The most bored you've ever been (19 June 2025)

The night before a long weekend has Marcus talking about being bored, and having red hair.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be greetings and welcome Marcus till twelve. I hope
you're good. I think most of us will be sitting
here on the cusp of a long weekend and we'll
be thinking public holiday on a Friday. That's weird. What
does that mean for next week's Beinnesdays? Because this week's Bennsdays,
we're fine. What about next week? Something's going to go

(00:32):
weird though, wasn't it. They're going to be shifted by
a day? At least I would to speak, But anyway,
there'll be an app for that. I just haven't got it.
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine two
to text, Greetings and welcome. Thursday feels like Friday. Is
it a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know.
But get in touch if you want to talk. Oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine to two

(00:53):
to text here and with you right through to twelve.
So part of my brief tonight is keep you updated
with what's going on over the next three hours fifty three. Yeah,
it's kind of a hard thing to do in this
day and age, because who knows what's going to happen,
but if it does happen, we'll let you know. Also,
till it is a long weekend, we're on the cusp

(01:14):
of that, some people will be heading away. I don't
know that it's going to be a big night on
the road traffic wise, I think from a midwinter break
is not most people must do things this time in
the year. But if there is any traffic interruptions, I
will keep you updated on those. Yep, So get in touch.

(01:35):
You want to talk at Marcus till twelve. There'll be
ennuble things I want to talk about the next three
hours fifty two minutes, and I will keep you across those,
but we'll keep it open. So there's other stuff you
want to talk about, freel free to come through and
I will keep you updated on the local news also
for the next couple of hours. If anything happens, you

(01:58):
will be hearing about it. So yeah, I'm not quite
sure what that is at the stage, but looking forward
to the cusp of the long weekend. Oh, eight hundred
eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two text if
you do want to come through, But if there's anything
else that happens. I will keep you updated with that.

(02:20):
So who knows we were going to end up for
the next three hours, fifty three minutes fifty two minutes.
So I enjoy about the Thursday end of the week
kind of says you never quite know where it's going
to go. But do get in touch you want to
be a part of the show, as I say, Oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two to text.
Been some good topics this week. Have been some shows
that have been re enjoyable. Jewels and self checkout everyone's

(02:46):
gone quiet on the Cowbells, although it's sold out quite
quickly even see someone said that the chief when that
the Chiefs when that there should be an esterex by
their name because of the way they got to the
final thought there was a bit mean spirited your play
according to the rules of the tournament. That and a

(03:08):
winner as a wonder if they've won by the rules,
they won fairly anyway, So I'll probably give the old
cow Bells a bit of a quiet break tonight. Thought
we covered that pretty well last night. Actually, if I
do get in touch, you want to talk eight eight
eight text, I shall start the night with a question.

(03:31):
It's a question that might require a bit of thinking,
but I think it's a good topic and I'll certainly
be quite happy to answer it. And I've got a
lot to say about it. So the question for tonight
to kick us off for a starter for ten, give
us a think about this. It could be quite fun.
Let us and ring through and let me know what
is What is the most borede you've ever been? Do

(04:02):
you ever think about that? And let me know the
most bored you've ever been? I can think of three incidences,
and actually just walking away from the mIRC to shut
the door. Actually, when I think about it, I think

(04:23):
back to my childhood and don't be to consider not
going on a deep regress about my childhood. However, I
would say that there were long lengths of my childhood
where I went to things where I was unbelievably bored

(04:45):
and bored to the point of thinking I could no
longer much go on with it. That's how boring some
of those things were. There's a child, You're at something,
I think, jeepest creeps, it must be finished now, and
you find you about a third of the way through
long trips, movies, meetings, all that sort of stuff. And
my own children don't say to be bored at all,

(05:05):
which tear like, why are you bored? Why can you
sit through this? Anyway? So my question to you is
that the most borge you've ever been. Have a think
about that. Give me a holler or text. Either is fine,
but mainly the calls is what I like the most,
And the phone calls and the texts are fine. Oh
eight hundred eighty thirty nine two nine two to text
the most borge you've ever been. And I think you

(05:29):
have some good answers to this, I hope, because I
certainly got some good things to say. Oh eight hundred
eighty thirty nine two nine two to text the most
Copparently they're saying this comes on the bank of an
article actually says it's good to be bored. Well, not
that good, not that good. If it takes away you
will to live. Get in touch, Marcus till midnight tonight.

(05:50):
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine
two to text the most ballge you've ever been. Get
in touch, Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine
two nine two to text. If you want to add
to this, if there's something different. You want to mention
tonight whether it have been the Friday free for all on
a Thursday, but it feels like a Friday, the eve
of Matadiki. Get in touch and make yourself knowing. The

(06:12):
most borede you've ever been. There'll be one event you
went to. There'll be something that you did, some trip
or something you think, goodness, gracious me, this is mind
numbingly boring. And what does that ring through? And let
me know. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine
two nine two detexts. The most boorde you've ever been? Yeah,

(06:35):
be nice though, I mean, don't they listening to your
radio pravable things like that because it's always hurtful. Well,
I don't. People think that's funny at the time, but
you know it might be a radio experience. Actually, yes,
get in touch. Oh eight hundred eighty thirty nine two
nine two de texts. The most board you've ever been?

(06:58):
Just cleaning some Oh I've just dumped some of them,
putting their butt dump button down. Steve Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
I know Marcus, Steve, Yes, it's you him, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
What was the most board you've ever been?

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Probably in the category of everybody. Nothing bores the shit
out of me more my expression. And then transit on
the way home in an airport.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Wow, yeah, So which puts the transit when you've got
to go between one airport and the.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Other, Well, you're just waiting for the next flight flight
m Z six eight two peq three three hours and
a half.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Oh god, I actually quite like that now with cell phones.
I don't think it's now I get bored by that.
I don't fly that much. So we talking international, are we?

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, I've fled. I must have one hundred and fifty
trips for leisure now without bluing me trumpet. But yeah,
so you can't wait to get over to these I'm
leaving on Saturdays. I just know how many time. Yeah,
and for curiosity because that's my buzz going somewhere and
absolutely bored xless on the way home.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
We should dream destination, Steve.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh, she's going around, said they believe I'm not going
Southeast Asia. But with the war going on, it's a
bit of a worry.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
But the wars not in Southeast The war's not Southeast
Asia though, was it?

Speaker 4 (08:21):
No?

Speaker 3 (08:21):
But the plane there being diverted and who knows where
it's going end up. You know, it's a it's a
bit of a minor worry.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Goose to call from overseas if you could like to
hear from you, Donna Marcus, welcome, Hella.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Marcus talking about being bored. A friend of mine was
getting married many many years ago now, and we're very
excited because obviously girls going to weddings, and after an
hour and a half of the Greek Orthodox, the whole
thing grew the Greek and there's only so much of
the tabernacle or over the course and everybody's clothes that

(08:57):
you can look at, and it's finished after three hours.
I wanted to show off my.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Arm cheapest did you get to smash the plates?

Speaker 5 (09:06):
So it went on for so long that by the
time we got to the reception, I had to get
back because my father was babysitting my daughter and he
had thought that we'd all died somewhere because they'd been
gone for so long. So I didn't even get to
get the dinner.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
It's a long wedding. Donna, thanks so much that sixteen
past eight.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Your trusted late time Talk Marcus last night's call eight
News Talk said he.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Those sounds smuggle pass. I think I could ever be
bored at a wedding or at a church brought a funeral, actually,
for they always found them quite interesting with the long
one Sundra Marcus.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
Welcome, Oh, good evening. Marcus. Here, I agree with you.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
I think.

Speaker 6 (09:47):
I could never get bored at those events. But one
movie that I was completely bored when at Feast came
out to the point that I had.

Speaker 7 (10:00):
To walk out. I was so bored.

Speaker 8 (10:04):
And since the end, it was quite a few years ago,
many years ago actually, and since then it's played a
few times on the television and I'll sat down with
the intent of watching it so that I know what
the movie it's about. But I've fallen the sleep.

Speaker 6 (10:26):
Goodness, are you there?

Speaker 9 (10:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (10:28):
I thought you're gonna have the big reveal. What's the
movie Apocalypse Now? I don't think it was too bad.
There's worse, Jared, It's Marcus.

Speaker 10 (10:38):
Good evening, Good evening, Marcus. First of all, Apocalypse Now
isn't a boring film. It's a masterpiece.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
I thought so too. I watched it in strange circumstances
at someone's place in a small room, and it was weird.
But anyway, that's a story for another day. I think
it was in VHS's had first come out. We went
down around to at Mats place to work, and the
whole family was there. Anyway.

Speaker 10 (11:03):
First of all, this is a fantastic question, and I
think we'll get a lot of great answers.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
A super topic, it might be a super topic. It is.

Speaker 10 (11:15):
It's that macro sort of way how we feel doing
things and that, and yes, when you think about it
for long enough you can have a very substantial answer.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Well.

Speaker 10 (11:30):
Alfred Hitchcock once said that drama is a life with
all the boring parts left out, and to me that
says we need to feel bored, because otherwise we wouldn't
have any contrast between started or interested and the most
bored I've ever felt. And that's a very good point

(11:51):
about watching a boring movie or something like that, but
that's one particular experience. The most board I've ever felt
was when I was forced to read books that I
had no interest in reading. I'm not a fan of
English literature. I love reading. I'll read all about the
Second World War, about cars, about history, space exploration. But

(12:15):
when I was forced at university and school to read
books that I really didn't care for, it could take you,
depending on how much time you've got, it could take
you weeks to have to painfully go through being bored
reading a book, and it takes a very long time.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
What was the book that bought you the most? Because
I've always found books, I mean, if you're studying on English,
they're normally of a fairy high caliber, aren't they?

Speaker 11 (12:43):
They are?

Speaker 10 (12:44):
And I understand the appeal it would have to some things.
But I could not get into Virginia Wolf. I could
not get into Jane Eyre. It just really isn't my thing.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
And wonder why you were studying it?

Speaker 10 (13:00):
Well, it was part of the English course. I studied
to be a journalist and that was part of the
currica for some reason. You know, they have to pad
it out somehow.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
And I always though Janie was a bit of a
was a good read. But thank you, Jared, Sarah Marcus welcome.
Oh hi, sorry, Sarah, you're welcome.

Speaker 12 (13:21):
Welcome?

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well all right, Hi, Hi, I was Sarah. I'd hate
to be called Sarah. I like Sarah. I don't mind Sarah,
but Sarah is better.

Speaker 13 (13:30):
I thank you. Yeah, I always get Sarah, and I
always correct everyone straight away. Otherwise they keep calling Sarah. Anyway,
I had got something in my hands that I've had
for a little while that I thought it's actually funny.
As soon as I saw it, I thought of you,
And for me, I think it sort of merges into
what we're talking about tonight of boredom, because I think

(13:51):
I would be quite bored listening to this. But it
is a vinyl a power of steam, historic sounds of
locomotives in the North Island of New Zealand, fare well,
because I remembered you did that TV program But what
was it? The trains?

Speaker 2 (14:12):
The trains? The train? Has it got tunnels? And has
it got horned?

Speaker 13 (14:17):
Mate? Yeah, it's got all sorts.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, I quite like.

Speaker 13 (14:22):
Yeah, off the air, I'll probably read reads some of
this to you. You look, it would bore everyone else
lost thing, but like to just to say a couple
and you've probably done all through this area. But teatle ha,
there's waititoa to the outskirts of Moransball passing. Yeah, honestly,

(14:44):
I think you think you're going to love this, But again,
I think I would be really bored owning this, So
I'll drop it off to.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Wherever at I don't want to. I haven't got a turntable,
don't you know?

Speaker 14 (15:00):
Really?

Speaker 13 (15:01):
No, okay, this is leading into another question. Then why
why wouldn't you have a turntable?

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Come on, I went to Yeah, I know the jeepest creepers.
You know, got houses full of kids and stuff. There's
not a lot of room.

Speaker 13 (15:16):
Yeah, well that's true. Yeah, yeah, I've got a house
full of kids and stuff. Yeah, okay, I need to
seem Okay, well then I'll take it photo and I'll tell.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
You what I have heard these records in the past.
The old man used to wake us up playing one
of those in the morning on holiday. But they were
very well recorded. There were the r n Z you
know that the people with the proper with the proper
materials sitting on the so they're extremely well recorded. Those albums.

Speaker 13 (15:46):
Yeah, I was trying to look at the It doesn't
say the year that it was actually done, but it's
it's by KEEI Records, by a h Yeah yeahs of
New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Where did you get it?

Speaker 13 (16:01):
I've given it a whole bunch of vinyl. My husband's
dad passed, oh about fifteen twenty years ago, and when
his mum moved on, she found or she's in.

