Who cares what cats think (5 November 2024)

Marcus asks about funeral attire, the race that maybe isn't stopping a nation anymore, and whether fireworks will make headlines or not.

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greeting's welcome Oato seven miname as Marcus hit till midnight tonight.
I hope it's good were you are in your neck
of the woods too, play happening tonight too. I presume
there are people out there fireworking. It's not a word,
but I'm going to use it. So yeah, I was
kind of hard on a Tuesday to read the vibe
as far as guy Fawks goes. So no doubt people
have reports from where they are as it gets dark

(00:34):
around the country. It's not dark down south yet, but it'll
be dark with you. I'll let me know what is happening.
Seemed as it was fairly busy at Peck and Save tonight.
Doe of the butchers will fled out with people kind
of buying fireworks or not. But I wouldn't mind a
few reports to hear where the people are gathering in

(00:56):
parks and gathering in backyards and whether in fact there
is a party planned. I like to know. I'd like
to get the vibe reading on that You've got some
information about that phone that through at this time tomorrow
night will probably have a situation in the United States
of America, So probably tomorrow night a little bit about
that will be talking to foreign correspondence and talking to

(01:16):
people overseas and working out what's going to happen. It's
not immediately clear if in fact the government well in fact, yeah,
who knows. I imagine there seems to be a lot
of nuanced behavior in the United States when someone declares victory,
which strikes me has been weird. Remember last time Fox

(01:42):
declared it for Biden and then Fox and Trump had
a massive fit. That wasn't good. So that's tomorrow night.
Pol's close blah blah blah, midday or something. But about
seven thirty, we tend to know what's going to happen.
Tony said nine o'clock when she's all on Chamon but
let's talk about that tomorrow night. Maybe that's a situation

(02:02):
now so far works too, just the state of the play.
What's happening are people out there selling I don't want
to be a damp squib and hopefully tonight goes without
instant but we'll keep you posted for those instances should
they happen. So I'm aware of that, and I'm not
going loaded for that. So if that's going to happen,
I am here. So I think the instance that do happen,

(02:23):
I'll keep you reported about that. Oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two to text
Hndle twelve. So looking forward to what you can say tonight,
and we'll chance and change the rest of it that
we know out all sorts of things we can, we'll
should talk about till twelve o'clock tonight. Oh wait, one
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two
to text. So get in touch, feel free. But firstly,

(02:44):
first and foremost too, as it gets dark around the country,
are people out there celebrating because seems that there's fairly
stiff business going on at the fireworks place? And that's yeah.
I think people need a bit of leading off too.
I think people have finished exams also, terrible those people
at that university and christ Church Canterbury got the dodgy

(03:08):
chicken the next morning they had the exam flip. I
suppose it all appeas on how well your coursework was
for the year. Otherwise you're not going to get the
eggritat or whatever it is. So there we go, that's them.
They'd be concerned poor handling of chicken. I'd go as

(03:28):
far as saying mishandling of chicken. Wouldn't it for a
hundred to be sick? Striped chicken or something stripped chicken, crumb,
chicken um, chopped chicken, forget what it's called chicken ground
chicken like bits of chicken. Anyway, I'm not quite sure
how they ground. That's the situation. They're non ovirus O
eight one hundred and eighty Teddy and nine two nine

(03:49):
two text markus till twelve Anything else you want to
mention tonight, but first and foremost done. Just a situation
where fireworks is that happening? Is that a big deal
or not? Tonight? Let me know eight not happy with
the air condition?

Speaker 4 (04:02):
Not like me?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Feels very hot. I've turned it down, but it's hot
as helen here anyway. Eight hundred eighty Taddy and nine
two nine two to text here till twelve o'clock tonight.
You know the drawl. If you've got breaking news, we
you old lest know what their breaking news is. Phone
it through oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty or text
it on nine two nine two as far as the
rest of the news goes Tonight, she's all bits and bobs,

(04:23):
But we'll find something to talk about, no doubt the
next four years. I have lists, but first of all,
I want to tick off the fireworks thing to make
sure I've got that one covered. I'm not gonna wake
up to the morning and find out there's been massive
fires everywhere. It's gone underreported on this show. So if
there is anything happening, let me know how that is.
You might be someone that's got to part next door

(04:45):
and you can compare it to previous years more or
less busy. That's what I'm on about tonight. Oh eight
hundred eighty tady and nine two nine two to text.
There we go. Keep those texts coming through too. Also
feels like the calm before the storm before tomorrow night,
because tomorrow night will be the night of the long reckons.

(05:06):
There will be a one million I told you those
well in all, honestly, I don't thin anyone really knows
about what's going to happen tomorrow, but I think it's
safe to say that no matter what happens, there will
probably be some behavior that will surprise people. Some things
will be said that will be outrageous and unexpected, and

(05:29):
that will be tomorrow. What time will it be in
La tomorrow night when we're on dan Will it be
like in the middle of the night. Okay, it'll be
like midnight. So I'm not quite sure how much will
be done, but we'll be across all of it. So
there we go. That's what's happening. Oh wait, tetter at
eight tendy and nineteen nine to start with the file weeks.
We'll move up from there and back at you. Oh,
by the way, here just doesn't aside. No, I don't

(05:50):
want to. I don't want to do the aside just yet.
I want to save that till we get a little
bit peak here in the night. Only takes one or
two days good days of good weather before you forget
the bad weather, isn't it? What's that about? It's been
tremendous down south the last couple of days, or the
last two, or the last one and a half. Almost

(06:11):
forgotten those three months of rain that sent me to
the wall. I don't want to become a weather ball,
but I think a weather bore. I think I might
be going that way anyway. Get in touch, Marcus till
midnight oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine
to the text looking fulld to what you have to
say tonight. Keep those texts coming through. Woo. If I

(06:32):
have to go and shoot the air con and it
doesn't sound like me to get upset about, that might
be the hot drink. Anyway, Marcus isn't intriguing to think
what Guy Fawks, a medieval terrorist putting on blowing on
the English Parliament, would make of the fact we were
commemorating him in twenty twenty four shredded chicken and they

(06:56):
serve chicken tonight. Are we commemorating Guy Fawks? I don't
know we even know what the word commemorating means. I
don't know if we're commemorating him. Are we commemorating kicking.
I don't think we're showing him any respect. I think
we're commemorating the king that was saved by not being
blown up. I think that was King James if I'm
right about that one. But it's always people always come

(07:18):
with kind of a half bait reckon when it comes
to I mean, whether people want to observe the day
or not. I don't really care. But you've got to
stick with your facts. They tried to assasinate James the
First of England, and we commemorate or celebrate the fact

(07:40):
that he didn't succeed. It's his failure that we commemorate
or celebrate. There was a tip off and he was tortured.
It was tortured so much that you couldn't recognize the autograph.
And then he was signature and then he was hung
or hanged. That's the story of Guy Fawkes or was
the ninety nine percent of the people like to call
him Guy Fox. So yes, I don't have any problem

(08:04):
whether people have an opinion on whether they commemorate him
on not. But we'll not commemorate him, but to commemorate
the day. But you gotta go with the facts. Oha
eight hundred eighty nineteen ninety the text who Get in Touch?
Shredded Chicken? I don't know what had gone wrong with
a shredded chicken. What a tremendous, exciting Melbourne Cup of
proftly two horse white gap I've never seen before. Everyone

(08:26):
sees it's done, its dash. I was amazed how much
anti Melbourne Cup feeling I was seeing today on social media.
The race that was ruined by commercialism. Even Elizabeth Hurley
was there for that, and one of the Hilton sisters anyway,
greed avarice and sponsorship six consecutive years. Mongray ak Mount

(08:56):
Wellington has burnedful guy Fawkes, that's right. The most perfect
of the cones is Mount Wellington.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
Mongare.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Let's hope it doesn't go up today, but if there
is information about fires, will bring it to you. Marcus
picked up a bag with three hundred dollars first year,
gotten real into it. Be a good one tonight, cheers, Mitch,
Thank you much your calls just about whether people if
it's a big deal or not tonight. I suspect because
it on a Tuesday, it wasn't going to be who knew?

(09:29):
No one knows. Oh eight hundred eighty Daddy nineteen ninety
breaking news when that happens, and anything else you want
to mention, do get in touch. Oh eight hundred eighty
ten eighty. They reckon Trump he's anti fluoride because of course,

(09:49):
Robert Kennedy's Andy fluuryd He's going to be a science advisor.
He's going to remove fluoride from drinking water on the
ua US. According to Kennedy Trump when recently asked about
Kennedy's plan, he said, sound okay to me go and
so it begins. I thought on the news the ambassador

(10:13):
was sounding fairly, fairly unalarmed by the Trump victory. But
oh well, as long as I don't drag us into any walls,
I suppose that's what I'd be concerned about. I'm not
entirely sure who we're going to go to fight with
under Trump, but we have alliance?

Speaker 5 (10:33):
Is there?

Speaker 3 (10:34):
They closer and closer, get in touch, Marcus till midnight. Yep,
there is going to be Back to the Future musical.
It's not the movie I'd most like to see in
a musical, but there we go. There's that are June, Marcus, Welcome,
good evening high June.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
Hi, Marcus, g I I'm seventy seven. My dogs inside
and I'll put my cats in the cage. And anyway,
I just climbed into bed at eight o'clock to listen
to you and my neighbors. God knows what the crestors
are nowadays, but they let them off, and I'm saw

(11:16):
my house. Look what did shape? They are so loud
because they shouldn't have been.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
They shouldn't be any louder than ever before unless they're
making their own.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
No, no, because last night some went off down further
down the street and and and they were loud. But
these ones are right, you know, just over the boundary fence.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Okay, now whereabouts are you? I'm in Martin bra Is
it dark there already?

Speaker 4 (11:46):
No, it's not dark. Well, it's just twilight.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
But early. Whether they've gone off, they've gone off early.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
I think they disliked the big bean.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Now how many you got two cats and one dog?
With two dogs and one cat?

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Two dogs and two cats. Yeah, but you know it's
this is this is. One dog's just come into my
bedroom now she's she's on the alert. She's not barking
when the other one's it frightened out of it.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Have you medicated the dogs?

