We need leadership (16 March 2026)

Marcus has a gripe on a certain kind of phone user, and covers off some hospital stories, going to the movies during the day, and having your recycling bin checked.

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

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

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Greetings, good evening, Welcome to the Saint Patrick's Day.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Eve.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah tomorrow, Saint Patrick say, some of you will be
getting ready for that. The Irish breakfast and a black
velvet of memory served you right, That was Champagne Gin.
I don't if it's any good or not. Actually, that's
the thing about Saint Patrick's Day. I don't really necessarily
know that a breakfast in an Irish pub always ends

(00:43):
out that well, funny way to start the day. Any who,
head on midnight. My name is Marcus. Good evening and welcome.
The number is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and
nine to nine. Two detects plenty to talk about. I've
got some questions and some statements also obviously keeping you
up to date with what's happening in the Middle East.
Is this situation war seventeenth day and is progressing and

(01:04):
probably growing? I think it's to say, I see it
is a bit of news coming on. It's about one
or two o'clock over there now, so there's some new
news coming across those other countries. Get asked to escort
through the straight of horn moves. And I'm seeing more
and more people are referring to the situation in New
Zealand as the car owner virus, which thought was quite good. Yes, said,

(01:26):
it's going to affect our ability to drive. The car
owner virus. You can have that one. It's not mine.
This is a situation. This is a headline I saw
today that I thought was interesting, and I'll read this
to you. There's a lot to unpicked from this headline.
Outrage is champion race horses killed and served to unwitting

(01:47):
diners at council run soup kitchen. Yeah, the four year
old race horse named smart Latch had retired from the
track with an injury. Instead of being donated to a
riding school as the owner City intended, she ended up
being served at a soup kitchen and so than Turkey.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
It was made into a dish called Carverma, traditional Turkish
fried meat dish. And while eating, a resident in the
soup kitchen found a strange object and the object was
smart Letchers microchip. One extraordinary story. It says the slaughter

(02:33):
of her horses for meat is a legal in Turkey,
especially for registered race horses which are typically protected or
re honed, so you never quite know what happens to
race horses. Do you I remember that sitution all with meat?
Do you remember that situation a number of years ago?
You mightn't it. It's just coming back to me in
Australia where they had that great meat pie scandal and

(02:56):
they found that most meat pies were kangaroo me have
I misremembered that one or forgot that one right? And
it seems that everything they thought it was all kangaroo meat.
Oh I knew the difference. That was fine anyway, Yeah,
be a disturbing thing to find the microchip can touch
you want to start the whole discussion. So there was

(03:16):
a lot to talk about. Oh one hundred and eight
ten eighty. Just first, cab off the rank for me.
The first thing I want to mention. And I don't
want to be overly thin skinned or reactive, but I
am noticing it's more and more acceptable now for people

(03:38):
to be on their phone in public places and be
listening to YouTube videos without headphones. I experienced it really
loudly on the Wahiki Ferry. I don't know what the
woman that was listening to, but it wasn't good. It's
that tinniness of the sound I've experienced tonight at a

(03:58):
Thai restaurant. They look like travelers with very tiny sounding
sound going. I don't know if they realize what they're
doing be heard. But yeah, you might have a comment
on that. I'm not at that stage where I could say, oh,
could you please shut that down? Because that's not how
I roll. Well, I'm doing it now though, aren't I,
which sounds more passive aggress If you've got a comment

(04:19):
on that, Why would people do that? I think just
the boundaries are all blur. It sounds terrible, but it's
a right for the human voice if you're talking in
a fairy or a cafe. But when you're playing that
very Oh, I don't know what to say about that.
If you want to mention that, that's something I wouldn't
mind talking about tonight to get the whole wall rolling.
As I say, there is a lot to talk about tonight.
There we go. Oh eight hundred eighty Teddy and Night.

(04:41):
Thanks to all the emails. Do you it in touch
if you want to be a part of it? Oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two
detects if you want to come through, but I will
keep you updated to But phones and public places, do
you say anything or just did it go? Or is
this something that I've lost the battle? It'll become just
kind of common Will it become commonplace?

Speaker 5 (05:03):
No?

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Wonder everyone gets that food delivered at home because outside
everyone outdoors, everybody's listening to their phones or not outdoors.
But when you dine out, I suppose at least when
you're home you can control your environment. But what about
all the waste or the disposable peckets and stuff. Sealia's Marcus.

(05:23):
Good evening and welcome. Thanks for standing the whole wall
rolling tonight.

Speaker 6 (05:27):
Hello, thank you very much. I absolutely hate people being
on their phones on speaker in public. I don't want
to hear their conversations.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Is it because it's rude or is it because the
sound is tinny and unsettling sounding?

Speaker 7 (05:48):
It's rude.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
That's rude. Are you d e rude?

Speaker 6 (05:52):
Yeah, it's not necessary. If you're going to be on
your phone, put it to your ear. And I don't
want to hear the whole conversation. And I've heard many
a conversation and it's a variety of topics, and one

(06:16):
was about SPDs bay.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (06:23):
And it was on a bus good, and it was
kind of like, well, and I'm a nurse by trade,
and it was just like, I don't need to hear
that because that's your problem, and you're personally you're speaking
to his problem and it's not made public knowledge. But

(06:52):
it was on the bus and it was just kind
of like, well, actually, and I did want to go
across to say tony speakers, but I didn't, and that
was my fault.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yes, because you sound no nonsense. I'd like you to
fight a couple of things. I like you to fight
those battles for me, because you sound quite strong willed.
But then again I had a thought. You said you
don't like to listen to other people's conversations, and I thought, well,
that's that's pretty much what talkback is, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (07:25):
Well, yes, but I'll listen to that in my car.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yes, exactly. You choose when you listen to talkback, don't you.

Speaker 6 (07:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Was the person getting was the person getting told that
they perhaps had been exposed to an STD.

Speaker 8 (07:42):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Wow? Thanks being the whole ball rolling selling the numbers
all Waite hundred eighty ten eighty sixteen past eight. United
Alliones has now banned people from listening without headphones. I
wish we could do that on buses trains as well,
because what's going to happen, because the yeah, what's gonna
happen is it's gonna people are gonna get upset and
it's going to lead to some sort of confrontation. It shouldn't, Marcus.

(08:05):
We have people who listen to YouTube and phones on
speakers of our cafe. It's not good at all, but
we feel awkward to say anything. Yeah, well I was experience.
Actually I've just thought of another time I've experienced that also,
And why wouldn't Well, I'm not someone that's ever had headphones,
but I'd never listen in public with the speakers on.
Maybe should run a cafe, you should have headphones, but

(08:26):
people might want to start sharing headphones. You got a
comment to an answer that's seventeen past eight. I wait
one hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two nine
two to text. Just as far as the oscars go,
if you've seen in the movies that one or didn't
want to be curious to know. I am not a
movie going person currently, mainly because the children go to

(08:48):
a lot of movies and they tend to be animated.
And it's not my jam and I work nights, so
we're not really going to the films. But if you
see any of those movies, who wanted to call, I mean,
I will get to see them. I'm just kind of
a bit of behind the eight ball at the stage.
But do let me know extuly on Netflix this week,
and I did watch that movie about that guy that
we diving, that doctor from the Thailand rescue when the

(09:09):
boys are in the cave and he went out to
Nelson and dove to two hundred and forty meters or so.
It was a good watch. Wasn't quite sure how they
had filmed it. Wasn't it for the Oscars, by the way.
But I just want to sound relevant. Get in touch,
oh way one hundred and eighty to eighty. By the way,
I'm just saying that you've dis canceled flights from Invercargo

(09:29):
to christ Church three a week because of the current crisis.
We've already lost our flights in for Cargo, Wellington, shocking
and South of the pears to be driving the economy.
Maybe they can't use our data center Bob, this is Marcus.
Good evening used on your phone's not gone?

Speaker 5 (09:48):
Good?

Speaker 1 (09:49):
What are you done?

Speaker 5 (09:49):
Bob?

Speaker 9 (09:50):
Is good?

Speaker 2 (09:51):
I'll try again better already. Ye If I was on
a bus or in a restaurant and somebody was talking
out loud with their phone on speaker so as close
as a possible to them, I would ring my friend
and I'm put my speaker on loud, and we'd talk
the most damaged thing and the other people shouldn't get
the jolly message because unfortunately you can't give them a

(10:11):
dumping because people don't like that sort of thing.

Speaker 9 (10:15):
But I would.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
It does seem to be an escalations to thump someone
because their phone was on speaker, But yeah, yeah, I
don't think. I don't think I want to get them
as thumping, Bob, because you're you're of a decent age
and you're more sensible. But anyway, yes, yes, maybe.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
But what I'm saying is that that's what I would do.
It was I put my phone on speaker and I've
talked the way to crack, I could think to my
mate and the other person who's got their phone on,
we shouldn't get the message.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Surely, as I think about it, though, because you could
be with your mate to talking rubbish. It's not so
much the fact that there there's noise, that the fact
that it's an unpleasant noise because of the the rubbish
nature of the speakers.

Speaker 10 (10:52):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (10:52):
What's a fact because it's a discordant noise, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Well, even if it was discord that, I don't I
don't want to hear it.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
No, exactly, I don't want to. But why is it
different from a conversation next door to you?

Speaker 2 (11:05):
I'm privacly good question. Usually even the persons having a
conversation next door to me and wouldn't be hearing.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
One exactly because you're because your your mindful of the
situation and you adjust your pitch and your volume accordingly.

Speaker 9 (11:20):
Yes, well most people do anyway?

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Like it?

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Bob, thank you. It's all about the phones and public Yeah,
I'm not into it because you're running a restaurant right
and at times are tough with the price of butter
et cetera. And then people driving your customers away because
it's not pleasant because they're listening to solo diners watching
endless YouTube. It's not good. We need leadership, Hello, Gary.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
Yeah, I'm not quite sure. If I'm talking about the
right sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
But brilliant, I'm not sure that.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
I rented a cabin and tapo at a motor camp,
just a little cabin, and I didn't really that there
was another person on a sleep there for the night
as well. So anyway, I went to sleep, and then
this guy came in late at night and he's talking
on his phone. You're screaming at some girl in agony

(12:20):
in the cabin with me because she gave him whatever
she gave him, and he was just screaming the whole night.
I couldn't get to sleep. I had to go to
work the next day.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
I'd given him he'd got some.

Speaker 5 (12:31):
Some or something. He was just in pain the whole night, screaming.
I couldn't get to sleep. I had to go to
work the next day. And I wasn't going to say anything.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
It was a cabin, yeah, Kevin, I.

Speaker 5 (12:45):
Didn't know that there was someone out.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
It was like double bunking, like double bunking.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
Double but it's very it's very cheap, and so I
just kept my mouth shut and I hoping he'd go
to sleep, but he couldn't go to sleep because he.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Was just too much pain.

Speaker 10 (13:01):
Walk.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
He was walking around the place, hanging on to things
that I don't want to look at. And he's just
screaming at this girl on the phone the whole night.
You give me this thing, you lots of bad language,
And I.

Speaker 11 (13:12):
Was christ, what have I got?

Speaker 1 (13:14):
I thought she would have hung up.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
She didn't know, but I mean there's were things and
being stuck on a bus, you can get off the
bus or you can just dock your ears. But I
was stuck in a cab and I couldn't go nowhere.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
There'd be a nightmare because and I think, Gary, what
just as you said that, it must be the same
for people that are in the hospital wards too, because
people are on phones talking for it. They'd be terrible,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
If you've got the people talking in the wards like
I've had my family being in there and it's nothing
to do with phones. Like my dad was on morphine
because of all his pain and his troubles, and he's
just talking about the different girls, and he's telling everybody

(14:01):
in the ward he planted all these trees in the
in the ward last night, did all the gardening in here.
And everyone just talks a lot of crap and they're
because they're not on their phones, but they're just talking
about what doesn't because they're just on morphing. You know.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
I have heard people say they are on their phones,
but nice to talk to you. Gary, keep your texts
through on and this is almost a show on overheard conversations.
But gosh, that town sounds like the nightmare and top word,
don't it? Flob They did well, then, you said a woman.
Rugby players did and we've got something to be happy about.
We've got sport. I watched the Formula one. I agree

(14:35):
with everything written in their herald. The commentator are to
europe centric English centric. You would have thought that Lewis
Hamilton had won it. Marcus. I visited christ which recently
can tab seem to share a lot more in their
chats on the busses than Wellentonians do all good kind
of entertaining. Marcus. My mother is I'm gonna sneeze, talk

(14:56):
it down. Took it down. That's right, you're not gonna
hear it. If I do sneez, I'll dump. If they
haven't yet, what are you gonna do? Sneeze again? Nope, gone,
talked it down. My mother has just been a hospital
it seems to be commonplace for patients to use their
phones to watch TV, talk to free to listen to music,
all without headphones and no regard to the other patients

(15:17):
they are sharing a room with. Why would you do that?
It beggars belief, Marcus. Cafes at TEPA should be no
phone zones. It's just rude to make people put up
with others' noise, pollution, flux and mates. I noted the
WRECKI Era track with Dom Bowden walking behind them playing
house music on his Zewei boom. It's a strange thing

(15:39):
to do, Marcus. What regret even to you? Marcus? What
reallygrinds my gears is those bluetooth speakers that people carry
around seep one can hear their music and mauls everywhere.
It's like people talking on speaker and one last thing
to be sure, to be sure, to be sure, lull
just for tomorrow. The last time I was in an
Irish pub on Saint Patrick's to Day was probably five

(16:00):
years ago when I was a marriage celebrant and I
did a wedding in an Irish bar. It makes you
want to sing each cheer and doesn't live anyway, and
there were shots. I wasn't partaking, but it got pretty
boozy pretty quickly. Don't if the marriage lasted. You never
found out, do you. I came across at both at

(16:23):
the hospital, on the bus markets. No man is no
respect both cases they were boomers as am. I wanted
to say something but didn't. Cheers Dinner, Marcus. The thing
that flabbergas is people out for a walker on their
phone or speaking talking to someone for the whole walk,
completely ignoring their surrounds, or just enjoying being outside Gilly
on the phone on public Also, people are talking with

(16:45):
speakers on I had this recently sitting and cafe. I
called it out and said, turn your volume down. I
don't want to hear your call. They seemed surprised but
did switch it off. It's offensive and cunning across my
personal space. They can go outside. Most two d this
have the IQ of a peanut. You just need to
look at them. I don't know if peanuts have low IQs,

(17:05):
although I always heard it peanut run a mile. That's
a weird saying, isn't it. It's where that stayed with me.
I don't know that's a thing et a peanut run
a mile high and fat high end fiber here til midnight.
It's all about phones and public and anything else you

(17:26):
want to broach a wait one hundred and eighty ten
eighty nine nine to text. By the way, I think
that the LTN Z that what coud guitar he thing
about rationing of petrol depending on the last digit of
your number plate. I think that's I think that was
probably AI. I don't think that I saw that in

(17:46):
the week I hang about that's what they talk about
the weekend, but I don't think anyone's actually I don't
think that's for real. By the way, Yi, Braiden, this
is Marcus. Welcome. Hey, Marcus says, are going good, Braidon,
thank you.

