Not happy with the changes they made (5 September 2024)

Marcus is pleased no one is complaining about couriers anymore, and what book-based TV shows or movies missed key plot points from their source material?

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greetings people of New Zealand, and greetings all those fantastic
people with their polydectyl cats. Wow, I look at you
with your beautiful Maine coons and your polydectyl six figured
cats we talked to last night. Enjoyed that immensely. Anyway,
how are you all going? People? Marcus is my name

(00:35):
in here till midnight tonight, So if you want to
be a part of the show, feel free. Welcome eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty. You've got breaking news to
us to know where that breaking news is and when
it happens. And a lot of my emails I get
are people saying, hey, I predicted that, And the hey
I predicted that email today was for someone that predicted

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that a meteorite would hit the planet and they've sent
me a copy from the Independent newspaper. It's only a
meter big. I think that happened every year, but it's
exciting that people are trying to prove that they're right.
Should hit the Philippines. Asteroid will strike Earth later today, yeap.

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Most of it will burn up, but they spectacular show
to be given the name twenty twenty four RW one
near lose On Island, which is one of the ten
biggest islands in the world. Lose On Island. There's that
great thing that comes up on Facebook, the biggest islands
of the world. I think New Zealand's number twelve, the

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North Island of the South, the South of the North
Islands number fourteenth. Some of the stuff I need to
tell you before I head off. By the way too,
I'm here till midnight Romance from twelve. I'll also tell
you we are just twenty four days away from daylight

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saving clocks go ford an hour Saturday night for everyone
except you. Karen. Karen phoned in May. She doesn't do
daylight saving, so she's calling us Monday. We're not quite
sure what time. It's hard, it's hard to organize, but
she'll ring us to tell us how she's coping not

(02:26):
being on daylight Saving. I don't know what to ask her,
like what time is it and some other stuff. Anyway,
of course we've got Lois on Monday. Lois rang last
Monday to see how few as she was with the rugby.
I don't know what Lois makes about the new teams.
No time for papal. He's gone. New guy in from

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the side of the scrum, sung young rooster from the Waikato.
You'll have heard all this. TJ on the bench, Boden
on the bench. Anyway, she's all go and that's exciting.
It's a it's good to get some new blood because
remember before every World Cup we do well, there's always
some senseational player comes along, whether it be a Michael

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Jones or someone like that's what seems to happen. Anyway,
do get in touch if you want to. My name
is Marcus. Welcome eight hundred and eighty each out your
nineteen ninety to text here till twelve. A lot of
people on Facebook and saying they agree with Lois's appraisal. Yeah,
that's pretty interesting. Hey, we're going to start tonight with

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and it's going to take me a little bit of
stuff to get into it. Often on talkback, once in
a while a problem will come along and everyone will
go and the lines will be full for hours with
people complaining and complaining and complaining and saying, oh, well,

(03:50):
it's terrible, this is what happened to me, Da Da da,
and what happens with talkback is things get better, and
we never acknowledge that don't get to kids. So I'm
not going to do some sort of touchy feedy thing.
But what I'm going to talk about is a topic.
And I thought about it today and that six or
seven years ago on this show, there was one thing
we mentioned and people were always furious about it, and

(04:16):
I want to know if it's still like that, which
I suspect it's not, and what's changed. And the thing
I want to talk about tonight is that six or
seven years ago people would scream and complain about is
courier drivers. Now, there's a while there when people were
furious about them. Their parcels were on the wrong place,

(04:36):
they were leaving notes, they were home and people were
leaving notes. You had to pick up stuff, you'd been
there all day waiting for parcels, all that sort of stuff.
You could fill a whole show with people complaining about
the couriers. And I haven't had a call of anyone
complaining about couriers for five years now. My theory is

(05:00):
what's happened is during lockdown, most people started buying things
off line, and therefore the career has got a lot
more business and it became a much more viable kind
of a business model. And we just got better at
receiving parcels and delivering parcels that we arranged our safe

(05:23):
place with the career driver. We got into the swing
of it, and instead of getting one or two parcels
a month, we now get one or two a week,
and we've become much more streamlined at the receiving of it.
Am I right? Is that your experience has the whole
courier thing got a lot lot better. That's what I
want to talk about tonight. You have very curious to

(05:44):
hear about that. So what's your experience? I used to
because I never get though. I mean, I love my
carrier and I don't to sign for anything. It seems nothing,
nothing signature required anymore, it seems, and maybe used to
do with that verification with tracking, but the whole thing
seems much much more slicker. Am I onto something? Let

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me know where are we with our care is at
the moment, because I'm very excited about it. So you've
got something to say about that, because no one ever complains.
And five years ago before COVID, there were two things
people complained about Lime scooters and their career parcels Q

(06:26):
five years, no one talks about lime scooters and no
one mentions couriers. So what's happened? If you got some
opinion about that, I would love to hear fro you,
because I suspect that things have changed greatly and careers
are much busier and we've become a lot better at it. Yeah,
let's hear from you. Oh eight hundred eighty tenenty and

(06:48):
nine two nine two to text. Or is anyone sort
of bad experience with careers? I suspect we're not. That's
what I'm on about tonight. Oh eight hundred eighty ten
eighty and nine two nine two to text. The post
is that, Well, they're going to be thinking of a
past quite soon. I would imagine there will be other topics.
I'll meet those throughout the course of the evening. But yes,

(07:09):
oh eight hundred eighty tady nine two nine two to text.
I mean they were the whipping boys for a long time.
Everyone ever is something bad about the couriers, but it's
changed and I won't know what your experience of that is.
So if you want to talk about that, that's what
I'm about. Tonight, as I say, oh, eight hundred eighty
ten eightyan nine two nine two to text with it

(07:29):
till twelve o'clock. So be in touch with us and
you can text me also too, if you've got a
text about this. I'm pretty damn interested in all of
this actually, So yeah, let's be hearing from you. As
I say, oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine
two nine two to text. Love the couriers, Ollie says, yeah, well,
I think that's they are the new heroes. KT kton Smarcus.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Welcome, good evening, Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Thanks? Kat?

Speaker 5 (07:59):
Good Look, I was just treaming out because you got
me instantly with the Select couriers. They are so slect
these days, and the trade me service where they just
pick it up from the doors, just leave it outside
your doors, so easy.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
So what happened?

Speaker 5 (08:15):
What do you mean what happened? What happened in terms
of why have they gotten so much better? I think
it's exactly as you said it was. I think over Covid,
it picked up, the company needed the funding to make
it a more viable business model. I think you're exactly
to hit the nail on the.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Head because no one ever complains.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
Oh it's brilliant, and if they do, they sorted out.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah is it because there is that tracking stuff where
you can see where your parcel is now because that
great unknown freak people out, didn't it?

Speaker 6 (08:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (08:46):
Yeah, people like the tracking.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yeah, okay, love you love your energy cat, thank your
great energy for caller. It's k Thursday, Ken Marcus.

Speaker 7 (08:55):
Welcome by Marcus.

Speaker 6 (08:58):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (08:58):
Well, I've got a total every day. The truers got
totally bloody useless. Here we go and I'll just have
to change things you had to want, just changes so
as much many parcels I can can go to my
post office bocks because they just went doing what they
were told us and they went down combined with the

(09:19):
contractors deliver.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
So tell me, tell me where you are Ralston.

