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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be greetings and welcome, let's be having you. My
name is Marcus Hadled twelve loose like a goose. There
are things tonight that need to be said now. Firstly, Jeffers,
Oh gosh, they've stopped making Jeffers because no one wants
to buy them. So before you kick up, Bob said, ah,

(00:31):
you should have bought them. You can't not buy them,
and now bang on about it. Right, gone, gone gone, No,
kids don't want them. Chocolate and Noran shouldn't even go
together anyway. That's that they're gone. Jeffers out the window.
They weren't even made by Cadbury. Our Jay's Licorice took
them on. They were making them and they are no

(00:53):
longer a thing. Australia stopped making them. We are stopping
making them. They won't happen. Who cares not me? Although
I do ask the question what we now call Aucklanders
because they were Jeffers and now we've got to think
of a new for Aucklanders. What is that new name?
I don't know. What do people have fictionally call Aucklanders?
Got no idea. So Jeffers have gone, but I don't

(01:22):
care because no one wanted them, right. All these things
that go right, we've fallen out of love with. So
that's Jeffers and Sniffers and tangy fruits all gone because
no one wanted to buy them. I don't think the

(01:44):
kids are so much into sweets these days. I said
to be onto chips, so I got that one right.
The taste buds are changing, but Jeffers are gone. I
never really like them, although as I'm saying that, I
can imagine buying a box and opening the lid and
just pouring them in my mouth, like occasionally do with
those tubes of Smarties Delicious. Anyway, So what we call auklanors,

(02:07):
I've got no idea because you can't call them Jeffers
because there's no such thing as Jeffers. So everything that's
gone right, everything that they stopped making and we'm own about,
it's because we don't like them anymore. The only thing
that we stopped making was a tragedy was Georgie Pie,

(02:27):
because that was a deceit and that was nasty. I
think Foodtown brought them out because they wanted the sites
for their supermarkets. So we're still loving Georgie pie. This
was right in their heyday of a dollar pie. We
couldn't get enough of it. But ah no, was it
McDonald's brought them a foodtown, someone bought them. We never
saw them again. If there's one thing that comes to back,

(02:50):
it needs to come back, it's that, not the Jeffers. However,
someone suggested there should be sort of a sweets museum,
which wouldn't be a bad idea for the sort of
supply of things that you could try. Anyway, I know
they tried with Giant Jeffers for a while. Was it
a good thing? I think it was. I just always
thought the whole combination of orange and chocolate together was

(03:14):
slightly sinister and creepy because sweet stuff doesn't really go
with orange flavor, does it. I'm kind of always a
bit perplexed by that. For me, it tasted like a
bit of a food crime. Anyway, So what do we
call Auckland is now? And does anyone actually care about Jeffers?
Buy some? I'm going buy a whole lot, go to
his shop. Maybe if people can see a whole lot
for soal, they can tell us where they are. Otherwise,

(03:37):
somewhag or put them on trade me for a thousand
dollars last ever, I'll get bids, I'll go it to charity. Goodness.
It's all predictable, isn't it. But yeah, I don't know
if other countries he had Jeffers, don't if they originally
came from the UK. Don't know where they came from.
They're already on trade me. A killer graand bag. There

(03:57):
appears to be Allan's Jeffers and R Jay's Jeffers. It's
quite complicated. What'sking with sweets now? Because people buy and
sell and go out of business and all sorts of stuff.
Oh I'm exhausted even just thinking about Jeffers because I
know what people will say. You know what happens with nostalgia,
because our goodness meant to crime. They're getting rid of them,
but to crime. They even bought them. That's commerce for you.

(04:20):
You know, people don't sell stuff and they go broke.
So there's something you love, purchase it. That's my advice
to you. Otherwise, apparently McDonald's brought the Georgie pie sites,
took some locations and closed others. What do we call Aucklanders.

(04:42):
I'm looking for the texts about that. Now we can't
call them Jeffers. Do we need to call them anything?
Does it need to be a nickname for Aucklanders. It's
not only disparaging, isn't it. It's probably not a good thing.
It probably drives division. Oh way t one hundred eighty
to anyone shedding a tear for the Jeffers. Not me.
You might, though, let me know. You might want a

(05:05):
bit of a history where they came from. They come
from England. I've got no idea. By the way, Debbie
Harry is eighty today from Blondie. I had to check that.
I thought she'd be seventy eighty eight zero eighty eighty
years old. It seemed like only yesterday she was twenty.
That's aging for you, isn't it. Eight hundred eighty ten

(05:25):
eighty nine two nine two. Detect the Jeffers and the
one thing they did stop making that you do want back.
I don't know what that is. For me. It'd be
the tanklove, No, it wouldn't it be something else. I
can't think you'll know something. Get in touch and the
new name for Orklers will now need now that we
haven't got Jeffers anymore. It's no longer a thing. Oh yes,

(05:49):
oh eight hundred eighty. There's other topics, but get in
touch if you want to talk about it. I see
nol Edmunds. I only talked about a week ago. Now
it looks like he's gonna have to go. Whole place
got flooded Orchilders should be called loopies. Marcus Jeffers is delicious.
They're on a downhill from them. They took away the boxers. Gosh,
I never knew that took away the boxes. Jeffers were

(06:12):
named after the Jeffer breed of orange. Didn't even know
that was a thing. Frig jam is what they should
call Aucklanders. I don't know what they does. Someone will
know it's probably rude. I'm not Andy Auckland, by the way, too.
I don't like the sort of regional discrepancies we have
in New Zealand between different places. It's the Australian New

(06:37):
Zealand think it was invented in nineteen thirty one. They've
already updated the website to say they've been discontinued. Steve,
it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, Men's humbugs, Estimo pies and Mellow Yellow not made anymore.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
I think the Eskimo pies yeah, mind Hamburg is nice.
I like those. Where were they from?

Speaker 3 (07:06):
No, I can't remember now, I haven't seen him for years.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
I think the Eskimo pie is still a thing, but
it's called something else now it's called a is it
called something else?

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Okay? And Mallow Yellow was nice. It was like a
pineapple flavored drink.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Really, I just thought it was like a lemonade.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yeah, was it?

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Like, I don't do that anymore. They brought it back
for a little while and then it's gone again. But yeah,
root Beer used to get able to get it from
the States, the real stuff.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Oh, I think you still can.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah, okay, I think you can.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Supermarket. Now tell me about when did you last by
any Probably about forty years ago, Steve. Would that be right,
Mellow Yellow No, Jeffers.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
No, it would have been in the last ten years, Jeffers.
Oh no, oh, Jeffers, probably only fortnight ago.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Really.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah. Yeah, we're still get them at the Fourth Square
to do what.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
With to just eat like after.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Dinner, yeah, just like yeah, yeah, just eat. Going on
one of the days where we used to go up
to the picture theaters.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
And I don't even know if that even happened that.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
I don't think it really happened.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I think I don't think it had the wooden floors.
I think it was all just someone let us know, Steve.
Nice to hear from you. Fifteen past eight.

Speaker 6 (08:32):
Marcus on Wagi they call the Orchildor's Seagulls. Marcus Orklan
has been called a bunch of heroes living in a
super city fig jams.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Someone says you'd always call Auchland's late for breakfast. That
will annoy them. Get in touch. My name's Marcus. Allgo,
Let's all go oha e one hundred and eighty nineteen nine.
Looking forward for your input. Are some of you will
have some sort of nostalgia about Jeffish you want to
bang on about. But they've gone. That's because you buy

(09:06):
any Okay, so don't blame me. I'm happy they've gone.
I don't like all this nostalgia for things in the past.
I don't like people saying, oh, we needed those back,
because you're not going to bring them back because they
can't make money making them. We different if people bought them.
But we'll need a new name for Aucklanders. I think,

(09:28):
and by the way, it's terrible. Where they're coming for
the country on Thursday. Esquimo pies are called polar pies.
There you go, Marcus, Darryl Lee Orange crunch bbs exactly
the same is Darryl Lee here. I feel that kind

(09:49):
of there's discontinuation that can fixtory market. What about that
one Ouamadu that used to be Regina? What are they
called rainbow? They do them, they're pretty good. They do
kind of all. They kind of do slightly okay copies
of well known sweets. But the second shop there's banging,

(10:09):
yeah bye, distorted simes, jellybeans by the kilo where two
have joined together. And by the way, the Eskimo pie
is called the polar pie because the word esquimo was
offensive to Inowitz. That's not me saying that, that was

(10:33):
the people themselves saying that. So that's why they changed that.
Eight hundred and eighty eight rang a Toto Yanks for Auckland.
Is there we go? Keep it coming. Let's be hearing
you foot bought me, Light me up? What do you got?
I have something to say about Jeffers. I don't know
what it is. I'd have a sniffer much prefer but

(10:59):
there there we go. Not a Northern Hemisphere thing, just
an Australia and New Zealand thing. But apparently so that's
something I've learned tonight. Marcus had enjoyed a talbic showing
you so I'm a proud Aukler born in the city
all god La Lloyd always like to get a text

(11:19):
from Llloyd Marcus. Why isn't hear the replays of the
women in Tennis? Is not any Sky's channels because it's
showing now on ESPN. I thought ESPN was on Sky.
Isn't it Sky sixty one sixty two? I can't keep up?
What's that? Where's that? It's on Disney Plus streaming service.

(11:42):
It's also on Sky Brilliant. That's what we need to
hear about terrible where they're coming into Sydney and the coast.
It's like a sudden bomb. It's got a different name
this one. It's like a tornado bomb. You heard it
here first. I'll tell you a bit more about that

(12:04):
that's happening as we speak to with a bomb. It's
not called that though, to bomb cyclone. That's the first
for me. Heavy rain that threatens to cause flesh flooding,
so they're all power. You got renas that you might

(12:25):
pay to ring them mellow yellow, silly name. Don't really
want to go on about that. Get in touch, Marcus
till twelve oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and
nine nine text by the way this year, and I'll
come back to that actually later. Oh. The approval of
the old helicopters for Ali Williams and his wife, Are

(12:46):
they married? Has gone down about as well as you're expected.
All sorts of people now want to ban helicopters from
the urban area. They might have won the battle, they
might lose the war. I don't know what needs to
happen to change approval. Probably the counselors could do that
if they wanted. One council from the North sw was

(13:09):
massively disappointed, as it was a time to have a
serious rewrite of the rule book. Off you go, nineteen
past eight, looking forward to your contributions tonight, oh eight
hundred eighty nine nine two. You have something to say
about Jeff as, I just know it. Just make it
humorous or interesting, not too whiny about the fact they've gone.

(13:31):
Maybe we just celebrate the fact that we even had
them anyway, Marcus, Aucklands should be called cheese als, cheesy
on the surface and hollow in the center. Wow, they
keep the economy going, don't they. Oh one of the

(13:51):
people's attitude to Auklans has changed, has it? You don't
have people calling them disparaging things so often anymore, do you.

Speaker 7 (13:59):
Maybe?

Speaker 2 (14:00):
By the way, I already thought mushroom Mary would be
locked away today Aaron Patterson. No verdict yet, there won't
be a verdict tonight. That shock. She'll have taken them
zero minutes to decide she was guilty, So flip not
happy about that. Twenty three past a Karen, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 8 (14:16):
Hey Marcus, how are you. I haven't rung for ages?

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Very good, Thank you, Karen. Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 9 (14:22):
Good.

Speaker 8 (14:23):
Excuse my throat. I woke up this morning with like
raiseor blades in there.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Oh yeah, howd they get there?

Speaker 10 (14:29):
Well?

Speaker 8 (14:29):
I got my I got my flu jab on Sunday,
cod and we woke up this morning and yeah, not good. Hey,
you can buy Jeffers. I do all my shopping online,
you will, And I'm looking at our j Jeffers one
hundred and fifty grands. They're about five dollars sixty five
for a big patent.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
I don't think they'll be around much longer, though. I
think that's it. Oh yeah, yeah, so this will be
the last stock.

Speaker 8 (14:58):
A right to get in there.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Then here's what it says. I don't really like much.
I don't like the looks I lovesh, do you so
hard enough?

Speaker 11 (15:11):
Is it?

Speaker 12 (15:13):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (15:13):
No, No, it's great. I just actually, well, I I like.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
The other stuff which I think they make anyway, which
is anyway blah blah blah. They're confirming they will no
longer make the candy, so it must just be the
last stock.

Speaker 8 (15:26):
Okay. And I've got memories of I did my collegies
at Kaitai College, and being a little town, we had
a very little, small two story picture at the end
of the year. Got lots of fond memories of it,
and we were definitely throwing jeff Is around, rolling Jeffers around.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Did you say, did you say kay.

Speaker 8 (15:50):
Taya kai taire?

Speaker 13 (15:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (15:53):
What was the name? What was the name of the theater?

Speaker 7 (15:56):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (15:56):
God, it was too long ago, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
I don't even know they had one. So excited about
that to think they had one.

Speaker 8 (16:03):
I was there in the eighties.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
I'd like to go to a movie in Kaitai. Yeah,
I think that could be. It could have been quite fun.
Do you remember what you were seeing when you're throwing
the stuff around?