Speaker 11 (17:59):
Just driving home from work in the head people commenting
about people talking on speak your phone.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
And.

Speaker 11 (18:10):
I've got a bit of I don't get that, because
what's the difference between if you're at a cafe with
your mate, right and you're having a conversation. Obviously you
guys are both talking.

Speaker 5 (18:23):
Right, have that.

Speaker 11 (18:26):
Yeah, yeah, between you doing that to someone on the phone.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Well, I can't explain that. But the sound is a
lot more annoying because it's that tilley thin sound.

Speaker 11 (18:39):
Yeah, But I mean, is it like a reason to
be like yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
If it's making you feel uncomfortable wanting to leave, it
is I reckon? Are you one of those Are you?
Are you one of those people on your phone watching
YouTube in a cafe?

Speaker 11 (18:54):
No, No, I'm not. I don't really go to cafes,
to be honest, fair enough, I don't understand. I mean,
if I go to a cafe and there's someone I
could understand, like music in maybe videos, but if someone's
talking on the phone, I don't understand it. But even
if it's on speaker.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Okay, we'll find out what other say. Brandon, an apartment
block in central Wellington has been evacuated after fire this
evening two people in the apartment at the top of
the far Police say one person was seriously hurt and
takeing the hospital. Fends are alluded to a small third
floor apartment. Five trucks, two appliance as a command, you
breathing abrot as ten. That response responded Pauline, it's Marcus.

(19:37):
Good evening, Oho, Marcus, I just tuned in.

Speaker 12 (19:40):
What an interesting topic. There are several things you could
do if someone speaking very loudly on their phone in
a cafe, or you're sitting outside in that close by
join in the conversation. You'll get such a dirty look,
but you can say, oh, I'm sorry, I thought you
were talking to me.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
The other things very good, very good, very good.

Speaker 12 (20:02):
Yes, yes, the other thing is two look away, don't
look at them. Look away, or look as though you're
reading your paper while you're at your table, and start
making comments about the conversation like oh bollocks, oh good grief. Really,
you know, but not looking at them, so they start

(20:22):
to get the gist of what's happening. But they can't
really say anything to you, just in case they're wrong.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
But I guess these days people don't want to esclad
anything because everyone seems trigger happy.

Speaker 12 (20:34):
Well, they speak loudly on the phones. If a couple
of people are having a chat in a cafe, they're
normally sitting closer together and they're watching each other's lips.
They're reading, but on a phone, if just one of
them is in the cafe, they seem to speak aloud
of volume.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yep, don't disagree, thank you. Keep it going, people, What
do you do? What can you do? Marcus? I tend
to find a somebody as older dudes who tend to
use phones for talking. My kids just use them for
text message snapchat. The people you used them on speaker
seemed to be egotists, to think more interest and how
amazing their lives are. I went down to fill up

(21:17):
my jeep can for the lawnmower and got ripped. Oh,
there's been a lot of Facebook posts like that. Did
you have those? In fact, I fell for one. Have
You're seeing those Facebook posts that people are posting and
they say they say, I'll find one of these ones.
I had a friend of mine posted it and I

(21:39):
got quite concerned. I know she since deleted it. There
was a long post from someone I know, although I
haven't seen her for a while, and she had a
long post on Facebook with lot of text saying saying,
just so you know, I am okay. Last night I
was robbed at the petrol station and it went on

(22:01):
and on like this. But actually it turns out that
the point she was making is that she got robbed
with how much the petrol was, so just be aware
of that. Yes, Oh, people think they're hilarious. I guess
it's one way people cope with inflation and crisis. And

(22:21):
as we know as we are calling it the car
owner disease or the car ownervirus. I see they are
reporting a ship is heading for the Strait of horn Moves,
probably going to one of those websites. I bet on
whether it's going to get through. But there's a cargo
ship heading yep. I don't know that's a thing they

(22:42):
want people. The Americans have asked for other navies to
go and help escort ships through the Straits of horn Moves.
Japan and Australia have said no, and I imagine the
UK will have said no because Trump said, we don't
need your help anyway. We're winning. Now he's asking for
help watch the space. But we had to talk about
phone etiquette in public buses, hospitals, cafes. When you're playing

(23:04):
music loudly or audio, it's not good. And I'm someone
that's never owned a pair of headphones. That's like a
bustman's holiday for me, because I wear them at work.
I'm not someone that listens to my phone out and
about I'll just have it on silent. Yeah that's me,
but yes, I am seeing. It's been reported that flights

(23:26):
from Invercago to christ Church have been canceled because of
the international situation. This has just been reported. Now terrible,
isn't it? Living in the end times? I know I
shouldn't say that, but it feels like at least we've
got some sport to be happy about. Formula one Liam
Lawson seventh Shamy came into the pits lap early, but

(23:48):
he wasn't to know that, but yeah, I thought he
did well. And then you've got the situation too with
the old it's all gone good or if you're see
any the movies from the United State, well, if you
see any of the movies at the academies, always cure because
I haven't seen any of them. But I'm curious to
hear about that and talk about that twenty two from
nine o'clock phone etiquet and where should use a phone?

(24:09):
And maybe the phone call. Maybe the audio quality is
going to get better, But it's the tinniness that I
find offensive. I think that's what it is. But also
people's just lack of situational awareness, because I'm someone that's
always prided myself on situational awareness. Although my part would
probably say that that's not quite the case, because I guess
probably you're not good judge of your own situational awareness,

(24:31):
are you? Let's not go there? Nineteen to nine in
the Oscars and Saint Patrick's Day tomorrow, and this will
be a great day for parents and grandparents of children
that do Irish dancing, because it's one of the rare

(24:52):
occasions you can combine when a parent or a grandparent
with having an alcoholic drink at seven in the morning,
because not often you can do those things. Certainly with
Saint Patrick's Day, things seem to bel and that's probably
not necessarily a bad thing. You are dancing when you

(25:13):
don't move your arms. Great fan of that. Remember the
golden days of Michael Flatley that did so many dance
steps a second? What was his record? Was it about
twelve and a second? Seems crazy now, doesn't it. Suppose
they've built robots that can do it quicker now, have they?
If you want to talk about phone etiquette and in hospitals,
what's it like in hospitals these days? I imagine it's

(25:36):
terrible with people on their phones. Watch the air. I
want to see what the world record is people thirty
five times per second? Oh, that seems incomprehensible. He has
legs insured for fifty million, and his arms ensured for nothing,
didn't use them. I couldn't even tap thirty five times

(25:59):
a second be fast twitched muscles, wouldn't it. I think
it was the fastest tap dance of all time. I
don't know if he still holds there. Mind the Guinness
Book a record, doesn't want it is? You can get
your record for anything, now, can't you. Once upon a
time it was just dignified. These days, anything goes seventeen
to nine. It's all about It's all about phones and etiquette.

(26:24):
But get to speakers if you need to listen to stuff.
You're not going to drag a TV into a cafe
and watch your TV, are you? Or maybe you would,
because that's an effect pretty much what you are doing
seventeen to nine. Keep those emails coming through. There's something
you want to talk about. Also, be great? Yeah, why
not be great to hear from you? As I say, oh,

(26:45):
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two text.
I'm not quite sure what the story of the oscars is.
Seems a bit hyphey to me always, but after that
guy hit the other guy, it's never been quite the same,
has it. It was a slap that went around the world.
Good evening, John, This is Marcus.

Speaker 13 (27:06):
Well come yeah, hi Marcus and your listeners. Yeah, I
just wanted to share something with you that that happened
to me in christ Jeach Hospital.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (27:17):
It was like, yeah, I had the operation, but first
of all, I.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Got to the operation for the operation of what she
makest uh prostrate? Oh yep, okay, yeah.

Speaker 13 (27:29):
And of course before I had the hospital the operation,
there was this guy, just an ordinary person, saying, well,
he's going to have his operation, and he just looked
at me and he says, oh, well, we're all going
on the on the cutting machines, and of course I thought,
oh my god, not time to say anything like that.

(27:50):
But anyway, I blocked him out. But when I had
the operation, mask Marcus, bloody hell, I just couldn't believe it.
I wasn't told that this nurse was going to pull
this thing out of my banana, and oh, I thought,
oh everything just yeah, I got a shock.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
A it was.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Doant to be two graphic John. But how how long
ago was this?

Speaker 13 (28:18):
Oh, this was only probably about four months ago.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Okay, are you covering all right?

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (28:24):
But yeah, it's been it's been a bit of a problem.
It's been one side, but that's that's parcel and parcel.
But yeah, it's that I wish in the end, I
wish they would have told me that they were going
to pull this thing out of me, not just pull
the sheets back and just bang, here we go.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
It does seem surprising. I thought there'd be a pre
operation concert. Would they tell you what was going on?

Speaker 13 (28:50):
No, they didn't. They didn't. Like the nurse should have
said that I'm here. It was about it would have
been about five in the morning, and yeah, this has
all happened at five in the morning.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
And yeah, was there a degree of urgency?

Speaker 13 (29:06):
No, No, it was like they.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Don't normally operate at five in the morning, do they?

Speaker 13 (29:12):
No, No, I'm talking about they pulled the two beut Yeah.
You know the bag that you put inside you.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know much about that, but.

Speaker 13 (29:23):
Yeah, yeah, but it's a long thing that goes up
inside and she had to pull that out, and yeah,
that was so uncomfortable. I would have been a lot
better if she would have said to me, just brace yourself,
I'm going to be pulling out. But yeah, it was
like it was like nasty in a way I felt, Yeah,
I felt, but the operation went.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
But there's probably some right of redress you've got for that,
or other nurses are over work. But that does seem
to be if you've come away feeling like that, that
does seem to be. That does seem to be poor
bedside manner.

Speaker 13 (29:57):
Yeah, and I've got to share this one to you really. Yeah,
And yeah, and this one's another one. I actually went
to my doctor about it, and this guy you said
to me, we've all got what do you call it,
piles whenever it is inside the other parts of our body, hemorrhoids.

Speaker 14 (30:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And of.

Speaker 13 (30:15):
Course I've just had some botox here lately, but that
went wonderful. But the other doctor says, well, I can
go up there and cut out what I want to
cut out, but they're going to come back again. And
and yeah, I said to him straight away, I want
to seek an opinion here. And yeah, I was taken

(30:39):
to another surgeon and it was totally different, totally different.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
Marcus, Oh, good thing, A good thing.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
You asked for a second opinion, John, Yeah, the alberada
I could wear. I was talking about try having a baby.
People on my phone at my house through in fifteen minutes,
talk louder. Every time I get visitors. First thing that
people ask is have I got WI FI? Marcus? Your thanks, Marcus,

(31:09):
you're not talking about the fuel shortage. Your station is
transfixed on the problem when inflation, unemployment cris forgotten. That's
probably what the government right wants. Thanks again, Brent. I
don't know that we are transfixed with the fuel. It
just has been a fairly big story. And also it's
kind of how bristic with the law of unintended consequences.

(31:30):
It was always going to be about the oil in
the straits of hor Moos every time they had wargame
the scenario. That's the way it went. Marcus, do you
have any Irish in you? Well, the funny thing is
I don't, to my knowledge. Not to my knowledge I
feel a kinship with the Irish, But to my knowledge no.

(31:56):
I would like to hear I like to hear other conversations.
Doesn't bother me, Well, that's pretty much talk back. We
are in the business of other people's conversations, Marcus. I
get in order to go to the diairy to get
something to the post behind the counters on the phone.
There's clear now interaction with their customers. There was that
dairy in Queenstown that bands cell phones. Remember that up

(32:19):
Kelvin Heights. There was a big talk back night about
ten year ago. Maybe you should read my texts out
give you something to do while you're at work, Marcus,
what's worse? I'm a checkout operator and a supermarket. People
come took you on their phone, put their groceries up,
They're still talking. Pay walk off, still talking, don't even
say hi or thank you all goodbye, very rude. Twenty

(32:41):
seven eight, twenty nine, thirty seven away from nine and
good evening people. That's five away from nine o'clock. If
you want to be a part of the show, welcome,
feel free. Oh eight hundred and eighty. Lot of good
texts coming through, Marcus. You definitely have irish and you

(33:03):
no doubt thank you for that cooler talking about the
pulling out of the catheter done the early morning by
night staff so nurses can look for retention. Usually before
people discharged might not have had his hearing aids and
can't imagine nurse not telling you it's coming out. Yeah
I was. I couldn't really keep up with that story.