Speaker 15 (16:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (16:17):
Anyway, they renovated the house and I found an old
box and it was all that sort of stuff and yeah,
it's it's actually quite cool to listen to, I must say,
but it's not really something that i'd keep in my collection.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
I think it's probably good to go to sleep too
as well.

Speaker 12 (16:37):
What really?

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Oh? Yeah, soothing? Oh you want to try it, Sarah?
Thank you. I don't want to look at gift tours
in the mouth. I'm sorry I can't take off your hands.
But yeah, you sat down on trade with forty bucks.
Having to read Waiting for God on the seventh for
eighty two was bro I saw the play of Waiting
for God. It was a hard watch. Marcus. I got
reshed to hospital due to a potential life threatening in finction.

(17:01):
They told me had to stay at night for monitoring.
It wasn't a better stay, so no speak, closed nice snacks,
no TV room, and got locked in because of COVID concerns.
What's worse as my phone ran out of battery half
an how after I got there. That was the most
board I've ever been in my thirty five years on
this planet. Cheers Owen, Marcus, thirty eight, years ago tomorrow

(17:23):
New sal and witness a significant event. What was it?
Twenty five plus thirteen eighty seven. Helly's comet was it
wasn't very good, though, I don't think. I don't think
we could see it much, Marcus, I've never been so bored.
When I got a traction as a four year old
for ten weeks, I still very tough. Then I distant

(17:45):
to note at the hospital in my twenty so I
helped the nurse to make beds to make me feel useful.
Never bored though, Dave Goodness, plenty more texts. I'll get
to those. They're very very good. If you've got calls,
the most boards you've ever been eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty eighty, ten eighty eighty, ten eighty Someone went

(18:05):
to a wedding in ten Yana. I'll tell you more
about that before too long?

Speaker 16 (18:09):
Was the important events all those years ago? In nineteen
eighty seven, the inaugural Rugby World.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Cup, I thought it must be had this comment, I
don't know, but it could be better.

Speaker 16 (18:16):
Was was that eighty six?

Speaker 4 (18:18):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (18:18):
Good?

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Well been? Okay?

Speaker 9 (18:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (18:20):
I think I think it might be the Rugby World Cup.
But we'll find out no doubt.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
I can't tax the back thanks, totaling twenty nine to nine.
There we go eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty and
nineteen nine two to text. Most brooring event I went
to was a wedding in Tiano. It was raining. There
are only two restaurants open and two pubs. The movie
theater was closed. Nothing else to do. We sat in
the hotel for three days watching TV that have sky
on Netflix. Goodness me, why do you go for a walk?

(18:48):
It's the walking capital of the world. Piano and there's
the trout you can go and see in the underground
area that the oh no, never board there jeepers up
to Lake Marion, brilliant eight hundred and eighty Did lines
free them? Derek?

Speaker 14 (19:08):
Yeah, mate, I'd have to go with David kirklift in
the World Cup, Doctor David.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
It was eighty seven eighty seven.

Speaker 14 (19:15):
I'd say that'd be it. And just on the trains.
If they ever put the Kingston Flyer and doing the
trans Alpine over from crostious Gramma, I think I'd jump
on board behind the Kingston Flyer.

Speaker 17 (19:26):
I'd love to do that.

Speaker 9 (19:27):
It'd be awsome.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
How would they get it there?

Speaker 14 (19:30):
I don't know, mate, but you know, just just to
be on a steam train going doing the Transalpine Express
railway trip would be just beautiful. I reckon just beautiful.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
The Trans Alpine's boring enough as it is without it
being even longer. As they fed around with a steam train.
It takes forever. What a long day?

Speaker 18 (19:49):
Then?

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Is there and back?

Speaker 9 (19:50):
Well?

Speaker 14 (19:51):
I made that, made the program the world great train
trips around.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
The world whatever. They wouldn't have done it though they've
done it one way and got chopped out. I'm sick
of all them. I'm sick of all these trainer pologies
saying how amazing something and it's not. Well, I'm not read.
It's a long day to go all the way from
christ Chips to Graymouth on all the way back in
the day. People are exhausted.

Speaker 14 (20:15):
Trent Siberian Railway, I imagine that. Anyway, My most bought
I've ever v makers coming out of left field. So
when I first got put into the Mount Eden ramand
Center during COVID, they weren't allowed to put me off anyone.
There was no TV. Wow, there was no box. All
I was giving was a piece of a piece of
paper and some pencil and for three weeks. Not only

(20:39):
was I shaned out and not you know and guilty
and all that, but to be bored for three weeks
and you're allowed that I was allowed out for twenty
minute walk each day.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
I want to dig a bit deep into this dere
When you say mounten Raman, that's not the old prison,
that's the new high it.

Speaker 14 (20:54):
No, no, not cold, it's nah, no, not cold, it's
not the new one.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, did you have a view?

Speaker 14 (21:03):
You could look at it a little we rectangles to
speaks square on the door so the other you know,
to look at other cells.

Speaker 12 (21:11):
But you know.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
You now you drive by it on the motorway, you
can't see it. So how long were in remand for?

Speaker 14 (21:18):
Well before they put me into a room with it
was before they managed to find a TV that worked. Yeah, yeah,
I was just by myself like two and a half
three weeks and it was it was crazy. It was yeah,
that was boredom and just.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
A peen in a pencil a piece of paper.

Speaker 14 (21:34):
Right, yeah, yeah, what I'm thinking, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
A.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Pean of a pencil.

Speaker 14 (21:42):
No, it was a pencil, No pens and with.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
A pencil sharpener.

Speaker 14 (21:48):
Now you get to shapen it on the ground or something.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Really, so what did you do?

Speaker 18 (21:52):
How much?

Speaker 2 (21:53):
How many sheets of paper?

Speaker 14 (21:55):
Just you know, just as much as you wanted. But
you know, the pencil was about two inches long. Yeah,
so it keeps stepping the lead.

Speaker 19 (22:04):
So I gave up.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Could you talk? Could you talk to people in neighboring cells?

Speaker 12 (22:11):
No?

Speaker 14 (22:12):
No, you could hear them. I could hear the other ones.
The ones either side of me had a TV, so
I could hear them. Yeah, but they couldn't find a
TV for me. And that was the most bored. It
was two and a half three weeks of that. That
was just bad. The only excitement was listening to the
water running the shower now and again.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
And you with your twenty minutes did you do star
jumps or press ups or you just sort of walk around?

Speaker 14 (22:32):
I just sat there, sat out in the set there,
trying to look for to see a pigeon or something
fly by.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Sound bored? How many hours? How many hours could you sleep?

Speaker 20 (22:46):
Well, you know, you try and sleep, you trying to
board them away, but then after a while you just
sleep so much and then you're just you're just awake,
you know, and then you use track of time, you know,
you wake up, you wake up the middle of the
night and said, well, what time is it?

Speaker 14 (23:00):
Like, I've got nothing to what's the time?

Speaker 13 (23:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 14 (23:03):
I don't know if it's daylight or dark.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Or what, you know, But anyway, it does sound excruciating.

Speaker 14 (23:13):
Oh mate, it was bad. It was really bad.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
How good was TV? How good was TV? When you
got it?

Speaker 19 (23:18):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (23:19):
Yeah, I was just like the Hilton Hoste ALBUMTE was
like being there, you know. And then when they propped
me in a room of someone else, well, they weren't
bored anymore, mate, They just said to listen to.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Me, brilliant. It's good call, Derek, Thank you. Twenty four
away from nine, the most bored You've ever been? I
developed restless league, sending over from doing boring office jobs.
Maths class at schooled torture. I struggle with the basics,
and when it got complicated, was a complete waste of life.
My brother was one of the last key he's had
a wuhan. When COVID hit the two weeks in Chinese

(23:51):
isolated odell board airs, a lot of people bored in
the hospital. I attended this conference and motivational speaker from
you say honestly the woman went on and on for
what felt like hours. Had to realign my jaw from
all the yawning. As a kid, I used to get

(24:13):
dragged around garden shows. As an adult, getting talked into
going to the opera as a young man driving a
road roller. By the end of the days boarding on
being dangerous. It was only for one day. And always
remember whenever I see a road roller. Boring is sitting

(24:39):
on a plane aisle seat and passenger with window seat
pulls blind down after takeoff had snoozed an hour looking
up and down the aisle. Was a good flight all
the same. Marcus, when you first asked the question, I
thought you said, what was the most baald you've ever been? Which,
of course when I raise his shaved my heads a

(25:00):
bot of my friend with Limphona. Marcus. Most bored have
ever been was on a blind date the guy. We
did the chicken farming and everything about chickens all night.
Big course, Big course, Big course, Big course. Marcus was
in the Zand Army sometimes ago I went to Ossi
for excise against the Assi Army thirty hours lying on

(25:21):
the ground in an ambush. I only have the Aussies
covered in fifty meters of the kill zone, turn around
and move off. Another hour waiting for them to clear
the area before being able to move off ourselves. No moving, talking, cooking, toileting,

(25:48):
married and having to pull the golf cart. Very happy
now in my own shyyl. Most board of whom have
been is working for airport security. Cushy. That movie Fantasia,
Nicko Yello agree, Fantasia was garbage? Two rounds e MiQ
traveling back from Ozzie for Uni. Anyone got anything to say? Oh,

(26:16):
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and does everyone remember
stay at home when you send them out to stay
at home? In twenty twenty, Well, I see she's out
the preferred prime minister. Goodness, how things turn. It'll be
triggering for Sabbia. Very specific question, the most bored you've
ever been? It's a good topic, actually, Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty and nineteen ninety two text sus

(26:38):
it it's Marcus, welcome, Hi, MICUs Hi, Susan Hi.

Speaker 21 (26:46):
You know when COVID hit and if you went to
the doctors and you're waiting in the waiting room forever
and they took away all.

Speaker 12 (26:56):
The emergacy that's right.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
And they never came back.

Speaker 21 (27:00):
No, no, I say, you'd sit there in the waiting
room looking at you everything nothing to look at. So
I had just shut my eyes and go into a meditator.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Meditated, You've always got that chance for Lavanni. He's not
off a.

Speaker 21 (27:16):
And then you can go to anywhere you like and
get lots of entertainment. So the guy behind the computer
at the counter, he was looking around the edge of
the computer at me, and because I wasn't moving and
I had my eyes shut, he thought I'd died. Wow, wow,

(27:37):
And he emailed a doctor to come quick and have
a look at me right over. Came right over and whispered,
are you And I opened my eyes and I said,
here the problem. I'm just meditating, and they all lapped.

(27:59):
He still wasn't sure I was okay, and go behind
the computer. He never heard of meditating, obviously. But anyway,
I've been watching this program on Taley and about this
quite famous englishman and he decided to buy a whole

(28:20):
pile of land and go farming. And so he got
all these bee hives and everything. He put the bee
suit on, and he still got stung between the cheek
right through the suit into there, and you should have
seen them move in the plane. And then he put

(28:42):
all these hives in his car, and of course the
bees came with him. He didn't think about that, and
so he had them all buzzing around in his car
while he was trying to drive.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Now, what's the what's the show called?

Speaker 21 (28:59):
Well, I never get the names. Of course I can't
see them, but at least they announce it lovely.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
It's not Clarkson's farm, is it?

Speaker 21 (29:11):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
People enjoy that.

Speaker 21 (29:14):
It's funny as anything because.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
He's on top Gear, su is it? You heard the
top Gear? No, it's a motoring show, that's where and
then they can so that's where he's from, and this
is kind of his this is his reinvention.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
Yes, it's really.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
His mother made a lot of money making Paddington Bear dolls.
That's where the family money came from. Yeah, that's right.
Really yeah, well that's just making the dolls. But he's
a pompous idiot. But people like his. People enjoy that show.

Speaker 21 (29:49):
It's funny anything.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
I think it's just I think he's just a very
bad heart attack from the stressfood all. Actually, well, I.

Speaker 21 (29:57):
Was sitting there and I started wringing my hands and
having a bit of an anxiety attack just watching it.
If it wasn't funny, you just freak out. Well, everything
goes wrong for him everything, So where's watching.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Nice to hear from you, Suzette. Thank you sixteen to nine.
Welcome the most board you've ever been. That's what we
are talking about. Forty hours in the hostel waiting to
get next round a foremost boring weight ever. Marcus wife
took me to lay visit the theater. I had no
idea what was going on. Thought the halftime intermission was
a full time whistle. Oh that's bad, Marcus. The navy

(30:39):
ship saying the seas has to be one of the
most boring things doing. Sailors are amongst the most avid readers.
Read one book handed on. I've read every Louis Lamore
and J. D. Edson book ever written. Noah's reading back.
It shakes me back. In the sixties and seventies on
a warship, we mostly read yippies. Sailor for cowboy books
and movies, Marcus. Most boring thing ever has been taken

(31:02):
to an Andre andre Rio concert in Melbourne. Oh my god,
I could have self harmed cheapers, get in touch of
your talk. The most boards You've ever been nine to
nine to to text, keep those emails coming through people.
Most board I've ever been, COVID lockdown, alcohol poison was

(31:23):
a bigger threat. Joe Richards brilliant boredom has been sixty
six years up at waking up with the same headline
about the Middle East every day of my life. An
is pretty bored. My ion is quite dynamic, isn't it.
You get a window to the life Marcus. Most boorat
I've been is watching the Kid's milk Cows. That's from Mike.

