Half a kilo cake (4 March 2026)

Marcus gauges reaction to Dave Rennie being appointed the new coach of the All Blacks (including from the one person whose opinion matters the most....), and also gets into weight loss surgery travel.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
A lot of people are emailing me and they are
stockpiling petrel. It's weird a so I'm not quite you
what to say about that. So, yeah, I've never known.
It seems different from other Eastern conflicts that people are
going really full what would be the word, they're going
full hoarding on it. Well, like those people that the survivalists,

(00:38):
so people are The last person I knew that hoarded
petrel was John den for remember that he got in
trouble for hoarding petrel. It was a it was a
against the law in the States. I'm not even quite
sure what the legality of hoarding petrel in New Zealand is.
I don't know if that you're allowed to do it.
I don't know why. I don't know if it's considered
an art anarchistic or it's just because it's dangerous. So anyway,

(01:02):
everyone knows theything about hoarding petrel. I'll be already curious
to know. I mean, where would you hoard it? And
then would you be worried about someone stealing it? You
don't really know about hoarding petrol. But John Denver did
it during the fuel crisis. He hoarded it in his
Colorado home, and people hated him for it. He hoarded

(01:23):
thousands of liters, but that was during the oil crisis,
so yeah, it went bad for him anyway. That's John Denver.
I'm obsessed with John Denver. What I'm obsessed with is
how he hoarded petrol. He wasn't a great husband. And
the fact that his plane crash was so controversial because

(01:43):
somebody run out of field, but some said it was
a rogue switch. But people still in the States have
anger towards him for hoarding petrol in the nineteen seventies. Yeah, anyway,
so yeah, he might be hoarding petrol. I guess petrol's
going to go up from price now. I think Trump
said that he will get tankers to a school. He'll
send the Navy to escort ships through the Straits of

(02:04):
Hall Moves. Funny how it's called the straits because it
looks like a ben, doesn't it. I'm just sitting here thinking,
I a lot to talk about. I've got a lot
to say. One of the things I'm thinking about, and
this might be a text question. You might like to
ring it up where is the all Blacks coach in
terms of New Zealand's most important jobs. Does it go

(02:26):
prominence to number one? All Black coach number two? Head
of New Zealand number three? And I'll tell you what
people love and comment on a lot. Who hosts the
breakfast show on TV. That's the way it must go. One, two,
three for as far as the Camarati what they need
to say. But yes, Dave Rennie famous for making the
players hitchhike Fukatarni with no money. I mean, big deal.

(02:49):
It sounds like a bit of a bit of a
light stunt to be but anyway, good on them. Could
we have a sweepstake? I don't know we need a sweepstake,
but let's hope he goes well. There were much analysis
on his first matches and I'm looking forward to that.
So there we go. I thought David kirk and slightly
better at the press conference the last one. He was
clear with his information. I feel that the country's back

(03:14):
now on an evenish killed the interregnum has gone. The
time between coaches we can rest easy. I guess it
would be the second most important job in this country
in terms of profile and how much it's discussed. You think,
wouldn't You can't think what the others would be anyhow,
I'll by the way too. Oh, there's a lot to
talk about tonight. I'll keep you updated with the war also,

(03:38):
so there'd be a lot of information. I feel like
these four hours are the busy hours. It's been the
last two days a lot has happened. So I'll keep
you updated with that tonight. So yes, email and call
if you want to. Someone texts. I just filled a
forty four gallon drum with petrol and brought flights for
over Christmas New Year's today. We had to beat the

(04:01):
expected price increase. My wife, who works at Z said,
you know, more people feeling the car right up instead
of the usual forty or fifty dollars. I don't know
how much money you're going to save because I don't know.
I mean, you've got a tankfull. You're going to use
it more, aren't you. But get in touch. The number
is oh, eight hundred eighty, ten eighty and nine to
nine to text be a part of the show heit

(04:22):
til twelve. There will be other stuff we will talk
about tonight. There's a lot going on, a great deal
going on ah, but yeah, Dave Rinnie, that's the huge
news named as the new All Blacks coach. Oh, by
the way, there is cricket tonight. That's at two thirty.
We play South Africa at two thirty tomorrow morning. There

(04:43):
will be no blood moon, but there will be cricket.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Today, by the way, is World Obesity Day, although I
think probably that's seems to be a thing of the past.
And everyone's on ozem pic since we're going well for
people too, don't you you notice people looking different? Good
on them? Get in touch if you want to talk
Hittel midnight tonight, Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and
nine two nine two text, but you might want to
mention your black coach.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
Do I know?

Speaker 3 (05:07):
There's been a sports program I s certatly know on
the show. Over the last couple of months. There's been
a lot of discussions about that and will we know
is it the right decision? Where we will know once
we get the results in a week or two, we
probably will know. Paul In it's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 6 (05:26):
Hello, Marcus. What an interesting topic this is. Firstly, who
appoints the governor general?

Speaker 3 (05:34):
I would say it's the prime minister.

Speaker 6 (05:36):
Okay, is it is that right? I don't know that'sought
you might know.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Well, is that a rhetorical quick or who else would
it be? I mean the Queen but or the king?

Speaker 6 (05:46):
Well, that's what I wondered.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
I always thought it was the government of the time.
They sort of that's what That's what I thought it
would did. Okay, hang on, I think the Prime Minister
recommends it and then the King will. For me, the
Queen appoints them. But I think it's just that it's procedural.
So does the Prime minister that recommends the person.

Speaker 6 (06:06):
Okay, now I've just caught your conversation about is it
the most who thinks the most important person in New Zealand?
What it is?

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Which are the most important jobs? Will be prominence to
number one?

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Then?

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Is it the all back coach number two?

Speaker 7 (06:19):
No?

Speaker 6 (06:19):
Frankly, for me, I am more inclined to have the
leave the radio one for the coach, the sports coach,
before I would listen to the Prime minister.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
So which way does it go for you?

Speaker 6 (06:33):
I prefer the sports coach.

Speaker 8 (06:36):
Oh, there is number one.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
The Prome Minister's number two and the coach of the
orbex is number one.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
I'm not even sure the Prime minister's number two?

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Would you say, head of you New Zealand is number two?

Speaker 6 (06:47):
Yes? Possibly?

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Or the news reader at six o'clock?

Speaker 6 (06:50):
Oh, yes, absolutely brilliant.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
That's I don't know who the news read at six o'clock?
Is that? That's not me feigning ignorance? That's is it Melissa?
Is it Melissa? I haven't seen her do the run,
the old run, the six o'clock Gordon at desk, yet
not around the TV at Sex. Perhaps she's going well.
Seems to be beloved anyway, get in touch here'll twelve.
By name is Mark tex though, so if you like to,
it's pound cake day to day too. I didn't know

(07:12):
what pound cake was, but I think a pound cake
is a cake where you have the same ingredients pound
of eggs pounded, but a pound of flour, pound of sugar.
Is that right, I guess? And he saying we call
it half a kilo cake. Mark is a great book
to read about astronauts. The Right Stuff by Tom Warlfis.
I've read. That's a very good book. You can buy Petrel.
You can Ford by Petrol on the z app at
today's prices. Pay now poor later. How far ahead can

(07:35):
you go with that? That's a great idea. That's like
the futures mark in your own back phone. I didn't
know you could do that. Wow, they will beat stockpiling.
That's actually virtual stockpiling, isn't it. Well, that's what Johnny
should have done. His wife works at Z. Someone says,
get a bit of song, But I've just got someone
that's getting married to that song on the strength of

(07:56):
the show. Yeah, lock that in. I needed to fill
my car this afternoon, no Q and fifteen cents off.
I usually fill up every six to eight weeks. There
should be okay for a while. That's Jenny. Jenny can't
be doing much ken sheh if she's a six to
eight week filler. Such a grudge purchase for fuel, isn't it?
You never want to It's oh, I'm very much eaper enough.

(08:20):
I didn't have I didn't have a fairy strong discussion
with Vanessa about cars that with a few I said,
you'll get enough on the battery and a hybrid. How
much charges in the battery? Could that get you a bluff?
Or is that not much at all? Is the battery
like extra? I don't really know. Every what I'm saying

(08:40):
about that, Jane Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 9 (08:44):
Sure, hello.

Speaker 10 (08:48):
I heard you talk about the most important people in
New Zealands.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, the most important appointments.

Speaker 10 (08:56):
Appointments well, I would say pay the prime ministic gift
because they get a decision making Podcus. How about the
children's question? A why are we talking about the head
of rugby? I mean, if you got kids.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Would you know the person? Would you know that? Would
you know the children's commissioner's name? It's a clear, clear.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
And you're about to see something.

Speaker 10 (09:22):
But it's changed in the last little while. But she's
better than the last one, which was Francis somebody.

Speaker 11 (09:29):
The last one wasn't she didn't pushed.

Speaker 10 (09:31):
Back and up so clear and during a big job.
But I think our children are more important than rugby
and that's my interests.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
And it's a really good point you make, Jane too,
because you know, it's interesting about what does get the
discussion And I can't think of any other job appointment
that's got as much discussion as that. So yeah, and
that probably illustrates all sorts of things of denial and obscation.
But I do take your point and very well made.
Tony Marcus good evening, Tony very well, thank you.

Speaker 12 (09:59):
Yeah, you just got to do with build Aron offas
all right, certainly cool. Just a bit of Trump's well
the crap is coming out of his mouth, mate, I
find it pretty unbelievable.

Speaker 13 (10:10):
Don't you.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well, I mean that's sort of been really what his
time and as the president has been, Like, I mean,
he said some extraordinary things. He said so much stuff
that's extraordinary that people aren't even commenting anymore.

Speaker 12 (10:23):
No, no, no, no, that's true. Mate, But we're a
like to bring to people's attention. And is that very
soon America and Israel are going to run out of
yes weapons, Yes, And that goes back to a study
in nine in sorry twenty twenty four that'd only last
three weeks against China. So yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
There's been quite a bit of discussion about that. Because
even when they try and upskill and up make stuff armaments,
even the chains that they are, the factories and the
things that there's all sorts of problems manufacturing. You know,
they're in a they're in a bad place when it
comes to arming up. That's all they're reading. I've done

(11:04):
what that says you.

Speaker 12 (11:06):
Are in a bad place. Now mate, because all by
sayings are getting the text attacked by drones. Well, drones
have in a bit of damage and they haven't even
got the missiles coming at them yet.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah. I mean, if it wasn't so horrific, it would
be fascinating. But I can't see it ending.

Speaker 12 (11:20):
Well, it's not going to anymore. It's going to end
up and.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
An intractable ground an intractable ground wall combined with a
civil war, I would think.

Speaker 12 (11:31):
Yes, But what excuse me, Marcus, is we have one
of these aggresses, namely the Zionist Israel, and they have
a nuclear weapon, mate, and I've never had allowed anyone
in there to inspect it. And did you see where
I'm going on this one?

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (11:46):
I do see where you're going on I am. Yeah.

Speaker 12 (11:49):
It's quite scary, isn't it. But this hasn't been spoken about.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Appreciate your points. Thanks so much for that, Tony, quick
start hot talk eight hundred and eighty ten eighty comments
calls talks Oh eight hundred eight nine to nine to text.
I look at the texts now, did anyone say world
War three? Marcus? With z pay now poor later There's

(12:15):
still a chance we could run out of fuel. Marcus.
Hoarding petrol is one thing, but using inappropriate containers can
be dangerous. I've seen a video a guy who lined
his ute tray with plastic and foot it with petrol. Marcus.
School teachers have the most important job, serious influence over
lives and culture. Yes, I think the point I was
illustrating was that which are the ones that the commentariats

(12:36):
spend the most time talking about? That does seem to
be the Prome minister and the all black coach or
any TV appointments. There's always poles like who should it be?
But Beck catch you get in touch. I'll keep updated
with the breaking news when it happens tonight. Also eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty. There are stories now of
people in the elderly Kiwis and Qatar that are terrified

(12:58):
and have heard nothing from the government. There's an app
they are supposed to have that tells you what's going on.
I don't know how well that's going for them. Good
luck to the family that have brought the pub and
Fonger Mormona couple from Monaco. Good on them. Yep of
from Pooka Corhy thirty five young sort of a rooster

(13:19):
be wunning the pub. Good on them, great pub, great town.
Be a part of a twenty three past. You want
to be our pound cake? Also, we had to There's
a lot to talk about it. I just don't feel
it's going to be an orderly show tonight because it's
it's kind of scattered topics and that's fine, But yeah,
you might want to chip in with something else tonight. Also,

(13:40):
it's not a problem, but Dave Rennie is the coach.
By the way, I know McDonald's. There's been much fuss
about the McDonald's CEO eating the new burger, the Big Arch.
I thought he looked fine with eating it. I mean,
obviously the people that run a big company like that
are going to know not to eat the food. But
I don't even know if anyone's tried the Big Arch.
It seems as though it's a burger with just the

(14:02):
two buns and two patties and three lots of cheese.
So I don't quite quite know why McDonald's keeps trot. Well,
I shouldn't say that. I mean, I guess they've got
to keep the hype and keep refreshing it. But yeah,
I don't even know the point of the Big Arch.
What is the backstory with that? Can you unfreeze that

(14:22):
article for me? The arch don't even know what it is.
Three patties and it's or two patties of the free
slices of meat. Email if you want to Marcus at Newstalks,
he'd be dot co dot nz hit til twelve a lot. Oh,
by the way, if you've got breaking news, we really
know what that breaking news is. I'm always keen to
hear about that if there's something you have got or

(14:44):
something you do want to talk about. But as I say,
will keep you our day with the news from the East,
the Middle East. Today, the US has said two thousand
targets have been hit in Iran, and Iran has said
it has complete control of the Strait of hor Moves.

(15:06):
I've always called it pluralized, it called it the Straits
of Hormoes. But it's the Strait of Hormos. That's the
situation there. And global stock markets have tumbled. The key
we one's gone, all right, But back at your twenty
five past date, twenty seven past date if you want
to be a part of the show. But by the way,
that Big Arch Burg I've just looked up. It is

(15:28):
available in New Zealand. It's got the three slices of
white cheese, which doesn't look good. It's got the two
big petties. But I'll try and get a cost for
you too, because people be interested in that. I know
that people think, oh well, in the scheme of things,
it's not the most important thing, but people like to
get hyped about stuff like that. You're Robert's Market's welcome
and good evening.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yeah, good evening.

Speaker 14 (15:49):
How are you, Marco?

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Thanks Rob? How's yourself? All right?

Speaker 14 (15:52):
Yeah, I'm fantastic.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
That's good.

Speaker 14 (15:55):
I remember when I was in Europe recently. I was
on the in France.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
I bet your isn't it yep?

Speaker 14 (16:07):
And I was driving all the all the Tour de France,
big hill climbs, and and I went from Briencean over
into Italy over this big mountain climb. And then I
was driving back to France, and I picked up a

(16:29):
hitchhiker and he was an interesting guy. He told me
how he drove his family all the way from France
to Iran.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (16:43):
Yeah, yeah. I was fascinated by the sky. The sky.
You probably wouldn't have picked him.

Speaker 15 (16:48):
Up here in New Zealand. He looked rough as.

Speaker 14 (16:52):
And it had done a tramp that day from the
top of the COLDI angel down down into Italy and
I was driving back from the Italian side to the
French side. And he was walking along this this country
lane to his car.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Were you were you a cycling fan? Is that were
you driving? Why you were driving?

Speaker 6 (17:15):
Well?

Speaker 14 (17:15):
Yes, yes, Marcus. Oh look I'd been over previously and
I'd been on some of the some of the Tour
de France hill climbs, and this time I wanted to
do seven of them. But I hired a car and
drove them.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
So you in biked them previously, had you?

