So much off the ball nonsense (23 January 2025)

Marcus responds to the Prime Minister's claim that more Eden Park concerts will boost the country's economy, and talks milk and milkshakes.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from News
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Greetings, Welcome on hims. Marcus Hittel, twelve o'clock. I realize
there is issues with water and if you've got if
you are experiencing that, or you've got some information form.
It's the west of Auckland. One of the big pipes,
says blow on has it something like that. They've had

(00:34):
to shut down a break and a large day matter
water made. How big would that be? Part a meter
wide mountain road? Hindo Valley, So you know what the
affected suburbs are. It's most of the west south of Ranui,
west of Glen Eden, including Glen Eden. The first tanker

(00:59):
has arrived Archibald Road, Netherlands Avenue. Just one save water,
that's what they're saying. If you can avoid using your
washing mission and dishwash over the x three four hours,
that would be helpful. Keep your showers short four minutes
or less. What about a bath? How long should the

(01:24):
bath be? I imagine reading between the lines. I don't want
people to get in the bath four minutes. I don't
think I've ever had a shower longer than four minutes.
In my life. What would you do for more than
four minutes? Mountain Road is closed in both directions, remain
closed for forty eight hours. I don't know. But sometimes

(01:48):
in situations like this, what they say is you use
water from your system in your bathroom. I don't know
what you do. I wouldn't drink it. You don't know
what to do with that. You you could boil it,
I suppose, and then drink it. But no one that
my knowledge has got no what those people higher up
we'll have less water or no water. I haven't anyone

(02:12):
yet with no water. If you're experiencing water troubles, I
find this stuff fascinating. I enjoyed the whole gravity aspect
of water supply. Where are the big tanks. I suppose
they're up in the white tarkets. They must pump them
up and down they come. Goodness me, So the pipe
has blowing. The other thing I want to talk about briefly. Actually,

(02:35):
they've got a lot of talk things to talk about,
so I don't thin there's gonna be much to talk
about now. I have to said, there's a lot to
talk about. So Christopher Luxen has spoken. I think they
call it a stat of the Nation address and one
of the solutions is concerts. Yeah, and I don't know

(03:01):
how true what he says is, it's my understanding most
people went overseas to go and see Taylor Swift because
Taylor Swift was in Sydney and Melbourne. And according to
people that I know that are in the know, that
no people in the know because I'm across the music brands,

(03:22):
well not really, but you know management, I think what
happens is they probably couldn't have had Taylor Swift in
New Zealand because there would not have been enough accommodation.
So it's not the concert venue or the residents that
are stopping concerts. It's the fact there's not enough rooms
for people to stay. Yeah, when Sydney can do it

(03:46):
because we've got the Olympics or had the Olympics. But
I don't think. I don't know how many people you
need to stay. If there's sixty thousand people going over
two nights or eighty thousand, you need a lot of rooms.
We haven't got those rooms. So it's not the residence
kicking up Bobsey Die because of the noise. It's the
fact that probably the real big acts don't want to
come here because you come here, you want to set

(04:09):
up the stage and do three or four concerts, make
it worth your while and bring the people up and
down the country. So yeah, I'm curious to know what
your reaction to his thing about. I also don't know
how many big acts there would be that would fill
Eden Park night after night after night. Once in a while,
some phenomen comes along like Luke Combe's fast car. Gosh

(04:32):
that was moving, wasn't it when he sang with her?
That might have been my moment for twenty twenty four.
Damn where to do those? Didn't we dan remember to
our liners for what was the moment for twenty I've
just remember what my moment of twenty twenty four was. Ah, Philip,
stop the press. Yeah goodness me ya wow, Yeah, that

(04:58):
will be my moment of twenty twenty five. So I
remember what my moment of twenty twenty four was right
there down. We'll get this done earlier this year, because
boy o boy, that's hard work at the end of
the year, just in Christmas Shop and everything. One of
your liners, you're supposed to sound peppy and upbeat Tracy
Chapman anyway, So Luke Colmbs. He filled it up twice.
We'll end Sharon wouldn't fild up again because I mean,
he's God. But he's gone. Adal was she's at Vegas

(05:21):
and I think she's happily married now, So maybe there's
less desire to travel around the world. But what would happen?
Who would be there? Who would go to Whedon Park?
That would be with seeing? That would I don't know
who it is. Taylor Swift too big, probably Oasis too big.
So I think this at the beginning of the year,
I want to sound too critical. Sounds to me slightly

(05:45):
like magical thinking. So I think they've probably got a
fairly happy balance at the moment. I don't know how
many concerts they were last year, Pink maybe who else
was there at Eden Park last year that they rang
up going home from? I can't remember now. I spoke

(06:10):
to a lot of a lot of South African people
were there? Who was that raving about it? I can't
remember who the concerts were a lot of South Africans.
What was it? Anyway, someone will remember, But yeah, they're
probably enough, probably two or three bangers, that's it. I
can't remember the twenty twenty four concerts were at Edend
Park anyway, So have you got something to say about that?

(06:31):
I'm all very very interested to hear your opinions on that.
Who were the people's two nights? And people loved it
and they got a wristband and they made shapes for
the wristband. Come on, Dan, you know this cold Play?
So you got cold Play and you got Pink, you

(06:53):
got Luke. That's three. That's enough. Next year? This year,
who would you get? Not many? So they can't even
a concert there every night. Where there are enough bands
that want to come here, they're not enough accommodations. I'm
very happy to talk about that. I mean, is that
going to solve our financial problems? What I think we
should do right was always a maid of mine's idea

(07:15):
is that we should choose one town in the country
and we should invite the world's best tribute bands to
move to that place. She doesn't really stack up, does it.
And they could play endlessly, But people aren't going to
go to the same tribute band night after night after night,
are they? But be a good marketing idea for a

(07:36):
town anyway, Oh, eight hundred and eighty, keep your predictions
coming through. Also, no, I'm predicted that luxA would say
that the answer is in concerts. But yes, and I
think people like to go on concerts overseas, to go
to Cyny in Melbourne for something a little bit different,
wander around, have those coffees with ice cream in or
whatever they're called afrigato or something. Anyway, get in touch.

(08:00):
If you want to comment on that. You might be
an Auckland. You might want to say something about that.
Someone says, Chris Luxon has just learned what the public
had done for a long time. Counsels are the biggest
handbrakes to the country. I don't know if that's necessarily true, Marcus.
They were wearing the new movie Becoming led Zeppelin coming

(08:21):
out in February, the trailers on YouTube. What is it about?
Is it a documentary? Is it a docu drama? I'll
see it anyway, Marcus. Coldplay filled I've beaten Park for
three nights back in November. Regards Carol, maybe it was
an older audience, maybe less people travel. I don't know
why Coldplay worked and Taylor Swift didn't work. You might
want to comment on that also. Tonight sixteen past Date,

(08:44):
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine to detext
I don't know how many nights that Taylor Swift had
played in Sydney. It might have been more to make
it worthwhile, someone will know these annual predictions. If you've
got more predictions, I have several through now these are
what people are saying and predicting. Marcus. This is my prediction.

(09:08):
This is Paul Douglas of Wellington. There will be a
gazumpt moon landing in twenty twenty five of a human
by some organization individual before one of the were publicized
well known soon planned missions. So like one individual or

(09:28):
someone doesn't belong to a state will go to the moon.
Be like bucketless Bernie, wouldn't it?

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (09:34):
This is bucketless Bernie. I'm on the moon. Do a YouTube,
get lots of hits, pay your way anyway. Seventeen past date.
My name is Marcus, Welcome head, twelve o'clock oh eight
hundred and eighty eight to eighty nine nine two detects
Also to I suspect with the economy that probably people
don't want to go to many concerts. I haven't got
the money. And of course christ Church is coming on
tap and Dneden's desperate for concerts. There's been all that

(09:58):
money on Forsyth Bar. They don't get much.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
In.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Even the concerts they do book often don't happen like
they had the Yes, they booked this, They booked the
Lingerie super Bowl and for some reason that didn't go ahead.
Sounds bizarre. Isn't a lingerie super Bowl? We live in
challenging times. What time's trump up?

Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Give you a call, Lisa Marcus welcome?

Speaker 5 (10:26):
Oh hi Marcus.

Speaker 6 (10:27):
I might be well out of date. I don't keep
up with things lately, use days. What happened to Western
Springs is a venue in Awkland.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
That's a really good question.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
Has it been banned or do they not want to
play outdoors anymore? Because it was a great natural venue.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
They've put seats right up the hill, and I think
it's Look, I don't know what's happened. I know the
speedway or the midget racings moving away from there, also,
so I don't know what's happening with Western Springs. And
also too there's the North Shore Stadium that no one
wants to use.

Speaker 6 (11:04):
It just seems to be a white elephant doesn't seem
to be used for anything, No.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
But what seemed to happen. I've had a lot of
talk back about this, right, it's all coming back to
me now, Lisa. Right, there's a place called Victor, I
think it's still called Victor, the one downtown, which fits
about eight thousand people, and that's perfect. Most bands go there.
The bands love it and the audience love it. So

(11:28):
that seems to work really, really well. And because of that,
some of the Yeah, and because that's some of the
slightly bigger venues, like you know, rather doing north Shore
Stadium or Western Springs, you better off doing two or
three nights at Victor, that's my understanding, because indoors better
easy to control.

Speaker 6 (11:44):
Yeah, and you don't have the rain problem to But yeah,
I was interested in, I mean, and your theory about
not having enough hotel rooms. I'm not sure if it works,
because I remember one of the biggest concerts at Western
Springs was David Bowie and or Bowie and his Serious

(12:05):
Moonlight Tour, and it was eighty ninety thousand people, was
what I think.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
But people didn't travel around the country like they do now.
I presume most of those would have been people that
bust up around the north that would be my summation
of that, because these days people think nothing of getting
on a plane from in Vicargo to go to walk
and to see pink.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
So you thought they.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Would have been more local people that were Yeah, people
on buses and trains went to Bowie. I mean I
had a lot of people talking about that and kipping
in student flat. But we'll find out.

Speaker 7 (12:35):
Lee.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's a nice to talk. Thank you. Nineteen past eight
Textan calls looking forward to what you've got to say.
Western Springs had a massive storm and flooding damage from
the anniversary day. Floods still recovering and it's a swamp.
They weren't build there again, Marcus, spark Arena not Victor.
It was it called Victor at one stage. Marcus and

(13:01):
Harry styles play didn't park of the past eighty month
or so? Probably, Marcus, do you think the bed to
go oh for gold Mine nine over ten years included
the pro mining stance. Government's final cut would be about
twenty five percent of the total gold in the ground.
Well that's going ahead anyway, isn't it so lux and

(13:22):
saying Evan Park needs unlimited concerts. Your reaction to that
is that something that you think probably would be a
good thing. Would you go? And more to that, because
I kind of think people have probably done the Auckland
concerts and when something comes along, a big act like
a Taylor Swift and City, that even seems even more exciting.
That's just me.

Speaker 7 (13:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
I don't know how people think with concerts. I don't
even know how people get onto the internet and MEAs
to book the tickets so quickly. By the way, Harry Styles,
is it mount Smart? And someone said they reckon Western
Springs will be the home of Auckland FC. They said,
you heard it here first, Marcus. Western Springs Stadium will

(14:00):
be the new home for Auckland FC football team. Ponts
would be rugby and Western Springs Speedway. He has already
been kicked by Auckland Council. You heard it first. You've
missed out the word here. You heard it first. Oh wait,
one hundred and eighty Eady had nine nine two to
text Marcus. I think you're onto something. Auckland has around

(14:25):
ten thousand hotel rooms. Sydney and Melbourne have over forty thousand.
And that's why Tyler Swift didn't come here. That was quoted.
They never it was, It was never considered because there's

(14:46):
just not their cause. And maybe because she appeals to
younger people, they need hotel rooms because they're over there
with their mums and dads. They're not like gonna kip
down on someone's couch. I don't know if this is true.
That's just what I suspect. So maybe you've got an
older act like Coldplay, then people can kind of get
one of those couches that goes out of the double
beard and put the relatives on one of those. Twenty

(15:09):
five past eight Marcus till midnight. Good evening, Anna, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 8 (15:14):
Yeah, Hi Marcus. Hey, just talking about Western Springs. I
was there last Saturday night and it was fantastic. It
was a huge crowd, wonderful, racing full to capacity.

Speaker 7 (15:27):
It was awesome.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Do you know how much that capacity is?

