Through the vomitoria (29 April 2026)

Marcus discusses the confusion of Mondayisation, the miracle of a sub-two-hour marathon, and the remarkable return of everyone's favourite horses...

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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.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greetings, could even welcome to Wednesday. Gosh, I tell you
what a disasters with the rubbish bins. No one knows what.
No one knows when the bins go out after a
long weekend, you find that and then of course you
get the wind come through this rubbish everywhere. Who's faults
that I don't know? You know what I wish they did.

(00:36):
What I think I wish they did is if your
rubbish was on a Monday or a Friday and it
was a public holiday. I mean, for those with us
with the rubbish collecure on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, it
should just stay in place month. I can't work out
the system of jet never works anyway. You might have
something to say about that. I don't. Well, I have
a lot to say about it, and it makes any sense.
Greetings and welcome. Hen till twelve For those that want

(00:59):
to know, Jerome Lowy's twenty nine, so a couple more
years in rugby league for him, two years at the Chiefs.
Don't know about that number named for the part when
you're gonna eat Chiefs oh, and there we go. I've
read somewhere tonight that the horses are coming. Did you
read that the horses are coming back to the stadium.
They've been out there looking out to see if they

(01:20):
can get around there. I told you that was going
to happen when that guy fround the air at the stable.
So if anyone's across more information about that, I read
that earlier today. So I think, man what's his name? Manbridge?
It's a great name, and on Manbridge? Who doesn't want
a man Bridge? He's out there right and he's walking

(01:42):
around the stadium and he reckons. The horses are coming back,
So if you've got anything to say about that, that's
a good starter for me. So it looks like they're
not gone. They're conducting further tests. Why has this even
been a story? It must be public pressure. But they
did conduct tests so the horses might be back. Between

(02:03):
the two Saturday night games. Crusaders staff, including Chief Manbridge
and riders were observed walking around the edge of the
field where the horses would loop and understood they also
walked a path to where the horses would be tethered,
and that more testing is planned and required, including with
horses in the stadium. This is brilliant for those horse
obsessed people who thought it was their God given right

(02:26):
to see horses and the fact that they were taken away
thought that was the beginning of the end. With one
New Zealand stadium boasting crowds close to the action, there
is less space for the horses to operate and avoid
the field of plays. Fish in front of the east stand. Wow,
here's another sentence. Another concern is the fact there are
four vomitories. What is that. There's not a word I've

(02:48):
ever seen before. It's called a vomitory, a passage situated
below behind a tier of seats. So there's four vomitories.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Right.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
A spout horse could attempt to escape from at the
Inner City Stadium while I was on the field of
play cancertly jump an led screen like they called eddington
of a horsel on the loose. Vomitory I've never It's
not a word I've ever used on Talk chucking on
the quiz would your dan copy to Marcus?

Speaker 5 (03:23):
Welcome, good Marcus.

Speaker 6 (03:26):
Yeah, I was down in christ Church on the weekend
there for the Super Round. I live in Auckland at
the moment, well walk with just north of Aokland and
I thought it was brilliant, mate, like anything new, any
new toys. You know, we're out there, we're really to
play with them. The stadium was top class, top tier,
probably the best in New Zealand at the moment. It

(03:48):
made me think, you know, the city of Auckland is
going to have the National Stadium. Surely they're going to
build this precinct down there where the old train station is,
right near Victor Arena or what they call it Spark
Arena now downtown Auckland. Surely because we're situated. It's not
very central at all. It's a residential area. So you know,

(04:12):
good on crash Stoot for putting it on. Magnificent events.
The prices for food and beverage were pretty average. I mean,
you know you got to eat them park You're going
to pay thirty five bucks for about four beers. And
then they had a pie sandwich mate, I'm not too
sure if you're familiar with that. It's a big old

(04:32):
steak and cheese pine between two bread bread pieces and
got the sauce and bobs.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Your uncle, will you limit I'm across the pie sandwich?
Were you limited? To how many drinks you could buy.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
Oh yeah, so you can only buy I think it
might be.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Two which is which is, which is? Which is?

Speaker 6 (04:50):
Not?

Speaker 3 (04:50):
A beer and a glass of wine. That's two point five?
How you said, right? If Auckland's going to be a
national stadium, this national stadium with that's just rubbish, is it?
What does it even mean?

Speaker 6 (05:03):
I think what Awkin has done is just given themselves
their title. I think you can park because it's the
biggest stadium, forty five fifty thousand, whatever it is. But
in saying that, you know, I.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Reckon Eaton Park is quite central.

Speaker 6 (05:19):
Oh well, it depends where you are.

Speaker 7 (05:20):
I mean it's c Where are you are?

Speaker 3 (05:21):
You are you walk with?

Speaker 8 (05:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (05:23):
I walk with mate.

Speaker 6 (05:24):
I'm North Harbor, so Northland pretty much.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
So Aden Park or the viad Act not much difference
for you, is it really?

Speaker 4 (05:31):
No?

Speaker 6 (05:32):
We have seventy keys away something like that.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Okay, did you miss the did you go to the
Sader's match on the Friday?

Speaker 6 (05:40):
I missed the horses?

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Did you go on Friday?

Speaker 6 (05:43):
Say?

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Did you go on Friday to the Crusaders match?

Speaker 8 (05:48):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (05:49):
I did. It was brilliant, mate, I understand why the
horses are not there the dimensions of the ground a
little bit. You know, you're you're right on top of
the players. It's almost like, look, how can I explain it?
Like Hamilton's stadium.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, went there with old Ruckleman when he was playing
old remember the flat went down with his flapmate for
the final when they played Auckland Work in the NPC final.
And I reckon that would have been about nineteen two
thousand and two or two thousand and three or something.

Speaker 9 (06:23):
That was good was that.

Speaker 6 (06:25):
When Molsman you're not saying for white kid.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
I can't. You might be right. I thought he was
a Southern lead.

Speaker 6 (06:30):
Anyway, Hey, I remember I remember the girl saying that
white Kido voice used to say, you know what skytowns
see the room?

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Oh yeah, okay, you're just cutting out there. Move on,
Pete Marcus, welcome, quick, chop into it, quick, quick, smart,
get into it. Pete, what do you go?

Speaker 10 (06:48):
I see you're in the council in the cargo here
and there. What you have to do is you have
to sort of look at what we do here and
you put up here. We el rubbish just carries on
just regardless of what day it is. It just carries on.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
What if you're on a Monday, makes no difference.

Speaker 10 (07:06):
Which the step every day whatever, it just carries on.
In the day the rubbers is gonna.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
Be picked out, hang on, so on.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
On a public holiday they're picking up the rubbish.

Speaker 10 (07:15):
Yep, makes no difference.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Even Christmas Yep.

Speaker 10 (07:19):
This carries off regardless of any day. Just it's gonna
be picked up and may be a routine. The drivers
make a little bit of money out of it.

Speaker 11 (07:26):
That's just a contract.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
That's a great thing we want. Do the prisoners still
do the rubbish and New Plymouth?

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Say that again?

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Do the prisoners still do the rubbish and New Plymouth?
Is it still people from the prison?

Speaker 8 (07:38):
No?

Speaker 12 (07:39):
Years ago?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
How long aero they close that down?

Speaker 12 (07:42):
Ah?

Speaker 10 (07:43):
Hell ship maybe ten fifteen years.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
I don't think we swear okay wow yeah.

Speaker 10 (07:50):
But regarding the the horses, you've got an old gerry
Brownie's mentioning it. The Evan on the TV about who
do you remote?

Speaker 11 (07:59):
Therefore horses?

Speaker 10 (08:00):
He said to fund him for that.

Speaker 13 (08:02):
Ah.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
So it's to get Nestal re elected. They're bringing the
thing that they think there's votes in it.

Speaker 10 (08:06):
Oh, maybe mentioned it. I was looking on he's speaking
then it's accommodator that he would just say, I'm such
a beautiful because he's behind the here the main men
there and what are you in the airth quote and
down there is what he is psally the go to
money for the national part of the time money is
the big bodio and at the time, and he said,
he looked down there and they'll give you said it
very nice.

Speaker 7 (08:25):
They are run down there.

Speaker 14 (08:27):
He talks.

Speaker 10 (08:27):
He said it a nice way. So you might maybe
to think him all that.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Okay, I don't care, but I know the people that
people think it's their core values. Oh wait, one hundred
and eighty ten Eightian, nineteen nine two.

Speaker 12 (08:37):
Ticks.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
I was going to say something I carry what it
was the horses and the vomitories, the vomitaries. Wow, whom
you get in touch? Here'll twelve oh eight hundred and
eighty Tenadian, nineteen nine two. The texts. What was I
going to say? Wow, that's the.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Way to do it.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Just stay on the day with the rubbish. I'm gonna
investigate that. I think. Anyway, get in touch, you want
to talk, Oh you know, I'll keep the texts coming
through ninety two ninety two to text. You have changed
the way I say the text. That's right. Hey, something
that's been not spoken about. Oh this is interesting everyone
I keep hearing everyone only got two drinks at the stadium.

(09:18):
I was getting four at a time. First night I
had four Jamison's in the one purchase. Second night full
Vodkas and sodas, and another four Jack Denials and coke. Wow,
enough with his blood. And you say I'm sick of
hearing about it and the fricking horses, Yes, I am toovid.
I just I just thought would give it up on
the horse and they said they're coming back. Flip. It's

(09:42):
very well having a stadium will be empty about four
three hundred days of the year. I was going to
say four hundred. Eden Park was named national stadium by
government legislation. Really show me that legislation doesn't mean much.
I mean, Twickenham is the national stadium because they play
all the rugby there, right, I don't know. It's well,

(10:04):
I'll look into this anyway. Get in touch. My name's Marcus.
Oh wait, one hundred you know the rest here Till
twelve ninety two, ninety two to text officially recognized in
New Zealand, law as the national stadium under the RAM
Majors Solidify. This has an ease operational restrictions to strand
for the venue into a modern multi purpose stadium. Goodness,

(10:31):
thank you for that. Who's texted that through ninety oh
something we haven't talked about too so And I don't
know why this hasn't got much publicity because a human
has run the marathon in under two hours, and a
lot of you will do marathons and they reckon this
is a bigger deal than RB going sub for Banister Roger.

(10:53):
So it's done it in two hours and that's like, right,
you'll know what running in two hours is. Like, the
guy's name is Sebastian Saw. If I've mispronounced his surname that,
I apologize. It could be Sawei, but Sebastians saw sawe Sierra.
What's the A one anyway? Whiskey echo, do come through

(11:16):
if you want to talk about this. But he's done
it in one fifty nine thirty Yeah, and that is
like running one hundred meters in seventeen seconds for two hours.
So that's how quickly he's run that. So if you
got on a treadmill, you couldn't do that most of you.
So if you sprint, run your guts out, or set

(11:36):
that on the treadmill, he's done that for so is
the first guy over to go sub two hours. And
they have done this like in a contrived area with
running behind windbreaks or having a arrowhead of pacemakers, but
never like this. So he's gone sub too first ever.
So I want to ask you too, is it bigger

(11:57):
than the sub four minute mile? And also is that
the biggest sporting achievement from the twenty first century? What
would better? That it's come down like ten minutes and
one hundred years And they thought plenty thought it would
never be broken, and I'm inclined to agree, but yeah,
there we go. I don't think there's a drug cloud
this talk of doping. But the guy got tested regularly
because Eddidas was so behind him being clean. And it

(12:20):
has built a special shoe that weighs three weighs, the
same weight as a bar of soap, not that anyone
uses soap anymore. They all use that flow stuff and
it's got a steel shank in. But it's a legit shoe, right,
It's just a fast shoe, Marcus. If you want to
see horses got adding to not toka over it, Mike.
But yeah, there's only people from christ Jews that can

(12:41):
kick up Bob's who die and make out that one
of their rights has been taken. But that's what they've done, Marcus.
I was in the hospital for a few days of
a certain hospital Auckland, and I was in a room
that had cockroaches it and the nurses would come and
with fly spray and spray them and there's also a
few dead on the floor and sat there until I left,
and the cleaners never cleaned it up. Marcus. I have

(13:02):
friends who own a rural trucking company stock and fruit
carriers mainly the fuel cost has gone up thirty thousand
one month. By the way, speaking of the price of
fuel in the public polls and Hoker Ticker, they've had
to close the pools because the pools were costing three

(13:24):
thousand dollars a week for diesel to keep them warm.
That price has gone up to eight thousand, five hundred dollars.
Goodness me, what are you reckon about that? That's when
the rubber hit the roads at the Hoker Ticker. I
don't know why the pool's been headed by dezel, But

(13:44):
what else can you do it by?

Speaker 15 (13:46):
With?

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Oh eight hundred eighty ten nine nine two text, So
get in touch, you on to talk Kettil twelve eight
twenty two Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty How
many seconds each one hundred meters in a four minute mile?
I don't know that's a hard one to answer, but
back at your twenty three past eight. So just putting
it out there, a four minute mile is running fifteen

(14:11):
second one hundred meters for four minutes, whereas a sub
two hour marathon is running seventeen second hundred meters for
two hours. So just two seconds slower per hundred meters
for forty two kilometers. It just seems extraordinary. So if
you get on your treadmill and crank it up to

(14:33):
that and that speed, you probably get flung off the back.
And they have done demonstrations of that. So where would
you put that and you're great? Would you say that's
great of the sub form minute marathon of four minute mile?
And where would you put that as far as your
achievement for the twenty first century? And by the way,
what's this hysteria over nitrous oxide? Has the government not

(14:59):
picked the wrong thing here. I'm thinking Jesus cheap. It's creepy.
You look at meth, you look at alcohol, you look
at tobacco, and we're going to focus on nitrous oxide.

