You gotta get right back (2 September 2025)

Marcus finds out what our resident South Africans have planned for the big game this weekend, and marks the closure of Smith's City.

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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 (00:12):
You's any good evening? A welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.
How are what's happening? My name is Marcus hit on
Midnight Tonight, Phil. There's a lot happening tonight. Well, there's
the Aurora and that's going to be a knockout. It's
going to go for several days. But we'll have people
checking and if they see anything, if they've seen any
color could be run up for this north Island where
there's not flashed down south. I just had a bit

(00:34):
of a look and to allude to the family about that.
So yeah, there'll be people hitting to all Et Beach,
people hitting up Bluff. Well, but that's tonight, so if
that will be one of the back topics for tonight's
keeping people up to date on the Aurora. Aurora Australias
is a solar storm. By the way, this could have
fixed radio reception. Also, it happens from time to time

(00:58):
and sometimes the radio can get a bit skitchy, So
that's exciting. There's that to monitor tonight, and there's all
sorts of other stuff that we can talk about Smith City.
I want acknowledge and talk about Also. I brought a
razor from smith City. But for me, I think the
thing with Smith City is I think they were They

(01:23):
were as broad and what they did is Harvey Norman,
if I could say that. And suddenly we had the
Harvey Norman with the good parking, and then Smith City
got forgotten. That's my experience of it. There for three
on toasters or bread bakers. What does the kid want?
The kid wants one of those slushy makers, like one
of those any good by the way, those Nutrimix ones,
not Neutromax Ninjas, they any good? Those slushy I don't

(01:45):
know what he wants a slushy Thanks for buying him
coke and putting through the slushy machine, is said, he mistaken,
but he has got a birthday coming up. I suspect
they probably it's new technology. Anyway, the kids have seen
them somewhere and they're talking about them anyway. But yeah,
I reckon you'd go to Harvey Norman. So there we go.
I guess that's what happens when the big stores like

(02:06):
Warehouse and Harvey Norman come and some of the ones
that slightly want each goes on, but we will talk
about Smith City tonight. I don't even know it's history.
Someone might know more about it, but you know, people's
jobs will be lost and stuff that will be devastating
for them. Don't even know what how long it's been
around for it was something else that was rebranded. I
feel I should know all that stuff tonight and I don't,

(02:27):
so that we will cover that off tonight. The history.
I don't know if anyone have any funny stories of
Smith City. It sounds like they probably wouldn't, but anyway,
it was founded by Henry Smith so as a local
thing a found in Columbia and christ Church. So it
was founded by Smith and originally auction grain, livestock and

(02:50):
general goods. Then it became smith City Markets or smith
City So its flagship store was in Colombo Street. Then
they bought Neil nol Leaming TV. Then they brought Alvi Martin. Anyway,
that's I shouldn't say that word. I'm trying to not
to say anyway, but that's the situation and cover that
off more tonight. However, there is one top I want
to start talking about tonight, and it's slightly sports adjacent

(03:13):
because I tell you what, Sad Day is going to
be a huge day because at five past four there
is the Shield Challenge between the Stags in South and
and Canterbury in in Vericago, and that's going to be
a big turnout. There were ten thousand people there, there
could be more, and ten thousand people is not bad.
It's a fifth of the city's population. So that's going

(03:34):
to be Sadday night. And then of course there are
the All Blacks and it's the All Blacks versus South Africa.
And the All Blacks team is coming back from an
ill disciplined performance in Argentina up before performance in Argentina
and a loss with three yellow cards. And we've heard
and we've read all the Gregapol articles that said everything
about it. We've been cheating forever. We've been cheating at

(03:54):
all levels. We've lost the game. We've lost the high ball.
We can't jump, we're scared to jump. We don't jump. Well,
we've got the wrong wings. You've heard it all, you've
read it all. And South Africa this is their big
chance to win, and this is their big chance to
break the Eden Park hoodoo. I don't ever know whether
word hohodoo comes from and I don't feel that comfortable

(04:16):
using it, But there is a hoodoo on Eden Park
that means that no teams can win there. However, a
hoodoo is a run of band like associated with a
particular person group of activity who do so there's a hoodoo.
Origins are weird, they reckon. It could come from Gharda
or Banin. But the hoodoo could well be broken on Saturday,

(04:40):
and that's fine if that's if it's our time, it's
our time. I can't wait to have the hoodoo gone.
We've gon so sick of people to talk about what
will break the hoodoo? When was the last time we
had the hoodoo? There's all sorts of articles going back
in time to see our last loss in Eden Park. Anyway,
So there are people from South Africa and New Zealand
and they mainly live in the north shore of Auckland

(05:01):
and those people, by all accounts, are fizzing to get going.
So I want to know, if you are South African,
what your Saturday is looking like. Ah, you're already planning it.
What are you going to do? Will there be a brie?
Or do I just say will there be brie? I
don't even know the terminology with your South Africans. Will

(05:21):
there be brie? Will there be? Or bill tong? What's
the whole plan for you guys? If you are South
African and are getting ready for this Test match on Saturday,
I want to know how your preparations are going. Have
you already started making the billtong? Have you got the
people coming over for the brie or for briye? Do
I say the briye or just say brie? See even

(05:42):
I don't know, I'm probably the least South African person
there is. But if you're someone like that, if that's you,
and what do you think your chances are? Because I
think they're probably very good. I don't know what the
tab's got it on at, but yes, I'm not a better.
So if you are doing something this weekend, if you
are South Africa and getting ready for US, I want

(06:03):
to know exactly what you're doing. I want to know
what you're going to wake up, whether you're going to
wake up and eat your kind of your dry old
meat and then you're going to get your mates around
have a barbecue with those spiral sausages. Then you begeting
the uber into Eden Park. Is that what you'll do?
So let me know about that. That's what I want
to cover off because I'm actually this is the test
I'm most excited about for a long long time. But

(06:27):
it's going to be close, it's going to be exciting.
So if that's you, if you are South Africa, getting
ready for it. Here are the odds. I'm not really
an odds guy. Ah, New Zealand's the favorites a dollar
fifty two. South Africa is forty five. That's surprising. I

(06:49):
thought South Africa would be a favorite going on forman
Southland paying five dollars to beat Canterbury. Canterby's paying a
dollar sixteen. That's in the rainfrelly shield. So if you
are South Africa and make any way to that, I
need to I need you tonight to tell me about
what your plan is and do you think you're going
to do it? How is a self belief in the
South Africa community. I just want to hear your voices.
By the way, I don't know those ads where they've

(07:11):
got the people cutting their hair and they're carving a
silver furn in the back of South Africans said, I
think that's disrespectful. Ah, come on, Marcus, they are good
the slushy machines, but the plastic tank stones free easy.
Don't know what that means. Evening Smith's and he failed
because they had no strategy, no business plan, failed to

(07:33):
develop its people, wasted money on projects that never landed,
and failed to deliver customer service levels. It's a pretty
strong opinion. There makes sense to me. It didn't seem
to be going anywhere as a FRENCHI or a as
a retailer to me. But I want to talk to
you South Africans. I want to know exactly what and
why can't I find the word bry on the How

(07:53):
do you spell it down? Bri aai? Come on, you
South Africans, this is your show bry It's a cultural
tradition and social event, not just a method of cooking.
It fosters a degree of togetherness, warmth and community amongst
people of all backgrounds. There we go, so there will

(08:15):
be well do I say there will be brie or
there will be a brie? Well, this is important to me.
Someone said it's a bree, not a brie. Well that's
what my South African says. Totong is having a watch party.
Then an after party at the Cornerstone Pub. They are
going to live streams some South African DJs. Wow, they

(08:38):
should have foun the DJ over here? Are there no
local South African DJs? I thought that would be a thing.
So South Africans, I want to know about your test
preparations for Saturday. Are making myself clear. Get in touch
calling the South Africans, calling the South Africans. Let's be
hearing from you about your brie. That's what I want
to hear about tonight. I want to know what you're doing,

(08:59):
the plan for the big victory that you're looking forward
to on Saturday, because you must have the sense it's
going to be a winner. You're going to win the
Old Rugby Championship. Simon, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
Hey Marcus, what happened to your sense of humorous? A
young fella used to have a great one. Now you're
getting all pc about us having tongue in cheek, about
cunning out. What has happened to get at you?

Speaker 3 (09:27):
I don't think it's pretty funny, Simon. I think it's
a bit lame. But that's just me. I was wanting
more the South Africans. But anyway, Yeah, it's a it's
a lame man, Simon, that would be my and there's
nothing PC about it. Goodness, Jeep. I feel it's a
bit underhand and strange, but it's just a lighthearted covid
cyber So I think probably you are the trucidus overreacting

(09:50):
and slightly two PC yourself. Twenty one past eight eight
hundred and eighty twenty nine detext Hitle twelve. Are you
South Africans and you're Brie or Brie. I don't know
what I'm saying now, but looking forward to hearing from you. Yes,
do get in touch if you want to Marcus at
Newstalk zb dot co dot if you want to about
Smith City as well, good as I wait you South

(10:12):
Africans brilliant eight hundred eighty Tenadian nineteen ninety two to
text if you do want to come through, Looking forward
to your input with your billtong. We've got a South
African shopping in vert cargo now, so it's not just
the north shore of Auckland, although I think that South
Africa Central. I'm not quite sure why they all went
there in such numbers, but I and East Auckland is it.

(10:37):
Don't want to get to geographically specific. Well, here we go.
We're away now, brilliant. Surprised about those odds at the
tab though. They must really believe in that hoodoo, or
maybe they believe the All Blacks are going to bounce back. Johann, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
Good evening, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Well you sound like the real deal.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
I am.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
I've got the strong accent.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
No hacketing.

Speaker 5 (11:08):
So it is a brille Abrie is achieved.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yes, that's right, that's worth. And they say we're having
brie or having a brie a brie.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
Okay, Bright, that's it.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
Ah, you go.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
So in Auckland, the Springbok Army, there is a Facebook group.
We've got about three hundred and fifty seth Africans getting
together at kip Up a record club. Yep, and we're
doing a bride there, some Boudavors and we'll be all
passing off at four o'clock to the game.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Fantastic, and you'll be sitting together.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
No, I think we'll all just be taking over the
stadium at different spaces or places.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Okay, how long you been here is Johann? A long time?

Speaker 5 (12:01):
And six years?

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Okay? So you feel this is that you feel this
is the time that you win an etn't park.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
I'm not this year. I think we'll know once Russ
he announces his team. Depends on if Fuff is playing.
I think if Fuff is playing, it will be a
seven to one split. Yeah, it might even be a
hate serio split. We don't know. I don't Russy knows
them till tomorrow evening.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
He seems mercurial. Will the South African community? Will the
South African community have anything to do with the players?
Is it like that?

Speaker 5 (12:37):
I think there's a golf game what's it? On Thursday?
And in Auckland they are bringing out a new per
that's getting announced here in Auckland from the Pump Squat
to beers called the Bomb Squad. So the beer is

(12:59):
getting launched in on the anger and the here some
of the players, like Mark Malcolmbox is there.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, I every wonder that full far of our laws
to call a beer the Bomb Squad, But I quite
like the sound of it. Anyway. That's a that's a
South African beer, is it?

Speaker 5 (13:14):
That's correct? Yeah, they're just launching it into New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
Wow. And with this with your Brie the bry what
what's the sausages that will have. It's a bit of everything.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
It's traditional bruers and in a case, yes, basically like
a mint and Korean a mixed inside of it.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
With some chance, and you can get all that locally.
Now there's pay of shops making that stuff in New
Zealand for the South African population.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
I would think, yeah, there's been plenty of shops. I
think given your packing saves sell them okay, So in
Auckland you can get them at all the back and
Saves countdowns and quite a few South African shops.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
And you'll have the built up, the built tongue in
your pockets to chew during the match.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
They'll be there. If we're allowed to take it in,
they'll be there.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
I'm sure that's your culture all right. They can't let
you not take the built on that you're that would
be that would be a mission law. And what happens
afterwards if you're victorious.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
We'll be taking over Wooklynt.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
You'll be your own bomb squad. On the bomb squad,
no doubt.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
I imagine there's a couple of events as well. I
think there's a few people that's arrange some events in
Auckland selllling some tickets. There's some stuff opening as well.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
Any idea how big you are now? In New Zealand?
Would there be fifty thousand? Do you know what the
numbers are?

Speaker 5 (14:36):
I'm not too shit. I think last I heard was
like fifty or sixty thousand.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
It seems like it's about that many, and right around
the country too. Now I see that. You know, when
you've got South African built on shops and in the card,
that means they're right across the country. Now, so well done,
you guys.

Speaker 5 (14:52):
That's it. Yeah, Ganji and Chicago, We're everywhere brilliant.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Nice to hear from you. I keep it going if
you are a part of the South African Army, if
you're part of the bomb squad. I didn't really understand
the seven to one switch. But the is that about
the subs? They come on eight at once? I pretend
I did know, but wasn't quite sure. The plan is simple,
Bry at lunchtime, start drinking way to wordy, double down
on the drinking, either in celebrational commiederation, then rewatch the

(15:16):
game Sunday morning, as I wouldn't remember the score. There's
a South African shop and Hooker ticket there everywhere. Marcus.
I've said for the start that Razor pushed his way
and Foster had a good relationship with the team. They
have not got over him going. It will be tough
on Saturday regarding South and I think the Shield will
lift them, of course it will. A hobby gambler would

(15:43):
put a hundred on Manly and South and South Africa
this weekend. I'm not going to put any money on Manly.
I think I think the Warriors are going to make
the top four. I think Cranulla and the Broncos have
got tough matches. I think we'll make the four. Yeah,

(16:04):
I do, because all the Australian commentats are saying will
be sixth or seventh and playing Manly, and I think
it's going to go that way, and we should be
very proud of how we've finished. Also, I went right
through the list to see how we have finished from
nineteen ninety five and we haven't gotten the last day.
We've only got in the last day about five times.
So this is a huge achievement anyway. But I don't
think we're over yet mine. I don't like the fact

(16:25):
that the teams is injuries in the team YEA twenty
eight past eight. Keep in touch if you want to.
Marcus suggests the reason for the odds and favor of
the All Blackspa have taken to the fact that matches
didn't park. That's right, So hohodoo, someone's upset? How many
times I've said who doo? What the wtf are you smoking?
You say it? Even likes saying who do? Then use

(16:45):
it ten times the next sixty. Well, I've come to
like it. It's quite an effective word. We brought a
new bed from Psmith City. They delivered the wrong bed.
We complained and asked for the bed that we brought.
They denied the era and they tread us like pariahs.
Terrible after sales service. We decided we would never deal
with them again. No wonder they went under.

