If you want a mango, get a mango (22 May 2025)

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be greetings, welcome, hit'll twelve Miname is Marcus. I hope
it's good with you. I let us know what's going on. Oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two ninety two
to text a couple of things. It's the budget to days.
Traditionally on the evening show, the budget has not provided
a huge amount of things for people to talk about.

(00:32):
That's just experienced. Tonight might be different. If it's something
that you are ecstatic to talk about, or something you
want explained, or some question you've got that you want
to ask the rest of the audience about, feel free
to come through about that. What that is I can't
speculate about. But if there is something that you want
to talk about, let us know, oh, eight hundred eighty

(00:52):
ten eighty. It's always hard one to pick one for
me with a budget because one of those ones that
it's one of those ones that comes out, it takes
a while for people to realize how it's going to
affect them before they form their opinion. That's my understanding
of it takes people a little bit of time and thinking,
hang on, this is going to fit me in this way,
and then perhaps the outrage and things will trickle down,

(01:13):
trickle through.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I think the budget cycle has changed somewhat now with
the leaks before, not the leaks, but with the release
of material before the actual day. You don't get it
like you once did. Oh and of course the the

(01:38):
it's not like the price of smokes and beer like
once upon a time, which was huge. It was all
cigarettes and beer and guess and people would drive to
the gas station to flop their car and they'd buy
smokes and beer. They'd stock parley ahead of the budget.
But now not so much so. If you want to
talk about that, feel free eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty nine text the other thing you might want to

(02:00):
talk about. Oh, by the way, there was a fire
and Cromwell and berries ev. I think I've got that
run right. I hope it's not the Buffalo food truck.
I don't think it is, because I've gone to their
Facebook page only because I follow them for reasons. But
the fire crew is responding to a fire and Central
otago on barriev. If you are there, if you know

(02:23):
anything about that, let us know. It wull be the
KINDI I've spent some time on barriev not a lot,
but anyway, let me know about that. The other thing
you might want to talk about too, Oh no, this
is me just keep you up to date. The Bogonia
House has been saved at the Wellington Council meeting. I'm
reading that now. That's a new story that's just kind

(02:45):
of come through. The council voted unanimously to say the
Begonia House. Just two counselors, Ben McNulty and Tim Brown
voted against it. They adopted a do minimum option recommended
by council officers, requiring an increase in budget from eight
point one million to eleven million. Is it for a

(03:07):
year for that cheapers, I don't quite know how much
cost that is for how long, but you might want
to mention that also too. So that's what's happening. If
there is other news that happens tonight, I will keep
you across that. I'm expecting breaking news. I just don't
know what it is. At the stage. I'm watching the
Southland Sharks. They're playing at the moment they're slightly behind.
They're playing the Hawk's Bay team. I'll keep you updated

(03:28):
with that the family there, but by looking at the
stand there aren't many others there got that on of
the TV. So I'll keep you posted on that very
close basketball game this afternoon that I watched with the
nixt Gosh, that was exciting towards the end. Anyway, So
you call the shots, what you've got you want to
talk about, feel free to come through, long night ahead.
It seems eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine

(03:50):
two nine two de text. But if you do it,
if you've got something, if you've got something reasoned or
curious to say about the budget, feel free to come through.
It seems like the immediate aftermath of the budget, it's
people kind of jockeying for the headline and for the

(04:13):
slogan that the budget becomes. Now how useful that is,
I just don't know, But there we go. I don't
think it's just sort of the thing that stops a
nation like it once did, although I did look about
two o'clock for updates from it, and I think he
was saddle about. But anyway, there we go. But get
in touch you do on to talk or the other
topic I want to talk about tonight, and this is
something that actually is of interest to me, And it

(04:37):
might be something you've thought about, it might not be
something you've thought about. But I see that Kate Winslet,
who we loved in the Titanic. I was enjoyed that
discussion on talk about with the Titanic that the person
thought that the old woman on the Titanic was an
actual survivor of the Titanic. But such a lovely thing

(04:58):
to believe that that, yes, that James camer had gone
and found someone that was on the Titanic to play
the role fictional role anyway, just remembering that anyway, Kate
Winslett's daughter as an actor. And the question I have
for you is quite a good question. Would you encourage

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your child, your son or your daughter or did you
to go into the same career as you and how
did that work? Because what I imagine is such a
short length of time, even the time of one generation,
a large number of careers are kind of defunct, aren't they.
So yeah, would you or have you encouraged your children

(05:41):
to go into the same career as you have, because
I'm sure most people don't. Uniss, you're involved in one
of those businesses where you've built up the capitol and
the headquarters and they can come and join the family
engineering firm or haymaking firm or something along those lines.
So I'm curious to know about that, if you have

(06:01):
encouraged your children to jump into the or if you
would encourage your children to go to the same as
you have eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two
ninety two de text. Just kind of curious about that.
Would that be something that you would do or think
was a good idea? I think more often not these days,
you'd look on as a bit of a surprise. If
someone's going to the same career that you're into, you

(06:23):
might want to comment on that. I'd like to hear
about that. And by the way, I can tell you
too that this is that this is something that the
people of Dunedin need to be alarmed about. It seems
as though the Lookout Point fire station in Dunedin is

(06:47):
going to be demolished. It is earthquake prone. If you
don't know that building driving out from Dunedin as you
go up the hill past Corsaphene, gorgeous looking building would
be one of the most picturesque fire stations in the
country that ought to be saved. But yeah, you might

(07:08):
have a strong comment on that because I think probably
the need needs to save its old buildings because it's
kind of what it's known for. That's a beautiful building.
So yeah, be aware of that that that's something they
want to demolish and you don't want that to happen.
I don't know the full details they're going to relocate anyway.
I guess it'd make good apartments somewhere. Put the students
in it. You've got the poll could be fun. You

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might want to mention that as well. Eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two The texts
you want to come through? Marcus till twelve psh looking
forward to what you've got to say? Would you encourage
your child to do the same job as you? If not,
why not because a chance to look back on your
career and think, well, no, actually just about killed me,

(07:50):
or no it's a dying art, or no, because AI
will take over. That's what most people say, won't they.
It's all about AI. Keep your texts coming through too.
Fifteen past date, Fire and Berries, Air of Cromwell. Wat's
that on fire? The Bigonia Houses say, Marcus, totally off topic,

(08:10):
but I'm curious to know why Australia is having so
much rain and flooding in recent times. I suppose it's
due to climate change. I don't know, but it seems
as though that area, that northern New South Wales area
is getting absolutely hammered. Every time I've turned the rugby
league on, it's absolutely bucketing down the women's state of origin.

(08:34):
The matches in the weekend infect a lot of them
more often than not. On the weekend it's been absolutely persisting.
I don't know there's any talk back in then. I
don't think anyone quite knows why Australia would be so
flood prone. Maybe it's some cycle who knows about that. Anyway,
if you want to get in touch, hit til twelve
looking forward to what you've got to say. Oh eight

(08:55):
hundred eighty eight nine nine two detext Marcus till midnight
tonight if you want to comment on these particular topics,
or if there's something else you want to mention. Pretty
much enjoyed last night's topics about Smith and Curry, but
mainly about the communication and how they did the books
in the old days, with everything on a wire. Oh yeah,

(09:15):
but yes, the other thing is about making your child
follow into your same career, because I'd imagine once upon
a time it was encouraged the right thing to do
is to do what your parents had done, following your
father's footsteps. Sohah, So you might want to mention that,
as I say, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and

(09:37):
nine nine two de texts if you do want to
come through. Kimradashan's a lawyer. Good on her, worked hard
for that over six years, doing it part time bringing
up the children. I'm not suggesting that's a talk back topic,
but I'm just putting that out there for the doubters.
Seventeen past eight. Some of the other stuff too. I

(09:57):
don't quind kind of know what's going on with run
it Straight. There seems to be so many different things
have run it straight that, in fact it's hard to
keep but with which ones have been canceled? And a
very interesting article today in the paper about a bakery
and in Vericago or in South And called Kaye's Cake
Kitchen or Kay's Kitchen. They are using Australian broker to

(10:21):
buy their butter. Yeah, so often they use butter to
make their products because the butter is cheaper. They order
ten tons of time from and that's in the middle.
That's the factory Otpiniev or wherever they've got a second shove.
Also broken biscuits and the like. But they're in the

(10:43):
middle of the heartland, the dairy heartland. They're getting some
of their butter, a lot of their butter from Australia,
which would make you think there's something wrong with that
sh Anyway, that's what we've got eight hundred and eight, Tady.
I look forward to to your copy. By the way,
hold your horses people. Yeah, I'm looking at how they

(11:08):
draw the real North South divide in the UK in
the UK, and what the line is and what the
defining thing is I reckon In the UK the currying,
the clear clear definition between north and South is the
line where people have curry sauce or ketchup on their

(11:31):
fish and chips cheapest. I don't know what that would
be in New Zealand. What would differential differentiate the North
and the South of New Zealand. As far as what
the food they eat, I didn't know. In the UK
they had curry sauce on their chips. They never come

(11:53):
across at twenty five past eight Brettett's Marcus, Welcome, good.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
Evening, Marcus.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
I don't advise my son not to be a diesel mechanic.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Because of the way diesel. But there's not going to
be diesel car or trucks.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
No, no, no working out in the cold and the trucks.
When you get the fifty, you start feeling the aches
and pains for people.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Say, hey, cold concrete, lying on your back, falling.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
Yeah, in the bad ye constantly knocking your head on
hard steel. Rightly. I've been working part time with im
baggage now, but I do your little warrants for my
mate and a lot of the cars now empty. We
go for a test drive and the fuel lights on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Is it showing you no one's got any money?

Speaker 5 (12:42):
Exactly?

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
You know I did five cars today and for them
fuel lights on. I'm gonna take my phone cut up,
running up, and I go for a test dride test
to break and why not.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well that's pretty that's a pretty telling thing on the economy,
isn't it. No one's got any money.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
Yeah, And I've always thought a bit going into the business,
but everybody I work for they've been happy time collecting money.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
You know.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
Yeah, that's something I couldn't do.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
What happens with that? What happens with diesel mechanics? Do
you just get really achy? Or what happens at the
end of your at the end, you know, when you know,
when you get to fifty you just saw as are you?

Speaker 6 (13:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (13:23):
Well narthriders, but that's not true being a diesel mechanic.
But yeah, you just worn out cold achy.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
And it seems like a lot of the shops aren't
that warm either, are they?

Speaker 7 (13:36):
No?

Speaker 5 (13:37):
No, usually outside because a lot of shops you can't
get a truck in, so you're outside. Well, back in
the days when I was working, it was the last
forty years.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
So have you given it up? Where you're about to
give it up? Bread?

Speaker 5 (13:48):
Well, I'm succeed, aren't you.

Speaker 8 (13:52):
See?

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Me?

Speaker 5 (13:52):
Retired? Because an hour of my hands and they ache
like he I got no grippy. I can't hold things
and I've got it in my shoulders, my herds here
second hit replacement coming up?

Speaker 2 (14:10):
What is it working as a mechanic that's done your hips?

Speaker 5 (14:15):
I don't know, getting nothing down. I can't do it now? Yeah,
simply well they say I've got out to rights for
there's just so they don't did you see know nothing?

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Did you ever during your during your career, like twenty
years ago, think of doing something else and regret that
you didn't?

Speaker 5 (14:35):
No, because I love and things. Yeah, come, you've.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Got a gifted it clearly.

Speaker 6 (14:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
Yeah, Oh I do everything anything. Yeap.

