What ever TradeMe seller should do (8 August 2024)

While covering more medals won for NZ at the Olympics, Marcus gets into a pet peeve on TradeMe, whether passenger rail in New Zealand is boring or not.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from News
Talk SEDB.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Now there's other stuff that is happening tonight, and I'll
do my damnedest to bring it all to you. So yeah,
oh eight one hundred and eighty Teddy and nine two
nine two to text Lydia co Meddi wishy. Kayak sprint
K four five hundred men semi. That'll happen at ten
sports climbing. We love this guy. He spoke so well

(00:33):
at the Halbergs. He's got the quarter five at ten
thirty five. Up and go and look it's not gonna
take a long time. He's about six seconds, actually about
four point eight seconds. If he goes good, that'll happen. Also,
kayaks sprint eleven forty. There might be yachting, and we
might meddle, we might podium. Oh by the way, here
we go. Let me tell you about this. This is exciting, right, yeah,

(00:54):
I'm right into the Olympics. At Bluff's school today one
of the golden medalists turned up with one of the
medals and the kids all got a with it. And
you know how excited kids when they come home with meddle,

(01:14):
when they come home with stories from school and they
were they go about the weight of it. And this
woman from the she's from the sevens a Lenas. She
had the two medals, the one from Tokyo and the
one from just Paris, and wow, it's just amazing. All
the kids got a photo with it, all the teachers

(01:35):
and yeah, wow, good on her. Straight out straight home
from the Middle Surri out to Bluff school. Just extraordinary.
So yeah, and the kids absolutely loved it, talk about
the weight of it, talk about all of it, talk
about what she got it for. They were just stoked.
So there you go, and that's like this, that's like
one of the pretty remote schools to take it to.

(01:56):
So yeah, they're just beside themselves. So good on her
for doing that. Just goes to show that actually, you know,
why wouldn't you have But that's just fantastics. I'm blown
away by that. Didn't even know what was happening, wasn't
something was hype. She just came into I think her
mum's involved with the school with one of the groups

(02:17):
that works there, so the kids are all very aware
that she that her daughter was going to the Olympics.
But yeah, it was exciting, so there we go. That's
made my day. I just remember that as I turned
my mic off. Anyway, we'll bring all that coverage to
you tonight, so get in touch if you want to
talk about anything else. It highlights about that eight hundred
and eight to eighty ten, eighty and nine two nine

(02:40):
to detext Get in touch, Marcus to midnight tonight. So yeah,
and plenty of other stuff that we will cover for
you tonight. Also four or five things that we can
talk about, but will pepper that between the situations with
the sport. Also, by the way, I've just I'll tell
you something that's happened to be if today I've come

(03:00):
to work, checked on trade me right, went to make
a coffee, came back one of the items that I
was bidding on of one. But you know that's not
the interesting thing. The interesting thing is that they have

(03:23):
pay now on PayPal, which is just clicking it pays.
Do you know if you're someone that sells on trade me,
do you know as a buyer how much easy that
is That means I can pay for something instantly after
I've purchased it. The alternative for me is actually to
contact Vanessa to confess that I've bought something that maybe

(03:44):
I shouldn't have bought, and then to get heard a
phone bank pay it, which is tapping in all those numbers,
takes weeks. So why would anyone be a seller on
trade me and not have PayPal? Can't work it out.
I don't sell stuff on trade me. I buy stuff.
I buy about ten things a year. But gog, why
would you not have PayPal? Is it hard to set

(04:05):
up with something? Are think? I want to stop buying
anything of people that don't have it because just to
click and pay. Oh, I love it, and that's it's
clean next to me and I can knock at the
back door. It would be my brand new things of
all or not they were brand new the second and
things I've purchased, so so excited about that. So just
a note two sellers on trade me always have the

(04:28):
PayPal option. I don't know what it requires, but I
love it. It's just so much easier. I buy a
lot more things if I knew that there would be PayPal,
and I pay more knowing it was PayPal. If you're
involved with trade me, let me know why you wouldn't
do that. But as I say, I don't sell stuff well,
I have had stuff sold without me knowing. I've googled

(04:52):
things on my kept searches and well, that looks good.
I'll buy that, then realize I own it. That's not
a good feeling. We haven't worn them. It doesn't matter, Vanessa,
They're not ready to be sold. Thirteen past Pete Mark is.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Welcome your marks?

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Pete? God? Thank you for asking. I know you care.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Regarding the buyer, you don't. He's still going to pay
the commission. But it's not good for the sneller because
it's still going to pay an extra treat for seats
that paid. What do you call it?

Speaker 5 (05:29):
What do you what do you call it?

Speaker 6 (05:31):
You call it your story?

Speaker 2 (05:34):
It's your story?

Speaker 7 (05:35):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (05:35):
PayPal?

Speaker 4 (05:37):
PayPal? You're gonna needs a sell. I'm gonna pay the
treat myself. See things, I train me too, But I'm gonna.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
You need to have PayPal.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
No, No, I'm paying more on my items myself.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
It doesn't It doesn't mean you'd get the money two
weeks earlier, because if you're not on PayPal, people dither
because you can't be bothered tipping and all those numbers.
You need PayPal, pepe.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
All you do is mark is You said, have a
bank account, which I do. As soon as they buy
it automatically it goes to my face account.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, but the people be slow payers. If I haven't
got PayPal, I'm a slow payer.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
There are no problems at all. They can't say mucking
around on training tray me will cut them off your site.
That told me what. People just want to commist the buyer,
and they're.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Only they're only making they're only making around because you
haven't got PayPal, and it's a hassle. I reckon, you'd
be better off sucking in the two percent and just
get the money two weeks quicker and invest it in bitcoin.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
I've never had any problems with markers on a pant.
But you go and go to the supermarket somewhere.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
You're too inflexible.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
Man's the money, you.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Pete. Everyone's texting me what do you sell? People want
to know?

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Oh? Everything pretty much?

Speaker 2 (07:00):
You know, But I just is it is it restored guests?
Is it restored guest cylinders?

Speaker 8 (07:06):
Ah?

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Better that sort of thing. Whatever, you know, But don't
use that facility costing the money.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Get with a get with the program. It's all PayPal.
It's the only show in town, Tim Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 9 (07:21):
And Marcus Paper. I'm sure that was started by the
Greek Kiwi Peter till.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Oh was it really? He's out of that now, Yeah,
of course, yeah, he's Yeah, you want to stay well clear,
I haven't. But that's what I haven't thought about that. Well,
there we go. That's taken away away that he's got
a lot of odd he's got a lot of odd
opinions about things.

Speaker 9 (07:44):
Oh, definitely, mate, But I'm pretty sure he's the creator
of paper. So obviously he was given New Zealand citizenship.
So do we claim him We're not.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I think it's they've turned down his house, this sort
of cave house, and I don't think he's coming here now.
I think probably his house in Warnica. He can't build anymore.

Speaker 9 (08:04):
Well, he's got the New Zealand passport. It's only one,
but is it.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
He's never here, so that's okay. Anyway, Just on.

Speaker 9 (08:11):
The Olympic experience, I will I in the mid nineties,
late eighties or mid nineties, I had say I was
at school in Australia in Queenslane and Ian Thorpe came in.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Remember ian Thorpedo, right thorpedo, wow.

Speaker 9 (08:27):
Orpedo, and he gave us his meddles. I think it
was the Secney Olympics. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was
the Sydney Olympics. And he's a giant man.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well he is a big unit.

Speaker 9 (08:41):
He's a big unit. But I wasn't really clued up
back then, obviously being young, but looking back at it,
just what an athlete, what an individual. I think he
was at the Twin Towers when the accident happened.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
He might be he might be right. Five gold for silver,
one bronze, so they got ten. I don't think it's
Beny his Phelps, but it up there.

Speaker 9 (09:05):
Oh man, it's up there, right. He's one of the
best in the world. He was the big world So
it was the Thorpyo. Another experience I had, not with
the Olympic champion, but with a World Cup winner was
a lay he's still alive. Sorry, Michael Lona. Do you
remember Michael Lohmer.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Oh yeah, kind of your rugby player, right.

Speaker 9 (09:28):
Yeah, when the won the World Cup, I'll said, school
over here and they bring the Wabellas tracking and so
that was my first experience.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
But doah, you keep going because I got questions keep
going something else.

Speaker 7 (09:40):
Yep.