Speaker 7 (09:27):
Really both taste the signature required, They just dump it
and run. I actually made one of them come back
and get so I could sign it. The other parcels.
All the parcels always had the directions or they can't
put them through, and they trade me. The trading system

(09:49):
apparently doesn't work according to the businesses. But I had
quite a few put messages on where to put the
parcel safely, and they just ignore it.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Because my must have got all the sorted. Where is
your safe place?

Speaker 7 (10:09):
Ken through a gate beside the garrets.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Oh yeah, they all through the gate beside the garretts.
You know where my safe place is? Yeah, well I'll
say what a good safe I'm not going to actually
say what my safe place is, but the best safe
place is in the recycling.

Speaker 7 (10:24):
Then that wouldn't work out through that same gate. They
don't even go through the gate, so you're not going
to get to the recycling.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
So so what goes wrong for you?

Speaker 7 (10:39):
They just don't deliver it. They don't even knock on
the door or press the bell. They say that they
don't have to. They do that. They don't follow instructions
and if it's the signature required, they don't get a signature.
They just dump it the money.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (10:57):
So I've just got a complaint through all the politicians
telling them sort of that it's one group of people
doing it. I mean, there's one career now that's doing
it now from New Zealand posts, but a lot of
the other New Zealan posts, we've got quite a few
in this area don't do it. Aramics don't do it,
even though their websites is more.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Than can can you an interesting sort of a rooster?
What are you buying and selling?

Speaker 7 (11:23):
I've just been supplements in little bits from my pushbake
or a project I'm working on.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
What sort of project?

Speaker 7 (11:36):
Oh, just a project from what that I want to
do on my get my house up and running.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Hey, which politicians did you write to.

Speaker 7 (11:48):
The leaders of all the parties in a couple.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Others to fix the curriers?

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (11:55):
Yeah, that's the curer eye. And it's not just the curriers.
It's the same issues that things in the other industries.
It's just the same.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
People are talking about a particular group of people.

Speaker 7 (12:09):
Yeah, are talking.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
About Are you talking about an ethnic group of people?

Speaker 7 (12:14):
Well, I thought the immigrant slave labor and a lot
of employers are using them and they just don't do half.
More guys I work with are from one country and
they just don't bother them. And the US tree we're
all getting in trouble.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
So your problem is not so much for the cure
as your problems with well no fibrants from the subcontinent, Yes, yes.

Speaker 7 (12:42):
Which they would be, which has surprised me because this
particular group people always thought it a lot of while nice.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
To talk in thanks a text, nice little bit of
local racism near the kickers show off Marcus jeapers creepers
talk about the Trojan horst to go from how the
curer is to send them all back? Sorry about that people.
Twenty three past eights' old Marcus, Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Oh him, Marcus, how are you? We have a fabulous courier.
She's South African. She's always got a big smile face.
She's just incredible, and we must be parcels every fortnight
and she's just wonderful. We never have to sign for it.

(13:33):
She works for music on Post. We're on the carpety coast.
I think she's well known because a lot of people
on reviews say, you know, the smiley, lovely woman. She'd
be about fifty. But oh she's just she's top class.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Well what did you say that? You did? You say
you get passports every month?

Speaker 2 (13:56):
No parcels passports?

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Travel to get a passport every month? Well, lucky you're
getting parcels every month. You haven't got am addiction? Have you?

Speaker 2 (14:07):
No? No? But some family members keep buying things from
various places, but not just overseas. Within New Zealand and
all that sort of thing, big one, small ones and
everything like that. But she is just and we've said
to her, you'll wonderful.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Because I'm thinking about it with your Christmas. You know
I used to buy Christmas presents for the post. Eat right, Yeah,
I know what.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
You're going to say, because I've been seriously thinking at
Christmas that we should give us something.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Oh, you got to get you because the Courier, they
are our neighborhood person we see most often. I think
that's the new charge. And I don't think they want
something just from Temu either, because they're probably sick of
all the parcels. But that's what we've got to do.
We got to we've got to give our career stuff
because they work. I don't know if you make any money.
I mean they seem to work out all the hours

(15:00):
in the work, all the hours in the day.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
And they're running, you know, they're very.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Quick, absolutely running. And we've got quite a difficult we've
got quite a difficult driveway to come and to and
they do their tires. I feel bad about that, but
they still come and carrying the heavy boxes.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
This gracious, but I must have we've just got an
easy access. But this woman as well, she is absolutely
wonderful because I happen to mention and she's she's got
four children. I've found that out.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
But oh no, she's is she getting big big plaud
It's on the local community facebook pages that were people
are giving her the big ups. Yes, yeah, that's nice.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
And I've never seen she's just got a big smile
and laughs and she's just wonderful.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Present would be the right present to get a career.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Oh, home baking, you know, I know that sounds a
bit how can I put it? Somebody like her wouldn't have.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Home exactly exactly for the kids. If I was a curer,
I reckon home baking would be homeboat.

Speaker 7 (16:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
I mean it's easy to get people, k Carter a voucher,
isn't it, But it's not quite the same as home
baking or something like that.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah, or even even something special for her, something more personal,
you know. I mean there's a million things, but a
lot of people just take everything for granted.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, I'm sure. Look, I'm sure it's a very I'm
sure they and you know it is like the post
of the garbage person, you know that it's a it's
a it's a job that you could just do. But
to be well, how am I going to say this? Yeah,
I mean we always.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Gave out this is going about years ago. The rubbish man,
we always gave him there and everything like that. We
gave the milkman at present. You know, it was just
the thing you do. But nowadays a lot of people say, oh,
well they're getting paid for it.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
But I mean, honestly, yep, nice to hear Shell. We'll
be reminding Peter when to buy for Christmas, when to
get the courier or something, because yeah, that's it because
the postage you never see. Well, of course we've we've
got a little box. But gee know it's the curious.
They're the new heroes, particularly in Rolliston. Marcus High recurriers

(17:34):
this week had a post office collect Oh they're tightening
up being complaints around here. Career tech has so amazing
naked basically watch them pull up on your street on
the app. The coms just make it so much better
post as a couriers Now, Marcus, a message voucher would
be a good present for your courier. Tired legs at all? Well,

(17:57):
that's exactly right. Well, you could offer to give them
a message. Maybe I guess that's probably wrong, isn't it?
Just don't think how he can actually personalize it. Maybe
the couriers condladt us know what would be a good
gift for them. They spent a lot of time on
those trucks, don't they or those vans? Oh eight hundred

(18:21):
eighty he said you had nine nine two de texts?
So why did curious suddenly get so good? Good about
that guy from Rolliston with his supplements in his house
struck jupist working on a project. It's a bunker. I
reckon get in touch, hit'll twelve breaking news when it

(18:44):
happens to eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two
nine two de text just by the way too. I
read I've just read on this is sad News. I've
just read on the stuff website that Nigel Letter, the
beloved TV host, has revealed he's got a diagnosis of

(19:06):
an curable cancer, incurable and inoperable stomach cancer diagnosed around
about a month ago, and has had four rounds of chemotherapy.
I think it did say somewhere surgeon gave him six

(19:28):
to twelve months to live. Yeah, really sad article on
the stuff website about that. Just news. It's just come
through sharky Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 8 (19:42):
Then, Marcus, you're talking about courier fester and you you're
talking about the couriers. I'm kind of linked for couriers.
I've just come through the gorge. It just comes to
why he Actually I'm heading to the Mount long Anui.
So every night I take a truck and trailer load

(20:02):
of in the couriers parcels down to Mount Molanui to
the distribution center there. So while people are sleeping or
doing their things at night, I'm the guy who drives
all the apostles down to the distribution center.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
So where are they coming from? If they come from Auckland, Yeah, I.

