Ham or crayfish (11 December 2025)

Marcus talks Christmas movies, getting a bonus at the end of the year, and whether you'd get into the United States with their new social media check policy.

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greetings and welcome at seven past eight. Hope you are good.
If you're not good to hope you're better by the
time I leave, and that's midnight. That's four hours away. People.
Pretty extraordinary whether it appears to have happened in Dunedin
and Otago, particularly at the airport and places like that.
They say it's like driving on marbles. It seems to
be why Holer got slammed, seems to be around there,

(00:33):
around Momona, around why Hola to need the airport the show.
It just looks like unbelievable haile. If you've got any
eyewitnesses from that, let me know what that was like.
But it seems like big marbles. It was like driving
on Marble's visibility was zero all along the flood free Highway,
all about the airport, all the way into Dunedin. If

(00:53):
you witness that, let me know how that was like
ten cent mes a hail and water on it. Spectacular, devastating,
highly localized. If your witness to that, let me know,
I would imagine where storms that big. It probably is
damaged to cars, has it the Lama laws like Mahen
and Nangi Clarks Junge in Suton middle March. It all

(01:14):
got slammed. So anyway, if you've got if you and
I was that, let me know how that was. I
don't know if there's much damage, but I thought with
a hail that thing that'd be damaged to cars, crops too.
I don't know if it's got as far as Rocksburgh
and the fruit one would hope not. You might have
some information about that. So yes, there are high whisks

(01:34):
of thunder. There's a heavy rains. Staal came through the south.
But it's been a good day. The kids were jumping
off the jetty and swimming. It's been hot. But yeah,
Tiger Got said you've got some witness. If you are
a witness about that, I would love to hear from you.
Get in touch. So there will be weather warnings throughout
the course of the evening. I'm across those for you.
I'll bring that to you if there's anything that happens.
But yeah, pretty thundery people, severe thunderstorm much for Waikatoba

(01:58):
of topor Gisbon, Hawks Bay, Canterbury and Otago regions tonight
witness any of that. Let me know, by the way,
this weekend. In fact, on Saturday, Dick van Dyke will
be one hundred, which is one of my predictions coming true.
Because all these people predicting people would die, I predict

(02:20):
the he'd live, and I guess the odds are probably
fairly high. I mean, the hodds are there's probably more
chance he'll die within the next two days. But let's
hope that doesn't happen. I don't think Dick v I mean,
we talk about Dick van Dyke, but only because we
remember him from Chid Chity Bang Bang, which wasn't a
great film. I don't think he was a great actor,
but he certainly one of the old stage song and

(02:43):
dance men that's kind of stood the test of time,
I would think, and a pretty interesting name, Dick van Dyke.
People enjoy saying that. So there we go. He's a hundred.
I don't know much about him ready to be honest,
but there we go. Oh, eight hundred eighty to nine
two nine to the texture. If you've got breaker news,
if you witnessed the hail, how big was it? How

(03:04):
big was it?

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (03:07):
I thought he might be British. That was because of
the accent, and of course he's American started radio. Of
course he did.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
I think probably I've got conflated his accent in Mary
Poppins when he was the chimney sweep. That caught me.
So there we go. Anyway, get in touch with us
that the whole rollings up. We are in the summer season.
It feels very much like that. But get in touch
of you do want to talk. Keep those texts coming through.
I did ask for someone that had witnessed the Tasmin tempest,

(03:39):
the storm and in Otaga. Let us know how big
that hal was and if there's he damage from cars.
I just checked the texts a lot to cover tonight.
The other thing big question with Americas on TV news tonight,
they are talking to go through five years of your

(04:02):
social media history and biometric and from what would that
be DAN fingerprints, DNA and family connections before you get
into the States. Are you someone that has started tempering
your social media or thought of doing that because it
means probably otherwise you won't get into the States. Or

(04:24):
are you thinking probably Trump's only got one or two
more years after the sort of blowover, you'll be good
to go. What's your thoughts on getting into the States.
People have you started deleting things from social because I'm
sure they can do it now. With AI, they go
through the lot and give some sort of profile of
what you like if you've said anything bad about Trump
with the United States. I just want to know how
seriously people are taking that. I think there's certainly certain

(04:49):
career strategies and where people probably see going to America
as part of that. So yeah, Oh, by the way,
two people are asking that our doing is on the
Graham Norton Show tomorrow night. That's TVNZ two tomorrow night
at half past seven. Be in touch if you want
to partake in the show tonight twelve parts. God is

(05:09):
only twelve past eight. Parmers todaight Targo. Hail wasn't big,
but was fierce. What doll we storm? Thunder and lightning
in a hailstorm. Goodness, that's happening. So text if you
want to and call, but mainly call, mainly call, only call,
mainly call. I guess that's the answer for you tonight.

(05:31):
The weather and going to America. How do you feel
about that? If you decided to actually stop saying mindless
stuff because it might affect your ability to get into
the States. And the thing is, it wouldn't be nice
to sort of go to all the pilavora of getting
a visa and going across them and getting turned back.
Be your pain in the neck, wouldn't it? And what

(05:53):
kind of seeming just either with free speech and all that,
you think it's probably something should be allowed to do.
So yes, that's kind of what we what I'd like
being kind to talk about tonight. If there is other
stuff you want to mention, good it is baagle day,
have a bagel day, or ten years ago you could
get a bagel for twenty years ago you couldn't get
a bagel for love nor money. One of the very

(06:15):
enjoyable things to make. If you've never made bogel, if
you've never made bagels, you'd probably look at a recipe
and you think that would be impossible. But it's very,
very straightforward because what happens is the stages are quite forgiving.
You make a dough when you raise the dough, and

(06:35):
then you split the dough, and you roll the dough
into sausage like lengths, and then you flip those around
and make them into a loop like a donut, and
then what you do with that is you boil it
in a pot full of boiling water. And you might think, well,
that's not going to happen, but actually at this stage

(06:56):
they are quite robust and they puff up a bit
and very very fun. And then you cook them with
sesame seeds and stuff. One of the great things to cock.
You only cook them once or twice because the last
thing you want to do is et twelve bagels, because
I think a bagel is like six slices of bread.
But it's very enjoyable. So I'm all in here for

(07:16):
have a bagel day. The best ones you're cooking wood
fired ovens if you're really there, and they're a great thing,
great great thing. And of course in London is a
very famous twenty four hour bagel shop. Will worth going to,
probably the most best place thing to go to in
the UK. Anyway, welcome if you want to come through

(07:37):
Mineamer's markets. But even let's get the whole thing started.
Let's get the party started. Eight hundred and eighty ten.
I've got other topics, want to start with these first,
But have you started curating or eliminating your social media?

Speaker 5 (07:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:58):
It's people from forty one countries including New Zealand and
Australia and New Zealand, Britain Front and Japan because you're
not currently a need a visa to go there now
they will need to get a little sorted under the
proposed new rules, and inclusion of five years worth of

(08:20):
social media data would become a mandatory part of e
STA applications, an electronic system for travel authorization. Applicants woul
alls have to submit other high value data fields including
phone numbers from the last five years, email addresses from
the past decade, personal details of freedom member and biometric information.

(08:40):
Goodness me, So your comments on that, perhaps if you're
someone that's going for a sporting scholarship where your kids are, Yeah,
it could be a it could change your life plan
that one. So that's what I would like to talk about,
as well as the hail the hail yes, now, by

(09:06):
the way, the other thing to be where I don't
want to throw on the topic that you re I
think at that time of the year we need stuff
to talk about. The tobacco companies want to introduce oral
nicotine pouches and they're trying to do that to make
out it's safer than smoking. But this what they do
is get the youth market. So yeah, you put them

(09:26):
under your lip or under your gum. They say they're
cessation aids, but they're not. Just like what I've probably
start is that they're not anymore. Seventeen past eight here
till twelve. Keep those texts flowing, Josh, this is Marcus. Welcome, greetings,
and good evening.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
Hey Marcus. In regards to the getting into the States thing,
that's interesting that.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Do you reckon you get in?

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Josh?

Speaker 7 (09:54):
Oh look mate, I'm posing that question right now, and yeah,
I would like to see the full criteria disclosed, because,
like you say, what happens if you get your visa
and then you get there and you get turned around?

Speaker 6 (10:13):
Who wants to do that?

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Well, yeah, that might be something we're thinking about next time.
We're thinking you're writing something for a shot of Trump
dressed like a clown or something, I mean, you should
be allowed to do it.

Speaker 6 (10:24):
Or even just posing the question why isn't need in
Yahoo in prison? Is that offensive to America?

Speaker 3 (10:33):
I don't know, And it all be to do with
I imagine what would be seen in Trump's mind as
the you know, as the people who didn't work I'm
what I'm trying to say, as I'm sure the criteria
would change as Trump's views of the world change.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
Trust me, Marcus, it'll be Yeah, they'll profile the person.
So hey, look, you know we could test us, like,
couldn't we ask the American embassy to vet some people
prematurely here before they leave, to make sure they fit
the criteria.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
I think we're situations. There's not much negotiation. We don't
have rights to say, hey, what about this? What about that?
I think they just do it.

Speaker 6 (11:18):
The problem is toos they can make things up as
they go along, can't they. If there's no clear criteria,
we can just say, well, Marcus said something about I
don't know some New York person or something like this,
and therefore he's too overly critical of American politics or whatever.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
I think it's I think it's clear. If they don't
want you, you're not going in.

Speaker 5 (11:40):
You know.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
I don't think they have to give reasons. It's just
you're out.

Speaker 6 (11:45):
Yes, very interesting, very interesting, but they are.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Trump also announced today, if you've got a million dollars,
you can get a green card. They're going to start
selling them, which is quite interesting.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
Also, Marcus, what are your thoughts. I don't know if
you've heard this on the news, but apparently fentanel is
a weapon of mass destruction. So the accusations are that
some of these countries are.

Speaker 8 (12:11):
Understand Yeah, and what they're saying in the NEC and
in America now is ventanyl is a we're in a
mass destruction that Venezuela are inflicting on Americans.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Where's most ventanyl produced Mexico, Canada, Venezuela, China.

Speaker 6 (12:30):
So it's okay, So from what I understand, it's mainly
manufactured in China, but some of the Chinese are working
out of Central America and Mexico, so that's confusion.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yeah, yeah, okay, it's good. Start to me, Josh, thank
you for that. Nice to talk, brilliant. There we go.
We're away twenty parts text and calls America going to America,
home of the Brave, Land of the Free. Just hard
to get in. This will be disaster for the Football
World Cup. Who's going to want to go through all that?
Ring Moaroli or Ringmarole? Ridiculous? Marcus? What is your favorite

(13:08):
Christmas movie or what are you hoping will be on
TV this year? Merry Christmas? Doing your family maya look
from a purely nostalgia point of view, and I don't
like to get into nostalgia because it depresses me. However,
I am from a certain age when probably what would

(13:30):
have been the most now I'm going to look for
words here, the most memorable from it, schmaltzy, emotional, manipulative
Christmas kind of spirit movie would always be the Walton's
Christmas Special. Now, what would happen on Walton's Mountain is

(13:54):
that John Boy or someone would have gone looking for
some lost pilgrims further away and they would have got
lost somewhere, and the whole show would be about would
John Boy and the Dad get back to Walton Mountain
for Christmas? And even you watch it as the time
of watching it, you knew it was absolute slot, but

(14:19):
there was something quite compelling about it. So yes, that
would be my that would be my wish to have
that repeated for Christmas Day. I would think, Ah, always
love the Waltons. It was about sex. To be fair,
I don't know how well it aged. I think it's
probably aged for every poory. What was a shopkeeper?

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Name?

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Was it Cora Beth? Anyway, get in touch Marcus till twelve,
America and anything else you want to talk about tonight.
By the way, I'm not so into all those people
that talk about and get obsessed about die hutters at Christmas.
I kind of work out what they think is interesting
about saying that. It feels like gaslighting to me. Any who.

(15:06):
Twenty two past day, Catch you soon. Twenty six past eight,
Peter's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 9 (15:15):
Good evening, Mark. Look, Marcus, you know I think people
should just come the farm a bit. You know, Trump,
he goes high and easy, settles away, and he's done
it many times. You know they ain't and at the
moment we don't even know the outcome. What's going at
the moment. Yes, I've got my family even has a

(15:38):
family farm in the state, a family farm my great grandfather.
The family's sort of a farm over there. Haven't visited it.
But if I've ether honestly guards on the table, if
I was in America, I'd be a Republican, not a Democrat,

(15:58):
just like you know, I don't wait for labor head.
But overall, everybody's getting up and up tight at the moment.
The visas and stuff. I would say, see horses for
a little while would have happened.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
I wouldn't say anyone's getting up tight. I just asked
the question, if people are going to take that seriously
and alter this social media result, you aren't going to
And I meationed you'd you'd be fully outspoken on social media,
wouldn't you.

Speaker 9 (16:31):
Uh, well, actually I've only outspoken against the list.

Speaker 10 (16:35):
But yeah, it's probably right.

Speaker 9 (16:39):
But also don't pant, but people go off the tree.
Were at the moment, you know how you operate, say,
and he does a pretty really good deals, You've got
to give him a bit of credit here and there.
He would goes high and shattles low, and I would say,
at the moment, don't get too uptight about it.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Brilliant, Here we go this immigration advice from Pete Now
nineteen eighty three. Mister van Dyke Dick van Dyke Whene
a movie called Found Money, A great story. Not sure
about the acting. He works in a bank when an
active account doing interest, he finds a way to give
small out to may Away. By the way, too, you

(17:22):
just reading more about Walton's Mountain. Two things. The original
movie the Walton's Homecoming that was the start of the
TV series. So the movie was first. That was how
they kind of started the series with Christmas during the
Depression on Walton's Mountain. So I thought it was revery interesting.
That was the first episode, a double barrel one that

(17:44):
did involve that if you're get too young to know
what the Waltons are, you need to go on YouTube
and watch it. It was kind of it was pretty
sickly sweet, but there was something about it was quite compelling.
Mister Walton's smiley blue eyes. There was something about that.
By the way, too, someone has texted me and said
that they were at university with Judith Collins and she

(18:06):
wouldn't have been Judith Collins then, I don't think. But
she was called Judith from Walton's Mountain at university because
she was from Walton and the Waikato. I've never known that. Yes, Marcus,
I have seen the Waltons movie when they all returned
home with their own children for Christmas. I loved it.
Mum had it on video. Well that's fine, but probably

(18:28):
no one's got a video player anymore, have they. You
need to sort of update that, did it?