Speaker 8 (16:14):
Oh god, Marcus, I've got such a good memory of
the very first Karate Kid and it was so exciting.
I reckon. The whole school must have been there, and
you know when he goes up on one leg on
that you know at the end, and everybody was yelling
and it was atmosphere plus in the for that movie.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
I hate to admit I never saw it Karate Kid.

Speaker 14 (16:40):
Never, Oh Marcus, Come on?

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Was it called the Northland Hall or was it something
more recent than that? Or the Princess? Was it called
the Princess?

Speaker 8 (16:49):
Hey, I've got no idea. Only moved up there for
about I did my high school so in third form, two,
second year fift up there, so I was only up
there for about five or sixty years.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Five years be a pretty wild town, wouldn't it.

Speaker 8 (17:05):
Uh appearents that she moved up there and they converted
a big old villaer into a rest home. Well, so
why we moved up there? And then they converted another
house so we had two rest homes there, so I
kind of lived in a rest home from the age
of thirteen to seventeen and then we moved back down

(17:26):
to Auckland Way.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, nice story, Karen like it. Marcus is just R
J's or Allen's or both? Well, this is hard. I
think in Australia they were made by R Jay's for Allen's.
I'm too confused by all of it. I think the
Allen's ones to stopped making them as well, so they're
all going to stop, that's my Yeah, I don't know,

(17:48):
it's too confusing. So Allen's might buy the ones in Australia,
but I think the egg stopping as well. I think
R Jay's might make the Allens ones. Yes, and Australia
the chocolate produced Rigi by Allen's were removed from shelves,
so the Allen's ones have gone to It's that confusing.

(18:15):
I find the relative sentence relevant. It was all in
Cadbury was in his end were fine them, but they
shot through cowards In Australia the chocolate produced regionally. Why
Alan's made headlines when they are quietly removed from shelves
and all with stores due to declining sales. So Alan's

(18:40):
has stopped making that our RJ's have stopped making, and
I think everything you need to know brilliant. Apparently the
theater in Katar was called the Princess Burnt Down. Of
course it did. Oh yeah, there'll be a story there.
I would think. Get in touch, Marcus till twelve, eight

(19:04):
hundred and eighty ten eighty ninety nine to de text,
What have you got? I'm here for your people. Sheep weeple,
keep you covered with news tonight. I reckon there's going
to be some big news tonight. Don't know what we
want to trump tonight. I see that old Elon Mustks
gone to war with him. He's going to spend his
billions fighting him in the midterms. Form a new party.

(19:26):
Should live in it up a bit. He's got the
oh yeah, get in touched yetel twelve. If you got
something to say, I'm here for it. Is there anything
that stopped making actually that you genuinely mess I suspect
there probably isn't. Apart from Georgie Pie, I'm speaking for you,

(19:49):
but no, I'm right Kelvin Marcus welcome.

Speaker 12 (19:53):
Hey, Marcus, I'll tell you why does it take I'll
about nine months turned to douce a shop lifting.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
I think I think that's probably because they want to
win the next election. They want to have been looking
strong on law on order when the next election comes around.
That'll be timing, that's what they So they're not these things.
They don't care about shoplifting. They want to look like
they're tough on crime. That's what it's about. It's about
re election. So so I think it's all optics. Calvin, Yeah,

(20:26):
I think.

Speaker 12 (20:26):
They were really serious.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Of course they would, of course they would, but they're not.
It's not going to if you're still in grocery you've
ever got a thousand bucks, that's crazy. But they want
they want to look tough on crime for the election
because that's what people vote. And then there'll be all
these stories. People get scared and they vote for them, and
to think, oh, well they're tough on crime, let's give
them another go to it's all about re election. Drives
me crazy anyway. dB Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 5 (20:52):
Good evening. Rolling jets is at the Picture Theater absolutely,
And the one that I still remember vividly was at
the cameo in gray Lin Wooden floors right, and somebody
would there the whole pack of go. I don't know

(21:13):
they muster and Richard than I was, because I was
grabbing them off the ground and leaving them as they're
all past. I'm not proud.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
I wonder why the cameo wasn't carpeted. What did that
become a gym? Did it become a gym in the
video store? I think the cameo is that right? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (21:28):
Currently a turk is keybab shop.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
I just looked at, yes, what streets are on.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
A Great North Road.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
It's the terrible thing about movie theaters. Once once they're
no longer movie theaters. It's a funny space. I mean, churches,
give them a go, don't they. For a while a
lot of churches movie theaters became churches or carpet barns.
Got a lot of space carpet bands.

Speaker 5 (21:53):
So, yeah, there was a tenure in Pomptibly Road.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yes, became a cat it did too, isn't it. I
just wondered, why wasn't carpet It's ironic your theor it
wasn't carpeted, And then the other theaters became carpet barnes,
isn't it.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
Yeah? But yeah, it was a bit of a waste
time on a carpet, see it like say some James
or something. Yes, but certainly, like I said, I can
remember vividly the cameo, you know, and there was a
whole packet you to get this almost like rain on
the roof sound, but coming up on the floor.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
It sounds like it might be a good sleep app
of of Jeff's rolling down a carpet of a wooden floor.
Quite like the sounds. I'm just kind of looking great
to throw to see what turgis restaurant it is.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
It's one at the top of it was called Chinam
until so or was it.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, I kind of know where you are a little bit.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
Yeah, college college till the other one and constantly.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
It's kind of near Surrey Cree as a Yeah, I'm
looking at the Grayland Turkish Kebab.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
That's it. Still a recognizable theater from the street.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
But no, I think I think the indoor golf as well. Yep,
Green Pinnacle Indoor Golf Club still looks like a movie theater,
doesn't it.

Speaker 5 (23:22):
Yeah, No, externally, Yeah, if you drove fast and you'd
recognize it instantly as being a theater.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
What year did the cameo close.

Speaker 5 (23:34):
Sidies would make me in the teams, I would say
mid eighties.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
I think it'd be earlier.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Well, I can remember driving there.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah, okay, if you're driving there, why when you walking?
Was it around the corner?

Speaker 5 (23:51):
No, it was an excess of three hundred meters. Goodness,
I lived, I lived up the possibly so, but never know.
And then that that'd have a good movie on because.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Of course, of those regional theaters they never had the
big movies on the big the big ones to get
the big movies, and the other ones have to wait
months to get their movies, wouldn't.

Speaker 5 (24:11):
They That's right? And because he had what the Mayfair
in oh No, better say than Evan the Mayfair was down.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
I think the Hollywood was a road pretty much, It's
very much. It's pretty much Jim Sutton nostalgia territory, the
early fleepits of Auckland, the POxy Roxy and the But yes,
I think the Hollywood Roxy was the wooden one downtown
Queen Street. I remember him talking about that.

Speaker 5 (24:37):
Yeah, And of course there was the one down with
Queen Street that was the first one to get the scope,
the seventy film, the Cinerama.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah, that's right. You're right there.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
Down around the stream somewhere because you hang on.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Hang on. I don't want to be the interrupting guy, dB,
but I'm trying to bring a bit more energy to
the show tonight. Okay, if there was such a problem,
you wonder why they sold them the Jeffers buns on seats.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
It's the same reason they still sell popcorn.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
But if everyone's rolling that, okay, fair enough, well they
recycle them.

Speaker 5 (25:20):
Popcorners are nightmare.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Rats and horrible. Yeah they do too, don't they.

Speaker 5 (25:28):
But there's so much profit in the popcorn. It's easier
to pay for cleaners to cleaner the theater than lose
the profit of the popcorn.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
I think you make more from the Nibbleknock than you
do from the movie. I think the movie is just
a lost leader.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
It's the Yeah, okay, because I've been to a movie
where I was the only one in the movie theater.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
I've done that. I've done that, and that's a great feeding.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
That's that's freaky. I found it freaky. I just I
had to ask them, when do you turn the movie off?
They say, well, we run the first reel. If nobody's there,
well we'll switch it off, but if one person turns up,
we've got to show the whole lost.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
You ever been to a mums and bub session?

Speaker 5 (26:05):
No, thankful.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
I've been to one of those extently where this sort
of the lights are on to not freak out the kids.
It's kind of weird that one of mums and bubs.
But anyway, okay, that's dear from you, d But they're
not many stories of picture theaters closing down then becoming
pictures again after a hiatus. Hiatus are there? Probably happens.
I think most of them are too big. Now they've
got those sort of small theaters that they've got more flexibility.

(26:31):
Now I guess you've all got robo projectionists. Would that
be right? Someone will know what about that picture theater?
And some did someone buy that? The guy there running
that with about ninety seven, couldn't believe it. Boy, he
was a year old guy there. It was a rundown theater.
I'm not quite sure he sold all. I see he
died recently anyway. Nineteen to nine, nine to nine, Glennis Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 15 (26:52):
Just how are you good?

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Thank you, glennas it.

Speaker 15 (26:54):
Might be your birthdays this weekend. So it was mine
actually too, mine's on Sunday? Yeah, are there?

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yes? All theirs?

Speaker 15 (27:06):
Yep. Kept me over theater. I was born in Dryden
Street seventy six years on Sunday, like yeah, and my
friend and I we went to see The Man on
the Wire. Do you remember that movie? We crossed the Wire?
There's only two people in the theater, myself and my girlfriend.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
But that wouldn't have been that. That wasn't the cameo. Wasn't
that was a recent film?

Speaker 16 (27:29):
Right?

Speaker 15 (27:29):
No? That was that was I think it was in
town for me. But I remember Cinerama. They had Brewery
Lane where you could go, the Coburg where you can
go and buy a meal and all that, and then
there was a Hungry Horse and Elliott Streep years ago.
Good old days, those ones, well were they good?

Speaker 2 (27:46):
They were they glen Us? Were they? Would you rather
live then or now?

Speaker 15 (27:53):
I love the city. I'd like to I like to
move back to the city.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Would you like to do Would you like to move
back to the nineteen fifties?

Speaker 5 (28:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (28:01):
I would?

Speaker 15 (28:01):
Actually, would you.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Prefer to be if you could time travel? Would you
go back then?

Speaker 17 (28:05):
I would?

Speaker 15 (28:06):
I would. It's good old days.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
You don't wonder sometimes about nostalgia. Glennis, thank you, Happy Birthday,
seventeen to nine, Fording A movie theater is the best
one I've been too. Lovely, cleveand modern. It's all you need.
I remember the crying room in theaters where mothers took
the babies if they started crying, Well, that's a good thing, Marcus.
The Avon picture that it became the Holy Grail, a

(28:31):
huge booze barn sport bar owned by all blacks. What
country is that in? Where's the Avon? Come on, get
in touch? My name is Marcus, welcome. Nothing much going on? Oh, anyway,

(28:52):
well down nostalgia, but I want to talk about what
we're going to call auctus. We can't call them, Jeff
as well, maybe we can, but it does have the
meaning without the sweet. Oh an interesting movie theaters around,
but no longer movie theares. What have they been tuned into.
I think it's normally churches or carpet barns, or like

(29:17):
indoor golf arenas or trampoline parks. Never quite worked out
the joy of a trampoline park, Nick, it's a lot
having that much fun. Do you think bounce around a bit?
I don't know. No, it's one of those things that's
going to be around for a while. It's going to
be a couple of years and gone. But like those

(29:38):
yogurt kind of ice cream things with the toppings, they
didn't last long, did they. No word on Aaron Patterson.
No decision today ten thirty tomorrow, which is twelve thirty
our time, that we might get some action. Why what

(29:59):
she's doing? Is she in custody?

Speaker 17 (30:01):
Is she?

Speaker 2 (30:01):
I don't know, wish she is? I presume she'd been
a remind whing somewey?

Speaker 14 (30:06):
Do we know?

Speaker 18 (30:06):
Oh that.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
I don't keep your text coming. Gaiety Theater Wide Eye
was resurrected with a very large screen. It was an
indoor basketball court once the rock syd miniem Wellington was
converted to a shopping mall that was purchased by Peter
Jackson rebuilt back to a theater. That's a good story. Well,

(30:32):
I guess they're a good movie if they didn't have
a slope floor. If you've got a slope floor, there's
not much you can do with them. There'd be my
take a TEXTA has said. The Cambridge Theater is lovely.
That chips get put in a bowl, so there's no noise. Now,
where is that? Is that in Cambridge? Is that a
theater called Cambridge? I don't know about the Cambridge said,
I'd like to know more about that. That's in my wheelhouse.

(30:53):
I'm try I think it is in Cambridge and the
white I told there we go Marcus the movie theater
and some that has been changed to a new Silkyota.
Now weren't going to say, might surprise you or it
might not. I've never been to a movie at the Silkiata,

(31:16):
but I hate the name, and I wonder if the
owners of that, and they're often doing press talking about
their success, I wonder if they regress calling it the Silkiota.
It just doesn't feel like the right name to mean.
It makes me feel slightly queasy. Don't know why. Please

(31:37):
discuss Jeffers movie theaters. Pretty obvious segue there. But they're
only going because no one bought them. So we've evolved.
We now want Crisscross and barber Ganoche. We changed as
a country. We have a more sophisticated palette because you're older.

