Smugness alert (18 March 2026)

Marcus meanders through solar installs, teachers giving out lollies, and continued concern over the conflict in the Middle East.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus lush Night's podcast from Newstalks.

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

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Greetings and welcome on him as Marcus Hittl twelve o'clock.
The number is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. Couple
of things. I went to the supermarkets to up before
I came to work. There was a sign up right
and the sign said this is at Peck and Save.
The sign said cure. You're right about that. We are
currently dealing with some out of stock issues. Please be

(00:34):
assured we are working hard to have them back on
shelves as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience
and understanding. Well, no word what the issues are. So
what's that about? Is that the price of petrol is
at the interl and ferries? Is that elsewhere apart from
in Vacaco. The other thing that I thought was of
interest I was also at the countdown. It might be
the Woolworths now outside there are five bike racks. On

(00:58):
those bike racks, I have not once seen a bike
tonight there were five bikes. Wow. That's the thing that
always surprises me is that people's behavior is kind of
ahead of the headlines. Some say the price and petal
is not much, but people have already altered their behavior.
People are going on the old bikes. A lot of
discussion about going to solar, and apparently you can't buy

(01:23):
ev for love nor money. So what I want to
start with tonight and we've got I've got a couple
of topics tonight. I've come fully prepared what I want
to start off with, and it's not to do it's
adjacent to the situation in the Middle East, because a

(01:45):
great thing would be to be self sufficient for power,
both as a country and both ourselves as individuals or
individual families. I just wonder how it's been for you,
right or have you gone solar and have the numbers
stacked up? I know you can get all you can,
or you could get a green loan and they'd pay

(02:07):
your interests. If you bought your solar, you paid off
with your bills. I just wonder if you've done that
and how much that has saved for you. So, yes,
the other thing that people are doing, and it's good
to talk about changing technology because it's a good format
for it. The other thing I know that people are doing,
and I don't know much about it, is that they
are changing they're going solar and they're also changing their

(02:30):
hot water cylinder to a heat pump. Makes sense. Don't
quite know how it works, don't have the two work
in tend and or how that works. You might have
done that also tonight, and how that's working out for you.
So yeah, people said to be doing it. There's loans
and because as you know, the price of solar panels
has come down and down and down and down and down,
and the stage now are in Germany. They're going gangbusters.

(02:52):
They're building fences out of solar panels because they're so cheap.
It's cheap to put up solar panels in an ordinary fence.
I think my friend the miner was down today around
today and he said, without prompting, silver he said, was
about to go through the roof, a much more versatile
metal than Goldie says, or the moved. I don't know

(03:13):
if there's much silver and solar panels, but I just
not go along. But there you go. I can't give
financial advice, or can I.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
I don't know what advice I can give. I stay
out of advice. I'm always very wary of people to
give advice. I've been at enough conferences and what I've
taken from because you go to conferences, right, sometimes I've
emceed them, you know, and you go to conference and
they've always got some sort of motivational speaker. And I've
always thought that the more emphatic and motivational speaker is

(03:43):
about how to change your life for the things can do,
the more that you know, once you probe, their life
will be a total shambles. I think as a race,
we are normally hypocrites. And those that scream from the
rooftops that they have found the solution or the secret
sauce are the ones further from any sort of secret source. Anyway,
I want to talk solar and heat pumps and hot

(04:04):
water cylinders.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Did you do it?

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Did it steck up for you? Was it good? Was
it bad? Apparently there are some ones where you can
actually get solder on your house, but you just you
just lease out your house space. Apparently that's not so good.
But yeah, and I don't know where you buy these
panels from. Probably Ali barbar or. I know one of
the carpet companies was doing with the Harrisons. But if
you've gone solar house, that worked out for you? Eight

(04:28):
hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two to text,
get in touch if that's something that you have done.
If we're keen to hear about this, I will keep
you updated with news if you want to, So get
in touch. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty Oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two to
talk to text if you want to talk about that.

(04:50):
So yes, I also want to talk about teachers giving
sweets as rewards. Yeah, I mean healthy. There's healthy eating
and there's good teaching. So that might be something you
want to mention to eight hundred eighty ten eighty and
nine to the text you want to come and partake?
There we go. So a lot of people already asking

(05:14):
with questions. Marcus, we've got a heat pump hot water
silder at our house. Got it removed after three months
because it was so loud and made a buzzing noise.
Really would you remove it after three months? Hello? Darren,
it's Marcus. Welcome you, Marcus. There are were going good
thing you Darren? How are you going? All right?

Speaker 5 (05:30):
I'm fantastic. He's very good. Great, just throwing it about
hot hot water, heat pumps. So We got one installed
in just as a bit of a caveat. I do
work for company it sells and stalls them.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
So, Darren, what a great caveat that is? Because it
tells me, you know what you're talking about. It also
tells me that, yeah, maybe you might have a good spot,
perfect caveat. Love it.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
Yeah, So I installed one in my place just over
a year ago. Exy and ye look back though. I
highly recommend them to anyone. We had gas Infinity gas
and then I just got sick of I think I
had the third price increase in less than a year,

(06:19):
and so I decided to get rid of gas. Actually
got rid of gas, got an induction cook pop as well,
so we could cap the gas off all together, and
used a hot water heat pump instead of my Infinity
and it's it's been fantastic. I got six in the
family for four kids. That choo threw a bit of
hot water, as you can imagine, and it's it's been fantastic.

(06:42):
Certainly good Good Savings works like a dream. I'd highly
recommend it to anyone that's thinking about it.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
I know nothing about that, but is it is it
actually a heat pump for hitting the house and your
hot water as well. Is it all in together, No,
they've got to be separate. Beakes it.

Speaker 5 (07:02):
It can't be heating and calling the year, so it's
sort of too systems. There's what's known as sort of
the mono block systems, where it's all encased in the
cylinder with the heat pump on the top and it's
all in one piece. Or you can have a split system,
which is what I've got. I've got the tank and
I've got the condenser sort of a meter away beside it,

(07:27):
so slightly bigger condensed, a slightly more powerful to heat
the water a bit quicker, but they both do a
great job. E the system that you want to get.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Do you have to get a new hot water cylinder
for it or can you use the existing one?

Speaker 5 (07:42):
It depends on your cylinder, so yeah, certainly some of
the more modern cylinders will you can plumb them in
and just have a condenser outside that flows through into
you into your cylinder. So a lot of the new
Renaiss and some of the other brands you're able to

(08:02):
do that no problems. But in my case I had
obviously guess so I replace the guests completely and give
a new sign of the yep.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Could you still run a wet back from your fire
with it?

Speaker 6 (08:16):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (08:17):
Look, you possibly can. It's not something we'd recommend, you know,
you've you've got Yeah, they got to quite your tempering
valve on and you keep it. It looks after itself
without him to use a wet back.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
And what's the installation? What's the price all up for that?
I know that you've probably got a discount or whatever
it is it. What's the ballpark figure?

Speaker 5 (08:40):
Yeah, it depends on your size. They go from two
sort of roughly two hundred liders to about three fifty,
so depending on what size your family is, you know,
and you're talking from around seven thousand two pets. So
the biggest one, nine depends if the plumber's got to
do too much extra work running pipes out. If you've

(09:03):
got a guess infinity on the outside of the house,
it's pretty good because you've got the hot and cold
water feed right there and a power feed you can use.
So that makes it pretty pretty cheap to plum.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Up, and your power would be half the price. Would
it much much cheaper the hot water?

Speaker 5 (09:19):
Yeah, hell of a lot cheaper, because you know, power
is about a third of your of your hot water
is about a third of your power ball. Yes, so
you know your pain, ah, probably about twenty five to
thirty percent of what you would with power. That's not
quite as big as saving but when you when you
chop off the power and get rid of your meter

(09:40):
as well, that saved me another couple of bucks a day,
and it added up pretty nicely.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
So what it sounds like over five years, it would
pay for itself by the sound of things, doesn't it.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
Yeah, I worked out mind about about seven years, okay,
and you know, and it just look, it depends on
how big your family is, how much water you're chewing through.
But yeah, that's sort of five to ten years. I
think most people will be paying a lot and.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
That top how long it lasted, last twenty years.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
Yeah, look, they've got most of them have a guarantee
five years and the cylinders are sort of seven to
ten years. But as we all know, you know, no,
we've had cyminders in our homes that we grew up
with for a hell of a lot longer than that.
But yeah, I don't, look, I can't. I can't sit
here and say that it's going to last twenty or
thirty years. The guarantee is what it is is, but

(10:29):
if you look after it, you know it should be
any issues.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Love you to talk there and thanks so much. A
great to start. Nineteen past eight, Helen, This is Marcus, Marcus.
This is Helen. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
God, good evening Marcus. Now I had an idea about
you know how there's problem with houses overheating.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
And oh yeah, and christ Church were those ones with
the double and no eves the two three ones if
forty five degrees in the summer and people are cooking, Yes, yes, Well.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
No idea I've had. You've got your north facing windows
where the problem with the sun's coming in, and you've
got you've got your solar panels that should be facing
north too, so that you get the benefits of the
solar panels. Why has nobody appear to have come up
with the solution of using the solar panels as.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Awnings to the that's what you need to be doing.

Speaker 6 (11:18):
Of course you do, yes, I haven't seen it news.
So anyway, now about this thing for giving lollies as rewards,
I think this is a really really bad idea. Now,
if you're trying what if it works well, supposing you're
trying to bring up the kids to be, you know,
not to be dicted to sugar, and you're giving lollies,

(11:39):
which is so much sugar as a reward, but seeing
them setting them up for a lifetime of rewarding themselves
with sugar. Okay, I think there must be a better
way of rewarding rewarding children for their efforts.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
What would you reward them with carrots?

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (11:55):
No, well, I don't know, but I mean I was
a sucker for being rewarded for things. And I was
a real addict to the little purple stamp for the animals.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
I loved them.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
You'd go, you crawl nails for one of those stamps.
I love the stamping. Wow, you say something now right now?
It comes a little stamped and gee, would do anything
for a stamp. It seems like we're exploited now, doesn't it.

Speaker 6 (12:20):
If I would die for getting those stamps on my
on my homework, Yes, but anyway, I don't think it's
a good idea. You're setting up for dependence on sugar
as a reward.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
You know, have something, and maybe peer at the families
at home aren't so keen? On sugar in the ear. Look,
I don't know. I just sometimes think probably teachers have
it hard, whatever works for them. But yeah, I don't know.
But I but you know, if.

Speaker 6 (12:41):
You were doing your best to not have your kids
raised on sugar and then they go to school and
get and get these lollies, well, I mean you know,
you'd throw up your hands in horror. Okay, thanks Mark.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
I don't want to knock on my teachers, teachers of
our kids because that would not be professional. But yeah,
I think, yeah, I don't need what more to say
about that. I think as the dental nurses are upset
about it, the dentist, the dental nurses only they are
big on brushing teeth at school. I seem to study
that for about a week round And it's funny, old
brushing teeth. It was always changing. It used to be

(13:12):
round and around. Now it's flicks. Get in touch, Marcus,
till twelve. Have you gone sola? Have you gone to
change the hot water cylinder? How's your solo workdout? Has
it paid off? Marcus? I've been off the grid since
twenty twelve. Saw or the Hoho ha coming gosh smugmus alert.
I'd be concerned for the Southerners with a three billion
data center that runs twenty four to seven. I see

(13:34):
they've sealed the deal for the power today. Found out
today that the old New Zealand ze and fifty cent
has more silver value than face value if it as
a collectible. Where'd you find that out? We put our
heat pump hot water cylinder in our house, got it
removed up for three months because it was so loud
and made buzzing noise most of the time. Drove us crazy.

(13:56):
Someone said, what is the life span of a solar panel?
Kivy don't know, Kivy, get in touch Marcus till twelve
twenty five past date sweets as rewards at school? And
how's it work going solar for you? You got the
big battery, You've got the Tesla wool battery. Have you
got the panels? Have you got those things on your phone?

(14:16):
Where you consider it work? And see how much power
you're generating at home? I've got mates with that. That's oh,
look at this. Look how much I'm producing at the moment.
Pretty interesting. That's the plan. Stand. If you want took
with us or anything else, you've got breaking news. We
you elist know what that breaking news is, break a breaker.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine to text.

(14:36):
They did say there's four levels for fuel, but none
of them was reinteresting. The government might have gone overcooked
on this, so undercooked on this one. Yeah, and by
the way, rugby clubs around the country are scrapping junior
fees in a bid to ease financial pressure on families
and revive grassroots participation. What I have noticed that the

(14:57):
rugby clubs have re good with is they're very good
at just handing on the old boots to the younger kids,
which I think is a great thing. But yeah, I'm
not involved in the pa of the fair. I wouldn't
know how much it cost the kids to play rugby.
And the Red and Whites. Get in touch if you
want to talk at this or anything else. Oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty I'll keep your data. With the
news around there, we'll be talking about solar panel. We're

(15:19):
also talking about heat pump hot water cylinders. I don't
know the theory, but the theory was. I don't know
the theory, but the theory is. I don't know the specifics,
but obviously I talk about a heat pump has been
the perfect engine. So it's just more efficient, so it's
not using as much power. You're still paying for all
your lines, fees and all that other rubbish. So yes,

(15:42):
that's a situation. If you want to talk about this
or anything else about him as Marcus, welcome, Oh, eight
hundred eighty ten eighty. There's something else you want to
talk about, text it through nine two nine two to text.
Would love to hear from you and with you through
until twelve o'clock to night. That's kind of the plans.
Stand you want to mention the Middle East, knock yourself
out another day into the war and another day less

(16:04):
likely to be out of the war. Marcus, free solar
installation twenty percent off our powerable for seven years. Then
they can buy the system depreciated. Is that a good
thing or a bad thing? Don't know, but I'd like
to talk to you about that, your experience with solar.
Oh wait, one hundred you know the rest Marcus till
twelve and breaking news when that happens tonight. Well yeah,

(16:24):
Iran now vowing revenge for the killing of the security
chief sort appeace as though he was killed Ali Larajani Yep,
the reckony was ruthless and clear eyed about what needed
to be done. But yes, if you want to talk,
get to the plans, Dan, get in touch or text
hope the day we are is as pleasant as the

(16:45):
day where I am. Very pleasant, indeed remarkable kind of weather.
But let's be hearing from your people, as I say, Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two text
if you want to be a part of it. And yeah,
just the way you went with your solar and how
that's worked out for you and your hot water cylinder
going to a heat pump. Yeah, surprised talking to people

(17:07):
how much it costs with guests to heit your home.
Some of those bills I've heard aboutrageous. That doesn't seem
to be a cheap option these days. Seems to be
a bit of an old world solution that one. So
the headline says Trump said he's not afraid of Vietnam
style ground combat and Iran. Well, he was scared during
the Vietnam time, wasn't it that thing? That's the one
that he had the footspurs for. But there you go. Oh, well,

(17:31):
keep those texts coming through to people lines there for
if you don't to talk as I say, break it.
Thanks to Lea two sitting through the picture of the
fire from last night, Marcus, very important. Have you tried
the mcgriddles from the Mecca's breakfast menu? Game changer? Thanks Mike,
another text or Marcus. My pregnant wife is craving burgers.
She craved burgers with our first pregnancy we had a boy.

