Paper plating (5 August 2024)

More Olympics coverage (pole vault and sports climbing!!) - and a new kind of scam Marcus has never heard of.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be Greetings, Rocky, my name is Marcus. How are
you If you're a fan of the Olympics. The sports
climbing is on now. Boy oh boy, I'll tell you
what they don't having much luck with it. Sports climbing
is outdoors, which are surprised, and I thought the tod
of the kids had been a gymnasium. It's outdoors with
a very geometric looking design with brightly colored bits of

(00:31):
plastic yellow and blue and red that are on the thing.
And boy, talk about an overhang. Wow, there's the first
face of the climbing wall. The second wall comes out
like almost horizontal with bit to blow that they've got
to extraordinary and they kind of have brushes. It looks

(00:54):
like the sort of things that people at the intersections
washing your windscreens would have and they rub talc on
some of the obstacles with that. But wow, it really is.
It's really leany, outy, and we're doing very well for
anyone to climb that at all worth watching. I say
about the Olympics, there's one group of people that like
the Olympics that is children. Oh, this is not climbing,

(01:18):
This is bouldering, So it's part of other Is there
more than one? There's bouldering, lead and speed. Well, the
boulderings tricky as a tree full of monkeys. Goodness, gracious me,
no one looks happy. This guy's fallen three times. He

(01:38):
hasn't really got off the ground bouldering. Who knew? There's
one group of people that love the Olympics. That's children. Man,
the questions I've had fired at by my children about
the Olympics. How many medals are produced? Five four hundred?
How many countries are there? Two hundred hundred and three,

(01:59):
and on and on. It goes endless questions about the Olympics.
But how many throwing events are there? Three? How many
jumping events are there? Well, I got stuck talking about
jumping events because I said, there's a pole vault, there's
the long jump, there's the high jump. Then I made
the mistake of telling them about the triple jump. What

(02:21):
a stupid event that is? I said, you got a hop,
skip and then leap. I hate to show them videos.
I had no idea what it was about. But wow,
I'm at that lits. I'm at that stage you watched
the Olympics that I'd actually like to give them kind
of a reassessment now, And for me, triple jump would
go the no Actually, triple jump would go and hammer

(02:47):
throw would go. I watched quite a bit of the
hammer throw last night. I was watching the women. A
lot of them couldn't get out of the net. Wait,
what's going on there? I mean for me, if I
was doing the hammer throw, the focus would be getting
it out and the field. I've never done it. It

(03:09):
might be very fine line the line between a successful
throw and an unsuccessful throw. But g you'd be you'd
be pretty annoyed with yourself. You went all the way
to the Olympics and you did three no throws, But
that guy in the long jump and the three no
leaps went over the board each time, and the guy

(03:30):
that jumped in the hundred meters. You wouldn't want to
do that, would you? Terrible? But much discussion amongst people
and myself of sports to go and not to go?
And I think we're the Olympics is not doing so

(03:51):
well and Loua's face it's fantastic, and I've done nothing
but watch it to go on to say about it.
Bike races through the streets of Paris, unbelievable everything you see. Then,
of course it was the great shot when they're helicopter
fee does the aerial shot of the maze and you

(04:12):
just wait and count for the commentator to make some
deliberate pun about the maze, and they did. It was
very poor. But anyway, but yes, some of those sports
event at the atmosphere, the people, the shadow of the cheering,
and there's some sports with no atmosphere whatsoever, mainly shooting
the creps all right, but the pistol shooting. That stuff
no good. So it has been discussed. I'm going to

(04:34):
say it now because I think it's so true. The
sport that needs to come there darts. You want to
get rid of the pistol shooting. You want to bring
in darts because who doesn't love darts. You have a
hall full of people you chant. Everyone's into dance, and
darts is also a great chance to celebrate those people

(04:54):
who don't look like athletes. Everyone at home wats oh,
that's like me. People love an athlete that does look
like an athlete, and we don't see many of them.
So you have John Daley and the Gulf but as
far as athletes that don't look like athletes, it's where
you want your dart players. Have they put darts in
the Olympics, everything would be better. So there we go,

(05:21):
just mentioning that you might have some other suggestion of
the sports that need to go in the sports that
should stay, but certainly triple jump's got to go, and
certainly darts should be there. Are it'll be brilliant. See
sort of three big billied guys up on the podium.

(05:41):
That's the way it's going to go. Anyway. That's my comment.
As far as medals tonight, if anything happens, we're all
across that me mainly all here for you people. There's
not much tonight though athletics, men's discuss women's pole vault.
I think we're in there. We got last We kind
of think she's there. But there's qualifying runs sailing, we've

(06:06):
got the and the dingy races on dingy have We've
got the sports climbing and after midnight caloose slal I'm
wrestling and track cycling. I'll be watching the track cycle
when I get home. I think this canoe racing when
they come from the sky is good. When that lid
goes down. I enjoyed that. I think that's a good
sport that should stay. But darts, do you what agree

(06:27):
with me? And what needs to go? You get rid
of the treble jump, you get rid of the hammer throw,
no question about that whatsoever. Keep your calls cover. We'll
get your calls coming through. If you've got breaking news
where you are, let the breaking news is by the way.
I'm expecting a lot to happen tonight. But nine two
nine two to text. I kind of thought the trethlon

(06:52):
relay was daft. Why turn is good sport into a relay?
What's that about? You may as well have a marathon
relay or a ten k walk. You can't just relay
a fire sport. Sports are sports, not at the beginning
of a relay. No, I didn't tell that. Someone's correcting me.
I did tell them all the throwing sports, discus, javelin,

(07:14):
shot put, the hammer. I don't know what the hammer
should be called, the ball and chain. I feel quite
strong about that as well. Oh, someone says trailer reversing,
so this bouldering. A lot of the people aren't all

(07:36):
Murray Marcus, welcome you do, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, they are actually pretty good. They're the best in
the world on the boers. What it is, what it is,
what it is. It's actually pretty hard.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
So have they have they overdesigned that because it looks it.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Looks No, no, no, no, no, they get that they're hard. Right,
they're not supposed to get up first time in the bouldering.
Oh wow, Okay, maybe some god getting areking flash it
because it suits them. But not all the problems should
suit one person.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Right, Murray, have they seen it beforehand?

Speaker 3 (08:16):
No? Oh, well they might have a certain I don't know,
I'm not watching it, so they might have a certain
inspection time they all stand around, look and make a
bit of a plan. Yeah, it'll have so many attempts
to the problem. Right, so so so last Olympics it
was all the one person did all three disciplines and
there was an average for the winner. And that sucks

(08:37):
because climbers don't like that. It's not that it's not
that the speak climbers are going to be the best
climbers in the world, the leading boldering right, yep, right,
because it's too specialized. So now now now three separate
discipline so you will see some very good climbs, you've
just got to bear with it.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
So the thing about bouldering, watching it till they don't
go that high either because they're not they're not ripe
or anything like that. So they probably going to go
up four meters high, but it's very very difficult all
on overhand right, so.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
That padding will be some just phone which is a
bit like pole vaulting landing foone. And as for the chalk,
they're probably not brushing chalk on. The brushing excess chalk off.
A little bit of chalk's good because it drives the
hands out. It's been needing carbonate. It's not chalk right

(09:26):
and then but too much chalk makes it slippery again,
So it's a balance works quite well.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
A specter of it. There's a big crowd there.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Climbing's mainstream now ever since the last Olympics has been
multifold increase in the number of climbers, and in.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
None of the three disciplines will we see people that
we know, like the guy that end up l Caprony.
Of those people, they wouldn't be there for that. That
would just not be their thing.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
No, it's not the thing. What you'll see as a
guy probably, I don't know if he's there. Probably one
of the top three in the world, a guy called
Adam Andre from from the Czech Republic, and he will
probably if he doesn't make it, take out the League
climbing and possibly the bouldering, probably not the but probably
the League climbing and.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
As the bouldering courses, have we got we've got those
here in New Zealand as well, have we.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, there's a lot of climbing gyms around now. People
people go straight from climbing gyms to to rock climbing
outside now and they bypass all the mountain clubs. It's
that mainstream.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Well that sounds like a bad thing for the mountain clubs.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yes, yes, there's a whole another discussion, but yep, you
can run into problems.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
That appreciate that. Mary, thank you very very much for that.
Murray is a climate too, by the way, just in
case you goes don't know, that's extremely good information. So
this is very different because it's it's really overhanging. So
so they are the best in the world and it's
very very challenging because of course they and I guess
you don't want to course that everyone can get up
because then you haven't got a middle when you need
something that's very difficult for everyone. Very interesting, sports that

(11:04):
need to go, sports that need to stay. YadA YadA
ya bumbumba to bam gee. You don't know what I
was doing there with more voice, Marcus had an ideal.
I had an idea last night watching Olympics for entertainment,
swap athletes around in different sports. They have a woman
who with one hundred meters sprint, Maybe beer pong them.