Speaker 6 (17:06):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
For me, I thought their imaging and everything seemed quite tired.
Is that bad to say? Now they've gone, But I
did think that the lettering and everything do they ever
advertise carry remember the TV ad Smiths do they have
a jingle? So any South Africans out there watched your
plan for Saturday? That's all I'm interested in tonight. Certainly,

(17:28):
for the first hour. The briar army. What do he means?
Seven and one and eight and zero? Razzi They love
razzie a. They love it the fact he's mercurial. That's
what you want to coach a guy don't really know
what's going on with them. Get in touch of this
breaker news. I'll bring that to you tonight. Trump's got
announcement at two pm Eastern time. I think that's eight

(17:50):
o'clock in the morning six am, and he's either going
to evade somewhere or stand down because of his health.
It's got everyone terrifyed what he's going to announce. I
don't know what it will be, well, no one does.
I suppose yerty yerdy, yerdy. Welcome here on midnight. My

(18:13):
name is Marcus Good. Evening oh eight hundred and eighty
Taddy in nine two nine to detect the Brie. And
what you plan for Saturday is if you're a South African,
we'd love to hear from you. Penty there have been
a South African shop and hook a ticker. I love
it when people say what are you smoking? What does
it even mean? Are you on the WACKI I'm on

(18:36):
the aurora Australia's Facebook page to give you reports if
it does happen. Nothing at the stage, people are just
testing their cameras. If you are on the Aurora Australa's
Facebook page, they don't take fools lightly, so don't ask
them where can I see it? Or what time would
it they have to go? You got to go through
a bit of rigmarole. You don't like the idiots. I
will monitor that throughout the night and I let you

(18:58):
know when there is going to be the Aurora and
we can go to see that. We are talking about
the Brie and the South Africans. If you got a comment,
love to hear from you. Input for that. What you're
going to be doing special on Saturday From a South
African perspective, pretty much it sounds like everyone's doing the
same thing, having a barbecue and going to the match.
Not a silly idea, I suppose. And Smith City, how

(19:21):
bad was the service and your experience with Smith City
or your comments on that. Smith City is closing with
a large number of retailers and places closing in the
last couple of months. Kitchen Things and now Smith City,
so perfect storm, low confidence and difficult trading conditions been

(19:46):
around for one hundred years Smith City, you want to
talk about that? Mentioned that also, That's on the things
we can talk about tonight. And the Brye oh wait
to hundred eighty nine nine to detect Hettel twelve. I
don't know how many shops he would have been to
be there somewhere, but she's gon Burger just didn't seem

(20:08):
small enough to compete with those mega stools there are. Now,
that's my take on that one. So you got your
Harvey Normans come and take up all the market, don't
They might want to mention that in South Africa, if
you want to mention that, we'll plan fourth Saturday night
and the bry Maybe Trump is going to confirm evidence

(20:34):
of extra testrial contact. What's about time someone did, Marcus.
We were to bed from smith City was different form
what we brought. It was much better. Love your show
from Bed very funny. Myself been a Shark supporter. The
Bulldogs and Storm will play secondary string teams to keep
their main players safe. So unfortunately I don't have the

(20:55):
Warrior's chances of finishing the top four SI. However, the
Warriors are a different beast, so I can't wait for
all the sports this weekend. Oh, they've got to sort
that out with the NRL, with all the people putting
up bad teams for the when their place is secured.
Make some mockery of those people betting to the place
they bet Tolier in the season. I'm sure Valandi's wire
cut down on that. It's not sporting. I don't think

(21:19):
no team wants to put up a weaker tea. You've
got to put your best every time, don't you shocking?
What the NRL need actually is what they do need.
I'm surprised this hasn't happened. Is they need an equivalent
of the Ranfurly Shield. The added it will spit a
spice to some of those games, and that could actually

(21:39):
really put the be the icing on the cake for
the NRL. They had the Ranfury Shield, that would be
a great thing. Am I wrong about that? I don't
think so. It might be something I haven't thought of.
Twenty six to nine, Looking forward to your calls, there
is other stuff you might want to mention tonight. I
feel this too much. Yeah, and fancy the word fig

(22:00):
jam bended around today. It's not what I was familiar with.
It is world Coconut Day. We're keeping the eye on
the Aurora Ikea is opening soon. So I'm telling you, oh,

(22:21):
the opening date, but must not be on a Friday
or need public holidays such as an upcoming labor weekend. So
they've got to provide the council with a plan that
details how it managed the anticipated crowds expect to drive
there in the three months following the opening. Jeepers, do
you have a sweepstake on when ike is going to open?
Because people are going to go nuts about that when

(22:42):
that's on, buying all that flat furniture or whatever it's called.
South Africans particularly welcome this week, particularly tonight with a
huge match at Eden Park on Saturday. I think it's
the most anticipated test that has been for a long
long time. I hope it lives up to it. Could
someone explained to me the seven and one and eight
and zero. Oh, Kenny, this is Marcus. Welcome. Hey there,

(23:09):
Hi Kidney, Hey, Hey, how are you good? Thank you?

Speaker 7 (23:15):
So I thought i'd call in because I want to
save people a bunch of money. And so what this
has to do with is if you are ordering Starlink Internet,
They're they are They're charging one hundred and fifty dollars
for a high demand surcharge. And this this really surprised

(23:36):
me because I just moved houses and my new area
doesn't have fibers, so I had to go with starlink.
And so when you check out, suddenly they just popped
this into your your your checkout basket. It says one
hundred and fifty dollars high demand surcharge. How blings me
because I thought to myself, hold on a second, what

(23:58):
is a high demand surcharge? Isn't it just like isn't
that kind of them saying, hey, we're doing so well,
we have so many customers, we're going to charge you more.
We're gonna charge new customers more. It didn't seem right
to me.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Mike Star, Mike, Mike starcent mike'star sin at all.

Speaker 7 (24:16):
I totally agree. So and it's certainly not like I mean,
like if you are having trouble like maybe getting equipment,
I can understand that. So what I did was so anyway,
so I ordered a dish, right and I think to myself, okay, well,
if this high demand search charge is legit, then I'm
going to have to wait, like you know, ten business
dates is going to be a whole wholehassle. Anyway, guess

(24:38):
what happened. Two days later, the satellite arrived from my
front door. I live in Auckland. It was shipped from
East Tomaky.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
So you paid, you paid the search charge. You you hadn't
paid the see charge.

Speaker 7 (24:52):
No, so you had to pay the search arge in
order in order to get the internet. So anyway, so
the riot, and I say to my wife, I said,
look at this. I can imagine again, I'm trying to
like make sense out of the search charge, and I
I and so I get the dish and it it
said shipped from East Tomacky. So it's like it's like
twenty k's away. And so then I look up, I

(25:14):
look up online in the Consumer the Consumer Act for
New Zealand, and it actually specifically points out that if
there are charges that are basically snuck in at checkout,
then you can actually file a complaint against that company.
And so what I did was I looked at I

(25:35):
looked at the starlink website and it said, hey, here
is a brand new deal for CVS. If you sign
up now, you'll get twenty dollars off a month and
it's a half off your your start link, your equipment spiece,
and then you go to check out and then just
right at the top they don't say anything about it.

(25:57):
It's just they sneak it in. It says High Demand
surch Art. So I wrote them a letter and I said,
I am referencing the Consumer guarant He's Act and this
is actually this is malfeasan. This is this is the
steps of the behavior. You broke me in with a deal.
And then only at checkout did I see this this

(26:18):
charge and guess what they reversed it.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Wow?

Speaker 7 (26:22):
And and so I'm I wanted to tell everybody far
in Live that this company they they're not allowed to
do this according to the mu Zealm law. They have
to be upfront with these charges and they can't just
like throw it into this to this, to the shopping
cart right as you're checking out. So if anybody is

(26:45):
was was there anything and.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
You're reading kitties that indicated how wide the high demand
area was? Was it the Hall of New Zealand?

Speaker 8 (26:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (26:54):
I actually checked down some addresses of like friends all the.

Speaker 9 (26:57):
Way yeah, Dargonville, all the way down to Gore, like
and everywhere was was apparently it was high demand SURD charge.

Speaker 7 (27:09):
So the story gets even even a little bit more egregious.
So what ended up happening was I I found out
that the house I was moving into already had a
dish and the owners were leaving it behind. They're very nice.
So I then had to return the dish that I
bought and ordered just service. So I send the dish back.

(27:36):
They gave me a refund for the dish, and they
already had refunded this the SURD charge. But then when
I go to transfer the dish and order new service,
that's what is in the shopping carts.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yet again after I do this, ische it's.

Speaker 7 (27:55):
The high demand SURD charge. Goodness, I did, mate, Mate,
I was like, I was living and and you know
what the craziest part about it is is because I
was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt
when it was originally just the satellite dish, because I thought, Okay,
they have to like order a thousand of these from yes,
wherever they're factor that makes sense.

Speaker 10 (28:17):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (28:17):
Well, then when it was just service and they're just
flipping on a switch, I was like, I was living
and I even tested this and this is the This
is the part that's crazy for me. I even went
back to the other account. When you when you order starlink,
they actually allow you to put it on pause. It's
like a new feature, right, and so they put it

(28:39):
they put it on like this pause state, not like
a full disconnect whenever you whenever you like, end your service.
But that's the state that the old service was. Asked, well,
I log in and I just see, Hey, let me
see something here. Let me see if that how how
hard it is to restart this service because they want

(29:00):
to charge me one hundred and fifty dollars to flip
it on on this on this already installed this Let
me see. All you do is you click a button.
You just click the button and it says congrats, like boom,
like your internet's fat. So they give you the option
of like clicking a button and starting service, but if
they do it, they charge you one hundred and fifty

(29:20):
dollars wow for the purpose. So anyway, I ended up.
I wrote them a letter. And now this was a
calamity because I have two accounts now, two account numbers.
I have like multiple customer service people like trying to
make heads of tails of what my claint is blah
blah blah. Anyway, long story short, I actually got them
to reverse the high demand service charge for that one

(29:42):
as well. I want everybody to.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Know, surely, Kenney, it required a second a second LISID
to the government, to the Commist Commission, didn't it.

Speaker 7 (29:52):
No, I didn't have to actually end up writing that letter.
I just threatened start.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
I pointed out, understand but thats that it says that
they should be alluded. Because I have a view of that,
I would think.

Speaker 7 (30:01):
I agree with you. I think that probably they should
just end this practice because it's it's egregious, and it's
money grubbing, and there's there's absolutely no justification for the
high demand seurcharch, especially the same between like an equipment
hire and also like just flipping on service on.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
It makes less sense. It's miserable. Look nice to hear
from you can It's a great learn I enjoyed that
conversation very much, free well explained, liked it, liked it all.
Loved the use of the word egregious fifteen to nine.
Have I got anything other hassles with starlink? Let us know, Marcus,
in America they are seeing one thousand high demands surcharges
in some areas it's to balance out the supply versus

(30:39):
the demand. Well, that's just how business grows. You plan
for that, Marcus. In twenty twenty three there were ninety
five thousand, five hundred and sixty seven South Africans living
in New Zealand. We do love Ruzzi. Here's an amazing coach.
I'll be watching the game from the farm and Tom Renui.
I think the spring Box will win on Saturday. They

(31:00):
seem to be. There seems to be more support for
Box and New zeal than ever before. I've enjoyed watching
this African women team playing in England the World Cup.
They have never won a game at the World Cup
before and have reached the quarter finals by betting Spain Italy.
They bet Italy twenty nine, twenty four year. They're ecstatic.
Thought Japan did well. You know how many women play
rugby in Japan four hundred so yes, they did well.

(31:25):
To play the all Blacks or the Black foods do
not go down too badly. Oh, get in touch, Hittle twelve.
My name is Marcus Starlink, Smith City, the Aurora and
the South Africans and their celebrations and plans for Saturday night.
What's the plan? What's the plan? What are you going
to do? When you said to Papa, I don't know

(31:48):
where that are where that rugby club is, actually I
kind of missed a bit of Johannes accent. I thought
they're not going to the National Museum. I thought that
would be strange that they're going there, to Papa Pa.
Could we got where? I'm not that I'm going to go.
It's the thing about the thing about Tipapapa, the thing

(32:11):
about the South African celebrations, it's very much for South African.
It's not come all cultures, doesn't when you get that
feeling about that, it's it's very much them. It's very
much the old country. I suggest oh By fergus in
Domain who was to go there for track and field
in our day. Looking forward to your preparations and the
details of your preparations for Saturday. If you are South African,

(32:34):
one of the one hundred thousand in this country, this
is a big day for you. This is yours, this
is your everything. I would think this is your the
best chance ever to beat the All Blacks at Eden Park.
It's going to be huge, but I want to know
how big the arrangements have been and what your plans
are and what is the most South African thing you
will be doing, although it all sounds pretty similar at

(32:59):
Bill Tang and Brye and the match and taking out
of the stadium whatever that means, and drinking your bomb
squad beer. I'm not quite sure if it'll be available
in New Zealand to this day. By the way, in
nineteen sixty He's a Sport endured one of its greatest
days Rome's Olympic Stadium. Halburg won the eight Hundy and

(33:19):
how sorry Peter Snell won the eight hundred meters Murray
Halburg won the five thousand and two Golds. Two golds
on the one day, also sixteen sixty six, the Great
Frive of London started, although it started somewhere different than
where they thought it started. According to the QI show
I've just watched recently and IKS seems to be ready

(33:42):
and good to go. They're just not quite sure when
it will open. The date will be announced on Thursday.
So because it's such a draw card, because people have
to shop. Remember when mana Wa Bay opened at the
Aukland Airport and there was calm again, this will be
ten times that. So they can't open it on a
Friday or a Saturday, a Sunday or near a public holiday,

(34:06):
so it could be within five weeks. So yeah, it's
going to be a soft I think it's match food.
I think it's ready. It's gonna be quite complicated what happens.
Although the store is an at online shopping would be
available the network of twenty nine pickup points across the

(34:27):
country from kaitid in Vicago. What about Bluff. That's bad,
isn't it, because we're all looking for our scindy lifestyle
down there, well, our Ikea furniture. Yeah, Max, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (34:43):
Hey, Marcas, good, thank you.

Speaker 8 (34:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (34:48):
So I'm just calling in regard to the seven one
night Jero split that the quarter about earlier.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Yes, yeah, yeah. Is it to do with the bomb
squad or nothing to do with them?

Speaker 12 (35:04):
Yeah, so it's actually yeah, it's it's well, when a
coach names a twenty three man squad for a rugby game,
he's got eight subs that he can choose from, and
so when they say seven one or eight zero, it's
meaning that they've got seven forwards on the bench or
eight forwards on the on the bench.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Because is the bomb squad as big as eight?

