealand, remember the moer.

Speaker 4 (01:11:59):
Yeah, well.

Speaker 5 (01:12:03):
Okay, if we could run one over to see one,
you know, wow, this is a relative. But we couldn't
get near them.

Speaker 2 (01:12:11):
And I suppose when you're out there cutting wheat, there's
not much else to do for I mean, that would
probably be quite exciting.

Speaker 5 (01:12:22):
When you don't want to run over you do.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
Yeah, I can imagine, gay, thank you. It was reboring,
no kidding, we're going to run over an emu ect Actually,
what we're going to do, we're going to fail to
run over the emu, which is even worse, well better
from an emu point of view. But it does show
that the oh text appreciate the show as always listening
every night about this time. Speaking of birds, have you

(01:12:45):
seen how well the key we are doing a waihiki?
Pretty impressive? Makes me want everyone to do individual trappings
for pests Marcus. I've started saying text before text text.
It's my new development. Now I just go text and
then I read the text text that spark Head would
have to be the worst ad every long time. I

(01:13:05):
changed the channel quickly. It doesn't make sense. Maybe that's
the fancy someone getting so confused by saying that doesn't
make sense. I'll change the channel. I mean I should.
That sounds a bit judgmental of it, isn't it. I
enjoy it. I think the production, because most adds these
days are just chet ai. I think there's a Christmas

(01:13:26):
Coca Cola one that looks just that. I like the
fact that's actually been properly shot, a big budget commercial.
Of course, they closed the Harbor Bridge for a morning.
Be a million dollar add, I would think. I don't
know if you can actually find out how many ads cost.
You probably can if you go to the advertising industry
and read some of those text found a website company

(01:13:50):
produced die cast models of commercial aircraft, including a New
Zealand seven four seven and the Concord. The Nortons text
the Norton show Cate Winds that said I done was
a beautiful human being? Oh my god. Text the best
thing in life to do is to hold on to
each other, because when they've gone on life life, it's
oud and horrible. Enjoy your show, because when it's gone,

(01:14:12):
life is horrible. Thanks for text, Helen. Haven't managed to
sort out Cindy's phone line. That's all right, it's not
all right but her. But maybe someone's got some more advice.
I know the weaker on why Hicky were doing too well.
I thought people that thought there were too many wikers.
I'll check check out about the Kiwi way Hiki. Just

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coming to news people, if you want to talk afterwards,
maybe someone knows we're but the Alisi brothers. That's interesting.
Welcome and good evening. How are your going, Marcus till twelve?
I hope it's good where you are. People. The winds
died down and bluff. I pleased because the sea scouts
are staying intense. I see they're putting the tents up.
That's good news. Looks like it's going a pleasant night

(01:14:58):
there for them. Now be in touch your great discovery
for twenty twenty five? What's your great discovery? That's so
I'm keen to talk about tonight. All sorts of other
stuff also and what that stuff is, I don't know.
But if you've got something you want to talk about
your great discovery of twenty twenty five, I'm not topic.

(01:15:19):
I'm not fussed about topic. I'lto about anything tonight, and
I embrace you if you want to come through with
something about that. There might be something random you want
to say. A lot of people are really challenged by
the spark head because I understand it. I mean, how
else would you kind of advertise a cell phone? Come
and it's kind of you know, what do you do?

(01:15:42):
So if you want to mention that, that's we're on
about tonight, Yeah, David's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 18 (01:15:46):
Hey, John, here's it with it? Cab split some up
and she goes one way and.

Speaker 8 (01:15:51):
Go to the other.

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
I mean, I mean it's pretty it's you're already talking
about one ad, aren't you. I mean, at least it's
got at least everyone knows the ad.

Speaker 18 (01:16:03):
Yeah, it always me to be honest with you. He's
got she's got the cell phone hanging out the door
and she says, oh, i've run your veterans run flat.
I've got to charge it up. That car must be
like a reliant Robin you know, a three wheeler to
stay upright, because you notice on the pontoon where it's
not laying over. It's laying over to put the snow

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chains on, but it ends up right on the barge.
And I'm thinking for myself here, that's not a reliant
Robin Old three wheel you know, one wheel of the
front and two at the back. Otherwise I wouldn't be
sitting up like that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
That's what I fuck.

Speaker 18 (01:16:37):
Bolsh's Egypt, mate, You've got to watch it. Fantastic, fascinating
armin temple granite, forty ton sarcophagus with a twenty ton
lid and this thing is just machinery, almost down to
exactly ninety degrees. He put a digital thing on to measure.

(01:16:58):
It's absolutely fascinating. From two thousand BC before Christ three
and a half thousand years ago, the engineering and just
just absolutely amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
I highly recommend him on he Is he doing treble shows? Now?
Is he off the quiz?

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
Well?

Speaker 18 (01:17:18):
This was a He's got a series on Egypt and
this was the SLINKs tonight with next week. I see
it as tudin Carmoon and the the you know, the
golden face mask and what have you? And in the
value of kings, every of the kings in Egypt. Fascinating, mate,
I highly recommend it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
I'll watch That'll that Dave, appreciate you coming through that one.
There we go, and your great recommendations for twenty twenty
five on are your great discoveries. Let's get that right.
Oh now, who does who host you? I don't even
know there was news in it. I'm getting quite a
few texts about news in location, Location Location. I don't

(01:18:04):
even know there was such a thing anymore. Is the
repeat it new show? Oh yeah, good on you text?
I absolutely hate that spark ad. I feel very tempted
to leave Spark because of it. It's just so ridiculous.
Does not impress me at all. Darryl Westport Gosh, people
don't like their imaginations challenge, do they? Text? I was

(01:18:27):
standing in front of my vight car tuning it when
it started creeping forward, open the driver's draw and trying
to hit the brake, but hit the accelerator. The big
wheel spin and it took off down the driveway, especially
at the court of my garage, preceded with the end
of the section, stopping just before the neighbor's fence. And
leaving me standing at the start of driveway looking like
an idiot. Cheers en. That was his discovery. But thank

(01:18:50):
you beautiful text. Now, I think it's a better way
to predate the texts. I think the Spark ad that
seems to be well happy with people talking about it
so much. I think I'm with Spark. I am with Spark,

(01:19:13):
love Spark. I was with Vodafone forever, forever, since nineteen
ninety six. No love for them, nothing, not a phone call.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
Nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
It's funny, isn't it. You just stay and stay and
stay with I think, gee, why they treating you like that? Nickotts, Marcus, welcome,
Hey mate.

Speaker 9 (01:19:32):
I loving the show so far. Good, just thinking about the.

Speaker 8 (01:19:39):
Oh.

Speaker 9 (01:19:39):
Actually, something you mentioned last night Chimney sweeps, and I
thought there's a job that people thought was going to disappear,
Chimney sweeps.

Speaker 2 (01:19:47):
It's a really good point. It's a really good point.

Speaker 9 (01:19:51):
And another one is some piano tuners, that's right, and
two things that are stuck around and it's like, go
make fifty years that have other first things to go.

