We should've walked (19 November 2024)

Marcus is amazed people are still opting for taxis and then complaining about how expensive they are, plus we dig into why Sky TV in-home service has gone downhill so badly.

Plus a stunning sea rescue unfolds while the show is live on air.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be yeah, welcome people. Wait, after an extraordinary day,
my name is Marcus good that you've all tuned in
and thanks for coming through. How are you Hope you're good?
If you're not good, hope you're gooder in the next
four hours, because we are all good to go, set
to go, and no doubt this stuff. You want to
talk about this stuff. I want to talk about this stuff.

(00:31):
We both want to talk about this common ground. There's
probably other stuff that's going to come up as well.
Gosh's how like a race call. Then, just as far
as my emails go, there's three stories that I have
been alerted to that I think will be affecting our
audience and that people might want to ring and talk about.

(00:58):
The first thing is a situation at Talkadohile with the
Kinleath Mills. The staff have been called into my borrow.
Someone's emailed me about this and it looks as though
looking in fact, it was a Facebook Someone's got in
touch with me on Facebook Facebook Messenger. So what it
appears is going to happen. This person's written in confidence.

(01:21):
I won't say their name, but I think the media
has picked it up. The number six section of the
mill having a meeting tomorrow. This is the cardboard box place,
and it's going to close permanently according to this person.
Huge implications for staff, families and communities. Now that's I

(01:41):
don't know what the population of Talking oh is, but
to lose two of jobs and he would be a
huge loss. Ironically. I don't know about you, but I
spend most of my life getting rid of cardboard boxes.
There's so much cardboard now. I don't know if it's
gone off sure quite what's happening. I don't know much
about the war around cardboard or what's happening to it.
Fourteen thousand population talk it over, but to two hundred

(02:03):
jobs that will be felt wide he just before Christmas.
So that's thing you might want to comment on. I've
had there's four topics. I want to check at you
and we'll see which one stick says. There's that that's
a big news story. I've had an email from now
let me see where this. You've had an email from

(02:23):
Waka Katahi from one of their comms people about the
reasons for closing State Highway one. That's the Desert Road.
Now know a lot of people be trucking up. I
think it's about a thousand trucks scrubbing down every night.
This will affect a lot of you. So I've got
some information about that, just saying how the Desert Road

(02:47):
to Dangietawayou one of the most challenging sections of the
development that they are doing. You've got to close at
peak summer because the cold snap are on it. You
need thirteen degrees to carry out the pavement work. So
I'll be all across that to let you know about
what's going on with this. That's two stories right within
the Red bask of the country Talkador and the Desert Road.

(03:10):
So we're all across that. Okay, the Desert Road's going
to be closed. I have no problem with adhering to
the advice of the road people. They know when they've
got to do it. The detail are all out about
twenty nine minutes to people's journeys. So that's the situation there.

(03:34):
And while the road is closed, they'll be rebuilding or
repairing at twenty four point five lane kilometers and replacing
the decks on the Manga toy t Nui Bridge twenty
three k south of Rangapore needs deck replacements. That's the
second thing that's happening to so the desert road. I
don't know how people have been all helling their hand cask.

(03:54):
I don't know what people are saying about that, but
I'm just putting it out there that that's something we
could talk about tonight as well. The other thing that's
happening to people, it's a twofold question from me to you.
It's all about Sky and someone's got in touch with
them about Sky right and what's happening. Someone Yvonne said

(04:16):
this is a hot topic. It's a hot issue. So
what Sky have done is that they have given the
contract for Sky technicians to Downer and it's not gone well.

(04:37):
So I don't know if anyone's had any luck contacting
Sky technicians, but one person card it and tried ten
times to get a hold of a technician. No one
has turned up. I'm also where people are changing their skybox.
I don't know what that's about, but it seems as
though Sky has got a new person to go to

(05:00):
the houses to repair and to do whatever, and it's
not going at all well because the people taken on
the contract apparently the conditions aren't good, they're underpaid, and
it's not going well. So I wonder if you'd any
trouble with Sky coming to your house. The company has

(05:23):
said it would provide an effective in house support service
to its customers once it's transitioned to the new provider
was complete, but sounds like there's huge teething problems there.
So at the desert ride, we've got Talkao and we've
got Sky. They're three things. And lastly, this is the
story that's gone on for the last two days, and

(05:45):
this is the story about taxis in Auckland and people
coming to the big smoke and being charged an exorbitant
amount for small journeys in taxis. And I've thought a
lot about this and all I wanted to say probably

(06:11):
is a twofold answer. Firstly, I can't understand why Taxis
was so incredibly slow to adopt the modern technology that
they were the people that drove people around and Uber

(06:31):
came an and completely completely decimated their industry, which must
have been heartbreaking for the taxi people, but entirely predictable,
and as a result, I would say that the taxi
model is absolutely broken. So if you're getting a taxi

(06:55):
or playing for the infrastructure, the people that answer the
phones sometimes, the people that dispatch taxis. Sometimes it's a
much much, much more expensive model, and it's a model
that's dying on the vine. So yeah, look, the last
time I've got a taxi was because we got one

(07:15):
in Vicago. Wo'd come, We've been away. We had to
get a texti from the airport to where we packed
our car. It was an exhorbitant amount of money for
a reshort trip. It was a it was a not
a frightening amount of money, not a heart stopping amount
of money, but certainly a lot of money for a
reshort trip. Unfortunately, in Vercago there is no uber. But

(07:39):
we should have walked. Would have been more fun, probably
would have been quicker. So yeah, I don't know what
your experience with taxis are, but I think probably it
is a it is an industry. It's a mode of
transport that's been transfixed, not not transfixed, it's been transformed
by new operators. And so I imagine the last remaining

(08:04):
people are probably trying to just make some money. They've
probably been sitting for a long long way for fears
and PEPs. They might be unscrupulous, But yeah, you've been warned.
I don't know you're not hearing of any good taxi

(08:26):
experiences these days. I know the uber drivers aren't getting
paid much, but that seems to be the situation to
get on an uber when you can find out where
your car is, how long it's going to be, and
how much it's going to cost. How taxis can still

(08:46):
operate blindly they've got no idea and bearing in mind
for the last twenty years, my experience with taxis was
they pretty well never turned up. They'd be too busy
for all sorts of craziness in the times desprit I've
had to call one that's just been and you'll you
wonder how the model has even survived, and I don't

(09:09):
think it has. Somehow, I think we're seeing the death
rattle of this industry just because haven't got the big
enough fleet to service people. The costs are big because
they've got officers and people answering phones just doesn't work.
So there we go. There's four things there, all fairly
big topics. If you want to mention one of those,
or all of those, or two of those or three

(09:30):
of those, are four of us The Desert Road. Talking
over sky and the technicians and how that's been for
you and taxis. It's probably given you too much to
think about. But some of that, some of that, some
of that will have resonated with some of you. I
hope it's all good stuff to talk about. I don't
know what's happened to the cardboard box is where they're
going to make them, Marcus. I've been waiting three weeks

(09:54):
to get Sky connected and I've got little to no
response from the installation people. The last communication saying there
is a problem with our systems and we'll get there
when we can. Brent Nelson, Well, Brent's not going to
get the free month of movies, is he? My look,
those movies is not much there, But get in touch

(10:14):
on any of those topics. My name is Marcus hit
Till twelve oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine
to nine two to text. Whatever you got here there
for it. Taxi, sky boxes and the Desert Road. I
think the trouble the desert roads. They decided to all
these roadworks at once. They kind of had one of

(10:35):
those blitz on roads. It's going to take some time.
Stand by there seems to be some sort of water
related situation happening in Nelson. We've got screenshots from flight
radar that have been sent to us and indicate that
there's something happening in Newton. I presume it's not training.
If you've got more information there about that and Nelson,

(10:55):
let us no phoneu'ts straight through. We'll get you to
wear straight away and Nelson Sun will still be up there.
If you've got something that I'm just waiting for the
screenshots to come through. Bring bong me down when you
got it, Steve Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Evening, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
How are you good, Steve?

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Enjoy your show, buddy, Marcus, you brought a subject up
with the taxis. I don't live in Northland. I live
in a New Plymouth and we have the same problem here, buddy.
We used to it's now called Blue Bubble. It used
to be called New Plymouth Taxis and now it's I'm sorry,

(11:36):
but it's all Indians that drive them. The others have
all got out and.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
In a way you saying it's I'm sorry, but it's
all Indians. I don't even understand that comment.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
One one Indian guy has bought the company and it's
all Indian drivers a driver, and I've got nothing against them.
Some of them are lovely.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
It sounds like just yeah, I think we can remove
the race from because I dont really understand what that's about.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Not being racist as well.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
It's a surprising thing to think to save.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
But recently, I don't know if you know you prom it,
but I got a taxi. I have a different company,
and they weren't available that night. They were a flat
tax and it usually cost me eighteen dollars. I got
them and it cost me twenty five. Now I don't

(12:34):
get them. Now I get Uber and it cost me fifteen.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Well, that's exactly it. As an industry taxis, it's the
death rattle for them because with a movie you can
just book it on your phone, whereas with taxis you
need license and regulation and all sorts of stuff. It's
much more complicated. And yeah, and this has been going
on for thirty years, and places like walk and you

(12:58):
had co Op taxis and Alert taxis and they were great,
but then it was deregulated and all sorts of other
people came in and then it's just been a gradual
race to the bottom since then. But the major companies
needed to adapt and they needed to get cell phones
and that kind of straight ordering and stuff, and they
haven't had that happen. Now I'm just onto the situation.

(13:21):
With this situation in Nelson, it appears as though there
are screenshots of a plane that has departed parta Parumu airport,

(13:45):
and it appears as though the journey on flight flight
radar has stopped in the middle of the Tasman Bay.

(14:07):
So it appears as though three helicopters have been sent
and they've been sent to where the coordinated. The coordinates
the helicopter has been sent to is the same spot
as to where this plane's journey on flight radar appears

(14:31):
to have ended. This is just breaking information I've got
As I talk to you, you've got some more information
about that. Let us know. But if you're in Nelson,
you're seeing helicopters coming and going. That's a situation. So

(14:53):
it appears that it departed. It took off at six
twenty six, and the flight journey has finished at seven
twenty six, and it's lost altitude quite quickly and appears
to have ended its journey. I'm just going to bring

(15:18):
up the map of Nelson and tell you where the
journey has ended. I would imagine in a line off
perhaps north of k Go, a line from the air
across to above Nelson. It's sort of a third of
the way along there. So if anyone's and Nelson got
any more information, you have anything else that you can

(15:40):
tell me about that, Dan Okay, So there's three helicopters
have been sent there. If anyone's got any more information,
if they could text it through. Someone has texted to
me it's the Air Force. Could you tell me what
you mean by that? Is that it because it doesn't
appear to be. I don't fully know what you're saying,

(16:00):
because it looks as though from the screenshot of the
flight radar it appears to be The plane appears to
be just a small, like a sister looking plane with
a private owners. So certainly there's nothing to indicate it
to the Air Force. But unless you're referring to the helicopters,

(16:21):
we've got more information. Let me know. Eight hundred and
eighty tod eighty Marcus so angry with sky My signal
dropped after a heavy rainstorm. Been waiting three weeks for
a tech The worst part is the skies overseas. Call
center tells you a date the tech will show, but
they never do. It's so frustrated. There's nothing I can do.

(16:41):
But it's so glad my old radio still works and
contuned into your show. Regards, Dino. Marcus waiting on a
sky Tech second time no show, tried ringing, waited fifty
five minutes on hold and gave up. I've been waiting
three weeks to get sky collecking have a little no
response on. That's from Nelson, Jamie, it's Marcus.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Welcome, I'm Marcus.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
How are you good, Jamie?

Speaker 4 (17:02):
That's good man. Hey, I must want to make people
aware that sparks actually up in the price. You know
you get the twenty dollars packs. Yes, yeah, it's going
up to twenty one dollars.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, five percent increase. That's all right, is it?