(11:25):
It would be cool. I could have a go, Carol Tyne,
what sport you'd have a go? And if you could,
because I reckon, there's probably very few people doing the
hammer throw. How many people would have that would want
to do that, how many people have the nets. I'm
not saying it's an easy medal. I reckon. We probably

(11:45):
should push a few more people in that direction, because
actually it's once you get going. It was quite fun. Marcus.
I've tried to mask the hop skip of the jump
all my life. Now it's seventy two. You've destroyed my dream. Noel, Well,
at least we know how long when people say it's
a hop skip and a jump away, you know how

(12:06):
far that is seventeen meters. That's how far they're going
these days. This sport, though, bouldering, This is the way.
This is the way shooting goes, the triple jump goes,
the hammer throw goes, bringing darts also, you want sports
that people are into. Remember the last time someone said

(12:28):
to let's go and watch the pistol shooting. Well there's
nothing to watch. So it's even more remarkable they managed
to take a photo of that bullet that was about
that hit Trump's ear nineteen past eight Marcus hammer throw,
but with an actual hammer. Trades would be lying, oh,
that's a good idea. It's the very good idea of

(12:49):
proper hammer throwing. And what about wheel barrow park or
have you seen those videos on YouTube of people doing
tricks with the wheelbarrows? You want to get the trades
into it. Very good, that's bouldering. Glenna had a blame
to me. See there was a young table tennis guy

(13:10):
sixteen and the other guy the Brazilian and serve of
the ball throwing you about eight meters that what's that about?
Crouch right down too, then whizz the ball up down
it came flipped it over, So what was all that about?
Because you have served it anyway, My name is Marcus.

(13:30):
Welcome all together now here until midnight tonight. I see
in Japan and the shears haven't gone well. The nickay
is way down and Sewn Johnson announced his retirement. Thank
you for your SERVI as Sewn Johnson. Unbelievable, unbelievable two

(13:52):
thirty games for him, so an extraordinary story that one
don't know what he'll do after this, but go him.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
Now.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
I guess he's got a couple of matches now for
the faithful to fare wellheam end of an. There's just
breaking news. So I've just been announced today is it's
a bit big story. So there we go. Interesting bexter

(14:22):
of courses we all know with a Laosian mother and
from Fungar, part of our primary school. So go aham
So long year thirty four, A long time at the
Warriors anyway, Stefan as Marcus.

Speaker 5 (14:40):
Good evening, Yeah, good day, Marcus, great show as usual.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Thanks.

Speaker 5 (14:45):
I didn't to mention the bouldering. We've got a I
don't know much about it, but I do know that
we've got one of the world's best courses in the
South Island at Castle Hill. Okay, apparently there's over six
thousand different routes you can take there, Yeah, from from
varying difficulties, and it's sort of world renowned.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Well, I can't think, and that's I mean, that's like
that's like natural rocks, right.

Speaker 5 (15:15):
Yeah, limestone, it's all sort of limestone formations really sort
of yeah, really sort of quirky, weird sort of formations.
It was weird Narnia was filmed as well.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yeah, you know a little bit about that. I didn't
know people bouldering. I don't know people bouldering there.

Speaker 5 (15:30):
Yeah, no, they've been doing it for years, apparently I didn't.
I didn't know it was I didn't know it was
an Olympic sport until you just brought it up tonight,
which I'm not I'm not really sure about. I think
that it could probably go to be honest, but.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Oh no, it's good.

Speaker 6 (15:43):
It's good.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
It looks really good.

Speaker 7 (15:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
I've tried it, you know, off once or twice. I
wouldn't call myself a pro, but I reckon. I'm not
slout either. I'll probably be on the middle table. But no,
I just don't think.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
A lot of those thoughts you watch at home, and
you can think I'll be quite good at that. You think,
actually I'll be good at that, but then probably the
chances that you wouldn't be.

Speaker 5 (16:04):
Yeah, I think I'm actually just one of those.

Speaker 8 (16:06):
It would be.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
But you know, I think that I think I wouldn't
believe myself wrong every time. It's it's a phenomenon. But
and darts, I'm I've never been great at darts, to
be honest, but I and I'm not. I don't think
it's a great spectator sport. But I think I can't no, no, no,
I can't see white it's one not one of the Olympics.

(16:27):
I totally with you there.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
I think why would it not be? Because it's because
it's working, because it's working class, and there's there's something
about the Olympics jewry but officer, it's all sort of
like for so fencing and horse racing and stuff, isn't
it's a questrat it's a bit sort of blue bloody.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
Well, they're all for skills, you know that we're we're
necessary at one time or another, and it's it's I
think athletics has got to be front and foremost surely,
you know, and when you think of Olympics with the Greeks,
you know that that iconic guy throwing there, throwing the discus.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yes, it's all.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
It's all stuff like that javelin discus fencing, I guess, yeah,
running and everything like that.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
And I reckon the fencing is terrible. I know people
are into it, but if the world's worst sport.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
Well, if they had it not one of those little
bendy rape years and actually gave them the sword damage worth,
then they'd be worth watching.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
And they way they smugly whip their mask off every
time they get a point seems a bit briggy to me.
Everything was sorted out, you know, it wasn't that good.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
I don't want to without any of the safety gear
and just see if it's dangerous or if it's just or.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
You want to see you want to see a drunken
bar bar and fight with an mm A guy. I
see how well they do with their equipped.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
Well usc that I didn't thought of that, but some
sort of MMA that boxing's there, and boxing sort of.
I mean, it's a representation of fighting, but it's we're
compared to mm A or something like that. You can
go to the ground, you can all sorts of things.
It's far more realistic for an actual fight, and if
it's a test of physical abilities and skills, fighting should

(18:14):
be up there. So I think MMA should replace boxing.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Go on your Steph, I think I've enjoyed that muchly, Marcus.
Take out all the sports that don't have the Olympics
as they're pinnacle golf, tennis, soccer. I agree, because you've
got the footy World Cup, you've got the golf Majors,
and you've got the Big four grand the Big four
tennis matches. So yeah, why would you do it? Even

(18:40):
I mean even the golfer that the one, the American,
he seems slightly embarrassed. They tried to get them to
say that it was his highlight, but clearly it wasn't.
Jocovate was a bit more diplomatic. Marcus, are you an
emoji user? If so, how come there's no lighthouse emoji?
It's terrible that there's no lighthouse. That would be my

(19:03):
go to one. I know, to get a new emotion
printed out. It's quite a big deal to get a
new one approved of, like a total cluster. See what
the k cross slalom. I think that's good. When they
come down from the sky of the foreigner row. That's
good value, that's good to watch all into that. That's
a new sport, water sport, that thing's exciting. And talk

(19:26):
about the talking about the sport that see. I mean
a lot of people say wive carrying or swing board.
But the sports that you think people that would actually
uplift the Olympics if people are watching, like darts and
there was something that you might want to mention too
in the sports that you want to go, I mean
triple jump. I mean, I mean the problem with triple
jumping to be like algebra, people going about why do

(19:47):
we need maths? Well, there's reasons we need maths, but
why do we need triple jump? When we eve in
a situation needed a hop, skip and jump as far
as you could never when long jump feasibly? How to
get across a river something like that, but no one's
going to say, how could you? How could you cross
that river? This hop, skip and then jump across the
ro of A? Do you want them committed? John A's

(20:10):
Marcus welcome?

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, Hey, Marcus?

Speaker 2 (20:14):
How the game?

Speaker 9 (20:14):
Good?

Speaker 2 (20:15):
John? Thank you?

Speaker 10 (20:17):
Hi.

Speaker 11 (20:18):
Just to throw a call up with an exciting new
way we could initially spice the Olympic stuff to make
it more enjoyable for everyone to watch.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
You Well, yeah, although I need to say the Kevin,
I am finding it pretty enjoyable. But yeah, there's some
sports that drag.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (20:32):
Yeah, so you're familiar with the movie Hunger Games. Yes,
so why not do a balance system where random people
across every country is drawn into random sports and come in.
How Buddy breaks some re tiements.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Is that Hunger Games or the Squid Games.

Speaker 11 (20:52):
Either or both of them is pretty luck of the drawer.
It could be bad luck of the drawer if he's.

Speaker 12 (20:58):
Taking that way.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
So what you want to see is ordinary people from
ordinary lives plucked out of those lives and made to
peak for their life.