Speaker 12 (35:31):
Well, he was suggesting that Razzie could go with eight
on the bench forwards, which is pretty pretty crazy, and
there would be a big bomb squad coming on at halftime.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
Yeah, it doesn't happen at half time. It always happens
about five minutes after which you always thinks weird.

Speaker 12 (35:49):
Yeah, I don't know. I think they give the guys
another ten minutes and then oncome the bomb squad, which
it's it's sort of something that's I think Razzi boarded
and don't correct me if I'm wrong, but it's a
South African thing, and I think others are now sort
of copying. I think the lines that are on their

(36:10):
tour as well. So which is now you get these
forwards that can't even do you know, they can't last
eighty minutes because they're just you know, they're doing this
bomb squad thing.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
I got to run mexcause I run out of time.
But they are big units. Yeah, I tell you what.
I think it's exciting for the game. I like it.
I like the way the game is evolving, Thank you, Max.
Maybe that's what's wrong with the all blacks is the
coach doesn't have a fantastic nickname or a name, because
Rezi is a great name, isn't it? You get behind
a coach called Rezzi brilliant? I mean, I mean occasy.

(36:44):
Our coaches have nicknames. I guess that's probably his first name.
Is it? Is it short for something? Anyway? Get in touch.
My name is Marcus. Welcome hitdal twelve o'clock tonight, Oh,
eight hundred and eighty years Johan. I guess Rezzie comes
from a resmus. That would be my take on it.
The only all black coach that we've had with a
nickname was Old Shag. Fairly low nickname that one. But

(37:08):
Resi Rezie might go with eight, or we might go
seven and one. I'll do eight. Yeah, why we love
him Resi. But yes, all welcome to hear from the
South Africans tonight about your preparations for Saturday. Be a
great thing. Please give the eight hundred number. Well, I

(37:30):
will oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty eight zero one
zero eight zero, or as I used to like to
say it, oh wait. I used to change the oh
wait double lot, oh wait, oh wait, oh one oweight
oh brilliant. Can't ever forgotten that. Speaking of surcharges, I

(37:51):
must say I was ad taken it back when I
was the Chicken operate the super bake to load fifty
dollars onto a prizzy card, I was purchased to be
told that there was a loading fear of five dollars ninety.
Didn't want to shoot the message, but thought, wow, you
learned something new each day. Today I learned about a
ripoff rowan of Southland. Yeah, prazzy card as it's the
dark out of the prizy card is no good comes
from those still for It's Marcus. Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 6 (38:14):
I've always enjoyed your show and found very interesting. Is
the first stp of court. I couldn't resist resist it.
I've been in this country now for thirty years and
I've subbly enjoyed it and feel being privileged. But on
the rugby, me and my son will be going to

(38:35):
his father in law. We having dinner ware and then
we'll watch the game on the big screen. We're not
that confident that the box will win, but nonetheless we
will be helpful. The thing about rugby, it's really very
interesting game. It's it's got a couple of components. You

(38:56):
need a lot of skill, and you need strategy. And
then the the component you cannot really predict is how
much passion the people the players will bring to the field.
Can they step up ten percent, twenty percent or even
thirty percent. That's unpredictable. And then it has become a

(39:17):
very fast game, so everything is reactive. You've got no
time to think. You have to have these moves and
actions embedded in you and you have to just react.
There's no time to think. It's just happening too fast.
So that's what's making it so exciting.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
I sent from the little media that I've seen that
probably South Africa after they lost to Australia and then
all the sick and narrow victory was kind of in
a rebuilding stage. Is it the feeling you get?

Speaker 13 (39:48):
Yes, it is.

Speaker 6 (39:49):
No, they've still got making a lot of errors and
they haven't got a six team yet. They're still playing
around with some players, so they they definitely haven't got
a sort of top of the peak. It They still
very much reboilding. So think all Blacks will take it
with Eden Park as you call it, Judu. I think

(40:11):
even all Blacks has got a cutting edge here and
better skills. So but it will be a good time.
We're hoping for a tight game and a good one.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Did you say it was one five years? You've been
here fifteen?

Speaker 6 (40:25):
No city pye thirty?

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Okay, okay, yes, I would have thought from what I
was sensing that the South Africa community was as confident
in Auckland to beat them in even Park they had
been for a long while. Are you not sensing that?

Speaker 6 (40:40):
No? No, I think realistically we've we've got a long
waist tool to go to become a really smooth and
organized team. They're still up and down give any mistakes,
you know, and too much individual playing. So I'm not
that confident to be just to be honest, and so for.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
You after thirty years that you support the All Blacks
in every match except against South Africa. When you support
South Africa, is that right?

Speaker 11 (41:06):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (41:07):
Yes, yeah, I'm a great All Black fan except in
a flavor box.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Which sounds like a cop out to me, but fair enough.
I appreciate you for you. Yeah, it's what you got
good on here. Thank you for that. There we go, cheapest,
get in touch. My name's Marcus, Welcome hndle twelve evening.
Ike doesn't look done at all when you drive past.
Also prefitably a nightmare as all the mode your road

(41:34):
works from East Auckland. Someone else says Marcus. I bet
IQ will put other stores out of business. I'm sure
they will. People be holding off buying furniture because it's
cheap and it's fashionable. You know, you know who'll be
wanting it. One of those crazy people. They've got a
horse float. They go around from house to house. Property

(41:54):
dress is that what they call They do it? Yeah,
property to make it look like you're not in it. Setters,
property setters, property stages got there in the end, properly
stages loving it. They'll get all their blonde scandy wood. Hey,
just listening to the news and that real estate agent
trying to talk up the market. Yeah we know. And

(42:17):
the real estate agent said his phone was ringing off
the howk. Well, phones don't have howks anymore. We need
a new analogy for that, don't we, Because you can't
have a phone ringing off the hook because they're not
on a hok anymore. How do phones ring if they're
flat out? It's a metaphor that needs it to say
that needs updating. Marcus till twelve, What have you got?

(42:39):
I don't give a toss about the rugby tests much
test much. Ri's the Stags versus the Crusaders, just because
I'd love the Stags to retain the shield. So we
are talking. There's four topics already. I'm a bit topic
crazy at the moment, going with too many topics. I
want to talk to South Africans about what they think
about Saturday night and what their preparation is going to be.

(43:02):
I'd like to also talk about oh, all numbers of
Smith City and the fact that they have gone. Now
what did they do wrong? No one seems to be
sad about it. All the stories I've had is that
people have got the wrong stuff. The service hasn't been fantastic.
So it seemed as that was a business model that
was probably on the going out out of style for

(43:23):
a while. So there's that. Also the Aurora tonight, if
you're looking at the Aura, what have you got about that?
There was a caller about starlink also, so all that
and more hit'd twelve What do you got? Eight hundred
and eighty Tonaightyan nine two nine two text love to
hear from you oooh oh eight hundred eighty Teddy and

(43:48):
nine two nine two to text. Yes, so it wasn't.
It wasn't called Smith City in the beginning they started
selling grain on Colombo Street, didn't we all? For those
that don't know what I care is, I don't really
know what. I went to one in Australia just to
look what it was like, and I felt claustrophobic. But
I don't think you go there to buy stuff. You
go there and bite well, sorry, that sounds silly. You

(44:10):
don't go there to buy stuff and take it home.
You go there to buy stuff and then get delivered
to your house and electric vehicles. It'll be good for
the porch pirates. They'll be redecorating. Hello Joan ats Marcus welcome,
Oh hello Marcus.

Speaker 14 (44:28):
Swifth City Market now fifty to fifty five years ago,
a lot of us people will be young, married and
you're beginning stuff on high purchase at Smith City Market
and get your table and chairs and your lounge sweet
and all that. So we would have got quite a
bit of stuff from my market.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
I love the way you're saying it. So did you
still call it Smith City Market even now?

Speaker 11 (44:48):
Yeah. Wow.

Speaker 14 (44:48):
What's it called now?

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Well, it's called smith City, it's called smith City City,
but christ Chians people probably call it swith City Market.

Speaker 15 (44:55):
I love you for that, Slith City.

Speaker 14 (44:59):
Yes, and they were good to deal with, and we
just bought things as we could afford it and put
them on high purchase. But about two years ago I
needed to get a new lounge. Sweet, well what a
chalk for me that was on my own. Went to
smith City Market at Northwood, expensive, talking about expensive but
huge lounge sweets, most of them light gray, medium gray

(45:22):
I wanted. Probably I ended up getting charcoal. But I
went to Affordable Furniture and I got a couch and
two lady boy chairs and got what I wanted after many,
many hours looking. And I went to Dismisity Market and
they were so expensive. But you've got a good discount
being on the Gold card.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Oh yeah, Winston's card.

Speaker 14 (45:44):
Yes, yeah, God, but expensive.

Speaker 8 (45:47):
So you.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Didn't tie something there?

Speaker 14 (45:52):
Yes, But I had something delivered and it was just
too big and I just said, no, I can't take
it. It was one and it was so expensive, and so
they took it back. Then I thought about leather, and
I didn't really want leather. So anyway, they delivered a
couch and they're going to deliver two chairs in the
price of it, and they delivered that. They took it back.

(46:14):
They were very good at giving me a refund, completely refund,
because I just found it terribly hard at the time.
It was summer time when I was hot and I
wasn't that well and all the rest of it. And anyway,
so then I go down more House Ave and Lionel
Hunter the Lounge Street. Yeh, Hunters. So we had the

(46:39):
Lounge Street for about twenty five years. It was about
three thousand, three hundred on sale. The one I got
now was three three hundred and twenty absolutely excellent, and
I've got it here. I'm on my lazy boy at
the moment, and I got it delivered and perfect. But
I do say Smith's City did treat me well, just

(47:03):
getting things wrong and how they had it displayed. And
I wanted a couch and two two lazy boys. Cheers,
lazy boys.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
You're on your You're on your lazy boy now, yes'm
And what's setting? What do you mean is your foot
rest up? When you're right back?

Speaker 14 (47:22):
No, I don't go right back. The back doesn't go back.

Speaker 6 (47:24):
But I want my.

Speaker 14 (47:27):
Broken I don't want I don't want to sleep it.
I'm not going to lie it right.

Speaker 16 (47:30):
Back, and I love her.

Speaker 10 (47:32):
I love her.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
Lazy boy, you're going to go right back straight away?
I go to Keithing. I'm straight back right away with
her feet up. Why have a lazy boy? If you
can't go right back?

Speaker 14 (47:41):
Well, I don't want to go right back.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
What else you got to do?

Speaker 14 (47:47):
Well, I've got a lead condition. I have to elevate
my leg.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
Of course you do. That's a good thing, isn't it. Yeah,
of course you can.

Speaker 14 (47:52):
With that anyway. Have you finished with me now?

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Yeah? No, I have, Thank you. I love the way,
said smith ly Market. I'll carry that for my days,
swiftly Market. The phone will now ring flat out, yes,
flat out, not off the hot flones, ringing flat out,
ringing hot. It's blowing up, Marcus, your phone is blowing up. Now,
kids are all over the analogy, Greg and the three

(48:16):
blowing up. Phone's blowing up, that's what you say. But
mind you, the most of real ages about seventy five,
aren't they off? The hok blowing up? The phone's blowing up.
Give me five million dollar properties? How many have you
got phones blowing up? Hitdle twelve Marcus, Welcome, good evening.
What do you got people? What should be shot? Phone's

(48:38):
blowing up? Texts, emails, calls, pick your time. You can
rock it, you can roll it, you can sit right
right back. And it was a good jingle, the lazy boy.
You can rock it, you can roll it, you can
sit right back and really enjoy. Say rocket, you can

(49:00):
roll I think it's rocket. You can roll it. There's
another word in there. Sit right back and really enjoy.
A genuine lazy boy. Stayed a batch once and broke
the lazy boy. Wasn't that easy to fix. Actually didn't
ruin the holiday, but it certainly added to the stress
of it. Sometimes it's the little things, isn't it. It's

(49:23):
the extraw that breaks the camel's back. For me, it
might have been the lazy boy. I might start looking
around the dump shops for some of those. I wouldn't
mind restoring a lazy boy. Sit right back and really enjoy. Hello, Dean,
this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 17 (49:40):
Yes, Tim Marcus. It is a bit of a different topic.
But it's surprised it hasn't be mentioned about the I
thought it was very arrogant. The disrespects for that, well
you need it snatched the cap off of the boys
a tennis.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
Although to be fair that to be fair the child.
The child wasn't some poor street urchin, was he?

Speaker 2 (49:59):
No?

Speaker 17 (49:59):
But I mean it's not the right thing to do.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
It was terrible.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Yeah, it was terrible.

Speaker 17 (50:03):
He followed guy's profuse but it should be embarrassed because
it's yea.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
It took him four days to apologize. He was sprung
and hiding and then they found him in Poland. He's
got some revel company and.

Speaker 17 (50:17):
Yeah, paving and paving and landscaping.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
Still still trying to justify it. It wasn't a fullsome apology.
Still to know, I thought he was giving it to
my kids because we talked from earlier. When you apologize,
you're just going to say sorry, bad, my one done anyway.

Speaker 17 (50:33):
And one other thing about the rugby. Do you know
who the last team that beat the All Blacks of
Eden Park?

Speaker 3 (50:37):
I think it was the French?

Speaker 8 (50:38):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (50:38):
Did I see that in.

Speaker 17 (50:39):
The story French in ninety four and the nineteen seventy
eight I've got a very good memory ed Australia beat
him and Cornelson, the flanker for Australia, got four triers
in that game with.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
That long bed. I remember that series very well.

Speaker 17 (50:52):
Actually of the long bed number seven.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
Was that the same series they did the up the jumper?

Speaker 17 (51:00):
I think so?

Speaker 3 (51:01):
Yeah, I think they did do the up the jumper?

Speaker 17 (51:03):
What the seventy eight?

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Yeah? Did they lose the first two Tests and they
won the last Test haadsomely and then the the second.

Speaker 17 (51:11):
Test the other year they took the Cup that year.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
Oh yeah, sure, you've got a good memory.

Speaker 17 (51:17):
And and one thing you don't you remember Andy Hayden
that used to play for the Orbot. Yes, you remember
the infamous in Cardiff arms Park when he dived out
of the line out.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
Well I think it was before my time, but I
remember of it.

Speaker 17 (51:30):
He fell out of the line out and the referee
fell for it.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
Yeah, yeah, I realized that. But yeah, I don't know
what year was that.

Speaker 17 (51:38):
That was seventy eight too?