Speaker 11 (18:33):
Not?

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Now be humming the Waltons thing toon all night? Get
in touch if you want if that you want, gee
and away we go, oh, eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty text on. Also, anyone got a report on the
hail at Momona on the flood free Highway?

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Why hold of the whole bit smashed? Like the Winter
Wonderland Momona? Is that what they still call the airport? Carrie?
It's Marcus Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 11 (18:59):
Marcus Hi, Kerry Hi.

Speaker 9 (19:04):
Yeah, first song all on Marcus.

Speaker 10 (19:07):
But yeah, Walton Mountain name.

Speaker 11 (19:12):
Cool. It was cool?

Speaker 9 (19:15):
And Mary Ellen and John Boys you know, always called
out goodn't I John Boy or Mary Allen?

Speaker 3 (19:24):
That was for those who hadn't seen that. That was
the thing. The closing credits were always the lights would
go dim, and they'd always say good night to each
other from the different rooms, wouldn't they good night John,
Buy good night Mary?

Speaker 10 (19:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Kind of quite famous.

Speaker 11 (19:37):
What was cool? Cool series? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (19:41):
When were to be early seventies. I guess it'd be
a while since you've seen.

Speaker 11 (19:44):
It, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
You yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
I'd put that as I'd put that as my most
I must watch Christmas thing from a nostalgia point of view.

Speaker 12 (19:56):
Yeah, we're still around when.

Speaker 11 (19:59):
Oh, either Waltons Walton's Bananza in northern.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah, I know where.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
I don't know where they were in America. If it's JD.
Varnce country was it? Was it Virginia? I can't think
where it was. Yeah, gotta be probably probably Virginia. Ah,
good to get you, good to get yellow? Which island?

Speaker 13 (20:22):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (20:22):
And Kirie?

Speaker 10 (20:24):
I'm I'm in the mighty white now?

Speaker 11 (20:29):
Why here?

Speaker 14 (20:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Brilliant. Well, nice to hear from your kiddie. Thank you
so much for that. Twenty had away from nine hit'll twelve,
Oh wait, ten undred eighty. We're onto the Waltons. It's
the nostalgia I like, and going to America and the
hail and and and goodness me, that's an article I'll

(20:52):
click on. Jennifer Gray from Duty Dancing. See who now
at sixty five? Gosh, she aged quickly. There we go anyway,
get in touched Marcus till twelve. What have you got people?
If you got breaking news for you all, let us
know what that breaking users looks great and text if
you can. And it has already been a busy wide

(21:16):
sweet you've got to go quite wide sweeping with the
topics this time of the year. I find because people's
minds are scrambled. Part of them is thinking ham or crayfish,
and there's some is thinking gift or a voucher and
a thousand things to do, getting their winter wardrobe or
getting their summer wardrobes sorted out before they go away.

(21:39):
I can sense some people now they are coming slightly
unstuck as the craziness they call Christmas comes up. We've
still got no word what the TV did is going
to put on TV for Christmas Day? That's always a
night to talk back and that what do they played
that for? Jeeps? Creepers? How many times you got to
see notting Hill? Anyway, But I am talking tonight about

(22:02):
will you start advising your children to go easy on
social media because you want them to get into American
universities or sports scholarships, because the thing in the past
yet to go easy on social media because it could
affect your job prospects. If you go for a job
at a bank or something, they finally shot to you
on social media sort of on the beer bong all

(22:23):
the time. But yeah, now you can't go into the
States because of it. Yep, it's a concern for some
Would I get into the States probably. I don't think
I go. I don't think they'd go through ten years
of talkback. Would they phrase no? Or maybe they would?

(22:43):
There is a house on fire in the suburb of
Carori eluded a lot of fires. Where else was a
house fire? I think there was one of the need
in six point thirty four that one's been phoned in
well involved. It was a There was a double fatal
in Livin. There was one year a lot of fires.

(23:04):
Wouldn't they would be the time of the year for fires,
would you? I can see now the aerial shot they've
got a drone up looks extensively damaged. There we go
lines free if you want to partake, If you want
to partake, partake Evening Marcus. If I was in a

(23:27):
position to be trying to travel to the years of
the future, I'd be stopped at the border and returned
back to his end. My phone is a hot mess.
I think the information requirement would put people off from
traveling there. In my honest opinion, good luck to them
for the fee for World Cup the Olympics. If they
haven't killed off their tourism already, they will damage them
much further. Yeah, I was reading an article last night

(23:51):
that said that World Cup football World Cup in the
United States is pretty much the worst case scenario for
soccer fans. Football fans, come at me twenty four to nine.
You got a drone, Marny.

Speaker 12 (24:08):
No, I don't have drying. My friend Jeremy has about
six of them. So I got called Jeremy about here
drying because.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
They reckon are they revolutionizing farming?

Speaker 12 (24:18):
Not really, Jeremy is spraying people's ruse. Wen't forget and
during you know, when you're planting trees in a big gully,
it just spray like ten thousands of little spots the
planetary trees during that sort of thing.

Speaker 15 (24:34):
Sorr.

Speaker 12 (24:35):
I think they're quite good for like for they little
spray jobs, but they don't. They can't even carry about
team leaders of spray.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah, doesn't sound like a proper job flying. We might
control planes, does it.

Speaker 12 (24:49):
It's definitely a passion project, Yeah, all right.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Is a passion project or a side hustle? Probably the
same thing is.

Speaker 12 (25:01):
It's I think it's strowing from the passion project into
the side house. Now it's full time on the drones. Wow,
there's wind and rain and bagpies and some other birds
like magpies here.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Do you say worms.

Speaker 12 (25:21):
Went went? That's quite bad drones anyway, it is a
drunk guy. Are we talking about droves?

Speaker 3 (25:29):
And sometimes I just try and see you conversation tap
topics with the callers I've got. But anyway, what do
you want about? What do you want about?

Speaker 12 (25:37):
Marty Belan wanted to talk about the silly season home
and getting it stressed out. I've just been Hamifacts and Hamilton,
all the tradees and the farmers and the arms are
out and getting getting a little bit stressful, but not
through there. But we had a weatherm on and my

(26:02):
son went out picking up hay and the big storm
rolling out around anywhere a school area and like done,
lots of rained, all the hands down at the moment, and.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
That was like dramas So was that already was that
already bailed or is that just loose?

Speaker 15 (26:16):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (26:18):
The stuff you was.

Speaker 12 (26:18):
Picking up was already boiled, So probably you're right. There's
a lot of may cut down. Was it to be
turned over another couple of times?

Speaker 3 (26:27):
So it's still it's still savable as long as you're
a couple of days of dry weather, Is that right?

Speaker 12 (26:32):
Yeah? Okay, Supert, it'll go around again.

Speaker 15 (26:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (26:40):
Yeah, going to America, it should be fine, like unless
you are like a real crazy person, should be a fine.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Well, I guess you won't know until you get the verdict.

Speaker 11 (26:54):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 5 (26:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
What's your christ You've got Christmas camps to organize, have you, Mardy?

Speaker 11 (27:01):
Yes, you know.

Speaker 12 (27:02):
Just one of my jobs tonight was to pick up
three hundred risk bands from the fly shop at the base.
First concerning that paper and I need them to last
five days kind of paper paper wristband last night days.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Probably not, they're still gonna last. What's wrong with those
rubber ones?

Speaker 4 (27:22):
Is it?

Speaker 16 (27:23):
Is?

Speaker 11 (27:23):
It?

Speaker 9 (27:24):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Because they're disposed? Well, you can't do them anymore.

Speaker 12 (27:27):
Yeah, we need to have this classical ones. You go
to a festival like that and those last century. You
put your firstband on, it last three months. You still
have it in March and April when you're back in school.

Speaker 11 (27:40):
Yeah, back out.

Speaker 12 (27:41):
They're indestructible. You could probably like to a trailer or
you can, but these ones are paper. But when I've done,
I've just bought fifty and i'll test them out on
the kids this week and if they last five days
on the kids, I'll go back and get the other
turner in fifteen.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
I thought you'd just have the same ones every year,
just then they come back and not pay. I suppose
any different ones, don't you?

Speaker 12 (28:05):
Yeah, different ones, I stupastas, Yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
What's the party shop called? The Base? Is that what
it's called?

Speaker 6 (28:15):
Uh?

Speaker 12 (28:16):
You know Tarafa?

Speaker 11 (28:17):
The base?

Speaker 9 (28:17):
You know?

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 15 (28:24):
It was pumping there.

Speaker 12 (28:25):
It wasn't much room in the car back on late
night shopping.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
Do you if you're a farmer you go to town,
are you run into make you know, like other farmers
in there?

Speaker 9 (28:34):
No?

Speaker 12 (28:35):
I think most farmers are doing online shopping.

Speaker 11 (28:38):
But I had to.

Speaker 12 (28:39):
I had to pick up my book. I bought a
Facebook Marketplace coffee table.

Speaker 10 (28:44):
Yeah, for the house.

Speaker 12 (28:46):
So that was my bob thirty bucks for a big
time coffee table. Pretty happy with that.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
Straight in the family, straightforward, pick up, that's right to
pick up.

Speaker 12 (28:58):
I was in a new subdivision in Hamilton's that's always
a bit scary, but straight forward and pick up a
very nice medical person. There's moving back to Auckland or
an apartment.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Topic contra downsize and going for the big money in
the big city of it. Can't take the big Tabley.

Speaker 12 (29:14):
We'll take the big table. We'll move it down.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
So brilliant, Marty, great insights that you hiding Sich in
the far enjoyed that. Thank you, seventeen to nine, he
till twelve. Anyway, how are you, Marcus? The Waltons are
on Jones Channel on Saturday and Sunday. Brilliant. Oh, of

(29:38):
course Colins is Collins's Judiths made a name. Perhaps always
ahead of your time, Margaret Marcus. I applied from esther
today already. An optional question is your social media links
in the past five years? Also wanted to know my parents' names.
I thought that was weird. Can't go wrong with H

(29:59):
and R puff and stuff on Christmas Morning, Teresa. The
thing about puff and Stuff was so tragic. The guy
that was the lead on that Magic Life. Did you
ever read those stories like he was terrible? He was
like that wasn't good at all for him, Jack Wild,
ohit a haunted life if you follow such things. For

(30:24):
those that don't know, and we are in the realm
of nostalgia, that was sort of giant puppets. Was it
puppets or was it people in costumes? Anyway, there's that
do come through if you want to talk Jack Wild
who was puffin stuff, ended up drinking four bottles of

(30:45):
vodka a day, maybe a week anyway, never really got
it right. I don't think now here till midnight. If
you want to be a part of it, fifteen to nine,
it's thirteen to nine, just like that. If you've tuned

(31:06):
in getting ready for the news, as some of you
do welcome we are talking tonight. Are you concerned about
your social media and going to America again to look
at five years of it and you mightn't get in.
I think what's troubling people don't really know what you
can and can't post, which is kind of weird. So
there's that. We're also talking about the hailstorm in South Dunedin,

(31:31):
Otago today. If that was a part of you, if
you witnessed that, what was that like? Get in touch
with that. Also tonight are drones and agriculture as a
side topic, and Christmas movies, And I said, you probably
can't go past the original Walton's initial show that set
off the whole series. That was the Christmas Special during

(31:53):
the Depression with snow on Walton's Mountain and John not
coming home John Senior one of the greats. So there's that.
Now there's other stuff you want to put around that,
that's all good.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
Do what you do you do?

Speaker 3 (32:06):
If you want to talk here till twelve, Yeah, be
a part of if you want to, By the way,
till this is something. They've never found that guy that
shot those cops in Melbourne, have they It must be
four months ago. They've gone quiet on that. I imagine
it's unlikely he's alive. But still I've got nothing to
base that on, but just to leave with no notice.

(32:28):
I've watched that program. We got to run away and
hide for two weeks, and if they never managed to
get fast, I think this guy would manage that far.
But you never know. Anyhow, do come through if you
want to add to any of these discussions, or if
there's something else here till the end, looking forward to
what you want to talk about, Yes, get in touches.

(32:50):
You want to be part of the show tonight. Yes,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to the
texts you want to be part of it, keep those
texts coming. Anything else you want to mention talk about?
DOO would like to hear from you, and I can't help,

(33:14):
but people A really want to talk about favorite Christmas movies,
and I'm not on the Christmas movies at all. Marcus
speeding on way to Vegas, cop pulled me over. Supposed
to appear in Bakersfield. Caught three days later, it didn't appear.
Fine for four hundred bucks, Julia arrived news He'll never
paid it. Since then, a few years ago, I have
been emailing the US embass and Willington, advising them about

(33:35):
their nasty leader. I ain't even try to go to
the States. No big deal anyway, that is mark. Someone
said so sad nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
And another person's texted twice my favorites have to be
them up at Christmas, Carol and both original Home Alone movies.
I can pass on love, actually, that's not I can

(33:57):
pass on love. Actually that I can pass on love actually,
And welcome to the show, People of New Zealand put
and calls good what we're about tonight. By the way,
this weekend, Dick Van Dyke will be one hundred. Not
many actors make it to one hundred. He married his

(34:18):
nurse who was younger. That caused some sort of scandal.
I think seem very happy together. Now I've talked about
making bagels too. That might be something very awarding thing
to do if you ever get a chance. That would
be my baking bucket list, I think, not that I've
got one. And by the way, they're talking about introducing

(34:43):
oral nicoteen pouches to New Zealand. You can buy these
anyway through mail order. You put them in your gum evening. Tim,
this is Marcus. Welcome you could aid Marcus you well, yeah, good,
thanks Tim dangerous, Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
I'm gonna yeah. Oh, I'll say that my favorite Christmas
movie is Surviving Christmas two thousand and four. James Gandolphinie.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
I thought you said Surviving Christmas two thousand and four.
It was about the Christmas Soon Army. But no, I'm
with you now, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, no, I sort of rolled that all together, didn't
I speak.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
No, that's that's all right. But it wasn't called Surviving
Christmas two thousand and four. It was Surviving Christmas. Yeah, okay,
that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah, sorry about that, Yeah, Gandolphinie Benefleck, Catherine O'Hara, who
was the.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
Mum and Fame alone one and two. Yes, it was
I always had a big crush on here, and she's
very funny. And Christine Rapplegate, Oh.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
Yeah, I'm married with children. Yeah yeah, what's the what's
the what's the synopsis?