(31:50):
I think the most I mean I sat through Space
Odyssey two in two thousand one. Space Odyssey flip. Yeah,
that was unbelievable. That just felt like days. I must
have been eight or nine. I've been too scared to
watch as an adult. I suspect it's not quite as

(32:14):
boring as I thought, But I'm not convinced about that.
Oh wait, at At tell you the most balls You've
ever been nineteen nine two to text keep it going,
Uh huh, Marcus. I to laugh, and I realized you
weren't saying the most balls you've ever been, And got
me thinking, though, pereps another night, have a great show,

(32:38):
early start for me, So off to the scratcher. Hello, Marcus.
Click clack, click clack, click clack, click, click clack. Riverdance.
It's quite good, isn't it. I think you'd be bored
during riverdance? Would you move your arms? It's quite one
of the regrets I didn't even go to see riverdance.
Flatley mid flight when the sounds must be good? Kicks

(33:06):
in anyway? Ten to ten to ten to nine. My
name is Marcus, welcome gee. How about that state of origin?
How about zach Lomax? No kicks, no good. He'd be
fitting bad, won't he? Anyway? Having watched I've read some
of them. Mop up of that today.

Speaker 22 (33:25):
Not a lot.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
They gave the ref a but a grief. I think
in the end they thought probably in New South Wales,
and that guy's lucky that Lloy didn't get done for
an eye gouger. I thought, look sketchy as anyhow, the
most borge you've ever been. It's some good responses actually,
although been a topic creep there towards the end. That's
all right, I can handle that. Marcus slipped through the

(33:55):
original June movie woeful. I'm sixteen hour, but still recall
when I was tea in my pop dropping me off
at the Glenfield Rugby Club for wayan nobody came. It
was the wrong day. I waited for six hours and
a pop came to pick me up. Well, that's a lot.
I would have walked home cheap as.

Speaker 15 (34:19):
Well.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
It's been in the evening selling hot dogs at the
Sea Scout discount the Bluff rugby Club. Yep, that's right,
good turnout, good sales the under tens and then the
ten plus. Has the rugby team practiced? There's been trouble
with the rugby team and referees not turning up for

(34:41):
because of incidence. Yeah, there's a bit of a there's
a bit of a oh bit of drama and the
rugby club at the moment anyway, will been played out
on Facebook that I'm sure will resolve itself without The
team seemed to be practicing tonight hard under floodlights in
the rain. Marc's most brought of e been five years

(35:05):
night shift in a muscle factory and have lock so boring.
I think my most boring job was a school holiday
job that was out by the airport at Mangai where
the parking riders now out. You go by the cemetery.
There were big orchards there and I had a job

(35:26):
on holiday pruning grape saplings. They were just sticks put
on the ground and you'd leave two buds out and
prune them on an angle and you'd start and you'd
just go down a row and the row would take

(35:47):
you all day. Unbelievably boring. And I think that was
probably before the days of walkman or anything like that. Oh,
I didn't have a trainy, but she she was boring. Marcus,

(36:13):
Who's Afraid of Virginia? Well, terrible movie about two couples
having dinner argued in a star cast all over forty
years ago. Never forgot Marcus. My dad making us watch
his favorite movie, Lawrence of Arabia. I took the Willington
cable car. The first half was great, but halfway up
we met the other carbo car coming down and the

(36:33):
look of sheer, desolate boredom on its driver's face at
me hard. I couldn't enjoy the rest of the ride. Wow,
boys had a good time on the for the Killer.
All the calls are good, Tony, Marcus, welcome, here you go,
good Tony.

Speaker 23 (36:53):
Yeah, no, yeah, I was just sitting there listening to
your show, and yeah, I was singing dead the boy
in the job I ever had was sticking the cherries
in the fruit talered cans on the line.

Speaker 12 (37:08):
Really yeah, free cherries.

Speaker 23 (37:12):
Had to go into the can. You know, the cans
are going pasture on the line. And we had a
big pub in front of us full of those red
cherries and we had to put free cherries in each
can that went past You know.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
What was in it already? Would it be peach and pear.

Speaker 17 (37:34):
The free tailed cans?

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeah, I just I think what fruit was in it?

Speaker 23 (37:39):
Yeah, yeah, it had peaches, apples, pears, peers yep. And
then kind of like we had a tub in front
of us and it had thousands of these little red cherries,
you know, like everybody used to fight over them when
we were kid got who wanted to get the cherries.

(38:00):
And then when I was about sixteen, where then you know,
I ended up working at this case where they did
the fruit seed cans, and oh that was the most boringous.

Speaker 9 (38:13):
Job I ever did? Was that what he is?

Speaker 23 (38:16):
Or SPC you're hear a you?

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Okay? I didn't know there were just three per ten.
I found that quite interesting, Tony. Think you just heading
towards the news long way at last, oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty nine to nine to detect Marcus
till twelve. The most Marcus the most bored I've ever
been was on the first date with somebody who talked
about himself constantly all evening might have been okay if
he had a notorious pastor and adventurous nature. He was

(38:40):
an accountant, Lisa listening on holiday in Bali, Can you
see the volcano? Our dad used to send brochures to
his two thousand to his twenty four thousand customers. We
got paid one and a half cents for sticking each
label on the brochure.

Speaker 9 (38:56):
Is mine?

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Numbing? Also just went to the hornby night Market's excellent.
Never been before we lived down the road. Definitely not boring.
Their delicious did you it's Sonya's soup? Marcus bored him
is watching the Crusaders with another super Rugby title, Go
the Chiefs. That's from Joe Marcus. Most boring memory from

(39:17):
childhood listening to the Football Schools on the radio read
by a man with a monotone voice Liverpool nil, Tottenham nil.
Bored at Jonathan livids and bloody seagull eight years old
with Mum got to take me to the beach for
fish and CHIPS's areel one, three cherries and a can
of what is fruit salad? Mum hates it. When there
was only two shared three kids, I never knew they

(39:39):
measured them out. Twelve months on the Mulcahino Islands of
the Hodockey Gulf as a World War II listening station.
These are what people are saying. Your comments, please, the
most bored you've ever been.

Speaker 22 (39:52):
Let me know.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
My dad made us watch his favorite movie, Lawrence of Arabia.
The muscle shift Your jobs is interesting.

Speaker 15 (40:06):
Old man was.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Involved with some sort of community committee. Used to go
to from an occasion I tagged long to meetings. God,
they're excruciating. Cheeper's Council media is a child jeepers who
I don't think. I don't think I was a good
person at hiding my boardom either, Just saying Terrio, it's Marcus, welcome,

(40:29):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 24 (40:30):
I'm the most bored I've ever been. Where there's a
ten year old We went over to christ Church from
Cobden Graymow on Holiday and I dragged emphasized the word
dragged into the Plaza Picture Theater to see that the

(40:51):
movie The James Dean Story.

Speaker 9 (40:55):
Oh oh never.

Speaker 24 (40:57):
There was really the longest two hours for a ten
year old you could have ever imagined.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
So hang on, what was it, James true? Is it
a story about his life after he died? Yes, I've
never heard of that.

Speaker 24 (41:14):
Yeah, truly, it was called the James Dean Oh.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
No, I believe you. Yeah, what year did he die?

Speaker 15 (41:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (41:22):
I keep getting him mixed up with Lawrence of Arabia
because one of them was killed on a motorbike. I
think there was a Rabian guy was killed on a.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Who was a Lawrence of Arabia? Guys that peter at all?

Speaker 24 (41:38):
Yeah, well, Lords of Arabia was killed on a motorbike.
I'm sure what James Dean. I think James Dean had
a sticky.

Speaker 9 (41:48):
End as well.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Yeah, he died in fifty five in the movie was
in fifty seven, so you're right, oh fifty seven?

Speaker 25 (41:57):
God?

Speaker 9 (41:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (41:58):
Four for thirteen, yeah, oh god, I'll never forget it.
It was as boring as listening to the budget the
other night on Telly.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Did he die in a car crash?

Speaker 24 (42:14):
He died somehow or other?

Speaker 26 (42:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (42:16):
True, yeah, that you want to try it as a
young kid, just sitting and watching a thing like that?

Speaker 9 (42:26):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (42:26):
Your mother?

Speaker 24 (42:28):
My mother and father they wanted to go and see it,
and I was with them on holiday, and so we
went into the I don't think it even exists now.
The Flowers a theater. Who was in the square in
the corner there by the post office.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
So hang on, did Peter Till die?

Speaker 18 (42:51):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Now you got me who died from Lawrence of Arabia.

Speaker 24 (42:56):
Lawrence of Arabia himself died on a motorbike. He got
hit by a train, I think. And that's right at
the beginning of the film.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Oh yeah, okay, that makes sense, all right. I thought
it was quite a good film, Lawrence of Arabia.

Speaker 24 (43:15):
I didn't mind. I didn't mind that at all.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Accident in Dorset, England.

Speaker 24 (43:21):
Yeah, I remember. Anthony Quinn was some grubby Arab and
he told some He told Lawrence of arabi he lives
on two pints of water a day. I think it
was one to drink and one to wash in.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Very good okay, A thirteen past nine Lawrence on a motorbike.
Jameson in the car into a tree, John John, John,
John John, your calls the most board you've ever been
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nineteen ninety two
to text particularly boring jobs. If you've got one of those,
a really really boring job. Marke s the old have
bought them fest He made to go to an address

(43:58):
to sit in the room with two and three nine
other people every day for up to seven hours until
people in authorities say when you can leave. It's a
thousand dollars per day or jail if you refuse to
show up. But the first thing you've made to do
on day one is watch a video on the dos
and don'ts of how to be a Dura Marcus. The
most boord I've ever been was when the Reobi went

(44:19):
berserk and drilled away hole in my hand. Rayan sparky,
thank you. See what you did there? People trying to
mix it up a little bit. Na, It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 18 (44:31):
Oh hi Marcus. I've got a story about being very bored.
I was working as a nurse. I went over to
work in Sydney as a nurse nineteen ninety five, ninety six,
and I was being paid the most I'd ever been
paid then, which is twenty four bucks an hour in
ninety five, and they sent me to this hospital. This

(44:52):
young man had had a very bad motor they called creesh,
but he'd recovered. Really, his family were so rich, so
even though with an enormal muskit at water at his
own room, and I just had to sit there for
twelve hours, there was nothing to do for him. Honestly
needed nothing done. There were no phones. I didn't think
to take a book. I sat there for twelve hours.

(45:17):
I might have checked his caretheter, but that was it.

Speaker 22 (45:20):
And it was really boring.

Speaker 18 (45:22):
And when his family came and they sort of looked
at me as if I should be doing something, but
there was actually nothing to do, and he didn't speak
eng and it was just ridiculously boring. Man, I was
being paid, but it wasn't worth it. I wanted to
walk out, but I couldn't.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Did you just do it for one day?

Speaker 12 (45:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (45:44):
I think I did it a couple of different days
because I was working for an agency, so they made
a different hospitals. This was Royal Milkshow Hospital, and I
remember another time in the same hospital or rich family. Again,
it was very nice of the rich family, but their
mum was in the hospital, right, so they were rich.
So there's the normal nurses on the ward. Then this

(46:06):
old lady, the lovely family decided she needed her own
private nurse to the night. This lady was there's nothing
wrong with that. She was recovering. I bet it for
forteen hours, wow, until I decided to leave. And then
I got some feedback that the FAMI would have rather
stayed until the next nurse to arrive. But the next

(46:28):
rooster than the right forteen hours.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
No book, I guess it's the downside of news and listen,
it can be quite boring.

Speaker 18 (46:39):
Well perhaps of it. I mean, I'm not bored now,
and but the end my job now. But I look
back on that and honestly, I mean it was. It
was boring as hell.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
What what should have you done to make it more interesting?

Speaker 18 (46:54):
Well, okay, reflecting back now, take stuff with me to do.
But you know, I just didn't really know what I was,
you know, going to Like they would send me places
and sometimes I'd be sent to a board where I
had to work as a nurse, Like I was an

(47:14):
extra nurse, and I was actually working. But no, I remember,
there's most boring, boring sitting there and honestly, some health
care workers still.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
Have to do that.

Speaker 6 (47:24):
But you never get a nurse to do that anymore.