Speaker 4 (17:18):
No, it's not because people are on low incomes. Yes,
you know it can only have twenty dollars and they
spend their twenty dollars for it, and it only gets
you only get twenty eight days. But now they happen
at twenty one dollars.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
But when would have they last put that up? I
imagine they see that as a cost of living increases that, right.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
Probably, but maybe they'll make me move to one New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
You know, yeah, good on you. I've had for a
god next time with Spark. I've enjoyed Spark, although I
might give up on it now my screen has broken.
Get in touch if you've got more information about anything.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty h here we
go heit some more information. I'm watching it live on
flight radar as a boeing from the end of the

(18:02):
Air Force which seems to be circling around, and someone
else is said, there are two helicopters and an NZ
Air Force plane in the air Steve, it's Marcus good Evening.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
Yeah, yeah, Marcus. I on my phone as well. I'm
an Orkland. But I can see it happening from a peer.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
What can you see?

Speaker 5 (18:23):
You got as doing the connaissance, say, the same area
with the helicopters.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Okay, so you got two helicopters and the plane, the
air Force plane, is that right?

Speaker 5 (18:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah, that's why that's a p the pates the Poseidon right, Yeah,
that's the one. So that's got the quick wheel? Did
that come from? Where that come from?

Speaker 5 (18:42):
A hockey down? Here, I say, so, I don't hate
to follow it. I can tak it.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
You tell me where original quick.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
Look and then.

Speaker 6 (18:51):
Well I'll just give you a doll.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
I appreciate that, Steve. We'll get some more intel on
that too. So just to just to tell you what
I do know, there seems to be in a developing
situation off Nelson, between Nelson and K T. Teddy. It
seems a plane there's taken off of Patapoumu has finished
its journey and descended quickly into the sea. There is

(19:17):
now two helicopters and an air Force plane in that
area overlooking the searching there. That's all we know. This
has become. This has only been information we've been made
aware of at about the last ten minutes. So that's
a situation. Yeah. According to flight aware, the plane makes

(19:42):
a regular Nelson putapada Umu and back journey twenty nine
away from nine. We've got any more information on its
toll jump back in the situation there too. I don't
know the nature of the plane flight. So if it
is a regular service or not, what's the situation, Danielt,
what's flight aware? What's the information you've got? Okay? And

(20:07):
are you is it implying that that's a commercial service
if it's regular between Nelson? Okay, okay, okay, okay. So
the plane code that what Dan said is this plane
code has shown that that plane just make sure I've

(20:28):
got this right, has has flown from Tarcica, from Patapaumu
to Tarcica every couple of days for a couple of weeks.
Is that right? Okay, there we go. So it seems
to be a situation a plane that regularly flies between
Pau and Tarcica. If anyone's got any information, let us know.
I'll read the text. Marcus. I've got two Whistpac rescue

(20:49):
helicopters and a PA A Poseidon on my flight tracker,
Marcus is an R and today of Posidon above the location.
So that's a situation I've got there. Now, that's a situation.
So it seems to be a flight that was going
from to Tarkica. And so I said, it goes back

(21:13):
for several weeks. It might go back further than that,
but the website only shows the last couple of weeks.
And that's called flight aware? Am I right with that?
And yeah, that's flight aware? So if you're looking at
Tarkica and part of Parmu. They are pretty much exactly

(21:34):
on the same latitude. So the flight seems to have
come across the top of the Marlborough Sounds and continued
along about two thirds away across the Tasman Sea. And
then that flight has ended and they're searching over where
it's ended according to flight radar. So if you've got
any more information about that, let us know. Obviously too,

(21:56):
this is a developing story. I don't want to give
away incorrect information because obviously it'd be pre concerned about this,
but I will try and get the information that I
have got that's correct. And obviously, as Alista said, they've
got calls into probably police and rescue services to find

(22:20):
out what effects happened and how many people are on
board the plane in the likes of that. So have
you got the information, let us know. Twenty seven to nine, Andrew,
it's Marcus Good.

Speaker 7 (22:30):
Evening, Marcus, Hi, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Thanks Andrew Good.

Speaker 7 (22:35):
I was calling about taxis versus ubers.

Speaker 8 (22:37):
Look, I've thought a lot about this, so if I
talk too long, you need to go to other callers.

Speaker 7 (22:43):
Just cut me off. Yeah, I like you.

Speaker 8 (22:46):
You know taxis used to ring them before ubers and
you'd say I got to pick up can you pick
me up?

Speaker 7 (22:51):
And they'd say, you say how long? And they'd say.

Speaker 8 (22:53):
Fifteen minutes because they knew if they said more than
fifteen minutes, you just ring up someone else, and you know,
an hour and a half, Hey, TEXI would show up.
So when Uber's come along, I was fantastic. You know,
you didn't have to stumble into a wallet to get
your card or cash out when you had too much
to the drink because he was already paid. You knew
when your car was coming. All that stuff right, And

(23:13):
I often thought, like you said at the start of
the hour, it's Uber's just an app pocked up the GPS.
Why didn't the taxi people just do it?

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Why did Why did they not see that coming?

Speaker 8 (23:27):
And one time and then one time I was in
the US a couple of years ago, and the work
culture at Uber was so bad they got Obama's former
attorney general to look into it and do a report.
And he came back and said, it's not this bad,
It's really bad. It's like range from it was like
a frat boy college thing. It ranged from sexual groping right.

Speaker 7 (23:46):
Through the race.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
I remember that.

Speaker 8 (23:48):
I remember that, and I thought, oh, I'm going to
stop using you because it's just money going overseas. And
at the same time, one of the Wellington taxi companies
said we're doing an app, so I thought, oh, fantastic.

Speaker 7 (23:59):
I used it.

Speaker 8 (24:01):
He calls me and says where are you and I said,
but I've put the addresses to the app, but he
was like, completely somewhere else. And then I finished the
taxi right and this was through the app and New
Zealand I thought, good, you know the money's going to
most of it to this driver and or the co
op or whatever. And then he said, oh, I've just
got to connect to another app to use your credit
card and I'm having trouble connecting. So I sat there

(24:21):
for fifteen minutes minutes well, waiting to pay, and I thought, really,
you know, it's just it's just when. And also, the
great thing about ubers versus taxis you were saying about
that short airport road. Because I've traveled overseas and had
the requirement to go quite stay somewhere close to the airport.
Taxis never used to pick me out. It go crazy

(24:43):
because they've waited for an hour and a half.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
They never want a short fear. They're always picky about that.
They'd waited forever and.

Speaker 8 (24:49):
They'd go crazy because they were mandatory if you if
you lined in the line and said I just round
the corner, thinks they have to take you.

Speaker 7 (24:56):
Yeah, otherwise they'd lose.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
And it ended up with a really unpleasant trip with
a really awful In fact, so off of the taxi
drivers were grumpy or moaning about something. I mean, it
was the worst. They were the worst business model you
could anyway.

Speaker 8 (25:11):
And and with ubers, if you're going to go around
the corner from the emport, you did, at least they
have accepted the ride. They don't have to accept the right.

Speaker 7 (25:19):
Yeah. I was in.

Speaker 8 (25:20):
Sydney once and and I was going for dinner and
I had I thought I'd just get an uber from
outside of my hotel and it was to rench or rain,
and couldn't get an uber that really expensive the price
had gone up. And then a taxi drove passed. I
weighed him down and I got it and he said
the first thing he said was, oh, thanks for thanks
for flagging me down. And you're not using those.

Speaker 7 (25:39):
F and ubers and taking my business away. I didn't.

Speaker 8 (25:42):
I was too scared to develop for any reason. I
didn't use the ubers because he drove past me. It's
a strange business model text.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
It's a straw and it doesn't work. And that's what
I can't work out about it, because it just, Yeah,
it's crazy.

Speaker 8 (25:57):
I've used them all around the world, and you jump
in a taxi and China an uber in China and
the ELTs actually you just never knew where you were going.
With an uber, you can see has he gone off course?

Speaker 7 (26:08):
Is he going the right way?

Speaker 2 (26:10):
You know, and they'd be quite happy. They'd be quite
happy to leave you waiting outside your house, and they'd
never let you know that it wasn't coming. I mean
they were, but yeah, I would imagine though, with the
situation now with a lot of people are both ubers
and taxis and they go from one to the other.
And I wonder if that's the situation up for things
like ed Sheeran, if people are switching from the uber

(26:32):
hat to their taxi at because I know they can
make a lot more money.

Speaker 7 (26:36):
I saw that article and Mustasto was the's still taxis exactly.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
I'm thinking, what are these people doing catching taxis and
then moaning about it.

Speaker 8 (26:45):
I thought that too, but I didn't want to be mean.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
It does sell like thet it does sell like the
country cousins. I wait one hundred and eighty ten eighty
Stuart Marcus, welcome the name Marcus.

Speaker 9 (26:58):
Just been listening to maritime radio channel sixteen. Yes, and
the helicopter reported in that they've picked up the pilot
own and he's returning him to Nelson right now.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
S s slip and.

Speaker 9 (27:12):
The plane has sunk, but they've got him.

Speaker 10 (27:16):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (27:17):
So that's a wow boy.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
So what's happened to him? It's not a parachute. He's
managed to land the plane in the sea. Do you
have a life checking? You don't know anything else, do you?

Speaker 11 (27:29):
No?

Speaker 9 (27:30):
Just just hearing listening on I'm sitting on my boat
listening to channel sixteen. I thought that could give us
some information, And sure enough, the helicopter reported into maritime
radio that he's picked up the guy with a person.
I was assuming it's a guy, could be femail, and

(27:50):
he's returning to Nelson with the passenger or the pilot
and there was only one on board.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Stay lucky that it was before sunset a and all
sorts of things were probably right. It was a calm
See that's amazing.

Speaker 9 (28:03):
Well yeah, yeah, you know, we know what happened. But
you might have been able to put it down in
one piece and then get out. But anyway, that's going
to have a happy ending for friends and family.

Speaker 7 (28:16):
Of course.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
It's a real quick story to be resolved. Stuart. Thank you.
You are you're in that area? Are you're up in
the Bay of Islands are you?

Speaker 9 (28:22):
No? No, no, I'm sitting in the marina and Nelson.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Oh that's great. Have you seen the chopper coming back
over it?

Speaker 9 (28:28):
Na, it won't come over us. We've got a low
tide at the moment and the buildings around us keep
us pretty well obscured from that angle. Oh my wife's
watching it on the tracker. So yeah, well it will
come near us, but it's on its way to Nelson.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
So and Nelson. It'll be Nelson Rescue helicopter, will it.

Speaker 12 (28:49):
Yeah, I presume it would.

Speaker 9 (28:50):
The other one came from Wellington and it's probably just
arrived in time to watch them fly back.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Oh, welcome. I can't even think. I can't even think
of many rescues that have happened like that with a
plane ditch, but you know, so far off sea and
they've managed to get there and pick that's a very
rare thing to have happened.

Speaker 9 (29:07):
Well, not knowing, you know, sort of something like if
he's had a problem, he might have been well, he
obviously put in the may day because they were canceling
the may day. Okay, he might have been able to
get a message off to say that he was in
trouble and the helicopter was on its way so very
quickly rather than you know, the time that would elapse

(29:31):
of it. It didn't arrive somewhere and then they think
about putting out the search and all that time time
was the cence there obviously great.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Until Stuart, I really appreciate you coming through with that.
So I'm looking at HELLI Rescue dot CO dot in Z.
That's got the flight path of the rescue helicopter that's
gone out and done kind of a zig zag circular
and that sounds weird, but his zigzag circular baton above
where the plane went down, and then you can see
it's narrowed to an area and it's remained stationary and
obviously managed to pick the pilot up and the helicopter

(30:03):
has just about returned to Nelson. It's it's probably about
to land about sixty seconds away, just to confirm. A
plane has left part of part of Umu heading for
Tarcica direct line across horizontally. It's put out a made
a call. It's landed in the ocean. I'd say about

(30:27):
twenty k's off the coast, and the Poseidon and two
helicopters have gone out there and they have rescued the pilot.
So what a remarkable a half hour that has been.
I'm just trying to see how far I give you

(30:48):
a better approximation of Dan you've got approximation how far
off off the coast it is. I would say it's
probably maybe it's looking a bit more like ten kilometers.
Will it be about within your keeping? Yeah, so it's yeah, it's.