Speaker 6 (14:46):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Nice to hear from you, Bret. That's a pretty interesting
take on that one. Thank you, Brett. Would you get
your kids to do the same job you've done, Guys,
it gives you a chance to turk out talk about
what you've done and how you go with that. Marcus,
would you courage en courage your kids to do radio?
I don't think probably in twenty or three years there
will be radio. I think probably it'll be a different thing.

(15:07):
That'd be my take on. I don't know if they
want to do it. It's fairy show, no desire to it.
I don't think kids are interesting radio. It's all on
Spotify and think things I think. I mean, I don't
want to say that to sound uncontroversial, but I think
that's reality. With music music radio, it's all just playlists curated.
You don't need the band till you get the band

(15:27):
in other places. That'd be my take on that, Marcus, Evening,
how are you? Are you well? And when was the
last time you had an r J. Schubert Fizz? They
have downsized quite a bit, never had one. I am
someone that's never quite liked r J's licorice. I've always

(15:50):
thought it was a too soft for me. Always preferred
the Black Night, which I think is actually the stuff
that they now have. They now make under license. But
you would never have a shoe butt fizz or whatever
it is. They even know what it is. Marcus. My
daughter is fifty percent owner of my audio visual company.

(16:14):
She doubled the turnover. What could be better? Brian? Is
there a thing called diesel fume poison that gets into
the body and caused aches and pains? Just saying Cheryl?
Cheryl asks that rhetorically, Marcus. Did you see the Southern
story in one news last night? I have so many
interesting memories traveling from Aeshburton to Unedin. Like your thoughts

(16:36):
on that, Marcus, what us? Like my thoughts on you
traveling from Eshburton to Dunedin or the Southerner. I'll tell
you how the Southerner won't happen, and it was mischievous
of Kibi Rawl to put it on. That's my take.
So yeah, I don't even know why people go on

(16:57):
and on about it because they're just tweying with us.
The trains ain't coming back, and they might in twenty
years time, but then I'm not coming back in the
South Island because people now have got cars and they
won't get rid of their cars. But yeah, it's ye.
Would you encourage your child to be a train driver?
Probably not. Well, I'll tell you what. The train drivers

(17:19):
they go to Australia and they get huge money.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
Jet.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
It's down to one point in the basketball that Cad
won a ball. That's a right because he made a sign.
He is excited about that. Good evening, Billet's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (17:33):
He killed a Marcus. You know, I wouldn't buy my
kids doing my job, but they're all higher qualified than
I was. I started that builders laborer, brickige laborer, scaffolding,
you know, doing in the building, and the fee them
not not a trades person obviously, then Freezing works taxi

(17:53):
driver and the last twenty eight years as a key
taken to primary school. Wow, and I've got a what's
called a congestive lung disease, which was diagnosed about eight
to nine years ago. And when it first was first diagnosed,
the specialist said to me, he said, have you been

(18:13):
a diesel mechanic at some stages? I said no. He said,
have you worked around buses or trucks?

Speaker 3 (18:19):
I said no.

Speaker 6 (18:20):
So he got onto the history and it's a combination
of smoking for well, probably twenty years, I was shoveling coal,
you know, in the boiler at school, working with chemicals
around the gardens, swimming pool chemicals, and twenty five years
of road patrol, and then there was a combination of

(18:42):
all that has given me this given me this congestive
lung thing that it slowed me down at this stage
is not going to kill me, hopefully. But the interesting
thing was that, you know, as I say, the specially
said that I ever worked around diesel. So there's the

(19:02):
answer to a question that lady may have been wrying about.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, that's amazing that just you know that we think
that that the doctor would put down road to control
road patrol. Just standing on the side of the road
for an hour a day would cause such.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Well, yeah, twenty five years of it you know, just
the fumes and stuff. You know, it's a combination of
it all. The thing was when I was shoving the coal,
you know, we just used to just wear masks like
they wear today with COVID that's that was a capital
that's all you it was required. And same with you know,

(19:40):
we're spraying chemicals around school at the swimming pool. Just
that there was none of these big flash masks available
and yeah, so you know, just just a combination of
all of that. Of course, the issue.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
So you wouldn't I suppose you wouldn't be encouraging an
your kids to be taxi drivers now either, would you?
Because that's gone, hasn't it.

Speaker 6 (20:03):
Oh, there's no I mean I used to do something
abs shopping shifts. You know, they were illegal. You know,
I'd have the car for sort of you know, twenty
four hours. I had to doctor a box to get
away with it. Yeah, not cheap financially, but but you know,
doctor them up. So I wasn't on the road for

(20:23):
too many hours. You know, you had to take a
break after a certain amount of time, and you're able
to drive for ten hours or something that you had
never where you drive for twelve hours and I think
you had there have a teen our break, but yeah,
there's no there's no money in it.

Speaker 9 (20:40):
Now.

Speaker 6 (20:40):
You learn a good living back in the old days,
especially the owner drivers.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, and even the licenses were worth a fortune, weren't they.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
Yeah. I was only driving for for you know, for
a wage. But on a busy night when nobody wanted
to work, like New Year's Eve, it was hard to
get somebody. I was given the opportunity of driving a
van for fifty fifty under the table. I jumped at that,

(21:08):
you know, because you know, you had a lot of
work with vans, because you know, you get companies that
seven or eight people go out to, you know, have
a drink and they will want to go home together
or they will want to go to a certain destination afterwards.
So that was really handy. They were good jobs. You
pick someone up in Papa Nui and take them to little.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
What's that twenty bucks on the day.

Speaker 6 (21:30):
A yeah, yeah, easy, yeah, yeah. I remember. I remember
picking up a group from from Littleton and they were
they were Japanese fishermen and I took them to the
Calag's message parlor. And in Sydenham, you're taking the lot

(21:51):
fare was no, I didn't know. No, it was there
was only about thirteen dollars something. And they said to me,
you know, cart you've got cards. So I gave them
a card, and I got a phone call about twenty
past twelve and can't pick them all up. Then they're
all happy as larry. They're all pissed and smiling. That
had their you know whatever they had, Yes, and we

(22:12):
get back to Littleton. Of course, the fear changed after midnight,
you know, yes, and I think it was I think
it was sixteen dollars eighty or something. And anyway, one
folly gives me twenty dollars. An we're going to give
them some change. No, no, no, no, no, next finally gives me
twenty dollars or so they all paid me. Wow, they
all paid me twenty dollars. I think there were six

(22:33):
or there were seven to seven or eight of them,
so only had to declare you know what was on
the meter. Yeah, So the rest went in went in
my pocket.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
It's a good story, Bell, Thanks for that. There we go, Marcus, Hey,
Marcus Tobin, I'm wondering what the problem with all your
moaning listers is about. Run it straight. No one cares
about when people run in union or league. Everyone that
moans about this is clearly not a rugby league fan.
If it doesn't involve you, worry about your own life, Boomers.
I didn't not necessarily how many people are opposed to that.
I thought there were when I talked about this, I

(23:04):
think was on Monday. I think people people thought it
would be quite a good thing. I don't think there's
any blanket approach to people being opposed to it or
in favor of it. But it clearly is a lot
different from rugby or league. So I mean, you just
think about John Josh for a sec. I mean, it's

(23:24):
like chalk and cheese. I think if you want to
make our analogy, you probably compare it to boxing, perhaps,
which I think probably invented these days. Without kind of
its cultural history, you wouldn't get permission to have it going.
But because it's sort of from the services or whatever,

(23:45):
people love it. Shane. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 10 (23:47):
You know, Marcus nice to check to you. So well,
there's a little bit of a turnary and Shane followed
in my footsteps, and then he got a little better
than me, and now I'm following.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
In his Oh, well, this is great.

Speaker 10 (24:03):
Okay, here's something different. So he would have grown up
seeing me either boxing in the ring or on stage
at the theater. So he became head boy here at
Otumoto College. He's got a national title as a junior.
And then he says, Dad, I've got three scholarships. It's
the Lincoln University of Wellington, Georgia in the States, but
I'm going to take Toy for Carry because it's the

(24:24):
hardest one to get into. Dead that's Premier Erecting School.
Dr Warner and all of them, all of the Yeah,
from one class, which was quite remarkable.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
I had quite a bit of there's one year and
they're all for like Martin Showcash. There's all sorts of them,
they all around the world. And yeah, that's right, you're
on top.

Speaker 10 (24:44):
Was there when he graduated and you're looking at the say,
two hundred black and white photos and you're looking for
a star. And then they all are in one class.
What a remarkable year.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Oh they're all the same class, Moti Is that right?

Speaker 10 (24:56):
No, No, they were all in the same year Toy
for Carry when they graduated. Carl Evan was in there
with Chris Curtis and Michael doctor Water and they're all
in the same classes. Are quite remarkable.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
They worked what was your trade?

Speaker 10 (25:10):
Well, back in fifty years ago, you're either an electrician,
a calf under or a plant so I thought of
be a technician. Anyone who went to university was usually
become a lawyer of smoke dope once they started charging
people and people got a bit more specific. So I've
only had the two jobs, but my passion was always acting.

(25:30):
So so he grew up seeing me on stage and
I've done several films, and ironically, so I went over
to see him perform in China. He was on Shanghai
Disney Disneyland here and he was performing with snow White
and they fell in love and he went to Sweden
and married her. And then COVID hit. So he came
back to New Zealand and he got the part on

(25:53):
He came back to show Around and he got the
part of the doctor on Schorlin Street and he played
Doctor Rico, a game WARDI doctor, and he was quite
popular therefore for the six months. And ironically I've just
come from Auckland playing his father's following his foot steps,
although to a lesser degree. I'm not as successful as
playing a racist. So it was funny to see his

(26:15):
father following his son's foot steps and gay door to
a white supremacist.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
So you were playing the racist on Shortland Street.

Speaker 10 (26:24):
Yes, I was up there last month for a couple
of reasons.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
It's brilliant. So yes, I presume your son is Mali
and you're not. Is that right?

Speaker 5 (26:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (26:34):
My wife, So yeah, he's come up with the maudy
blood portugue. He doesn't look like me or go to
cut down his roles. He's quite a good looking boy.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
When do we get to see you?

Speaker 10 (26:47):
So I'll be add on fifteenth of September. And so
you're a completely different character to the to the to
the nice guy he was playing.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
It's fantastic. So you followed your son's career.

Speaker 10 (26:59):
Yeah, so now I'm trying to do it full time
like he is. He's in the ether. Thing he said
to me was dead. It's a bit expenses in Zille,
and so it's gone over to Italy with his U
with his new wife, and I bought a house there
because in southern Italy it's quite cheap to buy a house. Computer,
he said, a bit expensive for new Zealand, so I
bought a place there and he's got his wife is

(27:19):
an actress, so they all wait. So she would work
six months and Disney then and then take six months
off in Italy, so that will be their base now.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
So hang on, Shane, yep, were you any good?

Speaker 11 (27:34):
Me?

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah? As a white cymacist? Did they did that? Did
your son watch your performance? Did he hang around to say.

Speaker 10 (27:43):
No, no, he won't see it. No, So he's in
Italy at the moment, so he was on about two
years ago. Here's a Sai yet, Marcus, I knocked it
out of the park.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Did your easy to be a white surprise? It's so ridiculous?

Speaker 3 (27:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (27:59):
Okay, right, and it was good because they're usually fairly
conservative characters, so it was great to get a partner.
Was right off and they're just such a brilliant punch
of people. They just let me go with it.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
And was it just was it just one in one
and done?