Speaker 14 (17:34):
No, No, not at all. But there is my plan
when I retire in a few years, to go back
and ride them.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
I might come with you. Hang on there, Rob, don't
go away because because you haven't, you haven't hit your
spot yet. Robe. Anyway, back to it to the US
cycling and picked them. I go from a driven his
family from France around these you doing the great climbs.
What's your what? What's what? What's your comment?

Speaker 14 (17:57):
Well? Well, yeah, this this this gentleman who was was
a doctor. He was a doctor, and he invited me
back to their residents for the night. They cooked me
a meal, and he told me about all his travels,
and he had traveled to countries you know that you
wouldn't normally go to. So he packed his family up. Yeah,

(18:19):
and they would have gone through Italy, round through Greece, Slovenia,
and right around through Turkey and then too Iran. And
he said the Iranian people were beautiful and they were
so thankful they holiday there. They were most welcoming.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
Was the guy Iranian? Was he French?

Speaker 14 (18:37):
No, he was a Frenchman. Oh, he was just fantastic.
They lived in a little village overlooking a chateau called
Chateau Quieste, and I stayed up in this sort of
loft area of the of their house and it looked
directly over the chateau. It was It was just amazing,
and the hill climbs of the valleys and the scenery

(19:03):
just stunning.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Marcus, absolutely, I can't really think of that because of
course the news energy. You can't really drive anywhere, can you.
So it's quite a big deal because I guess you
can just I'm just looking at Google maps the way
you would have gone.

Speaker 14 (19:15):
Yeah, Yeah, it was very interesting here. And he had
also taken this family to places like well was Bekistan,
Kazakhstan and just out of the way places. And I've
since been in touch with them, and you know, they said, well,
if I'm ever there, to look them up and they
can t me about more of Europe. The fantastic people.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
And this is all just from hitch picking up a hitchhiker.

Speaker 14 (19:39):
Yeah, just from picking up a hitchhiker in Marcus. If
you ever get the chance to do some of these
climbs and my well, my two favorites were mon Von
Too in southern France is absolutely stunning and the cold Decoveredyre.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
And are you a former cyclist? Is that your thing?

Speaker 7 (19:57):
Rob?

Speaker 14 (19:59):
But I always had an interest, you know, I'd stay
up late at night watch the Tour de Franz and
I just dreamed of these places as they were. They
just exceeded my expectations when I visited. It's just stunning.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Inspiration, Rob, Thank you for that. Twenty three away from nine,
here'll twelve. Also talking about pound cake. To know if
anyone knows what that is, I had no idea. I
thought it was a cake that you pounded, but actually
it's all to do with the weights. Somebe could explain
that to me that's of interest and the arch burgher
how much do we know? How much it is?

Speaker 9 (20:28):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (20:31):
You can lock in up to one thousand liters on
the z app at today's prices. I've locked in two
fifty letters about a month's worth. That's based on Trump's
comment of one month war. Marcus, I'm not that interest
in rugby, but I agree with you as to how

(20:52):
interested in conversational everyone is. My ninety four year old
mother is a very second hospital and she asks every
day if we have a new coach. Yet it has
been like that. It's really been like that. That's been
the biggest local news there has been all year. Who's
the coach? I guess ended Rugby can be excited that
they've managed to actually control the news cycle. That's one
good thing that's come out of the fairly sketchy disappointment

(21:15):
of a good coach. Marcus isn't the most important important
appointment the governor of the Reserve Bank. Yeah, but it's
a pretty old it's a pretty dry old job, that one. Marcus.
Is The used ev market about to boom again. It's
been dead since the highs of twenty twenty two and
twenty twenty three. Wow, get in touch if you want

(21:36):
to talk. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus,
I thought a pound cake was to do with the
amount of butter used. Yeah, I don't know. I think
it's I think everything's the same. I think you just
put so. It could be a kilo, it could be
a pound, it could be ten kilos. It's just equal measures.
Sixteen dollars thirty for an arch Burger. Terrible name the
arch tam Beckisberger Marcus. Only in New Zealand could the

(22:00):
six PM news lead with the all black coach rather
than the war in Iran? Sure they didn't do that,
did they? A Jit spinner? Yeah? Well, and then of
course you've got the whole situation with the chairman of
the board. Watch that space, Yeah, flip, pound cake is

(22:20):
what we're on about. Never knowing what it was. I
think it's an America what it's called a pound cake,
not a kilo cake. It's what Trump should do. Trump
should get America into Metrix if he wants to be remembered.
Must be infuriating. Doing distance is like the way they
do it, or do they do met Oh? Anyway, they
do weights. They do the old imperial weights, don't they. Hey,

(22:43):
be in touch if you want to be on the show,
keep your dad with the news around the country also
tonight eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine nine to
the text, looking forward to what you've got to say. Yeah, well,
I'm not entirely sure what the topic is tonight, because
when people start talking about the war, they start talking
about it quite seriously, and that kind of ricochets through

(23:03):
the other conversations. Apparently, currently Israel is pounding Tehran after
Iran's night drone blitz hit the US concert and do
buy the CIA station and the guitar bass. That's happening.
So that's a situation. I'll keep you up there to
that for the next three hours, three hours, twenty minutes,

(23:25):
and if you want to talk on it, that's the
plans stand. So be in touch. You got something I
shoul want to do? Feel free come through texts, emails
and calls. And I'm not even necessarily sure how the
whole all black coaching job's going to roll out when
we are going to be relieved about that. I don't
know what people's expectations are if we lose to South Africa,

(23:49):
which I mensure we will. I don't know what's going
to happen there and say, oh the guy needs time,
is it what people will be saying, well, he is
here for five years, is they're not going to change
it like last time. So it's probably a dream scenario
for him. He's really got the job when it's essentially
it's given some sort of runway space to get into it. Anyhow. Oh,
by the way, a Basti day. I always wanted to
check in about how it's going with you with ozempic

(24:12):
and WEGOVI I think people find those stories interesting. And
that's something that you have done. If you've got those
drugs that are the miracle drugs, have they been life
changing for you? I find it fascinating and people find
it fascinating. But if that's something that you have done
that's changed your life, be really curious to know how

(24:34):
that's worked out for you if you find it's been Oh,
by the way, I forgotten about that someone. So I
hope lewis lowest rings and gives her opinion. Yeah, that's right,
and the Allbacks will take a pounding from South Africa,
or maybe they won't maybe they can harden up, work
out what's happening under the high ball and score on
the second half. I think that's where they were failing.

(24:56):
But who knows. Finding on things support isn't You never
really can tell what's going to happen. Happy Wednesday, Marcus.
I have friends with someone in the know. He tells
me that if twenty two that's expected at Warbirds over Warnaca,
maybe in doubt due to the Iran war. He said,

(25:18):
the public will be told in the coming week. So
the f twenty two wasn't it? Wasn't it a rapture? Oh,
it is a raptor. Yeah, okay, that's the raptor. Yeah,
maybe it's a bad look to send the raptor. Maybe
Ed Taylor needs to give us a text about that. Yeah,
maybe the raptor is not coming. But I don't know
if people go to the is show just for the
rap door, I don't know how the billing goes. If

(25:39):
it's like if the Raptors the Foo Fighters that's the
lead act. Maybe it is not far away eastro is
it either? Actually, I've got to put my holiday times
into for that, because it's funny. You've got Easter and
then we've got South Anniversary Day, when we've got school holidays,
it all kind of melts into one that. You know
how people always do articles how to take four days
off and get six months off. You know, I'm not
into that. I just take the day. I'm not into

(26:01):
blending long weekends. It's all too braggy, Marcus. Pound cake
is pretty much the same as Madeira cake. Someone said
the theme of your night is pounding Marcus. I think
my pre pick was who's going to be in the
final of the twenty over cricket. Someone says the apparently
you're experiencing folk. We're not experiencing phone problems, are we?

(26:21):
I think so? But I apologize if we are seventeen
away from nine Abby. This is Marcus. Welcome and good evening.
Hi Abbi, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 7 (26:31):
How are you talking about?

Speaker 16 (26:35):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (26:36):
Yes, so I live in Australia, so we can access
Manjaro am I in j a.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
I haven't seen that word, is it?

Speaker 7 (26:44):
Minjara minjaro m o U n j a r o
copy Okay, so it's like it's a weight loss injection
as well. However, odic and we'll go the I think
are available in New Zealand. They only have one antagonist.

Speaker 9 (27:02):
Sure it helps.

Speaker 7 (27:05):
With one part that Manjaro has too, so it's been proven.
I think it's about twenty two percent white loss, both
of the numbers. So I've been on it now for
twenty two weeks, yes, and I've lost twenty kilos.

Speaker 16 (27:24):
Crazy wow, and makes.

Speaker 7 (27:28):
I feel, I suppose a little bit more balanced because
it does balance out your blood stoblievels as well. Sure
so more balanced in mood like less mood slength. It's
just overall happier.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Does it change the foods that you find that you
want to eat?

Speaker 7 (27:45):
Absolutely so? As they call it food noise, so it's
quiet and food noise are quite a lot. I used
to easily eat the bag of tibesood watching TV without eating.
Thoughts about that and now the thought of eating to
bees for even I don't have an interest in eating
to be at a loss?

Speaker 3 (28:06):
Can you tell me about the way the Australian healthcare
system works? Are you paying five hundred a month for that?
Or is it cheaper than that?

Speaker 7 (28:13):
It's slightly cheaper that you have to start off like
on a two two point five miligran dose which is
the lowest dose, and then you start going up as
you require after that. A hack that I do is
so I'm on a five milligran, so I get a
ten milli grand pre which lasts me two months. And

(28:33):
that's they be about four hundred and seventy dollars doing
it that way.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Okay, So what does that work out a week for you?

Speaker 7 (28:41):
I think it's five hundred and forty dollars for two months.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Okay. Well, and that you would have eaten that in chips,
wouldn't you?

Speaker 17 (28:50):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (28:50):
Absolutely all food. So I had to make sure I
do eat, and when I do eat, it has to
be protein and five the first before any other sure food. Yeah,
so definitely suppressed at the time.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Do you worry?

Speaker 4 (29:07):
So you go?

Speaker 7 (29:08):
Also so also to press This wasn't a big shopper,
but I'll go into a shop and I actually don't want.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
To be there anymore shopping just for food or for anything,
take anything. Okay. So it's your serotonin receptors or something.
It's all that mind stuff, isn't that brain stuff?

Speaker 17 (29:25):
Absolutely?

Speaker 7 (29:25):
Like maybe even the addiction part of your brain.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
Yeah, that's what they say. They say with drink and
without colored all sorts of things that there's whole sorts
of undiscovered thing that it does seem to affect the
receptors that you're not as that you're craving or your
your reward system seems to do you do you worry
Abby that if you go off it the weight will come.
I mean there's a lot of talk about people saying

(29:48):
they've gone off it and the weight loss is not permanent.
Have you got any resolution around that?

Speaker 7 (29:57):
My plan? I know a couple of people I work
with have been taking those tests, have taken it three
years ago. They are in a maintenance, They'll be in
maintenance your whole life at a really really low dope.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
Okay, that seems so you just keep taking it. That's
the way, is it? And then you don't you don't
go back to your old ways.

Speaker 7 (30:17):
Yeah, and at a really minimal dose at the moment,
because I recommend.

Speaker 10 (30:22):
That you go up.

Speaker 7 (30:23):
I think it's two point five miligrams every month. I
only went up to five miligrands. I think you you've
got to seventeen miligrams. But I want to be in
in a space where I still haven't appetite, but I'm
learning to control it a bit better. So that's been
I think three months on five miligrands, and I seem

(30:43):
to be able to see to be sometimes, especially when
it's my JAD day and I think it's my jaz day.
I need to take control of this and not take this.
So I'm trying to, yeah, get a bit of I suppose, yeah,
but it it's meant to I can't think of the

(31:05):
word right now.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
I can't think.

Speaker 7 (31:07):
So I can control myself, I suppose because that's the
need that had to.

Speaker 14 (31:11):
Learn to do.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
But yes, I was going to ask you if you've
got and done that. Have you got I was going
to ask you if you've got to down the celebratory
clothes shopping it but you probably don't want to because
I don't feel like shopping. But are you there where
you need to be or you're going to go further?

Speaker 7 (31:24):
I think i'd like probably another eight kilos? And then
I had it that that, Yeah, the clothes shopping I
stopped after I lost ten kilos, stopped looking for new
clothes because until I've reached my goal weight, i'll be there.
Was doing more shopping, clothes shopping.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Just because I know a lot of people that I've
seen that have lost a lot of weight, and obviously
it's a new thing with these drugs. Are people asking
you and commenting on that? And how do you respond
to that? Is that invasive?

Speaker 7 (31:54):
No, I don't have had an invasive Actually what made
me think about taking Obviously I needed to change something
on pier and menopausal So that weight was getting tricky
to lose playing netbill three nights a week and.

Speaker 17 (32:05):
It wasn't moving.

Speaker 7 (32:06):
I went out with a group of work mates and
there was eight of us and only two of us
went on a weight loss injiction.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Wow, I've got to run. But thank you so much
for that call. Ten away from nine. Thanks hanging in
the Leon Its Marcus here, good evening.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
Yeah again I could say, I just wanted to talk
about the previous lady who was talking about the Munjaro.
So at the end of the day, these drugs are
not designed for weight loss. They're designed for reducing your diabetes,
and weight loss is a side effect of that.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
I think, yeah, over time, sorry, sorry, And I think
I think everyone realizes that. I think everyone's up to
scratch with how the drugs have been developed. I think
that's yeah, for sure, that's not new information.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
Yeah, but at the end of the day, what she's
talking about is something like that people want their life.
That's not that's not what it's designed for. Its designed
to help you lose weight and reverse whatever you need
to reverse. It at the same time has developed a
healthier lifestyle. And if you can do that whilst on
the drug, then you're going to benefit long term.

Speaker 12 (33:03):
But if you if you're just.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
Relying on the drug only, then you're going to be
relying on that for rest of your life. And it's
your choice. But ultimately it's not designed for their purpose.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
I think what ultimately it's designed for and what people
are what the medical people are now prescribing it for.
I can't really think there's any differentiation between it. But
what I see from people and by the text as
well is an extraordinary amount of judgment which I can't
quite work out where it comes from.

Speaker 5 (33:28):
Well, personally, I don't think there is their judgment out there.
I've been on the go vie for the last six
months and it's some me fantastic.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
In July and so as someone with diabetes, do you
feel antagonistic towards people that are having it for weight loss?