Speaker 8 (15:32):
I believe between seven thousand for the speedway racing seven
thousand people. But one thing that's amazing. There's grandparents, grandchildren,
picnic blankets. There's no nonsense, and at half past ten
people pack up and go home.

Speaker 9 (15:51):
It's beautiful but wonderful.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
I seem we've been doing talkback forever about Western springs
and how the speedway or whatever the midget racing is
going elsewhere is that now? And it's is that now
finally happening? Is it?

Speaker 8 (16:07):
Apparently not? There was an article on the paper the
other day. Now I shouldn't really comment because it's obviously
under a lot of scrutiny at the moment. But apparently
it's not.

Speaker 5 (16:21):
Okay, it's not.

Speaker 8 (16:22):
Yeah, it's yeah. I better not sort of complicate things
or say anything wrong. But apparently it's it's and a scrutiny,
and it's such a shame because it's such a good venue.
It's been here for ninety plus years.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yes, I don't have problem with motor racing staying there.
I think it's a great thing to have exciting things
in the inner city. We will relevant this. I think
it's quite exciting.

Speaker 8 (16:46):
Yeah, and it's such shame. I mean, I went to
a cricket match, which I love going to cricket match,
and coming out of there there was unfortunately there were
people who get too much to drink and touching people's
letterboxes and it was just awful.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
I know, touching someone's legs, I think, I say lettle
Bit they were they.

Speaker 8 (17:08):
Were I saw someone kicked someone's letter.

Speaker 9 (17:10):
It was awful.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
What was this on the cricket?

Speaker 6 (17:15):
Yes, it was a.

Speaker 8 (17:15):
Cricket match at Eden Park. It was a few years ago.
I've never never liked to witness it again. But at
Western Spring to see all the grandparents take their grandchildren
and pack up these blankets and just go home. There's
no police said, there's no nonsense. It's a fantastic atmosphere.
You'll have to go before it apparently finishes.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, I think it's a long time since I've been
there at that and but thank you so much for that.
Keep your calls coming through concerts and really, have we
got it right? Or do we need even park for
unlimited concerts because who would you put there? We've probably
got it about right. Bobbitt's Marcus, Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 10 (17:53):
Marcus. The last time I went to Western Springs and
I thought it was one of the best things. Or
because a national beds night tortures all at six Sea Top?

Speaker 2 (18:08):
How good is that?

Speaker 10 (18:11):
How good was that? And I dare say, what made
you were saying? That's probably the reason why it's sprint Uh,
the sprint cars have been or if not the springt cars.
But concerts have been pushed out from there because she
had all the your bots that leaned there at night.
Oh it's quite little bit of bloody gypsy what have you?
And yeah, like you save people's letter box, spend used

(18:36):
to stew it alls and whatever?

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Is that what the people do when you said people
touching people in the box, But I think you did
kicking people's I don't know, I mean cheap as creepers.
We hadn't even used that leader boxes these days. You
think probably people would respect them more, you think so,
But of.

Speaker 10 (18:51):
Course I get laid with. Laid Park had concerts as well,
the same thing all the way down head Laid rode
down to the trainways.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
What what's Deadlaide Park?

Speaker 10 (19:05):
Remember Athletic Park?

Speaker 4 (19:07):
Fit?

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought he's an Adelaide Park,
Bob yep ye Athletic Park.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (19:16):
All about concerts tonight are The other thing too, is
it doesn't feel like there's more bends coming along. When
you've got cold Play, you got the Rolling Stones, you're
gonna waste suspect together. Then what is the fact that
Eden Park is restricted from having unlimited concerts holding back

(19:40):
a valuable sector of the economy. Because I suspect that
the answer is probably slightly more complicated. I think we'll
probably go at the numbers right, because a lot of
the very big acts won't come here because not the
hotel rooms. A lot of the smaller acts are more

(20:01):
comfortable with the reliability of the weather and stuff. Going
to Spark three or four nights there. People love that.
That's where you check your Simon Garfunkles. So they're still alive.
I think they probably are. Are they talking to each other?
You never quite know. For a long time they didn't.
I'm going to saying that because I saw them at Spark. Hello, darkness,
my old friend?

Speaker 5 (20:20):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (20:20):
What of theirs? Anyway? It in part needs more concerts.
That's one of the cure for the economy and the
fact that it's in a slump. A lot of people
live in the country as well, not many coming in,
less coming in, more leaving and concerts. There we go,
Let's have the meat and park. They're restricted to how
many they can have per year because of the local residents.

(20:41):
It's a counter by law. The council runs the whole thing,
and I think Luxon sees that councils can't say no
they need to stop saying lo because they are holding
back the economy. But I have the understanding probably the
holy back the economy is because they are had enough
rooms for people to come right around the country to
go to concerts in Auckland and also to there's probably

(21:02):
a limit of bands that could play Auckland. That's my thing.
You remember christ Chi's coming on tap and deneedn't get
to no concerts. They need some twelve concerts per year.

(21:22):
Had been six, it's now up to twelve. But I
don't reckon you get many, because it'd be refew acts
that could fill eat in Park, Luke Colmbs, you got Pink,
you got Coldplay, you got Elton John Does he there?
I think he might have been maybe Mount smart Oh
eight hundred and eighty, Teddy and ninety. Also the water

(21:44):
situation West Talk, if you're affected by that'd be nice
to hear from you about that. How's the water? How
the Love you got? Marcus Metallica playing Eden Park this year?
Great concerts. I went to Western Spring early to mid eighties.
Dire Straight, Deep Purple, Neil Young, Brent Nelson, would the
fur minute shower put a bucket in your shower to

(22:05):
click water and use that water for the flushing of
the toilet. Use your dishwater for the same use after
washing the dishes, of course, dishes toilet, shower, toilet. So
I want to probably want to say something silly about that,
won't they? Marcus? I went to Luke Comb's on Saturday

(22:27):
night at Eden Park. The sound was atrocious? Is that
a regular problem there? I know what every content they
complain about sound, but I think it depends on where
you sit and also if you're of as of a
negative temperament, people seem to complain more. What's to sound

(22:48):
like an Eden Park? I have not been to a
concent there apart from halftime entertainment. Went to Luke Comb's
Saturday night in park. Sound was atrocious, terrible. Best thing
with the bus from the should of the stadium in back,
no problems and free Metallic is sold out in the day.
They could do a second show with Ease Eden Pack. Well,

(23:10):
they probably still could. I don't know if that's because
of the limit of concerts. I probably need some more
information about that. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine
two nine two to text. But tell me about the
sound Eden Park is that a real big for those
out of Auckland. Eton Park used to be Cabbage Tree
Swamp not far from Auckland Central, probably two three four
k's three ks, just in kind of an old suburb

(23:36):
full of large wooden villas worth a fair bit of money.
And the local residents don't love the concerts. They get cricket,
they get sporting events, and they get concerts as well,
but I think they don't like the unruly behavior. Of course,
some people will make money by charging people to park
on their front lawn. I think someone that went to Coldplay.

(24:01):
I remember her voice. I think she was out kind
of who were pie way I was talking at driving home.
I think she'd paid fifty bucks. She paid fifty bucks
to park on someone's front lan. I think she paid
fifty bucks for someone to pick her up from someone's
front lawn. We sketch. I can't remember all the details.

(24:24):
You have to find a journal twenty one away from
nine if you want to talk about that would be
good to hear from you. By the way, oh eight
hundred and eighty today. The other bit of fact of
effect that's of interest to me since the year nineteen
seventy five, we are now drinking half as much milk.

(24:49):
No one ever talks about that the Great Milk Drought
half as much? Why why do we all give up
milk half as much milk as we drank fifty years ago?

(25:14):
And in Britain one in three are going for sawyer milk,
almond milk, oat milk, or coconut milk altogether. Now you
can't milk it up, presumably due to the belief that
it's better for your health or the planet. There you go,
of course, not because it's not because it's better for

(25:38):
the planet. It's because it's ambient milk. And that means
you can just have it in the scullery or in
the pantry. In the pantry and just get it when
you need to. It doesn't go off. I think that's
one of the big things, is not the fact that

(25:58):
it's and not that it's been milk, but the fact
that it's just there. It's in your dry goods would
you call them dry goods? And you grab the milk
and sure you're gonna do. There you go, there's a
nut milk. They reckon the new milk. Watch the space.
The new milk will be potato milk. Well, you can't

(26:18):
milk a potato, but they reckon that's the one that's
going to take over the world. Free creamy. It's already available.
You can bar There's one brand called Doug, which is
a great name for potato milk. Dug potato milk. Yep,
you make your own, by the way, I'm gonna give

(26:39):
it a go. They wreckon almond milk quite bad for
the environment because the amount of water they need. Yeah,
Doug is the brand of potato milk. Looks pretty good.

(27:00):
I mean, I'm not empty cow. Do what you want.
But if you want to, if you want to be,
if you want to be on the school up with
a great conversation starter, say you've switched to potato milk,
you'd be an outlier. I'm ordering some online. Now, where

(27:22):
is this company based?

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Buy? Now?

Speaker 2 (27:28):
The site uses cookies? Can I click on that?

Speaker 4 (27:30):
I go?

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Okay, Dan, I'm buying milk. I need cookies here, very good.
Where do I click on next? What do I want
original Barista or unsweetened? I get the unsweetened unsweetened deliciousness
for he had to find me where to ask me

(27:50):
for my address? I've gone as far as I can.
There's number information. Who's got something to say? Oh wait,
eighty tenny one of us, Marcus welcome, he'd twelve. I've
clicked by now and nothing's come up. Oh yeah, I
want to get through Temu. Would you drink potato milk
from Temu? I wouldn't. I think it comes from Denmark.

(28:13):
That'd be right, well Sweden. There they all are having
vodka and potato milk. I can't even read the let
I've clicked on something. I can't even read the language.
It halsau so mare buoncre for it's on nicart med
up till twenty percent robut the language full of umlots
and circles. Jeepers, I, madam, a depth. I've got to say.

(28:38):
I like people's passion when it comes to milk. Here's
a text. I'm gonna go a lot of text. I'll
read some, but this is the first text. Mate, milk
is a byproduct. You can't get milk from potatoes. It's
brain dead thinking otherwise. I am about to change stations.
Unisu actually makes sense to make a good statement to
the general public, cheapers. How could someone be so triggered

(29:01):
by potato milk? It's perfect. I'm not saying we should
all go to potato milk. But we're drinking half the
milk we used to people doing something different. We've fallen
out of love with milk. And that's fine because all
of it gets whipped up into milk powder to go
overseas as a bulking agent for foods.

Speaker 6 (29:24):
We know that.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Now that's the economic miracle. It used to be at
adding value. Now it's about taking away value and exporting
a dry powder. Yeah, so long live the potato. Next
to me kumaa milk, Marcus, there is a live stream
of a corpse flower slowly booming in Sydney's Potical garden.
Fantastic love you show. There was one that bloom not

(29:48):
so long ago at the Auckland Winter Gardens, probably eleven
years ago, and we were going to see that. We're
waiting for the baby to be born, Marcus. All of
these alternative milks have tons more water than the type
they are trying to sell it as milk has only
about five percent almonds and at the rest of it

(30:09):
is water. Well, how much water would milk have in it? Really,
when you think about it, you said about anything, it's
just the majority of it is water. Wait, till they
hear about mouse milk. Yeah, fair enough. The reason for
the drop in milk consumption is scare mungery, like fel mungery.

(30:36):
Milk is no longer milk over processed. Warm milk is awesome, Yes, exactly.
Raw milk once upon a time, responsible for half of
infant's deaths. Raw milk, yep. Then things changed just what

(31:00):
we need even less washed Westies. We're smilly enough, but
even we shower for less than just four minutes. Unless
you're onion bald. Formance is not enough to wash everywhere. Daffored,
he says, I'm no.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
By the way, here's a question for you. How much
would you pay these days for a milkshake? Are they
still a thing? What would it cost four dollars, eight
dollars or twelve dollars? And what would a thick shake?

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Be?

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Got no idea? And could you get a potato shake
or a nut milk shake nut juice? Oh eight hundred
eighty tenenty at nine two nine two to text, anyone
tried potato milk or potato juice? If you want to

(31:47):
call it they call a cow, well, maybe they do,
oh eight hundred eighty tendy nine If there's something else
you want to meet, you to feel foret in touch
here on midnight, looking forward to what you've got to say.
Seven away from nine, she's all on. People got no
idea what a milkshake would cost her? A thick shake.
I have great faith that someone will let me know
about that. When's Trump wake up? When do we get

(32:10):
more news about him? We twelve hours ahead? Would it
be about eight in the morning now any moment when
we get more decrees? And I'm curious to know about that.
If there's breaking news here, I'll keep you updated about that. Marcus.
We are in Henderson on Espelly Road. The water pressure
is low. It's like a trickle early night for Tina.