Speaker 11 (21:07):
Ah, we're not paying for their life, you know.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
I mean yeah, but there would be the thing so
you just get someone randomly and they're chucked in a
forest and they're going to hunt down other people and
something like that.

Speaker 11 (21:20):
Well I don't know about that, but you know, for Olympics,
so I say, Joe Blogs gets pulled out and he's
representing the Elands for the bloody hundred meters sprints. He
could be two hundred pound guy, but he could be
you know, skinny runner by a trade or whatever. But
it could you know, it might bring the average athletic
ability of each country up. Everyone has to be ready

(21:41):
for games every four.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Years exactly, so it could be an incentive for a
country's health. So everyone's going to think I might beginning
the call up for one hundred meters and everyone keeps
themselves straight. Yeah, it'd be better to watch.

Speaker 11 (21:59):
Actually wouldn't know who's going to win top You wouldn't
have any inkling of what they're skilled.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
No, and especially with things like the hurdles, with people
blowing hammies and knocking them on because the hurdles is great.
Because one goes down, they all go down. Note there,
I mean, they'd be fantastic.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
You might get a.

Speaker 11 (22:16):
Guy who's about one hundred and thirty kilos buddy Chaplin
or hole vaulting. You know they're not going to get
up there.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
I reckon.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
You have to stop countries cheating though, and actually training people.
They wouldn't be random. You'd have to work that out
as well, because otherwise people might send the top athletes
as make them look normal, but actually have them finally honed.

Speaker 11 (22:36):
Yeah, some sleeper agents or something.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
But sleeper agents. I'm liking that, John, thank you twenty
four to nine. It's all about the Olympics for now.
My name is Marcus Welcome. Oh I know, oh, I know.
One way to get rid of walking and still walking

(23:00):
is not walking is a nonsense. I've got no idea
who thought walking was a good idea, whether it was
someone over a bet or something. But it just doesn't
seem to It doesn't pass that. It doesn't pass the

(23:24):
test of if that support wasn't inventable to two people
have a walking race. But thank you. Someone's text me

(23:46):
this is bluff gentrifying since you tuned up, Marcus, I
hope not anyway, get in touch. My name is Marcus Welcome.
Just your thoughts of the Olympics, the sports that need
to go and the ones that should be there instead.
And they're quite right, darts should be there. Someone says

(24:10):
the peekaboo pear is just a nashy peer and drag.
You've got a point, and I'm seeing that point. The
bouldering's on the very very good. If you get a
Chelsea that also McCartney, Eliza McCartney, she's about to go
with the pole vault. I'd like to know more about
the pole volt do they have their own poles or

(24:30):
just grab any out of those tubes? And how do
they get them to the Olympics. They must go by ship.
I don't think you can break them down good even
David's Marcus, welcome Marcus.

Speaker 10 (24:43):
Are you checking out the rock climbing. It's fascinating.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Oh look, I'm aller. That's why I started my whole
still with the boulderer. I wasn't quite sure, but fortunately
Murray rang up because I said, no one's getting anywhere,
but it's very, very difficult.

Speaker 10 (24:55):
It is. It is very difficult, and I'm waiting for
someone that we're defending champions on there at the moment,
I think he's from Brussels and he's doing all right.
But so that's the whole idea that no one seems
to beginning anywhere. And that's the fascinating part about it.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
I guess you've got to have a you've go to
a course that'll separate the climbers from the non climbers.
And what I like about it is not too far before,
but there's a good crowd. It's about five years.

Speaker 10 (25:26):
I'm watching it and I'm fascinated because I started watching
it and the joking warriors. He didn't get even off
the ground, and I'm taking it more. This isn't much,
and then it's going to prove that the other guy
and he got almost the top, and I thought, well,
that simply fascinating.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
They need those first clowns to show how difficult it
was because they struggled. They're out there and they're looking
at it. They just didn't. They sort of shook their
head and didn't even move.

Speaker 10 (25:54):
Exactly, but enjoying it. But I thought I thought i'd
g heads up about it. But anyhow, you're one step ahead.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Maybe I've been waiting for this for months. The old
climbing a little bit sort of you know, a little
bits on a Ninja worrory as well, but I love
they've got the long stick with a broom on it
and they scrub the different surfaces, maybe taking chalk off,
maybe putting chalk on, of course not chalk, magnesium carbonate
or something like that. I don't know if it's judged

(26:23):
or you actually get to different points, but wow, we
should hold the worlds to this. This is a big
sport anyway. Sixteen away from nine mane of is Marcus
good evening. Eliza McCartney's currently about to go. I think too, God,
you give the work out, the remote a workout? Don't
you where to get you batteries? I will tell you

(26:48):
when Eliza McCartney's on. But the other New Zealand woman
has gone over at four point two, which seems to
and I guess it goes higher and higher. You want
to get a couple of to get your confidence up.
What you don't want to do is land on the
bar or on your stick. I reckon that could kill you.
You wonder about those people also when they're on the

(27:10):
asymmetrical bars in the gymnastics, how easily they catch someone
because they all stand there when they're doing typical flips
to catch them. You wonder how easy these gymnasts would
be to catch. Wouldn't quite sure if that's the coaches
or actually people whose job is to just catch people

(27:33):
falling off apparatus. Found that quite interesting as well. We
are talking the Olympics, the sports that need to go on,
the sports that need to join, and that's always a
good discussion because every year you get the host that
you bring some more sports than and people lobby for
that than they had ballroom dancing. One time I ever
saw it was supposed to be a thing. What's happened

(27:56):
to synchronize swimming?

Speaker 13 (27:57):
Is that gone?

Speaker 2 (27:58):
About time they get rid of that? I was called
artistic swimming now because is it just for because most
of the sports are for both men and women now,
but it's syncro for just for just women. What's that about?
They might be mixed, might be just horses for courses. Anyway,

(28:19):
that's got to go. How abouts five tomorrow morning, I
which I never mentioned it, Nina Eva Morrison Nina to
be named as the only third avenues in and competitors.
So that's exciting. Yep. So they're going there's just the
two of them, the boulderings on at the moment. That's

(28:41):
very for exciting. If you're into that, you don't go high.
But I'll tell you what, this is pretty interesting angles
and they're strong. They've got muscles and places where people
haven't got places. They're like that. So anyway, rewiry, I've
got an email about a scam, just to mix it

(29:01):
up a bit. People from Steph Stephanie first time emailer.
I loved listening to your show each night as I
drift off to sleep, and I've never had reason to

(29:21):
contact you before, but something is happening which I really
need to know for this is just happening to me,
or it's happening to other people. Several months ago I
purchased an old ute of trade me in Auckland. They're
not long after. They're not long after I started receiving
infringement notices from Willington. When I had a look at

(29:44):
the photo, it was a slightly different model to the
ute I bought, but the number plate was the same
as mine. Long story short, I got off the infringement
as they could see it was a different car to mine.
But the only way to stop this happening was I
had to change the license plates on my ute and

(30:05):
June I listen my other car on trade me, I
didn't need it. Now they have the ute and blow
me down. Tonight in the mail I've received an infringement
notice from Todonger and a petrol station drive off from
fag Are. Once again, the photo shows a car that's
the same caliber, a slight different model, but has my
license plate number. Seems to me someone is checking out

(30:30):
cars on trade me and copying the number plates of
cars that are close to the ones they have and
then using them for legal purposes. I guess my reason
reason for contacting you is I'd love to hear right
from your listeners to said this is happening to other people,
because I can't believe it was just happened to me

(30:51):
twice in three months? Is that a thing? So you
see a car on trade me that's like yours, and
you get a you print out the number plate and
then you do drive offs. Is anyone else aware of that?

(31:14):
Is anyone else aware of how they'd stopped because it
sounds like a pretty switched they pretty switched on scam
to me. How will they try and stop that? So, yes,
we haven't done scams for a while. So if you
cross that getting on trade me and one trade me
myself a car number plate to THEE, I guess they
must be where are cars motor web? So if you're

(31:45):
a cross that out of experienced there, let me know
how that works for you. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty
nine detext. I'm surprised there's not more more publicity about
at less. They don't want people to be copying it.
So yeah, let me know if there's something that you've
experienced with that. Always love a scam. I think you're

(32:12):
supposed to blue your number plates when you put them online,
but you could tell me that. But does anyone has
experienced this? Is there something that's common. This woman's had
experience it with two of her cars. Eight hundred eighty
ten eighty nine text thirteen past nine Ryn to scams

(32:34):
always good to get over to go around with scams
back at you nine to nine to text good evening,
Ben AT's Marcus, thanks for calling and welcome.