Speaker 5 (33:45):
No, not at all, not at all. I think at
the end of the day is if you're relying on
it just for weight loss, and you're relying on the
drug to do the work for you, that's your problem.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
It's not a problem. It's their choice and it's huge
health health benefits for that. I just I just find
it surprised the amount of judgment that's coming through from people.
But I mean, that's someone who's turned their life around
through miracle of modern science. To me, it's a good story.
Why would you want to rain on their parade? I
can't work it out. Just back to sport listening to

(34:14):
Nina's news. Yeah, I have to go back and re
equate myself with the sacking of Dave Rennie. But he
handled it with a lot of dignity, didn't there? Because
that was crazy. I don't know what to happen. I
guess Australian rugby panicked and Eddie Jones. I suppose being
the over promiser, as so many people we know in
the sports and well in the world in general, those

(34:36):
over promises that get their way. But that was crazy
what happened with that. Remember that they sacked Dave Rennie
to give Eddie Jones the job because he'd done it
in two thousand and three. What in dignity that must
have been? Anyway? And it was a it was a

(34:57):
anymore that hat? Remember that stilly hat was Hamish mcclenan.
I think was the he rugby, but I don't know
where he came from. I hope he's got long gone.
That was madness anyway. I think most of us wish
him well just for the sake of that. It he Jones.
What a room clearer he was. Anyway, get in touch
if you want to talk about that. And pound cakes

(35:18):
and it's well obest day. And I can't work out
why people why people? I don't fully out, no, no,
fully how to articulate it. People have very very strange
attitudes towards weight loss, and I can't quite work out
what drives that. A lot of judgment. I would imagine

(35:42):
probably the health benefits further down the track for our
healthcare system of people are have not got those what
do you call them? Those comme mobilities that go with
the best seats. Very very good thing. So but yeah,
a couple of texts coming through thinking cheapest creepers, Where
are you coming from? Anyway? Marcus Dave Reddy had a

(36:02):
thirty eight percent win rate for Australia not good enough. Yeah, well,
well he turned it around, didn't he and the Ausies
are doing well now. But if you want to get
in touch and talk on here eight hundred and eighty
Today obviously too, we are talking about the situation in
the Middle East, and a lot of tonight's show will
be updates from that because in Iran at the moment

(36:25):
they are preparing for Ali Khamene's funeral, So as it happens,
I'll let you know what. We're not the funeral, but
as it happens to let you know what's happened. There
have been loud explosions in Tehran, there's been people rescued
from an Iranian warship that's shrinking their sinking their Sri Lanka.

(36:45):
Israel have threatened to assassinate the successor to Kamani, and
of course they've got all the details because they've managed
to hot wire all the traffic ams. They know what's
going on. So yeah, I keep you updated with the
wall about that tonight. That's a show goes through. But
if you want to talk on here eight hundred and
there might be other stuff you want talk about tonight,
including the all black coach and anything else. Oh, eight

(37:10):
hundred and eighty ten eighty. The lines there are free
and available if you want to get involved with the
show tonight. If there's anything else you want to mention,
it'd be good and nice to hear from you. They
are saying that the Raptor might not be going for
wings over one a canal, that plane mightn't be a
part of it. That's just what I've heard through the
rumor mill. So there's that. Also. As far as pound

(37:32):
cake go, I don't even know it's something that happens
in New Zealand. Pound cake, Yeah, you do the same
amount of everything. A pound of eggs, a pound of flour,
a pound of butter, and a pound of sugar. Doesn't
sound like a great cake to me. Sounds like something
that needs to live in it up. But I like
it from a mathematical point of view that it's all
the same. And I think in France they call it
the caught a cot they call it in France they

(37:57):
call it something different. In France they call it the
cut to court, meaning four quarters you can add fruit
to it. And in the Caribbean they had rub well
by the way too, tip top have stopped rum and
raisin ice cream. I don't know what you feel about that.
I obviously don't go near rum and raisin ice cream
because I don't know the reasons. But yeah, it's not well.

(38:21):
I actually don't have much ice cream anyway. But rum
and raisin is disappearing. I don't know if there'd be
a flavor that people would like. It used to be
a right. When I was at the Quag's ice cream
parlor once upon a day, the rum and raisin was very,
very good. But it's not a very I think it's
quite a toxic flavor. But New Zealander's twenty eight liters
annually of ice cream, it's quite a lot. But the

(38:41):
love of rum and raisin has waned, so it's just nostalgia.
So there we go no longer, So stockpile that as
well as stockpiling petrel and I see the stuff websites
doing a try head, try hard pole. Should rum and
raisin come back? The supermaga or Pole's not going to
save it, is it? Where are the new flavors? But

(39:02):
people aren't buying it? That's the situation. Rum and raisin Gonburger.
I think everyone's in the everyone's on the gelato train, now,
aren't they. That's what people love. I had one of
those gelato's on Waihiki and it was a hanging on
Google this flavor because Jet was good. I went back
about three times. Jeer was good. I'll tell you what

(39:25):
it was, because it was cucumber and yuzu. Well, I've
never heard of yusu, but the kids knew all about it,
some sort of sit goth that I knew my fruit. Yeah,
cucumber and user if you get if you ever find
yourself across a gelato counter and they're offering trouble with it,
gelado is it? That's Moorish? But yeah, Jeet was good. Yuzu.

(39:46):
Do you don't know what a uzu was? It's a citrus.
It's like elemon, grapefruit cross. It's like Japanese or Chinese. Lisa,
this is Marcus.

Speaker 8 (39:55):
Good evening, Good evening.

Speaker 16 (39:57):
Are you good?

Speaker 3 (39:58):
Thank you, Lisa.

Speaker 18 (39:59):
It's good.

Speaker 16 (40:00):
I'm just giving you your call, Marcus, to talk about
white loss. Sure. So I'm thankful for human that. It's
a really big complex issue way because the benefits of
being slimmer means less diabetes, better hearsh you know, conditions,

(40:22):
you feel better, you have more energy. But this thing
is we're getting like a surgery, is your stomach can
stretch back out very very quickly because of bad habits.
And they do recommend with gastric sleeves surgery that you

(40:42):
take protein first with every single meal, and they say
that you will be dependent on specific vitamins for the
rest of your life.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
What does the protein? Does it change the way your
body absorbs It does not absorbing the other stuff or
what's the.

Speaker 16 (40:59):
No, the protein, like an egg, for example, just solves
you up. So you've got a tiny little stomach that
actually cuts stomach that's issue away using keyhole surgery. And
if you take small white of proteins, you fill up
faster and you stay full for long.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
So otherwise you'd fill yourself with carbs, which an't going
to sustain it. Are they I understand that now?

Speaker 11 (41:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (41:23):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's It's really simple, scary, but really simple.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
And what surprises me is the amount because I know
that people that struggle with wait, it's a it's a
lifelong struggle and it's one that they normally don't win,
and it must be a harrowing way to live. And
I don't know why people don't celebrate that. These people
now have a solution to that.

Speaker 16 (41:43):
But well, because it's not funded yet, you know, weight
loss procedures in New Zealand aren't funded yet.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
That it's coming, It will happen, won't.

Speaker 16 (41:54):
Yeah, Yeah, next year, I think they're going to have
a injection that you just inject yourself once a week
and that all we've done and dusted, and that gives
you the same sort of feeling as having a gastric
sleeve or other surgery. But it's for one hundred dollars

(42:15):
and then it will be funded, so that will be
less than that again, which is a good option for
a best today because I'm obese And what.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
Kids have you had? Any? Have you had any? Have
you had a fix for that yet?

Speaker 16 (42:30):
No, I'm booked in for surgery. But yeah, I've had
a pretty i haven't looked after my body very well,
like I've had injury after injury, and yeah, just got
really big in the tummy, like where the vital organs are.

(42:51):
So I've got that viscal fat which is really difficult
to move.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
And it can be the stuff that's the bad stuff too.
They talk about isn't it that?

Speaker 16 (42:59):
That's yeah, yeah, it's the stuff that's wrapped around if
that the organs that matter, like your hard and your
liver and your kidneys, because they've all got functions. And yeah,
I just haven't looked aftermard it well because of a
lot to do with medication that I've been on and
what not, but a lot to do with my diet

(43:22):
and self discipline as well.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
So you have to make So.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
What will the solution for you be? Will be surgery?
Did you say? Or that will be a difference?

Speaker 16 (43:32):
You know, I'm having a guest strict sleeve, which is
they remove? I think it's too to you to your
stomach worked by Keha Sujeri.

Speaker 3 (43:41):
You excited about it?

Speaker 16 (43:43):
Terrified? I've never been and I've never heard. Did you
ruin and see it? I'm tearrified? What if I don't
wake up?

Speaker 3 (43:53):
What if you're what if you're a way through that?
What if you're conscious through the whole thing? Oh? Bless you? Hey,
woll are you terrified? But you're going to do you
will do it that way?

Speaker 7 (44:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (44:03):
Well I'm going You're good.

Speaker 16 (44:06):
Yeah, you know how I get on.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
You're not doing it overseas?

Speaker 16 (44:11):
Yeah, I'm doing it in Turkey in this strain bull Wow.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Twenty grand.

Speaker 16 (44:15):
Yeah, No, the actual surgery is only four grand. But
you have to get there and at the moment it's
tricky with what's going on over.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
And tell me this might sound like a dark question.
I don't know why I'm asking you, but have you
got to lose weight before you have the operation or
that'll take you as you are?

Speaker 14 (44:33):
No, you don't have to.

Speaker 16 (44:34):
Assessment has already been done, mainly via WhatsApp. And you're
picked up at an international airport. You're chaperoned to the hospital.
The seventeen million people in the city where we're going
to stay it is Stanbull. It's huge. We stay in

(44:55):
the hospital for nothing for you know, paid the four
grand for the operation. But my partner will stay for
nothing for five nights and then we come home. It's
easy and terrifying.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
And tell me tell me about the you know that
with the wigov and the's empic that's not for you?

Speaker 18 (45:13):
Is that right?

Speaker 8 (45:15):
Not yet?

Speaker 16 (45:16):
Okay, because it costs too much money. I really enjoy
trevling and you do you? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:24):
So, because I remember we talked about this probably about
seven years ago. This was even before were Govi and
his empic and I spoke on this showed a lot
of people and they are all going to Tijuana. But
obviously it's changed now in Turkey's the new place to go?

Speaker 4 (45:41):
Is that right?

Speaker 16 (45:42):
No, Tijuana is still an option, it's a more expensive option.
And there are many people who do this, take tourism,
make turn this into a living, which is a risky
business that one that take guts to do it, and
I admire those people that do that.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
So you go through, you go through a local agent,
do you.

Speaker 16 (46:02):
No, I'm doing it on my own.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
You I know is when do you go?

Speaker 16 (46:09):
My twoji is on the eleventh of June.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
It's only three months away.

Speaker 17 (46:15):
I know.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Do you do your sightseeing before your operation or after?

Speaker 9 (46:19):
Well?

Speaker 16 (46:20):
Here and a little bit on the way home.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
And it's a balloon. They put a balloon in the
hour or is it still a bend or do they
put something else in there.

Speaker 17 (46:28):
I've got no clue.

Speaker 16 (46:29):
I haven't even researched that because then I get scared.
All I know is I'm getting on a plane. It's
going to be an Immerates plane and I'm going to
do by a.

Speaker 14 (46:37):
Matt's all I know, right, now.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
And will your partner? Will your partner be having to
persuade you to go along that day or you'll guess
you see, you'll do it.

Speaker 16 (46:44):
You've paid yeah, oh hell yeah, I've paid a deposit
for the operation. I'll be here all right, even though
I can change the date. Definitely be there.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Let me let me know how I'm excited about. I'm
really excited about you, about you for that, so that's you.
Let me know how that goes for you.

Speaker 16 (47:01):
So well, all right, Ben? And the last time you
were excited about it was my fen where I was
making Coca cola on a flooded scene.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
I'm not going that turned out beautiful, brilliant, nice to talk, Lisa, inspiring.

Speaker 15 (47:15):
Good on you.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
The Old Gastric Band. Funny ill name the Old Gaestric Band,
isn't it? Text if you want to nine two nine two, Oh, Marcus,
I'm not a fan of gelato up the ends of
the Kujibay Hotel. What was that? I don't know what
that was, Marcus. Why you were saying Israel bombarding a

(47:36):
round and klinghoods ven and children, including children, Trump boasting
we are bombing the hell of them and we'll be
doing it for at least a month seems more a
power grab innocences. It just colleterled Oh. I think it's
all sorts of things. If you want to become a
world leader, then you'll prophs you're worried about immortality and
how you'll be, how you be? Who knows?

Speaker 18 (47:53):
Who?

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Flipper knows there should be a brand muffin flavored ice cream.
I don't know what i'd think of if I want
to invent an ice cream flavor. Probably be figging something
I would think, or passion fruit's good, but I think
is the way to go, isn't it? It's cleaner Marcus.
I've read that Eddie Jones was pivotal in South Africa
World Cup one. I think Eddie Jones got lucky. And

(48:15):
I think he's a self mythologized or I think he
just talks himself up. That's what I think happens with him.
And the thing I've met people in life that talk
themselves up, and the thing about people that took themselves up,
a lot of people believe them. A lot of people
aren't into evidence based assessment of people. They just think, oh, yeah,
he seems like he can do it. He says he
can you meet them time and time again, those people

(48:36):
and all walks of life. The self talker upper is,
it's not a meritocracy. Any who get in touch Marcus.
Till twelve I went to a shop called Little Lato
and said they very good, recommended highly. What was it?
And why if you called little Lato you gotta get
me more information? I don't want to have to google

(48:57):
everything up twenty seven past nine, Hi, Brian, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 8 (49:04):
Hey Marcus. I'm just listening to that talking about what
last and sprung back a memory of mine. I've got
a good, good friend who is in his early eighties,
and he had a an issue a number of years
ago with it and what they call instant pneumonia, which
was quite a weird thing, but it sort of get
pneumonia really quickly, and he he struggled over a couple

(49:27):
of three days and was almost said like near or
failure and all that sort of thing. And anyway, he's
battled along for a couple of years and then and
he got sick and tired of trying to figure out
how to lose weight because everyone was telling him how
to lose weight. So he went he booked in a
your role just call him a heart specialist, and booked
went into to that guy and he told him to

(49:51):
you put him onto a thing where you put a
like a a little thing on your on your arm
like they do with nicotine, you know, stop smoking. Yep,
and and and then and only this only last year
and it's and it comes through on your phone, so

(50:11):
you can actually connect it to your phone, and so
you can see every time you eat anything, even a banana,
shirts up and down whatever, and it shows you all
the things that are giving you the spike to the
to the bad food for yourself. And he has lost
fifteen kgs at eighty one without doing anything. He doesn't
drink anymore because any alcohol will be or anything. He

(50:34):
doesn't drink because he's he pretty well had like you know,
near death experience, so he stopped drinking. Not that he's
a big drinker anyway, but just he thought it was
like a beers. But anyway, so he got this thing
about a year ago and he's lost all that weight.
And all he's done is follow the monitor from that
little nicotine thing on his arm, and it comes up

(50:57):
on his phone and every time he sees.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
A spike there.

Speaker 8 (51:00):
Well that's not good, so he stops eating it, and
he's he's changed this whole diet just by watching that
and looking at it and thinking about it. And he's
he's a different he looks like a different person. He's
a completely different person.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
Wow, quite simple, simple as that. Literally, is it your bloodshed?
What's it? What's it measuring?

Speaker 8 (51:21):
You don't your blood sugar? Blood sugar. That's that's that's
like a diet. Because he was bordering on diabetics. After this,
he got a thing called instant. They call it an.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Instant like instant coffee, instant pneumonia, pneumonia.

Speaker 8 (51:35):
It happens in about four hours. Wow, you can go
to bed at night, happy with Larry and wake up,
wake up at four o'clock and wrning, feeling like like
a bloody you know, like like crap, and then and
then pneumonia just somehow or other quite quite now it works.
But that's what he had. And he was a relatively
healthy infant, certainly mentally very alert. But anyway, so that's

(51:59):
he's like, he's like a skinny version of himself. It's
unbelievable to see him, and he's he's lost and he reckons,
you'll lose another four or five kgeez maximum and he'll.

Speaker 15 (52:10):
Be good to go, good to go.

Speaker 9 (52:13):
And all all.

Speaker 8 (52:14):
He has done is follow that, that regime of that
little patch on his arm, going into his phone and
telling him when it spikes, when it doesn't spike. And
it's been as simple as that.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
And he's completely changed everything he's eating right.

