I can't mouth-visualise it (15 October 2024)

Marcus has a favourite thing about this time of year, and talks about dramatic job changes.

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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 1 (00:13):
Something that leaves me cold. Halloween, although I kind of
don't really have an opinion on it. I just don't
feel the vibe. But what the thing about Halloween is
that I find the most depressing thing is people that
the people that see Halloween as some sort of an

(00:37):
invasion of values that are ours. Oh it's not our holiday.
We've never done Halloween. Oh, people get really triggered by Halloween.
Oh they're knocking at our door. Goodness, that's not us. Anyway.
You go to the supermarket, plastic stuff rubbish, next month's landfill,

(00:58):
all their plastic pumpkins, the whole shaban. I don't like that.
Stuff doesn't be hidden. I look it that I think,
who's gonna want that? But I only tell you this
because in Britain they're going all in on Halloween. It's
become very big for them, bearing in mind they're coming
out of winter, bearing in mind they're going into winter,
different time of the year for them. They need something

(01:19):
to cheer them up before the winter wonderland. But it's
not far away here. There'll be some talk bag on it.
Not today, but sometime down the train. Oh, Halloween, it's
not us. We should celebrate things like Easter and Christmas
and guy fawks. That's more our values. But anyway, I
also don't like the fancy dress aspect of it, because

(01:42):
I've never liked fancy dress. I've often thought, if I
want to dress up, i'll dress I be any day
of the week. I don't need Halloween to wear a
sheet or something like that. Mind you. As I get older,
I dress up less and less and less in fancy dress.
But anyway, there you go. I think what happened with Facebook.
Facebook in some ways ruined Halloween and local because I
live in a small community and on Facebook there's how

(02:06):
as you can go kN knocking at well. That takes
the joy out of it, doesn't it. The thing we
should really be celebrating in this country at this time
of the year is the arrival of the asparagus. Oh gosh,
don't you see them as shot doesn't countdown? Don't you
see them standing proud or bundled together. It's kind of
the harbinger of spring, the asparagus. I've got no idea

(02:28):
what people are doing with them. But the question I
had for you to kick off. I'm of the view
that fro an asparagus role, you'd want tinder asparagus because
it's softer and more kind of old fashioned in the
asparagus role. Have I got that one wrong? Because if
you just have new asparagus from the Countdown or from

(02:51):
the New World, and you bore those up and you
put them in a asparagus role, the bread will not
be that forgiving. That that well, the bread will be forgiving.
Then you get the asparagus. Actually it's too hard. You
can't bull them like they can at what He's the
ones you get in the tins? Perfect? Am I right
with that one? I don't want to start a war

(03:13):
about it, but I reckon they're spirit I don't know
what I think most people just ball asparagus, eat them
like that. I don't think anyone's doing anything fancy with them.
Maybe an asparagus soup. But I want to start the
show tonight with at least one asparagus call so I
can actually tick off the seasonal advent of asparagus Day.
They are the harbingers of spring. I love everything about them.

(03:37):
I love the name, I love the They're up the
alphabetical order. I like the fact that they come just
as the weather gets good, and I love this time
of the year and the weather gets good. If at
the last two days have absolutely made my heart sing
because the spring has been absolutely shocking. So yeah, I'm
cockerhoop at the moment, absolutely loving that. So have you

(04:00):
got an asparagus story or if you're starting arguing with
me about whether they because I think the tender sparagus
did frint, but they're all so delicious. People can get
quite judgmental about tin fruit or food, not me, So
if you want to start with an asparagus call'd be

(04:27):
good to hear from you. But yeah, I'm always up
for the argument about whether they are in tins or not.
The other thing they used to have that I quite
liked was like an asparagus roll, but a crab roll
and steered inside it. That was always good at H
and J's before they closed it. I know that they're
not crabsticks. I know it's all just serami or something,

(04:49):
and people say, watch on the internet to see how
they make those, you'll be disgusted. But I thought they
were delicious. I don't know what there. I don't I
think it's just butter and asparagus and asparagus roll. So
I don't know the full details. I'm sure someone's got
their own special way of doing them. But anyway, I
don't know what people are doing with the new seasons asparagus.
I presume that he's eating them, are they? So if

(05:10):
we can start off with one of those, it would
be great to hear from you one asparagus call or three.
You know me, I like to once I get going
on something, I like to ride that vibe. Oh eight
hundred eighty Teddy and ninety. I suppose is it a superfood?
I suppose a superfood is an asparagus? Oh eight hundred

(05:31):
eighty Tatty and nine two nine. Do the Itellians do
something good with an asparagus? I suppose they probably do? Son, Marcus, welcome,
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (05:41):
You're really good Son? Nice to talk to you.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah, nice talk to you. I just remember a great
little asparagus story of many years ago. As a chef,
I thought I thought I'd reinvented the wheel, and I
made asparagus ice cream once.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
But wow, then.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
It turned out that someone called a scoffio had made
it puppy about them seventeen hundreds or the eighteen hundreds.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Nothing new in that French cuisine is there? Wow?

Speaker 5 (06:13):
Was it any?

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Was it worth persevering?

Speaker 3 (06:16):
It's delicious, But I guess if you're not an asparagus lover,
you wouldn't like asparagus ice cream. So yeah, it's to
love love or hate relationship.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Okay? And what are the other what are the other
notes in the asparagus ice cream?

Speaker 3 (06:31):
The note says, and the flavors or what you put
in it?

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, the other flavors? What's the or the other things
you put in it? More correctly, what else do you put?
Would you put like? I can't even what's the taste
version of visualize it? I can't even mouth visualize what
the taste would be.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Well, you're going to get the sweet first, and then
you're going to get the sort of pungent aroma of
the asparagus coming through to the ice cream. But sometimes
you can make it more with the eggs and the
cream rather than just cream.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
So it is just it is just sugar milk and
sugar milk and asparagus. Is no other flavors in there.
There's no lemon or anything like.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
That there can be a little bit of vanilla. You
can even add a little bit of balphamic to it.
And what's even more delicious these days is olive oil.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Have you seen it around the traps like I've never come.
I don't think I've ever come across it.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
No, No, I don't think many even any gelato places
have it, So it could bend.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
I was thinking about that because you know, gelato seems
to be everywhere these days. They seem to be looking
for freaky flavors, But I've never seen an asparagus one.
Would it work as well with gelato as I It
probably would, wouldn't it.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, it's pretty much the same thing. It's just a
fancy Italian name.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Okay, I'm all into that sound. Thank you so much. Wow. Wow,
it's going to be a big day tomorrow making my
clangers and my asparagus ice cream. All the recipes are
quite straightforward that I've googled up quite quickly. She's quite right,
there's nothing much more in it apart from sugar and cream. Wow,

(08:12):
and Marcus, welcome that evening.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
That sounds delicious.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Well, and you look at it and look looking at
the pictures. The color is beautiful. It almost looks like
a if you're looking at the images of asparagus ice cream.
It's got a it's not quite a mint color, but
it's the most gorgeous sort of a yellowy mint color.
And I can't work out the name of it. But anyway,
that's not what you've wrung about, is it?

Speaker 6 (08:39):
Sunday night? I have my granddaughters for dinner and they
really love their roast, so they get their throut bet
is roasted and then the asparaguscoes for cauliflower and all
the rest of it. But the really nice bit about
it isn't the roast of bit. It's the next night

(09:01):
when you make a nice cheese sauce and have it.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Wow, all of.

Speaker 6 (09:09):
Your jason to hear that, and they are really really
delicious goodness, And actually i've just heard it. You just
what I've just heard it?

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Wow? Just tonight. Yeah, cheapers talked about timely well and
lovely to talk to you. Hold your horses, guy, no
lines free high Haliot's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (09:31):
Good evening, Hi Marcus, And I was just calling about
the asparagus because I used to use it as a
diuretic when I was bodybuilding, so.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Is an interesting book. Wow wow, okay, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (09:48):
So as a superfood, apparently it's yeah basically, so.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
When you say direct you just cut out there a bit.
But I'm gonna when you say directic that's going to
strip you of fluid, so you become more cut is
that right?

Speaker 7 (10:06):
Yeah, that's correct.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
So in the love it's a shame because you keep
cutting out because I'm hanging on every right. You just
cut out for it. You're not driving, are you going?
You just cut out there? Yes? I am go again.

Speaker 8 (10:18):
Okay, good, I got you. Yeah, I'm on the back road,
so I've just pulled over.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
But perfect.

Speaker 9 (10:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (10:22):
So I yeah, I ate.

Speaker 8 (10:24):
It for six weeks straight leading up to a competition
and it worked.

Speaker 11 (10:28):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (10:29):
Yeah, So it's a superfood and I think, like definitely,
I'm not sick of it.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
I could eat it again.

Speaker 8 (10:34):
This is many years ago, but I must admit you
did smell of asparagus after a while. It's quite strong.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
And what were you eating it with? Just with like
some just boiling it and just having a bit of butter.
It wouldn't have butter. Would you have a salt and
pepper or something? Is that what you were doing?

Speaker 12 (10:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (10:50):
I literally just roasted dry roasted salt and pepper. So
everyone out there will be cringing.

Speaker 13 (10:55):
I agree, but.

Speaker 8 (10:58):
Yeah it was great.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Did you win?

Speaker 8 (11:02):
I came second, so not bad.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
We were you happy with that? Yeah, I'm happy with that.

Speaker 8 (11:10):
Yeah it was you know, like just get on stage,
be what I what I presented, and yeah it was great.
Love again.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
I love that behind the arms behind the head one,
when your two arms are behind the head.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
That's not me.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
I couldn't, could you?

Speaker 1 (11:32):
I mean yes, of course. Yes. Most of my experience
from bodybuilding is watching Pumping Iron with Yeah, and the
soundtrack is fantastic. I love that film. Aile lovely to talk.
Look at your bodybuilding on the back roads. It's fantastic.
Thank you, Paul, it's Marcus. Good evening, Yeah, Marcus, yes, Paul.

Speaker 14 (11:53):
Welcome, Yeah, thank you. Asparagus, if you want to grow asparagus,
you start off with the crowns.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Are you were off with a crown?

Speaker 14 (12:08):
The crown that's the plant, A little plant.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
I can mention, yes, right once.

Speaker 14 (12:16):
When you've got to dig a trench first, a bit
of a dig own sistance is deep all over your land,
and get the crowns placed them in there, But before
your place them in there, go down to the beach
to pick up a handful of little more than a
handful a bucketful of seaweeds. Take that back home, drop

(12:40):
it up, put that in the bottom of the of
the bed, and plant your clowns on top. And that
gives them all the salts that they need, and they
grow geraciously.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
And they'll grow. They'll come back every year. That's there there.
I forget the wood annual or perennial, but they'll they'll
come back every year. Is that right?

Speaker 14 (13:08):
Our perennial comes back every year?

Speaker 15 (13:10):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (13:12):
Yeah, No, I'm sorry, I'm not speaking so clearly you
are here because I have doubt I don't sound like
I am speaking well two years ago and the mugging
me out.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
You know I'm hearing you real clearly. Hey, Paul, were
you a are you a former commercial asparagus grower?

Speaker 14 (13:35):
No, just asparagus SCA.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
And which part of the country you're on Paul high shirt, okay,
because I'm wondering because when you said seaweed, boy, if
we've got a beach full of seaweed after that storm,
it stinks, and I thought, well, we need to do
something with that asparagus might be the answer. I didn't
know that about the crowns. What what? What sort of
plant would you call it? Paul of it? It's not
a route, it's a what family of plant?

Speaker 16 (14:04):
Is it?

Speaker 14 (14:05):
All right? I don't really tell you unless I look
on my computer.

Speaker 10 (14:09):
Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 14 (14:11):
I'm getting a bloody old and I don't really I'm
not the testically mine and anymore.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Okay, well, I appreciate you coming through, Paul, and thank you.
Was once classified of the lily family, as with the
related elam species. It's an elam, the onion and garlic.
Fancy for bodybuilding? Wow, fancy us going from asparagus to bodybuilding.