(32:31):
Literally there is no alternative. Not worth having a shower.
I have a lovely night. He said's right, go the
bath because you can run that for longer. Well, that's selfish,
although people don't tend to mind about that, because it's
not their fault that the water has done. Even it's Marcus, good,
evening and welcome.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
How are you, Marcus good? Even before Christmas, four dollars
fifty milkshake, Little Oni Rah, and now they're six dollars.
It's not bad, not bad, cheapest on the island.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
What if what for a thick shake?

Speaker 7 (33:09):
I haven't dried.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
I couldn't afford a sick shakes.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Oh, I thought that'd be six or eight dollars evangly
I'm selling entitled Thank you for that. That's good to know.
On there we go. Why are we mentioning milkshakes because
someone know what they would cost? Get in touch. My
name is Marcus Hddle twelve oh eight hundred and eighty
to nineteen nine to two de text Our prediction Luxon
will be rolled as Prime Minister Liam Lawson will win

(33:34):
one race. Greyhound Racing will be given a reprieve. Ozzie
will vote and your government and house prices will double
them price.

Speaker 11 (33:53):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Marcus had a creaming soda shake at fucka Maru the
other day. Six for a milkshake, eight fifty for thick shake.
That's from Bears, ironically a major burger chains. Thick shakes
are made from reconstituted potato powder. Lance. But if you
do go with potato milk or thick shake, basically we'll

(34:16):
just be mashed potato with some lime flavoring. Won't it
be tremendous milkshake thick six't eighty Helensville. Marcus. Milkshakes can
range in price from five dollars to fifteen dollars, and
the value for money is just as variable. A local

(34:38):
fruit and veg place that King Seed does a very
good milkshake for five dollars have paid twelve to fifteen
at fancy restaurant bars. I'll tell you what I've got
to stop saying. I tell you what. It's been a
long time since I've been to someone's house and they've
offered me a milkshake or a nutshake. I mean a

(35:01):
nut milkshake because people don't tend to help because I
think once upon, oh you have a milk tinkle tickle ticklers,
the ice and everything go. It was quite happened quite often,
didn't that. You don't get that anymore. And that's because
we're drinking half the milk we're used to. Oh good

(35:21):
to see, Marcus. Would you like a milkshake? Happen all
the time. By the way, if you're looking for something
exciting on your toast, there is a new spread that's
taking the world by storm. It was invented by two

(35:43):
Swiss hikers, and it's called No normal coffee. It's like marmite,
but it's made from coffee. Yeah yeah, you make it
into drinking heavy on your toast. I'll be into that

(36:07):
on toast. It's strong, it tastes almost yeasty. It's not unpleasant,
but there's no grit. There you go, a coffee spread
for your toast. Good evening, Timmots, Marcus, welcome, Hey Marcus.

Speaker 12 (36:28):
Predictions twenty five.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
How many have you got?

Speaker 4 (36:32):
Gout? A few? Counting?

Speaker 2 (36:33):
How many?

Speaker 7 (36:35):
Maybe three?

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Three or three or fourth person for me to know?

Speaker 12 (36:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So fresh sports, let's go with the
All Blacks, say twenty twenty five. I'm going they're going
to only lose one Test match this year and they're
going to beat South Africa, Eden Park and Wellington Stadium.

Speaker 7 (36:56):
There you go.

Speaker 12 (36:57):
Second prediction.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
I'm just trying to work what their fixtures are for
twenty twenty five. You've gone through all that, have you.

Speaker 12 (37:04):
Yeah, They've got they're playing frow and three Test matches
in the middle of the year and then they play
South Africa twice here, Australia once and Argentina way and
then their head off to Europe.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
England got England three times, to Fiji, Italy, France, Ireland.
It's a tough year.

Speaker 12 (37:28):
It's a tough year. But I reckon, I'll do I
reckon raise his head is head of fish here now
he knows what it's about.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Okay, I think you're dreaming. But good, I'll revisit that.
Just one loss for twenty twenty five for the all Blacks, Okay, yep.

Speaker 12 (37:42):
Yep, okay, one real quick. I think one major leader
around the world will resign. I know that'll be but
one will resign, could be here in his zan in Australia.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Like when you say leader, like a prime minister or president, right, yeah, leader?
Did you say all your predictions were sport us getting
ready for another sport prediction? Okay, that was sport. Okay,
that's sport. And then there's politics.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yeah, yep.

Speaker 12 (38:08):
Five Wayne Brown loses the election to loses the election.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
And in the Cavs getting a new mayor because the
old miror is not standing again. But that's yeah anyway,
so that's interesting.

Speaker 12 (38:23):
But yeah, well I think, well.

Speaker 13 (38:25):
That means my prediction will be right, yeah anyway, yeah, okay, yep, yep.

Speaker 12 (38:30):
And then last prediction, we're going back to sports. Now.
Last prediction will be the Black Trinds when the World
Cup again. Anyone die, Yep, people will die. People die
every year.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Anyone will no one will die.

Speaker 12 (38:52):
Oh I think I'm sorry to all my British followers,
but I think the king maybe on his last year.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
The King, well you see the queen off and that
took forever. When did the last time you ever milk
shaked him?

Speaker 12 (39:10):
Probably when I was five years.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Okay, you're not just intolerant. Your lecto is intolerant. Okay,
you haven't had a nut milkshake or anything like that.

Speaker 12 (39:24):
Now keep to the smoothiest.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Well, I guess the smoothies a new shake. And that's
a good point you've made. See what's a smoothie if
not just a shake? Is a smoothies shake? It's all
just through the whiz, isn't it. Do you agree or
not with Ben Sheltered on Ossie broadcasters at the Melbourne

(39:47):
Tennis I don't get involved with the tennis. There's not
a clickbait. There a lot of thing egos on both
sides of the cordon tennis. I've never known a sport
with so much off the ball nonsense. Yeah, but that's

(40:11):
sports that involved just individuals. Apart from darts, I think
they produce better people, Marcus. I really think milk has
got too dear for young families would have an abundance
of just my opinion X Dairy farmer David, Yeah, thank you,
Marcus Greater You're back. Milkshake today from paramedter eight dollars

(40:33):
sixty lime flavored, jolly nice rowdy on the souper yacht.
Where was it, mood I used to live in Sweden. Yes,
there is potato milk. It was developed by Professor Eva
Gronberg Toronberg at Lund University. For English, look at dug

(40:54):
drinks dot com. Marcus, thick shake making is a lost art.
The only way to make one is to put the
syrup and the container first, then one median scoop of
thick shaped whip for a light shake. What's thick shaped whip?

(41:14):
I thought we just put an ice cream, two for
me to even three for thick shape. Top up with
cold milk. The milk must be cold to the point
of freezing. Hang on, tell me, Chris, what do you
mean by a scoop of thick shake whip? What's thick
shake whip? I'd like a thick shake whip. It's all particular,

(41:39):
isn't it. Milk's not milk anymore. It's just kind of
science milkshake whip. Dan, do you know what milkshake whippers.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
Have got?

Speaker 2 (41:52):
My headphones on? What is he talking about? There's milkshake
ice cream? What I'll put these people hanging out in
the supermarket. I can't even see a peck pecket of it.

(42:21):
CHRISTI a belly you bed tell? Is it something at Costco?
It might be for like the Dieries, the Deeryes. They've
got a special place they go to. I don't know
the sounds of it.

Speaker 7 (42:39):
Either way.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
The syllable milkshake Johnny Marcus good evening, Oh good.

Speaker 7 (42:45):
Evening, Marcus. Kiwi ice cream at miltmal Renoi used to
make the milkshake ice cream for six Shakes dairies, and
I think Gilmore was Why have a product like that now?
But yeah, we used to get those big cardboard teen
liter boxes of Seconds from Kirii ice Cream.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
I have to work seconds of Seconds ice cream.

Speaker 7 (43:13):
Yeah, yeah, Seconds ice cream. And this is back in
the eighties, mid eighties. My brother worked there. Yeah, I
did one day here when I was about fifteen or
something for work experienced Gosh, it was hard, but had
about the milk key. But there are many places you
can buy two liter bottles if you buy two of
them for between six fifty and seventh fifty. I'll find

(43:34):
the front shops here in Tonia and usually the spice shops.
They have non permanent milks. So there's a I could
be wrong. I think it's called dairy Dale, but it's
a milk that hasn't been separated and put back together
and Layman's terms, So yeah, it's not made for milk
PERMEI it's it's still got the milk pat solids in it,

(43:55):
and you can buy the silver Top and it's only
like twenty cents more. So, yeah, we go there because
we're big drinkers of milk, and with baby coming along, yeah,
I've been making sure my partner is always drinking lots
of it, creamy milk.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Can you tell the difference in the taste?

Speaker 7 (44:15):
Yeah, beautiful taste. It's yeah, compared to the we used
to just buy what it was, the cheap brand from
the supermarket and which is by Blue Top. But now
that we've got that choice of my non permeent milk
and it's really local.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Is it called dairy Dale?

Speaker 7 (44:32):
Yes? I think so a name yep, yeah, not as
bad as that. It's some of the names you see
for milk over and China. When they're translated, they just
don't make sense. But you know, I'm really happy to
be buying four leaders for under eight dollars and I
don't have to travel far to get it.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Does it say it's non permeate?

Speaker 7 (44:57):
Yes, well i'll do it next next time from going
shopping tomorrow. I'll send you a picture of it with
the what's on the back.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
I'll look forward to that.

Speaker 7 (45:09):
Very good.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
When's the baby?

Speaker 11 (45:11):
Jow on?

Speaker 14 (45:13):
A few days?

Speaker 4 (45:14):
What? And yeah?

Speaker 7 (45:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Boy?

Speaker 7 (45:18):
Another another twenty one days or something?

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Boil girl, We have a boy? You got the name?

Speaker 7 (45:24):
And yes we have finally yeah, it's going to be yes,
And I'll give you a clue. Like from Greek mythology,
there were the mermaids and Spartacus. No, the sirens, and
they were male sirens, but they sort of dropped out

(45:44):
of mythology.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
How many syllables?

Speaker 7 (45:50):
Two sirens? Is his name?

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Siren?

Speaker 7 (45:54):
That's his name?

Speaker 4 (45:54):
God?

Speaker 2 (45:55):
You've ricked a guessing game? Yeah, going to be here
to take me through the air of this cooler. Oh it,
this is it that?

Speaker 7 (46:05):
Oh we can't make make it fast because you guys
got to talk about milk, have.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
You everyone else? Haven't any else called siren?

Speaker 5 (46:13):
No?

Speaker 7 (46:13):
No, we hear lots of them around here, but no,
we named them for the Greek mythology.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Siren.

Speaker 7 (46:21):
Yeah. Yeah, hopefully he just doesn't lure anybody onto the reef.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
No, and I've never heard of it. I've never heard
of one.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Have you looked at one of those names websites.

Speaker 7 (46:33):
We tried all that, and we tried writing loss and
stuff that siren is siren there.

Speaker 14 (46:40):
Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 7 (46:41):
Haven't found it, but I've looked it up on Google
and chatch evt all that stuff and found all the
great explanations and so on about it. And I just
thought the year off. You know, I've got one boy
with a Latin name, and and now I've got one
of the Greek names.

Speaker 5 (46:53):
So here we go.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
I think last year in the States there were eight
kids called siren.

Speaker 7 (47:02):
Ohs always beat us to it.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
It's not many, that's not really.

Speaker 7 (47:09):
No.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
It comes in rank at eight and three and eighty six.

Speaker 7 (47:14):
Oh wow, Wow, you know what my prediction will be for.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
This year.