(32:00):
Crisscross down the theater flows, probably specially if it wasn't
cocked Costcus so terribly terrible where they're heading Australia Sidney
that will be coming to New Zealand two days time,

(32:20):
and boy Nelson cops it a lot, don't they cheap
as creepers. I'm very excited about the sixteen meters budhiat statue.
I think that's exciting, brilliant. It's going to freak them out,
isn't it. One reason called it a monstrosity?

Speaker 17 (32:41):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Really? Oh wait, one hundred and eighty sous Edit's Marcus,
good evening Bear Marcus.

Speaker 19 (32:54):
That border I think is a terrible mistache.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
But you think, but you think they'd be black magic
or something that you get freaked out because you're that's
the way you go, isn't the way that that way
it works for you?

Speaker 19 (33:05):
No witchcraft, No, there's no such thing as witches and fallacy.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
I thought you're all into witches.

Speaker 19 (33:17):
Hey, No, okay, I'm a Christian again.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Christian when were you born again?

Speaker 20 (33:22):
We don't like that?

Speaker 19 (33:26):
Why day two nineteen ninety or something? Wow, But I've
always been in the church since I was a baby.
I guess what do you call it? Christened? Anyway about that?

(33:49):
It's against the Christian faith because one of the commandments
says that you're not allowed to worship idols.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
But we're not a Christian But we're not a Christian country.
I mean a lot of us have. What do I
think we are? Actually, I think we've got free I
think he'll be faith.

Speaker 19 (34:06):
You want to be well, yes, but in the Bible,
which is well, but the Bible of the world follows.
So it's not allowed to worship graven imatures, which is Surely.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
You can surely, surely, surely you can do better than that.
Can't you see that? Surely you can find someone in
your heart to allow someone just have a bit of
a statue and not get all freaked out about it.

Speaker 19 (34:31):
I'm not freaked out, but I think it should stop.
It's not it's a religious idol.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
God.

Speaker 19 (34:38):
Anyway, I was going to tell you about the picture theaters.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
We should have stuck with it. You sort of suck
the life at me a bit about that bigotry. But anyway,
we'll see how we go.

Speaker 17 (34:51):
Terrible.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
It's affect you because you live miles away from it, anyway,
aren't you well?

Speaker 19 (34:56):
It fits something sticking up in our country like that. No,
I can understand why the local people are dead against.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
People did against everything these days. Aren't they anything. Oh goodness,
it's going to destroy my life. There's a statue I
might see in the corner of my eye. I look
that way.

Speaker 19 (35:15):
Anyway. Theaters. When I lived in London, I had a
boyfriend who was in the fire Brigade.

Speaker 5 (35:24):
Goodness, yes, then you could.

Speaker 19 (35:27):
Smoke in the picture theater and at the end of
every movie or session in the picture theater, the fire
Brigade had to go through it to pick up all
the secured but cigarette butts and check it off for fires.

(35:49):
Really yeah, I don't know if it's still, but I
thought it.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
I don't think you could smoke in the movies anymore?
Could you? In London? You should be able to.

Speaker 19 (35:57):
I don't know. Anyway. When I was a child in Wellington,
growing up in Wellington, we used to go to the
Picture Theater in new Town and watch all the Elvis
Presley movies. That was absolutely fabulous.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
He's a heretic.

Speaker 18 (36:15):
He's a heretic.

Speaker 19 (36:19):
Who Elvis?

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 19 (36:23):
I think he comes from a very religious family.

Speaker 20 (36:26):
Catholic.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Okay, let it go, blah blah blah. Marcus Jeffer is
a lovely chopped up and put into chocolate brownies. I'm
surprised cafes don't do Jeffer brownies. It will be the
price of butter Nimbi's. They are Marcus, those neighbors with
a statue more curtain twitches, Marcus. The Geraldine movie theater

(36:49):
is amazing, still running today and you can hire it
for private functions. Great teenage memories, and I love tangy fruits.
Cheers Carl, Marcus. The lady with a razor blade throat
probably has covis, typical sign of the new variant, which
arrived January this year. We'll you find out sooner or later,

(37:14):
won't she the old razor blade throat? If there's a
bit of metaphor for that. Don't know that there is.
I'll check the emails people. So we are talking about
small town movie theaters that do surprisingly well. For a

(37:36):
good one in Rocksborgh until it burnt down this year.
It was tragic, extremely good. You just help yourself to
ice creams and lift some money on the tell extremely good.

(37:57):
I saw abominable there. It wasn't a bad film. Actually,
I'm not quite sure what it was, what its subplot was.
I think it was all about acceptance and tolerance. I'm
not convinced of that. Yet small town movie theaters that
do it good, that might be something you want to mention.

(38:22):
No word on the mushroom woman tonight, she's not gonna
just is she being held awaiting her sentencing? Or is
she free to Rome? Is she free to Rome? And
what do mushroom people do together? So I might need
to let me know about that. Eight hundred eighty ten
eighty and nine to nine two to text. If you're

(38:43):
a flight radar obsessive, I check Sydney. I reckon. A
lot of flights have been turned away from their Virgin
X twelve flights. There's real bad weather coming and it's
a bomb typhoon or something's got a new name. It's
a bomb thing. You always forget what it's called. I'll
tell you again. What I am talking about is movie

(39:06):
theaters that do it really well. So that might be
your You might live in a small town and good
on you if you do which, and you've got movie
theaters that do things exciting and make it worth going to.
What are those sence of a broadness out of Jeffers.
It's a bomb cyclone that's happening in Sydney. But we're
talking movies and Jeffers, although no one likes Jeffers Marcus.

(39:29):
Aaron Pattison's in Melbourne prison in a protected unit. Not
much room in there. Yeah, she's in max security due
to concerns for her own safety. But we're in about movies. Oh,
they'll be making a movie about her, don't I don't
doubt that.

Speaker 5 (39:50):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
I don't want to be called but it'll be about her. Becord.
Guess who's coming to dinner or something or anyway, jump
it if you want to talk. It's about movie theaters
that your origional movie theaters that do it unbeliev be well.
And also we don't want to go on about Jeffers
because if you keept but if they're any good, they
wouldn't have stopped them because people are still buying them.

(40:16):
I don't know what you're on about, Tony, about the
Kiwi default word. If there's something else you want to
mention too, feel free come through. If you got breaking news,
let's don't got the breaking news as hit on midnight.
By the way, this day in nineteen ah, I can't
even remember what day it was, Just make it up.
This day in nineteen seventy nine, the Workman made its

(40:39):
first appearance. I don't think I saw my first Warpman
until nineteen eighty. For those that don't know much about
the Warkman, oh my goodness, that was the bigginning of
it all. It was tiny and you could wear it jogging,
and you'd play cassettes and just you could hear it.

(41:03):
Oh that was like a quantum leap. I never had one,
wouldn't mind one now actually. But your phone does everything everything.
I mean, your phone does a thousand things now, doesn't
It does everything. A walkman does, does everything. A torch
does everything a camera does. But mainly it's about your
movie theaters, because some of those movie theaters got closed

(41:26):
down and then got tuned into weird things like like
furniture shops or second hand shops. Have anything actually been
reconverted back to theaters. I think a lot of them
got tuned into gyms, but very hard to heat. I
think we've got a couple of old movies in Vcago.
I think one of them is a church, a drafty church,

(41:49):
hard to heat. I think one of them is a headdresses,
which seems weird, do it? A lot of them were
carpet barns. It's funny always say carpet barns rather than
carpet shops, don't you what have been a brand name?
I've got confused with Evening Beth. It's Marcus, welcome, thank.

Speaker 21 (42:13):
You so much. One of my most purish memories was
about twenty twenty five years ago. I was on a
bus and there was a lady that I was sitting
next to, and she was in her eighties, and as
we drove along Kay Road, she pointed out where the

(42:35):
movie Seasars used to be that she went through when
she was in her twenties.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
Goodness, and it was wonderful.

Speaker 21 (42:46):
And the old Leado that's where she had her firstiss.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
How did it come up in conversation and just sit
next to her?

Speaker 18 (42:56):
Were you?

Speaker 20 (42:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Wow?

Speaker 21 (42:58):
I talked to people on the bus.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
Oh yeah, the old bus talker. Goodness.

Speaker 9 (43:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
So if the buses half in, if the bus is
half ended, will you sit down and sit next to someone? No, okay,
because that freaks me out.

Speaker 20 (43:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (43:14):
I like to give people their space. But if I'm
sitting next to someone, you do the smile and the nod,
and if they start a chat, I keep going.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Did you have a warpman? Story as well, Beth.

Speaker 14 (43:31):
I did.

Speaker 21 (43:32):
I still have my Sony Walkman and earphones that I
bought in nineteen eighty one, and I still have the
mixtape that I made back in Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
So okay before what are you? Are you in your
sixties or seventies?

Speaker 21 (43:53):
Sixty one?

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Okay? Can you tell me what's on your mixtape?

Speaker 17 (43:57):
No?

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Let us guess what is it from?

Speaker 21 (44:02):
The tape was made seventy nine and I bought the
Walkman eighty one because tapes were in back then. I
have a record collection, about seven hundred and fifty vinyl records.

Speaker 14 (44:18):
Collect your bet.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Tell us what's on your on your let's take a still.

Speaker 21 (44:23):
Gut the mixtape. I don't think you'd guess any of it.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
Look, tell me.

Speaker 21 (44:31):
A lot of really early punk.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
You tell me what you got on it.

Speaker 21 (44:37):
There's a bootleg of Sid Vicious forgetting the words in
a concert in Germany.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Yes, I wouldn't. I wouldn't have guessed that.

Speaker 21 (44:51):
Umm, oh, Katy. What else is on the renswerd?

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yes, m Anti now leg yes.

Speaker 21 (45:05):
Six plus Elsh, Yes, ancient weird Wellington bench.

Speaker 11 (45:15):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Do you remember how much you paid for the Wooman
when you got it?

Speaker 18 (45:22):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (45:28):
No, Okay, it's a long porce for no answer. Be
thank you, Susie Marcus.

Speaker 22 (45:33):
Welcome, oh pure Marcus.

Speaker 12 (45:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (45:38):
Two things I was worried about was this new shoplifting
law because and I'll tell you about the theater. Anyway,
the shoplifting law I got. I was that packing save
and you know, I was at the self checkout and
I was waiting for bloody ages, trying to get the

(45:59):
girl to come over to say that, you know, I
was over twenty five or whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
I'm in for smokes or for wine.

Speaker 22 (46:09):
For wine, and I'm in my sixties, right, but anyway, yeah,
they have to come over. And I put all my
groceries and I had my own bags, bloody, bloody blood
And anyway, I was waiting so long and then I
as she come over, and I swiped the wine, put
it down in my bag groceries, and then walked out

(46:31):
the store and forgot to pay. And it's just lucky
that they know me there at the local Pecking Safe
because the next time I walked on the door, the
security guard came up and was like, you haven't paid
for your groceries, And I was like what, and she's
like and I was like, and she had a photo

(46:52):
of me and I was like, and she's like, this
is you, right, and I was like, yes.

Speaker 18 (46:58):
It is me.

Speaker 22 (47:01):
Anyway, they were very good. They said we can tell
what had happened and and you know, you just go
and pay for it now. But I was thinking they can't.
I can't be the only person that that happens to,
you know. So when they brought out these new laws

(47:23):
that they're going to bring out, I was like, gee, wiz,
it sounds a bit hush.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Yeah, I think it's I think it's all about I
think it's performative. I think it's to look like they're tough.
But there won't be anyone there to enforce it anyway,
so they couldn't get the cops. They yes, so it's
not going to happen much. Did you have a movie there?
Did you have a movie theater story?

Speaker 22 (47:46):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, Well I live in poper Mob. Mount
monganois in the area and at Bayfair at the local mall,
they they have on Wednesdays before twelve o'clock you can
go and see movies and if you've got a gold card,

(48:08):
they're like ten bucks to see a movie. And they
put on a morning tea that they have like the
old urn, you know, stainless steel eurn with teabags and
they have. I went with my olderly older well he's
not oudly older friend, he's a diabetic type two and

(48:32):
he said, die, you've only got slices in that, and
a lot of us people with diabetes can't eat all
the sweet stuff, So how about you know some scones
or something, and they did, yeah, yeah, yeah, you go there,

(48:53):
you have a free morning tea and coffee and tea
and you know, caramel slices, raspberry slices, croissants, scones, bloody blood,
you bland. Then you go watch movies. It's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Can you eat a cheese sc on your diabetic type two?

Speaker 14 (49:12):
Ma?

Speaker 2 (49:12):
Is that what he can eat?

Speaker 14 (49:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (49:15):
Yeah, likes gone. But you know those raspberry slices, caramel
slices and all that are you know, they're too much
sugar in them.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
But yeah, I don't think I need a caramel slice.
If I was offered one for free, it looks disgusting.
It's my take. Nice to talk to jack marks quickly
before the break?

Speaker 23 (49:37):
What he got markets shops and stuff?

Speaker 8 (49:41):
Yep?