(14:41):
Cheapest creepers, we found the mother topic. By the way,
there will be texts. I haven't even thought about those yet. Lizards, Marcus, Welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 10 (14:51):
I'm going to take away through to Pullman's asparagus. Myle
grannie did it what we used to go to? A
pace worth? Are your head peegs out of a tin?
Each of them put on toast? Wow, it's about the
coastert she did get to asparagus from fact, you wouldn't
know a lot of difference.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
No, you wouldn't, so you'd have cooked tin peas on toast.

Speaker 10 (15:16):
Yep, it was actually delicious, not a butter on top.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
But tin peas are one of those foods that they're different,
but they're delicious in a tin. It's peas, guavas, peas
all delicious in a tin. And asparagus.

Speaker 10 (15:32):
Now the pros and peas and all of that.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
You open the freezer, there's all these half tied up
bags of peas that no one wants.

Speaker 10 (15:44):
Terrible anyway, I thought you'd quite like that. So we've
gone the bodybuilding. Now we've gone to Poorman's asparagus.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Where was this? Where was this with your grandmother?

Speaker 10 (15:56):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (15:56):
Well, because that's quite sand is quite up market some
of now people are telling me, could you imagine that
people are wanting to move to Sandringham?

Speaker 10 (16:08):
Oh yeah, I lived in all those areas and know
all the time because of being on the bus route
and close to the city.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
It's no men's land, that flat part of Auckland in it.
You could be anywhere.

Speaker 10 (16:20):
Well, I suppose you can go when you can't you
good pointners.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Thank you, Hana Ringerhammer, Sandringham. I get in touch. My
name's Marcus hddled twelve. Oh what is it? Where's it
becomes Balmoral? It becomes Mount Roskill, doesn't it? Or mound anyway?
I think we mentioned sandring him on the show before,
but now I don't think I can stop. There'll be

(16:47):
a lot of texts too scared to look at them,
particularly if there's leakage with the Halloween topic. Marcus, how
clever is nature? It produces citrus fruit and window where
we need vitamin C to be cold, and in spring
and summer we get asparagus, which is great for a hangover?

(17:09):
Who knew? Tony? Marcus? Welcome ago, Marcus, good, thank you Tony.

Speaker 18 (17:16):
This is Tony from Motown mowing here or it's always
a great job at a great price.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Pretty in your clients? Sorry, have you got plenty of
your clients?

Speaker 18 (17:27):
Well, not a year since I've been talking to you.

Speaker 19 (17:30):
I've got a couple.

Speaker 18 (17:31):
Not from the radio though, or from you, to be honest, Marcus, hoping.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
People Well maybe people aren't in their loans, maybe not
thinking of lorn known this time of the night.

Speaker 18 (17:44):
Well no, no, no no, but there's always a next stay,
isn't there anyway?

Speaker 4 (17:49):
Anyway?

Speaker 18 (17:50):
Asparagus? Yes, I used to go picking asparagus break. Oh,
very very I mean you'd have to be a young
fellow to do it, you know. I used to do
it with my uncle and he was he wasn't young,
but you know he'd done it for while. He was
pretty good at it, you know. But yeah, it was
pretty tough, pretty tough day at the office that one.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Are you on a low bench toad behind a tractor?

Speaker 18 (18:17):
No, no, no, you're just walking along with a bucket
and the butcher knife. Oh, for goodness, rose and rose
and like strawberries or they like stalks sticking up in
the air. There's rows and rows of them, and you
look at it and go, we were going to get
to the end. So you just don't look up.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
You just keep crawling along and don't. I don't. I
don't want to aid you, Tony. But this would be
in the pre warpman days, too, would it.

Speaker 18 (18:41):
I know this is this is probably probably the well, yeah,
probably pre warpman. Yeah, this is probably eighty three, a
three eighty four. But I mean I can't remember if
workman's were around.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Back then, so you had no sounds, no.

Speaker 18 (18:54):
No, no, probably probably wouldn't let us wear it anyway,
You're not there to listen to sounds.

Speaker 9 (18:59):
You're there to work.

Speaker 18 (19:00):
Old school, old school, very but anyway.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yeah, Tony, did you have the rubber bands with you?

Speaker 19 (19:09):
No?

Speaker 18 (19:09):
No, no, I don't Actually I don't remember having rubber bends.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
So I just went just a big bucket and they
rubber banded them later.

Speaker 18 (19:16):
Yeah, I'd say I can't remember, but yeah, just remember
the big bucket and the big butcher knife on the
white handle, the old freezing work one.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, I'm hearing you. It's not like it's not like
strawberries where you can eat them, because no one ever
wanted to be a war asparagus.

Speaker 9 (19:30):
That's right.

Speaker 18 (19:32):
I don't know, probably did.

Speaker 20 (19:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (19:36):
Anyway, that's a good good job, that one.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
But anyway, Tony, look at you now, with your own company,
working for yourself. You're the boss. That's the answer, right,
I got you there, got it motivated you to go?
If your all knowwing around well true?

Speaker 21 (19:49):
True?

Speaker 20 (19:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (19:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (19:49):
I suppose I didn't start working hard then I probably
never would have. Yeah, anyway, that's how we learn and learn. Again,
I suppose it is doing hard work.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
Where do people find you, Tony?

Speaker 18 (20:04):
Are they gonna find me on marketplace or they call
me on O two O for O double.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
One for one four oh, brilliant once again O two
O for O double one for one four O.

Speaker 18 (20:16):
There is Mochow mowing, where it's always a great job
at a great price.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
South Auckland and to the east like botany around their
pocket anger but not you come far north as green Lane.

Speaker 15 (20:26):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 18 (20:28):
But the price was right and the job was right.
Yet we'll be there.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Good on you, Tony. I don't think it's not often
you've made a good mom man. I don't know if
he's any good, but it keeps fronting up. I mean,
he doesn't sound like the sort of units fat phone
on fear go, does he? You don't be calling talk
back with your name and your numb when you're when
you're dodgy moer, Simon Marcus, welcome, are you good? Thank you? Simon?

Speaker 15 (20:53):
Oh good? I love a spirit, say I love love
and just the old send with jury, with the breeding
butter the old breed, and I mean but and or
but yeah, and a little lemonade or in the ones,
the ones you get least say it's a super market

(21:14):
in you know, they seem to be bigger than the
ones in the.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Can and they, yeah, tell you something because you talk
about the sandwich. But how come when you go to
a toasted sandwich place, asparagus is never on the option.
I've never seen. I've never seen anyone utilizing asparagus at
a takeaway. I've never seen. Would you like, like, if

(21:39):
I had a toasted sandwich, I'd go onion, tomato, cheese,
and asparagus because here with your mouth party, wouldn't there
that one?

Speaker 15 (21:48):
I reckon? Oh? Beautiful? A yeah? Another ones loose ones
too cooked? A beautiful and well I think when I
cooked them long or pressure cooked them or something to make.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Them probably someone to know you're talking about the old
air friary.

Speaker 15 (22:06):
Oh yes, this is right.

Speaker 12 (22:08):
Eh.

Speaker 15 (22:09):
Oh we call something different day.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yep, yep, yep, yep. But I reckon for the sausage role,
you'd use a tin one, wouldn't you? Tin? Would that
be the thing you do?

Speaker 15 (22:20):
I think, yeah, that you might take on it.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
So I'm a nice to talk, Thank you, Marcus. Eight
frozen pieces of snack food, also frozen grapes. Marcus, you
don't need unopened bags in the freezer. I bought a
bag sealer off Timu and it's been life changing. How
much for postage? Shar True spoke for the color you

(22:44):
were thinking of. Great show, Thanks Vicky. Steamed asparagus on
a plate with mashed potato, with or without meat, fish
or chicken. But the question to people with a pout,
what sauce do you accompanied? Steam asparagus? Asparagus rolled in bacon,
had asparagus tonight? Bloody delicious, fried with salt and lemon.
You're on the money with tin asparagus and the sandwiches. Hello,

(23:06):
Marcus Sheer. Halloween is nothing more than commercial rip off,
not say for a young people give it a dropkick
nul napier eat it rule. No matter what color. I
love fresh asparagus, but you must have tinder sparagus for
your asparagus role. Definitely I could hit a whole turn
of asparagus on its own. Both are delicious controversy in
the UK it looks like they might be a plan

(23:27):
to give a zimpec free as zempic to the unemployed
helped them back to work and deue'se demands on NHS
and the economy. Goodness, that's got daytime talk back written
all over it. Anyway, we'll avoid that one. Goodness me,
you often go past those flesh gelato shops now, But
I'm wondering what I wonder why they don't do an

(23:49):
asparagus one Marcus, I'd rather have a pig and a
blanket any day. Marcus would rather eat baling twine than asparagus.
That's a good text. Seven seven words, Marcus Tinder. Sparagus
is imported Peru. I think, oh that's bad, but not surprising.
It's probably not the land. That's the price of labor.

(24:11):
We can't get pickers. Well, maybe something to do with
a cyclone. Who knew. I know this time last year
we were told this a lot of wild asparagus and
centh lo tago, and we spent a good part of
a day looking for it and found none, which was

(24:34):
kind of frustrating. But I didn't really know what it
looked like. Steve Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 19 (24:44):
Arugus favorite ice cream. It's an acquiet.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Taste, isn't everything?

Speaker 22 (24:53):
No.

Speaker 19 (24:53):
I like asparagus lightly steamed with a little bit of that,
but the bone and I had just recently sortad he made.
They got an ice cream maker. They put myrmide in it,
and that was not nice at all.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
They put marmite and baragus.

Speaker 19 (25:12):
No, just marm it's in ice cream.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
They're having they're having you good.

Speaker 19 (25:17):
No, it was it was edible.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
It was who was this person?

Speaker 19 (25:22):
Oh, I've got a neighbor down the road that's got
a I don't know where he's got his flavor buds from,
but this is experimenting.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
I guess in a small town someone gets an ice
cream maker. It's big news.

Speaker 19 (25:34):
Yeah, he spent a lot of money on it. Asparagus
is sort of is edible, but the marm might know.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Did he do the hang on Steve? Because did he
actually do the asparagus ice cream for you as well? Yes,
before the marmite.

Speaker 19 (25:49):
Won, before you got right? Not not no, no, not
not good, not good at all?

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Was it the same session? Was it the same session
you had the asparagus?

Speaker 2 (26:02):
No?

Speaker 19 (26:03):
No, a few days between them.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
And how did they How did the conversation go to, say, Steve,
I know you didn't like their sparagus ice cream, and
I've got this one. You got to come around and try,
is it? What he said?

Speaker 19 (26:13):
Yeah, well you gotta. Yeah. He got a couple of
young kids that come and see him every now and then.
He tries these different favors out on them. They weren't
and they weren't keen on it, but they sort of
liked it. But no, they wouldn't. They wouldn't drive a
million miles for it.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
What color? What color was it?

Speaker 9 (26:32):
Black?

Speaker 1 (26:34):
He's a surprise.

Speaker 19 (26:37):
Yeah, you should have got to get a head around
putting something black in your mouth. But licorice is all right.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, liquoric like like e licoric ice cream is delicious.

Speaker 19 (26:47):
Yeah yeah, but not mamite. No.

Speaker 9 (26:50):
No.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
And the sparagus well was palatable.

Speaker 19 (26:54):
Yeah, it were sort of, but I prefer mine I
just lightly steam it with a little bit of about you.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
I'm alreasting your nighb with the ice cream machine. Have
you thought yourself of buying an ice cream machine? Steve?

Speaker 19 (27:05):
No, No, because I'm not. No, I'm not. I'm not
adventurous like that. I tried a smoothie with asparagus of it.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Show you who did that, your neighbor.

Speaker 19 (27:23):
No, I've got a smoothie machine here, and I make drinks.
You know, you put a banana and put a bottle
of milk and a banana and a couple of eggs,
and you know, make it smoothie. But I have tried
it with a bit of.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Asparagus, eternal fresh one, A fresh one.