(17:53):
I wonder if we're having another boy. Early days for us.
My son is at a westalk And High School and
the rugby fees are one to eighty dollars. Cheers, Davy.
I think it all depends too if you've got to
pay the rental on the fields. It's kind of something
I wasn't really aware of. Twenty eight to nine. You're Lindsay,
this is Marcus. Welcome and good evening. How are you good, Lindsay?

Speaker 7 (18:16):
Good love Solar. I've got thirty two channels on the
roof and a Tedler Petrie and I don't get a
power bill.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Brilliant. Do you sell power to them? Do you sell
power to the grid?

Speaker 7 (18:26):
Yeah, they give it back to me in summer and
then when I get a bit of because there's not
so much sun, and what do they it.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Sort of worked out even Oh okay, so you go
into credit in the summer and you get some bag
back and then that.

Speaker 7 (18:38):
Covers those power bells in winter when you don't have
so much sun. But I, I just recommend it. It's
just beautiful. I got an inheritance money, and that's because
it cost forty grand. But the key word is put
on the bank at two percent, or get a free
power bill every month where I'm driving. That's one right
out of it. And so I just I just thought

(18:58):
that was just a no brainer.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Was your house having the roof the right aspect anyway?

Speaker 7 (19:04):
Yeah, they wanted to put a stupid frame on it,
but I just like I've got I just wanted the
same as a garage pitch. So I didn't do it
exactly what they wanted. But and then it doesn't look ugly.
Does that make sense? That doesn't sit you look.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Like, yeah, it looks like yes, it looks like you're
Sally Solo. When you're all up with the ones and
the different pitch. It looks like you're a bit to
full on with an a like you're running bitcoin mining.

Speaker 7 (19:31):
You wouldn't say that's both cheaper. It's just easy.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Does that make sense that?

Speaker 7 (19:34):
I can't believe how easy it was?

Speaker 3 (19:37):
So yeah, that's.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
That's my who assessed your need for how many panels
you needed?

Speaker 8 (19:43):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (19:47):
Start off, what they wanted to do it that I
just didn't have a bettery because we used to all
most of our power from about four in the afternoon.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Till eight at night. Yep.

Speaker 7 (19:56):
And and in the end, it just came down to
I wanted a bettery, and I wanted to and it
came down to cross and I wanted thirty four because
then it was a nice square on my garage root.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
But thirty four is not a square thirty six.

Speaker 7 (20:11):
It was thirty four on my garage roof. Okay, well
work because it's beside the my garage roof.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Does that okay? Yeah, I guess it doesn't.

Speaker 7 (20:19):
But that only let me. The downcoming said I would
become generate too much power, so they would only let
me have thirty two because I might cook the lines.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Have you thought of going with a heat pump for
your hot water?

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Ah?

Speaker 7 (20:35):
No, there's only two of us, so we don't use
that much hot water. But it's just.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, so you're not you're not worried about power now
because you've got enough so you're sore today.

Speaker 7 (20:46):
Yeah, that's right, But you get a power bill in
your smile. I haven't so many people say that.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
How many years you had it? Did you say, lindsay
three years?

Speaker 3 (20:56):
So far?

Speaker 7 (20:58):
Battery is guaranteed for eight, the third is guaranteed for ten,
and the penel is guaranteed.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
For twenty four twenty four years.

Speaker 7 (21:07):
Yeah, certain output for so many years.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
I didn't know that. Do you have to wash them down?

Speaker 8 (21:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (21:13):
I get I'll get some guy every year to come
in and give them a clean.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
But what's he charged to that?

Speaker 7 (21:21):
Or surrander? But Ford and sixty five?

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Has he got a hose with a brush on the end.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (21:27):
I don't think you can just use a natural sakuts
or something. They want something special with the ionized water
and all that sort of stuff.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Oh good on him. He's got something going on. Are you?
Are you getting reckless with power now? Are you leaving
things on because you've got so much of it?

Speaker 7 (21:44):
It's been so hot. I had my heat pump and
my bedroom going twenty four seven sixteen degrees? Wow, you
can sleep well of sixteen degrees?

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (21:54):
I'm always about no. I like a cooller. Hey are
you south? Are you South Island?

Speaker 7 (22:00):
Now it?

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Oh yeah, that's the most beautiful part of the world.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
For now, I say that, I don't know I say something.
It's my job. That's part of the thing.

Speaker 8 (22:12):
You think.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Just think of silly things to say. Okay, lindsay, I
don't know why I said for now, I don't think
anything's changing. Nice to talk to you. It's all about solar. Oh,
eight hundred eighty, ten eighty and nineteen nine to text.
Your experience going off the grid? You might have gone
the old wind wind turbine. Yeah, I had a bit
of fun with my old wind farm next door to
me this week. Anyway, get in touch if you want to. Oh,

(22:38):
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine nine to text.
It's all about power and wind and solar and anyone
buying a bike on the back of the old impending
what do we call it? The caro owner The caronavirus
hasn't really caught on that, but I'll keep I'll keep
reiterating it. Marcus, tell us how you power your range?
Have you've got a cold range, got a heat pump,

(23:01):
got two fires? One fire? Has got a wep back
to the hot water cylinder. Don't burn coal, burn it
wood and got some extremely dense what at the moment
that burns very hot? Marcus, can you please ask these
people with soul if they pay a daily rate. It's
a daily rate that is the killer on the powable. No,
they won't, they'll be off the grid. They won't. Oh,

(23:22):
I should have asked that person. I need some more people.
How I use the file with wetback for heating and
hot water all year around. We build a new place
that is on in such a way that even in
some of the fire going and still cool it inside
it outside. Cost of a fire as fifty a month
powable as one twenty. Well, look at Sola. This still
works out cheaper than converting or transitioning. Marcus. I brought

(23:44):
my one hundred CCE Honda Leads Scoot out from the sheet.
I bought her in for six fifty in the COVID
nineteen days she could return fifteen hund or two k
now with fuel prices. What if you want to replace
your roof or paint it? How long to make your
forty grand inheritance back higher? Feller? Teach your hair sugary

(24:05):
treats can work wonders. We normally work towards a goal
at the end of the term, so it's a daily thing.
Kids love it. It's really wholesome. Pretty two to nine
are Gregor's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 9 (24:17):
Hey Marc is how you're going good? Greg Hey, am
I just a very short, I guess comment. With the
the fuel potential, fuel shortages and the risk to power generation,
et cetera in this country. I think in the long
term it would be or even in the short term,
it would be great to think that the central government

(24:39):
is starting to think more widely now about how to
protect this country from these types of overseas shops that
we have no control over. So I hope that's the case.
I mean, I know there's going to have to be
some sort of short term plan in place, but maybe
as a country we should be looking at other alternative

(24:59):
forms of power generation. You know, there's that expansion of
the geo thermal power generation that's a well I don't
know if it's planned, but at least it's been investigated.
But that's central. But what I don't understand is why
we don't invest more now when we're doing new house
builds on solar energy or other forms of power generation.

(25:23):
And also in terms of storm water, why aren't we
insisting that, you know, every house has some sort of
stormwater sample or a tank that access the first place
we're all water from our roof goes and that gets
used on your garden first, But it's also a way
of helping the impact on our storm water system. So

(25:47):
I just feel like we're as a nation, we really
need to be looking more like that than just sitting
on our hands and saying, well, that's somebody else's problem.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
I think that would have been the great reason then
to go with that plan. The previous government had to
have that giant battery, the Lake ONSLFE scheme that would
just pump water when it wasn't being used. Uphold, you
have this massive battery there that could supply us for
a long long time with hydro. That I thought was
quite a smart idea, but it was probably beyond the
imagination of some people and they got rid of it.

Speaker 9 (26:20):
Yeah, well, I think this is that, you know, I mean,
for all his foibles, you know, Rock Wilding, I'm not
saying he's my favorite politician of the past, but in terms,
you know, his old big plans, and some of those
were actually really good.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Well energy, I think energy self sufficiency is I still
like it. I think it makes people feel more comfortable
in themselves too. If this is not nice having to
watch all the news about the Stradihoor moves to work
out what's going to happen with our next holiday, or
what's going to happen to the price of fish, or
what's going to happen to the price of growth. This
is stressful.

Speaker 9 (26:52):
Yeah, it will be for many people. There'll be many
people think about what's it going to do to their livelihoods,
you know, especially with transportation costs, well.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Especially if you're thinking of buying a lifestyle block, then
you and your wife are working in town. It's next
to three hundred dollars a week for petrol. You know,
you can't put people's margins, have refine a lot of
of a lot of things like that.

Speaker 9 (27:12):
That's exactly right. So you know, it's I think we
now need to sort of take a step back and
think rethink how we're actually approacting our own sustainability in
this country. And I'm not I would not call myself
a green person, but know that there is something about
being able to self sustain. That does take a hell
of a risk and stress away from the other thing.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Rig is is no long term planning. You know, we
got we got rid of the fairies, and then we'd
had those ty now they would have been so you know,
it's just a short three to three year itis. You
get rid of everything because it's so you can balance
the box and nothing gets done.

Speaker 9 (27:44):
Yep, yep, that's that's dead right, and the important things
don't seem to come to the top. The fairies one
is our I find amazing because to me, really the
faories are just an extension of our state highway.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
They are the highway.

Speaker 9 (27:58):
Yeah, so why why the government seems to prioritize that differently?
I've got no idea. And it does play into larger
costs and you know, shortage of supply sometimes between the
two islands.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, are you going?

Speaker 10 (28:11):
Are going?

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Are you going solar? Greg?

Speaker 9 (28:14):
Well, it's a good question. So I'm in the process
of think about selling my house. And it's an older
house in nineteen seventies. It's pretty it's as sufficient as
I could probably get it been in nineteen seventies house,
And I thought, well, actually do I do I put
solar on this house, and I'm thinking no so, And
the reason why is because I'd rather do a new

(28:34):
build and then think about a new build from the
ground up. So all the things that you should do
to make the house sustainable and energy efficient, you know,
it's a good environ all those things you can put
into the cost of a new build, and then you're
just amortizing those over the cost of the build over time,
whereas if you try to do it to an existing house,
you may be thinking, I'm only going to be in

(28:55):
this house for six years, so that kind of makes
it not quite so viable.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Like what you're saying, greeg, thank you for that break time.
How did your horse's jay with you?

Speaker 8 (29:02):
Soon?

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Twelve to nine? Good evening jay, make a seed of
good thanks Jail.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Great. I just thought I talked about my experience with
installing solar three years ago.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Now, sorry, how many years ago?

Speaker 2 (29:18):
I've about three years ago?

Speaker 11 (29:19):
Copy, Yeah, and I've got an electrical background and I
pretty much did it myself with a mate. Another words,
putting in the solar panels on the roof, which actually
is pretty straightforward. If you've got a color steel roof,
you just pull out the tech screws and.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Put you to join the extra holes.

Speaker 11 (29:37):
You just put the rails in the same holes and
I replaced them with decent screws, the galvanize screws at
the same moment to the whole roof. Actually, because I
opened the bench and so that part of it's pretty straightforward.
I mean installing the easy and the panels are cheap.
It really depends on the equipment you buy. Definely goes

(29:57):
wrong with it and you get a warranty on it.
That's one key thing I think. And also, are you
planning on staying that place for a while. Although you
can take the panels off for a bit of mucking
around and move them, you really want to if you're
going to look at it seriously, I think you have
to contemplate staying in that house for quite a while.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
What's what's the right what's the price? Like the second
hand panels, they've got good re selling value.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
I do, yeah, I wouldn't know.

Speaker 11 (30:24):
It's not really looked at old. Yeah, because I'm in
the sort of in the trade. We bought book everything
at wholesale, so you know, it costs about eight thousand winners.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Normally it would be fifteen roughly, you know, to do
what we did.

Speaker 11 (30:39):
But yeah, I mean that does make sense to me.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
I mean, my.

Speaker 11 (30:42):
Last palab was basically the cost of the line rental,
which is about sixty or sixty bucks a month, but
you know that obviously changes quite significantly through winter. The
last guy with U battery. That's the ultimate solution because
then you really, you know, it really starts to make sense.
But then you know you're payoffs quite a bit longer.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
I always thought the betters were about five five grand?
Are theyre more like twenty grand?

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Are they ten?

Speaker 11 (31:04):
Your friend average sort of three BUDGD sites how she's
probably ten to susteen. But there's a lot of talk
that in the next year or two they will start
coming down quite significantly, but you kind of hit it
every year, so you know, if they do come down,
which hopefully they will with more people buying them and things,
then yeah, I think it's it's definitely like if you're
going to stick around for ten years or twenty in

(31:25):
the same house, definitely makes sense. And then if you think,
because I was at a hybrid, it did forty k's
a day, and yeah, my overall bills have gone down
quite a bit, but then you know, I paid eight
thousand wholesale and I'm three years then I think we're
at about five thousand in terms of the money we've
made off the thing.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
So yeah, but then if.

Speaker 11 (31:47):
I was paying retail, would you quite a lot longer
before it sort of stacks up?

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Although I think you can get free loans for pet
for I don't know if that still applies, but I
know otherwise discounts for people to sold.