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
That's right, And my eye is not going to sweep
your chimney, is it? The other thing that hasn't.

Speaker 16 (01:20:05):
Gone too, not for that force.

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
The other thing that hasn't gone is piano movers.

Speaker 9 (01:20:13):
Yeah, although now the things piano movers do have things
to assist them cases they do.

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
But that was a big deal because I've always remember
the all black Peter Fatilofa. That was always his thing,
was piano moving. Was he an all black or Auckland. I
don't think he was an all black, but yeah, that
was always his trade, moving piano.

Speaker 9 (01:20:32):
That reminds me of the all black from Manaiah or
Alpham that used to hedge from holding his lawnmar the
thing that's strong, the best friend.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
Upon with good reason, I would think we've all been tempted.

Speaker 9 (01:20:54):
So the spacket and stuff like that, it just got
me thinking, I thought I might as well ring through
because I've been getting now to probably cut through halfway
through this phone call, but I've been getting warnings for
the last three months that my little brick phone, my
three G is about to is closing down, so I've

(01:21:15):
got to get a new phone. I'm like, nah, I'll
wait till the last day, and it's still going.

Speaker 2 (01:21:20):
When was the last day supposed to be?

Speaker 9 (01:21:24):
I think they ended last month.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
Oh wow, yeah, yeah. Do you think do you think
they might turn it off during this call?

Speaker 9 (01:21:35):
No? In my life, Yeah, but it's I thought that, Yeah,
must we call through? Well I could, and the.

Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
What are you going to pivot up to? We're gone
gone as we talked to him. But the history there
people that last of the three g phones just gone
go figure. You know the drill mark is till twelve
eight ten ninety. The texts you want to come through

(01:22:10):
anything else, that's what we're on. Be a part of it. Yeah,
keep those texts coming through. I've got a new way
to read them.

Speaker 4 (01:22:20):
Right, text.

Speaker 2 (01:22:40):
Marcus, I discovered a text I discovered in twenty twenty
five that my husband had been cheating on me for years.
But the bonus of that is I'm now with an
amazing man I met nearly thirty years ago. I'm happy
as a pig in muck One using adverts make us
look like simpletons, as does Spark Ghastly low Lives There
we go eighteen past ten Hittle twelve Graham from christ

(01:23:05):
Church just rung and said that TV threes off air.
Someone's also texted about that. There's a bit rich that
with your TV goes off uring the radio. But we'll
see what we can to find if anyone else is
experiencing that there was Ja's mother that used to catch
trim his lawns with a lawn ger moer Helen, welcome,

(01:23:26):
This is Marcus. Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 13 (01:23:29):
I bought a whistling kettle because I think that that's
only right and proper that kettles should whistle. And I
took it outside to I had it for a while,
and I took it outside to fill it at the
tank and put it on top of a post. And
the whistling part flew off and disappeared into the graph somewhere. Anyway.

(01:23:50):
I looked and looked and looked and looked for months
and months and months and months, and never quite gave up.
And then the other day I found it was this
little silvery bit poking after the mud. So I thought, oh,
I wonder that's its side. Dug it out, need it
all up, and it's as good as new.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
What a discovery. How for it off the kettle that
you took it out to out of that time?

Speaker 13 (01:24:14):
I took it down, I walked down the steps from
my porch and put it on top of the post
and I kind of had it on very securely, and
it sort of flew flew off and sort of disappeared,
disappeared into the grass. And anyway I found it. This
is wonderful, very humble discovery. But you know there's a
moral in this somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
And ironic that the one thing that was supposed to
bring to the attention to the kit. Yeah, I wonder why. No,
here's a bit of question. Was it where you thought
it was?

Speaker 13 (01:24:43):
No? No, I was looking a bit further.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
On how far? How far away from where you thought
it was? Was it?

Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:24:50):
Not very far? But I had this sort of calculation
of where the ark the arc was and it was
not quite right. But anyway I found it. It's wonderful
really in the seem to be a moral in this someway.
Don't give up.

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
Was the grass had the grasp being mode for it
to appear or how did that happen? Talk me through.

Speaker 13 (01:25:08):
I have cows that go into my garden, ah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:12):
Or the cows. The cows could well have moved it
as they as they ruminated or whatever they do.

Speaker 13 (01:25:17):
I'd have got trampled or something, you know. But there
it was Pete, you know, peeping away in them just
in the mud. Didn't then it's about it anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:25:27):
Good thing a cow didn't swallow it.

Speaker 13 (01:25:30):
No, I don't think so. I don't think cows would
do that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
You never know. We ever whistling cal thank you for that,
Helen twenty three? But what is your great discovery for
twenty twenty five? By the way, Peter Fatilova was not
in All black, but he played. He was the captain
of the Samoan team. Of course I should remember that.
Then he coached Samoa. But they're right, he's right that
there's you still get chimney sweeps, you still get piano

(01:25:54):
tuners and movers, your great discovery of twenty twenty five
or anything else. It's loose like a caboost tonight, and
that's the way we like it. And a lot of
discussion about the spark Head will seem to be triggered
by that, and not in a good way. It's been
a hard watch for some people. I think it's nicely shot,

(01:26:16):
with nice scenery, with a nice tune. So I'm not complaining.
As far as ads for I mean, the only thing
on the only ads for TV now, it seemed to
be there's three ads on TV turners. There's four ads turners,
Spark One, New Zealand and Senior Funerals. And I think

(01:26:41):
if the Senior Funeral ads were as exciting as the
sky as the Seabird, well do I think they'd be a
good world? Just putting that there out to discuss Ewan
McGregor and his daughter sing Seabird on the movie Bleeding Love.
Thank you, Kevin text. Regarding the three G network, we
do fixed powdered and oil f pos terminals that work

(01:27:03):
on three D Dallas SimK. We've been notified that three
D drops off March twenty twenty six. Tracy with a knee,
God to love Tracy with a knee. There is a
wanted man in Auckland that people are saying not to approach.
Johnny South is his name. Don't know any more about that.
That's just come through sixteen million one on Lotto Funny

(01:27:27):
out abount sixteen million. Neither here nor there. I'm joking.
Be a part of it. You want to be twenty
five past ten Hettle twelve your great discovery of twenty
twenty five including the whistle of a whistling kettle or
a forghettle If we can call it that.

Speaker 3 (01:27:46):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
A lot of people are muting all sorts of TV commercials.
I really hate the turners head, I mute the tech.
Why would you hate that? It's a good song. The
most beautiful at the moment is the New World add
We're a father surprises his nurse daughter with a Christmas
Eve treat for touching. Thank you Marion and beb just
talking about your great discovery of twenty twenty five. If

(01:28:08):
you have one, if not, make one up. Be delightful
to hear from you. As we head rather quickly into
the summer part of the show, I think feels like
it's very much the summer time of year. And yeah,
be in touch if you want to be there's something

(01:28:29):
else you want to talk about. Say, do you want
to go the EMU Wars? Yeah, free hard animals to hunt.
Pretty amazing footage online of a feeding frenzy of sharks
and Byron Bay they're warning people not to swim. Drone footage.
I think all drone footage now, isn't it. Everything's drone footage?