Speaker 23 (49:42):
Place to work surely in the shopping news, a lot
of shoplifters a well known and the police won't do anything.
Business system called AURA. We upload all the shoplifters on
and basically if they're repeater vendors and please take notes.
Once it reach's over one thousand dollars in their start
taking action. So just on the previous caller who did

(50:04):
just worried about that been half of people the DOSTA,
it's not going to be one type of sense, it's
going to be repeater penders.

Speaker 5 (50:11):
They're gone.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
So the police there's already the technology in place for
the police to get those recidibus.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
Right.

Speaker 23 (50:18):
I have to say it because on AURA, you upload
the foot to uploads, persons details, and other stores can
be like, oh that's Bob Jones, you know, you know,
try to link all the other shopless systems around other
stores this one person and basically a place fingertips do
need to do any investigation. They look at that gun there.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
So they're already doing it for crimes over one thousand dollars.

Speaker 23 (50:38):
So it's also had a place actually do anything, but
being at the start thing.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Good interesting stuff. Jack, Thanks for twenty past nine. Welcome people,
Marcus the best movie spot is the Parodiso and Warnica.
They're the most delicious cookies at the interval chalk ginger,
white chocolate and the best. Also the couches that company
You're can want to pizza, other meals. Halftime is going
to greet me the experienced jen Ethyl Cinema on Begsfortshire
two theaters, thirty six and seveneing seats. Ladies' night, Men's night.

(51:11):
Sometimes we dress up. If someone's running late getting there,
we'll wait five minutes to start. Wow. My husband and
I are on community patrol and cum you tonight listening
to you. We both love Jeffers and we love Auckland,
the city that keeps you in and going Marcus. The
Crystal Palace Theater on Eden Road, Mount eden Road seems

(51:32):
to be under renovation of the past ten years. What's
going on with it? Might be becoming a temple, Marcus.
My beef Wellington recipe is to die for. Thank you.
Our movie theaters gives the kids free ice cream fear.
Do you think there would be banned free ice cream
for kids, wouldn't it? Marcus? It's Max here. What do

(51:55):
you think about football at schools? Boys High just introduced
Birkenstocks to be culturally inclusive, which boys high Max someone's
worried about. Would work? Or the cork would stop the
old chisel though, wouldn't it. I don't think you have
to Look. I don't know about that. They are fairly

(52:18):
pricey foot where the birken Stocks, aren't they? Goodness? What school?
There's carnage in Australia. Train on the western lines hit
a tree. Now the trains have stopped running, the planes

(52:38):
have stopped running, these cars overturned. This power cuts and
these evacuations and what happens offen in Australian beaches. All
the sand is washing away? Oh yeah, I think it
doesn't sort of come and it comes down at an angle.
Now they've been taking down the flags on the Harbor Bridge.

(52:59):
I do we do that on the Auklad We should
start taking the flags down and a sense of panic Marcus.
The original Birkenstock sandals were a footbed. Until the nineteen sixties.
Birkenstock focused on the insuls of shoes, creating comfortable footbeds
that focused on p dietary and science. So I still
don't know what cultural reasons they've allowed Birkenstocks for the

(53:23):
Egyptians wore them, and the mushroom trial goes on. How
long are the jury? They've deliberated for one day, haven't
they and a bit of yesterday, So I'll be back tomorrow.
That'd be my picked FAILI on the day, I would say,
with a guilty verdict, that's my prediction. So yes, Hittle twelve,

(53:46):
We've got to be a part of the show. Who oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty twenty six to ten.
Good evening, Greg, it's Marcus.

Speaker 5 (54:01):
Welcome, Hello Marcus?

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Hello, Greg? How are you good? Thank you Greek?

Speaker 9 (54:08):
Having a nice evening?

Speaker 2 (54:09):
You think you Greek?

Speaker 11 (54:11):
That's good Marcus. He used to work with the Marcus brilliant?

Speaker 2 (54:16):
What sort of words?

Speaker 9 (54:16):
A strange? He was a strange dude.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Maybe you were strange and your perception was weird.

Speaker 9 (54:21):
Though I'm definitely strange here.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Okay, there were you stranger as Marcus definitely not on
a scale of zero to ten, How strange was he?

Speaker 9 (54:35):
Eleven?

Speaker 2 (54:36):
And how strange are you?

Speaker 9 (54:38):
Six? Jeffers Jeffers, Jeffers are actually still being made? What
Jeffers are still being made? What Jeffers are still being made?

Speaker 2 (54:58):
According to.

Speaker 17 (55:01):
Me?

Speaker 9 (55:02):
Great because I'm a confectionery rep so I know about
these things.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Who do you rep for?

Speaker 11 (55:12):
Oh, you wouldn't know.

Speaker 9 (55:13):
We we we're more like a brokering house. We represent
multiple agencies.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
So who's still making them?

Speaker 9 (55:26):
It's a company called the Confectionery House, but because of
trademark laws, they're not actually allowed to call them.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Jeffers, this is this is good information.

Speaker 9 (55:39):
So they're actually called chocolate orange balls.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
This is the biggest story of the night.

Speaker 9 (55:47):
It is already, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (55:50):
Is there a mark? People buying them?

Speaker 9 (55:53):
Yeah, people still buy them. All the dairies buy them
and rebag them into their little ziploc bags.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
That's what you want?

Speaker 9 (56:01):
Hm hm, So your little what was the one dollar
bags probably now a two dollar bag because of the economy.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
I'm looking at the confectory website now, but all bulk lollies,
I'm looking at Confectory House chocolate orange balls one kilogram.

Speaker 9 (56:17):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Are they made a New Zand or Australia?

Speaker 9 (56:22):
You're sealand I believe it used to be market to
buy a company called the House of Fine Foods.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
And are they also probably in your scoop? Foods at
certain places are they like at a supermarket. I think
I've seen those. You put your trot little hand finger
and get them all out, yeah.

Speaker 9 (56:41):
Like a an old chemist dispensary scoop. Yeah, yeah, into
the figures of block bag.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
So the smaller Porsche, the smallest porsche you get them
would be what.

Speaker 9 (56:56):
Most places be one hundred grams.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Okay, so you can still get them. They're just called
chocolate orange.

Speaker 11 (57:03):
Balls, right, story of the night.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
Well it is, because e'reone saying it's the end of Jeffers,
but actually it's not. It's just the end of the
thing that we can call them jeff As. We can
still buy chocolate orange balls.

Speaker 9 (57:18):
It's a trademark.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
They're probably better, are they.

Speaker 9 (57:23):
They'd be on a par.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Do they do a big one too?

Speaker 9 (57:29):
They do, and they call that and well they call
it a giant something I can't remember, because giant.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Probably a giant. Probably a giant chocolate orange ball.

Speaker 9 (57:39):
Possibly we might call someone else.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
The weird thing is if BJ's or r J's or
whatever and Allen's have stopped making them because there's no demand,
I wonder why, oh they out called large chocolate orange
balls twenty five millimeters in diameter, right, that's on your website.
They'll do an aniseed ball too. They're good, aren't they?
Little dark things? Man? That's a teeth breaker.

Speaker 5 (58:02):
Yep, they're not.

Speaker 9 (58:03):
You know. It's like all these old type lollies as
you've talked about Snifter's tangy fruits, you know, who were
made by Cabres when they had the factory in Dunedin.
But because they moved austra half short to Australia, the
only range, the only products in there, what we call

(58:25):
a bulk range that is supplied now is jet planes, yeah,
and fruit burst.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
So you're actually coming there making them probably better, a
lot cheaper. You've taken up. So the reason actually is
not why the demand's gone. The reason is you're doing
them a lot better, cheaper and tastier. Of course, those
candy licorus straws look.

Speaker 9 (58:50):
Good, yes, so they're very popular.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
No good reason. They look delicious.

Speaker 9 (58:57):
And you're talking about liquors before, what sort of licorice here?

Speaker 2 (59:01):
I prefer the black, don't I don't like that, Darrell Len.
I don't know that r JS, but I like the
Black Knight, but I think that's still made by r j's.

Speaker 11 (59:08):
Is it black Knight's made by Nesle Is it you sure?

Speaker 20 (59:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Absolutely sure? Here you're positive? Yes, Okay, Well, how come
it's got on it? How come it's labeled as R
Jay's Black Knight Licorice and on our J's website?

Speaker 9 (59:36):
Is it really?

Speaker 20 (59:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (59:38):
There you go.

Speaker 9 (59:40):
The thing is with confectionery that different countries have different
It's a bit like what's a bit like tobacco. You
can have a brand in one country made by a
certain company, and another in another country it's made by
a different company.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
But what you're actually saying is the end of Jeff
is fake news. They're not gone any fake news. Definitely
see head gone grab a Greg. I appreciate you a
great deal. I like all everything about you, like your
combativeness from the beginning, all of it. Kathy Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 24 (01:00:13):
Hi Marcus. How are you tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Good? Thank you? Are you in Sydney, Kathy?

Speaker 22 (01:00:18):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
Oh yeah, similar, Yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:00:24):
I just thought i'd call about the Christich Boys high uniforms. Oh, yes,
they are Pacific uniforms. Like they've got the love of
labor skirt with the sandals and they're very smart.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
So is there a new uniform?

Speaker 24 (01:00:44):
No, so that's been out for well a couple of
years ago. I saw it and I said, gosh, that's nice. Yeah,
it looks very smart.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Is it the one you can now wear? So you've
got to wear the birkenstocks with that uniform, do you.

Speaker 24 (01:01:03):
I'm actually not sure of that, but they do show there.
And yes, I was talking about the planes as well.
It's interesting because we had the Emirates Reality takeoff normally
takes off about six o'clock or but it must be laid.
It's doing a few circles around the Pacific as well.
There's about four flights in the middle doing circlane just

(01:01:26):
with the storms on flight Trader. Okay, And the other
quick thing I wanted to say before I winter is
a lot of people are probably not eating sweets like
we used to because we've we've got a whole aisle
of sugary drinks at the supermarkets and people drink to
get their sugar from that.

Speaker 20 (01:01:47):
Now.

Speaker 11 (01:01:48):
Possibly that's a.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Really good point you make, isn't it. Because the children
said to be in the sweet slight, they once were
upset with them. It seems how they can take them
or leave them.

Speaker 24 (01:01:56):
That's right. And of course when we were small we
didn't have all the drinks around, so we just went
to the shop and got a mixture of lilies. It's
an interesting point that, yeah, yeah, but I think it
may be the lula be all the sweet drinks. I mean,
Hawaii all dedicated to drinks. We're lucky if we had
jungle juice threat And what.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
A what a great expression that is jungle juice. What
a great name for a drink, the juice of the
jungle jungle juice, isn't that?

Speaker 24 (01:02:23):
And you'd get the gallon and put the sugar on
it and then roll it on the on the grass.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
Yere jule Yes, hang on, Katy, what were you saying
about planes the year bus? I glazed down a bit
about that is the one that.

Speaker 24 (01:02:36):
There's about three or four in the Pacific at the
moment flying to Sydney. You can see them on flight
Trader off, flight tracker, trade or tracker. And I just
claimed so the I mean next three eighties of course
where it's gone normally, So it must be pretty horrific
the weather in Sydney right now.

Speaker 17 (01:02:58):
Some of them look.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Flight radar.

Speaker 24 (01:03:04):
Yes, sorry, flight yes, yeah, there's my flight rader.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Or flat yes four flight Trekker. Yes, I'm bringing mine
up to now, sister.

Speaker 24 (01:03:25):
Oh, that's okay, Yes, so it's quite interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
I've got no planes online, Dan, What have I done wrong?
I'm gonna watch the Edge or starthing going to zoom
and im zooming.

Speaker 24 (01:03:36):
And yeah, but that's quite unusual for flights to be
doing that are often mu zeum I sure, but domestic
but not international flights.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
After ours, I've got none on mine.

Speaker 24 (01:03:55):
It's a lot of feel, isn't it. It's expensive.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Well, I wish I had some planes. There's nothing m
hm health dank and see how far out are they're doing?
Loop Stan? Well, yeah, I've got some now you can
see them.

Speaker 24 (01:04:16):
Yeah, I can't see any on the way back.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
I'll check, Kathy. But thank you. Ah, welcome, welcome, welcome,
valence Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 25 (01:04:25):
Oh how are you today?

Speaker 18 (01:04:26):
Good?

Speaker 9 (01:04:27):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
Yeah, good, great station. Yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 25 (01:04:30):
I'm just going to bring up with what's the government
going to do about these young young ones on these
electric scooters and they can go up to fifty k
We were just told today by a couple of teenage
girls and they're on the road, some of them have
no helmets on, and they're on the footpaths and there
should be something done about it instead of worrying about

(01:04:52):
the shoplifting. I know that's bad because I've experienced that
with people doing it. But these these scooters they're on
the road. They don't even have a license. You've got
to get a license to drive a motorbike.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
I think people are quite enjoying the scooter as well.

Speaker 25 (01:05:14):
Yeah, the ones that are on them mark, of course
they are. They're only young. I mean, see them all
right when there's a car coming. I mean we went out,
we went down the drive today and there was one
on the footpath. I mean they could have hit the
side of the car. They could have hurt themselves terribly
besides ruining the car. I mean they don't even know

(01:05:36):
the road rules. Yes, I've got a motorbike license and.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
License when we last on a motorbike, oh a.

