Very strong onions (12 March 2026)

Marcus talks about storing fuel (and other things NZ could do to manage fuel supplies), and what to do with an abundance of onions.

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Welcome, good evening. It's Thursday. You will know that by now,
I would hope, but I'll be here for what is
the rest of Thursday. So greetings and good evening. But
it's not going so well I have It gets better
about midnight for you people. So yeah, here till then
to eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine to text.
Roman will be along at midnight. Roman will be along

(00:33):
at midnight. I'm already getting questions from people wanting to
stockpile fuel. It's not my wheelhouse. I'm not a JERRYCN guy.
I'm not a fuel stockpiler. I have an email Marcus.
We live on a farm. My husband is convinced we

(00:54):
are going to run out of diesel. He's bought a
fifteen hundred liter stainless steel water tank of Facebook marketplace.
He said it should be all right to fill with diesel.
I'm not so sure. Does anyone know if you can
swap water for diesel in a stainless steel tank? What
could go wrong? She sent me a picture of said

(01:15):
tank all strapped up on a trailer with just the
one strop. What's the rules for storing fuel? I presume
the concerns would be there would be water already in
the tank, and you'd be worried about any sort of
spark leading to admission. Have I got that right? What
would you be concerned about? Could you just buy any

(01:37):
old tank and fill it with diesel? I'm not, obviously not. Well,
that's the question. I don't know how they're going to
fill it up. I guess I have a pack tank
and some sort of pump, something you buy from Super
Cheap or something like that. A fifteen hundred stainless steel
water tank of Facebook marketplace. Could you do that? Answer me?

(01:57):
Please text that through or call me just quickly. Marcus
has a little going oil now over one hundred dollars. That's
from Zach. Tell me where you get your oil, guys.
I haven't found websites as good as yours. But yeah,
it's over a hundi, So yeah, they've got them. They've
got them. They've got them by the little straight of

(02:18):
hor moves. But if he's up to a hundi, that's
a lot rent crude. I'm seeing it at ninety one
point nine. So where you're getting more recent figures. Let
me know where you're getting those from. I'll be really
keen to know about that. But also too, can you
stock pilot? Can you buy any old container to put
your diesel in? That's what I'm mainly concerned about. If
you've got answers on that, and where you get your

(02:39):
rent crude figures from. If you got that information, to
text it through too. By the way, guys, oh Zak,
tell me where you get your figures from. I can't
see it a hundi, but I'm sure you're right you
have been in the past. I'll defer to you.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Who.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Someone says it's a hunda at night and goes back
to ninety each day people were to check their insurance
policy if they are storing fuel. Marcus the only when
to get diesel to ignite. It's under extreme compression. Hold
a lighted to it, it won't boo, and have a good one.
I purchased a thousand worth of fuel on the z app.
It just sits there and you can use it as

(03:17):
you go. Saved heaps. Someone said nothing could go wrong,
but this isn't World War three. Well, the question I've
got is when do they start calling World War two,
world War two? And when do they start calling world
War one world War one? That's the question I've got, Marcus.
Not a good day for those living in Todonger with

(03:39):
the White Island ash plume disrupting all flights in and
out of Totonger. I came home from a conference landing
them from Sydney, was really looking forward to hopping on
the domestic flight to Totonger. Instead popped in the neighbor's
rent a car and drove the distance home. The ash
plumber continues to play us. We're talking stocking fuel. People

(04:00):
are going to stock it. What's the best way to
stock it? If you want to stock how are you
going to stop? Make sure the seals any fuel containers
won't perish with diesel. But when did world War two?
STARp In called world War two? If you're going to
answer me that, because I don't know, I mean, I'm
not saying it's not going to become a world war

(04:21):
So that's a question for me to you. If your
if you're a historian, well just a I'm fabricist, fantasist, Nigel.
It's Marcus.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Welcome, Yeah, Marcus, that that tank, there's a few things
are red flagging on that. The first one is they
want to on the outlet, put a water trap on there,
get a diesel film and put that on.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
There so if there's any water in it, that'll collect it.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Secondly, for him to cut that trailer on the road
fifteen hundred leaders, anything over two hundred leaders, you have
to have a dangerous good to license on your license
and he will have to have that placard with signs
signed that you're able. It's a flamable liquid. Also, all
these people stop piling. They want to they want to

(05:05):
check with the insurance policy because if unfortunately they have
a fire and they've got a thousand leaders or one
hundred leaders or whatever there and shows company may not
pay out.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Okay, Nige'll just for a position of clarity. I think
the tank is on a trailer horizontally. I think they
were just transporting that empty and they're probably going to
full of diesel from small containers at home. But then again,
I don't know how they'll I guess they'll make a
lot of little trips.

Speaker 6 (05:32):
Wow, that's right.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Or they'll go via a service station and follow it up,
won't they.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
That's a good point. You make there. They could well
do that and that would be hardly that would be
harghly inflammatory.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
That's right, And therefore the driver towing it will have
to have a dangerous good to license cans at the
DG course like where all of us had to do
anything over two hundred leaders. You've got to have a
DG license. Then you have to get play guards put
on that tank so that if there was a problem,
and he would have to have dangerous goods paperwork as
well filled.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
In and nation Nigel, we all know where that dangerous
goods file is. Don't we to show them that? It's
in the driver's door bit at the bottom.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yeah, yeah, and the driver's door is you've got to
get a special dangerous good play card holder hold a holder,
and he's a card. You've got to have him there
for emergency responsing. If you don't need that card near
it's a thousand.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Dollar fine and a look sketchy too. They'll know what
he's up to.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
Yeah, well yeah, all he needs is a policeman to
see him and then he'll ask.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Questions Nigel, Yes, or a police woman, that's.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Right, a police person, yes.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yes, okay, you should do talk back. I appreciate your empheticness, Marcus.
When Jamie invaded Poland thirty nine, France and Britain then
declared war on Germany, making it a world war. So
I don't know what the definition of a world war is.
And when did First World War become First World War
a World War one? It became Brian, this is Marcus,

(07:04):
good evening.

Speaker 7 (07:06):
Oh that's just going to have a word about the
diesel or even couve. Really, the diesel is difficult cold night.
It'll only really ignite if you get it on with
a whip made someone sticks a rag in it and
away it goes. But far from that it is reasonably safe.

(07:27):
I wouldn't particularly worry about pencil sorry water, and unless
he's transporting it and the insurance side of it, it should.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
Be all right.

Speaker 7 (07:39):
But and you'll get a tanker and that's sell it
up like home he still or similar. But the other
thing I was going to say is staate or moves.
A twenty percent of the world's oil get us through there.
The other eighty percent doesn't. It's not really a big

(08:00):
chance of running out of anything like these. It's all
media hysteria.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
I don't think that's I don't think that's true, Brian.
I think the twenty percent goes to the emerging economies.
It goes to Bangladesh, it goes to China, it goes
to Corey. They're the ones that are making the chips.
I think all the writing that I am seeing is
saying that that twenty percent and that's why petrol's going up.
I mean, you can't say that's media hysteria, but yeah,
you stick to your podcasts. Nice to hear from you, Marcus.

(08:30):
The fear of running dry at the pump will really
test the public transports as we have at the moment
and see how much strain it will put on the system.
Of course, and probably what they should be doing is
harving the price of public transport to encourage people to
use that. That would be the first thing I would
be doing. Yes, you can, I have two stainus kegs.
Well did to make one fifty letter fuel tank? If

(08:52):
you filled up as self service gas station at six am,
no one around, it should be okay. That's from Ben
ben at Orton. So yes. And the situation what they
are proposing now, I've seen that on the Herald they
are talking about having a limit at the gassie or
they're talking about having the gas station only open every

(09:15):
second day. You've got a preference because I'm thinking if
they open every second day, you'd go back and make
sure you went back. You'd get kind of you'd get
kind of petrol fixed fixated. But that's what Shane Jones
was saying. He's got himself in there and got talking rights.

(09:39):
But that's the thing it's going to be. It's going
to be either a limit or it's going to be
a system that every second day the fuel tank is closed.
That's what they're talking about at the stage. But people
won't cope. It'll make second lockdown look like a walk
in the park. People will freak out. I've just got
that vibe about that we're not good on these things

(09:59):
now we were once upon a time eight hundred and
eighty ten, eighty and nine nine text. I'm looking at
the fuel in real time, but get in touch. Looks
like it's got ninety seven twenty nine at the moment.
Brent crude up five percent for the day. Bud's up

(10:20):
and down, up and down. And if you want to
talk about this or anything else tonight, that's the plans.
Dand Oh eight one hundred and eighty Taddy in nineteen
nine to text find him away around this website. Very
good it is, Oh yes, I saw it touched one hundred.
I've got all the deets. Now I'll get one month
and get three months. It's kind of up to where

(10:40):
it was when the WARFU started nineteen past eight. Email
that says Marcus, diesel lives for six months, petrol four
one year. There is an editor additive to put with
diesel to help it still better. There is a bug
that lives in diesel. A fact check that that guy's
spot on. There's a bug rexit. You want to get

(11:01):
additive or want to just get in six months? Hello Ross,
ats Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 8 (11:06):
Year, Good evening Marcus. If we go on to rationings,
I think I'll go out and purchase a electric sock pushpike,
and I think that I rather going to have to
release some of the fuel that I've got otherwise going

(11:27):
to go broke. So that that's what Putin was doing
with a Russian war. He's letting that's wants to keep
him going. People buying cheap, cheap fuel from them.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Have you got a long commute, Ross.

Speaker 8 (11:44):
No, I've only got. I know it's going to be
dangerous for me. That's probably the biggest thing. I've probably
got about maybe teen to fifteen minutes on electric bike efette.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
So it's like three k's, is it.

Speaker 8 (12:02):
Yeah, it'd be three or four k's, but I'll just
go through the Have you ever heard of the work
work for right scheme?

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (12:10):
Yeah, yeah, it seems like quite a good scheme, mate,
So yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Just wonder why you went for one with a motor
if you didn't just go for the old pushy. But yeah,
there you go.

Speaker 8 (12:19):
I'll push quite before. But I just can't have a
bit annoyed when I have to gonder a head windows.
You know, you want to you're not oh, you know
like if you have to go to nine to ten
or something in years, want to get on your electrobyte
go and get a can of paint or something. You
just get on the where you go, you know, or

(12:40):
you know, you can always walk, but I can do
that to a kiss and so you got a lot
of other people. But if it ever comes to that,
I think I think there's a lot of fuel around
the world, but it's just the big question on how
much we're going to pay.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Nice to talk ross I can tely break and news
Australia has turned to dirty fuel and mid warnings ninety
one petroal could reach four twenty two dirty of fuel
mark for expert will be rec interstly as local market
attackle the country's fuel crisis. Yeah, practical action to help
farmers higher sulfur content fuel be blended into Australia's existing

(13:17):
domestic fuel supply. Did he guess that's happening twenty five
past date? Would it be advisable to buy giant storage
containers to fuel to full with diesel? Or is that sketchy?
And what sort of rationing do you want? Do you
want a limit on how much petrol you could buy?
Or do you want the gas stations closed every second day?

(13:41):
Electric car? Electric law? Know what fuel crisis? Marcus? Haven't
needed to get a bus since I was thirteen. I'm
fifty two now and today needed a bus. Had to
drop a wagon off of the mechanic. No problem, I'll
get a bus home and pick it up. And I
get the call I now to download an app, loads
some money on it and there's no bus hitting my
way at that time of day. I think you need
to download an app. I think you can just use

(14:02):
your credit card now it accepts all of them. You
can just pay wave on Marcus. I don't think diesel
will be a problem in the central North Island with
concerrated farming. Most farmers have good reserves five thousand liters
for their operations, and that would be conservative, Marcus. What
we need is a major COVID outbreak and to go

(14:24):
into lockdown around the country, no cars on the roads
because everyone's at home. Fuel crisis solved, Marcus. My husband
is a mechanic and they are allowed to store fifty
layers of fuel at any time according to their insurance policy.
What about those big steel oil drums that were either
sixty lads or two o five liters They could be
used to store fuel. Gilly just driven past a couple

(14:48):
of surveys in Topar diesel BP TOHARDA two dollars fifty
two Why talmre fifty five hundred meters up the road
two dollars fifteen down from yesterday, Marcus. The diesel trailers
you see around for filling machinery being toe by utes
hold twelve hundred liters as long as you have the

(15:10):
correct document in the trailer. You can tow it on
a Class one license instead of flooding eastmind coal Huntley
when it closed, why didn't they use it as strategic
storage option for crude oil or diesel? Just a random
thought in hindsight. That tank won't even be strong enough
to transport fifteen hundred liters of any liquid. The tank

(15:33):
is built to stand still. It won't have baffles in it.
Good point, so don't transfer it in it. My concern
with storing d's in a metal tank would be heat
build up, especially being stainless and it's sitting in the
direct sun. No expert on the subject. It's good to
be people saying, not an expert, because yes, sometimes you

(15:54):
will know how serious to take the advice. Marcus, do
you know that you need to have a dangerous good
lice if you're stopped more than fift years of petrol?
Get in touch Marcus till twelve if you want to
be a part of it eight hundred eighty ten eighty
and nine nine to text, get in touch with anything
else she want to talk to here till twelve. So yeah,

(16:18):
be in touch if you want to be a part
of the show. Anyway, get in touch we're talking about
storing of fuel. I am sort of slightly skeptical, not septical,
but concerned about the giant stainless steel tank by the
way too. No one's asked me. I do think Carlus

(16:40):
Day would be the least fair system of rationing because instantly,
if you've got more than one car, it becomes ineffective.
So basically you just penalizing single people just one car.
I think it's brutally unfair. I don't know what a
fear away is, but to me, Carlous Days would be

(17:02):
the least fair, and it was a disaster last time.
It didn't work many workarounds. Hello, Bob AT's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 5 (17:11):
Yeah, I can't understand Marcus. These guys in Parliament that
we paid youllly fortunately, why do they think it's going
to make any difference If they shut the petrol for
one day and then close it for another day and
then let you get the pit people are just going
to go and full up and then wait till the
day when of those opening gun fiup. It's not going
to make the quantity of petrol any difference.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
It would stop the spontaneous trips. Let's drive to hastings
for the day. Maybe that's the only thing I could
think of, But it's not.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
Going to make a big, huge difference. Even when they
say you can only buy so much, well, I mean
you just when you do go to get your petrol.
How do they know how much you board? What your
board last week or the week before that?