Speaker 8 (20:22):
Picked them up this Seavening and Penrose at the New
Zealand Courier's.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Man depot Okay, and then they will be see what
time do you get to where you need to be?

Speaker 8 (20:34):
I pick those up there about I must have been
six o'clock and I'll get down to the mountain around
ten unload, and then I'll be able to take the
truck back to the where it cos and the trailer
and pack it up and then I have to drive
all the way back to Keddy Kelly to go home,
so yeah, I'll finish up. I'll get home by about

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twelve o'clock.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Tonight again, so they'll be delivered tonight, won't they.

Speaker 9 (21:01):
Know?

Speaker 8 (21:01):
They get sorted tonight by the sources. So there's a
team who worked there, who into where it's going in
what areas, and then tomorrow morning the couriers come in
loads events and please going to liver them the cons
you know, it's consistently.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Have you know, have you noticed with TIMU and the
likes a big uptake in the number of are you
guys a lot busier.

Speaker 8 (21:29):
Seemed to be you know for yeah, I suppose Timo
has actually made a big difference that yeah, because I did,
we seemed I think it's three trucking trailer loads at
night down tom away.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
From Do you know how many parcels it would be? Sharky?

Speaker 8 (21:48):
I would have no idea, Marcus has no idea. My
second thing is you're talking about very safe to hear about, Nigel.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Isn't that said? Do you just just come through now
and looking there's a photo of it looked like I said, kem,
you know, it looks at He looks really unwell.

Speaker 8 (22:06):
Marcus my dad. Last week we took him to the
doctor and he got diagnosed with pink Korean NICs cancer.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
That's sad.

Speaker 8 (22:18):
They've seen him home, you know, yeah, been rough at home.
Take you know, keep the pain down and spend time
with your family. And because it's it's malignant.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
So it's you know, it's that's a that's a tough
sort of can to that one, isn't that that's that's
that's one that's that's not that hopeful, Is that right?

Speaker 8 (22:38):
Oh yeah, it's yeah. They can't do anything. So they
haven't given him a time. Friend, they just said go home.
But we know that they've told us it's terminal.

Speaker 10 (22:50):
And you know, so.

Speaker 8 (22:51):
We we were lucky. We got fathers stay with him
on the weekend and so regard to Auk with every well,
I'm going to be going happy every weekend and until
that time comes. But we've been lucky, you know, seventy seven,
he's had a good life. And yeah, it's just you know, cases.

Speaker 7 (23:10):
Of fucking yeah yeah, yeah, And I love I.

Speaker 8 (23:15):
Loved Nigel later, you know, I love all his show
done on TV.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Oh absolutely really sad, yeah, really sad and a heartbreaking story. Sharky.
I appreciate you coming through. Thank you for that. Craig
gets Marcus, welcome, good.

Speaker 11 (23:31):
Evening, Good evening, How are you doing this evening?

Speaker 10 (23:33):
Good?

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Thank you, Craig.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
Good.

Speaker 11 (23:36):
Curious I sat. I heard a bit when I was
coming home from work and hopping the shower, and I
sorted to give you a quick ring. I used curious
for I running like a small IT businesses part time job,
and I use curriers all the time, and I've got
a good carrier now, but in the past they've been
herendous and cause a little bit of problems. We just thought.
I used to order a whole lot of server parts

(23:56):
from the company upland that's about, you know, fifteen hundred dollars,
two thousand dollars. It was like seemature required, and it
would just get dumped on my door when I was home, No,
not know nothing, and just rogged in the road and
leave it, and you go, what's going on here? And
then sometimes they started taking photos on the phone that
they'll proof of a delivery, and I got an email

(24:17):
saying it's been delivered. It's like nohing. Only I had
a lot couldn't find it, so usd and get a
copy of the photo and find it was a neighbor
across the streets store because it was his place, not
even mine, so it wasn't even at my house. Yeah,
and then but.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Craig, Yeah, the point I'm saying is that five years
ago you could fill a whole talk back show with
people complain about the courriers. Yeah, but the whole industry
has been revolutionized. They are so much better now. Is
that what your experience is? No, but you said it's
got much better.

Speaker 11 (24:52):
It's got much better because there's a new curier company
in the area. We're dealing with a new franchise. But
apart from that, we've changed to three different caurer companies
and they're almost as bad as each other. It gets
to the point you just get sick and tired of
complaining about it because nothing happens because.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Other people say, other people are thinking the whole thing
has changed. What are here?

Speaker 12 (25:08):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (25:09):
One are in the white keddo ah?

Speaker 12 (25:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (25:12):
Okay, so maybe it's kidding, but like I did, a
whole lot of stuff from Auckland was about for four
and a half thousand dollars worth. The computer stuff and then
they go, yep, it's been delivered. I mean it's been
picked up and all that never received any thing that
did the trek and trace nothing. Go back to the
currier company and go, oh no, we haven't picked that up,

(25:33):
and you go but they say you did, and you
say you don't. So after about two or three days
I managed to get hold of their it guy and
we went through the footage of the depot in Auckland.
You see the carrier back in, pick the parcel up,
put in its van and drive off. But after we
set that footage to the curer company can get a
call saying, oh we found in one of the vans now.
It's like, yeah, of course you found it now. But yeah,

(25:55):
they're a little bit dodgy, but it's you've got to
try and find the good one. It tends to be
that the oldest carry drugs, like sort of late forties,
fifties or whatever, they are really really good. The young
ones seem to not seem to give a crapit that
you think just there whatever the minimum amount of money
to get for purit castle delivery.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Yeah, it's not the experience we're hearing, but thank you
for that.

Speaker 9 (26:16):
Cheers.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Craig Marcus ordered a product from his applesod on Monday
at ten fifty three, arrived from Sydney the next day
before one pm. No charge for DHL freight cost DHL delivery.
Track lagged behind actual delivery by two or three hours.
Amazing service, chairs Ron Marcus. I applied for new path
but online last Wednesday night and received it from end

(26:39):
zied Post on the Friday. How's that for fast delivery?
Colleen wasn't sharky beautiful man? So sad Marcus, get a
career one of those beaded wooden beaded seats for the cab,
just like a message when driving, Marcus, I'm an in
zed post curier. Hand mey box of chocolates, but most

(27:00):
of all, I love a bottle of bourbon.

Speaker 9 (27:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
I think what you don't buy the courier is a
box of favorite because man, they're not much fun. Get
in touch with your situation, with careers, state of the nation.
How suddenly no one complains about all he did? Actually anyway,

(27:27):
get in touch. But suddenly with the kit and the
track and trace and all of it just seems so
speedy now in order something. It's almost there. The same day,
and god knows how they do it. How is she
going in the old how's that ki we woman rugby

(27:48):
player going with the Broncos. Looks like she's doing pretty well. Ah,
I'm just watching that now, the one with a big
smile that was from the sevens. Remember her changed your
surname because she got unmarried, I think. But anyway, it
looks like she's scoring tries. We haven't has a next
door says we have an awesome rural delivery driver. Every Christmas.