Speaker 9 (09:42):
Just when you talked about Elena Saili coming into Bluff
School there, you know that that epitomises just who she is,
who these individuals are who play woman and sevens Rugby.
You know, they give up their time, they come to
a little old town in the middle of the wey. Yeah,
and to show these kids that they can make it.
They can go to Paris, they can go to New York,

(10:03):
they can get a Los Angeles and when the gold
min or, how fantastic is there.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
And to actually just stay there, to stay there and
to stay there and get your photo taken with the medal,
with every single pupil and every teacher, when that's ours
to do all that, that's unbelievable.

Speaker 9 (10:20):
And it just does wonders for kiss for me when
I saw ian Thorpe and the big golden medal.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yet where was the school in Queensland? Tim, because it
sounds like you had a few people through there.

Speaker 9 (10:32):
Oh, I was in Southbourn and the gold coase. So
I was born in Australia. We did school the high school,
then came back married a kiwi.

Speaker 7 (10:41):
I am a kiwi.

Speaker 9 (10:43):
But yeah, anyway, I ended up back here and love it, absolutely,
love it back.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
To new You know you're not fling the drawer to
go back to the Gold Coast.

Speaker 9 (10:52):
Oh no, mate, No, I mean the weather's good over there,
but me's here now. I'm pretty set up. My wife
does your business.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
So yeah, nice to hear from your tim. Thank you
so much. There we go nineteen. Let's get some mads
out of the way and then we'll go crack through.
I'll tell you what she's all on. I've got websites.
I got websites like there's no tomorrow tonight. I'm all
on it. I can't tell you anything. Ask me a
question about the Olympics. I'll tell you how it's going.
And Lydia Coe don't know Lydia Co down the down
the spreadsheet, ten eleven, seventy two zero. I don't know

(11:22):
what any of it means. But they're the numbers. Par zero,
she's on par she's on par ten eleven through, that's
the time, and seventy two round one, but there you go.
She just started a round two. So bringing all the
updates with that, I'm all over it, all over it,
over it like a throw rug. Of course, I meant

(11:42):
ping and not paypals. Thanks for the person that worked there. Well,
it's peng on trade me. You get it your click
at bang she's paid fan. Don't even know if there's
a charge on that. By the way, women's shot put's
about to start. Maddy Lee wish she she's the Kiwi.
She's personal best the season of nineteen point eight one.
She's got a world ranking in seven of seven. She's
the first up tonight, so I will commentate her one

(12:05):
when that happens. It's going to be and look it's
the standard to qualify is about oh, nineteen fifteen is
the qualification distance for that. So she's been across that.
Ben Ats Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 7 (12:22):
You get it Marcus. Yeah, I was going to say
it was pain.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, girl was done. What is pain?

Speaker 7 (12:29):
So it's I don't know, it's it's like trade me.
He's basically version of PayPal. It's your own internal version
of this. You just pay instantly in received money instantly
in that. I think personally, personally, I don't think there's
much need for it these days because there's heaps of
other platforms, but PayPal was the big one in America

(12:51):
that was created by Musk. You know, he put half
his money into space and half as Tesla from serving
their eBay, and that's why he's as rich as what
he is today. So yeah, but the thing, to be honest,
I think there's better systems around things.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Good, but it just comes up there on tray. We
just play with ping. It's literally click a button. It's
like it's paid for.

Speaker 7 (13:17):
Yeah, it's pretty safe because you know, if there's any issues,
easy to get when you reach funded, you know, and
dispute projections and whatnot. Okay, it's making like a self
say seller kind of thing. But for me, on't use
training very much anymore. It's sort of you know, there

(13:40):
was the days before Facebook and you know, sort of
team and all those things.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Oh, it's not often we getting Teamy mentioned before eight thirty.
I'm excited about that. What I'm until you can't get
on Tim, But I'm not going to say it could
all clash the market. But Ben, is there a commission
on ping?

Speaker 10 (13:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (13:59):
I think there is need to sell up the seller
piece of the commission now, okay, not the buyers. So yeah, it's.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
All sticked against the celer a.

Speaker 7 (14:11):
Well, that's how they make their money, ain't because you know,
like a lot of things on trade me now is
real cheap to listen unless you're something a vehicle. So
they make their money through the fees, the success fees
same as same as what, same as the options, like
the car options and stuff, you know, the cellar piece
of fee.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
What's the best thing you brought on.

Speaker 7 (14:37):
So far this year is the snow cover for the car,
you know, to stop the car getting iced up on
the window shield? Oh yeah, wow, brought one. Brought one
last year and I don't know what happened to it
went missing over summer and then we brought another one
and yeah, really great. Get up at you know, four
thirty in the morning together, work no ice on the
window shield.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Just in case people want one. What's it called on tim?
Was it just called snowcover?

Speaker 7 (15:01):
I cover something for your car. It's on your window
shielding and reps around the mirror. It's got like an
elastic reps around the mirror. And it also covers the
mirror so inside mirrors and yeah, the windows shield you
have to worry about the icing them.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Really nice to hear from you, Ben thinking. The best
thing I've seen for a car on the side Smitch.
Just the other day there was one video I clicked
on on Facebook and this person was making They were
getting the car metes out of the car and they
were converting them. They were tracing around the shape of
the car mates, and they were replacing the car mats

(15:38):
with mats made out of planks of wood that were
all connected with fabrica. Look fantastic, I wondered about next.
And if you get splinters through your shin but look
good anywhere else done wooden car metes? Well you know
you've quite sure if you're seeing something with the scam
or quite well? I thought, jee what about that? Then?
Of course what always happened to? The video finished before
I got a chance to work out where the wild
like wooden car metes and no one I've spoken who

(16:03):
knows what I'm talking about. But basically for me now
there's two times in my life before wooden car mates
and after wood and car mates. Can't wait for them anyway.
Get in touch by name is Marcus Hddle twelve eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine two detext woman's
shot puts about to start. I'm all across that and
Maddie Wishy, she's the kiwi. She was just distant to

(16:26):
go first. They're just doing the shaking. How he's able
to a warm up at this stage, and she's about
to go. I think she's got attempt one up there.
It says name Maddie's lee wishy attempt one, and I
think she's just doing it now, So let me just
call this. I'll commentate that before here she is. She's
the first person, gone to the rack, picked up her ball,

(16:48):
the pot, the shot, rubbing chalk on her hand or
manganese sulfate or whatever it is, looking round into the circle,
strapping up her hand, puts that right on her wrist, one, two,
three times, back to the arena, walks back year ago,
starts the dial up, put to the shoulder around once, twice,

(17:13):
three times, and goes codonk looks god, just short of
the yellow line, over the white line, just short of
the yellow line, walks back, shake the head, looks kind
of sort of contemplative. You contented. I guess you'd look
good flu well, of course i'd be happy with it.
You're not just over eteed meters. So we'll just wait
for that comes up on the leaderboard. Chiefs Pisture eighteen

(17:36):
point five nine. Well that's not too shabby. Eighteen point
five nine qualifying is oh, just back up at that
nineteen point one five, good start anyway, Number two persons
going now, So yeah, we're all on for this anyway,

(17:56):
get in touch. My name is Marcus welcome. Oh eight
hundred and eighty ten Eightian nineteen nine, so eighteen point
five nine qualifying nineteen point one five. But as we
know with the picks, often they've got to bring down
the qualifying level because they haven't got that many people
that have got across it. The second competitor from Chill,
she isn't as in your Galado. She hasn't gone that far.

(18:18):
She's gone, well, not quite as far as that she's
gone seventeen point four to seven. We are talking people
bringing medals to schools. Leaves the legacy, doesn't leave the
memory that one. We're also talking tonight ping, which I
called PayPal wrongly. I mean ping. Why would you not
have ping on your trade? Me From a biased point

(18:40):
of view, it's like night and day. You got email them.
It is in your email? Can you wrap it up?
Where do you love? Da da da da da dad
that it goes on for days. But with ping It's
just one click and you're good to go. I love
it with the futures called So there's pan, there was that,
there was that, there's something else that's banging on about today.
There's ping, there was medals.