Speaker 2 (17:50):
You go twice? Yes, exactly, you go around the block
and go okat, I, Steve, where are you going?

Speaker 9 (17:56):
Will you hear anything?

Speaker 10 (17:57):
Can I not?

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Mad?

Speaker 5 (18:00):
I can't understand these guys were paying a fortune come
up with so ridiculous ideas m and the other one
just quickly changing the subject slightly Marcus, because leave me off.
I went past Wallwards and Blenham the other day and
there's a guy in the car pack with his white
chalk chalking all the tires come on. Is it buys them?
And got enough money now?

Speaker 2 (18:21):
And so there was what a guy with his wife
nor I was the white.

Speaker 5 (18:24):
Chalk mark the tires, marking the tires like going to
give them tickets and that good for goodness sake, leave
the people at their own, let them get on on
their line.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Did you say something to them?

Speaker 5 (18:34):
Indeed? I did, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
How did that conversation work out there, But what was
your opening gambo?

Speaker 5 (18:41):
So what the hell are you think you're doing for them?
I got, I've got the old I said, no, you don't.
You can get another job. I says, it was ridiculous
the supermarket and you got to do the white chalk
wants put a mark on your tar. I don't go there.
I wouldn't go there. A little tea in China now
and they're.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Already getting extorted by the supermarket.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
Yeah, and then you get extorted if you had to
be like I, I've got a bugget hips and that
might take me a bit longer to get around the supermarket.
Then I say, you see the neighbor and if we
am with them when I'm in there, and then wait
for the long, wrong queue at the chick out And
then I go out there and I find some idiot
with a piece of chalk. Yeah, I'm not going to
repeat where I told him. I Buddhist chore. But it
wasn't really pleasant. But well, yeah, because.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
You know what's out because they filmed me on camera, now,
aren't they.

Speaker 5 (19:28):
Oh well, I'll wait for the camera.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Marcus, did you did you buy American butter?

Speaker 5 (19:36):
I didn't buy anything from there. I just drove back.
They had a look. But I wouldn't buy American batter anyway.
I'm cheap, cheaps. God, I'd buy the cheapest I.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Think the American is. I think the American stuff is
the cheapest.

Speaker 5 (19:47):
Yeah, but it ain't one ninety nine like i'd buy
my Margarine.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Okay, understand, Very good, Bob, Thank you twenty five to nine.
Get in touch. My name is Marcus. Welcome if you
want to be a part of it. Eight hundred and
the tanker drivers will not fill dodgy storage tanks unintended

(20:12):
consequence of oil shortages. It has become a health and
well being improves because of increased exercise. He's in a
health system says dramatic drop and lifestyle related diseases. Win win, Marcus,
Carlis days you in other ways to criminalize the homeless
living in their cars like me. Fairpoint, freefallid point and
thank you for making it very valid point. Iran's Gulf

(20:36):
neighbors report new ways of attack. Bahrains his Iranian attacks
targeted fuel tanks in the Northern Governorate, and the war
is costing the Middle East travel industry six hundred million.
Dollars a day. I think the war itself is costing
the Americans two billion a day. Yep, there'd be a
hard sub hard equation to work out. And I think

(21:00):
there's two more Italian base in the Kurdish reason of
iraqis attacked. That's the last bit of news I've got through.
But be in touch if you want to be on here.
Oh wait, one hundred eighty ten eighty twenty four away
from nine. It's looking dangerous. It's looking sketchy for flying. Also,

(21:23):
flights are getting canceled. I think the one is blend
them to christ Church people are concerned about. Oh yeah, geez,
she all looks quite flaky quite soon, doesn't it. So yeah,
hundred flights eleven hundred flights have been cut. That's happened

(21:45):
twenty three away from nine o'clock with you till twelve.
We are talking about rationing. What would be the fairest way?
I don't know what the answer is. There's got to
be some sort of technology driven away. I don't know
what that is though, Thanks Rob. Rob sent me the
spot crued just trying to unwrap it. But yes, do

(22:09):
you see that bizarre thing that do you follow that
story that Trump's got obsessed with flourisham shoes and he
loves him. He's buying all his staff shoes and he's
geessing their shoe sizes and they're too scared not to
wear them. So there's a lot of shots of Marco
Rubio and Peter Heskeith and people going about their general

(22:30):
days and shoes with about an inch of riggle room
at the back of their heel because he's over rated
their shoe size. That was one of the more bizarre
stories I went to down the rabbit Hole to read
about today, so that was quite bizarre. Be in touch
if you want to be on show. Also be nice
to hear from you. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten

(22:51):
eighty and nine nine to de text, it's twenty two
away from nine nineteen to nine. Michael, it's Marcus.

Speaker 11 (22:59):
Good evening, Marcus the Carla Stars. I remember back to
the Carlos day days and the other thing that happened
at the time. There was an advert on TV with
Bill Birch and he had a big yellow foot like
a clown's foot on his right hand side standing on
the accelerator and the slagan was a step off it

(23:24):
for the fuel and that's when we all the fuel
all the special limits in the country was reduced to
eighty kilometers an hour from one hundred case blanket, remember that, Yeah.

Speaker 12 (23:38):
I do.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
And we talked a little bit about that last night,
and someone said that that was earlier on. Someone said
that that was more like seventy three with those shocks
and not with the nineteen eighty one. So yeah, so,
and I guess it was down from fifty miles per
hour to forty would it be?

Speaker 13 (23:58):
No, just came.

Speaker 11 (24:03):
It wasn't the ages I returned from overseas at the
beginning of the eight and we experienced it.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Then it says one measure I'm looking at, it says one.
I've just looked for something that I've found that does
mention it. It says. Prior to it says prior to
the introduction of Carlos days, the government had implemented another
measure to reduce petrol demand. One measure was the reduction

(24:30):
of the speed limit from one hundred k's to eighty
k's in December nineteen seventy three, earlier nineteen seventy oil crisis.
The lowest speed limit remained in place until July nineteen
eighty six. I don't realize it went for that long.

Speaker 11 (24:47):
Yeah, yeah, it was more much than implement. He was
the Minister of Fuel whatever it.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Is, energy or something.

Speaker 11 (24:54):
So that was the other thing that happened.

Speaker 9 (24:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
It also said in nineteen seventy nine they issued and
I'm not aware of this either, there was a ban
on the sale of petrol on weekends.

Speaker 11 (25:05):
That's correct, that's it, that's exactly right. And we would
go away for a weekend and you couldn't both fuel
on the Sunday or something.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
You wont how the gas stations now would cope when
they just appear to be expensive dairies.

Speaker 11 (25:20):
Well, just just driving through Danningberg at the moment, and
for the most expense I've seen petrol so far, that
was two ninety nine point nine for ridicular in guinne Burck.
How much I have two dollars and just one sent
under three dollars. Yeah, okay, that's in Danny Vick.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
I'm looking at Bill Birchie was the Minister of Energy
from nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty four.

Speaker 11 (25:53):
I just remember that big clowns foot, big yellow clowns
foot and slogan that was on dd abent and he
got the nickname of Bill Stobbot step off at Birch.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Would you be okay with them lowering the speed limit?
People would kick up, bobbsy, wouldn't they?

Speaker 11 (26:08):
Well, if it saves the fuel, because it's the calculation
was done me and how much fuel that was being
saved by reducing the speed limit. If that's what it is,
it's better than the bicycle.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Do you know how much it saves by dropping a fifth?

Speaker 6 (26:22):
No?

Speaker 11 (26:23):
I don't know. The calculations were down at the time,
and that's what we were sold.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
I see if I can find some detail that that's
really interesting. Michael, thank you. So there we go. We
had a lower speed limit for a long time because
of that. How much fuel do you save? How much
fuel do you save by dropping driving speed from a

(26:53):
hundred k kmh to eighty? I see what it says
dropping your driving speed from one hundred to eighty case
can save approximately ten to not re accurate is a
sweet spot? Irresistance increases significantly at higher speed. Why wouldn't

(27:16):
your car is not getting bigger fifteen to nine make
its Marcus good?

Speaker 5 (27:22):
Evening a market.

Speaker 14 (27:26):
Road speeds. And I've just come down from up north
on that new stretch of highway where the road the
speed limits. One thing, yep, you know that stretch.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
What a beautiful piece of roadbad is flows well.

Speaker 14 (27:46):
Yeah, flows very well. And I was just looking at
my after you mentioned I was just looking at my chropometer.
My usage has been considerably lower than what i've what
I've been doing, certainly when as soon as I get
into the hotel value the area KIMP and sumption then

(28:08):
drops in creass, probably nearly four or five liters per
one hundred k.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
It's not what common wisdom says. Caliber'll look into that
coeficial of dragged for car is not proportional to speed,
but proportional to the square of the speed. That's the velocity.
Although I am I won't say that. Get in touch
if you want to talk Marcus till midnight, oh eight hundred,

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you know the rest. So last time we had fuel
that was problematic. In nineteen seventy three, the speed limit
was dropped from eighty from one hundred to eighty kilometers
per hour and you couldn't buy guess on the weekends.
Then in nineteen seventy nine we had Carloss days. But

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the easiest thing I think probably would be the lowest
speed limit. I don't know how people would feel about that.
You need to enforce it, wouldn't you, But I guess
you do that with those trailers that give you tickets
and speed cameras that are everywhere. It's a situation people,

(29:22):
So I don't know what's the desirable thing for you,
but that's what we're heading into unless it all gets solved.
But I think walls, as they say, I've re easily
get into, really hard to get out of. Yeah, and
that's where we are at the moment, trying to work
out how to get out of it. Clive, it's Marcus,

(29:44):
good evening.

Speaker 15 (29:45):
Good evening, and we're talking about fuel and speed. Yes, Well,
the one thing to remember there was on top gear
and it was one of their go faster cars, you know,
the Kensingberg or something. I can't pronounce it, but it
was their fastest car from the track for a one time.

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They brought out the new one and to get an
extra I think it was about eight or nine kilometers
per hour, they had to add over two hundred additional
horsepower to the thousand that was already there just to
get eight kilometers faster.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Wow.

Speaker 15 (30:24):
So the faster you go, the greater the wind resistance.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (30:30):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
So I wonder what the figures are, how much I
wonder how if you drop the if you drop the
fuel from one hundred twenty, I wonder how much the
speed from one hundred and twenty. I wonder how much
you save.

Speaker 15 (30:42):
I know the UK did it when there was a
or your shortage. They took it down from seventy I
think it's fifty. And the motorways yeah. And unfortunately I
wasn't driving then, so I didn't take a lot of
notice of it. I just do that the speed of
it had dropped. But I also know that an engineer

(31:03):
once told me that the most efficient speed for vehicle
is about sixty to sixty six percent of its maximum.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
That's a good but that's a good bit of information.

Speaker 15 (31:15):
That's what an older menngineer told me when he was
talking about efficiency of cars.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Do you think people would be prepared to drive slower.

Speaker 15 (31:25):
If you can't get the petrol? If you can't get petrol,
then you see that, as a gentleman said earlier, and
get on a bike or go slower and if you've
got a choice of bike or slower, you're going to
go slower.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
They're saying efficiently efficiency rapidly declines above eighty k's due
to aerodynamic dregs. So yeah, that's probably right.

Speaker 8 (31:48):
Okay, thank of your time.