Speaker 7 (47:21):
I think the price milk's going to go up.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
You're probably right, Johnny Tons of like keep us in
touch with that. That's exciting. Siren. Oh we had a
good name. I'll tell you what something about the name, Sarn.
You're not going to not have an opinion about that.
Thick shake, whippers, not ice a creament especially for it
for proper shakes. Wholesale is only fancy. I was trying

(47:51):
to talk about milkshakes and someone's got some sort of
secret source. But I don't like the sounds of it.
It'll just be some something from some byproduct from the
some way mix or something well. I worked in about
Burger Bar. In the eighties, we milkshakes, thick shakes with
flavoring and Frosty Boy cream freeze. They were hard with

(48:12):
to sack at the store. The most popular favor was chocolate,
closely followed by believe it or not spearmint. I'm always
aware the most popular milkshake flavor is always lying people love.
I've never quite but but has it kind of a
cult following was beyond a cult following. Looking forward to
your calls, people, my name is Marcus welcome, Oh eight

(48:32):
hundred and eighty you might just want to stay say
hi for the year, high for the year. As we
start the first week, realizing most of you are still
on holidays, so taking it easy. Get in touch Marcus
till midnight h eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine nine

(48:55):
two to text. I'll switch to the tennis. Good living, Pete,
it's Marcus welcome. Are you there, Marcus good, thanks, Pete.

Speaker 15 (49:08):
All the best for New Years, And yeah, I get
you and you're great to see you had a good
month's holiday for kids and that.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Yeah, I reckon.

Speaker 15 (49:17):
As I see you, isn't there in the best city?
And you you tell and I see and you put
us good.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
What's happening there? What's happening with the bus terminal?

Speaker 15 (49:27):
And you put us yeah, well what's wrong with it?

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Well, they closed the area where used to buy your tickets,
the office, so you go to go to Poky arter
Ky to get your and there's just sort of angry
drug people wandering around.

Speaker 15 (49:43):
Yeah, it's bit of a shame.

Speaker 14 (49:47):
They moved that.

Speaker 15 (49:47):
There used to be humans. They had a busty played there,
and they changes the hotel in there where it used
to be and then they built that. Basically idea was
just the way the modern technology has gone. It's all about,
you know, shutting the little back obviously down.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
And it was to have a fantastic bus place, the
place you go and get the card and everything a
waiting room. Now they won't take care well they you know,
you got to buy a card to get on the bus.
You get the card, and then then you got to go.
You run out of the cards, so you gotta get
money and you get the I had the rudest bus
driver I think I've ever experienced, you know, the classic guy.

(50:20):
I went to the money machine to get money to
get the bus, right. See, they can run all stories
and the smallest start I get for twenty bucks. That
was me and the two kids. I give the bus
driver twenty bucks when he starts an argument and then
did the slow even though with a plenty of notes
in his container, gave me just twenty fifty cent pieces.
Fifty cent pieces was a real nasty piece of work,

(50:44):
and I thought cheapest creepers. Anyway, Apart from that, it
was all excellent.

Speaker 15 (50:49):
Yeah, but I shouldn't say it, but those bee cards
you can call them be cards. They're reckally very good.
If you do have one, you got to get in
the system.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
When you got to top them up, you gotta, I said,
I top them up online. They said, yeah, you can,
but it's twenty four hours before it's.

Speaker 11 (51:03):
Good to go.

Speaker 15 (51:05):
Yeah, it's like any think you just gotta you know,
you gotta. It's gotta wait, be patient and.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
Just they should have tipping goes so you just do
it with your with your debit card.

Speaker 15 (51:17):
Well, I think I think all done what other city
is done. But I think they're trying to put it
all through. Ye selling that bea caut I think I'm
not do sure it may not awome. The biggest thing
is maybe not.

Speaker 7 (51:26):
I think all the expending, all the small.

Speaker 15 (51:29):
Provinces, I think they trying to use those bea cars.
It says, say he's having cash and you actually get
half of you actually get your half, your fear cheaper
people have cats.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Well, just I just thought that. I thought that mister trick.

Speaker 12 (51:39):
There, Now I've got a trick.

Speaker 15 (51:40):
It'll actual quite.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Good rather than the hang on, hang on, I say
the buses were a disaster, mister trick. It used to
be a good system. Now it's confusing with angry drivers.

Speaker 15 (51:52):
No, I think you said a bad day, Marcus. Normally
the drivers are pretty good. You You always get the
odd one.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Of how often do you get on a bus there, Pepe, Oh,
not that often.

Speaker 15 (52:02):
I'm going to car and then I use it now
and again. But soon as I get soon as I
get my gold card another year or so, then I'll
probably take advantage of that. You know, from nine till
three it's pretty much gonna be. You know, you're using
in those airs and when you're paying nothing at awful
and you will take more winning for that. Going back
about the name, sire, and I shouldn't say, I like

(52:25):
Johnny de Busy is a good guy, but I reckon,
it's not a I reckon, that's a name. The poor
boy is going to get a hard time. If that name,
why is that?

Speaker 2 (52:36):
People is that?

Speaker 15 (52:40):
They'll say, oh, he's sorry, he's going to go off again.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Of course that's siren going off. Yeah, that's siren. Of course.

Speaker 15 (52:49):
I hope he doesn't get picked up. The definitely were
not any that name.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Well, you would have got picked for your name because
it's Pete, right, pet.

Speaker 15 (52:56):
Because my dad was his name as well. Pete was
Peter as well.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Did people tease you because you had your dad's name?

Speaker 15 (53:04):
I got given my dad's name that, yes, yes, I
basically a name. I suppose not a bad thing.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
What did you get teased for?

Speaker 7 (53:16):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (53:17):
Gee see, because I have a dad's name. I thought
that's a for the Almades of Tea.

Speaker 15 (53:24):
No, but but I wish them were. The little boy
doesn't get picked for that.

Speaker 16 (53:28):
That name.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
You could say sirring. You never quite know when he's
going to go off.

Speaker 15 (53:34):
Because I could talk or not about what you use
the sirring for?

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Wow, would conversation pete? Yeah, I should have asked them
what the middle name was going to be.

Speaker 15 (53:48):
Might have been alarmed or something. Sorrying alarm.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
So you're running your own lines. But that's quite good.

Speaker 15 (53:54):
Well, maybe give him the sicken name. They don't take
it the wrong way.

Speaker 4 (53:57):
Johnny.

Speaker 16 (53:58):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
I like it, and I like people the original names.
So I'm team Johnny. But yeah, I mean, but yeah,
I asked him. It is brave enough to tell me.
So it's good. He's exciting you, baby, good, it's exciting. Recently,
pook A Curry, one of the last Kiwi bakes to
close down on Auckland, thank you, no customers serve it.
What we took about kiwibank Marcus, the average car sold

(54:21):
in Australia's down two and thirty mile is wider than
the nineteen seventies. Marcus love a nice rum and raisin milkshake.
By the way, clothing brand Rivers and Australia's closing down
one hundred and thirty six doors will close six hundred
and fifty jobs to be quite a well known brand

(54:43):
that Rivers. Yeah, shoes and a trouser. I think that
was what they did. Anyway, get in touch Janet's Marcus Welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 17 (54:54):
I bet Marcus, all but quiet on the home front,
do you think?

Speaker 2 (54:59):
And I think it's all very good.

Speaker 17 (55:02):
What did you think of the State of the Nation speech?

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Look, I mean it's early in the political year, but
I just don't think people were that interested in it.
And as someone said, he's lost the room that maybe
people aren't. You know, we've heard it all before.

Speaker 18 (55:22):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
I think people more what we're going to we're going
to get anouncedent on theories. But yeah, I mean you've
got to say something. I suppose people are waiting for
you to start the political year and there's going to
be he wants more concerts.

Speaker 17 (55:37):
I guess it's going to save the country.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Not well, you know, I mean it must be a
hell of a job having to come up with something
to say at the beginning of the year.

Speaker 17 (55:48):
Well, I think he's going to resign. And I think
that prediction of that previous caller about a world leader,
I think he will be the one.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
He'll resign because he thought it was going to be easier.

Speaker 17 (56:06):
No, I don't think his heart's in it. I think's
he'll probably go for a consulate job in some country
that he's chosen from all his travels. It'll set himself up.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Well there, yeah, go back to the private sector, wouldn't he?
Who will replace him? Nichola Willis.

Speaker 17 (56:25):
That's what I'm worried about. I hope not.

Speaker 15 (56:29):
Gosh.

Speaker 17 (56:30):
I've thought of all the people that would have got
their portfolio taken off them. It would have been here, honestly.
But he's added to it by giving her development.

Speaker 6 (56:43):
You know.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
But I think, Jane, you've also got to play politics.
You've also got to keep factions happy, otherwise you yourself
will be rolled. It's not just I don't think he's
the leader. You can just choose the best person. I
think there's probably other considerations you need to make. I
think there's factions within parties. You've got to keep happy.

Speaker 15 (56:59):
Oh yeah, of course.

Speaker 17 (57:01):
But I'm wondering if we've got these deputy prime ministers,
two of them, it's usually the deputy that steps in
when the last leaves, and so which of the two
you know it's going to be difficult, and will it
be one of them or someone else in the party,

(57:22):
in the National Party.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
And of course, just so he's tuning in and getting shocked,
there's been no word that he will resign. That's just
your speculation, right, But I'm.

Speaker 17 (57:31):
Just getting it feeling there was nothing in his speech,
nothing new and everything he said, well, i mean compared
to Donald Trump. You know, Donald's right on the point,
you know, coming up with all the answers and decisions
and it's all signed of luxe and nothing's happening, you know, terrorism, Ah,

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who wants to come here and swim in the rivers,
lakes and beaches that are what is there here for them?

Speaker 2 (58:10):
I'll tell the one thing that probably will holk tourism
is the dollar is so low that it's very cheap
to come here at the moment. That's what's kept places going,
is that people have come here because it's they get
bang for their buck.

Speaker 17 (58:20):
Yeah I was thinking that, but still there are heaps
of nice places you can go around the world where
you'd get cheap than I call Asia. Practically, yes, it's cheap,
you know, firm, more fun and exciting and probably not
as polluted. Funnily enough.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Must to hear from you, Jen, Thank you fourteen to
ten text Eric the Stanford. Next problems is he's very
popular and smart. I am a real milkoholic. I go
through four letters every two days. Start with milk on
my weetbits. We have six cups of tea with milk,
a glass of milk to or three times a day,
and a glass of book for going to sleep every
fortnight and pitch and day by two letters of chocolate

(59:02):
milk should make your own Kiev. I want more concerts.
Corn went to Australia and never came here. I'm hoping
for a Britney Spears come back to a how is she?
These days? We never quite sure of which videos to
click on Corn. I'm not quite sure what sort of

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size venues Corn, but they wouldn't played in park. Would
they corn would be more spark arena spark it up,
there'd be my assumption they're ten away from at ten
o'clock Jan Jan and a giant fan. Thanks for that text.

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Thick shakes milkshakes yea. Often you go out of someone's
place and make you a milkshake. Not so much anymore
like a kmart selling milkshake machines. Probably not too busy
seeing those are mini waffle machines. The other question from
me right, real random one. From time to time in

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my life I have done a first aid course. In
the workplace. They always say who's got a current first
aid course? I always say me, you know so, even
though I work on my own, makes me walk a
little bit taller knowing that I can do CPR and
forget what other stuff I can do bandaging. But the

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question is, because longly go I do first aid courses
for jobs or for courses, But how many people on
their own free will or of their own volition would
go and get it renewed? And how often will they
do that? I'm just thinking myself, could I be bother
two days learning all that stuff again? Or is the

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old stuff still relevant? Can I tell you what. The
courses are insufferable, aren't they takular? You gotta go out
of the room, you got to come back in. And
there's an accident. I think it's not really an excedent.
There's just the people doing the course with kind of
draped over cheers. Anyway, can you do something online? And

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I guess no one's gonna refuse my help because I'm
not current. Oh greetings and welcome this tennis. And I'll
try and keep you updated that when I work out
what's going on. So that's not my strong suit. Tonight,
I shall look into it. How are you going? People?
Here's a text and I quite like it, and I

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hope this will spark some opinions. Would love to know
your angle of the exodus of graduates and younger people
in general going to Australia. Three of my cousins and
a third of my unique cohort are off. So there

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you go. People, there's a straightforward question from me here,
why is everyone moving to Australia. I know what my
reasoning is. Oh, I'm not going. I know what my
reasoning why people are going is. I'll be curious to
know what you think it is, because everyone you talk to,
they're on their way, And what's your reasoning or thinking

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behind that? Because also, unlike sometimes sometimes what happened like
in the eighties, I think that people aren't talking of
coming back. It seems to be a permanent leave. So
if you're doing it, you got kids are doing it

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or neighbors. What's the reason they are doing it? What
do you think the reason they are going? Is it
something quite definitive or is it something quite abstract? Well,
I guess what i'd say is I guess it's probably well,
I don't know, it's the vibe. I guess it's they

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feel there is more exciting prospects over there and something
to do with also probably with housing affordability. Not that
the housing is cheaper, but probably can earn more and
it seems more achievable for them. If you have something

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to say about that, and like your calls eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty text, Oh my goodness, just be
outside seeing the comment it is beautiful? Is that the
Jenitor Rush version. Yes, Marcus, the new Dylan movie is exit.
Before seeing it, I would thought the lead actor timoth
Ay Charalamaye might have been being too pretty to play Dylan.