Speaker 25 (01:05:48):
Few years ago. Now, because I'm over.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
The hill, I think we probably should be embracing these
young people with an exciting new form of transport that
they've got.

Speaker 25 (01:05:58):
Well, then they should get a license in and their
parents should watch out for them because they're not looking
after their own children. Anyone died, well, not yet, but
it could happen. And I just say, I wouldn't want
my young ones on the road when they're only eleven
or twelve. And I mean, if you want to motibiate ices,
you've got to be fifteen or fifteen, I think, and

(01:06:20):
then you've got to pass all these tests that they
give you and everything brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
Okay, thanks Bell. Six to ten, Sam, It's Marcus Welcome. Hello,
Hi Sam, Greetings, Well just I heard.

Speaker 17 (01:06:35):
You talk about boys High, and I just wanted to
hop on the phone.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
Which boys there's a lot of boys high? Which about
Christrich Boys High?

Speaker 19 (01:06:40):
Are we?

Speaker 17 (01:06:42):
Yes, we're talking about christ Rich Boys High?

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
What did you want to say?

Speaker 17 (01:06:46):
I just wanted to just say that. I mean, I
think it's I think it's cool to be included fear
UM's culture. But half the boys can't even wear the
normal uniform right anyway, so it's not like it really
matters too much. But I think, you know, it's just
like it's a bit hard focus. I heard that they
might have just meant it's the only man Pacifkin could

(01:07:08):
wear it, but then it got extended so that everyone
could wear it, so that nobody would complain.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
I think I think it's pretty standard procedure in both
schools to allow the what's it called the Apha target
or the Lava LoVa. I think that sort of standard
practice now, I think, yeah, but nobody, No one's kicked
up about It's only today that we've got christ people
texting about it.

Speaker 17 (01:07:31):
Yeah, you don't have to wear it with the love
lower though it can be worn with like anyone can
wear it with any part like it with just the
norm uniformed seniors. Juniors.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
Yeah, but yeah, okay, as it caused problems.

Speaker 17 (01:07:45):
I've heard. I've heard some appearance now around the school
say some things.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
Yeah, it'll be right, we'll tell them to say stuff, Sam,
thank you? Far away from ten cheapers, Marcus, what do
you do today? I parked at the local supermag invalid
parkney the door. Then another great big STUV parked beside me.
The driver got out and walked away. He not displayed
the invalid badge and therefore was I legally partner followed

(01:08:11):
him and with the idea that to tell when he
picked up his trolley, But he carried on and went
down the street into a chemist shop. Should I told
the supermarket staff or not? What the listeners think cheers, John, Ah,
he could have had a disability. Some of say they're hidden.
He was going to the chemist. Marcus. That lady said

(01:08:35):
about aviation fuel and expensive, Actually not. It's the same
as our pump price. This is from an ex aircraft refueler.
It's not the price, it's the amount.

Speaker 7 (01:08:48):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
Get in touch by Hims Marcus httled twelve. Thank goodness,
my children are over school uniforms imaginement to compete with
the price of birkenstocks. I think a lot of the
kids that wear Birkenstocks are just wear house knockoffs, I think,
or number one shoe wear. They look pretty good, they
look pretty similar. But fancy people being back on scooters.

(01:09:16):
We're on to talk about called about scooter since twenty nineteen.
Can imagine what it was like in New York when
the motorcar came along a for the people on the horses.
Oh goodness, it all changed very quickly. They gave up
the horses and they got into cars. We might all
end up on scooters. I wish fancy is interested aviation.

(01:09:42):
If you're not inexpensive, what octane is it? But the
breaking news is that there's no end of Jeffers they're
just not called Jeffers. They're making them like there's no tomorrow.
So yep, that's happening. Yeah, I tell you what. You
see some of the people on scooters once in a while,
they do look unlikable if you notice that, they look

(01:10:05):
at it sort of self satisfied with the way they're
scooting around the roads. But that's not that's a personal thing.
Doesn't mean they'm going to right to be there. We're
just gonna be less judgmental. I know how you feel.
Change is difficult. Good on them. Scooters are a pain
for bus drivers. There we go, Marcus slightly off topic

(01:10:26):
with a massive shout out to look Metcalf and his
family with his recovery ahead. He's also a new father
to baby number one. Also, oh well, I mean they
might not make the top four the Warriors. They might
go all the way, and this might be just one
of those stories that we look back on and say,
well that a injury plague season. Despite all of this,

(01:10:52):
they dug deep and they won it. We won't know
until September. Breaking news. They haven't stopped making Jeffers. They've
just stopped making jeffers that are called jeffers. There are

(01:11:14):
plenty of other Jeffers still be made. They're just not
called Jeffers. They're called chocolate orange bulls. So I don't
cry on your tea about that. I never really like them.
We've been talking about movie theaters too, and ones that
have real well run in small towns. You've got a
good small town movie theater story you probably have. And
also talk about the Warkmen. How did that change your life? Here,

(01:11:40):
I've got a text markus just tuning in. I assume
you've been discussing the most important use of the night.
They're canceling Jeffers, they're not cancling. They still make them.
They're called chocolate orange bulls. You buy what that guy says.
Company is called the confectionary company or something. So there's
all sorts of training and murky named sweets. They're just

(01:12:02):
not called the same thing. You don't freak out. It's
all Cadbury's fault when they left there. There have been
complaints about the lotto ad with a naked scare, none
of them being about the hat. None of them them
have been upheld. You would see the actor's buttocks for

(01:12:24):
three seconds, but it was brief, not close up or gratuitous.
If you don't like it, just don't buy Lotto. Don't
get all nimby bimby on it. What I was curious
when I saw that advertisement right for the Lotto ad,

(01:12:45):
where's that dairy? Is a dairy by the waterfir. I
looked at that and I thought, where is that? Looked
like sort of maright, hi Cleveland, and I got that right.
I presume it's filmed in Auckland. If you know what
the dairy has, let me know, because that got people
love her? Where is that on the commercial type thing?
Come on, get involved. I'm just gonna look at now

(01:13:07):
and see if I can freeze frame the shop of
the dairy. I've got on the pause, but come on,
hit'll twelve. My name is Marcus. Welcome oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighteen, nineteen ninety to text. I'm just
watching the air now guy scaring through the forests. Oh,

(01:13:29):
it's a long head to watch thirteen past ten. If
you want to be a part of it. I'm just
waiting for the shot of the dairy.

Speaker 14 (01:13:44):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
Oh no, it's gone. Yeah, it looks Do you recognize it?

Speaker 11 (01:13:54):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
Say where it is? In Google? I can see her.
It's called the Wolf Store. You're Richard, This is Marcus. Welcome,
Oh Marcus.

Speaker 4 (01:14:06):
I remember that store from years ago, well a few
years ago, when a girlfriend and I biked all the
way from Manicae Harbor. They place on Manico Harbor corn Wallace.
Rode to the place office at port Way Caatto and rang,

(01:14:27):
rang the harbor mast ain't no, Actually.

Speaker 9 (01:14:29):
We got a ferry.

Speaker 4 (01:14:30):
That's right, We've got a ferry across Manicow Harbor. And
I spoke to the faiy driver and told him what
we were doing, and he rang the guy from port
Way Catto, the harbor master, Imaginaber, and he came a
couple of these lads came across and got us, and yeah,
it's a call little place actually, so we.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
Put okay, that makes sense to it looks familiar, was it?
When did you get a fiery on the Monaco Harbor
from corn Wallace? When did they run a ferry?

Speaker 4 (01:15:01):
Oh, there was one for a while that used to
go to what's that place on port It used to
go across the Manicou Harbor. But we went to the
place by a reary point I think it's called or
someone like that on my brain's not that good these days.
But yeah, they do it.

Speaker 14 (01:15:17):
They do a circuit.

Speaker 4 (01:15:18):
But there's another place that's now near our Feeto, No,
not near near Yuku. Sorry, where it goes across. But
it doesn't go anymore.

Speaker 11 (01:15:26):
I don't think.

Speaker 4 (01:15:27):
I think it's sort of dropped away it used to.
But here we had amazing time biking right down the coast.
We stuck to the coast all the way down and
went all the way to Aino, so we had three
harbors to cross.

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
Do you remember what year it would be, Richard.

Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
It would have been Hell, you've got me there about
two thousand and six.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
And another's a fury running then Richard, thank you might
have some more information about that. Susie, it's Marcus. Good evening,
Marcus A good Susie.

Speaker 17 (01:16:00):
Thank you.

Speaker 26 (01:16:01):
Yes, Marcus, I used warp months years.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
And that's what we want. This is what we want
to tell me your story.

Speaker 26 (01:16:09):
When I first went out with working, I bought my
first walkmhen it was eighteen dollars, and then I went
to the more expensive ones, and I don't know if
you remember writers number cargole. I must have gone about
through ten walk runs and I got really expensive ones,
and because I've made a lot of tops with tapes
for various artists on them, which I've still got but

(01:16:33):
I don't use them now. But I sent them over
to my sister in Australia. She's got a cabinet where
she keeps old things and they go back years, so
it's a really good so souvenir for her. But I
used them for years and years, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
Were you like working as a cleaner or something.

Speaker 26 (01:16:52):
No, I was an ancient Jasmith.

Speaker 16 (01:16:54):
Oh and you could.

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
You could wear them as you worked.

Speaker 15 (01:16:57):
No.

Speaker 26 (01:16:57):
I use them on my bike when I went up
to got Chrychurch on the intercity, when I went for walks.

Speaker 15 (01:17:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
Yeah, it was quite freeing when they first came out.
Was the first one eighteen dollars with that actually a
proper workman.

Speaker 26 (01:17:11):
Oh it was cheap plastic, really, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
So it wasn't It wasn't a Sony one.

Speaker 26 (01:17:17):
No, No, I did get a Sony one though, I've
still got it. Have you still got the Sony one? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
I like the fact that your sister's got a cabinet
of old stuff.

Speaker 26 (01:17:27):
Oh, you want to see the stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
So I don't want to say it sounds depressing to me.
Imagine all that junk and they're people giving and stuff
not to do it put in the cupboard.

Speaker 26 (01:17:36):
Yeah, yea, but I like, I used to love my
Warkman to win everywhere with them.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
What was on your tape?

Speaker 26 (01:17:45):
Well, I've got heaps of tapes with various songs on them,
ones I've taped off the radio, CDs and other people's
records and stuff like that. I've got urdles the tapes
that I've made. But now because I've got Spotify, they
don't get this too much.

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
Exactly. The whole thing's gone, Susie. Thank you, Kevin Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:18:08):
It's Cameron, not Kevin.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
But hang on, did you say it's Kevin or not Kevin?

Speaker 16 (01:18:18):
No show markets, it's Cameron Cameron. Yeah, but that's okay.
It's not the first time I've been called Kevin today,
so it's for good. But that aside, it seems that
and I don't know about other supermarkets, but perhaps Rus
in particular may have been given a head up about
the Jeffer business. They are already and I've checked at

(01:18:43):
the local supermarket not far from where I am right now,
and it's on their website. They are now stocking an
alternative orthough it's not called Jeffer. It's a brand I
believe that comes from Australia, Darryll Lee Sweets. They're calling
it Bebe's Chock Orange. They look exactly like a Jeffer.

(01:19:04):
Whether or not they taste like it, that's the story.
But at least they're stocking an alternative.

Speaker 5 (01:19:10):
Is this.

Speaker 16 (01:19:12):
More us? Here on tarmas to north well Worth?

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
Did you say?

Speaker 11 (01:19:16):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (01:19:16):
And it's currently lifted on their website. They're sending a
bag for five dollars fifty But yeah, gutted, gutted that
our j's are going to call her to day for Jeffers.
I hear five bags off the things in my cupboard
at the moment, I quite like them. I won't go
through them all at once. They might last a bit

(01:19:37):
longer now that we can't get them anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
Not ty from you keep your calls coming to twenty
two past ten or eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
So yes, this is all fake news. No one's not
making them. Marcus. I've got a Sony Warpman for my
twenty first I'm now sixty. I still use it now
and then to listen to cassettes. Was it barely asked
that woman if she was a cleaner, But I thought,

(01:20:01):
if you're a cleaner, it would be quite freeing to
have a warpman. Do you dance around to be certain jobs,
like if you're a posty.

Speaker 22 (01:20:10):
Or a.

Speaker 2 (01:20:13):
I know what other jobs here are or a teenager?
Gosh million varied topics tonight, And apparently on most high
school uniforms there is the option for the lava lava.
It's actually not caused a lava lava. I think it's
called that's just like a generic term. I think it's

(01:20:34):
called the a feytaga. So that seems to be sweeping
through the country now. I mean the North Islands have
been doing that for a large number of years now,
so that's something that people have Although it was I

(01:20:54):
think it's I think it's been at christ Church Boys
High for a while now. He was proposed to the
school board in twenty seventeen. Might have been a bit
of resistance there anyway, Get in touch head or twelve up,
Quick Flurry, Quick, bloody flurry fire as at AGI's house,
wits an apartment building, Rainbow Confectionery and Oamad who made

(01:21:19):
a really good sliff and maybe they will do a
Jeffer in the future. Marcus. My mother brought me a
discmand for a CD when she came back from Ozzie
in eighty seven. I was so elated. I still have it.
I don't want to throw it out or someone's on
fire into the cargo. There's sirens going past. She sounds serious.