Speaker 15 (31:50):
So then good evening.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Thank you, Clive. Nice to talk to you. Just three
away from nine people. Be in touch if you want to.
We are talking about fuel and how you want to
ration it. There should be some form of an app
But I mean, I'm sure that those people of the
well to do will get benefited because they have multiple cars.
But yes, that's kind of the discussion. So fat tonight.

(32:15):
But Australia is going to start putting out dirty fuel.
That quite not what happened in christ Jadge with that
high risk explosive that kind of got a little bit
baffeled today. Not a story we hear very often. Hi, Jason,
it's Marcus. Good evening, Yeah.

Speaker 17 (32:28):
Hi, Marcus said doing good.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Thank you much to hear from you.

Speaker 17 (32:31):
Just wanted to make a comment about the early seventies
oil and petrol problems we had in New Zealand and
the ones in the nineteen eighties. You sort of have
to realize today's vehicles are a lot different than those
carbureted older vehicles, where the cars are fuel injected. Now,

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you're not going to get as big as savings off
driving five or ten kilometers slower now than you did
off those older cars because the metering is so fine
on vehicles today.

Speaker 16 (33:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
I wondered about that, and I think what you're saying
makes sense. Do you know what? Do you know what
sort of savings you could get?

Speaker 17 (33:11):
No, No, I don't, because it was just a quick
theory that I put through my head as a meeting tea.
But I mean, compared to carbureted vehicles, injective vehicles are
just so much more economical because they only inject the
amount of petrol you need, as opposed to a carburetor
flooding it with petrol you don't need. I can tell

(33:32):
you this. I've got a six point two leader V
eight and that does twelve twelve leaders per hundred ks
around town, which is bloody good for a six point
two leader of V eight. I talk to people with
diesel double cab utes and whatnot. They're not doing far

(33:52):
off that themselves. Why is it so good because it's
fuel injected it's got all the electronics in it, that
fuel and me to rule the fuel right, and you're
just putting around it in a VA, not using high revs,
so you're hardly using any power to even get anywhere.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
If it did it nice to talk, Thank you, nine
oh seven, good evening and welcome. It makes sense to
me that probably the modern cars are probably less inefficient
at higher speeds, That would be my take on that.
So maybe that means that option is nullified, the reducing
of the speed. I haven't seen any modern discussion of that,

(34:33):
but the government needs to be ready, and I don't
have huge faith that they will be. But let's watch
the space. But what's already been advocated is limiting to
how much peture you can buy when you go to
the pump. Now, I don't know what would stop people
coming around and going around twice and closing gas stations

(34:58):
every second day. But I don't know how much of
gas stations revenue comes from the fuel. I guess you
have to keep them open for people wanting to get
a bounty bar or stuff like that. So there we go.
If you want to comment on that. Eight hundred eighty
eighty and the lines are free enough. You want to
come through. If you've been trying to get through, it's
a good time for you to call now. Eight hundred

(35:20):
eighty ten eighty and nine. Text do you want to
be a part of the show. There's something else you
want to say. Be nice to hear from you. We
are talking fuel about the straits of hor Moves. So yep,
that's the situation i'd like to hear from you. Good evening, Paul.
This is Marcus.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Welcome, Yeah, welcome, Yeah, just calling from Masterton. Oh great,
uh yeah, yeah, I'm at tension and now, but you
know I'll be I'll have to pull up the car
right up. I've got two curves, but we've.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Got doing with two cars on the pension.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
Well, you know the cheap if one goes to the garage,
then I can use the other one.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
You're enough, but answer.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
But I was just wondering because back in the old days,
people used to go start stealing petrol from the farms.

Speaker 7 (36:14):
You know.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Yeah, the tight look about this, you know. And I
don't mind the but you know, like if they say
use your car every every Wednesday or second Wednesday, if
all the car up, that's the only way fill your
car up. You know, possibly I might have to get

(36:36):
an electric bike.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Where are you going?

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Because I'm in master's and you know I used to
travel to pumps and awful Warrington. But I'm gonna I
think I'm gonna have to knock down on the head
and just use the train or the button.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
The train's fantastic. Don't know why you're not, Oh, yeah,
you're You couldn't be in a better place for public
trainsport because the train is a ripper, that's.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Right, and you can use your gold card at certain time.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Nine you sit there, happy years, read a book? Do
you local? Richard Marcus?

Speaker 18 (37:11):
Welcome Marcus, How are you good?

Speaker 19 (37:14):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Richard?

Speaker 12 (37:16):
Good good?

Speaker 20 (37:16):
I'm interesting chat on the fuel just I think it's
getting a little bit over cooked myself. Recent history would
sort of show these geopolitical events in that region, don't
you know, the feel bad but don't actually last that
long and something.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
I think people are mindful of seventy three and seventy
nine and the oil shocks then when it did have
an effect.

Speaker 20 (37:39):
Yeah, I think you need to look past that personally
and look at the well where the oil futures contracts
are trading. Yes, they have just sort of about ninety
five dollars at the moment. But when you look out
where the prices are like three six, nine months, the
current prices are about eight back at eighty dollars. So
the market's telling you they think that this will get

(38:00):
corrected within you know, three months type of things. So, yeah,
lot of water to go under the bridge, but I
think it's not worth getting too worried about it at
this point other than being.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Well, you've got to prepare for these things, though, don't you,
because they will have significantment. I'm seeing a lot of
our export goods, our beef and our seafood and stuff
that is vulnerable being returned from ships and containers. I
don't know what the insurance is like on that, but
that's because the ships can't get through the strait. So already,
you know, we are seeing consequence for exporters.

Speaker 20 (38:38):
Yeah, absolutely, you know there's like an economic that's an
economic consequence as opposed to like the price of oil,
and in fact.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Of all that, well, oils and economic consequence.

Speaker 20 (38:49):
Growth, and then you'd probably see prices and demand actually
fall back, which would naturally bring prices actually back a
little bit and infect pretty evency interest rates rituce a
little bit because actually global demand would fall. So I
just sort of think that it's just more about the
fuel thing. I think that people you don't you don't

(39:12):
want to be scaring people about the price of fuel
because the hertue would show that and recent history that
it will that it will come back. So I think
you're both sides of it and not just sort of
like thinking higher oil is here for forever.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
The point I was discussing as someone that was asking
about their partner had bought a container and whether it
was safe to put fuel in. That's what led the discussion,
I guess. But yeah, I think I don't think it's
going to wind back quickly. I think this is going
to be something that's going to be around for a while,
but three months will know. Jeff, it's Marcus, good evening,
you're there, Jeff, Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
Sorry, mate.

Speaker 19 (39:53):
The government, the government is saying that they've they've got what, uh,
fifty days off Phil's that's going to put them what
what what schemes had they come up with to increase
the fuel that we need? You know, what are they

(40:14):
going to do about it?

Speaker 2 (40:17):
I don't know what do you mean increase the fuel.

Speaker 19 (40:21):
Well increase the amount. I thought some point there was
there was talk about marrisim point about manufacturing fuel them
and using marketam point as a fill up place for
fuel as a reserve. But I don't think anything came
out of that.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yeah, I don't think that's going to come to a risk.
You So, I think it's gone burger so because billions
to get that back on online apparently, Kennet's Marcus Good Evening.

Speaker 21 (40:50):
I can't Yeah, well, yeah, what I like to know
one two one? Why why doesn't the government jump onto
these fuel copies and stopped them putting the price of
fuel up at the moment because it was still running
on fuel that was bought as.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Yeah, I can't answer that, but thank you John. AND's
Marcus good Evening.

Speaker 22 (41:12):
Oh hi Marcus. That cricketer who died at ninety six.
I think he was a fellow that got into a
controversy about the speed record between Wellington and or some
years ago. I think he was the driver of the gut.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Now I'm not across the story, John, what's the story?

Speaker 22 (41:39):
Well, he was supposed to have.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Where have you heard about this cricketer?

Speaker 19 (41:44):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (41:45):
This is going back onto you know I made six
now that I can remember the controversy between this cricketer.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Sorry, sorry, John, I'm going to ask you to pause.
You rang up and said this cricketer that died at
ninety six? Which cricketer is that? And where have you
heard the story?

Speaker 22 (42:05):
Was it on the news?

Speaker 5 (42:07):
You remember?

Speaker 22 (42:08):
I just heard it on the on the the news.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Okay, I'm not across that, Dan, Can you see me
some information about that.

Speaker 22 (42:15):
I can't really, but I think past.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
My producer too, That's what I'm doing.

Speaker 22 (42:21):
Yeah, I think you'll find that this was the fellow
that drove the Jaguar between Auckland and Wellington and he
claimed the record for about six and a half hours.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
Wow, okay, and it.

Speaker 22 (42:37):
Was quite it was quite newsworthy at the time.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Yeah. As I say, I was doing other things. I
didn't hear the story. Is he a New Zealand cricketer?

Speaker 22 (42:47):
Oh yes, oh yes, he was a very good cricketer,
very good.

Speaker 5 (42:51):
He was keeper.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
I was soon I'm Dan.

Speaker 16 (42:58):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Trevor McMahon, okay.

Speaker 22 (43:00):
Yeah, that's it McMahon. And I'm pretty sure that that's
the same guy that that said that he broke the
speed record. And of course there were counterclaims and everything else.
But thought I just mentioned that.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Yeah, and I appreciate that. I will look into that, John,
so I'll get some more details up. But thank you
for that. Nine to nineteen Rossetts, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 23 (43:29):
Yeah, Marcus. I wanted to turn the radio on because
I've been doing other things. But I think that cricketer's
name was Frank Mooney, and if I remember right here,
I think he might have been a wicket keeper. He's
certainly in New Zealand rep And it was about nineteen
fifty six, n about there fifty seven preps. I worked

(43:50):
across the road in Wellington where he used to have
his jake you were packed. It was a mark seven
jake and we used to talk about so well. They
said fast jake, you know. So he went from Wellington
to Auckland to Wellington and the record time.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Lesson seven hours year and I know that talking about
those records. It's frowned upon now because of the danger.
But he did it on Saint Patrick's Day nineteen fifty seven.
And he wasn't worket keeper, you quite right?

Speaker 23 (44:17):
Yeah, I sure he was. Yes, Frank Mooney, I think,
wasn't it.

Speaker 5 (44:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (44:21):
But the other the cricketer that died today. Just to
back people up, that was New Zealand's oldest test cricketer
was Trevor McMahons. He's died at ninety six. But yeah,
this guy was. You're right about that, it was mister Mooney.

Speaker 23 (44:33):
Yeah, all right, I'll carry on listening as interesting problem
subject here.

Speaker 12 (44:38):
What an't you thank you're us?

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Yeah, Frank Mooney. But yeah, I do think that that's
a It was a record that people talked about a lot,
but I think it's very much shunned now because of
you've got to break the lawter to do that. I
think it was on the back of a bet with
Frank Mooney, probably quicker than than it was now. Actually
seven hours you'd be doing well. I don't know how

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you go. Matt Marcus.

Speaker 18 (45:02):
Welcome evening.

Speaker 8 (45:03):
Marcus.

Speaker 24 (45:04):
Just on conflicts, I been I work in the investment
area of finance and twenty seven years and times like this,
we get some very good information that we look at
provided the last by people and some of the institutions,
and something I was looking at yesterday some good data
had the last thirteen conflicts like this. The measure was

(45:26):
the S and P five hundred index, you know, top
five hundred rusted companies in North America, and within six
months the S and P five hundred was on the
increase or back in positive charity about half half of
the conflicts. Within twelve months most of the conflicts, the

(45:47):
data was back in the positive territory and by the
end of each conflict the S and P five hundred
was on the gain or in the positive. There's the
lasted in conflicts for the Iraq War, even the Duro
was the latest one. I can't remember which was the first,
but going back thirteen major conflicts. So with this one,
I think it's going to be large over by the
end of eightful personal speculation. Certainly by six months the

(46:13):
markets or will certainly be positive. Maybe even three months
talk continue to be positives.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
When you talk about the S and P five hundred,
How has it been with all the previous conflicts, with
the New Zealand market, the fact that we perhaps are
more vulnerable to some of these things because we're not
oil dependent, and we are trade dependent and our trade
requires a lot of shipping.

Speaker 24 (46:38):
Yeah, I haven't seen the indets fifty measured over a conflict,
so I don't know. We're smaller, narrower market. So it's
possible that we you know, we're less, less exposed industriality
to the conflicts, but we're.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
It's possibly worse. It's possible would be more. I mean,
it's more like it'd be more exposed, isn't it.

Speaker 24 (47:02):
Yeah, that's right, more exposed being smaller market economy could
be more. But no, we look, it's all going to
be rolling through three or six months. Everyone's keep you savors.
Everything will be back on track. And that previous caller, the.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
But you, but Matt, you have no way of knowing that.
I mean, just because that's what's happened in the past,
does not mean that's what happens in the future, though,
does it?

Speaker 12 (47:25):
Absolutely?

Speaker 24 (47:26):
Yeah, totally. But it's a it's a good indication, you know,
it's it's a good say.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
You'd say it would be like it would be likely.

