Google and Kapiti Icecreams

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
At B.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Greetings, good evening, Welcome to Friday, and it's of course
the Friday Free for All. My name is Marcus hit
or Midnight. I hope it's good where you are. If
it's not good were you are, if it gets better
during the term of my duty tour involvement here, can't
wait Friday Free for all, short week, long week. You
know how it goes. Can't wait breaking us when it happens.
Updates from sport, updates from fires, update from traffic, update

(00:36):
from Wallabies. No one likes a grizzle, do they? No
one likes a grizzle. However, I'm going to start the
day with something and I'm in two minds of saying
it because A it sounds trivial, and b it sounds
like my criticism is mean spirited. And sometimes when you

(01:02):
have a platform, you have to use it wisely and
sparingly and fairly, because to be a broadcaster is a
privilege and not everyone has a chance to have the
microphone to talk to people. And yeah, so if you're
going to cast stones, you've got to be very careful

(01:24):
about the stones that you cast and make sure it's
fair and make sure what you're saying is justified. Anyway,
long story short, the weather has become good in the
South today, and coming to work us in the Supermarke,

(01:46):
I thought I'm going to get myself. I wasn't going
to myself anything. I found myself looking in the fridge
at pack and Save and I saw something I've never
had before. And it was, by the way, this is
not the complaint. This is how far you go with
a complaint when you get riled about something. And I

(02:06):
found myself looking in the chest freezer at the pack
and tub. What's new? What's the Christmas kind of ice cream?
And it appeared one of the companies was trying to
do a magnum to take on the Cookie Time chocolate biscuit,
which is revery good. Oh well, that's it doesn't look

(02:27):
that exciting. I don't know if it's a magnum or
meant it's one of those ones. Never liked those, so
I avoided that. But I found I'd go and get
myself right a carp of the ice cream Nelson Boison
Brie would Gee, that sounds good. That just about fields
that it will satiate that hunger thirst. I couldn't name.

(02:49):
I'll get that a cup of the ice cream Nelson
Boison bree thing ice cream. I suppose you'd call it.
It seemed new, and it seemed different, seemed interesting. Anyway,
long story short, what a disappointment. And the disappointment there
was all, oh, we should have taken a photo. But

(03:11):
this appointment was that there was almost no boys and
breees in it. Now. So I thought, oh, well, goodness,
gracious me, it's just me. It's just that's just a
bad experience. Anyway. So I came to work and I
clicked I googled Capiti ice cream, boys and Brie Nelson

(03:37):
and brought the images up of the ice creams, and
all the ones in the pictures had much much more boisury.
In fact, if I was blindfolded for me, I wouldn't
have known there was boys and breeze there. I thought
it would have thought it was probably a topsy anyway,
So I've looked at the pictures and mine was certainly underburied.

(03:59):
And then I thought, well, goodness gracious, but I don't
want to take on a small retailer. So I looked
up the ownership of Carpety, and it's now owned by Tiptop,
which is owned by Nisley. So yeah, well who cares?
What a rot? Terrible? So I don't necessarily know what
the right thing to do would be to go back
and buy another one, to throw good money after bad

(04:22):
to see if my one was just underburied or in
fact they're all that way, or just kind of take
my consumer power elsewhere. So there we go. It's owned
by Frontieri, a joint venture between Pai Partners and Nisley.
It was terrible. I mean, the worst thing on a
stick I've had since I can't think another band think

(04:45):
I've had on a stick. And it was kind of
what was also kind of mean spirited about the whole thing.
It wasn't even you know, a lot of the ice
creams have sides of the parallel till they come to
the top. This was more shaped like an Isosceles narrow triangle.
Oh gosh, it was a disappointment. Has it ruined my day?

Speaker 2 (05:05):
No?

Speaker 3 (05:06):
I feel better talking to you about it?

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (05:09):
I do.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Actually, if it helps one person thing, Well, actually, last
you said that one's a dud, but maybe it was
just underburied. I don't fully know if it was my fault,
it was the ice. I don't even know who to
go do. Is fair Ghost still around? And I think
they are. I think it's just a podcast or a
website now. Very disappointing. Look at all the pictures, and

(05:31):
all the pictures look much more buried than the one
I saw anyway that was my pre work rant. And yeah,
very disappointing. I don't even know why. And I kind
of think it was probably a mistake that it was underburied,

(05:54):
because if it was more, because you couldn't taste the berries,
and surely there'd be food scientists would say, hey, if
we put so few berries and it's not going to
taste like beerries, no one's going to buy it. I
don't think they're that mean spirited. Nothing and nobody. I mean,
there was some There was a bit of color as
I read. As I ate through, I thought, all that
color is going to expand into rivers of berry. But nothing.

(06:16):
Just a couple of faint traces, almost like someone drawn
the line through it with a thin, a thin, red
colored felt pen. So there we go. Do I feel
trivial saying? Yeah, probably I do, But we can't split
the oud of every show. And I haven't let it,
I said. I thought to myself, is this going to
ruin my death? I'm not gonna let it. I'm just

(06:38):
going to start it like fact that that's what's happened
to me. I've had a bad ice cream experience and
I won't be going back to that. Well anyway, that's me.
That's me and the story of the Nelson Boison Berrie
cupitty ice cream. And I kind of blaming myself because
when it said Nelson Boys and brees, I felt quite
seduced by that, like I'm some sort of foodie, Like

(06:59):
he's got a regional name like the Nelson Boys. That
means it's marketing, isn't it. We said the word Nelson Boy, Yeah,
it's from Nelson, and you used to think, well that
if they're saying it's Nelson, that must be the home
of the really good boys and breeze. So I feel
sucked in all sorts of ways with this. I don't
want to start a single one man vendetta, but maybe

(07:20):
I do. I want to take on big ice cream.
So that's a story of me and the ice cream
that is the cup of ta Nelson Boys and Bree
ice Cream. So there we go. That's the way the
build up to my show has started. Oh the other
thing that was quite interesting in my build up to
the show, I came across a brain teaser which I

(07:45):
struggled with. And i'll tell you the brain teaser that I
struggled I didn't manage to crack it. I was looking
for about five I thought surely I could get this
one right and I failed. So I'm going to ask you,
if you can get it, don't google it because I

(08:05):
had to google it find the answer and I felt
like a coward doing that. Maybe that's set me up
for the disappointmentere the ice cream was knowing as a
coward to google the answer for the brain teaser. Oh yes,
it's been a roller coaster ten minutes. Let me know
if you think you've got the answer to this or
what you think the answer might be. A couple has

(08:27):
six children name and it won't yeh named an order
Dominic Reggie, Michelle, Faun, Sophie, and Laura. Six children named
in order Dominic Reggie, Michelle, Faun, Sophie, and Laura. They

(08:54):
are having another baby soon. Will they name it Jessica
Emily Tia, Beth or Polly. They must know it's going
to be a good So if if you think you
know the answer, that let me know what you think
it is. I couldn't get it. I was counting the

(09:15):
letters I've seen if they coincided with months or it's
been about four minutes on it. Anyway, get in touch
by name is Marcus Hittl twelve. Marcus hired the exact
same experience with the Nelson Boys and Brie ice cream.
I live in Carpety. The only decent boys in Brie

(09:37):
ice cream is the trumpet. I'm inclined to agree. Oh, Marcus,
take your consumer power elsewhere. Have a look at any
great key we brand that nestleih buys, that ruins everything
and changes the ingredients to cheap and nasty. So cheap
and nasty. Anyway I saw Carpety, I thought of that

(10:00):
beautiful little factory there. As you drive down into Wellington,
you go to a side to that place where it
used to be that kind of deer park. All those
images came back to my mind. So I feel rapped off,
and now there's just some sort of dodgy kind of
share owners. Think that's mock maximize the prophet. Oh well,

(10:22):
they should have sold out the people that they should
have just closed down the brand Lindale's where it came
from Lyndale on the Karpaty coast anyway, So there's that.
But thanks for those two. No one's got the puzzle.

(10:44):
Oh dear Marcus, I agree with you that cupput the
ice creams have real small and ordinary But if you
want to be wonderful broadcasting to talk about what happened
in Spain and Iwan catastrophes of climate change, we need
to face up to it, especially if we soon have
Trump running the show. Cheers, Luise.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
I can mention climate change, and I can fill the
lines with people to say it's not going to happen,
and it becomes very boring very quickly. And most of
the people that say it's not going to happen on
in the sixties, seventies and fifties, and they will be
away or they'll be off to the rest home sort
of as soon as kind of the real consequence come.
But anyway, jump in if you've got anything to say.

(11:26):
My name is Marcus Hittled twelve here till midnight tonight.
The number is eight d eighty. Today there are fires
on the southern well there are fires in Monaco, and
there were fires on Mount Wellington. They seem to be
off or out, Just so you know that's what's happening. Ah, Marcus,

(11:59):
I brought the same cup of the ice cream, same
as you. First thing first didn't taste anything on the picture,
plus no berries. Really expensive. Then Zachary has called me
a Karen. Wow, and I was aware. I was aware

(12:20):
I might sound like a Karen, but you sound like
a Karen calling me a Karen. He's trying to price
shame me. And he's spelt steak stak e. Anyway, get
in touch by names. Marcus, Httle twelve are the sport

(12:40):
updates New Zealand one, two, five, four three, Young on
fifty eight, Mitchell on eighteen. I think we need a
new independent ice cream manufacturer. I don't know how it
would be because it's hard to get in the shops
because you know those multinationals and all the fringes don't

(13:01):
they so you can't get any fridge space. I reckon
the best, one of those ones with a giant walk screws.
They do a country fairs. They call them real fruit
ice creams, And I don't know if that means it
real fruit or real fruit ice cream, because all fruit's real,
isn't it? Otherwise it be fake fruit. Hello, Sam, it's Marcus. Welcome,

(13:27):
Oh high Marcus.