Speaker 10 (19:00):
Oh, and.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Carpets made out of wood for you cars. I think
if someone does them commercially. But I got the feeling
watching the video play with a howkem out of the
car before you got your warrant? I reckon that'd be
go septic on you. If they're upset about your spear
wheel being anchored and they're not having your head rests
and I reckon the wooden carpets aren't going to go

(19:25):
well with you. It's just a hunch. It's pretty strong
hunch that one twenty four past twenty four to two
twenty six, two nine's got the Jim Suttons Marcus, can
you let me know what time the Men's Cycling is
on tonight? Please? Thank you? Enjoy show tracing. Who am

(19:46):
I google? I mean when you say men's cycling, what
is it? Someone said it was Hank calling a windshield
a window shield. I hope. So here's probably the text
of the night makes you some very good texts tonight
Marcus Muhammad Ali came to hear a tongue of college
and up a hut back in the day, shook end

(20:06):
with every student. You know, what's said about that story
is because probably in those days they didn't have self
or they didn't have cell phones, and probably not everyone's
got a photo. Stephanie, it's the morning, Marcus. I'm calling it.
I'm calling an evening, Stephanie.

Speaker 11 (20:23):
Okay, I'll run with that. This thing. I brought a
ride on Morrow, not long ago, on on and it
had the thing and I paid by that. But then
there is a safety thing that you've got to send
certain information to this other place to verify that he's

(20:47):
the owner of that account. I use my credit cards.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Oh yeah yeah.

Speaker 11 (20:52):
And once I does that, the fame and went through
and everything was sweet, and they turned up to Morrow
and I'm the lawns Now.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Wow, I thought you was in a camping. Well that's something, okay, good.
Did they deliver it?

Speaker 11 (21:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they had the delivery option.

Speaker 10 (21:09):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 11 (21:11):
No one's living in the motor camp anymore. I live
down at Correka, out the back of this massive house
and there's about two acres around the house, yes, and
most of its lawns only going and the other mar
pact A said so, yeah, Brad, this one and yeah
it does a good job.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's probably quite nice. You've been a professional driver, just
been on your mar without any other traffic on the road.
It probably gives you quite a good calming kind of
a thrill.

Speaker 12 (21:40):
It is.

Speaker 11 (21:41):
It's just something you just sit there and go up
and down, up and down, and it's just really relaxing.
You know, you don't have to have another vehicles dodging
around here.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah, Stephanie is sound relaxed.

Speaker 11 (21:56):
Oh yeah, it's pretty good.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
Night to night so far.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Nice to hear from you. Thank you so much, Twity.
Actually we've got to be I've got an interesting trucking
story coming up for your people. Oh I stopped the truck.
I've just put how to pronounce your name? Maddi Lee.
Wish she she's just she's just gone straight over on.
I was going to come back and say Sarah, but
ins instantly qualified at nineteen seventy seven. Next up, Maddie Lee,
wish she she's on the circle with the shot bang

(22:22):
nineteen point twenty five. No nonsense, she's throw qualified. She
rests now, she doesn't have to go back. She's in,
She's through to the finals, game over. Wow, what a
power throw and just yeah, goodness, just nailed it, just headed. Ah,
let's see that again. I don't think IM going to
push rewind on a sky remarke. So I've wrecked the

(22:45):
memory by saving too much a gold rush. I forgot
what the password was, so I can't delete any of it,
and I've got no capacity to give it to disaster. Basically,
I'm just waiting to move building, which is in two
weeks time, so I need to get a new TV probably,
But wow, what a what a throw? Put her on
the five dollar note. That was extraordinary. Oh, Weisley, it's

(23:09):
You've got breaking news, have you Wisley?

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yes, I've just received word that Japan has had a
seven point one earthquake and the tsunami warning has been issued.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Okay, thanks Japan quake? How long ago was it? Is
it near?

Speaker 3 (23:26):
It's coming through. It's just starting to break, so starting
to filter through as I.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Speak, fourteen minutes ago. I'm seeing that report. And obviously,
just to clarify, Wesley, the tsunami warning is for Japan,
not for New Zealand. Obviously it's for Japan at the moment.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Obviously, Live Zyland probably will check, you know, do their
usual checks.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
But if it's any picture, have you seen any footage
of it, because I remember with that one where the
other one was so extraordinary the graphics of it.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
A well, that one was a ninth nine pointer, but
a lot smaller.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Of course, nine and nine point is ten times quick
a bit bigger than an eight.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
So yeah, but obviously it's still another scare for Japan
after the New Year's Day earthquake that they had.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
I'm looking on Twitter. There's a lot of stuff falling.
I mean it's standing stuff with things falling from shelves.
Quite a few pictures of that.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
Building collapses as well as what I'm getting is reports
are coming in. Like I said, it's just it's just
happened not too long ago, so it's kind of still
the news is still breaking.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
It seems quite close too. It seems like it's just
below it's actually just on the coast of the southernmost island.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
But yeah, just.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, okay, really is he really? Pretty's good intel for us.
I appreciate you coming through. Gosh, it's all happened about
two minutes. He's then qualifiers in the shop, but didn't
get the quake warning. Well, the quake in the sooner warning.
There is some dramatic footage people in cars rolling around
I mean when I say rolling around rocking Civilia. I

(25:15):
haven't seen the images of buildings falling yet. Seeing a
lot of shots from cams, steady cams, like cams mounted
on poles, like traffic cams that are rocking. We'll bring
you more information about this, Whizzy. I appreciate it. Marcus
wended Winnington and get another shake? Is it presumptuous me
to think that more often than most you do, and

(25:35):
sometimes to get a little pre warning to shake prior
to major earthquakes worldwide? They might be a bit of that.
I suppose of the dish, the disc moves that are
kind of at one place and I'll move in other
place as well, Marcus. The ten case Sewis swim was
a good watch tonight over two hours fat out swimming,
fittest athletes and the Olympics. I reckon who won that?
That's been? Are you saying who won that? Marcus? You

(25:58):
make me laugh on this Monday and Tuesday, Hell I'm
wondering what you poached on trade me to make you happy? Happy,
joy joor you make me laugh. Keep being you, Marcus
doses In still have a rowing eight team. I don't
think we do. I think it's too pricey. Now here's
the other text that I talked about reading. I haven't
read it myself yet, so I'm going to read it
to you. Marcus. I'm a long time mister of yours.

(26:19):
I've rung you several times as well. Until I had a
track accent last year. I don't know whether I was
lucky to survive or not. I had a one hundred
ton beam hit me in the head and I have
not been able to work full time now for fourteen months.
I have had two operations with three more to go.
I have ten fractures to my nose, which I am
still waiting for surgery in the common months if the

(26:41):
surgeon ACC can get the paperwork processed, which seems to
me impossible, as seemed to blame each other for not
having it done. I tried going back to work under
a program that ACC were able to assist me with,
but had to stop. I had trouble trying to breathe
and getting tired. Also because I'm receiving eighty percent my income,
ID wants to text me secondary text as my employer
tops my income up to eighty percent, is it worth

(27:03):
surviving the excent? I'm having second thoughts feedling real life
right now. Ross, Ross, lovely to hear from you. Thanks
for reaching out, Thank you for your email and look,
and I'm sure things will get better. Someone said, pay
pal do you mean ping? Yes? I mean ping? Marcus.

(27:24):
Are you going to comment on the ongoing saga of
the fairy? Well, the only common I'm going to make
is that we should have gone ahead and got those
fairies we're already booked to get at a fixed price.
It's crazy. This will be the story of this government.
Will be there cancing of the fairies and how that
will come to bite them. Rest assured people, My name

(27:47):
is Marcus. Marcus said that text you just read out
from Ross was so heartbreaking. I hope he has got
a support around him. Things will get better for him.
It just sounds like it may take some time hanging there.
Ross from Bella. Yeah, but thanks a couple of texts

(28:10):
for you too, Ross. Maybe I send those straight back
to you. Eight past nine people. My name is Marcus.
Welcome oh. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine
two de texts. Do get in touch. The other thing too,
Here we go fifty years ago today. You find this interesting.

(28:33):
Fifty years ago today, Nixon resigned. It's kind of interesting
because at school, I was at school then fifty years ago.

Speaker 9 (28:46):
Was I.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
But I remember that they at a primary school they broadcast.
I don't know if that was the announcement, but it
was certainly something to do with Watergate over the Tenoi
system through the classrooms that they didn't you for anything,
so clearly, even in New Zealand, it was big breaking news.