Speaker 18 (47:27):
You get a healthcare assistant and they get bored as hell.
They tell me there's sometimes they have to sit in
and then hospital and watch someone who's maybe a bit
a bit, you know, dementia or something.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
What's the people do that now called they're.

Speaker 18 (47:41):
Called health care assistance, so they won't be paying a
registered nurse rate for someone to just watch someone. But
that's boring, boring, boring job.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
Yeah, so you care that you need a needlework or
something to do, to sit there and do some hobby.

Speaker 17 (47:55):
I would, but it was just like I sort of
didn't think.

Speaker 18 (47:58):
I thought I was going to a nursing job. It
was like, I mean, if I could go back in time,
you i'd take something to do.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Where was the flesh hospital? Where was the Where in
Sydney was the hospital.

Speaker 18 (48:11):
That was called Royal north Shore Hospital. It was a
big hospital. Yeah, but you know I had to go
on the train. You know, I didn't have a car.
So I mean, once it was there, it was there.

Speaker 15 (48:23):
You know.

Speaker 18 (48:23):
I don't even remember having a break. I must have
gone a little toilet.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
It's funny how the healthcare system works. We can put
a private news inside a public I don't quite understand that.
But did the other nurses come and check out?

Speaker 18 (48:38):
It was the other nessis didn't need to check before.
I think what it was was that the family was
so wretched that they I was working for an agency.
So yeah, there's been the private news, a private news
to a public hospital.

Speaker 11 (48:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (48:53):
I don't know if rich families would do that in
New Zealand. Will never clue. Hell did you last in
Sydney for I was actually pretting this at the time,
So I come back to it's a baby.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
You might have added to the distress and thank you
for that. Twenty four past nine email Marcus is doing
Versailles while doing a tour of the Palais. Been away
since ten May, France, Sweden, denmarketly Croatia, Gagging to get
back heading home via Perth with my family. This again
a little bit of key. We back into our conscious
and needed a top up chair. Steve. Nice to hear

(49:30):
from you, Steve, do you want to be a part
of the show the most bores. You've ever been, boring jobs,
boring child of experiences, boring things that you've done, you
expect that you're going to enjoy it. Ah, Marcus, can
someone die of boredom? Well, won't be bringing us if
they have making wooden palettes for months on end school

(49:54):
high in the UK and the seventies, Dad would take
time off work and subject us to the cricket all day,
every day. No TV holiday kids programs for us would
have been great, mind your slush name.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
Number one night show in New Zealand call.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
News Talk would be nine Differens Marcus, welcome, Yeah.

Speaker 12 (50:17):
Good evening. The most bored I've ever been, because I've
always been a pretty active person who always find something
to do. But I went to fly from Brisbane back
to New Zealand and an announcement came over that that
would only be a couple of hours and then we
could board the plane and get out. Now. Two hours

(50:39):
went past, three hours went past, four hours went past.
There was another another announcement saying, oh, we shouldn't be
too much longer. Six hours later we finally got on
the plane. Well, the people in the airport were all
asleep on the seat. I don't think half of them

(51:00):
heard the announcement because we didn't know what the hell
was going on. So I was going to get on
the plane and come home. So that that's the worst
I've ever been made.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
What what what could you do to occupy yourself? Were
you through customs at the air side of the airport.

Speaker 12 (51:22):
Yeah, we're gone through customs and.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
We're all quite I quite like wandering around the airport's
that side for hours. I quite enjoy that going look
at the giant tobal ron, at the Judy Free Shot.
Wandering you're always quite like that.

Speaker 12 (51:35):
But yeah, well, a duty free shop was closed.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
I see.

Speaker 12 (51:41):
That age and there was there was there was I
think there was a bar there. I think I went
and had a bear, I mean, came back out and
I bought. I bought. There was a little shop there,
and I bought a couple of magazines and read them.
But six hours lot, I felt like bloody six hours

(52:02):
of bloody hell.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
You should have you should have hooked into duty free vodka.

Speaker 12 (52:09):
Yeah, well I don't know about it. No, I know
the main duty free shot was closed.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Oh yeah, okay, I should have gone.

Speaker 12 (52:16):
If Biden rh what was going on, I would have
gone and got a bottle of bourbon.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
That's it.

Speaker 12 (52:21):
That's it. I could have had a few bourbons in there.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
That about the six hours disappeared. A couple of mentions
of bourbon. The last couple of nights seems to be
the drink of choice. Get in touch, the most bored.
You've ever been? So bored, Marcus, I was so bored.
A lot of it seems to happen at m i Q. Yeah,
that was boring for people wandering around that, you know

(52:47):
that walking laps outside in the fenced off area.

Speaker 16 (52:51):
Godness, twelve hours turning envelopes the right way around at
the post office is one way.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
I just told missus stories. Why twelve hours.

Speaker 16 (53:00):
Though, twelve hour shift?

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Didn't you ever, Udium, Yeah, we did.

Speaker 16 (53:05):
But we like the union because they've got us all
night shift rates and double time and all that sort
of stuff.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Asleep on the secks, wouldn't you.

Speaker 16 (53:12):
Well, sometimes you could actually get away with doing that,
but it was a pretty excruciating shift, just sitting on
the face up table, tough, tough. While we were turning
in the envelopes over they had to go and through
the franking machine the right way around, so back in
those days. You know, if you really got super board
and you didn't want to do it, you found it.
You know, had those motel keys. You used to have
the return address on them and you could they'd send
them back to the motor used to get one of

(53:33):
those and put it in the letters and when it
went through the machine, it would stop. They had to
get a little guy from down in the bowels of
the central post Office to come because no one else could.

Speaker 15 (53:43):
So that was a break.

Speaker 16 (53:44):
But yeah, it was a pretty tough night.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Do you think there was a sunset industry turning out hard? Exactly? Yeah,
you wouldn't have thought so. So you think there was.
They took the post very seriously, didn't they. It was
almost sort of like you're interfeed with the post. It
was like treason exactly.

Speaker 9 (53:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Yeah, they did take it very seriously, and not that
you did, but they would have. They would have themselves, the.

Speaker 16 (54:04):
Actual serious post office workers.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
Okay, Tony, thank you. Twenty seven away from ten o'clock.
My name is Marcus.

Speaker 4 (54:10):
Welcome, good evening, Gareth good evening, Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (54:14):
Thank you?

Speaker 27 (54:14):
Gareth good good.

Speaker 18 (54:16):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
First of all, I just wanted to say thank you
so much for doing your show. I don't think many
people say that. I think you've saved some boredom from
me when I was the first time dad and walking
up and down those corridors at night and thinking what
am I going to do to try to give this
baby asleep?

Speaker 9 (54:31):
Hang on?

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Hang on, Gareth? What corridors?

Speaker 4 (54:36):
Just my home corridors trying to my young one to sleep?

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Yeah, okay, yeah, it's quite a hard thing to do
to get the baby to sleep. You got the mother
that's strung out. You're got to get the baby to sleep,
and there's no rhyme or reason.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
Yep, and you're in the pitch black, and you know what.
I was losing my santas at you back in the day,
and then suddenly I found you.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
And then you're putting the baby down. It's like dropping
a bowl, isn't it, Because you think it's going to
be about just as though you drop it, it's going
to wake up and you're gonna have to start the
whole thing again. Oh you missed those days.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
Yeah, yeah, anyway, I've got to the first job I
had was I was a kitchen hand and I used
to stand there playing hundreds of potatoes and carrots, and
by the end of it, I felt like I was
a big potato. I felt like I was a big carrot.
All I could see when I used to sleep is
potatoes and carrots. And I don't know how kitchen hands

(55:25):
do it nowadays. There must be machines or something.

Speaker 19 (55:29):
They must do it nowadays.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
But yeah, I used to get so bored.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
What a pretty big kitchen to be doing that many potatoes.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
Honestly, it was a battailing restaurant down in East Auckland
and it was just well, you can imagine our potato
and yoki there was all these different potato.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
I forgot about the nokie too, Gareth. Of course you'd
be having a lot of potatoes on a noki.

Speaker 15 (55:48):
Yeah, yeah, I hated it anyway.

Speaker 4 (55:50):
Another one which I haven't heard yet is I used
to be a checkout operator when I was a teenager,
and that is honestly the most boring job I have
ever been in. You're standing there, my numb thinking about
these beats that are going in the back your head,
and then suddenly, to make it worse, at Christmas time,
they've got the Christmas music on loop and you, honestly

(56:13):
you black out, and in some cases you have to
try and find ways to onboard yourself, right, And so
you'll be playing games with yourself and being like, Okay,
how much money is this person gonna obviously like spend.
You know, you'll be talking about how was your day,
and most of the people coming through check out, they
don't really want to talk to you, and so you're

(56:35):
just standing there mind them, hearing these beeps, and well,
six hour shift can sometimes last like a twenty hour
shift in like.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Way with the six hours, was there a break that?
Or was that six hours straight?

Speaker 4 (56:51):
So I've been on.

Speaker 10 (56:53):
Shift where it's and there's a probably big no.

Speaker 4 (56:55):
No. I've been on shift where I've used to work
twelve hours and I usually not get a break just
because people call them sick. And you know, people've got
to pay for their groceries, right, And and I used
to get calls from managers saying, oh, I'm so sorry
about that, I'm so sorry about that.

Speaker 22 (57:11):
And I used to be like half the time, I
just like that, I literally and.

Speaker 4 (57:15):
I'm surprised I charge people the right amount of money.
So whenever you go like to like a checkout operator,
I feel like now when I go call to them.
I try and like spark a conversation that's a bit
more interesting. So asking him how the day you know,
what do you mean, how is the day they're on
the checkout?

Speaker 3 (57:32):
They are?

Speaker 4 (57:34):
They're beeping along for six hours?

Speaker 3 (57:37):
Ask what they like?

Speaker 4 (57:38):
What are they studying?

Speaker 10 (57:39):
Or or ask like.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
Interesting stories you have, you know, stuff like that, because
that those customers really like got me through those days.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
So it's excruciatingly boring.

Speaker 4 (57:50):
Excrucinating boring. It's honestly, it's most boring job I've every
time in my life. And what's even worse is because
it's so boring, I feel like because you're handling cash,
I feel like I must have given somebody the wrong
cash amount. I must have done something wrong during those shifts,
and I must have been costing their business something right.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
So you probably are in favor of self checkout because
it's freeing people from that boring work. I love it.

Speaker 4 (58:16):
I used to do as soon as they're as soon
as they used to call them SCO self checkouts, And
as soon as SCO came around, I was my hand
by hand was up straight away, being like I would
love to just stand there and help people. You know,
like do the own groceries, laughing at people putting oranges
as apples, you know, and being like, oh mate, what
are you trying to do? You can't fool me.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
The SCO is a good thing.

Speaker 17 (58:41):
Yeah, I love SCO.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
It's honestly, it's.

Speaker 22 (58:45):
Like I think before, some people don't want to talk
to like a chicken operator.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
And you can see like the SCO machines are becoming
bigger and bigger, and there's no need for people like
me to sit there and scan your groceries. I mean,
like I can scam my groceries as fast well because
I was a chick out operator, but I can scam
my groceries just as fast as anybody else. And I mean,
you want to be in and out right and time,
you just don't want to talk to people.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
Nice to talk to. Three three away from ten, my
name is Marcus. Welcome my good evening. Welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 27 (59:16):
Good program. Couldn't think why anyone would be bored, And
then as the night went on, I thought my very
first full time job was so boring. I had a
government job. I was in the stationery and I had
to fill in seven and a half hours with twenty

(59:40):
five minutes work. Oh, and I'd come from after school
jobs that were so you had to really look after
them to Kevin after school job. And I got the
government job because it was the best paying one when
I had to pay board, so boring. I traveled overseas,

(01:00:05):
came back back and gliding on was on TV, and
that took me right back to my government job. Smoking
out of the mouth, loose undone top button tie mister jersey.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
And changed mag Why did no One put two and
two together and realize there wasn't enough work to keep
someone there for seven hours doing that?

Speaker 27 (01:00:35):
This was a government department we had in the office
we would have had it was an open plan. We
would have had one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight divisions in this office, an the countant in the

(01:00:56):
corner with glass around. And the old days of racing
when people used to take the day off to go racing.
They didn't take the day off to go racing. But
that seen someone down to the ta be wants the
money and listened to the races on the radio.

Speaker 15 (01:01:17):
It was hilarious.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
What did you spend your time doing to follow those
seven hours?

Speaker 27 (01:01:23):
Oh, it was hard work. I've never walked so slow.

Speaker 6 (01:01:28):
In my life.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
I don't think was it in Wellington, No, I'm not
telling you.

Speaker 27 (01:01:35):
What it was in the big city. But but then
I went nursing and.