Speaker 19 (27:43):
I don't like the tin ones. The two two got
too much vinegar. I like the flavor of the asparagus.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Okay, I quite like the flavor of the tin ones.

Speaker 19 (27:54):
It's put them in asparagus rolls, I suppose.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
But yeah, what's the weirdest thing you've put in your smoothie?

Speaker 19 (28:02):
What I put in my smoothie?

Speaker 1 (28:04):
The strangest thing?

Speaker 19 (28:06):
Oh uh well, uh avocado?

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Oh yeah, okay, it was. It was all right, just
sickens up about the ever done it.

Speaker 19 (28:22):
But yeah, buttl of full cream milk an evercado. I
got four raw eggs, give it a good whizz up.

Speaker 5 (28:34):
It was all right.

Speaker 19 (28:35):
But yeah, you got your own thing, You got your
advertised got your.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Own hands, You got your own eggs for your own hands.

Speaker 19 (28:46):
No, no, no, So I'm only in a little home
unit for for goodness goodness.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Okay, Oh, good to hear from you, Steve. You know
what tomorrow nights go? Oh Marcus, where's the comment? What's
cloudy at Folkston Hobbs? Hope everyone can see it? Mind you?
With AI and everything? You know what the actual heavens
provide for us. It's not as exciting as it once was.

(29:17):
It's just my take. I mean, there's a lot more
things on your cell phone than a dot in the sky.
But you've got to realize it's an object that's eighty
thousand traveled for eighty thousand years and gone past the
sun and its comet of ice has become started to
glow way. I hate to tell you, but Hailey's comet

(29:39):
was one of the greatest disappointments of all time. I
think it was called Helly's comet. Just putting it out
there lines free. If you got to be involved in
the show Markers toiled, Well, here's a question for him.
Now here's something for Billy Slater, right. You know, Billy
Slater is one of the great fullbacks of rugby league.
He's he used to be a jockey. We used to

(30:03):
be a horse trainer, work for Gay Waterhouse. Now he's
coming back. He's going to be doing the interviews on
horseback after the Melbourne Cup. Yeah, so they took all
of that. One of the great the great careers changes
of all time to go from an NFL professional rugby
league player to some of the interviews people on horseback. Well,

(30:25):
I don't mind a seguey, and my segway is tell
me right, tell me your dramatic job change and how
it worked out for you and why you did it.
You might have gone from being a you might have

(30:53):
gone from being a real estate agent to have been
a kindergarten teacher. Or you might have gone from running
and owning a McDonald's franchise to working for the city mission.

(31:17):
Or you might have given up been a poster and
become a private detective. So tell me what your very
dramatic job change arc has been. I haven't got an
interesting art because I've sort of done the same thing
for a while now. My time to change arcs has gone.

(31:39):
But what is your dramatic arc change for your job?
Of course you all think, oh, well, I'm sick of that,
and I'm not sick of this, by the way, got
to say that. But I can do something else. I've
always wanted to teach maths, or I've always wanted to
join the circus, or I've always wanted to be a

(32:00):
driving instructor. By the way, no one wants to be
a driving instructor, do they? Andabouts that would get you
get in touch Marcus till twelve mind changing job changes. No,
that's not quite the right topic for it. So I
can think of a title for this part of the show.
Let me know what it is, Dramatic job changes. That's

(32:29):
what we'll go with. Michelle. It's Marcus. Welcome and good evening.

Speaker 12 (32:34):
Good evening, Marcus. I went some selling microfiber cleaning products
that didn't require any chemicals so you could defectively eliminate
chemicals in your house, to running a swimming pool maintenance business,
which was a lot of chemicals.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Was there any good the chemical free microfibers.

Speaker 12 (32:56):
Oh, it's fantastic. Yeah, no, they're great. I still use
them at home, and now.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
You've got to and now your business is cleaning people's pools.

Speaker 12 (33:06):
Yes, so around lots of let's stabilize chlorine and things
like that, which are really strong smelling chemicals. So it
was a you know, I really struggled with it to
start with, because I've gone from quite a chemical free
existence and working with a lot of chemicals.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
But look, I've never been involved with a pool owner.
Do you just if you're a pool owner, just give
you the contract and you just maintain the pool the
whole time, it's and that's it. You just it's a
weekly charge? Is it the way it works? It's a
contract thing you can do, or it.

Speaker 12 (33:37):
Can be a hybrid model, so you can sort of
we've got a shop as well, so you can come
into the shop and do the doy thing, or we
can come to you and take care of it as well.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
Wow, how many hours a week? With how many hours
a year would a pool required to get everything right
for you?

Speaker 12 (33:55):
If we're servicing it we at this time year. We
go fortnightly and can anywhere from half an hour to
an hour. But then in between you've got to it's
going to baskets and just do.

Speaker 22 (34:05):
That in between stuff.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Do you watch Selling Sunset? What do you ever watch
Selling Sunset? No, it's about real estate agents and the
hot and Los Angeles. Boy, they've got some extraordinary pulls
off and look at those things. I think I can imagine.
I mean I can't because some of these houses have
four pools. I must have extraordinary upkeep a I know.

Speaker 12 (34:29):
And we watch movies and we're like, oh, look at this, Paul,
Oh wow, look at.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
You watching It's well, you'd like Selling Sunset. That's all
about pools.

Speaker 12 (34:40):
Basically, I'll have to look at that when I have
your time.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
And you're in Awklam obviously, are you, Michelle.

Speaker 12 (34:47):
No, we're in christ Church.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Do people have pools in christ Church?

Speaker 12 (34:51):
Yeah? So by saying over lockdown hate people put polls,
and because.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
I live in Bluff and I worked them in the cargo,
I don't know if anyone's got a pull down here.

Speaker 12 (35:05):
There wouldn't be they probably there wouldn't be a.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Lot, wouldn't. They wouldn't.

Speaker 12 (35:10):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't want to start a pool cleaning business.
And then Vocago.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
I don't think I'll get on Google. I wonder if anyone's
got pulls on chick on that. But christ Church?

Speaker 12 (35:19):
Goodness, Yeah, Google met You can see a lot on
Google Maps, So jump on Google mats and see what
you can see.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
I'll check out in the cargo, you check out selling Sunset.
Love you, Michelle, Thank you, Chris, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 23 (35:33):
Him, Marcus.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yeah, good Christ You've got a dramatic work change. John.

Speaker 23 (35:39):
There's about three of them. Excellent that went from my.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
First day of the job.

Speaker 11 (35:45):
My good.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
You're just cutting out of it.

Speaker 23 (35:57):
Yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah. The first thing you see is Joe German.

Speaker 23 (36:04):
Oh yeah, my German step brother. He my first job.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
He I was having trouble finding a job because it
was at a typical time, and he said, worked for
free for a month off of that, and I ended
up working every year.

Speaker 23 (36:25):
I was selling car parts.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
He offered yourself free for a year.

Speaker 23 (36:31):
No, no, sorry for a week.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
It's pretty good. I like that, and and it worked out.
You made yourself into spa.

Speaker 23 (36:39):
It was about four days later and they ended up
paying me for the four days and.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Job, did you have a neck for car parts?

Speaker 23 (36:49):
I was actually particularly good at it. I'm good with numbers, so.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
It's a great answer, Chris, Wow, yeah, your neck for it.

Speaker 24 (37:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (37:03):
Then I moved to from selling car parts to moving
to England and working at a pub as a bar manager.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
God knows why they hired me numbers.

Speaker 23 (37:20):
It was that, and I also lied a little bit.
I said, I know how all these things work. Oh yeah,
I've been working in pub three years. But I was
so I did that for two years. So there's one
one of them. And then while I was doing that,

(37:41):
I was also thought I might do I T so
I did some night school classes and then with my
newly found wife in England. We moved back to here obviously,
and I ended up working.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
An it at the this wow lecturing.

Speaker 23 (38:12):
No, no, no, no, I sport are you oh good?

Speaker 10 (38:20):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Nice to hear from your crystal as well, also too,
got your nice stuff. Thank you, Lorraine, it's Marcus. Welcome.
Good evening, Holloraine, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 25 (38:30):
Well over fifty years ago, I was a housewife with
three children, and sadly my marriage came to an end.
And in those days there were no family, you know,
no benefits from the government or anything. So I had
to find a job. I got a part time job
as a coffee lounge and went from there into part

(38:51):
time into a full time job as a house person
in a hotel. And I got a chance of being
relieving in the office. So that led me to thinking, well,
I've got to do something about this. So I got
a job at the Hawks Bay Electric power Board. And
in those days there was a huge staff of men

(39:14):
out on the linesmen and my men, and goodness, and
as well, I did the wages, and in those days
it was a manual and a very large job. Well,
it went from there on to putting it onto computer
and I worked at that for all about for three years,

(39:35):
ended up up with the executives and started a brand
new filing system for the Electric Powerboard. So that's my
history of going from a house I I knew nothing,
and in those days you got the chance of advancement
and I grabbed it because bringing up three kids on
your own was not easy and you were absolutely perp.

(39:59):
So you had to have a job where it was
of your mind so you could save your physical body
to do the work at home. And that's how I managed.
So that was my history.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
And how many years was that over?

Speaker 25 (40:11):
Oh, fifteen?

Speaker 1 (40:13):
It's an amazing story.

Speaker 25 (40:14):
About fifteen years. But in those days you didn't get
any government.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Help, no I can understand.

Speaker 25 (40:22):
To get out and work or what were you going
to do? And I was lucky enough to friend gave
me a part time job in the coffee lounge, but
that didn't bring enough money. So that's how I managed
to change from one thing to another. And I knew
that you had to have enough left over your mental
being to being a physical being at home, and you

(40:45):
had to sort of balance the two, and that's how
I did it.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
You did you do when you left school? Did you
do anything. Did you have a job or you went
straight into your marrie.

Speaker 25 (40:55):
I worked in a photographers I kind of photographed.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
Oh wow, that was quite a skill in those days,
wasn't it.

Speaker 20 (41:01):
Yes it was.

Speaker 25 (41:02):
But I did that for about four years and got
married and then left it until oh for ten years,
and then my husband left and the kids and I
sort of struggled along until I got into the power board.
And that's saved my bacon.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Especially with all that technical rollout with payroll and stuff
like that. I mean, that's quite anyone that anyone that
was adaptable to that to you know, learning the new systems.
It's invaluable, isn't it.

Speaker 25 (41:33):
Oh it was a nightmare and all the penalty rates
and mud money and goodness knows what. And then to
put it onto from manu're onto computer. That was another
huge headache. But we were lucky enough in those days
to not be pushed like today, and you've got a

(41:55):
lot of help and got the opportunity of advancing yourself.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Didn't know there was mud, didn't know there was mud money.

Speaker 25 (42:03):
Oh yes, they go out and work, and even today,
if they go out and work in terrible conditions and
this mud and they're wet through. It's called mud all
mud money.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
Oh well, delightful to talk to you, Lorraine. Thank you
for coming through. Keep your calls coming through. People. Eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty April Ats Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 14 (42:26):
Oh hello Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Thanks Abril.

Speaker 22 (42:30):
I've had a very radical career change. At one stage,
I was working in a I suppose in Dunedin it
would have been called a high end retail store selling
kitchen and china, wearing that sort of thing, and the
money wasn't overly very good, and I remember thinking, oh,
I'm not very excited about this. And I had some family,

(42:51):
couple of nephews and my brothers at the time, they
were working at the freezing works.

Speaker 23 (42:56):
Wow.

Speaker 22 (42:57):
So I said to my brother and I didn't know
anything about a freezing works except what they did, And
I said to my brother, can you get me an
application form? I'm going to go and apply for a
job for freezing works. So he got me an application
form and I filled it out and I got an
interview and the guy looked at me and he more

(43:17):
or less asked me why I was applying for a
job like that, And I said, oh, I'm in it
just I'm in it for the money, just like everyone else's.
I mean, my nephews were only about seventeen and eighteen,
and they were earning hundreds of dollars a week more
than I was. And I've always thought he probably looked
at me and thought, well, you're going to laugh about
five minutes.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
What are we talking?