Speaker 11 (31:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you're just going to be
able to decide, Akam'm going to stand this house for
ten or twenty years, So then yeah, great, because by
the time you've paid the thing off, then you're pretty
much self sufficient. And for retirees, you know, I was
thinking the other day, if you're a retiree and you're
on a fixed sort of income, if you bought a
house with solar and battery and you had an EV,

(32:21):
your monthly outgoings are going to be significantly reduced. So
that's the ultimate thing to do, is to buy a
house that's already been done. Just you know, then you're
really winning.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Although j if you moved house, it would just be
you and a made a weekend to reinstall, wouldn't it.

Speaker 11 (32:37):
Well, it's sort of not quite that simple, and it
depends on the house obviously how easy it is, but
the inversive part of it, you have to have someone
that's licensed to do that specific sort of side of it.
But that's only half a day to do that. It's
like there's it's not a massive job. It really does
depend on the house. If you've got a two story
house with a large pitch on the roof, and that's
quite a bit more dangerous and you know, more health

(32:59):
and safety involved and making it safe to everybody. And yeah,
that's right.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
And I'm not even sure to you. I don't know
what the realist. I wouldn't be surprised if the real
estate agents don't say that. Probably they'd prefer a house
without the panels on the roof because it looks kind
of more like the blank slave that people would need,
because you know how real estate people have been funny
about that. So I much you, Yeah, I much find
out about it. Yeah, J nice to talk to you.
Thank you. Seven away from nine brent crew to dollar

(33:25):
two or one hundred and two dollars and four for
the for the for the tank. So there you go
for the week it's well up. So that's the situation there.
So I don't know if we can see the indication
from that texts Hi, Marcus, solar does not work. It
costs fifteen to thirty grand from average package. That's hell
a lot of power to payoff over those years. Marcus

(33:47):
latter did not go Bin Marcus. The guys saying about
the water catch would have been a good idea on a
house and lower hut see that as regulation. My family
started going electric. We have electric car. I am a fan,
no pun intended. We have solar panels. We basically run
the house like a battery. It's three things. I live
off the grid for three is in a container house,

(34:09):
a lot harder than people realize. Definitely need a good
heating system in the winter. Coinsitantly just brought e byke
four weeks ago. Pretty glad. I've got it aroun now
right about now. I've noticed over the last five years,
something big always happens. Earthquake, Covid, White Island, now, the
war in Iran and Petrol. What year was the earthquake
to eleven? Yeah, yeah, whatever. Not much happened in the nineties.

(34:33):
The nineties were quite calm. Thank you for that text
about caltext and now Alex, it makes those sense. Resend
it with punctuation, please, Marcus, I used the fire with
the wet back for heating in the hot water all
year round. Oh I had that one. I think someone said,
how long to make your forty grand inheritance back? I
don't know the situation there, but get in touch please.

Speaker 11 (34:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
The oil price stays over one hundred dollars a barrel,
up forty percent from the start of the war, stubbornly high. Well,
i'd say predicted didictably high. Iran has shown no sign
of relenting, and its strangle hold on the Straight of
hor moves. I did read somewhere today there was two
sixty two seventy two eighty ships a day normally going
through the Straight of hor moves. Not so much now

(35:19):
it's like one a day, and it's a big deal.
Be in touch. We are talking about going solar and
things we could do to cope with power, and the
things you can do too, because it's going to hurt
people more because all the predictions almost given the supermarkets
carte blanche to put their prices up, and boy, they'll
be doing that They love it a little bit of a profit,

(35:40):
don't they. They old supermarkets. Man, oh man, they're hooked on that.
I guess that's why they're in that game. I have
been reading during the news break that it does appear.
Oh this is I don't I don't know how much
importance to give this, but there is talk that China
has made an energy security reunification offered to Taiwan amid

(36:02):
the midd Least War offer today what it said would
be energies to ability to Taiwan if it agreed to
Beijing's rule, part of a campaign by China to convince
the island of the benefits of reunification, which is long rejected. Taiwan,
which receives a third of its LNG from Qatar and

(36:22):
sources no energy from China, has said it was secured.
It has secured alternative supplies for the months ahead, including
from the United States, the island's main international backer. That's
the offer from China to give it fuel autonomy if
it agrees to reunification. We are talking about solar power
and your experiences with it. People seem to have read

(36:43):
people seem to be very hesitant about solar power. Don't
they there's soul of skeptics. Very good text here. Why
are some people called James if there is only one
of them? What other names are plural? There aren't many,
are there, Lewis? I can't think of many, but James
does appear to be more than one, because the female

(37:03):
thing is Jane, not James. Free weird, isn't it? It's
extremely good text, though. You could text for New Zealand
three fifty power per month, forty grand, ten years, three
footy per month. Time is twelve three thousand, seven hundred
three thousand for four thousand a year. Right, Moses should

(37:25):
be mose high Marcus. I have solo on the souper
yunit runs everything fridge, phone charger, lights, toilet, water pumps.
No one Vooda needed its free power. We got solar
in September. It cost us fifteen thousand dollars without the battery.
The battery was seven loan from the bank to pay
for it. The interest rate one percent. I got a

(37:46):
power bill yesterday ninety one. We also got a credit
for one hundred and forty for what we set back
to the grid, so overall sixty credit to us. That's
the smallest credit we've had in the last two months.
We use heat pump all the time. Clothes dry. A
two bed house with two adults, love it. Marcus, you
think it's a cool idea to drive a to E
O to Aqua over a BMD Right now, my ucker

(38:07):
is pretty cool. I'd sell the beamer, get rid of
that fell it while you can. It's going to be
no market. Sell your guest guzzlers. Be five ten years
before we're back straight. Someone said, what about Piers Morgan,
that's plural get in touch with talk about sola And
does it concern you if your kids go to school

(38:28):
and the teachers incentify them with sweets, old kiddy cocaine?
What's wrong with the old rubber stamp? You do anything
for a rubber stamp, And actually, looking back, it was
pretty lame. You get daft pander beer and purple at
the bottom of your page. Feels almost deceptive of teachers
kind of bribing kids with such lame stuff. And I

(38:48):
mean often you wouldn't get the stamp. They'd say, very raally,
you get the stamp, open up the little stamp, pair
down it goes, push it down normally come out badly
like half done, because you think pen didn't have enough
thing in it. I think I wouldn't bothered if I
know I was going to get like a pen half
a pender in some corner. But that's what that's was
the reality, wasn't it Normally there's no ink and the

(39:09):
pad feature didn't care, did they really? That's teaching in
the seventies now. If you want to talk, that's the discussion.
There's something else you want to mention. Also, good lock
it in be f feel free to come through. By
the way, the Spice Girls reunion is not going to happen.
You know why, don't you? Because there was the you

(39:30):
know why the Spice Girls reunions is not happening. It's
too complicated for me to explain. But anyway, that's been
put on hold. It's axed tensions in the band, so
the plan has been ditched. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
So yeah, eight hundred nine nine to de text Angust,
Chris and Perez. What about Miles Davis double plural? Where

(39:53):
is Miles? Wouldn't that be great to run cars on
solar power? That's the idea, Marcus. The plethora of names endones.
Think Carlos as an all black Jesus as in water Walk,
Dallas as in Cowboys, Iris as an ill indoor weed,
and Miles as in west Ham Supporter. You were My

(40:15):
name's got nest on it, but no one to think
anyway be called Marku. I've never thought of myself as
been plural, but it does make for interesting, well fairly
interesting talk back. Come on, let's be hearing from your
people solar power and are you're buying an ev I
guess the time we've brought one would be about a

(40:36):
year ago. But yeah, they can't get them for love
nor money. Apparently, trade me says the prices are through
the roof. Of course they will be come on fourteen
past nine. By the way, there's a mess of evacuation
going on in Australia. I've just become aware of the story.
Cyclone Narrell could hit the coast of the Cat five,

(40:58):
one of the biggest cyclones and loving living memory. They
move slowly, don't they. It's going towards the coast at
eighteen kilometers per hour, but winds could be two to
five k's could tear roofs off houses and propel debris
at potentially fatal speeds. This may be the biggest system

(41:19):
that many people have seen in living memory. The situation
is evolving, clearly. It is looks like a land Friday morning,
four am, Friday morning.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
That's what's happening there. People. Now, if there's something different
you want to talk about also tonight. Really, it'll be
good to hear from you. Oh, by the way, the
Hastings Brimley Pull is closing. We've heard a bit about
that over the years. They're going to follow it up
and turn into a park. It's going to be replaced
by grass. It's down to five thousand visits a year,

(41:56):
the council subsidizing by twenty six bucks for each visit.
Mayor Wendy Sholom said the decision to close the pulled
to effect that the council's ongoing need to manage rate
payers money responsibly. I don't know if the pools are
any good. I think it might have been an outdoor
pool too. I don't know too much about from me.
You might know something about that'd be good to hear
from you. Talk about that also tonight if you want

(42:18):
a pine about that. We're in Australia. It's a big place.
So I did say Queensland. I did say at the
top of Queensland, like Cape York and further south. But
we don't need to text things like saying Australia is
a big place that's just passive aggressive or just aggressive
or just Gold's up, bit coins down, rent crewds even

(42:40):
sixteen past nine if you want to partake and looking
forward to your input tonight. Oh eight hundred and eighty
eight eighty So yes, your valerie, it's Marcus. Welcome inn,
good evening, how are you, greetings.

Speaker 12 (42:54):
I want to talk about pickle ball.

Speaker 13 (42:55):
Oh great, it's a fantastic game and I just want
everyone you know, it's just tastious for everyone's abilities.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
Well, it's not so dependent on the serve like tennis
is a bit serve focused, doesn't it.

Speaker 12 (43:13):
One hundred percent? And that's why I like it. You
just bounce it and hit it, and it's a great game.
And all sorts of people are playing it, you know,
doesn't have to be short skirts or anything like that.
All age groups are playing it.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
Let's face it. Let's face it. Tennis clubs were always
a bit of a drag, a bit elitist and a
bit sort of not that welcoming yeah, one hundred percent.

Speaker 12 (43:38):
And that's it. And this is not elitist, but trying
to get in to any league and stuff, it's impossible.
What taken off so much?

Speaker 1 (43:51):
U Valerie? I'm not coming around. But what city are
you in?

Speaker 12 (43:56):
Auckland? And it's gone nuts, it's gone absolutely nuts, and
where like there's lots of based off the north shore.
So there's a scheme set up at Kristin College and
they've got phenomenal courts there where you start your coaching.
But then you've got to go into a league.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Are you any good?

Speaker 12 (44:17):
You know, if I'm winning or losing type of thing.
I don't want to be mucking around.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
What did you say? But are you a good player?

Speaker 12 (44:25):
Not really but probably novice to INTI.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
So you want to but you want to get out
and about and meet people and you want to be
in the league, don't you?

Speaker 12 (44:35):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Absolutely?

Speaker 12 (44:37):
And it's really I know, but it's really great. So
to all your listeners out there, get out there and
do it so much fun.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
It's a squashed Were you a squash player in the
seven or you wouldn't be that old?

Speaker 12 (44:51):
Yeah I am that old. I am nearly sixty. Interesting
you can tell if someone has played squash in badminton,
because that's who're a table tiness, because that's who is
Her work predominantly attracts as that kind of market.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
The record records market. Yeah, yeah, have you bought your
own bed?

Speaker 4 (45:17):
One?

Speaker 2 (45:18):
Wow?

Speaker 12 (45:19):
One thirty dollars show?

Speaker 1 (45:22):
You should have said so much? You should have said
to be guess how much it would have cost? On
eight that sounds like a lot. This sounds like a
lot for thirty dollars.

Speaker 12 (45:31):
Yeah, but you've gotta gotta be fibrilized the type thing
because the ball is plastic.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
Yeah, wow, thirty bucks yourself? What shoe? What shoes your
pecking Valerie? Did you eat shoes on?

Speaker 5 (45:42):
Timo its?

Speaker 12 (45:45):
I got shows and and you're gotta have good shows.
You don't have ten good shows?

Speaker 1 (45:50):
Well, they reckon women that your feet, that what go
first and women and that leads to falls.

Speaker 12 (45:58):
We don't want that, do we, markus?

Speaker 1 (46:00):
We do not today, Valerie, it's been a delight, Thank you.
Pickleballs on the top again going solar and yeah, ways
to actually avoid the power crisis and the energy crisis.
Ah oh, Marcus Beck of the seventies. We used to

(46:21):
get encouraging praise and a pat on the back. Oh
this is about getting encouraging children with sweets at school.
Yet no comment, but I think it's a thing. Twenty
past nine. There you go, people, twenty three past nine.
All the lines are free. I'm want to come on
a bit serious. It's not about sola, but shades light
and dark. Someone told me that brent Crude is named

(46:41):
after the Brindeile field, which is named after the Brink goose,
which is true. I've never seen the Brent goose, but
that's what the oil barrels are named out after. Yees,
so we've learned that. We I've learned that over a
number of times. Nice looking goose. It looks much nicer
than the Canada goose. It's a distinguished looking goose. It's
got to write a white mark around the neck. It's

(47:04):
actually called the Brent goose. I think it's the same
thing as the Brink goose. Yes, a small goose, beautiful
looking goose. You see that's that You click on Wikipedia
about the Brin goose. Two questions down? Can you eat
brink goose even wants to always eat everything, don't they?
Can you eat it? Apparently? In Ireland if you're Catholic

(47:25):
and County Kerry. You could eat this bird on a
Friday because it counted as fish. Ah, so it must
taste quite anchovy like the I think like the mutton
bird tastes like fish like a flying inch ofv twenty
four past nine. Need you'll calls solar? What else to
watch are rewards at school? There might be some really
archaic things that your teacher used to reward you with

(47:47):
when you're at school that looking back on you might think, Gee,
you wouldn't get away with that now. I don't know
what it would be, like a drag on the cigarette.
I can't imagine what it would be, but you know
you might have had some loose things happening out there
in the nineteen seventies. Have been touch if you want
to and going solar and batteries and bring crude After

(48:08):
the duck or the goose? What were the definition of
a goose? How is a goose different from a duck?
Got you're thinking, haven't I? Just a longer neck is
a duck a goose? Just a duck with a long
neck might be the length of their legs. Jared, this
is Marcus.

Speaker 14 (48:27):
Welcome, Yeah, I am Marcus.

Speaker 15 (48:30):
Thanks for taking my calls.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
My pleasure, Jared, my pleasure. Yeah, I know you're talking.