Speaker 24 (47:34):
You're right, I've got no idea, you know, when when
the markets turn up or down, you know, the the
ball market and US equities which has been running for
three years, you know, average ball markets four point five
years since World War Two. So personally, I think we've
got another year or two of ball market to go,

(47:56):
and that and that asset. But but look this, this
conflict could turn turn it round into a bear market.

Speaker 8 (48:04):
No one knows.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
The thing that may me Matt is when the Trump speaks,
he seems to be able to quite quickly affect the market.
Yet he doesn't seem to speak with any authority. And
it's the bit that I can't work out he has
the ability is how it's all going to be over
with one and the shoe market corrects and the price

(48:25):
of oil goes down. Then the reality kicks in and people
realize that it's not over, and the around a fight,
and the shear market reacts negatively. Why why do they
get such Why does the information they get seem to
be influenced by his speaking when it seems to be
not about grounded in fact, that's the bit that I

(48:46):
can't get.

Speaker 24 (48:48):
Trump Trump's communications or any actions that they're not the
greatest for the market stability, but they work.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
It seems as though he can is the market even
though what he's saying is often wrong.

Speaker 24 (49:00):
Why he does what he does? Just observing this guy,
I think he he it's his strategy or tactic that
he he blows up a lot of smoke. He talks
this and that confusion. He confuses people and then he
comes out of that and does what he does. So
I think he likes to camouflage or just it's a

(49:21):
smoke screen what he says this and that it winds
people up, you know, turns everyone. But you know this
Greenland thing in Canada, you know, he's a blow hard,
not a narcissist. He's the simply big guy with a
wealthy guy with a big ego. We used to call
his blowhards, and that's a narcissists don't, you know, become billionaires.

(49:46):
They don't have families or they're not very successful in
using and it's a disorder. So it's a bit annoying
when people say that. But he, you know, he just
blows up a lot of smoke and then he comes
out of it doing whatever he's going to do, what
he wants to do, and that that's the way he works.
Just on observation of the day.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
Matt, nice to talk, Thanks so much. The twenty six
person No evening, Shane, welcome Marcus.

Speaker 25 (50:11):
Just on Puel storage. I've got a a helpboard tope kink,
which is cooky Leaders, so I can pull that up
with picture word storage the problem at all, and you
can buy them from the marine shop.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
What's it called an outboard? What how's that spelled g
O G Okay, never heard of that.

Speaker 25 (50:34):
Yeah, it's just at bleastic tink with the handle of
it's going to gauge and and I'll pull a hole
you can pull off the Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I
think you can get him one hundred liter. But you
also go to remember that about a leasure of liquids,

(50:55):
not the chiluna be Yeah, it's gonna be heavy, all right.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
And you wouldn't want it in the back of your
car for too long, would.

Speaker 25 (51:02):
You No, because you're dragging it around.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
Well, okay, appreciate that, Shane, thank you. I just come
to headlines. If you want to talk on here eight
hundred eighty eighty nine two nine to two to text.
Don't get a lot of news from the Middle East,
but if anything happens, I'll let you know about it.
People a lot of people texting about fuel prices. That
seems to be people's hobby. Often fuel back up to

(51:25):
one hundred dollars, and I'll keep you posted on that
people throughout the course of the evening. If you want
to talk on air. That's the plan. Oh eight hundred
eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two text A
want of discussion about the influences in Dubai who I
don't follow. I can't imagine what the life must be
like in Dubai before all this has always seemed like

(51:47):
a pretty harsh place to live, but oh well, they
seemed to love it. And the latters I've got for you.
Oil tank has erupt into flames after being struck by
explosive Filderranean boats as Tehran threatens to push price to
two hundred dollars a barrel. So this is recent news.
Midas Country warned that the world will warned the world

(52:10):
to prepare for oiled at two hundred after attracts attack
three ships in the Strait. So I don't know how
they resolve this, but a lot of people perhaps feel
confident that it's going to be just a blip. Iran
said it would not allow one lead of oil to
be shipped from the Middle East if the US, US
and Israel Israeli attacks continue and the ships that have

(52:32):
gone through have been obliterated. I guess it's not the
point is so, yes, if you have tot this or
anything else tonight. Feel free to come through, Oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine toward the
text number, looking forward to what you've got to say.
But they have been discussed, and I don't know. There
have been discussions on why the government can restrict the

(52:52):
amount of fuel that we use. I don't know how
well that will work. It's got to be something that
you've got to be prepared with that you can actually
instigate it quite quickly. So that's probably tricky. So there
we go, Andrew, it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 5 (53:05):
Oh here were you good?

Speaker 2 (53:06):
Thank you? Andrew.

Speaker 26 (53:08):
Yeah, there's war causing the fuel crisis is a bit
of a problem, isn't it. Yeah, it might well and
truly be over in two weeks, three weeks, a month,
six weeks, who knows. But everybody's just thinking about the
petrol that they put in your car and all the
diesel that they put in their truck. But it actually,

(53:29):
if it goes for too long, depending on large manufacturing companies,
they're going to run out of the.

Speaker 20 (53:35):
Rule supplies for plastics, like because.

Speaker 26 (53:39):
A lot of your plastic fool companies patrolling in by products.
So I was looking at Al Jazeera this afternoon, and
the Korean company is about to close down because they
can't get the supplies of the of the plastic palette.
So that really rippled through the whole economy of manufacturing. Plants,
closed down, computer plants, chip manufacturers. They can't get the

(54:01):
required to put to practics to go into their components.
And then you've got the agricultural Agricultural chemicals as well,
like a lot of fertilizers and things like that are
all based on patroleum products. I'm not a petrochemical engineer,
but just as a Google six, so as it goes
perform like too long, it will have a tipping point

(54:22):
and then all of a sudden it will really start
affecting other areas of the shutting down other areas of
the economics around the world.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
And the countries that are affected mainly by the twenty
percent of fuel are you China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, those
places and US that get it, and they are the
ones that really drive manufacturing in the world also, so
they are part of the supply chain, so the world
is revulnerable to those places being affected. The other thing too,
is that there's tool that places like Korea can say okay,

(54:52):
we can veto a supply that's going to New Zealand
of fuel and they can commandeer that that they have priority,
so and then we miss out.

Speaker 26 (55:00):
Correct, correct, and then yes, so it's really it really
is quite Also a lot of people using the demon
went on before saying I normally they the market's resumed
within six months or this or that or this, but
with the Iranian war being backed by China and Russia
that they may have quite a different outlook is that

(55:21):
they don't really want to care about I mean, a
big country. You can bomb as much as you like
out of the desert, a big deal. But they really
want to cripple the US and by doing it, but
by doing that, I'll just keep they can just keep
the petrol supply low. And then everybody will end up
hating America because Donald Trump did just say, well I

(55:41):
just had a I just I bombed because.

Speaker 7 (55:43):
I had a feeling.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
It makes America revulnerable for any other conflict too, which
worries if there's any other if there's any other if
any other country wants to take an opportunity when America
is weakened because they've used all the Ordinance.

Speaker 26 (55:58):
Well, yeah, because they're they're they're shifting all the iron
the dome, iron dome from Korea, all of those missiles.
They shuldn't they take them away from South Korea. So yeah,
at least a very they're exposed, aren't.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
They Absolutely right? Certainly, Andrew, I didn't have the faith
that some of those people looking at the futures mark,
looking at the Dale have because I don't think I
think none of their actions from the market or the
commentators really have known what's gone on. It's all been
quite unpredictable and quite poorly thought out. It appears as
though Trump had no no idea how vulnerable they were too.

(56:38):
Petrochemical blackmail or whatever you call it in the Straits
or the Strait of Willmus twenty three away from ten
poll in its Marcus, good evening, Yes.

Speaker 27 (56:48):
Marcus, I've just got a query for you. The USA
took over Venezuela, didn't it recently?

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Yes, effortlessly.

Speaker 27 (56:57):
And haven't they got oil productions?

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Well, they said they had oil, but actually it turned
out that the oil wasn't as available as they thought.
It was quite hard to get and a lot of
the places where you got the oil was run down
and the infrastructure was bad. So they talked about easy oil,
easy win. But what transpired was it was anything but
it was hard to get out of there. It wasn't
readily available, and I think that was a bit of

(57:21):
spin before the attack.

Speaker 27 (57:23):
Yes, thank you very much for that. I just thought
perhaps the USA had thought, right, we'll get an oil
supply and we can bomb Irana. It won't matter if
the straight is blocked because we'll have oil from Venezuela.
But thank you very much for explaining that. Well done.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
I think what Venezuela did for Trump is it gave
him victory disease. He thought it was easy to win
a war because it was so easy. But certainly it
seems that the situation in Iran for raging change is
much much more difficult.

Speaker 27 (57:52):
I still can't believe he actually kidnapped a president and
the rest of the countries around the world allowed him
to do it and get away with it.

Speaker 5 (57:59):
And we don't know.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
I was thinking about that. We don't know what's going
to happen to that president when he comes up for
the charges charged with but they're going to charge him
for crime. Certainly, you think that there'd be others that
are vulnerable for crimes with the bombing of her arm
for a start. Yes, okay, there's rugby league to the
Eels and the Brisbane moroncos I think that Glomax has

(58:23):
gone to rugby union. That was a surprise. Good player,
we got at you here be in the World Cup.
He could be the winner. They get Mark now and
a Katawasi Beck as well. Marcus, how are you going?
Has anyone said anything tonight at about the Bluebridge Ferry,
Connamara and the Cook Strait not moving? No, I haven't

(58:45):
heard anything about that. What's the thing I go to
Dan for ship watch? What's that one ship trekker. I
haven't heard anything about the Connamara because I know we're
down to I know they're down to one Kiwi rail ferry,
marine tree. It's got to come up as marine traffic.
I have got agree to that, Queen Charlotte, I'm on
it now. Anyone else can go? Is it the green one?

(59:08):
I can't condum Ocean Victoria. Let me just have rid
of a look at this. If this is breaking news,
great agility, No server seer, I can't see the Connamara
in the middle of the strait. For me, it's still
very much just out of picton. So if anyone's got
the information about global shipping, yeah, why do you say that?

(59:29):
Because I can't see it. But look, I will continue
to look at new sources to say there because look
I know that. So to get tips from you guys
about interl and ferries and traffic and what you say
is spot on. You've very quick at alerting me to
problems there, So I'll keep looking into that. Good Evan Graham,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 5 (59:48):
Welcome eving Marcus.

Speaker 28 (59:49):
I what if people almost ask how are you? I mean,
you obviously wouldn't be able to work if you if
it went well anyway, I just wanted to say markets
an observation boring on what they've got. I said before
an article in the paper there the South Career was
losing a lot of its United States shoot down and

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missileles and drone e equipment, you know, because they needed
over in the Middle East. So this week in the
South Career considerably so China. I have been wanting to
take that to Tiwan for so long. They will they
will do that very very soon. And because Taiwan makes
about eighty percent of the wheels of microsts for computers,

(01:00:36):
et cetera. That's going to cause a massive problem driverly,
which don't want China because I'll have console of everything basically,
So if anything to stays that the United States is
going to be that that week and fighting wars on
so many fronts, mainly in the Middle East, that China
is going to grab that opportunity and grab back Taiwan.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
Well, technically they are at an advantage now because you're right,
of course, you know. I mean they've got the best,
the best, the most sophisticated, and well have they got
the best army in the world. Someone say that China
is the tactical technically ahead when it comes to war games.
But I mean the thing is that the army and
the hardwares function very well with what they've done. It's

(01:01:18):
just been some of the decisions they've made have been poor.
But yeah, I think it would be I hope none
of the stuff happens. But if you're a technical person,
well they looking up for the long game. Maybe you're
looking for America as a power that's waning anyway, Oh.

Speaker 28 (01:01:32):
Of course it is, and it's going to get to
the stage where they just are going to be weakened
because they're going to be fighting on so many fronts,
and Russia, Iran, China and North Korea are a dangerous
access and I've got a lot of power that access.
So this is going to draw Australia the UK into

(01:01:53):
it more and more because they're going to have to
help out because the States are going to be overwhelmed.
And as it is, as goods worth going to end,
it's not going to be a short war at all.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
And you've also got to realize how much all the wars,
the forever wars in the coast and the Gulf of
cost America, you know, the Afghanistan and the Iraqi. Yeah,
you know, it's been years and years. It's cost trillions
of dollars and at some level that must affect the
American quality of life. And hmm, yeah, you know that's
that's that's not good for a country.

Speaker 28 (01:02:27):
Oh, I know, it's it's not it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
A ficture quality. Ficture quality of living and your wealth
if you're endlessly fighting wars.

Speaker 16 (01:02:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (01:02:36):
Have they say that wars generated a lot of money,
to which they obviously do, But I mean Iran are
a completely different war game and the one who's taken
over the son of where I've just read an article,
so are you saying he's even more so?

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
It's not the Graham's not the son of the shar
it's the son of the Iotol. The Iotola took over
from the Shah.

