It's a polariser (25 September 2024)

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Greetings, Welcome Marcus till twelve tonight. How are you? What's
happening hump Day Wednesday, the last Wednesday before daylight savings.
I'm so excited about that. Sun went down at seven,
I six and bluffle that's when it was light. I
said to the kids, next week we're going to work
in light. We're excited about that. So that's good. That's

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just three days. That's the most exciting thing that has
happened for a long long time. So there we go.
When was the last time you had a bounty bar?
You never hear much about a bounty bar, but I
reckon they're good. There'd be my go to bar. Actually,
now I've decided a bounty bar.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Kind of just sneaks along and every hear much. Do
they ever advertise? I don't know the history of it,
the bounty bar. I like the way it's called bounty,
like the bounty of the tree, the coconut, the nut
of the tree. Yeah, don't know. When they've been in
New zeal And, it felt like an Australian thing to
me the Bounty Bar coconut of course for those that

(01:11):
don't know it, milk chocolate, and the blue wrapper dark chocolate,
and the red Rapper. Anyway, I think the dark one's
no longer available, but I don't know what the advertising
campaign for that was. Says. In the seventies, the bar

(01:33):
was promoted a TV advert showing a tropical beach in
the tagline the Bounty Hunters. They came into you paradise.
But has changed anyway, think about the Bounty Bar. It
almost feels healthy with all that coconut. Oh, that looks healthy.
I'll have one of those. It's me the wolf, convincing
myself that would be healthy. Nine to nine, two to text.

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I've got an email on the basis of time traveling
from last night show from Deirdre. He sent an email
from outside the organizations. I had to actually access. It
was in the deleted items file, which is a worry.
The email states there is a theory that Jesus was

(02:17):
a time traveler. The use of advanced technology would explain
the reported miracles of healing, turning water into wine, walking
on water bracket, perhaps with a hoverboard. It's probably one
of the greatest lines in an email. I've ever seen
time periods where he was missing and disappearance from the tomb.

(02:41):
I think even if we now traveled back in time,
you'd still struggle with turning water into wine, wouldn't you.
But the hoverboard and the parting of the sea, that
could be done with something I wasn't having that part
of the sea, was it? But that's very good perhaps
with the hoverboard one of the great texts or emails
that enjoyed time traveling a great deal. The other story

(03:05):
I can tell you too good use this is on
the Facebook page could quite often say light me up,
Light me up, And in fact there was on the
basis of that, there was a racing greyhound called light
Me Up, which I have seen race. Anyway, the owner
of Light Me Up has emailed me just letting you

(03:25):
know that Lily has been retired and has now been
introduced to life with us. So far she seems to
be making herself at home. There she's in the garden
in front of the rhododendrons and the deafidils. So far
she seems to make herself at home. Shares three wins
and and placings, and gave our syndicate a lot of enjoyment.
She is four years old today. It's a very happy

(03:47):
gray It looks a lovely dog. As a picture of
the dog Light Me Up or Lily on the Facebook page.
I saw its first start that was a victory at
Escot Park. It's a long time between victories for Light
me Up. Pleased you've got it as a home, because
otherwise I think probably we would have required it. Who've

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got a sheep in the backyard of them and that's
noisy enough, but lovely looking greyhound, Light me Up. Quite
quite strange coloring for a greyhound looks if you looked
without the head, it looks more like a camel. That's
sort of coloring. It's camel colored anyway. Eight hundred and
eighty eight ninet to ninety text Marcus Still twelve. If

(04:30):
you've got breaking news, we yell let us know what
that news is. I kind of not fussed about what
we talk about tonight. I've coming with a open agenda.
Something I did was curious about today. It is comic
book day.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
Now.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
I've been spending a lot of time today thinking about
the things that and I don't want to become a
parenting boar because we're I think we all are on
the risk of being one of those. But children's activities changed,

(05:09):
and I was thinking about that today because quite often
in the neighborhood when I was growing up, someone would
have got themselves a slot car set, or they would
have got themselves a train set, and you go around
and hang there for a while and you have racises.
It was always quite exciting with something that well, I'm
not aware of anyone that the kids know that's got

(05:31):
a slot car set or a train set. I'm not
saying that's good nor bad, but it's just different, isn't it.
All those things have disappeared kids. It seems to me
that video games are so well designed and are so
compelling that all those other kind of activities have gone away.

(05:56):
And I don't say that has been a bad thing
or a good thing. That's said without judgment, but things
are different for children now. Because also today is National
Comic Book Day. And I wasn't someone that was mad
on comics, but often you'd go stay at some batch,
or you'd be somewhere at the mate's place they have

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comics and you spend your whole I'm reading them. All
would it be Disney Comics, which it normally was, or
Phantom Comics or Asterisk or all those things. You'd read them.
These days, very little like that that people are involved with.
What's that about? It's all changed. Comics have disappeared. Why
did they? What do you want to say about that?

(06:39):
I've got no comment, but I'm curious to know your
take on that. Yeah, comic's gone anyway, thirteen past eight, Mari,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
Welcome Jo Marcus.

Speaker 7 (06:53):
Can you hear me that?

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Unclear?

Speaker 7 (06:57):
He got some big news from the Piory round about.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Hang on, let me just get Google maps.

Speaker 7 (07:04):
Okay, all right? Speak herefore we do maps because it'll
be like six months ago, so it won't be.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Are we talking where?

Speaker 2 (07:13):
So?

Speaker 7 (07:14):
I want twenty nine intertections?

Speaker 5 (07:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:17):
This is all because of hobbiton right.

Speaker 7 (07:20):
Well, no, I think it's just rush hour and having
ten million cars.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Okay on the corner of twenty nine and State Highway
won there just by the river, is that right?

Speaker 8 (07:31):
Yep?

Speaker 7 (07:31):
Yep, yep?

Speaker 3 (07:32):
So wow, And what's happened?

Speaker 7 (07:35):
A fifteen million dollars open and you can drive around
and around it, and that's putting it about a one
million dollars. Eagle a hawk like a big a big
steel structure hawk in the middle of it, and everyone's going.

Speaker 9 (07:52):
To drive around and around.

Speaker 7 (07:54):
Wow, like a big kind of piece.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
I'm looking at on Google Maps. So you've just got
it's just one turn off. But is that a killer
road because of Hobbiton or no, it's not on the
way hobit isn't it.

Speaker 7 (08:05):
Yes, yeah, it's near Hobbiton. But it's just just very
busy around Rush mostly.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
You've got something planned with youth group. You're going to
take people in the van round and round for a
like or something there.

Speaker 7 (08:19):
Mardy, Wow, well, no, it was big. It was was
calf Pump on the day that opened it was it
was calf Plump Pa open around and round roundabout was
with uh twenty five queen on the trailer. We're off

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the calf class and we couldn't come home because they
shut the roads. Were to do a big tour around
around Tito and it took forty five minutes.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
To go around and wed that way, good lady that
way and back down.

Speaker 7 (08:55):
Yeah yeah, back to back down. But there was just
one day when doing.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
So the roundabout is open.

Speaker 7 (09:03):
Yeah, the rounded up is open. There are people were
flying thrones around it to that, like there were so
many drones they had to like take turns because I
like thrones in the air. Otherwise it's caused a big drama. Anyway,
there's drones down there, there truck spots trying to take
photos of trucks on it, and all of all this
crazy stuff happening.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
How big is the central circle? It sounds like it's
quite a big one.

Speaker 7 (09:27):
Yeah, it's big, and I don't know what the internal
diameter would be. Probably a couple of milk tankers.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, yeah, goo, Why for the milk tankers having there?
Dairy country. I'll tell you what I am thinking. Probably
when we are in Auckland and over the summer, I'm
thinking of doing a bit of a stretch to Hobbit
and so I might give you a hollower. I've never
been there. I thought, well, actually, after all that people
raving about it, yes, it's totally.

Speaker 7 (09:53):
It's totally worth it, and it's going game busters, Like, yeah,
are employing so many people. There's like nights activities, there's yeah,
and there's like a shearing sheep show.

Speaker 6 (10:04):
It's got it all.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
I suppose your kild are too tall to be sort
of little elves, Is that right?

Speaker 7 (10:11):
Some of them would some of them would be christ
But I just yeah, they want lots of workers there.
But it was quite long. It's five hour shifts. You've
gotta be really twelve hours.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Gift shopping cheap is twelve hours a long shift.

Speaker 7 (10:23):
It's like it's like carving, but with thousands of people.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
I'll give you a hollow when I'm hitting that way, Marty.
But and when was it? Did they have some dignity open?
They should have got someone from the roundabout.

Speaker 7 (10:35):
It was just a cart trailer. I guess when I
put the big hawk eagle sketch you up, that'll be
the the When it's all done, then they'll cut the ribbon.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
Of the hawk.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Nice to hear from your Marney, always got eighteen past eight,
Johnny Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 8 (10:51):
I will tell you to see pretty good thing for Johnny.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
I've just pulled onto the three of you talking about greyhounds.
My mum looks after retired greyhounds and has done for
a number of years. Who's probably onto greyhound number five
or six. And it's International Greyhound Day this weekend where
they all the greyhound adoptors gather from around the world
and go on a big joint greyhound walk. And she

(11:17):
starts inviting her own for dinner on Saturday, and she said,
I don't just have to make sure that her greyhound
walk was finished by you know, it starts at teen,
what have be finished by two to get to us
for the afternoon? You know how your mum's get But yeah,
it's International Greyhound Day this weekend.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
I know a bit about greyhound racing because in the
States there used to be thousands of race of dog
racing tracks. Now there's only two.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
So as a result, they are desperate for all our
retired greyhounds because they can't get enough themselves. So heaps
of our dogs are now going overseas, which is amazing. Yeah,
that's right.

Speaker 5 (12:00):
I have to let my mum know and see if
she knows it.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yeah, that's right. It's amazing. So there's now no one
that there's you know, there's I mean, obviously it's a
sport that's coming to its end. Yeah, but there's.

Speaker 6 (12:14):
Nobody loved that dog.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
I want to love like and how it behaves in
their nature. Like my mum just adores her babies, you know,
like it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah, And look our newsread to Tony he's had a
Greyhound and he's on and he got notified to They
wrung them up and said do you want another one?
And before the phone was down they said yes. They
just love them.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
That's crazy, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
And then the other little thing you talked about is
that realism and video games and the kids you know
today and I've got eleven and a fourteen year old
and the fourteen year old I was having discussion this
morning about who's got the Spotify account today and the
streaming songs for her on the bus and little Sammy
plays Fortnite and these other games, and they they just
can't comprehend. We had three channels, we didn't have a

(12:59):
mobile phone really, you know, we didn't just have instantaneous
I watch this and this and this and but for
them it's so and tudor for's so normal. It's not
you know, it's not overwhelming. And for me, I'm like, wow, man,
we just used to write a BMX bike. Now would
h mix five hundred and Milton and get on with it?