(28:10):
We get him a big gift basket with jams and
relishes and crackers, cheese, wined dry fruit. We spent about
one hundred dollars. I reckon. If you're doing rural delivery,
you should go. But I am killed. You should give
them au sided lamb or white bait. Oh, white bait.

(28:34):
Here's a text. Why don't you talk about the fake fear,
the fake addiction, fake monopoly, even the fake government? Talk
about the fake stuff. What that's about?

Speaker 7 (28:46):
Hit?

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Start a campaign? This Christmas band the chocolates happen to
go to the warehouse today. We had to get a
quite a cube. Anyway, boy, there's some tat they bring
in for Halloween. I don't want this as a topic

(29:09):
because bo, it's not our culture. People ring up and say, oh,
whenever did Halloween? I mean, people can celebrate what they want,
but man, oh man, do they make some plastic junk
in the name of Halloween, like straight to the landfill?

(29:33):
And I guess that's what I'm not too worried about,
if the warehouse goes to the wall, because honestly, they
have brought some junk into this country. I mean, do
people really need it anyway? I guess we've got to
stop buying it. But Halloween done and dusted, No one
cares for dud of a day? Is the election before

(29:56):
or after Halloween? What's Halloween? Is Halloween wins Halloween and elections?
To guy for because fifth November it's about then, isn't it. Yeah, Okay, Helen,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 6 (30:10):
I eating Marcus. Recently, I had a text message from
a firm saying that there was this whatever it was,
was on the way and it would be my tase
at such and such and had nothing to do with me.
And then I got a phone call about the same thing,
and I said, I think you've got the wrong number.

(30:31):
And then I got another text message from the same
place saying that there was something on the way to
somewhere different. So I mean, sort of, what is this
a scam or something like that? But I don't know.
I don't know what it was all about. But the
firm that was sending this stuff, if it wasn't a scam,

(30:52):
obviously had it seriously wrong. So I don't know.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
I think people make mistakes. I think this, I mean,
I think, yeah, that'll happen. But ge I tell you
what people are happy with the service these days, not
the parcels going missing, of course, through at the porch dancers,
porch pirates what they're called. Not porch dancers, steered dancers
and steed dancers are still your hambag, I think in
buildings steed dancers and porch pirates. Of course, the language

(31:18):
changed so much these days, don't Brettet's Marcus welcome, good evening,
your hybrids, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (31:28):
Hey.

Speaker 13 (31:29):
When I was fifteen years old, my first job was
on the rural delivery and we used to pick up
parcels from off the road service buses, picked them to
the post office and then sort them out and then
do the rural delivery, and mean, did I waste a
few letter boxes?

Speaker 14 (31:48):
Lear need to drive?

Speaker 13 (31:53):
But I got my license in the end.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Of course. It was the days before reversed. I think
reversing cameras have saved a lot of letter boxes. I
love a reversing camera.

Speaker 13 (32:02):
Yeah yeah, oh now, this was in the early seventies.
You know, I'm did to drive on an old Ford
trends at then, But that was good.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
What memory tell me the region? I want to visualize it.

Speaker 13 (32:16):
And then the far north.

Speaker 15 (32:20):
The r D runs yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Where we're we're based in Katya.

Speaker 13 (32:25):
Yeah, yeah, mister do the r D two delivery, you know.
And a few of the farmers, right, but few of
them threatened to boot Maria end.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Was that the day? Were there still lighthouse keepers? Did
you deliver the lighthouse keepers up the top?

Speaker 16 (32:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (32:39):
Yeah there was, yeah, still a lighthouse keeper at the top.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Yeah that stuff a history box. Yeah, it'd be something,
wouldn't that was it? Was there a light? Was there
a lighthouse at Spirits?

Speaker 2 (32:50):
No?

Speaker 3 (32:50):
Maybe not just the one at the top.

Speaker 13 (32:53):
Moved from Maria van Diemon over to Capriana.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Good point. Are you still up there, Brett?

Speaker 13 (32:59):
Ye're still up there?

Speaker 4 (33:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (33:00):
I should call you, I should call you cape Brett.

Speaker 13 (33:03):
Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yeah, there was a are you ka tire Brett?

Speaker 13 (33:09):
Yeah, born and.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Yeah not going anywhere? No, no, no, good on you.

Speaker 16 (33:15):
You got it.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Sort of nice to talk Brett. Thank you. Seven to
nine Marcus. I imagine the modern criminal fence would love
the distribution network available. That's from Noel about distributing stolen goods.
You I suppose you're I'm not quite sure how that
would work, you ever, quite short of out the challenges
have been offenced, but I imagine some of it is

(33:36):
about getting stuff into different regions to take away the suspicion.
Is that what it's about. You might want to mention
that Matt didn't recognize you there, Matt, Marcus. Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 12 (33:47):
How's it going, Marcus?

Speaker 9 (33:48):
Good?

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Thank you, Matt.

Speaker 12 (33:50):
I want to talk about the delivery driver and a
shout out to the one and Sea Coast I North,
she's amazing.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
Good, thank you.

Speaker 12 (34:00):
But we've got one of those fancy Google doorbell things
and it's got to it as well, and if someone
bends down, it notifies you that your parcel's being delivered,
and then it brings your phone. It's quite good.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Wow, so they can see the carrier bending down?

Speaker 12 (34:24):
Well yeah, or like if I go out there and
put on my shoes, it still gives you a notification
of the parcels delivered.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
So the AI is not that great, but it's pretty good. Hey,
I'll take it. It's pretty good. This is Decodia we're talking.
I mean this is not New York.

Speaker 12 (34:39):
Yeah, or just like Google doorbell thing and it links
up to your Wi Fi and then it records the
snip of the video recording, so you can see if
it's someone just bending down or if it's the postal
delivery driver. It's really really good.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Do you get an alert when your parcel's been stolen?

Speaker 12 (35:01):
Oh, you'd probably get another alert that there's been another
parcel delivered, but you could look at the video.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Thanks. Remember on Monday, we'll hear from Lowess. Lowest was
the one that was apoplectic with anger about Scott Robertson
and the All Blacks performance. But I think she was
probably happy that the team performed badly because she wasn't
happy with him as the coach. That phone calls up
on the Facebook page, Marcus lush Knight, if you want
to go and get that. There certain number of people

(35:30):
agree with her. Marcus are really looking forward to hearing
the thoughts on Monday night. Back in the day rugby
followers is passion about rugby as lowest are. We're losing
some of that passion perhaps. I think it's called getting
things into perspective. Pee very passionate about passion, which is good.