Speaker 24 (01:01:46):
That was.

Speaker 27 (01:01:48):
Again government paid, brilliant, equal pay, over time, brilliant, amazing.
I got to travel. Then I came back and I
didn't go back to nursing because it had all changed.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Where'd you go back to it?

Speaker 27 (01:02:04):
But the government department, they don't seem to have changed.

Speaker 13 (01:02:09):
Well do I know so many people?

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
I think probably they have just quietly eighteen to ten.
Thank you. I spent a nine hour shift. Is a
scene guard guarding a murder scene, as a couple years ago,
stood in the run of my own all nine till
I was a leaved at six am by a colleague. Yes,
that would be boring. Oh wait one hundred and eighty
Teddy and nineteen nine parlor Marcus. Welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 17 (01:02:35):
This is a quick contribution to talk about very niche bottom.
It's very ecci. Hope some of the listeners will will
experience the same. So the bottom that I'd like to
talk about is it's the ange school pickup. You got
to drive early because you don't get a parking and

(01:02:58):
it's like literally hundreds of parents trying to pick up
the kids. But it's only leg for example, a few parts.
So you drive early and you're waiting. You're waiting until
the school dowl ring, and it could be anything from
fourteen minutes for zero to a whole hour.

Speaker 7 (01:03:14):
That mark us.

Speaker 17 (01:03:15):
That really is the most boring ever years. You don't
get a park. You go early, and you gotta sit there.

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
They must they must be alternatives. Can your children walk
or can they get you? I mean that sounds like
a terrible waste of time.

Speaker 14 (01:03:32):
Also, yeah, yes it is.

Speaker 17 (01:03:35):
It can't they like sometimes it can't walk a little
bit too far? Yeah, then the buses don't run that route.
You get a ton of parents waiting there, and then
what do you do, Like and I'm like, okay, okay,
to follow bottom. You ll just go get a pie.
But you finish the pie in five minutes and there's

(01:03:55):
thirty five minutes left.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
You know, it's crazy, So you've got to get there.
Just find yourself a park, is that right?

Speaker 17 (01:04:02):
Yes, we get there about thirty minutes early to study
two minutes to a whole hour to find a car
park on the side of the school road. Then wait,
wait for the school, beltering yes, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Is this an Auckland?

Speaker 10 (01:04:18):
Yes, unfortunately it's in Auckland?

Speaker 15 (01:04:20):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:04:20):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
And how far away from the school are you?

Speaker 17 (01:04:25):
Thankfully?

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
Thank you?

Speaker 17 (01:04:27):
It's across the road if you're.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
Not, no, how far? How far away do you live
from the school?

Speaker 15 (01:04:33):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (01:04:33):
From the school? Literally kill me?

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
It is Oh okay, it's a long way, isn't it.
It's a primary school, is it too?

Speaker 17 (01:04:42):
Yes? Correct? Correct, primary school?

Speaker 9 (01:04:44):
Yes, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
I think people can identify with that girl, Parla.

Speaker 15 (01:04:47):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
Terrible an efficient day with no transport and not people
close to schools get in touch. My name is Marcus.
Welcome Auckland. Traffic is the most boring. Fair enough. They're
call oh school jeep is creepers. Some of those lessons
at school men, they're excruciating.

Speaker 9 (01:05:05):
Jeeves.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Yeah, I do feel I spent a lot of my
life board anyway ten away from ten o'clock, Hettel, twelve oh,
eight hundred and eighty. I was just reading avery interesting
article about well, I thought it was interesting, so get

(01:05:26):
this right, because I had no idea about this. In Germany,
American raccoons are out of control. So the Nazis right,

(01:05:54):
bought the animals across from North America in the thirties
for fur farming, but they escaped and they've taken over.
How they are out of control. So there are American
raccoons in France, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Austria and elsewhere spreading

(01:06:23):
rapidly across Western Europe. Had no idea. And they can climb,
and they're a bit like states through a thrill killer,
and they predate on ground nesting birds they reckon. They're
now part of the ecosystem for good. They've got cute

(01:06:44):
little faces, haven't there There racoons are almost because they're
not like they're wearing masks like the beagle boys. I
don't think game hunters want to hunt them either. There's
one butcher making sausages and meat balls from their meat
might be good for salami.

Speaker 12 (01:07:03):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
That's raccoons, American raccoons who knew, not me. Marcus had
a horrible time at em I cur and auckland away
and then it wasn't good. So any shows I tried
to watch constantly buffered borders. While I travel on the
truck with the husband, he goes to a site I'm
not allowed for health and safety rules, so he drops

(01:07:25):
me on the side of the road for two hours.
Why unloads and reloads longest time? There's like a love
story borders. When I travel the truck with my husband,
he goes to a site I'm not alloweding for health
and safety reasons, so he drops me on the side
of the road for the two hours while I unloads
and reloads. Longest time ever, Marcus Towards In the Last century,

(01:07:49):
men five mates decided to go and check out the
brand new Imax cinema on Queen Street, promoted to be
the largest screen in New Zealand at the time. Six
of us had forty five dollars ahead for a forty
five minute brainded movie that I would consider is equal
to the Blob movie and the Data Triplets the Blear
Witch Project. I refuse to watch again to this day, Marcus.

(01:08:17):
In the fifties and sixties, government departments were used to
provide employment for people, and jobs often credit. For this purpose,
there were messengers taking around the mail and tea ladies
who came around with trolleys and record people who would
find the large paper files for you, and young women
would take dictations shorthand and type letterges in carbon paper
to produce the copies for putting in files. Later on
there were photocopy ladies who did all the photocopy. You

(01:08:38):
followed a form of specifying how many photos copies you needed.
The photocopies you got went collated, so to organize a
gender for me to get to put a pile of
pages of page one, a pile of page two. It
set on a table and run around picking up a
page at a time, then staple each set. Ooh a
lot about MiQ Marcus. A few years ago as an accident,

(01:09:02):
had a head injury with bad concussion that meant no worse.
I can not be able to read, watch TV, look
at a screen as all caused migraines. I also couldn't
stand up for more than fifty minutes without getting dizzy.
It was so boring lying in bed for so long.
My most boring moment was sitting on the museum and
played for forty three minutes waiting to take off while
they offloaded the luggage because they discovered there was one
bag too many. Nowhere to go. All the passengers just

(01:09:27):
sat around, looking around and saying nothing. When I was
ten my parents took me to a Michael Houston classical
piano concert. I started sobbing halfway through because I was
so bored. My father took me out to the car
and locked me in. I went to sleep. Gilly, I

(01:09:53):
feel for you sitting through a very long university graduation
near the Beefer. I'll tell you what. The radio awards
was a long listen flip that was they had all
the podcast Gee that went for three hours. No want
to sound ungrateful, but boy, that was a long event.

(01:10:14):
Leamington's were ready for a night on Leamington's. There is
a place subdustry this article. There's a place that's looking
at the best Leamington in the country. Oh yeah, but

(01:10:35):
what's that about.

Speaker 12 (01:10:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
Not a kind of food, hype of self promotion, I feel.
I don't think of Leamington's particularly as long as it's fresh.

Speaker 4 (01:10:47):
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
No, I don't know. If I'm a Leamington person actually
might change my view about that. We are talking about
the most baards you've ever been By the way they reckon,
they fire at New World's accidental. What do they tell
us all the food's going to be throwing out? Have
to be hidden as well to stop the dump dumpster

(01:11:10):
divers was always a terrible looking building. Can we say
that now? What a cheap, nasty built supermarket.

Speaker 18 (01:11:16):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
One of those real kind of had that real nineties
leaky building, look about it, ghastly building and then looks
by the way it burned. It looked like it was
a nasty building as well. Terrible building, cynical kind of
a building that one. So yeah, horrible kind of thing.
So no surprise that that burnt down like it did.

(01:11:42):
I don't know what the cladding was, but not nice
stuff anyway, Louise, it's Marcus welcome. Oh hi Marco, Hi, Louise,
are you good? Good, good, good good?

Speaker 15 (01:11:58):
I must say it is so lovely to hear the
dolts at tones of young Tony.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
Year, isn't it?

Speaker 26 (01:12:06):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
Because if Tony retired, right, yeah, and now he's back
I know, yeah, did.

Speaker 12 (01:12:15):
You get that?

Speaker 15 (01:12:17):
Yeah? I knew, but I was gutted.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
But anyway, we missed Tony terribly, but he comes back
often like he's never left because we've had replacements that
haven't lasted. Yeah, exactly, exactly what's that about?

Speaker 15 (01:12:31):
No one, no one can match his standards.

Speaker 22 (01:12:35):
Probably.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
Oh, I think everyone's replacement with Tony is very, very good.
But it's lovely that he's made himself, you know, they
availed himself to come back.

Speaker 15 (01:12:43):
Yes, all that's good. I'm happy about that. Well, the
most board I think apart from a job I had
where I was a renewals clerk an insurance company and
a long story about how I doesn't that deeper job?

Speaker 25 (01:12:58):
What?

Speaker 15 (01:12:59):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
What the hell's a renewals clerk?

Speaker 15 (01:13:01):
Well, and an insurance company in the seventies, they were
seen pieces of paper which were reminding you to renew
your policy. Yeah, okay, and this woman, missus Dimmington.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
Are you missus Dinnington?

Speaker 3 (01:13:22):
No, No, I was.

Speaker 15 (01:13:26):
Wor her and she prehd these pieces of paper like
they were her children that she never had. And I
just and of course, back in those days smoking and officers,
it was just. I mean I had an actually job
one days and that was better. That was less boring.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
Okay, So the most boring ever been was the insurance
What else were we going to say about boredom?

Speaker 15 (01:13:52):
An e.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
Oh, but isn't I a great drama? Because you think, God,
what's wrong with them? Or what's she done to her?
Or don't you always try and put things together in
A and E. I've always quite enjoyed it.

Speaker 15 (01:14:03):
Yes, I do. But there's a limit. I think i've
if I ended up. How many hours I've been in
the A and of my life with even myself or
for the kids, probably be years. I'm yes, in about
two or three years. Well you know, oh yeah, thirty
two hours is the longest of it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
It's a long time.

Speaker 15 (01:14:25):
A what was it?

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
What was it was a broken limb?

Speaker 18 (01:14:29):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:14:30):
No, I think it was a really bad infection at
that time. Yeah, oh yeah, we'll party. Hospital's got a
good rip.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
Well, we've had, we've had, we've we've had long stints
and A and E. I think I think we don't.
I've said I don't think it's broken, you know, twelve
hours later, broken arm. So yeah, so it's a long wait.
But actually feel stupid because you think, oh, I don't
think it's broken.

Speaker 15 (01:14:50):
But anyway, yes, I know it can be hard to
tell actually sometimes, but yeah, it's just I say, there's
such a thing as hospital time. It's like four times
slower normal.

Speaker 9 (01:15:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
Although I think they did pretty well. They seem to
get to everyone, and they seem to have the right
tyranny of order, don't they. They seem to take people
the right order. I've always thought, yeah, yeah they do.

Speaker 15 (01:15:17):
They do, and that's not their fault either at all.
I mean I have to go regularly for an iron jection. Yeah,
maximal degeneration, and.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
Well, I think what doesn't I think what doesn't help
A and E is the drunks as people from road
crashes and stuff that are intoxicated because they put everyone
on each and and that's never a good luck.

Speaker 15 (01:15:42):
No, it's yeah, I just feel sorry for the start Oh,
absolutely regular basis screaming children. I can't stand hearing a
child in pain or a baby.

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
And wouldn't be the wouldn't be anyone that would like that,
would there?

Speaker 13 (01:15:59):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:16:00):
No, some people like it less more than I do,
but no, I hate it all anyway. Yeah, so I'm
not awesome bored Actually no, not.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
As adults, we're not. Well, you've got a lot of
things on Netflix. You know you can switch channels these days,
can't you.