Speaker 7 (13:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (13:16):
But also there be other things that be some of
theyble to get a table tennis, table or someone will
get a train set or a slock pass, you know,
lay with it. But these days if one just gets
games and.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
Then they just stay home and say he's going no, no,
I'm playing with Chad and I'm playing with Byron. They're online,
I'm playing with them and I'm talking to them. But
then he also like he puts different skins they call it,
you know, yeah, and he plays you know, soccer and
jiu jitsu, and he's a little boy's boy. But then
you'll have like a woman's character for her things. Just

(13:49):
she looks good and she's lots good moves, and doesn't
that look better than that other weird man character. And
I'm like yeah, And there's nothing more into it than
he loves the a Ctic. So I just love how
to open to your mind and find of reducing barriers.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Be a pretty good upbringing in Milton, wouldn't it.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
I had a great upbringing the Milton business time, ealing
mound of bike in mowing lawns, you know, delivering the
Milton Gazette. Had a great time.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
You see, none of those, none of those things, none
of those things your kids are doing, are they They're
not They haven't got the game for ealing, have they?
They're not eating on Fortnite, are they?

Speaker 2 (14:20):
No?

Speaker 3 (14:21):
I don't they're ealing.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
They do possum shooting with me, and then we plucked
the possum fair for my mom to spend. But that's
about as close to let us forget.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Wish your mother Happy Gray Greyhound Day from me, Johnny,
would you, because we're pro greyhound.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
On the show Awesome sad Marcus.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Nice to talk. A good couple of calls bringing families together.
Do you think Dan? Do you think Marty? I don't
know much about. Do you think calf Day was celebrated
at the roundabout? Because I said to him, as an
official opening at the road, we see just calf Day.
You think they walked the calfs around it. Calf club.

(14:57):
I don't know what calf club is. Well, no, I
think I don't know one of the calfs, the calf
club was part of the opening of the roundabout. This
is not the actually right about Tito. It's the one
north at piare Eddi, which goes on the north north
east direction. See the motorways are taking over, aren't that.

(15:21):
Let's state how I went all the way down there?
Now that time they got rid of that Carrigate iron sheep.
I'm sick of that. We're talking comics. Hello, Jason, good evening.

Speaker 10 (15:31):
Hey Kido, Marcus reached out and yeah, been a while
since I reached.

Speaker 6 (15:35):
Out and talked to you.

Speaker 10 (15:36):
But you know, I just want to talk about comic books.
I agree, and the Western style comic books are dying up.
But the thing is it's evolved now. So I'm not
sure if you know things like Dragon Ball Z or
maybe One Piece Cartoon or other Japanese animated series, but

(15:57):
the manga mangas have actually taken off big time, and
also graphic novels as well, So it's it's changed because
like you know that The Boys that's on Amazon, that's
actually based on a graphic novel series done by Garth Innes,
who also did the Preacher series as well, which is

(16:18):
I think on Amazon as well. So the comic books.
What's happened in the Western world with the comic books
is that you can only reinvent Batman so many times,
and you can only kill off Superman so many times,
or turn them gay or you know, make them bisexual
or do whatever for the Dei, which is what they're
doing right now, and it's turning a lot of the

(16:40):
main audience off because all they want to do is
see guys go out and be macho, save today, rescue
the lady. And in mangers, there's such a wide diverse
range of writing. Is like, if you want girly boys,
you can read about goody boys. You want Google girls,
you can read about Google girls. You want Google girls
that are super powerful, you can read all that, And

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so everyone's gone to the manga. We're oute because of
the writing. To be honest, Okay, Yeah, if you go
into the westfields, you'll see the japan Japanese like anime
stores with they've got like all the figurines and they
have the mangas there where you can read it. And
if you want to be ahead of like the cool kid,

(17:23):
you'll go and get it and read it first, so
you know what's going to happen in the next animated
series or find out follow on where the animated series
has died off. Like when I was younger, I was
really into Bleach. I got my kids to read because
they refused to like get into books really much, so
I made them watch Japanese animations and English subtitles so

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they had no choice but to read, and they got
them into it.

Speaker 6 (17:47):
You know.

Speaker 10 (17:48):
It was a way that I thought about getting them
into reading and how to do it without forcing a
book in front of them a face. So I saw
that they're into the same things, like I'm into Japanese
anime as well. So I got them onto the Studio
gibli series I'm Spirited Away, My next door Neighbor, Toturo,
all in English subtitles, and they just started reading that way.

(18:10):
And so yeah, it's gone from comics to manga mainly now.
And if you look at the and I'm not just
saying this, but if you look at the ratings of
the the of the comic books compared to the Manger books,
it's it's there's no comparison in America. It's taken off
all worldwide.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
It's sorry, Jason, when you say you look at the writings,
what do you mean.

Speaker 10 (18:32):
They have websites where they show the sales, Like when
they drop a new comic.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
Book Superman, Yeah, how do they sell?

Speaker 9 (18:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (18:43):
How many units per editions? So like you'll see these
commentators mostly on YouTube or and Rumble or whatever, where
they'll go and critique a new comic book they're dropped,
and basically, quite often it's quite abysmal because the people
who are writing them are writing what they think we want,

(19:04):
but what the actual audience wants is usually quite different.
And that's where mongers come in, is that they have
a variety of genres. I mean, if you want, if
you can imagine it, there's probably amonger of it. You know.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
That's a talk Jason, thank you, Get in touch eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty past eight tiny headlines please.

Speaker 11 (19:24):
Thanks, Marc's bring back Battle of Britain and the old.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Ones and all those the commando comics.

Speaker 11 (19:30):
The five sized ones that used to be sort of
pocket comics that you could hide under your desk at
school and read.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
There were those those classic novels. We'd see that they
were quite good, the classic remember those? There were the
classic novels done in ivan how and stuff like that.

Speaker 11 (19:45):
Exactly comic book form. Yes, all good quality stuff. But yeah,
there is a I kind of agree what the guy
says about manga because my son's when they were young,
that was where they went for the comics. Yet at
what age my oldest son spent time in Japan, So okay,
he was involved in that sort of thing from quite young. Yeah,
and he sort of followed that through his sort of

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teen years, and his younger brother just followed too, because
that's what younger brothers excited.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
We've got a new roundabout though. Marcus growing up in
the UK as a kid, The Bino was the best
comic giver every kid on a thirty subscription of Bino
or Dandy Marcus good evening reading comic books, behind in

(20:34):
maths exercise book, Absolute stitch up for the teacher, Back
of the Day, the old Phantom comic's pretty good reading
one pieces, massive Japanese pirate manga series. Also his animation
over a thousand episodes online and growing Marcus Saddam Hussein
was a big fan of Bounty Bars. Was found with

(20:55):
a huge bunch of rappersentors eyed out. I never heard that.
I'm going to google that to check that because that's
just too good, and that's the thing about Google. Well,
if it's if it's true, it's a text from Gary
Good Times inside Sadam's lear The Depths of a Fugitive's Life,

(21:19):
ten chicken sausages, a box of Bounty chocolate. Isn't the
Bounty bounty bars. Wow, this is fascinating. A box of
bounty chocolate. Presume that's the same as bounty bars. That's

(21:41):
good for the what one? What's the next article? Oh yep,
I've only got one article that's come up that says
inside inside ten ms layer. I need to go and use,
don't I? International Business Times? Is that I want to

(22:08):
see the actual words that say bounty bar. Anyway, get
in touch by name's Marcus, welcome EDTAL twelve. It's all
good information. Marcus. Did you mean that retired greyhounds were
in demand over Casar's pets or for more racing. It's
an extremely good question you've asked, and I'm sorry I
explained that so poorly. I was trying to work out

(22:30):
how many greyhound tracks there used to be in the States.
There were more than fifty race tracks over nineteen states.
Now there is two. And most of the end of
greyhound racing in the States came from a book that
was written. I think it was a book that was
written about a racing greyhound. It might have been written

(22:52):
through the eyes of the greyhound. And it was an
extremely popular movement that showed what how people love greyhounds
and how they were great pets. And as a result
of this initiative, people lost the love of dog racing,
but they fell in love with greyhounds as pets. So
there was a huge appetite for people in the States

(23:14):
to get rescue greyhounds. But of course now there's only
two race tracks there around enough rescue greyhounds to go around.
So the only two places in the world that still
race greyhounds really are Australia and New Zealand. And they
used to campaign quite hard to get homes rescue homes
for greyhounds, but now they have no worries whatsoever because

(23:35):
it's such a huge demand in America for greyhounds as pets,
not to race, not to race. Goodness, bounty bars, Wow,

(24:03):
Sendam's last hiding Place. Where's it say? Better have to
scroll down for bounty bars, Satam's last hiding place, Bounty
bars and rotten fruit. The hut where Sanam chows surrender
over death. Maybe his teeth had gone because there are
soft there are a soft jew the old bounty bar.
Anyone got the interesting bounty bar facts? That was more

(24:25):
than I could actually wildly believe that someone had interesting
historical fact. I'll Google bounty bar weird facts. Who wants
to talk? We're talking comics, the ones you loved as
a child, the probably commando comics ktung. Forty eight percent

(24:45):
of people hate the taste of a bounty bar. So
people must be really polarized by coconut. That's weird, isn't it.
So it's a polarizer as far as a bar, it's
a polarizer, not one you uses a stocking feller because
it's half People don't like it, but like coriander. Ten

(25:06):
people don't like it. That's why they got rid of
them from the Celebrations range. There is a fruit nut
version not in New Zealand, and there is cherry, mango
and pineapple versions not in New Zealand. There wasn't erotic
ad for it in the seventies, not New Zealand. In

(25:29):
twenty twenty one there was a bounty return scheme in
which consumers of Celebrations were able to return their unwanted
bounty chocolates and swap them for maltesers. It also comes
in a triple version with three bars. Oh it's a
great snack. Twenty one percent coconut. I think it's probably vegan.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
Is it.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
My name is Marcus Welcome. So someone says Sadam should
have had pixie caramels and stared any last requests. That's
a classic. That's a classic text. Someone says Santa's Little

(26:17):
Helper was a great greyhound. That's right. I forget the story.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
I think.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
I think Bart hadn't brought me Christmas presents, so went
to the racetrack to bet on a horse, to bet
on a dog, to win money for Christmas presents. And
the horse came last, or the dog came last, so
we bought it. Marcus Bounty Bars and Cherry Ripe's excellent subject.

(26:45):
I have to re refresh myself from Wikipedia about Bart Simpson,
but I'm pretty sure that's what happened. I think he
went to win money on the races, the dog races.
But he was a rescue greyhound, that's right. And that's
probably part of the reason why they were so in
love with rescue greyhounds in the States. By the way,
it was home around Bart that went to the race track.
They had no money to put money on to money

(27:06):
on the dogs, right, and they're looking for a Christmas miracle.
So a dog arrived called Santa's Little Helper, despite being
brown and believing the dog's Christmas inspired named to be
a sign because Homer had a tipically talk are the
money off that dog and put on Santa's Little Helper,
which came last, and the owner abandoned the dog at

(27:28):
the end of the race. Therefore, Homer and Bart took
it home and it became part of the family. And
in one episode they traced down the mother of Santa's
Little Helper and it was a dog called she Biscuit,
which is very funny. Get in touched by names. We're

(27:49):
talking comics. What am to comics? They're just apart from manga.
What do you want to say that menga is the
I don't know about manga. It's good, but I'd like
that movie. We saw that movie. What's that one with
the the sort of spooky kid in the train? Was
it called The Silent One or something? Big on Netflix?