(33:25):
Oh it seems common, says, but he said the banana.
Oh yeah, I wasn't keeping up here till twelve. If
you want to be a part of it, eight hundred
and eighty, ten eighty, I'll just have a quick spot
check of Brent Crude because someone said we're obsessed with oil.
I'm going live to Brent Crude. Woo a dollar six.

(33:50):
I wonder which investment company it was. That guy that
rang the last week and said it wasn't going to
come to anything. I thought, jeepest creepers, and he's running
people's key we saver. It's been it's been just going
one direction. Sin's Feb twenty six. The only way is up.
The only way is be in touch. If you want
to talk. We talk about cell phone etiquette, but people

(34:12):
listening to they're not talking on phones anymore. They're watching YouTube.
They're watching videos, and none of them are God greetings,
welcome my weight one hundred eighty. Tell you some free
good texts, Marcus. I hate cell phone manners. I hate
people fubbing P h U, B B n G. Do you,
John Auckland. Fubbing is when you're annoying your mates to

(34:33):
be on the phone. I don't know what it derives from.
I don't know if it's a portmanteau fubbing Marcus. Bitcoin
down forty percent in August. Since October, you've been quite
on bitcoin thoughts. I haven't been quite on bitcoin. I've
mentioned a couple of times. What I've said is that
once the war and the golf started, people put their

(34:54):
money in goal, not in bitcoin, which showed rarely that
Bitcoin is not an effective hedge against and certainty. So
the real one function of bitcoin no longer it's no
longer fit for purpose. So I think that was a
great test. I think bitcoin's failed. So yeah, I don't
know if there's going to be much confidence in bitcoin
again for a while. You'd go with a yellow metal,

(35:15):
wouldn't you, Marcus. O'lush, Hi, Marcus, I'm asking listeners who
are Irish to phone you. Love the Irish accent. Thanks
Shamish o'larry Marcus. I have twenty leaders of unleaded Petrol
looking to swap for four bedroom house with Paul. Yes,
a lot of posts about Peel being robbed at gas stations,

(35:35):
but we are talking about cell phone and self phone
etiquette and public places. That's the plan. If you want
to about that or anything else to don't feel free.
I'll keep you up dead on the War in the Gulf.
Also eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two
nine two to text jump in if you want to partake.
If that's your thing, I'm there for it. Didn't realize

(35:56):
the New Zealand basketball team was playing old Caitlin Clark. Surprise,
I missed down on that one. Anyway, it is Panda beard.

Speaker 15 (36:09):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
I'll tell you what. The governor has gone quiet about
panda beares. For a while there, I thought we're going
to get panda bears, but no talk about that at
the moment. I always thought it was a good thing.
This year nineteen sixty Alfred Hitchcock's movie Psycho premiered. Very
good film. But yes, if you want to talk about

(36:30):
any of these things now at the time we get
the whole ball rolling. If there's something else you want
to mention jumping, if you see any of the Oscar
films and want to talk about those, my life's kind
of not in the movie kind of realm. I don't
feel like going to the movies in the middle of
that always seems wrong to me. At nighttime I'm at work,

(36:52):
and when the kids go to the films, it's normally cartoons,
which I don't love them. They're probably at the stage
where they're going to go to more adult films, but
I'm not quite sure when that happens. But yeah, get
in touch, keep those emails coming through if you've got them.
But as I said, eight hundred and eighty eighty and
nine nine to detext So yeah, that's the plans, Dan,

(37:13):
if you want to talk, and I will keep you updated.
But we are talking about phone so phone use and hospitals,
public transport and eating places. It's not good. But I
can't see it stopping anytime soon. I think people are
just didn't consider it now, or maybe it's my problem
because I don't like it. Maybe it's a situation. You're

(37:36):
going to change myself, change yourself, will change the world.
That's the solution. So yes, there we go. Eleven past nine.
Trump Is said he might delay his visit to China
as he ramps up pressure on the strait of her moves.
He was due to go at the end of the month,
so that's sort of the late lay stuff later of

(37:58):
stuff that's out. There's been Australia flight to Dubai that
was diverted because of drones. But yes, but anything else
you do want to talk, But that's a good chance
to get your dialing finger on. It's about cell phone
etiquette tonight. Oh, Marcus, did you go to a Catholic college? No?

(38:20):
Do you get involved if you want to talk, and
it's be involved. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
and nine two nine to the text. Oh, by the way,
someone says bitcoin is up six point seven five in
the last month. There we go. Thanks for that. Let
me just check that one bitcoin grath one month from

(38:44):
one hundred and fourteen thousand to one hundred and twenty
six thousand. Yeah, that seems to be about right, but
down significantly for the six months, from one nine nine
thousand to one two three thousand. Roberts, Marcus, welcome and
good evening.

Speaker 7 (38:59):
How are you, Marcus? Always good to chat to your mate.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Good to chat to you too, rob.

Speaker 7 (39:03):
Yeah, okay, we I'll just I met from dinner with
the missiles and she was on her phone quite a
bit of the time. I had my phone with me,
but I didn't go on at once.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
Yeah, I wonder what she was she was talking to someone.

Speaker 7 (39:18):
No, yeah, she talked to her friend when she's off
to Bali in two days.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Oh yeah really, well.

Speaker 7 (39:23):
And your friend is over there at the moment. So
they were just they're going to miss each other. But
the friend was sending you her pictures with that Dan,
And then she was showing me about this restaurant that
they're going to, and we were at a restaurant and.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
I'm not I'm not into people having long conversations when
you're supposed to be with them. I'm not. Yeah, I'm
not into it because I feel I'm just waiting for
the conversation to end. Yeah, I don't like it. I'm
not someone that could be relaxed with someone else on
a conversation when you're supposed to be with them.

Speaker 16 (39:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (39:59):
Yeah, Look, I wasn't then into the into the conversation.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Because it's hard to ignore that. It's hard to partake
in and I do find it awkward.

Speaker 7 (40:09):
Well, well, you know, she's my partner, so I had
to like seem interested. And she was showing me this
restaurant that they were going to. It like seven courses
and it cost one hundred New Zealand bucks to go,
and then there was a drink with each course.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Well are you going to bali?

Speaker 3 (40:28):
Rob?

Speaker 7 (40:29):
Oh, Well, I'm working, Marcus. I'll get to you know,
I'm a batler. This is this is her Marcus listened
to this. This is her third holiday and nine months
over she went to. Last year she June July, she

(40:50):
went to South America, done mentre Pechu and went to Ecuador,
went to the Galapicus Islands. She was home for light
I think six weeks and then she bagged off to
Kuala Lumpur and where where over there is? Is that Malaysia?

Speaker 1 (41:05):
I don't know, Yeah, I think it is. Does she
does she work as you or just Rob? That just works?

Speaker 5 (41:10):
No?

Speaker 7 (41:11):
No, I battle away, Marcus. And then they're not going
to come home and do the lawns and in the gardens.

Speaker 17 (41:18):
No.

Speaker 7 (41:18):
No, she's got a job. She well to be fear.
She's she's been a new job for thirty five years,
the same job. So she's put in a good effort.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
Good night, Rob, thanks for going. Nice to talk June.
It's Marcus. Good evening. Hello, Hi Jane.

Speaker 18 (41:35):
Hi, I'm just ringing up about the hospitals.

Speaker 15 (41:38):
Yeah, the staff in Lower Hat Hospital A one I
cannot fault them.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
God, are you are you? Are you a member of
the staff.

Speaker 18 (41:53):
No, I'm not. The food, Oh, dear God, it is
not fit for a.

Speaker 19 (41:58):
Pig to eat goodness.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
That's not good.

Speaker 18 (42:01):
The food is disgusting.

Speaker 4 (42:05):
Wow.

Speaker 18 (42:05):
I have never ever tasted food so bad in all
my life. Oh my god, I couldn't. I couldn't eat it.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
But the key was good.

Speaker 18 (42:16):
The staff are fabulous, mate, they can't do enough for you.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Were you an a ward or in a private room?

Speaker 8 (42:24):
No?

Speaker 18 (42:25):
I was in all wood, were.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
People on their phones a lot and listening to things,
watching TV on the phone.

Speaker 18 (42:31):
I was an award where I started off in the
private room in a single room, and then I had
to go down for an X row. When I came back,
they had shifted me into a ward. Well, the guy
next to me, all he did was cough and splutter

(42:51):
all night. I couldn't sleep. I had to go down
into the wreck room and pack myself on a chair
down there and treeplaining about the staff. They are fabulous
people are food, dear God. Oh, I'll tell you.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Oh, well gives you incentif to get out in a hurry.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
I suppose, yeah, I know, But I mean you know
they could at least give you a decent food while
you're there. I mean I remember being in hospital years
ago and they bought the trolley round and they just
stood up from the trolley and there was something wrong
with the food.

Speaker 20 (43:34):
Oh my god.

Speaker 18 (43:37):
Nowadays gross, absolutely gross.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
Sorry to hear that. June thanks that eight hundred and
eighty to eighty nineteen nine to the text get involved
phone apparently fubbing. I should have thought of that phone snubbing.
You're on the phone stubbing everyone else, Marcus, wondering if
there's any of your listeners make Irish food for Saint
Patrick's Day tomorrow. The trouble with Saint Patrick's Day food,
all it tends to be is just normal food with

(44:06):
green food coloring and which I always thinks disrespectful for food. Marcus.
What school did you go to, lads at Saint Pat's
silver Stream? Not there? What phone do you have? An iPhone?
Don't know the brand, Marcus. No pandas China clap down
on countries not aligned with their policies, get in touch
if you want to about Saint Patrick's Day. It seems

(44:26):
to be quite a bit of interest in that tonight.
Although I think it does always. It always feels to
me like it's one of the most pervasive and successful
alcohol promotions there's ever been. It always seems to be
about the Guinness, which is fine, it's a national drink.

(44:50):
But you know, I don't think there need any more
publicity than at sell a tankload of it tomorrow. I'm
sure the other beer companies are extremely envious trying to
come up with a public day that is aligned with that.
But if you want to be in touch on the
radio tonight, oh eight hundred eighty, ten eighty and nine
to nine to text, Yeah, so do come through. Is

(45:15):
there's something that you want to mention or talk about
along those lines fubbing, phone snubbing. So there you go,
be in touch if you want to be a part
of the show. As I say, oh, eight hundred and eighty.
Also some of those movies with the oscars oscars, if
you think the results were good or bad. I haven't
seen any of the movies, which I'm not proud to say.

(45:40):
Huh twenty past nine, Steve Marcus Corivingham, Welcome, Hu, Steve, Hi.

Speaker 21 (45:47):
How are you Marcus?

Speaker 8 (45:48):
Good?

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Thank you, Steve.

Speaker 21 (45:50):
I'm just called bit to your show. And some interesting
subjects for here. I've actually got a little bit of
a story regarding both movies and the cell phone thing.
My wife and my last matcha rink Ricky weekend. I
think last year there was this David Edinburgh movie that
we both wanted to go to. It was actually really good,

(46:13):
something about oceans. I can't remember exactly what, but we
were at Empire Cinemas down in Island Bay and everything
just cut out. The machinery wasn't working, and so I
think for about half an hour we were literally twiddling
our thumbs and it was actually for my wife and

(46:36):
I quite an interesting exercise and you know, social behaviors,
and so we were looking around and we started to
see that people were just like falling into like I
think about half of the people there went straight for
the phones, and about a quarter of the people started

(46:57):
to actually, you know, curiously turn to their neighbor and
start chasing on all sides, and about a quarter didn't
know what to do at all. I just thought it
was it was a very interesting state of social behaviors
for the modern age.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Did the light did you say? Did the lights come on?

Speaker 21 (47:17):
It was the machinery, the projection machinery that was out
and it did finally, it took a whole half hour.
They were actually offering free coupons to this, that and
the other. But then all of a sudden it all
came on board and we were away. But for that
length of time that can be you know, it feels

(47:39):
a little bit like an eternity.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Was it was it still dark or was it? Did
they turn the lights on?

Speaker 21 (47:45):
Lights wrong?

Speaker 1 (47:46):
That makes sense?

Speaker 21 (47:47):
Yep, okay, yeah, no, I just thought it was interesting.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
Pretty good film.

Speaker 21 (47:52):
Was it a very good film? Yeah, it was fantastically shot.
So I just can't remember the name of it for
the life of me. But it was something about how,
you know, basically we were doing something to the oceans
that was it was like a deforestation under the sea.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Appreciate step will find out. Yeah, irreversible, Yvonne Marcus, good evening,
Oh hello, Marcus.

Speaker 22 (48:22):
I just wanted to talk about Wiper with their recycle.

Speaker 6 (48:27):
Bunyonnelet's if we can make this pain Brudge.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
This is if we can make this a conversation yep.

Speaker 22 (48:36):
Yes, yes. So apparently they have an order to come
out and check the buns, and the lady opened the
middle of my gun, went across the road and checked them,
opened the middle of the neighbor's gun and I called

(48:58):
out to her and I said, what are you doing?
And she said, I'm just checking, you know, the contents
of the burn. And she said to make sure there's
no glass and that people are putting what they need
to in the berns. And I said, oh, how do
you achieve that? And she said, well, we kicked you

(49:20):
outside of the burn to see if there's any glass standing.
Have we put our hand in to just do a
bit of a shift around off the contents at the
top and Marcus, she wasn't wearing any protective clothing and
I thought, that's not right. You know, that's really unhygiena

(49:44):
and you know, not appropriate. But she did say we're
meant to wear protective clothing, So whether or not she
was choosing not to, I couldn't be sure. But the
other thing was how many burns does she actually check?
Because she loads the information onto tablat that goes through

(50:09):
to the depot that you know obviously gets the rubbish
nor the burns coming in. How many funds does she
check then actually coordinate with her on the route that
she's on and it all just sort of seemed a

(50:29):
bit why do it?