Speaker 5 (01:02:59):
The sorry, yeah, and we don't and.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
We don't know. This guy got bombed too, and he's
got injuries to his arms and his legs, and his
wife and his dead got killed.

Speaker 28 (01:03:08):
Yeah, so he's not.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
Going to be a heavy, not a happy chappie at all.
And when they start targeting the destalination plants, that sounds
miserable because no one's got any water. Imagine being in
the desert with no water.

Speaker 28 (01:03:21):
Yeah, the state to be looking to take them out
as soon as they can because along with him in
the heads of the River Revolutionary Guard, who are hard
ass radical Islam. So something I've done with you've ever
heard of it. I only came across for the first
time just the other day reading an article in the
news because I read the newspaper every day. That's where

(01:03:43):
good Reformation from sixty seven years old isn't it's going
to go online or anything like. That's a newspaper a
nice tangible thing. And I can turn the pages and
enthusia articles I want to anyway the hole you can't.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
You can't choose the articles you want to read online.
But fair enough, I take your point.

Speaker 28 (01:03:59):
Yes, well yeah, yeah, yeah, but you're's scrolling, Marcus.

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
You're scrolling there, you're turning pain growing on the two
of the.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
I only there grabbing. You might be get freddy with
the language. But nice to talk fifteen to ten, looking
for more information on the Connie Murrah Marcus Connamara has
injured us. She's certainly not in the cookstral. It wasn't
picked and when the fault happened, they've canceled the overnight
sailings to investigate. Thank you Connamara. Fairies anchored off picked
and currently with technical issues. Where's Nichol Willis's accountability on

(01:04:33):
this with the fairies? When we've got the the interaler
is down to one in our Connamurra, which is I
presume blue Bridge one?

Speaker 7 (01:04:40):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
I think I've got that right. It's not the backup,
is it? How much would it take for us to
produce our own oil and gas? We should consider that
and sustain our own, Well, what if we went solar?
All in on that with batteries and solar is a thought.
There's no soul in going through the straighter hall moves
is there? We have Rugby League tonight to Brisbane versus

(01:05:01):
Paramatta that's about to start. That's if that you want off,
you go fourteen to ten. It's twelve to ten. I'm
interested that the optimism from people tonight that this will
be short lived. I don't share that optimism. I hope,
I hope I'm wrong, but I just don't. I just
can't see in myself how this conflict resolves itself. And

(01:05:26):
I can't see how a country of ninety million with
a very long coastline can be stopped from a gorilla
action of interfering with ships in the Strait of Homus.
They thought Vietnam would be over quite quickly, but it's
that gorilla mentality that keeps things going. It's a long coastline.

(01:05:47):
I don't know how long you'd call it would be
Iran's coastline in the Persia Sea. I don't know how long.
It would be two and a half thousand kilometers. Oh,
that's total. That's including the Caspian c as well, twenty
and fifty kilometers. So you got drones, you've got submarines,
you got mines, and anyone can just go down to

(01:06:11):
the coast and send a mine off into the channel.
Not those Japanese, remember that. Remember the japan in the
World War two hit those just Hotti air balloons they
set off that land, an American started fire. It's often
those very very simple things that you can just do,
that you can develop ingeniously, that can ready can well.

(01:06:32):
In that case, that didn't really affect much, but the
fact they managed to do it was kind of extraordinary.
So yeah, I don't know how you. I don't know
how you enforce that whole coastline. How do you do it?
You can't unless you have American naval ships escorting all
ships through, but they themselves will be vulnerable, the naval
ships from attack. So I don't know how you police

(01:06:56):
in this modern day a whole gulf of water. But
I might have missed stuff. Nine to ten, Good evening, Rayots, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:07:07):
Good Marcus, how you man?

Speaker 19 (01:07:09):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
Thank you?

Speaker 12 (01:07:09):
Ray.

Speaker 13 (01:07:10):
Yeah, I just wanted to try and balance things up
a little bit to be and listened to here for
the last hour or so just just talking about the
fuel crisis and what's gone on in the Middle East.
And I'm probably a little bit more leaning conservatively on
the side that.

Speaker 12 (01:07:27):
It will be short.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Sure, I think.

Speaker 13 (01:07:31):
You know, there's a lot of people I listened to
a couple of the callers back and talking about Trump
being a blowhard and all this sort of stuff. Well,
people seem to forget where he come from. This is
a guy that came back from nine hundred million in
debt personally after his father left all that money and
rebuilt himself to be a self made billionaire. You don't

(01:07:52):
get that by being a blowhard. That aside, he's a
two time president now, so he deserves respect.

Speaker 5 (01:07:58):
And you know, what.

Speaker 13 (01:08:00):
He's done in Venezuela is fairly unique, let's say. But
you know, looking at looking at the objectively too, Jerry
was a gangster. You know, he really was running a cartel.
America had set up the infrastructure there or wives and
it was a big managed property. You know, it's become
a bit of a hemispherical battle at the minute between

(01:08:23):
the Americans, which are really defending the Western world.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
How do you secure it? How does he come back
from bankruptcy as you say, this great man, how does
he manage to secure shipping through the Straight of Hormus.

Speaker 13 (01:08:41):
Well, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
I don't think he knows the answer.

Speaker 13 (01:08:45):
I think he does, and I think it'll become a
lot more apparent very shortly. And up the up the
top right hand corner of the Strait of Harmus, there's
a very key spot that that basically dictates the whole
whole of the Strait of Harmus and the the the

(01:09:06):
the fuel that runs in and out of there from
our arm Now, just today he's given warnings to all
of all Iranians to keep away from the ports because
you're starting to take this a bit more seriously now,
you see, under a lot of pressure, they've released the
record around four hundred million barrels I've released around the
world to mitigate this fuel issue in the short term.

(01:09:28):
But the key, the key thing that he's not saying.
He's been a little bit caging on it, and he's
saying that you know that there's other key critical infrastructure
that he's leaving because he's still leaving that on the
table as a bargaining chip to still come out of
this with a deal. But you know, in saying that
the Israelis are very much firm that they want to
keep mowing down the line of this leadership until the

(01:09:50):
whole of this regime's gone. And this other guy, no
one's seen him the Sun, no one has seen him.
Apparently his league was going off. No one can confirm
or to deny it because they can't find him. No
one seen him. But you know you want to have
a look. So the Carg Island, Marcus, carg Island, Hig Island,

(01:10:13):
and that's the key.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
Okay, James, it's Marcus. Good evening. You're an update on
the You're an update on the cook straight.

Speaker 12 (01:10:21):
Wow.

Speaker 18 (01:10:21):
We're in a third world country here, Marcus, because we've
lost one of the fairies withinter Ireland for and I
got my email today about a rebooking. They've rebooked me
on the next ferry in the fourth of April, so
that's very handy. And then just today Blue Bridge is
down a ferry. So we currently have one fairy per
company operational in this country.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
Shocking. Some interesting texts Marcus in response to the Trump groupie,
even if the regime is overthrown and Iran, there will
be a large dissident group left to become gorillas like
ISIS did in Afghanistan Iraq. Their main target will remain
a straight Trump has created a problem that will cause
major disruptions for the next decade or more. Yeah, it's
really hard to bomb your way to regime change. I

(01:11:07):
don't know anyone that's done it. If you bomb normally,
things get worse. Just watch the guy fill nine petrol
cans and put them in the bod of his car. Anyway,
Marcus thought I would treat myself and buy some bluffy
soday and alk and eighty bucks a dozen fainted narrow
covin Orkan hospital. I used to buy them in the
cargo for twenty shillings a dozen. Yeah. Well, I don't

(01:11:30):
think things are going great there with the oysters, so
watch the space. But yeah, let's hope it. Let's hope
they recover James. It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 18 (01:11:42):
Hey, Marcus, I was just chatting with you briefly before.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
The news that, oh what's your situation?

Speaker 18 (01:11:49):
So well, So inter Island is down to one fairy,
and now as of today Blue Bridge is down to
one fairy. The Connamara is out of action. They cancel
today's sailings. So both companies are down to one Fairy each,
so we are we work, we travel around the country
over summer following the cricket. We supply all the audio

(01:12:11):
and that sort of thing. So we've just been down
into need In for the White Fern series and we
need to bring all the gear back north for the
doubleheaders that kick off on Sunday and Todong. And we're
having a little bit of trouble at the moment because
sailings are canceled and when a boat goes down and
they say, oh, you will have it fixed by the

(01:12:31):
end of the weekend, which is what in trying I think.
You don't get moved to the next sailing, you get canceled.
And so our email was your next available sailing is
the fourth of April. So it's difficult to operate a
business in this country when you need to island shopping.

Speaker 2 (01:12:47):
It's infrastructure, and our infrastructure is not good. It needs
to be better, needs to be perfect. Unfortunately, unfortunately, the
Fairies is infrastructure. That's our way, that's our highway. Yeah yeah,
so you go on a wait list. Now you can
look and keep clicking on that app and see.

Speaker 11 (01:13:03):
Well.

Speaker 18 (01:13:05):
You have to go on the web sites and look
and hope that one has popped up and become available.
I today spend an hour using forlored Ai to do
it for me, and it just rut checks every fifteen
minutes on my computer and flicks me and alert if
a sailing pop randomly pops up, so I don't have
to manually check. I've managed to get AI to run

(01:13:26):
a script that will do it for me, which is
I suppose a little bit less edmund on mind. But
no sailings have become available today.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Where are you staying?

Speaker 18 (01:13:37):
We'rein picked In at this point. I'm not sure the
name of the place.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
But where having to rent a motel?

Speaker 29 (01:13:45):
Yeah, I looked on the there's a local page chatting
today about people who chat about the fairies and cook
straight gossip and that sort of thing, and they said
that the place is just gridlock and picked In, which
we saw. And you know, locals can't get home because
there's just cars for miles or backed up. You know,
they can't get on the fairies.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
And look, it's not ideal with planes either because they're
canceling eleven hundred films. How much gear have you got?

Speaker 18 (01:14:10):
We got a large transit van full of gear, so
we can you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
Know the you'll be worried about security of your gear
as well too, won't.

Speaker 18 (01:14:18):
You Totally So we're making plan bs at the moment,
hoping that fairies do pop up. But man to have
a country where there's one theory available from each company
is just it's not on and the government should be
doing more about it. And I know people, well you
can't do much about it. Was a Bluebridge, they're a
privately owned company. But Intero Ireland are being key, we railed.

(01:14:41):
They should be treating it more seriously.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
I think shocking. Are you covered from are you covered
by insurance? Loss of revenue?

Speaker 5 (01:14:49):
Not really no way to have to pick it up.

Speaker 18 (01:14:51):
It's just part of it.

Speaker 5 (01:14:53):
I think.

Speaker 18 (01:14:55):
I just think when you have Seymour in the house
today I said before, just laughing it off and saying
when he was questioned about it and saying, oh we've
got these fairies coming in three years time, Well that
doesn't fix the problem for New Zealanders.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
They had the fairious coming and what capacity was Seamore
speaking is he was.

Speaker 18 (01:15:14):
Questioned by Julian and Gender about us in TI Ireland.
They're only having one theory and not having enough like
backstops for example, if parts break, why don't they have
you know, stock in the country, they have to fly
parts and from overseas.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
Was he questioned his deputy from I can't.

Speaker 5 (01:15:33):
Well, I'm not too sure.

Speaker 18 (01:15:34):
I'm not sure if he's deputy this week, but he
was I.

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
Think his deputy for the second for the half of
the term. So I just don't I don't know what
ministerial portfolios he would have to be answering.

Speaker 18 (01:15:46):
But usually Winston. But yeah, he was the unanswering stuff
and he didn't really take it that seriously.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Well and and and that's and despite his politics, despite everything,
it's his it's his smug manner that will cost him,
I thing ultimately.

Speaker 18 (01:16:02):
Because he don't think they're reading the room right.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
Yeah, hasn't read exactly. I don't think he's ever read
the room. Good luck, Joeanne, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 30 (01:16:11):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:16:11):
How are you doing good?

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
Thanks Joeyanne, good good.

Speaker 30 (01:16:15):
Hey, I'm down and Foxton Beach.

Speaker 28 (01:16:17):
And we just heard a.

Speaker 30 (01:16:19):
Couple of helicopters fly over on the way to Armiston,
North like on the coast, and I was just wondering,
as there is some major thing happening. I don't usually
see them flying at night. Have you heard anything?

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
I did know that yesterday there were army exercise or
Air Force exercises up in the Ekataros or somewhere up
above upp huddle somewhere. So I don't quite know what's
going on, but yeah, that might be what it is.
Oh okay, but look I don't know, but we'll find
out more.

Speaker 30 (01:16:51):
Okay, thanks very much.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
Is there anything on your local Facebook page?

Speaker 18 (01:16:54):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:16:55):
I haven't got the internet, so I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
Brilliant good on you, But like Iran, no one he's
got the internet. Hi, Ted, it's Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:17:03):
Who's that Marcus?