Speaker 8 (32:49):
Yeah, Mike, I said, had the same issue. Is what
their their email? You just read out. So when I
went to the cops, they's paper plating. So what people
do is they'll go steal a vehicle and then they'll
jump on trade me and find the same vehicle, the
same color or color, similar year vehicle, and then they'll

(33:09):
go to a like a shop that makes up number plates,
Like if you've got a bike rack on the back
of your car, you need a third number plate from
that bike wreck. And they'll go to a shop that
makes up the number plates and they'll get a set
of number of plates made up, and then they'll put
those number plates on the car so they can drive
around and yeah, they go past the cop and the

(33:32):
cop jet vehicle and.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Because they and the head style and plates that would
have been reported.

Speaker 8 (33:39):
Yeah, well they get pulled up straight away and yeah,
good point. Yeah, so they put a number plate off
a vehicle on that's got a can't warrant regio and
you wouldn't even got to tell them issue. Actually pulled
up vehicle and checked the bin numbers and stuff. So yeah,
it happens quite happens quite regularly, the police said. When
I had it happened to me, and the same thing
I got an infringement in the mail from a different

(34:01):
part of the country that I've.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Never was a price some of the kind of a car.

Speaker 8 (34:09):
Yeah, well, my the SCE this is sort of an
off saver between off sawer and white the one they
were using, so there's very similar color.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Just explain to me why do they bother with a
car that's.

Speaker 8 (34:24):
Similar because they can go they can go steal a
car and then they've got to get another plate that's
very similar car because you go pass a cop and
it'll figure out. You know that this car is meant
to be say black, but it's faking happen.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Okay, okay, just otherwise cops might just be doing general okay,
general general searches and there and if it doesn't reconcile
it with the plate the color, they'll get pulled over
then And yep, good point.

Speaker 8 (34:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So it doesn't happen regally, but it
does happen often, more often than what you think. And
to be honest, there's not a lot you can do, Like,
you wouldn't even know unless she got an infringement in
the mouth.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
How are the cops going to start preventing this?

Speaker 8 (35:11):
Well, I don't think they can. I think the onus
falls on the people. You know, as soon as you
get an infringement or something in the math, you head
straight to this cop shop and you know, well hit
straight first, ring the altiens in and get a stopfoot
to it, see what's going on, and get a cop
shop and report it. It's not a hicke. A lot
you can do. You can ride in and get off
the tickets if you get a police report. But they're

(35:33):
sort of the onners fools, and you to do something
about it.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
And this happened to you, Ben because you sold a
car on trade.

Speaker 9 (35:39):
Me.

Speaker 8 (35:41):
Yeah, so this is about four or five years ago. Okay,
and yeah, the same thing. Yeah, I sold the car
on trade me and this was about six months after
I saw it. I said, do you need some infringements?
I'm like, what's going on here? Yeah?

Speaker 14 (35:56):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
We've got a name for it. Are you supposed to
obscure your rigo? When you do? Still on trade me?
To stop yourself getting paper plated?

Speaker 8 (36:05):
That's all I do now, so I don't really swan
trade anymore normally for facebook's a vehicle. But yeah, when
you take the photograph, you jump on your phone and
just bring up a number foot.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
It's a good scam. How much it cost to get
a number plate made?

Speaker 8 (36:23):
We'll at these bike shops. I think it's about fifty
or one hundred bucks to get a seat done. A
lot of people do. When I still got a bike
wreck on the deck of the car, so they put
a said number foot and put attention to the bike wreck.
You know, if they've got the bike on the deck.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Wow, I bet there's excited that people have thought of that.
One'd been nice to hear for good explanation sixteen past
nine talking about paper plating people, if you cross that,
they're noumal ears. That's good for me. That's a good topic.
Paper plating love a car scam Marcus replaced football with futsal.
Indoor five a side much easier to host, and I

(37:00):
only need one indoor vinue, not lots of stadiums. Steve Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 8 (37:05):
Good evening, Marga.

Speaker 4 (37:07):
I don't know so much about whether I can help
people out to stop them from having their number plates copied.
But if you were to go in to buy a
car secondhand on one of the platforms, and you were
viewing a car and you thought that it wasn't necessarily
one hundred percent right for a plate. New Zealand plates
are manufactured in such a way where the main number plates,

(37:28):
the actual reflectorized part, the white part, actually has an
embossed still the Fern logo into it, whereas a supplementary plate,
they don't always make them with that, So the knockoff
ones like in the bike shops and things like that,
they don't have the facility to actually make them like
that properly. So a lot of the supplementary plates on
bike cracks and things, because I'm in an industry that

(37:50):
actually makes those plates, they actually are just the paper
and card and vinyl and and other waterproof materials, but
they're not actually made out of the specialized reflectorized material.
So if you were to look at a car and
you found of the plate on it didn't actually have
the silver fern embossed on the plate, you'd probably be

(38:11):
able to identify that the car's plate was faked.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
The law enforcement manage to do that very readily.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
I would say that if they pulled the car over,
there's other ways that they'd check it as well, But
that's a pretty easy way for them to help because,
as your guy was saying, that they're getting a supplementary
plate made and then putting it on the car as
the main plate, but the main plate is not allowed
to actually have the supplementary system with it. The easiest way,

(38:39):
of course, is the best way is that you there's
only one manufacturer of plates in New Zealand. There's the
same ones with your personalized plates. That's the only place
you can go to unless you go and get one
from VTNZ and the light. But they're numeric, they're not
made to be copied.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Do you think they wouldn't reflect in the same way either?
Would You could tell at night?

Speaker 4 (38:56):
With a torch correct exactly because you do. If you
look carefully enough, they may even be able to make
the reflectorized part. That wouldn't be too difficult to do.
The actual material that New Zealand plates are made out of,
there's actually an embossed logo in there, and that embossed
by logo makes all the difference. It's actually really hard
to obtain that material to actually do that with.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
And how do you make a living? Steal a car,
then you get the number plate made that's the same,
and then you just manage to fill it up with
gas and drive off without paying hard way to make
a living in it?

Speaker 4 (39:29):
It is, I have heard it. I have heard of
paper plating happening. A lot of it is where they
have a car, they steal a car. They intend to
use it for something like a ram raid or something
like that, but in the meantime they don't want to
get snapped to having the car around with all of
the speed cameras and things these days. Having I mean
it's not employed yet, but they're going to have all
of these number plate recognition and so forth all come in.

(39:51):
That's the new technology that's supposed to come in to
fight that sort of stuff. So, yes, steal a car,
get pinged via a number plate recognition, Bang.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Away you go.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
If you're not the white word a Corolla and you're
driving a black mas, well, all of a sudden, it's
pretty obvious. But they try and get it as close
as possible so that they can try and mitigate those
times where they'll be caught before the car can be
used for something illegal.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
A plate still made in New Zealand.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
Yeah, there is a manufacturer of plates in New Zealand.
They're all you like your personalized plates and things like that,
they're all.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Still made him what part of the country.

Speaker 8 (40:29):
Don't know that.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
I'm not so sure about that one.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
Sorry, we'll find out, Steve. Thank you, Thanks very much. Marcus.
The gang that Stell the two got for Goffrey, Linda
Paintings and Parnell back in twenty two. Twenty twenty two
used a paper plate that was interesting. Theft that one,
wasn't it. I don't know that they got them. I
think the insurance company might have done a deal to
get them back, but I don't know if arrests were

(40:53):
made with that one. Yeah, there was a kind of
an extraordinary case that one sports, which should be the
Olympics Men's rhythmic gymnastics, currently only female. Thank you, Marcus.
I remember seeing a traffic light and blend them outside
the warehouse. I'm not sure if they have a warehouse anymore.
And is International Traffic Light Day today? That's weird day

(41:16):
that we're talking traffic lights. I don't know what's interesting
about that day, International Traffic Light Day. I don't know
what Pete wanted to commemorating the installation of the world's
very first traffic light Ohio nineteen fourteen. System was designed

(41:39):
by policemen named Lester Wire ten years old. They got
them in Europe as well. First traffic light only had
two colors, but a few years older, nineteen twenty three,
the three color light system was invented, bringing the yellow
caution light into play. To celebrate and commemorate International Traffic

(42:01):
Light Day, you're supposed to exercise some gratitude when you're
at the lights to realize your streets are safer, safer.
They also suggest playing one headlight by the Wallflowers terrible song, Marcus,
you can't talk. You can't talk preffitt lights without mentioning
Cobb and Co And I see I Focker Papa Skifield
has a fourth ski lift operator today for the first

(42:23):
time this season. Forty five centimeter base didn't camera as
everyone said, certainly well after the school holidays. How long
will that last? How long will the season last there
at Fucker Papa if they've got forty five centimeters? Would
be curious to know about that, Marcus, Is it me

(42:43):
or are the authorities a bit special? Easy way to
stop paper plating. You have to order them through vtn
Z and when they arrive, which should only be one players,
you don't need to You don't put bikes on the
front and back in the vehicle has to be viewed
before handing over, and the idea of the owner provided.