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He does data Cardassian, but he was amazing vocals and
music originals ricks and wasn't karaoke with watching Christine, Thank
you Christine. Lenny Kravitz would be a Brittish concert the
last of true rock superstars and still fit and good
looking for the ladies regards. Owen had that well, I
wouldn't say that he was a hit guy Kravitz, but yeah,
I guess he had songs that people liked. But have

(01:04:32):
never understood why we would have event grounds and seniors
and un limit they're used to so few a year.
How does that even cover the costs and their upkeeping rates? Ridiculous?
Marcus Nick here Womad would be extremely powerful with cren
Amega from Trinidad and Tobago who voiced extreme of extraordinary
and Jamaican roots reggae artist Tronis taking the stage. His

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music will mash down Babylon with positive vibrations, everyone going
I don't have a and for the ones that are,
but certainly not everyone or that's in that woman's experience.
I would never move to Australia too loyal, hate snakes,
spiders and the hate. I like to be okay in

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the guards and nature without worrying about snakes. I'm not
want to follow what others do. Jeckie, I don't know
what it comes to loyalty. If the country's not working
for you, you go somewherehere it does, don't you? So
you Why is everyone going? And when I say everyone,
of course for those pedants, I don't mean every single person.
I mean more than I've ever gone before. And you

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might be thinking of going, or you might have family
that's gone. I'd like to discuss that, please. I think
a lot of it's too is you can't deny or
you can't talk down the appeal of cities like Sydney
and Melbourne. They are fantastic cities, great population size, great

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weather well certainly for Sydney. Why wouldn't you go? I'll
bother way. Had a job application today, I won't read
the guy's name. Questions about your job name from Auckland.
It was my last year of secondary school and starting

(01:06:32):
to think about my career options. I've always loved the
idea of radio shows and journalism as that sparks great
interest for me. I think this has written by chet Gpt.
I've worked as a bartender for over a year which
has allowed me to develop my gift of the gab.
And I am really interested in working a similar field

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that you do on your Marcus Slash lights for news talks, Zedb.
I am wondering how you were able to enter the industry,
in which steps you have taken to be where you
are today. I'm also interested in getting my into the
industry with any role that is needed. Role spelt wrongly
if I am needed to work my way up the chain.

(01:07:16):
Love the stuff that you and other news slash radio
hosts do, and I'm keen on any work at all.
An idea of how to get into this line of work.
Much appreciated, cheers. What I like very much about this
is he's worked in a bar while he's at school. Well,
that's a surprise. He's worked in a bar for a year,
and he's decided to be a good talkback host. I

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don't know what bar it was run for the hills, Hugo.
We've got no idea if it's for real or not.
I don't necessarily know that an eighteen year old talkback host. Well,
it could be for every good is that you, Hugo.

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Oh the other thing too, that I meant to talk
about tonight and I'm throwing everything at you tonight, which
I'm not that happy about. I want to sit here
and talk for four hours, but I will do it.
In the news of the day, today is also the
anniversary from nineteen fifty one.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
Get this.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
Of the tragedy of the Wellington to Littleton yacht Race,
which is one of those news in disasters that no
one knows much about. Wellington Littleton yacht Race. Twenty yachts started,

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only one would finish, two totally lost along with their
ten crew. I think there has been a book written
about that. I don't. I'd be surprised if people our
audience remember it. It was seventy four years ago. I'm
putting it out there that might be something that can

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actually tempt you to call ben ats Marcus good Eaving
and welcome O.

Speaker 9 (01:09:16):
Hi Marcus, Welcome back to twenty five five my productions
I've been taking about the last couple of days. I
think one in five nisioners will have the bab the
Givens off work. Wow, it's it's a teacher. I've looked
up curdsua thin but it's a teacher's only day on

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it's a military teacher day down there, the first of
the students. I think people for teachers, and I think
will be people will be either sick or your annually
for that day.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
So wide time, your day is the Thursday. I think
the school. I think my kids go back to school
on the Mondays. It's crazy. It's three days and they're
offered two. Okay, thank you, yep, by the way, but
I don't know how we're going to I don't know
we're going to prove that, but we'll just have to do.

Speaker 14 (01:10:05):
Something like that.

Speaker 9 (01:10:06):
Yeah, I think I think business performed this year next
year because the way easter falls. It's all you get it,
but you get close to to easters this financh year
and the next financier you get two. Easter has fallen
within the same finance year. So business some paces that

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improve because of easter trading that will improve the result.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
Okay, is this a prediction, this is a comment, Yes, prediction.

Speaker 9 (01:10:38):
The prediction form because business will reform because easter the
way easter falls next this year and next this year,
next year, the year after.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
So so the first prediction is that one and five
will take off that day. The second prediction is.

Speaker 9 (01:10:54):
Easter business will better because the way easter falls.

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
Okay, good, okay, thanks you?

Speaker 5 (01:10:59):
Yep.

Speaker 12 (01:11:03):
I heard in the new.

Speaker 9 (01:11:03):
Zamy Fishes moved to she was on the karaker and
who got fourth place in the Olympics. I think she'll
get both won the World Champs this year.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
Oh good prediction. Okay, yeah, because she was expected to
do great things that you want to be disappointed? Okay,
Amy Fisher yep.

Speaker 9 (01:11:19):
And the all Blacks to lose against Erika.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
In park and that's the hoodo Is it because I'm
beaten there for fifty years or something? All but that's
a great I like that one, being all Blacks to lose,
hudo yep?

Speaker 4 (01:11:32):
Is it?

Speaker 11 (01:11:33):
All of them?

Speaker 9 (01:11:34):
They'll be my four year.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
Great predictions being good luck with it. I love the
all black one. I can't believe no one else has
come up with it because it's one that's yeah, I'll lose,
make no mistake about that. It's my idea, Jillian. That's
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:11:52):
Oh on that Marcus. I don't remember if you remember
our phone conversation last year about me cooking sausages and
I couldn't get them to cook, you know, properly, and
you looked online and found a sausage pan for me.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
Oh on ahead. It had a special kind of grooves
and it didn't it.

Speaker 16 (01:12:11):
Yeah, you found it online, but it had bad comments
and that about it. So I tried different pans and
it went on for a while, and then they've got
an air fryer. Air fryer, fifteen minutes, perfect sausages.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
What was wrong with your paid? Were they rolling?

Speaker 16 (01:12:26):
They were rolling? Yeah, so they were cooking on each side,
but they weren't cooking on the sights. So I tried
to sort of get like forks and keep them up
the right way and all sorts of things. I even
used like a metal cup at one point, but I
still couldn't do it. So I tried lots of ways.
But as I said, I've got an air fryer and
all sorties. So I thought i'd let you know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:47):
That's really kind to ring up is the ear fry
because I believe I had an ear froll. I've seen shots.
You cook on like a tissue or something.

Speaker 7 (01:12:53):
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:12:55):
No, you just cook on the grill. I've got a
plastic grill and you just put them on there. And
obviously the way it cooks, it just cooks the completely.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Oh so it doesn't matter if they roll, because the
cook is a total cooking.

Speaker 16 (01:13:08):
Yeah, but I'll tell you what I did a roast
pork in it a couple of weeks ago. Absolutely gordeous
crackle and everything.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
People rave about them. Are you're slow off the boat
with their one? What brand did you go for?

Speaker 16 (01:13:20):
We got the gotcha the which one we got? In
the end, I'm going to tell you if I'm walking
here now. Yeah, I had I actually had it for
five months and I didn't use it, and then I
suddenly got into it as a Russell Hobbs.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
You're a good one, okay, and you're happy with it.

Speaker 16 (01:13:38):
Oh, it's brilliant.

Speaker 19 (01:13:39):
I just use it so much.

Speaker 16 (01:13:40):
Now you know you'd have to put anything love in
pans or you know, fry up and things like that.
So the cakes, but I haven't found that yet.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
I'll get rid of your oven, yeah, I think so.
Save the space.

Speaker 13 (01:13:55):
It keeps full.

Speaker 16 (01:13:56):
And now anyway, it's a bit dangerous. It keeps to
you know, we open it, it falls out. So I've
I've asked people who are here. I don't think they've
put it in properly. Really, Okay, Yes, it's a bit scary.
We put some weight on it. It actually comes away
from the wall.

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
Oh that sounds terrifying.

Speaker 9 (01:14:12):
It's awful.

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
Yeah, and nice to hear from you, Jillian, Thank you
twenty six to whatever. Keep those sticks. Also wise, if
I'm moving to australig you can answer that. Ah, she's
all on par up a pump pump, someone's predicted. I'll
put this one down Winston Peters to reverse the greyhound band.

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I did say in my opening show on Monday that
I did happen to find myself at Panga Nui and
went to the greyhound races on the Friday. And it
wasn't the straight track, it was the round track. They've
got a restaurant there in a long room with lights
with windows overlooking the track, and I didn't talk to

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anyone but sat there and quietly observed the goings on
for three races. Because people ask me we did the
show about greyhound racings, to go and give it another go.

Speaker 12 (01:15:12):
And it was a very.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
Pleasant experience. Was a very well oiled, well run, enjoyable
family kind of an event, and people seem to really
love it. And I've heard all the reasons for banning
the dogs and I support it, but walking away from

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that venue had a real sense of loss that these
people really seemed to have a sport, that really they
had done what they can to tidy up. So yeah,
I did feel that that needs to be acknowledged and
maybe that will get the bann up and maybe that
could be just that one course could keep going because
specifically built for the dogs and beautiful course. They have

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the races on the straight course on a Tuesday, So
I missed that. But that looks like in the middle
of a field. That doesn't look like it's as close
to the action as the one I saw Marcus. I
know about that race. I was a member of the
Royal Port Royal Nicholson Yacht Club and there were two
yachts more than the club basin that were part of
the race. One was the ral Kaua. It lost a

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man overboard and never sailed again, except for when two
friends of mine motivated their owner to take the yacht
out into Willington Harbor. The nineteen sixty nine Willington Arcar
Race was similar, but no lives were lost. Twenty two
yachts started, only eleven finished. I was on the win
a crescendo owned by Brian Barrowcluff, who told me mid

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race that he wished the boat was ten thousand tons heavier.
That is where I been followed by a great white
shark three minutes off the steard of the yacht. Forty bears,
followed by forty gins consumed at the Achiro pub on
a RYE can't call as it's passed my bedtime, my
wife for fifty two years. Oh so I can't call

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as it's passed by and my wife for fifty two
years bed time. Sorry to make a hash of reading
that second one, just so you know. In the women's
semi phone and the tennis in Australia Seblenka six four
over Badosa. So that's the first set done and dusted.
I'll keep you updated with that one. Keep those predictions going,

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with some good ones coming through. Marcus will finally findow
who called JFK. Winston. Pears will resign from politics once
David Seymour takes deput PM role. Powerball will reach its
highest level in ended history. I don't know what there's
I think it's probably forty something million, be a lot,
be enough to not move to Australia. Taylor have you

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got predictions for me? Please welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 5 (01:18:01):
Yeah, I've got a couple of predictions for you, Taylor.

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
How many have you got?

Speaker 7 (01:18:07):
God?

Speaker 5 (01:18:07):
I actually don't know. I've just got a couple of
my head. Some of them are political, some of them
more pop culture.

Speaker 4 (01:18:14):
I think.

Speaker 5 (01:18:15):
I honestly think jd. Vance is going to be president
this year. I honestly think just in the country where
you know, weapons are so easily accessible, like the United States,
I think Grand fifth Auto six that's going to get
delayed by a year perhaps.

Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
Hang on, hang on, that's a video game, not a movie, right,
They're not making a movie of the game.

Speaker 14 (01:18:34):
Yeah, game, yep.

Speaker 7 (01:18:35):
I'm just so.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
I just realized because they're making movies of like Minecraft
and stuff. Okay, Grand When was it supposed to be released.

Speaker 5 (01:18:45):
Twenty twenty five? It was just twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
There was no kind of Okay, there was no Why
has it been delayed?