Speaker 3 (51:40):
Oh was it? Okay?

Speaker 17 (51:41):
That was Brian mckickney. You got the penalty winning go
He was a draw internationally, played cricket for New Zealand
as well.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
And where was he from Dean? I think I think
it was in the cargo wasn't any I think he's
in the cargo boards. Southern boys.

Speaker 6 (51:56):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Great.

Speaker 8 (51:59):
That's good.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
That's a good that's a good step shot of the
news from you.

Speaker 16 (52:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Ever repeat? Have you ever appeared taken apart and repeat
a lazy boy?

Speaker 2 (52:09):
No?

Speaker 17 (52:09):
But I remember the old child. They still advertise on
the radio. They've been round for centuries. Well those centuries
long time. I think the Mountain and Don't come Over
are still going out.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
That's right. That will be challenged by I care will
they nice to talk than? Thank You're twenty two past
nine nine twenty two here till the end? All about
the bray? I think Smith City Market. When's a receivership
In the seventies, rae is my parents, who were sheerholders,
lost a great deal of money. The other out of

(52:42):
date catchphrase by the government media is more money in
your back pocket. That's right. That annoys me because it's
not more money in your back pocket, because you never
see your money these days. It's more money in your
electronic account. No one ever keeps money in your back pocket,
you know why, because those stupid plastic notes would always
slip out. It's terrible money that plastic it just blows away.

(53:05):
You can rocket, you can roll, you can lock the
rock and put your feet up. You can sit right
back and really enjoy your genuine lazy boy. That's why
I like to lock the rock and put the feet up.
I think for a long time for school teachers and things,
every time they retired, you're giving a lazy boy chair.
It was sort of a classic thing for retirement because

(53:25):
you just go back to your unit and put your
feet up and watch TV. I think now Dean made
the mistake of saying he's got a very good memory,
and a lot of people have fact checked him. Apparently
Cornelson was number eight, not number seven, and someone else
says that guy was wrong. It was not Hayden's dive
from the line that caused the penalties wrong. It was

(53:47):
a line out infringement. The caller was wrong with the
Hayden lin and he did dive. However, Wales was penalized
for therefore jumping off Frank Oliver's shoulder. Then mckickney kicked
the points Marcus. The penalty was not given for Andy
Hayden getting pushed out of the line out. Thank you.
A lot of people have said that he was eight
and not number seven. I've had about twelve texts about
you've got to be careful with rugby. It's best not

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to go towards it because a lot of fact fact checkers.
It's like the New Yorker magazine Marcus Smith's City Market
tried to change the name to just Smith's. It was
the beginning of the decline. Gavin Canterbury, you're not wrong,
money in your back pocket and sayings that are out

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of date now like cell phone ringing off the hook?
Who do get in touch? Marcus till twelve, how's the aurora?
And how's your plans for your brye? On Saturday the
most anticipated test, Yeah, ooh, if you want to talk

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eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine
to text, looking forward to mput there's something I just
want to mention good and I will keep you updated
if there is news now, there's a breaking story on
stuff website. The chance of seeing an aurora in southern
parts of the country is very high, according to Otago's

(55:16):
Aurora Alert New Zealand. I think the Facebook page is
the better one to go to to see about that.
He's what their latest reports are Aurora Australis, but a
color not yet, not seeing any photos just yet. Beautiful
photos of the night sky, but no sign of color yet.

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So I'll keep you updated with that. I'll do call
too tonight if you want to join there. Have you
ever taken a part of lazy boy cheer? How was
that to repair? Be interested to hear about that? You're
in your ends and ounce with that. Smith City, your
experience with here? You might have worked there kind of
wasn't a brand that was really well. There are a lot

(55:59):
of those middling kind of noel leaming and spacific kind
of blend into one, didn't they. Of course, there's big
stores came in and they kind of struggled to complete.
That's my take on it. You're Harvey Normands and the likes,
But gosh, retails hard, isn't it. Hoo do retail have
we're housing a staff. You may as well just have
an internet website and you buy the stuff from the

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factory the Temi model, but with furniture or with electrical appliances.
You my take, oh eight hundred and eighty tenny and
nine two nine two Detective, these are the topics that
have taken your fancy tonight here till twelve, looking forward
to you and put you got something else you want

(56:41):
to bang on about, then this is the show for you,
the bang on about show. And Trump's make an announcement
at six o'clock tomorrow morning. Might stay up for that.
No idea what it is, but he spent several days
talking it up. Janet, this is Marcus. Good evening. Hi
Janet here, Oh, hi Janet, welcome.

Speaker 8 (57:01):
We'll go.

Speaker 18 (57:01):
In the nineteen sixties, we had them carpet read by
Smithy and I have a fault in that. So we
went back and said about what has happened. They said
that'd come out on a Monday and fix it. Where
I'm still waiting and I still haven't got the bill
for it.

Speaker 11 (57:17):
I call it all up.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
Did you not pay for it?

Speaker 15 (57:22):
No?

Speaker 18 (57:23):
No, the bill the bill didn't come either.

Speaker 3 (57:26):
Wow, I didn't.

Speaker 18 (57:28):
And they didn't and they didn't send their count that
we never paid for it.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
Well, you've got what year was it, Janet, nineteen sixties
an x minister carpet. I can imagine. I can almost
visualize it now.

Speaker 18 (57:42):
Yeah, oh yeah, but it was just you know, so
I stayed home for a few Mondays, and then I
gave up on Monday and they said, I'm not staying
home on Monday's waiting for them.

Speaker 3 (57:52):
Now, very good? Is the carpet still there was?

Speaker 2 (57:55):
It?

Speaker 3 (57:55):
Long gone, long gone, brilliant, great story, Janet, love that,
love that a lot. Wow. I'd feel guilty when I
wouldn't actually lyle, this is Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 16 (58:07):
Oh high Arcus. Yeah, race fis city. It's not the
first time they've gone balley up. I remember in let
me think, I was a civil servant in Wellington, which
was between eighty seven and eighty eight, and a couple
of years earlier they expanded from their christ Age base
all the South Island into the lower North Island and

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maybe quite a lot further north. I don't think they
got to Auckland at that point, and I don't even
know if they were there now. But it was too
much expansion, too quickly, and in one of those years
I was working in Wellington they went into administration. Then
they just were trying to be too big, and they

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were a big fish in the small South Iland pond.
But the market was much more competitive in those days,
and I think now too in the North Island. I
remember when I landed up in the North Ireland. There were,
for instance, in Upper Heart there was I think the
rest of the Ally two there was a department store

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called hazer Woods, which was essentially doing the same stuff.
You know, you could buy your loungewe, you could buy
your Phillips K nine TV or whatever, and so that
the market was much tougher for them then, and I
think they've probably come acropper. I remember when they went
back into the North Island, I thought this is not
going to end. Well, there was a few years ago, I.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Know they went backing in two thousand and four, they
brought Elvi Martin.

Speaker 16 (59:35):
All right, okay, well I relaunched.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
In twenty twenty the new Inner Smith's the operations. Yeah, okay,
it's got macat isn't it.

Speaker 11 (59:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (59:46):
Yeah, But I mean I think delusions are grandeur really
and also that it tried to do that at the
point where people were ordering stuff online all the time,
and it was they just recently actually put a shop
into hornby Officer where I take the dog to the vet.

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So that was only a couple of years ago. So
you know, I think a bit too much expansion.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
And I never knew what they stood for.

Speaker 16 (01:00:17):
Well no, well no, they sort of stood for everything.
But also because of that nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
TV, small appliances and couches, is that right.

Speaker 16 (01:00:26):
Well something like that. I haven't really sort of dark
in the door of one for a long time, but yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:00:31):
It was.

Speaker 16 (01:00:33):
I don't know that. They're probably very very optimistic. Yeah, well,
I think you'd buy pretty much, you know, the lounge suite,
the yeah, the appliances, you know, YadA, YadA, YadA, and yeah,
but I think that that was already pretty covered in
the North Island anyway, and to be honest, now in
the South Island as well. So yeah, but they were expanding,

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so too much expansion, I think, Yeah, well.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
I guess you probably goes. I thought you're going to
take on the Harvy Norman as you need stores right
around the country also, so I could see the tactic.
They were big enough to carry it off.

Speaker 16 (01:01:05):
Were they in Auckland.

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
Then, yeah, I think they were. I don't know where,
I'll just google it, but I mean.

Speaker 16 (01:01:15):
I think that was. I think there are lots of
you know, I'm just.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
But I mean, right then got his couch from there,
But they didn't have the big I don't think they
have the big parking, like because you're going to have
a Norman. There's barks Refrica, isn't there, but not so
much that. Yeah, they might be the old store, okay, but.

Speaker 16 (01:01:31):
I think Swiss City too, they seemed to have, at
least in Christis they have. I think like Harvey Norman
and christ Is. I think there's only a couple of branches,
but they're big branches, you know, as you say, big
car packs.

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
It's your destination. You go and get everything. Well, I'm
here going to and then they give all those ridiculous coupons,
so you feel you got to go back to spind
your coupons because you get twenty percent off in coupons.
It's crazy.

Speaker 16 (01:01:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, But but I just think, I mean,
I didn't. They should have looked to their past and
seen what they did, know what happened last time they
did this, But well I didn't. That's that's life, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Yeah, it's your tough business. I agree, Ly'll thank you.
Twenty four to ten. No one mourns the Wicked? When's
some when's my movie back out? When's the what's it
of Oz sequel going to come out? Not sequel? Part two?
Can't wait for that. We got married in nineteen seventy,
had finished our whole house from a shop called Smith

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and Brown and Eden was at the original name of
Smith City keV No. Smith City was originally called smith
City Market, which Joan still calls it. And I love
it for that as much as you can love A
talk back caller someone by Texas informed that Psmith City
used to sell tools as well as some building supplies.
So I guess your buddings wan't have helped. And you

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might attend they're big, aren't they, Braiden. This is Marcus. Welcome,
Marcus Young, good things, Braiden.

Speaker 20 (01:02:57):
Just bringing you at Smith City, so be there.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:03:04):
Yeah, so my dad, my dad was obsessed with Smith City.
He had the same and he still calls it smith
City Market and the one on Columbo Street and crist Bridge.
And it used to drive me mad because whenever they
were looking for something, as they wanted to Land Sweet,
you have to eat only shopped at Smith City Market

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or Farmers and it's like they're looking at the Lard
suite and the same Land Street would be about Harvey
Norman throughout five hundred dollars cheaper. Because I know, it's
to get a Smith City Market, and they the one
in town. They had like fishing gear, they had everything
in there in the nineties and then yeah, I just

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think I think there was two labor intensive they used
to do it floring. I think it was they had
too many employees and I don't even know if they
had a website you could even buy online. So I
mean that's going to kill you these days.

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
There's something said about christ loyalty, though, is it You
can go to Smith City Market, so you keep going
to Smith City Market because you've always gone. That's loyalty.

Speaker 20 (01:04:12):
Yeah, And I honestly this sounds bad, but I think
it's a dying come following.

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
Oh yeah, yeah, there's no I mean, it doesn't reward loyalty,
does it. You just got and the young people don't
like loyalty. There's what the cheapest possible?

Speaker 20 (01:04:28):
Well, is there any such thing as layalty in business?
And that's not really Yeah, I feel I love it anyway, Well,
if you're broke Smith Citty, I'm going to give you
ten bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
Have they No, No, I don't know about loyal loyalty
because I think I think everyone talks in small towns.
Everyone talks about loyalty and are putting your local owner
operator until someone better comes and they flee. It was
like down South when everyone you know would go to
the had a lot of these smaller owned gyms, and

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then one of the big franchise gyms came and I thought, well,
no one's going to go there because they're all about loyalty.
And then I see on the website they've got four
thousand members. I thought, well, were's the loyalty. Yeah, you're
loyal until you're not loyal.

Speaker 20 (01:05:15):
I suppose pricess to the main sector.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
Surely is your father? Is your father still alive? Will
this be a bad day for him?

Speaker 8 (01:05:24):
Yeah? Yeah, he'll he'll be actually yeah, yeah, if you
go to markets and and I hate to think the
day that Farmers closed because it's everything of farmer's.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Although I know sometimes early people don't got farmers. They
call it the farmers, which I love us also, but
not as much as Smith City Marcus. I've never heard
I never heard it called that. I'm loving that.

Speaker 20 (01:05:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh well.

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
You might have you talked to him today. Yeah, here's
going nice to talk Brandon. Thank you. Eighteen to ten
Jamie Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:06:03):
Hey Mater, there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:06:04):
Good, Thank you, Jamie.

Speaker 13 (01:06:06):
I care what's your experience with I here? I heard
you mention it before.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
I was just doing a walk. I was walking around
the harbor of Sydney Harbor and I came across it
just at North Ride. I thought, well, I don't know
what that's like. So I was just on a walking holiday,
so it wasn't like I was buying anything. So I
just went in to see what it was like. But
it was two stories and it was too much because
you had to walk in one direction, you had to
keep going. So I was tired anyway, so that by

(01:06:30):
the time I came out, I'd walked about two miles
more than I thought because I couldn't turn around and
get out.

Speaker 13 (01:06:36):
I get it tongue like I care. Yeah, I'm fun
of two houses were here. Now the wife loved it.
So you go and you walk in, You get your
your breakfast. It used to be two bucks for like
baking an ind but now it's like five dollars and
breaking the bank.

Speaker 11 (01:06:51):
Anyway.

Speaker 13 (01:06:51):
You get your pen and paper, ounder, your guy and
that's you know, I want that TV cabinet or whatever
you write it down and then you still that you
go downstairs and you pick the boat. You know, I
might say you need three four box yes, sorry, two
or three boxes or whatever, you know what I mean,
and you picked them out, or they'll tell you go

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and pick it up from around the corner at the
warehouse and then yeah, you go home. You know, you
meet your up which corner of the house do you
want to put your modular thing? And you ask you
goether and now you can buy this out and you
can build a whole wardrobe.

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
Do you take this? Do you take the stuff home?

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Then?

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
And they would they deliver it?

Speaker 13 (01:07:32):
Oh, well we just last yeah, the last house to
be furnished, because yeah, we just took the trailer and
we just filled up the trailer and the and if
we went home, yeah, TV cabinet and wardrobe for the
kids and other bits and pieces.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
And then do you have a few Cody's before you're
assumed little? How do you do that?

Speaker 17 (01:07:52):
Uh?

Speaker 13 (01:07:52):
Now, maybe that's the only time me and my wife
will argue. So I don't don't even bother. I'll just
sit on the couch and she'll stay hold. Yeah, she
very much loves and fuction.

Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
Reason is his superpower, is it. She's good at that
with the ellen key.