(01:21:51):
All had a bright yellow Sony walkmhen. It traveled with
me as I backpacked through the Middle East. I loved it,
as did the wonderful people we met as we hitchack
through the countries. We were two key with girls living
the dream.

Speaker 7 (01:22:02):
Hello Hugh Ballet, Marcus. So, I've just finished my it
rounds for the night. That's freezing cold in and the
Ricky I Rangy Vlley.

Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
Which fair Which Fairley?

Speaker 7 (01:22:13):
We're back on Ricky I Range, the valley the Aputera
Road from white An Eye to Upper Hut and I'm
park side the Ricky I Rangie Community Hall. She's just
been refurbishing one hundred and something year old building. It's beautiful.
But I've got a little joke for you about rabbits.
So I've just shot first shooting my rabbits Eco Hunters
Tator was my brand, and I've shot thirteen rabbits so far.

Speaker 2 (01:22:36):
Tonight is this is this the joke or the build
up to the joke.

Speaker 7 (01:22:40):
This is the build up to the joke.

Speaker 2 (01:22:41):
Okay, tell me when the joke starts.

Speaker 7 (01:22:43):
Okay, So I shot thirteen rabbits, says I shot?

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
This is this the joke?

Speaker 4 (01:22:47):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:22:48):
This is the joke? Now?

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
Okay shot.

Speaker 7 (01:22:50):
I shot thirteen rabbits, and as I shot the thirtieth reb,
I just saw it. That was unlucky, dead, unlucky.

Speaker 2 (01:22:57):
Unlucky for the rabbit.

Speaker 7 (01:22:59):
Yeah, did unlucky see thirteen rabbits? Number thirteen? Don't anyway?
And I forgot that I was a cleaner to makesure
clean up. I never had a walkmen, really, but why not?
I suppose I couldn't afford one. But we used to
clean commercial burdens on the terrace NAC and businesses doesn't
even exist anymore, you know, with the old big But

(01:23:19):
that was the forge over the vinyl beautiful, great fun.

Speaker 2 (01:23:22):
Would you listen to music? Would you turn the round?
Did you have a geto blaster?

Speaker 23 (01:23:28):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:23:28):
I think we just worked. I think we just went
flat out because we had to get around a whole
lot of different buildings and go as fas as you
can see anything out as fast you can do a
good job and get out and get get in the
car and go to the next building. And we started
sort of like straight after college really like five o'clock
when business were closing, people going home, and we go
to two in the morning and then go home.

Speaker 16 (01:23:47):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
And were used to at school.

Speaker 7 (01:23:51):
Onslow college mate and Dodgeable Well yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
where I don't know George Gina Bayer went there. We
called him George Bertram back in the day. And keep
amount of course, you know people like that back cycling. Okay,
so you talk about cycling the Nio Scout Troop back

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when I was a kid, like I'm going to say
this about ninety seventy maybe ninety seventy two, somebody were
throwing up and tell you the Greek dates. The Nio
Scout Troop had someone who worked for New Zealand Rail
and that person, I think it might have an Ian McLain,
not sure. Organized organized a carriage, you know, a big

(01:24:34):
long carriage with an old fashion carriage, the old sword,
the just talking on the back of a locomotive and
a good wagon and we had to go down on
scouts and we had to clean it all out and
then they hopped onto the back of the train. And
we went all around the North Island walking onto the
backs of trains with New Zealand Rail and getting dropped
off in sidings in this train. And we were and

(01:24:56):
we cycled from let's say, we cycled from tama Nui
to tie Happy with our packs on our backs and
the local fellows and we stayed the Scout calls along
the way, and the local Scouts and tama Nui, you know,
entire Happy put down a hangy for us and we
had a big taking at a hangy and we did
some more cycling. And it was the most incredible thing

(01:25:19):
to just be able to get on and off a
train at different places, go and e spraw, then get
back on the train and get towed somewhere else. And
of course we were able the big viad acts in
the middle of the North Arm we'd all get outside
and look at the big drop off, you know, and
try to push.

Speaker 5 (01:25:35):
Each other off.

Speaker 7 (01:25:36):
And we stopped some lakes, like I think it was
Lake rochal Eti, but I'm not quite sure now, but
somewhere up there and say to the Mariah up there,
and it was just very very cool from be on
your bikes cycling around with your mates. And I think
scouting is a great thing, and I think more youth
today should be in Scouts.

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
I think scouting has scoutings head its challenges.

Speaker 7 (01:25:59):
Certainly, he said it challenging.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
I mean, I think you want have a safe kayla.
Let's start with that, shall we.

Speaker 7 (01:26:04):
Well, I was our kayla for a year.

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
It okay.

Speaker 7 (01:26:08):
When my son came home when he was seven years
old crying because they're going to close the cup back down.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
Yeah, I think you're gott to be vested now quite yeah, anyway,
if you're going to go for headlines. But nice to
talk to you. Oh, Jeffers will still be available. This
won't be called Jeffers. That's my take. Good evening, Bill,
Good welcome, Hi.

Speaker 18 (01:26:34):
Hi am I talking to Markers. Yes, the business about Jeffers.
I spent years making Jeffers in a factory and Rose
Bank Laden Orban and I can tell you why why
they can't use the name Jeffers. Sweet Acres had patents

(01:26:55):
on all those names, so it was Minty's Snippers and
a few others. And that's why a companies Minty's quite
often we're taking the court because they had patents several
different names.

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
So the company was called the company was called sweet Acres.

Speaker 18 (01:27:13):
Yeah right. Jaffers was invented in the nineteen twenties, but
Nestles mistles. The Nestles came to New Zealand and James
Edmund Henderson's Sweets came from Australia, and the two companies
got together in your Zalem and the the chocolate one.

(01:27:35):
Nestles made chocolate and the other crowd made hard boiled
and all those sort of things. The sugar stuff. Yeah,
Seabaggers wanted to make a chocolate one and with their
agreeable the two companies, they couldn't do it. So what
sweet Akers did back in the nineteen twenties they covered

(01:27:57):
the They covered the jappert in the sugar coating. If
you get the Japper today, you'll find them or all
with a sugar coating. They can't call them jaff Is
because they've got patents on them. All that outed in
the nineteen twenties and because Cadbury's got it in the
end and Caterbury's pulled the factory down a Rose Bank
Road and they shift them all down to the need

(01:28:19):
and then they closed out and the whole lot disappeared.

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
What years What year did they close on Rose Bank Road? Bell?

Speaker 18 (01:28:27):
I was out of it by then I left. And
where I was six fifty six sixty seventy eighty, possibly
around nineteen ninety somewhere around there.

Speaker 14 (01:28:41):
Yeah, don't fact.

Speaker 5 (01:28:42):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
Can you tell me? Were they hard to make?

Speaker 11 (01:28:50):
Well?

Speaker 18 (01:28:50):
I can tell I'll explain how they were made, thank you.
They were made from a grain of sugar. You don't
believe this. So the bag of sugar would make about
three hundred tons of jappers. What they did, they had
a big good rolling pan like a big concrete mixer,
all went and there they put what you do, use
the poor chocolate on very very hot, chopped and build

(01:29:12):
them up and when the pan bid, you split them
and after about three months work you have cats all
over the factories. Then they took a couple of months
to build up the size and then they then they
sugar coated them, polished them, and out they went.

Speaker 2 (01:29:30):
So was it hard to put the was it hard
to put the coating on the outside?

Speaker 17 (01:29:34):
No?

Speaker 18 (01:29:35):
There there revolve in a big pans, so you just
put a sugar coating on the out on the outside.
It was a bit of towering and it was irons color.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
Actually did you say they took months to make?

Speaker 18 (01:29:46):
Okay? Well, what happens that they started off in one
pen is these tiny ship It took about, oh we'll
say three weeks to build them up the size and
as bigger, and you split them and split them until
you had you had tons and tons of these undersize
and then you bought them up the size covered them away.

(01:30:06):
They were ye. Well, and speed has got into trouble.
They brought out a cough folly was it? They called
a doctor something or rather than they got into trouble
over that they could they tried to paint it because
because they had the word doctor and they had to
take it off.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
Was it doctor heck?

Speaker 7 (01:30:25):
What was it?

Speaker 18 (01:30:26):
Doctor Heck's doctor throtes?

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
I think it was.

Speaker 18 (01:30:31):
Yeah, So it's quite interesting. I'm here and because Alan's
was in the mix over there, there's all Australian companies
of course, ye, Cabridge, Cambridge placed the whole whole shooting
Max step I've been through the battery down and the
need that was quite bad.

Speaker 17 (01:30:49):
That.

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
Yes.

Speaker 18 (01:30:50):
Oh they had big chocolate chewes up. All those big
simers was full of chocolate.

Speaker 5 (01:30:55):
It was amazing.

Speaker 22 (01:30:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:30:57):
My the main thing I used I was.

Speaker 2 (01:30:59):
A foreman and when it used to make minty Yes,
I certainly have.

Speaker 18 (01:31:04):
Made Minty's.

Speaker 12 (01:31:05):
That was.

Speaker 18 (01:31:06):
That was a big one. Mindy Sniffers milkshakes.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
I love the milkshakes.

Speaker 18 (01:31:12):
Yeah, milkshakes was boiled under vacuum. You could if you
bought a room tempionship broke the milk, but we just
put into big and put on the vacuum which made
them there.

Speaker 21 (01:31:25):
Eh.

Speaker 2 (01:31:26):
I don't know if the I don't know if the
middy's of the milkshakes are still around, but they were delicious.
I think pest scales in here to go out the milkshakes,
but they weren't as good.

Speaker 18 (01:31:34):
I didn't have a pattern on milk jakes, but they Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
Yeah, I'm looking at the packets now. They certainly say
sweet acres Jeffers that they still do, do they? Well
just saying old images on Facebook, Yeah, so I just say, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:31:51):
I listingcas there were just it was invented in the
nineteen twenties.

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
Yeah, I really appreciate you coming through. Bill you're a
fond of information.

Speaker 13 (01:32:00):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:32:01):
Good evening, Carol. It's Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:32:04):
Hello, Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:32:06):
I just wanted to tell you a very funny thing
that happened about six months ago in my local countdown
as well as their mouse waves. And I was up
at the end right at the back of the shop
where the bread and all the bins for the fresh,
for the for the essayed fruit and you know, beans
and peas and those little lift up containers. And there

(01:32:29):
was a terrible shmo because somebody suddenly left the bin up,
got stuck and all these jaffers poured out. It was
all over the floor. There was a hole while there
would have been about it was just bouncing going out
of the city. And the kids were running around like fury.
They even reached the other side of the shop. They

(01:32:49):
had been kicked about by the kids.

Speaker 13 (01:32:51):
You know.

Speaker 20 (01:32:52):
And there was this one guy, just a young fellow
with one small household room going around. Obviously. It was
the funniest thing.

Speaker 2 (01:33:00):
The whole thing tip up. What happened to it?

Speaker 20 (01:33:03):
Yeah, Well, there was a woman trying to get hold of,
you know, some jaffers out of it and you had
to pick up push up one part portion of and
it got jammed and she couldn't close it, so shes
sort of streaked and then around the corner. Nobody really
knew and we were just taken with this bount don't

(01:33:25):
get bouncing around the place. Oh god, it's so funny.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
Very good thing. And think of you saying, essayed fruit.

Speaker 18 (01:33:31):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:32):
That was very good, not a wird. I have often
curious though, what you take if you're going on that
TV program alone. I surprised to see someone on the line.
That's when you go into the wilderness on your own
for as long as you can survive, and you can
take ten items. One guy didn't take a fire starter
was just about as undoing. I thought, jep as creepers.

(01:33:54):
That's bold. It's the first thing I take that, and
the saw and the bow and arrow. Some of them
took salt when we want my ten but could work
out to be quite fratuitous. Now a view a viewer
a listener asks a really good question, why hasn't anyone

(01:34:14):
built a drive through supermarket? There was once a drive
through bottlestore in Monaco City in the mid nineties to
nineteen nineties, not the eighteen nineties. They were the only
bottle shopping Tuthal that never got robbed in no stock
losses by shoplifters. You need a big turning area between
the aisles. But I'll have a problem to drive through, superman.

(01:34:37):
I'll be up for a bit of that. Just remember,
if you ring up, turn your radio off. That's the
only rule. You just don't be to annoying. That's not
really a rule, it's just wishful thinking. Callum, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:34:59):
Hi, Hey you Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
Good Callum, thank you. How are you going all right?

Speaker 16 (01:35:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (01:35:03):
Good?

Speaker 5 (01:35:04):
Hey.

Speaker 27 (01:35:04):
I ring up not too long ago, probably about two
or three weeks ago, about driving licensed test that I've
been going through with VTNZ and not passing the test.
So I just wanted to bring up and say what

(01:35:24):
the status update with it is and maybe help some
callers out there that went through what I've been going through.
So I failed about five times in my driver's test
and eventually succeeded recently. So yeah, anyone out that's out there,
it can happen, and it will happen.