Speaker 16 (01:17:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (01:17:05):
Hi Ted?

Speaker 6 (01:17:06):
Oh Ted? Yeah, remember last year I called you about
a bottle of Glen fillage whiskey.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
Tell me more.

Speaker 6 (01:17:13):
I was given a bottle of Glen fillage whiskey in
nineteen seventy eight and I still have it unopened, and
I was just making a few inquiries about it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
Did you take it to it? Did you have a
risk time show and tell that you took it to
Is it that story?

Speaker 6 (01:17:26):
I live in a retirement village in how Eating and
towering here, but now I never took it anywhere. I
took it down and showed my happy group about it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
That's I think the happy group. I remember you three
about the happy hour group.

Speaker 6 (01:17:39):
So last week I told them that I had a
birthday coming up and I said, if you like, you
guys like to come along next Wednesday night, I'm going
to open this bottle of glen fillage.

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
What a great idea.

Speaker 6 (01:17:52):
So that's what I did. I took it down last night.
There was thirteen of them turned up. I gave one
of the older members of the village the option to
open this and take the first sip, and he gave
me the thumbs up. Reckon, it was a beautiful taste.
So after two rounds of thirty miles each, everybody seemed
to give us the thumbs up. And there's only about

(01:18:13):
two inches left in the bottom of the bottle.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
Oh that's brilliant. Did you have ice? Did you have
special cubes?

Speaker 7 (01:18:18):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:18:19):
Someone said, don't put ice with whiskey because by the
time you finished drinking it, the bloody ice will be
all melted when it'll be diluted. So we just had
a lemonade, lemonade and whiskey, and the latest I could
find out about that bottle. The last person I told
googled somebody and they came back with them and told
me that a bottle of glen Fidage bottled in the

(01:18:41):
nineteen sixties or seventies was worth two hundred and ninety
five pound. Goodness, So that's all I'm find to find
out about it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
Oh well, I'll tell you what. Next week's yppio is
going to be a disappointment, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (01:18:54):
It is be right for me and one other maybe,
But yeah, So everyone went home happy and Reckon. It
was a good idea to open it, and we know
all about it now.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
Hotwarming story ted, Thank you for that. Six the past ten, Marcus,
the two helicopters would be on return from exercise over
Wellington City tonight. Marcus, it's bread. I'm looking at the
helicopters your last caller was talking about. They are three
Royal New Zealand Air Force helicopters. Marcus Winston Churchill and
the USA bomb their way to regime change, at least partially.

(01:19:27):
Marcus smug Sima was answering as Prime Minister as Luxon
was not in the house. Tritch, where was he? I'm
surprised people are following Parliament. Good on them though, he
twelve Noarl Brisbane over Parametter. I wonder why it's so
very difficult. Ah. I was going to say one way,
it's so very difficult to maintain fairies, but then I

(01:19:47):
remember these probably are fairies that are at the end
of their lives, and maintenance is a big deal. And
it's probably a fairly tricky piece of water with strong
seas and swells. Yeah, that would do it, wouldn't it
harsh marine environment? And they're used a great deal used,
probably more than they are because all the other ones

(01:20:08):
are out, so one goes and the other one is overused.
But that's terrible for that guy running that sound company.
That's shocking. Now drones have struck the Kuwait airport causing
material damage and guesses back over the Hyundi that's for
the Brent crude. And a ship is burning after i

(01:20:29):
Ranian explosive laden boats of pedo attacked two fuel tankers
and Iraqi waters, seeing them ablaze. Concerns over the war
have I intensified, and a bid to calm concerns over
oil supplies, International Energy Agency ordered the largest release of
government reserves in its history, but the announcement was overshadwed

(01:20:50):
by widespread Ranian attacks on energy facilis across the Middle East.
Several merchant ships were struck and around the Strait of Hormus,
one of the most important arteries in global trade. Iraq
holdal operations and its oil ports. After an attack on
two nearby all tankers, the rain told residents to stay home.
After an Iranian attack on fuel tanks in the Maharrak Governate,

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gavernor rate a man has mean while shipped all vehicles
out of its main aily expect terminal at Minutel after
Drona strikes another of its ports. So disruption continues. But
if there's more information, I don't know what Brent Crud's
at the moment and if it's trading one hundred twenty
four hours a day, but I have a bit of
a but look, I'm sure there's fortunes to be weighed

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made and lost playing oh ninety eight dollars and one cent.
It's been as high as one hundred dollars and forty three.
It's on the way back up. Currently, she's trending twenty
past nine, twenty past ten. Someone saying, well, Donald Trump
used nuclear weapons. Some analysts have debated the use of
technical all nuclear weapons to target deeply buried Iranian nuke

(01:21:57):
facilities that might be resistant to conventional bunker buster bombs,
although only of you used them twice, haven't they? Twenty
past ten, twenty two past ten, Joseph, it's Marcus. Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 12 (01:22:12):
Joseph.

Speaker 2 (01:22:12):
Hi, Joseph, Hello, how are you good? Thank you, Joseph
good Man.

Speaker 8 (01:22:18):
New Zealand purchases oil well head of time to be
putting up prices of oil immediately and when something like
this goes on, Yeah, twenty eight days we held oil
for I think maybe a little bit less for petrol.

Speaker 2 (01:22:36):
Are you saying they put up the prices too quickly?

Speaker 8 (01:22:39):
Yeah, yeah, I think we could come to their assumption
pretty quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:22:44):
I don't know that how that works. If they just
are charging for what they need to pay for the
replacement to buy the new stuff, I don't know how
that works.

Speaker 8 (01:22:51):
I'm surprised there's a business decision to give away oil
to other parts of the world when we've got to
buy at a higher rate.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
Yeah. I mean, we do have a commis commission that
should investigate stuff, So imagine what they're doing is legal,
but I don't quite know. It doesn't seem right to me.

Speaker 8 (01:23:07):
No, it's not. It doesn't seem like common sense. If
everyone's got to then buy it again in the higher rate,
I don't know why we'd be wholesaling it out.

Speaker 2 (01:23:15):
No, it makes those sense to me either.

Speaker 8 (01:23:17):
I was a bit surprised as well when I saw
one of the parliament guys the other day saying as
soon as in New Zealand didn't make as big a
profit as previous years, they were going to quickly drop
their years as government holders and the government airline. It
was a bit strange.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
They haven't done that though, have they?

Speaker 5 (01:23:35):
I don't think so.

Speaker 8 (01:23:36):
Thankfully they don't act upon every single comment it's made
to reporters. But yeah, I was like, wow, it doesn't
seem like a good business move either. But yeah, I do.
I do wonder about that, Like I mean, if you
were going into Valentine's and the cost of Colton was
going to go up in a month's time, I don't
think they'd get away with selling suits that they bought

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six months ago for a higher rate.

Speaker 2 (01:23:59):
We'll see if someone can explain it, Joseph. But thank you.
Hello Darren, it's Marcus Good evening.

Speaker 31 (01:24:04):
Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
There you go, mate, good, thank you, Darren.

Speaker 31 (01:24:06):
Good love to show buddy ringing And regarding the oil,
specifically about the guy that spoke about twenty minutes ago
who sort of made out he was a world economic expert.
I'm definitely not that, mate, but I think he was
trying to make out that he was. But to say
that people, you know, we shouldn't be concerned about this.

(01:24:29):
You know that guy obviously has got a lot of money.
Everyday people are very concerned about this, very concerned. You
know that Avery New Zealand are struggling to make ends
meet as it is, you know, and this increase in
the picture already, it's not just going to go away.
Like you said, what these guys are saying, it's a

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fuel companies are so corrupt. When the prices of all
do go up at the pump, it goes straight up.
They don't come back down when the barrels go back
down straight away. Quite often takes some time, but everyday
families are really struggling to meet ends meet, and you
and people are very concerned. Everyone every work you pay,

(01:25:13):
you go into and talk to you. Everyone is talking
about it, and you know guys like that, I don't
think we need to be really worried about that.

Speaker 5 (01:25:20):
Well, yeah we do, because it's going to be everything.

Speaker 2 (01:25:24):
There was two or three calls that I thought, you
I thought it was a way, whether it was an
organized thing for Field try and spin it from some
port of to get to skew the poles or quite
what it was.

Speaker 12 (01:25:35):
But you know, it was bizarre.

Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
Every every day, I think the situation gets worse and worse.

Speaker 31 (01:25:41):
Absolutely, mate, And that's it's it's it's it's a bit
hard to gauge because you don't know who to believe.
I mean, America keeps saying daily that it's over, we've finished,
we've defeated them, which is just us a lie.

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
Well because and they won't know what's it's hard when
they say mission accomplished because Trump said ten different things
with what the mission was, so they've been so vague
with what they were going to do. You don't know
when they've done. And it was going to be raging change,
it was going to be all sorts of things.

Speaker 31 (01:26:14):
Yeah, it's very hard to decipher that and whether you
know that's how he plays other things, and but yeah,
just almost the sarcasm and the guy's voice to say,
you know, we don't need to be worried about what
we do every day in New zelanders are struggling, we're
having to everything's going up, you know, we're getting constant notifications.

(01:26:35):
Your powers going up. If you've got sky that's going up. Yeah, insurance,
everything's going up, and he's going You don't need to
really be worried about everybody. Besides, the rich are very
worried about it, very worried.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
And when there's fuel rationing that will affect people with
single cars and families with the you know, they might
affect the wealthy because they will go and get petrol
in their boat, or they will go down to the
bench and heighth. You know, it's it's not a fair thing.
So it's certainly the people that are probably doing it
a bit tough to be much more, much more vulnerable
to what goes on.

Speaker 31 (01:27:08):
Yeah, it's yeah, it's just an interesting point of view
to have. I'm in the trucking industry, and a lot
of people in the trucking industry, and a lot of
guys that even have money, they are very concerned because
they own a lot of trucks, they're fuel will their
their running costs are going through the roof already. They
don't have big fuel reserves in these companies buying diesel

(01:27:30):
on a weekly basis, and I mean diesel's up around
two fifty a leader now. So these guys are going.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
And trucking people. Do they get too expensive? Do people
stop sending goods or they've got to send goods.

Speaker 31 (01:27:45):
They've still got to send goods. Someone's got to pay
for it. Okay, yeah, that's what you know. That's got
the cost that's got to be passed on. It's like tariff.
Someone's got to pay for them. You know, it's the
same thing. Someone's eventually got to pay for it. Those
goods have still got to somehow get them there. They
will always try and find a cheaper way to get
them there, but they've still got to get to the destination.

(01:28:06):
But people will stop start buying certain goods because they
don't have the money, because I mean, fuel controls so much.
The price of fuel and you know a lot of
it's around three dollars now. I don't know if anything,
it's any worse over there. It could be going up
more to prices. We've never seen before, and so people saying, yeah,

(01:28:27):
we shouldn't be worried about it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
It's a very it's kind of arrogant to tell people
how they should feel about things too, because because people
have their own situations and they're considering a lot of
different factors, that that what drives how much they're concerned
about things.

Speaker 31 (01:28:45):
And yeah, yeah, and I aren't great, not great at all,
not for I mean, if you're very early, it's not
necessarily well educated. Certain in jobs and industries are very
well paid.

Speaker 5 (01:28:58):
I mean.

Speaker 31 (01:29:00):
The general average every day Kei. We you know a
lot of people are just on minimum age twenty four
to fifty or whatever it is. And when those sorts
of people were seeing these prices go up to that,
you know, it's very scary.

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
Darren, I've got to go a bit nice to talk.
Thanks for your call. They made a lot of sense.
Fourteen six Brisbane over Parametter eight hundred and eighty ten eight.
If you want to talk here till twelve, or about fuel,
if you want to be a part of the show,
that's what we're about tonight. It's about fuel. It's about
how long you think this will go on for, It's
about what about those people that say, oh, chill out,

(01:29:35):
the futures market is fine. You might have some comments
about that also, but people are worried, not as worried
at Australia, where they have really stockpiled fuel to such
a degree that the fuel has run out. Marcus. The
ritualso tend to be rich because they own businesses or farms,
the majority of the businesses by oil and only a
few supply. The rich are more considered with losing their

(01:29:58):
business with price rise than some employee where a contract
a good carpool or bike to work. Don't fully understand
that there's a bit to pick a part there us
on my way to Wellington for a three third am
sailing fingers crossed even it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:30:15):
Yes, good evening Haven.

Speaker 12 (01:30:18):
So I think it was Mike's breakfast show. The government
was on staying at the fuel companies put up the
prices too quickly. They were going to jump on them
and see what was going on because they shouldn't be
doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:32):
Okay, I don't know anything more about that, about what
that's I mean, they've done it and it's.

Speaker 12 (01:30:36):
Monday morning breakfast show.

Speaker 2 (01:30:38):
Okay, yeah, I haven't seen the commerce Commission come out
and say there's any investigation into it.