Speaker 7 (28:09):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah, we went around to someone's place there watching that
was good but was long, and I was watching the
Rabia on the same time on my phone, you know,
the one. I liked it because they had trains in it. Well,
that's big for me. I think it's called Sailing Away
or something like that. It's like a manga movie anyway.

(28:30):
All the lines are free. My names Marcus, Welcome. Marcus
started on Disney, then Hannah, Barbara, I think it was
Huckerbrihann and Wacker Races, a bit of Batman and Superman
evolved to Marvel comics, and an early high school got
into Asterix. Marcus Freeze at Bounty bar before you eat them.

(28:50):
It's a game changer. Who doesn't have a game changer? Marcus.
In the old days fifties sixties, we girls had the
weekly comics school friend named Girls Crystal, a mixture of
comic strip and text worries about adventurous girls having thrilling
adventures and solving crimes. A favorite was the Silent Three

(29:11):
girls were boarding school who wore greenhooded robes and righted wrongs,
bowling out the imposter game mistress who intended to steal
some present position of the school, or a girl shipwrecked
on an island, or helping someone helping them in the
resistance fight the Nazis in France, or a friend of
the highwayman proving his innocence. Of course, we like Princess Andnit,
who disguise ourselves a peasant girl to help these subjects

(29:33):
well at the same time filling the plans of the
evil Duke. Great fun. Only the front page was colored
because the restrictions on coldc after World War Two. Thank you, marg.
I thought the guy was slightly going on about the
Marvel comments and they're all I don't know I Superman

(29:55):
was transgender or anything that he was going thought that
was sort of anyone. I have to research that a
little bit more. I was out of my depthy at
seventeen to nine, Good Evening, Glennett Smart is welcome.

Speaker 12 (30:07):
Good Evening. About forty years ago, I had a friend
who whose mother was doing some market research for a company,
and he's eithered a couple of about four or five
friends from from our school around. There's some blind tastings
the chocolate bars, and we could identify them all except
one and one that one which we couldn't identify was

(30:28):
a bounty bar, so we hadn't wasn't that well advertised
in New Zealand. But in terms of the blind tastings,
the one which we liked the most was the bounty bar.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Wow, now where are we? We're in Auckland in the sixties.

Speaker 12 (30:41):
We were about this was an auld.

Speaker 6 (30:42):
This is the back of the eighties, and and D
and there were eighties.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
That might be about the time they started, because it
wasn't around before then, was it?

Speaker 8 (30:50):
No?

Speaker 12 (30:50):
And I'm surprised it's still around because they're taking quite
a few things, like you still see kit kat and
you still see Moro and Turkish delights.

Speaker 6 (31:00):
But you have the I I've had the everything.

Speaker 12 (31:04):
An ad for bounty.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Doesn't need an ad doesn't need an AD. That's how
good it is.

Speaker 12 (31:10):
Yeah, So obviously there are enough people that write it
for the companies that keep producing it.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Like to hear that, Glenn, thank you. I've got a
good text here. I want to come back to Marcus.
I am executive chef at Raffatia State. We go through
one box of Bounty bars a week. All my chefs
love them. Dave, Now, where's this? I want to go
to a restaurant where all the staff like Bounty Bars.
Where's Rafaitia Estate? I'm heading there? Oh, to rest home?

(31:44):
Well does look quite exciting now, does it?

Speaker 7 (31:49):
No?

Speaker 3 (31:49):
It's handed to the old man's place though with that
old klon Bourne Road. Where is Raffaitia Estate? From a
rest home? Probably retirement village. Goodness and me love him that.
But that's got to the shifts into bounty bars, you

(32:10):
know if you see them in the ending machine. Where's
the Marcus? Welcome? Hi Waser, Hey mate?

Speaker 9 (32:16):
How are you?

Speaker 5 (32:17):
God?

Speaker 3 (32:17):
What's happening right?

Speaker 9 (32:20):
I'm on State Hollow twenty nine right now, just past
in your Europe and ed into State Hollow. Want to
check out the new are right about?

Speaker 3 (32:28):
How far away are you?

Speaker 9 (32:30):
I'm a living kilometers away, so probably that's Sexus in
the minutes.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
I'll come back to your shallow for a live cross
happy days.

Speaker 7 (32:39):
Right.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
I just just get you on Google Maps, so you've
come through he Where are you going? Kind of southwest?
Is that right past?

Speaker 7 (32:48):
Now?

Speaker 9 (32:49):
Turn off? It goes off to hobbiton.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yeah, copy of that. We'll come back to was I
thank you, Sue, Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 13 (32:56):
Yeah, Hi.

Speaker 14 (32:57):
I'm concerning the bounty bars. You can only get the
milky bar blue one from New Zealand. Australia has got
the dark chocolate bounty bars and there's so much nicer
and I really don't know, I really don't know why
we don't get the dark ones in New Zealand because
they're just beautiful.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
They might have done a taste testing, but I think
that's nicer the dark one. I think in the UK
they stopped making the dark one though, which is weird.
I can't work out why that would be.

Speaker 14 (33:28):
Well, we used to get them sent out from Australia
with some friends of ours that much.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Oh you love them. You tried one in the freezer.
I never have.

Speaker 14 (33:39):
No but if you could send out why we can't
get them in New Zealand, I'd love to. I'd love
to get them in New Zealand. Honestly, they're just so
much nicer. It's just beats me while we don't get them.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
You thought of making your own were possible, I mean
you probably could do that. Actually, I'm thinking it wouldn't
be that hard get your own coconuts. You dessiccated coconuts
nine to nine to nine. Back with you soon was
we'll just take a break. We'll get you with a
live round the round about, the new roundabout. Let me
just tell you where it is again, was a new

(34:18):
word for me. Piare Eddi north of or north west
of Tito, on the way to Cambridge, Carpedo that way.
It's a very busy thing. There because of Hobbiton. Well,
we all know they should move Hobiton to Queenstown. It's
a no brainer. I went to look at Tarafa Rafati

(34:38):
estate to see where that was. It's the old bowling club,
didn't I said? Knocked that down? The old Raffaiti bowling club.
Where's that old polkinghorns neck of the woods there? And yeah,
there are the odd eastern suburbs. Anyway, Oh eight hundred
and eighty Teeddy at nine two nine two detect? How
we go? And there wasn't you getting close?

Speaker 15 (34:56):
Now?

Speaker 9 (34:57):
Three point one k is away?

Speaker 3 (35:01):
What are we going to do when we get there?
Which which way? I want to Which way are you
going to turn? You're going to turn right towards Ambridge
or left towards t Though and towards Topa that.

Speaker 9 (35:09):
Way, I'm turning right towards Cambridge.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
Okay, all right, So we've been? Where have you been?

Speaker 9 (35:19):
Oh? I've just pot down to the mount to see
my kids and then had to move.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Oh jeepest, creepers. Is it the quickest way from the
mountain now? I suppose it is.

Speaker 9 (35:31):
It's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
So where do you come on the where's the on
remp for the motorway. Is it right there at the roundabout?

Speaker 9 (35:36):
No, No, it's just at the first cambridge except.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
Okay, understand, Oh I can see it now, okay, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 9 (35:48):
Right, So I'm coming out on behind the big track.
There is a lot of yellow lights. There appears to
be some of those sort of spotlights. Wow, shining down,
heaving the signs now.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Is it too lane for your one lane?

Speaker 9 (36:08):
It's one lane. I'm slowing down to sixty k is
an hour.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Don't stay down going past?

Speaker 6 (36:18):
What going past?

Speaker 9 (36:20):
With the old local halls that burned down about a
year ago? Absolutely treasure.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
Yeah, yeah, well it's complicated looking around. I'm looking at
the map of it. Cheapers, creepers, Okay, where are you now?

Speaker 9 (36:34):
Okay, so I've entered the cones. So if anyone's warning
today we're all walkering cones went down here, yep, there'd
be a cone every meter.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
Wow that many cars? Scheepers Okay, yep.

Speaker 9 (36:47):
I'm still seven hundred meters away from journey.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Steepers indicating but early to indicate a little bit.

Speaker 9 (36:54):
And I'm behind the big track and trailer main freight one.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
Oh you go on main freight. Yep, yep, yep, yep.
They'll be limited to ninety k's are they they're limited?

Speaker 16 (37:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (37:03):
Where is she doing? What are we doing.

Speaker 8 (37:09):
Doing?

Speaker 6 (37:10):
Thirty five k's cheapest?

Speaker 3 (37:12):
God, there's an underpass, did you know that?

Speaker 9 (37:15):
I think I'm going over the underpass right now.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
There's something called planted swales, which there's planted swales whatever
they are. Okay, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 9 (37:24):
Oh, I can't see those disappointing yep. There's a pile
of workers working. The guys are out, all those draftic
guys are out. Lights are flashing. Oh, it's actually quite
it's quite nice.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
They're good.

Speaker 16 (37:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (37:40):
So it's obviously it looks like a double lane one
that I've got to cut down to one single lane
at the stage.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Of course, they have just to work out. Are you
still get to slow down here? Still doing a hundi?

Speaker 9 (37:50):
Oh no, under twenty five kN ours. I'm going around
it now.

Speaker 6 (37:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (37:55):
You definitely get about two milk tankers across the head
about you're dead on there, okat.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
A giant heart eagle going in the middle. There's nothing
in the middle. It's just it's just rough in the
middle of that just empty.

Speaker 6 (38:07):
Yep.

Speaker 9 (38:08):
Just wow. There's now another intersection at the end of it,
so it's not just around about. There's actually quite a
lot more to it.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
There's not traffic, there's not traffic lights.

Speaker 6 (38:20):
Is there.

Speaker 9 (38:22):
No any traffic lights?

Speaker 3 (38:25):
You are the many cars coming to your left from
State Highway One?

Speaker 7 (38:29):
No?

Speaker 9 (38:29):
I didn't think any. So I'm not sure. It's mostly trucks.
And we're back to thirty k is an hour through
the side of it now and it's just traffic cones again.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Wow, did you indicate did you indicate to come off?

Speaker 6 (38:44):
No?

Speaker 4 (38:45):
I didn't actually that you would be.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
You wouldn't be the first. It seems to be voluntary
these days. Who's to get you?

Speaker 9 (38:57):
I think it was a truck who's listening.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Will be to give them the big thumbs up from
us too.

Speaker 6 (39:02):
What was it?

Speaker 3 (39:02):
What sort of truck? Is it the main freight truck
or another truck?

Speaker 9 (39:06):
No, there was another track, and there was a track
and trailer.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
But he's gone bat so oh yeah, okay, well but
what sort of what colored truck?