Speaker 6 (13:28):
With your experience with the berries on the Kapit brand,
I've had experienced with, but not on carpoy another brand
I want to name the brand on Hokey Pokey, you know,
the Hokey Pokes with all the lollies in it.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, absolutely, yep. But that one, that one is a
random That one is a random kind of a show though,
isn't it that It's all to do with the person
scooping it up right? Scoop, scoop?

Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yeah, well it was.

Speaker 7 (13:52):
Supposed to be.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
It must be.

Speaker 6 (13:55):
It's all with the hockey Pokey lollies. But experience we had,
we got them binding lot like amongst the hockey Pokey
Hokey Pokey with toffy dollies in them.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
You maybe maybe someone had kind of gone through and
mind them all out.

Speaker 6 (14:11):
No, no way, not when they've gone through the factory
and throw gone through matches.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
So yeah, but the person scooping the ice cream before
you might have done that. There might have been some
teenager in there getting all the little nuggets.

Speaker 6 (14:23):
No, it was undisturbed. Underneath, it was all undisturbed. We're
still not trying to look for the lollies. No, it
wasn't teenagers going through it. They was going through the chamber,
but hardly was. There was hardly any any lines and
it was undisturbed, but there was no one going through it.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
This was this was this was actually in a tub.

Speaker 6 (14:42):
Yep, it was actually in the big tub.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Okay, see's the real summer problems, aren't they. I'm enjoying this, Sam,
thank you. I know when people get the goody goody
gun drops when they count the number of things. I'm
not that person counting things. And I've said, like I'm
going that way of Zachary called me a karen. It
hurts Prince he called me a kiren and carn Marcus welcome.

Speaker 8 (15:11):
Yeah, hey Micas, there you going.

Speaker 9 (15:12):
But.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
Very good, thank you.

Speaker 8 (15:18):
I live in Hamilton and the best ice creams I've
had by fab the berry farms. Yeah that you see around, Yeah,
fresh strawberries, blueberries, like just yeah, you get a mixed
berry ice cream and it's it's yeah, it's.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
So much I'll tell you what can those machines break
down a lot, don't they. It's a fairly powerful it's
a very powerful auger. They go and they pull them down.

Speaker 8 (15:49):
Yep, that's worth the weight though, mart Oh.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
No, look, as I say, I love that. And we're
in central quite often we'll go and get those. One
of my boys likes passion fruits, tremendous, the passion fruit one.
But of course I had that great experience when I
was on the back road between Alexander and Clyde alongside
the My what river is it?

Speaker 10 (16:10):
There?

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Alongside the Kluth and on the back road between Alexandra
and Clyde is where you will find the pluot. And
the pluot is a portmanteau. It's a combination. It's a meshup.

(16:31):
It's a messhup of a plum and an apricot. It's
a pluot. It is the fruit of the gods. And
I was in there one hot summer thirty four degrees
in the car driving around singing Christmas carols. We probably
weren't and the kids wanted a real fruit ice cream,
so we went in there for a real fruit ice cream.

(16:54):
One kid got Macsberry's one kid got passion fruit. I
don't think Vanessa had one. That's not the way she rolls.
And I said to the woman, you wouldn't happen to
do a plowot real freud ice cream, would you is?
She said, funny, you should ask, and in the fridge

(17:15):
she had a number of bits of plowot chopped up,
all ready to do a plow it real freud ice cream.
I suspect I was the first pause I ever asked
for it. I might not have been. I don't want
to self mythologize myself, but gee, she cracked that open,
and gosh, it was good. And it reminds me that
longer days are coming. I'll be hitting up this soon,
and the first thing I'll be doing is getting a

(17:36):
plow it real freend ice cream, because none of my
money anymore will go to Kapati and that nasty thin
triangle of disappointment the boys and bree less when they
wouldn't know about it Nestley Headquarters. Would they cheapest creepers.
Someone's also alluded me to the fact that most of

(17:57):
the berries and usin come from Chile. The Listener has
done several articles saying bore them first because some news
isn't been getting hepatitis A from them. I used to
read the listener quite often, but every time people always
alerding me. It's always sort of it's kind of quite
scam angry ah the listener, What to avoid, what not

(18:19):
to do, how to lose your life savings one to
weight for three Marcus. According to Crackerjack's junk mail, they're
selling fireworks from tomorrow till Tuesday. Yay Marcus. We once
had the largest collection of ice cream independent makers on

(18:39):
planet Earth. Fonterra sold the cup of the ice Cream.
That's right, it was Fonterra and they sold it to
Nessle and Nesle mesh up terrible Nessley and I forget
what they called oh eight one hundred and eighty tatty

(19:01):
and nine nine to text. So life's a disappointment. No,
it's not free good. I'm remaining positive. That's me. That's
the that's the progress up making. I'm not gonna let
this derail me. But what I thought was more interesting
rather than with the derailment, was the fact that how
far I'd go on the internet to look and prove
the other ones and then look out who owns it?

(19:23):
How you're going people? My name is Marcus hddled twelve.
It's the Friday free for all, loose like a Goosehow
so excited about the ice cream and the puzzle?

Speaker 5 (19:32):
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
I'm tirely sure what the topics are going to be tonight.
I might have arrived topicless, which wouldn't have been the
first time, but certainly something. I wouldn't recommend that you're
doing your first show, because that can be a scary
thing for our talk about with no topics. But we
shall come up with something, no doubt. A couple had
a boy not it's not the adds the couple never boy,

(19:54):
I'll give you five momnutes to solve this one. If
you want some clues, I haven't got clues for you. Gosh.
I hope Wanica gets the McDonald's. The majority of submissions
made about McDonald's restaurants are not loving it. Three hundred
and sixty six submissions made to the Queens Side Lakes
District Council three nine nine reposed twenty one in support. Boy,

(20:14):
I hope they get it. How smug everyone else has
to have one? Why shouldn't they? For goodness, sake, Bob Marcus,
welcome evening, Yeah, Mark.

Speaker 5 (20:28):
And tell you the same ring good thank you, Bob.
Still traveling around. I just thought i'd mention I'm at
the call A Racecourse and the racers don't start till Sunday,
and there's thousands of campamans.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Here first weekend after labor weekend. That would be right now,
that's harness racing.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
Yeah, harness racing.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
It's going to be a fantastic weekend. How's the weather
looking brilliant?

Speaker 5 (20:51):
Brilliant And that's right by the sea, so we can
go fishing. I'll go do some more fishing tomorrow. And yeah, no,
I just suddenly, you know, there's so many campramans here's
ridiculous and everything you like in my life.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
You see the year I went there, I chanced upon
it and boy, oh boy, what a great week in
that was.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah. No, it's setting out to be that way. Yeah,
So I just thought i'd mention it before hang on.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
I've got other questions for you, because this is a
topic of mine, right, I've always got some topics. Okay,
are you a regular punter?

Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Would that be the best location for a racecourse in
New Zealand? Because I think it is. I think there's
probably one at Rukka, which is good also, but this,
to me probably would be the best in the country.

Speaker 5 (21:44):
I agree with he macus, Yeah, I think I.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
Think it's a grand sounding statement, but I can't think
of a race course with a better Lokay, there's not
one on the sea light there anywhere else?

Speaker 9 (21:53):
Is there?

Speaker 5 (21:54):
Not that I can recall anyway, But I mean it's
very it's very popular. I mean, I thought i'd get
here early and I care enough and I'm one of
the last year creepers.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
Now are you I let you camp inside the racecourse?

Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yes, issue you pay.

Speaker 5 (22:07):
You've got people book in July, oh for goodness sake,
and twenty dollars a night. But then you've got the
toilets and that here, so you know I've got oh that's.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Twenty twenty bucks the night sphere.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
Oh yeah, a good price. No, no problems at all.
So we're got my sharing everything on my camera man,
so I don't need to worry about that. But they've
got the toilets and that are.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
And where will you go to get a drink? Because
you won't want to leave, you won't want to take
your camera vent out of there, will you? How will
you get to the pot?

Speaker 5 (22:34):
Well, I've got the I've got the motorbike on the
back of the camper. I've got a one two five
scooter on the back of the camera. So I just
packed the camper up and shoot down, went down for
a couple of today and.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
I reckon, there's probably there's probably a long way back
you could avoid the heat. Is that right?

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (22:52):
What was that I reckon? Well, yeah, I shouldn't say that.
That sounds irresponsible. But yeah, okay, I guess you could
get takeaways and bring them back, couldn't you.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
Yeah, yeah, Well you can buy them on the course,
but only like you can buy in the actual racing
your ea, you're not allowed to. But where the camper
vans are you can buy your own.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Oh they're selling beer there.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
No, at the racecourse they are already. No, not not yet.
When the races are. When the races are on, you
can buy it from there. But where the camper van's
and that a pact you bring your own?

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Is there much of a party feel there already?

Speaker 11 (23:31):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (23:32):
Yes, I was going to say when I said buy
your own and just but everyone's got some.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
It's a great town though. Way, it's a great Have
you got your have you got your bits worked out?

Speaker 5 (23:41):
Oh no, I'm just going to take Lucky one of Marcus,
you know, lucky traffictors.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
I think probably on Sunday. There's a lot of there's
a lot of social clubs and things coming up from
christ Church. It's quite a It seems to be quite
a big outdate for christ Church people.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yeah, well, I've got some areas there. We'll even blend them.
Even my local pub had a bus going up coming here.
But then I like to do things on my own
and don't want to.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, yeah, don't stand anyway, don't start any fights. Yeah
you got you got your crayfish pop back?

Speaker 5 (24:17):
No, no, But the funniest thing is I got the
boy back.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Really well, I've got the.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
Boy back with my name and phone them and everything on.
A guy picked it up and I went and got
it when I come in the other day.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
And well, he'd be he'd be suspect number one for
your crayfish pot, wouldn't he.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
MICUs.

Speaker 5 (24:36):
My brother, my slip rather runs a counting Central station
and he told me he rang up and tried to
drop it off there and there it was so yeah,
but never.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Mind, plot Thickens. Nice to hear from you. There we go.
Is there a pretty e race course in the or
anywhere in the world for that matter. I don't think
there would be, and I've been to them all. Marcus,
Jessica is the answer the second and last letter of
valves Very good, very good. But some people are getting

(25:09):
it right. Not everyone, by the ways. For those that
know kai Kata wondering where the racetrack is as you're
coming in from the south, before you go over the
spit or the peninsula, the racecourse is there on the
southern side actually kind of probably, you would say, away
from the main part of Calculda. Tremendous place to go. Rachel, Marcus, welcome, hi.