Speaker 22 (43:41):
Well, probably now, I'm probably thinking about fifteen or two.
I don't know if it's as many as twenty years ago,
but now maybe fifteen years ago. So I got a
job as a packer, and of course when I first
went into this room where you do all this meat

(44:02):
work stuff, I was completely shocked. I had no idea
what to expect. It was as you can imagine. It
was cold and sterile, and lots of dead animals coming
through and being chopped up. And I hadn't been there
very long. And I actually got the job as the
quality assurance person. But I just always thought.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
That they.

Speaker 22 (44:29):
Must have looked at me because I wore make up
to work every day and no wondered that in the
freezing works, and they probably thought, oh my god, what
have we got here? But I actually ended up being
there for quite a long time and getting a reasonably
good position and making some good money. I had to
leave because I got injured, so I wasn't I didn't
go back after that. I damaged my shoulder. It was

(44:52):
a complete change of everything that you could possibly ever
imagine in a working life, going from wearing a sort
of nice dress clothes to wearing white gum boots and
overalls and a hennet.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
Did you start on the chain, you were on the chain.

Speaker 22 (45:09):
I started on the chain as a packer, and I
actually seemed to be all right at it. And I
can't remember exactly how long I was there, but they
approached me to ask me if i'd like the quality
control job, which actually entailed quite a lot of responsibility
in a place like that, from meat prep and sending

(45:32):
it overseas. So there's lots and lots of incredibly high
standards that have to be met in order to do that.
So I ended up getting that job, and I think
I was there for about maybe four seasons. I worked
with Deer and Lamb, so that Dea came in live
and the Lamb were already had already been killed, So

(45:54):
there was a bit of an experience and quite different
to anything I'd ever done before, so I thought.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
I'd always admire those people that do that. And obviously
the coin was really good, wasn't it. There's but all
that was was it a full did you get did
you get paid for a full year? Or was it seasonal?

Speaker 22 (46:11):
Well, now we had seasons and then during the off
season you you went and looked for other work, which
was quite readily available back then. But oh, my pay
and my wage is more than doubled overnight, and like
it was quite a substantial increase. So I didn't regret it.

(46:32):
It was quite different, and I just thought that would
probably fit the category for tonight.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
And the people that the men treated you, well, it's
quite a.

Speaker 22 (46:42):
Well, it's actually quite a funny restory if you've got time,
because when I went, they.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
Probably married yep. Okay, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 22 (46:49):
But they used to give me a bit of a
hard time. But they gave everyone a hard time. But
because I was a quality person, I had to I
had to vet their work, and if I didn't think
it was up to scratch, I had to tell them.
When we had to stop what was called the slaughter board,
we had to stop it, so that whatever I wasn't
happy about could be fixed, so that sometimes used to

(47:12):
rub them up the wrong way. But back then it
was all about speed and the more that you that's
probably still the same. The more you processed, the more
money you made. So they didn't want me sorting them
or slowing them down and telling them that they weren't
doing a good job. But an actual fact, they generally were.
They were sort of a you know, the rough but

(47:32):
caring sort of a bunch, and you know, I felt
a certain sort of camaraderie with them, so it wasn't
too bad a place to work.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
It's a great story, averl. Thank you so very much
for that. That's brilliant. A lot of texts. Marcus. I
went from a primary school teacher to a flight attendant.
Loved it, Marcus. After managing sheep farms for thirty years,
I wanted to change and drove a milk tanker for
eight months and now I'm back managing a sheep station.
John Marcus. I went fro an accountant to security for

(48:01):
car racing, apparently a Russia fire Deparlot became a text
driver and I had a few years ago. Oh I
think if your taxi driver just tell people that don't
you You say, well, yes, Beck Home, I'm a fighter
jet pilot. I think it's your standard fear. If you're

(48:21):
kevy every time to come and something, you make up
a different job you once did them. I write, maybe
I'm not Andrew, it's Marcus. Welcome going to markets, mate,
good things Andrew. You can hear me, O gay, thank
you consider it all right.

Speaker 26 (48:37):
When I was nineteen, back in about nineteen eighty one,
I moved from Parmerson North to Sydney and ended up
working as a motorcycle career.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Wow and well you said.

Speaker 26 (48:51):
They had a contract with IBM that used to deliver
computer parts to their engineers all around Sydney and this
place it all this computer from Paraguay, that half of
it was missing. So I ended up going there quite
often for about three weeks. And you had to wait
for the part and take that one back to them,
and so on and so forth. So I got chatting to

(49:12):
the guy the the and it, and he goes, do
you want to do this for the rest of your life?
And I went, oh, I'm getting paid cash. It's quite fun.
He goes, now, come and work for me. So I
went and said, yesterday was my last day, and I've
been in it ever since or.

Speaker 5 (49:30):
Eating well.

Speaker 26 (49:32):
Goodness, But I could an even better story. There was
there was like twenty of US couriers for this motorcycle,
mostole couriers, but only eight to ten of us seemed
to be doing any work as far as I could considered.
I could see there was before fax machine. So we

(49:52):
used to go to lawyers and have to wait and
get it signed and go back to the lawyer, and
things got moved backward and force. And about five years
after I left there, I met one of the guys
there and he said, oh, I said, oh, what happened?
I don't work there anymore. I go, what happened? He says, well,
you know where I wondered what those other ten guys
were doing. They were the drug couriers.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Wow.

Speaker 26 (50:17):
So yeah, I wasn't.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
I wasn't asked to do cheaper holl Were you the
motorbike courier.

Speaker 26 (50:24):
For about nine months?

Speaker 1 (50:29):
What sort of motivate? What sort of motibike?

Speaker 26 (50:33):
It was a Honda cb X one too far. Oh yeah,
had a big box on the back. You hired it
from them? Ah, they took it off your your your
curry wages, but it was there was some people had
own bike, but it wasn't really economically your own.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
Bike, So Andrew, was it growing so quickly they just
literally take people off the street.

Speaker 26 (51:00):
Yeah, well there was really no degrees. Back then. It
was called it was called EDI, the Electronic Data Processing
or every day at the Pub as we used to
call it.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Yeah, because only one's not far from punch cards. I mean,
it's just yeah, it's it's as we had. Oh well, okay,
punch gap. And then did you did you train it
all or you just just kept updating?

Speaker 26 (51:30):
Yeah? Yeah, a self taught Yeah, and I've been doing
it since eighty one.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
It's a long time now, it's forty one.

Speaker 14 (51:37):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
Are you still you're still in Sydney?

Speaker 26 (51:40):
No, no, no, I came.

Speaker 16 (51:42):
Back to Wellington because you were able to because the
brain drain and rob rob bon yes and wait freeze
and stuff. Yes, you know, I was sort of a
junior systems programmer and I was able to come back
as sort of a systems programmer here and earn a
lot more money.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
So I think this parallel. I think this parallels to
that now with a young brain drain, I think, you know,
I think we're going to look. Yeah, but anyway, that's
probably a discusson for another. That's pretty pretty amazing. I
just you just just ask someone to come and work
for you. And did you negotiate wages straight away?

Speaker 18 (52:16):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (52:16):
Hell no, he offered me a really good job. Yeah,
I went really anyway, come and work with me.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Brilliant, nice story, Andrew, thank you. It's all about dramatic
job changes DJ dj C. Dramatic job change. They've got
that one, right, I think. So it's close enough. Oh, Dave,
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 24 (52:38):
Hey, just an observation. Let Venus as a morning star,
I'm easily seen here in the east. Does it Does
it apply that it's to the bottom and to the
right the comet? Yes, I'm wondering.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
You go with looking west?

Speaker 24 (52:58):
Yes, well that would be in the evening, Marcus.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
It is in the evening.

Speaker 24 (53:03):
Oh so morning doesn't apply.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
No, it's some down. Just wait for the sun to
come down. Then you look for Venus straight away. It's
the big star we know to planet. But yeah, and
then you look at it and you come south into
the right, and that's AC two thirty.

Speaker 24 (53:19):
Well, well my job transition. I transitioned after doing several years.
I started as a drilling glass shop far as laborer
nineteen eighty nine, got my ticket and worked my way
up to forman drill and glass foreman. And after several
years I had a guts full of the heat, the
flies and the pressure, and I went and drove dump trucks,

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kept triple sevens in the morning.

Speaker 9 (53:44):
Dy wow, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
They went done that. They're full of the overburden, were they?

Speaker 25 (53:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (53:50):
Or or up to the wrong pad and waist to
the waist hunt? You drive them aroundom circles? But in
a nicyir conditioned cab.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
How high above the ground?

Speaker 23 (54:01):
Ay?

Speaker 1 (54:01):
What's the wheels that they're mess?

Speaker 2 (54:03):
Have?

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Are they?

Speaker 24 (54:04):
Are they mess? If they had eight foot wheels and
carrying one hundred one? Yeah? Automatic, beautiful drive like sitting
under a gluns chair and all fully automatic, and you'd
use your retarded as a brake, easy piece of piece
of easy peasy to drive.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Did you put one on this? Did you put one
on its side?

Speaker 24 (54:26):
No? Never?

Speaker 5 (54:27):
No?

Speaker 24 (54:27):
Always packed up to the window and tipped off or
up with a rompad and you had to get the
right oar because there's red green and the digger driver
would tell you what all you had on what category
and but it was just a transition from drolln Blast
shop FORIREM. A lot of pressure, a lot of stress,

(54:50):
and the money was about the same. To be honest,
work control the air shifts again.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
But anyhow, you've always sounded like a competent driver, Dave.
I've always got that vibe from you. You'd be good
behind the wheel.

Speaker 24 (55:04):
Yes, anyhow, one thing more, I'm just to hear a
bit chat cage driving down there and bluff around there there.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
Well, it seems like I've suddenly become the promotional person
for it, which I don't know is part of my watch,
but I keep getting text about when it starts, and
I know I see the boat. But people, I couldn't
think anything worse. People that do go and do it
absolutely love it.

Speaker 24 (55:31):
Yeah, well I want to and always always has been
on my back at the But whether they still do
it or not, that's what I'm sort of asking or
getting it.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Yeah, Well, look, I and I think it's it's always
about six or seven hundred bucks to do it. But
no one's ever, no one's ever, it seems disappointed for
Vanessa went out there. I think Vanessa, my partner went
out there because it was there was a woman that
she was doing interpreting for and I don't think she
went down, but I'm just on their website now. Yeah,

(56:06):
season opens first December. It's a season, yeah, and I
think that's because the white point is around Stuart Island
are some of the biggest. But they trace them and
they go up off the coast of They go up
off the coast of Queensland and then around the island,
so they go away then they come back for that date.

(56:27):
But yeah, it seems to be I'm looking at the
season now. It's December, January, February, March, April. Oh, that's
the whole calendar. But yeah, it does seem to open then.

Speaker 24 (56:41):
Hey, Marcus, I was chatting to someone on the sauna
yesterday and he tells me up around the peninsula around
here at Crower, I assume that with a seal population blossoming,
that we're getting the old white pointer up around here,
which is but I was interested to think about it because.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
I've never heard of a shark attack around christ Jutch Review.

Speaker 24 (57:07):
No, No, Dunedin, yes, yes, but no, I have not,
and I'd like to keep it their way around you around.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Don't they going to be in your hot pulse Dave
nice to talk, thank you or your sauna Marcus head
on Midnight. Yeah, there we go. Look, I'll get what
I'll do is I'll find out some details because I
don't think that calendar was quite right because I'm just
looking at a calendar. So yeah, I'll get some details
and work out when they are available because I can't

(57:38):
quite see it on their website. Frequently asked questions Shark
Cage Dive season opens first December twenty twenty five through
to June to US first December twenty twenty fourth through
to June twenty twenty five. And look, everyone I know

(58:00):
that's done. It absolutely loves it. But I mean it's
not like you go. I mean the people would do
what I would imagine would like to be in a
cage loaded the water with sharks coming at them. That
but people, and I think most of them see them
as well. Dramatic job changes that were about tonight, Marcus.
One of the key messages from that last caller who

(58:21):
got head hunted from his motorbike courier job was the
go who haired and said come work with me, not
come work for me. Well, I got confused the city
was getting this stuff for Otherwise they'd send him to Paraguay.
Marcus I went from being a legal secretary to a

(58:42):
message therapist. Message therapist ninety seven was quite a taboo
thing back then. To think being a legal secretary of
bit taboo.