Speaker 9 (39:14):
To be honest, I couldn't tell. I'm trying to concentrate
on their own.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
You've done, You've done fantastically was that's one of the
great live crosses of all time. There'll be the first
live radio cross from that roundabout. Thanks for Marty. We
covered a lot in that. Oh gosh, what a roller coaster.
Oh greetings, Good evening, Marcus till twelve discussing comics and roundabouts.

(39:39):
Worried that guy did indicate on the way off, but
oh well, that's the way of the world these days, Sharky, Marcus, welcome,
good evening, Marcus. Good, Thank you, Sharky.

Speaker 15 (39:50):
What the drives? A very nice white U with Kennedy
on it? I hope, I hope, I hope I didn't
steer him when all flowing the horn.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
I didn't expeak them to be a ute as a double.

Speaker 15 (40:04):
Cab look like a double KMD was quite nice.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
Was he hands free or was he talking on it?

Speaker 5 (40:12):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (40:13):
You know from where I said, you can't really sleep
it much at night.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
Okay, is it the first time you've been around it
or have you been around it before? Has it been
opening for a while?

Speaker 5 (40:23):
I went over, I went.

Speaker 15 (40:25):
Across at them about two o'clock this afternoon. Sure, yeah,
but yeah, he was right behind the Christmas Tree main
freight track.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Oh yeah, do you know who do you know who
drives that?

Speaker 15 (40:40):
No idea?

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Okay, so did they have they did they have a
bypass while they're making it? Does that how it worked?

Speaker 15 (40:49):
Oh yeah, it used to be like a t intersection
there and but now that's all they have changed.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
I tell you what, it's going to cut down the
road to Yeah, because there's been extents there.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
A.

Speaker 15 (41:02):
Crazy, crazy amount of excellence over the years. Yeah, but yeah,
so yeah, So sorry if I gave.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
You a bit of a fright, I won't affix State
Highway one, will it? Because there was no delays there anyway.
It was just hard for people turning into the highway
from that side road, is that right?

Speaker 15 (41:22):
Yeah, like if you were coming off twenty nine onto
one to go north. Yeah, it was very Yeah, it
was like relient.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Okay, it was just to give way sign, was it.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (41:35):
But now now the way they've got it figured, it's
aroundabout with multiple on and off shoots on it.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Yeah. Okay, so I think, yeah, it's.

Speaker 15 (41:48):
A great, great, great, a great.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Thing for them to appreciate that, Sharky, thanks for coming through,
and thanks for the shout out to the worlds there
as well, like that a lot. Oh wait, one hundred
and eighty. You tell you'll get to the text. We're
talking bounty bars. Surprised people don't do cooking with bounty bars.
It might make a nice hot drink. I don't know how,
don't know why I said that. I thought chocolate and

(42:11):
coconut do something. Oh oh ah, Marcus best Bounty bars
in New Zealand are handcrafted by the loveliest girls at
Soulful Coffee, operating out of a tiny caravan and Fairymeat.

(42:33):
Christ Church bars are coated with high quality dark chocolate
and coconut mixed with something with ementhing condensed milk divine.
They also make a delicious Snickers bar to die for.
That's regards Christine Soulful Coffee. That might be a good
thing for my foody terror of christ Church after Sonya's

(42:53):
soup from the Horny Night Markets. Soulful Coffee Classic double
chok chunk Cokie Vague and you wouldn't know. Oh they're good. Wow,
They've got a little one of those little dai hatsu
vans that I like as a daihatsu. I'm looking at

(43:17):
the menu. Now, do a green glow smoothie with hemp. Wow,
I can almost see the little or the nice picture
of a dog on the coffee machine. Well, that's on
my list. Put that on a list down he curating
my social calendar? Is it on my list? What do
you have something about that? Things? I said, I'll do.

(43:37):
That's that's what that goes. I'll be having a I'll
be having a soulful coffee next time I'm there, which
should be three weeks away. Get in touch. My name's
Marcus Hittle. Twelve Comics and Bounty Bars and Roundabouts. I
think that's pretty much a classic show for us. Someone

(44:03):
said a text that I understand. It says, did you
know that the Vaticans posley has a cronovisor? I don't
know what that is? Marcus, I'm driving hands freezer. Thanks
Sharky for the shout out, and Marcus, you're a champ.
Cheers boys from Waza love a live feed on a roundabout. Hilarious.

(44:33):
Oh that's a funny text. I can't read out. Yeah, wow,
cheap as. I'll take that guy back or woman. Woe man.

(44:53):
It's pronounced Pierre. Thank you for that. I think we
kind of got there. I reckon you just mix coconut
with condensed spilk, perhaps milk chocolate. Put it a slice
it in the fridge to set, cut into slices and
dip it in dark chocolate. I've never made them, but
it can't be hard, Marcus. If I was homesick, my
mother would buy me a comic. Women had to shop

(45:14):
daily to get fresh bread. I always asked for the Phantom.
I always sent away for a signed image and a
skull and crossbone ring. Sad it was a series, so
I only got to read a part of the story.
I was quite young, so called him the Phantom or
the Pantom, not knowing pH wasz f hated the movie
these days, Wonder Woman is my favorite. I loved Wonder Top,

(45:34):
Wonder Girl, and Wonder ten of eight fifties of those
these episodes are disparaged by the experts. My mum craved
Bounty Bars during your Last Pregnancy. Love your show, Chairs,
marg He's a funny text. Found a penthouse magazine on
the road once Marcus had to hide it in the
hay shed. Deleting history was something different forty years ago.

(45:57):
Roundabouts and comics and yes, Sadam Hussein when he when
they found him in a z leer, was full of
bounty bars. Yep, Oh wait hundred eighty t idea nine

(46:21):
two nine two to text, I'd like a giant one.
You know how you come through customs or they sound
like a season traveler, aun't I oh look at me.
No once in Australia in three years. But you know
how you come through customers have got those giant tobor
owns like gargenchwen. Why don't they do a giant bounty bar?

(46:43):
Although if choice purt summer roll in a bounty bar,
I would be conflicted if you don't know which one
I go for. Oh wait one hundred eighty adea nine
two nine two to text. Yes, and the rain has
stopped it to him in a good mood, Hello, I
met Marcus. Welcome, how's it gun?

Speaker 7 (47:02):
Good thing?

Speaker 14 (47:03):
Good?

Speaker 3 (47:03):
Thank you.

Speaker 17 (47:04):
That's just just cooling, unword. Just driving back from from
a work work trip to Aukland and we heard for
the shed talking about the roundabout and we were going
through the same roundabout and it's just felt like we
were in a He was talking about it and we
were driving through it and he was We thought some
trucks go mate.

Speaker 5 (47:23):
We were on our seats.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
Did you say fever dream?

Speaker 5 (47:28):
Fever dream or or day dream on I made.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
Do you have a successful, successful, successful work trip to
the Big Smoke? Did you do the deal? A?

Speaker 15 (47:40):
Deals have been done, signed and done.

Speaker 17 (47:43):
Yeah, So we're off to the pub for another night
off I candy.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
Oh that's brilliant, Matt. Who were you meeting with.

Speaker 17 (47:54):
Just a few two supplies from industry and whatnot?

Speaker 3 (47:57):
Brilliant?

Speaker 6 (47:57):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
Keep it secret. Make you're doing well, like the country lads,
go to the Big Smoke doing a deal? Back around
the round about like a fever dream? What pub you to?
What pub you go to?

Speaker 6 (48:09):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (48:10):
So?

Speaker 3 (48:10):
Where are you going for your for your drinks?

Speaker 17 (48:13):
Probably I candy?

Speaker 5 (48:14):
About Modernoi?

Speaker 3 (48:15):
Is it a pub called eye Candy?

Speaker 6 (48:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Yeah, it sounds through modern name for a pub. I
can't believe you'd call a pub eye candy? Would you cheapest?
Nothing like the Mount I've got a fact check that
myself too. I couldn't believe you call a pub eye candy.
Here there you go, Oh to strip club, I candy.

(48:39):
It's spelled I K A N D I. There's not
so much a bar there you go. The interesting thing
about the Bounty Bar, it's such a polarizing snack because
half the people surveyed almost don't like it. I think
coconuts quite polarizing. Yeah, I don't know what to say

(49:07):
about that, but I'm up for any discussions about that.
By the way, Mars, the company tried to trademark the
shape of the bounty bar. Yeah, so I don't know
what that was about. But people are really looking at

(49:31):
the British papers. People really, I think it's the last
chocolate standing in one of those selection boxes because people
hate it. For me, it would be one of the
first I joos. Yeah, seas in chocolate lover termbs, there
is no such thing as a bounty hunter, only a
bounty last resorter. Hello Milton, it's Marcus. Welcome, good evening,

(49:57):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
I live at Cooper's Creek near Oxford and North Canterbury.
In Currently we have no power, so I poked up
the main pair website and it tells us that it's
Cooper's Creek in Woodside Roads that haven't got any pair
out of the prison time. So there's probably other people

(50:20):
in the area maybe listening and just wondering what it
might be coming on.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
We'll do what we can. I don't let me just
spring up on the internet. Where you are.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Where's Oxford, Oxford, north Canbary?

Speaker 3 (50:37):
How far north?

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (50:41):
Just north Crossey or west of Kroshi.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. And so what's it called Cooper's
Creek is it?

Speaker 8 (50:48):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (50:49):
Yeah, it's up the river. It's up the river. Okay, yeah, sure,
nice looking little settlement, day.

Speaker 6 (50:58):
Beautiful, very nice.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
What are those paddocks? Are they grain or yeah? Just
got those products on Google Maps. Ok How many houses there?
Not many people? Twenty people?

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Oh no, I'm sort of just along along the road
and bush road away from the Coops Creek settlement here.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
Okay. Is there a storm or anything happening there?

Speaker 7 (51:23):
No?

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Not, I no, there's no Well, there's no rain. It's
really dark because that's going to rain for all. It's
all cam and very through through dark at moment.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
Okay, because the ad Is website isn't loading for us,
we can't get hold of that. But what we'll do
is we'll keep some information and we'll look out for
you and see if we can give you a report
as soon as we get some more information.

Speaker 6 (51:42):
Okay, very good.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Did you hook up the Jenny? Did you say? Is
that what you've done no, no, no, no, I no,
I've I just looked up the main beer week. Yeah yeah,
but you've got you've got a radio, you got a torch.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
He s got the torch. I've got a head here
like drop the phone and looking at you while I'm
lying in bed.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
Good, good to go, Milton. Thanks for that. Good on, Milton.
No complaining. Just won't let other people know. That's the spirit,
that's what you want to hear. Get in touch. My
name is Marcus Heddl twelve, eight hundred eighty ten eighty nineteen. Anyway,
guess got your power cut information that's of interest. Someone says,

(52:28):
coconut is not polarizing, it's Polynesian. Someone says, is there
much of a meth problem in meth Vin. It's a
good question. Get in touch. We are talking bounty bars,
roundabouts and comics. Don't know if you remember the Commando comics.

(52:51):
People love the Commando comics and also to the Phantom comic,
but nothing much happened in them. They were the cheap
black and white ones without the color. Just that you, Milton.
The Paars have been a car crash in Oxford just
recently at eight o'clock is that right down. I can't
see any anywhere, but it seems to have been a

(53:13):
vehicle crash there earlier today around eight o'clock, which I
think has affected the power. I can't see on any
websites stand, but we've got our news.