Speaker 9 (15:11):
Hok.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
You take a pool? Is just a corrugated iron structure,
no insulation. Yes, they probably should think of that too,
but yeah, it does a lot for diesel, isn't it
for a small community. I don't know how hard it
is to insulate pools. I don't really know of a
South Island pool indoor that's insulated. In fact, I've been

(15:32):
to most of the South Island pools. I can't think
of one. But you might know more about that than
I do. I don't know how it insulated. I think
they've normally just got big open structures. Marcus. I feel
sorry for the guy who came second the London Marathon.
Apparently was his first marathon. He came second by eleven seconds,
also breaking the two hour time. Why if I miss
all the news on that, by the way, because it
seems like an extraordinary story, Marcus. Maybe some stadiums have

(15:56):
a two drink limit because I don't want to give
out trays. The cake tin charges an extra dollar for
a tray, So yeah, that might be something you want
to put some thought into. Get in touch. Oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine to text,
Hittle twelve. Get in touch. Oh eight hundred eighty ten
eighty and nine two nine two to text. If you

(16:18):
want to be a part of the show, I'll keep
you updated with news when that happens. Marcus, I live
in christ Church. I loved the horses, but have accepted
they are no more. Marcus, You're the only person I've
heard makes such a big deal about them. Well, I
just think it's exciting that they're going and people have
kicked up and now they're coming back. So it seems
to me that no one really knows what's going on

(16:39):
with the horses. And as someone pointed out, there was
an area in the stadium that was called the stables,
which is indicated maybe all along that people did think
that they were going to be kept. So that's exciting.
I get in touch if you on to talk, as
I say, Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine
two nine two to text. By the way, someone's come

(17:03):
through and said, and you plymouth the rubbish. People don't
do the rubbish collections on Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Ah,
the truth prevails, Graham. It's Marcus.

Speaker 11 (17:16):
Good evening, gooday Marcus, how are you this evening? Good?

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Thank you Graham.

Speaker 12 (17:20):
Good.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
Hen Us and I took the pilgrimage from up and
down to Grosceats for the opening at the stadium and
went to all five games, watch the mighty Hurricanes beat
the Brumbies, which was wonderful. The drink limit thing, there's
a simple story behind it. They start off serving four,
but as the day were is through and people have
become more and more intoxicated, they limit the number. So yes,

(17:42):
you can start off at the beginning of the day
and get four drinks, as we all did, but then
as the day wore on, you can then only get two,
and then towards the end, and I think it's the
last hour, you can only get one each one at
a time, and it stopped people stopped piling when the
stadium was closing. So there's good, good, good reasons behind it, and.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
That sounds that sounds eminently sensible.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
Very sensible, honestly, Marcus, that that Stayium Prisage should be
bloody proud.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
Of what they there's not one leg they are ecstatic.

Speaker 16 (18:14):
Ah.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
And so I'm living in Auckland and man, I you know,
I look at what they've got down there. I remember
being sited on my Wellington. Boy remember how excited I
was when the Stack Stadium opened up on the date.
But it doesn't doesn't have a light on what they've
got down there. It's phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
You've also got to look at the cake kungs, the
Caketon being thirty years twenty five years.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
You've got to look it's got to be it's got
to be at least twenty five years, ah, because.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
You've got to look how excited they work for that.
And you look at the attendances at any events now
there's no one goes.

Speaker 12 (18:48):
A no, you know.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
And that's and to be quite honest with you, if
you saw the design layout, I think they just list
the times and I looked at it. I'm a foodie,
so I've spent a whole life and food and the
one thing I noticed about the stadium in christ is
that what they've done, they've moved away from the traditional
hot dog and the ships and crappy that stadiums are
renowned for and they've actually franchised out all the operations,

(19:14):
so they've got probably fifteen different food outlets, but they're
all franchised, so they're not owned by the stadium. It's
the franchisees coming in the main. I suspect franchises coming
and they run their business out of the outlets, which
gives a massive variety and the food is way way better.
And the thing that impressed me is the speed of

(19:37):
service was incredibly quick, the speed at which the stadium emptied.
Like if you think about the Wellington Stadium, you've got
that one exit point and they really open the back
door so that it becomes this big vacuum to get
out the front doors, whereas at grossed all the doors.
You come down to set the stairs, you walk straight

(19:57):
out and straight onto the into the town and then
you literally walk one hundred bads down down the road
and you're in the bars and nightlife networks.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
I wonder how much you fix their bottom line by
actually not doing the food themselves, because I presume if
you look at places like the Caked and it must
be a big part of their income is all that greasies.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
Look. I don't know, Marx, I work in commercial catering,
and I know that we coming our week when now
we still well clear of the Aadius because there's no
money in it. They're far better off in my mind,
and I think they've done it right is to bring
people in the know what they're doing and just take
a commission or redboul on the way through, so they'll

(20:40):
pick up a commission. That way, they've got absolutely no
exposure and no danger or fear of losing food. They
have to sell food, but you don't necessarily have to
do it yourself. The moneys and the alcohol. If I
had a criticism Marcus about the whole weekend, it was
that the beer that they sell there is ravish. They
for some reason, and all stadiums are the same. They

(21:01):
from what I can see is they use craft beers,
and that's great if you're into craft beers and I
just want a Corona or I just want a Heineken
or something. You know, I don't want to drink a
bloody I p A or a hazy pale ailing.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Crap like that.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
So is that why why are they doing that?

Speaker 4 (21:17):
I suspect it for it's a sponsorship, so that we
was going to give you the most money to have
the beer there, which I think is caunible actors if
you sell us much. But so we ended up drinking
bloody six percent lolly.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Water and what's what's that called?

Speaker 4 (21:34):
Oh poda, the vodka and bloody lemon, and yeah, the
because that's about the only thing that was palatable. But
but you're only too many of those Marcus to bloody
to know what the other week as I could tell
there that sugar is.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
All that sugar takes friv to g out of your system.
It's your shocking.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
I'm sixty two. I don't worry about that anymore. But
but seriously, I I uh. That was My only criticism
of the whole weekend is the beer's crap. But the
selection of beers, in my opinion, is crap. But the
was the service staff there a phenomenal the food that
they did. We're unfortunate we had the lounge passes for
the free days, so we're just constantly being served food

(22:19):
all day, and the food was supered. The ship, the
head ship for the whole steam came out and introduced
himself and asked how things were going. And oh mate,
what a remarkable, amazing experience.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Lovely talk. Graund thanks so much that twenty four to
nine Hit'll twelve. Get in touch if you want to.
I do want to talk about this guy running the
marathon sub too, if anyone's got the information about that.
That's a big deal to me because it seemed and
I don't know why that's not leading the bulletins. I
know what happened during a long weekend, but still, that's quick. Marcus.

(22:52):
There is annoying, annoying sound now and then coming over
my radio from your station, from your MIC. I think
any idea what it is? Gail? I got no idea, Gail,
Dan you had any intel on that? Power has gone
out and UP Power company says it's not coming on
until three thirty tomorrow. Flip, I'll look for someone and
telling that. Thank you, Tim says Marcus. How does the

(23:13):
stadium have a heads chief of the outsource all their catering? Yeah,
you're quicker than me. I don't couldn't answer that. Evening,
mat Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 7 (23:21):
I'm Marcus.

Speaker 11 (23:22):
Good evening.

Speaker 15 (23:22):
Here's your evening.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Thanks so h.

Speaker 15 (23:27):
The last last couple of weeks two three weeks, I've
been hearing on the news about tobacco they're heart They're
getting really hard on tobacco cigarette smokes, and I'm taking
to myself.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Say that again. Make what did you just said?

Speaker 17 (23:47):
Over the last couple of weeks, I've been listening to
the news and everyone's talking about tobacco laws.

Speaker 12 (23:58):
And the use, and I'm.

Speaker 11 (24:01):
Taking to Michelle, well, I'll be never not long ago
i run across a bloken town.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Hang on, Mac, I've heard nothing about anyone cutting down
the tobacco laws. I consume a bit of news. All
I've heard about is them trying to People are worried
about the illegally imported tobacco that is for sale without
having got a big enough health warning on it. It's
got to take up seventy percent of the pack with

(24:29):
the gagrates foot and these new ones have got nothing.
That's the only but I've heard on But you met
someone in town, yes, And.

Speaker 17 (24:39):
He told me he was twenty five years older, spoke
he was doing a course at a tech pace and
he was saying his parents were on mess and he
started on mess on a mess pipe at seven years old,
and he never stopped until he was twenty three years old.

(25:03):
And that's really prelevant.

Speaker 12 (25:05):
Meths is every.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
What's the use of myth has doubled in the last years.

Speaker 17 (25:11):
Certainly it's about the money. It's all about money. People
peddling the stuff for money.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Huge amounts of money in a very liquitive market.

Speaker 17 (25:21):
Are they're destroying families still at the.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Same time, any families. People don't bounce back from that.

Speaker 17 (25:27):
Marcus, I was bought up in a family that are
gang related, all gang members, and I grew up amongst
these guys and they all turned to mess. So they
were doing crime before that anyway, you know, before mess,
But soon as they got onto they slapped the weed

(25:48):
for the mess. And they still grow weed to swap
for myths.

Speaker 12 (25:54):
Shocking. It's really really sad.

Speaker 17 (25:57):
And this folk that I met in town not long ago,
he told me that he got off and he had
to get out of the environment as a mess environment
and to find us find himself. And not long ago
I worked for a bloke he was a message too.
I didn't realize it. I stayed wasn't for red a

(26:18):
day and a half and then I walked off the job.
What was the job, uh, laying vinyl carpet? Oh yeah,
he was a carpet layer. I was in the supermarket
one time not long ago in Hamilton, and I was
talking to this bloke and I just I thought he

(26:39):
was a guy up the street. And she said, hi, mate,
how's you tell you?

Speaker 7 (26:43):
You know?

Speaker 17 (26:44):
It was in the morning, and he said, oh god,
And I said, oh, what's up? I said, you need
some money or something? And he says, no, no, I'm
waiting for someone. And then he went on to say
that Australia would help me asking anything. He said he burnt,
he caused a fire in a house.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, okay, but much detail for me, meck, but thanks
for that. Seventeen from nine Get in Touch. Oh eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty. Oh gosh, she's broad reaching
already to like Paul and Gillespie's gone home from Celebrity
Treasure Island. Although she kind of heard her leg coming
out of the boat. I don't know if that was
preer range, but she's yeah anyway. Now, someone said they

(27:26):
outsourced the retail catering. They do all the corporate catering internally.
They're probably charging red prayer of their stools in the stadium,
kind of like a moul situation. I could be wrong.
I'm only hopping Yeah, of course that's exactly what they
were doing. But I imagine if everywhere, because most study
at stadiums, I imagine do their own food. It's pretty lucrative,
I would think, because you got to it's like at
the movies, you niblenooks where the money's made. I think

(27:49):
people spending more at the nibble nook than they are
at the movies. Someone said one and they only just
sell low alcohol beer. Well, there was no problems. It
seemed as though that was I was my surprised about.
Even over two days three days Friday, Saturday Sunday, the
crowds at Takaha were extremely well behaved and that's a
big session. So that's happening. Now get in touch if

(28:14):
you want to talk. My name is Marcus. Welcome. Oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two
to text. If you want to come up, Oh, eight
hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two to text.

Speaker 12 (28:33):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
I'm just reading a sports story about the Junior Matildas
bet Northern Mariana Islands twenty two nil, but the result
has been overturned by the Asian Football Confederation because the
Junior Matilda's which is Australias under seventeen women's team field
an eligible player. The history books will now show that

(28:55):
the Northern Mariana Islands prevailed in a three zero four
foot twenty five gold turn around, their first victory against Australia.
Any level goodness complicated story. Fifteen away from nine the
marathon and sub two hours, so wow, is it twenty

(29:19):
six miles? I'm just trying to work out how many
miles in a marathon. I'm just trying to work out,
you know what I'm trying to work out. So if
you ran a marathon at four minute a mile pace,
it's twenty six. That's four times twenty six point two equals.

(29:45):
So if you're running it at if you're running a
marathon and you're doing four minute miles, you would do
it in one and three quarter hours. So they're not
doing it that much slower than sub for minute mile pace.
Fidget spinner, that's quick. They're at one said of the

(30:06):
population run a marathon. It's not bad, is it? Marty Marcus?

Speaker 8 (30:10):
Welcome about magic editors shoe Yes, that was very light.
And when you get them in the shoe box, you
think there's nothing in there, and you open up and
there's some shoes in there.

Speaker 7 (30:22):
That's the light.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
How do you know this?

Speaker 8 (30:26):
I had someone talking about on the radio, not tonight,
on whatever whatever, the next day morning was I think
of a Christian radio station. Actually Christian the big runner?

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Are they really?

Speaker 18 (30:40):
Why is that?

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Was Jesus a runner?

Speaker 8 (30:43):
Well he walked around a lot, he was, and they
just had sandals and bref.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
What did he break into? Would he break into a kenta?
I'd say so, yeah, But eight hundred and fifty dollars
a peer.

Speaker 8 (31:01):
Oh yeah, that's up there. It's a bit more expensive
than because as Rugby boots.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
Kids don't buy Rugby boots. They just get the last
year's teams ones, don't they.

Speaker 7 (31:14):
Not the oldest.

Speaker 8 (31:14):
The oldest don't always gets new boots. The younger ones
don't goes in the boot in the shoe collection.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
It just trickles down, does it?

Speaker 12 (31:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (31:25):
Trickles Marcus. You should see a Gunberant cupboard. We've got
two of every size from thirteen down to whatever the
smallest is.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
Do they do?

Speaker 3 (31:34):
They do interviews on Christian radio.

Speaker 8 (31:38):
I was on on Life Am, one of your competing stations,
Life of Him in the Morning, one of the guys
actually try. The guys there are runners, so they're like
pretty into it on a Monday morning.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
None of the Christian broadcasters I've ever met have been runners.

Speaker 8 (31:55):
On Life of Him, they are this is the skinny
one that looks like DJ Forbes anyway, Oh yeah, that
he had light shoes on.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
And so has he got as he got? Were they
talking about the two sub two minute mile.

Speaker 8 (32:10):
Yes, yeah, and how it was kind of four minutes. Well,
no sub two hour marathons, and in some of those
miles would have been four minute miles or something crazy.
But imagine imagine running that event and having like twenty
thousand runners or whatever, and then having all the people
on the sideline and you've got some people running in

(32:30):
two hours and some people were running it in twelve hours,
and like sorting it all out making sure no one's
cheating a bit.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Tricky because in the past people have caught the bus.

Speaker 16 (32:41):
Yeah, you catch the.

Speaker 8 (32:42):
Bas or your anti picture up the picture up. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
There's a lot of cheating in marathon because anything, when
people get obsessed with them, people cheat a lot of
cheating and marathons and do you remember for a.

Speaker 8 (32:54):
While there the London Marathon was all about your outfit
and like.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, but the fastest guy, the fastest guy dressed as
a pencil to do the London marathon, fastest guy to
do it backwards, to crawl it, do it on hands
and knee. He's doing it caring his wife, that sort
of stuff.