Speaker 8 (52:31):
Well, he has. He's gone from Look, I always eat
unsweet and yogurt. I've been unsweet yogat eating for years.
And he said to me, God, is you know I
love unsweating yogat?

Speaker 19 (52:41):
Now he said, I couldn't.

Speaker 8 (52:42):
I can't you know, because he used to sweetened sweetened
yogurt and ice cream and normal just normal food and
people eat not every day at all the time. But
he was, he's completely changed. As whold his taste buds
have changed.

Speaker 16 (52:56):
You.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
I think that happens too. I think when you're studying healthy,
I think probably that's what you crave. Also now I
thing it has to do with the brain and receptors also.
But nice to talk to you, Thank you for that.
Oh eight hundred and eighty to leave, This is Marcus.
Good evening, Hi, Michaels are yeah, goodly, goodly, goodly.

Speaker 20 (53:13):
Now I'm just bringing up I'm regarding that lady who
just ring out the beriatric surgery. I've just had it
done four weeks post off and I've lost twenty kgs.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
I went to Tea one.

Speaker 20 (53:27):
I got it done all by myself, with the hell
of an adventure to get it done in New Zealand.
It's the only fund between eight and five a year
to get it done. Otherwise you've got to pay for yourself,
which is I was quoted between twenty and thirty two thousand,

(53:47):
which I just don't have that. I've bettled all my
LuFe weight and this is the best I've felt for
many many years. Will go v in those four hundred
a month, which is really unreachable for some people, and
I just think that was the best thing that I

(54:08):
could have done. My doctor was very supportive of it,
and he just said it just makes it so much
more affordable. He said, we've got so many OBEs people
in New Zealand. It this way, he said, it just
makes it so much affordable and helps people out.

Speaker 16 (54:26):
So I really advocate it.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
A ton of questions leave from me to you, did
your doctor help you with finding the people to do it,
or to just get a tap tap tap on the computer.

Speaker 20 (54:36):
No, I was going to go to Turkey and get
it done, but the hospital has closed down since due
to financial problems. And when I went to him, I
was going to try it through Keev Saber and I
got declined and he said yeah, he said he had
a family member that had gone to Mexico. So I
locked up Mexico and I got the Mexico Buriatric Center.

(54:59):
And I'm in Palmerston North and one of the coordinators
is here in Palmerston North as well, So I just
went a here. She guided me all the way. It
was easy, easy, paid a deposit and booked when I
wanted it done and it was great. Five days later
home fantastic.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
So she gets a commission in Palmston North. Is that
that two businesses? Is that what she does?

Speaker 20 (55:24):
Well, I guess she does. She they have people come
over and they do seminars, they get like trying to
bring people on board. But I didn't know at the
time this is what they did.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
But so you flew help, you flew to Los Angeles
and then you flew to Mexico.

Speaker 18 (55:41):
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (55:41):
Is that what you did.

Speaker 20 (55:42):
I flew to San Francisco, yep. And then I flew
to San Diego and I was picked up there.

Speaker 16 (55:49):
They picked you up and.

Speaker 20 (55:51):
Was taken through the border of Mexico to the hospital.
It was a brand new hospital, two years old, state
of the ark, fantastic service, probably a lot better than
New Zealand. It would be just lovely, just just lovely, lovely.
They send you home with your medications. There are a

(56:11):
few extras that you may have to pay if they
have to do extra for you, but you send home
with antibiotics, pain release, all kinds of things.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
How long How long was the operation?

Speaker 20 (56:22):
So it was only a thirty minute operation?

Speaker 9 (56:26):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (56:26):
And did you know did you say you lost twelve
How many kilos have you lost?

Speaker 20 (56:30):
I've lost twenty kg's in four weeks. I've I've just
hit or in two days time, it'll be four weeks
since I had it done.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
And how much do you expect to lose?

Speaker 20 (56:41):
Well, I would like I mean, I'm only short. I'm
only five spot and I was one hundred and five
kg when I on my operation, so I'm now down
to eighty facts I would possibly like for my height,
I should be around seventy seventy five. So that is
my aim. It's hard work. I'm not saying it's easy.

(57:04):
It's hard work to keep to your food. You could
only need small, small amount. But like that lady said,
your protein is so important because it then you're healing
as well, and you must have your proteins. Proteins come food,
and ye, you are on vitamins, but it's not for ever.

(57:24):
The vitamins are not for ever. It's just until your
body gets beckon to think of what's been done.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
How old? How old? How old are you?

Speaker 2 (57:34):
I'm sixty.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
You've got a young sounding voice. I was going to yeah, okay, hey,
that's yeah.

Speaker 18 (57:43):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
Had you traveled a lot before, A lot of people
be freaked out by that, wouldn't they go to Tijuana?

Speaker 16 (57:48):
Well, yes, I have.

Speaker 20 (57:49):
I traveled quite a bit before, but never on my own.
And it was actually I think it's the time. I
was more excited about the soul triple than getting your
operation done, because it was a bit of an adventure.

Speaker 3 (58:03):
Yeah, well, you need surgery for excess skin.

Speaker 20 (58:07):
I think I will, but I probably would wait two
years down the line and I'd go back to Mexico.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
Okay, But I wondered if they did that, they'll do
they'll be the one stop shop. They'll do that as well.

Speaker 20 (58:17):
Yeah, yeah, far cheaper, unbelievably cheaper. And it's so said,
with what it costs to New Zealand, it really is.

Speaker 3 (58:26):
It sounds to me like you would have done that
twenty years ago if you could off. Is that right?

Speaker 20 (58:30):
I started researching back in two thousand and six and
I've been researching and humming and harring ever since.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
And then you'll be kicking, kicking yourself you didn't do
it earlier.

Speaker 5 (58:41):
Oh no, I know.

Speaker 20 (58:42):
All my pain of the leagues and ankles have gone,
my diabetes has gone, my blood pressure is down. This
thing out, but I would recommend if anyone's listening, go
for it. So everyone goes overseas.

Speaker 16 (58:54):
Oh no, but hey, it's it's not.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
It's interesting the mathematics that even I presume the price
of we giv you we'll go VI in a zempic
will come right down as this parallel right, but it
doesn't stick it so that what did you say, how
much cost Turkey for.

Speaker 20 (59:11):
It cost me six thousand.

Speaker 16 (59:13):
A network is included in it, and.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
That's two years we're GOVI isn't it.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Just about year months?

Speaker 3 (59:20):
Yeah? Yeah, did you spend a lot of did you
spend a lot of time eating?

Speaker 20 (59:28):
I love food?

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Have you replace it? Have you replaced it with anything?

Speaker 15 (59:34):
Or well?

Speaker 20 (59:35):
I was a real sweet toast, unbelievable, real sweet tooth,
and for some reason it's just gone and I just
want savory. Got no ambition to have any more at
the moment, sweet or anythink.

Speaker 8 (59:50):
What what do.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
You do with your old clothes?

Speaker 20 (59:54):
Well, I've got friends at work who are after them.
I've got a sister who's bread some of them, and
they haven't least me with very much. But I'm not
going to buy any more.

Speaker 16 (01:00:04):
Clothes just seat, I'm just going to wait wow.

Speaker 4 (01:00:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:00:08):
So yeah, I'd just like to get it out there
because it's just the best thing I've done. Really is unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
And if people ask, you're quite there's no shame without her.
You're quite straightforward about it.

Speaker 16 (01:00:19):
You know, Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 20 (01:00:21):
I mean a lot of my friends and colleagues and
all that they knew. It's you know, easy, It's like
an addiction, and it was an addiction.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
But you tried, You've done all that, You've done obsessive
dieting and all that stuff, and you tried.

Speaker 20 (01:00:32):
I've done every diet you can think of and spent
so much money, and it's just I have just battled
and battled and battled, and I just have got green
because I just want to be healthy and I feel it.
I just feel it, and I've got an active job
and I just enjoying it more.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
Yeah, love you to talk learer. I appreciate you coming
through thinking about every dart too. There was always I
don't know what I'm thinking of. I'm not someone that diet,
but big in the eighties used to be the Israeli
Army diart. Do you remember that that was all rage?

Speaker 18 (01:01:06):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
There is right funny that I don't even know why
it would be. I suppose with any of the Israeli
Army they're probably pretty full on. But I think it
was just grape for it did of anything else. It
was always a grape for it, wasn't it. Of course,
weight Watch has gone gone because it were go. If
we put them out of business, they're gone. I think
they're switching to I forget what they're switching to. They're
switching I won't Yeah, oh here on midnight if you

(01:01:33):
want to talk about it weight loss and bariatric surgery.
Beriatric bary at tric. Baryetric don't mean to do with
the stomach, is it? I don't fully know what that means.
Beryatric anyway? Vaccine text about Dave Rennie Marcus. The All

(01:01:55):
Blacks play thirteen tests this year. What a burden for
a new coach who has not been here for nearly
ten years and as has already been sacked as an
international coach for whatever reason. My guess is Dave Rennie
will not keep sevy one percent record of the coaches
before him, and his contractors know exactly long term. I

(01:02:15):
am not confident, are you. My daughter lives in Dubai.
She's been there three and a half years, loves it
and works for Emirates. She has no fear. Wow, the
woman without fear. She's home soon for a holiday, hoping
it all comes back to normal. It will have faith.
Oh yeah, I mean yeah, I've got no real worries

(01:02:38):
or concerns about the people of Dubai. That's what happens.
You're in a town built on oil. You're in the
Middle East. I think probably changed forever. But yeah, anyway,
but yeah, who knows, because there's a lot going on
there at the moment. This is not a story that's finished.
It very much a story in progress. It'd be my

(01:02:59):
take on it. Seventeen away from ten if you want
to talk. We are talking about weight loss, drugs and surgery.
He used to be tear one, but I don't know
why Turkey suddenly has become the go to place. But
it's a place for hair transplants or whatever, punch hair
stuff and teeth, dentistry or a lot of people going

(01:03:19):
for Vietnam for dentistry because people post about it online,
because they become ambassadors and they take other people. Now,
the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Karney, he's the former banker.
He says the Israel and US strikes on Iran appear
inconsistent with international law, so there you go. And Israel
said it's launched a broad wave of strikes against the

(01:03:42):
government targets in Tehran, including the presidential office, and Israel's
bombardment of Lebanon continues, and Iran continues to launch retaliatory strikes.
And the funeral is now about to take place for
the Supreme leader and his son has emerged as the
front runner to replace his father. So it's now theocracy

(01:04:05):
and now it's a well, it's along family lines, by
the things. Anyway, the US Navy could begin escorting oil
tankers through the Strait of hor Moves if necessary, which
is Trumpo said that in one of the administration's most
aggressive steps yet to attempt to contain soaring energy prices

(01:04:26):
sparked by the war fifteen to nine, fifteen to ten.
Rather it is twelve to ten, Asrael says, it shot
down the piloted Iranian aircraft. That's the latest. Through pamit's Marcus.
Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 17 (01:04:41):
Hello Marcus. Nice to speak to you. I just wanted
to pick up on the conversations about the changing face
of operations and surgery. That's hittening in Turkey. I was
lucky enough to live in Turkey many many years ago,
but still having connections there, probably go back every couple

(01:05:04):
of years. In the last two or three visits, I
would have to say, huge, huge increase in medical tourism
over there. Some cities over there are more renowned for
it than others, but clearly Estandbule it's very noticeable. I've

(01:05:28):
just come back before Christmas, my last visit and a
lot of the weight loss surgeries are accompanied also by
you know the Turkey teeth, the cosmetic surgeries, everything like that.
So it is a huge industry over there.

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
What happens What happens for a country that goes that way,
is it just when the education system comes right and
they have a really educated population without the I mean,
what happens for places to make that transition.

Speaker 17 (01:06:01):
Well, it is interesting because a lot of the young people,
especially females, it is the Western influence of what they
deem to be beautiful, especially in regards to noses and
lips and things like that. But it's definitely changed in

(01:06:22):
the last few years. I would have to say the
last visit at the end of twenty twenty five, a
very common sight on previous visits was large groups of
Israeli men wearing T shirts tel Aviv medical tourism tours y.

(01:06:44):
So they are exactly the groups that were talked about
that they like a Kontiki trip for surgery, and the
vast majority of them were actually here trans clients, so
you would see a lot of bandaged men. Clearly for
obvious reasons. The number of Israelism Turkey is currently a

(01:07:07):
bit lower but magnificent public health and medical systems and
facilities in Turkey. So you know you hear the odd
bad story. That's what makes the deadlines. There would be
two sides to it as to why some surgeries and

(01:07:28):
things fail. It could be that people don't wait to
designated time to leave the country or they don't follow
the rules. So just a really interesting change in society
over there.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
Nice to talk, pen, thanks so much. Seven away from
ten just to quick text Marcus. Interesting Marcus did the
left turned slingshot of the big roundabout by the more
on pointed ear this morning work the absolute treete Saby
five minutes. We'll be doing it again thanks to the
recommendation hold your horses the Niger with your soon seven
way from ten. Seven from ten, Nigel, it's Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:08:06):
Yeah, Micas are just coming through Manga Wicca, hitting north by.
You know there is just set a toy happiness. Hey listen, Nah,
you couldn't moon out there and I might just think
of it the one last night now storing fuel. You've
got the ordeal place, man. If you've got your hundred
acres down there and bluff you could get one of

(01:08:27):
those farmer's kill, taps on the stain, get real delivery
in to fill it up, because it's for your fire equipment,
you know, your way Dai and a little myron there
and uh you could claim claim and went back, you
know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
Yeah, okay, I don't think I'm going to do that,
but thank you DoD you'll. I appreciate it. I get that.
I'm there, you go, I.

Speaker 9 (01:08:48):
Got, Dave Rennie. I'm sitting on the fence of very
quarter this because you remember when Razor Razor got appointed,
everyone was ringing up mea, he's the best thing. See
floys fridge he had turned and passed all black ringing up.
You know, I had how good he was, and look
what happened there. We're all doing this this Dave b
Rennie there, he's gone back over there too are Japan

(01:09:10):
to take on in this competition. He's going to come
back in June, but he reckon. He's going to come
back three times for a week at a time to
organize the team for the July the fourth Test against France.
Now you know who's time for all this?

Speaker 3 (01:09:28):
You know, are we playing France and New Zealand or
in France?

Speaker 9 (01:09:35):
I didn't Christie. Our first artist is the fourth.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
But the French send down the duds, don't they Well
you don't.

Speaker 9 (01:09:44):
Know, do you, because don't want to get the best
teams down here and into it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
I don't reckon they do. They always fox and just
sitting down the Btam who played very well. But yeah,
I reckon, we'll see France off. I wanted to be
exciting anyway, what you heard they were.

Speaker 9 (01:10:01):
Heard today was it? And they're not. I've been all
listening since I started working at eleven o'clock this morning.
Now the son that he may only be in this
for a couple of years and then Jamie Joseph and
older mister Brown will take over.

Speaker 3 (01:10:15):
You know, I thought the players don't like Jamie Joseph
because he trains them too hard.

Speaker 9 (01:10:20):
Well, that's what happened with Raider, wasn't it.

Speaker 14 (01:10:23):
You know hard?

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
I'm waiting for the book.

Speaker 9 (01:10:27):
Yeah, well that's right. You know it'll be funny with
raising and now training the barbarians and their plan in
South Africa. Wouldn't be funny if they knocked out everga Over.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
I didn't know he was training the barbarians. Is it
what he's doing?