Speaker 7 (31:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
That's a situation there. Okay, So I can't do my
measure distance that quickly, but that's a great outcome. I
don't know if there's a situation with an oil slicker,
what's going on there. There's no cause of why the
plane went down. Seemed to be some sort of cessna
or something. But that's a situation that's off Helly Rescue
dot co dot NZ. We're bringing more information when we've
got it. Wow, Marcus, that guy that rang up about

(31:30):
spark fees going up a dollar, please advise that one
news ina has just done the same thing. No point
changing providers, Marcus. It shows the air Force plane that
was so I was still flying on its way back
to Wellington. Thank you for that, Chris, it's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (31:46):
Good evening, Marcus Head.

Speaker 12 (31:49):
Thank goodness. Hopefully he's okay. I was just or she
I'm just springing up about I don't know as anyone
mentioned the You're Ride app to taxis. No, right, So
there's a new app, well, there's been out probably probably
about a year for taxis, which you know is now

(32:13):
very similar to the Uber apps. So you can pre
book your taxi and you can see where the taxis
are and once they accept it on their way. So
that's called Jewel Ride and it was developed by Taxi Charge,
which used to do the account chips for businesses. You know. Yeah,

(32:35):
so that's all employed now. It didn't take a while,
but they eventually got there.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Did it work? Does it work?

Speaker 7 (32:42):
Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 12 (32:43):
They tried a couple of other different types and it
wasn't quite the same. But yeah, they've obviously done their
homework on this one and it works well. You can
pre book as well. And the thing is that people
do have trouble with the tax is if they do
put a complaint into the taxi company, that gets taken
up by that taxi company board and then the driver

(33:06):
is held to account, so I know, you know, they
get a bad rep but same old thing. If you
don't say anything, they.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
Play with it.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
But you are, you are using a business that has
got a board and it has got management, it has
got office staff. For I suppose Uber Uber seems to
be it's costs seem to be a lot less, don't
they because it's all on the app, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (33:28):
Well yeah, well that's right. And you know, part of
the concern for the Taxi Federation is around the safety aspect.
So obviously on Uber they do rate the drivers, yes,
but with taxi drivers they have to go through training
courses and they are held to account. And there's also
cameras that's a fuel with one.

Speaker 13 (33:49):
Of the.

Speaker 12 (33:51):
You know, one of the companies that have to jump
through the hoops do it or properly.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Taxi company and Aukron that's been extortionly charging people as
one of those ones where they've gone through the hoops.

Speaker 12 (34:05):
I don't personally. There are some taxi companies that have
broken away, and I guess you could call them private
drivers and nick themselves taxi driver taxi companies.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Okay, Chris, I've got a run, but we'll look more
into that. By the way, it seems like the plane
was about thirteen k's off off the coast of the
able Tasman National Park where it went into the sea.
Just to confirm. The pilot has been rescued by a
helicopter and is lended in Nelson, so it's a great story.
Marcus recently caught a cab from the Devonport Ferry terminal
for the Aukland Airport. Got there in the bills one

(34:38):
hundred eighty dollars. I questioned the charge. The driver could
hardly to confusing text I did payers running late for
a flight went to see an email to Taxi Federation
complanning but in chicking receipt they missed a few zeros. Yeah,
so that text's not complete. But they are the people.

(35:00):
I feel sorry for the people rushing for planes and
stuff because it seems to me to be the one
area where taxis weren't good as when you're a hurry,
because they just weren't reliable. But yes, but yeah, I
think probably it's naive to get taxis now and to
complain about them. It is amazing now that people so

(35:25):
many people watch flight radar that as soon as something happens,
we're made aware of it. So I mean people seem
to watch that for just to have the talk back on.
They're watching flight radar. And we knew quite quickly. We'd
been seeing screenshots that a plane was not in trouble,
but it ended its journey in the sea. It's as

(35:47):
stark as that, and a may day was put out. Fortunately,
I would imagined they were close to I mean, i'll
tell you what the if was got there very quickly.
They I don't know how quickly they got their pilots
to base. I presume that was a Hakia and the
two helicopter's got out there. I think they'll rescue helicopters,

(36:08):
one from Wellington and one from Nelson. So remarkable and
just for those that are joining us, the helicopter pilot
has picked up the pilot. It appeared to be a
Cessna nine seven. Well, that worked well as far as
getting information to people quicker than any of the other
news services. So thank you for those people, particularly the

(36:29):
ones that texted me through and the ones that got
on the flight radar and the ones that got into
maritime radio. That was really good that we got that
information through. And I do believe that as certainly as
the as a number of reporters in newsroom around the country,
or newsrooms around the country, it gets fewer and fewer,

(36:52):
particularly at nighttime. It's good that we have the people
on the ground and the people and the technology to
bring information to you when it happened. So it's always
import with nighttime talk to do the topics. But also
it's important that people listening to the radio know if
there's news that's happening, they'll hear about it, and they'll

(37:14):
hear about it before anyone else. And that's kind of
a point of honor. Here, just a text, Hi, Marcus,
I was relaying to my friends the info on the
plane as it came through to you. She had flight radar,
but she said, where are you getting all this info
so quickly? There's nothing online? I said, talk back with
Marcus of course they give me a hard time because
sometimes I send them texts that are meant for you.

(37:36):
That was pretty fantastic, everyone contributing when they knew as
it happened. Someone said to the air Force plane did
a touch and go in Chrost Jurs and went straight there.
I don't know what a touch and go was. They
got there pretty quickly. We are talking taxis and rescues
and sky and anything else. Tell me is that why
people watch flight radar? For me, I'm more about watching

(38:02):
the shipping apps. If the ship's come into bluff. I
look where there's ships from what year it's built, what
it's carrying. Not so big on the flights. But from
this show, what I do know is that people could
tell us quite quickly when planes are circling, when planes
have been turned back, when there's fog by the way,
I saw once again in Queenstown. There's very strong wind

(38:25):
shear today. So it's been a bad week for Queenstown,
which makes you wonder about Queenstown's long term sustainability. I
tell you what I see. Their property market is on fire,
but they're not going to cope well with a quake.
There no way to get the food in one road

(38:46):
in one road out very vulnerable, and once that road
in the gorge, the Koara Gorge slips, once that bank
comes down, they might be walking out to Old Martin's
Bay like the eighteen sixties and been picked up there again.
Ben Marcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 14 (39:06):
I guess get mate.

Speaker 15 (39:07):
Hey, I just heard you're talking about the ship spotting. Yes,
and look I'm new to the I'm a new fellow
to the plain spotting thing. I've only got three years
under my belt. But I sort of got inspired by
there's a guy on social media's from England, Francis Something.

Speaker 14 (39:29):
He does train.

Speaker 7 (39:30):
Spot Oh yes, yes, but it's not.

Speaker 14 (39:33):
Just a movie, it's not just a thing, and you're
a ship spotter and you just cracked me up. Then
I got what's going on. It's hard case. But this
call he does the train, he put his video camera
on his head, the films himself.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
He sold out.

Speaker 14 (39:53):
He sold out. Yeah, I saw him with that that
football hoodigan, the female and then the rural.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Family and and he sold out.

Speaker 14 (40:05):
When you do the ship thing, do you put a
video camera on your heat and film yourself getting all excited.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
But he's sold out because he's gone sort of got
like clothing label sponsoring him and stuff, and that's the
trouble with him. He's jumped the shark. But thanks Bet. Anyway,
twelve past night, Marty Marcus, welcome, your good Thank you, Marty.

Speaker 6 (40:28):
Are you talking about TEXTU, TEXI rescue stories?

Speaker 2 (40:31):
I got right, not really, you've come and late. We're
talking about Texis and rescue stories because of the last
hour I played winto the Ocean and they've picked the
part it up.

Speaker 6 (40:43):
Ah, So the text.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
There's two different top Okay, mar Marty, let's wind back.
I started the show at seven past eight and I
talked about Texis and sky TV and and the situation
with Kinleaf paper Mill, and also about the Desert Road closing.
Then about twenty past date, we found there was a

(41:08):
plane that ditched in the ocean, so we followed that
rescue interspersed with calls about taxis.

Speaker 6 (41:14):
Yes, I have a taxi story. It's part two of
going to Australia for my mates wedding and spending the
whole time in hospital and taking lots of taxis under
the Warehouse health insurance policy. Yes, so I think I
talked about six really expensive taxi ride and these are

(41:35):
like before Uber when taxis were pretty expensive. And the
best one was on the way home. I got to
fly first class with my bunk leg from my mountain
biking craft, and I saw my friends wedding. I've spent
the whole time in the Pean hospital. But on the
way home, the taxi guy, I was so excited because
we got to go from Auckland Airport all the way

(41:57):
to the farm here I think except one million dollar
roundabout and that was about a two hundred and eighty
dollars trp.

Speaker 16 (42:06):
Wow.

Speaker 17 (42:07):
Wow, that was his best ride ever.

Speaker 6 (42:11):
And he got to visit her daughter the next He
didn't drive home much of that, he just went to
his daughter's base at the wake at a university who
flat and just stayed the end of his straight down
the next day.

Speaker 7 (42:21):
So, how was it?

Speaker 18 (42:22):
What was it?

Speaker 6 (42:22):
Two hundred and eighty, two hundred and eighty and this
would have been.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
This is old days before the by passed, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (42:29):
Yeah, Okay, that's like a week's wages.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Yeah, oh yeah, that's like seven hundred.

Speaker 6 (42:33):
Now yeah yeah, So that guy was so excited, but
he was out of it. I mean, I specially, I
don't a lot of conine and drugs and penicillin. But
I remember him. He must have been pretty tired because
he was pumping a flottle quite a lot and in
his fat board smot and it was sort of jerking.

(42:56):
I don't know if the car would like it. It
was jerking back with the boards all the way. And
this is before the.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
He's probably he's probably on se G those days. It's
probably on C and G Marty.

Speaker 6 (43:06):
Yeah, proty ol Pacher.

Speaker 7 (43:08):
Yeah, it'll be.

Speaker 19 (43:11):
Anyway.

Speaker 6 (43:11):
That's my taxi story. And mate, I'll tell you what.
The Texi drivers and Australia are way more aggressive and
angry than than the German ones, for sure. Yeah, and
they're all trying to compete.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Yeah, and they'll tell you their theory of life too,
won't they they'll jump at the yeah.

Speaker 6 (43:29):
Yeah. And I think now all those Texi drivers in
Australia are like taken out from public transport movie drivers.
And now was my serious. They're all the train police
and the train security guards are the same guys, and
they still tell you the same stories.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
You might be right, Marty. Nice to hear if you
want to talk on the eight hundred eighty ten eighty
My name is Marcus. Welcome texis the end of taxis sky?
Oh Marcus? I followed the Ukrainian play today from Chris

(44:07):
on flight radar. A lot of people just looking at
flight radar. I mean, ship radar is good, but it's
a lot slower. I've got a statement from Sky. Thank you, Sky,
Thank you Ellie. Do we know Elie?

Speaker 20 (44:22):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (44:22):
She's send it to you and me as well? Is
that right, Dan, Dan? Do you know Ellie? Is she
one of our ones that's gone to the dark side.
I'll tell you here's Ellie. This is me to you, Ellie.
Sky spokesperiously heading communications. Can you let me know next
time you put the movies on free? Because we've got
no email? I said it, I said, do we ge

(44:43):
an email from Sky? Mark? So who do you plan
to discuss scar on your show tonight? I thought it
would be worth providing a statement from Sky. We're absolutely
focused on resolving this issue and would like our customers
to know we understand their frustration. We recently putted a
new national provider for our in home Sky customer support service.
We made this transition to a single supply so we

(45:05):
can provide a consistent and effective level of service nationwide
to our value customers saving money. Transitions of this nature
are complex, and we have had some initial challenges. Big confession.
Good on you. A group of customers had their appointment
to rescheduled, and some have subsequently had appointments which had
not been attended by technician. This certainly isn't the experience

(45:29):
we wanted to provide, and our teams have been working
diligently to reschedule affected appointments as quickly as possible. Most
customers have now received their rescheduled visitor of an upcoming
date confirmed. Wherever there is a group of customers that
still require an appointment at time that is convenient, we're
working hard to ensure they receive the service in the
coming days. Thank you.