Speaker 8 (33:09):
Yeah, yeah, that things don't sittled down now. But there
was three gentlemen that did it in less than two hours.
That's remarkable.

Speaker 7 (33:16):
And to do it fast.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
When was the show? When was the show with all
this information?

Speaker 8 (33:23):
I was on Just when I was milking the cows
on Monday morning, they're up with the news. Oh yeah,
well that runners. Yeah, one of the guys is a
runner and the other guys like a put on and
rugby player guy. They'll be breath pretty healthy. Healthy.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, they make out they're healthy.

Speaker 8 (33:44):
Opposite the opposite of radio sport. I don't think the
radio sport guys will be Oh they might have been
talking about marathons.

Speaker 9 (33:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (33:50):
It doesn't even exist anymore. Whatever it's called.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
This month a sport, fastest time to run it and
crocs three hours?

Speaker 8 (34:00):
Yeah, and do you remember I think it was the noughties.
Run was just particularly the Africa, it was just a
beer feet. I remember the ones that sometimes had never
run in shrews before. You got to run shoes and
they're like, no, no, we won't be your feet. And
they might them running shoes because it's a bit dangerous.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
I'm going to run money. Nice to talk seven to nine,
five to nine, Andrew, it's Marcus. Welcome, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 19 (34:27):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Andrew?

Speaker 8 (34:30):
Hey?

Speaker 19 (34:30):
Have you seen the Chinese robots running the marathon? What's
all the rage? I've just gone back from China and
they did one hour fifty two.

Speaker 12 (34:38):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Humanoids So they're already beating humans.

Speaker 19 (34:42):
Already beating humans. Incredible de actility, the skill. You've got
to watch the videos. It's it's hilarious to watch, but
it's just incredible. And there are some that face plant
and they get carried off in stretches and they try
and fix them. And yeah, there's now world record is
one hour fifty two for a humanoid robot.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
So have you got to have a human gait?

Speaker 19 (35:05):
I don't know what the regulations are, but I'd say
they do.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
They Look I'm looking around that they've got human length legs,
haven't they?

Speaker 19 (35:12):
They do it looks.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
It looks terrifying.

Speaker 19 (35:15):
It's incredible, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
And they put little bandannas on them, a little wily hats,
which I don't like.

Speaker 19 (35:21):
No, they it's pretty awesome to watch, but it's you know,
it makes you question how the battery, how battery official
things are, because they must be carrying the batteries on them.
And nearly two hours of sprinting is pretty impressive.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
And they're gonna hunt us down, aren't they? Before long.
We're not going to We're not. They're not gonna help us.

Speaker 19 (35:46):
Ah, you see all the videos when you're in China.
They're very optimistic about it. You know, we're gonna have
to do nothing in our homes anymore. They're going to
prepare the toast and coffee in the morning.

Speaker 11 (35:55):
It's going to be all good, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
What's going to motivate them.

Speaker 19 (36:00):
Well, they don't need motivation. They're robots. They're powered by AI.
That's a bit scary, but you know that's all right.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
They run quite gingerly, don't they. They're they're not a
confident runner.

Speaker 19 (36:16):
But it makes you realize how fast the humans are.
When you say, yeah, they're going pretty quick, and you
think humans are doing almost the same time.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
I've kind of missed the whole robot running thing. How
long has it been a thing.

Speaker 19 (36:26):
For I don't know. I've just got back from China
yesterday and it was in the news, So I think
they had some sort of a marathon, a robot marathon,
in the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Hilarious, Andrew, thanks for that. The pictures are good. Go
and look at those Hittle twelve mo namers. Marcus got
to be again. Welcome. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty and nine nine text Hut upper Hut power network outage,
the emergency shut down. They're working a restore power a set,
but it could take a while. So yeah, three thirty
is the voice case scenario, I think. So, how are

(37:02):
you people? Welcome if you want to? Who wants to
re group of where we are? We talk about running
a marathon in two hours, unbelievably quick. It's running seventeen
second hundred meters and bearing in mind if you run
a sub formut mile, you're running fifteen second hundred meters,
So it's unfeather unfeathered, unfeather moably quick, and bearing in

(37:27):
mind you've got to stop and get sponges and get liquid.
Someone said, if you want to laugh, check out the
robot cheerleaders. So we are talking about the two hour
and would that be the greatest achievement this century in sport?
Probably would be, I would think. So that's one of
the discussions tonight. Some people are sick of it, but

(37:49):
I'm not. It looks like the horses might be coming
back to the new stadium that's used today. They've been
trialing it, trialing them and it's exciting. So they've been
going around and they might be going there. Yeah, for
your break, can you use let us know what that is?

Speaker 12 (38:07):
Our weight?

Speaker 3 (38:07):
One hundred and eighty ten eighty David's Marcus. Good evening,
Get a Marcus.

Speaker 12 (38:12):
She's blowing here in christ Church, blowing a gale. It's
just come up. I don't know whether it's west or
sow West or what it is. I haven't been out
to investigate, but I can hear it lead enough. I
wonder if they're going to lay out a carpet or
something for these horses to run around and maybe wrap
it or roll it up when they're finished. I don't know. Something.
So they don't dig up the ground because I assume

(38:32):
that's what the issue is.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
No, I think I think the issue is there's not
enough room for them to do it safely. And there's
things called vomitories, which is which is like when you're
egress down and they're scared the horses or jump and
go down those I think, oh, they're the problem.

Speaker 12 (38:50):
Okay, Well, I don't know whether they cover them up.
But hey, I've seen these robot runners and they humored
me because I noticed there was no runners around them,
because I'd suggest they'd be an easy target.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
They were in their own they were at their own lane.

Speaker 12 (39:06):
They look very worthy. They look very ungainly, and I
couldn't help myself. I'd probably have to ankle tap or
clip one on the ankle, you know, he went past
to them. They're just humored me. They look very ungamly.
I've got an interesting question for you. It might be
into it, but before i'd wait to hear from someone

(39:28):
who does the nags while they're driving. And what's the
attraction of getting to the point of passing out behind
the wheel? I don't get that. But Marcus, a member
of the Womble, shares his name with the South American
River that's an interesting question.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Okay, yeah, yeah, but that's my specious topic, the wombles.
You won't catch me on a womble question. Oh yeah,
that's my that's some bread basket. They're not going to
catch you on the wombles, dove. Thanks. I could probably
name them all ten past nine if you want to
talk the wombles and the horses and YadA yady yadyady,

(40:09):
anything else tonight, keep it going, keep it seemly. I'll
wait one hundred and eighty eight sub two minute, sub
two hour marathon, lightning quick. It's a mini hurricane here
in christ Church.

Speaker 20 (40:20):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
You have very strong wind up the country. Hat bluff
about two o'clock blew a gale, blew every rubbish bnova
because they hadn't been collected, because the people had got
the day right, including ourselves and their puddles everywhere. But
that's neither here nor there. What is important is that
the talkback tonight. I was a serious crash Takapol State

(40:46):
Highway two. Now I don't really know where this is,
t a Kapao near Mahara Kiki. So one person has
died and four injured following a two vehicle crash State
Highway two near State Highway fifty. I'll check up for
diversion and stuff. So Central Hawk's Bay. Yeah, Statehoway fifty

(41:12):
goes up on the Onger, so it's near there. That
would be south between why Pukao and Norsewood. So that's
the news that I've got through. But get in touch
if you want to talk on air noy one make
Yorkshire putting tonight on the back of what we did
last night. We're curious about that if you want to talk. Oh,
by the way, it has been a mini tornado whos

(41:35):
swept through Dunedin, damaging businesses. Everyone saw that. Yeah, this
will be the same press system that came through it
hit Dunedin at christ Church now O four thirty five
South Dunedin and mini Tornado and Mini Nato. Some extraordinary
shots to the sky in Waikaiti. So yeah, trees blowing
overall sorts of carry on. So that's a situation. Strong

(41:57):
weather coming up the country. We're getting in al Nina
or a La Nina or something. I never thought while
you'd named two such different weather systems with similar sounding names.
Good evening shift, This is Marcus. Welcome today, Marcus again bro, Yeah,
good shift.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
You're right, yeah, yeah, I know it's a bit off
topic in that, but I just kind of had to
rang and because can I say the company that I
was working for, of course you can. So I was
working for a little fish coat. So we had two

(42:36):
places that were putting food out. It was mad, mate,
It was this game. Oh, I've been a sheep for
forty years?

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Right, four or forty?

Speaker 2 (42:50):
My bum was hanging out.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
How many years you've been a shift for?

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (42:55):
How many years?

Speaker 7 (42:56):
Forty?

Speaker 1 (42:57):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (42:59):
But my son he was there with me and we
made history. And the saying it was hard over pats,
go back and go, I'm part of history. But it
was hard. It was amazing, mate, It was really good.
And I think it's just good for New Zealand. And

(43:24):
I don't think people in New Zealand, maybe up north
and that don't realize this how significant the supercars and
this super rugby round and this amazing I call it
the cathedral because it's our new cathedral, right, has been

(43:44):
for the whole country and not just christ You goodness.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
We're selling fish and we're selling fish and chips.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Yes, mate, we sold two hundred and eighty kilos of fries.
That's fries just on SAT Day. That was in one venue.
I'm not even going to talk about the first the
fresh bites, the Korean hot dogs. We work next to
another wonderful place called Korean Chicken Out. They went through

(44:21):
a ton of chicken. That's one thousand kilos of chicken
and they run out on all three nights. It was amazing.
It was hard, but it was crazy and I've never
seen like man live again.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Done well.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Oh the thing is good to remember that besides having
the stadium, they had the fan zone which is down
which we used to call the strip back in the day. Mate,
it was like they recommen some light. So a million
dollars or something over the weekend. Yeah, it's a lot

(45:11):
of money for a place like christ here, Joe, a
lot of money. Mm. And then and then there's like
we want to take it to the Need and all
the rest. But you know what I we can is
to Need and get the ship together to get a
couple of hotels in there. Yeah we could, like we
could do the super rugby round christ sits to Need.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
We egg on shift, hang on, let's just keep it.
When you say they want to take it to Dunedin.
They want to take what to Dunedin of.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
The Super Rugby round. I didn't say that, Oh sorry,
but yeah, But what I'm saying is I reckon it
should be like the Supercars three years. Yep, we got
the need and that gives you a chance to get
a couple of hotels.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
Because was it set up for all the matches or
just the Crusaders match?

Speaker 15 (46:06):
All?

Speaker 2 (46:07):
See, this is the thing, right, this is the thing right.
So on the Friday it was mad right, So it
was a seven thirty game. The gates opened at five o'clock,
so just imagine this is the opening of the stadium
of christ Church, right, and it kind of started off

(46:29):
slow and then bone boom, bo boom and Hammond. The
next day it started at like, the gates opened at
two o'clock. The game was five to seven, a whole
nother demographic. On the Sunday the game started at tour clock.

(46:50):
Gates opened at two. But it got to that point
where people were coming in at half time to get food,
and you've also got the people coming in wanting to
see the stadium and you know, getting food as well,
So it's just like.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Getting I've never known a city to be on such
a stadium high.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
It's amazing mate, you there. I can't believe that you
were there.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Oh yeah, well yeah, family man. You know what am
I going to take the whole family up to? You know,
I don't know if you could do all that.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Excuse me, you are a really good talk host, dudent
you anyway. I'm just saying, Markers, get up there and
take it out. It's amazing. It's going to change the
whole of the South Island, not just christ Church or
Dunedin or like everyone. Mate, it's amazing, amazing.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
Are are you going back next time to Yeah?

Speaker 2 (47:51):
No, So my next Gigers we're doing.

Speaker 7 (47:56):
We've got the.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Crusaders and someone. Then we've got six sixty them, We've
got the Warriors.

Speaker 4 (48:06):
Then we've got the.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
All Black game, right, and then I that's the end
of our contract and then it all gets renegotiated, you know,
because it's all yeah, but I get to see the
worries bro up the wash.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
And what does the Crusaders have a bad season? The
people go, well, people go rain and rain or shine.

Speaker 7 (48:34):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
The thing is, it's just so amazing, mate, Like it
was cold and it's just I can't explain. I could
try to explain it to you, and the people that
are listening that have been there understand what I'm trying
to say. That you don't know until you go there.

(48:56):
So go to your mark and so you'll understand what
I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
Appreciate your enthusiasm. Shift there we go. Well, here is
a stadium of angels. That guy cheapers serious crushteh I
won Kinleith Kinley south of talking to a throat fully blocked.
Good evening, Marcus, I hope you are having an enjoyable evening.

(49:21):
I personally believe that this new marathon record of being
the to hour mark is a bigger feat than the
form minute mile was.

Speaker 8 (49:26):
For me.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
It's just mind boggling. Ashley Windy christ Church.

Speaker 7 (49:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
Look and that's why I because I know when Roger
Banister broke the record, it was huge. I presume it
was huge news. He's famous, he's the most famous track
and field athlete there is, I think, or the most
significant milestone. I mean, it's just a milestone on a clock,
but it was extraordinary. Now and it was all about

(49:51):
Addidesk got involved with the shoes and they predicted this
guy for years before, and they knew he was going
to do it, and they kept him. Say it wasn't
doping because I think there's the Kenyans have been doing.
I don't know what doping is. It's not like performance enhancing,
but I think you take blood or you keep your
bloods and read or your blood. So that's been happening.
So it's all about the shoes did did did do

(50:13):
those guys at life if him have the shoes?

Speaker 8 (50:15):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (50:16):
Is that what he was saying? Do you think sounds
like they might? They might be sponsored? Who knew? Who
are you that radio was doing all these things?

Speaker 19 (50:24):
Now?

Speaker 3 (50:25):
So if you want to be in touch with this
or anything else, that's the plan stand eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty Marcus. I've just run around checking nothing
is worked loose, getting wind gusts from western South and
full closed moon tonight as well what our experts will know.
So apparently there's storms right up the country like christ
Chitcheres getting hammed. If you've got some updates that us know.

(50:48):
I heard that stadium management say that normally in the
hospitality part of the stadiums eleven dollars per guest per match,
but after day one, it was twenty eight bucks per
paying customer. Although they're not getting that, are they, because
that's going to private vendors because the food stuff is
private places. Is that right? They get a clip of that.
So if you are a chef, can you reck my producer?