(01:28:53):
And of course the social media band in Australia that's
been much talked about, the Ezy Kid to get in
for an exciting summer. Aren't they not knowing what to do?
But plenty of spare time? I would think, Oh, interesting
about the World Cup too in America. That's not going
to go well, is it the we're calling it the

(01:29:15):
World Cup? Nobody wanted the US to host it. Says
hating soccer is more American than apple pie. That's right.
They hate it, yet they've got it.

Speaker 8 (01:29:25):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (01:29:27):
Oh, well, that's set planter for you, innit. Anyone do
anything interesting tonight out for a lart Well, I don't
know what you might be doing, driving around, doing something,
coming home from a school prize giving, coming home from
a Christmas party, off, buying something for a secret center.
I would think I might be wrong. I would think
that probably most of the Christmas parties have kind of

(01:29:47):
I think they progressively got earlier as people want to
avoid the Christmas rush. Don't know if I'm right there.
That's just a speculation, But keen for a discussion on
that also tonight. If there's gifts you can't manage to find,
if there's some question you've got because of the gift
you can't find, that would be of interest. But mainly
we are talking about your great discovery of twenty twenty five.

(01:30:13):
I'd like to know what that is. If you had
a discovery, a product, a show, a hobby, hobbies.

Speaker 19 (01:30:25):
Are good, a long lost family member, a friend, a vehicle,
What is your great discovery?

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
It's the major topic for tonight, and also endlessly on
about the situation with the spark, add that no one
quite knows what it's about, but there is a joy
to it, I think, but people seem to be threatened
by its cleverness. Oh. By the way, Trump has returned

(01:31:03):
to the campaign trail and has gone off script. He
has a speech in Pennsylvania which is peppered with swear words.
He went to Mount polkinor p O c O n
o Pocono like our Pocono butt p O c O

(01:31:23):
n o. Part of the midterm rally, and he's just
ripped into everyone, by the way, seems where he likes
doing best. Yeah. Anyho lines there for you twenty seven
to eleven if you want to be a part of it. Marcus,

(01:31:48):
I have discovered peanut butterfilled pretzels. Delicious. Thank you, Rose
Merlin Shell Drake advent at Tucker Punas night was great.

Speaker 3 (01:31:56):
Fun.

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
Guy is amazing. Yeah, is he the wood wide web
guy shell Drake. I don't know. I have to look.
I have to google about him. Yes, thank you for that,
Moorlin Sheldrake. He might be that guy that writes about
all trees being connected. I have to look that up.

(01:32:17):
I think we've actually had that book, which I didn't read,
which is a pretty stupid thing to say. Well, you
have entangled life, mycologist. He's a mushroom guy. There we go.
That's of interest. Now do come through if you want
to talk on air, as I say, twenty five away
from it, otherwise going to start playing Christmas carols. Now

(01:32:39):
I see that as the path of last resort, going
down the Carrol Route route. I'm sure there must be
someone out there with a great discovery or an interesting
story they wanted to or a highlight from the year.
Let me just open this door because it's hot. As
he can here, I'll do it as I'm walking, keep talking, talking, talking,
talking talking, opening the door. Can you still hear me?

(01:33:01):
A degrees? We build a building with the air cond
of go in one room, which.

Speaker 11 (01:33:05):
Is the on air.

Speaker 2 (01:33:07):
Cheaper. I can't understand that at all. Let us think
of some of the other stuff. That might spark your
direction tonight. Ah, Lord of the Rings released this day
in two thousand and one. That was the first of them.

(01:33:31):
They surrendered in the official Australian government war against the
Yemus this day in nineteen thirty two. Yep, there's figures
released from the UK about how long people spend on
social media. Average person now spends four point five hours

(01:33:53):
glued to their devices every day, ten minutes more than
last year. A quarter of our lives we are on phones. Yep.
The worst age group is eighteen twenty four. That's when
they peak chuck that in your story. Also twenty four

(01:34:13):
away from eleven back soone oh twenty two away from eleven.
My coll to arms was unanswered, And that's fine. I
shall keep rabbiting on. We are to talk about your
great discoveries of twenty twenty five. We are great thoughts
from the year. It's almost that time we would go
and get into concluding thoughts. But always good to probably

(01:34:35):
celebrate some of the positive stuff that's happened. A lot
of people asking about the Prediction Show will do that
begin of next year, twenty twenty six. Really, now it's
installed for us in twenty twenty six. I'm going an election,
of course. I don't know how you feel about that.
Your thousand poles not out between now and the end

(01:34:56):
of next year. I think it's uncertain as to when
the election will be. I guess I'll be waiting for
the economy to turn. Text if you can, but emails
are good also, and on air discussion even better if
you want to be a part of it. Oh, eight
hundred eighty ten eighty, someone wants to talk about the

(01:35:16):
three G shutdown, you more than welcome. I just don't
know much about it, Marcus. My highlight text, My highlight
was discovering the most beneficial use of AR so far
from me. At the least, I make funny photos and
memes of Kevin and Sentram's workmates for a giggle. Sure
we could be curing diseases of the AA, making scientific discoveries,

(01:35:37):
but where is the fun in that. Your thoughts on aliens, yes, no,
not worried. My thoughts on aliens are complicated. We will
never have the evidence we need because they're too far away.
So I'm sure they're out there, but it doesn't matter
because we can't find proof one way or the other.

(01:35:59):
So why would you bother worrying about it? It's a
big it's a big uni Richard. This is Marcus.

Speaker 8 (01:36:08):
Welcome today, Marcus. How are you?

Speaker 2 (01:36:11):
Thank you? Richard?

Speaker 8 (01:36:13):
Discovery for twenty twenty five? Sure I discovered that the
twenty fifty December is actually a celebration of the Roman sun, god.

Speaker 3 (01:36:26):
Soul and Victis.

Speaker 8 (01:36:27):
Goodness, that's my first discovery.

Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
Yes, I presume there's more.

Speaker 8 (01:36:39):
Oh and the second discovery as I found a great
pubic here.

Speaker 2 (01:36:43):
Yep, how old are you?

Speaker 8 (01:36:46):
Fifty four?

Speaker 2 (01:36:47):
I think you've done quite well.

Speaker 8 (01:36:49):
No, it's not bad going, is it.

Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
I think that's very good. Any other discoveries.

Speaker 8 (01:36:54):
No, that's it. That's it. That's all I've got so far.