Speaker 7 (45:50):
Ellie.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
The person emailed me about this said right that the
people that are doing it are Downer. So Downer have
been awarded the Sky contract. But I thought Downer was
a civil engine nearing company. So that's a weird thing
to me. So if everyone can let me know what

(46:16):
Downer does, it's a terrible mat for a bit of
a Downer. So yeah, I didn't know they've become the
Sky technicians. So that's what that's who's doing the Sky,
which is pretty amazing. I've got a Google down a

(46:38):
sky if you want to talk on air. I feel
there's about a thousand things happening in the city tonight.
When I say the city, I mean the talkback city,
the virtual city. I'm not trying to say that in
Vicarago's a city. Sky News. This was announcement the tenth
of teen. The Sky New Zealand is the police to
announce the appointment of Downer is the provider of our

(46:59):
in house customer support service across the country. So there
we go. Got about it as well as you could
have imagined. So if you're having trouble getting Sky to
come up and fish fixt your dish, let me know
how that's gone out for you. I'm curious to talk

(47:22):
about that. Also, situation talking with Kinleath getting rid of
the cardboard box situation. I'm pretty sure right that's a
Japanese owned company, the Kinleath Mills. I think it's og
Fiber Solutions, one of the largest paper manufacturers in the world.
So I guess when the wages go up, they just

(47:42):
make them off. Sure, I don't know if that's a
situation then because I reckon. I don't know about you,
but I've never seen it. Sounds like it's haling in here.
I've never lived with so much cardboard. It was extremely
heavy rain outside. I can hear it through the roof
of the new building. By the way, you'll be pleased

(48:03):
to know. I went and got the car car wash
today to see if the seagulls will remain no longer
on it, so I'll keep you up there. I went
to the one where it's got the brushes. It's been
a while since I've been in the car wash like that,
and ina I panicked midway through, what about the aeriel

(48:24):
or wick the aeriel? So then open all the windows
to reach up for the area, but there's not an aeriel.
Then I panicked about the wing mirrors. But anyway I
got through that. The radio went the whole time, which
I was surprised about. But anyway, that was me in
the car wash. I'll let you know if the seagulls
are still living on top of it. Anyway, who wants
to talk now? After the excitement of the rescue, Marcus,

(48:48):
the Ukrainian Antonov came from Melbourne. Christchach, you stay at
Flew Christchitch to Brisbane today.

Speaker 7 (48:52):
What's that for.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
If any wants to let me know about that? Is
it getting supplies? So I've got more information from the
New Zealand Herald. Islet has been rescued tonight from Tasman
Bay after ditching his aircraft at the water off the
coast where it suffered engine failure. He was forced to
land in water and was winched to safety by a

(49:17):
rescue helicopter and has now been flown to Nelson Hospital
and all the rest is kind of after the fact.
The pilot was the only person on board rescue. Oh,
so I've given you all the right information. Rescue helicopters

(49:39):
from Nelson and Wellington. We had that Tictick as well
as the Poseidon that was on route christ dutche to
a Harkier that was so what was it called a
drop and go or a bump and go, touch and
go to Posidon that was on route christ dutche to
a Hackey were tasked Coast Guard Nelson. Two harbor mastered
vessels were also sent to the scene. They've also been

(50:00):
sit down. Oh that's good. They set the boats across
there as well. The pilot. Oh no, I'm to coastguard
two harbor Master vessels. Oh ye, would there be the
pilot vesil? I guess so anyway, that's a situation. So
for those that didn't miss the story the last hour,
a plane flying Tarcica went into the sea about twelve

(50:25):
k's off Ruby Bay and the rescue of helicopters were
quickly mobile and mayday call was sent out, by the way,
and that pilot has been winched to safety. It's a
great outcome there. So there we go. That's a situation.
It's all happening with news. It doesn't rain, it pause.
In fact, it doesn't rain, it snows. It's snowing in London.

(50:47):
Go figure. I'm just going flicking to the BBC now
to see if they've got shots of it. But there's
a polar blast. Well they call it a polar panther
an Arctic assault, antarctic Arctic assault. Oh joe, I almost
got caught on Fox News there for a second. From
past it to BBC. No sign of its snowing. What's

(51:09):
the world news anyway? Twenty four past nine, Lorraine A's Marcus.

Speaker 21 (51:12):
Welcome, Hello Marcus.

Speaker 22 (51:15):
Yes, I have a problem with sky. I was shifting
house and I contact them in the middle of October.
Then they said I had to call back on the
twenty ninth. I couldn't book and to shift to change
my sky to the twenty ninth. They were meant to
come on the eighth November. They still haven't come. I
ring them quite often. They're saying now the twenty ninth November,
but they say they're coming, but they don't tune.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Up, which is so frustrating. Honestly, if I'm waiting around
for someone that don't show, I'm up the wall. I
don't handle that well. I hope you'll better than me.
Your sound calm, Lorraine, But that's an imposition.

Speaker 22 (51:46):
They're all in the Philippines, So whoever you talk to
is in the Philippines. You know, you can't get superiors
or people in charge because they're just doing a job.
It's not actually their fault, but you can't get hold.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Of it here. They they're just trying to feed their
their heart's not.

Speaker 22 (52:00):
In it, no, and they just say sorry, you know,
we'll get a technician to contact you tomorrow. Well they
never do. And I heard too that down I had
taken over the contract and there's not enough and they're
not trained, and there's not enough start technicians. But you know,
your hands are tired. You can do nothing. They've got
you over a barrel.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Really well, they haven't really, because it's a death. It's
a it's a everyone's going all those services are going online.
So they've got a business model. It's not worth much.
It's the death rattle too, isn't it. I mean, Sky
is not going to be around for us longer most
of us. No, most of us just keep having Sky
because our TV comes in that way through that dish.

Speaker 11 (52:36):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
So what if you got if you've got any channels
at all, I've just put on free view, that's all.

Speaker 6 (52:45):
But my.

Speaker 22 (52:47):
Skys I like to cut out their advertisements. But you
don't have that. But no, so you just got to
sit and wait until one day they might turn up.
But I believe you actually can can get if you've
got fiber, you can actually get a special cord and
put in and get Sky through that. But I'm not
sure how that works or how you do that.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
We're not those questions aren't for us.

Speaker 22 (53:09):
No, No, we're not.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
We're not those sorts of fixed Sky people. That's for
younger people.

Speaker 22 (53:13):
No, no, it's too technical, but you know, people bypassing
the dish. But you know, but frustrating that I'm customers now.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
It says this is from an email right from Yvonne. Yes,
she says, my friend is an ex technician who didn't
want to accept the poor offer from Downer. So apparently
down And weren't that happy with it. Downer, we're not
willing to negotia. The payoffering conditions to these experienced contractors
was disimal, to say the least. The pay was less

(53:41):
than what they're already receiving, and down on what we're
not willing to negotiate to. These experienced technicians weren't willing
to sign up, so down And got the contract. They
had three months to prepare for this and recruit the
experienced Sky technicians. They never allocate enough people to prepare
for this takeover and left allst in the last few weeks.
So it says the payoffering conditions was dismal so that

(54:04):
the Sky contractors would not go to Downer. So down
I haven't got enough contractors.

Speaker 22 (54:10):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
It makes sense, does it? That sounds like it might
be right.

Speaker 22 (54:14):
Yes, I've heard that.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Have you heard that from me or from someone else.

Speaker 22 (54:18):
No, I heard it from someone else saying that that
the down of people, the ones that they had gotten
and it wasn't happening. M that they weren't happy.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
Is it much on free Is it much on Freeview? Lorraine?

Speaker 22 (54:30):
Oh, you've got your TV one, two and three and I.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
Have Chase and Tipping Point right.

Speaker 22 (54:36):
Oh, yes, basically that. But I just basically watched the
news and turn it off.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Basically all those ads?

Speaker 22 (54:42):
Oh, all those does your hidden?

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Doesn't it much new happening at Brisco's.

Speaker 22 (54:48):
No, well I haven't been in there for a while,
but you know, I've been busy shifting, so yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Okay, Well they're emailing us hopefully. That's the Lorraine of
Parmers North. Could you saw her out Sky? Holly? Is
it Holly? Ellie? I'm full boarded by people wanting to
talk about Sky? Is the peace? This is hot? No
wonder there no wonder Ellie's up there late emailing me.
She'd just I mean, she should be working hard, Ellie.

(55:16):
I heard that you planned to discuss Sky on your
show tonight. Wow, boy, are we going to discuss I'm
actually a big fairness guy. What do I like I like,
I like, I actually don't know where I like it. Sky.

(55:39):
There is stuff I like watching. Anyway, do get in
touch if you want to talk Marcus till midnight tonight.
I couldn't think what I liked on X. I was
going to say some of the shows. Was embarrassed to
say what they were. So, yeah, that's me, isn't it me?
Self censoring? Anyway? I've googled how often is it's now

(56:03):
in London? And frequent occurrence sixteen days per year. They
were in frequently heavy There you go London is more
like to say snowfall and November semi genuine fibrine occasionally March,

(56:26):
good Eving Neil. It's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 21 (56:29):
Yesterday there, Marcus is I was talking to an ex
technician from Sky in Yeah. He mentioned a couple of
weeks ago that Downers were going to take it over
and they were going to offer the technicians twenty five

(56:51):
percent of what they were getting now. So they're getting
one hundred dollars for a call. If they were offering
the technicians twenty five dollars.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
Wow.

Speaker 21 (57:03):
And I've had heaps of trouble with Sky. It's it's
a toll call now at fifty cents a minute to
ring Sky. There is no eight hundred number anymore, and
I've just about had a gut full of Sky. I've
been with them since ninety one, mainly for sport, but

(57:30):
their service recently is just shotting. I can well, I
can't get someone to come out when they said they
were going to come out. I've been waiting for two
weeks to get a phone call from someone to come out.
They'll try and get you now to fix the problem

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over the phone.

Speaker 12 (57:54):
Again.

Speaker 21 (57:55):
You're paying fifty cents a minute for this, and somebody
in the Philippines is trying to fix the problem on
the phone because they have got technicians to come out.
They used to have fifty in Canterbury. I believe they've
now got eight. Wow. So and I recall about a

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year ago when it was an eight hundred phone call.
I wanted to watch a game of League, an eighty
minute game. It was five minutes into it and I
run them up and I couldn't log onto my laptop
for whatever reason, and I got a hold of someone

(58:44):
from from Asia, the Philippines or wherever. Seventeen minutes later,
I was still trying to get through to the game
was just about finished, and I said, look, we're getting nowhere.
He put me onto a new Zealander, will you and

(59:05):
she did an into minutes the problem was fixed, goodness.
And that's what we're up against here. This is the
multi million dollar company, been waiting in money since nineteen
ninety one, and they can't even afford to operate a

(59:28):
our eight hundred number. I think that's just that's appalling,
just disgraceful, you know. And I'm about ready to I've
tried to email them and they would not reply to me.
But they've sent out a deal for me to get

(59:50):
the latest sky box in the in the world. Take
that deal and forget about all the yeah, you know,
the mad service that they've supplied me. Basically since I've
been signed up, I've I've received nothing, basically, you know. Yeah,

(01:00:15):
they've just put your aside. Yeah, that's another one we've
signed up, right, let's get the next one.

Speaker 23 (01:00:23):
You know?

Speaker 21 (01:00:25):
Has this topic been going basically all night?

Speaker 12 (01:00:31):
In fact?

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Are you asking me?

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Have you just tuned in?

Speaker 17 (01:00:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:00:39):
Yeah, I have, yes, Yeah, it has.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
It has been going for the last hour. There was
a hell, there was a plaid rescue that took up
most of the hour, but there's no storge of people
that had a gutsville.

Speaker 21 (01:00:52):
Yeah yeah, well I'm yeah, I'm just about ready to
tell them to gym, but I can't get a hold
of them exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
That's the irony. You want to tell them to jim
at but you can't get hold of them.

Speaker 21 (01:01:04):
I can't get a hold of them, and it's costing
me fifty cents a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
To where is it to talk to the Philippines on
the nine? That's the nine number? Because you're calling from
christ Gurge right.