Speaker 14 (48:36):
Yeah, I know you're talking about energy, but I just
wanted to talk about like the fuel sort of crisis
a wee bit. And look, I've had a long standing
bucket list thing to do the tr Or Trail, and
this evening I chucked a fifteen kg pack on for
the first time in a long long time and walked

(48:59):
four k's up to the Brunswick Hall out of FONNOI
and then four k's back and all I had was
my old work boots. They were steel caps and my
feet are half dead. But look I did it. And
that's my first training run for the Tower or Trail.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Yeah, you're going north to south or south to north.

Speaker 14 (49:19):
No cap rang it to bluff. Yeah, I'm gonna And look,
I know everyone sort of plans it around October and
then goes through.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
There are a lot on the road today finishing. There
was probably thirty today.

Speaker 14 (49:33):
Oh wow wow.

Speaker 5 (49:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (49:36):
Look I know that if I started sort of towards
the end of afall so I'd be hitting the winter.
But look, I can afford to just park up and
you know, obviously not take any risks with the weather
and snow and park up in a storm. But look,
it's not the great punching through the through the winter.
I know that, and I'm probably better to start in

(49:56):
late September Octoga when most people do. Would that be
your thoughts?

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Yeah, it would be. I'm on a website. I'm on
a website called Tierra A Trail, the trail. Most of
them are just bludging their whole way down. Oh could
anyone pick me up? Could anyone place to stay? The
fraudas they do, they're treating it. I don't think they're
even paying with the huts, and they just seem to
be doing it on the and apparently the huts are
pretty disheveled, and they reckon going through the long woods

(50:21):
south of the Techies, it's just the mud. And all
the tourists are complaining and saying it should be boardwalked,
but there's no money for the track to be boardwalk
because I don't even think people are paying their hut fees.

Speaker 15 (50:31):
Well, and they.

Speaker 14 (50:32):
Probably get to bluff and have a yarn at the
at your sign, just where you are bluffy and tell
everyone how they walk the tarra A Trail.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Yeah, oh yeah, but I tell you what. You see
some people starting it walking north, yeah yeah, and then
you see some people finishing at walking south, and the
people walking south at the end, Boy, they look fit
compared to those ones starting off. Boy, they look like
they've just been through a boot camp.

Speaker 16 (50:58):
They look fit as Yeah.

Speaker 14 (51:00):
Yeah, no, Look because I was I cut my teeth
in the terror as I was chief god of the
Pair White Training Club for a couple years.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Oh yeah, you've a great yeah.

Speaker 14 (51:09):
And I know the tower is pretty well. I did
search and rescue in the tower was I was the
first responder there for the search and rescue on the
western side. We got chopping in many a times in
some pretty hairy conditions. Winds and choppers and things like that.
And look, I've just lost a lot of weight. I've
got taught two diabetes, but I've lost about twenty nearly

(51:31):
twenty five kilos, and I've never felt better physically and
also mentally in probably at least twenty years. So I just.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
I what's your age, Jared?

Speaker 14 (51:44):
Are we forty nine on the twenty first of March?

Speaker 1 (51:46):
Oh, happy birthday for them? Oh yeah, what it sounds like. Yeah,
but I wouldn't be doing the steelcap boots I'll lead
to Look.

Speaker 16 (51:54):
I've learned very valuable.

Speaker 14 (51:56):
Look, I know, you know boots with tramping. I had
Italian boots when I was tramping and stuff. And the
first thing I'm going to do on Friday when I
go to town, because I live relief, I'm going to
go and get some decent maybe some light weight, but
ankle support, good grip, and that's going to be the
staple of my training raisers and going forward.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
Yeah, weird people come and stay. Were quite offen have
people come and stay. Some of the people that came
and stay, they chopped the they chopped their toothbrush into
a third. It was just the end of it.

Speaker 14 (52:27):
Look, there were all sorts of tricks when we were tramping.
Astounded me what people would do to save the gram,
you know, like it was just there was some people
when it was almost like a disease, they would they
were just they would go. It was just crazy. And
it was almost like a game between a group of
people what they could shave the weight down on their pack.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
You know, I notice they've all got a pair of crocs.
They've got a pair of crocks stucked into the crocs
and the rivet for around your hut. You know, you
get your boots off your crops and then you sort
of trying it on with the other trampers.

Speaker 14 (52:59):
I always sort of didn't, didn't, you know. I wasn't
as I've never been a crop man. But I might
invest in a pair of CROs and maybe along the
way by those little badges that go on your crops.
Maybe I don't they called it, that's.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Called a gibbet. Yeah, I should actually design a tarrow
a gibbet. They also next door at the Freedom Farm.
That seems to be where they enjoy enjoy it. So
what we are talking about tonight, there's three prongs. I'm
gonna have to go with a three pronger because we're
not going to single topic tonight. I've been excited to
abrad solar power and you'll switch to solo. Now that's

(53:34):
not everyone's jam if you want to talk about that
good and also going to a heat pump for hot
water cylinder. We're also talking about teachers at primary school
whether they should reward kids for good behavior by giving
them sweets, particularly since we have an obesity epidemic. But
if it works, is that a good thing? What would
eric A Stanford have to say about this. So that's

(53:54):
the second topic. And then we talk about someone Helen said,
well on Hude a stamp was enough, which took me
straight back to those janky stamps that the teachers would
give you with not enough ink. There's not enough ink
in the pair, or the teacher didn't have even pressure.
But pretty much, once you got a stamp for Koala,
that's just kind of a third there. It doesn't give

(54:16):
you much pride in your material, does it. So the
weird things your teacher used to motivate you will threaten you.
Marcus Iron quiet about solar out a year ago, forty
K plus the cost of make good. I just couldn't
justify that it would pay back in time. Would make
sense of an electric car, but I can't afford the
car if I buy the solar. What about if your

(54:36):
mind bitcoin, that's the great use for spear power. What
a waste of power that is, all that power that's
gone into bitcoin. You wonder what the historians look back
on these times and decide we took leave of our
senses and pickleball? Is it hard to get into a league. Also,
we are talking about the tiadaa travel. That is a

(54:57):
trail that goes from Cape Rienger to Bluff, but mainly
done by foreigners. I suppose they're the only ones. Well,
it's a cheap holiday for them because they pay nothing.
That's my Saudi Arabia's Defense ministry says it's forced forces
shot down a second drone today over the capital. Read
cost the millions every time they take down and drone

(55:17):
apparently like three or four millions buckaroos twenty seven to ten.
If you want to be a part of tonight's discussion,
would like to hear from you. There's other stuff you
want to fly the flag where that's all good? Yep,
that's the situation. I can handle that, but you make
the effort. Oh eight hundred and eight, someone sent me
a picture. Tehnnah, that's Tahna is north of Welsford ninety

(55:45):
one three dollars forty. It's Tahanna ninety one three dollars forty.
What does it got on gasby?

Speaker 2 (55:53):
So?

Speaker 1 (55:54):
What was that two months ago? So we will have
a round robin with different fuel prices. I think Matakhana
was the cheapest. I think probably the most expensive was
be at Heart or Great Barrier. Oh, that's a good point.
Gold stars is what we got. How has that changed? Yeah,
of course we've got the gold stars. Sometimes you get

(56:17):
the gold stars on your exercise book where sometimes some
teachers would have a gold star race and your name
would be there and gold stars would go beside your
name or did seem like the most important thing in
the world when you were seven to get a gold star?
Seems crazy now, doesn't it. Speaking of doc Huts, just
spent two weeks around the top half of the South
Island four wheel driving and camping at dock Huts. Amazing trip, Dave.

(56:40):
Well if you got one of those silly things on
your roof, Dave. People love those, don't they. They're driving
around up, they are on the ladder, up and down.
Not my idea of a holiday sleeping on top of
your car, but people seem to love it. You find
whole groups of them now with driving around. Well, well
enough for me twenty five to ten, twenty three away

(57:00):
from ten breaking news when that happens, good even Grant,
it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 15 (57:05):
Well we got to talk to you.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
What's happening ground?

Speaker 15 (57:08):
Hey you mentioned here a trail. Yeah, I've just done that.
The ten Great Walks with my daughter God we decided
about five years ago that we should give them a crack,
and I tell you it's one of the best things
I've ever done.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
I don't know, well, I've never quite known what the
great Walks were, and that there was ten, tell me
what you did.

Speaker 15 (57:27):
So there's actually there's actually eleven of them now, but yeah,
there's like seven or eight down in the South Island
and three in the North, three in the North Island,
and you just you know, they're all stock arts sort
of stuff, and it was. We've done about two a
year for the last five years and it was absolutely fantastic.
I'd recommend it to anyone who's ever thought, oh I

(57:47):
might do a great walk, or might do a couple
that they actually, you know, commit to it and get
in and do it. It was fantastic.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
Any of them disappointing ground.

Speaker 15 (57:56):
None, No, they're all. I mean, the Route Burne and that,
the Kepler and all are simply spectacular. And there's some
the the New West Coast. One's Paparah et cetera, Rakaroo
down and Stuart Island slightly different, but each of each
of them are fantastic in their own right. Did you
do the Hump, Yeah, did the Hump. That was a

(58:18):
tough one. Actually, first day you're just kind of going
eleven k throughout the hill on on on board walks,
and but there was a little bit You've got the
Humps a little bit different in the fact that the
lodgers are a private it's not you're not staying in
dock ups. But it's a little bit more luxurious but beautiful.
The top of the first night, at the top of

(58:38):
the Humpbridge, you can see across to Rocky Aura and
there was this magnificent Oh, it's.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
A spectacular location up It's a spectacular location up there.

Speaker 16 (58:47):
It really is.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
It's one of those walks where you get that you
get the coast to walk along the beaches up there
with the alpine stuff too. So it is interesting exactly.

Speaker 15 (58:55):
But look, if anyone is thinking that they're thinking of
doing it, I can I just can't recommend it highly enough.
It's probably you know, it's kind of memories that you'll
take with you for the rest of your life.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
I think it's a of a schmoldle. Now with booking huts,
it's become quite sort after with overseas people. Is that
right is that you founded or aid agree.

Speaker 15 (59:14):
I think the Milford track is incredibly popular. That's that's
the hardest. The Milford, the Kepler and the route Earn
are the hardest to book. The others you can do
it really if you if you show a little bit
of commitment and you know, get in there when they
say the booking's open, you'll you'll get You'll get into them,
no problem. And the other thing is that people do
cancel as well, so you can you know, keep you
keep an eye on it. You can check it and

(59:34):
and get to do those other ones as well. If
you live in the EU, it's hardy for us. We
live in Auckland, so we had to fly down all
the time, so we had to have it well, you know,
well organized before we left. But just simply fantastic experience.
And and I'll take it to the grave.

Speaker 1 (59:49):
Trouble as you've finished your quest now, haven't you.

Speaker 15 (59:53):
Yeah, there is that, but there's we've got all again
in our marcus. So we'll probably head to Tasmania and
do some of those and do something different. But there's
also a whole lot of fantastic walks throughut in the
fields that aren't considered great walks. So is it's you know,
it's never ending, to be honest.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
How old your daughter is she an adult?

Speaker 15 (01:00:11):
Yes, he's an adult. Yes, she's twenty seven. Oh yeah,
So no, it was fantastic the tearra trail. That's not
for me. That's just that would be too hard and
too daunting.

Speaker 14 (01:00:21):
I think, I think.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
That's quite I see them every day on that finishing
and I'll tell you what, a lot of them are
just walking right from or Eaty Beach to Bluff and
they're walking alongside the road and the track never should
have gone that way. It was crazy that for long,
no exactly, And most of them are just most of
them are just walking along reading things off the cell phone. Yeah,
which doesn't seem like the spirit to me.

Speaker 6 (01:00:46):
I don't.

Speaker 15 (01:00:46):
I don't really, I can't really see the great attraction
of that. But I have spoken to a lot of
the the tourists that come over and do it, and
they actually they actually missed part of the of the
road and they do the great walks instead. So they'll
dull they'll grab a car, then they'll you know, they'll
they'll walk a fair chunk of it. Then they'll grab
a car and they'll they'll go down to and they'll

(01:01:07):
do Kepler, Routeburn and all those together, and then they'll
carry on with their tracks. So some of them aren't
doing it strictly just to do the Tiro trail. They'll
mix it up with some of the other walks in between.
And you know, I think you're talking earlier about you know,
people trying to keep their packs light, et cetera. Well,
my daughter and I were the opposite. We take as

(01:01:27):
much luxury as we can. We'll take a couple of
bottles of wine and take the steaks and do it properly.
So but I think on Tierro trail you're you're trying
to save every gram.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
Nice to talk, Brunt, Thanks so much, Satin Away from
ten welcome. There was a guy. I read an article
on a guy who took great pride and taking free
heavy loads. It was his thing. He had a letter.
It was an amazing article and that was his thing.
He's an older guy, but it was had like a
hundred kilos. I don't know where I read it, but
he had a letter as Peck was, so I think

(01:01:59):
he'd have a letter to get up to it. I
don't even know I could ever find that article again.
Just done, Maximus Tramper. That's right, it was in the wilderness. Mega,
it's a great article. He had a letter, Yeah, carry
seven toolboxes and a letter to get us pack waight
up to seventy five kgs. Reagan Bridge might be Ryan's dad. Unbelievable.
I guess she'd like carrying heavy stuff and you into

(01:02:21):
it literally got a ladder on his back. Well, I
guess there are some sort of joys sometimes in carrying
heavy loose normally is the relief when you get to
the end. I'm happy to talk about the great walks
Marcus with My kids were at primary school. The had
a teacher called Missus Blushka. She was an amazing teacher.
She would collect seashells on the weekend and spray paint
them gold, hang them on wall. The kids would work

(01:02:41):
hard a week for their table to win Table of
the week reward being each received what she called golden treasure.
The kids loved her. It's amazing how excited the kids
get about some center. My youngest always coming home and
tell me what particular challenges it in, how many marbles
they've got all what it fully and fully fully cashed

(01:03:03):
in with everything that's going. But I hype they love it.
It's sixteen to ten. What about those stamps though, or
the goldst in these days? I guess it's teachers just
get it all on ten. It's easy to get stuff,
isn't it, gold stars and things for rewards like that.
Sixteen to ten. Be a part of it if you
want to talk here till the end, pickleball, solar panels,