(35:53):
We're talking Curious. No one seems to complain about it.
It's a very very good thing by them Christmas presents.
That's what we ought to be doing. They need that.
They're their heroes. We need to celebrate. If there's something
else you want to talk about tonight too, get in touch,
as I say, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine
to nine to two, text anything else. It's interested about

(36:17):
that doorbell and I'll tell you when a career parcels
arrived when someone ducks down. Goodness, it's not technology that
I know much about freaks me out. That sort of Stuffee,
while we're talking about Curious, I had a boss I

(36:38):
won't name him, who worked as a courier in London,
and he told me the story and I've got no
reason not to believe it. But he was a courier
in London in the eighties, and he would fly to

(37:01):
New York on concord for the express delivery of and
it would just be documents, I'm sure, and I guess
the career. I don't know if this was before faxes
or not, but I presume he had a document case
that would require all sorts. I don't know what. They

(37:22):
would be high finance documents, and they would he would
fly to New York on the concord from London with
those documents because I presume it had to be personally
carried for the checkout process to make it quicker. Unbelievable. A.
I don't know how many times he did it, it

(37:44):
was just once, or it happened once a week or
but an amazing thing. Well, unbelievable A that I don't
know what. I think it was about eight thousand pounds
across Marcus three meter swells will probably be pushing the
barge further up the beach, being flat bottomed with a suction.
You may be right, it's gone burger, although they didn't
say They've got anchors down one in and it still

(38:05):
partially float, so it's hard to fully understand. But yeah,
I don't I have graved doubts for these things. It
seems very obvious the next thing, you know, she's a
total loss. But do discuss this. Couriers and optical couriers
and concord couriers. There's a bit for you to get
your nuts and bolton too. My name's Marcus. Welcome. Just

(38:27):
got the same old secret. My desk's a different height.
They're not liking it.

Speaker 10 (38:32):
Anyway.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
Flyinnott's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 10 (38:38):
Good a Marcus.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
Look, I got some breaking news for you. I got
some break dancing news. I think that when we talk
about Reygun here, she is highly misunderstood. I think she's
let me check some names out. Yes, she's your mos Art,
she's your Dennis Rodman. She's just so like she's ahead
of her time with this sort of thing. I think
that she's totally misunderstood and hated for what she truly is.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
Did you see her last night on that interview?

Speaker 9 (39:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (39:05):
I did, And I think she understands herself a bit there,
like because if you think about it, the cultural representation
that she had really with the if you did catch
that little kangaroo jump, she had what other countries sort
of including their national animal like that.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
I'm not quite sure what was wrong with her, if
it was the outfit, all the dance, or just her
general her general not looking like any part of any
breakdancing community was terrible say that.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
I don't know, Marcus. Generally, I think she's like maybe
her cadence was a little bit off, But I would
say at the most general sense, she could still from
whatever sense that people would have from an Olympic standpoint,
she still could like sort of have that movement that
you would see like people love to like stay. As

(40:04):
an example, Mozart totally misunderstood him at the time, but
look at him now.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
You know, every day on the Internet people would be
posting I'd see fifty people that are posted on the
inseet that are better dancers than her.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 12 (40:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
I like if I even look at myself, like I
had done dance lessons as a kid, and I couldn't
even reach that sort of like, I don't know. I
just think that the media should cut her a bit
of a break, and she was even sort of getting
a rough time on the project there, and I.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Don't know, well, she deserves it because she's probably because
she's probably through her position in an academic institution, she's
prevented someone more worthy going the Olympics. You get one chance.
It was only there once she went there and fluffed it.
There's an Australian obviously that was a lot better, that
could have got a medal.

Speaker 10 (40:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
I sort of saw Tokyo's performance and I sawt I
can't remember exactly what, but I just think that in
my from my standpoint, she was the top three, top five,
and in my eyes.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
At least cheers from sixteen to ten. Marcus, if I
want to spend my money on petrol to drive one
hundred and ten, K's proud, then I will freedom of
choice at that speed limit. Lecturer. No one seems that
passionate about one ten. I think ultimately publics don't want
to go that fast because there's going to be very

(41:31):
few chances to go that fast, because our motorways aren't
that good, and because we're so carf focused, they're always
pretty much bumper to bumper. Of course, there is someone
going ninety in the outside late, it's not like we
are used to fast driving. Dave, welcome, Marcus. Good evening,
whoa there, fast, It's just me, Yeah, and I'm Marcus Dave.

(41:55):
Welcome in and out.

Speaker 12 (41:58):
Nice one, Hi market.

Speaker 15 (42:00):
I just caught the tail end of the last solid
talking about the Australian breakdown. Yeah, I saw something today,
an interview that they just had recently with her over
in Australia. So as the Australian News me to having
a you know, just a chance for her to sort
of speak about her aside and story. And I came

(42:24):
away with but not that impressed. To be honest, she
she thinking all too. I mean she was, she was
happy and of the opinion that she said great feedback
and all right she said some bad feedback. But she
thinks she's inspired since she dances normal, resting, and I
think she's just eluded myself. I thought, I'm with you.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
I thought it was there's something and I gotta be careful.
I'm not sounding chauvinistic or whatever, but to me, there
appears to be something not quite right about her. She
doesn't get it.

Speaker 15 (42:54):
Actually, it's if you get a chance to have a
look at that interview, because she comes across and she's
obviously quite intelligent, she speaks well. But yeah, she could
just seemed quite happy with herself and surprised about this
backlash and stuff. And for me, it's a no brainer.
I mean, it was like watching you your old niece at.

Speaker 12 (43:15):
A school restital.

Speaker 15 (43:17):
And I think the really was ordering a joke.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
I wouldn't I think the word to describe her as entitled.
I think the word is entitled. She thought that was
kind of it was hers to go and do that.

Speaker 15 (43:29):
Yeah, yeah, And it was interesting because I saw she
did account for how they market and of course, like anything,
there's there's about five different criterias that they mark. And
and then she she knew that she wasn't In her
own words, she said she knew that she wasn't going
to be able to score a lot of points as
far as capability went, you know, with her athleticism, et cetera.
So she went she leans more into the creativity side

(43:53):
of it.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Well, but she if she knew how it was being scored,
she should have worked on the athletic and she should
have trained for that. That's the thing that I think
she seems to have no commitment to it. What I
what do you realize the times watch that you don't
know the music? The music is random so they've just
got to pick up the beat and go with it.
But she just seemed to she just took it for granted,
for an easy ride to Paris. I just thought it

(44:14):
was appalling.

Speaker 15 (44:16):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, she did qualify. She goes, She
talks about how she did qualify and that she was
quite surprised when she saw herself at the front of
the pack and realized that she was going to be
going to Paris. But I mean, if I was running
at an athletics club and then they and then I
found out that I'd qualified for the Olympic Olympics, and
I was running a twenty second meter, I you know what,

(44:38):
maybe I'm not going to embarrass myself and my country in.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
Front of well, we'll not go and then to wear that.
I think they said some of the stuff I read
as a lot of the people that were ready, the
younger breakdowncers yet to have a current passport and visas
to get there, and they didn't have that, so some
of the better ones would escape. But look, I just yeah,
I just I mean, I don't know why I met
it metters so much to me because it's not our country.
But I do think there's something really, like you said,

(45:02):
there's really off with it.

Speaker 15 (45:04):
Well, another thing that I thought was little bit off
because I didn't I don't want to hate on the
fuel for God's sake. But something that really didn't it
well was was that was that she they spoke of
Jimmy Kimmel and the piece he put on his show
about her.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
It's quite funny and I know it's not not Kimmel
fallon yes, yes.

Speaker 15 (45:24):
And and her face lit up and she literally said, oh, yeah, well,
you know this is a great platform. I'm I'm so
she's happy that it's flowing up, even in a slightly
negative way, because you know, it's all it's all notoriety.
I'm sure that she's getting some good spinoffs. Financially, I
wouldn't be sprised at.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
She Well, it's been and that's all of the event
of it's been terrible for breakdancing because everyone's sort of
it's become a sport that's been ridiculed.