Speaker 15 (01:16:17):
Yeah, I don't have networks.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
I've got even better. That's the answer. Nice to talk, Luise,
Thank you. Seventeen past ten. You know the drill boredom,
boredom bored and boredom, boredom, boredom, boredom. I think the
guy that was stuck in Mount even Raman, that seems
to be the most Marcus. We are at Bowentown Camp
and they are close to full capacity this week, chairs

(01:16:40):
to Scottie Marcus. When I was a young new cop,
I've asked to fill in for the DPS who were
short staffed. One night, I was excited about carrying a
glock on my hip for a whole shift, but they
stationed me outside then pmbil English's hotel door for ten
graveyard shift hours. Didn't see a soul, just looked at

(01:17:02):
the wall. Longest ten hours of my life. That'd be hard.
I couldn't do it. And Billinger, you wouldn't need dps,
would he? Ohd dipton. Bill Marcus got dragged along to

(01:17:23):
the Wearable Art show a few years ago, almost went
mad with boredom. Never again, bears. I'll tell you some
of the most boring things are school prize givings. They're terrible, terrible,
that'd be my take. Really boring awards, ceremonies and prize givings,

(01:17:55):
and some business meetings. Fortunately I have review meetings. These days.
I like those people that have meetings when you've got
to stand on one leg to keep them short. Marcus
had a job sorting rubbish at the recycling plant. Once

(01:18:15):
I looked at the clock, then went back to work
for a long time, or so, I thought I'd talked
another look at clock, not one minuted past. You have
had a lot of experiences like that and medea thing, ooh, oh,
it must be half a day. You look back and
literally not a minute has gone. Marcus's school performance is boring,

(01:18:40):
especially when charge any on stage for two of the
one twenty minutes. That's why I'm surprised. I went along
to that school production thing. When they danced to music
and stuff, I thought was very good. I thought it
was gonna be born out of my mind, very good.
I thought, anyway, get in touch you on the talk people.

(01:19:09):
Twenty five past ten. I'm just texting what a stage
quest or something? I thought it was fantastic show quest.
Fantastic booked me in for every year, Marcus, the most

(01:19:32):
bart I've ever been. When I was a kid, I
was taken to a watch a five day cricket test.
It was the most boring Tedis game ever. Invented, and
for God's sake, after five days and even end in
the drawers should be banned. Yes, it's funny how time
can go quickly and go extremely slowly. You talk about boredom,

(01:19:57):
You would be the most boring talkback host on Yeah,
well I don't think I would be. But who would
be the least boring? If I'm the most boring, who
would be the least boring? What's the triangle of boredom?

(01:20:22):
The last time this Presus text in nineteenth June twenty
twenty five. The last time they've texted was seven years ago,
and the text was for God's sake, why do you
let that man go on for so long? He's such
a know it all? And know it all has spent
spelled no it t A L L. Well, we're just

(01:20:43):
try and do our best in this troubled world. All
we try and do is make your evening interesting. We
don't come and deliberately think, Okay, how can we make
our night as boring as possible? I can promise you that.
I mean, someday we crave the boring job. Actually, some
days we'd rather be out peeling potatoes. Get in touch

(01:21:07):
on the talk anyway, line's free. Let's be hearing for
your twenty eight twent eleven What did it like about
a long weekend? Is Thursday feels like Friday. I'm sorry,
I apologize for calling it Friday, but I've got myself
completely confused because normally when you have a long weekend,
it's a Monday, not the Friday. I'm quite sure how
much a leak he works with that, but thank you.

(01:21:27):
I spart telling what prison sounds particularly boring, doesn't it?

Speaker 25 (01:21:35):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:21:35):
Evening, Grant, It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:21:38):
Well, hi Marcus, what do you think about the new
Poe tablets?

Speaker 2 (01:21:46):
I feel like I'm being set up for a joke,
am I No, No, I saw an.

Speaker 19 (01:21:50):
Article on them the other the other the other day.
It's spelt t I and then tablets and it's by
email mask taking on Apples. You buy the tablet and
I think it's about two hundred and fifty dollars uif

(01:22:14):
and you get free access to starting to the Internet forever,
forever anywhere in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
So it's.

Speaker 19 (01:22:32):
Bigger than an iPad, same size as an iPad.

Speaker 2 (01:22:36):
Yeah, but looks kind of it's got some depth, so
it hasn't it looks like it's about an inch deep.

Speaker 19 (01:22:42):
I think that could be the pet the case that
comes and I'm not too sure. Pretty amazing eye.

Speaker 2 (01:22:53):
So it just communicates with the satellites in the sky,
so you've always you don't need any insect or anything
like that. It's always there. Yes, it almost seems like
I would probably work as a phone as well.

Speaker 19 (01:23:11):
I'm not sure. I was sort of a bit distracted
at the time, but yeah, I mean, you could be
sailing across the Pacific, in the middle of the Pacific
between here and Chile, where there's a dead spot for
most things, and you can still communicate for help if

(01:23:36):
you're on a yacht or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:38):
He's kept it pretty quiet to.

Speaker 9 (01:23:42):
Yes.

Speaker 19 (01:23:43):
Yeah, I don't know if they've been released yet, but
they've certainly been developed.

Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
And would there be an ongoing and counter to use it. No,
you said they wanted to do well, that's.

Speaker 19 (01:23:57):
What they said, but I mean it could be I
can't imagine that being forever. That's what they've If you
buy the unit, then there's no fee, and we.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
Mean that because this completely pass me by. Where did
you say you heard that?

Speaker 19 (01:24:15):
It was an article on an Edward from uh.

Speaker 15 (01:24:23):
Useless.

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
Okay, sounds fastinating Grant. Thanks for the heads up the
pie tablet, p I tablet Google. It looks like a
great but a kid. Jenny Marcus, Welcome, Hi Jenny, Hello, Hell.

Speaker 6 (01:24:37):
Are you mad?

Speaker 12 (01:24:38):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
Jenny.

Speaker 26 (01:24:39):
I had a boring Tom a few years ago. I
actually had his operation and I reflected it after just
about two weeks, and I ended up in the hospital
for fifty four days. Oh, and was a league brace
on from my from my going right down to the ankle,
and I couldn't do anything, couldn't couldn't go anywhere. And

(01:25:02):
that really had There was one one day and the
next day I had no TV. Really really really boring.
I can tell you. I had the lead both on.
It was supposed to be on for six weeks. It
was on for fifteen weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
An award, an award, yet had down here and two
oh yeah, what were the others like in the room?

Speaker 28 (01:25:26):
They are all right?

Speaker 18 (01:25:28):
And they were all right.

Speaker 26 (01:25:28):
I had quite a few came and went and came,
and then they were going to send me out to
peace Haven for the go Heaven Bitterer's Fight. And of
course it was the days of COVID and they said,
the last thing we've got to do is do a
cover and test. So they did a COVID test and
the nurse came back and she shut the room. I
was in the door. As soon as she did that,

(01:25:50):
I knew what was wrong. I had COVID. I had
no symptoms, so I had to stay. The biggest excitement
was the actually put me in a room all on
my own with a TV set, because I never had
a TV set the whole time above the.

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
Wow, Hey, how are you announce?

Speaker 12 (01:26:05):
How you now?

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
Jenny?

Speaker 25 (01:26:06):
You're good?

Speaker 15 (01:26:07):
Good?

Speaker 26 (01:26:07):
No, I'm good. I couldn't drive my calf well, I
could get the foot on accelerated, but I couldn't get
on the brake. But now I've taught myself how to
do how to use the break with the with the
right leg again. Yeah, the mustle above the knee is
actually stuffed. It's it's just doesn't drink some properly at all.
But I out how to drive anything else. So no,

(01:26:28):
I'm good as gold.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
Did you slip on ice?

Speaker 19 (01:26:31):
No? No.

Speaker 26 (01:26:31):
I was getting back into bed after I had been
to the toilet, and they said to me, when you're
riding across the bed, when you think use your use
your hands and use your good leg with a perfect
bag under your behind, and take your skin on the bed.
And just as I laid down, I got a pain
from my hip then and the growing and this is
what you have when you have a crock up. And

(01:26:53):
I turned around and I rung my daughter, this is
on a Sunday morning at a bit a quarter to one,
and she said to be ringing, hang up mum and
ring que. And I got the felephinous guy on the
phone at Que and he said to me, hang up
and we'll get a ring and give an in both
straight away. And so the day before i'd put everything
away and unpacked the fruit causs and put all the

(01:27:16):
drugs and everybody else away, and I had to give
it all back out again. But just as the two
ladies off there went to right and they went to
put me on the wheelchair, and just as I sat
down on the wheelchair, my hip let go and it
was an almighty crack I don't think I've ever heard,
and always like it or what ever since. So I

(01:27:37):
got taken to queue and it was on the Sunday morning,
Monday Sunday. They said to me I would do an
X ray and nothing. They said, it looks as good
as gold. But they turned around on the Monday, they
took me down for a scan and my daughter was
up waiting vividly, and the doctor came back into the

(01:27:59):
room and he said she's tracted and dislocated her hip.
So the hip drink was about three inches away from
where it should have been, and it was all but
the bone broken off. So the first operation took two airs.
But when I had the second operation, when they went
to fix it up, I was in seat of six airs.

Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
So how had you first done your hap? Was this
the second time? And that was the first time?

Speaker 26 (01:28:23):
The first time, I just went in and had a
hip replacement and I came home. I came home on
the first of eightful the aful.

Speaker 2 (01:28:31):
What they replace your hipto? Had you want it out?

Speaker 26 (01:28:34):
Yeah? Oh yes, I was a nursery worker and i'd
actually I didn't either. It was foulty as well, but
it made the hap worth four year. Just was really
lying with us either way it was it was at
the time.

Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
Did you say, did you say you're a nurse?

Speaker 4 (01:28:53):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:28:53):
I was.

Speaker 26 (01:28:54):
I was a nursery worker plants for twelve years and
my name was stuffed. But I've had two days now
and I and I've got a hip. But they're looking
at a mother happened. I just said my wallees alone.
There's now Fandel. I've got boned density problems, so they
don't really want to touch it if they can get.

Speaker 7 (01:29:15):
Away with it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
Oh careful you're driving, Jenny. But nice to hear from you.
Thank you. Look got to you, Diesel before we get
to the news, Diesel. It's Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:29:22):
Good evening, Yeah you Marcus.

Speaker 22 (01:29:24):
So I just want to comment on the care bells
on a caneb and I think it's correct that the
Cabory Rugby Union saying that the guys from that are
supporting the Chiefs cannot use their care bells. And I'm
telling you, if I did have a care bell and
I was going to the game, I would certainly use it.

Speaker 25 (01:29:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:29:46):
Good on you. You're the sort of til you're the
sort of contembriar. We embrace fear. That's your fear.

Speaker 22 (01:29:53):
Well, not actually a rugby man. I'm a league boy,
but you know, like, I just think it's absolutely tell them, well,
if I was over a Whykadow supporter or Chief supporter,
I'd be bring me beld In and I'll be.

Speaker 2 (01:30:08):
Bloody use it good to see that Canterbury is still
producing good league players.

Speaker 22 (01:30:14):
Oh yeah, but it's not as not as strong as
what it used to be years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:30:18):
But he you know it'll come back, don't worry, it'll
come back.

Speaker 22 (01:30:24):
Well, we've got the Warriors to to well. Once we
get air team out of the out of christ Ut,
it'll be brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:30:30):
I don't think you'll get one.

Speaker 22 (01:30:33):
Well, we probably won't, but I've got my fingers crossed
and I think Lowly and Frank Andy Cootna, you know,
going to go quite well. I'm thinking really sort of
pushing to get a team out well way out of
the South Island. It's not just out of christ just
but it's going to come the whole of the South Islands.
So I think it'll be bloody brilliant if they get

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a team.

Speaker 2 (01:30:54):
Anyway, shame you having on a cow bell to go
along with. I'd like you to be there with one
of those.

Speaker 22 (01:31:01):
Yeah, oh yeah, that's great. And I also another think
that guy that reckon you're boring, I think he's he's
a piece of work. I quite enjoy listen to you
when I'm driving home at night.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
And yes it was a guy. It could be a woman.
Marcus on the subject of weeding to do species in Germany.
There's also a significant population of fair or rears in
northeastern Germany. Escape from a zoo, no doubt. Oh gosh,
I've got liquid in the charge port of my phone.

(01:31:33):
Story of my life. I can't see it. I just
store it vertically. He has got enough charge to get
me through the night. Hey, anything else you want to
talk about? Fore r free be a part of it.
Raccoons in Germany. That was something I wasn't expecting to

(01:31:53):
learn about tonight. And by the way, Mikey bebbon along
from twelve o'clock, so he'll be along after me tonight.
There'll be advertisements for Mateliki wond there. It's like the
insict day Is it down?