(01:03:27):
sweets and primary school, the great walks. That's the topic
so far. And be in touch if you want to
be a part of the show. If there is something
different you want to talk about.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
Not fast.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
Oh there's a picture now of a person hanging from
the sign. You don't want to break the sign. Flip
fifteen to ten. Keep those texts coming through people twelve
to ten and get in touch if you want to talk.
I've given you all the topics. If they're not, you're

(01:03:59):
liking it. There's something I want to talk about, not fast,
make the effort. Get in touch. Eight hundred and eighty Wednesday.
No sport either, is there? Oh well, Marcus, I would
like to do the tierro a trail at some time.
But wonderfully nest has done it walking and done the
tour to a cycle and wonder how they compare and

(01:04:21):
which one was best. Yeah, I see there's lot of
cyclist finishing at the moment. Also the cyclist don't look
as happy. They look about midlife. Crisisy No One won
Lotto No One one Strike three shared one million twenty
million on Saturday. That's getting up into the feverish tear.
Mind you, twenty million, isn't it? I mean twenty million

(01:04:44):
like not like forty million? Would you buy a beat guest,
Gus and k would you go electric? I don't know
the answer to that, but if you want to be
in touch, I'm looking forward to your contributions today. I'll
keep your day with the news to also promised you
that what's what I do find interesting about the war
and the civiliast does a lot of the papers have
kind of stopped reporting on it, like It's amazing how

(01:05:06):
quickly people found it not interesting. I think from a
geopolitical point of view, it's still absolutely fascinating. By the way.
The funerals are held today for in a run for
Ali Larijani as well as Golumrisa Salamani, the head of
the Islamic Revolutionary Guard corpse. I don't want to sound disparaging,

(01:05:26):
but it all sounds like Star Wars language, doesn't it that.
You know, it's always these grand titles. And I haven't
got a lot of reports of news out in the
last hour, but cual, you know, more ships have come through.
I guess it's probably worth looking at on ship tracker
to see how many ships are in the straits because
even if they do get permission to go through the straits,

(01:05:47):
they might be able to get insurance. That's the thing.
So it's different to actually allow it, but also to
you got to get permission. See if you look at
ship track, a lot of ships around the world, aren't there,
boy oh boy, I mean talk about the state of
the obvious, but jeepest there's probably three hundred ships west
of the Straits of Hormuz, probably more than that. Unbelievable numbers.

(01:06:09):
It's pretty amazing actually, but none of them moving earth.
They're move in real time. Are nine away from ten
o'clock Hittle midnight. Just a bit more news too that
the TVs. They are reporting it says Iran and Russia
both allege a projectile struck the grounds of the Bushier
nuclear power plant in the Islamic Republic, raising the specter

(01:06:33):
of a radiological incident. Neither Iran nor Russia say there
was any release of nuclear material in the instant Tuesday,
but it again underlines a long time worry of Iran's
neighbor that the power plant on the shore of the
Persian Gulf could be stricken by either an attack or
an earthquake. Wow, Russian technicians operate the plant using Russian

(01:06:58):
made low enriched uranium. I don't know who has fired
or targeted. That remains unclear what the projectile that hit
the complex was, So I guess this single esclate more
of there's going to be some sort of nuclear incident.
They announced in the nineteen seventies the plan to build
twenty three nuclear reactors. We're also having full control of

(01:07:21):
the nuclear fuel cycle, oping the door to be able
to build nuclear weapons or atomic weapons. So that's something
new to think about and consider. This sees a possible
strike on a nuclear power station. You could see a
leak of radiation into the environment. That's been a major
concerner in the three years after Russia launched its full
scale invasion of Ukraine, in twenty twenty two. Of course
I could always do that themselves if it was that

(01:07:41):
close to the other countries in the Middle East or
the Persian Gulf. Anyway, it's six away from ten o'clock.
If you want to partake in the show serious times, John,
this is Marcus. Welcome in good evening, John gone cold
fate for John. That's all right, your cope an other time,
but thank you. It was keen to go on?

Speaker 8 (01:08:03):
Was he?

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
Marcus? The lake onslaugh. So pumped hydro scheme has now
be investigated by a private consortium Google Kluther Pumped Hydro
consortium probably that last week though, but it took a
while to build. I think I suspect that probably will
go ahead. That gives you some form of resilience because
you're usually are downtime to pump water to a height

(01:08:26):
where it works as a giant battery, and then you
can still years worth of power up there. But still
it's still a hydro, so it's still more effective at
source because hydro I think does I don't know that,
but I think hydro once you send it from the
south under the Northold, you lose a lot or some
through heat. I'm never quite sure what the numbers are. John,

(01:08:47):
this is Marcus. Good evening, Good evening.

Speaker 10 (01:08:52):
Now I think about teaching a reward I gave my
taught for Amya thirty eight years before I retired. But
this I was secondary school teacher, and rather than give
lollies or gifts sourcings like that, if the class was
doing really well, I would sing to them in the

(01:09:12):
in the laboratory.

Speaker 1 (01:09:14):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (01:09:15):
But classes either side would hear me. I had a
four octor a four octor frange opera voice and would
sing anything from the Gambler, They'd love that one true
to lines and dorma or anything.

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
Would they tip along to the Gamble because that's a
fun one to do percussion for, isn't it?

Speaker 10 (01:09:33):
Oh yes, no, they got They just stuck into one guy,
That one guy that I sang to in one of
my lebs for a number of times.

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
He was.

Speaker 10 (01:09:45):
It was Marlon Williams.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
You might have heard of.

Speaker 15 (01:09:48):
Wow, you inspire, you might encourage.

Speaker 4 (01:09:51):
Boy.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
You must be impressed with how John. You must have
been impressed with how well he's done that album has
his extraordinary Oh.

Speaker 10 (01:09:58):
Yes, no, he was lovely and they had a chap
with a boy Wooly and they had a bandy and
it's called you. They sang together in called Wooly fish
woll What was was it was chemistry, physics and science
for thirty eight years.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
Brilliant. I've got to run, John, but nice to hear
from you. Thank you so much for that. That's a
great reward. It'll twelve bang it on through people. What
do you got going solar? Pickled wall and the great walks.
Now that's just suggestions. You can do whatever you want
your show, remember that. Get in touch. Oh eight hundred

(01:10:38):
eighty eighty nine to nine to tie think. I just
want to talk about Felfred. Come through, keep those texts
coming if you've got texts. Welcome, Laurie Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 8 (01:10:52):
Hi Marcus. Hey, did you say somebody sent you through
some photos missions from last night's fire? Yep, yeah, it
was what will counter it was. It was really hot
in there, an old it was the all easy By warehouse,
but it was full of we've got a lot of
golf golf equipment and that They included sort of golf

(01:11:14):
carts and you know, buggies and that. So there was
obviously batteries, whole lots of like commercial wrecks that you know,
the nor any stuffould be stored on access by sort
of the old loaders and stuff. So it was yeah,

(01:11:37):
at the daughter was she was in the first truck
that got there, and she was saying it was you know,
it was the bloody concrete. You know, it was extremely
hard even kneeling there or they couldn't kneel on the
concrete for long. It was, buddy, it was just too
hot and that's.

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
Pretty hot, so that the hated hate hated come through
the concrete and outside was and made it too hot
to kneel on.

Speaker 8 (01:12:01):
This is what there they were going. They went inside
trying to get the seed of the fire and the
water they were putting on were just turning the steam
to start with. No, I think they ended up about
it was about eight or ten crews, you know, sort
of trying to get it from all different angles. It
was pretty hard to get at the seat of it.
I think they had a couple of ladder truck from

(01:12:22):
Wamanui in a local one and but yeah, that went
on right on through. I mean that was about six thirty.
She was at the Satellite fire station what they called Milson,
which is sort of a closer to that, and but yeah,
at did several shifts in there basically, and she ended

(01:12:44):
up came out coming out in the middle of about
one o'clock in the morning, but took her Yeah, the
old breathing upparados often as she vomited. Basically, she had
an extreme hit headache and she had to end up
going to the h so they sent her to the hospital.
War but it was she had never felt any heat,

(01:13:04):
you know, heat so much like it they'd been.

Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
Is that heat exhaust Is that what does that I.

Speaker 8 (01:13:10):
Guess would be Yeah, yeah, yeah, at the combined heat
exhaustion and the bit of physical exhaustion obviously dragging the
hose year round as well and over a period of time. Yeah,
and she recovered really quickly.

Speaker 1 (01:13:26):
But it was sort of because I wondered how it
got so involved, and I guess if there's batteries catch light,
then really it's you're not running its course, but it's
not it's not as easy to put out as other fires.

Speaker 8 (01:13:37):
Yeah, and there was a lot of obstructions here. They
couldn't get through to the seat of it, so they
were trying to come in from different sides. Yes, that's
sort of then when the obstructions were like sort of
golf cat's pack that are already caught fire or stuff.
You know that she's sat and fall down off the
shelfs of the things. But the one thing I did

(01:13:57):
kep on. I don't know if if they're common around
the rest of New Zealand, but the Brethren run what
they call a rapid response team. And they turned up
at these big fires and set up at their pagonda
type thing and and start cooking hamburgers. Really yeah it
Actually if you look on they've got their report.

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
They're not they're not going to ring because they won't
be listening, will they.

Speaker 8 (01:14:23):
I don't think so. But they apparently turned up pretty quickly.
I think they were, you know, the big Cloverly fire,
or any big fires are farming. They seem to turn
up just they must have carrier.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
They must have carrier pigeons.

Speaker 8 (01:14:33):
And they're in there and they'reknocking out burgers and and
and cold drinks and you know, stay there all buddy night.
That's sort of pretty efficient.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
Do a good burger too, wouldn't they? The Brethren's yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:14:43):
Well they are I think actually one of the simper
markets in town here, but you know they're pretty well healed.

Speaker 1 (01:14:53):
Yeah, so that they're there to support the firefighters, are
they well?

Speaker 8 (01:14:58):
They they can think that's what they do on those situations. Yeah,
the fire fighters all, uh, when they come out from break,
they get fed there and it's sort of almost like
it's expected. They call it the emergency and disaster relief,
so so it's almost like it may be an international

(01:15:19):
looking at the website thing.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
They needed it because they needed to get some good
pr and they've got it with that, because that sounds
like a great thing to do.

Speaker 8 (01:15:26):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's probably worth me. But I hadn't
I hadn't picked up I know, but just but it
was good to come out and see it wasn't.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
A burger that made a crook, wasn't Larry.

Speaker 8 (01:15:44):
She thought your carry on, but apparently you know what
you took took the old the mask off and had
a big skew. She thought she was going to come right,
but they said no, no, no, you get in the
very you're got to go.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
And I imagine she's pretty tough, your daughter, isn't.

Speaker 4 (01:15:57):
She She is?

Speaker 8 (01:15:58):
Yeah, yeah, she's you know, the top ethlete sort of stuff.
And the thanks but it was just because it was
over such a long period and she reckon it exists
extremely hot, you know, and then they were getting almost
the steam coming back at them and it was just
obviously losing a lot of liquid and eutral light and
the Yeah, but it was I think they even ended

(01:16:21):
up bringing you know, engines over from the Hawk's Bay,
you know, sort of for relief. So like when everyone
sort of packed up at night and went that, and
then they had teams that sort of from out of
town that could handle things while they everyone had a break,
and so they came up from my parry and.

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
Yeah, oh good story if Larry, thanks for coming through that.
Fourteen part ten, if you want to talk on air. Yeah,
I think there were there's some articles about the brethrens
and where there was forest fires and Nelson in the eighties,
nineteen eighteen around about there they were doing that too,
So that's good to know. You never heard of that.
The Rapid Relief Team there were the forest fires there

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and they got their own website, the Brethren Sit Together,
We are Brethren. There's shots there of three of the
women in the skirits, obviously with Prome, Minister Adurn, God
it's quite a good website because I thought they were
opposed to computers. Oh well, everyone's flexible these days, aren't
they Nice to talk Laurie getting touch people. My name
is Marcus Welcome eight hundred and eighty study fever to

(01:17:25):
pushback about the government subsidizing the Robbie Williams concert. Oh yeah,
that's part of their big concert incentive. I guess you
could say, read the room. It feels like there's more
significant things we need to do at the moment. But
there we go. That's happening. Yes, The article says promoters

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accused of holding government to ransom over big events. Yep,
they won't say how much they paid to get Robbie
Williams to New Zealand for two shows. It's commercially unsensitive,
so sensive. So the bands have brought so far are
Lincoln Park and Robbie Williams. So there we go, Eden Park,

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Lincoln I think, I say, Eden Park, Lincoln Parks tonight?
I think, where are they victor? What's their hit?

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
Dan? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:18:18):
I can't. I just don't think Lincoln Park are forgettable?
Went they shouldn't say that they might be listening. What
was their hit? About five or six bands about the
same that sounded about the same about then I can't
remember what it is. Yep, no, I can't remember numb.
I do I know Numb might do that anyway, sixteen
past ten people, Marcus of the Iranians need to double

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for that mystery of death. They could use the guy
of Moonshiner's. I was kind of worried about Moonshiners because
once after I realized that the Moonshiners show and the
Armors show, they would just actors reenacting. It kind of
took the spice off it for me a bit. I
was a big fan of that for a while. Marcus,
my grandson started in the third form this year and

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is loving it to bits. The family comfort dinner Sunday,
So of course I want to hear everything about high school.
Turns out, one or two cards are given maybe every
so often, for good work, but the certificate are sent
to the kids home, not given out at school. So
on you find out that they're in good work cards
when they get home from school. I don'tk there's a
whole science to incentivizing children. My kid got a certificate

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for making a good sound with the principles Tuba a
certificate for everything in't there?