Speaker 13 (01:08:12):
Yeah, I get too frustrated, so I just wait until
she's read it over and then to go all right, yeah,
she gets a little bit to lay everything out on
the floor and you should go hold that, and I
just speak fire and just hold it. It's yeah, last.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
It's normally it's normally an ellen key, isn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:08:31):
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, normally yeah, allen key or yeah, screw
driver or something. But I think it's all well. Yeah,
like I say, I would I've probably spent fifteen thousand
dollars that I care, and I would have never even
put one bit of furniture together. It lasts all right, Yeah,
if you buy the cheap stuff doesn't. But if you

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buy the like sort of metal care, it's pretty good. Yeah,
like some of the stuff we've got from when we
first moved to Australia fifteen years ago. Still moved a
few hourss.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
It's not too bad, you know, got a bad thing
like to talk to Jamie. Thank you for that. Fifteen
to ten, Marcus, I only just started listening for a
few minutes. I've already heard at least three phone button beats.
What's the count for tonight is it four? Den, it's five.
When it was a little cluster there a real cluster,

(01:09:25):
it was a beep cluster. What about Braiden love that
Smith City Mark used to be great, one stop shop,
got hunting and fishing gear all you had to equipment.
Then Hunting and Fishing startup and killed them for them.
Then Harvey Norman turned up. Well you kind of. It's
it's contingent of if you're running a business, you got
predict what the future is going to do. This is
not surprising, is it. Smith City tried to be everything

(01:09:47):
to everyone, selling paint, furniture, appliants, camping gear, bikes. They
should have just sold the profitable lines. They didn't move
with the times, Marcus. In May twenty Smith City Market
was sold to Polar Capitel invested company owned by Colin
Neil for sixty million. It's called Smith's now, so I
don't think the original owners are involved in the Receiver shop.

(01:10:08):
I see lazy boy cheers as fast treks to the grave.
The last thing the elderly should do is get addicted
to and spend too much time in those cheers. Should
we bend them? That'd be a fun thing to do.
They probably are killing the elderly because the last thing
they want to do is be a mobile with the
legs like that.

Speaker 6 (01:10:31):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
You want to be active, you want to be doing
tie chair in the walking group, Susie, this is Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:10:37):
Good evening, Hi Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
Thank you.

Speaker 21 (01:10:41):
I've got a good story about Smith City. Yes, but
before I start there, I bought my TV, my chair
and micro away from them. About five weeks ago, Marcus,
one of my springs went in my chairs, and so
I took it out and I didn't worry about it.
But two days I thought I'd bring the Smith City
and say it's at a guarantee. But they say, bring

(01:11:03):
the spring in. We might have one here, and they did,
and he said where do you live? And I told
him and he came out after work, after ours and
put it in for me. What a great story, Yeah, yeah,
he he was. I wouldn't have been able to get
it in, Marcus, because you have to stretch it quite hard.
But I thought that was very.

Speaker 15 (01:11:22):
Nice of him to do.

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
Great story. That's always got a tear in my eye.
What sort of cheer was it?

Speaker 21 (01:11:27):
It's a recliner, Marcus, a recliner, cheer like a lazy boy. Yes, yes,
it goes right back.

Speaker 3 (01:11:35):
Yeah, well the spring how did he get it in?

Speaker 21 (01:11:39):
It was the spring that held the leg reast up.
When the spring went, the leg wreast wouldn't push in.
It was stayed up all the time. Hell and that
and that that was it's got three springs in it.
And that was the wee one that snapped.

Speaker 22 (01:11:54):
So I thought it.

Speaker 21 (01:11:56):
He said, no, I'll come out after work and put
it in for you.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
It's fantastic. We are threshing it. No wonder how it broke.

Speaker 21 (01:12:06):
No, I don't know, Marcus. I've had the chair a while.

Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
Not a good story. So there we go. That's made
all that's that's good. We've got a good Smith City story.
I feel better about that because people will be hurting
that work there and things like that's never a nice
thing with shops going under. My grandfather started Smith and
Browniere the terming conditions of all sales of the chain
of stores. The name is Smith must remain in the name.
But I don't think Smith City and Smith and Brown
are related? Are they vigorous? Rocking your lazy boy is

(01:12:34):
good for the abs. Good evening Marcus, love you work.
I'd vote your prime minister in a heartbeat. That being said,
big ups. You're a born radio man riding at the
moments you want to talk about UFO sarding experiences, I'll
called you the to love your work all time ultimate
Nick brilliant. Good evening, Roger, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:12:53):
Hey Marcus here, you're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:12:55):
Good, thanks, Roger.

Speaker 10 (01:12:58):
Yeah, hey, look, over the years, I've bought hate stuff
smith City beds, glass sweets, TV stereos. But a few
years ago I bought a set of headphones from a
really expensive one. So were there nearly a thousand dollars
and I had them. I would have been a couple
of weeks and something went wrong with them. So I

(01:13:19):
took them back over and the guy said, oh, yeah,
we'll see them all. But he said, I'll tell you
what I'll do here, and yeah, you just take these,
I'll send these prepared whatever. I said, Oh, that's really awesome.
And then about i've been three weeks later, I've got
a phone call the boys. He compre to come over.
We're not yet the head phones here, and I said,

(01:13:41):
I've got the headphones. He said, the other repaired ones
and I said, I wasn't expecting because he replaced this.
Well here, so we're back there and I got another
pair basically three. Well, it was quite bizarre.

Speaker 8 (01:13:56):
I was like, and I.

Speaker 10 (01:13:57):
Said to the guy, I said, look, you know, you
guys gave me a here and he said here. Well,
he said, I just went away and got prepared and
I said it was to be give them to bring
you when they were here. So here they are and
there you go. So it was pretty awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
Doesn't sound like good business practice though, does it?

Speaker 23 (01:14:16):
Well?

Speaker 10 (01:14:17):
No, no, I mean that's the thing. And it's interesting
when someone said about them selling all the fishing air
and all this stuff. There was an awful lot there
they sold. And when these other schools started up, that
sort of cut into them, you know, because they they
had staff there, they weren't that well trained up and

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those sort of things. And of course, if you're a
fishing fanatic or kemp or whatever, you want to deal
with someone that knows what talking about a lot of
people got to just runt just off.

Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
How many shops whether in christ you at Swift City Market.

Speaker 10 (01:14:56):
I remember Vacus the day it was one of the Northland's.
There was one in town one down columb Both Street
or sick don't said there was fine and bright. There
were a few around, and then of course they started
sort of disappearing, and I thought, I thought, actually, when

(01:15:22):
they got pulled out of the night time, who thought
was night heart to day for my farmers or something?

Speaker 8 (01:15:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
Involved with Swiss. Yeah, I don't know that.

Speaker 10 (01:15:33):
No, No, I know it's yeah, it's a real shame,
because I where I am out at Belfast, we had
one of Walter for liven years, years years, and all
of a sudden they said the Chemists warehouse was going
in there, and we locked at it and we thought, well,
at the heck of a bitch stored just for the
chemist warehouse. I thought they'd be doing half and half

(01:15:56):
so and that opened yesterday. So I went up to
the Chemists Warehouse yesterday and looked through the window Smith
City and thought it was nothing there.

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
So that.

Speaker 22 (01:16:09):
The shame.

Speaker 10 (01:16:11):
I trade here, But it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Sound like it to me. Roger eyes are nice to
hear from you. Thank you for that welcome. Oh eight
hundred and eighty today, there used to be a Smith
and Brown large furniture shop at the top of Simon
Street in Auckland, so I think smith and Brown and
Smithly Market were different places, but that might be part
of the confusion. Marcus. I remember Smithly Market on Columbus Street,

(01:16:36):
sendinghem Crostius in the fifties. It was a big straw
and seemed to sell everything. I'm pretty sure it went
to some sort of receivership late fifties and traded out later.
God to Love, God to Love, and after our service
by a man from Smithy, I can't stop laughing, gazz Marcus.
I finished my home from smith Citly. Harvey Norman wasn't
around then. If you ban those lazy boy cheers and

(01:16:57):
we've re upset. We're talking smith City and the Brye
before Saday's match and Resie's bomb squad. Love it. You
gotta love Rezzi's bomb squad to call it the bomb squad.
That's half the charm, isn't it. The I like the

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inventiveness of it. Welcome people, Marcus, still twelve lines free
if you don want to come through now enjoying it all.
The aurora is happening, is it? He were looking the
scar there's anything there? Let me know there's a high
chance of it. Yep. Is I say, eight hundred and
eighty twenty nine nine to text text text on a

(01:17:43):
disturbing note, and I don't really know what to say
about it. Auckland has had six thousand dogs euthanized. Something's
broken there, isn't it. Six thousand, ten thousand dogs impounded

(01:18:08):
sixty percent the euthanized. Something's going on wrong with dog owners.
I would think, please dis please discuss, Marcus the one here.
You need to let the chorus. Plan'm always excited for
the chorus because I'm your lady and you are my man.
You're not gonna have a song that says I am
your lady. It seems wrong whenever you reach for me.

(01:18:31):
I'm going to do all that I can. Thank you.
Psmith City Market and Smith and Brown. I don't know
the history of Psmith and Brown. Sounds like hop on pop,
sounds like a doctor sousbox, Smith and Brown out of town.
Someone will know, though, the history of Smith and Brown,

(01:18:51):
Thomas Marcus Evening.

Speaker 24 (01:18:53):
I guess that we're just missedly. When I was like
twenty two, Yeah, it was like some of the busiers
in my lafe.

Speaker 3 (01:18:59):
To be honest, Wow, that's a good story. That's a
great story, told where were you?

Speaker 24 (01:19:03):
I was in the Northwood branch. What was the brand news.
What's a really nice building And there was almost no
buildings around it until it all the van development all
kind of expanded and other things popped up. And I
worked there and one day I got given the job
of taking sort of kind of after ours. The van

(01:19:25):
was a trailer and I had to back like a
couch after back back back down the driveway, and I
had to let a box and took it out and
then and then then I got the next day there
was a new manager starting. It was his house.

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
Oh wow, that's fine.

Speaker 24 (01:19:41):
Yeah, but it was cool because I played in his
son's rugby team, the Jugs, and we were a social team,
and so he just didn't care.

Speaker 3 (01:19:50):
So what what year we're talking, Thomas, I don't know.

Speaker 24 (01:19:54):
What, twenty two or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
Yeah, any on commission, I.

Speaker 13 (01:20:01):
Was on commission.

Speaker 24 (01:20:02):
I was actually the good guy. I came straight to
the Jazz Score, you know, instead of being unemployed like
everybody else, to a manage school.

Speaker 11 (01:20:09):
I've got thrown to this job.

Speaker 24 (01:20:13):
And and and because I was like twenty two, but
I went. When you worked there for six months, you
could you could actually get hps. You can get everything
it cost plus ten. It was like you just waited
for that day. And I went up to the office.
Lady could know me for six months, and I was like,
I want to sit up an account to get an
HP so I can get my you know, staff discount.
And they're like, sorry, you can't, And I'm like, what

(01:20:34):
do you mean I can't. Like we've got to be
you've got to be eighteen. And I was like twenty
three now, So that was funny.

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
Wow, Yeah, how did your last couple of years?

Speaker 24 (01:20:46):
Like two years? It's like it was a great time,
a great time.

Speaker 3 (01:20:49):
Yeah, it was a great.

Speaker 24 (01:20:52):
Stories because like I was a young guy and all
these retired guys were working there sort of part time,
and they all want one of the commission and they
were all buying all the products that they were selling
to do up their their dream house that just developed
and ringure or something like that, and and so they
were all just getting his massive deals and using all
their life savings to buy these furnishings and doorways and

(01:21:15):
carpets and things for their house. And so I was
like always pushed out of getting the commissions and just
told to run around doing all the things that they
couldn't do, like lift stuff. It was fun.

Speaker 20 (01:21:25):
It was really fun.

Speaker 24 (01:21:26):
It was good mentoring this and giving me some much crap.
One time I got there, it was daylight savings. I
had my first car and I got there too early,
an hour early obviously, and I so I put the
feet down in the front of my car and had
a snooze, and then I didn't wake up till one
pm and they were like.

Speaker 6 (01:21:40):
We're going to fire you. I was like, I got
here an hour.

Speaker 20 (01:21:42):
Early the car park.

Speaker 24 (01:21:48):
Yeah, so really good, because that's the thing is when
you're the young guy and all the older guys and
they're all looking out for you, and they're all telling you,
you know, all the stuff that you should do with
girls and stuff, and just like, shut up, but this
kind of helpful.

Speaker 3 (01:22:02):
You know, Okay, of course coming from dair school, must
have because I must take great fun with her. How
useless that was to I mean, that was giving them
a great sense of move that he's a guy that
studied jazz. Where's that going to take you?

Speaker 24 (01:22:13):
Yeah, that's good and yeah, and then they put me
in the building supplies the area. So I was like,
so I and because I was a young guy, some
guy came up to be bought a six thousand dollars
pergolar and that thing never got sold the whole year
I was there.

Speaker 3 (01:22:26):
And did you did you see the Yeah, I.

Speaker 24 (01:22:30):
Just give the commission to the guy that looks like.

Speaker 3 (01:22:36):
How much commission do you get from a six thousand pergola?

Speaker 24 (01:22:39):
I don't know, but I've probably got another two hundred
bucks that month or something.

Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
Okay, So it's not the main part of you. It's
not the main part of your wages.

Speaker 24 (01:22:46):
But my whole my whole package back then was about
six hundred dollars a week, so you know it was
pretty decent.

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
Yeah, and did you?

Speaker 8 (01:22:55):
And you?

Speaker 3 (01:22:56):
And you left for what reason? There, Thomas?

Speaker 24 (01:22:58):
I went to design school and that worked.

Speaker 3 (01:23:01):
Out for that worked out for you. You should in
a book. Honestly, that's the part of the new said
literature that's never been written. As someone working at Smith
City in the early two thousands is a lot to
because internet computers do they sell computers.

Speaker 24 (01:23:16):
They didn't tell computers. But I mean there was like
ten thousand dollars thirty two inch flat screen TVs and
these plasmas and stuff like that which you know there
are clips now, but the new technology, but there was,
there was a cool thing that actually things then you
need new coming along and how it spinsfo it was
and how much people.

Speaker 3 (01:23:34):
Believe believably unbelievably expecsive better symbols, you know, and they're massive.
Those TVs they weren't flat. I mean the flat screens
a lot. There's a lot behind the screen, wasn't there
Nice to hear from your thom mast have raised the
bar eighteen past ten high Trevor.