(29:12):
I don't know what if that was a live announcement
of his resignation, I don't know what time that would
have been New Zealand and time. Maybe someone has some
memory of that. I'm sure you will have, and I'd
find that interesting. So get in touch. Eight hundred and
eighty eight eighty oh. The other question is, so if
you've got to remember Nixon's resignation, I'd love to hear
you talk about that. And also why would people sell

(29:32):
and trade me without ping? Because from a buyer's point
of view, it's so much easier. I'm not really I'm
not really into Facebook marketplace. I can only ever see
stuff in my region. I don't know how. I don't
know how to get over that. But anyway, I don't
love it, but I haven't devoted that much time to it.

Speaker 13 (29:54):
Now.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
The other question tonight because my kids thought the audience
would know, and it's a very kid related question. If
you own a dairy and their massive Coke signs out
the front of it, or the whole dairy is painted
and Coke read with Coca Cola on it, how does

(30:18):
that come about? How does the money change hands from
the coke rep to you? Do they give you the
drinks cheaper? Do they pay for that and give you
free fridges? Is all to do with an exclusive deal?
How does the coke selling situation work in New Zealand?
Do they pay you money to pay the front of

(30:38):
your dairy? What are the sort of negotiations that go
on between a major drink provider like Coke or v
and the dairy Because I'm interested in that as well.
I've got no idea how it actually works. I know
if you've got certain drinks that you get fridges that
are branded, and I know certainly. Sometimes you got a

(31:02):
daaries only sell one brand of drinks, But could someone
tell me a bit more about them to go? You
might be in your deiry now, a bit more about
how the negotiation works. Get in touch, Marcus. If you
never owned a hold and it was necessary to put
wood on the floors to stop your feet and stuff
from falling through, good on you, Thank you. I'll tell
you something that's advanced like night and day in the

(31:24):
last couple of Olympics, and that's the synchronized swimming. This year,
there's a lot of flinging people up into the sky.
It's become almost like damp cheerleading. It's almost like cheerleading underwater.
But a lot of that flinging people up and they
go skywards. Very good to well, very good to watch.
If you can realize that there's been endless amount of
practicing for a sport that's I guess they love it.

(31:48):
I almost think that synchronized swimming would be better. And
it's not I'm saying something wrong with it, but if
they because you can see them under the water, I
think sometimes it'd be better if you couldn't see them
beneath the water and just see what's above the water.
But that's the illusion, if you know what I'm saying, Oh,
there's suddenly something popping up. Actually see them under the
water about to pop up. Quite hard to explain on

(32:10):
which I hadn't said that, But yeah, as some as
I wish there'd be colored water or water couldn't see through,
I might have missed the whole point of the event.
And if that's the case, I'm sorry, but that's what
i'd like. By the way, someone sent me shots of railways,
which is fine, but I don't like photographs of railway
tracks are taken from the railway line, particularly during rail

(32:33):
Safety Week. For me, that's one of the great no
nos is to take photos on the railway track. People
always do it for music videos and for wedding photos,
but yeah, tracks are for trains. I need to say that.
Oh Marcus, you enter as far as coke at the dairies,

(33:04):
you enter an annual minimum speed in contract. They'll give
you Fridge's signage. But you've got to spend the money.
So what do you mean you want to spend the money?
You go to buy that much product? What if you
can't sell it? I need to know more about this
I would know how the discussions go, Marcus about training
towns it take to go from willing to talk on
the train. How much does it cost? Find out yourself.

(33:27):
But it's very expensive. It takes a long time, and
often the trains will breakdown. You'll end up on the bus.
There's no advantage to catching the train than flying, unless
you want to be encourage full of people talking loudly,
eating the whole time and annoying commentary. But if that's

(33:50):
what you want, and you want it to be very
very slow, like twelve times a time of a flight,
get the train. I think it's very much Just for
the enthusiast lydia Co's on fire up to third equal.
I'll bring that information for you. But thanks for the
heads up on that one. As I say, oh, eight

(34:10):
hundred and eighty tenndy monuments, Marcus, welcome, nine nine texts,
get in touch. She's all on. Oh this marathon swimming
guys are Marcus. It's the women's swim tonight means is
tomorrow starts at five point thirty pm gosh, which is early,
and well, yeah that is early because that's about seven

(34:32):
thy oh, that's seventh thirdy in the morning in Paris,
because that makes sense. The Ossie got pipped at the
post tonight, beaten by three seconds by the Dutch world champ.
It's quite a bit good sport. The Aussie lad the
whole way until the last one hundred meters. It's amazing
that sports could be so long, could be so close.
I won if the marathon is going to be like
that with this spray on shoes. Marcus Fridges and signage

(34:57):
is just their advertising spin. From what I can work out,
that's complimentary. You enter an agreement relative to what you
reckon you can spend per annum. This is about when
dairies get the coke out the front, so I mean
it's a good thing. I suppose it's a good thing
because you'd want money, wouldn't you. I guess it's advertising
the product that you sell in the shop. I do

(35:17):
find that fascinating. Marcus, the American who's out of the shop,
there's the world chap, so it's a big fail. The
other strange American, Raven Saunders, who wears the weird face
covers and colored hairs, is also not going well. I
don't think we judge them by their appearance, but I
know who you're talking about, because you didn't seem to
have different colored eyeliner. I'm even more fascinated about the coke.

(35:47):
Here we go. What bollocks you talk? Marcus. Have you
ever done the train trip Auckland to Wellington, because if
you have, you obviously had a very bad experience. It's
the most awesome, beautiful, relaxing train journey. Either try or
try it again when you're having a good day. Cheers, Beth.
I've done it numerous times, numerous times with the endless

(36:08):
commentary and people eating the whole way, and when they
stop because the heats are on, they put you on
a bus where they get speed restrictions. It takes forever. Yes,
it's not, let's face it this way. It's not one
of the great railway journeys and exorbitantly priced. I mean
it could be great, but New Zealand hasn't committed to

(36:31):
rail I'm just calling it like it as if I
say everyone must go to the Aukland Warington train trip,
and we'll be sitting here and people coming and saying, oh,
we did it, but jeepest, creepers, that was an ordeal.
It's a bit like the trans Alpine. If you go
back and forward in one day, it's an extremely long
day and people struggle with that. Oh eight hundred and eighty. Yeah, Krishna, Marcus, welcome, Hi.

Speaker 5 (36:59):
How's it going good?

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Chrishna, thank you.

Speaker 14 (37:02):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (37:02):
I was just heard the comment by the trains and
I just told maybe I'll say something. One of the
things I feel sometimes is we tend to look at
the world a lot and go, oh, they do great trains,
and their trains are beautiful.

Speaker 7 (37:17):
We should have them.

Speaker 5 (37:18):
And then we go they do great roads, or you know,
they do something else and we should follow them. Singapore
does this, we should follow them. But I think the
key is to understand of our own way of life
and and invest in things that it's going to be
useful rather than things that others have done, and follow it.
Trains with never never would have worked in in in

(37:41):
New Zealand, if you want to compare it to places
like India, where there is so much internal traffic that
it completely justifies having to train. It is one of
the most economical things to do for goods and for
public Yeah, we don't tend to tend to need the
train that much, so never ever was it going to go,

(38:02):
and also because of the volcanic terrain, we've got really
difficult terrain to get. It's true road seems to be
the best Answert. I think we should stop in missing
and trained full stop.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
I yeah, Look, I feel slightly disingenuous to talk about
this because because you know, I am obviously trained as
a kind of a an area that I know a
lot about. But I agree with what you say. And
we're a big, long, geographically comnicated country with only six

(38:39):
million people. We're not Japan, yeah, I mean, Japan's got
multiple times more people with us. And unfortunately, also when
we started the railway in eighteen ninety two or whenever
it was, we went with a narrow gauge, which is
always slower anyway, which means that we have problems to
begin with. But I think there's a situation if you
look at the area between fund Ay and Auckland and

(39:02):
Hamilton and Todonger, right, yeah, which is only five percent
of the country an area, and half of New Zealanders
live there. If you concentrated rail within that triangle, I
think you could build and it could be very, very successful,

(39:22):
but you need to start planning it quite quickly, But
I think so. I think in that area it could
work with freight as well. But ei the rest of it, Yeah,
it's only for overpriced tourists, I think these days. And
I think you've probably inclined to agree with me with that.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
Yeah, in general, I do think so. But the thing is,
you know, if you the difference between trucks and train
and trains is a big difference. Is the truck and
pick up from the place where things have been manufactured
to actually take it to the place where things are
being sold or being used. Further that, as the trains,
you need an extra lake because you're not to be

(40:01):
I mean in Auckland it does go straight to Froler,
but for imagine if it if it can't go to
some of the others, there's an extra trucking leke required.
And if the distance isn't too long, imagine India, right,
it's so long you've got to get from the northern
part of India to the southern. We can fit like
six New Zealand in it. So then the cost of

(40:21):
that little extra lake doesn't make a big difference, and
the handling doesn't make a big difference. But then you've
got some shorter trips. People go, hang on, you're putting
on a truck, then on a train and taking out
taking the trust.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
There are some caveats to that. The rail's very good
with heavy things that like logs and coal and milk powder,
heavy cheap product that can't get damaged. That works alright
with that. And now there's been some of these great
inland ports like in Tarapa and at Roliston where they
take the stuff straight from Littleton or from tod On
or from Auckland. And then a lot of the big

(40:55):
companies have got their warehouses there. That seems to work
and they seem to be going good on that. But yeah,
I agree entirely with what you say. Nice to talk
to Thank you, Dean. It's Marcus. Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 12 (41:07):
Hello Marcus Hian.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
I mean listen.