Speaker 2 (01:36:57):
Thanks, appreciate you call, Richard. I don't know much about
Solo and Victis. I'm seeing there is a Facebook page
for him, but thank you. It does say something about
the twenty fifth of December two seven four post Christ
for the Dark Ages. Text if you can, or email,

(01:37:23):
but you fool ball me. Let's go. Let's give it
a bit of ash loong. Otherwise it becomes Otherwise it
becomes not challenging, but one way from me just trying
to jolly all along tonight that we all need a
holiday may include it, and yeah, but let's stay here
from what you're up to. You might be heading home
from a staff do or a prize giving or a

(01:37:47):
club roundup. No, I don't mean a club round up,
but an end of year round up for your club,
you know, like your Lions or your rotary or whatever
you do. It'd be nice to hear you talk about
that too. And I'm not telling you what to talk
about things that you might want to talk about, So
be in touch if you want to anything else here

(01:38:07):
for you. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine
two nine two de text where I did want to
at your great Discoveries of twenty twenty five? Is I
await those? You can text those or call them or
the thing you've got most enthusiasm for. Someone says it's ai.
I don't know if that would be for me. I

(01:38:28):
sertily think there's something to it. I'm just not quite
sure what. And yeah, if this other news too, I'll
bring that to you people as I find that discover
that it's eighteen to eleven. I'm expecting the good flurry,
the quick flurry of calls before too long, So we
live and we wait. All the papers are doing big

(01:38:52):
stories on whther New Zealand should ban social media for
young people. I think they're probably the government will to
do it. I think there's votes in it. That's why
imagine what next year is going to be. All about
things that people might vote because of. And well that

(01:39:12):
make for an interesting year maybe, But everyone's talking about
whether they agreeand principal to a ban, Marcus. This year
I've discovered water flossing. Life changing dentity is the inside
by God, is the different between night and day? It's people.
I've gotchally one of those water flosses. I've never used.
Only if I don't really really want it brought for me.

(01:39:34):
It always seems a bit too ma. Sure, I probably
should give it a go. Probably not a bad thing,
they say there forever, just I can't see how it works.
Now we'll give it a go. You've changed my mind
on that water flossing. Haha. Sixteen to eleven, catch it
a bit, fourteen away from.

Speaker 20 (01:39:53):
Eleven, welcome and good evening, hit or twelve o'clock to
night to beverage from midnight me till then me on
my own full now and you hopefully if you do
want to partake in this discussion tonight, your great discovery
or your great realization.

Speaker 2 (01:40:08):
Of twenty twenty five. Ah, by the sounds of people,
people haven't had any great realizations, and that's fair enough.
It's been a tough year for some price of butter
that's been the main topic, isn't it, and doesn't really
seem to have gone down that much. So most people
seem to have been avoiding buying butter and been triggered

(01:40:28):
and confused by the Spark commercial. There's been that sort
of a year. You have something else to say about that,
and that would be great to hear from you, So yes,
do get through. There's something different I'd like to hear
from you, or something the same. But yeah, all the
lines are like a quick flurry before the news. That
would be ideal for me. Then we'll work out what
we're going to do in the next hour. But yeah,

(01:40:49):
be a part of it if you want to talk.
As I say, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and
nine nine text, and you're not much happening around the
world today that I can see.

Speaker 18 (01:40:59):
News.

Speaker 2 (01:40:59):
All seems fairly quiet. There's a mystery hum and Christ Jurge,
but when you look long but the story, the mystery
hum seems to have gone there for a long long time.
Also talked a bit tonight about cruisers and the fact
there's now cruisers and the whole point of the cruise
is not where you're going. It's just you go to

(01:41:21):
see and just kind of put around for a while
and come back into port. That's what those Disney ones
operate out of Auckland do. I didn't know about that,
but yeah, so I think what it is, it's like Disney.
There's obviously no rides. There's just sort of Disney characters
sounds that I don't know. Yeah, it doesn't spin my wheels,
but I guess I'm not the market. I guess I'm

(01:41:41):
not really a Disney type character. You'd probably gathered that,
wouldn't you. But the cruise is also two. So that's
the three topics. Do I need to reiterate the topics?
You're probably not ten from eleven, but would love to
talk to you tonight. How's your any Uber drivers out there?
How's Uber going for your people? How's your Uber food

(01:42:03):
delivery going? And why people so keen to eat at
home and out of Polystar and containers that surprises me.
Come on, come through if you want to talk all
the topics or anything else. And if you've got breaking
news or news it's of interest. Have you've got road updates?

(01:42:26):
There was a crash south of Parmeston North. I'll check
if that has been resolved or pee here, I think, yeah,
I don't. I'm not a town. I'm not familiar with
saying actually, I'll check on the website. See I've got
some more information for you on that. That's ten to eleven.
There's changed the Walker Katahi website, which is not good,

(01:42:48):
become complicated to get onto a Yeah Roberts Marcus welcome, Yeah,
how you Marcus?

Speaker 15 (01:43:00):
I was in then, I think from down the south.
Someone told me about a study called the study with
a got a thousand babies born in that year. I
think it was in the seventies and they've followed them
all the way through and there's little known about it,
but it was one of the biggest studies made in

(01:43:21):
New Zealand, I think the fact in the world. And
it was out of Dunedin University. Do you know anything
about that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:27):
It's called the Longitudinal Study and it's exactly that, and
they've followed it, and I know people that were some
of those original people and they go back like every
couple of years and get all the tests and everything done.
I mean, it's pretty extraordinary.

Speaker 15 (01:43:42):
Yeah, I thought you'd know, but I didn't know anything
about it, and I thought, yeah, that's pretty amazing. And
I think those people must I think they're in they're
what fifties or sixties.

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
Now, yeah, I think probably mid fifties. I don't actually,
but I think what's amazing is a lot of them
still kind of, you know, have continue to put There's
probably some people out there listening that have been involved
with it, but they kind of There was a documentary
done about it. I think how did you find out
about it? Were you talking to someone?

Speaker 15 (01:44:13):
Yeah, I was in Dneeding today in business and we
were talking about certain we were sitting outside the Westling
closer to Duaneitan University, and they talked about it, and
I was fascinated by it. And I think it's probably
got a bit more relevant than your topic tonight, and
though the year there might be something out there listening
about it. But yeah, quite fascinating that this one guy

(01:44:38):
took these thousand people that were born and just followed
them for and it was this whole life project.

Speaker 2 (01:44:44):
Would there be a thousand people born into the end
of the year, they probably would be, were there, I
guess so, I don't know.

Speaker 15 (01:44:50):
That's where I was told, but it was probably off
the CAF comment. But yeah, I just thought it was
very interesting and I thought it should be if it
was the biggest It was the biggest one survey in
the world, and following these people for of a subject
I thought of bring up might bring people to add two.

Speaker 2 (01:45:10):
Yeah, appreciate that of nineteen seventy two, while someone out
there might be. Yeah, and there's quite there's quite big
research findings from it about deprivation and success and things
like that. It says ninety four percent of living members
participate in the latest assessment, so they get one thousand

(01:45:33):
and thirty seven babies that followed them through a ninety
four percent of those living are still involved, which is
kind of extraordinary. I don't know how they do that,
how they manage to get them so involved. But yeah,
as I say, it still goes on and on and on.
But yeah, so you might be involved with that one.
I don't know where that will because I must will

(01:45:54):
be around them, and they're not all going to be
into need anymore?

Speaker 3 (01:45:56):
Are they?