Speaker 23 (01:24:00):
Yeah, good Marcus. We're just sitting on the side here
listening in. And I shopped at Smith City, yeah market
and uh and iver and adding to there and popped
in there about electric blanket. I was getting real cold.
I had to buy meg on my bed for a
number of years.

Speaker 3 (01:24:20):
Remember the.

Speaker 23 (01:24:22):
Bar Megan's woolen one. Because it's in a double bed
and I'm onney on the one side, and you had
to lay in it for about eight or nine or
ten minutes sometime before it actually warmed you up. The
actual wall under your body warmed up in the and
held you held your warmth in there, and that's what

(01:24:42):
kept your warm. But when you lay out and put
your hand over the other side of the dampest cell.
I didn't like it all. It was the dampness is
not good for the bead. I I popped into Smith
City Market and said to him about the electric blanket.
You go on there. Heah, we've got a top blind money.
She's a beauty. And I said, well how much? I

(01:25:04):
said three hundred and some dollars. I said, uh, mister,
do you have a gold card by any hand? I said, yeah,
I do. She said that's good because she said that
saved you one hundred and twenty three dollars. Well, cracky're good.
I'll be working once and all the time now, why.

Speaker 3 (01:25:20):
Know, Yeah, that's rights.

Speaker 23 (01:25:23):
That's the hell of a saving. Yeah, and that's a beauty.

Speaker 8 (01:25:26):
You know.

Speaker 23 (01:25:26):
On high seating it only takes five minutes to warm
up in a really tasty hard You just turn it
our bye, and the bed's never been warmer all day.

Speaker 3 (01:25:37):
You know what I mean, Trevor, Yeah, how'd the buyer
meg wig out for you?

Speaker 23 (01:25:44):
Well? I end up getting rid of it. I end
up getting rid of it because yeah, yeah, the broader
daughter brought me from me years ago and send it
down from Auckland.

Speaker 16 (01:25:57):
You can.

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
Oh, yeah, I've never on the radio for a long time.

Speaker 6 (01:26:02):
Would they they were?

Speaker 23 (01:26:04):
They were, yeah, yeah, I'm sure whether daughter paid. She said,
you know, you must be doing her dad cold down.
They're dead and you really need I'm going to buy
you and you don't pay me back. And I come
and they ask I was good. I was good, but
you God didn't get it in a real cold, cold
weather like you know, the wind. I hadn't really had come,

(01:26:24):
but I sure as Roman scold.

Speaker 3 (01:26:29):
Nice to hear from it. Drive. Thank you, Gary, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:26:34):
Here, Marcus. Good Gary, who'd you're coming to be?

Speaker 16 (01:26:38):
At?

Speaker 22 (01:26:38):
The dogs being euthanized and open? So that's on average
that's eleven a week, is that right?

Speaker 17 (01:26:46):
No, it was five.

Speaker 3 (01:26:51):
Week, one hundred and twenty a week. It's like eighteen
a day or something. It's a lot.

Speaker 22 (01:26:59):
So I'm thinking, what seemed to those dogs? Ain't we
just said? So the SPCA take them in and yeah,
do what they do. So you would think a lot
of those dogs don't have tags so they can't find
the owners.

Speaker 3 (01:27:19):
Yeah, I guess that would be true.

Speaker 22 (01:27:20):
So in New Zealand last year there were sixteen thousand
dogs euthanized by the SPCA. What the hell is going
on with these people that get then just take them
to the park, taken to the park and time to
the fence, and then members of the public just ring

(01:27:42):
the spce AA or the SPCA come along and take
them away. You know, what the hell is wrong with people?
It's all I wanted to say to your Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:27:52):
Think.

Speaker 3 (01:27:53):
Well, there seems to be a discreeque between what people
say they want dogs for to exercise a companionship, and
actually what they do do with them, which is probably neglect.
It's not good. Yeah, cheers, but two, Helena Marcus welcome.

Speaker 25 (01:28:08):
I'm a bit nervous about this that my relation mine
worked at Smith City for fifty years and I bought
all my furniture from smith sitting on blind as you know.
Well you don't but and I'm sorry they're closing down.

Speaker 3 (01:28:29):
Yeah, well, if that's the place that you've gone to,
you will be sorry because it's a bit of a change,
isn't it.

Speaker 25 (01:28:33):
And they also sell they used to sell luggage, Michael too. Yeah, okay, sorry,
that's right, but quickly I won't keep there. I'm buying
a new bed and I didn't know there was a
Target in christ Church.

Speaker 3 (01:28:53):
There's a lot of places for a bed for you well,
and I didn't know when I bought my first bed
from the Smith City.

Speaker 25 (01:29:02):
You got the base and the mattress together, but you're
going to buy them seatrip Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:29:08):
The base doesn't seem to be such a big deal anymore,
does it?

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
No?

Speaker 25 (01:29:11):
It doesn't.

Speaker 3 (01:29:13):
Yeah, I think the bead market Hyena is a lot
more competitive now. There's all sorts of places to get beds.

Speaker 25 (01:29:19):
I still got it on a sour and I hope
to have it before Christmas.

Speaker 3 (01:29:23):
Oh you've got your bed?

Speaker 25 (01:29:26):
Not yet, I'm paying it off.

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
Okay. Where'd you get it from?

Speaker 25 (01:29:30):
Targets?

Speaker 8 (01:29:31):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
Okay, okay, well.

Speaker 25 (01:29:33):
They would have got it from I bought a washing machine.
I bought all my other stuff from Smooth City, and
I've got discount. But I've got a bit more because
my relation.

Speaker 18 (01:29:43):
With do you see.

Speaker 15 (01:29:45):
Quite good?

Speaker 3 (01:29:47):
You don't know much about Target? Were they good to
deal with?

Speaker 25 (01:29:50):
They are? Yet they were?

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
When are you paid off by Christmas?

Speaker 16 (01:29:56):
Eh?

Speaker 25 (01:29:58):
Hopefully even before that. I'm gonna even if I don't
get food or do it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
What's what's wrong with the old mattress?

Speaker 25 (01:30:08):
What daddy stain that's got skin. Because you're supposed to
turn your matress over, aren't you will? Yeah, we don't
do it myself.

Speaker 3 (01:30:16):
Some aren't meant to be turned some are supposed to
be turned out. And that's an old school thing. We'll
talk about that, Helena. Thank you. Nice to hear from you.
Twenty five past ten ten of Rooney Get in touch
if you want to talk about the bride before Saturday,
before the game. What your plan is? You got the
meat out drying already, Ah, the old biomegs.

Speaker 5 (01:30:39):
Ah.

Speaker 3 (01:30:46):
So I don't know the story about Smith and Brown.
I think there must be a different company. No one's
told me yet, but that's what I would imagine. I
just feel I feel it deep down. That's a different
things Smith and Brown. I don't know if that's still around.
That's beyond my research. Before the show tonight, someone all

(01:31:13):
know and lazy boy cheer is always a good topic.
What if they are bad for people luring them into
a feet up sedentary life. Hello, Jenny, this is Marcus.

Speaker 26 (01:31:30):
Welcome, good evening, Marcus here.

Speaker 3 (01:31:34):
Yeah, good thinking, Jenny, really good.

Speaker 26 (01:31:35):
Oh that's that's good now, And you're talking about Smith
and Brown now? Smith and Brown. We're in the cargo
because we bore a war unit from them, and I
reckon it must have been in the early eighties. Wow,
and maybe the four runner to Smith City were really Yeah,
now Smith City, we're actually directing and we rebel Sports

(01:31:57):
are and near our street, oh many years ago, because
I can remember I worked up at the plaza and
at once from Smith and he used to come up
and get their lunch. Of that we knew quite a
lot of them, you know. It used to get quite
good discounts and things and can do you a good
deal sort of thing when they came to fee. So

(01:32:18):
that was good.

Speaker 16 (01:32:20):
So there we go.

Speaker 26 (01:32:21):
But when you think of all the ones that have
been in there, Smith City's the last one of the
thing or used to be Butterfields and the Farmers or
Kaul Mackay's all of them years ago. The I see
all these ones ahead furniture and that, and isn't this
was the last one rich the other than the farmer
swift brand, doesn't I oh that?

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
And Harvey Norman, nice to hear from you. Anything. I
don't know, someone will clarify me. With Smith, Smith and Brown.
It's hard to get information online. About Smith and Brown.
It did seem to be a separate thing that was
just mainly furniture. Smith and Brown from out of town.
You got to talk good, to be nice to hear
from you tonight. Someone know, Hello, Patrick, Marcus, Welcome Marcus,

(01:33:01):
a good Patrick.

Speaker 16 (01:33:03):
You're bringing about Smith and Brown. Yes, Smith and Brown
was originally called the Maple Furnishing Company. Oh, and they
had their head office on the corner of Simon Street
and k Road in Auckland.

Speaker 3 (01:33:17):
Yep, that makes sense.

Speaker 16 (01:33:18):
Now, sometime in the nineteen seventies they changed their name
or they were taken over something like that to Smith
and Brown's. My dad worked for them from nineteen sixty
one when he came to New Zealand through them when
he retired in nineteen eighty five. Okay, so yes, So
sometime in the seventy they're changing and of Smith and Brown.
And they had branches all over Auckland and that and

(01:33:42):
I was about South Auckland, had an Odaho at Hunter's Corner,
a big, big one in the South Walls shopping center,
and manyurewa And when I bought my first house, I
bought or my furniture and televisions and white wear and
all that through them sort of things. So yeah, and
now s eighties again, and that would.

Speaker 3 (01:34:01):
Have become that would have become the Penny Farthing bike shop.

Speaker 6 (01:34:04):
Did it.

Speaker 3 (01:34:08):
Simon Simon Stritton K Road or Simon Striton kyp of
Bars you know, Simon.

Speaker 16 (01:34:14):
Street and K Road. It's where it's with a Sheraton.

Speaker 3 (01:34:17):
Yes, that's right, Yes, that's exactly right. I can see
it now. Yes. And is that where the factory was
to Patrick? Was your father a carpenter? Did he make
the furniture?

Speaker 16 (01:34:26):
Don't? No, No, that's where they sold They sold the
solder there. He but then became a wharehouse manager at
Smith and Brown out in all that's where they actually
did make the furniture.

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
Yes, wow, yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:34:39):
But but sometime in the eighties they they they either
became Smith City or Brinklease. I can't remember which order,
whether it was Brinkley's first, then Smith City or smith City,
then Brinkles and then they basically disappeared.

Speaker 27 (01:34:56):
And what.

Speaker 16 (01:34:58):
Might have been there at some stage as well too,
what was felt X was involved somewhere as well.

Speaker 3 (01:35:04):
And they were called Maple something.

Speaker 16 (01:35:06):
Did you say, yeah, Maple Furnishing Company. My dad started
there in nineteen sixty one.

Speaker 3 (01:35:12):
Okay, well you're the guy that knows it all.

Speaker 16 (01:35:16):
Yeah, but you know, gay, great great family company sort
of thing. My dad loved it there.

Speaker 3 (01:35:23):
Yeah, no, that's a good story. Okay, I appreciate that. Patrick,
think you I can give me a bit more to
google into. Yeah, the company was absorbed in the Smith
and Browns of the seventies, right in the firm of
Smith and Brown and Maple, which ceased trading in the
late seventies. It's on the k Road heritage Facebook page
found in nineteen fourteen near Grafton Bridge, Scandinavian modernist. Huh

(01:35:48):
the things you see, Pat, I heard I talked to
who was that? That was Elizabeth Elizabeth.

Speaker 28 (01:35:56):
This is Marcus, Welcome, good evening, Marcus the Trevis caller.
I remember Smith and Curley, not Smith and Co. Smith
and Brown because I purchased Allowed Sweet there in the sixties.
And and I think I remember the name when he

(01:36:19):
mentioned the Maple whatever it was called. Yeah, they were
good stores, they were.

Speaker 10 (01:36:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (01:36:27):
And on the on the funny side, two of my
sisters married. One was whose surnames became one Smith and
one Brown.

Speaker 3 (01:36:39):
Oh funny, that's funny.

Speaker 29 (01:36:42):
Isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:36:42):
Yeah, Yeah, good Onion, Lizabeth, thank you for that. Allo
Ross welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:36:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:36:49):
I think I was right about the maple thing, and
became Smith Brown and Brown and Maple, and then I
think it was part of ue B Group, and I
think it was Roger Douglas here was the accountant there,
and they hopped it off to Smith City. They were
a big chain. They had many about five stores in
Wellington Price huge, so many stores, and mccargol were right

(01:37:10):
through the country told everything from camping gear through to
bridges and TVs and furniture. Smith City then took it
over quite cunningly and had a lot of different companies
set up to buy aage individual store. And then they
poured it into receivership. When they got in the shock

(01:37:30):
and they had inherited a bit of cash from UEB
for staff superannuation schemes. Well that disappeared and the staff
can get paid out. I went to the receiver's meeting
or whatever. They actually can't go into receivership. They went
into administration and most of the people who were suppliers

(01:37:57):
voted for it to carry on trading. I'd have to
say I held out because I had a lot of
the staff rights to vote on the thing. And because
I I'd started off doing the Scotch cart and all
the fabric right through the stores. And what happened was

(01:38:17):
they owed me about thirty thousand and put me almost under.
I was back in about eighty seven eighty eight.

Speaker 13 (01:38:24):
And then.

Speaker 27 (01:38:26):
The receiver of want to be the side the administrative,
want to be the sign this thing so they could
carry on.

Speaker 4 (01:38:31):
And I said no.

Speaker 27 (01:38:33):
I said, I'll repossess the furniture that we've worked on
you using the Romalpa clause. And he said you can't
do that, and I said, oh, just watch me, and
I'll hire the Boddy Black Power to do the repossession. Well,
they wrung me back a few hours later and agreed
to pay me out so many cents in the dollar.
And it always left to see our taste that the

(01:38:54):
staff had been shafted well and truly.

Speaker 11 (01:38:58):
So.

Speaker 27 (01:38:58):
And then Smith send it up with their problems and
got sold as you were away later on, and Smith
that he had branches right through the country as well.

Speaker 3 (01:39:08):
I don't I was involved.

Speaker 2 (01:39:12):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:39:12):
That was in the eighties. That sounds very much like
the way business was done with all those strange kind
of deals, doesn't it. I mean it was, Yeah, I
mean it sounds to ring true to my recollects of
the eighties.

Speaker 10 (01:39:26):
What that was like.

Speaker 3 (01:39:28):
Buying and ceiling and flunging off and not honoring your
workers or your people that are who you owe money.