Speaker 15 (50:31):
Do you know what?

Speaker 1 (50:32):
Sort of Okay, okay, sorry, Yvonne. For some reason, I
find it really hard to listen to you.

Speaker 11 (50:41):
You know what I do.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
You know what I'm saying not really low? Okay?

Speaker 22 (50:48):
Can you explain, because I might be able to do better?

Speaker 1 (50:53):
Yeah, No, I can't explain. I just get this. I
just get this panic feel what I'm listening to.

Speaker 23 (51:00):
You see, there it goes, there, it goes again with
that with that voice.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
So yeah, I just could you just take your mouth
back from your mouthpiece a bit?

Speaker 22 (51:18):
I am, and I do speak loudly Marcus, and then
I'm sorry.

Speaker 16 (51:23):
You know.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
That's all right? Could you just take your mouth back
from the mouthpiece of bit from your phone?

Speaker 22 (51:29):
I am the mouth pieces like.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
From my mouth double it take it to four now, okay?
So the question, Yvonne, Yeah, why would you be concerned
how many bins? Why would anyone be worried about how
many bins? The bit inspection people inspect? What?

Speaker 20 (51:56):
Why?

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Why is that? Cause? Why is that called? Because I
feel anxious for you? But why would you be anxious
about that?

Speaker 22 (52:02):
Well, not necessarily anxious. I'm just expressing your opinions, because
you know she's coming along the straight checking the brand,
but all the band might not be out, so they're
going to the depots and times, you know, for them
to do there, to do the sawching. No, I don't think.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
I don't know. I don't understand what you're I think
you need to pick your battles even and that's not
a battle I think you should pick because.

Speaker 22 (52:34):
No one I do, Marcus, because I think they're wasting
time not paying your away. But the job's not really
being done.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
Well, it's been done. She's going through the bins and
seeing and they will leave warnings for people. They do
it right around the country. They leave warnings for people
if you're not recycling using it properly to pick up
your act and it's probably an important thing to do.
Ray it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 24 (52:59):
Good after good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
How are you good thinking?

Speaker 14 (53:02):
Ny?

Speaker 24 (53:03):
I was talking to day earlier on the off than
what has surprised you with a bit of news about
the Wall Birds singment you probably you've already heard about
it apparently, but that they're bringing over a Michael even
over from from America from England is and we.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Are what's the marks? What's what's the mark eleven?

Speaker 9 (53:23):
It's a split fire.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Ye are you in the aviation community?

Speaker 17 (53:27):
No?

Speaker 24 (53:28):
No, no, one of the domy buchelas to go down.
I remember I called you a while ago to see
if it is still going after to wallis passed away.
But he said, you said this this some guys is
still running it there for the.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
It's a big thing. It's a big thing, going for
three days this week. It's going for the Friday as well.

Speaker 24 (53:50):
Yeah, anyway, they said, they said the Fridays anyone who
can get tickets for there. But they're bringing us Mark
eleven out from in a case of something, and that
they're going to put it together. And I said, talking again,
I said, evens even spite of the fuel fuel shortage,
you said here, but so they're going to carry it on.

(54:12):
So it's just it's a big event.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
I mean, that's hang on.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
Have you have you rung me to tell me what
what the producers told you?

Speaker 24 (54:22):
No what I'd heard it on the radio and Dan
said that you'd already already known about it.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
Well, how's how's the fuel on the coast.

Speaker 24 (54:32):
It's where we're struggling here, I went in and got
fuel there today. And I'm going away on a trip
near on Friday, and the place I usually got used
to get fuelier in tay Uie Street near by the
VP was with a dollars seventy two about three or
four weeks ago. And it's the same same fuel now
diesel as as two dollars sixty two. It's just just

(54:53):
rocking it up and then still going up. And I
think Perry on that old Jazeera there that the I
seen on a guy's playing the day on the news
here that that it's too. It's one hundred and one
hundred and ten dollars a barrel or something. At the moment,
you know where's.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
Your trip, where you're going to on your trip.

Speaker 24 (55:14):
I'm going up through the place, go up to go
up to Reethon and then down down to mouse Point.
You know you know where mouse Point is between just
below the Tonal to Hamnah and then goes go through
through to through to Waire and and then over the
mountain life a track Mount Lifeord Road near past the

(55:34):
Wilbone Station mount Mount Lifeford village and up up to
kai Kora and stay at night in kai Kora and
then up to Picton and blending and stay at night
and and Picton and then through the Free Charlotte Sound
and then through the watch Awaker and then down down
through and take some apples and stuff, back down through
the Westboard and back home on this on Thursday the

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following week.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
What's the theme of the trip I've.

Speaker 24 (56:01):
Got when we when we sister passed away, there's I
left a lot of records here when I was when
I was there and was toasted, and I listened at
every place they're going to go and pick them up there,
but she's she's passed away in here, so I've got
I'm looking after.

Speaker 9 (56:17):
Them for me.

Speaker 16 (56:18):
So it's problem is it?

Speaker 1 (56:20):
Is it vinyl, the old.

Speaker 24 (56:22):
Vinyl records here, the Country Western ones. Yeah, I've got
I've got a lot of her records that here, that
the old seventy eight if you know, anybody wants the
old seventy eight records. But it's they're process now, I mean,
you get you've got to handle them with you hear

(56:42):
them like gold. And a lot of them are dubbing,
dubbing them off onto on the CDs now, so coming
him on the CDs.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
So he's staying touch anyway. It nice to hear from you,
right twenty five a way from teen.

Speaker 8 (56:56):
In.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
It's Marcus.

Speaker 14 (56:57):
Good evening, good Marcus.

Speaker 10 (57:00):
A lot of heads here in ukrand. Are you in Aukroan?
You're damn there?

Speaker 1 (57:04):
I am? I think depending on where you are in.

Speaker 10 (57:10):
Oh well yeah, okay, I'm in Canterbury. I just thought
i'd ring. I just thought i'd ring out here. Let
know that at the bowl and Jack finds ten dollars tomorrow,
it's gonna be.

Speaker 25 (57:23):
A big day.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
How much is a pint? Normally?

Speaker 10 (57:29):
I don't worry about the price. You just trigger up.
See people worry about the price all the time, petrol
and all that. They worry about it. Just pay it.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
What's the bowl?

Speaker 19 (57:40):
And Jack?

Speaker 10 (57:42):
Oh it's a bar?

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Wow? Do they have Do they have a special Sir
Patrick's Day?

Speaker 10 (57:48):
Do they they're going to have a special Saint Patrick's Day? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Well they have. Do you have a breakfast there?

Speaker 10 (57:55):
That that part Indian and part Irish?

Speaker 1 (57:58):
I think, oh wow, what time will you be there?

Speaker 10 (58:02):
In I'll be at the door pretty.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Not doing security waiting to get in.

Speaker 10 (58:11):
Yeah yeah, who wants to be standing on a door?

Speaker 1 (58:17):
But do they do do they do a special sirt
Patrick's breakfast.

Speaker 10 (58:21):
I don't know that. What what sort of no? No,
I'm drinking.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
A lot of Irish bars open newly and never cooked
breakfast with potatoes and stuff. Are they doing that?

Speaker 10 (58:31):
Oh that's bad for you. That's bad for your art,
all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
Okay, good on your in ins the type, Paul Marcus.

Speaker 5 (58:41):
Good evening, Yeah, good evening.

Speaker 14 (58:44):
I'm just trying to we'll get some Irish Irish food.
I know that you have Irish kew from what he's.

Speaker 26 (58:50):
And I like of greensander wine and they on the
Irish had in our family is a neighbor who couldn't
find his own way home.

Speaker 14 (59:02):
He come keep on coming, kicking out or and he
iras and he was even in my sky when he's
off off the verse, when he's on the verse, you
know he was. He picked the wrong family.

Speaker 26 (59:15):
I think where.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
About whereabouts is this?

Speaker 14 (59:20):
This is a New Zealand in Auckland.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
One suburb.

Speaker 14 (59:27):
Newland?

Speaker 4 (59:29):
Did he ever?

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Did he ever bear a g P S?

Speaker 18 (59:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (59:32):
Well I think he I think he well, I know
his name. I can't can I say his name over
the ear or not?

Speaker 1 (59:42):
Just change one letter of his surname, mister Hurley, mister
who Hurley h h u A L E y What
letter did you change?

Speaker 13 (59:53):
Hurt a G.

Speaker 14 (01:00:00):
That's my.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Name or Hurley his name? Stort a conversation I can
recover from. I think in Irish breakfast is you have
potato farls, which are Irish flatbreads made with mixing potato
with flour, butter and salt. I think it's I think
the additional cooked Irish breakfast is quite similar the British

(01:00:25):
Irish breakfast. But you have black and white pudding and
soda bread. That's right, soda bread's big. I have had
an Irish breakfast at the Irish Club, I think. But yeah,
white and black pudding. He was good. A but an

(01:00:49):
Irish stereod typing going in there. I love it when
I get a text that's nine to Why would someone
text me the text number? They're looking for the frequencies? Hello,
Joe's Marcus.

Speaker 17 (01:01:02):
Welcome, Okay, Marcus on the first time call. Excuse my
speech if it's not very clear, it's not bad.

Speaker 18 (01:01:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:01:15):
Well, I've enjoyed listening to your program for take a
long time, and I want to mention to you and
the public. But I din'ly attends for quite a number
of years. I was wearing a bit of farming there

(01:01:37):
and my doctor didn't realize how serious a lump on
my temple. It was getting larger and larger, and he said,
if it was no pain, I wouldn't worry too much.
But when I came up to Wilkium and my daughter
she's load down to the borco and three surgeons they

(01:02:02):
checked me and they done a buy off feet. They
took a bye uptree uh, and they said they were shocked.
They said, if you are not operatd on in in
six weeks, you won't be here. And that was very short.

(01:02:23):
Letters and my daughter work virtually. We're very upset, and
we raced back to walk and and my daughter tried
to get a sage and she was on the phone
for a couple of hours. See one sageent we went

(01:02:44):
over the shore. They said, yes, it's the very serious
factuation and they said it would have to be done
within six weeks. So my daughter was set up my
work just about our house to say and she lives.

(01:03:06):
Did She had a heart attack about a foot later
and she passed away. Thank she didn't you see what
was coming. So we moved to three seasons and they
we couldn't do it for about three months. They were

(01:03:27):
there busy, So all right, they said till them. She
said it would be fifty thousand dollars. It is the operation.
So we immediately agreed to the price that, oh, what

(01:03:50):
was actually happened is the phrase them, but the gigs,
then he will give it. Within four weeks we worked
them and we've got a phone call. Well, my daughter
got the phone call to say, but the Thurgan couldn't
do it because his wife had taken ill in America

(01:04:13):
and they had to go able to America. So the
hospital came up with pay a third and said he
could do it. He was a vacant, he wasn't working,
so I had to accept him, and he leaned the
operation and.

Speaker 22 (01:04:36):
I came out.

Speaker 17 (01:04:40):
All right, I'm here today, but coming around in the
wards in the morning. The five or six then doctors
worked for the notebooks. So I was taking notes and
I was cut really on the fire and I said

(01:05:01):
what was that? And he said, oh, I must have cut.
I send you because I've seen you and it got
very bad, painful, and I had trouble with her for
two years. But I have a family member do with
search and the search. When the family member came in

(01:05:26):
and spoke to me, oh is it, he said, Pop,
he should, I've got some church news for there. I said, oh,
I really, mon he I should? Was is it? Let
me have it? He said, I've done the search and
the surgeon the done. Your operation worked in four other

(01:05:46):
countries like he didn't mention Spain, He sud be Can
and France, and he was sacked. Oh well, I suffered
for two years with a thrilling on my sway as
big as an orange. The doctors. But the doctors quite that.

(01:06:13):
I said, it's the size of the lines. And I
was out one night having a dinner and it breath
and I had to drive myself straight to the hospital
and I put me in the hospital for eight weeks.
Teasing that and anyhow, that's all I will say is

(01:06:37):
that you have to be careful. Good doctors. We've brought
a lot of good doctors and good surgeons, and our
nurses and doctors are taking pots overseas for bigger money.
Or I had done. We made doctors and we need

(01:06:58):
more nasals. But Bob, I had very good treatment in
the hospital by the doctor who is in there and
res my moment very well, and I'm just likely to
be here. I'll stop paying them my leg.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Now how old?

Speaker 1 (01:07:18):
How old are you now, Joe?

Speaker 17 (01:07:21):
Well, let's all have problem.

Speaker 5 (01:07:23):
I was a.

Speaker 17 (01:07:25):
Five.

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
Okay, sound like you're going pretty well to me, Joe,
Thank you for that. Twelve way from ten. Nine from
ten Marcus. I hate it when I'm at a restaurant
the caller is using their speakerphone. I don't need to
be a part of their conversation. Chris from Uber emails Marcus.
On Thursday, we have a day in Barley called nap

(01:07:46):
my pronunciation as a guess, n y e p I.
The Wi Fi and cellphone networks are turned off for
twenty four hours. You must stay home in the evening
only low light, no noise, and curtains drawn. It's day
of reflection and stillness. A few months ago I was
looking forward to it. Now I definitely am. No flights.

(01:08:07):
No one can leave the resort or hotel if they
are a tourist. The evening before there are big celebrations
all over the island. Have a great night, Chares.

Speaker 5 (01:08:14):
Chris.