Speaker 5 (01:18:54):
Oh, it hasn't been delayed. That's just my prediction, I
think because they've only released one trailer since December twenty
twenty three, so that's been over a year and we've
only seen one like little released little about it from
the company that makes the game. So I think, surely
not prepared. I think there's going to be a probably

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a stop market correction. I'd imagine it would be one
of the biggest in a couple of decades. Great goodness
me and if I were to guess there's going to
be something, and there's gonna be something random like flooding
in New Zealand, there's going to be flooding.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
Is everybody a year when there has been no flooding?

Speaker 7 (01:19:40):
Oh yeah, well yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:19:43):
I think you've got a point there. I think in
terms of flooding, there's going to be it's going to
be pretty catastrophic. Look the way I see it is
it's going to be worse than twenty twenty four. And
I'm not trying to be a pessimist, that's just that's
just my prediction.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
I think it was twenty twenty three with the bad floods.

Speaker 5 (01:20:05):
You did cycling, Gabriel, Yep, that is true.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
So you said, so you're saying it's worth the twenty
twenty four worth of twenty twenty three.

Speaker 5 (01:20:15):
It's going to be worse than probably both of them.

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
To be honest, Okay, I don't know. If there's floods
that much flooding last year. But I've got you down
as that, okay, yep.

Speaker 5 (01:20:22):
Yeah, And I reckon, I reckon mortgage rates are lower
though I think the ocr is going to go down.
Bank's going to put their their rates lower. And I
think Guyana bid invade Taiwan. I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
Okay, when you say not sure, it doesn't kind of
sound like a prediction. But we've got your other five Taylor,
thank you for every much for that fifteen away from
eleven edit's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 14 (01:20:48):
Yes, Marcus good. Evening the yard prace that you mentioned
Bacon nineteen fifty one, I go, comes to mind the
yacht that was a lost. Yeah, I haven't, Yeah, I go.

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
And when we say lost, that means we presume they
were never found. There was never any wreckage or any
sign of the people's right.

Speaker 14 (01:21:12):
That's right. And I can recall Wellington Radio. I was
only a kid at the.

Speaker 4 (01:21:18):
Time, and.

Speaker 14 (01:21:20):
Calling, calling, calling, calling, how you Then I go, I go,
please respond, went on for a couple of days, yes.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
Because I'm thinking about it, and tell me if my
thinking is wrong, because we had the World War and
that was a great tragedy. And then for a while
you know, we were a country without tragedy for a
number of years, and this one seems to be a
bit of an I mean, the Valentine's flyer had been,
the seaclifire had been. I guess there was tongue awire
but later on. But this one must have really stood out.

Speaker 14 (01:21:54):
But this ago one really stood out, especially in the
Wellington area years. Yes, yes, it really said, I don't
know how many were lost.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
It was in was ten on two yachts?

Speaker 14 (01:22:09):
Ten on two yachts, ye yeah, yes, yes, so that's
a memory from yes.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
So what if they had they would have had radio.
I presume they're desperate for some sort of radio signal.

Speaker 14 (01:22:20):
Oh yes, yes, because as I said, I can recall
listening to you Wellington radio calling, calling, calling, are you there?

Speaker 10 (01:22:30):
Go?

Speaker 14 (01:22:31):
Are you there?

Speaker 18 (01:22:32):
I go?

Speaker 11 (01:22:32):
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, or something for that yeah, something
like that anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:22:43):
It says the yachts that were missing with the Aurora
and the Argo, the records of a third husky was
found there or Ferro Bay in Wellington.

Speaker 11 (01:23:00):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:23:04):
So yeah, so that's that's my memory.

Speaker 2 (01:23:07):
Appreciate that in Thank you so much for coming through
Twelve Away from eleven, Marcus, I remember the disastrous yacht race.
My father was a radio hammer operator z L two se,
z L two se. Some of you will remember him.
He and many others scanned the frequencies for days, listening
for SAS calls, hoping to make the contact with the

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crew in trouble. That's from Marge, So thanks for that.
So blink who won the first set in the semi
final six to four. She's two games up up, she's
just broken served, she's three games up, and the second

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set she leads three to one. I think he had
to break a set to be three one up, don't you.
I think that's right. Apologies to tennis fans. I've got
that one wrong. Tell you what, since the tennis balls
went from right white yellow, they haven't changed color again,
have they? I see how they predict the score onto

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the court. I presume the players can't see that. I
presume that's just for the people on TV Sex away
from living mine of as. Marcus, welcome HD on midnight.
Not looking forward to what you've got to say. Oh
eight hundred eighty to tend and nine nine two de text.
Get a monkst if you've got anything to add talk
about say, I think I've been wide ranging with the

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topics to I've enjoyed it muchly. Yeah, get in touch people,
just thinking of mear local news down our way, which
is important for you. Looks like Centralo Tago is getting

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one of those monopoly games which seems to be everywhere.
I'm not watch you what the point is, but there
we go. A rat has been found on Ulva Island.
That's not good. This is the one close to Stuart Island.
Dead rat found a trap last week. They've got road

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and detection dogs there to determine the extent of rat presence.
We've also got red activity on trail cameras. Further and
monitoring will say if it's a single rat or more,
they're disappoint of. It did show the biosecurity monitory was
working as it should. Sees one or two rats get

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there every year because it's close to Arakiura. The risk
increased when rat numbers were high on the mainland due
to warm weather and food availability. They can swim a
long way orround. I think they can swim several kilometers.
I think they all swim in like a they don't, well,

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maybe they do. I think they might bite each other's
tails and swim like in the chain. I don't know
if I've mentioned that or that's in a book. Actually,
don't quote me on that. I know sometimes I say
things and people like to sort of retweet it, and
that's fine, fine, fun at all. But sometimes I'm realizing
you're about to do it, but you do you whatever

(01:26:30):
gets you going. Oh, eight hundred ten nine nine to
de text. By the way, I'm here til midnight. That's
the good News romance along from twelve. I'll be hateled
then then he'll be little. Then I'm not quite sure
we're back to a full crew again next week. I

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presume most people come back after White Tonguey Day and
the other day. Yes, next week's going to be pretty petty,
I would think. But just so you know, Monday is
anniversary Day of those from Topa North Auckland Day they
call it, or the Auckland as we're calling it on

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the show. The Auckland and super Bowl will be on
the tenth February. The tenth teams yet to be decided.
Kendrick Lamar will have the halftime show and third March
for the Academies nominations come out tomorrow. I'm all in

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for Wicked. No one mourns the Wicked. Looks like Sabolenka
has won this. I'll keep you updated with that. I
think just about to go two sets up with this.

Speaker 14 (01:27:49):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:27:49):
Look, I am unsure how many such you need to
win in the semi final. I presume it's probably two
out of three, but I might be wrong, So I
apologize for that. Serving fast one thirty seven clumbers per hour.
How are you going, people? My name is Marcus. Welcome well.
This little twelve romans along at midnight tonight, so I
get in touch of this. By the way, anyone doing
anything interesting tonight or anyone listening from anywhere interesting too?

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I know at this time of the people are out
and about too, camping and motor homes and things like that.
That's always of interest to me. You've got an update
for where you are? Let us know. By the way,
this today is measure your feet day. I think it's
a day we need. By the way, don't know why
people would do that. Maybe make sure the shoes fit.

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That's one thing I'd like would be all shoe sizes
around the world to be normalized. They'd be a good
thing for Trump to do. And the Oscar nominations are
out tomorrow. What do I reckon? By the way, I
think looks like Sabolynka has just won thissid in her
fists six four six two walk to each other, big

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had double tap on the back, whispers in the air,
Pat pat pat off. They go shake the touchy umpire,
both shake that waves of the crowd does that double
tap of the racket lows it kiss lows it kiss,
Almost looks like a salute. You gotta be careful these days, Marcus.

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Chick chick one two chick in from the Mighty Melbourne
whilst watching the tennis New Year and New You. I
don't think I've ever heard you not know an answer
to something. Women are best of three. That's right, job done.
It's easy. If you say you don't really know, gives
you more leeway, Marcus. My predictions compliance costs will keep rising,

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and consents and building a local council will get not
going easy like they say, Well, farmers will still be
the backbone of our country. Marcus think the removal of
public rubbishment will be a big problem. Today. I went
to put our kindy recyclement out. I had to find
the general public can use their recyclement for waste, including
dirty nappies. I had to separate a gross backlisting. After

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a break, I've missed listening and particularly and participating. Kathy Marcus.
A friend is a nurse. She gets three times what
she got paid in todunger Pass, a freem hotel in Sydney,
shares single Marcus prediction that I will end the year

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engage and you you're and You're invited to the wedding,
Sonny or Sunny. I can't wait, Sonny, thank you. I've
never been to a listener's wedding. I've come close. Willie
Jackson to jump ship to the Maldi Party twenty twenty five.
Hello Chris, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:30:53):
I'll go Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
Predictions.

Speaker 4 (01:30:57):
People are moving to Australia just because.

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
Hang on, I got the wrong I thought you're talking
about predictions Australia. Yes, yes, I'm all heir is. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:31:06):
The reason people are moving to Australia have been studying
it is because in New Zealand our builders are encouraged
to build all these low quality houses high density. In Australia,
they've got lots of land, So people are getting a
high speed, luxurious house instead of a two story unit
that's boiling hot on the top floor. They get paid more.

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There's more of everything. It's like there's more doctors. There's
just more of everything. Everybody's there. It's a boom in place.
They've got they've got resources, they've got minds, you've got options.
It's a huge place.

Speaker 2 (01:31:46):
They've also got huge numbers of migrants and refugees arriving.

Speaker 4 (01:31:54):
That's good. There's more people to so they've got.

Speaker 2 (01:31:57):
Huge numbers, like a milliona year or something.

Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
Yeah, because we need people. People build economies. When we've
got no people, you've got no taxpayers.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
No, and people don't want to move to New Zealand exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:32:10):
So the thing John Key did that was really good.
He went over to US, over to a lot of
different overseas current countries, and he sold New Zealand to them.
So they all came here and they bought into this
New Zealand dream and they're like, wow, this is amazing. Yeah,
and all of a sudden it made us look a
lot cooler than we actually were. The rockstar economy. And

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now all Christoph Luxean is doing is just basically stripping
everything down and just minimizing government spending.

Speaker 9 (01:32:39):
And that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:32:39):
He's not there's no growth happening.

Speaker 2 (01:32:41):
Well, it's there's the opposite of growth is contraction.

Speaker 4 (01:32:46):
Yes, yes, that's that's right. And because all those people
that lost their jobs have all moved to Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:32:54):
Yeah, and you won't get them back when when the
economy does go. You can't get those people back. They've
gone forever.

Speaker 4 (01:33:00):
That's right. Because I have a cousin who moved to
Australia eight years ago. He now makes more money than
the Australia in prime minister.

Speaker 5 (01:33:08):
Much money.

Speaker 4 (01:33:08):
He's in Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:33:11):
What's his industry, Chris, I's a high flying lawyer, okay,
And and he does and he does law for people.

Speaker 4 (01:33:20):
That are doing big sales. So he's basically a lawyer
for salesman for big salesmen.

Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
Are going to say something else because I mean, lawyers
have always got big money though, haven't they.

Speaker 4 (01:33:31):
Well yeah they haven't so politicians, but they just don't
declare it obviously, But that's another topic. But they're cleared.
I'm talking to clear so in other words, but guess
what that money that he's making he can still only
afford to buy one of those old fashioned townhouses in
Sydney right there in town.

Speaker 2 (01:33:51):
Are very like a tearists.

Speaker 4 (01:33:54):
Yeah, but they're a lot bitter than artist houses. Artist's
houses just looked like that's somebody some dup leaders.

Speaker 2 (01:34:01):
Well, we don't have a history of building terrorist houses
in this country, the Australia and Sydney is it a
city suburbs with the railway, they did build those in
the great houses, those terrace houses.

Speaker 4 (01:34:12):
And I'll just say this. I've got a friend who's
moved to the Gold Coast. He said, everybody's up and
up and at them at five in the morning. They're
all going to the gym. They're all going over to work.
They're knocking off at twelve because it's too hot. So
they work different hours over there. They work early in
the morning till about twelve and then they just go swimming.
They have this amazing life. And there's the houses are

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built to high spec and they've got really good builders
over there, so you're getting a lot, a lot more
bang for your buck.