Speaker 6 (12:17):
No?

Speaker 4 (12:18):
No, no, no communicated the kids.

Speaker 7 (12:22):
No.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
They cuddled up together in the cage, covered up, and
the TV is going for them and watch. It's just
so scary. It's just so scary, you know, for the
poor animal.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, although you don't, it sounds like you've done everything right.
Does the hang on, hang on? Does the TV give
them comfort?

Speaker 7 (12:46):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (12:46):
I don't know. If someone see last night to turn
the TV on for them and turn it up a bit.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
So what shadow are they on?

Speaker 4 (12:56):
I can't remember what I put it on, but it's
just talking to itself. But you know, and I think
that's probably what it is, because I haven't heard the
frightened dog racing around, so it must be hiding somewhere.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Really, Well, Joe, you stay in touch with any more developments.
Get in touch also. I think it's going to be okay.
I hope.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
Well, when I was out there before, it had started
to rain, So.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
It's a good thing for you, is it?

Speaker 8 (13:26):
Well?

Speaker 4 (13:26):
I hope so I get weak lighting them.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Good on your doing thinking, Marcus, do you know Fong?
It ain't never had any major bands playing such a boring,
old fashioned town saved only by its beaches. There you go,
there's that. Oh, by the way, I'm breaking America's breaking

(13:49):
Melbourne Cup news of the America's Cup. I'm getting them
too conflated on the Melbourne Cup news. It seems as
though the news only herald they might have they might
have or here we go breaking news. Explosive teams to
lose it after cordons and place after phosphors. Scannon has
foun on the North Shore. Oh that's resolved itself. Sorry,
that's just me geting excited about a breaking news. But
it seems as though what I can tell you is

(14:11):
there's been an error I think in the form sheet
for the Melbourne Cup. They got it wrong. Unfortunately, the
Melbourne Cup pull out guide Today's Herald contained some errors.
We encouraged to bui on. We appreciate the guide as
used by thousands and we sincerely apologize. So I'm not
quite sure what that was, but some people might have

(14:33):
bought backed the wrong horse. If you're someone that was
affected by that, all you got a big I forgot
to ask about the Melbourne Cup. Did you get a
big payout? By the way, in the retraction, they haven't
said what is wrong with that? I'd prefer to know.
So they've rectified that the pull out guide was wrong. Oh,
by the way, who's getting milk delivered? About five years ago,

(14:58):
we ran a show on people and everyone seemed to
be doing milk deliveries again. It was this great revival.
And I'm not talking about bougie like non treated milk,
but just your regular milk. Is anyone still getting home deliveries?
Because for a while there were franchises coming up and
down the country. Was a growing thing. I've heard nothing

(15:20):
about the last couple of years. So our suburbs in
New Zealand is still getting a home delivery of milk.
I kind of got wondering about that today. I'm not
talking about disco milk, the milk for the I'm not
talking about sort of you know that, what's that milk
called like designer milk. I'm just talking about ordinary milk.

(15:46):
So they're happening for people, not about raw milk or
the unpasteurized. I'm just about standard bog standing milk. Is
anyone getting it delivered? And where does that happen? Because
for five years ago it was already I could talk
about not so much. Now, Hi, Michael, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
Hey Marcus, So you're doing good. Text Michael, it's a
story one. I thought i'd give you a call from
where I met. I'm I won't mention the area too much,
but I'm in the way caddo. Yes, and I work
in security, but I double as the noise control officer
and dog control officer out of ours. I just wanted
to say yes, so far, so good, it's pretty quiet,

(16:26):
probably quieter than a usual night so far. But maybe
I'll checking in a couple of hours.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Is it dark where you are already?

Speaker 5 (16:35):
We'll be in about ten more minutes. But yeah, it's
getting there. You can see if you've got fireworks going off.
But I've had no complaints and it's it's worked well.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
So far from a point of view.

Speaker 5 (16:50):
You go, you unders I imagine a lot of people
have probably looked their pets away to night. That's doing
a good thing, and that's why I don't have any
sort of wandering dogs or maybe barking dog issues at them.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Just in your role, if you could put on your
hat as a noise control, is there rules around fireworks
and desebels or late at night? Is that something that
you're ever drawn to deal with?

Speaker 5 (17:16):
No, not normally. I mean it doesn't matter what the
noise is, but just deemed too loud if somebody complains,
you know, we're okay, we're all under as at a
certain time, but there's not you know, it's just I
f your neighbor complains because he thinks you're too loud,
then I'm going and assess that, and.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
Then it comes down to your assessment on whether it
is too loud. Is that right?

Speaker 5 (17:39):
Yeah, exactly, and that will depend on time and you know,
the time of night and whether it's a continuous sound
on the base of a stereo that sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Okay, appreciate your reason. When it's Michael, thank you, Hi,
Max Marcus welcome.

Speaker 9 (17:52):
Yes, I haven't wrung you for about a couple of years.
I've commented before on racing topics. Around the Melbourne Cup.
I heard the announcer who was on before you, the
sports guy, saying, you know, would anybody bother with racing

(18:13):
if there wasn't gambling? Well, I would say when it
comes to the Melbourne Cup, that's more frothy nonsense than
anything else. It's a handicap race and it's not always
won by a top horse. Nothing to get terribly excited about.
But I believe certainly in this country there would be

(18:35):
more than enough people to keep racing going on some
level and on some scale, even as an amateur sport.
The difficulty for thoroughbred racing would be that they have
to keep finding young, lightweight people, and they're looking all
over the world for them now because we can't especially

(18:57):
get enough boys to come forward with harness racing. Of course,
it's on a lot based at all, all on waits,
exact waits. It's based on a mark behind the front line,
so I think they would be in a more favorable
position to continue. But I would say anybody who thinks

(19:21):
that racing exists only for gambling should look at the
little racetrack in Waverley, And in the middle of Waverley
there's a statue which memorializes a Melbourne Cup winner in Kiwi.
You may like the word memorialize rather than comerates, but

(19:42):
there you go now, and at that little racetrack, the
locals have put in untold hundreds and hundreds of hours
of voluntary time to keep that maintained and safe. And
the thing is that, you know, I can't see any

(20:06):
sense in people saying, you know, the whole thing would
die when we're we're without gambling. When you have that
obvious passion that so many people had it, it it
covers the whole you know, the whole horse sport, the

(20:27):
whole horse sports scene. There's there's traffic both ways with
thoroughbred racing and and the many other horse sports and activities.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Could you just explore a bit more. When you said
that the Melbourne Cup is fro frothy nonsense, can you
just talk a little bit more to that.

Speaker 9 (20:50):
Well, it's it's overblown. Its importance is overblown. It's a
handicap race.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
And so so tell me why a handicap races is
less important or why a handicap races frothy nonsense.

Speaker 9 (21:07):
Well, well, it's not just because it's a it's a
handicap race. It's the fact that so many people go
who are not normally interested in racing.

Speaker 10 (21:17):
It's a it was a lot of that.

Speaker 9 (21:21):
Just the party.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

Speaker 6 (21:24):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (21:24):
Is it bad that the people that there are people
there that aren't really that don't know that much. Is
it a bad thing?

Speaker 9 (21:31):
It's it's not necessarily a bad thing. It's that it
is just overrated. It's it's not it's not something which
puts the best or horses always on a pedestal. The
handicapped conditions and the extreme distance of the Melbourne Cup

(21:51):
means that they get results like they got today with
the you know, the horse at sixty to one, seventy
to one, that sort of thing. Now, that's that's fine.
I'm not against that so much. But I don't think
the Melbourne Cup, if it was run without gambling, would

(22:13):
have anything like one hundred thousand crowd there. They may
get a few thousand, but I think that would be
about it. But I don't think you could easily kill
the passion that rural New Zealand has for the thoroughbred.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Are you mixed? Are you the man that gave me
the lecture about Wotan?

Speaker 9 (22:39):
I don't know. Wotan won the nineteen thirty six Melbourne
Cup and I think he ran a record time, but
that was his only win of any real consequence. He
won a Fielding Cup in New Zealand. What do you remember?

Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah, well, I.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Remember that he came from ty Happy or Time, and
I know where he was just a farmers. They went
across the that's right, the Smith brothers and one extra
they becked and it's one of the great horse racing stories.

Speaker 9 (23:11):
It is. I'm not at all against handicap racing. It's
just a pity that people don't, you know, savor the
championship events and the really really top horses who are
something like great human sportsmen. They're stars, but the stars

(23:34):
don't get the publicity around Melbourne Cup time.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Nice to hear from you, Max. Thank you so very
much that some of the weakest Melbourne Cup in history
today is to come damn near last five years ago.
Here here, here, here, here, weakest ever. There you go, Marcus.
My dogs are loving the fireworks. It's a non issue.
Cats are born scared. Who cares what cats think? Provocative?

(24:00):
Are cats born scared? Good evening, Billy, it's Marcus, welcome here,
good thanks, it's yeah, just.

Speaker 11 (24:10):
A bit of an update on fireworks. Are just heading
into Autumn's coming down the bombays ignored obviously, and yeah
there's there's works, but all you can see them right
across the down book from anyways looks like.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
How long have you been to beg dad? No, I
have I have it. I know what you're saying, very.

Speaker 11 (24:37):
Little, easily. It's not my big there's that of years ago.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
How long has it been dark?

Speaker 11 (24:44):
Are fifteen minutes?

Speaker 3 (24:46):
Okay? So the pas that's dark and it's going off
big time?

Speaker 11 (24:49):
Right, yeah, got off big time?

Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (24:51):
Deep under it?

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Okay? God? Is it where you're hitting too?

Speaker 11 (24:55):
I'm hitting the drury mate, We've got a closure. We're
taking out some trees on the side. Of the motorway tonight,
so kind a bit of night shift count on.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
How many people that required to divert the prefer.

Speaker 11 (25:08):
Uh man, they've probably fifty or sixty tight up and
it's a big dla.

Speaker 7 (25:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (25:15):
Yeah, they close it off like they close off a
whole block. So between sort of pepper kura and rama.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Again, what's what sort of trees?

Speaker 11 (25:25):
Pines?