Speaker 2 (01:45:56):
Most of my image you would have moved elsewhere. There
would be my thoughts about that one. I don't know
what the great discoveries from it are. You're right, it's
a worthwhile thing to talk about one thousand and thirty
seven babies between nineteen seventy two and nineteen seventy three.
I think the guy behind it has recently is deceased.

(01:46:18):
I forget his name. Where he was sort of the
was much louded around the world with what he had done.
You Janet's Marcus good Evening.

Speaker 21 (01:46:28):
Yeah, my son's in that study.

Speaker 2 (01:46:29):
Oh wow, how that tell me how that came about?

Speaker 11 (01:46:33):
Jen?

Speaker 21 (01:46:34):
Oh well, when he was born, they just they notified me,
bring me and wanted to know whether I wanted to
be a part of it. And it was I sort
of understood it was to do with cot Deep as well.

Speaker 9 (01:46:52):
And.

Speaker 21 (01:46:54):
Obviously they just wanted to research baby born in that
time and to be able to help with their development
and what goes wrong and what some things go wrong
and what's good and bad and and I thought why not?
And he's in his forties now, they they still actually

(01:47:17):
follow it up. It's quite amazing. I didn't know at
the time that it would last that long, but yeah,
I just felt that I I just wanted to be
a part of it when he was born. Yeah, and
they just there's lots and lots of questions that they asked,

(01:47:37):
and it's not just about his health. It was about
you know, his living arrangements and his work and how
he had got from the time he was the day
was born to what he was you know, his education

(01:47:58):
and his what he ended up doing for you know,
they go quite decent to the whole background of each child.
It's quite extraordinary. And I don't have a lot to
do with it once he became an adult, because they
sort of take over and they interview him and asked

(01:48:20):
him to fill out the forms once they become an adult.

Speaker 2 (01:48:24):
But yeah, appreciate you coming through, Jen, Thanks for that. Hello,
Lizzie's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:48:31):
Oh, good evening, Marcus. I'm not sure what anybody else
has said about this test, but if we've lived in
the Needles, our daughter would have been part of it because.

Speaker 4 (01:48:39):
She was born in seventy two, of course.

Speaker 22 (01:48:42):
Yes, yeah, now it's every seven years. They they evidently
contact all the living ones and they whether they want
to take part or not. But there's been a lot
of different things. Some have been in jail, some will
be dead. So it's just followed up every seven years

(01:49:03):
and still going.

Speaker 2 (01:49:05):
Yeah, I've actually yeah, it's yeah, it's pretty extraordinary how
long it's gone for.

Speaker 22 (01:49:12):
Yeah, I'm sure the name died not.

Speaker 2 (01:49:15):
There I think, yeah, he did, and that became quite
a big news story too, Liz, thank you for that.
I appreciate you coming through with that. We are too
about the longer and that's interesting. Oh and it's got
a free good Wikipedia page under duneed and Multidisciplinary Health
and Development Study, which is hard to remember. It has

(01:49:37):
led to twelve hundred different papers and reports about all
sorts of things, childhood, self controlled drug and alcohol use,
difficult childhoods, all those sorts of things. Relation relationship between
social isolation between the ages of five and eleven and
Paul Cardio of escular health and the relate a lot

(01:49:59):
of stuff. So yeah, and widely celebrated around the world
is your though often quoted, but thanks for that. To
come through about that too. Text if you want to
nine to nine two to text etil twelve o'clock tonight, Marcus,
I always make a point of talking to Uber drivers.

(01:50:21):
Not a single one I've met in the past two
to three years does it as a main job. More important,
they don't want to be employees. In my opinion, this
is a messive own goal. Why the four drivers who
took the case to court text, the spark ad is polarizing.
You wonder if that actually use good looking people said
the obvious freak shows they're trying to push would make

(01:50:43):
it more popular. Wow, jeep, is what's going on for you? Text?
This year, I've discovered that lux of a super out
of touch with everyday running of the country and its people.
We have cut the fat and government spinning, and then
why is unemployment so high? I'm accepting nations from everyone
and anyone a former public servant. Thanks for that back

(01:51:03):
after the news head or midnight hire people. Welcome Marcus
Hittel twelve tonight, So thanks for being the evening here
and long may that continue if you want to be
a part of the show. We are talking about your
great discoveries of twenty twenty five, also talking about that
any longitudinal study amazing. We haven't talked about that before,
not from my recommendation. Something I've always been away from it,

(01:51:26):
something that's always had a huge amount of media interest
in it over the years is often people on radio
shows talk about the success and what's been learned from
it and the findings. And there's pretty stuff online about
that too. That was a documentary made twenty sixteen.

Speaker 3 (01:51:41):
I remember.

Speaker 2 (01:51:41):
I don't actually watch that, but no doubt be there
on YouTube also talk about the song. A lot of
discussions about the Spark commercial, which is the one with
a car that divides in half, and also the song
that done up by the Alessi brothers. I imagined the

(01:52:02):
whole air was just about someone that some advertising was saying,
what about if a car split in half? The original
ideas are good, and they've based the whole thing around that.
I think it's quite clever. So you SAIDs what we're
on about also tonight. But anything you've got for the
last hour is good for me. Get me through my
day eight and eighty. If you want to be a

(01:52:24):
part of it. Yeah, Hi, David's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 23 (01:52:32):
Oh cool, that's fast, you can hear me, I came,
Margus now unclear.

Speaker 2 (01:52:35):
Thanks Dave, Oh beauty.

Speaker 23 (01:52:38):
Look, I've just tuned in and I've heard you two topics.
To be fair, I hadn't called to speak.

Speaker 7 (01:52:43):
About that, but.

Speaker 23 (01:52:46):
Raoul, I believe to see you pronounce that roll Paul
Roald Marlo. Sorry that leads in with the Mavericks, just
just do it. Yesterday, you and I occasionally talk and
you asked me what I sing when I when I
sing country, and often they go towards Wagon Wheel. I
can tell you right now, for someone who sings every weekend,
at least two or three times every weekend, the country

(01:53:08):
music crowds, the Mavericks would be the most played band
in New Zealand hands down. Were like, I've got it
in my set list. I've got about seven of these
songs I sing every weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:53:20):
Because I don't know them. Dave, how are people finding
out about that? Because I presume I get no radio played,
do they.

Speaker 23 (01:53:27):
Well, you'd be surprised if there's one song of these
that you definitely do know. It was released in the
nineties and it kind of went under the radio. You
wouldn't have think of it as country. But it's a
song called Dance Night Away. Just want to dance The
night Away. And trust me, if it came on the
radio tomorrow, you go, oh yeah, that song. It was
sort of released in the early nineties, I think mid nineties,

(01:53:47):
just want to Dance the Night Away. So I think
it might just be called Dance the Night Away. And
that look that gets played everywhere. That gets played at
twenty first at weddings and pubs all up down the
country every weekend by bands. I'll sing it this weekend
at least three times. Line dancers demand it because there's
line dancers that go to that song. It's it's up

(01:54:09):
there with Wagon and it's been around for longer, and
I think it's I'll probably have a few more legs
because it won't get yeah, I have a love or
you hate Wagon. Whereas everybody likes the Mavericks.