Speaker 2 (36:06):
I basically Genelfini k a married couple. Christina Applegade is
their daughter. Now I haven't seen it for a few years,
but benf Flick kind of he's a wealthy young man
and he hires the family for Christmas. He wants a

(36:27):
Christmas experience which he never got growing up, you know,
came from him to and it's a comedy, and it is.
It's really enjoyable. It's light but funny. Ah. Yeah, I
wouldn't say it's I don't know if you can even
say this thing. I wouldn't say it's a chick flick.

(36:47):
But sorry that fends anyone.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Well, I don't know about if the offense at the
term of chick flicks offensive. I don't really quite enjoy
a chick flick or a rom com.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Well, he he doesn't, you know, it's a ten. Maybe
I shouldn't say. I don't know a bit of a dinosaur.

Speaker 10 (37:06):
I do try.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
I try to be better, but I failed, so you know,
I'm still learning but yeah, no, I think there's some
good dry humor in it. And I enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Bang us through the time, bang us through the title
of it again in Tim and Casey was trying to
watch that write that down.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Okay, So it's called Surviving Christmas and it's from the
year two thousand and four, and I think most people
would find it an offense of and there's some there's
some good barely laughs on it. You know, it's it's
a good film. I thought it was anyway in my opinion.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Nice to hear from your Tim. Thanks so much for
that too. I've just actually sorry to call Tim in.
That was bad, wasn't it. I'll tell you one thing
that I don't like about Christmas, and that's why, despite
me not being into Christmas movies, people are talking about
Christmas movies. I think the weather's wrong. I think there's
something about the Christmas movie that's the sort of a

(38:09):
British thing. When it's freezing cold and you've got sort
of muld wine and there's nothing else to do in
the pubs closed because it's Christmas, and you watch a
Christmas movie together as you're in a carb coma. That's
what kind of I thought it was. But yeah, that's
so funny about that because it's probably not my thing.

(38:33):
The weather's wrong, I guess it's what I intend to
say about that one. Well, that's an hour one down
out of four here till twelve. What do you got
lines free get amongst it? You know the drill? Oh
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two nine two
to text. Here we go here till twelve? Can you
bring that one across the identa for that? There seven

(38:54):
past nine, braid and this is Marcus. Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 13 (38:58):
Hey, here's gone good.

Speaker 11 (38:59):
Thank you, Braiden just ringing just finished.

Speaker 13 (39:02):
Whek And I heard on the way home you're talking
about Christmas movie.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
It's sure.

Speaker 13 (39:08):
I actually watched a good one but two days ago
on Netflix. It kind of looked pretty cramp, but it
just sucked me in. It's called Read one, Yeah, and
it's it's this is what kind of to me off
because I'm sick of these movies. It's got Dwayne the
Rock Johnson in it, so basically it's like it's about

(39:31):
a guy that doubts Christmas but center does exist, and
the Rockers his bodyguard. It sounds really lame, but it
takes you really good and it's got really good prosthetics.
It's kind of got like it's one of those ones
that has I wasn't watching it with any kids, but

(39:53):
it's got like adult jocks jokes that would go over
the kids heads. And it's got a good storyline. I'd
highly recommend it.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
It's on Netflix and there's Father Christmas and the Rock
Johnson is his boy.

Speaker 13 (40:07):
Yeah, it's called read One and it kind of the
storyline kind of evolves around the old like I think,
like the whole traditions of Christmas style, so like users
like the European names. And yeah, it's quite a good
It's a good movie.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
Brilliant, great recommendation, Brandon, thank you for that and thanks
for hanging on there for tell us that that's brilliant
getting touch people moving to America and social media also
to Christmas. Let's not let's not fight it. Let's not
fight the topic Christmas films. Yes, I'll put mine in Marcus.

(40:50):
Every year, I watched a six part Australian show called
A Moody Christmas. Each episode is a Garridge for England
to Australia Christmas with his crazy Family, Great Aussie humor,
The Key Week Country Girl bagel recipe super something amazing.
Takes a bit of time, but worth it. I now

(41:10):
use the bagel pastry to make mini pizzas or bagel bombs,
bagel bread wrapped around nut ella or ham and cheese.
About the time they band na teller, isn't it how
much sugar is in there? Marcus only sent that text
once but got to thank you. Replies, Wow, Piers, there's
two degrees tings. Add is the worst add in. I

(41:32):
don't think I've seen it. Blah blah blah. Here'del midnight.
My name is Marcus. Welcome anything else? Do you want
to mention tonight? God, I'm up for it. All people
question statements. Whatever you want, whatever you want, let's be
hearing from you. There might be tales that you've got

(41:56):
from your life you might want to mention tonight. Someone
said to me that there was an original movie called
Spencer's Mouthon that inspired the Waltons with Henry Fonder. Yes,

(42:17):
so there you go. Whether it's about Christmas, I don't know,
but that inspired the Waltons. While we're talking about the Waltons,
because I said that was my choice of Christmas movies.
Well that was a telemovie, the one that started the series.
They're all based on the Shenandoah in the Shenandoah Valley.

(42:39):
Now why do we know that song? It's on the
lyrics A country road, isn't it? Not the label but
the song A great song that is too. By the way,
if I could say that just quietly, Blue Ridge Mountain,
Shenandoah River life is old. They're older than the trees,

(43:02):
younger than the mountain, growing like a breeze. That's pretty
much you got that. That's pretty much where Walton Mountain happens.
H Matt Marcus Go Evenings.

Speaker 17 (43:18):
MICUs oh Michaus Christmas Meevies. I was thinking about the
mesic called Elf. It's about Santa Claus, Santa Claus and
his brother. His brother's a bit of a misfit. He's
like in New York and uh, his gilfriend, I think,
is a winder writer. And it's kind of like how
he needs to come back to the note pole, how

(43:39):
the text man's coming back and trying to close down Christmas.
Any idea is it Elf.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
With a knee or with an a alf? The England
Elf Elf yea who's in that.

Speaker 18 (43:53):
That uh tall tour fellow.

Speaker 17 (43:57):
Oh, he's a he's a really big time comedian. And
another fellow he played his our father, and I think misery.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
What's the named?

Speaker 17 (44:08):
Oh, my gosh, misery. I'm sorry, but such a beautiful movie.
He's a really tour off and he's like out of
out of work in as So trying to get trying
to get some money. They anyway love story. Hopefully any
of the listeners will know.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
Sorry about the but yeah, you've done well, good, good
on you.

Speaker 17 (44:30):
I'm trying my business.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
I don't think I've seen it.

Speaker 17 (44:35):
It's a beautiful movie. But hopefully one of the listeners
of the show will not be other pap a sad
and yeah, begging up the names.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
I'm saving it.

Speaker 17 (44:45):
Thank you have a beautiful Christmas.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
Michaels, thank you, you two are you take care of yourself?
You take care. There's sixteen past nine texts and calls. Great,
anything's good tonight, It's all good. I'll tell you something
else too that this is this is a propos nothing.
I didn't see the figures comparing New Zealand and Australian

(45:11):
uptake of solar panels. Yeah, and they're like on thirty
forty percent, We're like on three percent. What's that about?
Because I never think we should get sold, and of
course we should. But yeah, I guess it's just not
friend of mine for people, is it? There you go?
Elf is literally the worst Christmas movie ever l ol

(45:33):
actor as well Will Ferrel Marcus. The two degree ad
you would never have seen because it's on your radio station.
You should try and listen to your own ads. Why
why would I? I don't say that, I don't mean

(45:53):
I don't mean that provocatively. But I'm doing research during
the commercial ranks. I'm doing other stuff, listening to audio,
replying to emails. Oh that's just not a rest for me.
That's there's stuff to be done. Love Natella, but it's
the palm oil they use which puts me off. I've
checked all the brands and they all have palm oil

(46:14):
bad oils in them. I think it's about the fact
that they call it Natella, but it should be called Sugarrella.
It's like eighty percent sugar. It's basically just rubbing sugar
on your bread. Red One is surprisingly watchable. I thought
it would be someone's I pronouncing Natella wrong. Who cares?
You know what I mean? Anyway, a lot of people

(46:36):
coming through, aren't they gooving? Marcus? If everyone is there
and put their house on the market and every house
sold for one dollar with the bags put everyone in jail,
well that's someone's thinking out that's out there thinking. I
don't know what to say about that. Marcus, my nephew

(46:58):
just going off FaceTime Facebook with me. He lives in Perth, Australia.
Here is fourteen he said, he said, what ban All
of his social media is still up and running. That's
from Mitch.

Speaker 11 (47:09):
Well.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
The fed to be coming to get him. On Mitch's nephew,
I'll snaffle him away. Seventeen past nine o'clock. Be a
part of it if you want to. It's going to
change the channel on the TV. Get something interesting. It's
been on what's the stand for dead? It's not a
very good channel. It's all very old stuff.

Speaker 11 (47:26):
Duke.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
We'll don't ever make any money what it's been on
for days. They come anyone in the studio, maybe they're
all on a holiday. Seventeen past done. You still come
through if you want to be a part of the
show tonight. I'd love to hear from you. But topic wise,
she's pretty sketchy. Not a lot happening. People are in

(47:48):
holiday mode. I can sense that. Now everyone's going on
about this stupid debate between Ruth Richardson. I mean, is
that really what what should be? I mean because imaginally
go into a bat you've got to prepare for that.
Should that what the finance but is should be doing?
I don't think something is much things we've done with
her time, if I could say that. So, I don't

(48:11):
know what to make of that one. That's got the
chatterati going off today. And be in touch if you
want to be oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
text if you can, and anything else. I'm here for
until twelve o'clock tonight. Oh Zoe Editionale, Is she an elf?

(48:31):
What it was the guy saying about her? No, it's
something different about that was so yeah, I thought he
said it was someone else. Ah, nineteen past nine. Yes,
Facebook messenger is exempt from the band, That's what I thought.
Ozzie's had year of soul of subseeds. Well, maybe we
should geez. Some people are so snarky, relaxed people who

(48:53):
are you? People are snarky it was the year of snark.
I think people really kind of got snarky. You'd be
on Facebook lately. Boy, Oh boy, I'll tell you who's
getting triggered. That's people getting triggered after the Adun movie. Boy,
there's some funny comments about that, and not funny in
an enlightened way. The person from Seagreed and Roy that

(49:14):
was mauled by a tire did they die? I think
they did. Don't quote me, I'll google that up. They
started off on cruise ships, Sigrid and Frey, Sigrid and Roy,
Sigfrid and Roy. But I think they did get eaten
by the lion. I'll tell you from Google. Critically injured.

(49:42):
He suffered a stroke and had his spine severed, lost
a large amount of blood, and permanent payment to his
motor and verbal abilities. The video was never released, and
he claimed that the line was actually trying to help
him after the stroke. Yep, So I don't think it
did kill them, But many months in hospital and there

(50:06):
we go. I don't necessarily know how I think they died.
In the end of COVID, Now, what do you say,
did die of COVID or go of COVID?

Speaker 11 (50:15):
Or with COVID.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
Remember that, Remember the year when everyone said that do
you die with COVID or of COVID, with COVID or
of COVID? Anyway got COVID. That was the end of him.
Marcus having coffee with friends today and I bought up
who knew what the ad with the car splitting in

(50:36):
two was about? You mentioned it last night? Nobody knew.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (50:41):
And also it was men singing the song. I hope
I got that right as well. Kind of gosh. You
must have been the talk of the coffee conversation. Brilliant. Yes,
the black caps are on, Duke, thank you, so the
cricket must have been on Hey lines available for your
input tonight on the show. Now there are other topics
you want. There might be tales from the supermarket and

(51:04):
your Christmas shopping frenzy. I'll tell you what's got a
lot of shopping space. Those hazel nut chocolates never used
to be anywhere. Now they're everywhere, like balls with Repton,
hazel nut and chocolate. Don't know what they're called. Are
they linked or they Pharaoh roshe and Ten years ago
you couldn't get one of those for love nor money.
Now they're everywhere. Ardie Saville has won the Kelvin Artramine

(51:29):
Memorial Player of the Year for the third time in
his career. Now did Robinson get Coach of the Year? Ah,
there we go. Braxton Sorenson McGee a breakthrough Player of
the Year, Black Friends Player of the Year and he's
in Age Grave Player of the Year. What a phenomenon
she is. And Porsche Woodman Whitcliffe got Sky Super Rugby

(51:51):
Alpiki Player of the Year and the Tom French Morial
Moldy Player of the Year. There you go. Looks like
raising your Coach of the year. Not yet next year, though, eh,
be in touch. You want to be a part of it.
Hit till twelve, Robin, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 5 (52:12):
Oh good a Marcus?

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Hi can I Robin?

Speaker 19 (52:16):
Gooday?

Speaker 5 (52:17):
And Merry Christmas, and you too.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
May all your Christmases be mery.

Speaker 20 (52:23):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (52:25):
Colo rang In and said before that the Alfie movie
was crap.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
Yes I think I think it was a texter but yes,
I'm hearing that was this sentiment.

Speaker 5 (52:36):
Oh yeah, okay, right, Well I did see the Alfie movie.
And I'm sixty five and I have only one grandson
and he's into Alfie at home with his mum, and
mom has to run around and move Alfie because Alfie's

(52:57):
a naughty boy.

Speaker 19 (52:58):
You know, this set in the other and a hell
of a lot of.

Speaker 5 (53:02):
Those kids do exactly the same thing, and and dads
are going to move our fear around to do naughty things.
So I've seen that movie first time ever, and I thought,
oh right, I'm going to send my friends on the

(53:24):
parcel in the mail, and I'm going to put down
in that box for him what Alpha yeats? Alpha eat
spaghetti lollies and maple syrup loads it up to no

(53:44):
end and you've got to eat it with your hands
because that's what he does anyway.

Speaker 19 (53:50):
So this is going to be fun.

Speaker 5 (53:53):
I'm going to send this box of tricks the mum
and since going to have to sit there and watch
Alfie the kid eat And I don't know whether it's
going to work or not, but I'm just being sneaky.
I thought it was good.

Speaker 6 (54:16):
To me.

Speaker 5 (54:17):
It made me giggle, and it gave me something.