Speaker 27 (01:39:33):
To, you know, the worriest one, and I mean the guys.
Since Dibe was a diabetic guy, they asked him to
come back. He was UiB duty paid out a reasonable amount.
They asked him to come back, knowing they had this
big payoff to do, and then put it into receiversable
we wile later and yes, that guy ended up with
absolutely nothing. And that was the saddest part to me,

(01:39:56):
the way they handled the staff. Smith and Brown when
they were involved, it was a great company, a good atmosphere.
You Jordan when you went into the stores were good
to work, worth and everything. But Smith City different kettle
of fish sy. Yeah, that's a said today.

Speaker 3 (01:40:20):
Nice to hear from your ross. Thanks. So Y's ironic
that the two stores were amalga. They both had Smith
and at Smith City and Smith or Smith City Market
and Smith and Brown. Thanks for that. It's with an
insight to it. Twenty two to eleven. My name is Marcus.
Welcome eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine to detect.
If you want to talk Marcus, I'd like to know.
There was a store called Psmith Brand and Maple sold furniture.

(01:40:41):
That's right. They became Smith, Brown and Maples. I worked
at Smith and Brand of Hastings sixty eight accounts. Good
place to work for my memory, be a part of it.
You want to talk Marcus till twelve. Anything else you
want to go around with tonight, But mainly it's about
Smith City Limited, No Smith City Market. Yes, yes, what

(01:41:06):
we're on about. Oh yes, Sneil says. In the eighties
and nineties, Smith City took over to merge with other businesses.
Erwin and Stune was one big business, but there are others.
Didn't even know. Many stories about them in the Shear
Market News. They were part of the ninet eighty seven
Shar Market crash. Yeah, that sounds like it. That sounds

(01:41:27):
pretty much what the last go was on about. But
thanks for that, Marcus. I worked for Smith and Brown
and Maple. The jingle used to go Smith and Brown
and don't forget the maple. That's great. We love the jingle,
someone said, what was the size of the earthquake and
Topul I'm on that now, I'll eq in did it
for you people, Joey at home. Here's what we've got

(01:41:49):
view all quakes. There was one twenty nine minutes ago,
as at two point three, there was one forty minutes ago.
At one point nine, there was one fifty minutes to
go as at one point nine, there's one fifty two
minutes to go to one point nine. The other four
that were in Topaul. So yeah, one point nine, one

(01:42:10):
point nine, one point nine, two point three. That was
over a space of fifty two minutes. I don't know
what goes on with that lake, but thanks, line's free,
let's be let's get you on and off people. If
you've got something to add, that's what we're about tonight.

(01:42:30):
But yeah, do you need your call? Oh the Aurora
Aurora Borealis. Oh, Danein's got a smith City also too.
I think they are kind of remember going past that
and there endus retail zone in Dunedin. But yeah, i'd
love the guy Thomas at Worth. They're fantastic caller. What

(01:42:54):
a call of the night, and keep checking in on
the Aurora, because that would be good to see how
that's going. Three dollar Cordon Blues at the night and
day look good, don't they? Sixteen to eleven emails if
you've got them? Also people sheep, Oh, Smith Brown, what

(01:43:18):
do we call it? Smith City Market?

Speaker 6 (01:43:24):
D did.

Speaker 3 (01:43:28):
Gaileen? This is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:43:31):
Oh hey, it was so quick. I only just turned
the radio on and I heard Smith and Brown and
Maple and I thought, oh my goodness, Smith and Brown
and Maple. My dad was general manager of Smith and
K Road.

Speaker 3 (01:43:48):
In k Road.

Speaker 16 (01:43:49):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 15 (01:43:53):
For a long time.

Speaker 11 (01:43:54):
Obviously I remember being and going talking girls Grammar and
walking down up onto Simon's Street and going up to
his little manager. But well are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (01:44:08):
Okay, Gailing. We started talking about Smith City because they
have gone bankrupt or they've gone to receivership today, and
then we got talking about how they're also part of
Smith and Brown also, and then Smith and Brown became
Smith and Brown and Maple. Don't forget the maple.

Speaker 11 (01:44:22):
Oh okay, okay, yeah, because yeah, dad was. Dad was
general manager, Dave Dave Parker, and he was there for
a long time. And then they bought some of in
from South Africa and they took over. But Gad was

(01:44:43):
involved in all the computerization and all that, and I
just said that, Yeah, I'm just amazed at the big changes.

Speaker 3 (01:44:54):
Nice to hear, love you to hear forgot, thanks for
giving us a tune and to appreciate that love someone.
It just calls on the on the spur of what
they've heard. That's great, that's what we want. All fourteen
to eleven, Marcus, the radio jingler is now playing on
repeat in my head, Psmith and Brown and maple, don't
forget the maple. I'm about to listen to baby Shark

(01:45:15):
to clear my head of the jingle. Good tactic, Baby shocked,
Do do do? It's disappeared with baby Shark.

Speaker 6 (01:45:22):
Now, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:45:22):
That was a big when my children were young, for
they're still young. Well, they're not that young. Actually, I'll
tell you what. My youngest boy is about to be ten. Yes,
and they say the kids grow up quickly.

Speaker 10 (01:45:42):
And some.

Speaker 3 (01:45:44):
Sometimes it seems like a long time. But yes, some
of it does seem quite quick.

Speaker 15 (01:45:49):
Ten.

Speaker 3 (01:45:52):
Yep, that'll be a big deal because he could well
be an event planner and he likes, he likes, he
wants something happening for his tenth. He's trying to convince
me that the tenth is a big deal decade birthday. Well,
the other kid didn't say that. It's quite happy, just
to have a quiet little event. Yes, the big ten,

(01:46:21):
and then there'll be ten and eleven for about three months,
and there'll be ten and twelve. Marcus. Someone mentioned dance
Gamobler earlier on recently purchased a lounge suite. Their service
was great, from their very helpful salesman right through to
the guys who'd lived and set up the suite. Brilliant. No,
you can't people set up the sweet these days. Nine

(01:46:44):
to eleven Angeler, it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:46:47):
Ah, look at my grandpa Smith start Smith Smooth and
Brown came out as my grands store. He was a
cabinet make and made all of furniture and it's called
Spinature store. And his upholster was mister Brown who was

(01:47:12):
further over in Auckland, and he was very happy with
mister Brown. A polstering of his furniture Sweet Wide and
he then invited mister Brown to Jordans in the partnership

(01:47:33):
in nineteen eight. He started his store in nineteen fourteen.
Then in nineteen Agender became Smith and Brown into the
contract forevermore the name Smith. He had that debt. You
could not purchase that shop later and leave Smith out

(01:47:58):
of the name. The Brown was bent out to both
and when intant Maple being ad that was when Maple
purchased the store, and probably later they we purchased I can't.

(01:48:24):
But when it finally lift up family, we didn't have
ships and then a lot I mean grandfather never dout
that ship and it became a huge chase and Smith
Brown and it was twelve like people have been saying,

(01:48:46):
so later Smith genuinely could play that the at Smith City.
I mean that it's stored been going for one hundred years.
See from Yeah nineteen eighteen because the two just even

(01:49:07):
though it changed the name and.

Speaker 3 (01:49:11):
Yeah and Smith and Angela, Smith and Brown had stores
right around New Zealand.

Speaker 15 (01:49:17):
Right around New Zealand sign I've forgotten how many extorts
right trout. So it was just one man working away
in his garage made it biggest workshop kept going and
they just keep growing and it did well.

Speaker 3 (01:49:38):
And did the rest of your family did think that
was your grandfather had subsequent generations work for the company.

Speaker 15 (01:49:45):
My oldest brother who's at eight now, he did work
for it and he got a lot of skills quite
quickly and then went chart on it signed, but genuinely
the family kept the ship guy, his sister him and

(01:50:11):
the same. My mother kept going as you would, dad would,
I think a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:50:19):
Of time and then it was all that the all
buyouts and silence was quite complicated in the eighties by
the sounds of things.

Speaker 15 (01:50:26):
Well, it's like different people put a different things, and
all I believe the law is will have kept faithfully
because it seemed this is my I think I'm right
summer opening it. That's just how things go. Yes, study now,

(01:50:52):
totally trying out and taking it over.

Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
Yeah, appreciate you coming through. Angel. That's great to hear
from you. Thanks so much for that. Far away from
eleven o'clock here till twelve. If you want to be
a part of the show, I will get you in
before the news hopefully otherwise we'll come back afterwards. So
we've gone from Smith City to Smith and Brown, but
they are related because Smith and Brown always had to
be Smith and well the name is Smith always had

(01:51:17):
to be in there, which is a pretty interesting part
of that. Now that's the discussion, and that's good that
that's the discus the Aurora. And let's mentioned the Aurora
because that's happening. Oh wait, one hundred eighty eight. This
going Australia has been on the run for a week now.

(01:51:38):
They are a helicopters circling. Not quite sure if that
means that they have got him, but that's the reports
I'm seeing. The other thing, I can tell you know,
nothing new on that website, but I am very keen
to hear if anyone's seeing the Aurora Australis, get in

(01:52:00):
touch with that. Two people, please all those dogs euth
Today's in Auckland's sixty thousand. Wow. By the way, there
are results coming through from the SAMA elections trickling through.

(01:52:21):
It says that's happening. And I'll get more information about
that when I can. And the ferry service from Auckland
to Currimandeler is back. It's been away for three years
because it's a verre staff shortages. Friday, Saturday, Sunday departing

(01:52:46):
from Auckland's viaduct arriving at Hannisford's wharf and vice versa
makes sense, I guess I guess. So if you've got
a crib at the mandle, you need to carry at
the other end also. But oh well, welcome Marcus Headle
twelve o'clock if you want to talk. We are talking
about Smith City and go on to the christ Church

(01:53:07):
People's Smith City Market and I love that they're not
going to change about that. Get in touch here till
twelve o'clock. Someone said, how old was your youngest when
you started your radio? Showers every night? Enjoy hearing about
the boys as the years ago. By talking about Smith
and Brown reminds me of the story of Mum told
me about aj White's christ Church Birmiston store nineteen thirty
forty where she worked. Regards from the River Areena, New

(01:53:28):
South Wales. I think the boy was I think the
boy was a newborn. He was born in October. I
started work here in October, although I didn't go on
here for the first three months. That would be ten
years ago, I guess. But thanks for that, Christine. And
the number is eight eighty tidy. If you to talk,
lines are free, deed, it's Marcus. Good evening, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 29 (01:53:54):
So cool to hear about all the Smith stories. But
I think there's one Smith in the room that we're
not talking about. Is the Smith and Cooey's.

Speaker 3 (01:54:04):
The other ye yes, yeah, okay, I even thought about that.
That's right. So you've got Smith's, You've got Smith's, you've
got Smith City Market, you've got Smith and Brown and Maple,
don't forget the Maple, and you've got Smith and Corey's. Yeah, okay,
you can see why there's confusion or is it just
one of the most common names in New Zealand. Well,
I think Smith cly Limited was the Smith's City Market

(01:54:26):
is christ Chuach is Smith and Curry's Auckland. Will that
be right?

Speaker 29 (01:54:30):
I would say Smith and Cory's was Auckland, but then
there was Smith's and there are several other Smiths, Smith
and Brown as well.

Speaker 3 (01:54:37):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And that's aland Smith and Browns Augland,
Smith and Curry's Auckland. Where's where they started off. I
think Smith and coy went be on Auckland and Smith
City Smith City Market is christ Church, but was around
the whole country. Then the two amalgamate it, which is weird,
I think.

Speaker 30 (01:54:54):
Well, I mean, let me say something else. Marcus I
was part of one of the the melody rules of
early reality television in New Zealand, and it was a
show called Finding j Smith, which was produced by Danger
Christie back in the day.

Speaker 29 (01:55:14):
Yeeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:55:14):
It was an absolutely terrible show.

Speaker 30 (01:55:16):
It got canceled after six weeks, but they had to
chase people around.

Speaker 3 (01:55:23):
Finding because it was vaguely remembered. Are we talking mid
nineties two thousand and three, that seems like the mid nineties, yes, okay, yes.

Speaker 19 (01:55:35):
Well, and it was you had teams that were in
Ford Explorers jumping around the country trying to capture j
Smith's because j Smith was the most common first initial surname,
Yeah or John Smith.

Speaker 29 (01:55:55):
There could be any Jayden, could be Jane.

Speaker 30 (01:55:59):
And they had all of these poor contestants just driving
around the country because it was in conjunction with Vodaphone
at the time, and it was like you could capture
a j Smith by snapping a picture of them and
then sending it back to the hub of.

Speaker 3 (01:56:18):
So was there actually one specific Jaysmith they were looking for.

Speaker 30 (01:56:23):
I think it was just however many j Smith's they
could capture. So there were door knocking and bothering people
all all the way around. I think Dominic Barden was
involved in Eric Young as well.

Speaker 16 (01:56:35):
It was it was.

Speaker 19 (01:56:38):
Absolutely terrible on all counts and got canceled, But.

Speaker 29 (01:56:43):
That actually wasn't where it was calling.

Speaker 3 (01:56:45):
That's really interesting.

Speaker 10 (01:56:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:56:50):
I can see on Wikipedia the name of all the
contestants and the candidates and what happened, but it sounds
like a disaster. Team Murphy was the winning team who
found Jenny Smith, a thirty year old from Tay Happy.
She was revealed as the real Jay Smith. The show
ran for only one season, if that by the sound
of things.

Speaker 30 (01:57:09):
Yeah, I think it was supposed to maybe run for
eight episodes, and they kept it in the ass f
after about four maybe six.

Speaker 3 (01:57:17):
And I think the teams might have been families were
they they were and.

Speaker 30 (01:57:21):
There were family issues, but you know's not speak too
much about that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:27):
Okay, but the Explorers were fun.

Speaker 7 (01:57:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 30 (01:57:30):
Yeah, But anyway, you were going to no, you go
keep going oh no, but I was I was going
to ask you just even further about that, like, uh,
you know, you were talking about family stuff, and I
was wondering what your thoughts were about becoming an older
dad because I'm in that situation now I'm forty eight.

Speaker 24 (01:57:57):
Is it too late?

Speaker 29 (01:57:57):
To start.

Speaker 3 (01:58:04):
Oh yeah, I would have to take some time to
prepare an answer for that, I think, Dan, that would
be a difficult one for me to answer. I think, yeah, no,
I don't think it is. Of course, I don't think
it is at all. But once it happens, you don't
feel yourself as an older father. So I've never sort
of seen myself as that. So yeah, no, go for it.

(01:58:27):
That would be my answer to you.

Speaker 29 (01:58:29):
Okay, great, yeah, yeah, good tonight then.