Speaker 17 (01:19:34):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
Yeah, I thought that was a good It's quite stoked
by that, apparently as a natural. Wasn't it tuber? What
was it might have been? It wasn't a saxophone, wasn't
a tuba? I think it was a bugle. I can't
actually remember. I have to read the certificate on the wall.
Beck at your people, seventeen past ten, looking forward to
your input or welcome people. It's twenty past ten. We
start off talking about soul of energy and whether you

(01:19:56):
have gone sol and how that's worth. It seems as
though the benefits are going to take five to ten
years to pay off, and I wouldn't imagine that most
people play in that far ahead. And we're also talking
about when you use heat pumps or heat exchanges for
your hot water, which is a much more efficient way
of heating that. But the person was quite right in

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the last hour. You know, it's a great way to
get ready for a tire and is to get you
is to get all your power paid for, your hot
water paid for. It's probably a thing worth doing. That's
some of the discussions. I also a bit to talk
about the great walks of New Zealand done a lot
of them. There's a couple of probably keen to do,
probably a year or two away from doing with those

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with the children, but looking forward to doing that, and
talk about the Tiaraoha trail. Also a bit to talk
about the price of fuel and teachers incentivizing students with sweets.
It's mainly a primary school thing, and whether teachers should
give children lollies and chocolates for good behavior. The dental

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people aren't in for that, high rate of extraction, high
rate of cavities, rising rates of obesity and metabolic disease.
Apparently the OBESIT levels are getting younger and younger, as
other diabetes levels. So the gener station is pretty much
opposed the fact that teachers give out sweets. I guess

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the thing is it's free, straightforward, down easy, and it
works for teachers. And bearing in mind the teachers will
be spending their own money on these things. Could teachers?
They seem to love the kids, So you might be
a teacher and have some comment on that. What else
could they give out that kids would be into? But
now day it was stamps and stamps and red stars.
But yeah, that's something else you can mention tonight. Well

(01:21:44):
you mentioned it. I need the calls tonight, so it'd
be nice to hear from you. They're also talking about
proposing a toll on the road between Auckland and Tahana.
That's the Northland Corridor. That's the first section from Walkworth
to Tahuana, and motorists could pay between one fifty and
four fifty per journey. It's a road of national significance

(01:22:08):
connect Poohoy to walk With. I think probably it could
be more than that the Holiday Highway. You might want
to comment on that also too. Say anything's up for
grabs tonight if you want to talk. As I say
it always pretty much is. Marcus Trump and Dennis O'Connor
are both look alikes. One has black hair, one blonde.
Remember the America up debarcle with the twin Hules. Marcus

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Paul here paid two forty four for diesel at Wamatti
on Sunday Saturday, and on Tuesday went to two seventy.
I'm kind of ignorant about diesel, so I don't know
if that's a lot or not much, but yeah, I
always saw diesel was about half petrol, and now it
seems to be a kin with petrel. Don't know what
that's about, but you might and you might want to talk.
And as I say, if you want to partake with

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the show tonight, that would be a delight. We went
well on Solar for the first hour. Since then, we
haven't got our back topic up and running. I don't
know if people are too worried about the fuel to
talk or there's something else going on. But if you
either want to be a leader and coming with your
own topic or join one of the other topics, dan

(01:23:12):
it says Chrome will relaunch in six hours. Do I
push dismiss or relaunch now? Yeah, I wouldn't want that happening.
What does that mean? Relaunch leads through an update back
at your people twenty five? I think I needed an
update twenty four past ten o'clock. If you want to talk,
that's the situation. If there's oh, let me see that,

(01:23:34):
it's some of the other topics for you tonight people.
I'll check the kitchen sink at you. Oh, where there's
a meteor or of a there's a video of a
meteor exploding over Cleveland, although that's a visual thing. The
Spice Girls will not be reuniting. There's going to be
a big Netflix show about that, which would have been
quite interesting. Good personalities because a thirtieth year anniversary of

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the band forming. But the only way they're going to
really celebrate will be the Royal Mint has announced that
it's going to be a set of stamps. Yeah, but
no go, there's the situation anyway. Good on them. Do
what you want. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
and nine nine two texts. If you want to be

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part of it, hitdle twelve. I can't tell you too.
The All Blacks first Test at one New Zealand Takaha
Stadium has sold out in record time. Tickets went in
four hours. Don't know what the prices were. If you
managed to step one up, let me know. I'd be
curious enough. They were fairly priced. How much will there
be one hundred dollars one hundred to two hundred? Will

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that it be what they were cost Maybe they give
them cheaper. Since you guys are part when you're not
paying for it?

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
The government paid for it? Paid for some that's July fourth.
The other thing too. Someone has emailed a good suggestion,
Someone has texted a good suggestion. Maybe teachers could give
out leases of petrol for good behavior like that. That's
quite funny. So there we go, and if you want

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to be a part of the show, that's the plan.
Stand Wednesday feels like a Monday, it's hump day. But
if you want to talk about anything at all, first
time callers, last time callers, there might be something that
you are irate and motivated about to talk about and
you want to get the others sparked up. Be delightful
to hear from you. I will keep keeping an eye
on all the news stories tonight. If there's anything else

(01:25:32):
I can tell you about, I will. It seems quiet
tish around the world. I'm not quite sure if that's
the case of people have just stopped reporting on the
Middle East. But I'm not getting any big news stories
from there. I don't know if Trump's on truth social
or not. But the Iran as having the burial for

(01:25:53):
Ali Larijani today, so that's the only update I've got
that's been recent. So yeah, there you have it, people,
and looking forward to to spark the whole discussion. If
that's what you want to do tonight it up. Oh wait,
you might want talk about the government sort of subsidize
that Robbie Williams concert too. I mean, if people want
to see him or not, and then they don't tell

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us how much money it's been subsidized by. Oh, by
the way, James Slipper two of the Brumbies. He's going
to still soon break the Super Rugby games record, so
good on him for that two than third game twenty
six to eleven. Hello, Margaret, this is Marcus. Welcome. Good
evening is here Marcus. Yeah, hi Margaret.

Speaker 18 (01:26:37):
Sorry. I was in the warehouse yesterday looking at the
books and I noticed certain devoid.

Speaker 2 (01:26:44):
You know.

Speaker 18 (01:26:44):
She's squash player. Yes, absolutely, she's actually written a good book,
and she's written a book to Marcus, it's called My Story, because.

Speaker 1 (01:26:54):
I thought you'd already written one.

Speaker 18 (01:26:56):
Well, I was in the bookshop, bookshop at the warehouse,
and I've always admired because she was in the same
generation as we've all void admired her. Was a wonderful
sports you.

Speaker 1 (01:27:09):
Know, and I think she was very good. She was
on one of those Treasure Island shows and she conducted
herself fairly well and was fear.

Speaker 18 (01:27:16):
Yes, that's right. I actually looked a little bit like
her two markets. Yes, quite good, isn't it season.

Speaker 1 (01:27:24):
Do I look alike very much?

Speaker 18 (01:27:26):
Was the was the hair and the curls? That really lovely,
isn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:27:29):
Did you buy the book?

Speaker 4 (01:27:31):
No?

Speaker 18 (01:27:31):
No, I don't read books. I've never been able to
read books. I don't have the concentration.

Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
No me neither. My concentration's gone.

Speaker 18 (01:27:39):
But I love books. I think books a beautiful gift
of how they made and book made together, and I
think they got a value. But even when I was
a child, I never read my books. My parents are
very very disturbed. While I was never reading books as
a child, I just turning the pages, markets are looking
at the pictures.

Speaker 4 (01:27:57):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:27:58):
Did you never have the concentration?

Speaker 18 (01:28:00):
No, never, because I grew up when she got schizophrenia
as a young woman. So but never my book. And
I'm hoping to write. I love to write a book myself,
as I'm seventy five now and this is my dream,
is to write a book. I've just I just love that, Marcus.

Speaker 1 (01:28:17):
I don't think I think she's about ten years younger
than you, Mark. I don't think she's quite your age.

Speaker 18 (01:28:21):
No, no, no, But but I do remember her. Do
you remember her? I used to admire she was she
was one of my heroes.

Speaker 4 (01:28:30):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:28:31):
Oh, let's not see if anyone's read it, Margaret, but
I appreciate you coming through. Thank you for that. Twenty
four to eleven. Here to the end, the butter end.
My name is Marcus. Welcome eight hundred and eighty. You
keep those texts coming through. You can text if you
want to. Nine nine to the text, Marcus. I'm wondering
if you could ask your list as if they had
the experience with the robotic lawnmowers, as I am looking

(01:28:53):
at getting one as I'm getting older. Any help would
be much appreciated. I think it all depends on your section. Marcus.
I've just been to Menopause the musical absolutely favlous and hilarious.

Speaker 8 (01:29:05):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
I don't know who that would be. No, I don't
know who that would be. The next text. Sorry, A
perfect Circles companies in on Thursday, December Spark Arena for
everyone's a pre sale code. The code is elephant hanging
there Marcus, DT is imminent, another big name gone on
a run? What's DT tell me more about that? I

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think I had a perfect circle. I think I had
a perfect sup. I wish I hadn't given away all
my CDs. We have to look at the cover to
see if I had. Yeah, I had a perfect circle,
didn't I? No, maybe not an album called Thirteenth Step.
What's that about you? I did have some of their albums. Magnus,
it's Marcus good Evening hiat Good Evening him Magnus, Welcome, Hia.

Speaker 19 (01:29:51):
I'd like to talk about how with the whole fuel
thing going on and fuel prices raising, people haven't really
been considering the environmental impact of like fuel and everything,
and I think this is the best time, well fuel
prices are going so to talk about how reducing fuel
usage is really good for the country and for reducing

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carbon emissions.

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 19 (01:30:16):
Yeah, I feel like it hasn't been talked about a
lot on the news, and especially like stopping farmers from
using as much diesel and stuff. Yeah, Like, I guess
switching to about electric methods of farming and agriculture would
be really important.

Speaker 1 (01:30:35):
Yeah, it seems as though the time for a level
discussion about emissions has kind of gone because people have
always adopted touch extreme positions.

Speaker 19 (01:30:47):
Yeah, No, I completely agree. I think I'm very surprised
that the Green Party hasn't really been packing.

Speaker 2 (01:30:53):
Up about it.

Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
Maybe maybe there's not votes, or maybe they don't want
to come across, as I told you, sooey and smug.

Speaker 19 (01:31:02):
Yeah, no, I think that's that's right on the money. Yeah,
I think it's I like, really that they usually are
pretty onto it, but just this time. I mean, I
guess they don't want to come off as smug as
you said. So I think that's a really good point.
I haven't rarely considered that.

Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
But it's a shame that we are now having to
make well, I mean, we don't know. I'm finding it
strange that the government is playing such a cool hand
on this and making out it's not really a problem
when even as we're speaking, Albinsy is announcing plans for
Australia and how they can cope. So maybe that's the
right thing, is not to alarm people, but if it
does turn out to be a situation and when we

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are ill prepared.

Speaker 19 (01:31:43):
Yeah, I think it had been talked about that we
could switch to even just greener methods of like transportation,
like even hydrogen was being talked about a while ago,
and LPG, which isn't as good as like hydrogen or all.

Speaker 2 (01:31:59):
The sorts of things.

Speaker 1 (01:32:01):
I don't know what's happened to hydrogen. There's a lot
of doubt talk down South about hardrogen recently about a
whole hydrogen processing plants, and it's all seemed to have
gone through free quiet. So I don't know if that's
proven to be something that the technology is not quite
ready it. Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:32:17):
I mean I've seen in other like in videos on
YouTube about how people do have like hydrogen powered cars
and things, and there's been a lot of skepticism around
the safety of it. But there are like hydrogen I
guess gas stations.

Speaker 1 (01:32:32):
Have you gone. Have you got electric with your vehicle? Magnus, Yeah,
I have fully electrical hybrid.

Speaker 19 (01:32:40):
It's fully electric.

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
Will you'll be feeding cocker hoope?

Speaker 19 (01:32:44):
Yeah yeah, I've got like electric bikes and everything. I
and like an electric tractor as well.

Speaker 1 (01:32:53):
Are you a farmer yeah? Yeah really yeah, yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:32:58):
I'm a fun I mainly I'm not like an agriculture
sort of like sorry, not like crops sort of thing.
I'm more until like cals brilliant.

Speaker 1 (01:33:09):
Nice to hear, Magnus, Nigel Marcus welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
Yeah, yeah, don't just cover the quick things here, Marcus
and the farmers have got to cut back as it
then give them a magnets design. You got to cut
back on their diesel. You said that, how are we
going to get the food in the ground for people day?

Speaker 2 (01:33:24):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
No there. Secondly, if we've got a situation in Wellington
there where when the ships come in and there's the
cruise ships, the long terriers, the container ships, the whole
nine yards and more around the world, there's a fuel
tanker part of Wellington that goes over and fills up
say where the fasel tanks are, and comes over and

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fills up these ships there. It's not just put one
hundred and fifty leads in. There's putting teams of thousands
of leaders of fuel in these ships that we should
be people for are use here in New Zealand. So
that again, well, it is a tanker. Its blue, it
is written and johny ranguage and all way over the boat.

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It's permanently in Wellington Harbor. Yeah, it's quite a large ship.
It goes and fills up with diesel on net and
Warrington Harbor with the fuel tanks. Then it comes over
and when cruise ships, the container ships, the log carriers,
all they're all coming to load. It pulls up beside

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them and refuels them up without diesel. Yeah, so they're
not just putting one hundred and fifty odd lesions, they're
putting the teams of thousands of leaders of fuel and them.
And maybe we should be signed like China and that
have done.

Speaker 10 (01:34:43):
Oh I have it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
Yeah, it's a good point. That's out oil.

Speaker 3 (01:34:47):
We want to bring our traps. I mean when getting
a pood around the country to people, and we ain't
going to run out yep.

Speaker 1 (01:34:54):
I don't know what international treaties would govern that if
we could just say no or not.

Speaker 3 (01:34:59):
Well, China and that have said no.

Speaker 1 (01:35:02):
Yeah, I know, but but we're not China.

Speaker 3 (01:35:06):
Yeah, but then you know what I'm saying, like we're
giving you a fuel away.

Speaker 1 (01:35:10):
Yeah, what you're saying hundreds of daousands.

Speaker 3 (01:35:13):
Of leaguers a day. But the spoke where it's twenty
four seats just filling up cruise ships and and here
we have a ship that comes into Wellingdon Harbor.

Speaker 1 (01:35:20):
Okay, well the other thing you got, Nigel, it's a.

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
Bit of it. I'm just cruise. I'm just coming and
I just know the Ambly and I ran into the
Rhine side and it's twelve and a half degrees. There
was another thought, you know, the son and not coming
out and playing them at stay all you wanted Red
would pass it the bomb wicker our world. Uh, Weld's passed.
He was a big scrap for he got started by

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a tray and was burning up the hill and not
waiting for the helicopters to come and week ab off
the theory. And she was burning up the hill. She
was really going for it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:52):
Not a steam trying a diesel train.