Speaker 11 (54:20):
That a bit of fun.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
Can I just all this is quite confusing for me. Robin, Okay, okay,
what's an elf?

Speaker 5 (54:33):
An elf is a little wee thing apparently, or it
can be a big wee thing that helps center out.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
Okay, so is it a human a small human?

Speaker 5 (54:48):
Well, it's a helper for Santra apparently. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
Okay, I've never known. Yeah, I've never understood elves. I've
never understood the grunch. But I've missed much of my
Christmas cannon. So are they short humans like midgets?

Speaker 19 (55:02):
Well?

Speaker 5 (55:03):
The elfie that they that people can buy through the shots,
is is it quite small? It's just a little.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
But I think that's different, is it? That's that's the
one you put in it and it watches the kids?

Speaker 6 (55:19):
Right, Yeah, well that's robin.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
That's creepy. That just encourages surveillance culture. I'm prety much opposed.

Speaker 15 (55:27):
To all that.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
Oh no, that's terrible. That's terrible. Fancy the kids thinking
they've been watched. Oh no, you can't support that as
a grandmother. That's terrible. No, it is not, Yeah it is.
That's just saying someone's watching them the whole time. They
put them gs into children.

Speaker 19 (55:43):
Have you got children?

Speaker 3 (55:45):
That's what do you think?

Speaker 5 (55:47):
You You do not understand what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
I wouldn't put I wouldn't have kids. I wouldn't have
little mystery things spying on my kids.

Speaker 5 (55:56):
It's not spying, it's fun.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
Okay, love it, Okay, I agree to disagree, but thank
you for that. Twenty seven past nine. So yes, she
was talking when she said Alfie. She's talking about Alfie.
But I think it's the movie alf But I don't
think elf on the Shelf, which seems to have gone
out of favor of revery quickly. I don't think that's

(56:22):
based on the movie alf Because Will Ferrell's of John.
I think that's why it's funny. But like Twins with
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Denny DeVito, bring back the male order,
it'll be I'll be first in line for the time
DVD mail order of Hogan's heroes. What else could your
male order, Marcus? We did Soulo October twenty twenty four.

(56:44):
We installed twelve point three kilowatts of panels and fifteen
kilowatts of battery, converted seventy four percent of our power usage, sorry,
seventy two percent of our power total usage and the
excess generated over summer generated, and eleven hundred and fifty
oars a credit which covered our winter usage from the
grid cost approximate thirty four thousand dollars at one percent

(57:10):
bank loan. We were using eleven thousands per hour of
per year. We've not paid a power bill since that's
Derek thirty four thousand percent loan. She was talking about
the Elf on the shelf. It's a small toy elf
that watches children during December. That's right. But I think

(57:32):
people are concerned because of oh, do I need to
explain it h to their own each to their own. Yes,
I think there's something quite creepy about having a pretend
elf that spies on your children. That is all I
am saying. But for a while there, for about two years,

(57:55):
people loved putting funny things on Facebook, like a drunken
elf that was doing something, and they'd do that, and
they would post that and watch the likes roll in.
You don't see that so much anymore now. Be a
part of it if you want to talk about solar
power or Elf on the shelf and the surveillance state

(58:17):
or Christmas movies. But yes, there's plenty of articles on
that Elf on the shelf and the normalization of surveillance culture,
and someone's always watching anyway. But I don't think it's atually.
I think there's actually a movie that talk I don't know,
you see, I don't kind of the thing about Christmas,

(58:39):
that kind of it seems to be evolving quite quickly.
When did the Grinch? When was that?

Speaker 4 (58:45):
A thing?

Speaker 3 (58:45):
That seems to be bigger and bigger in the parades.
It feels like the narrative is changing. I guess it's
I guess they've got to keep it fresh and interesting.
Also too, about getting into America and your social media feed,
if you will change that, if you're going to go
easy because you're think of going to America in five years, Marcus,

(59:05):
we have solar paddles. We had them installed in March
twenty twenty one. We paid thirteen ninety nine nine call
at fourteen thousand. We have spent six three and twenty
since then, so they're in their six that they've paid
two thousand dollars. We're estimated we have saved fourteen thousand
in power in the last five years. We have now

(59:29):
passed the break even stage. Panels are good for twenty years.
You have to spend money to save money well worth
it in the end. I guess what key we would
be concerned about because I love buying and seeing the
houses so often. They'd be concerned they couldn't that it
wouldn't add a commensurate value to the house. Is that right?
Who knows? Twenty five to ten? I guess this might

(59:54):
be parallel between alf and the shelf watching the children
and Trump's government watching what we post on social media
and where they can rely out in the country. On
the basis of that, it's all surveillance, isn't it. Maybe oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty now here, I'm good authority,
big weather potential bomb hitting on Tuesday looks nasty. Thank

(01:00:18):
you for the email. Rob. That looks like a real
he says, four days out, but too early to tell.
But it looks like CODNK coming straight in and hitting
Holk a ticker the glassy is really really hard, like
a direct hit and twicel. So yeah, that's Monday one o'clock.
I'm wat sure how accurate that is. And if you

(01:00:40):
want to talk, and we're talking about solar power. So
it's quite a big investment, isn't it. And then you've
got to work out where the investment pays off. I
guess it requires long term planning. It all depends on
how good you are with that. Alas I'm seeing it
through now. Now that's today's one, is it?

Speaker 12 (01:01:01):
This?

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
This is worth reading our day? Okay, okay, okay, So
this has just come through. Funny, I was just mentioning
that this has just come through. Dan Forwards me. This
from the Met Office Severe thunderstorm warning. At nine oh
seven Met Service weather radar detected severe thunderstorms near offshore
east of Timadoo, offshore, Rangatata Rivermouth, the Rangetata Rivermouth, Lowcliff, Woodbury, Geralding, Carew,

(01:01:27):
Peel Forest and Arundel. These severe thunderstorms are moving towards
the east northeastern. Expected to lie offshore east of Timadoo, offshore,
Langitata Rivermouth, Long Beach, There Burton Rivermouth, Lowcrift, Geraldine, Karoo,
Peel Forest, eating, Arundell and Lismore. At nine point thirty
seven pm. It's about a minute ago and near Ashburton, offshore,

(01:01:48):
Rangatata river Mouth, Long Beach, there's Burton Rivermouth, Seafield, Carew,
Hind eating Lismore and Rangatata Island. At ten o seven.
This is quite precise and quite serious. These thunderstorms are
expected to be companied by very heavy rain and large hail.
Very extreme rang caused surface and or flesh flooding about streams,

(01:02:11):
gullies and movement areas and make driving conditions extremely hazardous.
Large hail can cause significant damage to crops orchards, vines,
glasshouse and vehicles and make driving conditions hazardous. A severe
thunderstorm watch remains inforced for Canterbury Plains, Canterbury High Country,
North Otago, Central Otago and Dunedin. So yeah, that's a
live event. So they've seen it and they've predicted it.

(01:02:34):
That's nine oh seven ninety seven, ten oh seven, secure
loose objects. Maybe not head out now, Actually it might
be too late. But yeah, wow goodness. Arundell's a lovely
name for a town, isn't it? Is that Tolkien? It
feels like it's some sort of exotic forest. I I

(01:02:57):
got that right. Maybe I haven't got that right. Oh
there's a castle there in the UK. Maybe that's why
I've got mixed up with that one. But that is
a small village of Geraldine where the tempest is predicted
in about twenty minutes. That's a severe thunderstorm warning. It
is twenty to ten and get in touch with you

(01:03:17):
to be part of the show. HITTL twelve. A lot
of texts on the Timidoo tempest. She's big, she's happening
and it's all going on now. If you've got weather
reports for us or the actuality, let us know or
text it. Here's what people are saying, Marcus. The storm
hit Timadoo about eight pm, very very very loud, thunder, lightning.
Oh boy did it rain raining here in Timadhoo now

(01:03:38):
had lightning and thunder Arundella's in southern England, yes, and
in the South Island. Driving from christ Church to Lincoln currently,
it's absolutely amazing watching the lightning down south, absolutely wondrous.
We've had fifteen mills at Waimata about seven o'clock tonight,
quite quite big hail and good rain. So yeah, she's fair.

(01:04:00):
I'm throwing it down. I don't know what crops the
farmers would be concerned about. It's not the stonecrop area
there is. It's it's mixed cropping, is it. But yeah,
no doubt that would be a worry.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
I was pleased at Marty. I was often wondered about farmers.
If your hay gets wet, if you can dry it
out because she's got to turn it once again, don't you, hi, Marcus.
I think customer service in Auckland is going downhill. There
are so many rude and unhelpful shopkeepers had a stressful
year who want to be a shopkeeper. People come in

(01:04:34):
and say, have you got that? Going to try this on?

Speaker 16 (01:04:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:04:36):
Yeah, there you go?

Speaker 6 (01:04:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
Would you? They take into the changing and they try
it on, they go, thanks very much. You've got to
fold it up and put it away and they go
on line.

Speaker 4 (01:04:43):
And buy it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
That's the reality of shopping now, people just using the
shops to try stuff on. I don't think I've brought
clothes in a shop this year. No, everything's been through
the carrier, which reminds me of have to get the
carrier a present. We must do that. That's important.

Speaker 11 (01:05:03):
Here.

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
I bought anything at the shops I think I have.
I was thinking of a water rome, a different outfits. Nope.
I take great joy and repairing the old stuff. That
what brings me a lot of happiness. Anyway, at that time,
we don't lose the neighborhood cobblers and do get in touch.
If you've got the tempest, the timinu tempest that's about
the hit. Marcus. My friend was denied entry into the

(01:05:27):
USA by immigration at the airport because he has a
drink driving conviction. Oh well, what do they call them
over there? DUI driving under the influence. I'm surprised about that,
but not that surprised when they seem to be trying
to steer people away. But yeah, I don't know how
those football supporters are going to get in there. You

(01:05:50):
lagal out. A lot of them would have prize, wouldn't they.
Although football the football supporters aren't what they once were.
They're not they an't seem to be that sort of
evil as they once were. Fifteen away from ten o'clock,
Marcus till twelve about the Timidu tempest or anything else

(01:06:10):
and solar paddle and getting into the States, And it's
Bagel Awareness week. You've got an interesting bagel story for me.
Great things to make, fantastic things have reforgived. You think
that's never gonna work. I'm never going able to boil
dough very straightforward. It is bagel Day, very straightforward, one

(01:06:33):
of the most satisfying things you can do. I think
it's just my suggestion to you. Well, it is like
getting six slices of bread. If that's something you're supposed
to know. I don't know if that is or not.
So the only bread that's boiled before being baked. That's

(01:06:55):
the key to it. You boil it in a large
pan full of boiling water. So there we go. Just
help you out with interesting things. Text if you want
to email. Did you say the weather is bad for
Fox and hokit tick next week? We are traveling. We
are studying our Christmas holiday next Wednesday with two nights

(01:07:15):
and a half three nights and Fox and ten nights
in hokit ticker. We were traveling from one nack Away
cauld Just know where you get that information from, as
we have till midnight to cancel it on booking, I'd
go christ I think probably what if you go to
the coast, you'd want the bad weather. That'd be my information.

(01:07:36):
I can't do the actual website. I'm sorry, but yeah,
do your long range forecast. I think you'll be fine.
Sola may pay off long term. I just got my
powerble seventy acts for the month. Single person and a
one bard unit work twelve hours a day. The only
thing that's one during the day is my modem and
the hot water, the lights when I get in and
eat out, so don't cook an occasional cup of tea.

(01:07:58):
So someone's making some money. Thank you for all that.
Twelve away from ten just to remind you, well, just
to reiterate, just just come through. There is a severe
thunderstorm warning for Eshburton, Timidu and Mackenzie and it's gonna
hit at ten o seven. These are severe thunderstorms and

(01:08:22):
they are at ten oh seven near Eshburton, Offshore, rung
Atata River Mouth, Long Beach, theresh Button Rivermouth, Seafield, Carrow Heines,
Eating Lismore and rung Atata Island at ten oh seven.
They'll be expected to be accompanied by very heavy rain
and large hail. They're worried about surface flooding, about streams,
gullies and urban areas and driving conditions. So the severe

(01:08:45):
thunderstorm remains in will watch for enforced for Canaby plans,
Cannery High Counry, North Otaga, Severlo, Taga and Dunedin. Jamie's emailed,
I'm fifty four and I've never had any desire to
travel overseas due to safety my new units where I
love being. That's from Jamie Good on your jamil. You
can write what you like on social media, America will

(01:09:08):
be of no concern to you. We are talking tonight
about people's concerns with social media and traveling. I'm just
asking you if you've decided to change what you post
because you're concerned you mightn't get to go there. Well,
that's probably a bit late now. Yeah, I'm sure it
all come down once Trump goes what's he got three
more years? I don't know that anyone else is going

(01:09:29):
to pursue that. Well they might, you never know. But
if you've got an update on the weather, that would
be of interest to me too. It's happening currently as
we talk you, Jimmy, it's Marcus Good evening.

Speaker 12 (01:09:41):
Hey, MICUs.

Speaker 16 (01:09:42):
I'm just driving towards the storm, towards Ashburtaway and it's
pretty it's pretty sparticular, might.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
Say sound today that's that's loud rain and you're on
a truck.

Speaker 18 (01:09:53):
Harvest in the car.

Speaker 15 (01:09:54):
It's the car, but.

Speaker 16 (01:09:57):
Yeah, you can see the lane. You're right across the
plains from east.

Speaker 15 (01:10:00):
To west pretty much.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
Is it kind of is it flooding the roads yet?
Does it kind of ponding or anything?

Speaker 11 (01:10:08):
Like that.

Speaker 18 (01:10:11):
Past Murca.

Speaker 16 (01:10:12):
So I've gone about probably forty k past thirty k's
and it has a started raining yet, So I'm saying
it's it's pretty much i'd say in Ashburda now possibly.

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
Yeah, okay. I mean they seem pretty precise with their time.
They must have pretty good radar information if they're getting
it down to right to ten oh seven.

Speaker 12 (01:10:30):
Yeah, yeah, true.

Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
Were you headed for, Jimmy, I'm just sitting back to
the farm, so, oh yeah, sure, are there any Are
there any crops? There's not the sort of crops that
Hale would reckon South Canterbury. Are there?

Speaker 16 (01:10:47):
I'm not necessary. No, you haven't got you haven't got
your fruit orchard cross touch.

Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:10:53):
So obviously it can of course damage, but as I guess,
not as severe as those guys who have those major
crops like that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
So yeah, take care anyway, Thanks for calling Jimmy seven
away from ten head twelve. But big ware, they're coming
down the country. It's about to happen. We are talking
solar power and getting into America, these other topics. It's
all on the cards tonight. If you've got something else
you want to a pine on tonight would be good
to hear from you. Text also if you want to text.

(01:11:23):
The thunder and lightning hit to need around three, although
while I was ex clear, the center of the activity
appeared to be five approx. Five to ten. K's out
to sea. Rain was heavy, but he's about six having
just been outside nine thirty five. It's coolish but fairly calm, Kiddyama.
The amazing shots are at the airport, which looked like

(01:11:44):
the winter Wonderland. There was just whiteness from the hail everywhere.
So yeah, there's some pretty nicing hill stuff that kind
of comes in from the offshore. HiT's the hills of
the airport just past the airport, drops it all there.
That's kind of what I pretty did it happened, But yeah,
unbelievable shots. So yes, very much summer storms. So text

(01:12:05):
about that if you want to. I've got something to
say about that too, and anything else that you want.
Eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine nine two text
if you da want to come through eight hundred eighty
ten eighty and nine to nine two to text looking
forty input Oh email to Marcus. Do we all have

(01:12:31):
an Auntie Margaret somewhere? My year was Jason's and Lisa's
my school year five, Jason three leases my son's year
now thirty one, Jordan five in the class three female,
two male, and every Olivia at dance classes. You get
on your Kathy, don't disagree names, come and go, but

(01:12:52):
be in touch for something I want to talk about
right through to midnight. That is me, That is my
role tonight. How are we going with our father Christmas too?
By the way, Smith and Coe's got an awkwardly of
coping with someone else romance along midnight He'll sort out.
He's from twelve. They still called the graveyard they shouldn't

(01:13:14):
and no know what else to call it. By the way, Yeah, Pete,
this is Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:13:19):
Welcome, Yes, good evening, Marcus. I was surfing through the
TV tonight and I happened to come across Australia New
Zealand News Channel eighty five and Peter Credlin, who's one
of the well known popular Australian broadcasters, was interviewing a

(01:13:41):
farmer whose farmer nearby farm had been damaged by a
solar panel that obviously had a milkdown and burnt here
ninety two hectares, including a big chunk of the solar farm.

Speaker 3 (01:13:57):
Oh you well, what channel's that on.

Speaker 14 (01:14:00):
Eighty five?

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
What's that station called?

Speaker 14 (01:14:05):
It's and New Zealand's that sky News? Is it sky News?

Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
Oh yeah, I think they're pretty skeptical about solar aren't they.

Speaker 4 (01:14:14):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
I think that's what they go?

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

Speaker 16 (01:14:16):
Well?

Speaker 14 (01:14:17):
No, no, it's a natural fact. It showed to the
burnt out the solar farm, and it showed to the
smoke of it when it first started off, because things
are pretty dry over there. Excuse me, things are very
dry over there and they are worried about smoke all
the time. Anyway, this thing, it was a hell of

(01:14:37):
a big farm, had a hell of a milk down apparently,
and something went wrong. But boy, what are warning out
there for others? Was the size of the solar farms?

Speaker 13 (01:14:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:14:51):
Good point, Pete, And what a warning teeth the planet
heats up much more. Nice to talk, Thank you big.
Where the sisters? You've got some information about that phone
that through that I'll had about ten o seven. Get
in touch if you want to. We can hold you
over after the news eight nine nine to text. HiT's
the end and next week as well. So yes, be

(01:15:13):
a part of it. You want to talk and do
get in touch. Anything else you want to mention up
for it. Totally non curated talk. Anything goes here till twelve,
as I say, oh, eight hundred and eighty eight, but
equip weather talk after the news, we're going live. Whether
I've got a lot of texts coming through. She's just
she's all heading. It's Christchurch, it says Burt, and it's timidu,

(01:15:34):
it's everywhere. So yeah, it was supposed to be ten
oh seven. It's now ten I seven exactly. It's happening
as we speak. We're going to Ashburton Markets, Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 20 (01:15:45):
Good evening is heavy. So the thunderstorm, torrential rain, the
wind's here and some of the storms have been going
for the last twenty minutes, and the whole sky is
lighting up more so you've got.

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
The triple threat. You've got thunder, you've got lightning, you've
got rain, you've got wind. And that's five. You've got hail, wind, ray, lightning, thunder.

Speaker 20 (01:16:08):
Not hail yet, no hail, no, no, it's no hell.
But I tell you, if the thought right thing does
for a transformer, she'll be all up.

Speaker 5 (01:16:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
I think people are predicting the power to go out today,
are they Is that right?

Speaker 11 (01:16:26):
Yeah, i'd say so.

Speaker 20 (01:16:27):
You know, this is pretty ka bea.

Speaker 11 (01:16:28):
This is very savere.

Speaker 20 (01:16:31):
Is.

Speaker 3 (01:16:32):
Is it the sort of one that looked like it
could be damaging?

Speaker 9 (01:16:36):
No?

Speaker 20 (01:16:36):
No, No, it's mm hmm. When there's I don't know,
you're probably looking back maybe ten to fifteen miles an hour.

Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
Actually, okay, not bad at all, So it's not bad.
But you've been struck by lightning, have you? Mark? You've
got missed last year?

Speaker 18 (01:16:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:16:56):
Well yeah, yeah, the rain and very year is coming
down quite heavy now and the thunderstorms and the right
thing beautual, just lighting up the whole sky.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
Brilliant, great report, Mark, anyone else got the other weather information?
Get us through with that. Get in touch? G was
Why are you so obsessed about bloody thunder and wayne warnings? If?
If is? How many have been issued in the history
of man? Guess what? We are? Still here, will be
here tillmorrow? Well maybe you won't. Last week you're talking
about podcasts. My favorite show on YouTube for anyone who's

(01:17:31):
a food lover and Joys interviews of the random and
well Knownish people dishes fronded by a British radio announcer
and a chef who trained under Gordon Ramsey. They asked
their guests about their food likes and dislikes, what they
are in or promoting the ships that have a meal
based on their likes. Stephen Fry, Shania Twain, Tom Holland,
Mary and Margoli Margoyle's Richardy Grant, tell me the name

(01:17:52):
of that people he has got a name with that. Marcus,
thunder and hail of Ashburton ten oh for three minutes
early Marcus, thank you for the weather updates. There you go,
number ending in seventy nine Live Northwood by Chrostitch Airport.
Just outside looking at the night sky towards the south,
very strong, bright lightning fleshes, thunder just starting. Christ jude

(01:18:14):
's from Adrian. That's at ten o'clock on the dot.
Lightning fleshes and christ Church City nine fifty nine, cloud
bank and lightning flesh just weather off christ Jeurch nine fifine.
So what's happening? And we are talking about solar power
ironically and trying to get a visa to get into
America now. Of this and best Christmas Movies, my vote

(01:18:38):
was the Waltons Christmas Special, which was the original Walton's
which was a Teley feature. That's what's the first series.
What's the first show? Dan before? What's that called the
pre call? On the opening show? What's that called the pilot?
It's the pilot light the pilot. The original episode of

(01:19:00):
the Waltons was a double feature of movie, and it
was the Depression, set in Christmas in Whisper and you're
Shannondoah and the old boy couldn't get home. It'd be
not outworking to get money because of the depression. But
you know, they never lost their love of their family
or their faith. Slightly pious, but that was the times.
Couldn't remake it. We probably could remake it now. Actually,

(01:19:23):
but what are they going to make? What's that movie
that Trump's gonna remark? I don't even know what they're
talking about. What's the movie that Trump's making them make
a remake of. It's a cop one too, it's a
two hander. It's not Tango and Cash. Somewhere will tell

(01:19:45):
me what it is. I was amazed at it. But anyway,
he's into it. He wants them to remake and I've
never seen any of them text to figure remember what
that one was. It's been in the news the last
couple of days, whether too if you've got announcements about that.
Love talking about the weather. Someone wants to know if
Hastings is going to get the storm. I don't know.
I will give you updates when those happen. We've got

(01:20:08):
to read them out with Judy bound when they come
through for the Met Office. But they love a thunder warning.

Speaker 11 (01:20:15):
Oh I did.

Speaker 3 (01:20:16):
Also, I needed to tell you today, Yeah, da da
da da Today in nineteen seventy eight, this is the
anniversary of the Lufthansa heist, which I haven't known about
before today. Do you know anything about that? One of
the biggest robberies ever took place in New York City's

(01:20:37):
JFK Airport. Nearly six million US taken money and jewelry
have never been recovered, the longest investigated crime in US history.
The latest arrest was made in twenty fourteen, which resulted
in acquittal. It's a big deal. No, it wasn't that. Yeah,

(01:21:03):
absolutely sure it wasn't. Someone said it was lethal weapon,
but it wasn't. It was, Yeah, it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
It was like that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:18):
It's a bit fly of consciousness tonight. It wasn't lethal weapon.

Speaker 2 (01:21:24):
It was.

Speaker 3 (01:21:25):
It was a cop buddy movie. There's two People are
two hander rush Hour, rush Hour four, and I've never
watched a rush Hour film. It's It's It's it's Jackie
Chan and Chris Hacker. I believe they look fantastic. But

(01:21:47):
you know, if there's one thing that intrigues me more
about Trump than anything, and I've often said this, it's
his obsession with Sunset Boulevard, the movie. He watches that
like all the time. If everyone goes around to his house,
he insists he's obsessed with that movie. And I watched
that movie the other year just because I couldn't. I

(01:22:08):
want to understand him by watching that. And it's a
pretty out there film. It's worth watching. In fact, I
think probably more of Trump the fact that he loves
that so much. It's pretty kind of It's pretty dark
and noir ish and pretty kind of twisted in a
funny way. It's a bizarre movie about faded Hollywood and

(01:22:29):
all sorts of things. It's got good. It's got a
great script anyway, now texts about the weather is good. Yes,
it is rush Hour. That's a movie he wants remade.
We've had thunder lightning hound to enterate in time of
about nine pm. All over now gone North Chips No
I should remake Chips Copaganda sixteen past ten, looking forward

(01:22:53):
to import Hurdle twelve O eighteen past ten. Welcome people
if you just joined the show. Good evening, and I
feel very much in the.

Speaker 14 (01:23:04):
What are we in?

Speaker 3 (01:23:05):
We're in kind of the interrect between between the nuts
and bolts of the year and between Christmas. People are
partying and shopping tonight. But that is fine stinking hot
weather in Auckland. So yeah, there'd be a seller on fans,
I would believe, So that might be something worth thinking about.

Speaker 4 (01:23:22):
Good.

Speaker 3 (01:23:23):
This hot and decee of January could be traumatic, so
could again to the great debate about is the great
thing to aim a fan out the window? Therefore that
draws the cool air in much discussion about that. That's
one of those talkback topics for about the second week
of January. Do you'll find yourself doing talkback on the

(01:23:44):
second week of January's impossible to get people to call.
What you've got to go with is where should you
face your fan and barbecue safety? How easy is to
kill yourself with food poisoning on the barb they are
your good topics for the second week of January.

Speaker 10 (01:24:01):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
In the meantime, what are we on about? Well, anything
you want, really, I'm happy. I'm just happy for the
calls social media and getting into America solar panels and
while New Zealand's really not into that, and good and
bad Christmas movies and the Waltons and is Elf on

(01:24:25):
the shelf. Kind of a little bit creepy that you're
trying to get kids to feel that they've been watched
from someone they can't see. Two years ago it was everywhere.
I think people have woken up to Elf on a
shelf with not hang about something that's not quite right.
They are my suggested topics. Or in the weather too,

(01:24:49):
that's just kind of heading up north and slamming south
Canterbury as we talk. You might want to wear that too,
as you can see all the lines are free. I'll
be honest about that. So jumpin' or phone and I
guess is the answer. You might be overseas too. Always
good to get overseas people. A text. Wasn't a need

(01:25:09):
at the airport when the storm rolled through there this afternoon. Fabulous,
Now I'm a christ each on the porthals, watching the
same storm roll at the planes, large lightning flashes, thunder,
and the temperature dropped about five degrees the last ten minutes.
All the plants are able that are able to be

(01:25:30):
put on a shore to have been the rest of
the garden will get shredded if it's anything like it
wasn't to need an exciting text. We went solar in
nine eighty two. It costs two thy seven hundred for
the setup, upgraded twice since then, and also installed three
many turbines. When I made myself out of forty four
gallon drums, cut up that runs silent spinning, three car

(01:25:53):
alternators that charge batteries. We have not had a power
bill since nineteen eighty one. I suspect they're probably on
the barrier or somewhere. Are they Another text? I was
denied entrying too the US early November for a drink
driving conviction from nineteen eighty when I was seventeen, shifting
the old man's car off the road into the driveway.

(01:26:14):
I have had no problem getting to the USA thirty
two times since then until recently. I have two businesses
in California, pulling an average of sixteen million dollars a
year and have.

Speaker 6 (01:26:27):
And have now.

Speaker 3 (01:26:29):
No business and we'll never do business, will visit the
USA ever again. From a drink driving conviction in nineteen
eighty two, which is forty three years ago. That seems wrong,
doesn't it. But it's their law a country. They can
do what they want. We can't complain that sovereignty. You
can do exactly what you want. But if you've got

(01:26:50):
weather updates or anything like that, the lines are free,
everything's available. Come on, people, be good to hear from
you tonight. Oh let me sit up straight in the chair.
If there's any news that I'm looking for always to
bring to you, I will. I think all the journalists
have gone home. By the looks of things, it's all
about the New Zealand Rugby Awards, which look exactly like

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you'd imagine. And by the way, this is the other point.
The New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi is pumping the
brakes and reducing speed limit on several sections of a
popular highway route. In time for Christmas. Four sections of
State Highway twenty five will drop to fifty k's from
eighty or seventy. I think this is around the Coramndel

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so two k's of Statehoe twenty five between Thames. It
says tada, but I think that's a misprint. Is going
down to fifty kilometers. They say it's too noisy with
the speed, So there you go. Two sections of road
near Kwartuna will drop this fifty k's from seventy and

(01:28:04):
that's happening. And a sex of state high only near
Lake Topoor we'll be getting a speed reduction with a
six of road either side of Motor Teddy Motor Holiday
Camp dropping from one hundred to fifty. They're quite dramatic
down to fifty k So there you go. If you
think you've been forced to strive slowly, not wrong. There

(01:28:25):
are big reductions. I don't quite know why. I thought
probably because it's too noisy. It's not a valid excuse.
Too noisy for your Airbnb jeeps. A big fire in
a house in Karori that's been put out, but the
house seems to be in a bad way. And torrential

(01:28:46):
thunder heading parts of South Canterbury happening about now. You
might want to talk about that or anything else tonight. Yeah,
get in touch. Twenty five past ten o'clock. Some great
texts coming through. I've read those soon. No one's feeling
the love for Elf on the shelf that I can see.