Speaker 7 (53:24):
Have we.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
Single car crash that'll do it? So maybe they've had
to turn the power off and maybe the power has
been damaged. Hi, Margaret big your pardon depot road near
Ayre River Depot the E.

Speaker 6 (53:42):
P O T.

Speaker 3 (53:43):
And I'll just check that. See where that is close
to what your bush road? So I'll bring you the
information on that where I can just bring that up
people I can't find it. It's gives me Oxford and England.
Isn't that annoying, Margaret? It's Marcus. Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 18 (54:05):
Yeah, I'm talking talk about comics about seventy years ago.
That shows you how old I am. My grandmother used
to send comics from England to US, and there was
she used to send there were two girls ones which
were quite interesting, but then she used to send the
boys ones and they used to be all about space
travel and all things that we've got now were commonplace then.

(54:29):
And it seems it's quite amazing. It used to seem
so preposterous traveling in a little spaceship with screens. Everything
had screens, you know, and they used to be able
to talk from one spaceship to another.

Speaker 19 (54:41):
Now amazing. You know.

Speaker 18 (54:43):
I just thought that just all all.

Speaker 13 (54:45):
What we've got.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
Now it's all come true, hasn't it? All that science fiction?
It's all People don't read about science fiction anymore. I
guess it seems too daunting, But that's right. Although, what
were those boys comics called?

Speaker 14 (54:57):
Here?

Speaker 6 (54:58):
Do you remember?

Speaker 3 (55:00):
Do you remember what they were called? Those ones?

Speaker 18 (55:03):
I think they were called Eagle comics.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
Yeah, that's it, and the main.

Speaker 18 (55:08):
Character was Dan Dere It's what I remember.

Speaker 13 (55:11):
It was so long ago.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
I think we got given a set of kind of
bound together Eagle comics and they were a lot of that,
A lot of it was out space travel. It's I
kind of about ten different features in it, kind of
how it works section and Dan Dare and stuff like that.
Five away from ten. Hello, kevinets Marcus, welcome the mag.

Speaker 8 (55:31):
You're talking about combooks? Yeah, yeah, well, oh god, that
are such good ones. Oh oh, my favorite one was Patman,
Patman and.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
Robin whenabouts are we talking?

Speaker 8 (55:46):
Oh got on sixty three, so it was a long
time ago, But I used to. I used to get
left over books from my older brothers and sisters, sister,
and they were just like had me down.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
So I think that's how most people. I think that's
how most people got comics. You just came across a
tro of them. But someone give them to your whole stack,
wouldn't you. They're kind of a great year around thing.

Speaker 8 (56:08):
Exactly. Yeah. You just you know, a stack of books
and you go, well, this is pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
Yeah, Or you go somewhere to stay a cousins that
there be a whole stock of comics you hadn't read before.
That's you for a day. That's what I liked about them.
You just kind of discover them, wouldn't you.

Speaker 8 (56:23):
Exactly? When you play with different and toys and things.
Everyone's got different toys or different things.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
You know, you would't you wouldn't read a comic these days,
would you?

Speaker 10 (56:37):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (56:38):
Cool? Why actually read lots of throws to my my grandkids.
I've got two little granddaughters and the boy three grand kids,
and I read here's the stories, but most of the
stories are actually what you grew up with what do.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
You read them?

Speaker 8 (56:57):
Postal, Pet, White Kid, Yeah, yeah, what else Puss? Oh,
I haven't got around doing Batman, you know. Oh, spider
Man is another good one. I never got really into
spider Man because.

Speaker 3 (57:17):
I'm not really into superheroes, I'm afraid to say, which
sounds about lame. But that's not my thing superheroes.

Speaker 8 (57:22):
No, no, no, it's not my.

Speaker 3 (57:26):
Yeah, there's all of that same. After a while, not
much ever happened. I always sort of a little bit
formulaic and what sort of there's all that all the
same thing happened, a little bit of a formula.

Speaker 8 (57:37):
Oh yeah, but Batman was cool because he had a
beautiful house and you can actually transformed into Batman. Yea
under the end of the city, and he was and
he can walk around like yeah, he walked around good
his gold And in terms of Batman, that's quite cool.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
It worries me. You can't think of more books you read,
your kids, your grandkids, Postman, Pet.

Speaker 8 (58:05):
Well, there's well, most of them are actually stories just
through my head. It's brought to me from the mother.

Speaker 5 (58:14):
You know.

Speaker 3 (58:15):
They're the best stories. I actually make them up as
you go. Just add Libbert brilliant Kevin. Thanks for that. Oh,
thank you so much. Maria Lowe has texted as emailed me.
Thank you so much, Maria, Namhnui Cure Marcus Dad's Final
Curtainers tomorrow. This is Eddie Lowe's daughter, Dad's Final Curtains tomorrow, Thursday,

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twenty sixth September, four pm Herewood Memorial Gardens and Crematorium
in christ Church. We've been inundated by people who met
or didn't meet Dad, or went to his shows and
loved his music. Dad didn't want to fuss, but because
of the overwhelming interest, we've just decided to open the
service up to the public. People can sit behind the

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designated area for Faro, close friends and invited guests. There
is also a spillover area and there's a live stream
beginning at three point forty five. Here is the link.
We are so grateful for the outpouring of daha for
our father, for our dad. Thanks you and all the

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ZB team for you beautiful tributes. Namihui Mariello. It is
eldest daughter. Well, thank you so much for that.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Marie.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
I don't know if you're listening, but I'll email you back.
And it was it was on the back of Maria's
post on her father that I learned so much about him. Dan,
we will put that on Facebook. We can, can't we?
So I'll forward that to Dan Maria and he'll put
that on Facebook as well. So that's for Eddielow's funeral,
which is tomorrow. They have opened it to the public
just to honor their dad's wish and the overwhelming interest

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in that. So that's the situation there. So I do
appreciate that. Jennie's Marcus, good evening, Oh Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:00:05):
I just comics. Yeah, as a child, we were not
allowed any comics except perhaps the Rainbow one Thissus in
the nineteen thirties nineteen forties. But we lived near the
main road in the country area or the Prolaga Bay,
and my father used to allow drovers to use one

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of our paddocks and we would accommodate the drove overnight.
So once we had this young guy turned up and
happened to be my seventh birthday. So he rode his
horse into Tollig a boy about seven miles and when
he came back he had about six different comics and

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my parents could only be grateful about it, and I
was delighted and I've never forgotten it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
It's amazing comic because boy, you were isolated there.

Speaker 16 (01:01:01):
Yes, and I think they were quite acceptable.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
You know, what was the one you said was the
rain Rainbow?

Speaker 16 (01:01:09):
Rainbow?

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
I've never heard of that.

Speaker 19 (01:01:14):
No, well, it goes a long.

Speaker 16 (01:01:15):
Way back, you know, nineteen thirty, nineteen forties. I think
that Disney ones were acceptable to Yeah, they.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
Were the ones that we sort of seemed to read
because they quite well produced. They were good colors, they
went black and white. They were quite appealing to children.

Speaker 16 (01:01:31):
Yes, but it wasn't there wasn't really good reading.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
Oh no, No, of course two comics stays low brow.
That's right. You had to read other books as well. No,
I agree. Gosh were you farming at Todd, north of Tolliga.

Speaker 16 (01:01:44):
Yes, well, my father was a drover during the depression
and then he managed to get a farm and that's
where we were farming, but very close to the main road,
you see. So he always had a sort of sympathy
for drovers and he'd allow them to use one of
our paddocks.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
Down the road was for if you were going to
the big smoke, would you drive? Would you oh? By ship?
How would you get around there.

Speaker 16 (01:02:10):
Oh, well, when we didn't have a car. Actually, you know,
in those days, twice a day there was a bus
service from Rohtoria to Grisbonne, Okay, and we were about
a mile off the main road. We used to walk
down and get the bus.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
The car record it, M, did you get to secondary
school there?

Speaker 5 (01:02:30):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:02:32):
No, no, I didn't. I did the correspondence schooling. I
could have gone to the local school. But that's a
long story.

Speaker 5 (01:02:39):
I can.

Speaker 3 (01:02:41):
Probably quite a good story.

Speaker 13 (01:02:43):
Well, well, it's just.

Speaker 16 (01:02:47):
Well, my parents are very English. Anyway, I didn't. I
didn't go to the native school. No regret, don't.

Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
Are you still?

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
Are you still?

Speaker 6 (01:03:00):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
Yeah, no, I'm in Wellington, Okay. It's an amazing part
of the con t up there. It'd be amazing place
to tell they'd be free, be free isolated childhood. How
far away with your neighbors?

Speaker 16 (01:03:15):
No, you see, we weren't because I wasn't on Monoe's
back roads, where as I say, we're close to the
main road. Our nearest neighbors, about two miles away, had
three children almost exactly the same age as as we three,
and I regularly had a long conversation with a girl

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who was who lives in bulls. Wow, it was my
contemporary and it was just a special childhood. And we
know exactly what we're talking about. You know, how can
we talk about our childhood?

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
Did you have did you have horses?

Speaker 16 (01:03:54):
We had to have horses?

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
You thought you were okay? Oh well, lovely to hear
from you, Jinny. I appreciate you coming through, Thanks very
much for that. The number is eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty. Kevin Marcus, welcome, Hi you Marcus, How are
you going good?

Speaker 7 (01:04:09):
Thank you?

Speaker 20 (01:04:11):
I remember Donald Duck comics. Remember those?

Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
Well, they were the ones that seemed to be quite
well produced, didn't they that. They were the ones that
I kind of liked because I wasn't in the superhero stuff,
and they were always so slightly humorous. Yeah, I do
remember them.

Speaker 6 (01:04:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:04:27):
I had Uncle Scrooge in it, and Daffy Dark and
Daisy Dark and Whoy Dewey and Louis and I had
a bunch of robbers than it I remembered. I can't
remember who they were.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
Uncle Scrooge bathing in his money, Yeah that's.

Speaker 20 (01:04:43):
Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, quite funny. Yeah, Hey, Marcus, are
you going to come to the need and to have
a look at the U whole Side workshops.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
Are they about to open? Is that the situation there?
They've been I don't know when it's going to open, okay,
but that's what's happened.

Speaker 6 (01:04:58):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
It was full of asbesta. So they've remade them, is
it the case?

Speaker 20 (01:05:01):
Yeah, that's right. They completely wrapped it down, the whole
place and they've read both the script from the ground up.

Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
Will they be making wagons there?

Speaker 20 (01:05:15):
I believe?

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
Sorry au weex railways yourself.

Speaker 20 (01:05:19):
No, I used to work for Champion Panters. That's another story. Yeah,
sure it is quite an interesting one.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
I'm sure that would be interesting. Yeah'll be quite keen
to have a look at the workshops. I'm up there
for labor weekend, I think Interneedin. But I'll be because
because it worries me that the government seems to be
so anti rail that they've open Hillside that we can
manufacture things again, rolling stock. I would be surprised that
this current government puts the whole cage on rail.