Speaker 11 (28:13):
Well?

Speaker 10 (28:13):
It's five days of filming, so I'm not sure if
it's going to be one day or over a weeks.

Speaker 12 (28:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (28:20):
Most actors, you're full on and then you're back to
being Portunately, I'm retired. So then you're straight back to
being unemployed looking for the next role.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Were you killed off or could you get back on?

Speaker 10 (28:31):
Oh? I could see a lot of them would get
back on.

Speaker 6 (28:36):
What happened.

Speaker 10 (28:37):
I won't tell you what we've but we've left the
doors being left open. I believe my son has still
got an apartment there as well his character, so he
right back could come back as well.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, because you, they could bring you back and reform you.
You could see the light and become educated or something.

Speaker 10 (28:59):
Yeah, I won't give too much away.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Okay, don't give too I'll ask you to. I'm going
to run anyway. Fourteen to nine, feel free to come
through seven to nine? Were you an extra on Shortland Street?
There we go? Whole world must be mother stage? But yeah,
who got to play a white supremacist? Unbelievable? Get in touch.
And also too, would you encourage your child into the
profession you have had profession job, whatever that is? And

(29:24):
did you follow your parents into their one and regret
that or something of that. ILK also to looking at
a very interesting article about the North South divide in
the UK, and they found out what divides north and South.
It's what they have on their chips. I had no

(29:46):
idea about this, but researchers have got involved to find
a line between the North and the South, a straight
line linking the Severn estory with the Wash and new
survey argues that the true North South divide isn't dictateted
by anything as mighty as as paramount as politics. In fact,

(30:07):
it's dictated by what we put our fish and chips,
and a sweeping serve of two thousand people have revealed
that the further north you are, the more likely you
are to have curry sauce rather than kitch up. I've
never heard of anyone having carry sauce on chips. Yeah,

(30:33):
so I don't know what that's about, but you might
want to say something about that. You might want to
even have a guess on what the New Zealand equivalent
of that would be. I don't really know anything about
how would they make curry sauce. You wonder why no
one's offering here because this sounds slightly delicious. It's quite
a complicated article actually, so it doesn't look uniform about

(30:56):
where people actually do that. Anyway, get in touch you
on the talk. My name is Marcu's welcome hit to
the end. Hit of Midnight eight hundred and eighty tay
nine two nine two the text looking forward to what
you've got to say. If you've got comments on the budge,
feel free to come through about that. Also tonight, if
there's any breaking news, I will bring that up for you.
There was fire cruise responding to a fire in Barry

(31:16):
ab and Cromwell. I'm waiting for an update from our
Cromwell correspondent on that. I'm not quite sure who that
was is. And the Bogonia House due to be saved.
That's in Wellington. They say it's the third most visited
thing in Wellington. I'm not sure if that's true. If
they went to trip Advisor, might be the third highest

(31:38):
rated thing. I can't quite work out what would be
the most visited terroist attractions and when it would be.
The cable would be Parliament in the cable car, wouldn't it?
I mean pretty much? The Begonia House. It's lovely, but
it's pretty I mean I've never heard of it until
a year ago. I mean it is good because it's
accessible for wheelchairs and it's flat, but really number three, yeah,

(32:04):
rather it be wettest studios in Parliament cable car bah.
Well they managed to save it. Go on ze land
here of course, and tip Papa Marcus. Curry sauce on
your chips is huge in Ile and my friend craves it.

(32:25):
How do you make it? My Irish friend craves it
and brings back packets of it from Ireland. First meal
she had when she arrived Nina and lasked she was
going to the chipper and getting chips and carry sauce.
The main thing I want to know is how would
you make it? I know about curry, but not about
curry sauce. I can't imagine how that would be something

(32:45):
that you would make. So if you want to talk
about that also tonight eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
and nine two nine text the other discussion so far.
If there's something different you want to talk about, you
might want to mention the budget, but there's a ton
of room to talk tonight. There's a ton of room
for you to have your say. So there might be
something entirely different you want to mention, and I can
handle that, So get in touch. Nine past nine. I'll

(33:07):
get to the texts. The texts, here's what people are saying.
Let me just bring these up people. My parents own
child care centers. Growing up, they made me do my
teaching degree. I didn't enjoy it. I left after a
few years and went to another profession. Twenty years later,

(33:29):
I own child care centers. Haha, hey mate, Chips and
curry sauce. It's part of the Scottish dart. We haven't here.
My wife buys packets of the stuff. We're over there,
cheers Alan from the wee Red Barn. Curry chips are delicious,
an absolute favorite in Ireland. Marcus curry and chips is
huge den My friend craves and brings back packets of

(33:51):
it from us, so it must come in packets. My
mother Linda from Bayswaters in bed now listening to you.
She's one hundred and one tomorrow. I see bitcoin is
sky high again, which I'm slightly interested in. The Only

(34:12):
thing I want to know about bitcoin is how many
people have made money in bitcoin and how many people
have had their bitcoin stolen and lost it. I guess
there are people that make a lot of money, but
until you sell it, you haven't really realized it, have you.
You might have some bitcoin investment stories. I'm always kind

(34:33):
of curious about those US government one hundred ninety eight
billion dollars invested, not as much as Setoshi Nakamoto. He's
got one trillion, he or she John, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 12 (34:50):
Oh hello Marcus. Talking about careers and following in your
father's footsteps. My father was a farmer and a successful farmer.
And I was sent off to boarding school and timorrow

(35:17):
and at the end of my four years boarding, I
had a very short interview with the Careers Master careers advisor,
and I was, along with many other leavers, ushered into
his office and he looked at me. He looked at

(35:42):
the notes he had in front of him, and he said, now, Smith,
you'll become a farmer, won't you like your father? And
I said, yes, sir, and I ultimately did become a farmer.

(36:04):
For twenty odd years, I was a square peg in
a round hole. But it was a wonderful environment to
bring up three sons. But when my oldest son was
in his second year in high school, I'd had a

(36:27):
guts full of farming, putting up with droughts most of
the time. It was a very pleasant occupation. But I
never made a lot of money, but I was able
to bring up with three healthy sons. But after twenty

(36:49):
years of farming, I went to my father and I said, Dad,
I want to sell the farm. He had helped me
into this farm, for which I am forever grateful for.
I didn't like it, and I said, Dad, I'm going

(37:11):
to sell the farm. And he said, I think that
might be a bloody good idea, because I think for
twenty odd years he hadn't propped me up financially as such.
But I did get a small loan from my mother.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Okay, long story short, Where did you go into and
then what did your son do?

Speaker 9 (37:35):
Right?

Speaker 12 (37:36):
Well, in many ways, I pulled the rug out from
under my sons. I think they all thought they would
become farmers, but they've all become very successful living in
the city. The two oldest ones, sadly, the youngest one
died of from natural causes. But I went, having sold

(37:58):
the farm, floundered around for about two years doing bits
of this and bits of that. I scored a job
working as a civil servant in the Justice Department, which
I thoroughly enjoyed, and I think the small role I

(38:20):
had there I was reasonably good at. But I was
never happier. But to anybody that is in that situation.
As I was, don't hesitate. If you're not happy what
you're doing, for God's sake, change direction and I think

(38:45):
ultimately you will decide you've made the right decision.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Live with it. Job. But thank you so much that
Jamie Marcus good evening.

Speaker 13 (38:53):
Hey Mark you good.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 13 (38:54):
Jamie got me thinking about what you put on your
chip and chicken salt is very Australian and you know
you've become a alien when you go to the fish
and tip shop and you ask the chicken sole on
your chips. I think that should be forget. Once you
do that, you should get your Australian past.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
It's sneaking into news. I see it sneaking into news
in and maybe since you left, Jamie, But can you
tell me what chicken salters.

Speaker 13 (39:25):
From my recent was one fishing chip shop that done
it in Adelaide and then it became Australian wide. But
it just makes your chips taste like But how do
they buy a bag?

Speaker 2 (39:38):
How do they make it?

Speaker 13 (39:41):
I wouldn't have the clothes. They must be like chicken
stuff or something. But you I worked very much as
an institution.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Oh yeah, no, I'm hearing it and it's yeah, No,
what's chicken salt? Could someone tell me? Thank you, Jamie,
Bruce Marcus welcome.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
Oh gosh, that was quick. Chicken salt.

Speaker 11 (39:58):
No.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
When I go to the local pump, they say, and
when I ask for chips, they said, do you want
chicken salt or do you want ordinary salt?

Speaker 2 (40:06):
I don't even know what chicken salders. It might be stock.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
No, I have no idea. But no, I rang up
about big.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
I'll tell you something. I'll tell you something interesting. I've
looted my years of talkback. Bruce, do you know what?
Do you want to know?

Speaker 13 (40:20):
What it is?

Speaker 6 (40:21):
Go on?

Speaker 2 (40:22):
I reckon. People are always bess talking about what they've
rung up about. Sometimes they the topics. Sometimes the topics
we end are when they're on a hold and they
feel they need to talk about and they're always terrible edits.
So anyway, No.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
No, But but coin, I think I think I mentioned
to you before that I got ripped off ten thousand
dollars with bitcoin. I bought a couple of bitcoin early
on I think twenty thirteen or something, and then I
sent another ten thousand dollars to mount Gox in Japan

(41:00):
and they immediately went broke.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
So if they do, they go broken with a hecked
box exchange.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
I don't really understand that very complicated issue. But if
they'd given me all the bitcoin that I thought i'd bought,
then it would have been a couple of million. But
never mind. But what I do, what I still think
about bitcoin with the couple that I've still got, and

(41:30):
as you've said, it's just gone up to I think
about one hundred and eighty thousand dollars per coin. That
it's the first digital scarcity. So I still think it's
a good idea because people seem to be worried about
this ever expansion of fear currency.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
And no, Bruce, is it security? You know where it is?

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Well, I know where mine is. I think on a
thing which I keep secreted in my house.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
So you're not. So you've you've got all the codes
and two different places and things like that. You're doing
what you're supposed to do.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
I'm doing what I've been advised to do by people
that know about this. Yeah. Absolutely, And how much is
it worth? What the couple that I've got, Yes.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
You've got two bitcoin? Have you with four hundred thousand.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
Dollars which I paid, which I paid a thousand New
Zealand all as long.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
When would you decide, Okay, this is a good time
to get rid of them and liquid liquid liquid liquid
ifi liquidate that asset.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
Well, no, my wife's still still working, so I don't
need the money yet.

Speaker 11 (42:52):
Me.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
I mean, couldn't you couldn't you? Look, what does she
know you've got them?

Speaker 3 (42:56):
Yes, of course, and she knows how to get them
out when I'm dead.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
Oh okay, but you didn't think she could stop. She
doesn't think she'll stop working.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Oh, she loves her work. Well, you spoke to her
about twenty years ago when she was trying to make
Golden Bay the first plastic bag free town, and you
said to her, it's a slow day for news. So

(43:25):
I'm ringing you up.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Did she succeed, Yeah, she succeeded. She actually that took
off for the whole country. Yes, she's a visionary.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
Well, no, she's very precious and I hope she keeps working.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Okay, Well, that's she's still involved in that space, the
banning the bag space.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
No, she's given up on that. She's making Willow Coffins brilliant.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
I think I would have spoken to her about Willow Coffins
as well. Bruce, thank you very very much for that. Gosh.
I wonder how the Winklevoss twins. I remember those the
winkle Vy, the Winklevoss twins that invented Facebook and got
all that money paid out. They put it all into bitcoin,
like at the beginning, and they put it in two
different safes, the combinations and two different continents or two

(44:11):
different states across the world. Must be worth billions and
billions by now. Sorry about the noise. I'm trying to
dubb in some shoes that the leather's dry. That's not
going to do with them on air tonight. I'm not
sure about dubbin. Can you make your own? Someone said,

(44:33):
I've heard Bruce's voice on the phone trying to sell
AI investments. Really, Ed Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 10 (44:40):
Good thing, Marcus.