Speaker 15 (42:59):
Matt.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Yeah, don't know how much of a big problem paper
plating is, but certainly I've not heard it mentioned before,
and maybe they are keeping it quiet, but you might
want to talk about that. Twenty two away from ten
sports that need to go, from the Olympics and the
sports you've loved. We're very curious to hear talk about that, Brandon, Marcus.

Speaker 14 (43:22):
Welcome, Hi there, here's it. Good good Brandon, your mind
My story might not be there interesting.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
But I reckon it will be it's got it. I'm
feeding at my waters.

Speaker 14 (43:35):
Yeah, just about the paper plating. I think the easiest
way to fix it is just I'm pretty sure every
registration has to be connaded into someone with a license create.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
Yep, So.

Speaker 14 (44:01):
Wouldn't you wouldn't be really easily improve I mean, I
guess you can't stop. It's just a crime that's going
to happen. But it would be pretty easy to improve
that the person had been you know, hecked with one word,
because it used to also happen when there was a gap.

(44:22):
The registrations would take the time to go from person
to person.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Yeah, I understand. I think I think the problem with
I think the problem with that they're getting away with
the petrol without paying and the one are the pickl
stations do no one's going to pay it back because
it's theft, right, they get away with it.

Speaker 14 (44:39):
But I guess you could, I mean, you should do that.
I don't understand why they're looking on training. I could
I could go along the road and find a car
that's the same carr and color as mine and just
make it on the computer and drive into a servo.

(45:01):
Or I could just take or you could just take
the plates off and drive into a server.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Yeah, that's gonna that's gonna arouse suspicions. Arouse, that's the
right use of the word. That's going to cause suspicion
if you are driving around the car with no plates.
These crims, these people want to drive around and the
car so it looks legit just on their way. They
might be dropping off the kids before they do a
job stealing petrol, so they want to be a car

(45:27):
that looks legitimate.

Speaker 14 (45:31):
I think they want to the job, a car that
looks legitimate for you they do the job.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
But also also also in the week before and after
as well, because don't want to be pulled off on
the way to the job by the cops because it
looks illegitimate.

Speaker 14 (45:45):
But when you're stealing the petrol, you just take the
plates off. So you have no plates, you're.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
Where do you take them off?

Speaker 16 (45:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (45:56):
No, that's I reckon. Okay, okay, I thought they're interesting too.
By the way, Bradon Marcus, I agree with you about
darts and the Olympics. Maybe snooker or pull you like
it's at least with it's almost a bit like shooting
in bow and arrow. It was like a name game.
Stupa is a little bit different because it's balls on
a table and you don't know why I feel that

(46:16):
maybe that, but I just think you can make a
direct you could make a direct segue to get darts
in there, because it's so similar to some of those
targeted events. But it's more the people's sport. That's what
That's what the Olympics that need to do because it
all looks a bit sort of hoty toyty with the
horses and the yachts. That's why rugby sevens is good,
women's rugby sevens. It's the sport of the people. That's

(46:40):
what you want. You want the people's sport. Cameron, it's
Marcus welcome. Yeah, you're not very good things Cameron yourself, Ah,
not too bad.

Speaker 14 (46:51):
It's been a long time since we spoke.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
God okay, well good yep.

Speaker 9 (46:58):
You were talking about the.

Speaker 16 (47:02):
Shut down at the YEP.

Speaker 9 (47:08):
One of the engineers. But the effort was here on.

Speaker 16 (47:13):
The farmer was working on today and.

Speaker 9 (47:17):
They are laying everyone off or is.

Speaker 10 (47:20):
It two weeks or four weeks?

Speaker 14 (47:25):
Putting them off because.

Speaker 9 (47:29):
They don't have the pair around the plant.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
What is it producers. What does it produce?

Speaker 17 (47:41):
Pulp paper?

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Okay?

Speaker 16 (47:45):
Yeah, and they run two trains out of the year
each day. What does he go home with thirty two
thousand tons or something like that on board and two
of those he'd back to Paris to the north.

Speaker 17 (48:04):
Twice a day.

Speaker 8 (48:08):
Because I got.

Speaker 17 (48:09):
Yearning to one of the engineers, one of the train
drivers one one afternoon with my little fellow and got
them on the train.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
How many people? How many people work there?

Speaker 4 (48:21):
Do you know?

Speaker 17 (48:24):
Oh? I couldn't tell you the exact number.

Speaker 16 (48:28):
Between the two mills.

Speaker 14 (48:32):
There's a hell of a lot of.

Speaker 17 (48:33):
People from tay Heppie and Alcuney that actually worked there
doing twelve hour shifts. But you've also got all the
local truck drivers and loggers.

Speaker 8 (48:48):
That are involved in it too, because.

Speaker 14 (48:54):
They start moving aby at four o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
I'm just mind so I'm not aware. I'm not aware
anywhere it has set in the news that they are
closing down. But what's the story from your understanding about
the power? Why would the power just suddenly be unavailable?

Speaker 9 (49:13):
The plant itself consumes the same amount of power that
are Hockey and the Talbot steamstation produces sure.

Speaker 17 (49:26):
And they just haven't got it at the moment. They
haven't shut the plant there in order to save power
for the rest of the national grid.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
But wouldn't that pat wouldn't the Pulp International. Wouldn't they
be on the national grid or they've got separate lines.

Speaker 17 (49:50):
They are on the national grid, and that's why they're
having shut there.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Because the price has gone up.

Speaker 14 (49:59):
In order to keep power in the grid.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Okay, yeah, where did where did we talk Cameron?

Speaker 14 (50:09):
Oh, that's going back.

Speaker 9 (50:13):
Twenty teen, twenty twelve, around the time we first signed
the free trade agreement with China on the radio?

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Yeah, okay, copy that it might be somewhere else. Do
you remember that the big deal the TTPA. There's protest
and everything. You don't hear about anymore. I guess they
stopped it. Marcus. The guy's legit about WPI pop runs
two one hundred ton of pop from other Coodey to
Partston to Navier. The video is on stuff. Oh there
we go, So it's on Stuff the website. Now, thank

(50:43):
you for those people that told me about that. I
did it quick Google. But sometimes you Google it doesn't
come up because you're not googling exactly the right words,
so I bring that information through to your people. It's
said hundreds of jobs are under threat. Families and who
are pair who are on tenter hooks. The workers of Winstones,

(51:06):
pop and timber mills about three hundred have been told
to lay down their tools. Ohacuney, home to about a
thousand people lost not to throw the jobs as locals worried.
The two mills, which is on State High twenty eight
between Ohakuney and tongue Awai, are vital employers for the
RUA peer who district the Krior. The kardi Oi or

(51:28):
pulp mill produces turned twenty thousand metric ton of high
yield pulp. The soaring price of electricity means it's too
expensive to keep the mills running. According to its owner,
the company now is two weeks to try and find
a plan to remain in operation. John AT's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 12 (51:47):
Oh hi Marcus doing good?

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Thanks John. Olympics. What do you want to tell me?

Speaker 12 (51:52):
Wow, it's sort of post came up online about.

Speaker 13 (51:57):
You know, eight some early.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
Every color was that was that legitimate? It was pretty spectacular?

Speaker 12 (52:06):
Huh?

Speaker 13 (52:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (52:08):
Yeah, they just said it was interesting. But apparently tager
War was part of the Olympics, but I think that
would be pretty entertaining.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
To see that there was tiger war, there was fire fighting,
and there was ballooning.

Speaker 16 (52:22):
Work.

Speaker 12 (52:23):
But like the way they're jumping over the even the
pole curious.

Speaker 13 (52:27):
Didn't it.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
I I've seen professional tag of war ins, not every
dynamic sport. They spend a lot of the time not moving, Yes,
but I.

Speaker 12 (52:38):
Can't imagine to be like the strong man of it.
You know, when you're lifting, can give me ways, and.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
A strong man always looks good when it's on esp
and it's always worth watching.

Speaker 12 (52:50):
Kind of it's interesting. Yeah, I like a strong I
regards to your paper plating. I was told a car
and trade me one time, and we had this response
from someone who was apparently on the gas field, the mucky,
and they couldn't They were opposing absited, but they couldn't

(53:13):
contact me my phone.

Speaker 13 (53:15):
They could only send emails.