Speaker 20 (01:05:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05:44):
Look what's happened to the.

Speaker 20 (01:05:49):
Running a train, the fuel, the labor, the labor. Yeah yeah,
railway houses didn't they years ago? I remember that they
used to have a lot of workers living in South
and Eveland railway houses.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
Yes, they made those railway houses Frankton and the Waikaton
exported them around the world around New Zealand. They're pre fabricated,
that's in them around.

Speaker 20 (01:06:18):
But you're quite right, yeah, yeah, yeah, there'd be a
lot of manufacturing here.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
But that's a different story. What sort of appliances did
you make?

Speaker 20 (01:06:29):
Oh, I'm the last person in New Zealand to make
gearboxes for washing machines working the machine? Sharp?

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
Is it complicated on a gearbox for a washing machine?

Speaker 20 (01:06:46):
Well, you had to make twenty two in a day.
So they were making twenty two washing machines and the
day down there at Champion and that's what I think. So,
And each one would take you maybe half an hour
to put together, so you always had two people doing it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
Why did washing machines have gearboxes? Did they go at
different speeds? Is it how they work?

Speaker 20 (01:07:10):
I think it's just a really reliable model. Okay, yeah,
I mean i'd really have to talk to you more
thing from you about it, you know, and everything.

Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
What you what are you pecking at home?

Speaker 20 (01:07:25):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
What are you pecking at home?

Speaker 20 (01:07:29):
Packing? At home.

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
What washing washing machine?

Speaker 20 (01:07:33):
I've just got an old Fisher and pipel It's got
an old gearbox in it. You know, it's around old
fun it's just still going.

Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
Do you maintain it yourself?

Speaker 20 (01:07:43):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
Do you maintain it yourself?

Speaker 20 (01:07:46):
Yeah? Yeah, I don't. You don't have to do anything.
It's really good. You've got a gearbox and it's not
so hard on the engine.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
How long you hit it?

Speaker 6 (01:07:57):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (01:07:57):
Yeahs well, yeah, just reliable airs and then changing the subjects.
Might you want to talk about?

Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
Oh, that's part of my job is to change the
subject Kevin Helger at S Marcus Greetings and good evening.
Hi Helger.

Speaker 13 (01:08:12):
Oh hi, you mentioned you didn't think you can find
comics anymore. At the Auckland City Libraries they have a section,
and at the dew Voice Row Ponsably Libraries they have
a section with comics.

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
I guess from what I guess really, what I'm saying
is that comics have changed so much, haven't they, That
they seem to be different kind of ones. They seem
to mainly be those manga comics, which things I'm really
probably not that familiar with.

Speaker 13 (01:08:39):
Yeah, they're different, and actually summer adults.

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
So, yeah, they are. They are adults. Some of them
are quite sort of X rated, which is peculiar as well,
isn't it. The manga comics seem to often be quite adult.

Speaker 13 (01:08:57):
Yeah, which is sad.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
Well, I guess it's I know they've got a big following.
Have you picked some up and read them?

Speaker 13 (01:09:04):
No, just some through and put them down. But they've
still got the Esterix comic box at the libraries, which
is good for kids.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
I tried to get my kids into Esterix, but they went.
It was sort of hard to get them excited. I
guess you got to kind of realize as a parent
that the kids aren't going to be into what Europe
once and do. Things have changed, haven't they. It's impossible
to try and get them things that you're excited about.
It's almost not even worth bothering with.

Speaker 13 (01:09:30):
I am up in What's up ok Road, the arkades there.
The shop's not there now. But you used to be
able to buy comics. And I have a friend he
got me three comics. I got a Doll Duck one
I think, the Goofy one and another one. I've got
them their mint condition. I've still got them.

Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
It's Kevin's Arcade.

Speaker 13 (01:09:53):
Yeah, but I don't think the shop. I don't think
the shops there anymore. I'd have to go and have
a look, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
I think it's all quite up market. And the announced
Kevin's that got it because those old sort of swapper
comic shops, I don't know there's many of those around anymore.
I don't. Yeah, I kind of secondhand bookshops dealing in comics,
and I think they exist, do they?

Speaker 13 (01:10:12):
Well, this was just this little one in kro but
that was before COVID, so I think it must be right.
You must have gone now.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
Well, maybe a lot of people read comics online. Maybe
they download them like that.

Speaker 13 (01:10:26):
Yeah, they could do too. There must be somewhere if
someone went on trade mede. There be some pension or
someone who is the Donald Duck ones and all that
stilled away somewhere.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
I'm sure they're quite valuable, you know. Always see I'm
sill in that show, one of those shows on Netflix
about collector. I forget it was called King of Collectors
or something. But like early Superman comics are worth millions.
You know, there's only six produced, and they know all
the values in the grade to them quite clearly it
was quite it's quite a science, and there's people are
actually comic authenticators and they come in and say what
it's worth. But nice to hear from you, Helga, Thank you.

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Twenty eight past ten. My name is Marcus Good evening
with you till midnight. Marcus. My older brothers would buy
comics every week, so it'd always up to withot edition.
So we had a large collection of all categories from war, superheroes,
western and comedy. Also a huge collecture of Reader's Digest
in Mad comics. As well as all of that, we
had a large collection of Vinyl records forty five's albums

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and consettes. We also had a large collection of national geographics.
Are thankful for those memories marks the Robinson and Donald
Dot comic. I think with the Beagle Boys, I remember
the Mad magazine. The eighties usually had TV programs and
so I like the Dukes of Hazard, always up for
a bit of a story about a bounty bar. Also,

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there's been a new species of ghost shark discovered off
New Zealand almost has got a law. A narrow nose spookfish,
elongated snout and whip like tail, only found in New Zland.

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And Australian waters. Ghost sharks, also known as shimeras and spookfish,
are a group of cartilaginous fish close red as sharks
and rays. They have smooth skin, beaked like teeth, and
feet off crustaceans such as shrimp and mollusks. They are

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sometimes referred to with the ocean's butterflies for the way
they glide through the water with their large pectoral fins.
Normally a great depths up to two thousand meters. They
say ghost sharks are incredibly understudied. The new ghost shark
was found in the Chatham Rise. Its nose can make

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up half its body length to volve to aid its
hunt for prey chocolate, brown and meat. Along has large
milky colored eyes and dorsal fin. Fifty five species of
ghost shark and we discovered globally twelve of those in
New Zealand and Pacific waters. There you go, don't even

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if you have you had one At Kelly Tartan's good A,
Garyet's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:13:24):
I think about this. We're just a bit of a
clean up in the garage and we came across the
books that we had been taken around for years and
years and years I've been to go open them and
have a look. And there was a Star Trek i'm
Oka in nineteen sixty seven and Kasper the Friendly Ghosts

(01:13:46):
nineteen sixty eight I think it was. And we also
found the book Voyage to the Bottle of Received which
is quite classic too, And we have three commando books
from when we were young kids. We used to read them,
so it's quite fascinating when you go back over those
and see the dynamics of it, because I mean, all
your head was coming to you sort we used to read.

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
Yeah, absolutely, what was it, Garry? What was the first
one you mentioned?

Speaker 9 (01:14:13):
Sta Trick?

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
And that was a comic.

Speaker 4 (01:14:16):
It was a comic and on the front of it
William Schattner winning Memoy and bones on the front, So
I must have been one of the really earlier ones.

Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
So obviously comic based on a spin off comic from
the TV show.

Speaker 4 (01:14:35):
Yes it is, yeah, you know, sixty seven. It will
be quite quite early, I suppose, because I mean the
series went from it was about two years three years
from what.

Speaker 3 (01:14:47):
Was that issue called that you've got?

Speaker 4 (01:14:50):
I don't know what issue. I think it's issue number two.
I think I'm not sure. I'll have to go back
to the book that I put. I put it away
to the same place again, but I remember finding it
about about a month ago. I thought a moment. Must
hold on to those and not get rid of the name.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
Yeah, yeah, it might be worth it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:07):
But yeah, it's interesting to find out what they are.
I mean, we all we had was was books, and
but we threw so many away. And what you don't
realize is what you're throwing away is it's like the LPs.
I had a whole stack of forty five and I
sold them to a DJ mark message. You may remember

(01:15:28):
marketsage from days one Bai and he bought the whole
up for fifty dollars. And there was originals if Elvis,
Michael Jackson, what source on there? No idea.

Speaker 3 (01:15:42):
I think it's a rule in life. You always throw
away the stuff that's going to come back, and you
always keep the stuff that's of no use at all.

Speaker 4 (01:15:50):
Oh. Absolutely, it's so true. And you look. I mean,
I think the White album for the Beatles is worth
two hundred thousand dollars in among the markets.

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
If you have one of those, did you give one away?

Speaker 20 (01:16:03):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:16:04):
I scurried through. I kept the LPs as much as
I could, but I have the original Eagles and Neil
Diamonds and seven New Diamonds and Rod Stewart's from from
the from the seventies all those you know, bones have
more fun and all that kind of stuff. So we
have the originals. So I mean even the copies now

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about fifty to fifty city dollars, so it's it's interesting.
But there's a guy that extra sells exchanges them up
in the Hyperses coast up here, and he has every
weekend he has an exchange of LPs and classics. Ye
find out what they're were.

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
Yeah, so you can't bother you just exchange them. Is
that the way it works? Quite a good idea.

Speaker 4 (01:16:46):
No, I think he can buy them, but he does
exchange them as well. I guess you'd ever a better
knowledge of what they're worth at this time. So yeah,
but we did. My sons believed it, not my kids
that were only about five years ago. I used to
go through and playing all the albums on stereo. They
loved it. The fact of the old records and scratches

(01:17:06):
and stuff like that. It's kind of cool. And if
you ever want to sit with your mates and sit
around a fireplace and a shed and play the LP.
That's all we do and it's really really great.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
Yeah, there's nothing like going for an old Stacker records
and finding the heads A twelve lot's great joys.

Speaker 4 (01:17:21):
Gary, Yeah, mate, solid gold five member bones. If you
give me too, you can't go wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
What was the solid Gold five hits?

Speaker 4 (01:17:31):
You had Shane and there, you had Susie lint to
the Chicks, you had bent Bony, you had Derek Menzer,
you had a bit of bony m So I was
going to give me a convoy from the moving convoy.

Speaker 6 (01:17:47):
Was in there?

Speaker 4 (01:17:49):
So really classics they just take your back having Ready,
I am woman and murray what about me now?

Speaker 8 (01:18:00):
And you needed me?

Speaker 4 (01:18:01):
Yep, just al those classics made and you just can't
go wrong. Get me and get made.

Speaker 3 (01:18:08):
Delta Doorn Hell, Delta Doorn Helen. Ready, what a great door?

Speaker 6 (01:18:12):
Mate?

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Well yeah, that's that's gonna be a that's gotta be
a karaoke classic. Del toa door? What's that flower you
got on? Who's this mark message you took? About that
rings a bell?