(01:29:06):
By the way, Dick van Dykt's birthday on Saturday, he
will be one hundred, so interesting. I think he might
have had the I think he might have been in
the Grip of the Grape too. By the way, actually
check out his bio because I think there's some stories
there about him. I thought he was English, but that
was just a character played in Mary Poppins. I think

(01:29:30):
he was the Chimney sweet oh you go and gov
like Miles Brent its Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 10 (01:29:36):
Yeah, how are you tonight?

Speaker 3 (01:29:38):
Bred? I am very good.

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
Thank you good good.

Speaker 12 (01:29:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:29:42):
So Merry Christmas. I hope you have a good Christmas.
It's been a good year. We've listened to you quite
a bit. Much appreciated.

Speaker 3 (01:29:51):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (01:29:51):
And he actually dragging me away from something I really
enjoyed doing. I'm sorting out nuts and bolts. I've got
a bit.

Speaker 3 (01:30:02):
Wow, So what are you putting them out in glas
or what can you get those?

Speaker 6 (01:30:09):
Nah?

Speaker 10 (01:30:09):
Hey, I've got high tech. I've got the new Rayobi
Link storage unit.

Speaker 2 (01:30:16):
Very good.

Speaker 3 (01:30:16):
You've got to look at that as we speak.

Speaker 10 (01:30:19):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty What do you make?

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
What do you make with your nuts and bolts?

Speaker 10 (01:30:24):
I make kid everything. I've got a few grandkids. But yeah,
I've got a big garage and I like to fix
things and repair things, so yeah, yeah, and just whatever
needs to got a few properties, so I don't like
to pay people too much for small stuff. If you
know what I mean, it must be my Scottish ancestry.

Speaker 3 (01:30:44):
Yeah, well so yeah, okay, well it sounds like your Christmas.
But and be that relaxed if you've got sort of
houses to fix and things.

Speaker 10 (01:30:51):
No, no, no, none of that, none of that. I've
we've gone boating and it's just the long and short
of it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
So oh yep, you'll go and you'll turn the radio,
you'll turn the phone off.

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
What's that.

Speaker 3 (01:31:02):
You'll go and you'll turn the phone off.

Speaker 10 (01:31:05):
No, no, no, no, we always keep the phone on.
But but yeah, yeah it's it's got a new boat.
So I'm quite looking forward to going out onto the
lake a bit with the with the younger greend kids.
So but yeah, the thing I was going to mention
is have you noticed I don't know whether it's more
than normal? Have there been more fire building fires. Yeah,

(01:31:27):
I reckons fires this year.

Speaker 3 (01:31:30):
Yeah, I think so. And there's been a lot of
house fires. I can't work out why that a house
would burn down in December.

Speaker 10 (01:31:35):
A lot of house fires, a lot of deaths.

Speaker 2 (01:31:39):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:31:41):
And you know, even this thing at park it's a
sort of double whareme. That's that's gone twice, isn't it.
So I got a hope that's probably you know, not
that I'm a global warming conspiracy theorist, but probably the
one thing that would annoy me is if we did
have a lot of driving, dry winds and we had

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a lot of fires. I think that would be pretty boring,
inc be catastrophic.

Speaker 3 (01:32:07):
Brent, good luck with your nuts and your bolts. Nice
to hear from you. Here's the text. The thunderstorm has
passed through wesh Burton. A lot of thunder and lightning
with heavy rain, very little hail. Disappointing, Marcus. The Waltons
are on five pm Monday to Friday on Jones on Sky. Also,
I better not get food poisoning in January, as I'm

(01:32:28):
currently in hospital with salmonella. Marcus my son is an
Indianapolis for a week in a massive car motor show.
It to liven below. The show is indoors thankfully took
twenty hours to fly there. And I think those elves
are creepy too. From Sue Marcus. I've got the elf

(01:32:49):
in the house, and I tell you what he is creepy.
Don't like the idea that we forced this narrative on
our kids of someone watching was sent to not enough?
What's next? We used to be a real country. The
polar expresses my favorite Christmas movie and glad there was
no Elf on the shelf when my boys were a
young Love your show, thanks Nicola, and a nice text tear.

(01:33:11):
Our daughter, who has special needs, she loves looking for
the Elf. She's almost twenty and very much believes it's
not for everyone. Like a lot of things, but not
everyone has to Loretta, well, that's right. It's a good thing.
It's not compulsory. The shelf elf, I don't know where
it a ridge. I think it came from a book.

(01:33:31):
I think a lot of parents are quite competitive with
Christmas because Christmas used to be something you did solitarily,
but now you can actually instagram it. It becomes quite braggy.
I've noticed, Oh, we're gonna sh look at us. Oh,
look at us all, Look at our mad kids. There's
the elf. Or look the ELF's got into the raisins
and they pour raisins on the floor. Or look at
the elf, naughty elf. It was a book from two

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thousand and five, Yes, getting us ready for the surveillance culture.
They're calling it a marketing juggernaut dressed up as a tradition,
the purpose of which is to spy on children. And
the argument is that one shouldn't bully one's children into
thinking that good behavior equals gifts, and psychology today said

(01:34:17):
a dangerous parental crutch, akin to what he terms the
Santa lie. Anyway, many privacy organizations and researchers criticize the
product for teaching children that involuntary, non consensual surveillance is normal,
just another nanny cam and a nanny state obsessed with
penal codes. If you grow up thinking it's cool for

(01:34:41):
the elves to watch me and report back to Santa, well,
and it's cool for the n s A to watch
me and report back to the government. So yeah, there's
a fair amount of pushback actually on that. Anyway, that's
the elf on the shelf just putting her out there.
It's not plain sailing. But yeah, I've never done it.

(01:35:03):
I've never ealth shelfed. Marcus drew up watching The Dick
Van Dyke Show on TV in black and white. Just
had a seating fan installed in my lounge. Installation. Not
a cheap exercise. Best money I've spent twenty twenty five,
very cheap to run if you google it. Merry Christmas, Roger,
twenty five away from eleven. My name is Marcus. Welcome.

(01:35:25):
I enjoy this week, the weeks before Christmas. But I'll
tell you what you make you. You certainly make me
work for the calls. Text maybe if anyone do you
might like me saying text before a text. I think
that could be my new thing for this year.

Speaker 14 (01:35:43):
Text.

Speaker 3 (01:35:45):
People hate it when I say Marcus before a text.
Text text Maybe if anyone else remembers how nice it
was to go late night Christmas shopping at Farmers and
Ork of the eighties with the top floor cafe and
playground with the children in the middle. So fun. Does
anyone know what happened to the Big san to Love
your show, Sam, The Big were having a Big Santa

(01:36:07):
for a while. He was on Witkeles and then he
has gone to the Toy Museum in Warnica, which I
have zero interest in visiting. But thank you Sam. Text.
Just remember the arable farmers. This at the time of
the year that crops are growing. We definitely do not

(01:36:28):
need hale at this time. Thanks Sonya Well, I guess
the thing about hale. There's not much you can do
about it. Text. Read Anthony Hopkins memoir Sad Life, Awesome
actdoor text. We had a beautiful company Christmas in tonight
until we're told Auckland is shutting our new Plymouth depot
down on the twenty fourth. So twelve more on the benefit.

(01:36:49):
What industry is that in where they'd be closing down
in New Plymouth depot. But yes, talk to me if
you want to twenty four to eleven text. I think
that might be quite good doing that. That might be
my new thing. Text. Ah, I did see an article.
I'm surprised and saying that to me Dan, the do's

(01:37:13):
and don'ts of the Secret Center. Did you see that today?
It was on stuff I think. Oh, I'm curious though,
what the dos and don'ts are and if they talk
about the yet, what's that?

Speaker 14 (01:37:25):
Yet?

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
The Yankee swap. I don't know. I can't. I can't
just try to desperate find the article. Now I'm trying
to google it by doos and it was on stuff.
I'm sure, but I've googled it. I used to when
only do Google switch. I used to be able to
google and just using the stories. I can't do that
so much anymore. I'm sure it's just an article they've reprinted.

(01:37:51):
But the key is don't buy junk, don't buy future landfill,
buy something edible or useful. And I can't find any
of those stories. I'm sure I saw it today and
now I can't find I'm look friendly, you're looking at looking,
looking looking. Let me see if I can do this
recent past twenty four hours, no disappeared to me. You

(01:38:14):
might find an otic and send that.

Speaker 11 (01:38:15):
Through to me.

Speaker 3 (01:38:19):
Text. It was interesting Marcus hearing today on the news. Oh,
I'm not going to read that. There's just you're playing
into that. You're playing into the into the narrative. Oh text,
what was it about insulation and free chick please in

(01:38:41):
his roof? And I don't know what that was. You
must be listening on demand. Text Kim is closed tonight
from eight pm, Hen, who'd you mention that some road
works warning signs along State Higway one on the way
home twenty two to eleven Casper. This is Marcus. Greetings
and good evening.

Speaker 18 (01:39:01):
Okay you're right?

Speaker 3 (01:39:03):
Yeah, good, thank you, Kesper. Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 18 (01:39:06):
Yeah, that's could mate. Script back in the bend. Who
was losing their jobs? And what company was that?

Speaker 11 (01:39:11):
Buddy?

Speaker 3 (01:39:12):
He didn't say what company it was. He said, we
had a beautiful Christmas, a beautiful company Christmas innsign until
we were told awkward is shutting down our new Plymouth
depot on the twenty fourth, So twelve.

Speaker 16 (01:39:23):
More on the.

Speaker 18 (01:39:25):
Sorry, it didn't mean to be rude.

Speaker 13 (01:39:27):
Was that told?

Speaker 18 (01:39:28):
Did you say told?

Speaker 6 (01:39:29):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
I didn't say anything.

Speaker 18 (01:39:31):
Okay, now I must have mastered.

Speaker 3 (01:39:33):
You're just I don't want to alarm anyone, but it's
pretty it's pretty lousy to do it at the Christmas dinner,
isn't it. I would probably announce that beforehand.

Speaker 18 (01:39:41):
Yeah that's dead, right mate, Yeah no, no, it's go yeah, no,
it's what I just thought. I missed it, and I
thought wonder that they're closing down and.

Speaker 3 (01:39:51):
Don't told as told I? Who were told? They're the
rail operators. Are there there Land Transport now, aren't they
are you?

Speaker 11 (01:39:58):
No?

Speaker 18 (01:39:58):
Yeah, no, used to work for told they're afreak company mate.

Speaker 6 (01:40:01):
Yeah okay, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:40:04):
They're like a logistic just another logistics thing.

Speaker 5 (01:40:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:40:10):
I'll see if I can find out what it was.
I'll ask the guy. I see if he can text
me back what come He might be able to say it.
I'll see if I can find it out. Okay, thanks,
Copy that by the way and try the other thing
I'm excited for next year is the opening of the
rail loop and I can't wait. I'm also interested for
the opening of the tunnel under my messenger. I can't
wait for that. Love that drive Walkland, you love going

(01:40:31):
through the gorgeous text camping on Christmas. Keep we Australian
culture or maybe the Northern Hemisphere does it too? Do
you even know what that means? Text? Saying text before
ready gets text is annoying and at tracks from the show,
here's a few texts is absolutely fine, Tony, Well, people
don't let me saying if I go Marcus is because
most people start a text with Marcus and this job.

(01:40:53):
You can't please everyone. Text. Thank God for you familiar
voice Marcus much appreciated. Not everyone enjoys this time of
the year for various reasons. We might need an elf
any who eight hundred and eighty eighteen eighty text I'd
rather hear you name the bit of a text rather
than the word text drives me creative. Only done it

(01:41:14):
for an hour? I thought I was onto something. Email.
I'm joking. Make the annual insufferable office secrets had a
better this year. That must be one. Get a team together,

(01:41:36):
combine the funds, todate to Oh, you know, there's trying
to get better. That's not quite what I want. It's
just trying to get people tonate to life saving. That's
that stuff campaign that's clearly flogging a dead horse with
that one. It just kind of hasn't grabbed the nation.
Text curious about the sewage dump and my local diving spot.

(01:41:56):
I don't know where that's referring to. Oh, eight hundred
eighty to any name is Marcus?

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
Good?

Speaker 3 (01:42:02):
Evening I felt bad. I'd read out that weather report
from for next Monday that was going to be bad,
and some of the thought they're gont to cancel the holiday. Ah,
so what are you going to do for the next
eighty minutes, we can talk about the great moments of
the Waltons, the worst Christmas movies. But yes, I think

(01:42:24):
the Christmas movie discussion is a Northern Hemisphere inherited discussion
because I don't think it's part of the new Zal
audition to watch Christmas movies because the weather's too good.
I mean, for most of us, it's wake up. Well,
this is not me, but I can see it to others.
Wake up, eat, go into a cab coma, go and
trade me, sell you unwanted gifts, short walk, short board game.