Speaker 12 (01:30:44):
Well, one of the I think it was one of
the ladies politicians sons was on there, sure name. Now, yeah,
those helicopters weren't across howick at just before Lamestine. Really
those three helicopters.

Speaker 2 (01:30:59):
Well they've got right around the country, haven't they.

Speaker 12 (01:31:02):
They're certainly flying along around the place.

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
No, short as you're fueled with the air Force.

Speaker 12 (01:31:07):
No, maybe they're worried about something.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
I'll be surprised if the air show and one AKA
goes ahead.

Speaker 12 (01:31:13):
Well, it'd be silly to go ahead, wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
It, because I think someone said the air Force is
involved with that? Would they be sitting planes down?

Speaker 12 (01:31:24):
You know the old story a Marcus sub I and demand.
If we don't panic, there'll be no problem, will there?
Everybody should lighten their cars up and half a tank
of fuel saves fuel. There's a list of things we
can do.

Speaker 2 (01:31:37):
So she put as little fuel and as possible.

Speaker 12 (01:31:40):
Well, you know, if you're not going far half tank, explainby.

Speaker 2 (01:31:43):
In it, then you probably use fuel to go to
the fuel station.

Speaker 12 (01:31:47):
Oh not in the big cities, they're everywhere. Oh yeah,
that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:31:52):
Nice to talk. Thank you for Evan twenty four away
from eleven o'clock He till twelve Brisbane twenty paramount six.
There'll be the clar dwellers this year. The eels were
they slidwellers? No, they'd a better than that, but they're
never good. Be in touch if you want to be
Marcus twelve, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. You want
to text, it's nine to two, nine to two. Just

(01:32:13):
check the world news for your people on the phone.
This time six days of war costs eleven point three
billion dollars. According to the Pentagon, how Trump and his
advisors miscalculated Iran's response to war and the lad to
the US is radio tech. President Trump downplayed the risks
to the energy market as a short term concern that
should not overshadow the mission to decapitate the Iranian regime.

(01:32:38):
Oh yeah. The extent of that miscaculated was laid bare.
In recent days. Trump's administration scrambled to find ways to
tempt down an economic crisis that has triggered higher guessoline
prices for Americans. The episode is emblematic of how much
mister Trump and his advisors misjudged how Iran would respond
to a conflict that the government in Iran sees as
an existential threat. Twenty four away from eleven o'clock locally,

(01:33:03):
news for you not much the latest story on their herald.
What's it saying. I'm quite enjoying reading that. Let me
think what that herald headline is. I can't quite see
Iranian regime not on the verge of collapse. US Intel
report finds as oil soars upwards, how many American people

(01:33:25):
there are in Iran that are operatives there? That report back?
By the way, Italy has to released nine million barrels
from the reserves, Cafe Pacific doubles fuel surcharges on most routes,
and explosions heard in downtown Dubai in US intelligent acessments
indicated Iran's leadership is still largely intact and not risk

(01:33:45):
of collapsing. A source for me with the findings at
a multitude of intelligent reports provide consistent analysis that the
regime is not in danger of falling and retains control
of the Iranian public. The report als are quite as
senior as radioficial as saying. Is Raeli officials also have
acknowledged there is no certainty the war will lead to
the Iranian government's collapse. Twenty three to eleven. Hit till midnight, Jamie,

(01:34:11):
it's Marcus. Good evening, Yeah, good evening modes.

Speaker 32 (01:34:15):
You're just on a bit of a sideline to your
all thing there run is actually one of those places
on the planette. So you know, to think Donald Trump
is going to be one of the empires that goes
in and takes out these guys, it's just it's insane.
The whole world's gone insane.

Speaker 12 (01:34:33):
Mate.

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
How does it end?

Speaker 8 (01:34:35):
Well?

Speaker 32 (01:34:35):
Quite bad? So is so fat today, Netta, who's little
secret Barker got smashed. So they figured out how to
get their drones past the Iron Dome. I don't think
Trump thought that was going to happen. I don't think
Trump thought the first targets they were going to have
American bases. You know, you and I probably would have

(01:34:56):
thought that, mate, But clearly donalded and I wasn't hand
the thought of any of the byproducts. So the GS,
the GCC over there, they trade with the American dollar.
If you're not buying and selling oil, you're no longer
trading with your dollar, so your dollar plummets. Then they're
going into their summertime over there, right, So most of

(01:35:16):
the worlds you rear comes through there. That's you made
nitrogen based product to grow your grass or anything. Really well,
that's not getting through either. And that's a very fine
window when you're going to be using your ear and
the States is almost hitting that point right now. I
don't think you thought of anything, mate. Besides maybe Epstein's

(01:35:37):
got a few photos of them that he gave BB,
and BB's like, well, don'd do this or we're going
to release all the Ebstein stuff. Mate.

Speaker 12 (01:35:45):
It's going through much sense.

Speaker 32 (01:35:47):
Yeah, the thing that makes sense, mate, This is the
dumbest move you could possibly have made. I mean, you're
going to collapse the entire world's economy. You're definitely collapsing
your own dollar, and if the American dollar collapses, their
market tanks, we're all tanking. He's effectively just going to think.

Speaker 31 (01:36:06):
Man, he's worse than COVID.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
Nice to talk, Jamie, thank you, worse than COVID. Brilliant
Hit'll twelve, Welcome to your Calls, nineteen to eleven, Paramtta
playing well twenty sixteen to the Brisbane But yeah, Paramata
bouncing back pairly. Well, oh, eight hundred. How you going people,
Marcus welcome, What have you got here? Till twelve, enduring

(01:36:31):
the discussion, muchly good texts coming through. By the way,
the Condamora, one of Blue Bridges feries is now broken
down and picked in. One of the New Zealand rail
ones are also broken down. Marcus Jamie nailed at watch
the space. Perhaps we should stop building all these expressways
at the moment because there won't be any cars driving
on them, and put the money into bringing Marsden point

(01:36:53):
to life again. Linda, there's also a big budget movie've
been shot in the Southide and taking out multiple spots
on the fairies. Last week, every single commercial vehicle onto
the crossings was connected to the movie. Where is that movie?
Out of interest? Is that a Lord of the Rings one?
Marcus Jamie's on the money. I was voicing some of
what he said to you today, trum Trump is not

(01:37:13):
that smart things. The movie Team America is a documentary.
That's what people are saying, or that's what Texters are saying.
But for the people that came from into the law
be resolved quite quickly. I mean it might well be,
but I just can't see the scenario that happens because
when you have insurgency, I don't know if the word insurgency
is quite right, or a gorilla campaign. And you've got

(01:37:36):
to realize that the whole war in Ukraine has changed
war because the Ukrainians have held their own with very
cheap drones. And I'm not saying that the United States
the military has not got that capability, but that capability
has read quickly to develop an upskill and do quite quickly.
And it's not the money that's spent that's the thing

(01:37:58):
that causes you to be effective. It's your resilience and
often your desperation. But hello, Mary, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:38:08):
Oh hi Marcus. I just wanted to put it clear.
I have a niece coming down on the ferry on
the Connemarah from Wellington. She has been told there was
a power outrage in Pipton. The Connie Marrill will lead
picked in at two thirty a m with freight only
and will be ready for the sailing from Wellington at

(01:38:30):
eight fifteen in the morning. I just thought there might
be other people panicking because it's taken her about two
hours to get through by that what's happening.

Speaker 2 (01:38:39):
I wonder why they would do freight only.

Speaker 9 (01:38:43):
I'm wondering if perhaps the staff.

Speaker 2 (01:38:47):
You're smart, you're smarter than me. That makes a perfect point.
They can't run the year. That makes sense.

Speaker 9 (01:38:52):
They've got, haven't they.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
They've got to shift there that to swap over. They
have got a swing shift to come in.

Speaker 9 (01:38:57):
I don't know, that's my guess. I didn't answer that.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
And why would the power affect them effect check on
or affect their ticketing systems or something and.

Speaker 27 (01:39:05):
Their draw would.

Speaker 9 (01:39:09):
But that's all they've said on the notice to her.
So because she was panicky, was she Mary? Was she going, Oh,
she's going to christ Church because there's a national and
international shooting clay targets in evening? Sure you shoot the
clavates in the sky. And where are you regular?

Speaker 2 (01:39:31):
Okay, she's notified you about what's going on.

Speaker 9 (01:39:33):
Oh you're reup up with the she's coming to stay
with us, you see. And I heard you when you
said it. So I texted her and said to check
and she usually trying to get through. But that's the update,
just in case anyone else had heard you.

Speaker 2 (01:39:49):
Perfect Mary, thanks very much for a generous of you. Yes,
when we were coming, we had booked on a different
day to cross on into Island because we were coming
down the North Island and it was Vaneza's turn to drive,
and I was in charge of continually checking if any
space has become available to me earlier, because we'd booked
to go out to do we'd booked to go to

(01:40:12):
we'd booked to go to do Farewell Spit and it
was when that bad weather system was coming in. Now
I haven't mentioned Farewell Spit, and I don't want it
to be a talkback topic, but I'd always want to
do that trip out to Fairwell Spit, and it took
us we went there to do it, took us a
couple of days to get it right because because the

(01:40:34):
weather was so bad, it was canceled, but we had
and you got to work around the tides. It was
absolutely phenomenal. We talk about it every day. It was
so good. It was just phenomenal. And I can't work
out how because it was it was a long don
I think we must have left it. I can't remember
what the times were. We might have left it two

(01:40:55):
and got back at ten or it felt like about
six or eight hours. And the commentary and all of
it was extraordinary. It wasn't sort of funny our jokes.
It was incredibly interesting stuff. And to get out of
that lighthouse at the end of farewells. But yeah, it
was just it was sort of part of the country
I'd never been to. But and I didn't want to
sort of come back and rave early on sound like

(01:41:16):
it would be insincere. But flip, I just we all
loved it. We all just thought it was phenomenal. I'd
put that up with the two greatest things in the country,
would be well, I'd put it up there with the
trip out Fjordlands out, the trip out Milford Sound and
the Taidy Gorge railway. But I think that probably took

(01:41:37):
the cake. I think it was. I think it was
the best thing I've done. Any news events on it
that I could see, mainly Germans, but git was good.
It doesn't run all the time because the tides don't work,
I don't think. But anyway, so oh yeah, that's why
we're booking and trying to work the ferry out. So
we arrived there. We've got to we've got we're supposed
to go across the next morning, but we've got to
go across I think at about five o'clock, so I

(01:41:59):
to drive. It was my two to drive. Then to
like to drive one ten on the on the motorway
into Winnington, because you can do that now, I thought
that revery good. We got to the ferry in time,
just in time, and then we had to drive to
Nelson that night. We booked a hotel in Nelson that
was terrible, the first one that came up on the Yeah,
I thought, I thought I was the place whisperer, but

(01:42:19):
it was very unloved. But anyway, that was fine, and
then we heard that the next day had canceled, so
we took it easy, went up round up round, oh
anyway across the Tactica Hills and git was good. So
that's for a chance to rave about that, because I
always thought I need to go on about that, because

(01:42:41):
that's how transformative it was. So yes, it was always
on my list to get out of there. I'd never
managed to do it, but for not just and it's
growing all the time. By the way, that sandspit not
a weaker. Where we stayed a bit of time too.
Didn't see the whales, the whales that the dead whales
with the whales strands on the other side. That year,
I thought there'd be wales stranded whales everywhere, which are

(01:43:02):
slightly mindful about. But we didn't see those, but loved
it anyway. Enough for me, we are talking about the
fuel situation in Iran. Funnily enough, I can tell you
that the paramount of eels, so I said, will be
the Sala dwellers. They have just leaped ahead of Risbond
twenty two twenty. It's halftime in that match, Marcus teacher talk.

(01:43:23):
I am a union member and have found out that
non union members have been offered to pay rise at
union members fort four while we are still bargaining our
collective agreement. Is this even legal? Causing massive division? Yeah,
that does sound sketchy. Welcome people at seven past eleven,
Marcus with you till twelve. Are Romans back tonight, So

(01:43:45):
he'll be on in forty four fifty to fifty three minutes.
Say he'll be here for you too. I'm how excited
that he is back. I'm getting texts about that. He's
been away for a little bit. So back in the
land of living tonight. Do you call them at during
the land of living? I guess you do. We've been
talking about how they're going to secure the straits of
horn News and a lot of people said that while

(01:44:07):
the Dow always bounces back with S and P five hundred,
but I don't know if you've ever seen a group
of ninety million people so hell bent on interfering with shipping. Marcus.
The planes are down, the ferries are out. Now is
the perfect time for the Southland to form a separate republic. Well,
funnily enough, I don't go on about the South Island much,

(01:44:28):
but I in my role as a member of the council,
we did have four Great South which is sort of
the collective body of different councils. They had a day
and they arranged for an economist to come down from

(01:44:49):
Wellington Infometrics I think they came down from and they
talked about the recovery. It's a recovery of Twaan's but
the economy down south is very, very buoyant, so you
do get a different perspective down here about how well
things are going. Of course that won't last forever. But
there's also the show on TV, the item on TV

(01:45:12):
tonight about this huge data storage center that they are
building in Southend, in Makerewa. And there's also going to
be a cable from the Tasman that comes assured au
Eaty Beach and this will take this will employ twelve
hundred people to construct this, and it won't take many

(01:45:33):
people to run it. And I don't know what it's
for data storage or something. I mean, the technology is
not something I'm across. I don't fully know where they're
going to get the power from because I thought t
Y took most of the power, so I've got to
get up to scratch with that. But yeah, there are
a lot of re exciting things happening down here in
the economy. While am I saying that, oh yes, because

(01:45:54):
someone said that the South Island should form a separate republic.
The South Island certainly is booming. And I often hear
people saying they want to move to christ Church, which
you never used to hear. And I guess with the
temperatures getting hotter. It was three or two degrees again
in Bluff today. We had a very good function at

(01:46:15):
the school. We had a barbecue for the community at
the school tonight and we've got a new principal and
I chopped far too many onions. So if anyone who
knows what to do with two click clat containers full
of chopped onions. I'm not quite sure what I can
do with them. So what do you do with chopped onion?