Speaker 4 (01:18:22):
Who's the DJ that when when I was DJing I'm
sort of doing now I mean, we've spoken before, but
he was him and I exchange stuff and he would
go around. He was a top DJ in Orklands Mark message.
I think you still story around.

Speaker 3 (01:18:35):
I think top DJ, like a DJ, not like a DJ,
what sort of DJ.

Speaker 4 (01:18:42):
But he would we would spend the CDs or in
those days or records and in the eighties and stuff
like that. Yeah, it was he was. He was very
probably I think he was on radio Marcus well might.
I mean he did be. You know when's it him?
If you remember when did when?

Speaker 3 (01:19:03):
Trial fifty seems very familiar.

Speaker 5 (01:19:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:19:07):
Yeah, there's a lot of DJs in said of still
hanging in there a little bit. We do all retro stuff.
It's it's kind of cool but very very popular, and
the young one seemed to love it a lot more.
I did karaokey tonight and all they sang was and
all the guys sang was just classics.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
Tony Christy, you did a karaokee tonight?

Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
Yeah, yeah, I host a karaoke show and stuff like that,
but I haven't done it for many years, but I
got asked to come back and do something. So DJ
and sing live and sort.

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
So what were the things they were requesting what were
the songs they were doing?

Speaker 4 (01:19:40):
Oh, Croty they did Amy whiteing House Valery. Yes they
did as they did, as I said, Tony Christy Ain't
Got a Kick in the Head by Dean Martin. And
there was a young girl who was twenty two singing.

Speaker 3 (01:19:55):
That goodness beautiful voice. And where was where was this Gary?

Speaker 4 (01:20:00):
There was it the Milford, the Hub in the Milford, brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
I think it'd been in the Milford. See how good
was he? And really I've just been listening to del
To Dawn, neil As Marcus, Welcome, good evening, Gooday.

Speaker 21 (01:20:11):
So I've got rive at the Greek early Rod Stewart,
the Beatles' Help Album, the Wide Album and things like that.
Of course, good by a little bit Road, which is later.
And there's a studio art shop in our area here
in Nakeer that's got albums by the New Seekers, the

(01:20:34):
first cuts of the New Seekers, and quite a large
range of the nineteen sixties albums, including News even Once Wow.
I don't know if I could swap with her. I'm
not sure she runs the shop unless they've talked to
her a couple of times. It's got some really old

(01:20:55):
stuff in there.

Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
What would you want to swap you I wouldn't want
to swap the white album for the new seekers, would
you know?

Speaker 21 (01:21:00):
I wouldn't want to trail on my beatus albums because
they were so hard to find to start with. You know,
it was it came late with me, that sort of
retro revolution, because up till then I've been a bit trend,
you know, with roxy music and emo and all that
sort of thing. But actually go back into the retro
side of things that that developed me a lot later

(01:21:22):
on and even now.

Speaker 3 (01:21:24):
Did you buy a second hand white album? Is that
what you bought?

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:21:27):
Yeah, one door? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
Oh wow? Where'd you see it? Where'd you find it?

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:21:32):
That was in times and years ago? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:21:35):
Goodness? What in a second hand shop?

Speaker 21 (01:21:38):
In a second hand shop? To sort the square on
the north side of the square?

Speaker 3 (01:21:43):
Have you played it?

Speaker 21 (01:21:45):
Oh?

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

Speaker 21 (01:21:46):
The one the ones I really thrasher Roger Whittaker and
Green Campbell but being Kimball tri Little Kindness, which is
a fantastic album.

Speaker 3 (01:21:56):
What's your favorite what's your favorite Roger Whittaker? Oh song
or album song?

Speaker 21 (01:22:04):
Song? Do you have to say the last farewell?

Speaker 3 (01:22:08):
Oh god, you're going to say that the ship lies Regina. Yeah, tomorrow,
and they changed the name of the town, didn't they
Tomorrow for Oddington we sailed. Yeah, Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 21 (01:22:21):
It's kind of it's naked because we've got report and.

Speaker 3 (01:22:26):
Good do you be playing that? You'd think cheapest?

Speaker 21 (01:22:27):
Great, there's pressure today. Gives me a lot of joy
in markers.

Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
Yeah, it gives you a lot of joy. You if
you're in to Roger to can probably be into the Seekers.

Speaker 21 (01:22:37):
Yeah, I've got a new awakening Sinson news Seekers, and
I probably will approach he about getting a hold of
one of them. But it's actually like arriving over his studio.
It was sort of off the beaten track, and it's
got us all this art week and things which currently
you look at as well.

Speaker 3 (01:22:58):
Marcus, I've about thirty comics from nineteen seventy twenty four
for my childhood days. The Hulk for Captain America, Luke Cage,
spider Man, Cheese, I don't know, look Cages. I look
into that, Marcus Mirian here the guys breaking my heart.
I sold all my LPs nine years ago to an
eighteen year old. Each one was in a plastic cover,
so as good as the day I bought them. I

(01:23:19):
live in the UK between seventy seven and ninety one
had some great punk disco, had all the carpenters and
wait for the Beatles White album and the Who Live
at Leeds Bob Dylan, Garfunklin Simon. I'm crying, Marcus. Just
on the Time Travel Things was footage of someone in
the crowd of a Mike Tyson fight in nineteen ninety
five and what looks like a cell phone recording it. Wow,

(01:23:43):
I wouldn't mind seeing that, Marcus. The woe Burn Railways
workshop were in Gracefield with the shunting areas at Woeburn
Railway Station. I think the area has storage sheds for
Peter Jackson. Now there was a footbridge Elizabeth Threet going

(01:24:03):
over the railway line to help the railway workers living
in the moor Molda railway houses to get to work
the workshops are and went off five minutes before the
starting time to warn the men, then five minutes before
twelve to warn the wives the men to be home
for lunch, five minutes before one to tell the men
to go back to work, then five minutes before a
kerknockoff to warn their wives and men and be home
for tea. We kids knew that when we heard the

(01:24:25):
five to five, so it's time to head for home.
Goodness me, that's of interest. Woe burn talk about the
Bounty Bar. You're going to think interested about the Bounty Bar.
Some people love it, some people hate it. Personally, I'm
a fan. I'm more than a fan. I have a
weakness for them. If they're at the souper market chickout,

(01:24:46):
I'll buy one. Oh yeah, I buy come in two
separate bits. I find that quite enticing. It was Saddam
Hussein's favorite snack.

Speaker 8 (01:25:00):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
How well, how how wide spread a co canuts? Because
I know, I know they float. Did coconuts grow in
the Northern Hemisphere? I'm wondering about that now. I've never

(01:25:23):
seen one in the Northern Hemisphere, but you think probably
they would have been growing and planted.

Speaker 4 (01:25:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:25:37):
How widespread would they be. I've never seen a coconut
grow in New Zealand yet. Anyway, you might have some
information about that. I guess they're right throughout Asia, aren't they,
But not in the Northern Hemisphere. Coconuts, comics and roundabouts.

(01:25:58):
There was something else in there as well. I forgot
on the Bounty Bar. I've said that, haven't I remarkable fruit,
the coconut, you can do so much with it. Anyway,
Do jump in if you've got anything of interest to
say about the coconut or anything else and the Bounty Bar,

(01:26:23):
any other topics for tonight. Was there ever a cheery
flavored Bounty chocolate? I don't think there was, but the
cherry ripe is cherries and coconut, Marcus I have, please
please meet the Beatles and Deep Purple live in Japan,
plus the original Lpie bet of the Goons. I bet
they're worth something cheery. The thing about records, they're always

(01:26:47):
worth someone, But the ones there worth of the big
money are always the ones you haven't got. That's life.
Good evening, Joan, it's Marcus. Welcome a Marcus.

Speaker 19 (01:26:59):
I can't hear you very well.

Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
Oh what's up, Joan?

Speaker 19 (01:27:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 7 (01:27:03):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:27:04):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 6 (01:27:04):
Now?

Speaker 19 (01:27:05):
That's a bit better. I actually quite like the Bounty bar,
but I haven't had one for a long time. But
you used to. Fell to get them in the dark chocolate,
which I prefer to the milk chocolate. Don't get them
now I've never seen them.

Speaker 3 (01:27:17):
Now, No, they've stopped, and I think Australia you can
still get them in the dark chocolate, but they seem to.

Speaker 19 (01:27:22):
Be yeah, made in Australia. And my granddaughter who's coming
up thirteen, Edison, loves the cherry Right. They've taken them
out of the favorites. I've always liked cherry right and
I have a friend that's given me one every time
I pick her up to go out and she give
me five dollars for a last and a cherry Rite.
And I've got somebody on the drawer beside me in
the lounge. Edison says, can I have a cherry ripe Grannie?

(01:27:45):
And I say yes? And I love them. And people
don't like them. They would throw them out, they wouldn't
eat them, and they're lovely.

Speaker 3 (01:27:53):
People have rejudgmental about them. Yeah, I think they are
talking about the disappearance of the Dark Bounty Bar in Australia.

Speaker 19 (01:28:02):
I think it's as well as it was, yeah, much
better with the d chocolate.

Speaker 3 (01:28:08):
But what I just said is the dark Chocolate one
is disappearing in Australia. Well, I have not spent for
a long time, not even in Australia. But you don't
go to Australia, do you know?

Speaker 19 (01:28:17):
I don't go to No.

Speaker 3 (01:28:19):
No, Well, I wonder if it's going to be extinct there,
because it would be a worry.

Speaker 19 (01:28:23):
You've got a good memory, haven't you.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
You.

Speaker 19 (01:28:25):
I think you're clever. You pick up things about people
and you don't forget that. I won't fly, but anyway,
not to worry.

Speaker 3 (01:28:33):
No, not to worry, but look from there, I'll get
you one because I'm worried myself. Now that's something else
I can worry about. What happened to the dark chocolate
Bounty Bar because I think it's ked realaling it's Mars,
which is better. I think they are made in Australia.
Someone said, what about the old summer roll? Yeah, it
was a choice for the summer roll of the Bounty Bar.
I think probably be well. I like the summer roll
a great deal. As I get older, I find the

(01:28:54):
summer roller. But sweet, who doesn't love nouga with a
silent tea? I never know what it is, but it's
fun to eat nougat. Yeah, the old summer role that
just tracks along whenever advertise, it's always there, made by
some shifty company. I mean, it's not Cadbree's. It's like

(01:29:15):
good Time or something. One of the don't even know
if they've made in New Zealand. Are they maybe might
be made at the Regina factory. What's it called our Rainbow?
The old Summer Roll. It's funny old name for something,

(01:29:38):
the summer roll, isn't it. It sounds more like a
it's not you do at a music festival. Marcus H'ASKI
you have kids play with train sets these days? My
two and three year old grand daughters have a Thomas
the tankingjin railway set, large floor sets six by three
they play with every day. That's from Linda, you know.