Speaker 7 (01:34:41):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:34:41):
They're building waterways everywhere. It's like it's like Florida. It's
like moving to Florida, and everybody's there and it's and
it's just all on and it's all action, and they
don't really worry about money because they just because there's
plenty of houses, there's not a shortage, there's plenty of land.
They just go build another, build another waterway and there's
another amazing set of houses and Kiwis are just having

(01:35:05):
a better life style over there, and they're not coming back.
And when they do come back, they say it's like
going returning to hell. That's what they say. It's like,
you know, as soon as they arrive, it's just bad
weather for most of the winter, there's crime everywhere. It's
just a lot of very positive outlooks. So they're all
over there and they just come back here for a

(01:35:26):
little holday every now and then, and then they return.
A lot of Keywis they come back and around February
because it's so hot in Australia, so they take their
holidays in February.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
Because and Chris said, is Australia is big downfall with
climate chain that it might become unbearably hot.

Speaker 4 (01:35:45):
That is true, but I mean, like I said, they're
in the pool all the time. They have pools and beaches.
Like a lot of their houses they all have pools,
so and they have you know, there is ways around it,
and it just just means that they don't work in
the peak peak sun hours, which is sort of like
twelve to or four. We could say that's there. They're

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up a lot earlier than us.

Speaker 2 (01:36:09):
Brilliant Chris. Nice to hear from your nineteen past eleven
eleven twenty one. Good evening, Steven, is this Marcus? Welcome?

Speaker 18 (01:36:18):
Oh good evening, see you at the Marcus. Just like
to talk about Australia. We all know it is a
big country and you have choices there climate wise and
people and everything. Now twentydd years ago, here we go.
My brother we went over to Australia on holiday and

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he'd liked so much he thought I wouldn't mind living here.
But when when he moved back again to live, he
found quite a bit of animosities start with, because they
objected to him being Achille and taking their jobs. But
what he did the very short space of time he

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became an Australian sit and their attitude towards have altered
because he would say, well, look, you had no more
say in who your parents were than I had and
what my parents were. I have chosen to be an Australian.
You people had no choice, and he said, people got

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I'm well after that.

Speaker 2 (01:37:31):
Goodness? Would he end up? Stephen?

Speaker 18 (01:37:34):
He's in a little place called Capellaba. It's just out
of Brisbane and I have been there numerous times. The
climate is absolutely the humidity is a zero. The climate
is beautiful and warm, and I liked everything about it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:53):
And what's it called?

Speaker 18 (01:37:55):
I don't like if I'm being in a different country.
I think he made the right move. And if ever
I decided I'm too old now I'm ninety. But if
I decided to go out of Australia, I would go
to Kapemba. It's not too far out of Brisbane. And
Brisbane is a beautiful city. It's got everything you want.

Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
Plus mm hmm.

Speaker 18 (01:38:20):
That's Almo to say about Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:38:22):
Everything plus what.

Speaker 7 (01:38:25):
Went?

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
I've got everything? Plus what ah.

Speaker 18 (01:38:30):
Easy transport, jobs, opportunities. People are a lot nicer, he said.
He's had the odd snake where it's a they're hireless
brown grass snakes. He said. People he's able to a
quick to criticize Australia about all their wominists, animals that

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they've got there, snakes and spiders and all that sort
of food.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
What was his line of Stephen, what was his line
of work?

Speaker 18 (01:39:04):
He was in these islands stud it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:08):
And what sorry?

Speaker 18 (01:39:09):
And in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:39:12):
Uh oh you're the planes. Oh you good on you,
thank you, great job. Oh wait, Thomas Marcus, good.

Speaker 7 (01:39:20):
Evening, good evening.

Speaker 9 (01:39:23):
That chap that was talking about Australia.

Speaker 19 (01:39:26):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:39:29):
I have.

Speaker 19 (01:39:31):
A grandson who lives in Queensland with his mom. They've
just moved there. I also have family and she's lived.
She's on holiday in New Zealand at the moment. And
she lives on Perth. Well, two days ago was the
Greets and Perth. Now she lives on a very flash

(01:39:54):
home and birth and this lady has got he is
going to think what they're going to do with you.
This is what's happening in Perth right now. This lady
has one of these pumps that cause the place down.
Well it's not enough, so she's getting solid panels put

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on her roof. She's getting another one put in, another
cold darn pump or whatever you call it. She can't
swim in her swimming pool god water, so hot and
that's the perfect Now. I was talking to the other
one yesterday in Queensland and she's a smoothed it with

(01:40:38):
a little boy and it's twenty two degrees at night
and thirty five degrees during and she's right on the
beach in Queensland. Now, New Zealand does need to really
think about this, because so they can live and go
to work or whatever, they're going to have to run

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these machines in the summer, not all the time, twenty
four hours a day, seven days a week. Somebody's got
to pay for it, and that's Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:41:12):
Tom. Yes, why she put the solar panels on because
she can't afford to pay the extra heat pub.

Speaker 19 (01:41:22):
No, she's putting the soul and everybody's doing it. She's
putting the solar panels on so she and any extra
power you give paper because it goes back into the grid. See,
we don't think this way here.

Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
I wonder if she's I wonder if she is power
neutral with that solar.

Speaker 4 (01:41:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 19 (01:41:46):
She's She's the third I'm telling you the truth. He
she's the third highest lady and Australia and her job
and insurance and she lives in Perth and she's in
charge of the boushfires, and she's in charge of major
she makes decision whether you get paid or not. Wow.

(01:42:10):
And she was in charge of christ Church for the
insurance companies. To give you an example, I'm not saying
this is going to happen in Australia. She was working
in Dubai. That was fifty three fifty degrees during the day.
Nobody owns the car and you go everywhere by taxi

(01:42:33):
and everything you need is in buildings. That's how they
live in a Dubai with fifty degrees. Now we are
supposed to get five degrees warmer, and I won't be
here by the year two thousand and fifty. That's in
New Zealand. If you can just visualize another five degrees warmer.

(01:42:57):
So I think people need to wake up. If you're
going to go and make a life in Australia, you're
going to have to live with all this here.

Speaker 2 (01:43:09):
Which is exactly what I said.

Speaker 19 (01:43:12):
Well, Sydney, Sydney, and not yesterday, but Sydney a little
because I follow this a little while ago, had twenty
eight degrees at midnight.

Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
Yeah, Okay, I think we get the point of Tom.
I wonder if she's starting to insurance while she's living
in such a hot.

Speaker 5 (01:43:32):
Place because it's money.

Speaker 9 (01:43:37):
Yeh, there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:43:38):
That's the problem. Tom, Susie said. Look, it took me
all my effort to say when he said she was
the third highest woman in Australian insurance. I was going
to say, well, we should put her in touch with Jane,
Jane and the Giant fan. But I didn't say that
because I'm growing up Jane, Jane and the Giant fan.

Speaker 9 (01:44:02):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
I enjoy what he says, but sometimes I feel I'm
being best over the head.

Speaker 7 (01:44:10):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
I'm not lying about this. This is not without a
word of a lie. They had some very They had
some record high temperatures in northern and even Margaret River
was very hot. Now I don't know that because I've
been there quite bougie, but Perth did have some extremely

(01:44:34):
high temperatures. Half of Australia is in a hate wave,
with Perth and Brisbane to be the brunt. Marcus moved
to Australia to two and a half years looking for
a job.

Speaker 3 (01:44:50):
No luck.

Speaker 2 (01:44:50):
After being laid off for asking for pay rise day
three and Brisbane, got a job at one five five
thousand a year, was on sixty five a year after
eighteen years, loyal to one company. Beck and Rangiora will
never return to the slum that is New Zealand. Jamie Mark, it's.

Speaker 20 (01:45:06):
Welcome, Hey Marcus, how are you going good?

Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
Thank you, Jamie.

Speaker 10 (01:45:11):
So.

Speaker 20 (01:45:11):
I don't think well, I don't talk just Brisbane. I
don't think it's affordable anymore than what everyone seems to think.
Like the medium house price in Brisbane is going to
go over a million dollars this year, they suspect, and
you know, to register a car now it's like a

(01:45:32):
thousand dollars a year. We did get a discount the
Queensland government. But yeah, so, and I've watched we were
lucky enough to buy our house in twenty seventeen for
like three point fifty and that's well over six hundred.
And I've watched people like next next to our neighbors
and stuff rent go from three hundred dollars a week

(01:45:53):
to seven eight hundred dollars a week in a matter
of seven years. Yea, and yeah, all these can't afford
to buy houses in Sydney and inner city Melbourne anymore.
They reckon to buy an average house in Brisbane, the
average ways you need is one hundred and seventy eight grand.
Now wow, So it's like, yeah, I guess I wouldn't

(01:46:18):
go back. But it's just, you know, I think listening tonight,
I think Kiwi seems to think it's all roses.

Speaker 4 (01:46:25):
Which it is.

Speaker 20 (01:46:26):
Like I've I've probably pulling on my feet pretty good,
but there's a lot of hard work. But it's still
pretty expensive. Pictures up there, I think it's like a
dollar sixty. Sometimes it gets up to about a dollar
eighty two dollars a lead for the ninety one.

Speaker 2 (01:46:40):
Yeah, how long you've been in Australia for Jamie.

Speaker 20 (01:46:44):
I'd be about thirteen years, twelve or thirteen years now.

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
So if you were doing it now, making the move,
it wouldn't work out? Is that what you're kind of saying?

Speaker 20 (01:46:54):
I reckon, we moved over here with five thousand dollars
in cash and two kids, and I reckon, if you
were to move here now, you would need at least
twenty because you don't just like rent just so streets
is now and getting hours and stuff is there. Everything's
gone up.

Speaker 2 (01:47:10):
You know, you know these houses and these houses in
Brisbane you talk about someone was talking about them being
free standing houses on their own section. Is that still
most of them? Is there no shortage of land in Brisbane?

Speaker 7 (01:47:25):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:47:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:47:27):
Yeah, we're in south Side and Logan and yeah they
just you know, you just the blocks have got smaller.
But yeah, they just you know, you just build a
free standing house, three vigiom house. We're like, we got
We've got a three bedroom house on two hundred and
fifty squares so it's not big by any stretch.

Speaker 2 (01:47:45):
Yeah, you get your cars packed on the road.

Speaker 10 (01:47:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:47:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:47:50):
The main reason the wife because we just bought up
the plan. The main reason the wife bought it was
because it was parking across the road and there's a
park two doors down with a parking so that was
the reason we've got it. So but yeah, it's some
oh one city that's different as Adelaide. I left Adelaide

(01:48:11):
today and man, they seem to only do it that city.
I only must work on an eight hour day.

Speaker 2 (01:48:16):
It's crazy because quiet.

Speaker 20 (01:48:20):
Yeah, I don't know, they just well I got there
the night before and I went in at three four thirty.
It was to see if I could get my truck
unloaded and he goes on, everyone's got home, gone home.
They're not going to be back to eight in the morning.
And I was like really, And I forgot that was
a big business too to what you do. I went

(01:48:40):
to Wingfield BT and had a shower and just hung
out on my truck. We're going to go for a walk.

Speaker 2 (01:48:46):
Yeah, have your wage just gone through the roof, Jamie
or just kind of with truck drivers to keep them
in the Is that something that you've benefited from?

Speaker 14 (01:48:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:48:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:48:59):
When I started, because I've been doing interstate now ten years,
beat doubles when I started, because we get paid by
the pilometer. We started doing it, it was about yeah,
forty cents a kilometer. Now it's up to fifty five.
So in the matter of ten years it's gone up
fifteen cents per kilometer. So yeah, I'm making a good bit.

(01:49:23):
But yeah, these company, you know, we do thousand kilometers
the day most days.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
I didn't know that truck Dove has got paid by
the kilometer.

Speaker 20 (01:49:33):
Just one's on the interstate, So like when you do
line hauls, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:49:39):
It now?

Speaker 20 (01:49:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just pulled over to chat to
you about Nerandra in Nerandra any good? Ah, yes, all right,
there's not I haven't actually had a good look to
just bypass it. But the truck stop used to be good.
It's not good anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:49:57):
Can you does your does your truck tell you how
hot it is outside?

Speaker 18 (01:50:02):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (01:50:02):
Now I'm doving a camera if we don't have that
kind of technology. But i' still told today I've only
had to have your hair con on Dan Screed number two.
So yes, not being hot at all.

Speaker 2 (01:50:15):
Have you got anything in the back? What's your load?

Speaker 5 (01:50:19):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (01:50:19):
Just rubbish, just busy rubbish. So heading to the snowy
mountains to get there tonight and then unloaded and put
take a reel line to go home tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:50:31):
I think last time I talked to you before that
you're looking at getting a lifestyle block. Is that something
that's still on the cards.