Speaker 7 (44:41):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Thank you?

Speaker 9 (44:42):
Ed?

Speaker 7 (44:44):
Marcus just wanted to talk about the different flavorings that
go on chips. Yeah. I ran a fish and chip
slash take it way BA for sixteen years, and when,
for instance, garlic salt and chicken salt, garlic and chicken
salt became big things, I found we were getting charged

(45:06):
over and above what was actually in it. And so
in the end I just started making my own and
the feedback literally was very very good.

Speaker 10 (45:15):
You know.

Speaker 7 (45:15):
It's what a lot of people don't realize is they
don't actually know what's going into these products. And there
was a see they recently on the packaged soups that
and actually how bad they are. You know, anything pre made,
you're just putting your body full of conservatives.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (45:36):
Yeah, So my advice to anyone would be on a
quiet night at home as a go making your own.
You know, the same with the curry chips. It's not
hard to make a thin based curry sauce and you'd
be amazed how much nicer and how much better value
for money you get.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Okay, I've got a kind of questions for your ed.
So when did chicken salt become a big thing? Like
is it twenty years ago or is it how long
you've been out of the game.

Speaker 7 (46:03):
Probably I'll be out of the game for about ten years.
So it was just pretty much coming and then, and
as I say, it was probably filled with lots of
things that really shouldn't be putting.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Who was who was promoting it, where we was it
Where were you buying it from? We were buying it
at the warehouse or.

Speaker 7 (46:24):
The wholesale is like in Wnington Safe Keevity Coast. We
go to a place called more Wilson's and paces so
more By.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
And bulk so more Wilson's. So they drove the chicken salt.
There'd be big cans of chicken salt which you'd put
on the chips.

Speaker 7 (46:39):
It were being say two two three kg packet packets
of it, you know, big pastic packets, and you just
added to your salt. But as I said, it's not
rocket science, and it's it's fun to have a bit
of experience experiment, you know, on your own.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
What do you reckon? Wasn't it?

Speaker 7 (47:02):
Well they have all those different numbers and they you know,
so flavoring intnet. So as I see it, keep it simple,
Stupid's probably the best thing. And when you make something
your own, you know exactly what's in and what's not in.
At Marcus, but.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Would Chicken Sell have chicken in it?

Speaker 7 (47:19):
Now? It would be like you know how you see
the banana flavoring it's yellow, but banana's actually white. It's
the fish gets yellow, you know, So it's yeah, people
don't really know.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
So it's just like it's just like flavor enhancers exactly.

Speaker 7 (47:36):
Marcus.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
Okay, appreciate that. Ed Evening, Mike, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 14 (47:42):
Hi here a you going Toime?

Speaker 8 (47:43):
Good?

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Thank you, Mike, thanks for asking real good.

Speaker 9 (47:48):
Y.

Speaker 14 (47:48):
Sorry about full and son doing the same job.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (47:52):
I'm fifty seven. My father died two months before I
was born, and when I decided to leave school, I
was walking through the ads, you know, written, have no
idea what I wanted to do. Job advertised for a
parts junior at the new Land Ford and I wouldn't

(48:13):
believe what my mother said to me. Your dad worked there.
I couldn't believe it. Neven never knew that.

Speaker 11 (48:20):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (48:22):
Two years later we did a trade certificate in parts
of merchandising tame as a trade of certificate and mechanical engineering.
And when my mother died about eleven years ago, going
through the things, I found a trade certificate effect open
mind with high father's they want it.

Speaker 6 (48:39):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
That's that's quite a moving story, because it sounds like
you might have heard it a feebit from him.

Speaker 14 (48:48):
Never met the guy, but I've been hearing a few
things from him, for sure.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
That's amazing. So so without even knowing it or knowing
your father, you became exactly what he'd done, exactly right here,
and it was good and you were good at it. It
was a good career.

Speaker 14 (49:02):
I was still good forty years and tis now a
manager at a multi frenchise dealership. Yes, still me, still
doing it.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
That's kind of old school now that you're the same
company for forty years. That doesn't happen much in these days,
does it.

Speaker 14 (49:16):
I know, not for the same company. I've been with
us company about fifteen but same same in the street.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Yeah, brilliant Mike. Nice to hear from you. Thank you.
A lot of texts heading down the bluff to thorrow
if the wister festival for a few days, what else
is to do? And seeing bluff she's well, the weathers turned,
the weather's turned, and I think Vanessa's sober driver for
the RSA. So yeah, you gave me to her. She
here a few things to say twenty away from ten
oh eight hundred and eighty to Pete Marcus.

Speaker 15 (49:44):
Welcome, you know Marcus, I just what do you think
about the budget today? This was like a bit of
a two topic thing here do you reckon there was
a scram will felt the lollies today? There's a quotation
that Chris Sims use just I just listened to it before,
so I reckon there's no lolly to give it out anyway.
They gave it out too many lolies, didn't they.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Yeah. Look, I'm not sure how. I'm not sure how
those there's all this incentive for business for buying things, right, Yeah,
but I would have thought the big business where the
growth is is not based on buildings and equipment. It's
based on personnel. And all the personnel of left to

(50:30):
go to Australia and they're the real businesses. I mean
that the new businesses aren't your factories are the ones
with it with huge numbers of people working and doing
stuff around the world. Well, that's not going to help
them because their major costs is keeping their best people.
So yeah, I think that I think that particular, that
particular thrust is slightly dated. That's my only take, but

(50:53):
you know, we'll wait and see the figures anyway. Oyster
salt not oys to salt, but chicken salt.

Speaker 6 (50:59):
Yeah, chicken salt.

Speaker 15 (51:00):
Tack and save here and New Plymouth or you to
sell like drumsticks and wings and that, and they chips,
you say, have stir rice and the vechies and stuff.
But they used to do very well. And when you
got the chips, he had a small, you know, a
small or large size or meat the small, small, medium, large,
and they'd three sizes there. They always said, do you

(51:22):
want chicken your chips, and I said, I wouldn't be
there or buy. I've held the chicken sold on like.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
A joke because they want chicken with your chips, chicken
salt with your chips.

Speaker 15 (51:33):
You know what they made. We know what the salt's
made of.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Chicken salt.

Speaker 15 (51:38):
I just looked like before. It's called a blend of seasoning,
typically including salt, garlic powder, onion powder, pepper eka and
chicken stock powder blend together the.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Chicken stock powder.

Speaker 15 (51:53):
Any good, Well, that's what I know what it is.
But I always used to when they used to sell
them the chip. They not do you and even know why.
But I always used to get the chips put the
we have the chicken salt, and I wouldn't buy them.
They were so tasty and they've gone away from it.
I don't know why they've done that. Peck and say
they used to do. Really, I think the pack and
say they're getting they want fast. They don't want to

(52:15):
have too much people hanging around, like serving chips in
that a lot of people used to buy them and
they got done away with them. With that side of it.
You used to be to be heated chipsy. You sweat
there and you've got your chips and you got your
chicken fries. You know, it's really nice. But they're not
fear anymore. And I said to the people behind the counter,
why have the management gone away from this? They didn't

(52:36):
really are so they said they don't want to do
it anymore. I saw fast.

Speaker 16 (52:39):
I'm a sooner.

Speaker 15 (52:40):
It's a big loss of the business going.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Hang on, I zoned out, What are they gone away
from chicken salt?

Speaker 15 (52:45):
No, they're not. They're not selling the chips anymore. They're
not selling the chicken wings anymore.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
I see what you're saying. I reckon. Last time, I
wasn't peck and say it looks like most people have
just called crawled out of bead to put their bodies
on to go there. They're probably not holding people around
because they want to go back to bed.

Speaker 15 (53:01):
No, it was always poppular people always got I don't
know why that they always just to run out and
they stock them out with you chips. It was a
it's a good little business. But it's I think I
just too. I think I was maybe it's too labor
content or something they're not doing anymore, and I just couldn't.
They've done it for years. They to do all way
of it. If I had a good business and I
was doing there's something that there's money spinning to you.

(53:23):
I don't understand how they how they do some of
these things.

Speaker 17 (53:26):
At times, I like.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
I have a chat with the people behind the counters
at Peck and say, oh, there's Peter Gain there you
game Pete. What about those chips? Oh yeah, about those chips.
Anything in the budge, anything in the budget for you Pete?

Speaker 15 (53:39):
Oh no, I think we're in a bit of a
tight street.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Anything anything for you and the budget?

Speaker 15 (53:47):
No, not really, I don't think. No, it's the same old,
same old end of the day. They just try to
save money they do.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
You know, I want I want to know how to
affect is affecting your Kiwi Saver or anything?

Speaker 15 (53:58):
Not really, I don't have a kV Savery said I
got your own private one sort of thing I don't like.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Are you too good for are you too good for
kV S?

Speaker 15 (54:08):
No, you say, like the government systems, they just chopping
changing things all the time.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
And hang on, I think, but can we save it
goes privately? You choose your provider?

Speaker 15 (54:18):
Oh you do, but yeah, but I've got one on
GENISIDS I was seven years of age. That was called
the natural neutral.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
You want to get out of that? Can we save?
You be making a pecket?

Speaker 15 (54:28):
The government puts it's compulsory saving, so I get a
bit of money when I retire. So I think he
said everybody has different ways of doing things, and I
think it's work there to work for me.

Speaker 13 (54:40):
So far.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Could have worked out better with the key we saver though, Pete.

Speaker 15 (54:44):
Oh I could have done, I suppose. But yeah, but
you don't know what the government's going to do with things.
You've got your own, you've got your own control of it.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
I think you've got your own CONTROLLI your key, we
save it to the private provider cheapest. Doubting Thomas, I
don't want to disparage my callers, right, do you want
to understand what people was saying? Does he not like
his chips to taste like chips? Does he wants chips
to taste like chicken? Because I quite like the chips.
I mean very rarely when I get chips, But I'd
never want my chips to taste like chicken. Otherwise I

(55:13):
wouldn't have got chips. It's like getting your leamington to
try and taste like a mango. If you wanted a mango,
you get a mango. You wouldn't get a Lamington with
mango salt, would you? If there's such a thing, it
can't work it out. What's with mangoes too? They're delicious,
aren't they? It's just strange shaped pip, Marcus, Do you

(55:37):
want I remember the little packets of potato chips that
include a little bag of salt that you opened their
to yourself, Marcus. That parts guy Mike just called. He's
a made of mine and a real top guy. Fantastic
at his job too, But wow, he sounds quite different
on the radio. Ah, great Joe hitting out a bluff
to row if he was to fest for a few days.
What else to see him doing? Bluff cheers bears?

Speaker 6 (55:57):
Not me.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
I think I'm doing night orienteering I don't know what
I'll be doing with the Yeah, I don't know what
there is to do in Bluff. It's a question I
go and try the gin if you want to. People
seem to like that at Ocean Beach. I saw the

(56:21):
people went there last year, but at the festival sought
you outgo to that. I mean, there's not a lot
to do. Besides, it's not a come to do things.
It's not Queenstown, right, It's not a come to do things.
It's not a come to do thing town. That's what
i'd say. I mean, there's some fantastic walks, but if

(56:43):
you haven't got the right gear, it'll be miserable. And
I'm always around the back of the whole walking. But
it's you know, it's hypothermic sometimes and you'd get lost
and you wouldn't find the year to tell you what's
speaking of the bed, whether the teams have just come

(57:04):
on in the Canterbury Dolphin that if it's and Sydney
or Brisbane. But g get's wet there. Not often you
can see the rain on TV. When you can see
the rain, it means it's really raining. But man, they
want to deal you cheapest creep it's where is that dan?