Speaker 9 (01:10:39):
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's what he's doing. He's allowed to
do that. But I want I'm worried about. I don't
want one of these overseas teams there to sign Old Joseph.
But old Gami Joseph. You know, something like England or
Wales or some one of those will come and come
and pay big money for him to go and go
and coach steep your watch.

Speaker 3 (01:11:01):
It's next year the World Cape. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
wonder how many KEYWI coaches will be there at the end.

Speaker 9 (01:11:09):
Well, you know it's hard to say.

Speaker 15 (01:11:11):
Isn't that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
You know, it's really hard to say.

Speaker 9 (01:11:15):
On the farm show here at midday, let's still going here?

Speaker 3 (01:11:20):
No, no, we are, Yeah I didn't.

Speaker 9 (01:11:22):
Actually yeah, well what heavened was was quite made of
the old guy it runs that showe Yeah, yeah, this
guy was on the plane, uh a week ago when
when when day Ready and that guy Sturbridge we're on
the plane together because he's over there with day Ready.

(01:11:45):
He may be his assistant coach. Yeah when they when
he would do seat interviewed David Kirk today and he
turned around and let it slip. But two weeks ago,
Jamie Joseph and Dave Rennie's agent had already negotiated of
what the what the fee was going to be, like

(01:12:05):
the salary. They both sat down and the ghost two
weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (01:12:11):
I suppose there's no drama negotiating before you get the job.
You've probably got to do that when there's time constraints.

Speaker 9 (01:12:17):
Well, you measured consish like Galga for five dollars a week,
did I? What's the board gonna say there?

Speaker 18 (01:12:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
Oh, you've had a good day on the radio, haven't Yeah? Nine,
you've been well informed. Eight past ten we're talking Dave
Rennie and weight loss. I wented well with the shots
of the eclipse. I saw no one posting shots of salami,
which I thought was good. Gosh, it was the adventure
races that were swept off those rocks and the catlands

(01:12:49):
Pappa T way, Wow, that's a worry. Only just come
across it looking at the ODT. The oddity. I get
in touch on Talk on you. My name as Marcus.
Welcome here to midnight.

Speaker 15 (01:13:02):
LYO.

Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 13 (01:13:03):
Oh hi Marcus. Yeah, I just had half an ear
on the radio before and you were talking about stomach
reduction surgery. I've known three people to have it. One
a friend, one a work colleague, and one of the
quaint oh and one of relative actually uh And in

(01:13:27):
all three cases that it wasn't successful. What happened was
they had I think one had a staple. It was
that was the friend. The other two had the bands.
They then initially lost lots of lots of weight and

(01:13:50):
you know, looked really good, but then they put it
on again and so they ended up the same size
they were before, but now if they added health complications
of that reduced stomach size. And I remember him seeing
an interview for the hearing, an interview with somebody a

(01:14:10):
British surgeon or something, and he said, before you can
get your body right, you have to get your mind right.
So you have to have So he recommended that people
who were candidates so that surgery should have a course
of one psychological evaluation and then psychological doing psychological trips,

(01:14:32):
trips to avoid being fixated with food so much. Now,
the person who had the stomach staple, she got health
complications from that, because you know, if you if you
have a staple and then you know you're then it's
produced and then you're it's still sort of cramming food

(01:14:52):
into it. That that that put pressure on his study,
and she had terrible health complications and she's she's well
she died you know, years later, not not solely because
of that, but that was a contributing factor. So I mean,
I mean, I've heard I heard a surgeon talking up

(01:15:14):
the surgery a few years ago on as Zby in
christ Church.

Speaker 7 (01:15:19):
But you know, it's.

Speaker 13 (01:15:25):
This is and this is actually the mind to the people,
right like a Shamira, it's a it's a it's just
a sort of a holy grail that they'll be striving for.
But you know, they've got to they've got to get
their minds right first. Sure, that's basically all I've got
to say.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
Do you have moral problems with it?

Speaker 13 (01:15:48):
No, No, I will not really if it works. But
I mean, I mean, you know, it's not a high
statistical sample. I can see.

Speaker 3 (01:15:56):
I think a quick look, I think it seems to
work in about two thirds of cases. I think long term.

Speaker 13 (01:16:02):
Okay, well that's fair enough, but but I just I
would recommend it if anybody does it. Based on the
experiences of people, I know that it would be probably
good to have the psychological evaluation and then get a
psychological course of Well, it's an addiction, isn't it like
any other addiction.

Speaker 3 (01:16:23):
I think it's probably. I think it's probably about My
comment was going to say, to habit too, but the
habits can be too.

Speaker 7 (01:16:30):
Yes.

Speaker 13 (01:16:30):
In one case, I think it seems from the person
I knew of these sort of acute depression and you know,
not really having any much else to do, so the
person grabbed onto food sort of an early age and
keep going. But yeah, so I mean, yeah, I can't
see anything too morally wrong, but for it to work,

(01:16:53):
I think you do need to get your mind right first.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
Yeah, that's what The interesting thing about any of the
testimonials I've read about people with GOVI or as IMPIC,
it does seem to completely turn off all those reward
systems and the brains. So they just, you know, they're
just changing the way they're shop. They're just hanging out
in the fruit vegia department because nothing else appeals to them.
Sow those other foods with the reward system seemed to
just don't do it anymore. They just stop eating them.

(01:17:18):
Some of them stopped smoking, some of them stopped drinking
as well. Just it's a bit like, do you remember
that drug ziban vaguely was designed for shell shock. They
tried to treat people with shell shock or PTSD I
think from Vietnam War. So they put them all in

(01:17:40):
those sort of double blind studies and rooms to work
out what was happening with them, and they all were
depressed at the end of it. But just by chance,
it all stopped smoking. And it was just something that
wasn't even it wasn't even something, but just less of
a desire, and that became one of the great stop

(01:18:01):
smoking aids. It was all kind of it was just
a complete coincidence that it.

Speaker 13 (01:18:08):
I knew somebody actually on my street where I lived,
who I still do that, and he undertook it. I
don't know if it was that drug or something else,
but it induced well his family alleged to induced the
psychotic illness in them. But I don't really know. But wow,

(01:18:30):
that might be just tears.

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
I don't think. I don't think it's on the market anymore.

Speaker 13 (01:18:34):
Okay, Okay, that might be.

Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
That might be. That might be why. I mean, yeah,
well I reckon probably stopping smoking would probably cause psychosis,
and some people wouldn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:18:45):
I don't know, but anyway, that's my two cents.

Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
Marcus, nice to talk, Lle thank you, fourteen past ten
and Dave Rinnie And a pound cake. I'd like to
call it a pound cake. I never knew what a
pound cake was, but apparently it's a pound of everything.
Oh it was sort of pound cake, which you made
it by pounding it, but actually it's a pound about
a pound of flour, pound of sugar, pounds of eggs, poundcake.

(01:19:08):
And you check other stuff and I suppose cherries or something,
there's a pound cake. And also the archburger Big Max
McDonald's two Patts's only got the two buns, two patties
and it's a thousand calories. And I think because there
seems to the world seems to be obsessed with protein,
doesn't it. I know it's not necessarily know that that's

(01:19:28):
a good thing. But the cheese and it looks and
knee macke it's white cheddar. I don't know what you
want to say about that, but yeah, I don't like.
I like McDonald's to stick to what they do. Nothing
new seems to last. Like they were doing those lamb
burgers for a while, worn't they were no good mind?

Speaker 9 (01:19:45):
You.

Speaker 3 (01:19:45):
The nuggets have been a success, haven't they Fancy? Old
McDonald's been in KFC to the nuggets. What was going
on at KFC when actually they allowed McDonald's to beat
them at Chicken in inverted commas, I'm sure there is
some chicken in it. He's fascinated by that, fascinated by
fast food. I don't know why. Ross says there is

(01:20:08):
a huge amount of counseling for barry bariatric surgery done
in New Zealand. I can't say what happens overseas. That's
Ross from Hamilton and don't you love spell check? He
says there's a huge amount of counseling for Barista's surgery.
Her revenge will be sweet. Go Razor Marcus, I've just

(01:20:30):
turned the radio on. Have I missed something? I have
a fifteen thousand dentist estimate? Quote? What should I do?
Where should I go? You go to Vietnam. I've been
watching someone I know a little bit, and he's been
over there getting his teeth done. Jeep as creepers. It's
our mouths changed, Marcus. With Dave Rennie's new coach and
keeping it most positive, the Orbecks will dismandlin shadow the

(01:20:52):
box on the right day, at the right time, when
it counts the most. I'll be surprised because I reckon
that that South African coach is a master sledger. He's
under everyone's skin. Resie tremendous. Yeah, oh yeah, he's a
sixteenth player, no doubt about that. Love him just gets

(01:21:12):
under people's skin. And of course they've got the assistant
Kiwi coache. You do the kitung at a kid. If
you want to be a part of the show, welcome.
I'll keep you updated from around the world too with
what's going on in the Middle East. But if you
want to talk now that's the plan. It is weight
last day. How's your go over going? And you're a
zempic too, I hope it's going well for you. You've

(01:21:33):
got one of those miracle stories. Yep. One of that
guy that's coming the eye Tolder's son wants to take
the job. If everyone says they're going to assess it,
I guess that's the plan. Freak him out. But now
we're how many troops how many US trip five thousand
troops gone on the least? Was that what it was for?
So yeah, they're I mean all the signs they're getting
involved for a war like a land war. They're loading

(01:21:57):
up the troops. But yes, and the Iranian foreign minister
Abbas Araukchi, who headed the Iranian delegation during the new
could talk with you of officials before the recent bout,
said Trump has betrayed diplomacy by launching attacks in the

(01:22:19):
middle of negotiations. Eighteen past ten, A text or asks Marcus,
has if any talk about Lulu TOC's tea or burieding patches,
both available online. I've never heard of those, so no
lost twenty kgs using the Goovi. Have just stopped it
now to see if I maintained the weight. We'll see
what happens. Was free, easy to use, few side effects,

(01:22:43):
but adding less than no cravings. Definitely worked four to
fifty nine a month, so I got seven or eight rounds.
It costs three thy three hundred worth it. High blood pressure,
gone clearer skin. Everyone noticing my weight loss. Another text
or says, there's a YouTube channel with an abst woman
who films herself going through drive throughs, and when she's ordering,
she gets anxious, her eyes dilate and anticipation of the food.

(01:23:06):
A vampire seeing fresh blood and she womps it down.
Sounds like OnlyFans, Marcus. The Yanks have always been trigger
happy and have never won a war. What did they win?
They win World War Two? Were they the great Liberators?

Speaker 2 (01:23:23):
Hello, Laurie, Hi, Marcus, Hey, interesting story about turkey and
fried chicken. I had an extended family member just in
the last store, probably about three weeks ago. The young
guy a late twenties went up and had the stomach
operation and he hated turkey, and I don't think that

(01:23:50):
allowed for him. It was actually really cold when they
didn't take the right clothes. They get everything. Wow, but
guess what his first this first meal.

Speaker 3 (01:23:59):
Was fried chicken?

Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
Yeah, Popeye, Popeye chicken.

Speaker 3 (01:24:04):
We you did wreck that because you did say I've
got to sorry about turkey and fried chicken. So that
wasn't really a fair guests, like a guess.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
I didn't expect pop would be up there.

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
So he had a surgery and that was what he
what he ate?

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
That was fo when he got when he had his
first meal. Yeah, yep, he hated everything else about to
the accommodation, the food, other food and everything like that.
But yeah, and they were lucky they just got they
got out. They came by by a rain, so they stopped.
I think he stop over for nine hours or so
on the way back. And yeah, was he Laurie.

Speaker 3 (01:24:40):
Was he a big unit?

Speaker 18 (01:24:41):
He was a big unit.

Speaker 15 (01:24:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
Yeah, but well young too. That might have his life
back on track with a bit of luck. But I'm
worried because you think you'd have a barbergeranouche or something.
You wouldn't go straight for Popeyes?

Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
Yeah, no, no, it was it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:57):
If I go for any chicken, I would have gone Nandos.
You got Nandos and were you tried it?

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
Yeah? They used to be here, good chicken.

Speaker 3 (01:25:05):
It's nice.

Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
You touched on the old smoking shock of giving up smoking.
I did about I was about probably about thirty five
years ago. Now. I gave up a night. I got shingles,
which was straight.

Speaker 4 (01:25:17):
Away mingles really and.

Speaker 2 (01:25:21):
It was really quite nasty. I had to get big
on the smokes a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:25:25):
I think people, I mean, I've given up. I've given
up most things. But I don't bang on about it.
But it's not my job. But you give up, you
give up the smoking, and it does, it does. It
is a mood. It is a mood to press and
boy oh boy, yeah yeah, it's you can see why
people come and stuck.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25:46):
If I was walking around the street and some said,
oh Marcus, here, would you like a closed cigarette, I'd
be yep, I'd say, boy would I what I'd be
in like in like Flynn, I'd do anything to smoke
a clothes cigarette again, I just love them or.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
Roll a drum, roll a drum or. Yeah, but he
and real happy with Dave Rinnie. I reckon it'll be good.

Speaker 18 (01:26:08):
Yeah, good to.

Speaker 3 (01:26:09):
Get it, good to get a cook islander coaching.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
Apparently there's some talk he might be able to bring
all broody return back with him.

Speaker 3 (01:26:17):
Are we see that in Japan?

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
Yeah? We need the big we need those big units.

Speaker 3 (01:26:26):
Everyone's a water call a quarterback. I don't know. I
mean we would want to be the all black coach
and everyone telling you what to do.

Speaker 14 (01:26:33):
Yeah, well he hit.

Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
I mean he got such a nasty deal over in Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:26:37):
Really, he's a wound that Eddie Jones's word, what an
odious character he is.

Speaker 2 (01:26:44):
There was all the the other guys that were what
they call white ending in that old who was the
radio X Radio announcer and Sydney that used to be coach.

Speaker 3 (01:26:56):
Oh yeah, adious character. He's Jones, Ellen.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
Jones, Ellen Jones. So he came to a sticky into,
isn't he.

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
But he's not in jail year, is he? But it's
not looking good for him.

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
No reputation.

Speaker 18 (01:27:11):
He might be.

Speaker 3 (01:27:11):
Replacing Kyl Sanderlands, but that's for sure. Do you know
about Carl Sanderlands?

Speaker 2 (01:27:17):
No, I just know the name.

Speaker 3 (01:27:18):
He's a million a year and there was his co
host as well here and he insisted I think she
get the same amount, but he ripped into here on
air and she left and now he's gone and they're
trying to spread out around Australia but it didn't work.
But it's a flash. Yeah that's the radio story anyway.
Larry Well, I hope your mate goes well with his

(01:27:40):
chicken but hated it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:42):
Yeah, yeah, well, I think only I think, very reluctantly,
only went. I think they went to the Greend Bazaar
one day. I don't know that they.

Speaker 18 (01:27:51):
Would have.

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
But he wasn't impressed with turkey or the rest of
the place that.

Speaker 3 (01:27:56):
He sounds close minded though, there can I say that?

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, not not not not, he's not sophisticated.
He didn't didn't want to go to something.

Speaker 3 (01:28:06):
No, And I think some I think some people they
shouldn't travel because travel, just travel just reconfirms their biases.
But anyway, he's got his bariatric surgery. Rosa, it's Marcus.
Good evening, Hi, Rosa, how are you good?

Speaker 21 (01:28:24):
And I was the first one in New Zealand to
have the guestric bypass.

Speaker 4 (01:28:30):
Wow.

Speaker 21 (01:28:31):
That was fifty two years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:28:33):
Wow.

Speaker 21 (01:28:36):
And it cost me a whole thousand dollars in and
done in the wrong Neui hospital.