Speaker 12 (41:11):
I've been listening as I do to you quite a bit,
and I think you're on one of your favorite topics,
being trained. Your knowledge of trains and love of trains,
I think as well known and it reminds me very
much of a man called Sheldon Cooper off the Big
Bang Theory. And I think Marcus, you might be New
Zealand's answer we even look like Sheldon Cooper off the

(41:33):
Big Bang Theory. And I mean that most complimentary.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Goodness, gracious, And where do I take this conversation?

Speaker 12 (41:44):
My don't thought there was taste of markers but every now,
I mean, I like to bring up and compliment you
on the genius and broadcasting that you are so describe
quite joy doing that marketing. So I think you're actually
very good at what you do.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Nice to hear and things good with you, Deane.

Speaker 12 (42:03):
Pretty good brother. I'm an orphand city at the moment,
driving home in the dark.

Speaker 10 (42:06):
It's fine.

Speaker 12 (42:07):
Thirty seven has been a very long day of work
and a bit of a late dinner, so mad all
as well, because you're you're down in the candle nowadays.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
Down I always have been, Dean, But you're citting down here, stell.
So yeah, that's right, up and down occasionally, but yeah, and.

Speaker 12 (42:23):
Are you really you know it's a great place.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Has its moments, Dean has its moments. Whereas Bluff, I mean,
Bluff is special. That's where you need to be.

Speaker 12 (42:38):
I've only been there once and I have had the oysters,
and I can tell you this, the closer you get
the Bluff, the better they get.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
Yeah, well there's a house there for you.

Speaker 8 (42:46):
Dan.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
You're still doing the boxing game, You're still there the promotion.

Speaker 12 (42:50):
No, I've sort of finished up on that, Marcus. The
it's a very pretty tough environment at the moment and
so not quite where it needs to be. But still
doing events and got a few other things. I've got
the irons in the fire. Always got something to do
beyond made. Of course, both of us are closing in
on six, so retirement looms.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Margarets and Dino. Am I right? Necertaining from social media
that your boy is a stand up comedian.

Speaker 12 (43:17):
You are correct?

Speaker 5 (43:19):
It's any good in London?

Speaker 12 (43:21):
Yeah, yes he is. And I'll tell you what, it's
been fascinating learning about how you get to be a
good stand up from the journey that he's been on.
And I tell you there is. I don't think there's
any harder than you can do that trying to be
a successful stand up to me, because you've got to
try new material all the time and sometimes it doesn't

(43:42):
work and you've just got to keep rolling it out.
So he's quite remarkable on what he's doing.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
Mate, you'd have to be fearless, wouldn't you.

Speaker 5 (43:51):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (43:53):
You do. I've done speaking. He gave yous a couple
of times, and I've been underprepared and it's one of
the most embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
It destroys, it could destroy you. Forever goes bad. There's
no coming back from that. In comedy, you've got nowhere
to go.

Speaker 12 (44:07):
Exactly. So they you know, they excuse the language, but
they have They have a term in comedy that to
get good you've got to eat a lot of shit
along the way, meaning you've got a tank, because it's
only when your tank and you have the courage to
get out there and keep going and going again that
you can up with your material. You eventually get good.
So it's a very very hard thing to do. Marcus,

(44:29):
and I take my head off to his courage and
Tenaci to keep going.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Love you to hear from your dean, so nice to
hear from your Dean Loning and obviously people dB it's Marcus, welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 6 (44:41):
Good evening. I think the general public have a huge
disconnect between the romance of rail and the practicalities of railways.
And they go back when I was a child and
took the rail car hire and.

Speaker 9 (44:57):
There wherever, and.

Speaker 6 (45:01):
The past is the strange place modern day get you
get in your car and you'll get any we're in
New Zealand faster than you can with the train.

Speaker 13 (45:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (45:11):
Yes, And I had a huge argument with somebody able
to bring passenger trains on back on on Bluff to the.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Cargo and no, absolutely absolutely start up and Bluff for
a start. Jack's got a speed restriction of twenty d ks.
So it's going to take you three hours.

Speaker 6 (45:34):
Yeah, you could drive from Bluff, do your shopping and drive.
Actually pour the train and even left the station you.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Can almost walk.

Speaker 6 (45:42):
Yeah, I mean, railways still has their place. I'm a
great advocate for the coal trains over the hill from
the West coast. Absolutely, they say ninety trucks an hour
in each direction. It is running eight coal trains a day. No,

(46:04):
that's sort of scale makes sense. But for moving people
we don't do it well. I mean, the trans Alpine
is still one of the top ten trips in the world,
but you'd only want to do it once.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Oh well it's yeah, it's not. It's not fun. It's
an ordeal. And then you're stuck there, and then you're
stuck there without your car. It's probably hard to hire
a car and Graymouth. So most people go back and
forth in one day, which is twelve hours, and it's arduous.

Speaker 13 (46:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (46:41):
The tour companies has got the idea they can take
the train.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
To Arts, yeah, and then.

Speaker 6 (46:47):
And then do a wine trip back to christ Church.
That works and I think that.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
I think probably the best scenic railway and us in
by a country mile is the Taieri Railway. But the
Itago Council has trouble funding that because you know, with
COVID and everything, it's hard to make even that pay.
And that's that is spectacular.

Speaker 6 (47:09):
Yeah, but again very slow and if you've got the
wrong staff on all the wrong passengers with you, it
can can earn a day.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
You're wrong.

Speaker 6 (47:23):
Yeah, I had a fundy coil out of the need
and so I went up to a top of a
coastal train, which is only a two hours each way
up somewhere or down somewhere, and I know what I'm
looking at, and I'm going these people are being off.

Speaker 10 (47:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (47:44):
But yeah, like I said, railways still does something like
Railway's moves more tannage now than it has ever done
in the past. But people can't get see the fact
that we now have long heavy trains rather lots and
lots and lots of small trains.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
So yeah about it. About a year ago there was
that there was a group that got involved. I forget that.
They got involved with a TV one news article about
bringing back the southern of the train from christ Church
to inver Cargo and I quite vocally said they could
certainly bring it back, but no one would catch it.
And all these people said, oh, we used to catch

(48:25):
it in the nineteen fifties or something. I said, yeah,
but you've got a car now. You're not going to
get it now because you're going to arrive in christ
Church with no car in the middle of Ricketan or
in the middle of the WAPs. It's it doesn't work
for anyone.

Speaker 6 (48:38):
But also the price themselves out of the business. It
was always my contention that they should have the trans
all find fear and make the money over the bar. Yes,
I was considered to be a maverick and I was
asked to leave the room.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
So because the train is a good place to drink
on as well. That's one thing that trains are good.
If you went from Auckland to Wellington in the old
days and went back and forwards to the bar and
arrived kind of at eight o'clock or seven o clock
and Wellington stations, you know, slightly with a skinful. It
was always quite a good experience.

Speaker 6 (49:14):
Well I did the Friday night forgotten what they've got
the cap connection enough to Paris, the lord. Yes, as
soon as we're levon, which was the train was now ten.
It's even that. Everybody into the dining car. They bought
their own wines, music and food and it was arty

(49:37):
times up to Farming. It was great.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
That's what you want, that's what you want.