Speaker 3 (01:35:54):
Yeah, a diesel train, that's what.

Speaker 1 (01:35:58):
They wouldn't start fire as often would they.

Speaker 3 (01:36:00):
Oh, they get the spark on the middle, in the
middle and on the on.

Speaker 15 (01:36:03):
The must must be dry, she's like that.

Speaker 3 (01:36:08):
She's drying, Mike. We have Margaret at the moment. She
is so dry. Best why I'm doing the graver harvest
and always on as all ready to go.

Speaker 1 (01:36:16):
Okay, nice to talk nigs. A good update Marcus on
SKA News tonight. The reporter has done his homework. Willis
said there was twenty seven days supply on its way
by ship. That's ten ships. Where after those ten ships arrived,
there's only one ship that scheduled for New Zealand. Then
it's going to be a big problem, Marcus. I want
to take my four granddaughters to see Alex Warren at

(01:36:38):
Spark Arena. I'm ready for pre sale tomorrow, but they're
limiting tickets to four per person. I message ticket Master
and the only way and get five tickets to seat
of another account and then book three tickets under one
name and two tickets under a second account. I know
it's to stop reselling tickets, but what about the genuine purchaser?
What is Alex Warren sing?

Speaker 3 (01:36:56):
Dan?

Speaker 1 (01:36:57):
How's it go? I can't have my I don't know
you can. Someone tell me how Alex Warren sings. I
haven't got my phone. My phones out of charge. I'm listening.
Is he one of those whisper singers? He's a talker singer.
And I've heard they keep the din? Are you know
the kids are saying that. I've heard that. Yeah, this
one the kid did know Alex Warren? Oh yeah, yep.

(01:37:18):
A lot of people agreeing with Magnus. Thank you, Jill
the ordinary, be in touch if you want to be
dwelve away from eleven and then' that was tinder dry.
I said it was raining, then he said it was
on fire. There's a lot to unpicked from that call. Yeah,
a lot of people agreeing with our magnus jeeps be

(01:37:39):
in touch if you want to be Hitdled twelve surprising
and Alex Warren how does that person get five tickets? Marcus,
can you please explain how our fuel prices of skyrockets,
our stocks were already here and stockwords were already paid for. Yeah, anyway, yes,
he was a farmer. Carl getting touch head on Midnight

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twelve to tweleven someone sent for a very good quiz Christian,
very good text potential quiz question. Who is Margaret's look alike?
Straight to the quiz? I don't know the fact that
the quiz for the end of the year is not
looking like it's a quiz of generalogy. It looks like

(01:38:22):
a quiz from interesting Stuff was sourced from the show.
But it's pretty funny. Margaret's look alike as Dame Susan d'voi.
She's the courier hero. I think she's got straight here.
That's why I couldn't quite work out who's your lookalike?
How are you going people? What's happening Marcus till twelve
enjoying it tonight? Yeah, although you make it hard for

(01:38:43):
me sometimes when you jump around the topics. Oh yeah,
very good. It was rating an Ambly and Embly's a
long way away from you. It's a good point. Embly's
miles away from Randwick or wherever it is. But we
did speak to the guy with the grapes last night,
didn't we The guy that's driving grapes around that surfed

(01:39:03):
its stead wolf Steed Street not to dead war if
that's in the cargol Stent Road. People loving magnus. How
many questions we've got so far? Twenty two someone's talking
about turning the Southland lignite into diesel. I was actually
caught up with a guy like Cafe Ae. They talking

(01:39:27):
about that. He is a guy ad met at a
first aid course about twenty years ago. We had a
lot to say about a lot of things. But yeah,
apparently turning lignite into diesel. I can't imagine that's going
to work out. When if we make all that world
yes and exported at sea, ship it off. Now someone's

(01:39:53):
texted about the robo moa. Now where's that text? So
if you go to any information about the robo moa,
go back all through the texts about Magnus to get
to what about the robo moa? Marcus and Lease. Your
lawn is like a bowling green. Don't waste your money
on a robotic moa. Pay someone to for you. It
will be a lot cheaper regards. Donald wamadou calling it

(01:40:17):
like it is instead of sweets. Teachers of data Wi
Fi screen times at school, I would sit up for
screen time. I think the kids do get rewarded for movies.
I think that's pretty much standard. But I don't get
rewarded with the stamps like we did once upon a time.
People are saying that the petrol's going up in price,

(01:40:38):
they're seeing signs, send me evidence. Oh wait, one hundreds,
you know the rest headed Well, just hope we get
an exciting last day. I think I've deserved one tonight.
Let's hope we get a peppy eleven till twelve. Rewards
for class should they be given sweets? I think some
classes do have pizza occasionally and stuff like that. But
I mean, teaching does seem to be difficult. A lot

(01:41:00):
of involved seems to involve encouragement and reward. I don't
know when we grow out of that. Maybe never. Now,
let me think, oh yes, now, how much were tickets
to go to the All Blacks and christ Church? It's
sold out and where they priced reasonably or they extortionate.
This will be Rennie's first match. Wouldn't mind going. It

(01:41:20):
took the Warriors five days to sell out. They're playing
the Cowboys. It looked a bit average so far this year,
although they got good players on paper. The team looks
great that I want to going on there. Sometimes if
teams take a while to jell, I think, now, if
you want to talk on air people, that's the plans stand.
Keep your texts coming through. Some of your texts are brilliant.

(01:41:43):
Loving the quiz Robo Moa just bought one. God, I
think about it. Although I quite like mowing evening Marcus
doomsday clock getting close to midnight when reset next year.
I got to say this, I've never really understood the
doomsday clock because it's just opinion, and I've always thought
it's a bit of a yeah, yeah, don't even know

(01:42:06):
the history of the doomsday clock. I've read about that
direct during the news, but yeah, I've always thought it
was a bit of a buzzkill. The doomsday clock. It's
always like a second to midnight. It's been like that forever.
I'll try and read more about it. I don't even
know who runs it. Maintained since nineteen forty seven. Oh,
it's run by the nonprofit organization Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,

(01:42:27):
and the global catastrophe is represented by midnight until on
how close to midnight we are? The main fact is
influencing the clock are nuclear warfare, climate change? You hear that.
It's what Magnus was on about texters and artificial intelligence.
When it started nineteen forty seven, and the time was

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seven minutes to midnight. It's since been sit backwards eight
times and forwards nineteen times. The farthest from midnight was
seventeen minutes in nineteen ninety one. This is interesting, and
the closest is eighty five seconds in twenty twenty six,
which is now that's the worst it's ever been. So

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it's actually not a clock. I think it's just a concept.
There should be a clock so you are close to midnight.
It's a very good Wikipedia page. It's got all the
time and where it's on on it's much more excited
than I thought it would be.

Speaker 8 (01:43:25):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:43:26):
Wikipedi that up people put that in your climate change pipe.
Here to the end please people. Eleven o seven. How
are you going? What's happening out there in this land?
Anyone doing anything interesting? How are your hobbies? What are
you buying from? Timo? Get in touch? If you want
to join the fray before the end, if you want
to be a part of it, Oh, eight hundred eighty
ten eighty if you want to text nine to nine

(01:43:47):
two looking forward to what you've got to say, anything
goes here'll twelve yep, Pia. Now there's other stuff you
want to mention? Do talk about be my guest, and
I say, oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine
two nine two to text A robo moers is interesting.

(01:44:09):
If you got anything to say about that, I'm all
in because I myself have been curious about those and
you would like to know that's something that actually people
are thinking about purchasing. Yeah, also talking about solar and
about power and about the Middle East. So if anything,

(01:44:29):
these things are topics you want to talk about for
the final hour. I embrace your calls tonight as I say, oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two nine to text.
There might be something entirely different you want to talk about,
don't have a problem with that, would look forward to it.
Keep those texts coming through. HII Marcus. Our current coalition

(01:44:50):
government is out over two years to secure with petrol
chemical suppliers our New Zealand fuel needs and continuum. Marsin
point has been anther non option for years. Primary obligation
for supply continuity rests most with the government because I
don't quite know why they've been so relaxed about it,
because it seems to me they've got no reason to
be relaxed. It seems to me as though we've got

(01:45:11):
a crisis on its way that might be something you
want to mention or talk about. And as I say,
here till twelve of the if you want to mention
this or anything else before twelve o'clock tonight, be a
part of it. If you want to get in touch people,
as I say, oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
and nine nine to de text, that's the plan. GEP

(01:45:33):
your emails coming through. I'll do what I can. I'm
getting a lot of talk about converting lignite to diesel,
but I think that was planned through about twenty years ago.
When Don Alder was in charge of solid Energy and
that didn't go well? Did it then did respectacularly? Spectacular Ely,
your lizit's Marcus. Good evening, Hi Liz, helloh Lis Marcus welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:46:00):
Oh hi Marcus. You're talking about robo mollis. I love
somewhere where I think they've got five or six just
started in the last day or two.

Speaker 2 (01:46:11):
Really, Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:46:13):
It must be a big bit of land.

Speaker 20 (01:46:15):
Yes, it's got a lot of lawn, but it's the
lawn's not one great big piece. It's broken up into
a different areas.

Speaker 1 (01:46:23):
I've only ever heard of people using one as at
a commercial place.

Speaker 20 (01:46:26):
Yes, it's a retirement village.

Speaker 1 (01:46:28):
Oh, it sounds like it's perfect for them.

Speaker 20 (01:46:31):
Well, it's interesting because it goes off to its charger
at night and slit up so you can see it
sitting in the in the gardens while it's not working.

Speaker 1 (01:46:45):
Because they also mowed during the day, do they.

Speaker 20 (01:46:49):
Yes, most it goes it's a long lawn where I am,
and it goes parallel to the building, and then I've
got a corner unit. And then I said, late this afternoon,
going down the shorter area, which is a parrot which
is at angles too. It's like two sides of a

(01:47:12):
square and the long bit and then the short of it,
so it goes around the corner. It's obviously programmed.

Speaker 21 (01:47:19):
To do that.

Speaker 1 (01:47:21):
This remarkable technology. A.

Speaker 20 (01:47:23):
Yeah, I've got one of those things which cleans my
house carpets and things.

Speaker 16 (01:47:28):
What you got one?

Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
What things?

Speaker 20 (01:47:30):
I've got an indoor one.

Speaker 4 (01:47:32):
Oh is it good?

Speaker 11 (01:47:34):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:47:35):
Good?

Speaker 4 (01:47:36):
You have to.

Speaker 10 (01:47:38):
You have to.

Speaker 20 (01:47:38):
Program it before anything is in the house, so it
knows what's what now, just merely hums along and if
it comes up to something that might have been moved,
it just gently bumps it and puts its little tongues
at it are underneath out and where it goes.

Speaker 1 (01:48:00):
Yeah. Yeah, I was visiting a friendom they had one
that was solar powder. I couldn't believe it. How it
just charges itself and then comes back out. I couldn't
believe that. It was phenomenal.

Speaker 11 (01:48:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:48:10):
It goes off to dark, tells you when it's going
to dark, and then it tells you if you've taken
the part inside out to the just to be emptied,
and then it tells you when it's gone back, and
it keeps you up today and then when it starts,
they's starting and finishing.

Speaker 1 (01:48:28):
No, I think it's unbelievable.

Speaker 17 (01:48:30):
Yeah, amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:48:31):
I'm tempted to get one, Liz, thanks very much for that. Liam,
it's Marcus. Good evening him.

Speaker 16 (01:48:36):
Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:48:37):
Liam?

Speaker 1 (01:48:37):
Yourself?

Speaker 17 (01:48:39):
You're not too bad. I just wanted to talk about
going off Agnes's conversation as well. I've got a hydrogen
car and I just want to just talk about how
because hydrogen used to be the expensive option, but now
it's actually pretty much almost matching the price of petrol,
and it's also now helping with like climate change and stuff.

(01:49:03):
And not that I'm like, I didn't buy my car
because of that, but just the carbon admissions are so
much lower in my car, and it's also benefiting it
as well being the same price as petrol.

Speaker 1 (01:49:17):
So what makes your car?

Speaker 2 (01:49:21):
What's that?

Speaker 17 (01:49:22):
Sorry?

Speaker 1 (01:49:22):
What makes your car?

Speaker 3 (01:49:25):
Gaes?

Speaker 4 (01:49:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:49:26):
What brand is it?

Speaker 17 (01:49:27):
It's a Heyond?

Speaker 1 (01:49:29):
Okay? So are there many places you can full up?

Speaker 17 (01:49:35):
So I'm from Wellington and there's actually only one place
that you can fill up, which there's I think too,
but I'm from the Hut where I work. There's only
one place, which is like one of the NPD petrol stations,
which there are a lot of them in the South Island,
but not too many.

Speaker 2 (01:49:54):
But I think some.

Speaker 17 (01:49:55):
Mobiles also have hydrogen as well. But yeah, the issue
is filling them up. But I guess there's also Yeah,
I feel like there's more electric charging st in hydrogen.

Speaker 1 (01:50:08):
There'll be much more. Was the expensive car.

Speaker 17 (01:50:10):
It's actually quite a cheap car to actually purchase.

Speaker 2 (01:50:14):
Keep going.

Speaker 17 (01:50:15):
Sorry, it was actually quite a cheap car to purchase.
It was sorry, it was actually.

Speaker 1 (01:50:23):
You got hay fever. Can you think you can go on?
I think you'll be able to get back on there.
Old didn't make it for a good job of it,
did he very poor? Anyway, onwards and upwards. People, be
in touch if you want to oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten, eighty nine to nine. As you probably know
by now, I've said enough tonight, but be in touch

(01:50:45):
if you want to talk. Fifteen past eleven here till
twelve texts. Car Ridge has gone up, car Ridgio has
got up thirty bucks as well. Then road charges are
coming in, getting very hard to budget. Robo Mora is
a life change in my lawn. Took four hours to
morow five thousand square meters. I haven't mowed in six

(01:51:06):
weeks as robo Mara has brought my weekend back. Game changes.

Speaker 2 (01:51:09):
Cheers.

Speaker 1 (01:51:10):
Chris Wow Marcus have a luber Mini robot maa four
wheel drive. It is great designs for lifestyle blocks so
can handle long grass uses satellite to guide itself in
most perfect lines. Check out mymotion website for great videos.
The best thing I've bought love It's so much fun watching.