Speaker 12 (53:17):
And they sent me a driver's license and was quite
an leverage team. So this is ridiculous. I'll send you
a whole bunch of money, you know. Any I was
it was pretty interesting, but yeah, maybe I should nest
time make sure I blowed out the number place. But
the other was what I was thinking about that you

(53:37):
know most people use cardime detected then that nothing happening
on the cat, so he did that if you don't
have a number of.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
Police for a judge cut out the forty past ten.
Thank you, Hey, I'm just trying people to arid of
a chat about this. So where I'm thinking about as
track and field for the kiwis We're all done now,

(54:07):
are we? Because I see that and there was no
coverage that I see. Sam Tana had a disappointing rapper
charge as well, am I right there? It appears as
though he came thirteenth in the rapper charge. So it
seems to me if the shop put us are out

(54:28):
in the discuss throw us out, we still got a
high jump person remaining. So someone's got an update about
where we are with track and field. It seems as
though that we've got the three pole vaulters potentially could
go through the middle. But I just wanted about all
the others. I know that Zoe Hobbs is out is
heartbroken about that. Sam tan is out in the fifteen hundred,
but you've got some information about that. What we have

(54:51):
remaining in track and field. I'm just trying to go
through everything and remember which of the athletes were there.
We had a high jumper that had some acclaim. You
might know about that too. To keep up with everything,
but oh, eight hundred and eighty nine nine to text, Oh,

(55:12):
George Beamish is in the steeple chase, so that might
be happening. I don't know which other ones are still
there to go Hamish cur has he gone yet? No,
he's still to go so high jumps on Wednesday. I
don't know if we've got a female in that as well,

(55:34):
but yeah, so certainly we thought there would be more
people at the point to end in track and field.
That was my understanding. But you know, make some more
special when they do get those medals. Hi, Wayne, it's Marcus.
Welcome and good evening.

Speaker 18 (55:49):
Hi Marcus. We've got Jeordie Beamish tomorrow morning just after
five am. Sure he's got a got a world ranking
of number six, so he must have a chance of yeah,
good chance of getting to the final and a chance
of meddling in the final. And we've got Maya Ramsden

(56:12):
and the fifteen hundred meter woman coming up and.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
They haven't even had the heat stand yet, have they?

Speaker 8 (56:17):
No, they have not.

Speaker 18 (56:18):
Yeah, that's correct. What's her name, Maya Ramsden. She's NCAA
college champion in the United States. Sure, she's over there.
She competed in the World indoor fifteen hundred meters earlier
this year, and she is. She's won back to back
NCAA fifteen hundred meter championships in the college system in

(56:43):
the United States.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
So okay. She smashed Nicky Hamblin's record, So she seems quick.

Speaker 18 (56:48):
Yeah, so's she's good. She's probably going to struggle compared
to the world class runners, but she's improving.

Speaker 14 (56:56):
So yep.

Speaker 18 (56:57):
I'm looking forward to watching her and come up. Set
the alarm for five am tomorrow morning to get up
towards Jordan.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Well, and you obviously bit about track and field, and
that's good. Sam Tanner who looked boxed and had a
terrible heat and then they didn't see the reper charge.

Speaker 14 (57:13):
Did you see that I did.

Speaker 18 (57:16):
Yeah, he led the rep a charge for considerable distance
and then got overtaken and faded very badly. So just
obviously not on top form. I'm not sure what the
issues are you, but there's not much difference between running
very well and missing out. But yeah, he faded badly,

(57:39):
but he's I mean, I mean, he's had had good
times and he's still quite young, so I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
I saw him way and I saw him interviewed after
his initial heat not the rapit charge on sky and
to credit all the athletes fronting up so soon and
speaking well, he seemed to be slightly I was worried
about as in the view he said that's he said,
that's a result I paraphrase he said something about that's
the result of not having enough races as a build

(58:07):
up to the event. What would that be alluding to?
Why would he be worried about?

Speaker 18 (58:13):
Maybe maybe he just thought he was underdone in terms
of competitive races prior to the event, because you know,
I haven't seen him rather.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
Wouldn't you wouldn't you haven't worked out how many competitive
races that he wouldn't wouldn't your advisors that you know
that you'd want to be competing to a certain standard
before the.

Speaker 18 (58:29):
Event, you'd hope. So, But there's a there's a these
guys taper and they try and try and get themselves
in top form, and I think there's a bit of
hid in this. I don't think it's exact, exact science,
and they don't get it one hundred percent right. But
there may be something else going on for Sam because

(58:51):
I expected him to. I mean, he's capable of running
for three point thirty for a fifteen hundred meters, and
he ran three forty in the report charge. But that's
a little bit for sure because he had run a
race the day before, so you wouldn't expect them to
do their top race in the reper charge. But I
would have expected him to do a bit better the
day before.

Speaker 15 (59:10):
And yeah, not this time.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
Well, I'll just sorry to set you because I haven't
quite worked it out. Do you think the rapper charge
is a good idea or a bad idea? I can't
quite I thought of it. I thought some people technically
might want to use the riper charge to get through.
Is there any point to what? Is it just sort
of giving people a second chance for bad tactics or
for a trip or something.

Speaker 18 (59:32):
Oh well, it's a second chance. That's an alternative to
not putting through the fastest qualifiers, and sometimes the fastest
fastest qualifies. That looks out that's gonna be a little
bit random, because if you're in a fast piece. Okay,
there was a guy in the one hundred and I

(59:55):
don't know if you saw this America.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Yes, I saw that.

Speaker 15 (59:59):
One of the favorites for the gold medal.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
He walked, he jobbed, walked down. Yes, and then and
he had to finish to go through and then he
did he win us repercharge?

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
Did he?

Speaker 15 (01:00:08):
I don't think he's had a repercharge.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
It's very arrogant call.

Speaker 15 (01:00:15):
Well some of the reports say, who he has a
minor injury and wanted to give himself two today to
recover before he took the understore.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Okay, they just can't out there a bit, Wayne, But
that's a good explanation. Thank you, Oh enjoyed you. Oh
here we go. Thank you for that. Someone's texted through.
Sam Tanner had an injury and couldn't run until six
weeks ago. Thank you very much. It's great information, Marcus.
Saint Lucia is one of two sovereign states to be
named after women named the other. I don't really know

(01:00:53):
what Saint what a sovereign state is Saint Luca, Saint Helena?
Know what's that? It's not a sovereign state.

Speaker 15 (01:01:00):
Is it?

Speaker 10 (01:01:03):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
It's a good question. I think about that. Marcus, You're right.
While we're very good at rowing, it's boring to watch.
It also features the worst part of the whole thing,
which is B and C finals. No other sports teams
to that seems pointless. Marcus samtan an injury and lead

(01:01:25):
up three months out. That's what he meant in the interview.
Prep was ideal because of that. Thanks Achilles perfect. I'm
glad to hear that they've got that information. He was
lucky to even be there and to get there due
to the injury that was clearly still bothering him. Marcus

(01:01:47):
Hamishkure is a good middle chance of the hig jump.
So as els of a catamed pol vot Marcus ree scams.
I regularly sell stuff on Facebook. Every time I started listening,
I get people reclining me replying asking me to arrange
my items for pick up my Caurier and the drive
will pay on pickup. As a scam, as the person says,
can't come over. Baby looking out to often get this

(01:02:08):
cellar Beware, Hi, Julian, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:02:13):
Like I say, look, I'm loving the Olympics. I think
it's absolutely brilliant. Anybody can answer a question for me though,
what were the ticket prices? Because they seemed to have
questions and really great crowd of everything.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Some of the stuff at the very very beginning was
a bit like and I'm trying to think what one
I saw. Maybe there was a women's football match. There
weren't many there, but it might have been to do
with the transport disruption or something. But yeah, I it's
all And the people seem right into it too, don't they.

Speaker 14 (01:02:40):
Yeah, at the time of.

Speaker 19 (01:02:41):
Their life, it must be affordable for people to go.
I mean, I know you've got the population there too,
but usually when I've listened to Olympics before, at some
stage people have started complaining about the crowds that you know,
the price was too expensive and you know, blah blah blah.
And I think as well, what New Zealanders and the

(01:03:01):
world have got to think it is that once this
is finished, we've got the Pair Olympics, which hopeful is
going to carry on the same sort of coverage on Sky.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Think Tevan did I pick up some of that coverage
as well? With the Pairs Paar Olympics. I think that's
where that's gonna be. But look, you're right about the
ticket prices. You've been to Olympics, have you, Julian.

Speaker 19 (01:03:21):
No, No, I've just I've just ever watched them on TV.
I was I would have loved to have gone, And
I think after this time maybe I might start saving
up for the next wort of Olympics, because it's like,
you know, the sports we don't usually watch, like the
speed climbing and the canoe racing where they try to

(01:03:41):
bump each other off the off the waters. Yeah, oh yeah,
look you know, I mean, and look even the windsurfing
has changed a lot, hasn't it.