(01:46:38):
I suppose I could make some sort of a chow chow,
could I? By the way, since I've got a chance
to talk, since I've got no callers, we're being slammed
gemmed all night. I had two interesting things during that
news bulletin. I watched an esteemed opera singer sing Lose Yourself.
It's a good song in it, even she made it
sound great. But I also watched a social media person

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visit one of England's three remaining coal powered fish and
chip shops. What an amazing thing that was a coal
powered fish and chip shop with the vats of beef
tallow being powered by coal. I don't know if that
such a thing ever existed in New Zealand. I don't

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imagine the fish and chips would taste differently by the
fact they were cooked in cold. But boy, it sounds
old world, he doesn't it, Never heard of that? But yeah,
like a train, you're stoking down under there to keep
the vats of fat hot. Boiling. So there we go.
So that was pretty good too, So it's been a
good break for me anyway. Now, oh, it was for

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a Dutch TV show that Maurica Ficile did lose yourself
Best Zingers was the show. We are talking mainly about
the Straits of Hormuz, the Strait of Hormos. Onions, normally onions,
because Vanessa said, a can you chop the onions? You said,
I'm on tears, so I took as at school. I

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took over. But they were really rare because I don't
really since I've worn glasses, onions don't affect me. But
these ones, honestly, I was having the full meltdown. They
were very strong onions, but they weren't used at the
barbecue classics, small town barbecue. Outside the barbecue going the buns,
the bread, the sausages, the cheese, the pickle, and sixty

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dollars of chips from the local chippy. Yep, I like
to go and colleck those. It's exciting anyway, but not
much demand for the onion. You have to make French
onion soup. I don't think we're already a French onion
soup family. When I said to the kids to the
one to eat French onion soup. The name would put
them off, and someone says, freeze the onions. But you
don't realize that our freezer is on the tourist circuit.

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It's so famously small. We don't have big freezer. We're
remarkably small freezer. The Talk of the x PP Community,
seventeen thirteen past eleven. Hello, Sandy, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 33 (01:49:13):
Hi Marcus. You were talking about a whole pile of
onions you did for a barbecue.

Speaker 7 (01:49:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 33 (01:49:19):
Yeah, well we used to do that for fundraising, and
we used to do them more than if there was
some left over. We're just freeze them and then you
just take them out when you need.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
It's a good idea, isn't it.

Speaker 19 (01:49:31):
Oh by them.

Speaker 33 (01:49:31):
When they're really cheap and freeze them, I've never thought.

Speaker 2 (01:49:34):
And they go all right when they're frozen, they still
flow freely.

Speaker 16 (01:49:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 33 (01:49:37):
Yeah, you're just being them on the bench.

Speaker 19 (01:49:39):
They loosen up, alright, Bang them.

Speaker 2 (01:49:41):
On the bench is the app Yeah, this we'll do.
Bang on the bench. Brisbane's just scored twenty four to
twenty six. Jennifer, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:49:49):
Hi, Marcus, you've got problems with your onions too many.
Have you thought about green tomato chatney?

Speaker 2 (01:49:58):
No, I haven't.

Speaker 10 (01:49:59):
Oh that's what I would do.

Speaker 2 (01:50:02):
I'm not really a chutney maker, but I probably should be.
Whe would you get the.

Speaker 5 (01:50:05):
Green tomk relish?

Speaker 2 (01:50:07):
Then it is a good time for green tomatoes. I
suppose it is.

Speaker 10 (01:50:10):
Well, if you've got tomato plants and tomatoes haven't gone red.

Speaker 2 (01:50:16):
Yeah, we have got tomatoes, but yeah, I think they're
all red. Now we've sort of head with harvested our crop.

Speaker 10 (01:50:21):
Well, you can make you can make chutney or relish
with the onions, with the tomatoes, but I don't know
what else you can make anyone of any kind of relish,
can't you.

Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
I'll find a way.

Speaker 10 (01:50:35):
Yeah, that's what I used to do with my tomatoes
and onions that I had. I used to use a
lot of onions when my kids were small because we
didn't have much money. And I used to do a
lot of pasta and Italian dishes wow for them, because
oh they were into swimming, and they used to empty
the French Hotelian they had hollow legs. I had twins

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and another one and then a boy and they were
all into sport.

Speaker 2 (01:51:03):
And did you have twins and then one more?

Speaker 10 (01:51:06):
That's right, yes.

Speaker 2 (01:51:09):
I always feel sorry for the spear one with twins.

Speaker 10 (01:51:12):
Well we adopted a little boy.

Speaker 2 (01:51:14):
And oh yeah, so you had two then adopted one
would have been specially anyway you got another one as well.

Speaker 10 (01:51:24):
Yeah, yeah, we made it up to a round four.
Well we had to get a station wagon anyway for
the three of them. It wasn't It was just one
of those things, markers.

Speaker 2 (01:51:37):
The must be a lot of driving when your kids
are into swimming.

Speaker 10 (01:51:39):
A it was you stepped to drive from one side
of christ to the other. One was into swimming and
d Wilding Park and the other one was into.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
Into horses tennis. They will be the tennis piece to
be at Wilding Park, wouldn't it.

Speaker 34 (01:51:56):
That's right?

Speaker 10 (01:51:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:51:57):
That was.

Speaker 30 (01:52:03):
Yep, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:52:04):
And what the other one do?

Speaker 10 (01:52:05):
The younger one, I think she was into ballet.

Speaker 2 (01:52:08):
That was again there was a girl.

Speaker 10 (01:52:10):
Yeah, three girls and the boys.

Speaker 2 (01:52:12):
Oh what were the twins girls identical?

Speaker 4 (01:52:16):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:52:16):
I was storking thinking old boys.

Speaker 23 (01:52:18):
Now now boys.

Speaker 10 (01:52:21):
Well I always thought boys would eat more than girls
and girls would be into sort of clothing, you know,
But it was a fifty fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:52:30):
Actually, will they under clothing?

Speaker 5 (01:52:35):
Yep?

Speaker 10 (01:52:36):
And and and into food goodness? Yep?

Speaker 2 (01:52:42):
Okay, hollow leagues, thank you Jennifer. Seventeen past eleven. You
had not look like any suggestions really with the onions onion?
I don't know about onions now? Who wants to about
the straits of her moos? The straight of Hormuz? Fun
to say, not fun to sail through? Is where I've
landed on that one. If you got emails, that's good.

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And is anyone ever been to a coal powered fish
and chip shop. There would be something that I would
love to do, but now it's probably not the time
for the young family. They could probably not. In the
slightest bit of terested, I would think twenty one past eleven,
Hello valets, Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 34 (01:53:26):
Good evening, carried onions.

Speaker 2 (01:53:28):
Oh, what a great idea. How would you do those?
Just with carry powder and onions.

Speaker 34 (01:53:32):
I'll give you the old rus of fee. I mean
you'll have to adjust the thing. Four pounds of onions,
one tablespoon of curry powder, one tablespoon and mustard, one
tablespoon of salt, small cup of sugar, one pint of vinegar, skin, onions,

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and boil all ingredients together for courts of an hour,
then second with a little flour or corn flour mixed
with a little than they go, wow.

Speaker 2 (01:54:09):
I just get a pen. I'm joking. That was a joke.
How often have you I've never heard of anyone doing that.

Speaker 34 (01:54:23):
Well, my old old recipe books since ninety fifty six
or something, and I can't remember doing it. I obviously did
that because it's in hand.

Speaker 2 (01:54:34):
It's something you it's something you cook and then eat.

Speaker 34 (01:54:39):
Yeah, you use it on meat or something you understand.

Speaker 2 (01:54:42):
Yeah, I thought that's what you've used for like a releigh. Okay, well,
that's excellent. That's appreciate that vow. That does appeal to me.
And thanks for laughing at my lame joke. Twenty three
past to even if you want to be a part
of the discussion tonight, curried onions, fuel, the straight of hormos,
and anything else that's got you tonight, that's what we're about.

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I haven't given you much of what else is hand today,
but hmmm, we'll giving you a bit. You'd want to
give Dave Renny a fuel exemption for a getting around,
wouldn't you? If he's got to drive around. Look a
how the all blacks are going not long now till
daylight saving for the April heavy rainfall parts of Northern
is in the west of South Island late from late

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tonight to tomorrow always seems to be bad weather on
its way. That's what I need to tell you. We
might be getting Carlos days back. Yes, the government's Minister
of Economic Security and Supply Chain Group met for the
first time last night. I've got no faith in them though.

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I'm I'm afraid my confidence of the government is not
great to improve anything. So we'll see how that goes. Kathy,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 35 (01:55:52):
Good evening, Oh, good evening, Marcus. I know my onions good.
If you've got spare onions, those chopped up onions and
no feez of room, you put them in the jar.
Look up a recipe for bread and butter pickles and

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just make up the juice of that and pour it
over and you've got bread and butter pickles.

Speaker 2 (01:56:22):
Oh, the freezer just goes to the jar.

Speaker 9 (01:56:25):
You just put it.

Speaker 35 (01:56:25):
Put them in the jar and they don't have and
seal them down with you'll have to boil them in it.
In the juice.

Speaker 2 (01:56:35):
Yeah, I can do that.

Speaker 35 (01:56:36):
The of the bread and butter pickle.

Speaker 2 (01:56:40):
I think it's called bread and butter pickle because it
goes on bread and butter.

Speaker 35 (01:56:43):
I got that right, Yes, it goes on anything.

Speaker 2 (01:56:46):
Brilliant. Nice to talk, Katy. Thank you for every much
for that. Twenty five past eleven. Here till the end,
the bitter end mark is till twelve. Row Man along.
From midnight. We're discussing what to do with spare onions
and anything else. That's some things you would like to
talk about tonight. There's been three more shipshad overnight. It's
two pm in the Straight Up Woman. But that's the situation.

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There has been some continued ships been hit over night.
So I'm reading the New York Times. The latest oil
prices jumped. Two tanks burn off Iraq's coast after attacks.
So that's the situation. Everyone's saying the crisis is deepening,
no one saying it's on its way to concluding. And

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they are saying the war has caused the largest The
war has caused the largest supply disruption in the history
of the global oil market. Global supplies are set to
decrease by eight million barrels a day. They've released four
hundred million more barrels of oil from strategic reserves to
help offset the disruption caused by the conflict. So yes,

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we're in unprecedented territory. And then I guess probably people
start leaving those emirate states. They want to move somewhere else.
But that doesn't look like much fun being bombed anyway.
Sell when it's Marcus good evening, Yeah, Hi, welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:58:11):
Hey, I'm like us. It's talking about the fairies. Sure,
I don't while to go. I think I might have
seen it on in Parliament where we had this ocean
going tug on contract, that's right, and they wanted to
break the contract and get rid of it. And now

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we've got fairies breaking down and we're going into winter,
and if a catastrophe happens, it will happen bloody quick
and it could get quite serious.

Speaker 2 (01:58:48):
It's quite terrifying, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (01:58:49):
Well?

Speaker 16 (01:58:50):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if we're still if the
fairy is still the tiger's still here, the ocean going
tiger's still here or not.

Speaker 2 (01:58:57):
I understood the I understood the contract it ended, but.

Speaker 16 (01:59:01):
Yeah, Seymour wanted to break it. I'm pretty sure it
was him. They wanted to break it so, which is
a bloody worry. But anyway, and just just slip this
one and New Zealand is a third world country. It's
just that we haven't woken up to it yet. And
all it might take is a catastrophe that's happen up

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in the Middle East to wake us up to what
is actually happening.

Speaker 2 (01:59:27):
Yeah, I think there's a lack of preparedness. So and
I appreciate you coming through. Thank you. It's certainly food
for thought that things aren't going well here and in
places they are under pressure, just need some crisis to
push things over the edge, you'd think.

Speaker 1 (01:59:42):
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