Speaker 1 (01:08:14):
Nice to hear from you, Chris, NAIPI makes sense, doesn't it,
or we might be going that way with our oil
reserves and the carronavirus. Get in touch if you want
to talk, or keep you out there with the news
as that happens. The number is eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty and nine two nine two detect if you

(01:08:35):
want to be a part of it. Keep you updated
on the war stuff too. People seems to have gone quiet.

Speaker 5 (01:08:44):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
I does say that Trump administration claims on how long
the conflict may last are increasingly inconsistent and contradictory, so
he's not much certainty about anything there. Hi, Marcus Love,
you're sure of reavening. When I'm working on my schoolwork
for the next day, I have to turn off the
radio when Yvon comes and I can't stand her voice.

(01:09:05):
I think she rings for attention, but it drives us
all crazy. Yes, I have spoken a two or three times.
I thought if i'd listened to or not, I could
work out what was going on, but I actually I can't.
It seems to have the voice seems to have a pattern,
and a lot of people text me as though that
she's putting it. I don't think she's putting it on,
but I just don't know. I certainly find it hard

(01:09:26):
to listen. I find it hard to concentrate on what
she's saying because it's not it's not conversational, it's just
it's just. Yeah. It makes me feel very uncomfortable. I
can't quite work out why. But anyway, I thought I
might be able to crack the secret code. But no, anyway,

(01:09:46):
I will persevere. Seven away from ten, four away from ten.
I got GAVETTS Marcus good evening a quick report.

Speaker 19 (01:09:56):
And we'll set them doing the track pulling again. I
got said, where's this at Mayfield? So it was the
one hundred years of Mayfield show?

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
Was it this weekend?

Speaker 19 (01:10:13):
Just gone by?

Speaker 5 (01:10:14):
What?

Speaker 15 (01:10:15):
What?

Speaker 5 (01:10:15):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
What was your tractor?

Speaker 16 (01:10:17):
Who?

Speaker 19 (01:10:18):
Dies?

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
Of course it was you.

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
And you?

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
One?

Speaker 4 (01:10:25):
No, now I've got third?

Speaker 8 (01:10:27):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
Third? Ah, you're making it up?

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
No I'm not. But it was better than fourth?

Speaker 1 (01:10:33):
What bitcher?

Speaker 19 (01:10:35):
There was actually a little Mayfield local tractor, you know
it was. Actually it's a V six Detroit Diesel bolted
up to the Fords and back end painted green.

Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
I don't know what. I don't know what you're talking about,
but the farming people be loving this.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
So you're you're dragging a weight and a trector behind,
aren't you.

Speaker 19 (01:11:07):
Yeah, exactly like a sledd in the front and the
and the.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
Digital readoubt hammet. Who's who put that kit together?

Speaker 4 (01:11:15):
That guy?

Speaker 19 (01:11:16):
Remember Vaughn rang you up one night and give you
a quite a good explash about it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
Yeah, worn's a bit of a visionary. It's a good
looking kit. They're doing it. It seems like you don't
get much traction with a lot of them in the front?
Is yours? The green one or the blue one? Is
the green one?

Speaker 8 (01:11:28):
Is on?

Speaker 9 (01:11:28):
The green one?

Speaker 19 (01:11:29):
Yeah, the green one.

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
Are you wearing a helmet?

Speaker 4 (01:11:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:11:31):
Well you have to Dutch the Dutch, so.

Speaker 10 (01:11:36):
Why would you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
Wear a helmet. You've got to get some weights on
the front of yours and can you not modify it?

Speaker 26 (01:11:41):
You can?

Speaker 19 (01:11:42):
But if something goes wrong and then you don't your
head on something, then there's not so sick anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:11:49):
You're too light, You're too like, you're too light in
the front.

Speaker 9 (01:11:52):
Can I please tell you something?

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
Yeah, You're gonna hang on there because I go run
up to the news. I'm watching your video. This is
this is like catnip for the farming people. I love
a tractor pull for me. I was just thinking about
a point that Evonne made and about the rubbish inspection
down here in in the Cargo and Bluff. And I

(01:12:18):
think the rubbish collection is a contract that works for
all the councils. It's not someone specifically from the Inva
Cargo council. But I was driving home, but it was
this year, last year, and I could see that there
was a note on the bin. I thought, Ohlip, I've
been sprung and I had. I'd seen all the other
bins with the notes. I thought, oh, jeep is what

(01:12:39):
are they doing? And I thought idiots? And I saw
my own bin had a label on the outside of
flip what have I tried to throw away? And I
was anxious. There was a moment of hubris because I've
been gloating at all the other people getting it wrong,
and I saw there was a tag on my own bin. However,
it was a well done thank you very much for

(01:13:01):
doing you, and what a good thing that was. I
loved the psychology of that, because I was quite excited
about that, and that I have been quite assiduous in
my recycling. Well I'm always pretty good with it anyway,
but yeah, because people go through it and it can't
be the nicest job in the world. And yeah, so's
I thought that was a great I thought that was

(01:13:23):
a great example of flipping the thing over and doing
it the other way. But yeah, I think people have
funny views of recycling. I'm not quite sure a lot
of cardboard has plastic got it, like scilitator, Not quit
sure if you're supposed to remove that. I'm not quite
sure what you're supposed to with soft rin containers with lids,
because I know the lids of some different material. I
don't know what you're supposed to with pizza boxes or batteries.

(01:13:43):
A lot of stuff is confusing. We need reminders of
and I've got in my shed. There are things I've
never thrown away because I'm not quite sure where they go. Look,
I didn't find an old mercury thermometer. I had no
idea how to from a milk vet that I inherited.
I don't know, well, I've got no idea where to
put that, because you wouldn't want the mercury in your
land fill, would you. So it's interesting that no iv

(01:14:07):
us already know about a lot of stuff. One of
my kids is always asking which bin, which bin can't
be an easy concept. Tonight we are talking about phone etiquette.
When you're out somewhere, people are on their phone, not
so much talking because people don't talk much on their
phone these days. They're watching a program, but the volume
is on full. It's on planes, it's in cars, it's
in buses, it's at hospitals. Your views on that, if

(01:14:28):
you want to, that's one of the topics for tonight.
Keep an eye on Iran. Anything else you doing to
talk about? Feel free if you want to talk about,
feel free to come through. Oh eight hundred and eighty
tatty and nine two nine to detext meat trays? What
do you do with meat trays? And what do you
do with cans? Do you put them in the dishwasher
first to cling them? And then what do you do
with the paper on the outside? And then I get

(01:14:49):
the real, real sense that most of the stuff is
uneconomical to recycle anyway, and the real thing we should
be doing is not buying that stuff in the first place,
whether it be plastic. I think the one thing that
can be recycled really well is cardboard. I think everything
else is plastic and the other stuff is pretty sketchy
or glass. I think it depends on where you are.

(01:15:12):
I think there's a whole different economic scale of recycling
in Auckland as there is too invent cargole because you're
a long way away from where it's processed. That's kind
of my understanding, bit of a rent. You don't know
what happens to meat treys. And there's always kind of
leaflet said recycling made simple, but it's never that simple
because you forget and BINDA is always a stressful day anyway,
and you've got to drag the bins out with their

(01:15:33):
tiny wheels. Why are the wheels so small? Could they
not have bigger wheels and be weighted. When was the
last time someone redesigned the Yeah, the might level has dropped,
but it was way too high down. It was well
above the the minus ten amount. I don't know what happened.
Don't know what happened that maybe someone had knocked it.

(01:15:59):
But do get in touch if you want to partake
in the discussion tonight, as I say, here till midnight tonight.
Oh oh, and if you've seen any of the movies
the oscars, I'd be curious to know. I don't know
why everyone makes such a deal about the shallow may guy.
I've kind of missed the boat with him, and there's
the dumping of the sneeze and then as we back
to normal. But yeah, be in touch if you want

(01:16:20):
to talk. As I say, oh, eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty about what I mentioned the four Buda one
to I watched all of that. I've actually slowly got
into it. It's a lot more it's a lot more
enjoyable to watch when Liam Lawson is doing well. And
despite not liking the commentators, the coverage and the cameras
is pretty good. You do get a pretty good scents

(01:16:41):
about what was and I think the length of it's
quite good. I don't know why people pay that money
to go and see it. I don't think. I think
it's a much much better and this is this is
I've got. I've got no idea what I'm talking about. However,
I would imagine be a much better experience watching it
on TV and watching it live. And China every it
was on their phones filming it. I don't believe they'd

(01:17:02):
go home and watch it, would they. I don't know
what they do That for seemed weird to me. You
might have been to a Formula one also to come
through and talk about that too tonight. But mainly it's
cell phone etiquette if you want to talk. But yes,
eight hundred and eighty TDY nineteen NINEY text and they
think I just want to talk about It'd be nice
to hear from you, Marcus till twelve. Keep those texts
coming in, Marcus. Less energy is used to recycle aluminium

(01:17:24):
that it does to extract it from walk site the
are it comes from. Well, that's the thing that drives
the South and the economy is making aluminium. Marcus. People
on phones. I was at a funeral recently and someone
had not turned their phone off, so it rang three
times during the service. People were horrified, as I was.
Some people have no concept of turning off phones. You're

(01:17:48):
the extraordinary thing is I occasionally find myself in meetings
where you're not supposed to have your phone on, and
for a while their occasionally phones would ring, which I
thought was bad. But then they've started ringing people start
answering them, which shows a complete dereliction of etiquette to me.
But maybe I'm the odd one out. Maybe I should

(01:18:08):
be appreciating those people's bravery to go against the common
norms and what people are saying. I'll just check on
the Brent crude while i'm here, So how much that's
gone up since I've spoken? Brent crude A live price update?
A dollar five, A dollar five point three five, that's
the day price. I'm not quite sure what the bottom

(01:18:31):
growth of that is. Oh yeah, that's today. Yes, Peter,
this is Marcus. Welcome and good evening, Good evening.

Speaker 14 (01:18:39):
I just have problems with the US and Iran. I
just don't ever see it ending because Irana was prepared
for many years of blocking the strait, and the US
for many years wanted to invade Iran the former prison.
I think Biden was asked two times to do it.

(01:19:01):
So and Israel, apparently, according to Jeffrey Sachs, wanted America
to invade Libya, Syria and Iran because I don't want
anyone to sort of not be supporting a Israel. So
basically what is happening is that all the Western countries
are basically not supporting international law by not condemning a Israel,

(01:19:25):
and America breaking international law. So I just don't see
any resolution because the ones who are going to be
affected is not America. It's going to be North South
Korea where we get some of our fuel from, and
Singapore and Europe. So all these guys are going to

(01:19:45):
go agreeing with the US and running out of diesel
and their economies being dependent on someone could provide them
with diesel to keep their economy going. I just see
a disaster, economic disaster, and that's why they're doing it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:03):
Do you agree, Oh, you think it's premeditated.

Speaker 14 (01:20:06):
Well, what I'm saying that their defense strategy from Iran
is just keeping the straight clothes. That's it, because the
economic fallout is going to be brilliants.

Speaker 1 (01:20:20):
Absolutely, That's the only thing that irans. Iran's mission can
be is to bring the world economy to a standstill,
and they could probably do that quite easily.

Speaker 12 (01:20:32):
Well.

Speaker 14 (01:20:33):
The thing is that you know, countries that support America
and Israel, I think are going to have difficulty getting
oil if they don't have any of themselves. And one
big problem is for Europe at the moment. In Australia
New Zealand, and the thing is, I don't know if
we're going to buy any stuff back from Russia.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Now that we've see some talk about that today, that
we're going to do that, which goes against the war sanctions.

Speaker 11 (01:21:00):
No, well, the US has.

Speaker 14 (01:21:03):
Apparently Trump rang out Persian and what can I do
about the all price and leisurely Putin said, we'll just
take away the sanction so other people can buy fuel
from US, and that's what he did, apparently. But Russia
doesn't have the same amount that's been taken out of
the supply, so Russia cannot fill the gap.

Speaker 5 (01:21:23):
If you like.

Speaker 14 (01:21:24):
So there's a serious gap to full and I just
think diplomacy is not going to work. So all these countries,
one hundred and thirty of them or whatever in the
UN voting against Iran doing self defense. I think New Zealand.
I don't know whether the New Zealand voted for it,
but it just seems crazy because you're not going to

(01:21:44):
unless you fecxs the Israel problem. You're not going to
fix the Iran problem because Iran and their constitution recognizes Palestine.
So you know that's why Israel wants to attack Iran
is because you know, Iran wants Palestine to exist, whereas
the other Golf states really didn't have that point. If

(01:22:05):
you're in the course, Saudi Arabia didn't win, and the
UA didn't win against Yemen, and the aircraft carries from
the US apparently got damage from Yemen. So because they
closed the sews Canal to US and Israeli ships. So
America really, I don't think gives a toss really, because

(01:22:28):
they've got their own fuel and their own game going there.

Speaker 11 (01:22:31):
But it's going to affect.

Speaker 1 (01:22:34):
The effect of the US economy.

Speaker 7 (01:22:36):
Yeah, but not as much.

Speaker 1 (01:22:38):
Oh well, well, well I don't know.

Speaker 14 (01:22:41):
Yeah, well, well it does affect the economy, but at
least they're going to have fuel compared to other countries,
and so is Canada going to have fuel.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
So I don't know why America has never not been
more civil towards Canada, because Canada, by all accounts as
the greatest ally. I mean, there's there's more advantage with
been close to Canada with everyone. They're a great supplier
of all sorts of mineral wealth.

Speaker 14 (01:23:06):
Well, apparently, according to Colonel Wilkinson, who was you know,
in the US government, believes the US is going to
attack Canada because of climate change and that's where they'll
move to. I don't know how true that is, because
the reckon is the climate change outlook is absolutely disastrous.
You know, by twenty sixty or whatever it is. He

(01:23:28):
thinks that most of the US won't be habitable, so
you know, that's what's going to happen with, you know,
wars and water and all that sort of stuff. So
I don't think this plan, you know, a couple of
months as when the ship will hit the road.