Speaker 8 (01:03:51):
You know, you watch this.

Speaker 19 (01:03:52):
I watched the windsurfers tonight and they're just whizzing through
the water.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
What's quite amazing with your saying how they have semi
finals and just elimination races over so because sport, because
your racing was unwatchable for a long time. You'd never
know what was going on and it would take days.

Speaker 19 (01:04:08):
Yeah, anyway, I hope everybody's enjoying it, and it is
great to get behind the New Zealanders, but it's also
great to get behind just the winners of the races.
You know, they the effort that they must put into
that training and watching the one hundred meters men this morning.
The guy that's the guy that you know when he

(01:04:29):
came out, he's so pumped up, you know, to to
actually be there. He's most probably a pretty arrogant American,
which which I think most really you'd have to be.
But you know, just to see him come out and
pumped up, getting the crowd going and the entertainment of everything,
it's just amazing.

Speaker 11 (01:04:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
I kind of think the Americans and the Australians don't
win themselves any freeing internationally. There are they're they're arrogant celebrators.
But apart from the women's gymnastics, I mean, I thought
they were quite humble and delightful. How how much it
meant to them after the disappointment of Tokyo, after the
the women's team's gymnastic American team, that was quite I mean,
all all that harrowingness that they've been through. Look nice

(01:05:13):
to talk, Julian, Thank you very much for that. Marcus,
would would chopping be good enough the Olympic level for
both men and women? Imagines traveling the world with a
set of exes, Marcus, yachting is my sport. If Tom
Saunders does okay in the last two races. Today he
will rewrite in the mix of the medal races, races
and the dinghies they use laser class yachts, from which,

(01:05:37):
from a stunning purest point of view, is the least
gimmicky event to the Olympic Regatta chairs. Matt, Yeah, Matt,
hearing you. So thanks for that. Something to watch after work,
good for the shift work is hey, people like me
get home at midnight. Something to watch when you get home.
Loving that. So we're just talking about that. And look,
I tell you what. We love the climbing. I love
the climbing. You love the climbing. We love the climbing.

(01:05:58):
I reckon the bmxing. The freestyle is no good. It's
just here I am on a bike. Here I am
doing flips. I mean, I like the BMX racing. It's
good to watch. It's exciting, it's athletic. They're flipping your
bike around in a certain length of time.

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
Don't like how they wear headphones to listen to their music.
I think that's disrespectful. I also think the yeah, that's
I think the kayak racing tremendous with that launch of
the four of them into the water. It's a lot
of fun because what you're up against in the sport
market shows like Ninja Warrior, So you wants something that's
a bit fun of that one. They're going to bounce

(01:06:41):
their way around the different barriers. Oh, it's great. Every
four years, I think of the sports i'd get rid of.
I'm not a great fan of the swimming. It's not
that great to watch. Get rid of the swimming, get
rid of the rowing so boring. Just want sports to
the spectacular to watch. That's my take. Golf, kick that
out terrible. That hybrid football. The younger people, the older

(01:07:05):
people not that into that, but I know people are.
I guess it's a good way to watch new sports,
new athletes coming through. Watched Japan the USA and the
football women's football. Thought that was a pretty good match. Actually, well,
old Dennis Rodman's daughter, she's becoming more famous than her dad.

(01:07:26):
She scored a tremendous goal against Japan. Wow, that was something. Anyway,
ten past Steven, my name is Marcus Hitel Midnight. There's
anything you want to mention in the general go around.
But got three women in the final of the I
think we are the nation that the greatest nation at
women's pole vaulting US in the States of the two countries,

(01:07:49):
with three competitors in the final. Now, I would imagine
that's all probably because Eliza McCartney did so well eight
years ago. As a result of that, it encouraged people
to get into the sport. I don't know what your
high school athletics was. I went to a fairly school
that pride itself of the equipment. Never saw a pole vault.

(01:08:13):
I don't think anyone's ever enjoyed triple jump. That's just
garbage with no disrespect. In case you might be a
great triple jump for some bit of a hop, skip
and a jump. It's got no use. Don't know why
it's here. I probably could google up. Can't be bothered. Also,
talk about paper plates and scams that are going around.

(01:08:36):
Have you got some of those to talk about tonight?
I'd like to hear from you Nevill Marcus evening in Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:08:44):
I thought i'd better give you a ring because you're
sort of you're fled out, trying to get your way
through till midnight, till market tills. The name comes on that.
I just said I was saying that there there that
I would suggest that you have a cupful of Marking
Bird coffee, Humming coffee. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was

(01:09:11):
cheap the other day and one of the super markets
here and Christus. Yeah, it was three dollars, three dollars
for the for the small packet.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Yeah, how much you buy?

Speaker 7 (01:09:28):
I bought six of them there only they're three dollars each.
And what do they hold?

Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
They hold.

Speaker 7 (01:09:37):
Two hundred nets two hundred ate kg two. It's got
two hundred kg net.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
It's a big bag.

Speaker 7 (01:09:48):
It's not. It's it's a little big. So I've got it.
That's what I'm reading after Boen thing here. Mostly it's
got to double oh Graham, Yeah, net does it?

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
It's not. It's not an instant coffee.

Speaker 7 (01:10:08):
But you just box it with water, right, you're all
coffee with water, don't you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:10:16):
Now, it's not an innesomet coffee. You put a I
just put a tea spoon in the coffee cup and
half a tea spreit and the sugar and the weed
little milk and uh so that was boiling water.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
Sounds fair, And there's not resids. You're at the bottom
of the cap or in your mouth.

Speaker 14 (01:10:34):
Yeah, well no, because I put milk with it.

Speaker 7 (01:10:38):
I suppose you coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
What coffee did you drink before you discovered hummingbird?

Speaker 6 (01:10:45):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:10:45):
I just had Oh hell, what the hell?

Speaker 13 (01:10:49):
Was it?

Speaker 7 (01:10:49):
Just Greggs Griggs coffee.

Speaker 10 (01:10:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
I think I appreciate. I think you've stepped up devil.
So good on you. I'd like to hear from you.
Hold your horses. People will get to you when we can.
Looks like they're going to go now with the sports clone.
Looks that they've got the buzzer they did karaoke. Looks
that they've got their bazz are fixed. Jeet, it's Marcus welcome, good.

Speaker 20 (01:11:10):
Evening, Good evening, Marcus House saying.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
Yeah, good jee, there are you going all right?

Speaker 15 (01:11:18):
Very good?

Speaker 4 (01:11:19):
Yes?

Speaker 20 (01:11:20):
Just something you ask me about this chlorine of fluoride
in the water, right, Yeah, you know it makes a
huge difference. You know, your body is seventy five percent water,
your brain is eighty six percent water, and your body
sells a ninety eight percent water. So what is important

(01:11:43):
that not on the alkaline water, but hydrogen reach also,
so it's added to Oh so if they double hydrogen
and also been ironie, what is ionized mills. That our
cells have a membrance, and memorans can only hold water
when they have a right windles in them.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
So sorry, Jade, are you in a car, yes? Right?
Can you just speak it? Are you on speakerphone or something?

Speaker 10 (01:12:14):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
Can you get Can you get off speaker phone?

Speaker 13 (01:12:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
Right, Helle, you much better? Okay, So what are you saying? Okay,
So with sixty percent water.

Speaker 13 (01:12:31):
Yep, seventy thirty five percent of the body is the
water actually, so.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
Sixty yep?

Speaker 13 (01:12:42):
Thing is there? Ourselves have a membrance. Memorans can only
hold water when they have will right minerals in them,
so you know it's very important there our water have
a minerals in them. So a lot of time people
use filter because you take out the chlorine and solide,
which is not really good for you. They damage a

(01:13:03):
lot of things, like you can see a lot of
Alzheimer's cases we have in Zeeland. There a lot of
issues about that. So brain cells eighty six person water and.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Excuse excuse me, are you saying fluoride causes Alzheimer's disease?
Glory glory, But you did say fluoride and chlorine.

Speaker 13 (01:13:26):
Yes, one of the don't say chloride if it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
Gee, it's sorry. You can't ring up and say stuff
that's untrue, okay, because people be alarmed by that. You
can't just make stuff up. I mean, I could talk
about the mass medication angle, but you just can't say
that this causes that, because that's irresponsible to ring up
and say that. I'm sorry, but yeah, I mentioned that

(01:13:51):
tongue in check because the fluorid people have disappeared and
it's yeah, but they're still kind of And for me,
what I noticed for this job is that the people
that are in that area they change from They were
anti ten eighty, then it was five G, then it
was anti fluoride, anti ten eighty, anti flight five G,

(01:14:11):
anti fluoride, and anti vaccinations. And I think they're just
waiting for the next pivot to go to from since
they've been anti vaccine, I'm not quite sure what the
next one is going to be. I'll tell you the
most recent conspiracy that I was aware of that jd
Vance has begne that I hadn't been aware of. So

(01:14:37):
I keep an eye on the conspiracies. The recent yeah,
the recent conspiracy that a lot of these people are
getting all about is to do with.