Speaker 21 (01:01:19):
Well, yes I am, but for anybody else it's a
toll call as well. And this is a toll call
that I have to pay for fifty cents a minute
when there's a problem with the sky box. Am I
going to be reimbursed if it's a sky issue? O?

Speaker 7 (01:01:40):
Say not?

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
Now, what will you do for your sport? Because you
clearly like your rugby league. They've got you over a
barrel there, Neil. I mean you've been paying twenty bucks
a month, twenty bucks a week for thirty years.

Speaker 21 (01:01:53):
Yes, yes, so yeah, yes, I know that. Yeah radio
online possibly, I know they've put you over a barrel.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
Basically, we might go to get one of those sketchy
websites that get you the stuff.

Speaker 21 (01:02:14):
Yeah, I've heard or about them. I don't know much
about them, but yeah, yeah yeah basically yeah, So the
theme tonight is along what I've been saying, is it?

Speaker 17 (01:02:32):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
Yes, that's right, you're odd song. You're right with the theme, Neil.

Speaker 21 (01:02:37):
Right, okay, then no, that's good. Then okay, then good one. Well,
hopefully skuy are listening.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
To They are listening. Ellie's emailed me they're listening.

Speaker 21 (01:02:47):
Okay, right, yeah, yeah, well we might get back on
to an eight hundred number. I don't mind so much
an eight hundred number. You've put it on speaker phone,
as I say, you know, you know the Asians, I'm
afraid to say, they don't understand lingo of New Zealanders.

(01:03:11):
If I said this week.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Here we go, Neil, you don't like you don't like
the toll call. You prefer the eight hundred number, don't you?

Speaker 7 (01:03:20):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:03:20):
Court, Well yeah, yeah, Well I wouldn't know of anybody
who wants to pay fifty cents a minute to fix
a problem that Sky have with the dish or their dakoda.
Yeah but yeah, yeah, so that's it. Basically, I'm not
that far. But I, as I say, I can't get

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a hold of anybody unless I pay fifty cents a minute.

Speaker 24 (01:03:46):
Wow.

Speaker 21 (01:03:49):
Yeah, I think that's a falling for a multi million
dollar company with a monopoly on everything.

Speaker 7 (01:03:58):
But yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
Do you feel you've had to say.

Speaker 21 (01:04:02):
Neil, Yes, I had, thanks, Okay, thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:04:06):
I's do it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Wet going into that. Don't understand that other countries understand
that lingo. I think we're just best to go sideways there, Marcus.
If you have an active sky count having issued signal
through the set top box and dish, a competent aerial
contractor or sometimes an electricians should be able to set
you right. It's good in tel thank you, Hello, Ken,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:04:29):
Oh good a Marcus, thanks for the welcome. I just
just two things. One quickly, I've had Sky ringley about
servicing my skybox and dish and everything. They said they'd
be around in about two to three months, so they've
given me plenty of notice I have. The second thing
I was going to talk about was taxis. I had

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twenty years. I've got one hundred stories about taxis. I'll
just tell you a couple when I first started back
in nineteen sixty four, my brother and I we bought
a taxi license and shares in Hutton City taxis and Wellington.
And the car that went with the license that we
bought was nineteen seventy nine Courtina, not a courteena the

(01:05:19):
one before that anyway, she was a ninety seventy nine
manual and they had a buggered clutch, and so we
couldn't go up hills, couldn't go to wine where Marta
or bell Monte or places like that because she wouldn't
go up the hills because until we got the clutch
text and we didn't have any money. So that was
a bit interesting for a while. In bit hard to

(01:05:40):
work and make a dollar or two or pounds shillings
and pens.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
In those days.

Speaker 11 (01:05:46):
And the other thing it was I was going to
tell you about was we got one hundred stories about
picking up an ex prime minister that lived in a
lower Hut at one stage around about the same time
sixty four sixty five, and he lived a mile exactly
from those home in Roburn Road to the Hut railway station.

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Used to catch a try and train from the Hut
railway station into the city to Parliament and it was
exactly a mile and so the fair was a two
shilling flag fall and sixpence a mile. So when we
got to the station was exactly a mile and it
was two and sixpence and it only ever give you
two shippings. He wouldn't give you the two and six

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and things are pretty tough. But anyway, there's plenty of
stories around. But I had a good period of twenty
years driving there in Wellington. Two or three occasions, went
away and came back and enjoyed it very very much,
as matter of fact, although we had a few problems
at times, but I enjoyed the freedom.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
Did any clutch fixed? Yes? Sixteen to ten Christine Marcus welcome.

Speaker 25 (01:07:00):
Oh hi Marcus. Just initially, I've never heard such a
pile of gap. Just what that nn Neil had to say?
What is he on about? If you bring the eight
hundred number, it doesn't cost you anything. Where does he
get fifty cents a minute?

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
He says, the eight hundred number is gone. No anyway,
because you're probably you're probably an Auckland. It's an O
nine number, is that right?

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Five?

Speaker 25 (01:07:26):
Five double five double five I've always rung.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
Now it's nine right, Yes, so he's calling from christ Jurch.

Speaker 25 (01:07:34):
Well, I understood there's an eight hundred number. News to
me if it's gone anyway, I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
On the website. I'm looking contact us. Yes, there's no
eight hundred number, just the O nine number.

Speaker 12 (01:07:53):
That is news to me.

Speaker 25 (01:07:54):
Yeah, h Anyway, I've had sky forever. Wow, I'm talking
twenty five, twenty eight years, and I could not be
happier every time there's ever been a problem, so straight
round to fix it. And I just had a problem
recently where I got rain fade all at well half

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the time, even in bright sunlight, and it was so frustrating.
And I read them yep, they said the technician between
such and such and such and such. They ran to
say he's coming, and absolutely delightful Filipino man tuned up
fixed the problem and I haven't had anything go wrong since.
I must be a good customer too, because they gave

(01:08:42):
me a month of or this month November free movies,
which I appreciate. I think that's really good.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
Christine. When was your last problem?

Speaker 25 (01:08:53):
It was just about a fortnight ago, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
And I don't want to burst your bubble, but everyone's
got the free movies.

Speaker 25 (01:08:59):
Okay, yeah, that's good. No, no, that's terrific. And I'll
tell you when what else they did during lockdown? We
lockdown started, and of course everybody else supplies to too.
They gave us about two or three months of free
movies and it was magic, absolutely fabulous. I really appreciated it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
Good on youre Christine. Thank you. How confident are we
that Neil's going to ditch Sky? I don't reckon he's
going to do it for God that can stand a
hold through the length of a whole leg game. Marcus,
Why are people still persisting with landlines and toll calls
when it's free to call anywhere in New Zealand from
mobile phones. Mark's at last call us, I'd like the

(01:09:41):
CEO of Sky's mother cheers your exact Well, you might
have shares, do you think? Evening Ross? Marcus?

Speaker 23 (01:09:47):
Hello?

Speaker 17 (01:09:48):
Yeah, okday Marcus. The thing about the Sky sport, probably
about six months ago I canceled. I had to give
them thirty days notice, so yeah, that was okay, And
then probably just recently I've hooked up to Sky. Now
do you know what that is?

Speaker 7 (01:10:07):
That?

Speaker 17 (01:10:11):
Now? I found it really good because I had it
all through the rugby league and a bit of the
rugby is just recently and then SAT Day that I'm
I'm going to be busy for the next couple of months,
is going to be away on holiday Christmas and that
I'll just came to it. So I just came for
most subscription to I don't know, maybe to the next
league league season. I'll just re renew it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
So that's just that's just that's the base thing, isn't it.
That's the way it's going to go, because you don't
need the technicians, do you.

Speaker 17 (01:10:41):
But the thing is, I've got a I've got a
TV that I've got Chrome Caster, so apparently spy, I've
got this new streaming system. If you get a smart
TV with the sky Now appen it you can actually
do it like the remote channel to channel to channel,

(01:11:02):
and that eventually the way I'll go to But uh.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
Ross, Yes, when is the sky dish redundant? Oh?

Speaker 17 (01:11:16):
The sky dish is still on my roof?

Speaker 18 (01:11:18):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
Okay, because because before long people don't need the dish
for that because everything's going to come through the tube, right.

Speaker 17 (01:11:24):
Yeah, yeah, I mean like this sky Now, it's just
so good.

Speaker 26 (01:11:26):
You can.

Speaker 17 (01:11:27):
You don't need any dish. You've got no river dependence,
there's nothing like that. And then they sent me at
an envelope and I just sent that the code a bit,
put it and sink it away and they pick you know,
just dropped it off to the mail shop and away.
There's no there's no real hussles. The only thing you
do have to be a with a kid of is
if you're downloading it on your phone. If if you've

(01:11:50):
got too many emails or it's not free free, you've
just got to keep it updated with everything on your phone.
But I went from the phone to my IPA that
and that's just brilliant.

Speaker 15 (01:12:02):
Yeah, that really good.

Speaker 17 (01:12:04):
I'm really happy.

Speaker 7 (01:12:05):
Brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
Okay, Ross, Look there's one line free. We'll talk about
this war after news. If you're there, hold on. Will
be with you soon. People. My name is Marcus. Good
evening and welcome. It's all about the sky. But there's
been a big outcome and the rescue guy pilot ditched
his plane in the in the tesman Or the Tesban
Bay off between Nelson and Tarcica. He's been rescued. They
set the chop er out. They picked him out of
the sea. How good's that? Pretty excited that? It's a

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great not if on a plane gets ditched in the ocean,
the pilot survived, it's a great story. It's all about
Sky and they're roll out of the new technicians. Down
has got the contract, but the contract's not going good
because there aren't enough technicians because the ones that went
across aren't that happy with the do a me. So
that's the situation there. Literally, it's a downer. So people

(01:12:53):
are waiting forever to get their Sky fixed, and people
are ringing countries that aren't news.

Speaker 11 (01:13:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
I think it's people hot and bothered, doesn't it They
understand the lingo. Every time I've phoned Sky, I've had
remarkably good service normally involved. Have you tried turning it
off and waiting thirty seconds and turning it back on? Apparently,

(01:13:21):
according to JT and what is heard on ZB, the
negotiating sky tvn ended Rugby have broken down. The last
Rugby they'd be in trouble. Mind you, Spark tried to
pick it up. They went that into it. I don't
know where Rugby needs to go. They probably more people
to watch the league PAULA. Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 27 (01:13:47):
Welcome, good evening, Marcus. Hey, just before you knews that
lady that rung up and said the guy before her
didn't know what he was talking about. Well he did,
because for the last four to six weeks there is
no more eight hundred numbers for Sky. It is going
to cost you if you want to ring. So he

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was right.

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
Yes, I thought she was schooled quite quickly and realized
that probably she came out came out a bit strong.

Speaker 27 (01:14:18):
Definitely, definitely. My question I've got in just joining you
guys in the last half hour. Is there going to
be a change to our dish? Our dish in that
and what would I have to do? I'm not that
savvy in that apartment.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
I don't think there is. I don't think they'd get
rid of the dishes. I don't know that there is.
I haven't heard that. But I was round to see
a friend today to fix her computer, which I did
very well. Actually it's not like me to do it support.
But she said about a new box or something. Have
you heard about a new box.

Speaker 27 (01:14:52):
I've got a new white box. I've had that for
just on eight months now, a little box. But I
haven't heard of anything else.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
No, I haven't heard of anything else, but someone let
us know. Have you heard Have you heard of anything? No,
I haven't heard of anything, but yeah, we'll find out
Paula and look if there is anything, you know, I'm
sure we'll be able to do a talking session about it.
Woul normally pretty good at that evening.

Speaker 18 (01:15:18):
Fae good evening, Marcus. It is nine hundred because I
own nine hundred nine number because I live in South
Unkton two. A few months ago, my sky TV was
playing app as like a digsaw puzzle in the end
two or three times during the match, and I was
getting bussed off. So I rang them and they said

(01:15:39):
to me that I need a new skybox. And they
seen one out and I said, and then what happens?
He said, Oh, you'll have to put it in yourself. Well,
my god, I'm eighty one. My TV is about four
or three feet for the floor. How the hell am
I going to get into a fifty five inch TV,
pull it out and put the skybox in? So I said,

(01:16:01):
I can't do it. Send electrician. He said, we've got
no more electricians on the road, So it's just sitting here.
The new one's sitting here and I'm just going on
with the album.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
Are you getting much rain fade or jigsaw fade?