Speaker 12 (25:37):
I've got an answer to your naming.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
The naming thing of We call that a brain teaser.

Speaker 12 (25:45):
That's the one.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
How did you what's your answer?

Speaker 12 (25:50):
Is that the one? The one name that starts of
tea tea? Do you know how I came to it?

Speaker 3 (25:59):
You googled it?

Speaker 2 (26:01):
No?

Speaker 12 (26:01):
I didn't. I used my brain.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
So ray me for are the loti I wonder?

Speaker 3 (26:09):
I wonder, I wonder if it worked, if it was
easy to solve when I said it rather than saw
it written down, because I didn't do it phonetically. But
you're quite right.

Speaker 12 (26:18):
I only I heard you say the first time, and
I don't know, I didn't even think about answering it.
And then when you've said it again the second time,
before you said it, I thought, I wondered when you
came up the first name started worth doing, and thought, oh,
don't a dear, a female dear? And yes, it keep going,
so yes I got it.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Ray, A drop of golden sun me your name, I
call myself.

Speaker 12 (26:41):
Far A long, long, long way to run.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Ray, Yeah, brilliant?

Speaker 5 (26:48):
What a song?

Speaker 3 (26:48):
What a bag of that?

Speaker 5 (26:49):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Today? Thank you? No prize, Rachel. Apart from the well,
I think you're You're a hero of mine. I like
Francis who thought Jessica was the answer the second and
last letters of ows.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
You.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
I did all that un did, just different syllables. I
thought I was going to really I said it was.
I've got five minutes, I'm going to solve this. Well.
Three minutes later, I'm googling the antswer Google's wrecked my life,
googling cappitty ice creams. Anyway, move on wood nutwood. These days,
in this modern self help work, you're supposed to say

(27:29):
you should be happy with that learning. I've learned something
today to avoid that. He's in one four two four
three Mitchell and thirty off sixty one young on sixty
three off one two six, which is exactly half a
un pur ball. They're both exactly half a un pur ball. Tom.
It's Marcus. Welcome, good evening, Hi Tom.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
Yeah, Hi Marcus. I'm just ringing up to let you
know that on the peach, know, and the money doesn't
go too So I go out and do a bit
of wood on the side, you know, get out the
rivers and lonely places in the trees and the mountains
and all that. And I sell avery about a week.
And I had to look under my hand, and I

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have a dinosaur skull complete with the neck bone on it,
and it's covered with stone. It's probably a million years old,
older than all the stupid bones you see on TV,
you know dinosaurs. This is actually covered with stone, so
you know, the real skulls under it. And if they do,

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if they drill through the stone, they'll get the d
DNA from it. Wow, this is a dinosaur head photos
of it, and if you're seeing someone to my place
tonight in as Burton, and if he gives me the
last last three telephone numbers of my phone number which

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you've got on your system. Now I'll let them in
to take two photos off my phone which you can
show you so you can actually see it. Wow, it's
in my hand. It's the length of an adult male's hand,
from your tip of your finger to your you know,

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it's a whole length of your hand and half whip.
And it weighs a half a pound. And it's just
covered with stone. And it would have taken a million
years for a stull to be covered with stone. And
this proves that animals and humans lived over a million
years ago.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
I don't think that's proved. I don't think that humans
were in enand a million years ago.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Well no, but this, you know, when God created everything
back in the book of Genesis, you know, genusis in
the beginning he spoke animals and the atom, and I
mean this animal is so old.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
Hang on, Tom, yeah, were you are getting firewood?

Speaker 4 (29:57):
Yes? Why I would because I'm on the pinches.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
And where and where were you?

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yes? Button river? So have you got to sell coming
exactly where it is?

Speaker 3 (30:09):
But have you got a cell phone?

Speaker 4 (30:12):
I'm talking to you and they're on myself.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
I don't know what you're talking. I just hear the voices. Okay,
Why can't you just send us a picture of it?

Speaker 4 (30:20):
Because it's a G free phone and I don't know
how to send photos. I can't even text. I'm sixty
seven years old, I'm on the tench and I don't
know how to do that stuff.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Tom, Texting has been around since night Texting has been
around since you were thirty.

Speaker 13 (30:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
Well, I'm sorry, Marcus. I wasn't into that sort of thing.
When I talk to people, it's always face to face.
I've got a phone, man.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Are you talking to me on the phone?

Speaker 4 (30:51):
Yeah, but I'm old school.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
How you go, I'm old school, Marcus.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
Yeah, but people have forgotten to how to communicate face
to face. They all talk digital now, on with their
fingers and on the computer screens. I don't want to
get into that. It's not natural, you know what I mean.
I'm a bit of a wilderness man, but I'm a
bit paranoid about this of the find of sand.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
What would you do with what you do?

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Older?

Speaker 3 (31:27):
What would you do with it, Tom, Well.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
If I go to court and say oh, this is mine,
the government say no, it's not under there's such and
such laws. This is the und in New Zealand that
belongs to us, and they bag it off me. That's
why I don't know what to do with it. I thought, well,
shall I sell it for a million dollars?

Speaker 3 (31:47):
How do you know how old it is?

Speaker 4 (31:50):
Over a million years? Well, how long does it take
for a scope of an animal to be covered with
own markers?

Speaker 3 (31:56):
How old do you think it is?

Speaker 4 (31:59):
Over a million years? Okay, if a hundred people looked
at it, they can see it's a baby dying slat
out of an egg. You can see the hidden the
neck with the eyes, the teeth and everything. I think
this is I'm not I'm flying, I'm going.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
I think this might be the undoing of you. I
think this is going to put you over the edge.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
Well, look, it's not doing my head any good. I'm
going to end up going to the espit in my museum.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
That's what you should be doing.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Yeah. But but but they're going to carbon taste it.
And if they say, oh, this is over a million
years old, animals existed back then. I mean, I don't
know how old the oldest carbon dating is, but this
fingu is stone age. This is way back when Edam
and Eve lived on the earth and there's no other
humans and this is founding. This eating in New Zealand.

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There were animals here and this is far, far, far
older than mower bones. This thing has tea to stone
me there, which is incredible. This is the greatest fine
I believe in the world. I mean, on TV you
see bones of dinosaurs. Big deal. Just sing this bone,

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his ting, just stone.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Brilliant, Tom, I love it. With the three digits around
at your house, expect a knock on the door. Michael,
it's Marcus. I'll take you down Michael's Yeah, Michael, it's Marcus. Welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 14 (33:30):
He Marcus is a meat.

Speaker 15 (33:32):
Am I alive?

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yea you are?

Speaker 14 (33:34):
How's a going, brother, goody. I'm going to support that
young color just before. I'm an antique bottle togain. I've
been digging for years and years and years, and all
that way down that coast is quite old Ashburton Lower
Crosses because it's all built and stuff like that. So
he might have an old fossil. I don't think it's

(33:54):
the world of Entry. Fine, but he might have an
old fossil nor venus to them.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Although what did we have here? I know that we
had that within the fossil. We do have fossils here,
don't we But most of them were sort of with
sort of sea creatures, weren't they.

Speaker 14 (34:09):
No, no, no, predominantly it's moa and caves.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
Oh, I see what I see?

Speaker 2 (34:13):
What?

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Okay, I see So it's a fossil of a of
a non ancient bird. But and almost no, no.

Speaker 14 (34:18):
No, no, no, no, we have dinosaur here. They're just not
very they're not they're not easy to find. But we
do turn it up in all Phoenix to the guy.
You know, I just don't think it was that it
was the cell of the Entry. Fine, but hey, he
could be right in Phoenix.

Speaker 10 (34:31):
That's important.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
So it could be a fossilized mower bone.

Speaker 14 (34:36):
Eventually, absolutely, yeah, macause I can't even remember what the
topic was. I just turned on radio as I'm driving
home and just was that the topic tonight?

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Fossilized No, he just he couldn't contain himself. So could
there be could there be a fossilized moa that's almost
contained within a shell.

Speaker 14 (34:54):
Uh, probably depends on the salt siltation when they got
trapped in the salt and stuff like that. Hard to say,
I mean, how they'd been with us for a long time.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
How a long time?

Speaker 14 (35:06):
But like I said, I'm a European anti bottle digger
and we find everything. You wouldn't believe what we find.
But hard at the moment there's not so many building sites.
But yeah, good on the guy.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
What do you mean? What do you mean? But I
see because it's not people, but you do the developers
give you second run after the archaeologists have been in.

Speaker 14 (35:26):
Archaeologists aren't on every site.

Speaker 5 (35:29):
Either.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
That was the law.

Speaker 14 (35:31):
No, no, no, the law is everything basically a hundred
years ago. It's a little bit all over the place
and it's a little bit fair. But just just anything
that's like really historic, you just got to leave alone,
you know, and allow the.

Speaker 10 (35:43):
Archaeologists do their things.

Speaker 14 (35:44):
But but they're not prevalent. They they have the money
they used to.

Speaker 5 (35:47):
You know, it's about industry who doesn't have the money.

Speaker 14 (35:53):
Archaeologists don't have the money anymore. There's so many sites
in New Zealand. Once once they do university, they're off
they're after the Great Egypt Fight and the great.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
I thought, after any for any building site, the archaeologists
had to come in. Was law.