Speaker 2 (01:54:21):
How long have you been aware of them?

Speaker 23 (01:54:25):
Well, especially in the last five or six years, and
something started digging in doing country music, and then that's
I sort of realized, Wow, they don't just sing that
one song that was a popular hats because you know,
it was on the top twenty charts back of the
nineties and it was a it was a mainstream hit.
But the more I became aware of the country scene,

(01:54:48):
in particular the text next thing, because there a text
has been and they play with most of the songs
have brass sections through it. It's almost it's almost kind
of a scar feeling a sound, but it's not quite.
It's not that upbeat, skank scar sort of vibe to it,
but it crosses over with country and that text mes
brass instrument kind of feel. And he's an incredible vocalist.

(01:55:15):
Just off the top of my head, I mean, I
just want to dance to night away, ride with you,
arride with me. All you ever do is bring me down.

Speaker 12 (01:55:22):
There's just so.

Speaker 23 (01:55:23):
Many, so many great songs they do, which you guaranteed
a good response from the audiensity play their songs. It's
just it's a no.

Speaker 2 (01:55:31):
Brain I am. I just listened to this, as told you,
I am familiar with that song, and it's a familiar.
Where were they based? Were they a Los Angeles band
or you know anything more about them?

Speaker 23 (01:55:42):
Well, as I say that their style of music is
referred to as tex mix, So you know, so I
believe they're a Texas space band.

Speaker 2 (01:55:51):
Yeah, I think it's more. I think originally in Miami.
I think according to wiki Pete not that. Yeah, but yeah,
that's pretty much. Yeah. Have you been digging tonight.

Speaker 23 (01:56:01):
Dave, No, I know, I've got a real job during
the week.

Speaker 2 (01:56:07):
You'll be crazy now. And Christmas you Christmas parties and
stuff with you.

Speaker 4 (01:56:11):
Oh my god.

Speaker 23 (01:56:14):
Last weekend I did the Thames Workingman's Club on Friday night,
left there, drove straight through to tarad Dole for a
wedding on the Saturday in Tara Dole and then packed up.
Left there at one o'clock, drove straight back to Aukland
for a Bourgainhead r s a gig at lunchtime. And
it's like that till it's not always like that. The
weekend before it was three gigs in Orkland. I try
not to do too much of the crazy traveling, but

(01:56:35):
on books through to March. Yeah, it's it's the great.
It's a great season for us sings at the moment.

Speaker 2 (01:56:39):
Has Taradale got no one local?

Speaker 3 (01:56:43):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:56:43):
Look it was the mate I used to work for
a guy, work with a guy. When I when I
I'm from Tarantor, I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:56:48):
From friends, you understand.

Speaker 23 (01:56:51):
Yeah, a friend of a friend was getting married and
so that they asked if i'd do it.

Speaker 2 (01:56:56):
Yeah, yeah, did you do wagon Wheel.

Speaker 23 (01:57:02):
I think I opened with wagon Wheel.

Speaker 2 (01:57:06):
Dave, thanks for coming through fourteen past eleven the Mavericks
you might want to talk about. Then we've got a
music discussion. Is night with the Mavericks and the Elasi
Brothers too. With that song from the Spark commercial anything
goes Tonight here till twelve. Keep those texts coming you
dance to Night Away is quite a common song when
Shuck she start listening to it six one hundred and
fifteen thousand months he listens on Spotify. Text Ai says

(01:57:31):
the Spark tvr ad part of it It's better with
Spark campaign features us a real story where a young
woman's caspits and half allowing the passengers section to embark
on a fantastic duty cost New Zealand showcasing our sparks
wonderful network enables surprising sceneles and epic experiences, moving beyond
just utility to create joy and wonder. Someone says a

(01:57:51):
lot of the TV channels are down. Someone says Channel
three and four on Eden and Rush on. Few of
you are down. Another texts us made redundant last year
because the government cuts in yit. I've applied for over
one hundred fifty jobs and still can't get one. I'm
a highly qualified senior executive assistant. There are so many
people in the same boat. The government needs to do
more to help people to get into jobs. Text cure, Marcus,

(01:58:14):
did anyone know any hidden gem activities to do in
hals with a five year old? You had to rull
out the jet boat up the wire Tortau River due
to a ten thirty start. We are staying at kids
Bush camp the night before and don't want to rush
the pack up, Marcus. The longtudinal study was in a
TV series called Predict My Future. That's right twenty sixteen.

(01:58:36):
I knew some of the people involved with that hard
thing to make a documentary about, wouldn't it Because I
don't know I'm saying that, but you think that would
be yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ooh and yeah get yeah,
get in touch if you've got if you want to
join the discussion tonight, there's some of the great confession

(01:59:00):
you've got for us? What is that? Your discovery of
twenty twenty five and long way they continue?

Speaker 3 (01:59:06):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:59:07):
Do come through? If there is something different you want
to talk about, maybe the Mavericks also not a bad day. Know,
although you know, listen to that song. I think maybe
you had got some radio play. Actually feels like it's
sort of singing here on Breeze or Classic Hits or
something like that. I don't know whether that Seabird song
gets played, because that sort of was slightly familiar that

(01:59:27):
the one from the Spark commercial. And look, that's apart
from that. There's anything else you want to talk about.
This you are more than welcome from this time of
than anything else you want to talk about, no matter
how inconsequential. Always keen for people coming home from Christmas
parties and things at this time of the night. It's
always good to kind of get a look into how

(01:59:49):
that's working for people. I don't know if the cities
have been busy or not. Maybe some of the Uber
drivers can tell me how it compares to last year
as far as busyness goes. You might be one of
those Uber food deliveries. Be good to hear about that too.
How busy it's been. Well, maybe the question I haven't
asked is how busy the retailers are. Also, it was

(02:00:12):
a terrible year in retailer but maybe it's picked up
at the end. I don't know what everyone's wanting, but yeah,
you might have done that too. So yeah, as I say,
if you want to be a part of it, would
love to hear from you tonight, first time callers, last
time callers, anything, anything goes is so twenty past eleven
if you want to be a part of it before
the end. Because I've kind of run out of exciting

(02:00:32):
things to say, I think are pretty well done a
dash tonight. What else David was interested to say? Oh,
the EMU Wars you might want to you might know
a bit about that. Also, that sounds like it would
be a very interesting podcast. I'm sure it's been done.
Might be one that you've listened to know some more
information about that, So yes, come on, get in touch,

(02:00:54):
hit or twelve and if there's other stuff, Oh, by
the way, the Mystery Hum and christ Church and not
anyone's got to say about the Mystery Hum. I think
there's aline between mystery hums and tinatus, but I don't
think all people that hear mystery hums have tenatus. It
seems to me that tenatus has very misunderstood. It's fortunately

(02:01:16):
not something that I have suffered from. I known that
people have tenators find it fordabilitating. Yep. By the way,
there's much excitement in the UK press because they have
found the English cricket team on a Queensland beach looking
extremely relaxed and the headline the headline is over prepared

(02:01:41):
to the bitter end, warm beer for failing Bears, ballers
on break, beach on beach break and NUSA. Yeah. So
I think the situation is that they'll be having a
hell of a time because everywhere they go the English
press will be there just reporting the would be a
unrelaxing time. I would think getting photographed everywhere you go

(02:02:05):
because the English media love a losing team that doesn't
appear to be trying. Once the English media turns, boy
do they turn. I can't wait for the next test.
He's going to be fantastic. So yep, I think the
next test is the Christmas boxing noy one. We've got
to wait for a while for it. Move it to Marcus,

(02:02:28):
Good evening.