(01:42:49):
Then something else. I'm not quite sure what. Maybe it's
the Christmas movie. We yet to find out what's going
to be on Christmas on TV in D and TV three.
I don't even know how I owned to TV three.
It's the sky, I think now. But this will be
the first year that there is advertisements because the law
was changed, so both on radio and we'll have the

(01:43:10):
usual suspects. Christian broadcasters and some of the other hosts
will be doing shows, but they will be able to
play commercials because in the past it's been a very
hard shift to do them at dawn because there's no
commercial so they're talking for five hours, but there will
be commercials on radio, and I think the theory is

(01:43:31):
that because all the advertising money goes to Facebook, now
why should they have commercials and radio and TV can't.
And when you think of that way, it actually makes sense.
Text good a Marcus. I've been been self employed about
ten years out of a small team of Edmund staff
and roofers. Every year we put on a big Christmas
do and activity together and a few beers afterwards. I

(01:43:51):
also like to give my as staff a small bonus
as a show of appreciation. But when I talk to
other business owners, they reckon I'm crazy to give bonuses
at all. I'm wondering what your thoughts are. Is it
Christmas ham enough or should employers still be giving something extra.
I've never been a boss, but what I imagine is
that if people want to retain their good staff, particularly

(01:44:16):
with the economy is really pumping along and people go
from job to job or better options, it's probably good
to make them feel appreciated with Christmas gifts. I'm sure
you get back in kind a lot more than you
spend on the christ I think that's basic psychology. So
as if I as a boss, I'd be giving Christmas
gifts that would be well thought out, but the chance

(01:44:37):
of me being a boss slimmish. That would be my
response to that. Though you might want to say I
think the Christmas Ham this year is problematic as we
become a more diverse culture. I mean some of the
ham is the height of Yeah, I don't think that's
kind of a one. It's all anymore with the ham

(01:44:58):
is you get a vegan ham?

Speaker 6 (01:45:02):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:45:05):
So what do we get a vegan ham? Fifteen to
eleven if you want to partake? And the hare til
the bitter end tonight people, Oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty and a big thunderstorm has landed. If you've
got some information about that, I don't know if there's
any damage. I think would have heard something. I think
probably when it comes to this stuff in Hale, the
thing that's the worst effected is tunnel houses here that

(01:45:31):
they get thrashed by hale. By the way, while to
something else that I've talked heard about on this show
that we've tried builders crack quite a good service, isn't it.
You put a job on and they come and over there.
It's something I think i'd like to say that as
far as that goes, that's worked pretty well for us.
I imagine the economy is good for something like that.

(01:45:53):
Is that probably now things for traders are getting slightly quieter.
And by the way, just as I've been sitting here
talking to myself and reminiscing about various things, I've just
realized why I won't be watching a CRISP movie. I'll
be watching The Darts one Luke Littler, so that'll be great.
The dance, so that will be I think that starts

(01:46:15):
on Boxing Day and goes right Moven start earlier. That's
always worth watching because you don't really have to get
too involved. You just have it on the corner and
it's still kind of fun to watch and then start
singing along. So yes, the Darts that will be on
at the Eli Pelly. So that's happening. Hopefully there's a
Kiwi there. Ed and I'm not quite sure text cure

(01:46:37):
Marcus seven minutes total advertisement as the perfect one show.
What is it now? Text? What does a vegan hem
look like? It's not what it looks like, what it
tastes like. Christmas Day is going to be twenty eight
degrees centigrade from my layman prediction. I'm sick of saying text.
Already twelve to eleven, someone says, what dance we're talking about?

(01:47:02):
Darts message kesper up and the darts starts tomorrow. They
have them all, all the regular characters, the Aussie guy
with the mullet, the guy with the mohawk, always very
good that year. The woman did very well. What was
her name? Actually she's very good. And it's like a

(01:47:24):
slipper shoe. It's a tea word like tyrone or something.
Rex are always good in the darts. I think the
darts starts tonight. There's a couple of keys and three Aussies.
It's a better between the lukes. No one else in
the picture. I worry about his health because for a
guy that's like sixteen, he's got a body of a
sixty year old. I do worry about that. I think

(01:47:47):
it's help it's helpful you're bigger and darts with your
center of gravity. But yes, that does start now. It's
nine away from eleven. People of New Zealand, welcome and
if you want to be on here, that's the plan.
Stand email Marcus Builders Crack charges trades to exit the
site cost has passed on to the customer. There we go.

(01:48:10):
Thank you for that. So for those you don't know,
you don't you just put a job up and they
say that they tender for it. I don't know how
it works. I wasn't that involved or just answered the door,
so that would be my involvement. Oh builders crack. Oh yeah,
for goodness sake, makes sense. I'm enjoying saying text and email.

(01:48:36):
But yeah, I can understand that could get annoying for you,
and I'll see how it goes. But like some things,
I might get bored of doing it. But people always
criticize about how they read out. Who sue's it? Oh,
someone wants to know what the weather will be like
on Christmas Day? Who cares? I shouldn't say that a disparagingly,

(01:48:57):
But you know that you always had a B plan.
That's the beauty of it. If you've got a new
board game or something, a dart board, a trampoline, that's
the answer. Now, if you want to be involved in
the next hour, ideally, yeah, let's go.

Speaker 11 (01:49:19):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:49:21):
You even tell me what really annoys you? If you like? Uh,
eight away from eleven ads five from eleven Call Pete,
good evening. It'inst Marcus.

Speaker 19 (01:49:32):
Welcome, okay, Marcus.

Speaker 15 (01:49:34):
Regarding bonus is for your workers, ireing. It's good. You
know if you have good workers and you're making good
money from them, and it costs to retrain people cost
a lot of money. So the total appreciation if you're
on the border, if you're an employee, good on you
are you your your employees will respect you, and I'm

(01:49:55):
like you for that, you know they can claim and
bringing off your checks. I think as well. That's the
one one.

Speaker 3 (01:50:02):
And even when corporations go to recruit people good stuff,
they often give their people. You know, if you get
one of her mates to come and work for the company. Yeah,
they always pay about ten grand and stuff for that.
So it does you know, good staff are worth money?

Speaker 5 (01:50:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:50:16):
People true?

Speaker 15 (01:50:17):
And you said, and I've been on a lot of
jobs over the years and that and not of bosses.
They realize that, you know, have you got good workers,
how can I keep them? Give a little bit of
a bit of a character end of the year around
Christmas and that, and I think, and buy a few
prezzies or something for their kids. One of those you've
given might be two hundred dollars five and whatever you
can afford and you think they're worth. I think it's
very good for businesses in your company if they simple.

Speaker 3 (01:50:38):
Yeah, I agree, I agree, pet, I think it just
makes perfect sense. Although I imagined companies are tight, but
you know that means it's tight for the people working
as well too. They'll be doing it tough with food
prices and stuff.

Speaker 15 (01:50:51):
Yeah, and you've got the good workers, like you know,
they're going to reprinting myself here, but a bigger the
staff go and you're going to say the train and
that costs a hell of a lot of money. And
I think some employees just don't well, they don't they
know where coostantly trained are you? And old saying you
better off keeping knowing the devil you know the way.

Speaker 3 (01:51:10):
You don't know and plenty of time if you'll employ
someone who thinks is going to be excellent for the
job when they turned out to be a complete data
or a sickle that you know, not sick all the time,
but you know, a cereal not tuner uppers and things too,
and it becomes really problematic because you never can quite tell,
can you.

Speaker 15 (01:51:26):
I used to be in the deer industry, and that,
and you know they rely on you because you know
you're going to pick up the farmer's milk. You know,
it's a twenty four operations. So if I don't show up,
so as one of those guys that are not so reliable,
puts a lot of pressure on the other workers. I
think most bosses they realize and they appreciate if you've
got good workers. So if you got to afford it,

(01:51:47):
give them a little bit. You know, it doesn't cost
much end of the day.

Speaker 3 (01:51:50):
Never thought of going back to the cow's peep.

Speaker 15 (01:51:53):
Oh I'm getting toild for that game now, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:51:56):
Is it tough on the Is it tough on the body?

Speaker 4 (01:52:00):
Ah?

Speaker 15 (01:52:00):
No, No, not really. Today is a lot more easier
than the old days, like you know called ventual bail
from that, I think farming is a lot easier actually
now they ton now that there la farms are got
a lot bigger, So there's a lot more pressure, yeah
on fire with paperwork and all that. When you know,
back in the eighties and nineties and that farming was

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a lot easier, but now there's a lot of a
lot more. Yeah, a lot of more brains you have
to use nowadays in the old days, sign the times.

Speaker 3 (01:52:29):
Nice to talk Pete Beck after the news people, if
you want to be a part of it, with you
till twelve, if you want to come through eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine to the text,
anything goes for the final hour. It's talk about work bonus.
I think it's quite a very very discussion actually, which
had to talk about three hours ago. We have landed
on the topic. We are discussing what it means when

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your bosses don't get your Christmas presser? Does that means
you are underappreciated? Quite interesting discussion actually, but a lot long.
Why that lasts I get in touch. You got something
to say about that? Eight hundred and eighty to ten
eighty in nine to nine to the text, Yeah, Christ's
Marcus could even Oh good.

Speaker 21 (01:53:08):
Evening, Marcus, just reflecting on the olden days with Christmas
hampers and things we used to get. I worked for
a big quite a large building company, and so there
were a lot of employees. But every year there was
always some kind of small hamper or whatever. I actually

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wrapped them. Quite often I'd be in the boardroom wrapping
up all these earnest at and gift hampers with Christmas
cake puddings and mince pies times many employees. So that
was something that was always done. But I think what
the employers get back for doing that is just the

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good will and just looking after your staff. Really it
may not sound.

Speaker 3 (01:53:58):
Much, but it's think I think people would be. I
think people would put a lot more effort if they
thought they were appreciated with the christ Yeah, I think
I think the psychology of it's quite powerful.

Speaker 4 (01:54:10):
I do too.

Speaker 21 (01:54:11):
And you know, I had pretty much nearly twenty years
service with three different companies within that, but it was
always done. But the other thing I don't know about
other things in companies either, Like I remember the children's
Christmas party. I don't hear people talk about that anymore.
I helped get that ready and wrap the gifts for

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all the employees' children, and I helped run a Christmas
party in the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:54:36):
So yes, I remember growing up. You know, neighbors royse
off to their dad's Christmas party with family, but they
seem to stair well clear of that. In fact, any
Christmas party I've ever been involved with, there's always just
been you know, adults has never been children's They sort
of steered clear of that.

Speaker 6 (01:54:53):
I think, yeah, I.

Speaker 21 (01:54:55):
Don't hear kids Christmas parties. It's kind of old school probably,
But Santa was there and I wrapped all the things,
helped wrap the things for that, and it was on
a Saturdays or Sunday, and it was back at work
and all the children got a gift and lollies and
ice cream everything.

Speaker 11 (01:55:14):
Marcus.

Speaker 21 (01:55:15):
But I think that's probably out of reach for a
lot of employee is now.

Speaker 9 (01:55:21):
I'm not quite big.

Speaker 3 (01:55:22):
Yeah, I might talk more about that, Chris. So there
we go. The question is as far as Christmas, how
do you feel about your bosses and if they do
something for you for Christmas. I'd be curious to hear
about that. If there's something you want to say about that,
get in touch. But we are talking about the number
is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. Yeah. Would love

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to be able to give a bonus because we have
some really great people in our business. We normally give
a Christmas bonus. Can't afford it. This year, only had
three or four months of making any profit at all,
lost nine hundred k, keeping people employed out of the
quiet seas. It won't go down well. With the start,
but on the other side, none of them are lining
up to help me cover the nine hundred k loss.

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I don't know what sort of business that is, so
you so can't work out what industry that would be. Evening,
I work for New Zealand Skifield and news Land that
shuts down for two days in September as a staff
party bonus. Quite an amazing appreciation of the team's hard
work over intent winter season. The cost of lost revenue
for two days would be very significant. We all get

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a hotel, room, food while away. Excellent staff return rate
pays for itself. Over my years in broadcasting, I would
think that, I mean, normally it's a bottle of wine.
Well I don't drink, so the bottle of wines normally,
I think they've realized I don't do that, so that's
normally what it is. So yeah, I don't know what

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people think about that. It's TV. Indeed, for a while
used to get a hamper, or used to get wine
and a hamper, but some of the guys woul drink
the wine at work and the product wasn't so good,
so then they've got a voucher, I think. But yeah,
I noticed over the over the years, the Christmas presents
seem to have been tom you know, it's a job

(01:57:09):
where you get fairly well remunerated. Maybe that's what they think,
but yeah, I would have mentioned that probably. Yeah, it's
interesting the whole psychology.

Speaker 11 (01:57:17):
Of that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:21):
Loud thunder and plenty of lightning with heavy rain and
wind passing over Southbridge, Canterbury, very loud from the caravan.
It's also that storm system. We've got no more thunder alerts,
but we'll let you know if we do get those.
And how do you feel if your boss doesn't give
you a Christmas present? Because the Christmas parties aren't what
they were either. I think there's also hassles with Christmas

(01:57:41):
parties with providing a work safe environment because yeah, and
people can misbehave at Christmas parties not necessarily know, and
that then causes problems down the line. It's also mindful
this time of the year. A lot of voices that
you get used to that you don't hear and you
realize that people probably that do call the radio station
are no longer with us. You don't realize that you

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haven't heard from that person for a while. That's always
kind of sobering. Of course you they might they might
just not be ringing up. But I do think a
little bit about that sometimes. Well I don't want to
be reminded of the morbidity, but still I do find
that interesting. Hope, Well, your tibo pacels have arrived. Evening, Jimmy,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:58:24):
Well, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:58:27):
Jimmy. Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 13 (01:58:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:58:30):
Thanks. I just think you'll always get nervous when I
ring out.

Speaker 3 (01:58:33):
Yeah you shouldn't, but anyway, Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:58:36):
Yeah, I've noticed that when i've been the past of work,
some really good bosses and some not so good bosses.

Speaker 13 (01:58:46):
The bigger firms that I worked.

Speaker 11 (01:58:48):
For, they always made a big deal about having a
really big Christmas party, you know, for everyone, and they
made it so that families came as well, so it
was like an all day thing. Yes, that's what I
loved about it. Those things that I've never ever expected

(01:59:08):
any gifts from my boss at all, if you know
what I mean. I've had some good bosses that respect
the fact that you do work hard, and I've had
some that don't really care at all, which is a shame.
But yeah, I just missed that you know that Christmas spirit.

Speaker 3 (01:59:30):
I don't know whyt to steered away with that because
you used to go away like to regional parks like
long but there'd be thousands of you know, there'd be
big Christmas parties with hundreds of people. Maybe just got
too expensive.

Speaker 11 (01:59:41):
Yeah, maybe you're well. Things have been the stranger over
the last ten years. It's been another thing that you
mentioned too, which was already I said past the past one.
When what's that.

Speaker 3 (01:59:54):
One called the Secret Center?

Speaker 11 (01:59:57):
Yep, yeah, I don't know anything about that until I
actually went to Australia in my late twenties, and they
do it all the time. It's like real burg over here,
and I never heard of it. You had to go
out and buy gifts for other people and you didn't
You don't tell the man. I thought that strange.