Speaker 3 (25:26):
You dirty old pines? Are you up the cherry picker?
You just are you just not? Just are your traffic management?
Are you an arborist?

Speaker 11 (25:34):
I'm an arborist, Yeah, but I'm just I've got a
cruizy roll tonight, mate. I'm just a safety observer. Because
they're next to power lines. I just make sure they
didn't get too close and knock the other knock the
other line.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Are the two of the lines off?

Speaker 11 (25:46):
Nah, they don't. They don't turn the pear off now
they they they it's called safety minutes. And they get
penalized by the powerfu with someone. Someone penalizes them as
they tend the power off to them.

Speaker 12 (26:01):
How shut down?

Speaker 3 (26:03):
How close is too close? With a cherry picker?

Speaker 11 (26:07):
You got to stay about four meters away from the
high voltage stuff?

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Would it arc across it could do.

Speaker 11 (26:14):
It's more that if it's sort of a branch or
aor a tree, you're failing or ruining. Something went the
wrong way, just to give you a bitter.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Flick flick could flick it across to.

Speaker 11 (26:26):
A yeah that I can't hack.

Speaker 12 (26:29):
You're right, okay?

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Oh you the everyday heroes. You have the everyday heroes, Billy,
thank you for your service and your traffic report. I
appreciate that there we go. People that listen to this
show are the safety officers. How do you say? What's
thirty or sixty? Just a lot, Marcus. I might buy
a dog tomorrow so I can complain about fireworks next
year when you get them a precious suit. Marcus. I

(26:55):
abhor the idea of horse racing. The horses wouldn't race
around a track less forced to by humans and more
honors the way humans dress up to the nine going off,
the arrogance and one upmanship. Yet people will tune up
to a funeral and casual genes close for a funeral,
bad form all around to disgusting behavior. Mark, I'm never

(27:18):
quite sure what to wear to a funeral. I reckon
I might have missed the memo on the funeral because
I reckon, at a funeral, you dress how the person
that died would remember you? Have I got that one wrong.
I've often been to a funeral and thought, gee, I'm
under dressed. Never discussed that as a topic. I'm not

(27:41):
an etiquette guy like some of those YouTube people. What's
the rules for a funeral? Because if I was going
to see someone off, I would want them to think, yeah,
if I was. I was going to say if I
was going to my own funeral, But that's not going
to be a thing, is it. I also sort of

(28:03):
want to be relaxed at a funeral, and I was
saying it's all about me a little bit, isn't it.
But yeah, I reckon I might have missed the memo
on the funeral sometime. Can we discuss that and not
be too depressing about what to wead to a funeral?
Vince A's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 13 (28:20):
Yeah, I look because I want to talk about the.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
I'm liking you, Vince. I'm liking the way you're coming
in strong yep.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (28:26):
Well this is an interesting experience for me after a
a the radio, because I've been betting for a long
time and I've had a JB account and I always
like a flutter in the Melbourne Cup. Now, about two
nights ago, on Sunday night, I woke up about three
or four in the morning and well, I had a
dream as a horse race and there was a night

(28:48):
with the armor with her on his face. You know,
like this just weird, you know, So I said to
gen In my partner. I said, Then on on Monday
the Tagga Daily Times, I've got the racing field, I said.
I dream the horse won the Melbourne Cup, and I said,
I want to go through the field and anything with
a night in that. So I went right through that.
It was a night and I ghd. But there was

(29:09):
a night k and I ghd, which is as knights
in armor, you know, yeah, any.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Every this is one of the great stories of all time.
You bring a knight as a k night or a night.
So you've gone through the field.

Speaker 13 (29:23):
Nice choice, Nice choice. So I go into my tear back.
I got twenty dollars in there. So I look up
the horse and it's paying one hundred and one, right,
So I thought I put ten dollars in it. I did.
I put ten dollars on it. And I normally I
took three or four houses in the moment, cup didn't
take anything. I just said, this gut thing, this horse
will win. And I watched the race, and this morning

(29:45):
I actually looked at the odds and it went out
to one hundred and fifty on the fixed dodds. So
I put it on the fix dodds at one hundred
and one and the horse won. And it's incredible that
I sort of dreamt that night, the night and the
race in the background and the horse one. It's weird,
you know, a good story.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
It's a really good story because of course part of
you would realize that the so who's communicating with you
and your dreams? No one?

Speaker 13 (30:11):
Well, funny you just say that because my friend who
died a year ago, we went to the Melbourne Cup
twice on Cup Day. Well, I think that he gave
me the tip.

Speaker 4 (30:22):
Now.

Speaker 13 (30:22):
It was incredible and I couldn't believe it's a good thought.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
This is weird story.

Speaker 13 (30:28):
It's just uncanny because only back that one horse and
I saw number eleven come down the inside and just
got up by half a head, and it was just
weirdly wirma. So I thought, there's something out of there.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Mate, that's a great story of Vince. Are you do
you wish you'd bit more on it?

Speaker 13 (30:43):
Not really, because I was happy when I got because
the odds went out to one hundred and fifty in
the morning.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
I'm gon leave it for news, Vince, but it's a
great story. Congratulations and thank you. Welcome, good evening. My
name is Marcus. I'm Hitdle twelve o'clock tonight. One for
all and all for one. I hope it's good.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
We you are.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
We are talking fireworks, obviously because we always do it
this time and the immediate reports on how the fire
eas again, I think it's wet, so it's not a problem.
But also, more importantly, the rules of dressing for a funeral,
because I reckon I've got it wrong a large number

(31:18):
of times, but I don't really care. However, I probably
think if people weren't so judgmental about how you dress,
there's probably more than I would have gone to because
you probably get to a certain stage in your life

(31:42):
where you don't kind of have your funeral clubber. I'm
at that stage because what am I going to have
a suit for no reason at all? Like zero reason?
So there you go. So you have a particular outfit
for funerals. It seems a bit morbid. Anyway, we'll get

(32:04):
onto that, Bob Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, that guy rang up before Marcus about a horse racing, saying, oh,
you know, it would be better if they had no betting.
I've just spent four days in Kao Khora, and believe me,
we had to line up at the top for a
good half and hour to get a bet on. So
obviously the beating parts are very important.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Could you not have downloaded something to your phone and
just beat it from your phone?

Speaker 12 (32:25):
Just just about to go into that mark.

Speaker 14 (32:27):
And I've been using I have been using the.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Pods right, the TB pods they bought in However, I
forget to take my tickets home. I lead them in
the blooming machines, and of course by the time I
get back to get them, someone else has stolen my money.
It happened at the end today. So they're convincing us
that we must go on and do it through the phone,
which I was dead against the phone and the confusion

(32:51):
all the rest of it. But if we don't, that's
what happens.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
How did you go at Kakula? Did you ever collect yes,
so I did all right.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
I wouldn't say I made a lot of money. I
made a lot of money today. And that wasn't the
Melbourne Cup. It was the races that when you bees,
although my sister backed the winner of the cups sixty
three dollars ten dollars each way, and I thank you
very much.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
And how much do you make up? How much do
you make up? Wing of two?

Speaker 2 (33:16):
I maybe eight hundred today.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Oh that's a good day for you.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yes, yes, yes, I back horses have paid eighteen dollars
each plus a little odds and ends around it.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Do you think the pic do you think the pensions
too much? Bob?

Speaker 12 (33:32):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
We mentioned that at the races, yes, because all the
caravans and traveling people at the.

Speaker 5 (33:40):
That was quite funny to say that because we were
at the races.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
And all the RVs and that we're all worth you know,
two hundred hundred thousand RVs were trucks towing them and
they were with one hundred thousand dollars. Well, no one
went to work today because we're all living the morning.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Oh that's good. And will you do something special that
or your gambed it away? Next week?

Speaker 2 (34:02):
No, no, no, no, I won't gamble it away next week.
Good good question, but no, I'll probably get at the
way in two weeks.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
Where are you now? Where are you now? Bob?

Speaker 2 (34:12):
I've gone back to Blenham tonightworks. Yes, bloody was raining
to be okay, No, it's pouring with rain out there
and someone leaving off fireworks.

Speaker 12 (34:21):
How are they doing it?

Speaker 4 (34:22):
Well?

Speaker 3 (34:22):
At least the hell's not going to get because there's
been some big fires over the years and blend him
so I'm happy about that. But anyway, you take some sleep, Bob. Colleen,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
Good evening and welcome, Oh Marcus.

Speaker 15 (34:33):
Lovely to eventually catch up with you. Thank you love
your show is always like I'm way back.

Speaker 9 (34:44):
Listen.

Speaker 15 (34:45):
I just heard that something about the.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
What to wear it a feudal Yes.

Speaker 15 (34:53):
I would just say, whoever you are, you just wear what.
I don't think they're judge metal in the next.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
Want to want to go as you normally are? Wouldn't
you want to go as your as your main convincing self.

Speaker 15 (35:12):
Absolutely, and yes and in a respectful way. But in
the next phase of life. I could be wrong, but
I'm sure I'm not. You go on to a more.
I don't know how to say spiritual phase. If you
do what I mean, And unlike physical people, they're not

(35:36):
judgmental in that way. They are just grateful for the
people in their life. Yeah, okay, and I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
That makes sense.

Speaker 15 (35:52):
And as Elvis would say, who's the memories pressed between
the pages of our mind?

Speaker 16 (36:00):
I think that's important.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Nice to hear from you, Colin, Thank you, pretty quite
upgraded valley tonight with fireworks Jason go j so oh,
Nana and devenports and during the fireworks. What are you
we to a funeral? What are the rules? What are
the rules for a funeral? My uncle Brian or Brigsy

(36:22):
was for many years the milkman for Thames. To keep
Granddad busy, he used to give him the job of
counting the milk tokens. This wed on for years and
by the end everyone knew my granddad is toky. Get
in touch. What a we're to a funeral? The rules
of what a we're to a funeral be pretty much

(36:44):
the same as what you were to peck and say
these days would it be? Which is pretty much uddies.
I can't believe people were in wododies everywhere so there
you go. I can be judgmental, wouldn't we judgement or
maybe I would be at a few I don't know,
don't even know if many people are turning up for
the make and go online. Oh wait, it's a good thing.