Speaker 14 (36:09):
Kind of kind of like there's so many well there
was not at the moment. It's quiet out there, but
there were so many developments going on.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
They can't be everywhere, I thought, because yeah, okay, I'll
just fact check that one, Michael. But nice to hear Frey.
We're just cruising towards the news people. Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty nine two nine to de text
with it till twelve, looking forward to what you've got
to say back in a bit. Greetings, welcome. My name
is Marcus. How are you? Where are you? What's happening you?
Noone ever found a fossil of a dinosaur? I presume

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there are ones of moers too. Good stuff. Someone texts
Judy G. Isn't it over due to ban fireworks? Too
bad for the shift workers and those of us trying
to sleep when there are hours of fireworks banging on
for what purpose? Not to mention the stress of our pets.
Ban them could not come soon enough, Judy, G. Tell

(36:58):
what I don't like as a shift worker, dogs that
bark and chainsaws. Has there ever been a worse noise
than a chainsaw? Get in touch. My name is Marcus.
Welcome five weeks gone sale tomorrow, which will be the
second because Guy Fawkes is on the fifth, which is Tuesday,

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which is the Melbourne Cup in the US election day,
all in the same one. That's right, she's all happening.
I was about to say it always seems like the
Melbourne Cup's on the Tuesday, but actually, of course it
is always on the first Tuesday of November, so I'm please.

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I've reminded myself well that when all the lines are free,
the cricket's not good. One six, two for five. My
name is Marcus, Welcome here till twelve. I'm looking forward
to what you have to say tonight. Anything goes. It's
the Friday free for all, a bit of mopping up stuff.
It seems as though Halloween went without incident, and that's
a good thing. There's worrying Devenport because the clock has

(38:09):
gone missing, and that's quite a big topic for US.
Clocks that have gone missing. After the clock at the
Parmester North Hospital. Yes, but the clock in Devenport has
gone now it's not all very well. But someone Jill
is the name she says. I don't drive, so I've

(38:30):
always rien on the bus and there's always be a
clock so you know when the public transport is coming.
I think we live in a time we don't need
public clocks. Is that a fair thing to say. I
think everyone's got a phone now with a time on it, right.
I think it's bad that the clock's gone missing, but
don't make out that you're missing buses because of the
missing clock. Most town clocks are a disaster because they

(38:58):
were built on tall towers and they're not earthquake proof,
so council have spent millions of dollars earthquake proof them.
But don't know what's happened to the clock on Devenport.
You might have some information about that for those that
don't know. Devenport is a maritime suburban Auckland. I don't

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have a lot of fun you just banging on about
different stuff today here or midnight. My name is Marcus.
Welcome someone's text at high Marcus. Election day on the
US is Tuesday and Wednesday our time. Yes, I think
we all realize that, but you still say it's all

(39:39):
on the same day, wouldn't you. That'd be my take
on that one. Get in touch Marcus till twelfth. There's
other topics you've got or things you want to say
or mention. Welcome one and all. What would be the
prettiest racecourse in the country. I'm convinced it's calculta. I

(40:02):
can't think of the second prettiest.

Speaker 14 (40:06):
One.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
Might there might be one on Banks Peninsula? Is there
that speak? No, maybe I've got that wrong, and it's
amazing I can still keep that one going. I don't
know how many races that have a year there, but
it's a great race course. And bearing in mind I'm
gambling skeptical. So do get in touch if you want

(40:29):
to talk. I weigh one hundred eighty Teddy and nine
to nine to text. If there's something else you want
to mention, good whatever that is, I'm.

Speaker 13 (40:37):
Up for it.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Emails, texts Marcus. Fireworks been going off to night in
Hamiltonis someone selling early gaale? Well, there's probably you can
buy them on trade me marketplace. Can you can? I
say that, I'll get in trouble or Facebook Marketplace. I
guess it's cooled, isn't it. I'm sure if you get
the coding right. You can sell fireworks, but let's face it,

(41:00):
there for sale tomorrow, but not at the warehouse because
the warehouse decided they weren't going to sell fireworks. They
took a stand. They don't take a stand on any
other junk they sell. I mean, that's the trouble. You
take a stand on one thing, it's not good, Marcus.

(41:22):
I've lived in Alexandra for twenty five years and just
moved to the North Island. I still look for the
clock on the hill to tell the time. Well, I've
got to say, the clock in Alexandra is a tremendous clock.
It's the country's best clock. There's no doubt about that.
Get in touch, Marcus, till twelve. Anything else you want

(41:42):
to go on about two be nice to hear from you.
There might be some other topic you've got bearing m.
I don't know what the topic is tonight. I came
in all guns are blazing. But now I'm thinking. Now
I'm looking and thinking, well, actually, what is the topic.
I'm not entirely sure, but you might want to suggesce something.
You might be driving or doing something interesting. Always quite

(42:03):
like this week of the year. Exams beginning to finish
for school university parties, beginning the weather gets better. It's
kind of a nice time of the year. So it
feels like the time of the year where full of possibility.
And I think I'm right about that. For get in

(42:23):
touch if you want to talk. My name is Marcus
Hittle twelve. Anything else you want to mention to, feel
free to get amongst it. There might be their own things.
Never too grizzly on a Friday. We don't like the grizzles. Well,
I don't know. I don't like the grizzles any day, Marcus.
I couldn't text earlier because out sitting ice cream stick
with an ice cream van and you can have as
much boison resource that you want. That's from Steve meth

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and race course and winter very good. Who's going to
win the Melbourne Cup? I don't care. I don't know.
I struggle with the Melbourne Cup too much kind of
theft around it for me. I don't know why I

(43:07):
struggle with the Melbourne Cup. I never liked the work
sweep steaks, and I think too as the Kiwi horses
become more and more overlooked, it's not as important to
me now doesn't seem to be relevant like it once was.
I'm not quite sure someone might explain to me what's
happened in the world of the world of thoroughbred racing
that the ki horses don't win anymore. I guess it's

(43:30):
because the steaks have meant that horses come from Europe?
Is that right? People know racehorsing will explain it better
than me for horse racing, not racehorsing. High markets. Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (43:43):
Yes. Marris Pear from mahar Haradneviert trained a race horse
and he and some of his free instrudged in them
in the normal cup racers and they run. Marris pair
was a man with five ft seven always had to
make no tired is tone and he had a family
of five lovely girls. Now there was another horse that

(44:09):
won the Melbourne Cup and its name was Kiwi, and
I didn't have thene else to put any money on it. Now,
the Flemington racecourse has got the most fantastic gardens. You
talked to me about the most beautiful racecourse. There's a
very good one at Napier at Auckland. Had to go
up the motorway house on the right and I just

(44:29):
can't think of the name. But the Flemington Racecourse frowers
and the models that and the girls in their their
finery is utterly stunning.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
I think it's called I think the one beside the
motorway in Auckland is called Elleslie.

Speaker 11 (44:47):
That's right, that's right, that's it. Yeah, yeah, well a't
a nice course. I had a cousin in Napier who
was always during his life putting metro on horses. Anyway,
one of his sons went to America did very very
well for him. So when he got only by a
house with the two stories right beside the race course

(45:10):
so that he could watch the races. And between the
time he was sixty five and he died at about
eighty five, he never once went to the racers at all.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Three He just watched from his house.

Speaker 11 (45:22):
He just watched from meat and enjoyed the three Wow.
But the Farrington Racecourse is just stunning, and the grounds
are perfect. The three hours everywhere and it's such a festival.
Everything in Australia stops. It doesn't know matter whether you're

(45:44):
in a train or wherever you are, and that's of
course you're in an aeroplane. But everything stops. You'll be
on the trains going somewhere and they'll stop it right
at five o'clock for the races on Tuesday, the first
Tuesday in the month.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
They call it the race that stopped the nation.

Speaker 11 (46:02):
Yeah, well the thing is New Zealand horses often do
very well over there, not anymore. Yeah, I can't forget that.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
Hey, hey, hey, Mark, I'm just going to challenge you
on one thing, and it's not my job to challenge callers, right,
do you mind if I challenge you on one thing?

Speaker 11 (46:21):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (46:22):
I don't think the train stopped for the race, because
I think that would just play havoc with the commuter
system in cities like Sydney if they stop the trains.

Speaker 11 (46:34):
Well, I never saw it. Australian told me that the
train stops too.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
I don't know if that's the case, but it'd be
good if it did.

Speaker 11 (46:48):
And to think of the pigeons, I think, yeah, certainly.

Speaker 13 (46:52):
What.

Speaker 3 (46:52):
Okay, Well you've been very good for me, Mark, thank you.
Someone tell us why these in the horses don't win
them winner anymore? And I'm all there for that. Get
in touch. Oh eight hundred and eighty eight nine text
Marc is till twelve.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
O one.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Are we going with that one again? Get in touch
Marcus till midnight? Not the silly noises again, Paul, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Welcome, How are you Marcus?

Speaker 5 (47:25):
Good?

Speaker 3 (47:25):
Paul excellent?

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Good. Hey, I just wanted to do you like a
good cup of tea?

Speaker 3 (47:30):
You know, I'm more a coffee man, but I have
a cup of tea probably four times a month.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Right, Well, I've got a problem because I love drinking
tea and I like drinking choice to tea bags, right,
and they've changed changed how they make them. I reckon
because you used to get a box and all your
tea bags are in the box, and now you get
this box now and they've got two plastic sort of
cellphone bags, and your tea bags are in the in

(47:58):
each cellphone box which you get to cut open. And
that anyway, I put my tea bags in my flask,
and you know, you have to take a flast to work,
and by the time you got halfway down through your flask,
all the tea tea leaves just had to come out
of the bag. And you need to get the time
you got halfway through it, you're drinking more tea leaves

(48:20):
and bloody tea. You know, I just wonder if there's
any other all about there had that problem you So.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
What tell me about what you're actually worried about.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
Well, since they've changed making the they put the tea bags.
Used to be single single tea bags and a choice
of box, right, and now they've they've taken they put
the tea bags in the plastic sort of a bag.
And I reckon they made the tea bags a lot more.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
Oh, I see.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
The TV T leaves are coming out of the bag.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
So the reason they've put so while they put the
telephone there to stop leaquage or something.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Oh, I don't know, I don't know. It's just just
it just seems just just it's just complete, complete change
and what we used to get. Yeah, yeah, I just
wonder if there's any other people there found to change
what brands?

Speaker 3 (49:17):
What brands that that's choicer?

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Yeah, choice of t bags?