(51:10):
If you're if you're if you're in a stadium and
you're a food outlet, do you pay a percentage of
your profits to the management or is it just a
flat fee? I'd be curious today about that. It's the plan.
Twenty three past nine, I Patty, it's Marcus cold Eving
and welcome.

Speaker 20 (51:28):
Oh thanks Marcus. Look just saying I'm talking about the
stadium feel now, it won't matter if the Crusaders till
point out a bad its a season or not. It's
a really rivy stadium. You know, you get caught up
on it. I mean, the Warriors haven't exactly won the NRL,

(51:51):
but and when you go to a Warriors game, you
get a big buy in and you get carried away
and you start singing this song and you know the
whole thing's just an event.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
I would, but I would, I would challenge you and
say that the NRL competition has got much greater chance
of being stable for the future than Super Rugby because
Super Rugby, for me, since the South African's pulled out,
is all over the show, and I do worry about
its continuity. So that's what I and I see. One
of the owners of the Hurricanes themselves has said it

(52:27):
needs to change because it's not financially sustainable. So that's
that's my real worry is that it's this is dependent
on the well, how will they change it? Who they
bring in their time, they.

Speaker 20 (52:37):
Want, if they want the dollar, if they have to,
because if you look at all sports changing, I mean,
if they don't keep up, rugby is going to lose it.
I mean, I mean that, but how.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
Can they keep up? No one much goes to the NPC,
we go to the test.

Speaker 20 (52:54):
Because they don't market up properly. And you know, it
needs to change. Nepbule's going through a big change at
the moment, everything everybody is because football's taken off and
New Zealand that's getting more dollars, the dollars stretched. So
you've got to put on a good act. You've actually
got to.

Speaker 3 (53:12):
You've got to really, you know, you can't put on
a good act if the well games that you're working
with are no good, that's the thing. I mean much
rather that the NPC was all the what was the
premier rugby competition. We didn't worry about the whole Super
Rugby because I don't like it. It changes too much.

Speaker 20 (53:31):
Or do you think some of the rules in rugby
are so bad? I mean, that's so slow. The ball
is out more than the actual game, and I mean
maybe that's where they need to look at, you know,
their games. It's got to be fast, it's got to
be moving. The ball's got to keep moving, the teams

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that have got to move. I mean, rugby is so slow.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with the actual competition.
It seems to be close and there's some exciting games.
But I just think that's super run. Well yeah, but
I mean I don't like to say it because they've
got this brand new stadium now and everyone's cockahoo. I
do worry. I do worry about I do worry about
the future sustainability of rugby, and no one wants to

(54:16):
hear no one wants to hear that.

Speaker 20 (54:19):
Yeah, but just face it that you know that. Yeah,
I don't watch much rugby now.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
But you were just going on about how good it
all is in the stadium is I thought you were.

Speaker 20 (54:29):
Yeah, Well, I'd say you can get a good vibe
and it'll be interesting to see what happens future going forward.
But I do think rugby needs to look at itself
and its rules. There's too many rules almost You known.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
Also sometimes worry that with rugby and the complicated nature
of it, it's probably more satisfying to watch from home
because you can see more of it. TV coverage has
got so good that you're actually not gaining anything by
going to the stadium. You're actually losing spectacle.

Speaker 20 (55:07):
Fact, they rule about head knock and then they wait
till someone says he is either red or yellow. Oh,
he know, he's not allowed back on. And I'm not
talking to the person who's hurt, but the person who
tackled him.

Speaker 7 (55:21):
It's also long winded.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
You might say, don't disagree. Someone says bring back the sevens,
and one of the sevens would do it again. If
they want twenty thousand people dressed as bore at Yes,
a sub two hour marathon, where would you put that
in terms of everything? You're right, Marcus. If we consider
some runs for forty two kilometers, averaging seven seconds each

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and every hundred meters. It's the athletic achievement of the
seat where it's staggering.

Speaker 4 (55:50):
Well.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
I always thought the time for the Olympic for the
marathon was about two hours seven but it's come down
a lot, very quickly. What they say a lot of
this is about is people starting their marathon career is younger.
I think once of time you'd start in the five
of the ten thousand you build you up to.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
I'm not a marathon runner. If you've got some information
about that, would love to hear from you. If you're
a marathon runner, what do you think about that? It's
pretty quick. It seems to be a lot of excidents happening.
Tonight's State Highway one close south of Talkao at tar
Hill due to an accident. Marcus, I'm confused on the
marathon record. Every marathon is different, with hills, downhills. Wind
at Centrus House is a world record, so fastest official time.

(56:33):
I drive past that stadium every day. I just don't
get it. I apologize on behalf of Christchurch for the
rest of New Zealand for this five day post stadium
opening hype. Well, I guess I've got a different view
of this and been a frequent post visitor to christ
Church because the library is so extraordinary and that Margaret
Mayhew playground is so extraordinary, and a lot of the

(56:54):
things that christ Church you've had and the rebuilt have
been unbelievable. But I think what's different is this is
the first one that's on the national screen that they
can actually really get behind because the rest of the
country can see how good it. So, Yeah, if it's
amazing things in the last ten years that have been built,
and the pools at Brighton, all sorts of stuff. We're

(57:14):
on the updates for the people in Upper Hut Dan
for the power cuts. Please it's it's still looking like
three point thirty in the morning is the best case scenario,
Someone says, Marcus are recall when the caked In first
open and everyone gush praise, and we got full houses
and concerts and now it's largely empty and the food
and drinkers too deer and rubbish and the city is dead.

(57:37):
Will the hot house be the same? That's from bears.
They're already calling it the hot house. Stefan, It's Marcus.
Good evening, Well, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 11 (57:47):
I listened to the show quite a lot, and I'm
an ext athlete, done ascetics for years, have friends who
are marathon runners, and interested that you're putting it out
there that the two hour barrier breaking is the greatest,
greatest ever.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
I was saying, it's the greatest. Think it's the greatest
thing of this century. And then I guess you run
it up against j Banister, don't you.

Speaker 11 (58:07):
You do naturally, But when you're an athlete, you know
about all these things. The only thing I'll say, Look,
the running shoes have changed, right. They put a I
don't know exactly. I think it's carbon fire, but in
the shoes, and what happens is they bounce down on
them and the shoe and they're in the shoe and
they allow them to bounce up. Now, in the last
five years, quite a lot of the distance records have

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been broken, especially the longer ones.

Speaker 3 (58:31):
And I'm also thinking about in swimming, because they had
those togs and everyone got faster at times, and didn't
they that the body suits and then they banned those
and then those records didn't stand, did they. So I'm
not quite sure you know.

Speaker 12 (58:43):
So I'm not quite sure about that.

Speaker 11 (58:44):
I'm not right up the player sto markets.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
But sometimes running, sometimes technology comes in. Then that technology
is banned because it changes the sport too much.

Speaker 11 (58:54):
Well, there's no doubt about it. There's talking makes anyone
who's done athletics knows about this and how much of
a help it gives them. Who knows? So they have
actually got down. But look two hours for a mouth
and just insane, really how good it is?

Speaker 3 (59:10):
I do agree with you are the runners these days? Clean?

Speaker 12 (59:16):
Look.

Speaker 11 (59:17):
Look I did athletics in the eighties, Marcus, and I
thought it all and I'm not going to go into that.
You don't know. They've got really really good testing now.
But you get these and I'm not being racist here
of the black athletes who live wherever, they do a
lot of training and then they come out and they
do a good performance. Well that was only the guy
that got second. It was only a second marathon. Yeah, well, look,

(59:39):
I don't want to talk about that, but it's like,
you don't know, but I think that they're way more
onto it than what they used to be.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
Can you tell me what doping is is that when
you take your blood out and put it back and
later on is that the thing?

Speaker 11 (59:50):
Okay, I elaborate just a little bit more on that.
It's actually interesting, you say, LARSA. Bren And who won
four Olympic gold five and ten and seventy two and
seventy six, and he beat our two guys, Dick Quax
and right Dixon in seventy six, right, and what he
used to do was take his blood out, cool it
down and put it back in right, And it does

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help them.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
That's what Lance.

Speaker 11 (01:00:13):
Armstrong is doing. So whether these guys are doing it,
who knows. I'd like to think that they're they're They're
obviously taking some foreign supplements, but I'd like to think
that they're actually they're regionally clean.

Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
Now, there was a big you might want to talk
about this, There was a big situation. There was a situation.
There was one of the big developments that helped this
guy Sawey in the race over the weekend was there
are new gels that you can take that don't make
you feel sick. Do you know anything about that?

Speaker 17 (01:00:44):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:00:44):
I don't know that.

Speaker 11 (01:00:45):
Maybe I have to do a bit more reading on that.
But look, you'd have to say that the medical industry
has really improved in the last twenty or thirty years.
And you know, there's a lot of money involved with
these guys now, right, So so you know, whatever they're doing,
I think they're doing something to help themselves medically. Whether
they're breaking the rules, you know, it's not about that. Tonight.

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When they've broken the two hour barrier, naturally, people are
going to say, oh, they must have been on something.
But they've gradually come down over the last five and
ten years. In the marathon, they had from about two
oh four down to this.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
I think they're called more tea in the hydro gels,
is what they are. That's one of the big which
allows athletes to consume large amounts of carbohydrates without the
gastric problems. He consumed three and twenty five grams of
carbs as he ran that. So that would be a
lot to consume, would it, Well a lot, That is
a lot.

Speaker 11 (01:01:40):
There's a lot of carbs. Yeah, Okay, so there you go.
There's something in the medical world. Look, that's not illegal
for them to do that. If they want to take
three twenty five grams of the carbs an a marathon, Look,
your body's probably going to your body's probably going to
lose that sort of stuff.

Speaker 20 (01:01:53):
So would.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
Would you normally get the stitch if you did that?
Is that what would happen?

Speaker 11 (01:01:59):
Is that what's the stitch is something way different, Marcus.
It's way different. It's when the stitch happens when you're
very How can I say, like think of the word
and then experienced young athlete, when you start training, what
I did a lot of training? Right, I ran, I
ran the short distances, but I did I still did
a lot of training, and you know, you get you

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get everything that comes and goes, but you can actually
the tough guys, you know, train through it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
But what would obviously do what would be the guest
problems that gels? What would they give you? They just
make you upset? Would they?

Speaker 11 (01:02:31):
Well, you know what it's like when you take too
much of that liqu It's called liquid replacement. I used
to call it. If you take too much of that,
it's no good and you just start I'm going to
get what I say, urinating too much and it wouldn't
be good for your stomach. So if you're going to
really come that sounds a lot that figure you mentioned
about the carbs going in, it's got to have some

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side effect on your body, and especially as you're running
and using so much of your inner strengths there as well.

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
You know there's slight. There's slight. Guys. Hey, there's not
much to them. And they're short too, aren't they.

Speaker 11 (01:03:04):
So you got to remember there was only sort of
from the seventies on that the Black Kenyans and all
that sort of started. Now you've got a whole lot
of them who have worked out, They training hard, they
can get the money, so you know, you've got a
lot more, lot more competition. I personally think the marathon
Michel will come down. I personally think that it will
be interesting to see how quickly someone else runs under

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two hours.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
Now, love your talk stuffun thanks so much. Just had
a three point seven jolt and topul now situation with that,
I just bring that to you. Thanks for the person
text about that three point seven quake Free Shallow. Sorry
I've just brought up the wrong quake. I've just brought
a subsequent quake up a three point seven depth of

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three kilometers free Shallow, a ten k's northeast of Topol.
There's been a subsequent three point four rat Lover has
just come recently Conrad ats Marcus good evening.

Speaker 9 (01:03:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, So I'm just going to talk about
that two hour marathon run, which is just insane. I
do a bit of running, and I just think maybe
the previous course stole my phunder a little bit in
terms of that they get a sweet spot in terms
of carbhydrate, salts, water in your system. So the ESU,
you know, because I go running in sometimes it's quite

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there's there's some wild fluctuations and how well I can.

Speaker 11 (01:04:23):
Do because.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
Condor reve All done it. Sometimes you go great. Sometimes
it's like walking through treacle.

Speaker 9 (01:04:31):
Yeah, exactly, yes, exactly, you know, I mean I get,
I mean sometimes I feel, you know, fantastic, and I
can still go on for four or four hours or more.
I think there's been a lot of sports, you know,
the last for forty or years, and this is I
think this is some of the stuff that Peter Snell
was doing, because you know, getting getting just the right
amount of salts and stuff in your in your system

(01:04:52):
and at a certain time of the day then you
go and so yeah, I just wanted to make that
point because obviously, you know, it's one of lots of
me and so if we can talk about it Olympic
you know, once in four year efforts and stuff. They
want to get all their diets and everything right, not
just runners and those on athletes, but also tennis players
norris of it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
And what this seems to be really driven by is
this is Eddidess's victory. It's driven by the super shoes,
you know, that's what they've done. He had and the
edits people have been shielding this guy away, right and
making sure that he's that he's clean with the testing
and all that sort of stuff, so that the record
is you know, so they take it really seriously.

Speaker 9 (01:05:31):
Oh absolutely, and and even better they might you know,
they'll come out with stuff about his you know, like
because they wanted to keep it open, like how he's
been for the previous three months, because because back in
the eighties and stuff, they were like away and no
one knew what they hell were doing for three months
and then they climate just right, so they were becoming positive. Yeah, yeah, okay,
and yeah okay, now I'll leave it at then that's

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good things.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
It's quick.

Speaker 9 (01:05:55):
The way it is, it's insane. I mean for someone
for just schedule runners by myself, who I did the
odd half of Garrison a few years there.

Speaker 12 (01:06:04):
That's just unreal.

Speaker 21 (01:06:05):
I mean, one way of thinking about it in a
positive life is that he's improving. If you divide that
two hours up into like ten at intervals, he's only
improving safe thirty seconds every no eight comedis or something.

Speaker 9 (01:06:18):
So then it does become quite believable when you think
about it. So yeah, I mean if two or four
was the record before that, you know, but it's still unreal.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
Yeah, cheers market Just before you go, Conrad, it says
questions of just for this article I read earlier today,
questions of trust will naturally circle around this record. Given
the checkered history of Kenyon's fighting doping test Wherever Sahwey
sponsors that he has have paid the athletics and teeny
unit fifty thousand to test him as many times as
possible this year because they want to show he's clean.