Speaker 7 (45:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (45:52):
Look, I'll tell you something funny. When in nineteen eighty nothing,
when breakdancing first came out, I was in a breakdancing
crew and we will call the Rapidelic Rockers, and we
were based in Taradale, shout out to my mate Greg
and and we used to bake in Napian Battle against
the Napi Cruise. This is like nineteen eighty two or
eighty three when we were young fellas. And so I

(46:13):
can say now that every guy that I saw back
in nineteen eighty something was better than that girl, including ourselves.
And she didn't even do any of.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
That spinning on your back or the womb or any
of that. She did none of those Because I can
imagine what you guys have done, you guys are doing
with the spinning and the and the popping, all that
she did none of There was none of the homage
to any of it.

Speaker 15 (46:35):
Yeah, look there there's about three things that you've got
to be able to do if you want to call
yourself a breakdanc And one is a batsman and then
a backsman evolves into a windmill. And that took me
and my friends about a year to learn how to
do because there was no Facebook, there was no tutorials online.
We just had to keep trying and try and trying,
and when you break through that, then you can really
actually call yourself a breakdancer. She couldn't do any of that.

(46:57):
She was rolling around on the ground.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
What movie would have movie? What movie would you go
to see to get inspiration? Dave? Where did you? Was
it movie or was it music?

Speaker 12 (47:06):
Video?

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Is on somewhere you saw?

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Well?

Speaker 15 (47:09):
Remember there used to be a show on Remember what Now?
That used to be on every Saturday morning? Well what
what Now? Went through the country and showed different break
crews all around the country.

Speaker 8 (47:18):
So that was that was cool.

Speaker 15 (47:19):
We used to sit in and watch that. And of
course you'd see the you'd see the Wellington Cruise in
the and the and the aucand cruise, and they were
sort of a step above everybody else. And yeah, you
went to the movies. There were movies like flash Dance
because that that that French girl was doing some stuff.
And there was literally a movie called break Dance.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
That's right. And yeah, did your crew have an outfit?

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (47:43):
Did we have an outfit? We had an out We
had the Emsy hammer before there was an EMC hammer.
We had the Emsy hammer. Black pants. We had big
red flad pants like puff pants like EMC. We had
great gray sweatshirts.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
Did you get someone to make did someone make the pants?

Speaker 10 (48:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 15 (48:00):
Well, we were able to buy those. But what what
we did do is we bought some plain gray sweatshirts
and we took from to the shop and had rapidelic
rockers printed onto the.

Speaker 10 (48:10):
Back of them.

Speaker 15 (48:11):
We wore caps sideways and we had white gloves and
matching blue shoes that we found these in Para. I
think you can buy shoes at Para Para rubber like.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
All scaln all stars type blue ones.

Speaker 10 (48:27):
Is it?

Speaker 15 (48:27):
Yes, they were there. They were scalter up blue slip
on sort of cool looking shoes, we thought, and actually
we inspired. If you go to Taradale and you are
you familiar with Tario All, there's a park in tarot
old Charnott Park and is a skateboard bowl. It's quite
an iconic skateboard bowl. Well, right next to that skateboard bowl,
pretty much next to the main road that goes past it,

(48:52):
there's there's a square block of concrete that seems to
be there for no reason at all. That was put
there because we managed it some funding from all the
local shops to put down some concrete so that we
could break dance on it because we've been kicked out
of the low more.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
Brilliant Dave, I'm gonna go for commercials. What a great call.
Love all everything about that. A couple of texts before
I go to the news, Marcus, I just want to
say how beautiful the coverage on the TV of the
Malti King's final Jouni and singing you Queen annointed the
thousands of people who line the streets and respectively. Fairwelder
man who united people was even on BBC too. I
felt proud to be in New Zealander. Good to see

(49:27):
the train involved too with taking people there, and the
river used the white cattle. Interesting to reading on Topley
Mountain they go it's an unmarked grave at the top
that was the original Malti King's wish to be buried with.
I forget the quote. That was quite a nice quote,
but yeah, cheers to all of that. Thank you, Marcus, Marcus, Marcus, Sorry, mate,

(49:51):
just tuned in a slightly off topic. But the countdowns
officially on. Less than one hundred hours to go until
Lowess needs to call back. Surprise she hasn't already to
know with a team naming. On a more serious note, Monday,
we'll give us the Winston Pulp update for that poor town.
Lois is the woman that was famously opposed to Scott
Robinson and the All Blacks performance. But I think she

(50:12):
wanted the team to lose because she's not a Robertson's fan.
So it's going to be hard for next week. She's
either going to be ecstatic that they've lost or unhappy
that they've won. I think I said the one and
all the indications they will. Robinson's got his way, has
got the young team, and they were reofficially rebuilding. Now
twenty one year old. Can't wait, marcaus that last caller

(50:37):
was so engaged he got an awesome call. Yes, breakdancing
huge in New Zealand. I don't know if we had
more breakdancing than anywhere else in the Will beside America.
It certainly felt like that. But I imagine that that.
I imagine the Crook Taradale would have been much more
engaging than ray gunn. I think good about it is

(51:02):
that that's you. I think your name of what does
it was? Her name is something? Is it right? But
I don't even know she I don't even know if
she competed as ray Gun, but the Rachel Gun, yeah,
it is a good breaking hand or ray Gun. She
just seems unaware of it all, just out for herself.
Now she's going to get a big contract to go

(51:22):
on dancing with the stars. I think that's what they're saying.
There's like a media frenzy for her. Marcus said. Australian
breakdancers Skippy would be embarrassed. I think Kath and Kim
would have done a better job, Marcus. They all had
break dancing names at the Olympics, even at the middles
room in these Chinese bronze when it was called Bee

(51:44):
Girl six seven to one. Your quing Yai number is
a play on her name. Thank you, Marcus. Our little
boys four two and two and I are flying from
Auckland to the need and tomorrow afternoon. Have you gotten
tips on keeping little rats happy? Michael the Milkman, I

(52:09):
don't how you keep the kids happy on a plane.
Let me think, no, just got books and read them
the whole time. I think you'll keep them engaged. Give
them Rubik's cubes, just make sure they've got something to
suck for when they come down. You want to give

(52:31):
them chewing gum and stuff. I think to get an equalize.
That would be my take on that one. The other
topic I might like to fly up the flag for
your people tell me things TVs, TV shows or films
based on books, and you weren't happy with the changes

(52:55):
they made. There you go, there's another topic for you.
The liberties they took. Don't know what the classics for
those would be. So sometimes you see something based on
a book and it's changed completely. Marcus low Rings admitted
the scouring of the shire and the expulsion of souring
from the shire at the end, Marcus, Catch twenty two

(53:17):
is not good when made into a movie that's from
gen Daylight Savings, Marcus, I have no idea. Why are
you and people say daylight savings. Oh, I've got strong
feelings about that. When it first came out, they called
it daylight saving, but that was just an inventor word, right,
and through common usage it has become daylight savings, and

(53:42):
daylight savings is now the accepted form of it. And
I'll tell you how I can tell that because if
I google daylight saving and inverted commas to see how
many times it's come up, and if I google that,
I get what doesn't say how many times?

Speaker 9 (54:01):
You get?

Speaker 3 (54:01):
Now, hang, I'll do one mother button. I've put something
I Google daylight saving and I got on how any page.
It doesn't say how any mentions it gets now, but
you get a lot more hits with daylight savings than
daylight savings. I just think people prefer saying daylight savings.