Speaker 4 (49:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (49:23):
How long have you?

Speaker 3 (49:23):
So why would they put the cellphone in there?

Speaker 2 (49:26):
Well, I don't know, I don't know, because when you
used to get the box, you know, the box is
covered in a little little bit of plastic. Now you
get to rip it off and that's gone now and
they've got the tea bags and in these two bags
above the telephone bags. Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
I reckon someone's going to go big on this.

Speaker 9 (49:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Yeah, I'm only the last month and I'm just just yeah,
just put just putting your branded tee if you know
what I mean? Yeah, yeah, are you going to go?

Speaker 3 (50:00):
You're gonna go and do something else?

Speaker 10 (50:04):
Right?

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Hold on your first time. I'm just wondering, how many
words do you reckon? You speak at night? How many
words do you reckon?

Speaker 3 (50:11):
How many do you reckon?

Speaker 2 (50:14):
I've only been listening for six months. I reckon you'd
be in the ten thousand night, wasn't it easy?

Speaker 3 (50:22):
It'd be a lot.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah I think so.

Speaker 3 (50:26):
Yeah, it'd be a lot too many. In some ways,
the way that AI goes, you're probably be able to
count it. You know, you get a machine to count it.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you do any of that kind
of stuff, you would caught you stuff and counting the words.
Later on, Well.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
You got what you ever got one of those flesh
flasks that's like an air Remember those air flasks that
you're like pumping up and the water comes out the spout,
And remember when they were a big deal oh.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
I don't remember those. I just got the yeah you
screw the top one on none and Nanda Yeah the
old girl's school ones are you?

Speaker 3 (51:10):
I want to talk about the old old school ones.
I want to talk about the flask, those pump flasks.
You don't see those so much anymore. Tea bags, there's
changing the tea bags. Elleslie was a stunning track to
they flat in the iconic come and built you houses there, Gary, Well, gosh,
I know Elleslie because for cross country intermediate school we
was at to run around the outside Peach Parade. What's

(51:30):
stupid name for a street? And that's where the Oh.
I won't say that we agree about the tea bags.
Hate the way the tea escapes. Owl's are bell extra bold?
Agree all the way, Marcus. I've been thinking all day
about last night's wonderful program about people's pets. I have

(51:51):
thought about the woman who had rats as friends when
she was a young person care and now she has
pitt rats removing story Kathy unbelievably moving. I've thought about
her a lot today also, and Lake Alice and the
woman with the dog skull. Marcus. I had the same

(52:12):
problem with the choice of tea bags. It's two aluminium
foil packets, not cellophane. It would take up the six
attempts to get a non broken bag cup of tea.
I got an annoyed phone choice and they refunded me
straight away. Changed the bell Sally someone skimping, skimping, skimping, skimping, skimping, skimping.

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Dewali is celebrated the thirty first of the first. I
don't know. I don't want to. If you are someone
that celebrates Dewali, if you are Indian, I presume it's
just in there are there other countries that celebrate Wali?
Maybe there are. If you are someone that celebrates do wally.

(53:00):
Do you have contacts for fireworks? Do you have ways
to get your fireworks to let them off early? I'm
just curious about that because it seems like a lot
of people letting them off. Marcus, the tea bags have
dosed the same thing. The bag bursts have phone in
the complain but never going to reply. Change brand. Marcus

(53:22):
the chap talking about the choice of tea is dead right.
It happened to us today made four mugs of tea
and three had floatings. Only the new boxes. Thank you Weddy,
this is a big story. Don't know who we should
get onto this one. It's a very big story. This
Chris Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (53:44):
Yes. Actually I want to confume everything that those texters
are saying and that gentlemen you're talking to, because I've
actually gone to our pantry. I've got the choice of box. Now.
Recently they changed the packaging. You get the green box
and it's got a zip across the top with a flap.
Open it up and as one of your texts has said,

(54:05):
you get one hundred bagpeck, you get two bags in
a foil of fifty each. But I can't really say
the word I endorse everything that everyone sees because we've
noticed it too. It's almost like the tea bag to
sure or whatever paper product they used to enclose tea

(54:27):
leaves is so thin now that if you leave it
sitting in your cap, splits and you go to take
a golp and then you've got tea leaves floating. So
I haven't actually wrang them or emailed them or text them,
but we're actually looking. We'll probably change if they.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
I love your description the way you actually open the
tea bags as you're talking to me, I worry about
what tea bags are made out of. I think it's microplastics,
isn't it, because it says you can't put them in
the compost.

Speaker 10 (55:00):
So what is it?

Speaker 13 (55:03):
Well, I don't know, a sophisticated type of that's useless.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
It's just maybe they've tried to get rid of plastic
and maybe they've gone back to paper and they're not
as god possibly, but.

Speaker 13 (55:16):
Like that gentleman said, the old boxes used to just
open them and your tea bags were sitting there. But
now probably in the last couple of months we noticed it.
We went, oh, they've changed the packaging. And then when
we found it was too like foil packets, foil that
you don't need with fifty bags in each foil back.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
No one asked for the no and.

Speaker 13 (55:40):
Just wasting wasted of packaging. But the quality isn't there.
Like I endorse everything.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
Callers or he's a hero of the people. That guy
first time Cory came, I had a home run. Yes,
he had a walk off home run. That guy.

Speaker 13 (55:58):
These people that have messaged you and is exactly what
it so choicer. I hope someone's listening out there, because
you know.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
You game Jean Valjean me at the moment, do you
hear the people sing singing the songs of angry men? Marcus,
we have changed back to t leaves in a pot
and the leftover tea goes in the garden. Delma don't
have cellphone on the outside of their pets. What that means, Marcus,
that caller is correct. It's not only choice of an

(56:30):
Avid Dilma tea drinker. Lately, leaves floating through the bags.
I'd say money saving somewhere along the line. Cheaper bags. Definitely,
we'll try another. Maybe they're terrified of microplastics, Marcus. Choice
of tea bags. Yes, I work at a retirement village
and just recently the tea bags are falling to bits
in the teapot, Floating tea leaves everywhere, same brand, cheers Maria.

(56:54):
This would be a great show for This would be
a great show for fear Go. But they got rid
of that, didn't they. I'm not quite sure why they
got rid of that, but that's gone, so this would
be a great show for them. There has been a
wick at Glenn Phillips is out, that's my understanding. Just
just gone to a noll leaming ad so I haven't

(57:17):
got the full details, but Phillip's out for seventeen bold
he's in one eight seven for six, one eight seven
for six. Anyway, get in touch. My name is Marcus Headle,
twelve twenty seven away from ten o'clock. Get in touch.
If you want to talk, I wait hundred, mainly about
the tea bags, so I wait hundred eighty ten eighty

(57:41):
nineteen nine tech to talk woo and just about the fossils. Anyway,
get in touch, het or midnight Marcus to weight hundred
eighty teddy Ah. Tea bags have been changed to biodegradable,

(58:05):
and I used Charni and have no problems from Lizpaha tour. Yes,
So that's probably a revery good thing that they've given
up on those plastics, because I think plastic was probably
dissolving or ingesting it because I always wonder wondered when
they said the tea bags tea bags aren't you can't
they're not bio it agradable, So that was a real
concern that was that was a potential alarmist thing to

(58:30):
have happened. So they've quietly pivoted away from those. So
that's probably a good thing. But the tea bags just
unders robust because they're not using plastic. Yeah, so that

(58:50):
would be my understanding of that. But they seem to
have done it on the sly because I used to
be made from stellulos and sealed with a thermoplastic. Well,
that sounds like a worry, doesn't it. I'm reading for
the Consumer mag Ben Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 15 (59:15):
I always thought the TV eggs were made there for
one ply. Yeah, there was just one plant, blood, blood, cheat,
bood thing of that, always believe. But Marcus, I'm ringing
about your call it before. Who was trying to figure

(59:38):
out how many words you say not yes? And it
was quite, it was quite. It struck a nerve because
I was doing the I was in a vape shot today.
I'm trying to give up smoking and get on these
vapes and go.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
Yeah, the good luck with that. We're right behind you.

Speaker 15 (59:55):
So but this was a question how many Sorry, this
was what I was faced with. There was vakes with
a thousand puss, there was vas with two thousand puffs,
and there was vapes of five thousand puffs, five thousand
puffs worth thirty five bucks. And I thought, right, I'm
trying to Yeah, I'm smoking about two hundred and eighty bucks.

(01:00:18):
I smoked two fifty grands a week, so it's a mortgage,
a lot of money. And I'm trying to figure out right,
thirty five bucks a week, that's a big saving.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
So where I go.

Speaker 15 (01:00:30):
But then I was trying to figure out how many
puffs I had, and I thought, here's the answer to
me in your mules your problems. We find a fitbit
you know now they record steps. Yeah, we can do this, man,
we can do this with technology, quantum computing.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
There's quite how many how many drags and a cigarette
would there be twenty?

Speaker 15 (01:00:57):
I'd love to knowment Like I just I just stood
there in the shop.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
Going on, are you on the tailies or what are
you smoke?

Speaker 15 (01:01:06):
I'm on the roll? Who's meant two fifty grams?

Speaker 11 (01:01:08):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Of course, because I'm thinking on it, because yeah, I
reckon they probably would be more than twenty per each cigarette,
maybe fifteen.

Speaker 15 (01:01:14):
I'm sitting there now having one discounting what are you
up to? I'm at number thirteen now.

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
And how far through are you?

Speaker 15 (01:01:25):
It's halfway?

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
Okay? Because the people because with the dart sometimes you'll
get then you know I went loyal.

Speaker 15 (01:01:33):
I've had a few bees, and you know I'll smoke
more than a drinking.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
Oh, I know that, because it'd be good for you
to have a few bees where you're trying to give
up smoke.

Speaker 15 (01:01:41):
Oh man, it's been a hard week. It's Friday, look yet.
But yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. I'm just
I'm trying to do the mathematicians and all of this,
and I'm thinking, no, you know, I'm a simple, simple
simon tradesman. I do jewelery mathematics. When it comes to
Friday night. After a few bees, I don't want to
do mathematics anymore. But yeah, yeah, I just come to it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Hang on, hang on, hang on? Why did you? Why
did you go to the vape shop when you've still
got tobacco? Are you planning ahead?