Speaker 6 (49:45):
Make it an experience, not her.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
But look, yeah, see that's that's the thing. And dB,
you're probably the only person I could ever talk to
about talked about this because most people, but you go
on the trans our Pine. People get on the train,
they sit down, they read the brochure. Then they get
bored because people aren't good at sitting still. They're up
to the they're up to the cafe to by a

(50:10):
sandwich and a pie. They eat that and always leading
their board again, so up they go again. You know,
people can't just sit still and watch that seat, watch
the scenery because for some reason they're not regood at
it and there's this endless and name commentary telling you
things that uh, you know which no one wants to hear.
Oh no, i'd torture.

Speaker 6 (50:30):
Yeah, that's why. That's just the hype of the Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Who cares it's the biggest in the Southern hemisphere or
some sad claim. Yeah wherech You just want to be
You just want to be silent.

Speaker 6 (50:41):
Recently, you just.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Want to be silent. Look at the splendor of the
mountains and stuff. You don't want to be told what
to think the whole time.

Speaker 6 (50:49):
Actually, one of the scene that highlights is the twenty
minutes in the Tira Tamil. Yes's your own reflection.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yeah, I quite like. But anyway, dB, Yeah, look, I
agree entirely with you, and yes I'm please with kindred spirits.
This work for the haters now, I like trand I mean, look,
if we can help them in any way, we will,
but jeepers. So yeah, I'm still very positive the railways.
But you know, you got to call it like it
is because DB's right, people, it's all nostalgia. People go

(51:17):
back to when no one had cars and that was
the only way to travel with things have changed. I mean,
car ownership was tiny in the old days. Hardly everyonet
to had a car and the roads weren't great. Things
have changed. People going Holly with their car. They want
their car and they get there. No one's going to
go on Holly without the car because you're going to
carry your giant suitcases on wheels around the streets. Don't
wants to do that. People think it looks demeaning.

Speaker 15 (51:41):
Germany have won it one minute twenty point five to seven.
Hungary have been given second position one minute twenty one
point oh seven, Denmark worth third going through the two
hundred and fifty.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Have New Zealand up.

Speaker 10 (51:57):
This, yes they have.

Speaker 15 (51:59):
They've up there strike right sufficiently to make it to
the A final of the men's kayak four or five,
leaving Denmark in their wake. The New Zealand boys have
done it fourth place, semifinal number two.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
So there we go, semi final number two. But it
becomes more complicated than that, because what's actually happens those
guys now need to go and do the B final
for that one where they kneel on the canoe. Yeah,
that's just also as well. So that's coming up, and

(52:39):
you might have something to say about that. But anyway,
it's now said it's likely the New Zealanders will pull
out of the bee final of the Sea two, which
is a shame. But anyway, there you go. That's the situation,
and get in touch. My name is Marcus till twelve o'clock.
But these other sports happening than he's in speed climber. Yes, Scott,
it's Marcus. Welcome and good evening, Hi.

Speaker 14 (53:02):
Scott, Goodamgan.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
What's technical?

Speaker 12 (53:05):
Quick?

Speaker 2 (53:06):
Yeah, you gotta be.

Speaker 14 (53:07):
I am at the Olympics and I thought you might
want to.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Oh really, goodness.

Speaker 14 (53:12):
I'm on the Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
You're actually on the Eiffel Tower now right now? Wow?
What are you? Are you an athlete?

Speaker 14 (53:24):
No, I am not. I am I'm a visiting and
I'm actually only here for two days. But yes, got
to make the most of it.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
So are you there to see some event? Well?

Speaker 14 (53:37):
No, I'm actually on the way to England and I
had to manage to stop in Paris for two days
and I don't have tickets or anything, but I'm going
to try and get a ticket and make it to
an event later.

Speaker 5 (53:45):
Army.

Speaker 9 (53:45):
Yeah, but there's not a.

Speaker 14 (53:47):
Lot that New Zealand seems to be doing today.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Do you know someone was asking you to the tickets expensive?

Speaker 14 (53:56):
From what I can tell, it seems to depend on
the event. Like I've had a quick look and the
I think the boxing looked like it was kind of
two hundred euros on up. But I guess some of
the least popular sports I looked like kind of twenty
five euros and up.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Doesn't seem too bad, does it, because I mean the
thing is the attendant is really good, so it seems
that they've got the numbers spot on A.

Speaker 14 (54:17):
Yeah, I think so. I mean there's a really you know,
there's kind of the official resale page and I was
looking at that because there's the basketball to make usavers
of Serbia. But that's five hundred euros plus, so obviously
it goes a lot higher for some of the more
in demand events.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
What time does that kickoff? Because I wouldn't mind watching that.
I haven't managed to see any of the basketball so far,
and I'm desperate to see the Dream team. And of
course Serbia with jockeys. I mean, they've gone great against Australia,
so yeah, okay, you've.

Speaker 14 (54:48):
Got to think You've got to think the USA would
do it though.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
Oh absolutely. But you know, but but he's one of
the he's one of the great players jockets. So yeah, yeah,
I mean, that'd be exciting if you could get to that.
Because there's also too there's the swimming down the river,
which I imagine you wouldn't need to pay to see
what that's tomorrow that start seven thirty tomorrow morning.

Speaker 14 (55:08):
Now that I think is that the marathon swimming? Yeah,
I think that was this morning.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
That was the That was the mean, I think, but
it's the woman tomorrow, the way around women women today
and men tomorrow.

Speaker 14 (55:24):
Yeah, there's definitely one this morning. It gets a little
bit confusing looking at the sites because my computer keeps
changing to New Zealand times. But I believe that somewhere
in morn year.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Have you got accommodation?

Speaker 14 (55:36):
Yeah, there was no problem. Actually, there's heaps available.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
Really that seems surprising.

Speaker 14 (55:41):
Yeah, I mean, I guess it's kind of at the
getting towards the tail end of the games, but there's
still you know, there's a lot of people here from
all over the place.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
And because we see that, so you go, no, I
was gonna.

Speaker 14 (55:58):
Say, but I guess it's you know, being a big city,
there's always there's already tons of accommodation. You know, they're
used to having a lot of people here.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
I guess you're not seeing too many key we's misbehaving.

Speaker 14 (56:09):
I haven't seen any of it, to be honest, None
that i've you know, none that have been none that
have been noticeable, you know, with flags or anything, any
many Americans, to be honest.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
Okay, and are you just going to England on holiday?
Are you moving You're not moving away or anything, are
you Now?

Speaker 14 (56:26):
I'm just going there for a couple of weeks for
a couple of things.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Oh and so so what do you think you will
do tomorrow? You think you will get to some events?

Speaker 14 (56:34):
Well, it's I mean here, it is what it's about
lunchtime here, so I'm going to try and get There's
a few things this afternoon I'm going to try to
get to. But tomorrow is actually when I'm leaving about lunch.
I'm only here for about another twenty four hours. Got
here later than playing because the flake got delayed. But
trying to do what Olympics again and fixels.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
So it's midday there.

Speaker 14 (56:55):
Ah, yeah, it's hot.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
It's hot in the thirties.

Speaker 14 (57:01):
Yeah, I'd say it's probably about it's close to thirty now.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
Okay, I reckon you go to the road, you know,
I think you should go to the rowing venue or
the velodrome. Yeah, that's my suggestion. That's where the key
was have. But love you to hear from you, Scott,
Thanks so much. We're gonna go what stuff coming up?
But nice to hear from you. Marty Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (57:21):
Yeah, hi Marcus. Is the drama and the shop put
the woman's shotput tonight? Did you hear about that?

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Well, we didn't tell me the drama.

Speaker 13 (57:30):
Whacker Jacko the top female shop putter from America, the
best thrower of the world at the moment, World champion.
She threw two fowls, and her second fowl she just
about one of the officials and knocked over as Chili
better than mic Wow.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
I thought, okay, can you keep going?

Speaker 8 (57:49):
Yep?

Speaker 13 (57:49):
Yeah, So I'm goin to wack a Jaco because you've
got katoos everywhere.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 13 (57:57):
She's got butterflies on her eyes each side.

Speaker 10 (58:00):
And perhaps I.