Speaker 5 (58:51):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
My husband went from being a motor mechanic to milking cows.
Jody Jody Jody Dave says, I've had some more some
jobs over the years. Grew up farming, jumping out of
helicopter's credit caring, wilding pines, deep sea fish trawlers at
sea for six weeks, down, truck driving, truck driving, son
of a gun. Who would have thought people doing trick

(59:16):
shots would become such a big thing. Must be a
frustrating kind of career doing trick shots for follows. Anyway,
Marcus I went from being a log truck driver to
a church pasta wow. I did watch the America's Cup
last night. It was slightly exciting, but Sir Ben Ainsley

(59:37):
was timid at the start, and they didn't do the
cornering as well the jibes or the texts, and they're
ahead and then team us in and bet them and
the Port Starboard roll over ruled them and they lost.
Quite exciting to watch anyway. Six away from ten Brenda

(59:57):
as Marcus Welcome, Hi Brenda.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Hi.

Speaker 20 (01:00:04):
Yes, I am domestic job change. I used to be
a chef and I used to work in the old
dB hotel in rote Aura.

Speaker 27 (01:00:12):
Oh wow.

Speaker 20 (01:00:13):
I used to feed six hundred people a day and
I was only twenty two, not less than twenty two.
I was about nineteen twenty at the time.

Speaker 19 (01:00:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:00:28):
And now I work in a knop shop. I do
volunte I work in a opshop. I've done seven years
work for them so far. You there're a charity and
they help low income families, and.

Speaker 24 (01:00:42):
That's the less change.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
That's a huge change. And still you're still in the
same town.

Speaker 5 (01:00:48):
No.

Speaker 20 (01:00:49):
I was a chef at the DV Hotel on rote
Aura many years back, and now I live in Auckland
and I work in a op shop in Montree Hill.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Oh god, I know those ones in one Tree Hill. Yeah, okay,
which job was the most rewarding?

Speaker 20 (01:01:08):
Wow?

Speaker 15 (01:01:09):
To be honest, BA, good answer.

Speaker 20 (01:01:11):
We're in their own different ways, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
Yes, I've got a lot of things to say about
I've got a lot of things to say about op shops. Yes,
it seems to be the golden age of op shops.
They seem to be very, very busy at the moment.
I wonder too, the prices are going up. I wonder
if it's going to be a stage where they've become
too expensive and people start buying you again.

Speaker 20 (01:01:37):
Well, I think in some cases that could be so.
But our shop, we cater for low income smilies. It's
a charity, yes, and we're a bit different because we am.
One of our things is to keep our prices down.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
Go you okay, and it's flat out you guys are
busy airs.

Speaker 20 (01:01:57):
Right most of the time. We are.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
Yes, I believe that unbelievad and and the charity is
what Brenda okay. Nice to hear from me, Brenda, thanks
for coming through. What about the sharks, Christ Jews? All
the seals sounds like seal propaganda. I don't know if
that pans out. There's always people looking for an excuse
to have a seal car, aren't there. It's not good,

(01:02:22):
But yeah, there might be shark sightings around there. Haven't
been there myself for a while, Marcus. When I left school,
I went into a country apprenticeship after finishing my training,
I went into library work and then did a print apprenticeship.
After that training, I specialized in micrographics and worked at
the Dairy Board microforming vital records, which eventually moved to
scanning and records management. Computers then became my passion and

(01:02:44):
worked on them from the only nighties Upato time three
years ago. I still do computer stuff for fun now
and love it. Marcus. I've changed from working in a
big bank to go on farming. I love it. I'm
currently out in the trek to cultivating tonight, getting ready
to maize to plant tomorrow, Dave or all of this
is good. All of this is good, dB Marcus, welcome,

(01:03:07):
thanks for hanging on there. Good evening, good evening.

Speaker 9 (01:03:11):
I don't know who the drama was great for me
or my employer. I started my railway's career as a
local round of trainee to drive trains and I spotted
a job we'll take them through Walk of Trade control
and I made the comment I would by doing this job,
and to be told no, no one said says that

(01:03:33):
this was not for the for US train drivers. So
go forward eight years. I was the first local wotive
engineer to go from the foot player on a Friday
night to the train control desk on a Monday morning.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
Wow, and that.

Speaker 9 (01:03:51):
Wall as it was in those days being collapsed. And
it's allowed many many train drivers to become train controllers
and a couple of train controllers, one of them train
running officer to become train drivers.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
Harry Flare and train control.

Speaker 10 (01:04:10):
Uh these days.

Speaker 9 (01:04:15):
Include the chain running people.

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
Maybe twenty okay at one time.

Speaker 9 (01:04:21):
Yeah, during any given shift.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
Okay, it's quite a big deal.

Speaker 9 (01:04:26):
Well, all of New Zealand is controlled, of course from Wellington.

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
Yes, I'm familiar with that at the central station.

Speaker 9 (01:04:33):
Not anymore. No, they've moved out to Upper Hat. I
haven't been to the new center yet. They're at the
Wallasville Scientific Center.

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
Okay, because would all be computerized, they wouldn't need them,
So tell me why they do need them.

Speaker 9 (01:04:50):
Again, we haven't got that far in New Zealand yet,
we're already just catching up with the idea that we
don't need semaphore signals. Well, it's not quite that bad.
Wellington's just about to change for a new signaling system
which I wanted to go look up on, where we
won't be using track circuits. We'll be using GPS called

(01:05:12):
sequencing trains, So we are hauling ourselves into the twenty
first century. I keep saying ourselves open with them for
ten years.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
Of course, and we haven't had many crushes with I mean,
we've had crushes with trains like at Hide and stuff
with landslides, but as far as train the train, you've
done a pretty good job over the years. I mean,
the safety we could always seem to have been pretty good.

Speaker 9 (01:05:39):
We have been mercilesslly lucky. Yes we've got one up,
but just north of the cargo at uh well, the
next couple of crossing groups up from Gore we had
a head on.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
The Pocono was something like that.

Speaker 9 (01:05:56):
Is it something like that?

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
Yeah, okay, I.

Speaker 9 (01:06:00):
Think about it. There was time to go through the place,
and yeah, we've had the odd oops, but you're generally
speaking pretty good. But my next great move, you know,
was scaring the hell out of the railway people as
I was supervisor when it's a railway station for trans Metro,
which is a recently sitting way up the corporate letder,

(01:06:21):
dealing with a couple hundred thousand people per shift you
in commuters, and I gave that up to go to
Otira population to forty five and drive trains through the
Otia Channel.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (01:06:31):
And that had had my workmates totally flummoxedy. You can't
do that, I said, you just watch me.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
I can see that. What a fantastic place to be
with a mist in there is fantastic. It's unbelievable, as
it's like nowhere in the world, that town, it's unbelievable.

Speaker 9 (01:06:49):
I found out later there was a sweepstake going that
I wouldn't last six weeks and I was there five years.
But one other little little point be five go the
train controllers, where I earned a super KdV. So up
until then I had a real name, but after train control,
within railways, I am only known as dB, to the

(01:07:12):
point that some people don't know I have any other names.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
So what was it? What was your handle in the railways?

Speaker 9 (01:07:18):
What was it?

Speaker 1 (01:07:18):
You see BB as D and where did that come from?

Speaker 9 (01:07:25):
As a train controller?

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
So everyone's got a two digit name, is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
No?

Speaker 9 (01:07:30):
No, it's just because that's my initials and you had
your last name because you're forever giving out instructions and
you have to sign them verbally. Yes, so you know,
and my last name as I went further up the
corporate ladder and sideways and backwards and forwards, my reputation

(01:07:52):
was such that I was only known as dB.

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
Right, and are they good and bad? Train controllers are
all pretty much powerf for you're only You're only noticed
if you do a bad job.

Speaker 16 (01:08:02):
Is that right?

Speaker 9 (01:08:03):
All train controls are controls are excellent? So just boy
exlent the others.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
Write your book, d B, thank you, Jocket smackers.

Speaker 27 (01:08:12):
Hello, Hello, TV probably knows my uncle. He draws trains.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
And here what's his name? KB?

Speaker 27 (01:08:25):
That would be em Be. The last name is Mars.

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
Okay, they live there? Are they stationed there? There's a
they live there?

Speaker 19 (01:08:31):
Do they?

Speaker 10 (01:08:32):
Now?

Speaker 27 (01:08:33):
He just have well he just drives trains here and
in spots smoga or will do the old they put
the trains alpoint?

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
Sure.

Speaker 27 (01:08:43):
My story is I went from mining to working to
look to leaving that to starting in the meat works
statured as a laborer in the film Hungry, then ended
up Health and Safety Reap, and then from there I
went to but pretty much the boss, and then I

(01:09:05):
had to leave was Game of Solo Dead.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
So so you're the boss of the works.

Speaker 27 (01:09:11):
No, No, just the department angry.

Speaker 1 (01:09:14):
What's what sort of mining were you doing?

Speaker 16 (01:09:16):
Job cal.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
Open cast like Star on the Coast. Yeah, yeah, any good?

Speaker 27 (01:09:25):
Oh it was all right?

Speaker 9 (01:09:26):
Yeah yeah that was really really good.

Speaker 15 (01:09:28):
Actually yeah, but.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
You're driving trucks on Stockton plate. I was at what
you're doing, and then I was underground. Oh really yeah,
it's it was underground where at Stockton No, just Paor
and Gramire. Okay, kind of imagine. I don't even know
we're doing much of that underground coal mining anymore, so

(01:09:49):
I kind of imagine what that's like.

Speaker 27 (01:09:52):
Oh this is in the last so yeah, teenies. So yeah,
that gown sideway as it blow us?

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
So oh was it park River?

Speaker 15 (01:10:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
Okay, I didn't want to appreciate on that, jock every idea.
I thought you'd be opencast or something. Wow, jeepers, are
you a good solo dead?

Speaker 20 (01:10:15):
Sorry?

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
Are you a good solo dead?

Speaker 26 (01:10:17):
Well?

Speaker 27 (01:10:17):
I like to think so.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
Yeah. Sounds like yeah, if you've got at your job
to do it, it sounds like you'd be spectacular at it.
How would you How would you know if you've got
on your bed? I suppose you don't know? You don't
know to laughterwards, do you?

Speaker 14 (01:10:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (01:10:32):
Well, no one even tells you how to do it,
no one, No.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
One ever tells you how to do it. You just yeah,
if the kids are happy, I reckon, you're probably doing
it quite well.

Speaker 27 (01:10:43):
Oh shehts feed and watered and she's still alive, so
I mustn't be doing too bad.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
Yeah you got a girl, have you?

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:10:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
How old?

Speaker 27 (01:10:52):
Should be turning five in March?

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
Oh wow, she's young. Yeah, she's getting ready, she's looking
forward to school and March.

Speaker 27 (01:11:01):
Yeah, I thought she can talk about that's what she
wants to do.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
Well, that's a pause. That's a positive. Then you have
to do something with your days too, won't you. What
are you going to do? Then?

Speaker 27 (01:11:11):
I'll probably just seend that working more because I'm working part.

Speaker 1 (01:11:14):
Time at the moment at the film hungery.

Speaker 27 (01:11:17):
No, I'm doing something different there, I have to tell me.
But I just works some with her day here. So
because I had to leave the I had to leave
the film Hungry when.

Speaker 11 (01:11:30):
She was.

Speaker 27 (01:11:32):
Sixteen months old, so I could take her on.

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
Yeah, I can't even I don't even know what a
film hungery is, can you. I Mean, it's a word
I've heard a lot, but I've got no idea what
it is?

Speaker 9 (01:11:41):
Oh so oh we hased to do.