Speaker 2 (01:35:44):
So did you ring me three weeks ago?

Speaker 27 (01:35:52):
It would have been maybe you. It was probably one
pint thirty in the morning though, probably last time, so
it might have been a little bit later than you.

Speaker 2 (01:35:59):
It wasn't me, Yeah, because normally I recall the course.
I've got no idea what you talk about. Why would
you fail five times?

Speaker 27 (01:36:07):
Because the first couple of times are in christ Church
where there were thirty to fifty K signs everywhere at
the roadworks and stuff that was going on with the
new stadium being built. Yep, So it was pretty hard
to pay to pass a test. And my my major complaint,
which I rang about in the first instance, was that
VT and Z were not a government agency, which I

(01:36:31):
thought they were. They were actually you know, they're a
private company trying to make money, so failing failing people
was obviously going to be a revenue gaining exercise.

Speaker 5 (01:36:42):
So I was pretty as.

Speaker 2 (01:36:43):
Parkho Calum, you shouldn't be driving. You sound like you're
a menace.

Speaker 27 (01:36:49):
Well I'm not a menace anymore because I've passed my test.

Speaker 2 (01:36:52):
Now, well you shouldn't. If you couldn't even observe thirty
and fifty K signs, it's terrible.

Speaker 27 (01:36:58):
Oh that's not that's not what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:37:00):
What I'm saying you did.

Speaker 2 (01:37:02):
You said it was too confusing.

Speaker 27 (01:37:05):
Oh, if you're coming around christ you're sitting and you're
telling me it's not confusing. I think I think it
is pretty confusing.

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
And as I say, I don't think you should be driving.

Speaker 11 (01:37:18):
Right right.

Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
Where he's gone. Didnyone else think you should be driving?

Speaker 20 (01:37:30):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:37:30):
I think yeah, I think that's I think I think
that's way bad. Good evening, Robin, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:37:36):
Hello Marcus. I'd like to talk about how easy it
is to get these foreign spiders into New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Yes, so easy.

Speaker 12 (01:37:45):
We came back from Australia at twenty eleven and we
had a container with all our goods inate plus our car,
and when we unpacked it we found five red bags
and another one that was in the Christmas tree.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
So was it not fumigated or was it not people
doing por surveillance?

Speaker 12 (01:38:07):
Well we presumed it was. Well that's what we thought.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
Too, because you would have paid big money for all
of that. It would have been part of your shipping.
Would have been that cost for all of that.

Speaker 12 (01:38:22):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:38:25):
No, and I know they cut corners on security borders
and stuff, but yeah, that's right. That's a good point
to No, wonder all these spiders are coming in.

Speaker 12 (01:38:32):
Yes, yes, so I just thought i'd bring.

Speaker 13 (01:38:35):
You with that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
And Robin, did you or your husband kill the red backs?

Speaker 18 (01:38:40):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:38:40):
Yes, yes, well done.

Speaker 12 (01:38:43):
Okay, but it's the thing is we've put they were
on the majority of them were on the bottom of
the sofa, and we've carried the sofa in, so we
could have been bitten there.

Speaker 2 (01:38:58):
Yes, it's what you're getting bitten. I'd be worried about
the eggs and the babies. But nice to hear Robin.

Speaker 14 (01:39:03):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:39:04):
Good evening, Chris, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 28 (01:39:07):
Oh, good evening, Marcus. Look, I don't know whether anyone's
mentioned the the leading Baldwin Street Jeffer raced of the past. Yeah,
it had seventy five thousand Jeffers donated annually by Cabrey
with charity Sundraisers were released every winter down Baldwin Street

(01:39:34):
at a dollar a Jeffer. Yeah, it was an annual
event until Cabrey.

Speaker 9 (01:39:40):
Was no more.

Speaker 2 (01:39:41):
That's right, that's right, And it was quite It was
quite spectacular, wasn't it.

Speaker 28 (01:39:47):
Oh yeah, seventy five thousand of them. I was just
thinking of lady who said someone had spilled them in
the supermarket, and how funny.

Speaker 20 (01:39:56):
She thought it was well.

Speaker 28 (01:39:57):
I think she'd probably enjoy and enjoyed very much, because
she was quite delighted the way she explained the effors
in the supermarket. So I thought, oh, what a shame
she didn't get to go to Baldwin Street.

Speaker 2 (01:40:12):
Great to hear. I love Baldwin Street every time the
need IM straight up there. Hey, I would imagine if
the if Kedrey was still going, I think probably the
jeff arole would have been stopped. I think probably these
days they don't use things with food for entertainment because

(01:40:38):
obviously something I don't got enough food, so it sort
of seems slightly wasteful. So yeah, it probably had run
its course. Anyway, thinking about that, some people might have
thought I was too hard on Callum. You might have
an opinion on that. Good evening, Phillips, Marcus.

Speaker 29 (01:40:50):
Welcome, Marcus, Hell, are you you sound like crap?

Speaker 2 (01:40:54):
I'm good, Phil Thanks.

Speaker 18 (01:40:56):
That's good.

Speaker 29 (01:40:57):
Anyway, that guy killum Me shouldn't be on the road
if he kind of dais to road signs thirty thirsty,
there's no way hell he should be driving.

Speaker 2 (01:41:06):
What a menace, What an absolute menace.

Speaker 29 (01:41:10):
They took him down the past. This new stadium for
that particular reason, to see what is like around road
sign So that's a good way to teach someone how
to drive. But if you can't even do that in
a situation, what's he going to be like?

Speaker 2 (01:41:24):
And he seemed to be a thin skin complainer as well.
Then he hang up like a quitter. I wouldn't have
him on the road.

Speaker 23 (01:41:31):
No.

Speaker 29 (01:41:31):
My my advice to him is to grab some road
cones and make up some signs on a private road
somewhere away and what what, and practice on that before
you even.

Speaker 2 (01:41:41):
Get he needs to practice. He's not ready for driving
in the city.

Speaker 29 (01:41:46):
Hell, it's not even ready to drive on the main road.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
No, I don't even think he's ready for talkback to
be fair, nice to hear from you, David's Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:41:58):
Welcome, Hey Marcus?

Speaker 13 (01:42:00):
Is that meet Marcus? Yeah, I've here to middling mate.
You you're not seeing it too flesh.

Speaker 2 (01:42:08):
But you're just.

Speaker 14 (01:42:11):
Not good.

Speaker 2 (01:42:12):
Well, I said, I am good, you're good.

Speaker 13 (01:42:16):
Yeah, Well you don't see them too flesh. But anyhow,
you just to be at shifts all over. But plenty
of Jeff is up in Auckland.

Speaker 2 (01:42:22):
I thought we're going to have a new name for them.
Now they've got Jeffers anymore.

Speaker 13 (01:42:27):
No, I think they'll all be Jeffers. This black with
this false widow spider that I was just checking them
out very lit. The female does look very much like
the black widow. The bite's not as severe, and the
male of the species lot thinner, skinnier, with Martins on
its tail. But I would like to have address just

(01:42:50):
how these things are getting into the country wrong with
the white tail spider. And now I'm going to call
on the driver the now a friend of the family
come from Ireland. He has failed his test five times
as well, and he has not got his license yet.
I don't know he's failing on the practical. I don't
know what the hang up is or I have offered

(01:43:12):
to and and me brothers been taken them for driving
lessons and what have you. But he's never had a
license in his mid thirties, so I don't know whether
it's tough this day in age markets or what it is,
but to get your driver's license to pass the practical,
but I have heard of that, So there's such a
thing being tough to get Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:43:32):
So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:43:32):
I don't thin anyone wants it to be easier, do they.

Speaker 13 (01:43:35):
No, mate, No, we certainly do not. We're given that
driving around Barbados Street and around this new stadium is
a heck of a place to go. It stop, start,
and there's cones galore. There's no defense. But anyhow, neah,
I think things are a bit tougher this day and
age markets.

Speaker 2 (01:43:56):
I don't know nicely from your day, thanks so much.
Eighteen past eleven. How you're going people are taking? There
a list of end ooh, Walkman movies, Jeff Spiders and
Callum's driving. It's an interesting turn of events if you
can't drive, but you blame VT instead have been a

(01:44:17):
money making venture. Don't they failing people to make money?
That would be my thing on that they think they'll
be failing people because's not good enough drivers. If you're
not obeying signs, you probably shouldn't be driving. There you
go said it. Your views if you want to agree

(01:44:37):
or disagree with me? Or is a new Superman movie
worth seeing? There's a thought I'm not sure about that.
It seems like a whole starting over all over again.
Is it the origin story? Is it just like basic
Superman when he falls to Earth don't know whether I

(01:44:57):
go see that or not. Actually looks like it's back
to the beginning anyway, it's a new adaption. It's going
to honor the legacy and the classic comics and silver
ge eras of the film fifties through the seventies. Oh
maybe it mightn't be for me actually, but twenty two

(01:45:20):
past dev If you want to be in touch Marcus
till twelve, there's something different you can want to mention.
We can handle it.

Speaker 30 (01:45:27):
I hope.

Speaker 2 (01:45:31):
Marcus had a blue Sony Walkman eighty to eighteen years
old living in Switzerland. Listen to E l O Blondie,
Alan Parsons Project and Abra A great time, good quality
and terrific stereo sound, Pauling and Cromers. Oh you gotta
love Cromwell. Be cold there tonight?

Speaker 18 (01:45:49):
Will it?

Speaker 2 (01:45:52):
I made you to be freezing?

Speaker 20 (01:45:55):
Eric?

Speaker 2 (01:45:55):
It's Marcus. Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 29 (01:45:58):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
Thank you?

Speaker 14 (01:46:00):
Eric?

Speaker 30 (01:46:02):
Yeah, look I've been I've held a Class five heavy
transport license is nineteen ninety nine. I currently drive around
about seven hundred kilometers every day. The driver licensing system
in this country is just an absolute joke. How some

(01:46:26):
people get a license is beyond me when I watch
and see what they're doing on the roads.

Speaker 2 (01:46:34):
Well, I guess I guess you don't know that they've
got a license, really, do you?

Speaker 5 (01:46:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 30 (01:46:41):
Not wrong there. I'm just amazed that our road fatality
isn't four or five times higher than what it is.
You've got people going middle of the night driving no
headlights on, they don't use their mirrors in not looking
behind them. You have an emergency vehicle coming up with

(01:47:02):
beacons and everything going, and they just stay in then,
and they don't need to move once in a hurry, uh,
you know, and just lane changing indication. Tea intersections are
a beauty. You're coming out of tea intersection weighing fifty
ton and you see your car approaching from left or right.

(01:47:26):
Well you sort of flip a coin as to whether
they're going to.

Speaker 29 (01:47:29):
Stop or not.

Speaker 30 (01:47:32):
Wow, And you know if they don't stop and I
cleaned them up, well, there's every chance that they're going
to be a fake fatality. And then it's the bad
truck driver.

Speaker 2 (01:47:49):
Have you got desk cam footage?

Speaker 13 (01:47:51):
Oh?

Speaker 30 (01:47:51):
Absolutely, I've got more cameras in this thing than you
can fake a stick out.

Speaker 2 (01:47:56):
So they're probably not going to know it's the dead
truck driver. Then they'll I mean, the thought will be
with the driver, they won't it.

Speaker 13 (01:48:02):
Yeah, No, in this.

Speaker 30 (01:48:03):
Particular instance, yes absolutely, But there are still a lot
of wrecks around that don't have this technology. I drive
a fairly late model Scar. ES's got collision avoidance systems
built into it, radar, you name it, all the bells
and whistles, but it's still is.

Speaker 5 (01:48:23):
Not idiot proof.

Speaker 30 (01:48:25):
And you get a vehicle that will cut in front
of you.

Speaker 23 (01:48:28):
Slow down.

Speaker 30 (01:48:29):
I mean, I leave what you would class in a
car is probably a four to six second gap behind
a vehicle in front of me on a dry road,
because I need that much room to stop without shifting
everything I've got in the vehicle to the front. But
yet on the motorway that'll be taken up every time,

(01:48:49):
and you just keep going backwards in.

Speaker 5 (01:48:51):
The qu so to speak.

Speaker 2 (01:48:54):
Okay, nice dear from Eric, Thank you, good eving, Joe.
It's Marcus.

Speaker 27 (01:48:59):
Welcome, Hello Marcas.

Speaker 31 (01:49:02):
Some just picking up on Allum's conversation and as somebody
who's you know, he's said punds of license five times.
For me, the underlying thing of that conversation was more
that the rules have changed, not quite so much that
he's in confidencies going through a pretty restriction zone. It's

(01:49:25):
more that the rules have gotten tougher. And then onto
that conversation of who are who is VPN there? They're
not a government organization there perhaps a private thing and
that's in their interest to fail people.

Speaker 2 (01:49:43):
Oh, they would be audited, There would be standards for that.
They would be independently audited to make sure that they
are failing and not failing people. You know, Callum students,
Callum Seedent didn't the signs were too complicated.

Speaker 31 (01:49:59):
Yeah, But my point being is that maybe twenty years
ago that wouldn't have been a concern, and now they are,
which I totally appreciated that consideration. But also, you know,
if you can drive, you can drive.