Speaker 13 (58:01):
Spent less time on the high makeup and a bit
more time warming up and throwing straight. She would have
got but her third thrower was very short because she
had to like tame it down because you keep going
to the left and she had to like tame it
down and then throw it wasn't long enough, and she
was she was born. Her makeup was ruined.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
Okay, because like because I keep seeing it running it
because I'm obviously it works. I just sit in the
corner of my eye. She's running across to the bearded
guy with a spouse or the coach because they're embracing it.

Speaker 13 (58:29):
I think it's the husband.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Yeah, yeah, okay, because you've never seen it. You've never
seen a shot put as gps go out, so you've
never seen them get the wrong direction. Because you've got
quite a rock, you've got quite a wide a.

Speaker 13 (58:44):
Well, you've got you've got quite a lot of training
of just thrying it straight. The main thing is not
to step forward over the circle. Once you figured that out,
the other thing is to not go left or right
and keep it straight. Yeah, but anyway, I guess probably
as harder than the books.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
Well, the thing is watch the hammer throw right, yeah,
and I've never done it, but these people it's all
they do. And I watched the women's qualifying for the
hammer throw. It was only about half of the managed
to get it out of the cage, most of them
at the And you think that would be the first
thing you would do, you were not, it would just

(59:23):
it must be really really difficult.

Speaker 13 (59:26):
Yeah, it'll be frustrating to do.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
It that you want that you want job.

Speaker 13 (59:33):
You've got your talking about right. You can try it
straight at my phone. I can get the cows walking straight.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
Anyway, how the cows quite as might as only one.

Speaker 13 (59:48):
Car. But what was I going to say? The key?
We did really well. She qualified second and it's great
Jack goes out because she would have been a big
threat for our for our girl, and our girl had
a great outfit on. She had some mums. She was
rocking the mum's sunglasses.

Speaker 6 (01:00:05):
What are the it's like a.

Speaker 13 (01:00:10):
Just like a shot mums sunglasses.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Yeah, okay, I thought it might be bred nice to
hear from you, Marty, Thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:00:16):
And there it is Michael Wilkinson Erica Dawson cross the line.
It's another medal for New Zealand's Off Marseille at Paris
twenty twenty four, a bronze for Wilkinson and Dawson.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
You're gonna make me cry.

Speaker 8 (01:00:34):
You're gonna make me cry, says Michael Wilkinson. The emotions,
the embraces, you can tell. It means so much to
the twenty eight year old Michael Wilkinson there from Tiawa Mutu,
very experienced in this NACRA seventeen class of sailing. And

(01:00:59):
these pairing, this pairing who have linked up in twenty
nineteen debut at Tokyo in twenty twenty one. I've been
a force here through the week and it well earned.
Hard fought bronze medal for the Kiwi sailors Erica Dawson
and Michael Wilkinson off the coast of Mars eighth.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Brilliant. Thanks so much, gentlemen Cooper. They're doing the commentary
so great guns that say, bronze and the yachting. The
eighth of the eighth quite a symbolic day for people,
this one. Could someone tell me about that. There's some
websites you go to if he under the eighth of
the eighth. Oh, it's the lions Gate Portal. That's right,

(01:01:40):
You want tell me about that. The lions Gate Portal
is at its peak today. I don't know anything about it.
That's rubbish obviously, all with eighth known as the eight
to eighth portal, the time you're supposed to set goals. Yep,

(01:02:09):
but you're running out of time for the eighth of
the eighth. You're supposed to at eight a m. Or
eight eight. But anyway I know anything about that, I don't.
My first thing I've heard about it was today the
lions Gate portal, so that might be something to mention
also too. Oh hi, Marcus, I'm ringing about the lions
Gate portal. Just the call we need tell me more. Well,

(01:02:32):
it's a portal on the eighth of the eighth, Does
that right? How does that work?

Speaker 10 (01:02:34):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
And today where you manifest goodness in your life on
this day?

Speaker 10 (01:02:37):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
At eight past eight? Idea? Oh thank you. So we
have a conversation like that. If you're into that stuff,
don't mind a bit of the wu Wa stuff. This
time of the night, I got an email from Japan.
Today's big earthquake hit southern Japan on the TV. There's
now a warning of a bigger one coming soon, possibly
seven to nine magnitude. Do prepare yourself, likely bigger than

(01:03:04):
Fukushima's and possible tsunami warnings have been announced up the
country in areas facing the Pacific all calm now though,
thanks Aaron. I don't know what they know about earthquake predicting.
I guess the Japanese will be the best at it.
They've got the most to lose. Are you into the
lion Gate portal? Glen?

Speaker 10 (01:03:25):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:03:35):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
When was that today?

Speaker 10 (01:03:41):
Yes? Wow, because it seems a very long time ago
when it happened.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
Were you a part of that?

Speaker 10 (01:03:51):
Yes? I was. Okay, I'm actually a sub surpriv of myself.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
And look, curiosity got the better. Curiosity got the better
of me, Glenn, So I did. I did spend a
day walking around that area. It's quite hard if you're
not from there to get a sense because it's all
just farmland now, isn't it. It's all just kind of
It's hard from a from a from a non Ebbittsford
person to work out what were because it's changed so much.
But the long story short was I never should have

(01:04:21):
bought the houses there. Is that right?

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
It was?

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
It was a slipping bit of land.

Speaker 10 (01:04:26):
Yeah, it was. Actually I was kind of lucky because
one said the house down at the bottomed hill, So
we got the smack into it, okay, And it's house
was prod of like month of piers. He got the
payout well the house, so that's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
How old were you when it happened.

Speaker 10 (01:04:50):
I was only.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
Six years old, okay, and it was it was no,
and it was about to happen too, wasn't it could
have been it had been moving for a while the
land is that right?

Speaker 10 (01:05:02):
Yes it was, okay, Just it's.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
How many houses were lost.

Speaker 10 (01:05:14):
I don't about seventy homes last.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
It was a big deal, wasn't it.

Speaker 10 (01:05:19):
Yeah, but he there was no lives lost.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
Yeah, it was a miracle.

Speaker 10 (01:05:24):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
And did you have to move straight away from your house?
Was your house condemned?

Speaker 10 (01:05:32):
Yes, it was. Oh, it was very much the people
put it. But he was saying to be quite differently. No,
we're going to go to Flay Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Okay, yeah, okay, you just kind of got about the eagleam.
But thanks for calling up. It's good to hear about
I'd forgotten about abbots for today, so thank you. Nice
to hear from you. By the way, the sip of
ebbitts for it was big. There was eighteen hectares moved
forty eight meters in fifteen minutes. I'm believable. No deaths, injuries,

(01:06:08):
very minor. Some residents that had seconds to leave their home.
That happened at nine oh what year was it, nineteen
seventy nine, eighth of August, just after nine o'clock had happened.
I mean, I've been slipping for a while. They should

(01:06:29):
have built there because I've put the motorway through, the
railway through, which had kind of affected the tongue of
the land. Anyway, I just started seeping nine oh seven.
It happened. Unbelievable. They's nothing there anymore. Yeah. The slip
site now hosts rugby grounds and a paintball venue, with

(01:06:51):
strands of trees added to help stabilize the earth. Amazing story.
That certainly the biggest landslide I will yeah, I guess
it probably still would be the biggest landslide and the
most houses affected. Oh well, the men are in the
C two five hundred, where does the commentary start? Then
their men and then they go straight to the other one

(01:07:15):
while they're doing it. So the men that have qualified
for the K five hundred and the fours are going
to go do the kneeling one, which is just a
B final. We'll have the commentaryes that'll be a laugh,
But that's a couple of minutes.

Speaker 15 (01:07:30):
To the finish line they go in the B final,
or to a photo finish between Romania and France with
Kazakhstan in third place.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
And Angola cross now.

Speaker 15 (01:07:44):
And let's just sit back, have a cup of coffee
and wait for Max Brown and Grant Clancy to cross.
Will the pictures even show us cross, show us them
crossing the line? Well, we hope. So we know that
they were well over forty five seconds down on the
other two races that they've been involved in because they

(01:08:06):
are novices at this event, never a serious contender in
the Sea two.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
They're therefore convenience.