Speaker 27 (01:11:43):
All it was was so you know how you got
the sworderboard.

Speaker 4 (01:11:47):
Yep.

Speaker 27 (01:11:48):
So the film Hungry was under like literally underneath the
Meusanine floor for the sword board, and then all the
shapeskins would come down and do big bath washers down
like a hydroslide ye and then they just come down
then going into like convey about and there'll be two
people that would feed the sheepskins, so like the wall

(01:12:11):
with you know the sheepskins there a price and then
go on a table. Then a few people would open
up what they call the socks, which is like the
last so it was on your leg from like just
above your ankle to about where he'll start. That's what
they call the sock. Help with people. Then they would
open the ea a knife and just cut that in

(01:12:34):
half and it would all open because it was where
the you know, the two beck leagues were originally when
they but because when they pull the skin off, it
goes inside out. Yeah, and then they're just going to
like big wall sets and then get set off.

Speaker 9 (01:12:50):
To like all the woolerries and stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
Is it where is it where you do your wrists
and get capital tunnels in the film Hungery is it?
And it's tough on your wrists?

Speaker 16 (01:12:58):
Is that right?

Speaker 5 (01:13:00):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (01:13:01):
It wasn't tough until weird to deal with like the marino,
the marino on the they're really fucking that. That's really hard,
Like that's real hard on your rests.

Speaker 9 (01:13:11):
But were yeh?

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
And are you still on the coast job?

Speaker 15 (01:13:17):
No?

Speaker 27 (01:13:17):
No, no, Im and Kenbury good on.

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
You're nice to hear from your job. Appreciate that. Thanks
for hanging on there, Peter Ands Marcus. Welcome, Hi, Peter,
great Marcus.

Speaker 24 (01:13:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:13:27):
Just first I'll tell you that my grandfather, when he
was allowed, was one of the only very few people
that saw Hayles come up twice.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
Wow. Wow, that is the most extraordinary thing I've heard. Oh,
so he was in two thousand, what was okay?

Speaker 11 (01:13:42):
Well, and because he was born and red in your
town of Bluff, and he said that he remember when
he was a kid, some people thought the world was
going to end because it's a lit up the whole sky.

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
Yeah, nineteen ten, yep. What was he in Bluff? Peter?
Was he railways or fishermen or is it at the
works or what was he doing?

Speaker 10 (01:14:08):
There.

Speaker 11 (01:14:09):
He was working at the cour stores down there, so yeah, sorry,
his whole life he was down there the least live
in Henderson Street. Oh yeah, and yes the house is
still standing.

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
But what number here is? What number Henderson Street?

Speaker 11 (01:14:28):
Oh, I don't know. The house are still standing. It's
a great roofed house. It's it used to be one.
I think it's colors now. But yeah, sorry, I know,
I know, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
I had to go up there delivered. I had to
go up there delivering flyers from missing cats. I was
just up Henderson Street last week delivering to all the houses.
Wasn't now cat but it was just a fundraiser for
the for the rugby club. Okay, it might have been.

Speaker 3 (01:14:56):
It might have been.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
It was it like an art deco flat roof thing,
was it?

Speaker 10 (01:15:01):
Yuh?

Speaker 11 (01:15:03):
I wouldn't say, well, yeah, probably much deco.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
Was here, number twenty one on the opposite.

Speaker 11 (01:15:09):
Oh, I don't know. I remember there was a street
just to be an opposite that run off Henderson's Street.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
That's Spencer Street.

Speaker 11 (01:15:18):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
Okay, what was the stone? What was a surname?

Speaker 11 (01:15:21):
Peter Thompson? His first name was Jack, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
Jack Thompson, Jack Thompson Yeah, there must have been spectactive
of people went on about it so much because it
because when it came back it was a bit of
a damp squab. Did you see it in ninety eighty six.

Speaker 11 (01:15:40):
Yeah, we were luckily we were living about of Terrace.
We didn't have all the street lights and everything, but
we had to see it. What was blocking was.

Speaker 1 (01:15:46):
Yeah, it didn't look great. I was working nights at
the nightclub. We went at four o'clock in the morning,
drove up north to try and see it.

Speaker 10 (01:15:52):
But no good.

Speaker 22 (01:15:55):
No.

Speaker 11 (01:15:56):
But anyway, but now the scorl thing a few years ago.
But I spent a few years down on a t boy.
So I'm calling from the cargo and then I got
a call one weekend from this guy. I used to
do a job in the school holidays for this guy,
and he rang me up. I knew it was a
long distance and what he asked me was he wanted

(01:16:20):
me to go to Lima, Peru to set up an
album unium window and door production line machinery, and then
turned around and train to start. And when I got there.
When I got there in two thousand, it was it
was pretty dangerous because President Jimori in that in that year,

(01:16:43):
left the country and took gold bullion. And when I
flew into the airport, it was under a military rule
and there was tanks thereous soldiers of ak for he
said them, and I thought, what the hell am I
doing here? And also I had a bodyguard and there
worked car. He had a thirty eight caliber underneath the
seat of the whole time. That made very very volatile.

Speaker 24 (01:17:08):
You know, it's.

Speaker 11 (01:17:10):
Uh and the language made it even worse.

Speaker 1 (01:17:14):
Hello did your last? Hello? Did your last? Peter?

Speaker 11 (01:17:18):
Well, my contract was to four months, but because the
situation over there, I ended up spending six months. But
I achieved my goal, got everything set up. It was
totally frustrating in a lot of areas, even getting stuff ordered,
for example. But I'm saying that I achieved my goal

(01:17:43):
and come we came out to six months. But yeah,
it was it was huge challenge. But that was something
totally different and as you can imagine, being a totally
different country, environment, languages, and also I had a lot
of machinery. I had to fly to Bolivia, which is

(01:18:04):
pretty dangerous as well.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
A body guard on the flights. Yes, nice to hear
from your pet. Do you take care of yourself, ah
trainer as a nurse. After two years thought this is
not for me, joined the building company we built the
new hospital block, and then trained as a message therapist.
Eventually returned am now senior nurse in the new hospital.
Goodness on this day in nineteen eighty six, the John

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Farnham single You're the Voice David on the Australian Charts,
co written by Andy Quinter keyboard player for ice House
and Keith read from procol Haam and Chris Thompson leads
vocalist on Manfred Mann's classic Blinded by the Night, one

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of the great songs. So there you go. They had
a lot of trouble getting radio to play it because
of Farnham's reputation. Anyway, such a banger that one. Anyway,
you know how it goes, by the way, I've got
no idea what exams are like these days, and boy,

(01:19:11):
I'm just happy not to have any experience. So there
we go. Maybe someone wants to mention they don't know
how you would mention that welcome hitdle twelve by the
way too. Halloween is becoming more popular in Britain, less
popularly here, but big and Britain coming into winter, though,
why wouldn't it be Australia is to ban debit card

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payment surcharges we should follow soup, they're mean spirited and
digital exams and a poll shows almost half of people
polled support buying publicly owned rail enabled fairies to replace
the inter al and fairies. Is it was a daft
move of the government to cancel those and they'll pay
for that hopefully. But get in touch if you want

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to talk. Marcus Till twelve oh eight hundred and eighty
Tadia nine text. Not many people know that Blinded of
the Light, Blinded by the Light was written by Springsteen.
Oh yeah, there we go. But a music trivia what
we got about last night with musical old Cliff Richards
goodness to kind of amaze the positive response to the

(01:20:17):
Cliff Richards announcement. People must love him genuinely, each to
their own say that with love. Johnny Farnham, total anthem.
Pauline Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:20:31):
Hello Marcus. Cliff Richard absolutely loved him, still do now.
Isn't it ironic that school exams are going to be
pen on paper?

Speaker 1 (01:20:48):
I don't even know. I didn't even know they had exams.
I thought it was all in CEA where they've got
to assessed.

Speaker 5 (01:20:56):
Well, it's exams on paper because there is so much
cheating on the internet. Yeah, and they say that they've
had to reduce the exam time from three to two
hours because the students don't know how to write by
hand anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:21:17):
I think they get tired.

Speaker 5 (01:21:20):
Well, you imagine there aren't the tip tap tap tip
tap on their laptops and whatever, so they probably just
are not used to the writing.

Speaker 1 (01:21:31):
But if you're a young person, you would you would
not be around a pin.

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:21:38):
But you're going to have to be because.

Speaker 1 (01:21:42):
A pin.

Speaker 5 (01:21:44):
No you don't at the moment.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
But oh, here we go say something depressing. We're going to.

Speaker 11 (01:21:51):
What about?

Speaker 10 (01:21:52):
What about?

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
What about after an earthquake? Is that we're going to say?

Speaker 5 (01:21:55):
No, I was going to say that you're going to
be forced into the situation of doing your exams pin
on paper because they're not that the schools are not
going to offer the exams on the computers because of
the cheating. That's all.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
Yeah, I just I guess I'm just not abashing young people.
But I mean, I mean, it's not cheating if you
look in the computer, because that's a resource you've got,
isn't it.

Speaker 5 (01:22:23):
Not during exam time?

Speaker 1 (01:22:25):
Why not?

Speaker 5 (01:22:27):
Because apparently you can arrange for people to do your
essays and then submit them as your own work, et cetera.
I'm not into the cheating. I didn't cheat, so I'm
not really up with it. But someone might be able
to help you.

Speaker 1 (01:22:42):
Yeah, okay, fair enough. I think every reasonable Thank you.
I think I think that's, by the way, that's university exams,
not school exams. Pauline. I think I think it's quite
a software to prevent cheating. But does it look it
sounds like I don't really have an opinion because it's
very much out of my purview. It's a long time
since I've done exams, and my kids thankfully have not

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done exams because they're too young, although I guess that
will be in their future. I don't know if there's
what sort of exams there will be. I think they
have exercise I don't have what I think they've want
exercise books at schools. I don't really pay that much attention.
They can write, they can spell, they can hold a pen,

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but I don't fully know what will happen to them
in five years time. But I don't flip. I don't
know what I'm saying, but they don't naturally want to
use pens because it's not part of the world. They
write cards and things. I always get a Christmas card
or a Father's Day cards, pretty well written. Actually, yeah card,

(01:23:53):
it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 28 (01:23:56):
Hey Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
Thanks Carden? What's happening?

Speaker 26 (01:23:59):
Can you hear me all right?

Speaker 1 (01:24:00):
Loud and clear? Beautiful? Thanks for asking. I've never heard
a line as good as this. It's wonderful.

Speaker 28 (01:24:05):
Sweet, was good. Yes, job changes. I I have been
a truck driver and a dairy farmer my whole life.
And my wife started working in mental health and I

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was dairy farming at the time, and the lady she
was looking after I was diagnosed with do I D
just associated with identity disorder and I've never experienced it.
I've never been around it. And she used to come
out to home every sofon and stay for weekends. Me

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and her stating close, and she asked me to come
and leave the farm and to come and work with
her as a mental health support worker.

Speaker 1 (01:24:58):
Wow, can so many quests I've never heard of it.

Speaker 28 (01:25:03):
It's a lot of people compare it to schizophrenia or
multiple personalities or it's it's quite different from that. But
after doing that for about six months, I I left
her and that I went back truck driving and my

(01:25:25):
wife ended up leaving leaving that as well. And the
last year my wife has been diagnosed with the I D.

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
Well.

Speaker 28 (01:25:35):
So, had I not had the six months of intro
into the I D, I would never have known. Like, yeah,
it's they talk about a higher power moment. That was Yeah,
me working with this lady introduced me to to how
I'm going to need to be around my wife.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
So did you did you? Did you diagnose your wife?

Speaker 15 (01:25:59):
Come?

Speaker 26 (01:26:01):
No, I didn't know.

Speaker 27 (01:26:02):
No, sopogious that yet can happen later in life.

Speaker 28 (01:26:12):
You learn to cover it up. I guess the they
call them alters, learned to disguise themselves as as the
person that they're trying to be. But they different personalities.
My wife has about about twenty that come out at

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different times. Yeah, one, two, three years old to nineteen
twenty five. Like it's just all different ages and yeah,
different people.