(37:07):
Actually the best thing to come at COVID was online grieving.
Quite often I'm not like a professional mourner, but quite
often I will watch funerals of people I know and
tap it on the phone and always think it's a
very very nice process. Remote grieving always good in some ways.

(37:39):
I feel when you watch the eulogies and the service
remotely you feel closer to it because you haven't got
all the frippery around you, and you just haven't got
the thing. Afterwards you and just focus on what you
said about the person and works so well. Oh I'm

(38:00):
glad to mention that it is a big thing from COVID,
that the remote remote grieving. Well, there's times you got
a front up, but then again, what do you wear?
Fireworks reports? Get those texts coming through, and where do
you think there's going to be We're not a running battle,
but where do you think there's going to be trouble? Tonight?

(38:21):
There's always one place isn't there? Normally it's Mission Bay.
I hope it's not Mission Bay because they've suffered enough. Marcus,
quite a lot of fireworks in the Hillmorton christ Gege area.
The cat is hiding under the bed, Angie, get into
the bed with you. One of my best friends is
an accountant in Bermuda, looked looking the very looking after

(38:43):
the very richest of Yank's money. He told me if
Trump doesn't, when America is no good in World War
II will start within two years. Whatever. Anyway, how were
your Melbourne Cup winnings? One guy dreamt of a night
and back to a horse when was paying one point
fifty vincent. So we know how people when they think

(39:07):
the premonitions and dreams, how they think that works. Like
I gu said, what it means is that that that
that back of horse they wouldn't normally back. So it
means you probably can back a horse that wouldn't be
a favorite. I mean, you're not going to borrow if
it's going to pay a dollar fifty?

Speaker 15 (39:22):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (39:25):
Or maybe you would. It's quite hard work betting. It's
a payoff between the sure fire winner and getting a
decent dividend. And that's the challenge. I think you want
to double your money. You want to double your money
each race for a place, then after eight races you've

(39:45):
got a lot of money. That's my theory. I bought
a book on it. Good evening, Tony, Marcus, welcome, Hey Marcus.

Speaker 5 (39:55):
You doing good, Tony.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
Thank you.

Speaker 17 (39:58):
Two things. Firstly, just quickly, I just drove all the
way into Dunedin from the peninsula and saw exactly zero fireworks,
which I thought.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
Was aware that gets is it darkly?

Speaker 5 (40:12):
It is the dark?

Speaker 4 (40:13):
Yeah, okayzer.

Speaker 17 (40:15):
But secondly, I'm a yes zero. I'm a pastor, so
I do a few funerals here and there, and certainly,
I would say in terms of etiquette, I don't think
there's any hard and fast rules anymore with your average
Kiwi funeral, But it's really based on your exposure, I

(40:38):
would say, to going to church. So folks who are
more used to going to church generally will have something
more kind of churchy to wear. And then certainly if
you if you then go into pacifica funerals and things
like that, then there is a lot.

Speaker 5 (40:58):
More etiquette to.

Speaker 17 (41:02):
Facil So it really it depends on the kind of
funeral rituals of your culture, and with Pakihar we've lost
a lot of those cultures as you know, we you know,
there's not a lot of church going anymore, and so
we haven't really set upon i would say, new rituals yet,

(41:24):
so they can vary quite broadly.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
Yeah, I'm interested what you're saying as I listened to you,
and here I would think a lot of I mean,
it's interesting because I go to funerals and three different places,
either in a funeral home or a church from a
I and they're all quite different in nature. The funeral
homes ones tend to be the one, you know. And
even these days you've got coffins going out on utes

(41:48):
with hay for that kind of Southern man type thing,
which is quite a relaxed kind of a vible. So
and that seems to be what they encourage. But yeah,
I haven't made that distinction between the church and the
and that.

Speaker 17 (42:02):
Certainly I have done a lot more very short quite
graveside services for Parquier families, but for Pacifica Romadi families
or Filipino families and so on, there is no way
that it would be that short and quick and just
casual be a lot more of an engaged you know,

(42:24):
affair with services in a church or you know, plus
at the graveside, plus food and visiting and you know
all that kind of stuff. So a lot bigger event, Tony.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Do you think that there is Do you think people
there is nervousness about what to wear and that prevents
people from attending, because that's a barrier, isn't it.

Speaker 17 (42:47):
I mean it can be generally they say, you know,
the average Kiwi has you know, man has one suit
for weddings and funerals. But yeah, like more recently, especially
since COVID, because that kind of just threw out all
the rules. I think there's a lot more casualness towards funerals.
I've noticed, you know, people come in all sorts, they

(43:09):
just kind of put on. I think dark going dark
is still kind of a fairly common rule. But you
might somebody, you might have somebody wearing a black hoodie
and jeans and someone wearing a suit or a nice black.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Dress and dark because black toys with the color.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
Of morning, right right, that's right.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Okay. We have never really thought about it, Okay, and
you think it'd be it'd be a ken to what
people do to choose as well, same sort of get
up the would be right.

Speaker 17 (43:41):
Yeah, absolutely, So the more exposure to have the church
on a regular basis, the more likely you are to
be quite formal.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
I would say, yeah, okay, what he hitted the town for, Tony?
Anything exciting, I can say, brilliant. You take care on
the return home, Sharky, Marcus. Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 18 (44:06):
You know how you going on about the funeral Elleticut
clothing thing, you know, with my dad's funeral being like
three four weeks ago down, So when my dad got buried,
quite well, he didn't get buried, he got cremated. But
his wish was that he was the man of sarcasm.
So he had a lot of sarcastic saying and he

(44:26):
wore a lot of thing clothes had like sarcastic sort
of messages on them. And so all the poor bearers,
myself included, we all wore one of his T shirts,
T shirt that had sarcasm on it.

Speaker 19 (44:43):
And his thing was he wanted to go in his
sheep shaggered T shirt. So when the you know, they
took him away and got him bressed up and everything
and put in his box. He was wearing his sheep
shagger T shirt did.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Say I'm a sheep shagger to have a picture of
a shagging sheep.

Speaker 19 (45:02):
Yeah, sheep shagger. It was like it was the key
we shagging a sheep.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
Brilliant And that was his.

Speaker 19 (45:11):
That was him, you know, that was he was. He
was the king of smut and sarka And on his
coffin he got you know that we had all these
sayings that he used to say when we were you know,
growing up, like no props and stuff like that. That
that's that's probably that's the cleaner side of it. And
we wrote all those sayings all over his coffin for him.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
What did your T shirts say when you're the pool bearer?

Speaker 19 (45:40):
You said, yeah, that was about dating and it was
river rude.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
That was about what it was.

Speaker 19 (45:48):
About dating and it was river rude, just about like
your ten best peaks that you've ever been on and
yeah and just yeah, it was prophanic.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
I've never seen I've never seen pool bearers and sarcastic
shirts a good image.

Speaker 19 (46:08):
Oh, it was great, it was great. That's that's exactly
how he wanted to go. And we make sure he
went the right way with that. You know, he wasn't
a religious man, so he that was what he wanted
and that's what he gotten and we all, we all
wore him one of his singlets and T shirts and.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
No no pushback from the funeral organizers. Whatever they're called
about the Sheepshaker T shirt.

Speaker 19 (46:36):
They love it. They they absolutely loved it, and they
thought it was funny. And everybody who came to the
funeral that knew what my dad was like. And he
he he was, he was just.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
On that brilliant boom. I think he's probably started something. Actually, Wow,
sounds like a Daily Mail story. Actually, I reckon you
can probably sell that to them now they've paywalled everything.
Apologize for anyone that found the language of that last
called sensitive. But I think you on, I think we've
all seen the T shirt with the Kiwi in the sheep,

(47:10):
and this is a topic that came organically. Someone texted,
they did the texts, they set the text and more
oddor is the way humans dress up the nine showing
off the arrogance and one upmanship at the horse races.
Yet people turn up to a funeral casual, you know,
for me with my dress music festival, funeral work farm,

(47:31):
there's not much difference between them all. For me on
the farm would be slightly different because I got sort
of work pants. Yeah, I mean we're going to go
shopping and vicat I get to done. Gabriel, it's Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 16 (47:52):
Children, Marcus Gabriel year the funeral apparel and I seen
quite a few different funerals, being of Marii Pacific descent,
and I agree with some of the previous cause that
the certainly the Pacific of funerals tend to be more formal. Yes,

(48:19):
and of course there is a long standing Mali tradition
of wearing black, which seems from the sort of Victorian era, yes,
and that's continued today. But I'd say that these has
been a bit of a change or drift towards more

(48:39):
casual where within Australasia, people from the UK, from the US,
from Europe, even from Africa and other parts of the
world tend to be more formal. Okay, So I think
that it differs with different cultures and professions. I mean,

(49:00):
I own a few seats because of the work that
I do, so at a typical funeral, probably opt for
a dark suit. And it used to be the place
goes to people used to own, say one Black suitor,
and it was the go to for funerals, but these
days it's some probably seen as a waste.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
Of You don't know when you're gonna have to go
to a funeral either if in the world, because hopefully
you know, it's probably not something that you plan for
because you can't plan for it, so you don't have
your funeral suit, do you.

Speaker 16 (49:33):
No. No, And that's not exactly a priority for a
lot of people.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
And I'm sure if I'm thinking of when I die,
I'm sure the thing will be the most important for
me is that if people want to come along that
I wouldn't care less so and I'm kind of not
I'm not entirely sure ensure who who is the gatekeeper
of those rules or who it's showing respect. I can

(50:00):
presume it. If you're going to a church, if it's
a church or a place, a spiritual place, I guess
you're showing respect to that place. Answer by dressing up.