Speaker 2 (01:50:15):
Really, what does that even mean, Joe, oh.

Speaker 31 (01:50:19):
To you like back in the day you sort of
learned how to drive an e manual and you learn
how to drive a car and appreciate the road, And
now it feels a little bit revenue.

Speaker 2 (01:50:28):
Girl, If you can drive, you can drive?

Speaker 32 (01:50:32):
Well, yeah, when you were a hear what the last
guy said about the drivers out there, about Eric Rickless,
you he said, yeah, well.

Speaker 31 (01:50:42):
Yeah, but there's way less road accidents and that's that's
a good thing. But you learn how to drive as
a teenager and you learn how to handle a car
and watch for other people on the road. Where now
it sort of feels like VTN said a bit like, oh,
we can make some money out of this and you're failing.

(01:51:03):
And I've heard this for a youngel and they've changed
a little radu.

Speaker 2 (01:51:08):
But people say that because they're embarrassed they failed. That's
just that's just self defense. You know, some people getting founding.
Oh well it must be then revenue you get. They
don't admit that that. No one admit to being a
terrible driver.

Speaker 31 (01:51:21):
No, yeah, yeah, I disagree with you. I think like,
if you're pulling people up on people are going to
their license and they've actually been driving perfectly fine for
the last forty years now, they need to go through
the regulations of getting the next step up in the license.

(01:51:43):
It's not I don't know, I just I feel like
it's perhaps not safety orientator, it's more even yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:51:57):
Do you indicate through roundabouts? Yes, if you're going straight through?

Speaker 12 (01:52:05):
No?

Speaker 31 (01:52:06):
Yeah, no I don't yeah, yeah about it. Yeah, But
then I feel like it's more grow Right's experience.

Speaker 2 (01:52:17):
Okay, I thought you might agree, you might disagree. How
past eleven, Hello Charlotte's Marcus, Good evening, Good evening.

Speaker 20 (01:52:25):
Oh you're not going to like me. I think you
were a bit mean to that kid. Do you didn't
let him finish? Yes, because you didn't let him finish
telling a story. I mean you did say he finally
got it after the sixth one. But I have heard
other people say that they're really picky. You know, you
might be doing or forty the speed of fifty fifty
two k's a in a fifty k area, you know,

(01:52:47):
and they just say he failed to say that they
would support that money making exercise.

Speaker 2 (01:52:55):
What I think most people would support them being quite vigilant.

Speaker 20 (01:53:01):
Yeah, reasonably. I mean, I'm just trying to think. When
I went for my license, told to go and walk
and to see, you know, I was nervous. I got
it the first time. When I got mine, Yes, I
was going to say to you, you know you can
get distracted sometimes you got yeah, well, well and you

(01:53:25):
see you it's no different or.

Speaker 2 (01:53:29):
Four goes it that would have been much better.

Speaker 20 (01:53:32):
Oh No, I was fine once I got it. I
was so proud of myself because towards the end of it,
we were going up a hill and there was lights
at the top and they were red, and I was
sort of just i'd sort of you know, taken the
car out of I was slowing down and everything and
ready to go, and then the lights twing green and
people were moving. Well, I did this most beautiful clutch

(01:53:55):
start just stop and pull, and the guy seemed to
be Wow, that was good. But you thought, oh, you know,
I hated hell starts. Anyway, I just I don't even know,
it just came to me, I thought, and off I wed.
I was so proud. But yeah, and I mean, I
mean I've only had I've had two speed tickets in

(01:54:19):
what sixteen to seventy four to nearly seventy five. Wow,
from seventy five, I only had two, and they weren't
for they went for sort of much like you know
forty k's along the waterfront Aukland waterfront at ten o'clock
at night, you know, with a lot of car inside.
Oh yeah, and thirty were probably forty miles hour, and

(01:54:42):
and another one for only doing a little bit on
the Longo Parl and I passed this car that I
had crawled behind all the way up the long apparl
I've got a chance I passed the bloody bottom of
the hill. Was a cop and I've got a ticket,
and I had to be put up with the embarrassment
of this creeping person going past.

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
We've all experienced that, Charlotte. Nice to talk, Thank you, Marcus.
VT and Z are an agent for n zed too.
Set the prices and the money goes to n ZEDTA,
just like when you go to license your vehicle and
pay road users. Also, didn't the government change it so
the resets are free? This guy should not have a license, Marcus.

(01:55:28):
They need to change the rules of people coming over
from overseas to zen drive and they can't drive killing
people on our roads. Well, yes, the visitor's license is
too easy, Patty, good evening.

Speaker 33 (01:55:40):
Yeah, Hi, Marcus. I just want to say I worked
a whole lot of young people. I've had my license
for fifty to sixty years, and I sort of feel it.
They're really good young kids, you know, and they've they've
had to reseit it many times, and they get into

(01:56:01):
the stage where they go out of walks and not
to sit it. They go down to Thames and other
places because they're just got it not getting through and
it's costing them a lot of money. And these are
good kids, good drivers, they're not fast drivers. I can't
see if you get one little thing wrong, you can't

(01:56:24):
go back and reset that thing and then get your license.

Speaker 17 (01:56:29):
Because we all know.

Speaker 33 (01:56:31):
But the longer we drive our cars, the more experience
we get on the road. It's the speeding drivers we're
trying to stop, not the young kids who just want
to get their license and get practicing on the road.

Speaker 2 (01:56:49):
I guess I don't know how old calabers. I don't
know if he's a young driver or not. So yeah,
I take your points, but I don't know whether he'd
be young or would be He could be an instinties
for all we know.

Speaker 33 (01:56:58):
Yeah, yeah, but I just know a lot of young kids,
you know what. Some of them are saying, we've got
to go to Thames because we'll never get it in Auckland.
They're so damned up.

Speaker 20 (01:57:09):
And yes, that's totally ridiculous.

Speaker 33 (01:57:13):
I can't understand how this has got to the situation.
You know, there should be just I don't know. If
you miss on a point, you should be able to
go for a recheck of that point and not have
to pay the whole thing again. It's just a money
making exercise.

Speaker 2 (01:57:29):
Well it's free if you go back. The resets are free, apparently,
think so.

Speaker 33 (01:57:35):
I debate that a little, but I can't think that
it is.

Speaker 2 (01:57:39):
We'll see if we get some confirmation on that. Thank you.
Twenty three to twelve, lois good evening.

Speaker 10 (01:57:45):
Dooming Marcus. You're not probably going to agree with me,
but I think when anybody goes to the license in
New Zealand, you should not be able to get it
in an automatic vehicle exactly. I think everybody on the
road should know how to drive. A man walk up yep,
I agree, Yeah, yeah, I do too, because anybody can

(01:58:08):
sit behind the wiel in an automatic car and put
it in D for drive and PA park and anyone
can do that. We've got to do a steer it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:18):
It's never really driving, is it.

Speaker 9 (01:58:20):
No?

Speaker 31 (01:58:21):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:58:23):
Do you know how lowis? Do you know how rare
that menual cars are? You can't get them? You can
there's honestly a lot of companies to stopped making them.

Speaker 10 (01:58:34):
Yeah, well they're still they're still around. I'm just looking
at a car the other day advertised somewhere, and it
was it was manual. Ok really new one, really new one.

Speaker 5 (01:58:45):
Okay, you can get them.

Speaker 10 (01:58:47):
I know my son won't drive automatic. All his vehicles are.
All his vehicles are down to his land row. He's
got a land Rover to all his vehicles are manual.

Speaker 2 (01:59:01):
That's the spirit that made this country great. Low is
your son's spirit. Refusing to drive an automatic? That's the spirit.

Speaker 10 (01:59:08):
Yeah, well I don't refuse to drive one. Might car
that I'm driving at the moment is an automatic. But
I could get into a menual car and drive it
as good as gold.

Speaker 2 (01:59:18):
Yeah, of course you can. You're a good driver.

Speaker 10 (01:59:22):
Sometimes I might not be. Yeah, No, I just thought
i'd you know, I think I think that's what they
need to do. I need to If you can't drive
a manual car, you shouldn't get a license.

Speaker 2 (01:59:38):
You might agree with Lois. Let me know, anyone agree
with Lois if you're driving a manual car. I did
just because to be contrary. Get in touch with you
on a talk hitt on midnight. The trouble with driving.
No one thinks they're a bad driver, and as Eric said,

(02:00:02):
most of us are, but we can't see ourselves as
our others see us. I haven't no idea what the
solution is, Marcus. I get my car license years ago.
I got my and my bike license recently. Used to
have to be able to drive a vehicle. Now they
have to be able to drive in our roads. A
big difference. There are rules you get wrong and a
test and rules you can't get wrong. It's made clear

(02:00:24):
before you sit the test. It's not always the new
drivers of the show. A lot of old drivers are terrible.
I've done shows on this show about roundabouts. Most people
don't know the rules because they're not knowing the new
stuff when things change. Good Evening, Graham, it's Marcus, welcome, Yeah, hello, Marcus,
Hi Graham.

Speaker 14 (02:00:45):
The thing is we're all on the road, so that's
the place we've all got to share. So I've done
motorcycle racing, worked in mining dot classes two, three, four, five,
and it's all about operating some conditions that being aware
of what's going on. So we've got all these people
knowing how to drive. Its great, but you really need
to how to operate in the conditions we're in. I

(02:01:08):
actually think people should ride a scooter or a motorcycle
for three or four months. Then they'll learn to look
of what's going on.

Speaker 2 (02:01:15):
They'll learn how vulnerably are. Then they really take care,
won't they.

Speaker 14 (02:01:18):
Well, you know CMBC and.

Speaker 17 (02:01:22):
You know.

Speaker 14 (02:01:24):
Of race motorcycling done all sorts, but when you're on
the road, you operate and so you're aware of what's
going on. So most people, if they had to reset
their license after having it for thirty odd years, probably
might not pass it and fail. Yep. So even though
I've done that, when my children got their license, I

(02:01:45):
paid them to get trained by AA driving instructor because
you see parents teaching bad habits to the next generation, vowing,
well they're still making cars, but you know, it doesn't matter.
It's a manual and auto that you've got to learn

(02:02:08):
how to operate the car first. My children were lucky
that we had a paddock, so you learn how to
operate the car first. So you get a child that's
going for their license, they've got multiple things going on
there in their mind and they're nervous, so they might
make a little mistake. But if you give enough training,
it's like learning a martial arts. You don't move to

(02:02:31):
the next but until you got that.

Speaker 2 (02:02:32):
But down, who makes the pani, what brand the car?

Speaker 14 (02:02:35):
Is a peddick, it's not a pad paddocks. What you
operate an old car room you're actually operating, not on
the roads. You're not worried about road rules. You're just
learning how to feel whatever you're operating. But it a

(02:02:56):
two hundred ton dump truck or a we small car.
So your kids be kind of children because they have a.

Speaker 2 (02:03:06):
How's your kids driving where they're driven?

Speaker 14 (02:03:08):
Well, your kids, yeah, they do when they set their license.
When we got when we got to the end of
the guy that did it, I was in the back seat.
He can dread it. Commented on how well he drove
smoothly and didn't make a mistake anywhere. So both my
children passed the first time, no problem.

Speaker 2 (02:03:31):
Many excedents or tickets since no tickets.

Speaker 14 (02:03:35):
No accidents.

Speaker 16 (02:03:36):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (02:03:39):
So it's not an age thing, and it's not even
when you're learning. It's like you keep doing the basics
properly all the time to where roads you slow down,
you know, if you can't see what's around. It's keept
from A to B in one piece with no problem.
It doesn't matter if it's an auto or a manual
or anything like that that's got nothing to do. It's

(02:04:00):
been aware of what's going on around you, which is
why I actually think people should write a motor cycle
for a short time, then they'll learn.

Speaker 2 (02:04:09):
To Look, do you think you'd passed your license?

Speaker 14 (02:04:11):
If you said it again, I'd probably have to a
little scrub ut, but I think I could.

Speaker 2 (02:04:17):
Free honest thing to say, Graham, very honestly, I appreciate
you for saying that. Thank you, marcusin spent on business
bikes and as good as every Europeans is, the whole
respect cyclists with courteous driving. Wishes in was like this,
but we seem to see red mist whenever we see
someone in leiitcra and yes it's hot here, but not
stopping folk from riding and ol Fresco darning at midday.
Love your work, Kenyes, well, there's been a concided lobby

(02:04:41):
that hates cyclists and hates cycle ways. We know who
they are, but they drive that anger and that bitter
of drivers. But it's going to change, you know, because yeah,
the change is coming. That's it for me, people, I
shall return enjoy your July. I think tomorrow is the

(02:05:03):
second anyway. Anyway, anyway, anyway, anyway, I will catch you then.
If there's something else you want to talk about, phone Roman.
He'll be here before twelve, or he'll be here from twelve. Yes,
that's happening. That's Roman from twelve to five. Marcus. As

(02:05:31):
a truck driver, I've noticed that car drivers often assume
driving a car and handling a truck involved the same maneuvers.
There you go. We got not to say truck drivers
don't they about how to drive. That's for me, guys.
Catch you on the morrow, Cheery Areo, good night.

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