Speaker 24 (02:02:30):
Good evening, Marcus. I haven't heard any humming in christ shirt,
but many moons ago I had a humming when I
was camping and kai Kora the year of the Terrible
tsunami time in Benkok from.

Speaker 2 (02:02:43):
Wow Wow, Yes, the Christmas the boxing unami.

Speaker 24 (02:02:47):
Yeah, horrible. So I was at that time, like, how
many years ago is that, Marcus?

Speaker 2 (02:02:51):
Oh my gosh, I would it be two thousand and
five or something.

Speaker 24 (02:02:57):
Yeah, it must have been. I was just a baby then,
and I'm stroking. So what I'm saying is that I
was in a kemping crowd before all that happened on
the news next morning, and I couldn't sleep because there
was a blinking power generator near my cabin and I
couldn't sleep a wink. It was humming all night.

Speaker 2 (02:03:17):
They're a horrible thing, that electronic come because you also
don't know if it's doing your bed. Also because sounds
like it's got bad sort of vibes coming off that.

Speaker 24 (02:03:24):
Yeah, so I the next day I moved. I went
to the office and said, sorry, I can't sleep, and
they moved me to a cabin far away. But they're humming.
I need peace and quiet when I sleep, don't you.

Speaker 3 (02:03:36):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:03:37):
Absolutely, you know the mystery. But there's nothing as annoying
as annoys you can identify. Move. That's Robbie. I just
thought you'd predicted the quake. I thought you thought it
might be the quake, Susie good Evening.

Speaker 25 (02:03:47):
Oh you're a market Yeah, yeah, sure, I was just
ringing because I know about you. But I've got the
feeling like this year, for some reason, everyone's like, don't
Christmas now? Like everything's like a lot sooner than Christmas.

Speaker 3 (02:04:16):
If we get my dressed, lad I come again.

Speaker 25 (02:04:20):
Well, I get the impression like everyone's starring Christmas really,
like you know, like traditionally Kiwais were really bad and
it's like Christmas Save and we're buying prisons. But I
feel like this year everyone's like saper prepared, like the

(02:04:45):
end of November.

Speaker 2 (02:04:47):
Souse. I agree what you're saying entirely. I think all
the Christmas parties and everything happens much soon because people
have realized how chaotic Christmas is and if it's having
much much Dury, I agree entirely, absolutely, And I've even
noticed from the show, because you can tell on the
show when when Christmas kicks in, because if everyone's barbecuegaret parties,

(02:05:08):
and I think it's probably been a week earlier this year,
but you know I could. I could because the pace
of the show changes.

Speaker 25 (02:05:16):
Yeah, that's the feeling I get. I feel like it
rans having Christmas before Christmas.

Speaker 2 (02:05:22):
Yeah, I agree, yep, I agree, but yeah, yeah, fortunately
down south is it's all pretty quiet. Yeah, yeah, I
do think. I do think, despite what Christopher Accent and
Simon Bridges said, I do think probably we are getting

(02:05:42):
into Christmas earlier, so it's probably more disruptive than it
has been in the past.

Speaker 24 (02:05:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (02:05:47):
Absolutely, Well, I live in Papa Maaa's amount and it's
just been kay artically busy, like crazy busy, and I
feel like it runs only Christmas now, that the week
before Christmas is going to be pretty quiet because everyone's

(02:06:09):
just organized and got everything and everyone knows that, you
know you strawberries are like three dollars now, but Christmas
time they're like six bucks and things like that, so
everyone's doing everything a lot earlier.

Speaker 2 (02:06:26):
I agree, Thanks Susie. Oh by the way, someone sext
to me and said, look, because I was confused with
the ashes, I always thought they'd be going into the
Boxing day Test having lost it, which I thought was
a sad thing. And someone said, no, the Boxing day
Test is the third one, but it's not so thanks
to the people that have cleared that up for me.
That's how I always thought it would be, but someone
kind of crecked me the other way. But yeah, I'm
seeing that. The next test is an Adelaide next Wednesday,

(02:06:50):
and the fourth test is the Boxing Day Test. So
it'll be an absolute tragedy for sport if the Boxing
Day Test if the series wrapped up by then. But
thanks for that, Marcus, love your show. Next dashes seventeenth
to twenty first December and Adelaide followed by the Boxing
Day Test. McCullum and Stokes need to sort it out.
Swimming at the beach and drinking beers is not a

(02:07:12):
good look, Marcaus. I just got home from the Great
Lake Film Society Christmas Path excuse me, Christmas party with
the best secret center, a life size cut out of
Graham Norton. Where is the Great Lake Film Society? Got
no idea where that is? Makes? A few years ago,

(02:07:33):
I was totally surprised when I found a ten on
at my garden. All right, that's not that funny, but yeah, truly, Hello, welcome.

Speaker 6 (02:07:41):
Oh good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 25 (02:07:43):
I'm the first time or.

Speaker 2 (02:07:46):
Thank you for making the effort. It means a lot
to me. Welcome.

Speaker 6 (02:07:48):
Well, I'm very nervous. I've been trying to buck up courage.

Speaker 2 (02:07:51):
Imagine I'd be terrified. I'd be so terrified of calling anyway, Mine.

Speaker 6 (02:07:58):
Is a discovery, right, I have discovered the pleasure and
great pleasure and the interesting hobby of saving monk butterflies.
It all happened by accident in August. A friend and
I were walking past a tree and we saw three
caterpillars on it, and we thought, oh my goodness, this

(02:08:19):
is August, it's cold. Perhaps we should take them home
and try and save them, which we did. Unfortunately only
one survived. But then that started us on looking at
other swan plants and discovering more butterflies and reading about them,
and we then thought, ah, are we going to go

(02:08:40):
about this? So we went to mine to ten and
bought one of those huge plastic like clear containers and
we filled it full of holes and put tweaks in there,
and we put three damn jars with a swan plant
branches in each one of them. We started off we're learning,

(02:09:03):
and we about three weeks ago we have now let
go successfully ten modern butterflies, and it's just the joy
and it will be a wonderful hobby for children now.

Speaker 24 (02:09:18):
Over the school holidays. It's so easy to do.