Speaker 15 (01:02:11):
Hey, it's a long story of me.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
Good luck for you, Ben. If you need any support,
we're here for you. It's an important battle, the one
to give up smoking. I fully support vaping and your
battle to give up smoking. It's a tremendous smoking cessation aid,
So good luck with that. Just don't take up vaping
if you don't smoke, it's the road to ruination. There

(01:02:43):
we might take on it back at your headle twelve.
My name is Marcus. Good Evening, Marcus the Element. Your
packets of choice that can be recycled in soft plastic
at supermarket. Agree unnecessary packaging. Go to Uncle Bill's shop.
They import English tea bags. The English don't put up
with bad tea bags. They are the best in the world.
Steve Marcus, I'm a bag, I'm a bag and girl

(01:03:06):
Tony disasters. Now two mouthfuls of tea and now a
mouthful of tea leaves. At least you're not getting the
microplastics because they are evil. Sharky. It's Marcus, good Evening
and welcome youday, Shaky. What's happening?

Speaker 7 (01:03:25):
I was going to talk to you about the different clock,
but first I'll give you some good news I had.
I went for a blood sugar level test four months ago.
It was fifty seven, and I went for another test
last week and now it's forty one. Wow, using sugar,
and I've also lost ten You making me feel better

(01:03:49):
about myself.

Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
Anyway, hang on, hang on, hang on? But was it
easy to give up sugar?

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Well?

Speaker 7 (01:03:56):
Because I drive the truck at night?

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
And stuff like that.

Speaker 7 (01:03:58):
I used to stop a lot at bakery and details stations,
and yeah, it was hard to give up. I now
drink water with sitting.

Speaker 16 (01:04:08):
In that lenen in it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
On behalf of the ZB staff. We're all very proud
of you. The doctor must have been ecstatic.

Speaker 7 (01:04:15):
Oh I should because it keeps me a fight because,
as you know, my dad pied just recently, and so
my whole thing is about trying to get healthy and thick.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:04:26):
Now, the Devonport clock, let me tell you that clock.
I'm amazed that it ever keeps time properly.

Speaker 15 (01:04:35):
The the thing with it.

Speaker 7 (01:04:38):
I lived in Devonport for well, my wife had a
cafe inside the wall for ten years and so we
were at different for every k for ten years with
that cafe. And I also ran a radio show for
Mike Baker, who had a radio station there called the

(01:04:59):
three FM.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
Oh I knew Mike Baker. He's he's deceased now, is
that right?

Speaker 13 (01:05:10):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:05:10):
Yeah, he passed away a few years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
Now, yeah, I think I think it was.

Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
I think he was.

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
I think he was from Central Otago and used to
be a baker.

Speaker 7 (01:05:19):
He was many ye alto. He broke around and.

Speaker 13 (01:05:25):
He uh.

Speaker 7 (01:05:27):
I used to do a music show every weekend at
the three of radio stations.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
The wolf was always a bit of a dud, was
it never really kind of cracked on?

Speaker 7 (01:05:40):
Oh yeah, well we were in that cafe for teen
years and they get lies revolved around the different Port wolf.
We actually got married on the beach at Diffonports.

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
Creepers. Is there a beach there?

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Now a beach?

Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
Wasn't really called it a beach, not.

Speaker 7 (01:05:58):
The beach where the furies coming. I'm talking at a
beach over with the Parkers.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
Oh yeah, with it with the execute where the execution happened.

Speaker 7 (01:06:07):
Yes, yes, yes, beach just there. Okay, so was the
probably getting married was like an execution.

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
There was a story about the clock. The clock didn't
work because what's the reason there?

Speaker 7 (01:06:20):
Well, it was always never on time, is from what
I remember. It was a couple of times that got
taken away and repaired and then it came back and
it it's the clock that stands right at the beginning
of the wolf in Devonport. As you go on to
the wolf.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Itself, yes, well okay, well, okay, somebody news today. Thank
you shark. You're nice to hear from her. Sixteen to
ten to ten to ten Marcus till twelve about the
tea bags a choicer, They're a disaster. Just doing a
fact check. Someone has texted me in fact the female

(01:06:58):
They said that Ellerslie Race Course had a hill and
it was the only steep chase hill in the world
and now it's gone.

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
Are there no other courses with a hill? Because that
is a bit of history. Actually I didn't know that,
and I've run around the racecourse on the inside as well.
I think it was a sponsored thing. He had to
do laps. Don't judge me, but I do enjoy a
celebrity Halloween photo shoot. What's that? What's eid? Sharon dressed

(01:07:29):
airs like a little monkey? So Ed Sharon dressed as
an AI generated image of himself as a monkey, which
became a meme that he did it himself. Goodness me.
It's complicated the world, isn't it? With AI and Halloween
and YadA yadira. Keep those texts coming through if you've
got an interesting to text. I don't know what's to

(01:07:51):
find interesting. The old pido Erace Course had a hill
for the steeple chase course. John Marcus Pido e race
course also to hill, but Ellislie was more famous as
the Great Northern Steeple text was running Saturday. They are
both gone and no more racing at Pyro are great

(01:08:12):
times we had. I had no idea that the hill
was unique in the world. I wish i'd known that
at the time. I would have respected it more. Had
no idea. That's a shame because I like things that
are historical. Someone else had a bad experience with a
tubber kapit the ice cream boys and Brie ice cream

(01:08:34):
and they themselves have got that in Richmond and Stoke
at a grocery store there. Trudy Marcus, welcome, Oh hi Marcus.

Speaker 17 (01:08:43):
I just want to talk about the speeder. It is
that all right?

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
Absolutely?

Speaker 17 (01:08:47):
Well, I just think it's such a shame because look
at the holiday that we've just had and there's not
one person killed on the road, which is amazing. And
I cannot understand the government wanting to put up speed limits.
Plus you know it's going to cost ten events to
change all the signs. So what are they doing it for?

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
Because it was a vote winner?

Speaker 17 (01:09:07):
Well, I think it's stupid.

Speaker 5 (01:09:09):
Really, I think it was.

Speaker 3 (01:09:10):
Because everyone thinks they're a really safe driver, when of
course they're not.

Speaker 17 (01:09:13):
And I thought, I know, how fast do they want
to go, mar I guess the faster they the first
it goes, the faster they want to go.

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
Well, yeah, I think when you look at the injuries
to kids hit side out schools compared with thirty k's
and fifty k's, it was phiry dramatic. But you know,
we live and we learn, and they reversing again before
too long.

Speaker 17 (01:09:32):
He is such a shame, Marcus. I'm just so disappointed
in the government for doing that. You know, Well, anyway,
it's one of.

Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
Those populust things that people vote on. They think, oh, well,
the governments are deferring our lives too much. Let's lower
the But you know, you wonder when I Wan bikes
to school or things like that, because people drive so
quickly in these massive cars and they hit people that
it was a really.

Speaker 17 (01:09:52):
Injured I know, I know it's such a shame, but anyway,
what can you do?

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
Not much?

Speaker 17 (01:09:57):
Really, No, it's a shame, that's all I can say.

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
And I hope people sort of were these speed limits
there are where around schools and you know, drive response.
These cars are so massive. Karen Marcus.

Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
Welcome, Hey MICUs, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
Thanks?

Speaker 9 (01:10:13):
Karen good answers When you say that Tialla has a
beautiful racetrack and.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
That's closed, that had the hell on it? Did it?

Speaker 13 (01:10:22):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:10:22):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
One, no, okay, I apologize.

Speaker 9 (01:10:24):
Yes, yes, yes, no, it's got the mountain in the background.
Beautiful and a lovely day. I've been to lots of
races the Yere and then I've got a funny story
about that race track as well. About six years ago,
my great uncle died not long after my mum, and
mom had passed on the responsibility of my great uncle

(01:10:47):
to my auntie, so we had a simplicity funeral for him.
He didn't have any family apart from us, and we
got his ashes and he was a he didn't have
much money, and I think he was about eighty four,
but he loved the races. So we actually it's not
that we snuck in because the gate was open, but

(01:11:07):
we drove in and we sprinkled his ashes on the
race track.

Speaker 5 (01:11:12):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
Yeah, did you get your car on the race? Did
you get your car on the racetrack?

Speaker 9 (01:11:20):
No? No, no, we just drove up the driveway as
if you're going into the racetrack and my auntie took
the ashes and jumped over the fence.

Speaker 3 (01:11:28):
Oh I see, So it wasn't there were races on
at the time.

Speaker 9 (01:11:31):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, wow. Ye yeah, but yeah,
because we thought, well, where will we sprinkling, because we're
into getting the ashes and sprinkling, and yeah, that's where
we sprinkled them, was along the finish line.

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
I wonder if that's common, because a lot of people
certainly have the love of the races, don't they.

Speaker 9 (01:11:51):
They do well. I thought it was funny last night
because I think either somebody rang in or texted and
said that they sprinkled the cat at the beach, and
you went, oh, I don't know about bad. And then
that's just what made me think of that tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
You kick, you go, no, you go.

Speaker 9 (01:12:08):
And I was a smoker for thirty odd years. Gave
up twelve years ago, so I probably smoked from thirty
to forty or thirteen to forty two.

Speaker 13 (01:12:20):
I think it was.

Speaker 9 (01:12:22):
My dad passed away from one cancer from smoking, so
two weeks later I had my last cigarette with the
help of it was either one of those diaban there
was it was when those drugs came out that helped
you give up smoking. And I think it was thyband
that I took and I haven't had a cigarette since.
So that's what worked for me. But watching your father

(01:12:45):
die year lung.

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
Cancer work too, wouldn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:48):
Yep? That worked?

Speaker 14 (01:12:49):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 9 (01:12:50):
I came from a long line of smokers.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
Did you talk car stop smoking now?