Speaker 6 (57:16):
Is that it?

Speaker 2 (57:19):
Okay, it'd be Sydney if it's Kennedy's hometown. Yeah, okay,
shocking with her, that fighty guy. Anyway, catch you soon
hitting out a bluff to ra he was to Fitt
for a few days. What else to see him doing?
Bluff cheers bears not me. I think I'm doing night orienteering.
I don't know what I'll be doing with the Yeah,
I don't know what there is to do in Bluff.

(57:45):
It's a question. I go and try the gin if
you want to. People seem to like that at Ocean Beach.
I saw the people went there last year, but at
the festivals sought you out go to that. I mean,
there's not a lot to do. Besides, it's not a
come to do things. It's not Queenstown, right, It's not

(58:09):
a come to do things. It's not a come to
do thing town, That's what I'd say. I mean, it's
some fantastic walks, but if you haven't got the right gear,
it'll be miserable. And I'm always around the back of
the whole walking. But it's you know, it's hypothermic sometimes
and you'd get lost and you wouldn't find that. You

(58:32):
have to tell you what's speaking of the bed, whether
the teams have just come on in the Canterbury Dolphin.
Don't know if it's in Sydney or Brisbane, but get's
wet there. Not often you can see the rain on TV.
When you can see the rain, it means it's really raining.
But man, they want to tell you cheap iss creep,
it's where is that dan?

Speaker 6 (58:49):
Is that it? Oh?

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Okay, it'd be Sydney if it's gnned Beys home town. Yeah, okay,
get in touch, feel free as I say, oh eight
hundred and eighty. Is this going any good? Is it tricky?

Speaker 6 (59:02):
Is what's?

Speaker 2 (59:04):
What's you want to say?

Speaker 17 (59:07):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (59:07):
Yeah, that's right, he's right too. You go to Craig.
Welcome Marcus, Marcus Craig speaking.

Speaker 4 (59:14):
Yeah, I've been working down at the port there Bluff
and the Maritime Museum is awesome here, and a lot
of people fish off the bridge just going onto the port.
It's it's a great place. It's it's an awesome place
down there.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
Has it been good for you at the port Craig
has been blowing a gale or have you left the
last couple of.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
Days it's yeah, but but but of both, I don't
think the weather's that different over the whole of the
south Old really.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Well, it has been. It has been a good order,
but the day was bad. But I'm glad you mentioned
the Maritime Museum because it's sort of out of the
way and people driving through town. It's in a terrible
place really, and I'm sure most people miss it.

Speaker 4 (59:58):
Yeah, you wouldn't really know it's there. You just head
towards the port and it's right there, so.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
And there's a there's a noise to There's an oister
ship right next to it too, so you can see
that and that's normally a cure. And I've got a
bet it's been a few years since I'm being there,
although I was helping the boy do some stuff on
a project on the light dog on a lighthouse and
the glass from that's in there too, so I didn't
mean to go there sometimes soon. So yeah's your's your home, Craig.

Speaker 4 (01:00:27):
I'm sort of living in christ here. I do live
in too Marina times as well.

Speaker 6 (01:00:32):
Yeah, so I get.

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
Around all the ports and I work on the shipping
fratrated shipping containers.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Yeah, what is well on fixing the containers.

Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
They regret refrigerated ones.

Speaker 11 (01:00:44):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 4 (01:00:47):
We sort of get them ready to every time they
get used, they have to be tested and made sure
that they're good to go. They they sort of get corroded,
a lot of corrosion, and of course they get dropped
and smashed into. Yeah, so and of course they break
the refrograted ones they break down and on the ships

(01:01:09):
and all over the place of the packing points.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
And yeah, it's quite a bit of maintenance to get
them all back up and ready.

Speaker 17 (01:01:18):
Then.

Speaker 4 (01:01:19):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty full on, especially the moment. You're
getting really good prices for the the dairy of the
beef that I think the land. So they yeah, it's
all go at the moment. Yeah, bluss flat out. And
I'm in Christi it's still the moment, but I'm heading
down there on Sunday to work so for the week again.

(01:01:41):
So yeah, it's going on.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
How they've got a place they put you up where
you stay in town.

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
I stayed in town. Yeah, I'm at the Owls, I think,
and I think it's called the Sueborn Actually.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Yep, it will be the Sue Well know that Greig.
Here's an interesting bit of information, Marcus. Nineteen percent of
a fuel ship is used to keep the containers refrigerated. Marcus.
Pouring down at the NRL and city always raining over there,
I completely agree. I'm surprised how well the pictures hold
up because some of those pictures get a lot of play.

(01:02:20):
But just bucketing down the dolphins ahead of the bulldogs.
Of course the Crichton and everyone's away from the bulldogs
because of state of origin duties. I think the hammer
might not be there either, Marcus. I'd like to buy
tickets to the Doors Tribute, Contint and the Cargo on
Saturday night, happy to pay double the face value. Chairs.
I haven't got any tickets, and I won't put you

(01:02:42):
in touch anyone else Nest they're robbers. But yeah, I
don't know how we can do that, Marcus. How much
does it cost to transmit an emergency alert test every
mobile phone nationwide as has been advertised, so we all
know to expect a test to lurt the Sunday evening, Marcus.
I spoke to you from City two years ago about

(01:03:04):
the need for the government to increase key we savor,
and you discounted my idea as not likely to happen
and now it is something good has come out of
the budget. Thanks today Kiwi boy John. It's going from
three to four percent as the default. But I don't
know that the I don't necessarily know that the employees
match that, do they that I could see? Yeah, yeah,

(01:03:31):
so yeah, you don't get that five hundred year. It's
means tested. You don't get that money each year or something.
Marcus Top Taste Chicken and chips franchise is usually in
dairies further away from the main areas. They offered chicken,
sald and other seasoning. I had the tenders of the
chips box. That's like that country fried chicken too, which

(01:03:53):
is quite good. Marcus. Net loss from the budget for me,
lose the government keiw savor contribution. Looking forward to seeing
my trading neighbors driving the latest highlux at twenty percent
discount though. Yeah, that's what it's all going to mean
a lot of utes, But I think don't think you
are going to drive big business. Are they? By the way,

(01:04:14):
the top miserable names in the UK? Yeah, this is
quite interesting. Participants. We're giving a long list of names
and asked to tick all those they believed were the
most upbeat or the grumpiest. The people with the most
miserable names Victor, Susan, Nigel, Karen, Mark, Jeremy, Clive, Hassan,

(01:04:37):
Jeff Bryan. And the ten happiest names are not that different. Dave, Katie, Charlie, Emily, Lucy, Poppy,
they all end, and why that must just give people
a peppy kind of an upbeat thing, Ben, Jack, Tom
and Muhammad?

Speaker 17 (01:04:56):
Do you go?

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
I don't know if that's going to inspire any talk
off you, Marcus. The best ever curry sauce is curry powder,
half milk, half cream and a packet of Maggie soup
mixed to thicken. What flavor Maggie soup to thicken? I'd
like some recipes for curry sauce because I'm not entirely sure.
I know how to make it, but never know what
it is actually must be like a curry flavored gravy.

(01:05:21):
I don't know whether that's true or not. But you
might want to talk about that here till midnight tonight.
Anything else you want to talk about too, feel free
to get in touch. You might be out there doing something
interesting tonight. And the other thing. Maybe someone went to
one of those pub choirs I saw. The town hall
was full of people that if you want to tell
me a bit about that, I know people who buy

(01:05:41):
a box of Japanese curry from the soup market. They
love it. Haven't tried it myself, Japanese curry, if anyone
knows about that, Marcus, crickets have finally shut up, ever
so grateful loads of rats about peanut butter works of
the trap. Janie Marcus. Sorry, Jennie Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:06:00):
Good evening, Hi Marcus. I've just been listening to the
conversation about the curry sauce. I did two seasons in
South ye Cuttle was up to thirty odd Irish harvesters
out here for the season harvesting, harvesting maize and grass.

(01:06:25):
And their staple meal was hot chips covered with a
curry sauce and the grated cheese on top. And that's
their equivalent of caviat to our semon and whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Wow, oh, they love it, and that's a meal in itself.

Speaker 9 (01:06:44):
It's an absolute mirror in themselves. And I mean they
would eat copious amounts followed by a vanilla ice cream
and apple pie.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
So they have deep fried chips, yes.

Speaker 9 (01:06:58):
Yeah, they have deep fried chips, and while it's still
very hot, with a liberal shake of plain salt, nothing fancy,
you'd pour the hot curry sauce over and they liked
it a bit hot, not a mild curry, a bit
a bit hot. And there's just bowls of grated cheese
and they sprinkle it over it. No, in heaven.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Are all the food groups there.

Speaker 9 (01:07:24):
Pretty much? You know, good good work for a cardiologist.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
Did you did you?

Speaker 11 (01:07:30):
Were you?

Speaker 17 (01:07:30):
Jo?

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
You don't take this the wrong way? But were you
the cock?

Speaker 9 (01:07:34):
I was, okay, take it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
Take it the wrong way then, because the nub of
this is what was in the curry sauce.

Speaker 9 (01:07:41):
Oh yes, the curry sauce was a mixture. Again, it
was you know, heart to tech material. It was a
roue and then you put I put half cooking cream
and half water in to try and break it down
a bit and a good dash of a hot curry
and just made it nice and sick. But you know, pourable,

(01:08:05):
and yeah, I do so so that they'd wipe out
four liters, no problem.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
So when you say a good curry, you just mix
up curry powder? Is that what you do?

Speaker 9 (01:08:17):
A good quality curry powder? And just make sure that
you get it put it in with the flour and
the butter and when you're making a room, and just
make sure that you cook it a while so it
hasn't got that. Yeah, you've got to get a bit
of flavor through it. And then I just used a
good cooking cream so it wouldn't split and either you know,

(01:08:39):
if there was milk from the cows, and we put
milk and it's not just put some water in it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
So it's flour. It's basically flour, butter, cream and curry powder.

Speaker 6 (01:08:48):
Yes, yeah, didn't I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
Irish workers came out to do the corner the maze.

Speaker 8 (01:08:55):
Yes.

Speaker 9 (01:08:56):
Here there's a big thread of them that come out
to a couple of contractors them in White Cuttle each year.

Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
And that's every meal is just the chips and.

Speaker 9 (01:09:04):
That No, that would be the evening meal. The fits
that have they lived on eggs in the morning. They
loved their New Zealand eggs and very easy to feed
because it was just meat, potatoes, ice cream, apple sauce
and curry chips. They wouldn't need anything green. I made

(01:09:26):
them more. They will had sandwiches to order because most
of them don't eat green. They say they're not rabbits.
They wouldn't need anything green or red, but they love
the red sauce I used to provide at night, so
I'd have to scrape any evidence of it being tomato
sauce auce the containers.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
Wow, it's amazing.

Speaker 9 (01:09:48):
Very interesting, not but incredibly funny, jovial, very funny, very
hard working and incredibly loyal.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
And they would they would be they would be living
and working on farms in Ireland, is that right? They
do half a season there.