Speaker 16 (50:09):
Yes, And I don't think there's any discrimination for you
because everyone comes from different walks of life, and all
the funerals have been to people probably jupret at the
best they can. But I'd say there has been some
evolution or things have developed. Even with the Pacific of funerals,
you'll see a lot of them wearing pictures of the

(50:32):
loved ones, you know, the loved ones that have passed on,
and the T shirts and next sort of thing, so
that there has been a bit of a development. And culturally,
I mean I've been to a Chinese funeral where someone
attending the funeral, he's not Chinese themselves, was wearing it red. Yes,

(50:53):
and so the organizers of the funeral said, actually, know
that's that's you know, it's a bad omen or red
shouldn't be worn a funerals. So some some cultures they
would wear whites. I think they're the gatekeepers, are those
who would be sort of safeguarding the teacung or the
traditions of those females.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Yeah, no, I think that's a valid discussion. The other
thing I'm thinking is I'm sitting here talking to you, Gabriel,
is so many of the funerals I've been to in
recent times, they all tend to have been in the
summer where it's been as hot as heck. Also, and
you're in a room with a lot of people and
it becomes you know you want to get out of
there because everyone ends up in the car park because
it's you've got Also, you know, want to be too

(51:35):
hot either.

Speaker 16 (51:38):
And I think that's where common sense prevails. Those people
who are caught up in the sartorial world, say who
owned many seats would have seats for different seasons. These
are different fabrics. Yes, so I'd say common seats prevails.
If someone owns a cooler cotton, say black shirt or
a linen shirt, I'll go for that rather than the

(52:00):
hesty wall or fennel.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Nice to hear from you, Gabriel. I do appreciate you
coming through on that. Jeepers five away from ten, eight
hundred and eighty to ety're on a topic. My granddad
died ten days before his one hundredth birthday at the
entrance of the crematorum. He had two swaleed al sheep
that led him in. He was farming from fourteen until
ninety four. Wow, good evening, Meredith. It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 7 (52:28):
Hi Marcus. I was listening to your show about funeral etiquette. Yes,
and the pastor mentioned the dress that he's been seeing
with hoodies or jumper's hood Yes, And I just wanted

(52:52):
to comment on that regarding funeral etiquette because with his
comment about it being reflective of of what you wear
to church. So normally church service is on a Sunday

(53:15):
every week, and normally you would have a suit, a
dress shirt and a tie and dress shoes to wear
to church each Sunday.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
Not necessarily, that's true. It depends on what church you
go to. I won't say ry last went to church
because people will judge me, but yeah, I just I
want to finish and I keep going.

Speaker 20 (53:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (53:47):
Sure, so I want to finish on what the past
I was saying regarding funeral etiquette.

Speaker 4 (53:52):
Yes, so normally.

Speaker 7 (53:57):
For church each Sunday, you would wear a suit. And
what the past was saying that I'm phony about is
that he was saying at funeral a lot of hoodies.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Yes.

Speaker 7 (54:11):
So what I wanted to comment on was that when
my mother died, I was a poor bearer at her funeral.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
Yes.

Speaker 7 (54:25):
And we didn't have enough mail in our family to
carry the coffin for my mother.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
Yes.

Speaker 7 (54:36):
So what I'm trying to explain is that I understand
that there is an etiquette for a funeral, and that
etiquette for a funeral Marcus is based on regular church service.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
Hang on, Meredith, because I realized this is emotional for
you with your mother, but for me, going to church
and a funeral every different things. Because not everyone that
goes funeral is a church goer. It's a very different Marcus.
I don't want to get to a Marcus.

Speaker 7 (55:13):
What I want to comment on is in support of
what the pastor that phoned you about was saying about
hotties at a funeral. So what I'm phoning about, Marcus,
is in support of what the pastor is saying. There
are hoodies at a funeral because there are not enough
priesthood holders, there are not enough males, there are not

(55:35):
enough men believing in the Gospel to support.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
This sending to Flon, Ok, this is just a light
This is just a lighthearted conversation about death and what
we're a funeral. And I'm finding it quite informative because
I reckon I've probably in the past, probably got it wrong,
but I don't care because all the funerals I've been
to have been a chance for me to go and
show my respect and talk to the family. And I've

(55:58):
done all of that, and I've fronted up and I've
said what I needed to say. So, yeah, I can
look back on my own actions and it's about how
I've behaved and who I've spoken to. It's not been
about why.

Speaker 7 (56:13):
I'm trying to explain to you.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
It's it's it's too I love you to pieces, but
I don't. I don't. I don't know if you know what.

Speaker 7 (56:23):
I'm not feeling it, Marcus, you're not feeling your love.
I'm not feeling Marcus. Can I just say that I
phoned you because of what the pastor says at a funeral?

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Was he a pastor or was he a preacher? Or
what do you say?

Speaker 9 (56:37):
Was he?

Speaker 3 (56:38):
Did he say it was a pastor? Is his pastor?

Speaker 7 (56:40):
Okay, So Marcus, can I just think let's saying my name?

Speaker 3 (56:46):
Quit saying my name.

Speaker 7 (56:49):
You're representatives of reception for the whole country of New Zealand.

Speaker 6 (56:54):
Marcus.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
That means nothing. I don't even know there's a sentence. Okay,
here's a question. It's quit saying my name. I will
cut you off. Mirrords Macus, Marcus, you are hearing what
New Zealand is actually have to endure.

Speaker 7 (57:16):
Marcus, Marcus, you are a voice for New villain.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
Marcus, I can't handle you much more, Meredith. But despite
all of this, Marcus.

Speaker 7 (57:29):
About what a past it was saying to you? About
how is at a funeral?

Speaker 3 (57:33):
Marcus, MICUs, it sounds like you, O, Meredith, you're sounding
really unbearable with all the love. Girl, you're not doing yourself.
Could she's hung up my deep Sea's apologies to making

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you wait forever, Joan Jonats Marcus, greetings, good evening. Did
you have a collect?

Speaker 20 (57:59):
Yes I did. I did, but I heard that lady
getting so up tight, and I thought, oh my goodness
me But anyway, I hadn't been listening to her. Yes,
I had a bit. I always have a bit on
the Melbourne Cup and the New Zealand Cup, which will
be next Tuesday, because I get the press, and I
get my right down my names, of my numbers of
my horse, and and I made about close to forty

(58:22):
dollars I spent, because no, I make quite a few
of them. I got number eleven, which was an outsider
because I took a few numbers for a dollar each way,
And of course I took number four and some other numbers,
so four came in for a second place. So no,

(58:43):
I'm quite pleased because I'd just like to go to
the hare would tab on me? I get and the
same lady served me for years. She knows I'm but amateure.
So I've got my things written out and she just
follows that.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
Lucky it's number four, a lucky number for you.

Speaker 20 (58:56):
Yeah, I like number four.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
Really, such a stupid number, like symmetric. Oh, it's a
horrible nut too. I don't like it. I don't like
even numbers or squeen numbers.

Speaker 20 (59:08):
Like twenty two forty four are like really, yeah, twelve,
number twelve one of my rep numbers.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
I'm a seven thirteen three kind of guy.

Speaker 20 (59:18):
Oh you're a but unusual number.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
Judge me. No, sorry, I'm number judging you, aren't I?

Speaker 20 (59:26):
Yeah, well yes, because I told you once. I like
my TV volume control at even number that standard.

Speaker 15 (59:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
Well that's all everyone does, don't they.

Speaker 20 (59:38):
Yeah. Well, anyway, I've had some I closed my blinds
about half an hour ago, but I've burnside Christ it's here.
I've had fireworks going. It's been quite good to watch
them because I can see them with my big window
at the front of the lounge in the dining room.
When I'm here in the dark, it's not that dark.
But then I'm still in the dark, but I've shut
my blinds. But I quite enjoyed watching the You know

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you're going to call them fire week sky.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
You've got a good spirit on it, You've got a
good handle on life. I reckon, do you think it's
not you ring them all four weeks? In my day,
we used to do the people throwing away their money.
They haven't got a house, but they're throwing oil. Yeah,
you had a quiet bit, you got you got stupid numbers,
you had a quiet bit, had a collect at the
tavern here would back threw on the curtain to join

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the noise happiairs.

Speaker 20 (01:00:23):
Yeah, I'm always happy. I don't mind being at home.
And I'm a social person as well. So every day
is a good day and I just you know, get.

Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
Along with it with a many at the Harewold on
for the race.

Speaker 20 (01:00:35):
Oh there's a few people. And then I don't know.
I just went up and said to the lady, I said,
you know, gave her the thing and she just checked
it with me. I said, yep, that's fine, and if
I went and I I was quite pleased that I
but I got the machine to pick me six half trifectors,
but none of those come in. And I took a
couple of quin hours. We got two numbers, but you

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see they weren't mainly favorites. But anyway, I was happy that.
Why I picked number eleven, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
And I am half twenty two because there was no
twenty two. Yeah, good on. You talk to you next year.
She's running a racing guy. A lot of people are
asking via text whether Meredith was pro or against hoodies
at funerals. No one knows. Good things she'd got to

(01:01:23):
as Sharky's dad's funeral. Craig, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:01:29):
They think, how's it going, Marcus?

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
Good? Thank you, Craig.

Speaker 12 (01:01:32):
I'll only say your name once I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
Sometimes people have there's like music radio competitions to win
to ring talk back and say the host's name as
many times as possible. And I wonder if she was
in one of those radio compt like it's a prank
from the edge or something.

Speaker 12 (01:01:51):
Oh there of medication, Adam, either there or offster medication
or something.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
I don't think we make fun of people being on medication, Craig.
I don't think that's nice, is it?

Speaker 13 (01:02:03):
No?

Speaker 12 (01:02:03):
Not probably that. What I was trying to say is
I go to church Wrigley and I don't wear a suit.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Sorry, yeah, no, I'm hearing you. Sorry that yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:02:12):
I don't wear a suit. And in our church is
basically you just wear what you're like, tidy clothes, by
what you feel comfortable. And I've been to multiple friend
funerals and I just wear everyone that I've gone to
funerals with it. Just wear something tidy that the person
is useful and wearing. You're not going to just wear
a suit to a funeral, but if that's not what
you normally.

Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
Wear, absolutely because you want to feel comfortable because it's
something it's emotionally raw also and you want to feel Yeah,
I feel I feel quite strongly about this.

Speaker 8 (01:02:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:02:44):
You're there to basically respect the person who passed away
and their memories and they're not to be judged by
other people at the funeral what they think.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
And Craig, I think I have got it wrong. I
think I've been too casual in the past.