Speaker 15 (01:08:12):
Oh here they are, They're coming down to the finish line.
Go boys, Brown and Cletsy. They cross in fifth spots
in the B final.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Who knew? Still think it's a missing sentence what everyone says.
They can qualify one boat end up in the other.
But look, I'm sick of having explained to me. But
it is complicated by the way. I'll tell you what.
These idiots in Britain that got involved in internet telegraph

(01:08:44):
chat telegram chat and decided to ride against detention centers
and the likes boy, oh boy, they are being chucked
into present veryvery quickly, free quick justice in the UK.
I guess that's special cobra powers. But if police aren't
armed there and if anyone you know, because they're not armed,
I think, and they've got probably cameras, but you know,

(01:09:07):
they take a very dim view on anyone that attacks
the police. One judge has said to them, quite what
you were protesting remains a mystery. These are the mobs
which attacked a Southport mosque and Liverpool library. He's jailed

(01:09:27):
them from up to five years. Two riders, who were
both at the forefront of the vile disorder were jailed
for thirty two months each. Unbelievable. A semi retired welder

(01:09:47):
sixty nine was jailed. But don'tbelievably how quick that they've
got them and got them prosecuted. I don't know if
there's special charges needed for that. It tends to be
mainly on the northern east coast of the UK. Sunderland
and Middle only really know Sunderland from the football when

(01:10:10):
the team tour down Under. So I remember the chants, chants.
The one of the kids was only eighteen, started sort
of throwing things at the police. He's been sent to jail,
so go then that seems fair and seems to be
very common sensical. By the way, the Chinese just crossing
the finish line now, in the final of the kneeling

(01:10:32):
canoeing sport, there was an extraordinary looking race. Actually, I
mean to get that boat going. Look, skill, it's extraordinary.
But the Chinese paddlers are they're ecstatic, smashing their paddles
against the ground. They really nailed it. But what amazing.
I mean, the strength that must be required. I'm into it.
I reckon. Actually we should turn the feed into victory.
I think probably we should be concentrating on this one.

(01:10:55):
It seems more like our form of boating. Actually, Lu
and g have won the men's canoe double five hundred,
but wow, what a sprint that is. Boy, they are
pumped clear victors two and that also too, over the
lines and a half a boat length before the others,
and the Italians are ecstatic about coming second. Seems to
be when you do well in that sport, you smash

(01:11:15):
your paddle against the water and scream, each to their
own I guess.

Speaker 8 (01:11:24):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
Now the third team, the Hungarian they're smashing the paddled
against the water. All seems quite primal. It was a
good race, boy boy a quick but once it gets
going and they go quite straight too, because you've got
to go through your gates, blah blah blah. Now they're

(01:11:48):
all smashing the panels. It seems to be like a
else screaming event out there. But there you go. Oh
it's a sheared bronze Spain and hungry so one I
thought they were all going with the fourth teams going
because they've just realized they've got a sheared bronze dominic
and Mareno, they're smashing the water. They can't believe. They're like,
it's passionate. Well, I really are, especially their pedals against

(01:12:10):
the wars. It seems quite shallow, but they just get
on the boat in the grounds. Just there. It was
a surprise thought in the middle of the ocean was
seeming in a shallow water. I enjoyed that more than
I thought I would thought. Enjoyed that a great deal.

Speaker 15 (01:12:24):
It is Germany at the moment who have their bow
just in front from the New Zealanders, Carrington setting the
rhythm and the pace for her teammates and behind Hoskin,
Brett and Vaughan the bows and now back in front
for New Zealand. It's Carrington lifting the right for the

(01:12:45):
black boat. The black boat keeping its nose in front
of Germany. They can see the finish line. It is
gold for New Zealand. It's the women's K four to
the four and the sixth golden moment for Dame Lisa.
They have done it. New Zealand's most decorated Olympian, Lisa

(01:13:08):
Carrington strikes gold again, gold number six in total. And
for Hoskin, Brett and Vaughn it's their first Olympic medal
and it's gold.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
Thank you, Malcolm. That was absolutely extraordinary, goodness gracious. The
Germans look very happy with this silver. They're ecstatic in tears.
But Man, I always show that they came out literally
they were three meters ahead by about the one hundred
meters mark. It was an extraordinary race. And by the

(01:13:42):
halftime mark German Germany was catching up and then went
ahead and they must have had tactics with us and suddenly,
I mean it was just extraordinary. Wow. So there we
go another gold. Four golds. One of them is only
twenty but cheap as creepers Carrington in the front of
the boat. I haven't cried, but my voice has gone high.

(01:14:06):
That was extremely exciting. But it's always nice when the
people that come Silver look happy with it, don't they,
Because everyone's happy if Silver's happy, and we're happy when
that's perfect, isn't it? So I just look at the replane.

Speaker 10 (01:14:21):
Now, but.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
There would be two feet in it. I don't want
to be a third of a second or something in it.
But New Zeven's start was even from the emerging from
the gates, they were two feet ahead of everyone else.
I don't know what the tactics are for the start,
because I think the front of the boat, the bow

(01:14:44):
of the boat's kind of caught inside a little thing
to stop you going. But they certainly got the push
away there. I don't know enough about their technique to
work out why they were so very good at it,
but that was That was a real highlight to watch that.
And I know people to go on about their hair
and their glasses, but they almost look like they're a machine.

(01:15:04):
They're working so together. But gee, that was unbelievable. I'll
get the times and the splits. We're not so concerned
how long it took them. I've got no idea on
leess it's a record, but they wouldn't mind knowing how
much further ahead they were because we can see it
how much distance they were like two feet yeah, I

(01:15:25):
see about a half a second point four to two
of a second. They won by point four to two
of a second. So but it was just a couple
of those last strokes. I don't even know how they
got so much turb on those last strokes, but it
was phenomenal but good that the Germans were so excited
was being second that made it for them one thirty
two twenty. So it's a quick metal.

Speaker 13 (01:15:48):
There.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
They are all out of the boat now shaking Howard.
He's waving to the crowd, giving the crowd the thumbs up.
They're still wearing their skirts, their roll skirts. There's one
of them running towards a feller on the stadium giving
a big hug. Might be the coach looks like the coach.
He looks ecstatic as well, hugging the Germans. The Germans
now hugging the Kiwis and hugging the Kiwi coach. So

(01:16:11):
it's reevery collegia. Were the Germans so excited about the
Kiwi's victory. So New Zealand first forty four nine four
one thirty two to twenty, Germany second, one thirty two
sixty two, Hungary third one thirty two ninety three, Poland fourth,
one thirty three seventeen, the People's revoldgue of China, fifth
and then China. I'm sorry Australia right down the bottom

(01:16:34):
Kiwi KaiA. The guy in the audience holding the New
Zealand flag with the fern New.

Speaker 15 (01:16:38):
Zealand well out the back door, and they're going to
finish well back who's it going to be? Soto finish
between Germany, Australia, Spain and third spot New Zealand. They
were eighth at the two hundred and fifty meter mark
and I think they have remained in that position coming
home in last place. The New Zealand crew are brown Klan,

(01:17:00):
so here.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
We going not to happen for New Zealand. So that
was the same crowd that was involved in that kneeling
race too, So there they are now. But I think
Jermany's got that over Australia. I'm pretty sure that's the
way it's going to go. Waiting for the callers who's
got the gold? But yes, that was my take on it.
Jermy was definitely in front of Australia. I think they'd
be take no time at all to bring through that confirmation.

(01:17:21):
Lydia Coe, she's through thirteen. She's second now minus six,
just behind the woman from Switzerland Metro Morgan, who's on
minus nine, although she's gone seventeen holes. This is the
second round of four from my understanding, and it's almost
time for me to go, just to confid. Oh, yes,
Jermy's been given. That was obvious. I'm not surprised by that.

(01:17:42):
Oh the eysies are doing damn. Oh God, show some
grace Australia. Oh boy, don't you hate a sore loser.
The German women were so gracious excited to get silver.
Oh no, Australia. Guy smacks the water. He's angry about it.
Sought your anger, soor's your privilege. You're lucky to be there.

(01:18:03):
Congratulate the winners. It's a second go on. The boat
can go back, so look said in tears, boy actually
crying into his hands. I don't know. He's given the
other of a backslap. It didn't conduct himself well I've
still got the poor Meso crying down and is shaking
his head. No one wants to see that. It's Vander

(01:18:23):
Bestevan Vander west Haven, Marina. He should be doing bitter
goodness me anyway. The exciting news gold for Lisa Carrington
and the K four five hundred just ten minutes ago,
Lydia Coen second position and the GLF and also finalist

(01:18:43):
in the Shop Put.

Speaker 1 (01:18:45):
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