Speaker 4 (01:23:45):
So to speak.

Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
So careful of the language, people, I don't think you
need to go with that.

Speaker 14 (01:23:49):
Yes, well, you know, and the cost of bitchmen and
roads is going up a lot because you know it's oil.
So I think we're in big trouble.

Speaker 1 (01:23:59):
Really, yeah, Peter, I don't think what you're saying is surprising.
I think everyone's kind of triggled. I think everyone, apart
from two or three callers is it has has kind
of come to that conclusion. I mean, war's very easy
to get in too very hard to get out of,
especially if you don't know the reason you've started a war,
then you don't know when you've succeeded that mission. And
it's all very very vague.

Speaker 11 (01:24:20):
It is in the US.

Speaker 14 (01:24:22):
You know, as someone in the afternoon said, you know,
it was twenty trillion or whatever to go into Afghanistan
and let the same regime you know take over again.
And the US left Vietnam spending lots of money and
wiki leaks during the hard US just wants war, doesn't
want to win them.

Speaker 1 (01:24:39):
And of course, so who do you say, Ricky Lukes,
no wiki leaks, Yeah about Ricky Luks. Pet I'm going
to move on, but nice to hear from you.

Speaker 5 (01:24:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
Twenty one past ten, twenty three past ten. We talk
about cell phone other kid, if you have anything to
say about that. It seems as though we've lost the war.
And for me, it's not for me, it's not the norm.
For me, it's not the people that are listening to
their phone, but it's the quality of that tinny sound
that comes out of it, and they're not talking on

(01:25:11):
their phone. I mean that was the thing in the past.
The voices would be okay, but now it's sort of
listening to some sort of banal YouTube video with often
an AI voice. So those places we probably went to
go for chats, like public places, are now longer suitable
for that, or are and those quiet places like buses
and planes or trains no longer like that because people

(01:25:32):
are on their phones. But I don't know if i've Yeah,
I'm not a guy that would confront people. I probably
should have probably been less passive aggressive, And the discussions
continue about the Middle East. I think anyone's kind of
realizing it's a very complicated situation to get out of.

(01:25:56):
And I probably have been mindful over the last couple
of days that not many things in life have ended
up being a lot simpler to conclude than you would
have thought. I don't know what that law is, but
everything seems to be much much more complicated than originally thought.

(01:26:17):
I guess it could be part of the.

Speaker 12 (01:26:19):
Law of.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
Unintended content, unintended unintended consequences. But you know, I do
believe that probably the raging change in Venezuela was the
worse thing for Trump, that that was so straightforward and
so easy he thought, well, let's continue on. I imagine
probably the people of Greenland and Cuba are now got

(01:26:42):
to reprieve because we'll take up resources for a long time.
That's my take. But I might be pleasantly surprised. It
might resolve itself very quickly, in a straightforward and simple manner.
But I've never known a conflict to resolve itself quickly
and simply. I've never known a conflict that's gone better
than imagined. Maybe when they got that guard to Panama.

(01:27:04):
Who was that they got out of Panama? I read
a book about that, the Panama leader that they captured,
and that was quite straightforward. And then again Venezuela. But
you know, the American's got a lot of experience in
South America said from America that was Noriega. But what
happened is in prison for forty years?

Speaker 15 (01:27:22):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (01:27:23):
Did they ever let them go? But yeah, I can't
imagine that. I can't imagine it's been straightforward, particularly when
you can put limpet mines on the sides of containership
slow moving container ships very very easily, from just small
speedboats or jet skis in the strait? How do you
even enforce that? I do find it fascinating, but I

(01:27:43):
do find myself spend a lot of time reading about
what's happening there. It's not good fine etiquette as well
tonight and anything else you want to discuss, feel free
to come through here till twelve oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty. There's something different you want to mention tonight,
good if you've got any breaking news, good, feel free
to come through and talk about that also. But yes,

(01:28:06):
that's the planned people. If you want to be a
part of the discussion, we're here for you. By the way,
did also hear that the people of the yemen e
the yemen E's and now might start mining the Red Sea,
which would affect the Suez Canal and that really would
shut down global shipping. It's a good thing we had
sport to be excited about in the weekend because last

(01:28:26):
week's news was not great. But there we are. And
I ask you about those Oscar movies. If you've seen
me those ones that got nominated, you want to comment
on those. I probably will go see the table tennis movie.
I'll probably go see them all. Actually, I just haven't
been to the place where I go to. A lot
of the movies don't come to Invercago and not really
someone that likes to go to movies during the daytime
because it makes you feel a little bit. There's stigma

(01:28:48):
to movies in the daytime. I don't know why. Might
feel better when I'm retired, but currently not so much. Oh,
by the way, speaking of things, I did watch that
movie on Netflix about that. Anethetist from adelaide that when
diving in that cave, I think it's called the Deeper
or the Deepest, very good, quite compelling, crazy sport. Mind

(01:29:09):
diving underwater, diving down minds terrifying, and they dive for
about twenty minutes. It takes about fifteen hours to come
back up to repressurize. They're kind of spending five hours
resting and upturned containers. You're a lot of faffing around.
Not good at all. So enough for me. Be in
touch if you want to, and as I said, it'd

(01:29:31):
be nice to hear. If there's something different you want
to mention, feel free. You are more than welcome to
come forward and talk about that. Marcus. There's two reasons
Iran can't block hor moves straight for long. They need
it open to expert export oil or their economy will collapse. Well,
they can open it for their own ships, surely, and

(01:29:53):
they are running out of weapons to attack ships that
use it. I don't think they are. I think it'd
probably be very easy to manufacture limpid minds or things
to attact, low tech stuff that just detext attaches to
the side of ships. Just go out there on jet
skis or speedboats. I don't think it's com complicated armaments
at all. I'm up for the discussion. A text here, Marcus,

(01:30:16):
What can New Zenands do to get Watties to change
their plan to stop manufacturing vegetables? Why are we importing
fruit and vegies when ours are the best? So I
suppose there's one question that I haven't answered when it
comes to Watties, And maybe you can answer me this
because I don't know enough about it. So we're talking

(01:30:38):
about Watties and we are talking about them stopping their
canning and their freezing of vegetables. They're selling can and
frozen vegetables. The point I don't know, And the thing
I haven't actually done the work to get the information
on have New Zealand have our New Zealand is eating
a lot less, fewer, less frozen veggies and tin veggies

(01:31:00):
and they used to. Is that why they're stopping? The
demand is less? I haven't quite Is there a positive
to that that we have more access to fresh fruit
and veggies? I don't know if that's the case. Maybe
we're just eating more takeaways, but it seems to me
as though we're not eating as many frozen veggies. Now,
it might be completely wrong about that. That's just an
inkling that I had. So if that's something you want

(01:31:22):
to mention tonight, too, jump and anything else you want
to go around with tonight, I don't have a problem.
It's anything goes, as I've said, talking cell phones and
cell phones and hospitals and cafes and on planes. But yeah,
people just have no idea. They're just listening to that tennis.
I don't know why they don't have headphones or ear pods,

(01:31:44):
but I don't like I don't like things in my
ear But that might be something you've experienced. If you
can talk about that, as I say, and other stuff
that you want to mention or talk about, all the
lines are free. It'd be nice to hear from you. Yeah,
get in touch if you want to talk about this
or anything else tonight and make yourselves knowing eight hundred

(01:32:07):
and eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two detect.
If this eything goes tonight, you might want to talk
about what you think the conclusion to the Gulf War
is going to be. I can't see it ending this year.
I just can't see what the action I don't think
there's I don't think there's not the will to end it.
I just can't see how they managed to do that.

(01:32:29):
I can't see what that game plan would be. And
that's what all the people at the think tank said.
They've done a lot of running scenarios to see how
it can work and how it can conclude, and I
think it's probably gone to plan in a bad way.
Twenty seven to eleven twenty four from eleven Roman along

(01:32:50):
at twelve o'clock. I hope your Monday's going well for
you people, Hope your weekend was good. Hope you enjoyed
the Formula One as did I. It's just quite a
good day for watching sport. Quite a good weekend for
watching sport, I thought was what I enjoyed. But yes,
as I say, there's lines there free if you want
to get involved with a discussion. Tonight. Seems as though
there is no immediate talk of full rationing and carless days,

(01:33:14):
although I have heard and I've seen reporting that some
places have run out of fuel, and I guess there's
no surprises. There was something a lot of people talked
about last week, so it's probably human nature for people
to go in there and actually fill up. But I'm
not necessarily indicating that's a good thing to do. They
are assuring us that there is plenty of fuel. They're saying,

(01:33:37):
don't panic by the petrol price that a full year high,
and the petrol containers have flown off the shelves, but
kiwi is heading to buy petrol have been reminded to
be mindful of safety issues and restrictions such as the container.

(01:33:57):
Nikola will have said, there's no need to panic buy.
But as soon as people start saying that, it's like saying,
don't think of an elephant. All you want to do
is panic by us. Be said that the average price
has passed three backs a liter, which is fifty cents
more than it was fifteen days ago. It's going to
affect people living. I'll bring crude. It's Marcus Good Evening.

Speaker 20 (01:34:21):
Oh yeah, Marcus. Cell phone etiquette now, yeah, I'm one
of these notorious I'm a notorious YouTube listener, podcast listener,
and I'm around the house and I used to have
these like bluetooth ear muffs and stuff, and the wife

(01:34:42):
would be yelling out something she want to say because
I can't hear a thing come out all stroppy, take
those time, tell you something. But several months ago I
got hearing aids now because I've got a bit of tonight.
But they said, look, you're high and low range is
a bit low anyway, that does help that. So I've

(01:35:05):
got this hearing aid and you visually, no one else
can tell unless you look carefully that you're wearing them,
because the plug that goes right in your ear, there's
a clear, translucent sort of cable goes in and it's
only the diamond of small fishing lines. You don't even
see it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:21):
Yeah, and amazing, it's amazing that technology, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:35:24):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:35:24):
It is?

Speaker 20 (01:35:24):
What The cool thing about them though, is that they
blue tooth.

Speaker 4 (01:35:28):
To my phone.

Speaker 20 (01:35:31):
And it's got a volume and I can turn it
up and down and things. I can wear those out
and listen away to stuff, and I can still hear
my wife if she yells out. But she figured out now,
so this is the eadequate party figured out I'm not
going to yell out to the dinner or lunch is ready,
and she just rings me.

Speaker 8 (01:35:50):
At the bed.

Speaker 1 (01:35:51):
So it's inaudible. So were you listening to stuff? No
one else around can hear it? No, that's perfect.

Speaker 20 (01:35:59):
But the thing is, if someone sees to me hate bread,
I still hear them. Yeah, it is perfect, but he's
having interesting. Actually, yesterday up the hills, we'll walk around
up on the hills and the rangers. And then I thought,
I'll just turn the volume up and I could heal.
I could hear the impects crawling in the dry leaves
and everything. I thought, wow. Then I turned it off.

(01:36:20):
Of course, while I realized how bad my hearing is.
I couldn't hear the cicados or anything. I turned it
back on again and on the full volume. Then I
got down to the track and I can I thought,
I picked up a radio station, I can hear voices.
What it was was voices of another person and his
friend way behind me on the track talking to each other.

(01:36:40):
Now you can turn up the volume in here, or
that's what I do. Sometimes I think I'm going to pay,
like a really can fail coming and one are those
things you can turn up the books. That's quite sneaky,
but yeah, but yeah, it's better than wearing the back
of earphone.

Speaker 1 (01:36:56):
And Brent, you know how you say you're like listening
to watching YouTube or those videos on the phone.

Speaker 20 (01:37:01):
I'm bed at it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:02):
Yeah, but what there's no worry about. I reckon it's
more interesting than TV, oh way more because it's short stuff,
and I reckon some of it's quite compelling.

Speaker 20 (01:37:14):
Oh it's too compelling. Any great recipes. I love the meat,
food recipes, you name it. Of course, one of the
great things about it is I have an issue that
I want to solve a problem with my car or
something like this on YouTube and for some reason, people
anywhere around the world have got the answer to it,

(01:37:35):
and they film themselves doing it put on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (01:37:38):
And the thing is, it's a meritocracy, so the ones
that are the best are the ones that will go
up your search stream. So you normally find the best
for it cuts out the chef, so your best thing
is always first.

Speaker 20 (01:37:50):
Oh well, this you is normally a dozen solutions, and
I just go through them. And when I was sitting
the derailer on my mountain.

Speaker 17 (01:37:57):
Bike and I do this on YouTube, there's a dozen
guys British, American, Kimi, Australian.

Speaker 27 (01:38:02):
Is there you do it?

Speaker 7 (01:38:03):
They said me, Wow, what was shot?

Speaker 1 (01:38:06):
What was wrong with you?

Speaker 2 (01:38:07):
To railer?

Speaker 20 (01:38:08):
I think I hit it on the back of my
track and I went up to a ride and I
think I might have bend it a little bit, but
they explained how to fix that, and now I mean
so anything, Yeah, and so that's what I do. But
I eat these buds and but the wife likes them
better because she can talk to me and I don't
know if you'll catch me out. It didn't, and she

(01:38:30):
resigned something and she noticed that I'm not payingful attention.
Are you left things to something else?

Speaker 24 (01:38:35):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (01:38:35):
Bread?

Speaker 11 (01:38:36):
Has it?

Speaker 1 (01:38:36):
Has it fixed your tenatus? Because I hear that's pretty
awful tenatus?