Speaker 9 (01:02:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:02:59):
Maybe, but it depends really like you're saying, that guy
getting the coffin on the back of a yet with
hate and then you'll probably be a little bit more
casual than you would for something else. But at the
end of the day, I mean, they've got at the
end of the person you're going there for the funeral
knows what you're like and knows you you would never
disrespect them. So whatever you're wearing, as long as it's

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comfortable and tidy, and if I think, at the end
of the day, as long as you feel comfortable with
what you wear. And that's the main thing, not what
other people think.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
I mean, the respectful thing is to turn up and
respect that person in their farewell, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (01:03:33):
Yeah, yeah, talk and you get a chance to talk
about their life and what he's meant to you and
all that, and share a few good stories in that.
And that's the main thing at the funerals is basically
to share a wonderful life I've had and all that,
rather than be so caught up on having to wear
suits or proper or tie.

Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
Really, I mean, that's exactly Craig. I've got to move on,
but thank you. And most of the don't have suits
now because where would you wear a suit. There's no
where to wear a suit. I have no where to
wear a suit ever, I don't have a suit, and
I mean for that, I'm glad Colin. It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:04:10):
Yes, Marcus, I won't call you Marcus. But it was
rather coincidental. They're mentioning blinds, and shortly after I spoke
to your host that you had an advertisement for blinds
on and a lot of older people, a lot of

(01:04:32):
older people will remember when a person died, the blinds
in the house were always put down. Of course I were, Yeah,
I don't I can remember it because I'm ninety next December,
and that was the fashion. The same as when there
was a funeral, all the cars had to slow down

(01:04:54):
to about ten to twenty miles an hour and hold
up all the traffic and all that has gone.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
Oh no, I think people still do this still, the
convoy what do they call it, the funeral pursuit and the.

Speaker 21 (01:05:03):
Lights on maybe to show the person, maybe put me
alive or something electrifying, the lights on the herse. I
don't know. I'm probably a little bit a lot rubbish.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
Oh no, making sense.

Speaker 21 (01:05:19):
I don't think that poor Meredith was on any medications.
She's just a humble soul. She should be treated with humility.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
Thank you. Colin. Yeah, and I probably should tread to
Craig with humility as well. But anyway, I'm none the
wiser about funerals. But the more I think of it,
the more I think there is no rules. A lot
of people like to wear the dark glasses. I don't know.
That's not my don't wear sunglasses, Marcus, it's germ. I

(01:05:51):
head my yearly bit. I put ten each way our
night's choice, God of eight hundred back. I only beg
that I thought it could have been in relation to
silver Knight Marcus. I've never met a deceased person who
said you shouldn't have worn that to my funeral. I
reckon they would just be happy that you came along
to pay your respect. Mark's a lot of banging happening

(01:06:16):
in Dunedin. Warehouses ruined guy Fawks by not selling fireworks. Well,
the warehouse ruined the warehouse by not selling fireworks. They
tried to make some sort of moral stance to get
some free publicity, and it's sunk them. I suspect the

(01:06:37):
same will happen to animates. You don't use social issues
to try and drive business through your doors. It's cynical
and people can see through it feel really strongly about
that people that are jumping on to causes to try

(01:06:59):
and win some warm fuzzies. I mean, God knows what
sort of conditions some of that gear at the warehouse
has made. And I've got no idea, but you know,
there's all sorts of things that they could actually cross
as that they could die on, I think, and they
chose fireworks as their one. Really I'd allow, I'd let

(01:07:23):
the members of New Zealand Public work out what they
can buy and not buy anyway, don't get me started.
I can come on a bit strong on that one,
and I enjoy the warehouse. But ge, the discussion tonight
is what to wear to a funeral? And I've never
thought about it and I've never discussed it, and I

(01:07:45):
reckon I've probably often got it wrong, and I reckon
probably I'll continue to get it wrong. None of it
has been out of disrespect, but it's I guess, just
what I think is appropriate. But I've got my blowback
about that, by the way, btw. But curious your take

(01:08:08):
on this one. Line's free if you want to come
through also fireworks if you hear a Sarah and let
me know and welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:08:16):
Oh, hello, I just wanted to let you know that
I don't think it's about what how you dress. Mine
husband died far too young. I wore a nice dress
that he hadn't really seen on me there and our
friends and other people just dressed comfortably, you know, in

(01:08:39):
a way, not sort of like a uniform, and it
was much nicer.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
And I guess that's how people feel comfortable because every
personal thing grieving, isn't it. It's emotional.

Speaker 22 (01:08:51):
Yes, yes, And he wasn't the sort of person who
would have expected people to dress up like that anyway.
They were his friends.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
And was it in a church or a funeral home or.

Speaker 22 (01:09:08):
It wasn't. It wasn't in a church. No, although one
of my family is religious, so she did sing a
religious song, but it was a lovely way. It's not
how lovely because I lost my husband, but he would
have my daughter sang a song? Would she for him?

(01:09:32):
And it was it was just lovely.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Yeah, And I think you know your daughter sang. If
I was getting up to sing or speak at a funeral,
I mean that would probably you'd want to you'd want
to wear something that was appropriate because people would be
looking at you wouldn't want to, would you.

Speaker 22 (01:09:48):
Everybody? Everybody looked tidy and nice, but it wasn't a
uniform of any any thought, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:09:55):
I mean, okay, thank you and thank you for hanging
on to I appreciate that. Would you wear a hoodie? Yeah,
wear a hoodie? I mean what a monk's where? It's
like a hoody, isn't it? What do you call what
monks wear? What that is? Is it a hoodie? Is it?
What's a scapula?

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
Anyway?

Speaker 3 (01:10:14):
Get in touched? My name is Marcus. Welcome hddle twelve
oh wait one hundred eighteen seventy and nine two nine
to text. A skepula is a text suspended from the shoulders.
I'll by the way, tomorrow night, coldplay, We're all yellow,
get in touch. That's going to be a big deal
because tomorrow night people will be talking about the trains

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and it was cold yellow. Ten past ten, past ten funerals.
What to wear? My problem with a hoodie. I've got
a lot to say about hoodies. My problem with hoodies
is there terrible if you're ever riding a bike, Because

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if you wear a hoodie when you're riding a bike
with the go on and then you turn your head
to see if there's going to be a car behind
it is going to kill you. And then you actually
all you do is you turn around, but your hood
stays facing forward. It's all you do is you turn
around and see the back of your hood. That's not good, Marcus.

(01:11:25):
Have we heard from lower sheet? Only fitting we do,
since this all started from the English our own backyard. Also,
funerals doesn't really matter. No, it doesn't matter. But I
reckon I've been judged to be fair. The moon is
very much set depending on how the individual passed away
and the person at fairpoint. Murray said, zero fireworks, How

(01:11:46):
we are flat to worry? Marcus, damned fireworks and dense
housing does not work. Ps. I think the Victorians did
funeral well, they went the whole hog. Do every want
to know why they cover mirrors? Craik is totally crazy

(01:12:09):
in hill christalphin mess of bangs, Marcus cold ways cold plays.
Next week, there we go and you if I said something,
we get the answer getting touched hit'll twelve Rose, welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:12:28):
Grecians, Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
Thank you? Rose?

Speaker 6 (01:12:32):
All right? So I love at the sort of top
of gifts born, and I've just watched the whole of
the Bay line up was a little sparkly doodles and things.
It's been beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:12:42):
It's barkley doodles. Nothing is on fire.

Speaker 6 (01:12:46):
No, yeah, that's been really, really lovely. I thank you
very much. And my opinion, if you need to know
on sjournals is does you're clean and childly? It's an
end of and you're like me. We have black jeans

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all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
Now, black jeans look terrible, would they. I wouldn't wear
black jeans.

Speaker 6 (01:13:14):
I've seen you in black jeans.

Speaker 3 (01:13:16):
I never warn black jeans.

Speaker 6 (01:13:18):
Yeah, I pierri winkles or something. I'm sure that was
your year. It was back in the days.

Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
I've never worn black jeans or peery winkles whatever whatever.

Speaker 12 (01:13:27):
They are, really okay?

Speaker 3 (01:13:30):
Then have you got me confused? Have you got me
confused with?

Speaker 6 (01:13:34):
Well, I'm not too sure.

Speaker 3 (01:13:35):
Really, No, I'm not too sure either.

Speaker 6 (01:13:40):
Yeah. If only I wasn't that old and I could
remember properly. Never mind, anyway, I hope at the end
of the day that you have a good night.

Speaker 3 (01:13:52):
I don't reckon this. I don't I reckon there's different
clothes for different occasions. Has all gone now, I reckon,
people just be what they want. Sometimes sometimes you go
to the airport and sometimes I'm not going to say this.
I've revoked what I'm going to say, am I. Yeah,
you're still on. I can't hear much fireworks in the background.

Speaker 6 (01:14:15):
Well it's sort of similar down now that I have
got my windows closed.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
Was over very quick, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:14:23):
It did start quite early. But then also Speedway had
this phenomenal lightning show on Saturday night. I think Speedway.

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
Always loves that doing a fireworks thing, don't they.

Speaker 6 (01:14:38):
Oh criky, And they do it well too, of course
they do.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
That's in their blood. That's the review. What they love. Fireworks?
Is this our? Is this our poony? Oh no, what's
a Speedway? Cause a gisbeone?

Speaker 6 (01:14:56):
Cause, oh craky, you've got me not.

Speaker 5 (01:15:02):
That one.

Speaker 6 (01:15:02):
I can't remember right off the top of my hat.

Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
Sorry, yeah, goodness.

Speaker 6 (01:15:09):
But all in all, Oh, because you know, I really
thought back in the days when you were around alike
it maybe in the twenty.