Speaker 1 (01:26:48):
Yeah, and tell me something. Does share the woman you
work for for six months?

Speaker 26 (01:26:54):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
How much work do they require do they need full
time care?

Speaker 28 (01:27:00):
Yes, at that time she needed twenty seven care.

Speaker 13 (01:27:04):
Yes.

Speaker 28 (01:27:05):
There's a lot of suicide idelations and oh yeah, and
just the two of them are very done and different
in stages of where they are.

Speaker 2 (01:27:20):
With the.

Speaker 28 (01:27:23):
You'd have you'd have a two year old come out
and they would out for six hours, and you can't
leave a two year old by them by themselves. So
it was you had to be around all the time
to yeah, keep trying to make sure there.

Speaker 1 (01:27:41):
So how do you and the two year olds there
for as long as the two year old there? You
can't change the two year old? Can You can't get
another persal that right.

Speaker 5 (01:27:54):
With?

Speaker 28 (01:27:55):
With my wife, I can.

Speaker 16 (01:27:56):
I can.

Speaker 28 (01:27:58):
There's certain ones that sort of listen out and if
I say their name two or three times that they
they come out. Yeah, my wife sort of has a
bit of a handle on. There's there's there's a few
adults that are all watching and all working together to
to try and keep the little safe.

Speaker 9 (01:28:18):
That's it's.

Speaker 12 (01:28:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (01:28:21):
I I was a yeah, truck driver, dairy farm man.

Speaker 1 (01:28:27):
I had no idea that's different in it. It's kind
of it's kind of fascinating, kind it's kind of fascinating.

Speaker 28 (01:28:36):
So you talk to some people about it and your
first reaction is, oh, you poor thing, Yeah you it
must be hard for you, and it's it's it's kind
of I mean, it's it's a bit of hard work.

Speaker 11 (01:28:52):
But it's also like I I.

Speaker 28 (01:28:57):
I'm kind of privileged in a way, Like I kind
of explained it that that this person trusts me so
much that they can show their most vulnerable, like they
can be a two year old around me, like it's
and it's it's it's hard to control, but there's also
times where there's just that you just control it like that.

(01:29:19):
So so we get we get home and at seven
thirty eight o'clock, we have some dinner and we lay
in bed and and the the four year old Cindy
comes out and and will lay with me and watch
Bob's Burgers in case of sleep, and it's kind of yeah,
we've got a routine, and it's yeah, she's talking to

(01:29:39):
a to a therapist and we're working through some of
the trauma and stuff. But it's yeah, it's a big change.

Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
Goodness Hilloise.

Speaker 10 (01:29:51):
Ah why and Marcus, Oh, that was interesting that guy
talking about the do you know about do you know
about that. Yeah, I knew someone who had it. I've
got a degree in sight, but yeah, I knew someone
who had it. Was it was quite fascinating. She wasn't
actually diagnosed, so and she wasn't really aware. I saw

(01:30:12):
a child as frightened child, a mother an intellectual, an
abusive mother.

Speaker 1 (01:30:23):
It's a classic multiple personalities, right, Is that that's what this?

Speaker 10 (01:30:28):
Yeah, they used to call it that, but yeah, it's
it's basically, through severe trauma in childhood, your brain learns
all these defense mechanisms to shut down. But in the
year and then you yeah, the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (01:30:43):
Yeah, and she's afraid. She's a fragile vessel the brain.

Speaker 10 (01:30:49):
Oh yes, it's very Yeah, Penn, I'm pleased that they're
bringing back I think they should. Children should learn writing. Yeah, yes, yes, sorry,
but that's not If I was my mother, I'd be
saying that Penn is lighting than the sword.

Speaker 1 (01:31:11):
But anyway, why tonight we've got up and arms about
not doing cursive writing, and they thought, well, we've got
to do in cursive writing otherwise people couldn't do their signatures.
I've never heard such right, but some people enjoyed a
lot of people just want things the way they were
and that worries me.

Speaker 10 (01:31:27):
Yeah, I think did It's a useful skill and it
turns on different parts of the brain. That's that's why
I think that's a good idea.

Speaker 24 (01:31:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:31:38):
Jobs, well, my mother wanted me to go nursing, did so,
Yeah it was nursing, teaching or secretary and I certainly
wasn't going to do the other to So I only
did two years and then I left for a number
of reasons. I've had a lot of jobs from the

(01:31:59):
hospitality industry with dish washing, cooking, was trying the house, Louise.

Speaker 1 (01:32:10):
That's that's my core values. That's what people choose.

Speaker 10 (01:32:13):
Uncle's, Uncle's, Burger's Bar and Christchur's was one. In the eighties,
I was at a restaurant and gray Mouth called Fallon's Restaurants.
It was interesting because it was at the Golden Eagle Hotel.
Will the Band just Stay? And so I got to

(01:32:37):
cop for herbs Dave McCartney and yeah, they were lovely.
They were the loveliest guys I've ever met. Anyway. So
I did a lot of hospitality and then my ex
husband wanted me to train us with natural paths because

(01:32:58):
he thought I could do more money. Well, I don't
know the cent anyway, And I got divorced and studying
psychology and I ended up being a probation officer was
most of what I wanted to do. I actually want
to be a psychologist, but because it was so late

(01:33:19):
in life, bringing up kids and all the rest of it,
that I didn't get that chance. But that was a
great job.

Speaker 9 (01:33:27):
That's a great job.

Speaker 1 (01:33:28):
I never know what you do reprobation officers. I don't
even know where anyone involves.

Speaker 10 (01:33:34):
Well, basically managing offenders on different sentences, whether they be
on parole or provision or community work. And also the
most mostly the last seven years, I wrote reports for
the judiciary pre sentence report.

Speaker 1 (01:33:53):
It's a pretty explanation.

Speaker 10 (01:33:54):
Okay, yeah, the work of fiction really because for some
here and just like are you remorseful? How do you
feel about this?

Speaker 23 (01:34:04):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:34:04):
Yes, I'm so sorry I did it. Yeah, right, you
get a little bit. What's the worst sonicle?

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:34:12):
Sonicle?

Speaker 10 (01:34:12):
Yes, And then I had to give up because of
my health after fourteen years. And now I'm an artist.

Speaker 1 (01:34:20):
Good. Yeah, what's your medium? A crolic at the moment,
but I've done on canvas.

Speaker 10 (01:34:32):
Yeah, but I've done pastels and I've done watercolors.

Speaker 1 (01:34:37):
Are you selling them?

Speaker 10 (01:34:39):
Yeah, I've sold twenty two so far.

Speaker 1 (01:34:41):
Through through where.

Speaker 10 (01:34:45):
Through trade me?

Speaker 1 (01:34:46):
Goodness?

Speaker 10 (01:34:48):
Yeah, I no, I don't like galleries much.

Speaker 1 (01:34:51):
Oh no, they'll take the galleries will take fifty percent,
won't take that much.

Speaker 10 (01:34:57):
And yeah, it's just people can't afford to buy it galleries.

Speaker 1 (01:35:02):
And of course maybe you might. And of course it's
the great question Luise, that maybe gallery wants you. I mean,
she's a tricky I would be the artist, is it?

Speaker 19 (01:35:09):
Ah?

Speaker 10 (01:35:10):
Yeah, probably not.

Speaker 1 (01:35:12):
What's your what's your subject matter?

Speaker 10 (01:35:17):
Landscape? Some abstract artists mostly landscapes and and other things,
just just basic abstract. I'd like to get into more portraits,
but they are so difficult. It's just practice.

Speaker 1 (01:35:34):
It's just practice, practice, practice, And YouTube starts. Well, I've
got to run the ways. But love you to talk sounder.
It's Marcus. Good evening, Oh.

Speaker 13 (01:35:44):
Good evening, Marcus. Just this dramatic change of jobs. I've
had quite a few different jobs from each other. My
main love was an insurance broker, so I really really
enjoyed starting off with Prudential, Close Neil Sovereign and then

(01:36:08):
out on my own and got fed up with that.
After a while I wanted to change and I went
into advertising. And then I decided to either train in counseling,
train and here dressing and here dressing one. And because

(01:36:32):
I thought, well you can be creative and you also
get to counsel your clients in a way with talking,
I branched off into I really enjoyed the scalp massage
with hair dressing. So I trained in message therapy and

(01:36:58):
ended up working in a hospital messaging staff.

Speaker 11 (01:37:06):
And in.

Speaker 13 (01:37:08):
Having a home clinic and doing mobile That was in
Auckland and now in Hamilton. After a bit of a
break with surgery on my back and coping with a
bad back, I've started up again a message therapy specializing

(01:37:29):
only in scalp handsome feet, so that I don't have
to exert my back with a full body message and
I can cope with doing the hands, feet and scalp.

Speaker 1 (01:37:46):
I've never thought message, what's the benefit of that?

Speaker 13 (01:37:50):
Oh, it increases blood flow to your hair sollicles for
a start, healthy scalp, very soothing, calming, relaxing. Yeah, healthy,
healthy scalp healthy here M so absolutely recommend getting one. Marcus.

(01:38:18):
I go to the go to a hair dress so
they will give you one, or go to a message
therapist they will give you a scalp message.

Speaker 1 (01:38:29):
You ever thought of it? I mean, I'm not likely
to go and do it. It's not something that I mean.
But cheapers, creepers, yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:38:34):
Yeah, and hands. A lot of hair dresses actually get
very tired hands working with their hands all the time.
So that's the target market for hand message and anyone
that wants your hands and I go up the arm

(01:38:56):
as well. And feet, well that speaks for itself. Reflexology
and just a nice foot massage, just very relaxing as well.

Speaker 1 (01:39:12):
I'm surprised insurance brokerages you loved that? What did you
love about that?

Speaker 19 (01:39:18):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:39:20):
Learning about the products for a start, and dealing with
a variety of people I worked, Oh, when I was
working for Prudential, Colonial and Sovereign, I worked for from
nine and nine o'clock in the morning till oh anywhere

(01:39:43):
from the last appointment could be nine o'clock at night,
and going all over Auckland. I was Auckland based and
just meeting a variety of people.

Speaker 1 (01:40:00):
Dramatic work changes and asparagus. She went that go rang
about picking us because this lookedfficult, but I looked at
some of the videos and people now do pick them
on the backs of tractors. You're not just walking hunch
the whole time. Anything else you want to bang on
about tonight jumping, let's hear from you the America's cups

(01:40:22):
not on tonight. Am I right with that? Dan, it's
Thursday morning. I watched it last night. Terrible. It was
fun and the New Zealand yacht looks beautiful on the
water and it's so smooth that the transitions. But it

(01:40:46):
was the most exciting of all the races because Inios
did lead. They won the start. We didn't win the start,
but they had the greatest speed at the start. Is
that winning the start? But then I'll tehle got on
the up on the skids and she's I'll go. It's
not that the yachts faster than anus, but they're quicker

(01:41:11):
at turning. It is a cool customer. You know the
key we skip it. But apart from that, it's not
very exciting to watch. This is the race committee and
the wind is right, we will be racing. That's it.
In they race up down, up down, up down, that's it. Zigzags,

(01:41:34):
zagg zag. It's not like you're going to tell your
grandkids about one of the great races of American cup
yacht racing. Oh there was one time they did a
bit when everyone just secretly watches for the boats to
hit and they come close. But anyway, good on them all,
but unfortunately and we'll win this. I don't mind that.

(01:42:03):
But if we win this, there'll be very little interest
in the next time. It would be my take on that,
because it's just non interesting spectacle. Get in touch. My
name's Marcus. Welcome, dramatic job changes. Mary's listening in beads.

(01:42:29):
She's fascinated. I always think it's brave that people go
and retrain to be something that requires kind of a
leap of faith, and then they do it. They mightn't
like it. I was doing this. I trained to be
a pilot or something like that, or a helicopter pilot.