Speaker 28 (01:32:06):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
Correct? On Monday they'll be commercials. I did watch that
show on Netflix today about that treasure hunt, which I'd
already read about. It was quite interesting. This guy is
old and he thinks he's going to die. He's done
quite well in life, and he fills a chest with

(01:32:30):
gold and sovereigns and stuff and buries it and he
writes a biography, and that biography is a poem which
is about eight stanzas, which is the clue for where
the treasure lies. Wow, boy, oh boy, did that become
a big deal. He's doing COVID and the likes three

(01:32:52):
people died looking for the treasure. They reckon three hundred
thousand people are in the bush looking for it. And
what was interesting about the show, and it was a
quite a flawed TV show, but it was interesting to watch,
is that they followed a lot a lot of people
became obsessed, obviously with it, but they also experienced something

(01:33:18):
which I presume is confirmation biased. But they thought that
they had cracked the code, and everywhere they looked confirmed
what they thought they were looking for, and they had
no doubt that they were on the chest, when in
fact they're miles away. And when in fact the chest
finally got found after ten years, people were furious and

(01:33:45):
hastled the guy, and I think then he died and
hassled his family because people didn't want the search to stop,
and then they didn't believe it had been found. And oh,
it's quite interesting story. But one of the guys that
was looking for the treasure who was a software was
who spent a lot of time looking for it with

(01:34:05):
his brother who died. He actually found the spot where
the treasure was found after the chest was removed, so
he was pretty well onto it. And it shows him
they're going to the exact spot and realigning two photos

(01:34:26):
the photo that was taken of the chest and himself,
and it shows that he had found the spot where
the treasure was. However, then he went to auction and
bought the chest at auction and filled that with gold
and now he's hidden that. So there's another treasure hunt

(01:34:48):
on with a prize between one and five million American
wordth of treasure. That's weird, isn't it. So yeah, all
these people obsessed with treasure hunts. The clues weren't that
good either. It wasn't like cryptic clues or it was

(01:35:11):
just yeah, it wasn't like you had to there was
a code you had to crack. It was just anyways,
But it's worth watching. It took me a couple of
hours to watch, and watching Netflix for a while. I
thought the book and the younger boy what he came
over to school watched, you know, he quite enjoyed it. Marcus.
Great night at the Ambly Domain Rugby Glenmark playing Ambley

(01:35:32):
second grade. Gosh the second grade now final score twenty
six nineteen Glenmark yay. At least two hundred watching. Admittedly
amazing day and night here, but the club is looking
to play remained on Friday night. Everyone supporting is giving
back the weekend to all and the heartland. North Candry

(01:35:52):
Rugby still has passionate support and following. Crusaders tomorrow, cheers Tim.
I don't think Crusaders is tomorrow. I think that's on Saturday, right,
I'm pretty sure that's right, Marcus. More than twenty years on,
Mum still moans about us going to see Dogville. I

(01:36:14):
thought it might be good having Nicole Kidman and Lauren,
butcall oh, how wrong could you be? Michelle?

Speaker 25 (01:36:23):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:36:24):
I one hundred and eighty to eighty? Jennifer Marcus welcome,
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 15 (01:36:28):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
Jennifer?

Speaker 25 (01:36:30):
Thank you, congratulations on your award.

Speaker 2 (01:36:34):
Thank you, Jennifer.

Speaker 25 (01:36:36):
I wanted to talk about trains with you.

Speaker 18 (01:36:39):
That's all right?

Speaker 25 (01:36:40):
Sure, I think trained a marvelous Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:36:46):
Are there any than Are there any better than buses?

Speaker 25 (01:36:50):
Yes, they're much better than buses. Because they can cover
a huge distance and take a lot of people a
long way, and if they've got a good rails to
stem they can they can go very fast.

Speaker 2 (01:37:12):
Not in New Zealand though, with our narrow gauge.

Speaker 25 (01:37:15):
No, but we could make our gauge wider. We've got
the tracks already. It cost of fortune, that's all right,
but it'll be worth it in the long run. This
is the trouble with this country. They can't see into
the future. That takes them years.

Speaker 2 (01:37:31):
They did see the future, we had a very vast
rail network, but the motor car came along and they
lifted most of it up.

Speaker 25 (01:37:38):
Well, that's how dumb they are.

Speaker 12 (01:37:39):
You Well, of.

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Course, when the when Julius Vogel thought of the rail
scheme for New Zealand, I don't think the motor car
was even envisaged.

Speaker 25 (01:37:50):
Well, the Indians have had a rail system for years.
The British put it in before the railway, I think
before the motor car.

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
Yeah, I think that's suffering and I think most people
fly nowt in there. I think that's done very well.

Speaker 25 (01:38:03):
I'm not talking about I mean within India.

Speaker 2 (01:38:08):
Yeah, okay, No, I think with an India many more
people are flying now because of course when you're flying,
you've got no maintenance of the tracks.

Speaker 25 (01:38:17):
Yes, but I mean they go to work on the train.

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
Yes, yes they do.

Speaker 25 (01:38:24):
And there's just hundreds and thousands of people on a
train in India, are even sitting on the.

Speaker 19 (01:38:32):
Top of them.

Speaker 2 (01:38:32):
I think trains work very well for incredibly densely populated countries,
but not in New Zealand.

Speaker 27 (01:38:38):
Yeah, well you see it.

Speaker 4 (01:38:41):
I mean.

Speaker 25 (01:38:44):
Even in other countries in Australia, you know again, and
we traveled in India. We traveled from about I think
it was to Mumbai, and we've traveled a distance like
from Auckland to in the cargo overnight and we slept

(01:39:10):
the whole way in a cabin.

Speaker 2 (01:39:14):
Okay, yeah, I I know a lot of people talking
about bringing that train, the train back from christ Chicks
to in the cargo.

Speaker 12 (01:39:25):
But.

Speaker 25 (01:39:27):
I have to make sure that they have it. I mean,
you've got to have things like showers on us and
make it comfortable.

Speaker 2 (01:39:37):
There's no way in the world, Jennifer, there's no way
in the world that's coming back. People can fly for
forty nine dollars. Look, I spend four hundred dollars on
a train.

Speaker 25 (01:39:45):
Yeah, but then you've got to get to the airport,
and you've got to get back again, and you've got
to pack your can't I mean you can? Okay, take
your look here in Auckland. To get from the north
Shore to the airport, it's one how of a handle.
I mean if you could just get on on one
train and it went the whole I mean, more people

(01:40:08):
would go to the airport.

Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
Yeah, okay, I don't think. Yeah, I don't think trains
are going to take off anytime soon.

Speaker 25 (01:40:17):
No, because we haven't got them. Yeah, but every time
it's a slip on the road, the traffic's held up
and it's just chaos out there, whereas if people got
I mean most of the cats have only got one
person in them.

Speaker 2 (01:40:36):
That's right.

Speaker 25 (01:40:38):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:40:42):
An absence of forward planning. It seems to be for
a lot of urban transport, I think. But yeah, well,
I like your sentiment. I just don't think people are
going to win that battle. I don't thin we're going
to be bringing trains.

Speaker 25 (01:40:52):
Because they're all traveling around in their own little bubble,
clogging up the roads.

Speaker 2 (01:40:59):
Okay, thank you, Jennifer Brendan. It's Marcus welcome yourself Brandan.

Speaker 11 (01:41:07):
Yeah, no, I'm looking good for the Warriors this weekend.
It's just a bit that Ivan Cleary, like he said
about how he's got his players out.

Speaker 18 (01:41:19):
And that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:21):
You know they've got to travel. I mean he's not
going to bring us players obviously because that was in Perth.
Remember that's even further away.

Speaker 22 (01:41:29):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 11 (01:41:29):
But the fact that he's complaining about it now that
he's down in the position that he is, whereas played
last year the first four years, ye never spoken about
it before.

Speaker 2 (01:41:40):
I don't think he's almost think Ivan Cleary speaks quite feely.
I mean he'd be concerned because his son's kicking's not good.

Speaker 11 (01:41:47):
Yeah well, yeah, yeah, I might agree with that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
Yeah, who tell me who from the Penrith was in
State of Origin. There's Brian Tottle, there was Nathan Cleary,
there was as Ieo, there was Lee mart Cleam Martin.
Who else was there?

Speaker 14 (01:42:07):
I can't name?

Speaker 9 (01:42:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:42:12):
No, The problem is when you run run the top
team like he has in the last five years. This
is what happens. And then when he's in the position
he is now for some reason, I'm not sure why
he's he's now stressing I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
I'm going to be I'm going to be careful because
Pin with my other team. Okay, yeah, I love pinrth.

Speaker 11 (01:42:43):
I well, I love other and Cleary because of what
he did with the Warriors. I mean I thought to
worries are wrong letting them.

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
Go yep, to be honest, Yeah, oh no, I think this.
I think this could be a potential banana skin game
for us. Tomorrow Night said we could lose this. We could.
We think they're going to be the easy beats. I
think they could step up. But oh well, that's fine,

(01:43:11):
We're not going to win them all.

Speaker 11 (01:43:13):
Well, I hope the worry is just don't go to
sleep thinking that.

Speaker 3 (01:43:17):
Yeah they do, yeah, unfortunately, but.

Speaker 2 (01:43:21):
Should they should be inspired by the Warrior and state
of origin. He was unbelievable.

Speaker 11 (01:43:26):
Why he was Yeah, no, he was awesome. He wasn't
He came for them.

Speaker 2 (01:43:32):
I think I should given them the man of the
match almost well, actually the man of the match had
been Brian Tottle, even though he's playing for the losing team.
M yeah, yeah full full beck Delan Edwards as well,
thanks for the text of course he is. Are you
going to go to the match Brendan.

Speaker 11 (01:43:52):
Won't be because yeah, unfortunately I'm on call for work.

Speaker 2 (01:43:56):
So yeah really yeah, well that's exciting. Yeah yeah, okay,
let you go, you go, Lizard's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:44:07):
My love this one. I went to rama school and
the most boring time of my life was when we
went on retreat. You had to stay there all day
is sitting there meditating?

Speaker 12 (01:44:24):
What day?

Speaker 2 (01:44:25):
What school was it?

Speaker 15 (01:44:27):
Maris College?

Speaker 2 (01:44:28):
Where is that? What's it called?

Speaker 4 (01:44:30):
Now?

Speaker 15 (01:44:32):
The school called Mariatt So on a.

Speaker 2 (01:44:37):
Retreat, would you just go to school but not talk?

Speaker 13 (01:44:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (01:44:41):
Well they have hundreds of retreats. She can have three days,
but their meditation to think about God.

Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
But this is when you're a child.

Speaker 15 (01:44:49):
Well, well I still have today.

Speaker 2 (01:44:53):
Don't be so tricky with you. From what are you
talking about? When did you go to a retreat?

Speaker 15 (01:44:58):
Well, when I was a child, I went to them
all of time, and maybe fifty we did them all
of time, like in.

Speaker 2 (01:45:06):
The weekend or during school time.

Speaker 15 (01:45:09):
I'll do a school time okay, yeah, that was part
of it all. Even today they I've got my family members,
they still have their retreats. Education sits here and be
quiet for the day between times.

Speaker 2 (01:45:27):
It's probably quite beneficial, is it?

Speaker 15 (01:45:30):
Well, it turns to some respects that when my children went,
they used to stay the week and then they'd have
lectures and lunches and teams and oh they ran all
over the show. But I think they've cut it down
a lot too, a lot more simple. But when I
remember mine, I did them in the primary and I

(01:45:51):
can remember primary just sitting on a bench for the
whole day. They brought out of a cell.

Speaker 2 (01:45:56):
Where would the retreat actually be?

Speaker 15 (01:45:59):
Well if its retreats all over walks from now the
monasteries and most of them tested school to every preach
and their tools. They used to see them all when
my children went to the one in Hillsborough.

Speaker 2 (01:46:18):
Oh yeah, I think I think I've been to retreat.
I think I've been to retreat there. I think it
was quite Oh yeah that was quite good. Oh yeah,
the good are they?

Speaker 8 (01:46:26):
Are?

Speaker 2 (01:46:26):
They friend Tiskins or something.

Speaker 8 (01:46:30):
Different?

Speaker 9 (01:46:32):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (01:46:34):
Good night, good night?

Speaker 15 (01:46:39):
And I had writ me here and I couldn't fund
my Dad'll.

Speaker 2 (01:46:43):
Be terrible for child. Oh yeah, it wasn't the torture.

Speaker 7 (01:46:49):
It was.

Speaker 15 (01:46:51):
I still remember the worst part. And it was of
rather at the school. It was brilliant school. It was
born in school and everything. I enjoyed it, but that
when I got to college it wasn't there. That was
my worst.

Speaker 2 (01:47:05):
Have you still heelers?

Speaker 19 (01:47:08):
What?

Speaker 15 (01:47:08):
I'm older now, but I still haven't gone gray or anything.

Speaker 2 (01:47:11):
No, I don't know what happened to red head so
that still stays ready.

Speaker 15 (01:47:15):
Of the shoot show.

Speaker 19 (01:47:17):
What?

Speaker 15 (01:47:18):
Well, I think it's funny they got gray here and
I haven't.

Speaker 2 (01:47:21):
It's still read.

Speaker 15 (01:47:23):
Yes, what a gift. He loves the color. But you
antem you don't really go gray.

Speaker 2 (01:47:30):
So what would you call the color now?

Speaker 15 (01:47:34):
Still gold?

Speaker 18 (01:47:36):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:47:38):
Yes, I've never thought about what happens to redheads when
they get old.

Speaker 15 (01:47:42):
Well, they love to color.