(54:27):
It seems to feel grammatically more correct, but I think
probably either one's acceptable, but yeah, the language evolves, Marcus.
Catch three two was not good, but made for a
movie that's gen Marcus. The Midnight Express movie ending was
way different to the book. Ending, still a great prison
escape movie. Tony Marcus. I bet every Australia wants a

(54:53):
raygun tracks it with the cap and shoes. Cameron Taylor
from Palmi Marcus, to keep the kids quiet, just tell
them before takeoff, it's the pilot's first flight. Marcus. Tom
Cruise would have been more believable as Poppers smoothed than
Jack Reacher from the description from the books Best Worst,

(55:13):
Best Book, Worst Movie, or all the Stephen King movies.
None of them has been as good as the books.
They look too terrifying to go and see. Scott Marcus, welcome,
there are good Scott, thank you.

Speaker 16 (55:29):
I don't know we're as good on bad movie, Bad album.
The Wolf of wol Street. I read the book before
I watched the movie. And if you think the movies
while the books ten.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Times worse, that's DiCaprio.

Speaker 16 (55:41):
Eh oh yeah, there's yeah, there's yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
It was a good film. He was out that was loose.

Speaker 16 (55:47):
He was that there's nothing like the book. The book
is amazing and lays out all the detail of the book.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
The book was called The Wolf of wolf Street.

Speaker 17 (55:58):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 16 (55:58):
Yeah, I actually put off I started reading it and
then the movie came out and I put off watching
the movie because I wanted to finish reading the bo
So yeah, no, it was.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
It was outstanding the book and just loose like a
gaboos just a loose unit, right ah yeah.

Speaker 16 (56:16):
Just yeah, absolutely fearials. Yeah, no, anyway, it was it
was pretty good.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
Yeah, he's he's become a motivational speaker now, yeah he has,
and he ends the.

Speaker 16 (56:27):
Like ins the movie the same way too. But yeah,
he ends the book saying something like tell me this
pencil or but yeah, it's sort of a sales motivation.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Oh yeah, a guy ring me up and tried that
trick on me on the show. I wonder where that
had come from. Okay, yeah, save with this pin.

Speaker 10 (56:43):
Yep, yeah, tell me the pin.

Speaker 16 (56:46):
That's kind of fight quote in the book anyway. So
but and also yeah, I think the kids that definitely
not as wild as as well, it's not as wild
as we were, and we probably weren't quite as bad
as what my parents were.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
So and I think I think it needs to be
acknowledged because I'm not into besh and kids because they
do pretty well. They've got tough times. They're worried about
the planet, they're worried about all sorts of stuff. It
can't be easy, and you don't want Yeah.

Speaker 16 (57:14):
Drinkers mark like we used to drink a lot more.
I think they don't drink as much. Well, you mind,
you had pretty good times when we were drinking, So
worse for them. But yeah, certainly I'm not as wild
as we were anyway.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
But now the boomers are priced am out of the
housing market. I mean, it's not it's not all roses
for them, is it.

Speaker 16 (57:33):
Well, the boomers. My parents were the boomers, and they
used to like drink driving was legal back then. So
at least we weren't as bad as that.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
It's a very good point, you know. One mentions the
drink drive. Just spring at the bus driver jeepers Marcus
as an ex career drive races. Just if people are
going to complain about careers, that they should go to
the company and volunteer time to see what goes on.
Guess I'm glad I'm out of that game. Wolf of
Wall Street audiobook. That's me tonight, Cam Taylor, Go Cam

(58:02):
Go Cam. Twenty eight six Melbourne over Brisbane. That's the
Rugby League, last week of the round robin. Although the
Warriors have got to buy Gee, it's a long season. Ji,
it's a long season. Regards the Warriors. It's important we
celebrate the success of the reverse reserve grade making playoffs

(58:23):
for two years in a row. Not bad for a
team that was suspended three years in a row due
to COVID and then came back firing strong as stiff
Ossie comp Wonder why would I get much coverage of that? Marcus? Great,
we plugged for the Boomers. There, cheers Michael the Milkman.

(58:46):
Cameron Marcus. Welcome, how you do good Cameron, good voice,
Thank you, nice to hear.

Speaker 9 (58:51):
From you.

Speaker 4 (58:53):
Now.

Speaker 10 (58:53):
They heard this movie called The Girls Dagons heady.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
Oh yeah yeah. People raved about that book.

Speaker 10 (59:02):
You sig Glass and read the book. Yeah, but now
the movie was good, but then the Americans did the
second lot of movies. They were horrible.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
Okay, so it was a book then a movie than
an American movie.

Speaker 10 (59:18):
Yeah, yeah, they did, like a Swedish one or something
with Elizabeth Filander. I think it was played by that
Naomi lady.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
Did they were the American one? Did they change the plot?

Speaker 10 (59:34):
They had games bond in it and they toned it
down real bad.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
Okay, so like less gritty, less violence.

Speaker 10 (59:44):
Definitely less than the book. The book's awesome, bro, I'll
do it.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
I'll do it. It's one of the movies.

Speaker 13 (59:51):
I mean.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
So with the Swedish movies that's subtitled.

Speaker 10 (59:55):
Well what did I do? As I listen to Audible
and you got to pay for the book on there. Yeah,
but they're really good, all three of them.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
Okay, but with the Okay, nice to hear from you, Kerin,
thank you. There we go, Hi Gillian, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 9 (01:00:13):
Oh hi Marcus. Hey, I'm just listening to you on
the way home, and I want to talk about a
book that shouldn't be made into a movie, which is
John Irving the Prayer for Owen Meani. I don't know
if you've read that.

Speaker 12 (01:00:28):
What's that, John Irving?

Speaker 10 (01:00:31):
Yes, it was.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
Huge in his day. Everyone was reading World according to Garp,
including myself. Nay, hen, I read all his books.

Speaker 9 (01:00:42):
Right, So have you read a Prayer for Owen?

Speaker 11 (01:00:43):
Meaning I don't think I have.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
I read The Wool according to Garp. And the next one,
which was Side of House rules.

Speaker 9 (01:00:52):
That's right. And then there's the Prayer, a Prayer for
Owen Meani, and it's got this gorgeous, very small character,
a small boy with a very large voice. And when
I read it, I thought, please, please, no one made
this movie because they can't. They'll cast somebody who can
never be the person.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
I like it because you visualized it so well, you
just couldn't chuck it into a movie.

Speaker 9 (01:01:18):
Yeah, that's right. Anyway, I just wanted to say, if
you ever want to read a great book, read that one.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
Thank you, Jilli. I don't know what happened to Old
the World because it was such a such a talked
about book, was like a phenomenon, even before they had
the internet. Nice to hear from you. Thank you for that.
There we go, good evening. Graham it's Marcus. Welcome Graham.

Speaker 17 (01:01:38):
Hi Marcus, good to talk to you.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
Bet atcha nice to hear from you, Graham.

Speaker 17 (01:01:42):
Yeah, yeah, I just on films and books. Yeah, I
mean I was. I read a Lord of the Rings,
the Great Trilogy, back way back in nineteen eighty and
it was one of the great moments of reading in
my whole life. And I always hope.

Speaker 10 (01:01:59):
One day this.

Speaker 17 (01:02:01):
Someone put it a film.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
And obviously I was.