Speaker 3 (01:58:32):
Yeah, nice to hear from you. Then fourteen past eleven,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine
do to text and Smith City Market finally got to
say that, right, anything else you want to talk about tonight?
And the South Africans of course. The other one is
H and J. Smith, which was the end of the
cargo one. They're all got Smith, h and J. Smith,

(01:58:52):
Smith City Smith and Round Smith and Cowey and Smith
and Smith. Oh, by the way, the Aurora, I've got
the words from the snow groomers Kudrona Valley. Now it's starting, bears,
how can I send you a photo? Marcus said on
the Facebook messenger. Marcus is the shame Smith Soften went there?

(01:59:14):
And trying to support them in a good key we brand. Unfortunately,
I just always seem to be way too expensive. So
you get in touch if you want to talk. Anything
goes here till twelve. Marcus. I remember Smith and Brannauppe
could have fifty years ago that he us changed to

(01:59:34):
Smith City and Jordis is you so, Suzanne, Thank you
Suzanne heed'dl twelve. If you want to talk, my name
is Marcus. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Oh the Aurora is going too.
That's the situation that we just look on the Aurora website.
There's five new postings that's happening. So I'm looking at
recent activity on the Facebook page. But apparently in the

(01:59:57):
Cadrona Valley that it's happening now our first shot through
the Aurora. Thanks Kate, appreciate that or thanks Bears. Yeah wow,
not see lot of color though it's blue, but yeah,
I can see them, but there's as it's bright blue
down on the horizon, so it's not your classic yellows
and reds, but there's certainly something going on there. Flip
liking that. Do you look in a nice place, Nigel,

(02:00:19):
This is Marcus.

Speaker 2 (02:00:20):
Good evening, good evening, there, Marcus, do you hear me?

Speaker 3 (02:00:25):
Yes, Nige're receiving what you've got to say.

Speaker 2 (02:00:27):
Well, oh, good, good good. I'm just thinking what about
Smith and Smith, the glazy Ears and they do the
glass repairs.

Speaker 3 (02:00:37):
I guess it's no surprises. So many companies in this
country that start with Smith. But there's Smith, there's H
and J. Smith, There's Smith and Smith, There's Smith and Brown,
there's Smith. Today there's Smith and Goey A lot, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:48):
Yeah? And also it will be one of the most
popular surnames of the telephone directory. Well, it used to be,
say forty years ago in the oh.

Speaker 3 (02:00:59):
I think it still would be the commonest name Smith,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:01:03):
What about Auckland? Was it the statement Auckland of the day.

Speaker 3 (02:01:07):
Yes, well I think it was Smith, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:01:10):
I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:01:12):
Oh, you'd be the most common around the world, wouldn't it,
apart from in the in the European countries.

Speaker 2 (02:01:18):
Smith and Johnson? Smith and Johnson.

Speaker 16 (02:01:20):
What would be the sixth spell?

Speaker 3 (02:01:21):
What would be the second most common?

Speaker 2 (02:01:24):
I was saying Johnson, you know, because you can spell
Johnson without E T and that can.

Speaker 3 (02:01:31):
You the top twenty surnames. Do you want to know
what they are? Yep, you're ready for a shock?

Speaker 2 (02:01:39):
Yep? Is that worldwide or just New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (02:01:43):
We'll get to you. Just New Zealand and nineteen thirteen
the most common surname was Smith yep, and twenty thirteen,
the most common surname was Smith.

Speaker 2 (02:01:53):
So that that's the New Zealand. Is that just the
New Zealand?

Speaker 3 (02:01:56):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:01:58):
Yeah, I just want New Zealand. I don't want work
giving you Nigel, Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:02:04):
The second most common surnameeen thirteen, Wilson nineteen sixty three,
Wilson nineteen eighty eight, Williams two thousand and three, Williams
twenty thirteen, Wilson.

Speaker 6 (02:02:18):
Very good.

Speaker 3 (02:02:18):
So these are the most common twenty most common surnames
in New Zealand of of twenty thirteen. It will have
changed sometime since then. Okay, I'm going from top to bottom.
These are the twentieth Smith, Wilson, Williams, Browne, Taylor, Yeah, Jones, yeah,

(02:02:42):
Sing yeah, Wang Yeah, Anderson, uh huh, Lye, l I Yeah, Thompson, Walker, Lee,
Lee Sorry, Lee Thompson, Walker, Lee, Chen, Patel, Jiang, Martin King,
Harris Kumar pretty interesting gay.

Speaker 2 (02:03:05):
Yeah, sticks from the last censors hes a and censors
are they No, they're.

Speaker 3 (02:03:11):
They're from They're from I don't know it's from. It's
from Yeah, it's from birth and marriages. I think.

Speaker 2 (02:03:18):
Yeah, well the last censors was twenty twenty three'll be
interesting to if you have those figures too.

Speaker 3 (02:03:27):
But I'll try to talk about Nagel. I'll try and
look about Thanks Nigel uh twenty past eleven. If you
want to talk about Smith, Smith and Brown Smith and
Smith Marcus. I am Smith. My late husband I made
Smith's grafting wex for Kerry Good Industry and pit for Industry,
New Zealand is now owned by a different couple. Smith's
grafting wex we made for twenty five years. Jennis Smith

(02:03:48):
now Lison Roliston was in for many years. My mum
was Francis Smith. I married a Francis Smith. Smith's sports shoes.
Marcus Botany Bakery has a Steak and Smith pie. That's
quite funny. Why would be called Steak and Smith? So
the most common surnames. This might freak some of you out.

(02:04:12):
Minister of Internal Affairs Brook van Fairlis Peace pronounce the
most common family name given to newborns. In twenty twenty
four for the seventh consecutive yes, Sing is the most
common registered family name six hundred and eighty babies. Cow
follows closely in second. That's kau R with six hundred
and thirty babies, while Smith rounds out the top three

(02:04:33):
with three hundred babies. A decade ago, in twenty fourteen,
Smith was the most common family name. He's in the
diverse country. Family names are real gift for all children.
In the North Island, Singh, Kao, and Patel are the
most common registered family names, and the South Island, cow
Sing and Psmith took the top spots. Family name Singers

(02:04:54):
a long history from the Sanskrit word for lion, traditionally
used by Sikh men's become a common family name amongst
the global Indian desporer. Very interesting. So there we go.
That's the situation. I haven't don't know if I've ever
met anyone that's called kau R, which I'm surprised to
see that. So there we go. Oh yes, now another

(02:05:18):
fantastic shot from the Cadrona Valley and now there are
greens and yellows and the aurora. So it's coming on.
You need to go and check it people. It's going
to be big, so it's starting. There is that camera
in Queenstown, Dan remember with that?

Speaker 10 (02:05:38):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (02:05:39):
Oh, Dan's looked. There's a three sixty degrees camera that
you can pivot around. I mentioned that might kick in
before too long. Dan's been refreshing it all night, and
even on the Aurora page on Facebook they're refreshing it too, Dan,
and they corroborate what you're saying. I don't think you're
spinning me along. Come on, oh hardly, stop talking all night?

(02:06:02):
Twenty four past eleven, Aurora Borealist. God, don't you know
that Neil Young song?

Speaker 24 (02:06:13):
Well I do?

Speaker 3 (02:06:14):
Why listen to that on the drive home? Is our
wait for the police to pull me over? Let's hope
it's not tonight. Do get in touch if you want
to talk Marcus Still twelve, there's something else you want
to talk about, great, but mainly it's about if you're
South African, your plans for Saturday the Brie Apparently it's

(02:06:35):
all on for the weekend. It's what people are doing.
They're heading off and they're partying and there will be
brye at the car park at Eden Park. Apparently they
should have their own food stools, a food caravan. That
would be a good thing because, let's face it, this

(02:06:57):
is our tradisional rival in Rugby and also Auckland is
the place for it too. That's where the South Africans
mainly are. There's one hundred thousand in the country now, well,
one hundred thousand South Africans. I don't know where they
would be in terms of our I guess you could
be careful when you start talking about from our well,
I guess it all depends on where you How do

(02:07:20):
I say this because I presume they've become New Zealand
citizens and their children become New Zinan citizens, so it's
hard to differentiate. So yes, by the way, Trump's having
announcement at six o'c got tomorrow morning. Yeah, cheapest creepers.
And also just this is new from America. Trump has
revealed that Joe Biden's White House portrait is going to

(02:07:45):
feature the Democrats and famous auto pen, which is subject
to an investigation. Yes, so cheese is mean spirited. He
doesn't see that it's going to be the picture of
Biden and the Autopen or just the Autopen itself. That's
what he's doing. Anything but epste get people talk about

(02:08:07):
something else. That's the plan. Brilliant. So all these Smith
stores related to the defunct Dick Smith. And have you
come across lucky names that can help you get jobs?
Unlucky names that may not get you in the door?
Seek women free often have the surname cor Oh, I
see becase it's lions. Thank you, men have sing That's

(02:08:28):
why there's so many things and course makes perfect sense.
Thank you, Marcus, love your show as usual. The surname
chorus pronounced core. I worked with two lovely women with
the name core Neelu. Thank you, Hi, Marcus. James Smith
Limited was the department store chaining Wellington Stem stated sixty
sixth and closed in nineteen thirty three. I worked for
them for many years. Chairs John John John a couple

(02:08:50):
of texts about the James Smith Marcus. Three of my
sisters married Smiths, and none of those men are related.
Y yep, that's happened. Now get in touch. I wouldn't
mind told you some truck drivers if you want to talk. Yep, Oh,

(02:09:10):
whyn't they dropped shabasque shibasaki Oh breaches standards Shibasaki has
been dropped from the Broncos for the final match. We
want them to lose. Yeah, that's a good thing. This
is what I didn't follow the story, but what that
stupid rest while she was drinking the water from the toilet.

(02:09:31):
He's still in the match. Didn't really understand any of
They didn't really follow it. A Trump moved Obama's picture
to it and Stairwell, how could someone be so thin skinned? Jumping?
Because I've run other things to say, twenty nine to
twelve Aurora, but Aurora is good to hear about the Aurora.

(02:09:54):
Thank you. Oh well, that's an amazing photo too of
this woman's it's a man, I think, but the semmes using.
But the three photos are extraordinary. I'm going to send
them to you, Dan, because the order of how much
it's changed over forty minutes, it almost looks like it's
a filter. And then go to our Facebook forward to

(02:10:18):
animal send that's the first one at and there's the
second one. Forward to Dan to Dan you got one yet,
you got one? You've got three now Dan, you got
one at twenty eleven, twelve, one eleven eighteen, one eleven

(02:10:40):
twenty nine. Yeah, well and there's it almost looks like
you've used a film. I almost don't believe them. Yeah,
it's really it's remarkable. It really is remarkable. Lot of
I might go to Audity Beach after work. I might
go out Bluff Hill. Hey need your calls for the
final go around twenty eight to twelve, Marcus. I wonder

(02:11:02):
if any cantabs have harder train to take footy founds
down to the footy fans down to the Big Shield.
Challenge an invert cargol the day they did in Days
gone by. Cheers Charlie. By the way, if you want
to see the Ranfordy Shield and you are an invert cargol,
here's where it is going. I saw that. I just
saw it. It's going to Splash Palace tomorrow, the polls,

(02:11:28):
It's going everywhere. So this is where the shield's going.
Meet the Shield, Splash Palace tomorrow, then the Stadium South End.
It's Splash Palace from three fifteen to three footy five,
then Stadium South and five to seven Thursday, Sbs Bank

(02:11:49):
three to four thirty you Field Tavern sixteen to six
forty Eastern Suburbs six fifty to seven twenty Northern Tavern
seven thirty to eight way ki We Tavern eighteen eight forty.
Friday Editors Cut Bar sixteen to six forty, Southend Tavern
six fifty seven to twenty, Escot Sports Bar seven thirty
eight pm and the av eighteen to eight forty. Then

(02:12:10):
to Rugby Park for the match. Surely I told the
kids at Bluff School it should be there today, no
sign of it. It's heart Land. They want to take
it there. I'm sure will go there. Marcus, could you
please mind to share the recipe for the pumpkin soup? Yes,
I know off by heart. I can share the recipe
for they won't go soup since it's not my recipe

(02:12:33):
I didn't invent it. The recipe is two onions finally
chopped saute and oil till transparent a chuck, and two
guards cloves of garlic and tablespoon of grat of ginger.

(02:12:55):
So your two onions, your two cloves of garlic, and
your tablespoon off grat of ginger be relaxed with that.
Then you chop up half a pumpkin roughly, and then
I think it's about the same amount of cumura should
be To check that, I thought I had off my heart,

(02:13:17):
but I think it's about the same amount of cumera.
I'll check that, actually same amount, and then you cover
it with stock.

Speaker 22 (02:13:32):
And then you.

Speaker 3 (02:13:34):
Bring that to the boil and simmer for half an hour.
How are we going with that? You're going to pen
and paper, handy and someer for half an hour. I'm
just trying to find out where it's got sent to

(02:13:54):
me on my phone, but now I can't find it.

Speaker 10 (02:13:56):
Where it is?

Speaker 3 (02:13:59):
Someer for half an hour? How many times I'm going
to say simmer for half an hour? Yeah, I just
make sure I've got the ingredients right. Three garlic cloves, yes, ah,
you're one large coumera, one large cumera. I get the
biggest one I can find. I peel that and chop
that up, and then you cover that in stock and

(02:14:22):
some it for half an hour till tender, so the
pumpkins tender, not the pot. Then add a four hundred
can of coconut cream and a four hundred can of
Cattellini beans or coconut milky. This fine, and then just
put it in the blenders, a bit of salt and

(02:14:44):
pepper and a swirl of yogurt to serve do what
you want. That's pretty straight. Oh sorry, there's mister de
pertent ingredients, two teaspoons medium curry powder.

Speaker 8 (02:14:58):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (02:14:59):
If you don't like it, don't blame me. But yeah,
only if you haven't got it all. I think you
probably have, but just text me. I don't want to
be the recipe guide. I don't know if I have
Facebook because to speak, because you feel that you're the
recipe guy, and I would hate people to bring up

(02:15:20):
and so I tried your punk and soup didn't like it.
So I don't want any of those comments. This is
a this is a gift for me to give you that,
but I don't mind it all. Sharing the story with
the leone. Thank you. I've made it three times and
every time I enjoy it more. It's become my signature dish.

(02:15:43):
And I've never liked punk emments. So often I get
ones I'm disappointed, but they're too sweet or they're too
and they're never quite right. But this one.

Speaker 24 (02:15:54):
I love.

Speaker 3 (02:15:56):
Could live on it. Do you come on if you
want to talk. I'm just trying to see if there's
any more Aurora Cheddar. No, I can't see more photos you,
but those photos from Cadrona are Fantastic.

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