Speaker 9 (01:12:57):
No, I've never even tried to give up. Before I'd smoke.
M'd be a twentier day heavy smoker.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
There was a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
There was a book that everyone was reading called Alan
Carr Stopped Smoking Now. That was huge about twenty years ago.

Speaker 5 (01:13:11):
And you'd read that book.

Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
As you read that book, you'd stop smoking.

Speaker 5 (01:13:16):
And it was huge.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
But I don't know what happened. I presume he died.

Speaker 9 (01:13:19):
I think that's still I think it's still out there.
But I don't think that would look for me. Like
I said, I've never even tried to give up. It's
not like you know some people will try for years
and years to give up and then start smoking again. Yeah,
that would work for me. So but I always say
I stopped smoking and started eating.

Speaker 3 (01:13:38):
Ah, yes, okay, yeah, stop the smoke.

Speaker 9 (01:13:42):
About that lady And she said that little old lady
sounded tiny, and you said that you can't tell people
size from the radio, and that cracked me out.

Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
It's a great thing about talk. You can't talk, you
can't tell anything about anyone you can tell. Yes, it's
the great free form of communication. Not size is not
anything nice to talk to you to Karen, thank you
twenty four to eleven. Did have lunken to Alan Carr,
some of who remember his booked Stop Smoking was big
twenty years everyone was reading it. Marcus, from my experience

(01:14:10):
switching to light cigarettes, you end up smoking twice as much. Yes,
I would have thought that. Also, you're getting that hit.
You go and you go, and you go, and you go,
and you go, and you go and you go. Marcus.
I love fireworks. I love fireworks, but here in Papa
Toy Toy, the fireworks out of control a mix of
guy fawkes in Dewali. I suppose they started Wednesday at

(01:14:33):
ten pm and have been steady ever since. Pretty inconsiderate
for those working in the morning. I can see why
some people are annoyed to shame takes the shine out
of an otherwise fun time of the year. Frugod article
I found two about monkeys and typewriters or chimpanzees. I
should say because chimpanzees aren't monkeys, because they've got no tails.

(01:14:56):
I think that's right. Two Australian mathematicians have called him
to question an old adage they have to give them
that have given an infinite amount of time monkey pressing
keys on a typewriter would eventually write the complete works
of William Shakespeare. It's called the infinite monkey theorem. The

(01:15:17):
thought experiment has long been used to explain the principles
of probability and randomness. However, a new peer reviewed peer
reviewed that means science. A new peer reviewed studied by
a Sydney based researcher Stephen Woodcock and J. Faletta, has
found that the time it would take for a typing
monkey to replicate Shakespeare's place on some poems would be

(01:15:39):
longer in the lifespan of the universe, which means, while
mathematically true, the theorem is misleading. As well as look
at the abilities of a single monkey, the study also
did a series of calculations based on the current global
population of chimpanzees, which is roughly two hundred thousand. It's
not many, that's sad. The results indicate that even if

(01:16:03):
every chip in the world was enlisted and able to
type in a pace of one key second until the
end of the universe, they wouldn't even come close to
typing out all the Bard's works or typing out the
Bard's works. There would be a five percent chance that
a single chimp would successfully type the word bananas in
its own lifetime, and the probability of one chimp constructing

(01:16:29):
a random sentence such as I chimp therefore, I am
comes in at one in ten million billion billion.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
Let's go about twenty five zeros after it that one.
It's not plausible that even with improved typing speeds, an
increase in chimpanzee populations, monkey labor will ever be able
to will ever be a viable tool for developing non
trivial written works. The calculations used in the paper are
based on the most widely accepted hypothesis for the end

(01:17:04):
of the universe, which is the heat death theory. In short,
at scenario which have continues to both expand and cool
well everything with it, it dies off de Kay's and
fades away. This finding places the theory, amongst other probably
puzzles and paradoxes. We're using the idea of infinite resources

(01:17:25):
gives results that don't match up with what we get
we consider the constraints of our universe. So there we go.
We're kind of in the in the week of outrage
Hall allween you be pleased, and I had no calls
of anyone outraged. We've got fireworks coming up on Tuesday.

(01:17:46):
If you want to tell us where you're selling them,
where you're putting up the containers, let us know about that. Also,
because people like to know where the fireworks are available.
Used to always get them at the Hooked On Gardener,
but they seem to not be around anymore. It was
a fairly good retail experience that one. But they're saying,
crackajects us. I'll promote anyone that sells fireworks after the

(01:18:09):
warehouse refusing to sell them. No one asked them to
stop selling them. They just decided to do it to
get some publicity, which I never felt very good about.
Are you a fireworks seller, Scott?

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
You know I am.

Speaker 16 (01:18:25):
It's we have this conversation every year.

Speaker 3 (01:18:29):
You could have just said yes, rather make it sound
like some sort of shifty deal we're doing. So what
Scott will what Scott will? Hang on, I'm gonna I'm
going to say. I'm going to say what Scott's going
to say. Because it's on Tuesday, it's going to be
a dud. Nope, you said that a year ago. Well,
someone rang me up that sells fireworks. They said, if

(01:18:50):
it's on a Thursday and a Friday or a Saturday,
it's going to be big. On a Tuesday, it's not
going to be that big.

Speaker 16 (01:18:56):
This year is it's not the best, mate, but it's
going to be better than last year because on a
Sunday or a Sunday Sunday afternoon, you don't have people
driving around like you like you do on a weekday
or a Saturday, whereas like generally on a weekday, basically
after school finishes when it starts going crazy and people

(01:19:17):
that may not have been planning to do fireworks drive
past the shop. It could be a Bone Brothers shop
or a Bad Boys shop by James, and they think, oh,
you know what, let's get some fireworks.

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
Let's pull in.

Speaker 16 (01:19:28):
It's a very impulse by and because there's ten times
much more traffs on a weekday than there is on
a Sunday, is why it's going to.

Speaker 10 (01:19:35):
Be a lot busier.

Speaker 16 (01:19:36):
But tomorrow we are also expecting it to start off
pretty busy because tonight, you know, it's the d Valley
which is obviously a big deal, or Felt Indian community.

Speaker 3 (01:19:45):
And on scott Do they have their own source? The
Dodalians have their own sources.

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
Not that, not that I know of.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
I don't know either. People say a lot of fireworks
are going off tonight, but I presume they've pre bought them, well,
saved them over from last year, right.

Speaker 16 (01:20:05):
Yeah, I mean because a lot of people looked at
the date and saw that the official the wale knights
is tonight, you know, and a lot of people last
year were saying, you're not going to be selling them
before the war next year, so we're going to buy
extra this year in stock power.

Speaker 3 (01:20:18):
Okay, that's what they will have done.

Speaker 2 (01:20:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:20:22):
Are you have you imported as many this year as
you did last year? As much as many?

Speaker 16 (01:20:28):
Yeah, it's a similar amount. I can't say so we
I mean, Tobe Lake, last year wasn't a great year,
but if we do the same this year, I'll be happy.

Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
You're doing the same number of stores, the same number
of you put out containers.

Speaker 16 (01:20:41):
A we do a lot of Yeah, we do mainly
container We're doing a few more that he actually branched
out a few more. Yeah, we're in marine bread and buss.

Speaker 3 (01:20:54):
No you're not.

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
We're not.

Speaker 10 (01:20:56):
No.

Speaker 13 (01:20:56):
No, But.

Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
I reckon and I enjoy this discussion every year because
this government is not going to ban fire works because
I don't want to prevent people telling people what they
can't do. But in situations like Auckland, right, You've got
a lot of people that don't have backyards. Now, so
where do those people go. There's no where they can
go because they've banned from lighting them in public parks.

Speaker 16 (01:21:19):
Ay, well, I mean they're banned from lighting them in
public parks. It doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Okay, I
think I think a lot of those people probably, I mean,
as the general population people, the percentage of people into
fire weeks is not as high as it used to be,
you know, a generation ago. You know, So there's people,

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there's a lot of people that for them is just
not part of the attender anymore. So it doesn't matter.
And maybe that correlates with people that are happy to
live in an apartment or a townhouse, instead of having
a backyard as well, you know, like, yeah, the friend
lifestyles and.

Speaker 3 (01:21:56):
They won't have friends whose place they can go around
to anyway, if they're in the apartment. Can you start
seeing them from midnight if you want to wait till midday?

Speaker 16 (01:22:03):
No, yeah, I mean you can start from midnight and
not if people that have started selling at twelve or
one am before. We're not we're not doing that. But
I mean, we were setting up a lot of shops
today and a lot of them we had people coming
up and saying, you know, asking if they could buy today,
and then we said, unfortunately not. But there's especially among
the Dualians, there's a lot of people wanted to wanted

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to obtain them early. But I'm not losing my license
over it, and we're not going to sell early.

Speaker 3 (01:22:31):
So you've got Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. So you'll start
sending them tomorrow, can't you? Or Sunday?

Speaker 5 (01:22:44):
No, not tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:22:45):
So Saturday, so you've got four days yep. What what
day do you think will be the busiest. Do you
think it'll be Saturday or Tuesday? It'll be Ah, it's
a big decision. Lest don't jump into it because I
reckon it might be Saturday.

Speaker 16 (01:23:00):
Well generally i'll say the Tuesday because it's always the
last day, the last day. But I think that made
effective because I think we've had this before that a
lot of the Indian community and especially you know, because
we're in Auckland and we do you know, shops near
Mount Roskill and Papatoi in places where there's a big
call it the community of the Walians as you call them, Yeah,

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you know, and they're going to be out in force tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:23:25):
But as as.

Speaker 16 (01:23:27):
In terms of the general Kiwi population, I'd say probably
Tuesday because people just generally leave it to a last
minute thing. And despite it being a weekend, a lot
of people with traditionalists and say no, you can't let
them off on the fifth. I mean, so it might
be they might be pretty closely tired. But find out.

Speaker 3 (01:23:46):
Any you stark er, same old, same old. I mean,
are the new things that they invent new things or
has it not happened like that?

Speaker 16 (01:23:53):
No, most of our stuff is most of our stuff
is pretty similar because I mean with the law in
New Zealand in terms of what you can do in
terms of noise and gunpowdered by human that there's only
so there's only limited scopes, so many different things you
can do with that. But one interesting situation is you
know what pop pops are?