Speaker 20 (01:38:40):
Yeah, I look, not entirely, but what they can do
is when they get an audio place and they're actually
tuning and they can put a white noise in them,
and so not entirely, but I've noticed at least and
less most people I know who've got tenas. We're hearing
aids for that reason, for the tenatus, rather than rather

(01:39:03):
than they need it for. I'm talking to you now, fine,
what the I can talk to people on the phone
and with the things as well.

Speaker 1 (01:39:10):
Yeah, Oh you said a good space, Brent. Nice to
talk to you. That's excellent, Marcus. Here's something I've just
discovered recently after years of burnt pots. The hours I've
spent scrubbing to get burnt bottoms clean, I thought, damn this,
I'll pour a little Janola into a pot. I've burned
the bottom of potatoes. Yesterday I burnt carrots them on
anyhow twice. Now you can believe that janola has totally
lifted the burnt food. Try it next time you forget
to check the cooking. I'm thinking of patenting this. Ruth.

(01:39:34):
Good on your ruth. Ear pods fall out, and when
hiking I can hear of your footstep. I mean rummaging
around the floor of a winning a bus to pick
one full an ear pod. It was free comic in
a bad way. On Saturday, I purchased headphones. That's outside
my ear life changing.

Speaker 4 (01:39:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39:50):
I don't like anything in my ears. I can't. Yeah,
I've got narrow canals. I don't like them. Feels too claustrophobic. Hello, Ben,
it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 4 (01:39:59):
Hey Marcus, here's a hanging tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:40:01):
Good Thank you, Ben. How's yourself?

Speaker 12 (01:40:03):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:40:04):
Getting there? Getting there?

Speaker 11 (01:40:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:40:06):
Yeah, just sitting there listening. That last call was quite interesting.
I court enjoyed him.

Speaker 1 (01:40:11):
Is happy he wasn't moaning he wasn't a no All
just came through and called it like it was brilliant.

Speaker 20 (01:40:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:40:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:40:19):
YouTube, I've been listening to quite a bit of that lately.
I've got a Blue Tooth stereo and the Digger and
that when I'm working, and I've been listening to all
of those history that's what fiction, and some fiction and
summer non fiction. They've got a lot of the Vietnam
New Zealanders and Vietnam ones are quite interesting. But the fiction,

(01:40:41):
like the Wild West and the Mafia stories are really entertaining.
I've actually gone off radio to be honest.

Speaker 1 (01:40:51):
Month that's the answer.

Speaker 20 (01:40:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:40:54):
Yeah. And like YouTube, you just don't before. I actually
don't even watch stand the TV anymore.

Speaker 25 (01:41:00):
I just go straight to YouTube and just watch whatever
I want.

Speaker 16 (01:41:03):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:41:04):
Yeah. Last night and I was trying to work out.
I was looking at my I've got a three year
old apricot tree, and I was looking at it and
I was thinking, how do I prune it? And I
just went on there, how do you prune an apricot tree?
And there's about fifty thousand people explaining how to prune
an apricot tree?

Speaker 1 (01:41:20):
What was the key to it?

Speaker 4 (01:41:22):
Oh? Make it look like a vurs.

Speaker 1 (01:41:24):
Oh yeah, so take a couple of main main leaders.

Speaker 25 (01:41:28):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (01:41:28):
And go up and a yeah, so what the lighter
so the light will get it? Is that what it is?

Speaker 4 (01:41:33):
Yeah, it's a light. And apparently apricot's grown the stem
and not little side leaders. And I think they're going
to be like a three year old wood for it
to grow an apricot on it. Apparently we're about to you, Ben,
I'm nowson.

Speaker 1 (01:41:48):
I'd love an apricot.

Speaker 4 (01:41:50):
Oh, I reckon, it'd be great, wouldn't it a wicked
apricot tree be they've got a maiden ranguura. He's got
a cherry tree and he got did you say you
got a wheelbarrow load of cherries off that tree this year?
One whole wheelbarrow or yeah, not all the same time obviously,
but he said he had to be pretty quick because
the birds are trying to get into it.

Speaker 1 (01:42:10):
You're gone off that, you're going off frozen veggies.

Speaker 4 (01:42:14):
Ah, I don't know what. I don't really know what
that's all about. I mean, like I don't understand we
all eat food, I mean, we produce it. What do
they reckon? We're five million people, but we can produce
FO one hundred and forty million or something. I don't
get it. Are we exporting it all or are we

(01:42:34):
just putting houses on land or what's going on?

Speaker 1 (01:42:38):
It's all cows. I think Ben foding to eleven. I
wonder if he doesn't think I'm radio when he says
I'll stop listening to the radio. That was interesting, wasn't it.
I don't know if he has stoped listening to the
radio and he's just calling with without having listened twelve
away from eleven? What's happening people who wants to have
the discussion. Yeah, YouTube's pretty interesting if we can confess
to that. I mean, the algorithm once it finds out

(01:43:02):
what you want. Although I do I do watch too
much stuff, but I mean interested what I've learned, like
the coal fired fish and chip shops. But I'll tell
you something. There's a lot of people that see themselves
as been YouTube hosts doing sort of interesting things on
food or railways or history, and a lot of them

(01:43:27):
are pretty dead present. It's pretty yanky. I think it's
got a long way to go before people get better
with it. This is Marcus John. Greetings and welcome her.

Speaker 27 (01:43:37):
Good John Good good now before you reckon. There was
a bit of a stigma on going to the movies
in the afternoon. Yeah, so the thing is because you're
too young.

Speaker 25 (01:43:52):
Yeah i am.

Speaker 27 (01:43:53):
The great movie time is anytime I'm not in the
movies at three o'clock today.

Speaker 1 (01:44:00):
I'm got that young. When I went to ham the
hot pools, they gave me a senior discount.

Speaker 27 (01:44:05):
You're yeah, craky, okay, the kids thirty years I'd say, the.

Speaker 1 (01:44:11):
Kids thought it was hysterical. But yeah, I'm hearing you.

Speaker 27 (01:44:14):
No good as gold. So yeah, a beautiful sunny day.
I went to the movies at three o'clock and uh,
you know de Gray here people all go any time
through the day and it's actually nice girls through the day.
It doesn't matter a dame what times the day when
you're in your eighties.

Speaker 1 (01:44:32):
The last time, John, the last time I went to
the movies in the day, it was a mums and
bub session. Have you been to one of those?

Speaker 27 (01:44:39):
Oh, I've been to them all, Marcus way the old
days when they had the cereals on Saturdays.

Speaker 1 (01:44:45):
I think the mums and bubs is for lights on
for breastfeeding or something. So it was a bit it
was a bit different.

Speaker 27 (01:44:52):
They would have given you a bit of a problem.
Why can I see that?

Speaker 1 (01:44:55):
No, just I went with a mate now and I
thought I thought while we had bums and bubs that well,
I didn't realize it was John, What did you? I
think that's what the point of mums and bubs is,
or maybe it's so the babies don't get freaked out
by the deck. What did you see today, John?

Speaker 27 (01:45:08):
I'll tell you what I saw. And I'm a pretty
hard critic usually, Marcus. I'm lucky to give most of
the movies I see with my dear wife these days
better than six out of ten. But she got an
eleven today, eleven out of ten. Now, the picture I saw,
and I've got a little challenge for you, because you
need to see it, was called tenor my name is Party.

Speaker 1 (01:45:33):
Oh yeah, good, good, Now that's about the.

Speaker 27 (01:45:36):
Soul Romeo guys, the ones I Yep, I've seen the
trailers for that. It's a stunning movie. Take the kids,
Take the missus, Take everybody. It's one of the best
I've seen for many years. And here's my little challenge.
If you can watch your way through that without with

(01:45:57):
a dry eye, I salute you, they'll be happy tears.
But by gosh, it's a good movie.

Speaker 1 (01:46:03):
Really nice to hear from John, Thanks so much to that.

Speaker 4 (01:46:05):
Eight.

Speaker 1 (01:46:08):
You haven't seen that movie, but obviously I've seen some
of the promos for that, and that's something that's happening.
Oh yeah, Now what's the other key we form I
had to see recently too. That didn't get around. Oh yeah,
I know that one. Hey, just come to news time.
People keep those texts coming through. I mean, if YouTube

(01:46:32):
is the great meritocracy and it's competing with TV, but
it's made itself so much more compelling with its ease
of accessibility, in its length of its content, it's kind
of winning, isn't it. People just want that short, exciting stuff. Yeah, Marcus, I'maranian.
I hope the international community stands with the people of
Iran who are asking for freedom, dignity, and human rights.

(01:46:53):
Tip for podcast lovers American history tellers outstanding narrator and
the story of the Great Chicago Fire and the Civil War,
amongst others, are brilliant, Marcus. Note the name cell phone
the developer called it that there is a bit of
a joke knowing folks would be imprisoned by it and
shackled by their phone. True story, I like, I guess
it's not a true story. A lot of people saying,

(01:47:15):
gaspy that fuel app Apparently people are putting in the
wrong prices and that is fueling the panic buying. So yeah,
don't I was gonna say, don't panic buy it, but
do what you want. Yep, Malcolm, this is Marcus. Good evening.
Mmmmm Jesus M good evening, Malcolm.

Speaker 11 (01:47:41):
Kay Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 1 (01:47:43):
Thanks? Malcolm?

Speaker 2 (01:47:43):
How are you really quick call?

Speaker 16 (01:47:46):
This is what is happening in our capital city. I
went down, I had to buy a discordable later. And
it's happening all the time. Though most of the barking
wardens here are now going round with measuring teeth. If

(01:48:06):
you are two millimders over the white lines.

Speaker 1 (01:48:11):
Whatever, why are we over the white line?

Speaker 15 (01:48:14):
Huh?

Speaker 16 (01:48:15):
I have a Honda Jack right, it's not the best
car for getting the thing right. It's gonna snow, you
know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:48:25):
Anyway, should have you been should have you? Should have
you been driving?

Speaker 20 (01:48:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:48:29):
Absolutely, this happens all the time. Though I live in
a suburban street. They come up four times a day
and if I am two millimeters over the white line
and the measure seventy five dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:48:47):
Unbelievable. Well she'll talk more. Thank you for that, Malcolm
Bick after the news. Good Evening. All the Romans along
at twelve have just joined the show. Good Evening, and
welcome to it. I hope it's good for you are people.
We talked mainly about cell phone etiquette, the fact that
these days, more and more places you'll go and there'll
be people on their own with their cell phone on

(01:49:08):
and they were listening to a program and it will
be using just volume. They'll be having no air pods
or headphones, and it's incredibly disruptive because it's not a
pleasant noise to listen to. So I want to know
if you think they're finding a losing battle that what
if it's become I don't even know what to say

(01:49:28):
about it. I imagine but you having a cafe and
people aren't turning up, that'll be the reason they're getting takeaway.
Don't want to sit around. It's pretty rude. Also, of course,
tomorrow morning is Saint Patrick's Day, so if you're doing
something special for Saint Patrick. I don't know which pubs
still go big on that. I guess it's still a
big thing in the Irish community and it's pretty raucous

(01:49:48):
because not something we used to doing is drinking at
seven o'clock in the morning. And then what tends to
happen is well, look, I don't know what tends to happen.
Imagine you think it's going to be fun to go
to Sint Patrick saf for a couple of drinks first
thing in the morning, but quite quickly the resolve goes,
the desire to go to work goes, and then it
becomes probably a daytime of bringing at the pub. Will
that be fair to say? So you might have a

(01:50:10):
plan for tomorrow what you'll do. I know the last
time that last year we talked about a lot of
people have gon along to watch their children or their
grandchildren perform doing Irish dancing. I don't know what the
biggest Irish bar in the country would be. Actually, i'd
feel either being Auckland or christ Church. I don't know

(01:50:30):
why I feel it's in Chrostach. I have a lot
of Irish people went to christ Church for the rebuild.
But if you've got some great Irish bar you want
to talk about, it would be interestingly. I mean they've looked.
It's a good thing. Irish bars. There's always good music,
isn't there. I think most of most towns have one.
I know that the Irish Bar and Mutta Mutter is famous.

(01:50:53):
The Irish Bar and Muttermutter is famous for it was
a hot spot and the Covis remember that w when
you were spreading case happened from It was either at
the Yeah, do you remember all of that? The COVID.
I think it was the I think it was a matter.
It might have been Morriens if I do get the
two mixed up. It was a COVID cluster. It was

(01:51:18):
a Saint Patrick celebration at the readout bar. Does even
sound like an Irish bar was a return traveler from Ireland.
They were one of the country's first clusters. Because remember
it like it was yesterday, or for some of us
it was yesterday. Yes, just ready about that now. So yeah,
you might want to talk about that too, about your
memories and your experiences and your hopes for Saint Patrick's

(01:51:40):
Day tomorrow. And if there's something entirely different too. As
I say, it's all free for you'd be nice to
hear from you and parking wardens with tape measures. Gotta
be a thankless job in a parking warden. Wouldn't it
a TV story with a parking warden once someone once
you went past the building site and someone threw a
water melanitor, which I thought was an escalation and potentially faithful,

(01:52:02):
wouldn't it. I guess they've got an award every year
for the country's best Irish bar. Do they don't know
what makes a good Irish bar? Pretty much all the same,
aren't they? Marcus? Could you tell us the name of
the movie that God was recommending? It's a movie about
the guy from Olsolo Mio tenor t E n O

(01:52:25):
R colon tenor My name is Putty, Penny Putty and
amitai Patty? That's a situation there? Could I grant? This
is Marcus?

Speaker 24 (01:52:37):
Hello?

Speaker 25 (01:52:39):
Yes, Hello, Marcus. Something been puzzling me about the Oscars
this year? Is the movie Song Sung Blue one of
the contenders.

Speaker 1 (01:52:49):
What's that movie about?

Speaker 25 (01:52:51):
It's about Neil Diamond, Is it Hudson and Jackman?

Speaker 1 (01:52:57):
Is it fiction or no?