(01:06:48):
So that might be something nice to talk Conrad, thank you.
Fourteen to ten. That's like running. That's like what did
we say it was like running? If you run a
four minute mile continually for the whole marathon had take
an hour forty five, so it's only fifteen minutes more
than that so on a sub formut mile, you're running

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one hundred meters and fifteen seconds. This guy was running
one hundred meters and seventeen seconds and doing that for
forty two kilometers. And I only comparing it to the
sub formulute because that was always considered the great milestone,
and running only because it was a number. But it
was a number that Bob. It's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 7 (01:07:31):
About watching rugby, you know, and the new modern rugby.

Speaker 12 (01:07:35):
I reckon.

Speaker 7 (01:07:35):
What's ruined at Marcus is this silly box kicking that
the half back seems to do every five minutes. Pebber
used to be a thinkteen years ago, the half back
ever hardly ever kicked the ball. Now they kick it
back to the opposition, the opposition runs it back, kicks
it back to them, and then they kick it back again.
It's just ridiculous. Just play rugby, keep the ball in

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hand and run the jolly thing. It's pretty simple.

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
I think the South Africans play with that style and
it got them two World Cups in a row.

Speaker 7 (01:08:04):
Well I may, but it's not very inert I wouldn't
go on page again in the stadium to watch.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
That force back. Yeah, high kecks.

Speaker 7 (01:08:14):
Yeah, and that's all. That's what on the weekend, it's
yelling at the TV for goodness sake, old the bloody more.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
And run it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
Are you one of those I've watched rugby with people
that yell at the TV about the high kecks for
God's kicking.

Speaker 7 (01:08:26):
It's sitting there and no one knows what I'm yelling. Yeah,
I think it's ruined it. That's happen kicking kicking kicking anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
But they are playing to when they're not playing to
make it look entertaining, are they That's they're playing to
the rules to maximize them now.

Speaker 7 (01:08:46):
I suppose so, But just just from a from a
layman's watching it, it's not that interesting anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:08:53):
What's your best marathon time, Bob?

Speaker 7 (01:08:56):
You be lucky my room. I have trouble getting to
the litter boxing back mate.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
Two hours, Thanks so much for that. Twelve away from ten.
Mark's amazing for Sawah to break two hours, but he
barely looked like he'd run around the block. The second
place getter was shtded. Big difference between the two. Why
did that become not a story? And I would have
watched it because I've read like quite complicated. Niceouldn't they

(01:09:25):
kind of it? That sounded like a quite in depth
articles about when they were trying. I think Nike was
trying to break the two hour thing, but just running
around a track with pacemakers and you know, and quite
contrived conditions and they failed to do it. And that
was with a Nike shoe. But now with this new
idea supershoe, they man, oh man, they've got it going on.

(01:09:46):
So yeah, a lot of road closures with eccidents and
a serious quake and topol has just happened. I'll just
check the road closures because they're not thinking about the
quake things. So tonight we've had power cuts, bad accidents
and quakes. The power cuts are an upper hut. It
looks like they'll go until three point thirty in the morning.
Some have got the power back already. There's a road

(01:10:09):
closed to Statehiway to Takapo because of the crash there
between Speedy Road you want to change that name and
Maharakiki Road intersection. There is a division. What did you test?

Speaker 7 (01:10:20):
Tell me?

Speaker 3 (01:10:20):
Then we're only down to thirty nine customers with no
power now it was six on fifty four. So they've
got the majority of you beck on. So if you're
still without power now you're unlucky or Crean Street or
Savage like MC Savage Savage Crescent and State Highway one

(01:10:40):
is closed, talk to topor you're a serious crash you'd
want to go, or you want to go Fuka Maru,
but you can't go straight up the other thing too.
I haven't done any talkback on that for a while.
I presume the State Highway three more code to pure P.
I presume that is still closed. I hope you guys

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are coping in Taranaki. But anyway, here's a great text.
Couldn't agree more. That guy talking about kicking the stupid
RUGBA bill so boring. Three point forty four my best
marathon time text that's got at all? He could have
texted all. So what's sad about the marathon, right, is

(01:11:21):
that the robots are doing one fifty five So we're
never gonna have man versus robot. Is she give them
a staggered start? But I don't think if I was
a super king an athlete and could do two hours,
I wouldn't want to have two hours with the threat
of robots chasing me down. Heck on the robots. Hello,

(01:11:41):
think I'm behow you Sebastian, I don't know if they talk,
they should eight to ten. A textas says, is Lake
Topo about to blow? Being quite a few earthquakes today
in TUDANGI and topor, Well, I'm a talk host, not
a seismologist, and if I did think it was gonna blow,
I wouldn't say freak people out. And now I want

(01:12:03):
someone that's gonna for a hobby predict earth quakes. Bearing
in mind, remember when Topau did blow. Originally it was
one of the greatest super vocal or super explosions of
all time. I think it was dark in London for
about a year afterwards because of all the stuff that
was in the air. I think that's right. I think
it was one of the sixth biggest volcanoes ever. Apparently

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there's videos of robots dragging pinches to safety in the Ukraine.
What do we feel about robots competing against humans? Like
I see there's a robot now that can play table tennis.
Would you want to see the Olympics with robots? Would
you want to see robots playing rugby or robots riding horses?

(01:12:50):
I'm just trying to think what what's your appetite for
robots sport? I think robots playing football would be quite
good because it's quite sort of an elegant thing. But yeah,
I'm just curious to know about that. I imagine the
robot marathon record will come down to an hour very
quickly because just be on messive springs before too long
and they'll be rocketing along. Boying, Boying, Boying. Don't know

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there's any money in robot robot racing.

Speaker 5 (01:13:18):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:13:19):
If you want to talk after the news, good, get
in touch, take you quickly before. So that's good to
get some calls about the stadium. People are ecstatic about that,
and that's great now. And also the sub two hour
marathon that's been broken. Trump's gone a bit mad on

(01:13:39):
truth socialist, putting shots of himself with a submachine gun
saying no more missed. A nice guy. Iran can't get
the wreck together. They don't know how to sign a
non you could deal. They better get smart soon. President
dj T, I'll tell you what. He's trying it all
and he's barefoot by this one. It's got him. There's

(01:13:59):
been a mini tornado in Dunedin. Free Strong Wins happening
currently in christ Jurch, Big Carracks and Takapo and extant
between north of Topol. So it's been and very foggy too.
Someone's heid in South Waikato, so it seems like it's
a tough on. The big news is there's been a
U turn on the horses. The horses could be going

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to Takaha. They are the polo horses, not that you
know they're polo horses because they're dressed up as they're
off on the CRUs I don't know what they're off on.
You know what you know, you know the drill. They
are the crusaders. Greetings, good everywhere working. We are talking
about the world's first sub two hour marathon that Sebastian
Subway has run here at thirty one years of age,

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did his first half in January twenty twenty two and
fifty nine oh two. I don't know if he was
involved in the middle distance distances before this, as uncle
was a runner.

Speaker 4 (01:14:58):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
He ran five thousand meters for the first time in
twenty nineteen, having arrived late for athletics meet with that
distance the only race available. He run it in thirteen minutes,
so that's the situation. The first person to complete a
competitive marathon in under two hours. We won the London
Marathon and one fifty nine thirty. It has been run

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sub to before, but it was a kind of a
stitch up. It was in kind of extreme conditions. So
that's the barrier being broken. Eight hundred thousand spectators and
in fact it's not normally a merita. They don't really
do a marathon. They don't really do record that London.
The last London record was two thousand and two. A
situation there. There's one full marathons Valencia, London, Berlin and

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London twenty twenty four. Pretty extraordinary. Laureate's Marcus Good Evening
and Welcome been.

Speaker 16 (01:15:51):
Regarded as a pretty fast marathon course, isn't it. That
wasn't there something like over fifty thousand competitors.

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
You know they let the robots go first in the
elite runner, wouldn't they?

Speaker 8 (01:16:04):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:16:05):
No, I think I thought that robot one was more
there was. I think it might have been a amraicon
in China look terrifying. Yeah, yeah, that's running where they
mingle them in. I don't think the London robots not yet, but.

Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
It's only a matter of time before they're on together,
and the robots are attacking people with I mean, it's
not it's not looking good with these robots running faster
than humans. I don't like it at all, at least
at least at least with the Daleks. They couldn't get upstairs.

Speaker 16 (01:16:37):
Yeah, I say a few of them are those planting,
but they'll probably get that sort of course.

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
I mean you look at those what are those stupid
bikes called? Yeah, you lean forward. They've got the.

Speaker 20 (01:16:50):
You know, the old.

Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
Segways have got the whole keeping balanced thing up, haven't they.
So they work quite well, so you have the gyroscope
in there.

Speaker 16 (01:17:00):
But they fell out of fashion, aren't they.

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
Well the guy that, the guy that invented them went
off the end of his wharf and died on the one.

Speaker 7 (01:17:06):
Remember that, Yeah, yes, yeah, but he you know, it
was just.

Speaker 16 (01:17:13):
The h well, I mean he was sort of well,
not totally unknown, but he sort of came on along
the scene. I mean the first three in that race,
did you know, incredibly well, it sort of broke as
far as records go. But I mean you look at them,
you know, they sort of like match six with a

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wood scraped off. You know, I suppose their legs the
real thin guys really yeah, yeah, I mean he started
thinking of comparisons. Well, you know, if you go back
to you know, the old Dave McKenzie, you know, the
great West Coast a Marathon, won the Boston a Marathon,
uh way back. Well he did it in two hours fifteen.

(01:18:03):
But he's fairly sort of stocky guy. Yeah, And as
you say, sometimes you strike a great race. I was
just reading through there before that apparently you know, that
was his great, greatest run ever. But he said he
was at one stage there on the hill section suddenly
he said he felt something like his legs clicking to gear,
and all of a sudden he.

Speaker 12 (01:18:23):
Was off.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
Health section as well.

Speaker 11 (01:18:27):
Was there much the hill section?

Speaker 16 (01:18:29):
Yeah, yeah, on the Boston one, it was called Newton
Hills section, and that's when he suddenly felt his legs
like clicking. And that was at it was a cold,
cold wed day, you know sort of. So it puts
things into perspective that at the time of that's a
hell of a hell of a run as well. And

(01:18:52):
I've done I've done a three hour in practice, but
you know, in a half miras, I know what the
pacers like. I've done one hour eighteen. But I haven't
got a runners either. I'm a sort of stocking, sort
of rooster, and usually use Philly cheap shoes, so sort of, oh.

Speaker 3 (01:19:14):
You want to get those? Have you done a one
eighteen half marathon, Larry?

Speaker 12 (01:19:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:19:18):
Yeah, at what age?

Speaker 16 (01:19:20):
Oh I know it was in late thirties, early forties.

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
Yeah, it's pretty good time.

Speaker 16 (01:19:26):
I didn't really kick it into the area. What's we're
sort of clicking along? I was running, had a few
sort of guys that were fast than me. That that's
what I trained with. That's really you got to work,
You've got to extend yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
But well, imagine how well you would have done with
the hydro gels now, because all seems to be about
the gels that you can get the you get all
the cards without making you one. Well, I don't really
know what that science is about, but that's quite that's
one of the growth areas apparently.

Speaker 20 (01:19:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:19:54):
Yeah, well, I say in a race at my best
time was about three hours fourteen, but that mainly was
I was cramping up towards the end and it was
all to do, I guess, you know, managing me the.

Speaker 7 (01:20:10):
Chemicals.

Speaker 3 (01:20:11):
What are you supposed to do? With the marathon, what's normal?
What's what are you supposed to take? Just like high
sugar stuff?

Speaker 20 (01:20:17):
Is that what you do?

Speaker 16 (01:20:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. You suppose most people you
think during you have worked out what what what's the
right chemistry for your particular needs. But I mean it's
funny in training, I never ever cramped, you know, and
sort of that so I always sort I just end up,
you know, you just used to drink straight water with
brend of bit of salt. But yeah, but electrolytes, I

(01:20:41):
think it's almost like when you get to really red.
I found it sort of almost a bit of adrenaline
kicks in and that seems to be the adrenaline that
sort of leads to well seem to lead to cramping.
And my, my, my experience.

Speaker 9 (01:20:59):
The two you know, and.

Speaker 16 (01:21:00):
I've been on the three hour pace most yes, sort
of just you know, sort of having to run backwards
for the last but so it's sort of it's getting
that right. I guess it's a tricky part. But but
but you know, these guys, the build of them, really
it's so light and with the special bouncy shoes, you

(01:21:22):
can see well when there's probably gonna kick it. Maybe
when the record's broken. Then now they're psychological barrier, they
couldn't start creaming a bit more off.

Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
Oh, they'll be buying a lot of those in the
next couple of weeks. If all the week ind worriers
to be buying those, I think, gosh, that's a bit
of me.

Speaker 16 (01:21:42):
Yeah, hey, just another thing I was can kicking in
there with when you're early on it's first summer. Struck
it today, you know you're talking about the cost of
fuel or the you know, the fuel levies and stuff.
I just went and bought a ten liter pail of
paint and from a retailer and at a few other
words and ends. I didn't actually look at it was

(01:22:05):
that much as I got home, But in amongst all
they've put a non code a temporary fuel levy of one.

Speaker 6 (01:22:10):
Dollar seventy and I've never seen that it was.

Speaker 16 (01:22:15):
Total purchase was about one hundred and seventy eight bucks.
But yeah, it's just picked it in there. They had
obviously got their computer set up for it and hated everything,
and then it's just kicked in this non coded item
temporary fuel. Very yeah, so won if anyone else has
struck that it's this as a.

Speaker 3 (01:22:34):
Where was that from? Where was that from?

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
Laurie?

Speaker 16 (01:22:36):
It was from a paint place, you know. The was
the Wattle distributors of paint here and Parmy. You see
the Australian brand of paint. I don't know if you've
got one down there.

Speaker 7 (01:22:49):
That's not a light at ten.

Speaker 3 (01:22:51):
It's just a specialized shop, is that right?

Speaker 20 (01:22:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:22:55):
Yeah, but they deal I mostly deal with trade trade guys,
but the sell of the public. But yeah, no, just
to look that in there. It's employing that you do,
same thing about it. Just an item they're putting in I.