Speaker 12 (01:15:21):
And you were on TV, wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
Wear black jeans or periwinkles. That's not my profile, that's
not me. So the do's and don'ts of funerals and
a shirt with a slogan. Like people got obsessed about
hats for a while. You can't wear a hat here,
you can't wear a hat there. You can't wear a
hat and barman, who cares? It's all changed. The only

(01:15:49):
thing that my only clothing, my only rule ever when
it comes to clothing is you shouldn't wear an audit
to the supermarket because it always looks there was look dirty,
that was look sort of meted. But you know, if
I saw someone that I knew with an audie in
the supermarket, I would talk to them and I wouldn't

(01:16:10):
say funny choice of clothing. I'll probably let it go,
which would be progress for me. But yeah, I don't
like a naughty it seems like such synathetic fiber, sort
of fiber if you bite it would make your sort
of teeth kind of sparkle. Or don't like a noughty

(01:16:35):
it's the least likely, the least likely. It would be
the least likely clothing item. I would own that and
a puffer jacket. It's just me, though. If you want
to wear them, I just don't wear them to the supermarket. Hey,
here's a question that I meant to ask right, and

(01:16:58):
then I was thinking about it, and then actually my
son asked me as well, so when we were listening
to the news, and firearms aren't my specialist topic. Oh
and I know a bit about firearms. I've done a
firearms license course and I've fired most forms of firearms.

(01:17:25):
But if you are going and I'm not going to
do this, I'm not even thinking of doing this. If
you made a firearm with a three D printer, and
I know someone from Otago's gone to jail for doing that,

(01:17:47):
and it's been something people have been worried about for
about ten years. He has been warnings about three D
printers and firearms. So if you've got a three D
printer or went to the local library and printed a firearm,
what ammunition would you fire? Because you'd still need a
gun license to get the ammunition, wouldn't you. Would Someone
explain that to me, because it's a complicated area to

(01:18:13):
ban these, So if anyone's got the information about that,
I'd be curious. So you can print them with their
plastic and then you can kind of sneak them onto
planes and stuff, but you couldn't steik the ammunition onto planes.
I wouldn't think pause that had come up on the
on the screen saver, also not the screen saver of
the screen. And what would you wear to a funeral?

(01:18:36):
I mean, really do we care? I reckon, I've got
it wrong, but it just doesn't worry me. What are
we're to a funeral? So yeah, you might want to
convince me otherwise. I'm not even quite sure how to
go with that one, but I'm up for the discussion. Yeah,
I've probably got it wrong. In the past. Australia is

(01:19:01):
going to be the hottest place in the world tomorrow
it's going to be up to forty four to forty
eight degrees. The unlucky country. Eh, they're warning people to
take precautions. Well, good luck with that. Twenty three past ten, Christine,

(01:19:22):
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:19:24):
How are you? Marcus?

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
Good Christine? Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:19:27):
Hey.

Speaker 10 (01:19:27):
Look, a few years ago, my dear friend's mother passed
away and she was heavily into the races, and I thought,
because it's Melbourne Cup day to day, I thought, what
a great opportunity to mention what was requested to wear
at her funeral, and that was fascinator and hat great thing. Yeah, yeah,

(01:19:51):
so I just heard you talking about it, and I
thought what to wear at funerals? And I thought it
was such a lovely request from her daughter. Can everyone
rock up in a fascinator or you know, a beautiful
hat in honor of my mum tonight?

Speaker 3 (01:20:07):
Did she die on the Melbourne Cup?

Speaker 6 (01:20:08):
No that she.

Speaker 10 (01:20:11):
She didn't, But I just thought because the day was
Melbourne Cup day, it just kind of triggered the memory
of the fact that her mum was heavily into you know,
horse racing and things, and she requested everyone, we're a
hairsh or a fascinator.

Speaker 13 (01:20:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:20:28):
So you have you been to many funerals where there
has been clothing requests?

Speaker 10 (01:20:34):
No, never, but that was the only one. Yeah, yeah,
So and it was really special, you know, like everyone
rapped up and a fascinat or a hat for you know,
it's really special.

Speaker 6 (01:20:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:20:51):
And she was you know, she wasn't like well into
her late eighties, so you know, it was pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (01:20:59):
Okay, nice to hear from you, Christine. That's a good story.
Get in touch with anything else you want to say
about funerals and plastic firearms or home printed firearms. I'm
just reading my indeed posts they reckon they might do
away with letterboxes and just deliver letters to community boxes.
Where's the security in that cluster mail boxes? I don't

(01:21:28):
like the sounds of that, and I'm empty letterbox. Feel
quite conflicted by that, Marcus. With my dad died forty
years ago, M'm putting the funerals that people should wear tidy,
casual clothing and not black suits or frocks. Marcus. I
was looking at images of hoodies. They looked like dressing gowns.
To me, I would normally say, we're what you like

(01:21:49):
to a funeral, as long as it's clean and okay
with the Fernely. I definitely draw the line at wearing
lingerie or nightwear. Kate, It's well, I'm not wearing lingerie, Marcus.
I really think fireworks should be replaced with spectacular public
light shows. Well, yes, for me, I'm the op. It

(01:22:10):
is nothing as dull as a community fireworks display. Marcus.
I'm six out. I've never owned a worn a suit,
and when I kicked the back, I want to wear
jeans and a T shirt in the box. We'll expect
my friends. We were in casual attire. Hoodies are fine
with me, as our jeans and T shirts, as long
as what they wear is clean. Ugg boots said, be

(01:22:34):
the answer, Marcus. There is someone who regularly texts you
who must live in a upper heart the block between
Moonshine and TMP. Shout out to them from their neighbors.

(01:22:54):
Quite a lot of five weeks going off from Moscow. Beautiful,
calm night, what a great place, Marcus.

Speaker 8 (01:23:07):
Welcome, Hey Margaret, you hear me.

Speaker 3 (01:23:10):
Okay, it's good, Dave, thanks for asking, coming through loud
and clear.

Speaker 7 (01:23:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:23:14):
Hey, So I the friends passed away so late last
year and their their funerals were postponed till after the
new year, sort of early on mid January sort of thing. Yes,
and I three in a row, one on a Monday,
one on a Tuesday, one on a Wednesday, and the
one and one on the Monday was in Tarada, and
it was a country music guy, very well known, very

(01:23:34):
well respected guy. I played pedal steel, played the guitar.
Really well known guy. Anyway, So there were there was
a lot of like, I wore cowboy boots. I wore
a feeling casual top and some blue jeans. Not not
what I'd wear to every funeral, but I knew that
that was that was just going to be feeling normal
at that funeral to be there. The second one was

(01:23:57):
the second funeral I didn't go to. I watched it
on they video did and I watched it the next day.
So but so then the Wednesday, I was back in
Ortland and I went. I went to a funeral of
a guy much younger was. It was a lot more
solemn event because unlike the Monday funeral where the guy
reached a nice old age, this guy was far too
young and they had had a young baby and stuff.

Speaker 19 (01:24:17):
But here's the thing.

Speaker 8 (01:24:19):
I knew this guy and he was and I don't
want to offend anybody. Let's say he worked as a
male review guy. Yep, so yeah, all right, and lame terms.
It was a male stripper, very very very well known
here in Auckland, the busiest in Orkland, very well known guy.

(01:24:40):
And anyway, I dressed up and sort of nice clothes,
a little bit more sort of up level, you know,
suit tyle rest of it. And to my surprise, there
were a lot of guys there and the sort of
stuff you might see guys getting around in the strip
club and that being sleeveless shirts, you know, muscle t

(01:25:04):
shirts and so that the thought hadn't even occurred to me.
But I thought, of course, yere.

Speaker 3 (01:25:09):
Why not that honored that honored his occupation by dressing
like a male stripper exactly.

Speaker 7 (01:25:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:25:15):
And a couple of them were attached to the coffin,
you know, fall bearers as the coffin was taken out,
And as I say, I hadn't even thought that might
happen and when it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
Because it would be weird to get that one wrong,
wouldn't it. You'd need to have a bit of a
bit of a what's that thing? They will talk to
on each other forward on a step chat. But you
know one of those pages they all go, do you.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
Want to go?

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
I mean, you want to get on one of those pages.
You'll talk to each other to discuss what you're going
to wear before you go.

Speaker 17 (01:25:49):
Well, I mean to give you an idea.

Speaker 16 (01:25:50):
This guy, this guy, he's.

Speaker 19 (01:25:55):
There's a lot of people.

Speaker 8 (01:25:56):
There are a few you know, well known schleips in
the audience there too, which is why I got all
dressed up. I knew it was going to be a
who's who of you and deliberaties, actors, et cetera.

Speaker 3 (01:26:08):
Goodness day, I gotta go for headlines. That's a good call.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:12):
Mind boggles about that one. Marcus I took three children
to an area in Auckland to watch sky City fireworks
display tonight well nine to fifteen pm rang sky City
and they said they only do fireworks now at the
New Year, So no guy fawks display now from them
on the fifth of Ember. New Year is not to
do with Guy Fawkes and is dryer and not the

(01:26:32):
time for fireworks. So it took three redisappointed children home
with no fireworks display that was expected. You should have
bought your own. Marcus had a woman near eighty who died.
She always wore bright clothes, bright scarves, bright shoes. She
had a met presentation. Her funeral request was frival with
the brightest colors. It wasn't the funeral notice in the

(01:26:55):
paper as well. So we all did its requested and
proudly in a church. Cheers, Margaret Marcus. I have fond
memories of family fireworks. Was a child back in the seventies.
I always thinking about my family on the day with
great fond Hamilton lit off Guy Fawkes in middle of
the day. Lowell have been for days. Cheers for the
great show, Marcus, could you tell us why you wouldn't

(01:27:17):
wear lingerie? Honestly, I'd rather people just wear what I'm
used to seeing them wear. There you go, community mailbox year, right,
and how much are they going to charge for those?
Sounds like an influence way to make money. They won't
even need to hire a post I guarantee it'll be
a nice little learner. That's from Sarah. Oh yeah, what

(01:27:38):
we do with the old letterboxes? There could be leaderbox museum.
What about that shop on the north shri of Walkland
that sells giant sized products? Have you seen that? Like
giant packets of oreos? I see that on TikTok. I thought, gee,
what's that about? Looked like the world's most stupid shop
because even though it was a giant box of oreos,

(01:27:59):
the aureos inside with the ordinary side feel, some people
got too much spare time. Probably include myself in that.
By the way, Now Dan's asked about where is the
shop of the north shore of Auckland that shells the
giant packets like a giant tube of pringles? And now
I can't find I saw it on Facebook. Do anyone

(01:28:19):
know what that shop is? If anyone knows on the no,
And I mean it's just sort of it's the sort
of place that the suckers like Dan would go to.
And I mean he's desperate to get there. It's crazy.
It was a it was a video. It was a
YouTube video, not a YouTube Facebook. It's not cost go.