Speaker 25 (01:52:59):
No, It's based on fact. A young couple in America
who has set out to be a tribute act to
Neil Diamond. So it's a beautiful movie actually in great acting.

Speaker 1 (01:53:13):
And what wonder and what happened?

Speaker 9 (01:53:15):
Did they?

Speaker 1 (01:53:15):
Did they? Is it contemporary?

Speaker 2 (01:53:19):
The movie is?

Speaker 1 (01:53:20):
Did they? Did they meet Neil Diamond?

Speaker 5 (01:53:22):
Or what?

Speaker 1 (01:53:23):
What's the what's the crestindo of it all?

Speaker 25 (01:53:27):
Well, this couple might have been back in the seventies
or agent this tribute act and they were performing in
the northern states of viewers say, like Wisconsin, and in
that area they were just working fast people who actually
loved music. He was a mode of mechanic and she
was he address perhaps And anyhow they got playing to

(01:53:50):
audiences in the local area, and they got so big
that they actually played the same night that Neil Diamond
was playing in an adjacent town. And and then they
met and after the after the concerts, I won't tell
you that, No, I.

Speaker 20 (01:54:10):
Don't know that.

Speaker 1 (01:54:11):
That's got I'll go and see that on the back
of that. Now, Kate Hudson.

Speaker 25 (01:54:15):
I saw Kate Hudson talking with me or Diamond, and
they've been very much in the news, and I thought
they should be might be in this year's contest.

Speaker 9 (01:54:24):
But were they?

Speaker 4 (01:54:25):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (01:54:26):
She did Kate Hudson did get nominated her second nomination
because she got nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Almost Famous,
So she did get it Best Actress nomination, and she
lost out to Jesse buck Buckley for Hamlet, which everyone
raved about.

Speaker 25 (01:54:43):
Okay, I haven't heard of that one.

Speaker 1 (01:54:45):
Well look, look it's I think that got most of
the awards. I don't know basically what it's. It's Shakespearean
adjacent okay, but yeah, people right, I know that Vanessa
read the book and said it was really good. I haven't.
It's it's I don't know why it's called Hamnet. Maybe
someone could explain that to me.

Speaker 25 (01:55:04):
But yeah, if you're you get a chance to see
Song Sung Blue, I highly recommend it.

Speaker 1 (01:55:09):
Yeah we're both got because who's the male lead to Jackman.
He's good, he's got music, he's a good singer.

Speaker 5 (01:55:15):
Mmm.

Speaker 25 (01:55:16):
I don't know what this one battle after another could
possibly be about. Sounds sounds idiotic.

Speaker 1 (01:55:22):
Yeah, but sometimes the idiotic movies are the good ones.

Speaker 4 (01:55:25):
Maybe.

Speaker 1 (01:55:28):
But look, that's a good right, that's a good rant
from you anyway, Grant. So there we go, Song Sung Blue.
It's got Neil Diamonds song so on, it's got to
be good anyway, And Marcus, what's the point purpose of
Saint Patrick's Day? To celebrate everything Irish and the great diaspora.
They went around the world after the famine, the potato
femin and it's amazing. We look at the population drops

(01:55:49):
of that and we celebrate that and commemorate that, no doubt.
And everyone loves the Irish. Although I shouldn't say this.
I shouldn't say this, but every time did I say,
we love the Irish, and we do love the Irish,

(01:56:11):
but I I always think of that guy that Remember
there was that guy from Ireland that lived in New
Zealand and they tried to export him, so they tried
to deport him and it was in the news for
and he had the thickest Irish accent. It was his name,
It was named Danny something. And he was always he
was always on the news. I don't know if he's
a great self publicist or if it was a great story.

(01:56:33):
And we always say he's got killed when you get back.
And they sent him back and it was no problem,
but it was always on the news or on the
home show. If it was about nineteen ninety five, do
you remember that guy? Huge story. I should have made
a movie about him because it was there's that much
file footage. I remember his name in a sick some
of you, a lot of you were remember. I think

(01:56:53):
he used to call up talk back from time to time.
Was this huge story Danny Danny Butler or something like that.
Do you remember that story? Just text me his name,
I'll google it up. But it was a big story. Anyway,
lines Fresh you want to come through, talk about the
oscars or movies that you've seen, Movies that you've seen
that are in the Oscar buzz, So that's something you

(01:57:15):
can talk about as well. We're Hit til twelve, Romance
along at midnight. Be looking forward to your put but
have your say if you want to be a part
of the show tonight eighteen past eleven. Yeah, I'll find
it too, Dan, I'll check. I'll check my Google, I'll
check my Googles. I always like to check my Google skills.
I don't want you to email me exau, I'm going

(01:57:35):
to try and do it myself. He was living around
Meadowbank Way, but was always in the news. Was really
a really thick accent, Danny but it was Danny Butler. Yeah,
Danny Butler, remember him? Nineteen ninety one he arrived in
nineteen ninety seven. They was, I presume it's still alive.

(01:57:57):
It was such a big story in its day, Like
the biggest story of the year I remember were about
the back of college Rifles area. Now, as I say
lines fresh, I talked like nineteen part eleven. Good evening,
jan this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:58:12):
Oh hi man, I was just pouring a cup of tea. Now,
if you work out how many days fifty days, and
I took it from last week. We get our next
load from South Korea on this Thursday. I think, GiB

(01:58:35):
take a day, and if you count fifty days, that
takes us up to almost the end of April. And
I'm just wondering where Nikola Willars thinks we're getting our
next load from.

Speaker 1 (01:58:50):
Do you know, I presume we've got contracts for more fuel.

Speaker 8 (01:58:55):
But you see, South Korea gets their fuel from the
Arab States and then they refine it. And of the well,
I'm not getting it from the Arab States to do
the refinery. Then their source will try up. And so

(01:59:18):
Nichola Willis does she only lived one month at a time.

Speaker 1 (01:59:22):
Well, I just thought I can't be bothered. I thought
they would be doing the worrying for me.

Speaker 17 (01:59:27):
Really.

Speaker 8 (01:59:28):
Yeah, Well, we've got our prime minister over and Tahiti. Yeah,
he want some Tahiti. Yeah. And he's being made a
brother of the place and the rest of it, swarming
himself in the sun. And if I was I would

(01:59:49):
have got on the next plane and zoomed back home.
To deal with this coming huge crisis.

Speaker 1 (01:59:57):
I think people will be looking for leadership and competency.

Speaker 8 (02:00:01):
That's right, and Nikola Willis as the deputy Prime Minister
I has to deal with the whole thing on her own.
I think that's shocking, and I think people should already
be rationing. All the people that can work from home
should be doing so as I used today, and should

(02:00:25):
continue to do so until this war's over.

Speaker 1 (02:00:30):
It it does sound the article that Channel Infrastructure, which
operates the country's largest input terminal, has not has advised
today it's not seeing any issues.

Speaker 8 (02:00:41):
Well, that's just shortsighted and stupid. In my opinion, we're
going into a major crisis. That war is not going
to finish at the end of April. It's going to
go on and on and on for months.

Speaker 1 (02:00:59):
Are you are you a driver, jam No.

Speaker 8 (02:01:03):
I'm partially excited. I get the taxi, Daisy taxi which
is hybrid.

Speaker 5 (02:01:10):
So they are all right, are you carry it?

Speaker 1 (02:01:13):
So are your concerned for other people?

Speaker 8 (02:01:15):
For the country, isn't anybody? We should all be seriously
concerned because if there's no petrol to drive the ambulance
to come and rescue me when I need it, because
all the greedy people have gone and filled up all
their tanks, they don't care. And if all that trucks
them got petrol to deliver who to all the supermarkets,

(02:01:39):
We're going to have no food. And so the other thing,
if America thinks they're going to put troops in on
the ground into Iran, that is the stupidest thing Ivy
that he heard in my entire lifetime. It's going to
be a suicide mission and wants to kill your American they.

Speaker 4 (02:02:02):
Come across the thing.

Speaker 1 (02:02:03):
I think that's causing the American forces and the people
that command the American forces that most concern would be
how they can get into that mountain range to get
those barrels of refined uranium, because that would be an
incredibly difficult opportunity. That would be incredibly difficult because they

(02:02:24):
need they need to get that will be incredibly difficult operations.
I need to get into the middle of Iran, get
into those inside those mountains that have been bombed anyway,
and extract extract those barrels. I dodn't even know how
you go across a mission like that, because that to
me seems to be on the aren't.

Speaker 13 (02:02:40):
They They won't achieve it.

Speaker 8 (02:02:42):
They're all going to get killed or they will be
taken hostage and very seriously tortured. And don't use them
as fuel to get America off and away. America should
back off and get back into their own take place country.

Speaker 1 (02:03:05):
What you say is they should down the lane.

Speaker 20 (02:03:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:03:08):
I'm sick to death of America interfering and causing all
these wars and all these poor children and babies and
women in countries being decimated. I'm sick to death of
the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (02:03:23):
Nice to talk to you and nicest to talk twenty
seven past eleven, Good evening, Ben, AT's Marcus. Welcome you go.

Speaker 9 (02:03:32):
Because I thought I'd just ring up and explain myself
a bit because we've stockhold diesel.

Speaker 1 (02:03:38):
Right, Sorry, sorry, what did you say, Ben?

Speaker 9 (02:03:41):
Well, I'm just running up because I always explain myself
because I've stock of stock polled diesel marcus yep. Now,
now I'm going to be using the same amount of
diesel over the next ten weeks than what I would
have if I went to the gas station every week
and through that, So I go through fifty liters a week.
I've stopped pold a tenner internally the drum, and I've

(02:04:04):
locked in a few hundred leaders on the Z right
before it all jumped, before the past went crazy. Now
I'm going to be using this diesel over the next
ten weeks, right, And so all that means is I'm
not going to the pump every week and filling up.
I'm just going to be using that over ten weeks.
So in reality, I'm not buying any more than what

(02:04:27):
I would have pulled over the next ten weeks. I'm
just buying at a cheap price. But you know, before
the price went crazy, so I'm not ripping myself off.
So I just want to get that out there. You know,
people are like going hysterical about us stop pin and
it's it's not the case. We're going to be using this.
We're not using any more than what we would I
don't anyway, I.

Speaker 1 (02:04:48):
Don't have a problem with you doing it, do you?
Is it something that? Is it what you do for
your job?

Speaker 9 (02:04:53):
Now, I do a lot of driving for my job.

Speaker 4 (02:04:57):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (02:04:58):
Are you self employed with all that?

Speaker 13 (02:05:00):
No?

Speaker 9 (02:05:00):
No, no, So I'm not. I'm not self employed, but
I work in the construction industry, so I do a
lot of driving around. And so that's the reason why
I've stopped poled. So I supply my own vehicle, I
supply my own tools. It's almost like a contractor rate.
So I pay my own text and my own acc levy.

(02:05:20):
So you could kind of call itself and point. But
I still work for a company. But the simple factors
is I can see this coming because this is what
happened with Ukraine. The price went nuts. So I've seen
this coming, so I thought I'll get in now and
i'll stop pole, and that way I don't have to
buy guests for the next ten weeks. And so I

(02:05:43):
just don't understand why people were upset at us about it,
because we took the initiative to buy it at a
cheaper price before it went nuts.

Speaker 1 (02:05:53):
Are you perceiving that people are upset with your being
and you're feeling.

Speaker 9 (02:05:56):
That I could see it when I was filling the
drum up at the gas station.

Speaker 1 (02:06:02):
Yeah, yeah, people giving you the shame.

Speaker 9 (02:06:05):
Yeah, well it was. I had a few looks and
then I had a guy again. You know, you shouldn't
really be doing that, and it's just yeah, like it's
just like, well, do I do it now in bold
or do I go to gas station every week for
the next ten weeks and wrap myself off?

Speaker 1 (02:06:20):
How are you storing it?

Speaker 9 (02:06:22):
I've just got well, I've got turn and team leaders
in the drum that's in the ship and then the
rest is locked in bazi.

Speaker 1 (02:06:31):
You're scared someone's going to steal it?

Speaker 9 (02:06:33):
Oh, I don't think you'd want to come on my property, Marcus.

Speaker 1 (02:06:36):
I'm not going to I'm not going to steal the creepers.

Speaker 26 (02:06:40):
I need it.

Speaker 1 (02:06:40):
How would you you'd need a need a hand truck,
would you?

Speaker 8 (02:06:44):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (02:06:45):
You know, it's a couple of hundred kilos. So it's
you know, you have to stip into little tanks and
we've got cameras and a couple of big dogs. Yeah. You'
don't going to be on the propery too long.

Speaker 1 (02:06:56):
Wow, so you have thought of it?

Speaker 9 (02:06:58):
Well, it's just look, I just don't want to get
ripped off. It's all you know, there's no point in
pain more than what you have to.

Speaker 1 (02:07:05):
Yeah, I don't know why more people don't stop pil
of course it only last year, does it. I've learned
that this week six months with you've got to put
the because it gets to get to bigteria in it. Yeah,
you get put something in to make it last longer,
but you've got to be careful with today.

Speaker 9 (02:07:20):
Well, it's it's going to be used that We've got
a road trip over Easter. So I've probably used it
half of that. Joam going on the road trip, and
I think I should think.

Speaker 1 (02:07:29):
That you can probably set up a roadside store with it.

Speaker 9 (02:07:33):
Now I keep it for myself, and yeah, I think
that's when it's all going to come to a head,
is if there's walk areas on through Easter. You know
a lot of people are going to be buying up
over Easter. And I think after Easter that's when it's
going to start heading home for everyone that maybe we
are in a bit of a you know, a bit

(02:07:53):
of a hard one.

Speaker 1 (02:07:55):
Nice to talk being Thank you for more from Marcus
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