Speaker 3 (01:23:10):
Look into that. Thanks, lo If anyone's got anyone else
is at a situation where that let me know, guys,
have you seen that Levy eight hundred eighty ten eighty
A Marcus stead of time to check a couple of
roast chickens on too fully cooked, take them out, slip
on the special shoes, then still catch it out. Well,
I think, yeah, I mean you can imagine, I reckon

(01:23:30):
if it was a if you're in a marathon race
that was handicapped, Yeah, you'd be at the thirty five
kilometer mark and they'd push go on him. I think Marcus,
great fun chat. High diving into water robots robots high
tight water rope walking competition. Yeah, or maybe they will
be mountain climbing. I'd love to see a table tennis

(01:23:51):
playing robot, no boring conversation, no need to I'd like
a table tennis playing robot, no boring conversation, no need
to offer a freshmans as long a had a range
of settings. So I compete, seend the robots to war
instead of humans.

Speaker 5 (01:24:06):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
People are free excited about robots. I think it's going
to earn all badly though, so I said, imagine getting
a two our head start from the canyon still getting
mowed down. Mind boggling. Next time you're on the treadmill
seated at seventeen kilometers per hour and god speed, you'll
need more than super shoes. You'll be straight off the back.
It'd be straight off the back at seventeen. That's I
wondered what you had to do. That's what you've got

(01:24:28):
to set it to seventeen kilometers per hour. Here's on
midnight tonight, oh eight hundred and eight, and great talkback
about the stadium. Finally people are ringing to talk about
that food was fantastic. Everything was fantastic, and the horses
might be coming back. And what about the surcharge. Carter's
and IM doing the three percent surcharge on everything added
at the counter, So it's not looking good for the economy.

(01:24:52):
I might just check on the price of fuel. Marcus.
Here's one for the talkback. I've just got back fro
an extra long weekend holiday. I'm gutted with Booking dot
Com and motels putting up photoshopped AI photos two motels.
The rooms did not match the photos on Booking dot Com.
The TeV one was a complete dump. The brother Johnny

(01:25:14):
jeweleven fast changing times, don't we all could have been
another room they photographed. They could have done one up
and you didn't get that one. I don't fully know
the answers to that, but if you want to talk
on air, that's the plan. Be in touch, if you
want to be eight hundred and eighty tay nine two
nine two Dix pull In Gillespie got sent home on
Celebrity Treasure Islands. Just so you know, is that any good?

(01:25:36):
Same old Jenkie games A. Let me look at Brent
Crude was a dollar eleven, one hundred and eleven. Let's
call it that. Nineteen past ten, one hundred and fourteen,
the highest it's ever been. It's the highest it's ever been.
Well in this circuit, if you talk about the surcharge too,

(01:25:57):
go for gold. All the lines are free looking forward
to you and put tonight better talk about the stadium.
But to talk about the sub two hour marathon, I
didn't know. I don't know if you could watch that.
I mean hindsight if I know, and it was going
to break a read or always quite like watching a marathon.
I'm always surprised what a race it is. It's not

(01:26:17):
like one, you know, it's always Nick and Nick the
whole way. Oh, just drove through Petni Gal Dieseler's three
dollars three ninety five, three point thirty cheapest I've seen
it anywhere in a long time. Did you feel the

(01:26:37):
earthquake in Tope Will No, I didn't. I'm a long
way away. We're talking surcharges to anything else you want
to talk or mentioned about tonight. There's been a lot
happening tonight. There's been the earthquake, there's been the fog,
there is power out and upper Hut, and there's also
a number of serious extents around the center of the
North Island. So be cautious where I guess you should

(01:27:00):
always be causied on the road, but be extra cautious
on the road. Now looks like Kirs Darma is safe
the UK Prime Minister that, and gosh knows what's happening
with Trump. The news is moving too quickly. The Royals

(01:27:20):
have been there. I'm not quit sure if they're still there.
But come through if you want to talk Marcus here
on midnight tonight, oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
and nine two nine to detext you want to be
a part of it. They'd be nice to hear from you.
Anything else you want to talk about, feel free to
come through. Some of the other stuff I probably should
mention tonight Wednesday feels like Tuesday. Feels like Thursday. Yeah,

(01:27:45):
let me just think. What's happening this dye twenty eleven,
Prince William married Kate. It's fifteen years ago.

Speaker 4 (01:27:57):
This day.

Speaker 3 (01:27:57):
In nineteen ninety one, a tropical cyclone struck bang the
deskillan one hundred and futy thousand people, causing ten million
to lose their home. The deariest cyclones ever recorded. The
musical Here goes to Broadway nineteen sixty eight, and this
donating onty one one hundred and thirty one perish in
the worst civilian shipwreck and us in waters the Tattadua

(01:28:21):
that was around by Fort Rose, if it serves me right,
no lighthouse, but boy there's one there now. So they
say the civilian because I guess the other the wreck
of the Orpheus that was a naval ship. I think
that's the situation there. That seemed to be more than that.

(01:28:43):
Two hundred and fifty nine died on the on the
Royal Navy corvette.

Speaker 4 (01:28:48):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:28:49):
Get in touch. Marathons two hours, the boots, the shoes
if you want them. Eight hundred and fifty dollars for
the marathon shoes with springs in them. It's all legit.
I don't know what they're like to wear, but they're
very light, like extremely light. Three fifty grams or something.

Speaker 17 (01:29:04):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:29:05):
That's each or appeared deep. It's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 11 (01:29:09):
DJ hi DJ yeah, DJ Shekel here, mate, how's it going?

Speaker 3 (01:29:14):
Good things? DJ Shekel?

Speaker 12 (01:29:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (01:29:16):
Man, Hey, those charges, what's the goal with them?

Speaker 2 (01:29:20):
On?

Speaker 22 (01:29:20):
When when the public holiday gets Monday eyes, do we
get charged two lots of surcharges? Was that just one?

Speaker 10 (01:29:28):
Was it up to them?

Speaker 22 (01:29:30):
It's a bit of a weird one, isn't it.

Speaker 19 (01:29:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:29:33):
It caught me unaware. I think it's both. If ANZAC
days on a Monday, right, there's a surcharge on Monday.
But if Anzact days on a Saturday and it's Monday, eyes,
there's surcharged both Saturday and Monday. That seems wrong to me.

Speaker 10 (01:29:52):
That is wrong, isn't it.

Speaker 22 (01:29:54):
That's really wrong. That's double dipping almost. But I understand
because it's they're both public horrors, aren't they. It's not
really because of the cafe. So because I found I
went and got a coffee after the dawn service, and
then we paid the surcharge and I was like, oh, yeah, okay,

(01:30:15):
fair enough. You've got to get people coming in. But
then on Monday into the same cafe and there's another
suit charge. I was, what's the suite chargeful? I said,
for as I said, but you charged me a surchargeable Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:30:28):
Yeah, that's not And you never want to be quibbling
over the search charge either. You don't feel good about
that because it's all about paying the staff. The staff
need to have their day off for working on a
public holiday. But yeah, I was surprised by it.

Speaker 7 (01:30:41):
Yeah, and I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:30:44):
I don't know because that would only happen if Anzac
Day is on a Saturday or a Sunday.

Speaker 22 (01:30:53):
So you see, I'm a lot on a work I
gotta I gotta work out a roster. Not not a
full year ahead, but start getting stuff playing. And there's
a lot of Monday Ays holidays, I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:31:06):
Up next year?

Speaker 3 (01:31:07):
Are there how many?

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:31:10):
Here's about four?

Speaker 11 (01:31:11):
Okay, I think Christmas has won and the next year.

Speaker 22 (01:31:15):
I think next year Christmas and Boxing Day are both
Monday and Tuesday lives because they both fall on a
Saturday Sunday.

Speaker 11 (01:31:26):
Okay, craziness.

Speaker 22 (01:31:29):
But about amrathons, now, DJ sheckl he hasn't done any amrathons,
so he's got to put him a bunch out. But
it would be pretty four or we can run in
a marathons for.

Speaker 3 (01:31:39):
Two hours running I think I think for most of
us will be eight hours. I think two hours is
I think the crook you run at the least boring
it is.

Speaker 22 (01:31:49):
Yeah, right, yeah, yeah, I think must be going pretty fast.
They pretty flat clampers.

Speaker 3 (01:31:55):
Oh, you're running incredibly, you're running twenty one comes per hour,
were they? Well, so you're running one hundred kilometers and
seventy so one hundred meters and seventeen seconds.

Speaker 22 (01:32:08):
Wow, that's there's pretty a lot of people can't run there.

Speaker 10 (01:32:11):
And normal times.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
No one could.

Speaker 22 (01:32:16):
I mean here to just run one hundred meters and
seventeen seconds.

Speaker 3 (01:32:19):
I think it beat us on one hundred meters, even
if that was at the end of running. Yeah, that's
my take on that one. Nice to talk DJ and George.
You think you get in touch with if you want
to be a part of it. My name is Marcus
hddled twelve. Oh wait, one hundred eighty ten eighty. Anything
goes here to the midnight? Here to the midnight? Oh

(01:32:39):
are you over cricket? What that means? What's the cricket? Ah,
the cricket's been called off. We wasn't dan Bangladesh. So
there we go in the rain. That's what's happened there.
But be in touch if you want to be a
part of the show tonight eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty In nineteen nine to text, anyone else had the
six charge that we know about that that seems to

(01:33:01):
be happening, because yeah, I've seen I've seen nothing about that.
The people say that was going to be a thing,
but they're putting it on buyer beware, so that's not
much we can do about it. But yeah, I don't
even know there's legislation needed to apply that or quite
how they've worked that one out. Nigela, it's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 7 (01:33:20):
Yeah, even Michaels you go, mate, you got Nargea, how
you're going? All right?

Speaker 12 (01:33:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:33:25):
Got me.

Speaker 23 (01:33:26):
I was just watching this pregame on Channel three a
bit like guys coming here to Jeel and going into
this program could the House of Hope. I just want
any of your abuse out there watching it?

Speaker 3 (01:33:39):
Where did you? Where did you watch it?

Speaker 12 (01:33:44):
Three?

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
Three?

Speaker 3 (01:33:45):
Okay, So it's obviously it's quite good as that if
you've decided to bring up that.

Speaker 16 (01:33:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:33:50):
Yeah, it's about people who come out of Joel who
have a lot, a lot of addictions and coming from
broken homes and this in this Moldy Maldi group just
helped tell from coming to their couper and like teach
them how to live a better life.

Speaker 3 (01:34:13):
It is it just a one is a one off program,
is it?

Speaker 17 (01:34:17):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:34:17):
No, Marcus is only be weak.

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
It's a series, okay, Yeah, Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:34:22):
I just want to know if any other views that
have like watched it as well, Marcaus, because man, who
really touched my heart. You know, he's coming from a
broken home myself, Marcus, and being in Joel and coming
out of Joel, Like I never had any support like
that when I came into Joel, you know, because a
lot of Mary's he went to Joel, he came into

(01:34:42):
Joel sort of fell back in debt in their way
of community, you know what I mean, beckon the crime
and stuff like that. And yeah, I just want to
know any other views who've got any news or of
like you know, views on it to you, and have
they watched The House of Hope as well.

Speaker 3 (01:34:58):
I'm just having a bit of a look up at
it now. I mean obviously for you, if you've been
there and it resonated with you, it means it's it
must be very valid and it's probably important people watch it.

Speaker 23 (01:35:09):
Yeah, it's really important because it's about you know, a
lot of broken mouldy homes in the early days, and
a lot of us went to jail because we came
out of broken homes, so a lot of a lot
of us done crime in that, Marcus, you knew because
we had no where to turn and blah blah blah.

Speaker 12 (01:35:29):
But it's just lucky.

Speaker 23 (01:35:30):
When I got to a Joel Marcus, I sort of
turned my life around and got my HT and truck
liscense and went on my way away and didn't go
back to Joel.

Speaker 4 (01:35:38):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:35:41):
I just think looking at that, I think it was
the last episode. Have you watched the whole series?

Speaker 23 (01:35:47):
I like watched it last week, Marcus, and I just
caught one tonight. But I nervous the last year is tonight, Marcus,
Like I've been in general sitting.

Speaker 3 (01:35:59):
I think it's I think it's over to Telly's father
as the one that's just parenting it, which is.

Speaker 23 (01:36:05):
Yeah, there's Marcus me And it was like, oh, bloody
must like a fissure me and bloody crowing.

Speaker 11 (01:36:12):
No bloody kills, Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:36:14):
Yeah, you know, but I really touched my heart.

Speaker 23 (01:36:17):
Just want to just touching uncle.

Speaker 7 (01:36:20):
I want to see that.

Speaker 3 (01:36:22):
That's quite moving, that that was that that that Wednesday
with you so much? You know this, I'll check that
out myself, anyway.

Speaker 11 (01:36:31):
So yeah, no, thanks macus.

Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
Yeah, and for those that don't know, I just read
it's called home of It's called Home of Hope. I think,
is that right?

Speaker 16 (01:36:39):
Yep, yes, Marcus appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:36:41):
You're nice to hear from you. Home of Hope. It's
TV three on three now you can watch that one
being at Marcus Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 11 (01:36:49):
You get Marcus.

Speaker 24 (01:36:50):
Hey, just on these charges, So business can normally only
charge a shoo charges down cure eachra cost. You know,
a public holiday, and when the public holidays mondays, the
costs are transferred from the actual day to the Monday.
So normally you can only charge a suit of charge
on the Monday, not on the sesturday as well. But

(01:37:12):
you know a lot of businesses do it anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:37:14):
You have to be able to do it legally, though,
wouldn't you.

Speaker 24 (01:37:17):
Well, if you only cure an extra course, you can,
but you're.

Speaker 3 (01:37:22):
You're giving it if your staff are working on it
the antic day Monday, you're paying them time and a
half a day and lou aren't you.

Speaker 24 (01:37:28):
Yeah, that's just for the Monday though, not for the
actual inject day, which was so I don't know how
they wouldn't justify it.

Speaker 3 (01:37:34):
Would be you would be paying that that for the
antic day. They wouldn't you because people deserve to have.

Speaker 24 (01:37:41):
No So you only pay if it's Monday nights, they
gets transferred to the Monday, So you're only paying time
and a half in the day and lou for the Monday,
not the satelle. So you can justify the suit charge
for the Monday, but I don't know how you justify
it for the Saturday as well.

Speaker 3 (01:37:58):
Okay, that's not my understanding. My understanding is because yeah,
this is a unique circumstance. If it's on a if
it's a public holiday, that's mondayized, Like if I think
there was on a Monday, you would just be doing
that time and a half on a Monday.