Speaker 3 (01:28:42):
We have been the first was he just was he
just some surgeon that happened with been overseas and studied
or what happened?

Speaker 21 (01:28:50):
Well, my GP and a surgeon got together and had
a talk and be interested. No dieting or nothing like
all years and yeah, and to this day though if i'
too much, I'll still bring it up. Well, but I

(01:29:11):
lost sixty kilos.

Speaker 3 (01:29:13):
Goodness, and had it been had it been successfully all
around the world. It was obviously tried and tested surgery overseas.
Is that right?

Speaker 21 (01:29:25):
I'm not sure, but they said that they were the
first one to do it in New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
Wow.

Speaker 21 (01:29:32):
So I'm seventy five now, Oh so.

Speaker 3 (01:29:36):
You were young. And when you lost that sixty kilos,
you've stayed that weight for the last fifty something years.

Speaker 21 (01:29:42):
I put on ten.

Speaker 3 (01:29:43):
That's not bad, isn't it.

Speaker 21 (01:29:45):
No, when I stopped smoking. Yeah, so you know I
wouldn't you know? It was just so good to lose
that weight and not have to diet.

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
And even then when it was first done, you did
have to pay for it. I finance because I thought
in the beginning they would have been doing it for free.
But you didn't have to a.

Speaker 21 (01:30:07):
Year thousand dollars Wow, which was a lot of money then,
but you know as well worth it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:14):
Well, it's unbelievable that's lasted that long and the actual
and the actual surgery does not need I mean, I
don't know what they did. They just sewed off a
part of the stomach. Is that what they do?

Speaker 21 (01:30:24):
Yes, yes, they cut a piece they out and done it.
And my cousin she had the sleeve and she never
lost anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:30:34):
Okay, And they have they followed up with you because
you have because it's so historical and you were the first.
Do they do checks on you to see how it
goes long term.

Speaker 21 (01:30:43):
Yes, yes, I read I go in for another B
twelve injection tomorrow, but that's all I've had to do.

Speaker 3 (01:30:50):
So it's just Vitamin B is the stuff you can't
get because of your stomach's been smaller.

Speaker 21 (01:30:54):
Yes, yes, when my first meal was a teaspoon of jelly.

Speaker 3 (01:31:01):
Wow. So would you eat three meals a day or
do you eat less than that?

Speaker 21 (01:31:06):
I'm more or less just in the morning a piece
of toast, and then I might have a sandwich for lunch,
and then like tonight at a piece of steak, half
a tomato and three chips.

Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
Wow. An amazing story. Rosa, Thank you so much for
coming through. That's history finding it fascinating and all that.
Over see if you' advertise that much for those overseas operations,
do you? But maybe it's more through like it's an
online thing with people been in for weight loss influencers
and stuff like that. By the way, the flight to Auckland,

(01:31:41):
the flight to Auckland. Oh so that's the flights out
of Dubai, okay, I see, so the flight du Bay
to Auckland is scheduled tomorrow and the flight talking on
apart du Buy seven oh five pm tomorrow and you
se in time and land after just af Levlan on Friday,
So they're coming home. I don't know what that means.

(01:32:02):
If they think it's going to be safe or they've stopped.
I don't know what that's about. What's called that decision
to be made? No doubt that would be a story
for tomorrow. Be in touch if you want to be
part of the show. People hit'll twelve eight hundred eighty
ten eighty. From time to time I'll be looking at
the overseas news also to tell you. What's happening in

(01:32:25):
the Middle East makes me think about the term Middle East.
Are we using that right? Or is it a Eurocentric term?
I'm not too sure about that. Dave Rennie's a topic also.
And wow, I'm looking at some of the footage online
of Iran sprawling underground network of tunnels filled with a
row of row of drones and rockets. They've certainly got

(01:32:48):
a lot of ordinance. Is that the word for it.
I think it's ordinance, isn't it, Jeanett? It's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 22 (01:32:56):
Oh sorry about that? Yes, I'm just ringing.

Speaker 3 (01:32:58):
Sorry about what you've done.

Speaker 22 (01:33:00):
Nothing wrong, No, I know it's tummy. Now it was
one hundred and thirty five K. Most of his life.
Cake loved cake, and he decided to have a sleeve done.
Now he was sixty five when he did that. From
one hundred and thirty five K he went down to

(01:33:22):
seventy K, and I, oh, it was dreadful, Marcus. I
thought I'd lost my boy. He was like a skeleton. Anyway,
he's now ninety K and he stayed at that for
four years.

Speaker 3 (01:33:37):
What a success.

Speaker 22 (01:33:39):
That's quite good, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:33:40):
A reckon? And he just like he ate cake the
whole He loved cake, did he?

Speaker 8 (01:33:44):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (01:33:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:33:44):
He used to come up and he'd say, oh, I'd
opened the box and I said, they're only half a
cake here. He said, well, they only had half. Unbeknown
to me, he'd eaten half on the way.

Speaker 3 (01:33:53):
Up, even as a kid.

Speaker 16 (01:33:55):
Yeah, all the.

Speaker 22 (01:33:56):
Time, sweet tooth. Yeah, now that's gone. He's living a
lot in Thailand now and eating their kind of food,
and he's doing out playing golf retired. Yeah, it's brilliant.
It's been brilliant for him. But I think in the
beginning it was emotionally quite stressful.

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
Can I mention I must be psychological because actually half
the person you were.

Speaker 22 (01:34:24):
Yeah. Well, the thing is, my family's always been big.
My granny was one hundred and thirty K, which is
a big.

Speaker 3 (01:34:31):
More lady, especially ipecially in the olden days, because it's
hard to get protein.

Speaker 22 (01:34:36):
Yeah yeah, what Oh she ate well a lot too
well made cakes. There we go, sweet.

Speaker 3 (01:34:44):
Butter and eat and all that stuff on the lend
of plenty yep, I understand.

Speaker 22 (01:34:48):
Yeah, And I at one stage was, now, how can
I put it in kilos? I lived in England at
the time. I am a kiwi. I would have been
one hundred and eighteen K.

Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
And that's about John A. Lomu's weight.

Speaker 2 (01:35:05):
Shocking.

Speaker 22 (01:35:06):
Yeah, I was a mess and I'm now down to
seventy four K and I'm now eighty four.

Speaker 3 (01:35:13):
How'd you do that?

Speaker 6 (01:35:15):
Well?

Speaker 16 (01:35:15):
I just I don't know.

Speaker 22 (01:35:17):
I think he should get old. You don't want to
eat so much, and you think about the precious things
you really want to eat that you can die just
and get on with. I think that's the thing. I
just eat my favorite little bits.

Speaker 3 (01:35:30):
Now do you bake?

Speaker 9 (01:35:31):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:35:32):
No, I'm not a cook, I'm sorry, or a baker.

Speaker 3 (01:35:34):
No, your grandmother was, Yeah, okay.

Speaker 22 (01:35:38):
I refuse to buy cakes. Now I don't have cake,
and now my husband's a diabetics. So if my son
comes up here is to bring his own food if
you wants to eat it.

Speaker 3 (01:35:48):
Has he got a good life retired and Thailand must
have I guess.

Speaker 22 (01:35:52):
Oh, he's only over there for say a few months
a year. He's a big golf friend.

Speaker 3 (01:35:57):
Of course he's.

Speaker 22 (01:35:58):
Got fantastic golf courses over there, and of course he
gets away from our rainy spring weather. It doesn't rain
a lot over there. I know it does, but well,
we're sure I had some rain.

Speaker 3 (01:36:13):
Nice to talk, Jenett, Thanks for coming through twenty four
away from eleven with it till midnight. My name is Marcus.
Welcome who's on after me? TBT and beverage from twelve
Be in touch if you want to talk one air
oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty anything else you
want to mentioned? Good good, good, good good good pound
cake we are talking about also, or keinocake we might

(01:36:35):
call it here. I've never actually very easy to make.
I might just do it, make it just to see
what it's like, because I quite like the simplicity of it.
It's four things the same yes, Now, anything else you've
got that you want to mention and text or call?
It's weight loss for a B city day. It's the

(01:36:58):
major topic for tonight, and I feeling of real interesting.
Oil prices at eighty four dollars up fifteen percent from Friday. Yeah, now, Marcus,
great show tonight. It always amazes me how everyone knows
why not to take weight loss drugs with great anecdotes
but zero knowledge. I applaud anyone who takes a step

(01:37:20):
to help themselves. Why can't we be positive support them? Yeah,
it's amazing. I just found this huge judgment. I don't
know if people know that they are what they are like,
but yeah, I'm seeing the text people are. Yeah, we're
really sizest. I don't know. I mean they might themselves
be it might come from a place of self loathing

(01:37:42):
or loathing of self loathing, isn't it. But someone want
to talk about Lulu tox or beredine, which I've got
no idea what that is. No, I don't know if
I'm about to learn because no one's coming through about
Lulu tox or beredine. It was a girls' school at
nine two nine. Who is the text number? Marcus welcome here, go,
let's go. Let's be hearing from you tonight. And the
pound cake. I don't think it's a new hidden thing poundcake.

(01:38:05):
I thought someone would come as we've made pound cake
free bad Steinlager putting out all those beers with I
think that's why you should avoid it. Low alcohol, zero
ol coho beer if you're not a drinker. Was it
zero olcohol? Low alcohol? Was alcohol free? Got the relapse
in the box. It's not good and it was a
lot of it over two two and a half thousand
cases cheap, sketchy twenty one to eleven. Quaid Cooper is

(01:38:35):
a big fan of Dave Rennie. He has posted he's
got some quite because he was treated badly to quake people.
Was always tree to barely always thought. He's posted on
social media shout out to coach Dave Rennie after the
way he was treated by our administration in Australia. To
now find himself with arguably the biggest job in rugby
feels like a little bit of karma. We let one

(01:38:55):
of the best coaches in the game go. Not only
did we see him go, we pushed him out the door.
So seeing him land on his feet like this. I'm
genuinely happy for him that what could have been might
still come to bite us, especially with a home World
Cup coming and hunt. Funny how the universe works sometimes.
Congrats the Allbex for pointing not just a top coach,
but a good man who understands that the game is

(01:39:15):
about people first. This will that will play a huge
role in their culture. You're the enemy now though, and
then there are emoticons handshake fist heart not Emoticon's emojis.
Don't know the difference. Talk if you want to hitdle
twelve emails and texts Marcus, I'm on text from Crystal.

(01:39:36):
I'm on with Goovi. I pay four to sixty per month.
I use after pay to cover the cost at the
chemist and make weekly payments of one one five per
week interest free. It's always paid off by the next
by the time the next month rolls around. You don't
need the full amount to start, you just need after pay.

(01:39:57):
I'm on my fifth month now and have lost sixteen kilograms.
I'm saving one hundred dollars per week not buying takeaways
and red Bull that's from are still why she's drinking
Red Bull? Oh she mustn't crave that anymore. That must
be what that is obviously a lot of sugar. But yeah,

(01:40:17):
the band drug to stop smoking, I believe was Champicks.
I stopped smoking for twenty seven years and two weeks.
Side effects were definitely psychotic thoughts. Marcus Lulu Tooks is
a herbal tea that promises a lot, but it's only
a very nice herbal tea. Marcus been an or off diets,
but and remarkably stable. But as soon as I hit
the bottle, I swell like a balloon. Wow, change what

(01:40:40):
you drink? I reckon fourteen to eleven hit or twelve
ten beverage along from Midnight people Dave Rennie and pound
Cake and diets and Gastric Band and were goov. Do
you remember all those diets people used to take, like
the Israeli Army diet. You remember that? And finally I
think people decided that diet don't work, so you don't

(01:41:02):
hear them going around anymore. There was the eighties and
the nineties, was always people on diets and they'd worked
for a while, But yeah, who knows what they were.
I don't even know who made them up. I don't
really think it was an Army diet. I think it
was a great fruit in the egg or something. Can't
even google it up anymore. Do you want to remember?

(01:41:25):
The Israeli Army diet apparently had nothing to do with
the Israeli Army. The diet plan was for eight days
where the same food would be eaten for two days
at a time. Day one and two would be apples,
Days three and four would be cheese, Days five and
six would be chicken, Days seven eight were salad. It

(01:41:45):
appealed to people because it was so simple. However, many
get tired of eating nothing but the same thing for
two days in a row. The problem was that day
one and two and seven eight lack protein, which can
cause muscle wasting. Low in calories could result in fainting
and fatigue. Day three and four they were the cheese.
Days high and saturated fat and lack of five could
cause the diet of become cold disipated. Days five and

(01:42:09):
six contain zero carbohydrates. That's the chicken, which can cause
extreme fatigue and ritatatability. So I don't know who invented it,
but just putting it out there. Fourteen to eleven. If
you want to be a part of the show here
till midnight, Marcus, I lost ten kilogram since January one
this year by shutting my mouth and not letting rubbish
food and not complaining. Good on you for doing it yourself.

(01:42:33):
Go you. But yes, the fair diets have gone. It
seems well they ain't. They don't hear, and weight watches
is gone over all, be replaced by pharmaceuticals and boy boy,
the country that I think it was a skin and
even company that invented they'll be making a fortune. Third
it away from eleven, eleven, away from eleven. Hello, Darren,

(01:42:57):
this is Marcus. Welcome, God, God yourself.

Speaker 15 (01:43:00):
Oh you good. I will here to go. That pony
Ferguson die.

Speaker 3 (01:43:07):
Tell me more?

Speaker 15 (01:43:08):
And my Momther and I we went on it and
we used to go to the palms every week and
just keep buying products and products and he ended up
crossing in between about two and a half thousand dollars.
Who was the guy Tony Ferguson diet.

Speaker 3 (01:43:24):
I've never tell me more. I've never heard of him.

Speaker 15 (01:43:26):
Yeah, well, you get it from life pharmacy and you
get all these bars and then you get all these
recipes and you live on this. But you had to
go to the gym to work in the off again,
which is the same mod scenario if you hear a
proper diet and go to the gym.

Speaker 3 (01:43:41):
So see, where where did you hear about it? Where
was it promoted?

Speaker 15 (01:43:46):
Send the phone nut?

Speaker 3 (01:43:47):
Yes, it's right, I'm hearing good.

Speaker 15 (01:43:49):
Yeah there, yep, yeah better.

Speaker 3 (01:43:54):
Yeah, it was always good anyway, but that's fine. But yeah,
I've never heard of it.

Speaker 15 (01:43:59):
Yes, called Tony Ferguson Diet and he put out all
these books and all that and yeah, and for smoking.
I gave up force the stuff. And it was brilliant
because it came with every single bit of information that
was in a cigarette and what can harm you, what
to do, and it was called nico'brevin about two three months, I.

Speaker 3 (01:44:19):
Think the smoke the nickotine free smoke way to smoke. Yeah,
it worked for you, it did.

Speaker 15 (01:44:27):
It worked for me until I moved into a little
downhouse for myself and all my neighbors are smoking. And
when they saved the social life pretty much dropped me
back into the head of the game, which is a shame.

Speaker 3 (01:44:38):
Tony Ferguson dietary fiber. Oh I'm looking at that now.
I've never heard of it. So there again is he?

Speaker 15 (01:44:45):
I'm not too sure, Nico Weaver, and it come in
a yellow gray outside.

Speaker 3 (01:44:51):
I'm on to Tony Ferguson now, Darren, thank you. Let
me just have a break and come to you. John
seven away from eleven, John ats Marcus, welcome, Hi John.

Speaker 18 (01:44:59):
Hey Margas.

Speaker 3 (01:45:00):
What's that meaning?