(01:28:44):
Anyone knows where that is? Let me know what's it called?
Dance dance Danatics, danetics found? Is Dan is that excited? Yeah?
I mean there's Dan living in Auckland. I'm going to
tell him what what's this neighborhood for giant pringles cans?

(01:29:05):
It's an Asian grocery outlet and Ota Valley Road. What's
it called? You got giant Pringleston's how's that spelled? E
v r n I n e ever nine ever nine Asian
grocery outlet Auckland. That's where you go get your giant Pringles.

(01:29:26):
It looks kind of a similar shopping center with that
person sold their lotto. That's Dan tomorrow every day. I mean,
that's that Stand's key things is overseas source snacks and
ridiculously big containers. Pretty much him ever nine Asian miserable.

(01:29:49):
If we're not to come and straight away and say, Dan,
breaking news, he's your shop ever nine Asian grocery out
and there's a stupid video of people opening the stupid things. Dan,
have you seen that with a giant pringleton and you
open a giant box of ori? What's inside a hollow?

Speaker 13 (01:30:07):
Or?

Speaker 3 (01:30:08):
I don't know about you. I'm not a big fan
of oreos less surprising news ever? Anyway, could you wear
a hoodie to a funeral? This shit could? Would you
have the hoodie up? Probably not the hood up? But
I don't know. I've got children, right, and yeah, that's

(01:30:33):
a challenge. But they love to wear a hoodie. I
said to them, really you want to wear that because
you've got to love your kids. You gotta embrace the
fashion choices. But they're always in hoods. And there were
hods with caps that look like eminem It's like, I
feel like I'm an eight mile. It's not good, But

(01:30:54):
you want to embrace what the choices are. So you
can't wear anoodie in a hat. If that's like a
double hot in a hat. For my generation, that's a sin.
How many hats do you need to wear? I say
you can double hat, but pretend you're not with me anyway,
So they're double hatting with a hat in a hood

(01:31:18):
there's like it's like eight mile But anyway, where while
I get into this, Oh yeah, the kids just love
a hoodie. I don't know what my generation's equilador hoodie was.
So Guy Fawkes has been one of the great disappointments
from a news point of view. There's been no news
stories at all. No riots at Mission Bay, no fire

(01:31:41):
at Mount Wellington. Nothing's that's great news. I suppose we've
played well, we've kept safe. We should have it again
next year. We've talked that in the America's Cup and
what to wear to a funeral, and about printing your
own firearms on a three D printer. Someone's gone to
jail for that. But where do you get the ammunition?

(01:32:05):
There's no one can I mean that, Come on, you
firearm people, what's the whole appeal of those? So maybe
I've you already got some. I mean, if they confiscate
your firearms, they confiscate your ammunition as well. They probably would,
wouldn't they. And what about the shop in Albany. We
can buy giant packets of things like there's a giant

(01:32:25):
box of oreos it will cost you fifty nine dollars.
It's pretty amazing in the giant box would be a
meter high. Be a good stocking filler. I've learned all
this from Instagram. So if you want to talk in

(01:32:46):
the final go around, I'm here on midnight. What have
you got for the last day? I'd love to hear
from you. I've enjoyed the funeral topic because I don't
care at a wedding. I've often felt at weddings, I've
often felt underdressed, and I don't really mind. But I
feel slightly guilty about that, because, yeah, people got a
lot of fuss for a wedding, but I've never felt

(01:33:07):
underdressed at a funeral. Maybe other people think I'm unddressed,
but no one's ever said anything to me, So there
we are.

Speaker 6 (01:33:21):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:33:22):
I think it's been one of the themes of my
life is underdressing, and I don't mind that. By the way,
get in touch Marcus Till twelve, eight hundred and eighty
ten eight. Yeah. By the way, for those people wanting
to know what that it's that, it's on Instagram. It's

(01:33:42):
a couple called Vanessa and Anthony who buy Giant products.
They're like food bloggers, you go, is it go go parlor?
Is it a you go parlor? It's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 23 (01:33:55):
Hey, Marcus, good to chat to you again. It's it's
always great at this time of mind. I'd like to
contribute to quickly about that that shop in Albany that
sells a lot of massive snacks that you've seen on Instagram,

(01:34:15):
and I can vouch been there just to check it
out and do the due diligence as they call it.
The bags are huge. Yes, you pay up to sixty
dollars for the snacks. The only problem with that is
some of them when you open them up, it's three
quarter empty. When just selling air a joke on social

(01:34:37):
media's Albany is selling air to its customers.

Speaker 3 (01:34:44):
What's the point of that? Is it because people want
to buy giant things as gifts or they want to
open it on Instagram or what's the what's the I.

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
Don't know.

Speaker 23 (01:34:56):
There, I think, yeah, I've been there, so it's I've
got something that the rest of New Zealand doesn't have.
Maybe it's the thought process of everything's bigger Auckland, but no,
it's you open one of those.

Speaker 17 (01:35:09):
Like the laced hips.

Speaker 23 (01:35:11):
Yeah, it's only a quarter.

Speaker 3 (01:35:14):
It's as tall as a person in the last But
I'm suspecting with the I'm suspecting with the branding. It
looks like it all comes from Is it Chinese care?
It looks like it's all sourced in China? Will that
be right?

Speaker 23 (01:35:26):
Yeah, it's definitely. It's definitely not American, so that, and
it does have the colors of your standard brands. But
unless you've got Google Translate, you're going to have to
figure out what's on the packaging.

Speaker 5 (01:35:42):
Yeah, was anything?

Speaker 3 (01:35:44):
Did you buy anything interesting?

Speaker 9 (01:35:45):
There?

Speaker 23 (01:35:47):
No more of the accountant hype side. There's sixty and
ninety dollars price tags didn't really ring with me.

Speaker 3 (01:35:55):
It looks pricey. Yeah, but I guess there's teenagers do
something like that for a thrill. Okay, how long has
it been there?

Speaker 23 (01:36:03):
It's pretty much. I'd give it quarter six months max,
probably four months old.

Speaker 3 (01:36:09):
Okay, really appreciate Go Parla, thank you, There we go,
Giant Food. I'm going It's on my list. I can't
wait to get there for no other reason than when
you can buy something looks like a giant trumpet that
looks like a two meters tool. I don't know what
the presum it's not a trumpet inside it? I can't

(01:36:29):
actually say, cause I can't stop the video. I'm going
back and forward. What's that giant trumpet thing? Dan? Oh,
it's like the bottom of the cone full of chocolate. Oh,
the kids will love it and their addies double heating.
I'll walk behind them if they're double heading Marcus at
my husband's tune or The last thing in my mind
was what people wearing. I was so grateful they were
there to support me and our sons through one of

(01:36:50):
the hardest days of our lives. Mary exactly. That's why
I think funerals are so important, because it just really
cuts down to the nuts and bolts of it all. Well, Marcus, welcome,
Oh good, Well, what's happening.

Speaker 14 (01:37:06):
I'm not a great deal. I'm just starting how from work,
So I give you a call talking about the Melbourne
Cup is come in Queensland and in all honesty, we've
I've heard about it.

Speaker 3 (01:37:18):
It seems it seems to be off the board. It
doesn't seem to be the race that stopped the nation anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:37:24):
No.

Speaker 14 (01:37:24):
I I grew up in Melbourne and you know it's
a public holiday. It's a public holiday for everything down there,
the public holiday for the Melbourne Cup, and like it
used to be a big thing, probably still is down there.
But I don't think it's I don't think it's a
grace stops the nation.

Speaker 3 (01:37:42):
It used to be the race that was. Every state
would celebrate it, wouldn't they.

Speaker 14 (01:37:48):
I think that's true. Every work had the people work
and there, you know, all picked out their horse. But
I have not seen anything on the TV.

Speaker 15 (01:37:59):
It.

Speaker 14 (01:37:59):
Most importantly, no one has been.

Speaker 11 (01:38:00):
Talking about it.

Speaker 14 (01:38:01):
So I agree the Melbourne centric scene.

Speaker 8 (01:38:05):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:38:07):
I would say too that people beat on a lot
more stuff. Our sports betting has gone huge, hasn't it.

Speaker 14 (01:38:14):
It has it has? That's probably another argument. Well, I'm
listening to the football or any sports now. People see
them talking not quite how much.

Speaker 3 (01:38:29):
Always and it seems as though Australia more so than
anywhere the every if you even look at those NRL
Blue bet best but all the stadiums are named after
betting companies and with all that sponsorship they must be
making a huge amount of money.

Speaker 14 (01:38:44):
Well that's what it's all about now, Marcus, isn't it's
all about? It's about honey, when you've got big dollars
in there. It's how they know. Yeah, unfortunately too.

Speaker 3 (01:38:55):
Yeah, what's part of the Australia you and Will? What
part of the Queensland Sunshine case? You're not next key
with though, are you?

Speaker 14 (01:39:07):
No, I'm not good. I actually came across and as
you remember, and not that I I'm listening to radio
and the car driving home, because sometimes I'm instam in
the car for you hours, Yes, and often there's I'm
listened to. So I found your station a while back,
and the very first night I listened to.

Speaker 5 (01:39:29):
You, you were talking about chocolate milk.

Speaker 14 (01:39:34):
And I you remember that.

Speaker 3 (01:39:37):
Vaguely?

Speaker 14 (01:39:39):
Yes, yes, the topic will go for five minutes. It didn't.
I think it went for three or four hours that
you actually he was.

Speaker 5 (01:39:47):
Object should.

Speaker 14 (01:39:50):
I really enjoyed listening to your show actually, because it's
more of a conversation.

Speaker 3 (01:39:54):
That's nice.

Speaker 14 (01:39:55):
It's nice preteople have a chat.

Speaker 3 (01:39:59):
Nice to hear from you. Well, thanks for coming through.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:40:02):
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