Speaker 24 (01:38:12):
But if it's if it's on the weekend, if it
falls on the weekend, it gets transferred to the Monday.
If it's on the Monday, it's just on the Monday.
But yeah, it's always it's always Monday night if it's
at the.

Speaker 12 (01:38:25):
Weekend, so.

Speaker 4 (01:38:28):
You can't.

Speaker 24 (01:38:29):
You don't pay time and a half for the Saturday
because it's transferred to the Monday, so you only paying
it for the Monday. Even if you work the Saturday,
it doesn't matter. You're only paying it for the Monday, okay,
because it's the weekend anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:38:40):
But I believe Yeah, but I don't think that the
one stadium would be I don't think Takaha Stadium would
be doing that illegally. I think they must have done
that because it was a because that was the legally
they were legally allowed to do that.

Speaker 12 (01:38:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:38:54):
Well, we shot over the coast on Saturday night and
we're over the till Monday. And I know a lot
of the restaurants and cafes were charging on the Saturday
time and the seer charge, and then they were also
doing it on the Monday. But I don't know how
they can justify it for the sate of because they're
not actually enduring extra course.

Speaker 3 (01:39:15):
Okay, it sees well. Many businesses sit to close for
half the day the Antic day. Recent change of Ese
some restrictions. Okay, I'll read about that. This year, the
public holiday will be Monday. I was giving Kiwis an
extra day off next week without the same restrictions. There
are some business still be closed on Monday. Oh, it's

(01:39:38):
so complicated. Cafes and restaurants can choose to edit a
sewer charge on an ZACT day and can also choose
to use one on Monday, where there is a clear
and justifiable basis. The sewcharge covers the additional cost of
operating on a public holiday where mondaysation results at increased
cost on by Saturday and Monday, a sewcharge could be
applied across both provided there's a clear and justifiable basis

(01:39:59):
for doing so, and it reflects a genuin additional cost
of operating on that day. Many businesses choose to live
at the seer charge to one day only. Less additional
costs across both days can be clearly justified and communicated,
so it seems like you can. I don't fully know
the justification. Twenty two away from eleven A couple of
texts about that show that Nagere rang about program on
TV three his House of Hope, about the Grace Foundation

(01:40:21):
I've been following over the past few weeks. It really
opened my eyes eyes. Amazing program, well worth the watch one,
an amazing organization. It's from Paula. Thanks Paula Marcus. You
are correct that guy now is wrong. Last color is wrong.
Stuff who normally work on Saturday, get paid penalty rates
for Saturday. Marcus, You're going to get paid time and

(01:40:42):
a half plus lou for one and not both days.
But people that work on Saturday get paid that or Monday,
but not on both. If you had the same staff
do both days, you would profit off surcharge on both
of different staff than easily justified, as you have to
pay them all. We have a seven day work week
in our workplace. If you work on the Saturday, you
get time and a half, but if you work on
the Monday, eyes day, you won't get it as you

(01:41:04):
can only get it for one day. But a workplace
of open on both of the days, keen up and
currying time and a half wages for both days if
different employees are rostered on that does make sense. Thank
you for that. I'm glad I don't work in payroll,
but I imagine payroll is all the computer program?

Speaker 4 (01:41:19):
Now?

Speaker 16 (01:41:19):
Is it?

Speaker 8 (01:41:19):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:41:20):
AI? Get in touch people?

Speaker 20 (01:41:21):
What have you got?

Speaker 3 (01:41:22):
Eighteen from eleven? Let's give the show a bit of
a rejig. What have you got? Do you want to
talk more about? The horse has been back, so I
don't know where we are and I hate to go
back to it, but the horses were gone and everyone
organized partitioner thought it was like a lost cause. But
today the announcement is the horses could well be back
Man's Bridge. He's been out there at the event with

(01:41:45):
the horse people. So they're conducting further testing to bring
back the horses. But what the bit I didn't understand is,
and this has got the word vomitorium in it, it
is understood the crusaders that hoped to have computed testing
by now well ahead of the next home game against
the Blues Friday week, when a seal that crowd is likely.
Ah Another concern is the fact that there are four

(01:42:07):
vomitories a spoot horse could attempt to escape from at
the inner City Stadium. Now, a vomitory is a ramp
steps ramped down from an arena, it says. Another concern
is the fact that there are four vomitories a spoot
horse could attempt to escape from at the Inner City Stadium,
while those on the field of play can't simply jump

(01:42:27):
an led screen like they could at Addington if a
horse was on the loose, I don't really know what
that means. Why would there be an led screen. Why
would a horse jump at led screen anyway, that's a
situation with the horses. I just what I imagined as
people are probably happy to see the horses go though
so over at the new stadium and now we've actually
guessed at them about the horses again. It's like, you

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can't have horses. You can't have horses. You can't have horses. Oh,
I'll tell you what. There might be horses. That's what's
freaking me out. I'd be a recofizing christ Church and
a horse lover. Marcus. I work at Woolworth so far
as rossed on Saturday and worked out to received time
and a half in a day in Loo. If I
choose not to work, I would get a paid holiday.

(01:43:10):
If I was contracted on Monday and worked, I receive
a normal day. If I wasn't contracted on the Saturday,
just the Monday, I'd received time and a half in
a day in lou If I chose not to work
and I receive a paid holiday. If I wasn't contacted
to either day and picked up some spear shifts for both,
I'd get the Saturday at time and a half. If
only worked in Monday, I received time and a half.

(01:43:32):
Hope this clearsed it up somewhat. Aren't twenty any too
complicated for me? Sorry? Fifteen to eleven thirteen twelven. Let
me look at check out world news for you people.
Fuel is more expensive it's ever been. I'm not quite
sure if'scause people are pulling out of opek or quite
what that is. So that's a concern. So even though

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that fuel is down at the pumps, we're not few
that through the fuel crisis yet, and people are getting
charged a surcharge. Carterton might a ten. I think someone said,
if that's happened to you, let me know. I mean,
it's fear that they'll charge it. But flip, it's pretty grim,
isn't it. The old grimmery get in touch about that
to tonight people any more Yorkshire putting discussion, they'll be

(01:44:16):
up for that too tonight. Anything related to the news
that you want to ring and talk about too. And
a two hour I never thought we'd see the day
that there would be a two hour marathon sub two
one fifty nine thirty and the other guy ran subtill
and it was only a second marathon he's ever run.
You want to get these eddied their shoes the eight

(01:44:39):
hundred and fifty dollars and they are ugly, but I
guess you wouldn't be too concerned about that if you're
running a marathon. They're not a casual street shoe. I
was trying to see if I can describe them to you.
But yeah, so anything else you want to talk about tonight.
There's several eccdents around the country too that you might

(01:44:59):
want to talk about their ore disruptions. They look like
a bad sketches shoe. It seems as though they've got
about two inches of soul.

Speaker 20 (01:45:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:45:11):
The Edidas as an Eddy zero Eddios pro ev O
three worn by four of the top runners ninety seven grams.
So that's the situation there. If you're a if you're
a shoe head, it's ten away from eleven people. If
you want to talk, I'd love to hear from your
own as Marcus good Evening who oh eight hundred eighty
ten eighty and nine two nine two texts you want

(01:45:32):
to come and be a part of it, And if
there's something different you want to talk about, don't be
my guest. Literally oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and
nine two nine two de text. Here's an interesting question,
what don't you think old age begins with? There's a
new survey for boomers old age begins at seventy five,
while gen X considers the start of decreptitude to be seventy.

(01:45:55):
Millennials see old ages sixty three and gen Z, who
know nothing about anything, say it's fifty three. Goodness, I
guess it's what's the definition about old age and what's
the thing that you stop doing that means you are old?
I don't have an answer to that. I don't know
what the signal for old age is anyway, So that's

(01:46:21):
something you might want to mention. And I can tell
you too that there's a media event this weekend because
media invited would tend the arrival of a sold out
passenger train traveling Auckland to Hamilton to total On at
a Saturday, three hundred passengers sold out less than two
days with minimal promotion. Take a while to get there,
So it's going through the Kaimi Tunnel ending up in

(01:46:44):
Mount mong A. Nui. Oh, I've got another break to
take evn I Dan can well Katie hang on? Sorry
seven from eleven Katie, it's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 18 (01:46:56):
You're selling Marcus, so are you good? Thank you to
me because we were pretty cross at the weekend. I
had vised to from Auckland in three restaurants around Ireland
Fendleton were not even open on the Saturday night with
all the thousands of people around, those three were all closed.

(01:47:19):
Some of them weren't even open on Mondays. Now another
thing you can't Isn't that.

Speaker 3 (01:47:25):
A good thing though? That they decided to respect their
staff's wishes to commemorate Anzact Day and have days with
their family.

Speaker 18 (01:47:33):
Well as they had the morning and then. But I mean,
what about all the people that were here to go
to the rugby thousands and thousands of people and all
the restaurants closed, not all of them, but a lot
of them. And also you can't get the time and
a half on the two days because that is double
dipping and you cannot do that.

Speaker 3 (01:47:54):
Well, depends which staff are working.

Speaker 18 (01:47:57):
Yes or yes, just the same ones are that double dipping?
Does evening going to be quite a bixcess over this
was on the radio or all this morning?

Speaker 3 (01:48:08):
I don't think there's much of a fuss at all.
I think people respect that people deserve to have days
off or if they're not having their day off, they
deserve to get rewarded for working on a public holiday.
I think it's important that is.

Speaker 18 (01:48:20):
But what about the restaurants when they they have been
wriggling about not having enough patrons, and three that we
go to quite close to here, we're all closed.

Speaker 3 (01:48:32):
Well, obviously those restaurants are doing well. And thought that
probably that it might have been quite quiet because everyone
was in a different part of town. I mean, that
is their right to do what they want. They are
their own private businesses.

Speaker 18 (01:48:43):
Well, to me, it should have been open because it
wasn't a holiday on said day afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:48:48):
Well, I see all of the intact days a holiday
really no, only two one o'clock. Yeah, but it's still
people doing. I mean we were doing family things related
to the cenotaph and stuff. But yep, okay, Katie, thank you.
Maybe someone wants to talk about reaction to what Katie
just said. Jeeves, get in touch if you want. Hittell
twelve oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and the tour

(01:49:09):
a marathon and when a year old what's the sign?

Speaker 2 (01:49:13):
Year old?

Speaker 3 (01:49:15):
Marcus? I'm thirty, but watched my parents and Grandpa an agent.
I think there is an agent which rolled for me.
It's when you stop being able. I think old age
is signaled by that hunched look when you work walk
noticed Winston now has that look. Recently, Marcus Sady was
recognized public holidays, so we can't open till one. We
paid time and a half open Monday. Only our part
time staff worked, and I had to pay time and

(01:49:35):
a half if they regularly work Monday. We paid everyone
as wasn't fair A huge expense on a business. Don't
like monday ization. Monday ization brilliant, that's the plan. Like,
don't like monday ization? Yeah, oh wait one hundred eighty
ten eighty nine two nine to detext If you want

(01:49:56):
to come through, anything goes here till twelve do do do?

Speaker 15 (01:50:01):
Do?

Speaker 3 (01:50:01):
Do do? We've got a call before the no no no,
I'll get those texts. Well, that train that is going
to Totong, it gets back late, doesn't get back to
Ayuku to twelve twenty in the morning, which well that's
a long time. But Lee it gives people time in
Totna to do what they need to do, which is
probably not necessarily a bad thing. Eleven I seven greetings

(01:50:23):
and welcome hit toll twelve tims at twelve Ryan, thanks
for hanging on there. It's Marcus. Good evening, Good anything,
what's happening?

Speaker 5 (01:50:33):
Hello?

Speaker 3 (01:50:34):
Yeah, it's Marcus here. Good evening.

Speaker 5 (01:50:36):
I good any I'll just ring up about pup of holidays?

Speaker 3 (01:50:40):
Sure?

Speaker 7 (01:50:41):
Why why?

Speaker 5 (01:50:42):
I don't understand why people have a problem paying coming
up on paper holidays. As far as I'm concerned, I
think should be open.

Speaker 7 (01:50:48):
On paper holidays.

Speaker 5 (01:50:49):
There's family time. Yeah, Like I'm a diesel mechanic. I
work over eight hours or our work weekend come and
a half straight away. So why other people who expected
to work I don't understand it.

Speaker 3 (01:51:04):
Yeah, I think it's I don't know. I mean there's
obviously confusion when there was a situation there was two days.
But yeah, I think people are I don't really know
what to say about that. I think probably people Our
public holidays have become days where people want to go
places and buy coffees. And we haven't really managed to

(01:51:26):
resolve that one yet, have we?

Speaker 5 (01:51:28):
But just spend so many animally, what do they need
to do?

Speaker 11 (01:51:31):
Someone?

Speaker 5 (01:51:33):
Isn't they everyone to suspective? And the work these days
wasn't that long ago that you weren't even to be
open on public like this.

Speaker 3 (01:51:40):
Maybe that people don't want to spend days with their family.
I guess that's what it's about. I just I mean,
and I think I mean that caller before the news
things is furious because cafes went open. I thought that
was a stretch.

Speaker 5 (01:51:53):
Yeah, that to me that that's weird, like I'd rather
be a home and spend time with my family. Though
I didn't understand it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:01):
I couldn't understand that either. To me, that was surprising
that that her fury was at a place because it
wasn't open.

Speaker 5 (01:52:07):
Yeah, yeah, I just yeah, I just don't understand it.
Because why people have a problem with having to pay
a surcharge? They want the service, but then I'll go
to pay for it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:17):
Yeah, I don't know the answer for that. But it
seems as though I think there's been proposals today to
get rid of that day and leewin holiday pay too.
So it looks like it looks like there's been even
talk now to bring back some of those situations now
where people are people get compensation for having to work
public holidays, which is even more of a worry. I

(01:52:39):
reckon there's proposals today to announce that.

Speaker 5 (01:52:42):
Well, I think we should just go back to the
old days where nothing was opened on public holidays on weekends.

Speaker 3 (01:52:47):
Do you think people want to go back to that though,
I mean, I haven't heard of demand for it.

Speaker 5 (01:52:53):
You want to, obviously, Yeah, I just think that it's
been till of your family and there's no need to
hur there with shops in the oekend. So I guess
things are changed now because back in the old, the
old days, your wife didn't work, so as you did
stopping during the week and so you need shops open
in the weekends to do the shopping. But I think

(01:53:13):
it works way better in the old days when I
was like that, do your same time with their families?