Speaker 3 (02:00:16):
That's that's what that's what the word secret means.

Speaker 11 (02:00:19):
Yeah, yeah, I didn't really get it stood you.

Speaker 13 (02:00:23):
Know that I bought them.

Speaker 3 (02:00:26):
It just makes a relaxing Christmas party anything. But because
you've got to go and buy it, you got to
hand it out, you've got to get some bit of
tet that you're going to look excited. It's just horrible.

Speaker 5 (02:00:36):
I know.

Speaker 13 (02:00:38):
We've decided.

Speaker 11 (02:00:39):
I say to people, don't please, do not give me anything.
I'm too old and so are you. You just just
just enjoy each other's company a and go yep, better
no present, think to you.

Speaker 3 (02:00:52):
The last thing people, the lasting people in their house
is more junk. We've got draws full of it.

Speaker 11 (02:00:58):
Tell me about everything. I like the idea it should
be a burn you can take them to, or something
that you can take them to. It's a swap and
they have a big swap day, or just not buy them.

Speaker 3 (02:01:11):
I think some I think some of the secret Sanders
you can actually you can actually open one, or if
there's someone else got something you prefer, you can take that.
But that makes it a bit kind of. That makes
it a bit brutal. That's called the Yankee swap, and
that makes it a bit sort.

Speaker 11 (02:01:24):
Of Yeah, oh yeah, it might get a bit nasty.

Speaker 3 (02:01:29):
Yeah I think it does.

Speaker 11 (02:01:30):
Yeah, yeah, I love present that, I really I love
T shirts, yep. But when they buy your T shirt
that's just so ugly you or have got a stupid prince.
You're never going to wear it. So that just goes
straight to the rape. And really it's a shame because
it's always of a good T shirt.

Speaker 3 (02:01:52):
I don't know what the answer is. That may be
a regift that give it to someone else.

Speaker 11 (02:01:56):
Yeah, oh, thanks Marcus for that great laugh.

Speaker 3 (02:02:00):
Nice to talk to me. Thanks so much that nineteen
past eleven text. At the moment, I am feeding twelve
old lambs, four calves. I would love a break for Christmas,
but those beautiful animals deserve a second chance at life.
So for my Christmas, I'll be feeding the animals. At
the end of the night, hopefully have a few cold ones.
Only seventeen. By the way, trying to make a living
and work hard, you play hard in your bosses probably
doing the exact same thing. Someone says, how can I

(02:02:23):
remedy my floordrobe cheapest? I guess from the boss's point
of view, if the bosses and the mentality and the
workers just expect a present, that it's kind of a
dud because it's not a gesture, it's just expected. And
the trouble if you're the boss of a company, you

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got to give everyone a present, which means you've got
to give the duds a present too, because you can't
just give some people it because then they'll be at
then they'll abel maybe.

Speaker 14 (02:02:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:02:55):
I'm just going to think of the good Christmas present
I was ever given was probably the ham. I want
to work at restaurants and place you get given something
like that, which was always good. The old ham pulling
out of favor, but the ham text high Marcus, Merry
Christmas to you and your family. The reason for the
speed change at Montaltelli is because there's a huge top

(02:03:17):
ten motor camp opposite Lake Topor, and concern for people
and kids who are continually crossing the road to the lake,
much worse than the summer jay us. Look, that's one
of the camp It seems like the Aussies have come
and brought our on campgrounds. Do you know that Glendou
Bay the lake topul won the hot Water Bay one.
I don't know that it's good or bad. They've paid
big money, so the prices will be through the roof text.

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I am early fifties. Never had a gift from any
job I've worked in. One job had it written to
the employment contract that everyone had to work on Christmas Day.
After my second year of working on Christmas Day and
never had a holiday, breaker requested Christmas Day off and
got to quit or work the day I did work
out every hotel I worked, and also did nothing for

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employees on Christmas Day or the lead up. Yeah. Fair enough,
I mean not fair enough. But that sounds bad because
I think all those people that say the Christmas holiday
is too long are not the people that are doing
the work. They're the millionaire class. High Marcus text High Marcus.

(02:04:21):
For the last three years, work has given us staff
a fifty dollars warehouse voucher and a box of Cadbury favorites.
Are really looking forward to this year's edition. Wow, if
you could have one voucher, what vouchure would you want?
I'm not a voucher guy. I can't think of the
voucher i'd want. Actually, factually no, I can't think of

(02:04:44):
any shop. And what a vouch you for? Sounds really entitled,
doesn't it. I'm just thinking Nope, No, I always think
of a voucher as a crisis of a as a
crisis of imagination, a cry for help. Who'd want a voucher?

Speaker 2 (02:04:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:05:00):
And the trouble with vouchers you got to use them
otherwise they can tell them, what's that about? Cheap?

Speaker 7 (02:05:05):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:05:07):
Be in touch? If you want to be a part
of the show. Anything else, ye, pia he tel twelve.
What have you got breaking news? Not much. I'm speaking
in riddles. The only news that's come through tonight is
the Rugby Awards, which look to be the same as
every year. All Black Stars dominate using rugby awards. Well,
that's a bad thing. They weren't even very good. Decided

(02:05:31):
the average season from them. Imagine sitting through those awards.
Goodness be worse than most prize givings. There's been very
heavy thunder and lightning and hail, Ashburt and timuu Waimati.
The place is sort of south of christ Church. It's
heading up the country. If there's more breaking news, I'll

(02:05:53):
bring that to you. Will bring that too, Yes, that's
that's the right word. I'll bring I'll have updates for you.
That's what I mean to say. And yes, it seems
to have been a real bit of a Timuru tempest.
They're calling it, well I'm calling it hasn't caught on yet.
Now be a part of it if you want to

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come through. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and
nine to nine to the text, deeddy get in touch
if you want to be part of it. Romance along
from twelve Good Evening, Patsy, this is Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 19 (02:06:38):
Marcus. Just want to say a very merry question to you,
and I hope that you have a great time off
whenever that is. But how important your sessions have been
on radio at night For those of us who are
on our own, it's just the prep some notes we

(02:07:01):
don't ring some nightes. We just sit there wanting to
ring and just listening. And said, but you've made a
big difference in a lot of people's lives.

Speaker 3 (02:07:12):
It's pretty kind what you say, Petsy. Thank you so much.

Speaker 19 (02:07:16):
I just wanted to also congratulate the man that rang
just shortly before, saying that he was putting all his
nuts and bolts into containers, and he gone ahead and
got well organized. I'm now a widow who's spent the
last two years cleaning up her husband's garage. A great

(02:07:42):
man who did a lot of work and helped a
lot of people and left a hell of a mess.

Speaker 3 (02:07:49):
How did you get rid of it all, Petsy? Did
you know people that would want it? Or was it
too complicated for that?

Speaker 11 (02:07:56):
I've got.

Speaker 19 (02:07:58):
Three boys and they I thought he's always did not
keep it because the boys might want it, keep it
because the boys might want it.

Speaker 11 (02:08:06):
And when the time.

Speaker 19 (02:08:08):
Came, boys doesn't give us rats pajamas because none of
them didn't have battery. Nothing had bactories.

Speaker 9 (02:08:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:08:17):
I sometimes think that some people, they say bits of
wood and screws and stuff, but they believe they're worth
a lot more than they are because a lot of
that stuff's a lot more available than it once was,
isn't it. I mean, you can buy screws and bolts
quite reasonably.

Speaker 5 (02:08:30):
Well.

Speaker 19 (02:08:30):
Yes, And yesterday or the day before, I spent four
hours in the garage looking for something that I could
use to hang up something with, and I gave up.
I went down to micro ten. I went down to
Mica ten, just bought a packet for four dollars. And

(02:08:53):
I thought of all the houses we've lived in, and
all the coupboards that my gorgeous man had created, and
all the space we film, and I thought to myself,
I actually could live in a container now with mity
keen close by, and they could be the storage.

Speaker 3 (02:09:12):
I think you're probably right, You're like, you're outsourcing your storage.
Why have it all? Well, just go to the shop
and get it. I guess it's the answer.

Speaker 19 (02:09:20):
Yeah, And likewise for us women, I say, all that beautiful.
When we got married, it was like sixteen pine fir
ex ficious.

Speaker 9 (02:09:30):
That sort of thing.

Speaker 19 (02:09:32):
And then there were Royal Doulton cups and sauces and
plates you could only to get at a single through
nobody wants them.

Speaker 3 (02:09:43):
Or that old brown furniture that no one wants anymore,
that wooden stuff no one wants.

Speaker 19 (02:09:47):
That comfortable stuff that the kids actually ruined by lying
all over it sits. You know, you buy a couch
and it sits there, and you want to look smart,
and then the kids come home. Boys don't lie on
cats and sit on couches.

Speaker 3 (02:10:03):
They lie absolutely. But I think nobody and I think
your boys are right about machinery. I think the battery
stuff is it's just so much, you know, having to
start those engines. You've got to pull the cord.

Speaker 1 (02:10:16):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:10:17):
The the battery stuff is just a lot, it's a
lot better, I reckon. I think that. Yeah, I think
that's the answer.

Speaker 19 (02:10:24):
Then you've got to stick with the one stable of Yeah,
that's right.

Speaker 3 (02:10:28):
You've got to have the one and just go with everything.
So once you and your once they can tell you
the battery, you buy everything. But I'm at that stage now.
I've got a lot of the old wheedieres and things
with them. But you know, then you've got to find
the tooth stroke and you got to work out where
it is and get gas. And it's much easier to
change something unless you've reorganized, like like your husband, and.

Speaker 19 (02:10:47):
I've got a well, I've got a wheeze easier then
it's electric and I have to cut the lawn with
this electric flipping cord hanging all over the place, and
the blower to wash to get all the leaves off
the driveway. And because I'm selling the house, I've got

(02:11:08):
to keep blowing all the lease away so nobody would
think that the Morton bay sig right next door drop.

Speaker 3 (02:11:17):
They can be quite missy, the Morton Bay figs, can't they?

Speaker 9 (02:11:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (02:11:21):
So daily, I thanks my husband for leaving all this
stuff behind for me to distribute to nobody and wonder
what on earth are going to do? I think it's
going to be a scrap metal job.

Speaker 3 (02:11:33):
Actually, when's the move planned? Pats? You got to sell
the house first, do you?

Speaker 13 (02:11:38):
Yes? Yes?

Speaker 19 (02:11:40):
And I think I've would just put things down on
the street.

Speaker 20 (02:11:48):
Christmas.

Speaker 3 (02:11:49):
Yeah, love you to talk to Petty. Thank you so
very much for that, to appreciate that. Twenty seven to
twelve oh wa eight one hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus.
We had a great family that I employed us to
manage their farm. They would pay us an extra fortnight's
wage at Christmas was rehealthful. The young family text a
reminder that just into our doners on Graham Norton Show

(02:12:10):
tomorrow night at seven thirty pm. Chris, thank you, Chris,
appreciate that. I reckon what's happened with Argentina. The Falkland
might kick on again. Just read a little bit about
that that's still out there. In fact, what a bright,
fun engaging woman Patsy sounded. That's right, Yeah, yeah, I
was the Yeah, that's right. Actually I don't want to

(02:12:34):
say anything too sobering about that, but yeah, there's always
a time to sort of get a bit organized, isn't
it with your nuts and bolts? You know the guy
that wrang about the nuts and bolts before the ten
thirty news update. He did say I'm not a climate
change conspiracist, but I think he thought the climate change

(02:12:54):
conspiracy was that the planet is getting warm up warmer.
I think that's what he thought the conspiracy was, which
which shocked me slightly. When the can spi us is
the thing that nine obviously if people believe in the
science supports. But oh yep, I don't know what his
social media feed would be like. He's a nice memory.

(02:13:16):
The taxi, Christmas Picnic Point chef Park awesome though, were
big events, sack races, three legged races, Mom and Dad sprints.
Dad always won on your marks gets that year, never
waited for the go.

Speaker 4 (02:13:30):
Yea.

Speaker 3 (02:13:31):
The big companies in their day when like Alert and
co Op had the run of Auckland parties, all sorts
of things and great characters driving them. But of course
yeah they kept it was a very closed shop yet
to buy your licenses and stuff was expensive to join.
But yeah, they did have those big parties for the
drivers had quite a family nature to it. The whole

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summer might remember that too, the family nature to the
whole thing. Christmas movies and oh here's a long text cheapers.
Thank you for sending that. I run a small business
and I strongly believe that valuing and appreciating my staff
is the most important part of running a successful operation.
They are the backbone of our small family business and

(02:14:14):
the quality of their work is outstanding. I want to
show an example of how we recognize the efforts at
the end of each At the end of the year
a thank you bucket. Are presenting each of my valuable
employees with a personalized appreciation bucket filled with a nice
bottle of the drink of choice e g. New Zealand
chin Gin vodka, whisky, rum champagne, pack of IPA's APAs, etcetera.

(02:14:37):
For those who don't drink, a bottle of a premium
premic smocktail. Then one hundred dollar petrol voucher always useful,
a fifty dollars miter ten voucher, a new pair of
high quality secateurs and durable gardening gloves, a good sunscreen,
a large box of Roses chocolates, homemade chutney and local

(02:14:59):
Carwakawa healing cream, a flaxknife, a reusable stainless steel spark,
and most importantly, a person all handwritten card thanking them
specifically for their effort. Plus, our Christmas is outing beyond
the personal gift. Our team out in this year will
be pre drinks we start with one and a half
hours of delicious homemade cocktails, and I booked a high

(02:15:20):
end surprise fifteen seated vip van to transport us to
a trendy restaurant, a high quality restaurant where food and
drinks will be fully covered, safe right home. Finally, everyone
will have a prepaid uber book to ensure they get
home safely and comfortably. I believe investing in your staff's
wellbeing and showing genuine appreciation isn't just a cost. It's
an investment that fosters loyalty, high morale, and commitment. This

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is simply how we do business here here. Wow, I
didn't know what a flex knife is. That was the
only bit that I was curious about. But what a
great thing made all the other bosses seem very underppreciative,
didn't it. I have flex knife. I've never known about

(02:16:04):
a flex knife. Cut a lot of flex What are
brilliant ticks? Ticks of the night, Ticks of the year.

Speaker 1 (02:16:10):
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