Speaker 18 (01:16:17):
Jigsaw bu it's soy frustrated, especially when it's a good game.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
And also so is it Is it doing jig so much?

Speaker 26 (01:16:28):
No?

Speaker 18 (01:16:28):
Just two or three times during the games?

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
How often?

Speaker 18 (01:16:34):
A couple of times three times a game? Partly it's
all hazy. It comes up and it's going to be hazy.
And then in order of a sudden So.

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
Your TV is mounted on your wall?

Speaker 18 (01:16:47):
No, no, no, no, no, it's on a stain. But it's
only about three four foot high and it's a fifty
five and no it's too for me to pull out.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
But you've just got to put a cable into the
back of it, don't you.

Speaker 18 (01:17:00):
Yeah, the new sky threw at the skybox to put in,
but I mean, I don't know the cave to put them. Lady,
for God's sake, that's a means job.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
Who can who can we get to help you?

Speaker 18 (01:17:14):
We're just sitting there and waiting for some guy that
pulls up in the sky. Then I said, please, can
you come and help me?

Speaker 21 (01:17:20):
He will?

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
So you're confidantly going to turn up one day.

Speaker 18 (01:17:25):
One day here, and also just one minute at the
end of the game, like on Saturday Sunday night, I'm
going to cancel the sky Sport. And then I read
put it on again in March, and I say forty
dollars a month by doing this, I've done it every year.
I'm not on the cricket and then and they put

(01:17:46):
it straight back on. I just ring up and say
I'm ready for sport again, and they just play and again.
In a way, I go forty dollars a month. I'm saving.

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
Who's going to do your dish? Who's going to plug
your machine? And no one?

Speaker 18 (01:17:59):
Oh I've got a dish, I've got no we hang on.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
But with your skybox, they said they're coming around to
fix it.

Speaker 18 (01:18:06):
No, no, I said to him, how can I put
it in? He said, just take it out, and he
said just push it back in. And it's three orange
plugs to plug in. And what I've got to get
the TV? I don't know, Marcus, I don't know. I'm
going to put them bloody thing away from the wall
to get this skybox me skybox in?

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
Are you in? Are you in? Flats? Are the neighbors
that could help or they'd steal everything.

Speaker 18 (01:18:35):
Yeah, I've been asking a couple, but they're going to
come and do it one day. But it's horrible when
you live on your own and you've got to do
these mean things. That's what means mineral about. I mean,
we're not into electrical things. I'm find I'm going to
blow it up.

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
Have you got any Have you got anything at all
that might be able to help you?

Speaker 23 (01:18:58):
Yes, yes I have.

Speaker 6 (01:18:59):
I have it.

Speaker 18 (01:19:00):
I just haven't got a round to it. So I said him,
what do I do with the old one? He said,
I'll just.

Speaker 19 (01:19:03):
Put it with the courier.

Speaker 18 (01:19:05):
Courier began take to the post office.

Speaker 19 (01:19:07):
In the story, charge.

Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
Good luck with that, Fayet, I'd say, Dan Rownd. But
Carol Marcus welcome.

Speaker 28 (01:19:16):
Hi Marcus. I just jumped into your conversation about Sky.
Were down in Dunedin and we recently had issues with
our Sky pixelating. It came up with an Era T
ten or something similar. They actually sent a dude around
who fixed our dish. There was a part that there

(01:19:37):
was apparently faulting with new dishes. My in laws have
got an old dish like one of the original ones.
They need a new A part or a new box.
I'm not quite sure what, but Sky are coming to
do that for them. So I think there's a couple
of issues with Sky. Obviously, the phone contact's going to

(01:19:57):
be one for some people, and I would suggest that
Fay contacts somebody like age concern or something, because it'll
be surely someone around.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
That's a great idea. Yeah, that come around, wouldn't they.

Speaker 28 (01:20:10):
Yeah, obviously reduced somebody who can help her anyway, because
obviously it is an issue when older people can't actually
get the help they need. And being short, I understand
things are tall as well.

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
So yeah, I couldn't quite understand who's said that. But
she's got the dish, she's paying for it, doesn't want
rain fade. You think someone would help out.

Speaker 28 (01:20:32):
The other thing we've done recently with Sky is we said, hey,
look we're really struggling with bills, etc. They've upgraded our
package and downgraded our price.

Speaker 9 (01:20:42):
They can't how much.

Speaker 2 (01:20:44):
Have they downgraded it?

Speaker 28 (01:20:46):
Quite considerably, so we've got more features and we're probably
paying thirty forty dollars lease a month.

Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
Okay, so it's not half, but it's down from eighty
to thirty. Is it.

Speaker 28 (01:20:59):
Not down as I was thirty, so we hit the
full package and now we've got the same plus we've
got Sky movies, etc. And they've put it down quite
a lot. And they've done the same for a couple
of relatives as well when they're spoken up.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
So who do you call? Your call? That oh nine number?

Speaker 20 (01:21:15):
Do you?

Speaker 28 (01:21:17):
I couldn't tell you what I called. It may have been,
yet it probably would have been it's the Sky number.
Who whatever the number was at the time, Thanks Carol.

Speaker 2 (01:21:24):
Look, so it's been a wicket in the cricket. Let
me just confirm that there was much celebration of the
score is still up twenty four or zero twenty four
with that loss. Caught behind, caught the slips. It seems
to be no caught the other side. Great catch, sleeping catch,
tremendous catch. I think it's young. Let me just wait
for confirmation. Tim Robinson caught Esslanka Bolshiras out for nine

(01:21:50):
off seven balls. That's a situation holding horses with the
saying Neil, good evening. It's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 29 (01:21:56):
Hi Marcus. It was just about the Marxis. Unfortunately, you
know since the de regular the ball has been rooked
in the industry, right, I mean after problems even around
the world with taxis and even this country and but here, irony,
I lost my job in my fifties and ended up

(01:22:17):
doing taxis. But I learned a lot of things about
it that they're always the deregulation just made it worse,
and they've now taken us down, probably to a third
wall level in fact, and I've seen in a lot
of countries it's even more controlled or you know, more
under control than what it is now. A lot of
them seem to do it at the concerts and things

(01:22:38):
like that, but they actually rely on New Zealanders don't
like confrontation and they would rather pay, you know, then
just have a big argument. And this is what they're doing.
They're deliberately ripping you off. And I've even had guys
that that I've talked to her or you know, since
I left, and they'll they'll stay. Look, we normally do huber,

(01:23:01):
but when the concerts called, we change to their own
tax It just bang a taxi sign on the top,
and that's what you like. And they said, most of
them want to stand up to this, and I'm like,
I'm shocked, thinking you are a rotter you know what
I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:23:12):
I couldn't do that.

Speaker 29 (01:23:13):
I mean, I'll tell you see when I see when
I did taxes, Marcus, I used to make more money
on private jobs than ever that even tho though the
company was busy, because I used to treat people fairly.
I'd never ripped them off, and we got on really well,
and we became friends. And I'd spend the whole day
with phone calls he picked me up, can you pick
me up? Can you take me the airport? Blah blah blah,
Because they just wanted someone that was honest and someone

(01:23:34):
that wasn't a sex.

Speaker 2 (01:23:35):
So you would you wouldn't You wouldn't go through your
You wouldn't go through your company, Is it right?

Speaker 7 (01:23:42):
No?

Speaker 29 (01:23:42):
No, it's just oh yeah, I'd go through my company
when I come up. You were allowed to take private,
so but I would just go off. And you know,
I'd spend a lot of my time on private calls
because women trusted me because I wasn't putting the hard
world on them. And would you call it the I was.
I was giving people a fair price without trying to
rip them off. The deregulation it just made everything was

(01:24:04):
But I think people have got to.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
I mean, Neil, Neil, can we just back up the truck.
What company were you with?

Speaker 29 (01:24:15):
As with a few of them over the years in.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
Auckland, like Alert, Alert or co Op or.

Speaker 29 (01:24:22):
Yeah, I was with them of that, and then I
did the west Ookland taxi.

Speaker 6 (01:24:26):
For a while.

Speaker 29 (01:24:26):
Sure, okay, so they just.

Speaker 2 (01:24:31):
Kneel when you're with Alert or one of those big ones.
When you first started, did you have to buy did
you have to buy your license?

Speaker 18 (01:24:43):
No?

Speaker 29 (01:24:43):
No, no, not the same I was, it was.

Speaker 5 (01:24:46):
I wasn't doing that, but I say no.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
Because I mean, for a while being the licenses were
worth a fortune, weren't they, and people value those and
that was their investment. Suddenly they became worthless, and all
these taxis like Kuyper cabs came in and they were
the rogues and they were just hanging.

Speaker 12 (01:25:02):
Up on yep.

Speaker 29 (01:25:05):
Yeah, you're you're correct. There's just so many rogues come in.
But people, you see, by law, even though a deregulation,
they've still got to tell you, they've still got to
agree with you at the fair. What the fair is
going to be. People don't realize that whether they're going
to use the meter or where they're going to tell you.
They have to give you an indication where it's going

(01:25:25):
to be so that you can decide to go or
not go. But people are just too trusting.

Speaker 2 (01:25:30):
It's I wonder if the wonder of these cowboys that
have been in the news, whether they have had meeters
running or they've just made up the amount.

Speaker 29 (01:25:40):
I'm not sure what they've done, but I know it
does happen. And there's I say. I was even I mean,
i'll give you a joke here at the airport. I
was even done by an uber driver. And that particular time,
when I stood up to my wife, I said, no, no, no,
this is what the faar will beat blah blah blah,
and this is stuffed meaning by oh don't cause trouble,

(01:26:01):
don't cause trouble. And I said, well, look, this is
how they're getting away with it because you won't let
me hand up to them.

Speaker 21 (01:26:07):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:26:08):
But a number driver gives you the fare before you
get into it, though, doesn't How could nuber driver rip.

Speaker 29 (01:26:12):
You off because we had we had the we had
the fair before we get we got there. When I
jumped into the taxi, it was he All of a sudden,
I was in a taxi just driving away and all
of a sudden come up Uruba has been canceled.

Speaker 7 (01:26:27):
So when we got.

Speaker 29 (01:26:28):
There and I said, look I I was the price.
I said, no, I canceled that. If you saw that,
I canceled that, you'll have to pay me double the price.
Blah blah blah, because that's my and as I fairst
didn't argue, but the way he said, oh, go with me, grobble.
But I didn't give him what he wanted completely. I
gave him, you know, what I thought was fair, and
that was it. But I mean, this is a thing

(01:26:49):
that we'll do. And as I said, people, even even
if you feel you don't want a confrontation, just playing
dumble games on.

Speaker 4 (01:26:56):
I'm on mate.

Speaker 29 (01:26:56):
You know I'm on the doe. You know I don't
know when I'm retiring, but you know, don't just say
anything just I'm on.

Speaker 9 (01:27:01):
I can't.

Speaker 29 (01:27:03):
I'll give you some cash, man, I'm just going to
Hurst and get fifty cash. Sixty. Yeah, it's not going
to And and people think they'll call the police. They
won't call the police because either police will know what
they're up to and they're not interested and get involved
in that and a civil dispute that's between you and him.
But if you, as a taxi driver called the police
so for someone not you know, dispute and affair, they

(01:27:24):
will kick your bike side. They said, do you think
you know how busy we are? Do you know how
the chaos it's on the streets and we're coming out
for a dispute over a fair. You've got to be
joking me.

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
Thanks Neal, nice to hear from you. Ricketts, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:27:39):
Marcus.

Speaker 24 (01:27:39):
Yeah, just a quick one.

Speaker 10 (01:27:41):
It might have been mentioned already, but often in the
situations like at concerts or rugby games, the drivers have
to wait for like it could could be actually an
hour to get to get into a location where they
would be able to pick up a fear. So often,
you know, I got into a into a cab the

(01:28:03):
other day after a rugby game and they goes, oh,
it's just just sort of like, you know, five k away,
and he said our fifty bucks or something like that,
And I said, oh, that that's crazy.