Speaker 7 (01:53:18):
Now I think I.

Speaker 3 (01:53:20):
Think now people want to spend time with their families
doing different things, not necessarily staying at home, but been
out and about.

Speaker 5 (01:53:27):
You can't go out and about without having to go
to the shops.

Speaker 3 (01:53:30):
Where would you go though? From I mean you walk
around the park. I mean most people that would be
difficult for them to do.

Speaker 11 (01:53:35):
Why, well, could why time to go to the path.

Speaker 3 (01:53:40):
Because people are obsessed with buying stuff. Yeah, and we
are a situation where it's all about bye bye bye.
That's what they're about. Normally it's like the Boxing day
sail and stuff like that. That's the way the world's become.

Speaker 5 (01:53:54):
Yeah, I think that's sad that the world's come like that.

Speaker 3 (01:53:58):
Yes, but you did say something about normally the wife
would stay. I mean that had to sound like an
old fashioned kind of point of view too. And now
you know me and women work. I guess the world
has changed a bit.

Speaker 4 (01:54:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:54:09):
Yeah, there's an old estion good and either like either
of the husband or the woman.

Speaker 3 (01:54:14):
Yeah, okay. Also others have got to say Ryan, thanks
for raising that. Get in touch the public, holidays and
people working of less stuff should be open and the
sub to minute two hour marathon. That's the discussion tonight.
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty And when do you reckon?
You are old? My my, how times have changed? Kate

(01:54:38):
and zac Day once was a commemorative day respecting the fall.
And good on those three restaurants for being closed. Tis Kate,
Marc has been as fast south as you are. Have
you ever found a message in a bottle? Tig No?
I haven't, Marcus. My partner says, I deal with people
have many different ages, and of those that claim to
be old, I say, oh, never old, just older. Some
of the will always be older than you. You're really

(01:54:59):
only old when you stop, when you are able to
get out of the arm chair. That's what aging getting
old starts. So we're talking about aging, depressing topic, and
mondayization is ub to. If there's something different you want
to talk about tonight, then be my guest. If you
want to mix it up a but I'd love to
hear from you, brilliant, get in touch if you want
to be By the way, we're gonna have an al
Nino weather event. I've got no idea what that means,

(01:55:23):
no idea, in fact, less idea than you could shake
a stick out. But yeah, it annoys me that al
Nino and la nina are such similar words. I've often
gone on about that, but that caused me a great
deal of confusion. But yes, come through. If you want
to talk fourteen past eleven, anything goes in your final hour,
It'll be nice to hear from you. What I thought

(01:55:45):
was most interesting tonight was when you go to Takaha
one Stadium. The beer is Kraft Beer, and that guy
who I liked Call of the Night? Is here a
rather a Heineken or a Corona? So yeah, what's happening
with that? Do people want that heavy kind of beer
when they're out? I just thought stadium beer was kind
of famous for being not that good. Just get it

(01:56:07):
down your sort of stuff. Have I got that one wrong?

Speaker 2 (01:56:10):
Maybe?

Speaker 3 (01:56:11):
But yeah, I thought there was. I found that re illuminating.
I've never felt so illuminated. So if you want to
talk about that, that's good. Eight hundred and eighty eight
nine nine to the text. Anything else, brilliant? Light me
up like a Christmas tree. Calvin, it's Marcus. Good evening,
good day. How you doing good, Calvin? How are you
doing all right?

Speaker 8 (01:56:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:56:32):
Oh well, just on the public holidays things. I worked
both Saturday and Monday. I get paid one holiday per
one holiday, and I get I had to miss the
dawn parades.

Speaker 3 (01:56:50):
So are you in hospitality?

Speaker 20 (01:56:53):
No?

Speaker 12 (01:56:54):
I'm a truck driver.

Speaker 3 (01:56:56):
Okay.

Speaker 13 (01:56:57):
If the supermarkets are open, we're working, even if they're
only open half the day.

Speaker 20 (01:57:06):
Were you?

Speaker 3 (01:57:07):
Were you all right about it or not all right
about it?

Speaker 2 (01:57:11):
It is what it is.

Speaker 13 (01:57:13):
I would prefer to taking the day as a public holiday,
but it needs to get moved. Not everyone can have
the day off. And as far as I see, Monday
eyzing it like, Okay, there could be a difference for
some of the public holidays, but I see Antac Day
is the twenty fifth of April. The only reason to

(01:57:34):
Monday eye. It works more for those people that do
the Monday to Friday, yeah, as opposed.

Speaker 3 (01:57:42):
To and it's less and less common now, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (01:57:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:57:46):
How many people do actually have a nine to five
Monday to Friday job?

Speaker 3 (01:57:51):
I'd say less than less. So for those for Saturday,
you got paid time and a half yep.

Speaker 7 (01:57:58):
And I got my day in lou And what does
that mean?

Speaker 3 (01:58:01):
That means that you get one more holiday day?

Speaker 13 (01:58:03):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:58:03):
You get an extra day'll.

Speaker 13 (01:58:04):
Be able to take Yeah, to take a day off
later and be paid.

Speaker 20 (01:58:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:58:11):
And on the Monday you just got paid your normal wage.

Speaker 13 (01:58:16):
That is what I understand.

Speaker 3 (01:58:18):
Yes, yeah, okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 13 (01:58:19):
But if I didn't work the Saturday and I worked
the Monday, I'll get the same thing.

Speaker 3 (01:58:25):
Yeah, it is complicated, yep. Could have you applied to
have that day off?

Speaker 13 (01:58:33):
Possibly, But also my company is a rather smaller freight
company and I knew that there was quite a few
people having a long weekend off, so I didn't push
for it. But well, it's one of those says, it's
more about the Monday ezing of it that I've got

(01:58:54):
more of the issue with. To be honest, twenty fifth
is the twenty fifth. There might be difference for Christmas
maybe New Year, but White Tangy Day and Zac Day,
they are the days they fall on to me and

(01:59:16):
that's what that's what's more important. But not everyone sees
it that way.

Speaker 3 (01:59:21):
Hey, tell me something answers. Honestly, sometimes when you get
a public holow up when you're working at are you
really happy with how much you will learn on that day? Yeah,
I've got a big amount coming through that day.

Speaker 13 (01:59:37):
There used to be the time I'll happily put my
hand up to do that sort of thing. Now I'm older,
I'm somewhat wiser, But also I see more of the
value of my family. If my wife and son were home,
I would rather be at home.

Speaker 5 (01:59:57):
With them.

Speaker 13 (01:59:59):
Instead of getting out at two o'clock in the morning
and going to work to come home to go to sleep.
So I would rather spend the day with them. That's
just my view. On it anyway.

Speaker 3 (02:00:12):
Is it common in your industry for people to be
on an hourly rate like that, or a lot of
people on just an annual salary.

Speaker 13 (02:00:21):
I'm on a salary, but you still get the time
and a half for a public holiday, understand, Yeah, So
my salary is broken down into the days and I
still get the time and a half of that day.

Speaker 20 (02:00:32):
Yep.

Speaker 13 (02:00:33):
So, And I don't know if that's common. It works
well for the company I work for. I know that
my boss always looks after me.

Speaker 3 (02:00:42):
I suppose these days negotia you can ripes there. I
suppose these days to negotiate your own salary. You know
your own conditions, so you can work that one out
if that's what works with you.

Speaker 12 (02:00:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (02:00:52):
I know that my boss will always look after me anyway. So,
but it's more the general broad terms of Antich Day
is the twenty fifth of April, and that's the way
it should be, and that's my opinion. So we also
we also went out later the later and night on

(02:01:13):
the twenty for April, and we went to a restaurant.
It wasn't a busy restaurant, but it did give us
a surcharge.

Speaker 3 (02:01:20):
And that was on the Saturday.

Speaker 7 (02:01:21):
Did you say that was on the Saturday?

Speaker 3 (02:01:25):
Yeah, I don't think I was anywhere there there was
a surcharge, and it only would have been for a
cup of coffee. Coen, thank you for that. Twenty past
the eleven if you want to talk surcharges, and that's good.
I appreciate people's honesty. I don't know if anyone actually
quite likes working for time and a half of the
dan and love. It seems like, yeah, that's a great bonus. Gosh,
I remember the days working in restaurants and places like that.
Once upon a time you'd work on Sundays, it'd be

(02:01:47):
all sorts of special. You know, there'd be some days
you'd do really really well, and of course all got simplified,
and then the workers in paying up a lot less.
That seemed to be the way it goes. All that
those penalties seemed to disappear. Now get in touch if
you want to talk on air about these things or
anything else. That guy Calvin has a great point. Why
do we need to Monday eyes inxact day. It's actually

(02:02:07):
a bit gross and maybe he's looking into to see
if it's right to keep doing it. Will be on
a Sunday next year the Sunday, I'm about ten forty years.
I already don't know how to feel about it, but
I just want to know how you felt feeling forty.
The sub two hour marathon is phenomenal. Less than four
percent of males can run a sub three hour marathon.

(02:02:29):
I tried to run a sub three. It took me
four years to crack it. Year one three hours, three,
year two three and a half, injured, year three three hours, thirteen,
year four, two fifty eight. Marc's I'm seventy nine but
not going to be eighty. Seventy nine doesn't sound too weld,
but when you say eighty, you instantly sound real old.
I just say seventy nine. I saw David Edinburgh on

(02:02:53):
TV last night at one hundred. He looks in his
late seventies, and some sixty year olds look eighty. I
think it all depends on your health. Marcus the Gentleman
is correct. It's not difficult to walk around a park
or a beach. There's sub really great thing to do
apart from shopping. Yeah, but I mean that's what we are.
People seem to love shopping. It's not my battle twenty

(02:03:17):
five past liven Heitel twelve ten, Beverage Long at Midnight,
Harry Harriet's Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 7 (02:03:21):
Good evening, Good evening, Marcus Lush.

Speaker 14 (02:03:24):
How are you doing, Mattek good things, Harry, Public holidays mate.
I was in the retail game for a number of years.
During that time, they introduced the Employment Contracts.

Speaker 7 (02:03:39):
Act, which wiped out and tore.

Speaker 14 (02:03:41):
Up all penalty rates and agreements and everything else to
do with lunch money and everything else that.

Speaker 11 (02:03:48):
You could get paid for working late and so on.

Speaker 14 (02:03:52):
But the biggest thing that really grabbed us all was
when they ripped out the penalty rates of time and
a half for working on public holidays when everybody else
was all at home. My truck driver mate that was
talking before was talking about his family. I take my
hat off to that gentleman. Put your family first, because

(02:04:14):
stupid people like me believed that the work was the
thing to do, and you did what you had to
do to get paid. And I worked six days a
week on my game, and at the end of it all,
I look back, and I sound like a grumpy old man.
Now I'm seventy three, and I think eggaro a thing

(02:04:35):
I did. I missed my kids growing up.

Speaker 3 (02:04:39):
I did.

Speaker 12 (02:04:39):
I missed my kids, Marcus, and that was the biggest loss.

Speaker 3 (02:04:43):
So you wish you'd done a different vocation, is it
what you're saying?

Speaker 14 (02:04:47):
No, I wish I wish i'd put my hand up
a bit less when the boss said, oh, we're looking
for it, Oh we need you. No, you're a senior
on the floor on the Saturday. You're a senior on
the floor on Boxing Day. The only days I would
work were the sixth of February. That was a national
holiday for my daughter's birthday.

Speaker 3 (02:05:07):
Although when did the sad Day opening happen? I mean
that happened pretty late on in the piece, isn't.

Speaker 14 (02:05:11):
That it's the Saturday opening happened round in the nineteen eighties.

Speaker 3 (02:05:18):
Yeah, the late eighties, but you might be you might late.

Speaker 14 (02:05:21):
Eighties it came through, and then by nineteen ninety you
were looking at opening any day of the week you liked.

Speaker 12 (02:05:30):
You could open.

Speaker 14 (02:05:31):
You could run a shop twenty four hours a day
if you had the staff, the money and the inclination
to do so. If that's as far as the employment
contracts that went in the nineteen ninety three onwards, and
it was really it devastated much of it. It turned
a lot of the retail stores, a lot of smaller

(02:05:54):
retailers ended up with part time staff, and a lot
full time jobs disappeared in a lot of smaller places.
But the worst thing about it all, when I looked
back now, was I missed my kids on the weekends
and on the times, you know, boxing day and stuff,
when they all gathered with their friends and families and stuff.

(02:06:16):
And where's Harry always down from? And lots of names,
isn't he He's at work today?

Speaker 16 (02:06:22):
And you know it really did.

Speaker 14 (02:06:25):
I wouldn't work New Yearesday because New Yearesday is a
sacra Saint holiday. You don't ask a Scotsman to work,
keeping up all night enjoying the seeing the new year.
And so that was the only day I actually refused
to work. But at the end of the day, I
just want.

Speaker 3 (02:06:44):
To say, Harry too, if you've seen great revolution and
change in retail, I think there's a lot more change
to come. I think retail is going to come. I
think retail is going to collapse.

Speaker 14 (02:06:55):
Oh you're going to see quite quite a lot of
retail collapse.

Speaker 3 (02:07:00):
I think I think we're already. I've seen all the
figures about the jobs. And the one job a sigma
that's down is retail. It's through the floor.

Speaker 14 (02:07:07):
Yep, yeah, oh it's going through the floor now. You
can see it coming. You go into department stores and
shops now and people are despondent.

Speaker 4 (02:07:19):
They're they're not well.

Speaker 2 (02:07:21):
Doing.

Speaker 3 (02:07:21):
Harry, Harry, there's no inventory. All they do is they
go to their cell phone and they say, oh, we've
got it in the head office, there's nothing there. Nice
to talk, carry a nice email here, Marcus. I've been
living in Australia for two years and it's a much
better deal over there. If you work Saturday and Sunday,
you'll get time and a half for both days, and
that's every week, and the like the hours you work,

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you would get extra fifteen percent of your base rate.
If you work a night shift, which would be the
hours from say eleven or six of the morning, you'll
get next to thirty percent on your hourly rate. And
the public holiday is that we're just this weekend. On
Saturday it was time and a half and Monday was
triple time. I don't see whye news in and can't
do what Australia is doing. You would not have so
many people coming over the ditch to work. We get

(02:08:05):
a much better deal over here than back home. Marcus,
my mate who works in CYDNY as a printing gets
a lot of penalty rates working in the evening and
the weekends. There you go.

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