Speaker 18 (01:45:01):
I did Theutralian Army diet in the eighte in Australia
and it was brilliant.

Speaker 9 (01:45:09):
Is it.

Speaker 17 (01:45:12):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (01:45:12):
The apple for one day and then cheese and then chicken.

Speaker 18 (01:45:16):
I think I recently I remember which way around it
was the sequence of but I know it was two
days apples. It could have been two days cheese, two
days chicken, and then two days salad. That you can
have a black tea or coffee.

Speaker 3 (01:45:31):
That's pretty much exactly it.

Speaker 18 (01:45:33):
Yeah, and it's free except for the cost of the food.
And it drops off really quick. The last four days
I put three back on of the eight I lost,
but I kept the other. I kept the five off
as one as I can remember. Yeah, it was great.

Speaker 3 (01:45:50):
When they say salad, is that pretty loose? Because you
have an ice cream salad? Couldn't you?

Speaker 18 (01:45:55):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:45:57):
On?

Speaker 3 (01:45:57):
You two days?

Speaker 4 (01:46:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:46:00):
About six? You got to eat them. Yeah, you gotta eat.
You gotta eat what they say to eat. But the
cheese is a tricky one because the cheeses but boring.

Speaker 3 (01:46:10):
After what mind you can go you can go to
the havati and the gorganzola and stuff. Couldn't you.

Speaker 18 (01:46:16):
I don't know a fancy but I did. I didn't
melt it. I did melt the cheese. You gave it. No,
I just put cut slices of cheese up, put it
on the plate, and put it in the microwaves. Yeah,
like that's it takes a lot of woolpower. But it's
good too, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:46:35):
To the other diet that was really big was do
you remember the grapefruit diet? That was eighteen days and
you just tate grapefruit, orange, toast, vegetables and egg.

Speaker 18 (01:46:45):
I've got the book on that. I never did it,
I've got I got the book on it. I think
I tried it for a couple of days and I
started to get headaches, and I just one, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:46:59):
You much about grapefruit anymore? Was delicious fruit? But yeah,
and I remember the grapefruit diet really well.

Speaker 18 (01:47:05):
You sure grow fruit?

Speaker 2 (01:47:06):
Dit?

Speaker 3 (01:47:07):
Or was it the grape diet that was grapefruit I think.

Speaker 18 (01:47:11):
Yeah, I've got a book called the grape Diet. Yeah,
I think it's a thirty day one. But grapefruit would
be good. But that'd be burning up your your calories.

Speaker 3 (01:47:23):
All those diets with rigorous things just when you're eating list,
isn't it.

Speaker 18 (01:47:28):
No, I think you're you're you're separating your calves from
your proteins. And yeah, I think that's what it was,
because you're just salads. You've got no protein or carves. Yeah,
I'm not sure scientifically, but nowadays I just don't eat.
I don't eat before lunchtime, and I don't eat after

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dinner and I'm stable. But what it's good?

Speaker 3 (01:47:52):
No snacking, that's the answer.

Speaker 18 (01:47:54):
A no snacking, Yeah, No, No sugar in your to
your coffee or milk.

Speaker 3 (01:48:00):
Are you on the are you on the tips?

Speaker 18 (01:48:02):
No? May get a stay away from that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:48:04):
A lot of weight in that. A nice to talk, John,
thank you, by the way. Weird Ell young weird El
Yankovic did a song called Grapefruit Diet, which I can't remember.
I have listened to that during the news Final hour
for me. Tim Beveridge, not far Away, get amongst it. People.
If that's your wish, call me during the news or after.
There's been new explosions reported from Tehran. That's kind of

(01:48:27):
been the story all night. Actually, there doesn't appear to
be any new big news, but more of the same.
That would be my synopsis. Oh by the way, too,
speaking of the grapefruit diet, I did listen to the
weird Al Yankovic song called Grapefruit Diet, and it's a
parody of zoot Suit right. It's quite good. Surprised how

(01:48:49):
good it was. Actually, it's not what I've ever heard,
you know, the song zoot Suit Riot. Yeah, and it's
got such lines as well when they use say zoot
suit right, his grapefruit diet, throw out the pizza and beer.

(01:49:10):
It's not offensive. I'm on a grapefruit diet, leer worm you.
So that's the situation. We are talking about diets and
surgeries and we're goov and a zempic and all that,
and we're also talking about Dave Rennie. What were his matches?

(01:49:31):
What were Dave Rennie's matches? Who do he lose to
when he coached Australia the Wallabies. I'd just like to
look at the actual chart of what he did for
every single match. I'm looking at it now. Chiefs, the Chiefs,

(01:49:54):
the Glasgow Warriors, the Wallabies. Oh they lost to Italy.

Speaker 16 (01:50:02):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:50:03):
So yeah, I can't find the exact record, but I
look that up anyway. But if you want to talk
any that's whole plan for the final hour. People, here
you go. Let's go eight hundred and eighty to twenty
diets and Dave Rennie losing to Italy. Mind you, probably
was a rebuilding phase. It's not good though, is it.
Some statistician did a study the top international teams. When

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ten of the starting fifteen came from one team, the
win rate went from seventy odd percent to ninety five percent.
There was a strong effect with these players were in
pears as well, such as halfs, midfields and forum were
of the type five Marcus I did the soup diet.
I can't look at a soup in the face. Yes,
had different diets, the grapefruit diet, grapefruit diet, the Israeli

(01:50:52):
Army diet. There's plenty of fans of the diets. You
watch that Hollywood Extreme Diet. That's a bad show. That
was dangerous and never should have screened that. I think
someone was soaking cotton and orange juice and freezing it
to get the sense of eating. Yeah, it sounds like
a good idea, doesn't it terrible? So people, get in
touch if you want to talk for the final hour.

(01:51:14):
Some other stuff that's happening. Oh I want to talk
about I'm waiting for the call about pound cake. There
hasn't been one, Marcus, I'm on blood pressure meds. You
are precluded from consuming grapefruit.

Speaker 18 (01:51:24):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:51:25):
I think there's some birth control that you're also allowed
to take grapefruit. It negates the effect. I don't know
why grapefruit is such a wicked little thing as far
as interfering with people's medicines go. Yes, it is World

(01:51:46):
obese today. It's also World's Snack Day. And I'm also
asking about the McDonald's big Arch burger, which I don't
like the looks of it. Doesn't look like a clever burger.
Looks just a gluttonous burger. And oh now that is interesting,
also just related to food. Just bring up the story

(01:52:06):
before I can paraphrase this for you. No luck with
that one, but yeah, coming if you want to talk
for the final hour. People that's the whole plans. Dan,
if you want to be a part of it, or
if you want to contribute to it, I should say rather,
I wait hundred eighty nine to nine to detext and
I can't find that article Dan about the snacking, so

(01:52:30):
I'll try and click on it one more time. But yep,
that's the if you want to be on here, that's
what we need to talk about. People. Eight hundred eighty
ten eighty and nine two nine to detext and then
tims along from twelve. Anything else you want to mention
you get in touch that last story Dan about oh
it says the site can't be reached. Thanks, thank you,

(01:52:53):
thank you, thank you, thank you. Keep those texts coming through.
Two peeps nine nine two and diets and we're govy
and ozim pic the wonder drugs. I mean, you know,
you see so many people now that if Suddy looked
much much thinner, and everyone says that everyone's on it.
I haven't got much personal experience, mIRC I said. Song

(01:53:14):
you play each time your turn for the news. I
love it makes me laugh each time. If you consider
that you play it four times per night, twenty times
per week, say on ere forty weeks. That's eight hundred
times you play that song every year. Yes, that would
be right. Big arch is good, but yes, gluttonous. Definitely.
The cheeseburger is best. Yes, there's three things I like
at mcdonald'll be the cheeseburger, the filet o fish, and

(01:53:36):
the apple pie. I won't vary from that, and I'd
have it probably once a year. Is it true that
the people who found the cash in the house get
to keep it? They keep forty thousand dollars of it.
But what's going to happen when the people that put
the cash there come back for it? That's what I
want to know. I don't think i'd rest easy. That
would be my situation with that one. Yeah, But apparently

(01:54:00):
what's happened in America and in New Zealand I would
think too, is that people have changed the way they're
eating so that the whole time I notice it work here,
I'm actually up in Auckland at work at the moment,
and when I've been in the newsroom the day, everyone
is snacking and they're not good snacks either. Just seeing
little bags of kids food. One go say, stolen his

(01:54:22):
children's biscuits or something. But Yeah, So scrambled eggs in
the morning, arrive at work broating bar for second breakfast,
a bag of chips for elevens late aftering pastry, banana bread, maccolate.
So that's what people are eating, they say, Blame the
Corona pandemic, blameer ze, blame inflation, whatever the cause. Intermediate

(01:54:44):
rebites and SIPs make up a growing portion of Americans
daily consumption. So young people just snack all day, and
the shift has become so pronounced that restaurants are adapting
to it. Chains that used to offer meals are rolling
out smaller and cheaper options, solid and liquid alike, in
the hope of capturing customers who want just a snack.

(01:55:06):
That's what they're are. So the three meals a day
has gone. People are just kind of grazing all day.
Any extraordinary amount of chips, which can't be good for you.
That's what's happening. So if you've noticed that, that's the
way people are going. Peter's Marcus greveling.

Speaker 11 (01:55:26):
Yeah, and there, Marcus, been good day down south?

Speaker 3 (01:55:29):
Was it beautiful?

Speaker 9 (01:55:30):
Yes?

Speaker 11 (01:55:31):
You film through a nice day, getting bit of a
battalion of the old summer rummy.

Speaker 3 (01:55:35):
Finally, well, I thought the summer wasn't bad.

Speaker 11 (01:55:41):
It hasn't been that good in you plimouth freely. I
don't reckon it's we got the Sunniest Summer.

Speaker 4 (01:55:45):
Award for the year.

Speaker 11 (01:55:46):
They got that one. I reckon there's been a few
good days, but over all, and it hasn't been a
lot of cloudy days and stuff. You know, there were
we going about that that money and that lost.

Speaker 2 (01:55:57):
I reckon.

Speaker 11 (01:55:57):
Those people got forty thousand dollars in their honesty. I
would oh and good on them. You know, they're honest people.
So I wouldn't worry about.

Speaker 3 (01:56:06):
The people to come when you wouldn't you worry the
people are going to come back for the money?

Speaker 11 (01:56:10):
No, I say it's gone. The prices got it. What
do you say? I wouldn't worry about it.

Speaker 3 (01:56:15):
But wouldn't wouldn't the criminals come around and say, where's
our quarter of a million?

Speaker 11 (01:56:20):
I say the price got it?

Speaker 15 (01:56:21):
Okay, I say that they got a battle.

Speaker 4 (01:56:27):
They were honest.

Speaker 11 (01:56:28):
They got forty thousand dollars for the honest and it's
not a bad little reward, okay, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:56:34):
No, I'll be curious thought why it was there? I
guess I don't know when I didn't come back for it.

Speaker 11 (01:56:39):
Well, I shouldn't say it, but some people they need
put money in the old people they do do that.

Speaker 3 (01:56:45):
Is that what you've done?

Speaker 15 (01:56:46):
No, Hell, I don't know.

Speaker 11 (01:56:47):
Dutch are not that stupid?

Speaker 3 (01:56:48):
Hey, yeah I am. What would the police do with
the other but from it?

Speaker 11 (01:56:56):
Yeah, I'm not too sure.

Speaker 4 (01:56:57):
What where does that go?

Speaker 3 (01:56:58):
Is it just going to the general fund? The other
one sixty?

Speaker 11 (01:57:01):
I'd say it probably does. I suppose you I reckon thought.
I thought it was the old saying there used to
be one if you handed whatever, there was money whatever
and ter period time, you automatically I.

Speaker 3 (01:57:12):
Would have thought that too. But they went to the court.
I don't know what the courts finding was. It surprised me.
I thought, of course they'd get to keep it.

Speaker 11 (01:57:18):
I would have thought, so that's for honesty, and if
they were honest, no one's claimed it, so you know,
whether it's money being who knows what that money, where
it came from, you don't know, might have been happy
for one hundred years or who knows.

Speaker 3 (01:57:34):
I guess it was probably a recent notes though, and
they didn't have shrink wrapping. Well, I think it was
shrink repp. I think they had shrink repping one hundred
years ago.

Speaker 11 (01:57:41):
No, so it was it was reasonab fresh.

Speaker 15 (01:57:43):
I reckon, was it they should have.

Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
Put into bitcoin? You got any bitcoin?

Speaker 18 (01:57:47):
Pete?

Speaker 11 (01:57:48):
No, I never never sort of a leave and that's
too much a camel that bitcorn. I reckon, you've got
you've got plenty of money, and you gets you more
money than you know what. I reckon fair enough, But
yeah it was Joe Blah. It's just like going to
the horse racing within it nice to talk.

Speaker 3 (01:58:03):
Pet thinks so much sweet three past eleven, ten beverage
A long from twelve looking for you're input tonight. There's
any thing you want to say before the end? Marcus
loves your line. I'm trying not to be judgmental, not
trying too hard. I tried Regovy for a week in Bali,
but didn't feel right. We really don't know the long
rumiflications of these injection cures for weight loss. Just focusing
on fresh fruit and daily walks to drop five kg's

(01:58:25):
in three months go you yeah, walking walking, walking another
The more you walk, the hungry you get. You notice
that Marcus Dave Rennie's winning percentage with Australa was thirty
eight percent. He won eighteen games from thirty one matches.
Let's try to find what those matches were. Many of
my kids, peers, robs, How does that happen? Why are
parents doing to this kids? Well, I guess his parents.

(01:58:48):
There's pressure on parents to feed their kids takeaways and stuff.
Parents are busy. So I don't know what match. I
don't know what the matches Dave Rennie did, so I'm
trying to find those ones out who he played. I
hate to say it, I've got the I've got Dave
Rennie's coaching record from chech GPT. It seemed as though
he got worse as he went. So he coached for

(01:59:09):
three seasons of twenty twenty, the twenty three one and
the twenty twenty two. The opening season didn't go well
because he was new He won one out of six matches.
They drew with New Zealand, they lost, they drew with
u Zen, they lost to New z And, they lost
US and they beat New Zealand and they drew with
Argentina twice. So that's the first season, one win, one

(01:59:30):
draw from six. The next season they didn't do well
in the Northern Hemisphere, they bet France, they lost to France.
They bet France, they lost to New Zealand three times,
they bet On Africa twice, they bet Argentina twice, they
bet Japan. Then they lost to Scotland, England and Wales.
So seven wins, eight losses, seven losses, seven wins, seven losses,

(01:59:53):
and that second year, the first year they win one.
The second year they win half or he wins half.
The third year they played fourteen and they only won five.
They bet England, then they lost to England twice. They
beat Argentina and they lost to Argentina, and they bet
South Africa. Then they lost to South Africa. They lost

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to New Zealand twice. They beat Scotland, then they lost
to France, Italy and Ireland and in the in the
end bet Whales. So if you look at I mean,
there's all sorts of Dave Rennie fever and I'm feeling it.
But if you look at the three seasons, and that's
only five years ago, that was bad. So yeah, after

(02:00:35):
you've heard me talk about that, how do you feel
about that now? Because it wasn't like they were getting better.
I mean his first full season, in his second full season.
The first full season was better. So yeah, so he
started there were sixth in the world and they dropped
to tenth at the end of twenty twenty three. I

(02:00:56):
think that's some of that was the Rugby World Cup,
so yeah, looking at that, I do know what you
can say about that. I mean they might there might
have been trouble with the players because there was some
There was always talks about player revolution a player, you know.
I mean there were some loose units in that Wallaby's

(02:01:17):
team went there. There were sort of a lot off
the ball instances with nightclubs as they were always is
a sport. Yeahs Marcus, welcome, Marcus.