Speaker 3 (01:24:12):
PLoP plops or pop pops?

Speaker 16 (01:24:15):
Neither pops spell it p o p p op.

Speaker 3 (01:24:20):
No they no, I don't. Are they things you're throw
on the ground and they blow up?

Speaker 10 (01:24:24):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:24:25):
Yeah, yeah, that's them exactly those and they're very popular
and the Environmental Protection Agency has decided that basically from
now on, they're not going to allow any further imports
of them, so we can sell the stuck that we
have and then that's that they are going to be
not a legal item in New Zealand. So we're expecting

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to get a rush on those because people are people
love those things and they're not going to be able
to get them after this year.

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
You always do those as throw I always do those
as throwdowns, but pop pops is probably pretty good. Also,
are they worried that it's all going to end up
in the waterways and it's going to take heavy metals
into the waterways? Is that there is at their angle?

Speaker 16 (01:25:03):
I'm not sure, to be honest, I don't know if
that's that the same the things, but I mean, I
mean in the past they've basically been classified as a novelty,
as a novelty, which is the same as cap guns,
and it's the same as Christmas crackers, you know, the
things they have minute things have gunpowder, but they're not
going to burn a house down or yeah, knock anyone's

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like outs. But they've decided nope, we're going to remove
it from those and you can't sell them again. You
can sell through what you've got and then that's it.
So that's the end of those.

Speaker 3 (01:25:35):
You got a whip, if you got a web if
you've got a website.

Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
Scott of course they do.

Speaker 10 (01:25:40):
What is that boom Boom Brothers, dot co dot NZ.

Speaker 3 (01:25:44):
How many stores you got personally? So Northland and north
did you say you've got Roliston?

Speaker 10 (01:25:53):
We have got Rolston.

Speaker 3 (01:25:54):
That's big because how do you know that's the fast
that you follow the demographics because that's big.

Speaker 16 (01:26:00):
No, it's just more that we had a contact there
who wanted to get involved, so we sent some stuff
down there and they're going to.

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
Give it a go.

Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
Wow, it's almost worth driving up there for the New
Zealand's fastest growing towns. First guy falks it might be
a big deal.

Speaker 16 (01:26:14):
Well, I mean, I mean to be fair, I think
there's I'm pretty sure there's other vendors there, but it's
the first time Boom Brothers has on it, which is
you know, far New Zealand best brands, much better than
so Player, a company of bad boys.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
But you and I do know that the spiritual home
for fireworks will always be we Stalkland, doesn't it? Would
you have more stools here than anywhere else?

Speaker 10 (01:26:34):
We do?

Speaker 16 (01:26:35):
There is let's say there is a very Yeah, there's
a good I'm too tight to sound teber market. There's
a good ratio. There's a high ratio of sorts for people.
And we're talking, and let's say that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:48):
Brilliant nice to hear. Good luck with it all, Scott,
thank you, nice to talk. Twenty past eleven. That's the
annual fireworks message, Pop pops. There's also one on way
hikey a container at the causeway near the rugby league club.
Who came from that rugby league club? Oh no, that's right.
There was the guy that the rugby league player, a
Brendan Specie from Wahiki. I was always excited by that.

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Get in touch. My name is Marcus. As we take
this Friday to a quiet end. I've enjoyed tonight. I
don't think we've solved anything in the world. James, it's Marcus.
Good evening and.

Speaker 10 (01:27:20):
Welcome evening, Marcus. How's it going good? Thank you?

Speaker 3 (01:27:25):
James. How are you going all right? You sound underwater?
What's that you sound underwater?

Speaker 10 (01:27:33):
Hang on a second?

Speaker 2 (01:27:36):
That better?

Speaker 3 (01:27:37):
Yeah, perfect.

Speaker 13 (01:27:40):
Water?

Speaker 15 (01:27:40):
Sorry radio can beck on.

Speaker 5 (01:27:42):
That's right.

Speaker 10 (01:27:44):
Yes, so I am you call me Scott's competitor, competitor
for fireworks. However we were also we're also good mates.
So I run bad Boy Flyworks for the oldest firework
currently in New Zealand. We've been doing it since nineteen
forty eight.

Speaker 3 (01:28:02):
Hang on, hang on him They made them here a yep,
that was us and like you linn, like the egg
Bonds and the tell Us some of the names.

Speaker 10 (01:28:18):
Yeah, an egg bond mount with Servius, Muddy Cannon, all
those sort of things.

Speaker 3 (01:28:25):
Someone should write a book about today.

Speaker 10 (01:28:28):
Yeah. Well, actually my grandfather was halfway through writing a
book about it when he passed away many moons ago.
I still have a copy of that.

Speaker 3 (01:28:37):
So what was the name of his company? Again?

Speaker 10 (01:28:40):
It was universal pyrotechnics or universal.

Speaker 3 (01:28:43):
Fireworks and what was his how did he get into it?

Speaker 10 (01:28:48):
Was that just was it just really really strange. He
moved to New Zealand after the war. He was in
the Air Force in England and he moved here and
he was an engineer and someone asked him if he
could make a sparkler, and he started making sparklers in
his garage in the middle of Auckland, and it grew

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and grew and grew, and eventually they ended up with
twenty acres out in Theater two, enploying over two hundred
people making fireworks.

Speaker 11 (01:29:17):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (01:29:19):
And then in the late eighties they made the decision
that it was getting grey tough to make them in
New Zealand anymore and did a joint venture and moved
our production up to China.

Speaker 3 (01:29:32):
So that's fair.

Speaker 9 (01:29:33):
So he was.

Speaker 3 (01:29:35):
Was he importing a lot of materials or was it
quite It's just sort of paper and clay and magni
Is it quite straightforward? The manufacturing of them.

Speaker 10 (01:29:44):
Pretty complicated chemicals wise, And yes they were importing like
a lot of the chemicals and bits and pieces. But
we were actually the first company in the world to
ever make skyrockets by machine. It was actually our technology
that then ended up going over to China and making

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skyrockets over there.

Speaker 3 (01:30:07):
So did he do all the IP and all the
inventing himself? Is he that sort of guy that would
invent wowzing.

Speaker 10 (01:30:13):
The machinery everything, And then all the machinery once we
closed down here was moved to China. And the funny
thing about it was a lot of the time they
went back to making the fireworks by hand instead of
making my machine. And this was back early nineties. And
now all the factories are desperately trying to mechanize because
they can't get enough start these days. And he was

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doing it back in the sixties, seventies, eighties.

Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
It's a good story.

Speaker 14 (01:30:41):
Eight.

Speaker 3 (01:30:41):
And when he was at Teatato was universsel. Was he
exporting them as well? Was it just the local market?

Speaker 10 (01:30:47):
It was all for the local market. But back then
they were also doing other things like making the smoke
bombs for the army as well. Okay, flash bangs for
the army.

Speaker 2 (01:30:58):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:30:58):
And then what I suppose was free trade with China
and stuff came in and that would kind of make it.
All of it.

Speaker 10 (01:31:04):
He had to and so that when things like OSH
turned up, and also things like unions et cetera as well.
And when you're employing over two hundred people and you've
got unions and you've got OSH coming in and things
like that, it all gets very complicated, especially when you're
dealing with something so volatile.

Speaker 3 (01:31:25):
Yeah, okay, wow, was what's on the land? What's on
the land now? Is it houses now?

Speaker 13 (01:31:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:31:31):
We sold it about even years ago, and we did
a twelve years ago, and then we did a lease
back on the three acres that was left of it,
and we moved out of there a couple of years ago,
and now it has all been turned into houses. It's
quite interesting, actually, Like there's just hundreds of houses on

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that land.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
That's fascinating. Hadn't thought about all of that. Okay, that's interesting.
And he was writing about you are you?

Speaker 10 (01:31:59):
Are you down in bluff? Yeah? You want some fireworks? No,
we've got some and uh yeah, you got to go
see my in the cargo store.

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
Oh where is it.

Speaker 10 (01:32:10):
At the old ended post building in the cargole?

Speaker 3 (01:32:14):
You would know you wouldn't know where that is, would you?

Speaker 13 (01:32:17):
Is it?

Speaker 10 (01:32:17):
Is it? I can give I can tell you that
it's on Clyde Street one to nine Clyde.

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
Street in the cargo and open tomorrow, Open tomorrow.

Speaker 10 (01:32:33):
We've got a lovely down there. That one there is
a fundraiser for a local boying that does motibike racing
all around the world. Well, the whole whole crew of
people down there that get together and they do it
as a fundraiser so that he can go and race
motorbikes all around the world.

Speaker 3 (01:32:49):
Brilliant, OK. I appreciate you coming through that, James, one
two nine Clyde Street. Good on you because I think
of the other years there have been shops and it's
sort of been a bit underrepresented down here.

Speaker 10 (01:32:59):
Yeah, pretty much it's been just us down there. And
then COVID made really hard down in the bottom of
the Southland especially. We ended up sending a truck down
there on the second day of sales a couple of
years ago and they sold the entire druckload in the day.
But it was the only fireworks site underneath the Christ
Church in the.

Speaker 15 (01:33:20):
Whole South of Island.

Speaker 3 (01:33:21):
Nice to talk, James six, were coming through pretty interesting
twenty six to twelve Our wait one hundred and eighty
ten eighty nineteen nine to text Welcome to my life.
The headline on the ODT snow, rain and wind for
the South. For goodness sake, strong wind warning from noon
until seven pm. It's for tomorrow. Be freezing at at

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tea ball and softball at hypothermia text has come through, Marcus.
Why not drop King's birthday and replace it with Dewali.
It's interesting idea. You haven't got any thoughts on that.
Shake it up a bit. I mean, it's not even
his birthday. People feel about King that they did feel

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about the Queen. But apparently Australia is looking to make
Dewali a public holiday. I hope we've probably got other
holidays they need before that one in Australia. That would
be my take on that one.

Speaker 1 (01:34:20):
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