(01:42:49):
Come on, let's be hearing from your Marcus till twelve,
eight hundred and eighty eight Teddy and nine nine two
de text. There is something different you want to talk about.
All is up for it to be hearing from you
Hitdle twelve. There's other topics also, but it's bits and bobs.
Final hour. I reckon right, Titan real, let's here from you.

(01:43:13):
I'm not quite sure what's going to get you going
in the last hour, Marcus, I started working life. I
started working life at age nine, picking up walnuts for cash.
Then a friendly was a headdress. It took me to
help out at the Sound for four years. I left
school to go to Edmund for eight years. After that,
I've been a house parent and a children's home, a cook,
a butcher, a baby photographer, a pub owner, a landlord.

(01:43:37):
Then beckoned to Edmund for further thirteen years. At sixty three,
I had to take on the care for my two grandchildren.
Have loved all the experiences. Eveln, what pub did you own?
I love a pub owner. I mightn't drink, but I've
got an absolute fascinating with pubs. I don't know why

(01:44:00):
that is Philip's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:44:07):
Marcus.

Speaker 21 (01:44:07):
Since you brought up the America's cup, just quickly, this
is how I'd like it to pan out from here,
because I agree it could be a little boring. Earth
New Zealand just wins a sevens up.

Speaker 9 (01:44:18):
So when it gets to six No, I would like.

Speaker 21 (01:44:25):
In THEOS to call up announce a shock announcement that
they have pointed Jimmy Spittle as.

Speaker 1 (01:44:33):
Yes, yes, it's a good thought thinking that. I was
literally thinking that during the news, are sitting on the
couch thinking that would be the thing to do.

Speaker 21 (01:44:41):
Yep, I thought at the other day, and I was thinking,
you know, because we've actually kind of come to sort
of we I think we hated them so much we
just the only any way from there was just to
love them. I think Jimmy Spittle is just that he's
just kind of we could almost adopt him as a

(01:45:01):
as a as a kiwi. But so Jimmy little take over.

Speaker 9 (01:45:08):
He brings it up to six all in New Zealand
win the second race.

Speaker 21 (01:45:14):
To take the cup. And I tell you that would
I think it would just send us all into complete pandemonium.
I think would just be that the whole nation would
just be.

Speaker 1 (01:45:26):
Boiling because it needs it, because no one's watching it.
There was a very good guy right in for newsand
the Herald about the race. I forget his name. He's
called the Secret Skipper or something. I don't know if
you've read it, but it was a compelling. I've read
a lot about it, the Sailing Professor, right, but it
seems as though the New Zealand boat is so much
easier to sail. They're all just chilled out talking, exchanging
ideas with each other, whereas Inios it requires so much

(01:45:48):
work on the foils and the sale that those two
guys had spent the whole time doing that and it's
up to Ainsley. He's kind of flat out. So it's
not like, uh, corroborative, just because the Kiwi boat is
so much easier to sail.

Speaker 21 (01:46:01):
Yeah, it's interesting though. I mean we've all learned the
very very very very painfully hard way that anything can happen,
and you know, we could all be because because of
what's happened before, you know, we've got one.

Speaker 9 (01:46:15):
It's like England soccer.

Speaker 21 (01:46:16):
You know it's coming home. We all kind of kind
of carry on and then you know, we just end
up looking ridiculous. You know, there's times we got beaten
by Dennis Connor and and then Oracle and cent Francis
Go and all that. It was just kind of you know,
but I think it pays not to get too carried
away with the America's Cup you'll watch on Thursday.

Speaker 1 (01:46:37):
You'll watch on Thursday.

Speaker 21 (01:46:38):
I haven't really managed to to watch much. I don't
even know who's who's screening it.

Speaker 1 (01:46:44):
Okay, it's all on TV three. Stuff with TV threes.
Round to fell Mike and Marcus, Hello.

Speaker 27 (01:46:51):
Him, hear me?

Speaker 1 (01:46:52):
All right, glad and clear.

Speaker 23 (01:46:53):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:46:55):
Just calling about interesting career changes.

Speaker 26 (01:46:58):
I'm going about to give you a conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:47:04):
So check this out. I was a classically trained professional dancer.
Did that? Started training when I was nine, had about
a fifteen year career dancing, traveling the world, trained classically,
met my wife in India doing a Bollywood.

Speaker 28 (01:47:24):
Movie on a movie set.

Speaker 1 (01:47:25):
This is great.

Speaker 2 (01:47:27):
And then become a police officer. I've been a for
seven years now.

Speaker 1 (01:47:31):
That's that's what. That's really dramatic. That is great.

Speaker 2 (01:47:35):
A hw J so with cruise ships, casinos, pours, UK tours,
West End, I set a movie and then all of
a sudden, I got to about thirty years old. My
body was hurting. I was like, I can't keep up
with his kids anymore. And yeah, it applied to be
a police officer. Been a couple for about seven years now.

Speaker 1 (01:47:57):
What form of dancing was it?

Speaker 2 (01:48:00):
I trained classically. So I trained my whole life in plastquary.
When I say that, I mean ballet, Okay, I thought
that you that's all right, yeah, really good for really
good foundation in BALLETI classical. It's it's the background of
all dancing really yeah. And then and then moved into
where I guess sort of where the money was in
the career was, which was a more commercial, more musical theater.

(01:48:24):
Moved down that avenue and then met my wife and
then the rest is history. Been living in New Zealand
for about eleven years.

Speaker 1 (01:48:30):
Now, do you still dance at all?

Speaker 2 (01:48:33):
Mike?

Speaker 27 (01:48:34):
No, not at all, not at all.

Speaker 2 (01:48:36):
Once. I'm I'm the kind of person that needs to
be all in or not in, if that makes sense. So,
and it had to take take an act to it.
It takes a lot of your time off. You've got
to be quite neurotic to be, you know, in that
line of in that career. So it takes a lot
out of you. So I decided to pulp in and
put on my eggs in in this in this basket.

Speaker 1 (01:48:58):
But did you say your wife that did you? She
was she's a dancer?

Speaker 2 (01:49:01):
No? Yeah, yeah, yeah, my wife was a dancer. We
both met on a movie set in in India. Yeah,
I got I got flown in from London, she got
flown in from New Zealand, met her on set and
then just got talking and then the rest is history.

Speaker 1 (01:49:19):
But you and who don't dance together?

Speaker 19 (01:49:22):
We did.

Speaker 2 (01:49:22):
We did for like maybe five six years. We did
cruise ships a couple of tours together. We worked together
for a year, about five five six years together the couple.
And then yeah, came back over back to New Zealand
and to settle down over here.

Speaker 1 (01:49:38):
Wow, it's quite dramatic. Mike, and your your your coworkers,
what do they ask you the whole time?

Speaker 10 (01:49:43):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:49:44):
Is it that's not your nickname or anything?

Speaker 2 (01:49:46):
I've got many a nicknames, many obviously as you can imagine.
Pilly is in Billy Elliott that and some some not
so PC ones. And I won't I won't grace the
Where is it worth?

Speaker 1 (01:50:02):
Is it worth going? Looking for the movie?

Speaker 11 (01:50:06):
You can if you want?

Speaker 2 (01:50:07):
My friend? Yeah, yeah, shall I picture of the name
of the movie.

Speaker 1 (01:50:10):
Just tell me if you like.

Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
That's called Houseful two Bollywood movie Houseful, Houseful true?

Speaker 1 (01:50:22):
In what minute are you in it?

Speaker 5 (01:50:24):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:50:24):
God, it's I'm sure. If you type in like end
end dance scene, you'll you'll, you'll, you're sure to find it.
It's a big, huge number, lots of colors, lots of people,
the form that the four main actors. It's pretty hard
to miss.

Speaker 1 (01:50:44):
It's a long movie.

Speaker 2 (01:50:48):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. There is some money in
those Bollywood movies, mate, there is a lot of money.
It's it's mind blowing, mind blowing one of the Yeah,
it's I'm pretty sure they turn out more turn up
more money than.

Speaker 1 (01:51:04):
The Hollywood I have.

Speaker 26 (01:51:06):
I have heard some coin in those movies, mate.

Speaker 1 (01:51:10):
I'll go looking.

Speaker 2 (01:51:11):
Mike.

Speaker 1 (01:51:11):
It's a good call. Thank you for that very much.
You found them dancing, Dan, is it the end? Didn't
know it to me. It's because I believe Slater. He's
going to be doing the interviews on the horseback after
the Melbourne Cup. He was a horse trainer originally for
Gay Waterhouse before he went to the NRL. I didn't
know that, Marcus. I can't believe that. In over seventy years,

(01:51:32):
I never knew that if you put asparagus in a
cup of water, it's days alive, doesn't go soft like
in the fridge. How come no one told me didn't
have the internet. What do you think will come first?
Another rail ferry for the cock straight or a naval
replacement for the Manawanui ha ha. Marcus. I went from

(01:51:53):
being a lighthouse keeper, had been a mortuary assistant in Auckland.
From Kevin. It's a good text, Kevin, dramatic change, Marcus.
Timma was great for small engine part It's carbored electrical
bits to get things running and small tall attachments impact
drill tocket, socket attachment. Someone should set up a guide

(01:52:17):
to TIMU that tells you what to buy and how
to buy it. I've never bought anything on Timu. Do
you think that's likely to change.

Speaker 18 (01:52:24):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:52:25):
One thing I don't like is stuff. The less the better.
I'd like to cull everything that we've all got too
much stuff, but that's not I'm not going to start
getting all on my high horse about that. But I'm
not going to start buying stuff on TIMU. Any of

(01:52:46):
those things that say this will change your life. I
don't need it. I don't even life being changed. I'm
happy with how it is. Content Marc's you have to
be careful. Everyone gets timoed not full size or you
thought you'd buy ten and one arrives, Marcus. If you
want to annoy or get back at a family member,
give the children musical instruments like their first drum kit

(01:53:09):
for Christmas. If you want to impress re annoy your
boss a business partner of colleige, give them a Newtont's cradle.
I like a Newton's cradle. I should been to get
one of my kids in Newton's cradle because he's quite
taken by one of those loving Newton's could be annoying
on either, wouldn't it, Marcus, You've got far too much

(01:53:31):
influence over me. First it was the cluster Puff, then
it was selling Sunset, and then today, after listening to
Talkback last night, I asked my orthopedic surgeon to book
in a second knee replacement for me, and I only
had the first one nine weeks ago. Jeeper's Rose, go
you Rose. I thought it was terrifying all these people

(01:53:51):
doing their knees. I felt quite squeamish after that. Gotta
look after your last thing you wanted is blow a knee?
I reckon keep active. I was enjoyed reading that story
about the guy on Hawk's Bay that Clyent it died
at one hundred and five. Do you read that story?
He climbed Terradale Hill, which I've got no idea what
it is. Trevor Page, Napier hillwalker. Trevor Page dies age

(01:54:17):
one hundred and five, leaving and sparring legacy of fitness
and friendship. The Napier centenarian made his way up Terradale's
Sugarloaf Hill most mornings, on a route that would even
make a fitness fanatic phonetic exert, heavy breaths. I come
every weekday, just not Saturday and Sunday, and as it rains,
I always pray for the rain, he joked. Wow, Page

(01:54:40):
is one hundred and five years of life after more
than fifty years walking one way or another up the
steep and climb of telor Nui Drive would sadly be
his last. Died in hospital on Friday. Gosh, he's still
driving it. He's never quite recovered for an accident where
his car rolled back from its parking spot, so it
was driving as well. And there's even video of him climbing.

(01:55:03):
I don't even know where that hell is telllor Nui Road,
I'm going to look at that. I don't even know
that what what what that thing is that hell, don't
even know, really know, don't even know much about Taradale.
You haven't spent nearly enough time there. I've kind of
always got confused what it actually is. I'm looking at

(01:55:24):
it now, now, where's the hell they climbed?

Speaker 2 (01:55:26):
It? Is this?

Speaker 1 (01:55:29):
I don't know where. I've got no idea where it is?

Speaker 2 (01:55:33):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:55:34):
Where is it? Hang on is a napier googled, go
to road and funk it.

Speaker 22 (01:55:38):
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