Speaker 15 (02:01:29):
Great show.

Speaker 4 (02:01:29):
Was always just chiming in on the day for any
appointment in his previous form, just just on what you
were saying there, I think sometimes and it's worked the
other way with Scott Robertson. But it's the way in
which they win and in those games where they have won,

(02:01:50):
you know, the teams that have won in the way
in which they've won.

Speaker 15 (02:01:54):
I remember when.

Speaker 4 (02:01:55):
Watching Day for every when he was that the Wallabies coach,
there was a lot of those games where they are
very close losses and just get the rubb of the green.
But you know, they definitely look like they're hitting in
the right direction. And it was a bit of a
shame the way he was pulled at death before the
book for the World Cup, because let's face that, they

(02:02:17):
couldn't have gone worse than what they did with Eddie Jones,
and they could have that ale of I.

Speaker 3 (02:02:22):
Mean, he's a cod Man, I've always thought, but absolutely,
but yeah, I just hadn't realized how bad Rennie's performance was.
But going back and looking at twenty two, I mean,
I mean, you know that last year there was five
wins and nine losses. It wasn't a good season, That's right.

Speaker 4 (02:02:39):
A lot you know a lot of those on the
road I remember that that are on the road?

Speaker 3 (02:02:43):
Is it wasland friends in Scotland? Were they all? That
was all the northern that that they were away games?

Speaker 10 (02:02:48):
Were they?

Speaker 4 (02:02:49):
I guess, of course, yeah, that's the that's the Northern
twur If he had to look at those, the scores
were pairly twice they were.

Speaker 3 (02:02:57):
Sixteen fifteen. You're quite right, you're quote.

Speaker 4 (02:03:00):
Yeah, yeah, so and then you look at some of
those other ones when the feet in the box, you know,
you need to remember how the Box have been over
the last you know, six or seven years, and you
know the Wallabies have come out of the block sometimes
and caught them by surprise it and roll Roll the
Box and Dave and Ney did it a few times.

(02:03:20):
So yeah, there's a bit to be said for him.
But I think generally speaking, he's a leader of men,
and you know, even even just the recent work he's
done overseas in Japan, you know, working with the Artis Savea.
They're great relationships and I just think it's it's quite
nice to be excited about something in the all black

(02:03:41):
and the all black scene at the minute. We've been
a little bit down on the dumps in the last
few years, but there's an air of excitement today and
I think it's just good to get on the back
of it.

Speaker 3 (02:03:50):
Really reasonable what you're saying, Ray, what what are we?
What are you and I focusing on the World Cup
win or wins this year against South Africa? What would
you be happy with? You'd be happy if we get smoked,
But when the World Cup or get to the final
of the World well, what are your expectations?

Speaker 4 (02:04:07):
It's funny funny you say that. I was talking to
my father in law about it today, and you know
I gave him mus off daver in his appointment, and
I think that, you know, da is such a such
a hardened rugby head, hard and rugby mind. And I
say that, I don't say hard and cheaply, that he
will be looking to deal with exactly what's in front

(02:04:30):
of him every game. And I think he'll be looking
to bring some serious pride back into that jersey from
the outset and not drop a game this year. And
I know it's a big statement looking at that South
African too, but I think, you know, let's let's we
will watch with interest because it's all very well to
say it's all about next year and all about the
World Cup. But we've got a monumental year ahead of

(02:04:53):
us and we do not want to go to South
Africa and get cleaned up at home.

Speaker 3 (02:04:58):
We're looking to But would you not be happy with
losses against South Africa if he manages to express met
with some yet, because it seems as though every time
you win the World Cup you need to have some
young I don't know this is the cliche. I'm not
I'm not a sports host, but don't you need a
young Michael Jones to discover a young player that goes

(02:05:19):
to the World Cup and the world hasn't seen. Don't
we need to use South Africa to uncover some of
those really young players so they're ready for next year.

Speaker 4 (02:05:27):
I think we've done enough uncovering in recent times. We
can take something out of Scott Robinson's tenure.

Speaker 3 (02:05:32):
I think we've uncovered, We've done We've done the uncovering,
have we yes?

Speaker 18 (02:05:37):
I think so.

Speaker 4 (02:05:39):
I think it's just making the most of what we've
got now, putting it all together, putting some pride back
in that jersey, and just one step at a time.
Every one of those games is another step at the time,
and I think that's it's nearly a cliche to say
that that's what he'll be looking at. I don't think
anyone knows who's going to pick us captain, but I
think who he picks us as captain is pivotal. He'll

(02:06:01):
be pivotal to see who he brings in his assistance
and then it will just be one, one step the time.
But I think it'll be very interesting to see we
were looking back at the end of the year and
then look at the excitement heading into World Cup year
and the.

Speaker 3 (02:06:14):
Other thing we don't know. We don't know what is contract.
Like they always talk about the KPI is the key
performance indicators. We don't know what he's promised the Rugby
board that he will do. But you know, we don't
actually need to know that. But maybe they've got a
win loss record for this year or something. But it's
not like anyone else they can go to, is it.
We're not going to give him six months and then

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go to Jammy Joseph. He's there.

Speaker 4 (02:06:38):
I don't think unless they got Tony Brown out of
his contract, which you're not going to, that they would
chance to around with Jamie Joseph. But there's good stocks
for the future.

Speaker 3 (02:06:48):
But I think I think Jamie Joseph is going to
have a hard year this year with the Highlanders because
how's he going to get up for coaching them. We
probably had his sights on the All Black's job because
they started well, but they've gone a bit flat, haven't they?

Speaker 4 (02:07:04):
Well they have they have, and then you can say
he hasn't really done anything that. I think it's a
it's a fair selection Dave any over Jamie Joseph now
and I think you know a lot lot more people
are comfort forth it now than what they would have
might have been so even two weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (02:07:21):
Yeah, there's certainly some scribes been running lines for Dave
Whenny some of those writers have said he's the one
because the players didn't like Jamie Joseph because he overworked
them or something.

Speaker 4 (02:07:30):
Ah, you know, you could probably put a corner on it.
I think personally though, to be fair with your Marcus,
there's too much of the sixty minute crap going on
in world rugby at the moment. They need to be
more insistent of the old school eighty minute players.

Speaker 3 (02:07:45):
Do you want to change the rules now? Get rid
of the bomb squad?

Speaker 4 (02:07:48):
Well, I forget the bomb squad. You know, Sam Whitelock
never knew about bomb squad. Richie mccorney never knew about
bomb squadan, never knew about bomb squad. They played Friday minutes.

Speaker 3 (02:07:59):
But isn't rugby continually evolving and the ones that evolves
and come up with it. I mean, the team that's
got the bomb squad, the wild jumps back to Beck.
Aren't they.

Speaker 9 (02:08:09):
Just on that?

Speaker 4 (02:08:11):
Let's not Let's not get away from the point that
was raised yesterday that South African drug testing has been
a really good time, and they did.

Speaker 3 (02:08:21):
They look they look beefed up, don't they They look
them absolutely, they look up. I noticed that photo.

Speaker 4 (02:08:28):
Well they look the absolutely if you ever seen them
in person, that huge.

Speaker 3 (02:08:33):
I think not only this still victim Metfield at the gym,
he's a big unit.

Speaker 4 (02:08:38):
Oh well, you know he's getting on now though. But
you know, you look at the look at the English,
you look at the Irish, you look at the Scottish
guys all around. They are huge when they start. If
if Rinny's onto it, he will start getting under some
of the skin of these squads and start calling them
out on it. Okay, start rattling the cage before we

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start going into these games. Start to get into their
heads a little bit, because I think they've been running
him back for the last five six years as the country.
I was coming to the city for the first time.

Speaker 3 (02:09:08):
So they've been cheating. That's why we're not so good.

Speaker 4 (02:09:10):
Absolutely right, Let's just go with the facts. That's what
they said yesterday. I haven't made that up. This list.
Delve into a little bit more because I think that
the que Boys are actually a lot more honest than
the way they play the game. These guys are on
it all costs. There's a lot bigger budgets that are
going into it and so on. But we start delving
into their little bit red all cage and see what

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comes out of it.

Speaker 3 (02:09:33):
Love you, Ray, thanks so much for that. I think
you very reasonable. Twenty away from E twelve, there we go,
but a rugby. I thought that was a good way
of canvassing that. Actually it was a very see Ray
was good. He's right though some of those results. We're
quite close but not losing in the first year cheapers,
it's eighteen to twelve. Hi, James, it's Marcus.

Speaker 19 (02:09:57):
Good evening good, ain't Marcus? Earlier on I was driving
I got home for good. I mean to call you back.
A lady was talking about going to get some sort
of surgery in Turkey, was.

Speaker 3 (02:10:10):
It, Yes, that's right, yep, bariatric band suit you I
think for white loss.

Speaker 19 (02:10:15):
Yeah, yeah, Well actually a closer place she did mention Mexico.
I think a lot of people go there for cancer
problems in that, but a better place where most Americans go.
A lot of Americans go because it's cheaper than the
States and western countries. It's a bit like people who

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go to Thailand. But this is Costa Rica in Central America. Yeah,
well it's onn of par with the US. Back in
nineteen sixty seven, at the same time as Singapore decided
to change, you know, Le Khan Yu, and they decided
to give up their military. And that wasn't the case
with Singapore, but Costa Rica. And there's been a war

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just to be out in every country in Central America
since sixty seven since, you know, except for Costa Rica.
The moment they gave up their military, the US came
alongside them and said, we'll look after you. Nobody messes
with Costa Rica. Never has since sixty seven. The president

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the enough is enough, and we're going to concentrate on
you know, not military, just looking after the people and
doing the right thing. And so as a result, you know,
they're very Americanized and the of course they get better money.
It's a much better country. It's a small country. And anyway,

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that's where a lot of Americans go for operations and
to save going all the way to you know, Turkey
and what have you. Costa Rica would be a lot
in Central America would be a lot closer. You have
you been there, I haven't been to Costa Rica. I've

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been as far as Guatemala. Police belief is you go
from Mexico and then the shore, the signs change from
from Spanish to English. And because people are quite dark,
you know, they're black people in Belize and it's a

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British protectorate. So I'm not sure how does these days,
but I'm going back about thirty years and the British
Army was always stationed there and then you go on
to Guatemala and Honduras are being as far as Honduras
and no further. But I think next to Honduras is

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Costa Rica.

Speaker 3 (02:12:47):
What James, what happened to these countries? You look at Turkey,
you look at Vietnam, you look at Mexico, you look
at Costa Rica, and what's the other one? You said?

Speaker 19 (02:12:56):
But what of Singapore?

Speaker 3 (02:12:58):
Sing Is it just the educations? I mean? Are they
just countries that produce more doctors than they need? Is
that what happens? Or do doctors come in and move
there to do these You don't know. I don't fully
know what goes on.

Speaker 19 (02:13:09):
What will Back in sixty seven, about the same time
as the cost of the leader in Costa Rica said
enough is enough. So did a leader called Le Kwan
Yu and same thing. At the same time, Singapore was
almost like a rattle, you know. Yet today it's a

(02:13:30):
beautiful country, a small country, probably no larger than an
Auckland's south, you know. But of course they've got a
I'm not sure about their army, but I've got to
had a couple of brothers who are in the army
and they've been there. But they've got a powerful air force.
But they haven't got the room to keep it in Singapore.

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They keep it in other other countries, you know. They
they there was always talk about them keeping their planes
at Ohaki in New Zealand. I'm not sure what happened there,
but so they changed at the same time. Now, Costa
Rica is very Americanized and you can get surgery done

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the equivalents of the United States, New Zealand, Australia, any
you know, any first world country, and a lot of
Americans go there to get their operations. I say two thousands.
That might if the lady's still listening anyway, I meant
to call earlier, but that's really interesting.

Speaker 3 (02:14:37):
Yeah, okay, pressure that, James. I just don't know what's
closer though I don't know. If you said it'll be
close to Costa Rica closer to Turkey, it'd be hard
to if I can, Dan Di gpt that for me.
What's closer Costa Rica or Turkey? So James is right,
Costa Rica is much much closer. Costa Rica is eleven
thousand and six and eighty k's from Auckland Turkey sixteen thousand,

(02:14:59):
seven hundred and fifty kilometers. So yeah, it's eleven thousand
and eighty kilometers versus sixteen thousand and fifty kilometers. It's Marcus,
good evening, marre a good Thank you, Lois.

Speaker 16 (02:15:12):
It's good I've brought up. I wish to wish Dave
reading all the best.

Speaker 18 (02:15:16):
Great.

Speaker 3 (02:15:17):
I don't know if he's listening, but he should be.
But yeah, that's kind of you. Well he is he is,
and if he is and he isn't, that's sensible.

Speaker 7 (02:15:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (02:15:25):
But the main thing I've brung up about is weight loss. Yes,
now people don't have to spend big dollars to lose weight.
Believe you me, I'm overweight right, I'm overweight again now
because I'm I can't exercise like I used to.

Speaker 18 (02:15:44):
I walk with a walker.

Speaker 16 (02:15:45):
I just can't get around like I used to. But
I lost It took me twelve months, but I lost
thirty eight kilos in twelve months.

Speaker 14 (02:15:57):
I am what it now.

Speaker 16 (02:16:00):
I used to go to the pool I lived, and
I lived in Featherston at the time, and I to
go to the pool in Carterton and I just used
to walk up and down in one lane in the pool,
in the water for an hour and a half, five
days a week.

Speaker 3 (02:16:15):
Did you listening to stuff?

Speaker 2 (02:16:17):
Haven't?

Speaker 3 (02:16:18):
Do you have a radio?

Speaker 16 (02:16:19):
Yeah, well there was. There's quite a few of us there.
We pulled, We pulled the world to bits.

Speaker 3 (02:16:25):
Of course, you do it well, you have a lot
to say, lowers.

Speaker 9 (02:16:29):
And yeah and yeah.

Speaker 16 (02:16:33):
As I said, I lost thirty eight kilos. But all
these diets these people pay for go on the.

Speaker 2 (02:16:43):
Whaty of a diet?

Speaker 16 (02:16:45):
Diet's a dirty word. All you've got to do is
it's you've got to have big.

Speaker 2 (02:16:51):
Willpower to do this.

Speaker 16 (02:16:53):
But it's easy, it's very very easy. All you've got
to do is cut out all sugar, all the sad butter.
Now I don't eat sugar. We all eat sugar. We
eat biscuits, You eat bread, loads of bread. Got sugar
in it. I used to allow myself two pieces of
bread a week, and you've got to cut out all sugar,

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and you've got to cut way way back on your cards.

Speaker 22 (02:17:18):
You're still there.

Speaker 3 (02:17:19):
All is tell me something, Yeah, and I appreciate you
coming through that, Lowess. Do you think that Rennie will
be better than Jamie Joseph?

Speaker 16 (02:17:28):
I can't tell you that. I can't tell you that.
I don't really I haven't really taken much notice of
Rennie before.

Speaker 3 (02:17:36):
Okay, it's a fair thing to.

Speaker 16 (02:17:37):
Say, yes, yeah, so all I can do is with
him all the best.

Speaker 3 (02:17:46):
But you've got a better feeling than you had with Robertson.

Speaker 16 (02:17:48):
Oh yes, very much better feeding Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:17:57):
Yes, that's the main thing. Lovely to talk, Lowess. Thank
you've run the night off really really nicely for us tonight.

Speaker 1 (02:18:04):
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