(01:51:30):
And I mo owe my beach house lawn to Auckland
by one. You wait, regret it. The mas are great.
I do there the people that I do the gardens for,
they are four of them, beautiful properly. They are quiet,
so watch your back. They'll sneak up on you. We
had our robo Mara Bruce for about three years. We
would not be without him. Bruce gave my husband back

(01:51:50):
about two hours a week in time, three thousand square
meter lawn split into three zones. He is accurate and
works off satellites. Our lawn has never looked better with
its fancy. Chris crosses Bruce's own little house. He mows
on a schedule and when he has done, he heads
back home to sleep a charge. My only complaint. The
edge is still need doing. And most people I know

(01:52:12):
have named their moa seventeen past eleven. It is nineteen
minutes past eleven. People are in their roboma. If you
want to talk about those that would be great, robo
moas are fantastic. We've had a husk Vana for fifteen
years on a large one acre quarter flat section. We
program it for several hours a day. It's put away

(01:52:33):
and winter so good a husband put one at a
batch that's paid for itself. Good evening, Marcus, I had
a vision and a music on the bull's eyes. So
I predicted two things. President Trump will be arrested with
huge publicity, enjoyed, betrayed by his own trusted allies. And
Luxton will be rolled Luxon Luxton Luxon will be rolled

(01:52:56):
as national's leader by his trusted allies. What we sow,
we shall reap?

Speaker 16 (01:53:01):
Who do?

Speaker 1 (01:53:01):
His name is pronounced so many times, and even I
get confused with I don't think it's Luxton. Just quietly, Marcus,
you may have all you may have had this already,
but my moa is called Jason. Jason Mamoa. We have
a robot veck. Yes, we named her Karen as for
the first few times she works, she got stuck under

(01:53:21):
one read and send us a message to say so,
and they say that that's Kareny like behavior. Good evening, Sam,
this is Marcus welcomes. How you're going, good Sam? Yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:53:33):
Not too bad? Not too bad? Thanks.

Speaker 21 (01:53:34):
I'd like to fix through before. I've got a bit
of a dilemma at the moment in terms of clearing
some gorse. So it's related to the lawn bowing discussion.
And also so I suppose I heard a bit of
a wives tale that apparently growing your natives underneath the
gorse is one of the best ways to nurture them.

(01:53:57):
Is there any truth to that?

Speaker 1 (01:53:59):
You have to try and see, wouldn't you.

Speaker 21 (01:54:01):
I suppose, Yeah, apparently it acts as an awesome nursery.
But you got a sort of way five or seven
or ten years for them to come through and steer
at the gorse the whole time.

Speaker 1 (01:54:13):
Well, you've probably you've probably got You've probably got another option.
You've probably got no other options.

Speaker 2 (01:54:19):
Well, you can clear the gorse entirely, and then but can.

Speaker 1 (01:54:23):
You ever clear it?

Speaker 2 (01:54:25):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (01:54:26):
It always it always cut And then what are you
going to convert it to? Grass, but it always comes back.

Speaker 2 (01:54:31):
Yeah, it does.

Speaker 21 (01:54:33):
One of the experts I've been talking to say is
burning it is actually the worst way to go about
it because it germinates them. Yeah, and they live on
the ground for a long long time. But in terms
of clearing it, I don't think there's many of those
robotic long holes that could do that.

Speaker 1 (01:54:52):
To be fair, well, they say sheep worked for a
while until they don't. Yeah, it's not very well fenced
and sheep will keep it down. I mean there is that.
There is that guy on Banks Poincia that that put
everything into just let the gorse go and now he's
got native bush there. But I mean, have you got

(01:55:12):
ten years to wait for it?

Speaker 2 (01:55:15):
Well? Yeah, I mean I do. I'm not that old.
But from an aesthetic point of view, I'm you're not
prepared to wait. I there's a lock about that guy,
isn't there.

Speaker 1 (01:55:25):
Yeah, there is, And there's a book. He's got a
lot of book. You go and see him. He's still
a lot of boo. I don't know if he's still alive.
But there's a lot of books about the whole thing.
But I mean the science is good because your monica
will be the your manica will be the I forget
the name of the plant that comes, and that'll be
the one that does it. And once and they'll let
and five years the will outgrow the gorse.

Speaker 21 (01:55:44):
So they basically just just get to that point where
they can push right through. Once they're past that point,
the gorse has no sunway.

Speaker 1 (01:55:51):
And then yeah, and the and the gorse just die.

Speaker 21 (01:55:56):
Course is a corses are joe hunder the thing like
it just yeah, it doesn't give you an inch and
you've got to stay on top of it trying to
give these.

Speaker 1 (01:56:06):
It's also not it's also nage infects, so that would
be good for the soil. Have you got bird life there,
because the bird will bring the seeds, seeds, seeds, And also.

Speaker 21 (01:56:16):
It's on the it's on the coast and needing on
the potentially out by tunnel beach. It's it's covered in
gorse and it's all burnt out sort of forests. And yes,
it's just grassy headland otherwise, so the gorses run rampant.
There's a severe lack of well anything. There's no birds there,
so I want to plant and there's probably a shoe because.

Speaker 1 (01:56:40):
The possums won't help with your region bush because they'll
take it. They'll take it. You need to trap it
as well.

Speaker 5 (01:56:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:56:47):
Yeah, and one of my more environmentally friendly associates suggested
that you can actually like introduce these are they are
they moss or a variety of moths that actually coming in.
They're the ones that eat divorce as well.

Speaker 1 (01:57:06):
Oh, I haven't heard of a bio solution yet, or
maybe it's something that hasn't happened yet.

Speaker 2 (01:57:12):
No, I'm not leaning towards that one. That's a great idea,
the quicker alternative, but yeah, it's just it's.

Speaker 21 (01:57:21):
Covered through the whole sort of coastline with high growing
grass and sort of lifestyle properties with a lack of water,
So going the full Monty burn, the place down option
doesn't really exist unfortunately. So I just thought, if there
are people out there that but in the countryside that
have these molers, maybe one of them out there has

(01:57:44):
course capable of those sort of more capable multures that
will still do the job that I can just press
a button and maybe it'll run down the cliff and do.

Speaker 4 (01:57:53):
It for me.

Speaker 1 (01:57:54):
We'll find out. Keep listening, Sam, Thank you, Pete Marcus,
good evening.

Speaker 16 (01:57:58):
You're a Marcus regarding Lasting Point refinery, the government get
that going again, and I cross us billions of dollars
or whatever. But he's sorry, reliant on export and this
is hopefully this is a learning to that.

Speaker 1 (01:58:12):
You know, they said once they closed the refinery, it
meant we could buy petrol cheaper from overseas anyway, and
it was more available.

Speaker 18 (01:58:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:58:20):
But if the world we're in today, I think you know,
we're better, also makes us in a lot better country,
to make us a lot stronger, because wouldn't we.

Speaker 1 (01:58:31):
Pet wouldn't we be much more sensible if we went
Norway and our car fleet was ninety.

Speaker 16 (01:58:37):
Yeah, but until we get our infrastructure that we can
handle the all those cars going on plugging them on
their power, we're not really up to that either. We
really are as well.

Speaker 1 (01:58:47):
Well, it's not very much infrastructure to bring in.

Speaker 16 (01:58:49):
Is it you still need is electric? You still need
to have a lot of power to charge plugging their
cars and at the charge up their batteries.

Speaker 1 (01:58:59):
A lot a lot of those will have people just
have stuff in the in their garages. It's better than
rebuilding mars and portant stuff piling oil.

Speaker 16 (01:59:08):
It's a hard one, but look what we're in now,
and let's hope we don't get another nutter like Trump again.
Maybe he won't hit be in this position again.

Speaker 1 (01:59:16):
But all you guys IoT, all you guys were Trump supporters.
Now you're calling him a nutter.

Speaker 16 (01:59:21):
Oh, never liked Trump. He's so he's an idiot.

Speaker 3 (01:59:23):
You know that as well.

Speaker 16 (01:59:24):
You can't get to out of bed one the next morning.
You don't know what the hell's he going to do,
do you. He's such an unpredictable person. He shifts on
everybody and then he wants the people to help them out.
He's just a loose unit.

Speaker 1 (01:59:37):
He's not my favorite guy's He seems free, transparent, it's free,
easy to see how he works. He's real thin skinned.

Speaker 16 (01:59:44):
Oh he doesn't It doesn't strategize done him. If that's straight,
there should have he should have got everything lined up
there before he even went in there. So the unless
we get that all out of this. He even didn't
even think about number one, how we've got to get
that stuff out of there, And he didn't even think that.
He's it's hardly uh, even the people behind and they
would have thought, you can't do that, Donald, because how

(02:00:06):
are we going to get that all out of here
if you are going to close the straight down. So
he's not even thinking right when he starts these rules,
does he Okay?

Speaker 1 (02:00:14):
Nice to hear from your Pete zaying as Marcus good evening.

Speaker 2 (02:00:18):
Good.

Speaker 4 (02:00:20):
Yeah. Look, I think Trump is he's been drawing inside straights,
you know, on the fifth card there since he began
his political career. Albeit even though he lost in twenty twenty,
you know, he made a stormy come back because.

Speaker 2 (02:00:37):
It was either that or going He's going to go
to jail for sure, and.

Speaker 4 (02:00:41):
I think he's just he's drawn one one to the
straight too many, mate, because this straight of Walmars And
I'm not going to be a smarty I didn't really
know about it at all. I don't know if you did.
But you know down he straight, I know of up
there was you know that the Red Sea. Yeah, but

(02:01:06):
look just just and I know you don't need to
necessarily trust everything you see on YouTube, and there is
a lot of fluff on there, including a lot of
AI slap, but some of the some of the strategic
military profeces in their podcast that I've been listening to
in the last day also they.

Speaker 2 (02:01:26):
Explain it very well.

Speaker 4 (02:01:29):
In that if he if he tries to make a deal,
Iran is going to realize They do already realize how
powerful they are now as far as you know, the
economic extraction they can try to get from Trump, There's
no way Trump's going to do that. He just that
would just completely lose face. But then again, he also

(02:01:53):
he just can't pull out without any reason at all
and leave the straits too, you know, the Uranians as
well as you know the apparent uranium.

Speaker 2 (02:02:06):
Done somewhere in the ground, all over all over run.
So two factors here.

Speaker 4 (02:02:11):
But if he does stay, then the only way possible
to try and get control of the Straight of Hormuz,
which I think is going to be next to possible,
is with beats on the ground, which almost certainly means
many more coffins draped, you know in the American flag

(02:02:31):
coming home and months, if not years war.

Speaker 1 (02:02:36):
Well, you can see how sick. You can see how
efficient guerrilla forces were in Vietnam. You know, if you've
got an enemy that's just there taking people off with
ground troops, people that aren't used to the area, there's
no cover, it des it, they're not used to it
because it only takes you could bring down one of

(02:02:58):
those tankers with a jet ski and Olympic mine. It's
pretty easy to.

Speaker 8 (02:03:01):
Do, that's right.

Speaker 4 (02:03:02):
Well, apparently these drains, I mean, I've heard various costs
of the drones that the Iranians used to strike the
ships that you know that they're blocking there in the
in the Homa Straight. It's something like twenty thousand per drone,
and they can produce four hundred a week, so even
if apparently they've got like one hundred thousand storage.

Speaker 2 (02:03:23):
So it's just it's not that, you know, it's just
not something that's.

Speaker 4 (02:03:28):
Going to happen that you're going to be able to
stop there.

Speaker 2 (02:03:31):
So he's really got himself in a pickle.

Speaker 4 (02:03:35):
Trump, And you know, my fear is is that the
whole world pace for it in one way or another,
certainly economically, and I think as far as New Zealand goes,
I know, I know the government are not apparently outwardly
panicking yet, but I think given another week of this,

(02:03:55):
you know, we'll all be listening six a m. Monday
morning the fourth week of the end of the fourth week,
because I've got to make Mike Hoskings said it would
all be over by then. We'll be listing there. But
I think the New Zealand government is going to have
to be opened with the New Zealand public that, you know,

(02:04:15):
the world may not be like the.

Speaker 2 (02:04:18):
World may not be like it you think it should
be for quite a while. Yet. I just hope Trump
doesn't do something crazy, mate, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (02:04:26):
I can't see the way out.

Speaker 2 (02:04:28):
No, this is what I mean. The Venus flight trappers
is almost closed.

Speaker 1 (02:04:33):
And I also can't see how you can send troops
in to get that uranium out of that hill and
you can't live it there otherwise they'll refashion it so
it's not mission accomplished until that's out, and they'd be
extremely difficult.

Speaker 2 (02:04:48):
The whole thing was that whole they were They were
not anywhere near a nuclear bomb. That whole thing is
just absolute rubbish.

Speaker 1 (02:04:59):
And then the Trump Trump has started saying he had
a feeling, which is a crazy thing to say.

Speaker 4 (02:05:05):
Yeah, no, yeah, you're right, you know, it is almost
you know, I have to admit though, it is fascinating
to watch, even though you know, I'm watching the impending
disaster you know, for the world and including New Zealand economically.

(02:05:28):
You know, as I say, let's hope it just is economically,
because we don't want people to panic and press the
wrong color buttons because you know, because they think that's
that's the only thing they can they can do. Now,
you know, both both both guys NT and Yahoo and

(02:05:48):
Trump both have health issues, both have judicial issues, and
both really you could say, if they can't win this war,
are both going to have Wayne Duck premierships of the
individual countries. So I just hope you know that the
madness doesn't spread to them doing something extremely stupid.

Speaker 11 (02:06:12):
HM.

Speaker 4 (02:06:13):
Anyway, that's my perspective, but it is. Yeah, it is
a to take a deep breath and you wake up
and you hope the nightmare is over. But now I
think in a week will list list. I would give
New Zealand government a week and they've got to come out,
you know, and Luxon is going to put his big
blue pants on it and make an address to the nation.

Speaker 2 (02:06:36):
I know that's not his style, and.

Speaker 4 (02:06:37):
He you know, read it off, read it off a
Telly prompter. Get someone who has never written a speech
for a CEO luncheon to write the speech. But he's
got to let New Zealanders know that.

Speaker 2 (02:06:50):
Life may Yeah, I think you're right.

Speaker 1 (02:06:53):
I can sense it from here what people are saying
on here. People need some sort of reassurance. Nice to talk, same,
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:06:59):
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