Speaker 7 (01:28:14):
What are you thinking?

Speaker 24 (01:28:15):
And he said, oh, it's.

Speaker 30 (01:28:18):
Not the it's not the outflow that takes the time
that's actually getting in here to pick you up. That's
why I'm right Yeah, so that's just not that that
might cause some of that fear.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
For what you guys, I don't think these text rubs
are charging had Ready bucks. I don think they're getting
rich for it from it. I think it's probably just
desperation really. But yeah, yeah, it seems as though even
with sage pricing, the Uber model works better.

Speaker 3 (01:28:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:28:47):
I mean I think probably if you leave it up
to somebody to put their finger in the air and
pull out the price, it's always going to be pretty variable,
so the computer is always probably going to be better.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
Great, thanks Rick. Someone sent me a new cheap option
from Sky. I think it's called the odd the sky Point.
I don't know much about that. Always find Sky slightly
confusing as they try and change platform to platform. Yeah,
but get in touch Marcus still twelve if you want
to talk about this all that Riscue also too. I

(01:29:26):
know it's probably had a bit of a going over
during the day, but let's face that it's at nighttime
that we're ready to speak to the people that are
already tracking up and down the country. How much impact
will these closures of the desert road have for you?
The proposed detail is good to go for you with
your rigs. Well, I think it's an extra half an hour,

(01:29:49):
but are they are they passable? Will the roads hold
up to your the heavy traffic? Let me know about
that also tonight. It seems we have they're doing four
years repair in a year or something. Seems they're going
healthful leather. So that's a situation. So if you want

(01:30:12):
to mention, there would be good to hear from you.
One's getting hyped up about Gladiator. I've got to confess
I've never seen the original, so I'm not getting that
hyped up about it, but you might be. You might
want to talk about that also, so get in touch.

(01:30:33):
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine nine to detext
Hittle twelve might be something different you want to mention too.
Think has been quite a good show so far. I'm
in they exciting to use that first day with that
plane ditching and then the guy surviving amazing. Marcus. Twice
I've had texts try and overcharge and all come but

(01:30:54):
thankful when you use to pay in cash. Both times
I gave them what I thought was fair and said
fight me or call the police for more. Marcus Scott
has scarred as a new Skybox for an old one.
We ask for further info and six months will cost
ten per month. More pays to be wary, Marcus. I

(01:31:14):
had rain fade with Sky replaced the set dish still
got rain fades. They replaced. The Dakota Bingo problem solved.
Upgrade your Dakota, Marcus. The any one you're one won't
like the new Sky white Box when she gets installed. Reconfusing,
not user friendly. I don't like the new white Box
Stellar Terry, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:31:38):
Hi moved to Tograve from the Corklans in nineteen sixty.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
Hang on which Cook Island from?

Speaker 16 (01:31:49):
Much too? I told you before?

Speaker 2 (01:31:51):
Are ye there's a huge popular Is there a huge
Cook Island population?

Speaker 16 (01:31:58):
Here is Marcus?

Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
How many?

Speaker 24 (01:32:03):
Uh?

Speaker 16 (01:32:04):
Probably the whole of Tagar?

Speaker 2 (01:32:10):
Yeah, okay, fair enough.

Speaker 24 (01:32:11):
You know, you know.

Speaker 16 (01:32:14):
Didn't generated five other mills around the area and through
the white canner. It just grew from here. But the redundancies,
the murrays happened with the eighties were some bright sparks
in in China. Look instead of us in four by
two six x two. Who just they blogs and.

Speaker 7 (01:32:35):
Do ourself exactly.

Speaker 16 (01:32:39):
And it's fairly so. All my family were born and
breed them and brothers and sisters, and it's fulled some
of my family there. So it's a shame hearing death
because some Japanese company owns in the eight.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
That's right, q I or something. But so because I
don't know about you have never had so much cardboard
coming through our house? Is the cardboard all made overseas? Now?

Speaker 16 (01:33:04):
Yeah? But but but is more to the point what
come out of there was wood for the houses that
created a thousands and there for the family around that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:14):
Was But I think what from my intel, what they
are closing is the cardboard department. Yeah, yeah, okay, have
you got family members that are directly affected?

Speaker 16 (01:33:31):
Well, there is about years they're still working in. We
had quite a few work there, Marcus. I believe he's
about a work first war work force about five hundred.
They take two hundred away to fifty, you know, and

(01:33:53):
also for fis tar area for guys you're doing bucks
and war or thousand and whatever.

Speaker 7 (01:34:01):
Yeah, okay, did you hear Marcus?

Speaker 2 (01:34:04):
A lot of sports players that come from they haven't
they old quite Cooper came from the quite Cooper.

Speaker 16 (01:34:14):
To will break what a.

Speaker 2 (01:34:16):
Little Kendrick Joey Mano well he's done all back to
Paul Brothers, Brian Tommicky.

Speaker 6 (01:34:31):
Yeah, that's right, quite a.

Speaker 16 (01:34:34):
Few of the and and also yeah, then the guy
who came food Peter Snell. Who is that, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
Hang on stand by caller like a runner?

Speaker 16 (01:34:55):
Yeah, I think on became to the Olympics or something
like that to Peter Snell.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
Someone will have to text me that because I can't
see that off end.

Speaker 16 (01:35:11):
Where are you, Terry, I'm in Auckland.

Speaker 2 (01:35:17):
Have you got a bolt? Have you got a boat?
Holland Itataki?

Speaker 16 (01:35:21):
Yeah, we've got a piece of paradise there, Marcus. And
oh love God is a live star coconut tree that
me and you can speak on that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
Nice to hear, Terry. Thanks for your thoughts too. It's
a tough day for tok So. I appreciate that.

Speaker 18 (01:35:40):
You boy.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
A lot of good people have come from there, A
lot of unsurprising people have come from there. I don't
know who the runner was to Peter Snell. By looking
to that getting touch hit on Midnight, Brett, welcome even Marcus.

Speaker 19 (01:35:56):
That new road down between Tony in the national part.
I'd like to put a wagers for weeks for the
first pothole to turn up on a bit of truck
driving in those fifty sixty tannels. They can rip up
a bit of new road pretty quick. I've seen them
rip up the road before they remove the cones. It
should be downhill. You get the one day can't drive
and they're constantly breaking.

Speaker 2 (01:36:18):
So what are you's going to happen?

Speaker 19 (01:36:21):
I think the first pothole will appear within three weeks
because of those big trucks.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
On the desert road.

Speaker 19 (01:36:30):
Yeah, I don't any move what he got? Well, tonight
there was six B train back up the street and
I watched about eight drives through. So we're already getting
the trucks to within six months. They had to shut
this road down because it's pretty bad now it's not

(01:36:51):
gonna handle another six months. But well I was doing
Hey in a minute, you do off the highway. The
roads are beautiful, you know. I've been to a lot
of farms in the road tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:37:03):
No months, So you say it's gonna be the close
of the quality of the road or too many trucks just.

Speaker 19 (01:37:09):
The main after he's just the big ones with fifty
sixty tummers.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
They up the weight of them that they up the
perissible weight with trucks, didn't they.

Speaker 19 (01:37:18):
Yeah, yeah, I've seen them rip up roads pretty quick.
Like I said before, they take the cones away. Another
problem is we got food bars at night. You know
what I pack? No food bars. The bobs closed it up.
LUs ten poor truckeyes are sitting in the truck seating
the sandwiches.

Speaker 2 (01:37:38):
Is it not a truck stop now?

Speaker 19 (01:37:41):
No, No, it is the garage, but you only get
three trucks around it and none more room. It's right
down with the bridge the corner that we fit put
down the south in. You're putting your room. I mean
the caravan sending handlers if or something.

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
But I think were that diversion, you wouldn't go through
tom and you'd get back onto the State high I
wanted to Doney, wouldn't.

Speaker 19 (01:38:04):
You No, Like I've said, he the trucks. And it
was eight o'clock tonight when I took my dog for
a walk up town. Okay, heat them down through town
all night with the many hundred meters away Cone Street.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
Okay, I appreciate you coming through. Okay, thanks brit You
can go twenty five past eleven, eight hundred and eighty tonight,
Peter Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:38:28):
Hello.

Speaker 31 (01:38:30):
I'd just like to know what David Seboor is trying
to achieve.

Speaker 2 (01:38:36):
I think it's pretty clear, Peter.

Speaker 31 (01:38:39):
You know, I've been talking to people, and I've been
listening to the news and everything, and I haven't heard
us explained. So if you will explain it, that the
amen saying please?

Speaker 2 (01:38:49):
Do you want me to explain it to you?

Speaker 31 (01:38:50):
Yes? Please. That's why I ring.

Speaker 2 (01:38:54):
What happens when you've got a coalition government. The minor parties,
whether it be in US in First or Act, always
get voted out of Parliament at the next election. So
what I believe David semur wants to do.

Speaker 20 (01:39:17):
Is managed to motivate a small enough population percentage of
the population to get him voted the next election in
twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
Six. So it's about his political survival. I would think
that he knows there'll be enough people to get him
of the five percent threshold, to get him above it,
to get him in parliament next time.

Speaker 31 (01:39:49):
What by upsetting everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:39:51):
Yeah, by motivating his base, he only needs to motivate
five percent.

Speaker 31 (01:40:04):
I'm not convinced to see why this is what I'm ringing.
I'm not well, that's as soon.

Speaker 2 (01:40:12):
As as soon as the memorandum of you know, the
coalition agreement was released and I saw that, I thought,
that's exactly what that is for. That's to give him
the headlines to keep his name out there. It's all
about just him getting back into politics. But what what
was he trying to do get his name out there?

Speaker 31 (01:40:34):
No, no, no, what was he trying to do with
the treaty?

Speaker 2 (01:40:40):
We wanted to go select committee and have a discuss
for six months to keep his name out there. It's
all it's about is political survival, which is incredibly cynical.
But that we'll wait and see. I'm sure in three
years will know more about that. Marcus. Exactly why the
bloody trucking industry should be paying more for the highway system?

(01:41:02):
We saw the road taxes were quite is it sixty
cents a klly? Surprise how expensive it is actually? But
you know they must damage the roads. Hey, by the way,
with the sky changing to the new satellite, and I
worry because we don't seem to get into communication with Sky,
like I missed out that it was a movie free month,

(01:41:22):
But are we all supposed to do a sky test?
Does someone have some more information about that they could
tell me about. Yeah, I know I am because that
guy said they are switching satellite. That's true. But are
we supposed to do a check for it? Has anyone done?

(01:41:44):
Can anyone tell me anything about that? Because we are
talking about Sky and the fact that they've switched providers
for their tech kit and they're not coming around, but
they say that they've changed. We need to do a

(01:42:07):
sky check if anyone's got information about that. For Hello Satellite,
we're running a program of work so every Sky customer
is also to receive service from the new satellite. If
we haven't already, we encourage you it upgrade to a
new skybox. Why have I been asked to do a

(01:42:29):
channel test? So has anyone been asked to do a
channel test? Because I haven't been. You only need to
complete this test if you receive an email. But who's
received those? And there is a YouTube video on how
to do that? But how would they know if mine's

(01:42:50):
good and they haven't tested it? It does seem complicated.
Terrifies me. They're doing a new they're doing a new
dish or a new satellite. Minds the video and it
goes for a minute. It looks like it's pretty straightforward.

(01:43:13):
Good evening, Graham, It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 23 (01:43:17):
Yeah, Marcus. I got the email to say to do
the sky test, it just had to select channel eight
and whatever answer it came up, you had to reply
in your email. So they had four options I think
it was hello, hi, whatever, three of them, and one
was if it came up with the weather channel you

(01:43:39):
that was no signal and that means that the new
satellite wouldn't work and therefore they'd have to send a
technician out to adjust it. The problem we had we've
got sky at our holiday home and we weren't there,
so we weren't able to do the test.

Speaker 2 (01:43:54):
I've got eight at on my work thing there it
says no signal atmosphere conditions of temperary interrupted your viewing.
Does that mean it's bad?