Speaker 15 (01:15:02):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
I can't quite work out how to put this. I
think it's seed oil, is what they're all on about.
I think they're listening to podcasts. But yeah, that seems
to be the conspiracy that everyone gets up in arms
about seed oils, and I think jd Vance is all

(01:15:30):
about that. They all think you should be just having
meat protein or something. Yeah, so that was a new
thing I hadn't become aware of so either opposed to
seed oils. So that was a new one on me.
I don't know too much about it, and I don't

(01:15:52):
quite know what it's like sunflower seed oil and stuff. Anyway,
someone might know some information about that. I can't find
the exact article about that. It seems to be a
coarse celebrity amongst those people in that part of the
speed well. By the way the the climbings back up. Yep.

(01:16:23):
So that's a good thing they got that fixed. Canola
oils what they're all opposed to through no reason. So
jd Vance uses gee instead of seed oils. That's a
big thing for those people. They're just not into that.

(01:16:44):
That's news to me anyway. Twenty three away from which
I hadn't gone there with Florid should have meted anything
asking for trouble. Twenty three to twelve. The speed climbing
has happened. What happens with the speed climb. They've got
a foot on a pad and electronic pads so I
can tie them as soon as they leave they go
to the top of these climbing walls. It takes about
six and a half second. They've had a stop thing

(01:17:05):
at the top. Interesting anyway. Hello, Mary, it's Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:17:09):
Welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:17:11):
Oh Marcus, we've just had a good loose quake here
in Marrington.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
Oh, thank you for telling me that. I just saw
the phones light up.

Speaker 18 (01:17:18):
Oh okay, that's all I rang that because I'm still shaking.

Speaker 10 (01:17:21):
Hell.

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
Whereabouts are you in Wellington?

Speaker 5 (01:17:25):
Matt Cook?

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
Okay, I have a look on how much it is
on the on the Richter scale. Thank you? Yeah, Wesley,
you've got some intel on that. I'm seeing it now.
It looks it looks.

Speaker 6 (01:17:39):
It's still preliminary, so it's coming known as four point
five right now, but it's a big shape longer than that.
I'm five five floors up at Newtown Park apartment and
the place shunted.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
It's very close to the set it's only fifteen k
southwest of Wellington. I've got it at four point seven.
It's deep twenty eight, but very.

Speaker 6 (01:18:05):
Close, very strong, a lot stronger than that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (01:18:13):
Like I said, Jon, that's still preliminary, and I will
also be waiting for USGNS to chime in with their
email as well.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
Yeah, can let me know did you get it? Did
you get a text alert?

Speaker 6 (01:18:27):
I got the Geonets alert of the Geonette app on
my iPhone.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
Whisley, did you get the alert before the quake happened?

Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
I want I wonder why you didn't because Romayne got.

Speaker 6 (01:18:43):
Google has that feature Apple doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
Because Romayne got the text alert.

Speaker 6 (01:18:54):
That would have been Google, I'm on an Apple device.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
Okay, I thought you got them on the Apple devices. Okay,
thanks Whizzley. What finds Roman got down?

Speaker 6 (01:19:05):
Yeah, Cross.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
Whisley, Yep, Romance got a iPhone, an Apple phone, and
he got the alert.

Speaker 10 (01:19:19):
I got it.

Speaker 6 (01:19:20):
I got the alert through jone.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
Now before it happened. Before it happened, No, I didn't.

Speaker 6 (01:19:31):
But the information is still preliminary, but it was definitely
a strong one.

Speaker 4 (01:19:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
My magic concern is about why people aren't getting the
text before it happened. Here's what people are saying on Twitter.
Holy hick, that was a rattler. Holy s h I
t holy moly, not one but two big jolts. I'll
forget about sleeping anytime soon. That was the most violent
small shake ever, big, long, strong, with heavy booms. That

(01:20:01):
was a jolt. Wow, that was not fun. There was
a decent wobble. That was quite something. So I look
and see how hardly I see if that person in
North Auckland's felt it again? This one that feels all
of them. By the way, I'm looking at this quake
that's a big quake and went into like a four
point seven. I'm looking where people have felt it. Someone's

(01:20:28):
marked it as extreme in Vicago, so it's been felt widely.
So it's been felt from the far north to the
far south of the country. This is the earthquake that's
just happened. If you got some more information about that,
let us know to four point eight strong earthquakes six

(01:20:54):
minutes ago and felt widely. On the map, someone in
Auckland's marked it as can you get there? Can you
get where they live? The people that have felt it?
How do you scrow rolling on that? Dan you can
just oh yeah, I'm just seeing where the people in
the South Island have felt it. Someone's felt it in

(01:21:14):
Gore and someone's fell in the cargo, and as far
as the far North goes, someone's fell it near One
Tree Hill, probably Joono and Ben. I think that's where
they are not living together, of course everyone knows that.
But I remember he was in one Tree What was

(01:21:35):
he in One Tree Hill when the bomb was nearby?

Speaker 10 (01:21:37):
Wasn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
Remember that they found an unexploded ordinance in someone's backyard
because there was One Tree Hill. Wasn't it what it's
trying to make as freading quakes again, Marcus, some three
stories up in Evans Bay was a really good shake
for somebody whos from christ Church. I didn't receive the
text alert. Felt it in Duneda, ready weird earthquakes had

(01:21:59):
like a rifle going off outside our house, then a
good shunt. I'm on the seventh floor and tourist eat scary.
Lynn didn't feel it in Masterton. I'm not sure if
they're on the am or ever in frequency. I've asked
them lower hut geez two jolts. I was on the
lookat in my arms and Beard earthquake, multiple scratches on

(01:22:19):
face as cat top freight got the best story for
seven Sharp felt strongly and Blenheim and got the alert
A lot of text, big earthquake. I went in just now,
Marcus earthquake, Blenham, Marcus the Eddy fluid people out and
about in Cambridge with their signs about fluorid lowering IQ.
So I guess they've been taking it. So the first time.

(01:22:43):
What time was the quake? Dan? So we got the
first text at twenty three point thirty nine, So you
guys have done great. Mary was first three with that,
but of a regular willingin Marcus quite a longish earthquake.
Peter soon wants to invest more in the Olympics. Marcus

(01:23:03):
felt the earthquake and lower Hut got an alert on
the phone just before hand. Rows I had the warning
just before I felt the quake here and bled him.
Don Marcus, is there a warning? I thought two ZEDB
was a station for announcement of information to the public.
Two EDB should be saying either way, I presume there's
no tsunami warning. Chairs now what happens now? What we're

(01:23:24):
speaking about number ending in nine to one three is
it now in Earth. This will sound what I'm going
to say. You can think it's going to sound ridiculous.
But when earthquakes strike now quite often they'll send you
a warning before the quake strikes, which is a pretty
useful bit of information. It all works on the different waves.
An earthquake happens, and some waves come directly till they

(01:23:46):
can detect those and they can send an alert out
which enables you to get under something just it's one
or two seconds earlier. And this did work in this situation. Marcus,
our local pack and Save keeps moving products around and
changing aisle. So whilst down the confectory aisle, overheard the
mum say to the hobby and three kids and to ABC,

(01:24:08):
anything but Cadbury, we don't eat palm oil? Is the
letter true? You think they did go with cheap ingredients
that involve palm oil. Didn't feel the quake up here
on the Carpety coast, no warning either, Carol, Carol, the
crackerpacker long and strong in the hills. It could already
no warning. Text goodness, it's all happening. Someone says, we

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need to take Jennie it away from people in Orkland
specifically these three. Every single time. There's always people in
Awkle that say they felt it heavily. Peter Griffin, Holy heck.
So it's been felt widely. Four point eight they're calling
it Marcus and from Miramar willing to no phone warning,

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loud rumble, thought it was a plane crashing, big shape,
gave me a fright. It didn't wake my husband. No
surprises there. The big news today that New Zealand's got
three pole vaulters that have gone through to the final
round of twenty. It was twelve but they couldn't separate them.
So there's three of them, three Kiwis, and no doubt

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they will be supporting of each other. It'd be a
great thing a couple of days wait before that happens,
and enjoy your Tuesday.

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