Speaker 6 (02:09:22):
It doesn't cost anything, only a container and as long
as you have a supply of swan plants to watch.
These little creatures start off as an egg as big
as a pin, drop to a caterpillar, and then land
up with one that when once they were about as
big as your little finger and fat. Of course, then
they go into a crysalis, and then for a couple

(02:09:44):
of weeks from chrysalis into a butterfly, and they are
just so fascinating and wonderful to watch. There a beautiful
butterfly come out of this crystalis that was a caterpillar
and was a tiny egg. And I live in a
retirement village. I have a ground floor apartment. And now

(02:10:05):
it's surprising, and the neighbors calling want to see how
they're getting on. We have them at different stages and
they've become quite it's quite the stars around here. And
we started naming them. So we're down to j and
the one we have at the moment that will be
going into a crystal as shortly is going to be Jasper.

Speaker 2 (02:10:27):
Oh God, now tell me something truly, because I'm sure
where do you get the chrysalises? From Do you find
them on plants on your waters? Is that what you said?

Speaker 6 (02:10:36):
Yes, you find we find the caterpillars. It's caterpillars, sho
look for you may, but the crystalers they have to
be saved from the horrible wasps. Yes, yes, start of
killing off the monarchs.

Speaker 2 (02:10:51):
It's right. That was a bit of that was a
bit of information I'd forgotten about I missed from your set.
So you will when you find caterpillars with your wandering.
Will they be on swamp plants or will they be
on our sorts of time? They're always on swamp.

Speaker 6 (02:11:03):
Plants, only on swamp plants, and that's the only thing
they eat and the only thing they live on. And
so if you have swan plants anywhere, but this is
the time, the moment now to start looking. The female
butterfly can lay between three hundred and five hundred eggs,

(02:11:25):
but the ants love the eggs as well.

Speaker 3 (02:11:27):
Yeah, okay, so but for children.

Speaker 6 (02:11:30):
We have one of our maintenance man now some of
the couple of the butter caterpillars we have in the
container at the moment are for his grandchildren. And he's
gone and gone and got a big box and he's
going to start looking after a few butterflies, and you know,
teaching the children about the moneric butterflies, because they're wonderful

(02:11:54):
to to watch, to see these beautiful things come out.
And I know it was only butterflies, but as a child,
I used to actually love creating the frog spawn, to tadpoles,
to frogs. Yes, we did a children. Perhaps a lot
of these people could get off their phones and go

(02:12:16):
out looking for some romiccss of lies to say.

Speaker 2 (02:12:19):
So, Trudy, the purpose of the jar is money to
protict them from the wasps. Is that right?

Speaker 6 (02:12:25):
No, We put the jars inside the container, and then
you put glad wrap over and then you stick in
there a few branches of the swan plant. You go
around to cut yourself off a couple of branches, stick
them in a jam jar with water, and then you
cover it with glad rap. First of all, because we

(02:12:48):
learned the hard way that they don't swim and if
they fall into the water. We lost one of them
that way. And they thrive. All they do is eat
and poo and eat and poo until they'll be some
enormous caterpillars and then of course turn into these crystalis
and then out of the chrystalers, you watch it go
from green to transparent, to watch their wings, and then

(02:13:11):
outcomes the butterflies. And I think we lunded up more
males than female.

Speaker 2 (02:13:16):
But just to clarify the reason you're the reason you're
taking them from the reason you're taking them off that
where you'll find off the swamp plants, where you're finding
them is because they have been predated on by the
wasps and the ends that right, Okay.

Speaker 6 (02:13:29):
Yes, and there is a Moth and Butterfly Society trust
that we were joining and and there they're a great
society and they give Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:13:40):
Yes, I think. I think there's a woman called Jackie
that runs that. And boy, she's alive wire that one.
She's a go getter. I've spent a lot of time
talking to Jackie over the years.

Speaker 6 (02:13:49):
Oh that's lovely. We haven't met her yet, but.

Speaker 2 (02:13:53):
She's a delight.

Speaker 6 (02:13:55):
We let go ten And unfortunately if we had known
about her before, we could have tagged them because a
few weeks ago, one of the ones that was tagged
here in Atland, I'd flown a hundred and twenty k's
within about three days.

Speaker 2 (02:14:08):
Yes, and there is one beach at Northland and the
North Island and the north of the North Island where
they all breed, which I have been to too, so
they're quite.

Speaker 6 (02:14:17):
Oh yes, just discovered them.

Speaker 2 (02:14:19):
Oh yes, oh no, you no, she's a fairly interesting
and over the years, and you're in there's been a
lot of people that have been one butterfly people. There
was a guy in Titanangi that was involved with popularizing them.
So yeah, but nice to talk to you, Trudyan. Thank
you so much for bringing up that was great. Twenty
six away from twelve o'clock. If you want to talk

(02:14:39):
Marcus till midnight, are your great discovery of twenty twenty
five there like Truda's, let's be hearing from you. If
you want to add to that, here's a text. What
does it mean when your heels are itchy but can't
scratch it because it's too deep under the skin to scratch.
Oh that sounds terrifying. Oh well, we are getting there.

(02:15:01):
Twenty three away from twelve o'clock. Hello, Steve.

Speaker 3 (02:15:06):
Hackers.

Speaker 17 (02:15:07):
Yeah, I want I want to talk about butterflies because
I was just coming on the backfoot of that, but
also I wanted to talk about do you miss your
trains and would you do could you do something like
that again?

Speaker 8 (02:15:25):
Please?

Speaker 2 (02:15:26):
Like another series on trains?

Speaker 17 (02:15:29):
Well, I know, but maybe boats this time or something.

Speaker 2 (02:15:33):
I think now that I think now that Zuckerberg and
Musk and the social media people have taken all the
all the money out of TV, that there's no money
to make TV documentaries anymore, that the industry has pretty
much is pretty much over. I think I think those
sorts of documentaries you couldn't make.

Speaker 17 (02:15:53):
We loved it, we loved it, oh.

Speaker 2 (02:15:55):
Yes, yes, but you just couldn't get there. You couldn't
get the return on what it costs to make from
the TV advertising. Now, even if the audience was a
saying it was a highly watched show, you know, you
just yeah, it's it's it's one of the great shames
that because you just can't do it.

Speaker 17 (02:16:13):
It's that sucks to me. I the other the other night,
I watched the forty five oh one, that that steamer
that they rebuilt in America forty five oh one massive
steam train, and and that had a bench chessis Yeah,

(02:16:39):
but no, I just thought about you when I was
watching that. Yeah, instrumentally, you know you did it. You
did trains justice, Marga.

Speaker 2 (02:16:50):
I appreciate that. Now, did you want to talk about butterflies?

Speaker 17 (02:16:54):
Yes, you're a butterfly? Yeah, Mary Christmas because you you
spread your wings and you land on people's shoulders here
and there, and that's what you're doing. And you really
you just create. You just create something that you know
of people in a you know, fel mood or something.

(02:17:18):
You just you create a space mark us. So yeah,
we all appreciate it, and thank you, and Merry Christmas.

Speaker 2 (02:17:25):
Are you tell me which part of the country are
you coming from?

Speaker 3 (02:17:28):
Steve?

Speaker 2 (02:17:30):
You know me wis brilliant, That's what I thought. Appreciate that, Steve,
thanks so much, nice kind words. Why the coast is
so special? What's that about?

Speaker 1 (02:17:43):
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