Speaker 12 (01:50:38):
Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 20 (01:50:38):
Spoke to the mortgage brokers today and hopefully have pre
approval tomorrow or early next week, so that should be good.

Speaker 7 (01:50:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:50:47):
I can only really we're going to have to move
to like Ernangos, like three or four hours out of Brisbane.
She'll be able to get five acres though, does your
missus Oh, she just does Huber deliveries.

Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
Would could you do it out there?

Speaker 20 (01:51:04):
Now? I should just grow some bedges and feeds some sheep.

Speaker 2 (01:51:10):
Oh, you'd be good to the Morgage broke because you've
got the gift of the gab on the phone. That's
kind of your thing, isn't it.

Speaker 20 (01:51:15):
Yeah, I haven't spaken too much unt all been through email?

Speaker 2 (01:51:18):
Would you say? Did you say to Anango?

Speaker 20 (01:51:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:51:23):
It's pretty dry.

Speaker 20 (01:51:26):
Yeah, cool little town. Nextly, they've got a lot of
good stuff going on on the Facebook groups, but different
from the Brisbane or the Logan Facebook groups anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:51:35):
What's going off on the Logan Facebook group? What are
they up at arms about?

Speaker 20 (01:51:40):
Well, they go kids wearing hoodies walking down the street,
make through the car's lost.

Speaker 7 (01:51:45):
You know, they're just a just a classic and what's
what's engo?

Speaker 2 (01:51:50):
What do they It's a good way to find a
good town. To find their Facebook page.

Speaker 14 (01:51:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:51:55):
One of the thing I liked was they had a
go kart track that you pay fifteen dollars twenty five
dollars it once for fifteen minutes. It was like price
is going back. And they had a I think every
Friday they have a trade food market where you take
it homeground food and you trade it.

Speaker 7 (01:52:12):
You know.

Speaker 20 (01:52:12):
Those two things got me going. I was like, yeah,
we're moving.

Speaker 2 (01:52:15):
There is bow hunting there, you get involved with bow hunting.

Speaker 7 (01:52:20):
Yeah, that could be.

Speaker 20 (01:52:23):
I think the farming will be doing. It is probably
farming cars and motorbikes.

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
The dream of five acres of rusting our cars.

Speaker 20 (01:52:33):
Yeah, yeah, you got it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:36):
I will be pleased to know, Jamie. I got the
kids to watch all the Fast of the Furious movies.
Someone their favorite, probably the last one they watched at Tinda.

Speaker 5 (01:52:48):
To be.

Speaker 20 (01:52:50):
Really, I stopped watching it three. The first one was
my favorite. That reminded me of you know, Auckland and
Boy Race.

Speaker 2 (01:52:59):
But the one when when the car jump from building
to building they got about far fetched, we all thought,
but they stuck with it.

Speaker 20 (01:53:08):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. I gave up at three.

Speaker 11 (01:53:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:53:12):
I think that was probably the right thing. It was
probably the right thing to do. Yeah, nice to talk, Jamie.
Thanks so much of that nineteen away from twelve. I
don't know why. I mean, they're not car kids, but
we just started watching one and then we got caught
watching them all and I've never seen a second of
one because with the kids, you got to explain that

(01:53:35):
that when Paul Walker dies, I wish I got rid
of Jamie. Now, when Paul Walker dies, you gotta explain.

Speaker 1 (01:53:40):
To the kid that's.

Speaker 2 (01:53:43):
That the actor has died, but also the characters die.
That's always a great thing to kind of get them
to understand. It was tragic, really, But I likable of
Vin on Vin Diesel anyway, Marcus only have five million
old people were Austraia as many millions to pay textures

(01:54:04):
in This can't compete and we should join there. We
should combine. They wouldn't have us, would they anyway? An ngo,
I'm clean to look at the Nenango Facebook page. Now

(01:54:24):
I'm worried about Jamie. Now people are asking the question
how many k's does Jamie drive a day? I think
he said a thousand, but I don't really know. Someone
might have been listening more closely. Jackie says, just a
a interest, how many cays does Jamie do a dage?
I reckon figured out about two and a half.

Speaker 16 (01:54:44):
K a week.

Speaker 2 (01:54:44):
That's what I kind of did the quick myths for
I might be wrong with that. Jamie's a sort of
rooster would tell us quite honestly what he was on.
But it's a different from week. But you know, he's
got kids and he's he's walk about a lot of
the time. We're just sleeping in that Kevin listening in
the back of the track, listing to talk back, having
a share at the gas station. Thought about going for

(01:55:05):
a walk, but cident, well, that doesn't sound good, does it.
But yeah, that farmer's market sounds good. We take your
product the Dango. What's you got there, Jamie? Just some
stuff we're growing. I'm excited about the mortgage coming through.

(01:55:30):
Could open an Airbnb for talkbacklisteners. So how you get
to the Nango with the Traango?

Speaker 4 (01:55:37):
There?

Speaker 9 (01:55:39):
Hell, gap, Hello, it's me.

Speaker 13 (01:55:42):
How are you good?

Speaker 9 (01:55:43):
Me?

Speaker 2 (01:55:43):
How are you? Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:55:45):
I'm god? Thank you. Well, my great grandparents came from Melbourne.

Speaker 2 (01:55:50):
I came from the Dango. Okay, yep, no, I don't
know what part.

Speaker 13 (01:55:54):
Of Melbourne that they came here. I married a man
from Melbourne and he was as romantic as an old
gun boat.

Speaker 2 (01:56:02):
Really that good?

Speaker 4 (01:56:03):
Eh?

Speaker 13 (01:56:04):
Oh Boring, you know, Boring never gave me flowers, never
told me I was pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:56:10):
Really the woman.

Speaker 13 (01:56:11):
Yeah, they're going to be in for a shock. And
I spoke to ladies from from Australiers to day as
in a supermarket barrow and and she said, no, she's
from men and men aren't romantics here either. She was
a woman, sure, rage woman. So and my sister went
there because over twenty five years ago, because she got

(01:56:34):
cell blains on her fingers in New Zealand and she's
been there twenty years. She likes her.

Speaker 2 (01:56:39):
He must have been romantic to you to fall from originally?
Was he romantic? Originally?

Speaker 3 (01:56:43):
Was he?

Speaker 2 (01:56:43):
Could he turned it all over the way?

Speaker 6 (01:56:45):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:56:46):
Not really. He would have a neighbor. He was a
neighbor and I invited them to a twenty first birthday
party and he had an affair with an eighteen year
old when he was thirty one and I was thirty,
got it pregnant five years later, wrunging me up. Wanted
to come back, and I said no, So I do

(01:57:08):
like CHERSI though Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:57:10):
I went originally originally was he the neighbor.

Speaker 13 (01:57:14):
Yeah, he was a neighbor, but he was from Albourne.

Speaker 11 (01:57:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:57:19):
Was he over here working?

Speaker 13 (01:57:21):
No, he came to university to be a doctor and
he for mental health or something. But he ended up
after he Marrige broke up and his girlfriend left him.
She be kids and left him and she went. He
went to ketman Do and worked to mental health. I
went back to UNI. We did mental health and went
to ket men Do. So so it's interesting. Yeah, my

(01:57:49):
grand I didn't meet my great grandparents.

Speaker 2 (01:57:51):
But to fall in love with someone over the fence,
it just seems too convenient.

Speaker 4 (01:57:56):
Mind.

Speaker 2 (01:57:57):
There wasn't tinder in those days, was there. That was
all sort of and I was very shy.

Speaker 13 (01:58:04):
Yeah, I just wondering about you know me, I hear,
I'm a Jehovah's working for someone to not on your door?

Speaker 2 (01:58:13):
Yeah, where do you not?

Speaker 13 (01:58:16):
I was in Central City or about eighteen years. I
was living in gray Lynn and going to the Kingdom
Hall in Pontomie Road. And now I'm in Evandale, but
I was all.

Speaker 7 (01:58:29):
Over in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:58:31):
When I was living in Auckland, there was a the
JWS came knocking quite often. You normally have family members
with them. They'd only bring their children. I felt like
young sons and daughters. Will that be right?

Speaker 20 (01:58:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:58:42):
I had a boy called Harley.

Speaker 2 (01:58:44):
Okay, well, but I.

Speaker 13 (01:58:46):
Talk all the time. You're from Auckland, so I talk
to everyone and I'll just tell you I had an
American grandfather too. And a prediction I've got is I
because did you know during from my auntie Tommy in
nineteen thirty nine to forty five, the New Zealand woman
loved the Americans and one thousand, four hundred married them,

(01:59:08):
and probably there's lots of babies left the side there.
And my prediction is that the government will open up
and bring all those Americans from California here.

Speaker 2 (01:59:18):
It's a good idea, is I spoke free moving on
this show to people that had fallen in love with
American servicemen that were on Wrist and Recreation and Masterton.
There were some exciting stories there. We talked about that
last year.

Speaker 4 (01:59:30):
Just loved them.

Speaker 2 (01:59:31):
The thing is, Hella, are you not shy because you're
a JW and you're not a lot.

Speaker 9 (01:59:35):
Of that j W.

Speaker 13 (01:59:38):
When I was young, I didn't get to know about
the Bible until I was about twenty four?

Speaker 2 (01:59:43):
Did you did you find it from a door knocker?

Speaker 5 (01:59:47):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:59:47):
My auntie was one, but I became one. As they
don't celebrate Christmas, the Roman pagan fiece.

Speaker 2 (01:59:57):
Yeah, I forgot that about birthdays and Christmas. We've got
friends that are Jehovah's witness in the doorway. Yeah, okay,
but tell me something. So why you're not shy now
now because you became a Jehovah's witness.

Speaker 13 (02:00:09):
Well, I just realized in life because I was brought
up in the late forties and my father remare and
lived in Irenga. Went there in the sixties. No one
had a car and so you caught a bus on
Sunday and we went for somewhere around town on the
family pass and my uncle visited once a year. No

(02:00:32):
one in the sixties and that they didn't go out
except on the bus and go to work in the bus.
So you were quite isolated, and that's why I became shy.
But I became a part time missionary as Jehovah's witness,
so that opened me up. But I realized you can't
be shy otherwise you're selfish and you're lonely.

Speaker 2 (02:00:52):
So did you go over seas on the mission? Did
you go over seas with the mission?

Speaker 4 (02:00:57):
No?

Speaker 13 (02:00:58):
New Zealand, Well, kit Tire and the city and Wahiki.

Speaker 2 (02:01:03):
Island and great barriers. Didn't you say one should be
the great barrier?

Speaker 13 (02:01:09):
Yeah, I've been there, but I yeah, yeah, we did
there two year we went there too. We'd go twice
for a week and playing in their plane clothes and
walk in the bush. You know, I find it. We
found a home at once.

Speaker 2 (02:01:23):
Do you convert him?

Speaker 13 (02:01:24):
We couldn't find him home, but we found his place
and he must have been a helicopter. It was the
Australians Free End. He was with us and he went
walk about but we found hum It's home that no
one knew where he lived, so that was exciting.

Speaker 2 (02:01:39):
You got a book there, Hell, go sit in a podcast.

Speaker 13 (02:01:43):
Do you want me to make a podcast? My son said,
I should write a book.

Speaker 2 (02:01:47):
I should a podcast about your time knocking on doors.

Speaker 13 (02:01:51):
Do you think so well?

Speaker 2 (02:01:53):
Love listen?

Speaker 13 (02:01:55):
Yeah, I've been one for nearly forty five years. Bobem
Kite tired to the Uneden and my Hickey Island.

Speaker 2 (02:02:02):
I know it's not important, it's not about that. But
have you managed to bring a lot of people to
you religion?

Speaker 13 (02:02:08):
Yeah? The most mature age was nineteen. I studied with
a ninety nine year old Wow, she got baptized at
one hundred and one, and others people I started studying with,
but they came to the hall or I saw them
in the street. They still them at one of Jehovah's witnesses.

Speaker 2 (02:02:27):
Now that I moved, so yeah, how many would have
you converted?

Speaker 13 (02:02:34):
Maybe four?

Speaker 2 (02:02:35):
Relevant in a lifetime.

Speaker 13 (02:02:38):
Well, you meet a lot of people, but I moved
so much to keep moving all around New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (02:02:44):
So yeah, I'm going to run for Ed's algod. But yeah, lovely.

Speaker 7 (02:02:47):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:02:49):
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