Speaker 2 (01:47:44):
I think just Fadeah, yeah, it doesn't.

Speaker 27 (01:47:50):
I don't think it goes gray.

Speaker 15 (01:47:52):
I haven't got.

Speaker 2 (01:47:54):
Did they call you nicknames as a child, Oh, god, yous,
let's have the good ones.

Speaker 15 (01:48:00):
Ah's terrible?

Speaker 2 (01:48:01):
What was it called?

Speaker 15 (01:48:02):
Oh my father is called me blue?

Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
Yep, standard they're not it's cool.

Speaker 15 (01:48:07):
He freckle, so a freckle fos. What's the other name
they go to? Red hedge? Oh? You know, almost names
you to halt when you're a child.

Speaker 2 (01:48:21):
Terrible. It seems that people still find it funny, but
it's it's quite out of everything, out of everything we've done,
people still find it sphere game. I think probably J. K.
Rowling was bad with it with the Weasleys, because very cool,
very cruel.

Speaker 15 (01:48:39):
You get the rain.

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
Yeah, and you're quite quick to anger. The people say
that about you, Na, that's the that's the stereotype though,
wasn't it.

Speaker 15 (01:48:54):
Well, I've got a whole family of red headge.

Speaker 2 (01:48:59):
Are they quick to anger?

Speaker 15 (01:49:01):
Nay, that's a gorgeous lovely that my song was read, heated.
It was absolute delight. Now that just fixed it. I've
talked read If I haven't read here in my transsles
with music, i'd say, yay, we've got an interesting child.
They're always happy. Really, so you love me? Oh yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:49:26):
Suppose you're going to put on a brave face. Okay,
good on you, Liz, thank you, Good evening. Janet's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:49:36):
Hi, jan I'm sorry you were talking.

Speaker 2 (01:49:39):
Yes, yes, it's Marcus.

Speaker 25 (01:49:41):
Oh sorry, I'm not gonna happen to have read here.

Speaker 12 (01:49:45):
Yep, it's gone.

Speaker 2 (01:49:47):
It's got white did fade?

Speaker 21 (01:49:50):
Yeah, he said, he his character.

Speaker 15 (01:49:54):
I listen.

Speaker 25 (01:49:55):
He doesn't want to, but I'll let him talk to you.

Speaker 2 (01:49:56):
Hold on, no, don't. I don't want to talk to
someone reluctantly.

Speaker 28 (01:50:00):
Yeah, anywhere, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50:02):
I don't like to talk to someone reluctantly.

Speaker 28 (01:50:04):
Yeah yeah, work here, Yeah I hear, I hear. I
was gingeringly gorm jarret top and and all different stories.

Speaker 2 (01:50:12):
But it's funny that call you. It's funny they call
you a carrot top because the top of a carrot's green,
isn't it. That's with the leaves.

Speaker 28 (01:50:18):
I know, I know they must have thought of the thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'll tell her that some one of six boys. First
four boys had dark here, and the last three of
us had read here wow. And we had the mummy.

(01:50:38):
I had my mama and for years of the outer
because I'd help her with the dishes, because the others
weren't very keen at helping with dishes. It was that's
not your pride to be doing diitious. So she went
away and went to a bedroom and pulled some lockets
out of her her drawer. And when she was young,
she was really red head like mine, but her hair

(01:51:01):
and about the time they got a marriage started going
dark and she finished up with a here goodness.

Speaker 2 (01:51:10):
Now, where was this shoe? Where was this shoe growing.

Speaker 28 (01:51:12):
Up out in yep Oh in South Island?

Speaker 19 (01:51:17):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:51:18):
Where'd you say you were to Muca?

Speaker 19 (01:51:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 28 (01:51:21):
I lived in Ta.

Speaker 17 (01:51:22):
Do you know to Muka?

Speaker 9 (01:51:23):
Yep.

Speaker 28 (01:51:25):
You ain't got any friends any folk there? Your families? Yeah,
my year is white and now I made one. Now
my year is white.

Speaker 2 (01:51:34):
You've been to Mka your whole life?

Speaker 28 (01:51:37):
Yeah, Well we're in. We got married in nineteen sixty
eight eight and we lived in lind Timari. I worked
for farmers all around New Zealand, and I had two
governments study grants and when I finished work completely federately

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farmers and Gantbis shouters for Europe in Edinburgh, tattoo.

Speaker 2 (01:52:01):
Wow was generous.

Speaker 28 (01:52:06):
Yeah, there were wonderful people to work with everything we'd
done and checked it out with them. I'd say to them,
they are price the the big irrigation, drainage and farm
buildings and stuff. And there wasn't the one building or
or plant that the farmers did on their property that failed.

(01:52:27):
Every didn't work, so I thought, well I must have done.

Speaker 9 (01:52:29):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:52:30):
What company was it, did you say, Jean, the farmers
or what country company was it?

Speaker 28 (01:52:34):
They were started with the Department of agriculture. Then it
finished and we started in the National Orgagewitch was at.

Speaker 17 (01:52:44):
A stock firm.

Speaker 28 (01:52:45):
Then I went to the Department of Agriculture. It was
quite finally called a sure quality that had five names
and so forth, And I worked from Gore to Hastings
and so forth, and done a lot of big.

Speaker 25 (01:53:01):
Big jobs around the country.

Speaker 28 (01:53:03):
But it all but it all worked, so it's pretty good.
So yep, now I'm either people can't call me ginger
or really after it's changed color.

Speaker 2 (01:53:12):
So did you have that not name when you were working?

Speaker 15 (01:53:17):
Oh?

Speaker 28 (01:53:18):
As only at school, I was a screaser because I
was I was pretty good scrapper, and I'd say to people,
if you keep teasing me, I'll beat up. And I'm
only a week four and I never got knocked down.
But my brother, Oh brother came home one night and
he said to Mom, you have to be give work,
telling them as they keep teasing, he will do them up.

(01:53:40):
And he usually does clean all up. But one of
these days we're afraid they might kill him.

Speaker 9 (01:53:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:53:45):
Well, what school we at? What school we are?

Speaker 28 (01:53:48):
TOMCA School brilliant and Timmary Technical College for the engineering
side of it.

Speaker 2 (01:53:55):
Well done you life will live nice to talk to you,
Jen's husband. Evening, Bob, it's Marcus. Welcome by Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:54:05):
Jaith cabells from listening to a guy raffle the hell
of them while this lady in front. Every time they raffled,
she was just rune. So Alasta was standing next to him.
I don't like them either, but she a guy banging
away and as loud as they are. The lady that

(01:54:26):
was in front, she had the white card of colors
on and every time it went you could see his
shoulders go up for her ears. And this guy was
leaveless until half time and a couple of people went
up and made you might not do that in front
of this lady. He went, he went up the steps

(01:54:47):
and started doing it up the steps there, and people
were burning him off. So, yeah, if you're up beside
the bloody things I reckon, it'll be bloody annoying.

Speaker 2 (01:54:58):
Do they wring them the whole edge?

Speaker 9 (01:55:01):
Well, you know, every now and then when it was
the yeah, look a break in the play, he would
crank it and on me he would really do a
good ravel And you could see this lady solders just
go up by her ears and she was closing her eyes,
and it was obviously uncomptable.

Speaker 2 (01:55:19):
For her dist Hamilton, Bob. No, okay, nice to hear
from your Thanks Bob, Andrew.

Speaker 9 (01:55:25):
Good evening, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:55:28):
How are you this evening?

Speaker 2 (01:55:29):
Good thing you? Andrew?

Speaker 7 (01:55:31):
Hey, have you still got a little bit of a
coughin from your from your illness? I recently was ill
too and I've still got a little bit of that.
Have you still got a tiny little bit lingering?

Speaker 2 (01:55:41):
H it's a bit of a lingerer. Yeah, it's I've
been surprised how much it's hang around for actually seems
quite brilly.

Speaker 7 (01:55:47):
Yeah, same, same, I just I just caught a little
bit of it tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:55:51):
Are you in the South Island Andrew.

Speaker 7 (01:55:55):
No, I'm a North Islander and.

Speaker 2 (01:55:59):
Yeah, sorry, I think there's a few bugs going around
this year that there could be quite a tough winter
for people.

Speaker 7 (01:56:04):
I think, yeah, I think you're right. So we've spoken
to you a couple of times on the audio enthusias
Sky and I think I've told you before I'm a ganger,
haven't I'm a.

Speaker 2 (01:56:14):
Yeah, you might have alluded to it, but we get
I sort of pictured you as one of those, anyway,
did you? Yeah, high five system.

Speaker 11 (01:56:28):
And.

Speaker 19 (01:56:31):
No, mate, it what it was?

Speaker 9 (01:56:34):
It was red.

Speaker 7 (01:56:35):
It was super red and curly. When I was young,
a face full of freckles. And then when I got
to my sort of early you know, double figures of years,
that started to go straight. And that was the best
thing that ever happened to me. And I could never
grow here along to have a mullet. All I got

(01:56:56):
was a ginger frow. I just got this just here
was that fuck? It was like an afro? Did you
never got that big?

Speaker 2 (01:57:03):
But do you think of dying it?

Speaker 9 (01:57:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:57:07):
I have, I did.

Speaker 7 (01:57:08):
I did.

Speaker 15 (01:57:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:57:09):
When I became single, you know, I went to a blonde.
But I'm quite funny because because my eyebrows are not
really gingery.

Speaker 2 (01:57:17):
You know, did you go blond? Did you go blonde?

Speaker 7 (01:57:21):
Did I you mean when I colored it?

Speaker 2 (01:57:23):
When you went single? Did it go blonde?

Speaker 12 (01:57:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:57:26):
Yeah, no, yeah, I gleitched it. Yeah yeah it was
what well, my eyebrows, That's where I was what I
was just saying, my eyebrows are really light. People think
I am a blode, think I was a blonde, or
I am a blonde completely gray. Now I'm fifty five,
but I've already been gray. For quite a while. No really,
somebody actually told me that Rehage go gray really late,

(01:57:48):
but I probably went about when I started, when I
was about fifty. And I'm completely sort of gray now,
you know, but not completely, if you know what I mean.
And I'm not being rude or anything.

Speaker 2 (01:58:02):
But anyway, Andrew just saying on now, come Bay, just
get these last day the way I can relax.

Speaker 7 (01:58:08):
You're still here, Marcus, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't
think read. I don't think red heads growth. I think
that's a bit of a fellow.

Speaker 2 (01:58:18):
They've got a low pain threshold on they react quicker.

Speaker 7 (01:58:21):
No, so I've just recently done a bit of reading
about that. Thank you. You've just triggered something else here.
They at least we can ever laugh about it.

Speaker 4 (01:58:33):
No, so.

Speaker 2 (01:58:36):
File the handle.

Speaker 7 (01:58:38):
Yeah, no, I'm not going to Marcus. But apparently we
have is it a high? We either have a lower
or higher pain threshold. So I read something about that
a nethetist can actually have a hard time with red heads,
and you know, they're harder to as a patient for

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an anthetist. Year and saying with the dentist, I've heard
a story about a dentist. They guy a couple of
injections and that, oh, I can still feel it. So
they gave him another one and that and I can
still fit.

Speaker 9 (01:59:13):
Now, you know you've got to go.

Speaker 7 (01:59:15):
We think we think you're bullshitting us because we've given you,
you know, enough to put an hour out. So I
don't know. I don't know about that. My mum, my
late mom sent me something once out of a paper
that apparently redheads already have a gene in us that
makes us get skin cancer. Is it like a malatonin
or something or something about it? But I've had a few,

(01:59:38):
but that's mainly skin cancers. But that's mainly from working
outdoors for forty years as a chippy. So but apparently, yeah,
there is things that we feel differently, Yes, pain and
heat and cold. That's actually yeah, that was the other
one read.

Speaker 9 (01:59:52):
I've read that.

Speaker 7 (01:59:54):
Yeah, So I don't know. I mean, I've been a
ginger for fifty five years, Marcus, So how do I
does mean you've.

Speaker 2 (02:00:00):
Got to have more layers of clothes or you don't
feel the cold? What are you wearing now, Andrew?

Speaker 7 (02:00:08):
Well, I'm in bed, mate, So some boxer shorts, some
boxer shorts and a little light top. But I think
I feel the cold more so, you know.

Speaker 22 (02:00:20):
And even.

Speaker 7 (02:00:23):
A friend said, you really know how to layer. You know,
if you've got too many layers, you can always for.

Speaker 2 (02:00:29):
Free to say you really know how to layer. That's
quite moving that, Andrew. I'm going to go. But you're
a super cooler for tonight, brilliant. You really know how
to layer. We're coming along well as a nation of males.
Thank you for that, Andrew. That's it. I'm away. Enjoy
your matariki and I'll see you on Monday. People looking

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forward to it. See you then. Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:00:55):
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