Speaker 9 (01:10:06):
Their idea of a farm. When May we were working
sort of around Lochinvar area and we lived we all
lived together, and of course I'd be up a sort
of good to four in the morning to get the
first lot of guys up and fed and out of
the door, and then every sort of half hour after
that another shift of guys would go through because they

(01:10:30):
all have different tasks.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
Did they have chips with their eggs in the morning?

Speaker 9 (01:10:35):
No, No, I wasn't that keen on that. Some things
I'm happy to do, but chips four thirty in the
morning's too much for even me.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
Didn't seem like you manage to change many of their
habits that way.

Speaker 9 (01:10:48):
Yes, yeah, but they were very happy within his young street.
They loved porridge and the cream and the brown sugar,
and those who didn't have porridge would often just have
poached eggs on toast, and they did like the kiwi
they'd been.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Oh yeah, I very very interesting, Jenny. Thank you for that.
There we go. Curry sauce. That's what's wrong with Would
you gave it to me chip shops? I've never seen
it much in the chip shops in New Zealand. You
might have something to say about that. Get in touch,
Marcus till twelve. Oh, by the way, Emily CIT's onion
soup mix that she puts in her curry sauce. Get
in touch, Marcus. That's me. How are you? What's happening?

(01:11:28):
Anything else you want to bang on about tonight? God?
I welcome that. I welcome that a lot. We didn't
find out what building was on fire. And Cromwell and
barries Av. I know barries Av quite well. That's why
I'm curious to know about that. Anyway, jumping, if you

(01:11:51):
want to talk, my name is Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:11:53):
Welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
The floods in Australia seem very bad. I don't know
if they're progressively getting worse. So it's hard for me
to get a sense of it's hard for me to
find a good Australian news website to get information from.
But I'll bring you the latest one I can. But
if anyone's out there listening in Australia, if you can

(01:12:14):
get to a phone and be good to talk to
you about that. Also, now there's now a damn spill fear.
I think there's always a damn spill fear in Australia. Evening,
Garyet's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:12:29):
How are you Marcus?

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
Gary?

Speaker 18 (01:12:32):
About fifteen plus years ago I went to Bluff Boyster
Festival and I met a very interesting character there. His
name was Peter Arnett, and I think he came from
Bluff originally, and maybe I think his mother was even
alive still she lived till she was a pretty ripe
old age.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
But I think he might be right. I think she
was famously old.

Speaker 18 (01:12:58):
Yes, yes, and well a few oysters and a few
few quite bears. He was a very interesting character.

Speaker 5 (01:13:05):
He really was.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
Yea for those that don't know, bag bad bag Dad Pete.
He was the guy on the roof during the start
of Golf World golf War one. Is that sort of
when CNN came around, he was there with a fixed
camera covering the invasion and was quite famous.

Speaker 6 (01:13:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:13:21):
Absolutely, they were coming in incoming over. Yeah, so he
had a few stories to tell. But I'm pretty sure
he was a bluff boy originally a Southern Times. I
think he is apprenticeship at the Southern Times. Maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
Yeah, it wasn't the Southern Times, and he was involved
I think Vietnam. He went to there during the Vietnam War.
I mean, he seemed to be a feeling, seemed to
be a fairly ambitious sort of a He got an
interview with Bin Laden. But yeah, I'm certain that his mother.

Speaker 18 (01:13:57):
She lived a rife all day.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
Yeah, I'm absolutely I'm absolutely sure you're right about that.
As far as as far as as far as a builder,
I think they talk about the ar I think there's
four houses on four corners that were built by his father.
One of them was there the other.

Speaker 7 (01:14:12):
Three also, Oh that's great.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
Are you coming back to the festival this year?

Speaker 11 (01:14:19):
No, i'd like to.

Speaker 18 (01:14:20):
I live out at Rivet and I live by the sea.

Speaker 8 (01:14:24):
Are you are you?

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
Are you at Riverton?

Speaker 8 (01:14:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:14:28):
I live out out by out on the South coast too.
I know what it's like. I can feel that.

Speaker 14 (01:14:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
Are you actually are you right by the coast?

Speaker 18 (01:14:38):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, so yeah, I know we live
on the south you know. They said, man, it's cold today.

Speaker 6 (01:14:48):
What do we live on the coast?

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
You can you can see the weather arriving, can't you?
You can actually see it. It's amazing they got there.

Speaker 5 (01:14:57):
We go just clear.

Speaker 7 (01:14:58):
It's about it hells you.

Speaker 19 (01:15:00):
It gives you heaves a warning.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
Yeah, yeah, that's the talk. Garry Jen Marcus, Hello, mhm.

Speaker 16 (01:15:07):
Hi there Marcus, Hi Jen, Hi. My house smells of smoke.
I put a couple of eggs and to boil, boil
the eggs, and I forgot about them.

Speaker 14 (01:15:20):
Wow.

Speaker 16 (01:15:20):
Then I could smell smoke, and so I thought it
was one of the heaters. So I was rushing around
trying to see what was going on. It's quite strong.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
Hang on, I need to talk to you about this.
Did the kittle did the did the pot boil dry?

Speaker 16 (01:15:35):
Yeah? Completely, and the eggs exploded.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Okay, I'm going to ask you a question, Jen, and
you need to answer this to me honestly. Okay, No,
I'm serious, this is serious.

Speaker 16 (01:15:45):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
Have you got smoke alarms? Yes, sure, I'm surprised. I'm surprised.
But you took the metries out?

Speaker 16 (01:15:55):
Yeah, because they make too much noise.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Jane, you can't do that.

Speaker 16 (01:16:00):
I know, I know, but I never do this, Jen.
J could have died, I could have burnt the house down.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
Who key's about the house? So what are you going
to do tomorrow?

Speaker 16 (01:16:14):
I'll stick the battery bacon.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
Can you get up?

Speaker 16 (01:16:18):
No, I haven't got it stuck on the wall or
roof because it's too high. You can't reach it even
with the broom handle. The stairs on the stairway, your.

Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
Two story house, Yeah, you don't sound like a two
story person. I picked you more in a humble I
picked you more in a humble workers cottage.

Speaker 6 (01:16:40):
Well, look at you, seven bedrooms for goodness, For goodness, burwell,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 16 (01:16:49):
So it's an old filler.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
So it's the timber. So the stairwell that you put
the smoke alarm on? The stairs? Yes, can the smoke
get into it?

Speaker 16 (01:17:01):
Yeah, it's not unclosed. It's at the end of the longe.

Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
It's one of those one of those. It's one of
those rectangular batteries, is it.

Speaker 16 (01:17:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Because it's only started beeping because it's out of battery,
so you need to go and get another one.

Speaker 16 (01:17:17):
Yeah, it seems to be me burning things in the oven.
It's well, it gets on the element or something.

Speaker 12 (01:17:25):
And then.

Speaker 2 (01:17:29):
You could have gone to bed and then you then
you just wake up with the headlines woman dies and
seven bedroom house. Yeah and flip, what will flip? Okay,
so you'll do that. You'll do that tomorrow?

Speaker 15 (01:17:44):
Yees?

Speaker 16 (01:17:44):
So well, I promise, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
Thank you. Otherwise I'll call the fieries and I'll come
around to your house, Jen, and I'll put up with
the ladder, because yeah, you need more than one. But
let's just work what we can do. Flip. That makes
it that I'm sad and sad and a little bit upset,
a little bit disappointed by those Just Peter, and it's
still alive. He's ninety according to wikipedie. I think so. Yes,

(01:18:14):
he's got long jeans. Someone said Jenna needs to call
the fiber again and they will fit the alarms for her.
I presume, I presume that to be true. I wouldn't
do it, but you can do that. Someone said, don't
put smoke alarms in kitchen. Can get heat alarm from
for kitchen, smoke alarms and beauty. I think you can

(01:18:34):
put a smoke alam in the kitchen. I've seen no
one say don't put a smoke alam in the kitchen,
so I'm not sure if that's true advice what you're
saying there. I'll put them everywhere. Get those twenty year ones,
bang them up, bang them on, Phil Marcus, welcome Marcus.

Speaker 17 (01:18:52):
You've got to have smoke alarms.

Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
But I got.

Speaker 17 (01:18:56):
Packed off with mine going off all the time, and
so what I did is because I don't use to
up on top all the time time and also things.
But as soon as I got an airfier, not only
did my powerball go from two hundred and fifty months
down to about one hundred and eightyon months from not
heating up the oven all the time, there's the smoke

(01:19:18):
alarms stopped going off all the time because the all
the schemes are all encased in the air fire. Yeah,
and the time each over cooking or burning anything. It
was just the answer to everything.

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
Yeah, Okay, I imagine why Jed's removed the battery, not
because it's going off all the time, but because the
batteries expanded to beeping because that's an annoying noise, isn't it?
Does that chube like a cricket? Is that right? Marcus?
He's gone by the way, self terminated. I don't know
what happened to him, as Juny just ambling towards the
news at eleven head on midnight. What do you got

(01:19:51):
people's smoke alarms is the topic? Now would you have
in a kitchen? Why not? In a kitchen? And curry
sauce and Kiwi Saver? Is anyone's life changed by Kiwi Saver?
Anyone retired? And thanks to ki We Save, I had
a fortune at the end, A lot of a lot

(01:20:13):
of emails. Where do all the emails come from? Marcus?
In nineteen ninety three, I worked in come Ogawa, Japanese restaurant,
up market totally authentic Japanese restaurant in Sydney, three hundred
year old company, amazing food, love Japanese curry Roger, Thank
you Roger. Marcus Fire department came and fitted my alarms.
They were removed mine from the kitchen and put them

(01:20:34):
in the next room. Marcus, My tri Coronation Chicken has
a curry cream, not diet food. Marcus. The two Dungey
Bakery and Cafe are using a high end two rangy
Tucker tek. The people are raving over it boil up pies.

(01:20:56):
What's that mean? Could you send me some more information
about that? Good evening, David. Welcome here you go mate,
Good David.

Speaker 20 (01:21:05):
Yeah, wondered what you thought about old McGregor. He wants
to be Prime Minister of Ireland.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
Is this a joke?

Speaker 20 (01:21:13):
No, it's dead serious mate. You know there's the he
fights in the Occo cheapers creepers.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
Connor really.

Speaker 20 (01:21:25):
Yeah, Connor MacGregor. He's come on, there's wasn't he.

Speaker 19 (01:21:31):
You know?

Speaker 20 (01:21:31):
I was just going to say, imagine crossing the floor
with him, mate.

Speaker 2 (01:21:35):
Because they've always had that very gentle guy, that gentle
tiny guy. Is that because I think they're a president
of prime minister, haven't they?

Speaker 3 (01:21:42):
They?

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
Has he announced that today?

Speaker 6 (01:21:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:21:46):
He said I want to make Ireland great again. I
just wondered what you're sort of mate?

Speaker 2 (01:21:54):
Yeah? Well, I mean I guess these days, anyone with
a better profile, you know, Yeah, Okay, are their elections
coming up?

Speaker 11 (01:22:01):
Do you think there must be?

Speaker 20 (01:22:03):
Yeah? You know he's you said there's far too many
foreigners in the country. Can they causing the housing problem?

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
That's rich coming from the is are the Irish that
have spread everywhere that they can when the diaspora, they're
spread all around the world, and now they can plain
about too many other Well that's rich.

Speaker 20 (01:22:26):
Yeah, you potato fam and mate.

Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
Yeah, honestly, the potato when you look at the numbers
of people that died in their potato fam and it
was I mean it destroyed the country. I think there's
still less people in Ireland now than there was before
the famine.

Speaker 20 (01:22:41):
I think that Are they less in New Zealand?

Speaker 17 (01:22:43):
Are they?

Speaker 8 (01:22:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:22:44):
I think they're about four or they might be six.
But yeah, it depends if you're talking about Northern Ireland
as well.

Speaker 20 (01:22:49):
I think, oh okay, yeah. Now I'm Irish descent myself,
but you know, I always sort of when I met them.
They're always looking for a.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
Fight, the fighting Irish. David, thanks for that five point
three million Republic of Ireland. There we go. They're pretty
much like us. More trains though. Someone says Radio and
New Zealand had sect of their budget relecated elsewhere. Ouch. Yeah,
that's terrible because they've said to them that they they'll

(01:23:22):
get the money back when they improve the ratings, Well,
how are they going to improve the ratings without the finances?
It was a mad thing to have said. There, muld
be furious because you're not going to employ the staff.
You have to pay them. So I can't quite work
out about that, but yeah, that was one of the
They just had to be mean spirited that cut. I thought,

(01:23:44):
think it's pretty important of a public broadcaster. Avering Scott Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:23:49):
Hello Marcus, how are you tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
Good? Thank you Scott, good to hear.

Speaker 11 (01:23:54):
The reason I'm calling is I had a bit of
a weird situation tonight encountering or getting the information and
from the covernment to me about the budget. Yes, yeah,
so I'm online, specifically on YouTube and they streamed it

(01:24:23):
from stuff, but you can't comment underneath stuff, so I've
actually I called Parliament and spoke to a nice guy
called Ethan, who apparently is at the front desk. I
assume he's like, you know, if you had look at
the front doors of all the stairs up to Parliament,

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he's somewhere in that hallowed ground. He got annoyed at
me in fair enough, so I called another number. I
just looked on New Zealand's website. If you've got an
issue called this number kind of thing. And I thought

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we woke up some poor lady. Who she was. She
tried to hide the fact that I'd woken her up,
but I had, and she was trying to be so polite.

Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
What was what was her job?

Speaker 8 (01:25:23):
Where?

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
Where did you find her?

Speaker 11 (01:25:26):
Services? Something?

Speaker 3 (01:25:27):
Services services?

Speaker 11 (01:25:30):
Yeah, and so yeah, I posted off someone else and
it's like, okay, sorry, I just want to comment on YouTube,
And so I ended up contacting another place and I'm
not sure who they were actually, to be fair, they
hung up on me for a while. But you still
can't comment on the video of the well, I guess

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on YouTube it goes out to a lot of people.
One would think.

Speaker 6 (01:26:00):
That we do.

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
So who's who's posted the Is it the budget speech?

Speaker 6 (01:26:09):
Yes?

Speaker 11 (01:26:10):
Posted by stuff stuff News. So I did contact stuff
News but got no dice there those guys apparently going
to sleep at five in the afternoon. But yeah, uh
in So it's just like, man, I just want to
have my little five cents worth and apparently I'm having

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it with you now.

Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
So why did you want to comment on that?

Speaker 11 (01:26:39):
Quite a few reasons, to be to be fair, makers
for any whom I say is going to put off someone.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
So I'll say, but what are you can do you want?
I mean, surely if you're opposite with the government, right, yes,
you would contact your local MP. Yes, have you thought
of that?

Speaker 11 (01:27:06):
It'ssolutely and.

Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
Tried.

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
You just don'tant to be involved with the dumpster fire
that is the comment section on a stuff website, because
that's not good.

Speaker 11 (01:27:17):
You've got to realize, Marcus, that a dumpster fire has
its own effect. So it's one thing to comment to
your MP who is disenfranchised and quite frankly lackadaisical. So yeah,
you kind of have to hear the dumpster fire.

Speaker 2 (01:27:36):
But they're just they're just they're just extreme people with
nothing better to do with extreme. Why don't you is
your MP lexadaisical? H who's your MP?

Speaker 3 (01:27:52):
Pington pattern?

Speaker 11 (01:27:56):
I've got a few MP's in Wellington?

Speaker 2 (01:27:59):
Are you delivered a couple of places?

Speaker 17 (01:28:03):
To be fair?

Speaker 11 (01:28:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:28:07):
Okay, so you don't you don't live, you don't, you
don't that you don't.

Speaker 11 (01:28:13):
It's not about it's not about one particular MP. It's
about all the MPs. Is it fair to say that
to say one m P is Lea Adasacal is unfair
to say all of them are, because that's how the parliament.
Parliament's working, isn't it. All of those people are like

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but I'm not doing with things.

Speaker 2 (01:28:35):
You're just a stir.

Speaker 11 (01:28:38):
I'm not a stir.

Speaker 19 (01:28:39):
You are.

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
No. No, you've you've waken up someone, right, and you
won't even really you won't even bother to find who
your own MP is.

Speaker 11 (01:28:48):
No, my own issue. It all started. I just wanted
to comment on YouTube, and my point it goes back
to it. My point is do you know who?

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
Do you know who your MP is?

Speaker 11 (01:29:04):
Which MP? Does it matter?

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
The That's how the size.

Speaker 11 (01:29:10):
Of our country Marcus, it really doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
But you want to comment on some YouTube's chet stream.

Speaker 11 (01:29:18):
No, I want to comment on the budget, Marcus, not
the ship stream. No, I see some posted by staff
on YouTube. That was my point.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
You need a hobby.

Speaker 11 (01:29:36):
No, I just need to comment on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
You can't because comments because comments are closed.

Speaker 11 (01:29:44):
But stuff you know how YouTube works, right?

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
Stuff are stuff? Aren't you know? Stuff don't belong to
the government. Stuff are just an independent organization. They can
do what they like with their comments sections if they
close them downtown.

Speaker 11 (01:29:58):
Look on YouTube and look at New Zealand budget twenty
twenty five in telling how many hits you get? Why,
because that's the point, there's only one.

Speaker 2 (01:30:15):
So you're happy with the budget.

Speaker 11 (01:30:18):
Well i'd like to comment on it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
We'll ring your MP and I.

Speaker 11 (01:30:21):
Can't on YouTube. That's my point. I can't can't comment
on YouTube through a portal which is stuff the information
which was provided to by the government and there's only
one means.

Speaker 2 (01:30:38):
So what did your so what did you're in parliament?

Speaker 17 (01:30:43):
Well?

Speaker 11 (01:30:43):
I wanted to ask someone why in to success?

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
But there's nothing to do with stuff.

Speaker 11 (01:30:51):
That's what parliament does, isn't it that that's our elected
representatives that we put you there.

Speaker 2 (01:30:58):
But you don't want to. You don't want to. You
don't want to talk to elected represent if you don't
even know who elected represented.

Speaker 11 (01:31:04):
Is doesn't matter. Yeah, it is so long as they can.

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
Do you do because your because your rank parliament to
wake someone up, but you won't even contact your local MP.
You can email.

Speaker 11 (01:31:20):
By point wise the intimation that I want appear that
is coming through a suiting to portal that I would
like to comment on, which most can.

Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
We can't on the budget, but let's not do it's
let's not do a democracy. There'll be alsort of other avenues.
Have you been to the stuff website? Have you been
to the website? Have you been to the website?

Speaker 11 (01:31:46):
Have you tried looking at the twenty twenty five New
Zealand budget on YouTube?

Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
But there's other but you look at it. Most things
are happening, I do.

Speaker 11 (01:31:58):
Most things are all sorts of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
Most things aren't happening on YouTube. If you want to
get to a comment, to get on the Facebook, there'll
be some stuff probably posting articles that you can comment on.

Speaker 11 (01:32:09):
Why but why can't I comment on something that I
think is prevalent to the place that I live in,
which is in New Zealand, and it's the budget.

Speaker 2 (01:32:21):
You can ring your MP, which I did. No, you
didn't bring your MP because you don't know who your MP is,
because you said you live in a number of electorates.

Speaker 11 (01:32:32):
No, co I call the government and I succeeded.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
I would like to say, well with Ethan, I think
ethan's the government. I think Ethan. Some of that's.

Speaker 11 (01:32:43):
Ethan was awesome. Ethan was awesome. It was the lady
who didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
Hang up on you?

Speaker 11 (01:32:49):
No, well no he did eventually he was very accommodation.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
Underneathan myself. Dan's been on YouTube and there are a
lot of videos of the budget on YouTube. The stuff
ones you can't comment on, but the Southern says v
I tech stuff don't allow comments on anything they post
anywhere on social media Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, the sky's a
problem with them. They'd ring stuff. But the interesting thing
about that guy had a problem with the problem. We
never found out what was problem with the budget was.

(01:33:19):
And they walk amongst us but jeepers. I think they
just enjoy having a problem. I don't know who you
can ring and wake up though, that's pretty interesting. Whoever?
Landline Marcus National defunding RNZ is the same thing that

(01:33:40):
Trump is doing to the Associated Press of the States.
Cedric thank' edric carbon monoxide alarms are a thing too,
or keep it simple. Marcus and twenty twenty Stuff see
still actively on Facebook and Instagram, including suspending their Facebook
pages Instagram accounts. This decision was part of an experiment

(01:34:01):
to assess the impact of their website traffic and public trust.
The movefoard of previous decisis stop paid every time on Facebook.
After the christ Church Musk shootings. Thank you. Wow that
guy though, gee, I stidn't know what's problem with the
budget was they loved YouTube, didn't he I like this text.
This is the text of the night, Marcus. The big
already is that guy who disliked the budget had a

(01:34:23):
huge potential audience on heir to hear his opinion, but
it explicably didn't give it.

Speaker 11 (01:34:29):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:34:30):
Marcus has got a foresting whish in the car and
the motor home. Years ago, had the opportiony to use
a car one when the engine caught fire, pulled over
the side of the road whilst others drove by watching.
Kind of good fun, but it wasn't. I read the
Fire Service are actively encouraging scrapmetal places who have major
fires on site caused by lithium batteries to have two

(01:34:52):
excess points. One is an emergency entrance into the yards
and a management plan for storing lithium batteries which are
growing into a bigger problem of how disposed of them,
just like tires, Marcus, I understand a heat sensor alarm
is triggered. I heat, not smoke. They are really available
from the likes of min to ten and Bunnings. Yeah,
but the far would be well involved when there'd be heat,

(01:35:13):
wouldn't they.

Speaker 14 (01:35:16):
All?

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
Will the smoke have heat and set them off. I
kind of want to be warned as early as possible.
That's just my take. Our Key we savor. I found
quite interesting how many years has Key we Save have
been going. I got a very good text from someone

(01:35:40):
I read about the compulsory savings in Australia, which they
really need because I'm so much more money for infrastructure.
I think it's gone from eight percent to twelve percent.
We're not even close, so yeah, we're only just starting
with our Key we Save. It needs to be a
lot more so. The whole labor government scheme that Muldoon
put the kibosh on that would have made us had
billions and billions of dollars by now right, Nope, there

(01:36:04):
was some weird reason to get rid of that and
they still haven't learned. But oh well, lest they've done
the good thing of raising up to four percent over
two years. I think that it needs to be a
lot higher than that I would have mentioned. But yeah,
it's the cost of living crisis as well, so people
PEPs having got that extra one percent of savings Marcus,
that bloke who had issues with the budget. Sounded like

(01:36:26):
a skit out of Faulty Towers. Also Curry Cheese, Cheos,
Devil Burgers, and Queenstown. A local favorite might be Cheero's.
Is it good evening? Esh, it's Marcus welcome you know Marke?