(01:29:59):
I think once the four or five they won't play
with the trains again. It's pretty much a preschool thing now,
isn't it where they push of the trains around those
wooden tra We had a Thomas FaZe, mainly kind of
driven by me, I think. But the TV show wasn't
very good. There was the trouble with it. The TV

(01:30:19):
show was sort of kind of stuck in the past.
I thought. Was the kids much preferred blazing the monster
machines or the poor patrol. You might want to talk
about the fact they've got one of the Barretts now
at First five. They've given up on Damien McKenzie. It

(01:30:39):
seems I don't know what goes on there, but there's
a lot of articles have been written and says how
Scott Robertson had so much luck with Richie Maung at
First five and he hasn't got the equivalent with his
All Black team. Oh well, because after the match on

(01:31:00):
Saturday night, we want to see something else. I think
it's going to be a while before we go to
the Northern Hemisphere, don't we. That's when that might happen.
A twenty past eleven. If you want to talk, my
name is Marcus. Welcome, get in touch or texts the
good texts. Interesting that all the comic stuff happens now
on Facebook pages. I guess that's probably nice surprises there.

(01:31:21):
It's the one thing Facebook is very good at is
putting people with common interests together. Works very well with that.
Some discussion about the Bounty bar tonight also if you
want to mention that, and you might want to read
visit time Travel that have a problem that I quite
enjoyed that discussion last night. I enjoyed it muchly. Yeah, dB,

(01:31:44):
Marcus welcome, good evening, evening, dB.

Speaker 6 (01:31:47):
What's happening Robinson? Just a quick warning for you. Make
sure you book and after three months in advance.

Speaker 3 (01:31:58):
Jeepers, reapers who would know what they do, who would
know what they're doing, three hours in advance, they'd learn
three months, well.

Speaker 6 (01:32:07):
Three hours ago, put the light out. Now I'm awaiting
you three months easily, depending on what part of the
season you're in. You cannot rock up there and.

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
Go on the tour because I would have done that.

Speaker 14 (01:32:25):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:32:27):
So it's a big gig and they have like an
aggregation place where all the people turn up and then
they take you in their own buses down to the
to the Hobbitkin itself, which is of course on private land.

Speaker 3 (01:32:47):
It must be quite because I run a marathon there.

Speaker 6 (01:32:51):
Yeah, that's it's not not entirely small.

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
What would it be its size? Would it be one
hundred acres?

Speaker 6 (01:33:01):
I've only got a sixty acre to use as a
yard stick.

Speaker 7 (01:33:04):
That sounds silly, yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:33:07):
Around about that?

Speaker 3 (01:33:08):
Yeah, okay, Because I saw my boss recently, I said,
can we're our Christmas party at Hobbiton? I said, because
then you get the heavy hitters, you know, you get
the people that never turn up with the Christmas parties
like myself yep, and probably some of the other announcers,
like the breakfast host. But he wasn't interested in the slightest.

Speaker 6 (01:33:25):
Who cost I'm in the league?

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
Well, but we were. You do contra these days, right,
It doesn't pay for anything. You do some soft deal
or something, but no no interest. I ought to be
a great thing to do. You've clearly been.

Speaker 6 (01:33:37):
Yeah, I've been me about three times a time, four
times into it. Well as a bus driver of course,
so I've got, you know, the privilege of dropping people
from them sitting around for three hours with my fender.

Speaker 3 (01:33:51):
But as a bus driver do they include you in
the tour as well?

Speaker 6 (01:33:56):
Sometimes sometimes we take the coach down. They have a
dedicated coach park in Hobbiton. It's a round about two
kilometers from the main shop.

Speaker 3 (01:34:08):
Okay, it's a bit like stoneyheinge your park elsewhere then goes.

Speaker 6 (01:34:16):
Okay, And each time I never got tried. I don't
know what Hobbard's drink for beer, They've got a yell,
They've got the Green Dragon pub, but I could never
get a chance to drive taste the beer like honey
mead or whatever they call it, because of course I
was driving.

Speaker 3 (01:34:33):
Oh well, if I was running hobbits and I have
a special kind of takeaway pack for bus drivers, that's
that seems cruel.

Speaker 6 (01:34:40):
No, they're not really interested in as bus drivers being
there at all.

Speaker 3 (01:34:45):
No, But yeah, well okay, fair enough, but I'll be
giving the best.

Speaker 6 (01:34:50):
They're not alonely. Yeah, there's a lot of places that
you only if you go along with my own crowd.
They go, no, this is for them momently because they've
paid whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:35:03):
I thought the whole way that bus tours in his
own work, it was all sort of an udginal wink.
If you took people to a cafe, they gave you
free lunch.

Speaker 6 (01:35:12):
There is some places that do that, and there are
other places where and it has changed a lot over
the last twenty years where they go, well, that's just
money out of our back pocket, so we won't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:35:26):
But you're dropping everyone off. You're dropping forty people at
their shop.

Speaker 6 (01:35:32):
So some some places have a fixed kickback if you like.
How much you actually log yourself in. Yeah, some places
is quite lucrative, like five percent of the net that
they pay.

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
And buying items and and kesher and goods always in goods.

Speaker 4 (01:35:54):
In cash, really well in cash.

Speaker 6 (01:35:58):
I know some of us drivers would do the bookings
for like heavy flights. Was all is a good earner.

Speaker 5 (01:36:08):
I just.

Speaker 6 (01:36:10):
The groups. I never we're big spenders. And so I
was in that leak if you like. Is it something
that capitized not normally?

Speaker 3 (01:36:19):
Is it something that you keep from the bus from
your do they do? The employers know it goes on
and it's none of their business.

Speaker 6 (01:36:27):
They know what's going on, and they don't want to know. Okay,
So it's the best way to put it. But you
go into some of these places, you log in and
they keep a note of you know, because all of
your passengers are then tagged one way or another, they
know how much they spend. And you don't have to
have that money that day. You can accumulate over months

(01:36:49):
and months and months.

Speaker 3 (01:36:51):
So when you say, when you say logan dB, what
do you mean by that?

Speaker 6 (01:36:55):
Well, they say, you know which fust company are you from?
What who are you? And what's your guide's name? Okay,
because the guide gets the same the same thing.

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
Okay, were you not were you not the system? Were
you not the guide.

Speaker 6 (01:37:10):
No, no, no, it's only the driver.

Speaker 3 (01:37:13):
So the guy gets five percent, you get five percent.

Speaker 6 (01:37:17):
Yes, you've got a decent guide. Or there are a
few places I found out much later that he got
ten percent because he got my five percent, and it
only came from one particular sub continent, and that was
just something you had to watch out for. Wow, well,

(01:37:38):
they'd say yeah, like like in their contracts, the passengers
paid a dollar per day per person to the driver
as a surcharge for bagger tandling and just being helpful. Ye,
and this particular company, if you didn't get that money

(01:37:59):
out of the guide on the last day, he would
evaporate into the through let's say christ Chief Airport, and
you've done your dough.

Speaker 3 (01:38:12):
The guide sound loathsome.

Speaker 6 (01:38:15):
Yeah, some of them, well, but you know they're on
the game as well.

Speaker 3 (01:38:22):
Do they do they come? Are they from the country
or the tour? Did they come with a tour party
or the kiwis No.

Speaker 6 (01:38:29):
No, they come with the tour, No bit of both.
They'll come, say six months and they will piggy pig
jump to tour.

Speaker 3 (01:38:43):
Do they know anything about the country and they got good,
good knowledge?

Speaker 6 (01:38:48):
Oh yeah, they're well in many cases I couldn't understand
what they were saying, sucking up the although one of
them made a really great statement. It started off with
the sentence started with exactly, and that the finished with
the words approximately.

Speaker 3 (01:39:08):
Well that's.

Speaker 6 (01:39:10):
You can't construct your sentences that way. Oh but that
is what the way we know.

Speaker 3 (01:39:16):
We don't dB, we don't do different excents. I'm afraid I.

Speaker 6 (01:39:21):
Used to to be, actually to be they used to
think it was hell of the funny goodness.

Speaker 3 (01:39:25):
Okay, we stay clear of that these days. Okay, well's
that's right, that's fine, that's fine. Would you know? So
so you get big money, you get an all right,
but then you get your dollar for every person for
the handing of the bags. So there's forty people on
the buses, you're getting you're getting an extra thrind of
bucks a week for carrying the bags.

Speaker 6 (01:39:45):
Yes, yeah, basically, and of course, but if they I'll
see you half an hour, I'm going to go somewhere
else from the last hotel. I'll see you at the airport,
and you see them, you decorate.

Speaker 3 (01:40:03):
But if you drop it, if you drop at the
food place, you eat there for free, you get five percent.

Speaker 6 (01:40:08):
Do you get cash generally use. Yeah, yeah, and some
of the places are quite nice. Yep, so and again
on them. But I've also had the opposite the end
of that, I finished a tour and they've given me
a little round paper package with five hundred dollars cash.
It Wow, and that's I was stunned.

Speaker 3 (01:40:30):
Are you campaigning for that the whole way, saying humorous
stuff and making yourself laid back or that's not what
it's about.

Speaker 6 (01:40:38):
Well, I try to, and you know, again, it's like
everything else. Some of them appreciate a bit of efforts,
and some of them think that you're just there to
the steering wheel.

Speaker 3 (01:40:52):
Are you going to get back in the game?

Speaker 6 (01:40:53):
Then no, My license expires in a couple of days,
and that's.

Speaker 2 (01:40:59):
It for me.

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
It's a driver's it's a driver's license, not a guide,
not not a to It's just a standard driving license.

Speaker 16 (01:41:06):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:41:07):
Yeah, here we trade in passenger licenses all expire together
and I'm retired.

Speaker 3 (01:41:14):
Well that's a shame. I quite like your stories about that.
I've often wondered about that, how the whole thing works.

Speaker 6 (01:41:20):
I had, I had my fun on the road, and
I think I'm getting I think I may do a
decision that if you get too old and you're still
doing it, the likeness of being in the wrong place
in the wrong time and having an accident, those odds
finally stack up, and I don't want to be caught
on the wrong side of those odds.

Speaker 3 (01:41:42):
Pretty nice to hear from your DV sensible Thank you, cure, Marcus.
I've often picked up coconuts on Tokono Beach. They have
drifted down from some Pacific islands. There's evidence that coconuts
did once grow on the Far North Coast. The corticulturist

(01:42:04):
Dickhead from Oratier was doing a study of the in
the eighties. They related to Ecuadorian mountain coconuts. I had
a jar of small fossilized coconuts from Cooper's Beach years ago,
but don't know what I did with them now. I
brought some spreader coconuts from Free g when I sailed
down in the seventies. They grew for a year or two,
but then died off, so I did not give you

(01:42:26):
my name. Yeah, they're remarkable at translocating the old. We
even get coconuts at or Eaty Beach. Everything eventually floats
up at or Eaty Beach. But it's such a vast beach.
And that's why I'm amazed about coconuts. Why they haven't
floated around the world, why they're just a Southern Hemisphere thing.

(01:42:48):
This is interesting what I'm saying. Listen up. But I'm
sure there've been coconuts there at or Et Beach. I
can't find the article now, looks like I've done a look.
I've done a Google search, and there's no stories that
say or eaty with coconuts. I'm sure I've seen articles
of them, showing shots of them that have floated up.

Speaker 7 (01:43:11):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:43:13):
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