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

Speaker 23 (01:44:02):
Yeah, No, you've got another device connected to it, you've
got to turn that off. So if you've got another
skybox in another room or whatever the other things are,
turn them off.

Speaker 4 (01:44:14):
Because we did that at home.

Speaker 2 (01:44:17):
Okay, and the EMIL okay, So why do we got.

Speaker 23 (01:44:21):
A new email. We've got a new email today that
says on Thursday between one time on a certain date
between two times, they're going to automatically change the channel.
They're telling you not to change channels. But when you
turn the TV on, if it's on channel eight eight eight,
it means it's successful or it's not. Something weird. It's

(01:44:43):
a new email we've got today.

Speaker 2 (01:44:45):
Okay, well we see that email. But thank you for that, Graham.
Keep it going, guys twenty five to twelve, Ellen, it's Marcus. Hello,
good evening, good evening, It's good. Thank you.

Speaker 16 (01:44:55):
Hell.

Speaker 2 (01:44:55):
What's happening?

Speaker 26 (01:44:58):
Why isn't the hast pass open? According to the paper,
this has pass is still closed.

Speaker 2 (01:45:05):
Are you affected?

Speaker 26 (01:45:07):
No, I'm not effective. I haven't been the house for
a number of years actually, But according to the paper,
it's costing three thousand dollars a day. Why they just
put a bailey bridge over the bloody gap. There's only
a piece in the road that's slipping into the sea.

(01:45:31):
If the hills, the hills are falling down, you can
put a bailey bridge across the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:45:40):
How would you how would you know? Do you know
how long the slippers?

Speaker 26 (01:45:47):
Yeah? I used to go up and down the heart
and the seventies and eighties and it's been there for years.
It's to be cracking the road.

Speaker 2 (01:46:00):
Yeah, but there's a big slip there. They say it's
closed for in the heart and Lake Mourachy because they're
amazing rainfall their head last week.

Speaker 17 (01:46:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:46:14):
So you wouldn't know what would fix it a bailey bridge,
because you've haven't seen the damage, have you.

Speaker 26 (01:46:19):
No, I haven't seen the damage.

Speaker 21 (01:46:22):
I do believe.

Speaker 26 (01:46:25):
A bailey bridge over that gap would be easier. We
put a big bailey bridge over to the White Tangy
Tarana Bridge at a triple double bridge. It's the biggest
one we've ever built. And that was just a right

(01:46:47):
on its limits to build a bailey bridge?

Speaker 2 (01:46:51):
Is it? When you're in the we were sepper No.

Speaker 26 (01:46:54):
I was in the Ministry works in days. Okay, in
the Ministry works we put we put dozens of bailey
bridges up here, there and everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:47:05):
Do you thought it's surprising that you know what they
should do more so than the people that are there
that have looked at the road.

Speaker 26 (01:47:12):
Well, yeah, I haven't actually looked at it, but it's
it's if it's just that big slot that's sliding down
into the seaver they keep on past here and building
it up, building of that, building of that, and it's yeah,

(01:47:35):
oh say it slipped right off quite a bit.

Speaker 2 (01:47:40):
Okay, I think it's I think it's. I think it's
gonna open tomorrow, isn't it, Padam, I think it's going
to open tomorrow. Isn't it.

Speaker 26 (01:47:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:47:53):
I didn't know.

Speaker 26 (01:47:54):
I don't know. I don't know what that's what happens
to do on the.

Speaker 12 (01:48:01):
Right.

Speaker 26 (01:48:01):
It's a long time since I've been the hast Yeah, good,
well many thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:48:07):
My pleasure, Allen. Yeah, So what it says on the
Waka Kotahi website, right, Judah slip Stone, how his six
is closed between heart and Lake Monarchy. The next update
will provide five pm tomorrow. Please delay your journey or

(01:48:29):
use an alternative route, and there is none. The alternative
route is ten hours. It's the world's worst diversion. Sky
taxis Tokudaa and anything else you want to talk about

(01:48:51):
tonight here till twelve twenty two away from midnight. If
you want to come through, get amongst it. If you
missed that very dramatic story between after eight o'clock tonight,
a plane going for to Tarkka ditched in the middle

(01:49:11):
of the ocean. We knew that because we could see
that on flight radar a plane had just Junie had
just stopped. And then we could see the helicopters looking
and the plane looking. And then we had someone listening
to maritime radio that rangan and said the pilot, who

(01:49:32):
was the only one on board, has been winched to safety. Richard.
It's Marcus. Greetings, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 13 (01:49:37):
So how are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
Thank you? Richard?

Speaker 13 (01:49:39):
Good good. I haven't listened for a number of years,
and just like you know, I still got a high
caliber program. So it's good to see. I don't like change,
so it's it's good.

Speaker 2 (01:49:48):
You don't like change.

Speaker 13 (01:49:50):
No, I don't like change, not not at all. Why
not hate you?

Speaker 2 (01:49:57):
You want to embrace? Do you want to walk towards
change and embrace it?

Speaker 13 (01:50:00):
Oh? Yeah, I try, I try, I try. I don't
know what it was, but just I know you running
over the time. So just I'm sorry about David Seymour.
Do you remember the footage I think it was when
they want at the last election him entering the Viaduct
Harbor in a little little boat motor boat with a
moato on the back, were waving sort of like he
was the King could I could never figure out whether

(01:50:23):
that was a puss take or not, because I just
thought it was the funniest thing I've ever seen. But
the man is he believes in the class system, and
I've got no time for people that think they're better
than somebody else. You know, he he's it's a bit
like Trump. I still can't understand how two hundred and
twenty million people voted for Trump. You know, I can't
understand it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:43):
Make I don't think it was I don't think it
was that many that voted for him. I think the
turn out rate was about two thirds, and he got
half of them. And I think so, I think probably
what's the population of state, three hundred and sixty million
or something. Yeah, Anyway, the majority of the majority of
people voted for Trump. And now he's going to have
to win. Now he's going to have to get the
army to wind up to round up twenty million migrants

(01:51:06):
and kick them out of the country. Now that's going
to be chaotic.

Speaker 13 (01:51:09):
You remember last time of the Muslim band, and you
know they're separating the children and and.

Speaker 2 (01:51:16):
It's going to be all those kids are going to
I mean, I don't know what's going to happen to Yeah,
I just can't imagine how they're going to because what
they reckon is that, of course there's going to be
no staff, the price of it, there's going to be
no workers, so the price of everything's going to go up.
The crime rate is going to skyrocket because all the
police will be spending their whole time rounding up migrants.

(01:51:38):
We actually have a lower crime rate than your current
American citizens. So it's just going to be a disaster anyway,
what they've voted for just.

Speaker 13 (01:51:47):
Just just just diggression quickly about It was a number
of years ago, but I was working at a venue
where New Zealand first decided at the last minute to
have the four day conference at the venue I was working,
and my job was to look after Winston for four
days or when I said look after, make sure you
on his coffee and his doors open, and he pulled

(01:52:08):
up in the carrent just you know, not much. But
but I went on four days and I was utterly
impressed by the by the man in terms of he
was always extremely polite, courteous, looking in the eye, so
thank you. It's just a really nice guy. And it
was just I wasn't expecting it, and I don't know
why I'm saying it, but I just I was and

(01:52:28):
I'm not I'm not on New Zealand Persodo either.

Speaker 31 (01:52:30):
I just.

Speaker 24 (01:52:32):
Yea very rich.

Speaker 2 (01:52:34):
He's one of those few guys that you meet and
I've met him that you can talk to him and
it's a joy because he's re engaging when you're talking
to him. It's like you're the only person that he's taught.

Speaker 13 (01:52:48):
You know, you're quite right, You're quite right. So I
used to wear an orange veast, you know, so sort
of you know the lower lower the never never, you know,
always took time to speak to you know, never, that's right,
just never separated, you know, one from the other. Nike
mister seymour n Yeah, No, I just I think we're

(01:53:11):
just lucky. He's never going to have a major saying
and things and like he's going to be a part
of you here and there and.

Speaker 2 (01:53:17):
Probably I think probably, I think what he has done
by making that part of his colorship agreement is I
think he's guaranteed that he will be re elected because
it's going to be enough malcontents that we'll want to.

Speaker 13 (01:53:29):
Going out today, going out today to meet I just
I just you know, there wasn't I believe he's just
trying to incite just close to him, trying to incite
violence just about you know, there's there was no way
that was going to end any other way than him
getting booed off. And and I think that's what he wanted,
you know, But anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:53:49):
He certainly had to make it about him, didn't He
couldn't be the fact, but.

Speaker 13 (01:53:53):
Every time, every time, and just that smirked grin. Oh god.
But anyway, good to listen again. Now we're good to hear.
I didn't sort of realize, but I've heard people that
I used to listen to when I did listen, and
then it was really nice to hear the same voices.
And I don't know who. I couldn't name them or anything.
But have you been the way Richard?

Speaker 2 (01:54:12):
You've been locked up or anything?

Speaker 4 (01:54:13):
Have you?

Speaker 18 (01:54:13):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:54:14):
No, I haven't been locked up. I've I've recently lost
lost sky and lost TV. And it's a it's a
long it's you know, it's a state's story, this really
sad story.

Speaker 2 (01:54:27):
Are you on the way up?

Speaker 16 (01:54:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:54:29):
I think so. I think I am just quickly one
thing that really annoyed me. So I went to get
a freebee box. And I've done it before in the past,
and I've gone to we Us and I bought the
free and I've come home and I'll be able to
plug it in and everything's been honky door. But now
this seems to be you know, like two different freev
boxes now and I've got the wrong one, the one
that doesn't have the red, yellow white cords and a

(01:54:51):
bit and so you know, it's just a bloody you know,
why how you changed it, Marcus?

Speaker 2 (01:54:57):
What it's like? What is it? What was it like?
When you're eighty five and you know you're around before
landlines and figs beche to know you're trying to upscale.

Speaker 13 (01:55:04):
Upscale Your still got my facts machine in the other room.

Speaker 2 (01:55:08):
Well that's good if you're in a crime syndic because
you can see them. You can see the instructions like
you know, we'll invade Thursday and you can fix them
and the writing.

Speaker 13 (01:55:21):
I'm close to Permia, Marcus, and I think perm is
the one of the realist places in the country. You know,
you walk down that main street from top to grove
and yeah, fantastic, try that.

Speaker 2 (01:55:33):
I did try that new burger bar on the corner.
What's that? Is that pop? What's that called?

Speaker 13 (01:55:37):
I don't know that there used to be butchery on
the corner that used.

Speaker 19 (01:55:40):
To wreak it.

Speaker 13 (01:55:41):
I mean every time I walk past it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:44):
Shop.

Speaker 13 (01:55:45):
Yeah, and just what was just quickly lasting? I was
going to save Pemi. You you know, it's got.

Speaker 2 (01:55:52):
I can't believe that there's a ditch the roundabout.

Speaker 13 (01:55:55):
I know, I know we tried to get get to
that mobile petrol station near the other day, you know,
And it's just mean. That guy who owns that business,
he's got, you know, a fear of a fear right
to be annoyed about how things are go on, because
I'll say it takes it right down. But yeah, So
I drove past a cricketer park that I played cricketer
that you know, twenty years earlier. And it wasn't a park.

(01:56:15):
It was a redevelopment of house, isn't I It's just
just broke me. I scored a good I scored a
good fifty odds on that park.

Speaker 2 (01:56:23):
Who for suburbs or how Packer Hanger? Oh wow, planet
Howard wow wow? Long dropping to that day, wouldn't it?
Then you come down the pay.

Speaker 13 (01:56:36):
Stay just just for my fifty six. I got to
talk to Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:56:41):
You take care of Richard. It's been in the light.
You've made by night brilliant. Oh that's a big size,
isn't it. What a country we live in? A spectacular
speak teicular. I'll be back. I'll be back bed night

(01:57:02):
and bluff ben day. Anyway, Tim's long next and I
will talk to you again tomorrow from eight. If you
need to email me, email me Marcus at Newstalk ZP
dot cos I don't get the emails. And talk tomorrow

(01:57:22):
night at half past seven when I come to work
to do my Prepperoni to the name for it, the
old Prepperoni in it. I'll stick with that one.

Speaker 1 (01:57:32):
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