Speaker 19 (01:36:40):
How are you mate?

Speaker 20 (01:36:41):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:36:41):
Ash all good, all good good.

Speaker 3 (01:36:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:36:45):
I recall all doing canceled the Supers game because he
thought it was a New Zealand has owned all of
New Zealand. There would be like communism, yeah, you know
the dancing class XI that was molding Was it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:01):
But a fear and misinformation to win an election? I've
heard that before.

Speaker 19 (01:37:05):
Yeah, yeah, my mates growing up muddy. But as old
Man was in charge of the dec he used to
go visit Mouldering, you know, for obvious reasons in the
head and he said, you go seem at ten in
the morning and he's already slothed on Vodga.

Speaker 2 (01:37:25):
Couldn't believe it was that his drink, Yeah, Vodgar apparently,
yet he thought that he was down on the dancing
down on the Soviet Okay he drinks okay, fair enough, okay.

Speaker 19 (01:37:38):
Iron okay, Yeah, I can't quite.

Speaker 2 (01:37:40):
Work out what the irony is. But yeah, that he's
drinking a Russian drink and he's got the Russian fear.
But oh well, yeah he was.

Speaker 19 (01:37:47):
He was a peculiar guy. Molder he said he was.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
But there was a likability. There was a likability about
him that I don't think the present guy's got. There
was a sort of a yeah anyway, yeah he's.

Speaker 19 (01:38:01):
Got a Trump like what that nearly Trump's gone? Like
just every man's man.

Speaker 2 (01:38:05):
You know what else? Was the other thing you wanted
to mention?

Speaker 19 (01:38:08):
Esh? I mean fast, too much time on my hands.
I've been recovering from a hospital stay with deep vein
throun poses from the lower left leg and six pmentor
eblisms in the right run. I'm coming right now, finally
getting treated for it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:24):
But for years, that's what we want to hear.

Speaker 6 (01:38:26):
Yep.

Speaker 19 (01:38:28):
Yeah, it resolved from an overseas trip to row Tima
a night tacky. But the other thing is what.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
Happened, what happened to Turkey that caused that.

Speaker 19 (01:38:40):
It's the amount of hours, and we worked out I
spent twelve hours at altitude going there and back, and
they said seven or eight would be enough.

Speaker 3 (01:38:49):
To do it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:49):
So you had a pre existing condition. Okay, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 5 (01:38:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:38:55):
It's just a good thing in a way because I'm
finally getting treated for it, so starting I'm on the end.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
It's a great thing.

Speaker 19 (01:39:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's really you know, like I'll be
on the couch just to be wanting me to know
the lawns, and I'd be like, oh, I go know
the lines, and then I just had to just be
absolutely naked.

Speaker 2 (01:39:15):
What videos you been watching, mh.

Speaker 19 (01:39:18):
I've been watching UFO stuff. A guy, a guy called
Major George Filer on the Professor Fire.

Speaker 5 (01:39:26):
Yep, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:39:29):
George Filer, Yeah, of course he is.

Speaker 19 (01:39:33):
He worked on the He was a super tanker fire
for the nuclear nuclear aircraft. He used to be the
tanker guy, so he had nuclear clearance and all that
sort of stuff, but he needed a higher clearance to
work on the UFO desk. That was cosmic. I think
they got a cosmic clearance. And he said, what was
surprised a lot of people is how many civilians were

(01:39:55):
involved in it, and they were actually higher ranking than
the generals, Like third star generals would allowed access to
the info. He had to be a four star general.
So and if you had a civilian on the desk
working on it, that's three. Stay General, come along, says,
I want to hope about this. What's going on? He said, sorry,
I need to know, can't tell them.

Speaker 2 (01:40:18):
And what was the upshot from him about the UFOs.

Speaker 19 (01:40:23):
They've got a few and he reckons, he said, personal
contact with I think it was Nordics and the platt
Eas or something. And these blue beings which are about
sort of seven to nine ft tall. But he said,
the the the Nords, they called them intruders because they

(01:40:44):
could come into the Child to come to Earth and
they walk around and you wouldn't even know that they
weren't human, you know, and that really bothered the generals
because they, as they said, they could bowl into shape
headquarters and nobody being whither. The only the only thing,

(01:41:05):
he said, this sort of bit of a way for them,
was they were slightly too good looking, if that makes sense.
The fit tall, I know that's the blue blue beings
from some the same area. Yeah, but then auduts, he said,
are just well, just like humans, but just very good
looking humans.

Speaker 2 (01:41:23):
Where do people find this?

Speaker 19 (01:41:26):
If you go to the backyard, professor, he's spacing the States.
He's really got. He's a mathematician and so he's levelheaded
kind of guy. And he said, even even he's been
struck with all the woo woo sort of stuff around it,
and he said, I just I can't get mad around it.
And he said, but these are guys that are veterans

(01:41:47):
and a sort of getting near the end of their lives,
so they've got nothing to lose, and they're saying, well,
this is what went down. He wouldn't have a clue.

Speaker 2 (01:41:56):
And there is this on YouTube.

Speaker 19 (01:41:59):
Yeah, on YouTube, yeah, a lot of them.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
Is there a comment section? Could you make comments?

Speaker 10 (01:42:05):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (01:42:05):
Yeah, yeah, you can all of them.

Speaker 2 (01:42:08):
That might be good for Scott too, because he gets
triggered if he can't make comments. What's it called the
backyard professor? Okay, Ash, good on you. We'll leave it there.
Brilliant by the way. The Rugby League has just finished
with the most surprising result of the round. Well though
it's the first match of the round, but the Bulldogs,
who are top of the ladder, have been beaten by

(01:42:30):
the Dolphins forty four to eight. Forty four to eight.
That's been a shellacking. Admittedly, their best players are away
for State of origin Stephen Crichton and a couple of
the others had a couple have come from behind wins
the last two matches, led by Crichton. But that's a
threshing anyway, that's happened forty four to eight. And the

(01:42:54):
weather is appalling in Sydney, although one of the commentators
said there'll be no can sport this weekend and the
other commentator I said, that's right, three drops of rain
and that's canceled, which was weird. It was one of

(01:43:15):
the great downpolls of all time. So anyway, get in touch.
My name is Marcus. Welcome, how you're going people eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine text, feel free
to get involved if you want to talk about anything
on fire as thing Wish were also talking about tonight,
John Good evening, Welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:43:38):
Yes, so I can quick call a John R. So
I have rang you before. Thank you six languages. I
actually have three five s. I keep on the car
because I have come across cars on fire and that's
a very useful spell to help someone immediately. And secondly
I have one on the bedroom un right on the kitchen,

(01:43:59):
and I also have to call a fire banker. I
don't know what you have heard of that we have
it to hang hanging up in the pantry and it's
a great extreme if so you get have filed the
story of just you down and extinguished the flame.

Speaker 11 (01:44:14):
Of fire.

Speaker 8 (01:44:14):
So I think in the homeless squad. But of course
prevention is the key thing. Some one one thing puses
the is the the batteries, the small batteries that we have.
I heard the other day that you can dispose of
a Bunnings freely, so it's useful for people.

Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
Well, could you dispose of the blankets or.

Speaker 8 (01:44:37):
You know there were small round batteries. Yeah, yeah, they
could be damaged. We have our stores outside of the
little container. We don't have the neck head in the
house in case they catch fire.

Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
What's stored outside?

Speaker 8 (01:44:53):
The small batteries we have you know the little little
round batteries.

Speaker 2 (01:44:58):
Don't have to be stored outside.

Speaker 8 (01:45:00):
Now well, well, I think if they catch fire, there
was much leisure if they kept outside. Some of the
other they said that they wrap them up. What I do,
I wrapped in paper so that don't have direct contact
with each other and just sort outside until I can
take them to Budings.

Speaker 2 (01:45:19):
They're the old batteries though, well, they wouldn't have much
go on them, would they, Well.

Speaker 8 (01:45:23):
No, but frequently they should be having fires and rubbish trucks.
Now are they presumably old batteries if they throw that,
they would new batteries, would they?

Speaker 2 (01:45:33):
How long do you foresting? Which is last before you've
got to get the rejected?

Speaker 8 (01:45:39):
I believe you should do it once a year. You
can't waive them if I started losing the eight that
recharging so once a year probably to be on the
south side.

Speaker 2 (01:45:49):
You mean your your forestings need recharging once a year?

Speaker 6 (01:45:52):
Well, right?

Speaker 8 (01:45:54):
Thereat checking takes the viire Social or a company that
the checks them. They'll check them for you. But as
I need refilling that they'll fix them for you once
a once a year. I would say, what I believe it's.

Speaker 2 (01:46:08):
A lot of fairfor around how much How much is
the cost of that?

Speaker 8 (01:46:13):
I have haven't had it done and don't know for
sure sure, but uh a lot cheaper than a new one.
But the fire the fire I found the goes of
fire station very useful for a lot of these things.
And they have got advice about you know, how they
have to do things. So they would say you know,
but I can't close it off hands.

Speaker 2 (01:46:34):
How many smoke alarms have you got?

Speaker 8 (01:46:37):
I've got eight, one in every room, every room because
we've got a very large house. But so yes, it's
every room. Is sort of a hassle, but that's essential.
Of course needs to be checked frequently.

Speaker 2 (01:46:53):
But do you go around and test all eight of them?

Speaker 8 (01:46:58):
Yes, yes, yes, usually with the with the with the
we change the times they say there was that the
six month feet check. The need to go around. It's
not that difficult. I have run that I can bring
them down on does have the tribe of the ladder
like we sometimes on the ceiling hard to get out,
but I have I tied to a pole. I could

(01:47:20):
beat the pole down and checked where they put the
pole up there the ceiling it came. So that's that's
the way. As key thing about fire prevention is what
people's frequently are reward about, not overloading what's heaters on
gospball power points and keeping fire away from ses. That's
what they never leave it, never leave any big body

(01:47:42):
coming on the stove without philosophic had to go out
or it's the fun door because there's a frequent cause.

Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
What have you rung before about John. You've quite got
a lot of information.

Speaker 8 (01:47:53):
I wrote. I wrote about the cadenced walk about two
or three years ago when I was traveling in Africa.
It was a subject of the diet and I so
much enjoyed that when I was about eight years old.
That's something I can't what they was brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:48:11):
Well, if you're on about condensed book, you're always welcome
for me. Thank you so much. Almost time for me
to go people. I'm trying to read again about the
curry divide in the UK. Half the country has tomato
sauce on chips, the other has curry sauce, which is
a new thing to me. It's a clear divide between

(01:48:33):
the South and North on sauce. So there we go.
I thought there was interesting. Some of you expet will
find that of interest. Exclusive data reveals that every region
survey identified a clear relative majority preference with a kitchup
or curry sauce. Across the North, between thirty nine and

(01:48:53):
forty six percent of codscoff has said they have their
dinner with curry sauce. Well, in the South between nine
say they have kitchup, which I find slightly confusing, but
the ego Northern is like scraps, the crunchy left over
better on the side. Well, I don't think scraps are
good for you, wouldn't we having the scraps it was

(01:49:19):
terrible and the fish and chip shops would just sell
you all that bits of the fried, bits of just
better or oh well, what were heard to night about
for a while of potato fritters. Really, it's one of
the great things of all time, isn't it. I guess
there's still a thing, are they when you say that
two minutes before the end of the show. Gosh, you

(01:49:40):
could have got thro a whole night of people talking
about that.

Speaker 1 (01:49:43):
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