Speaker 17 (01:02:03):
Delighted with Peter Jackson. I mean, the book will always
take pret that's the the you know, the three films
that came out simultaneous, well that came out what you know,
a year apart, each of them, and and but they
were absolutely brilliant what he did. And but the book,
the book, the books, the book.

Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
And did he leave out much?

Speaker 11 (01:02:28):
Oh well he had.

Speaker 17 (01:02:29):
I mean that's that's a huge the three books and
one and it was a huge. Yeah. So no, he
had to he had to leave. He left out a lot,
you know, But but doing so he did. What he
did was he say true to the spirit of the book,

(01:02:49):
and you know, the acting and what what you know
he did with not the special effects, but yeah, the
characterization of the main characters, and then the battle and
the battles that went on, and then you know, it
was good versus evil, which a lot of things are about.

(01:03:10):
You know, in terms of fantasy, it's not fantasy, but
it's section or fantasy fiction. Yeah, it's not science fiction
science fiction.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
I wish it was. I went and saw there was
an animated movie of Lord of the Rings that was terrible,
by a guy called Beshki.

Speaker 17 (01:03:27):
I saw it an I saw that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
What I coming it was unfinished.

Speaker 17 (01:03:33):
But was it just me or was it a went
through half the I think it was up to the
end of the second the two Towers, the second box,
and I was animated. I didn't mind it at that age.
I thought yeah, But I mean looking back, if I
saw it now or saw it twenty years ago, I
probably think it's rubbish. But yeah, I remember going to

(01:03:55):
a pictures there to here in christ Church and seeing
it and thinking, oh yeah. I thought, oh, well it's
pretty good. But it was sort of odd, sort of
stopped halfway through.

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
Yeah, it seems it seems like it might have broken him.
It seems like it was too difficult to film, but animated,
why would you.

Speaker 17 (01:04:14):
Yeah, well, it's not surprising given a lot of you know,
given it's a fantasy, it's sort of based on a
lot of things that happen in languages and and you know,
things here, you know, in our world, but it's it's
probably something that there was a radio thing of it
on the older National Radio that went on for weeks

(01:04:36):
and they die it a pretty good job. It was
just listening to it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
What they read it, they read it, they read it out.
There was the book form.

Speaker 12 (01:04:43):
Yeah no really it.

Speaker 17 (01:04:44):
Didn't know it is a whole book, but I can't know.
It was a in the early eighties, but I listened
to it was on a Sunday afternoon and an ever
a half hour of Lord of the Rents.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
Goodness me, Graham. I'm going to run, but nice to
talk to. Thank you so much for that. Marcus. The
Office of British Version sent Ricky Gervais on a still
a career you type of comedy that the Americans couldn't match.

Speaker 12 (01:05:05):
Mary.

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
Yeah, I know people always pretty damning about American comedy,
but I reckon probably his comedians Americans are probably better.
I thought the American Officer was quite different but was
still quite funny. We've got a tremendous script. Simeon Brown
came up with a graph which shows that when they
made their speed limit high, the road told went down.
It's toddy, mis leading and there's so much eff it's

(01:05:27):
the contrary, So he's trading votes for lives again. Here's
a question. Someone says, how would you try to separate
a four year old from his baby blanket that he's
never been without since his birth. His widowed mum thinks
she needs to start to break his daily attachment to
it before he starts school in five months time, in

(01:05:47):
February next year. Well, I've got three things to say
about that. I'd never give it at a baby blanket.
But that's too late. But you said the kid is
widowed or his widowed mum. I just wouldn't try and
separate it from them. Of school's gonna be enough of
a wrench anyway. I just keep things as oddly as

(01:06:09):
you could. That's my advice. Someone might have better advice.
That's the best I can do. Marcus, could you please
spell the name of a special cat you're talking about
last night? And also to spell the word for more
toes than normal, Rosie. I can't go through event through
last night, Dan, can you text her? And I'll just
say it was a polydact or Maine Coon Marcus the

(01:06:32):
Martian with Matt Damon missed the science problem solving essence
of the book. Marcus. I listened to audio books on
the free library apps Libby and borrow Box. All the
books I listened to our unabridged original versions of the book.
Great to listen to when stuck in traffic. Jears Rosary.
Could someone ring me and tell me what the library

(01:06:52):
apps are? I've never heard of them. I don't know
libraries had apps, Marcus. Puppyorn was a huge disappointment after
reading the books. Seemed like they left out half the book. Yeah,
I agree, So there we go. That's what 'ron about

(01:07:13):
great books that became bad movies. Clar left stuff out,
and library apps seems like a good idea. I've never
heard of them. I go to our library once a month.
I've never heard you get nap. Good evening, Craig, it's Marcus.

Speaker 12 (01:07:29):
Welcome, Yes, thanks Mount Marcus. Here, Craig from christ here listen.
There should be a film made for Lincoln laid Law,
who was a great onverriage entrepreneur. Toy maker. He lasted
for about all good ten years from about nineteen sixty
five to seventy five, and a lot of the older

(01:07:52):
people could probably remember the ads he used to come
on TV and it was like this boy Lincoln toy
and he made a lot of stuff and his fact
she was in the Great South Great South Road in Auckland.
He had a big factory there and he made some

(01:08:13):
wonderful toys in a yacht mccrano set that every boy
wanted back in the days. Yeah, I just think there
should be some sort of film of Harry set up.
And he was actually original founder for Farmers Trading Company,

(01:08:34):
but then he died quite a few years ago, but
he was a very famous man. Yeah, and I just
think it should be a film made about him. Yeah really, yeah,
something like the Lincoln toy I Brought her back, you know,
or something like that. It would be great for something

(01:08:54):
like Peter Beson. You know, a boy picks up a
Lego toy and plays for books and he says, I'm
sick of this there and then the dad says, I'll
show you something, and he brings out this big place
to mccannoe set and he goes wow, and then the
father starts a business up. You know, I think it
would be a great film. Yeah, you know, I just

(01:09:16):
you know for Lincoln Laidlaw. Yeah, I was first know
whether those toys back in the day, but sixty four, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
He's not the same guy that was behind. It was
Robert Laidlaw that found Farmers.

Speaker 12 (01:09:34):
Okay, I assume that he took over the running of it.
I'm not too sure, but I'm beam sure it was
Lincoln Ladaw that started the Farmer's Training Company.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
Maybe wrong, No, it was Robert Laidlaw. I don't know
if Robert love and I'm sure they'd be a connect
enough Robert lad and oh yeah, here we go, Here
we go. He married Lillian Watson, the sister of American
preacher Harry Ironside, and the couple settled in New Zealand.
They were to have three children, including notable architect Lilian
Crystal and toy maker Lincoln Laidlaw. Yes, yes, I thought

(01:10:15):
there must be a connection.

Speaker 12 (01:10:17):
Yes, and also factory in Hong Kong. He did a
lot of toys here, but he also got them manufactured
in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, which were a lot cheaper
because some of the trading barriers, you know that came
on to toys, you know by the pricing and everything.

(01:10:42):
But he had a big factory in Hong Kong and
he made all sorts of things, you know, incredible stuff.
Even made sort of you know Tomka toys, all sorts
of yachts. Fascinating guy.

Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
Yeah, it doesn't have to be a movie that appeared
on how interesting the guy is. But that's interesting. You've
rung up what's your fascination with it? Just because you
had the toys as a kid?

Speaker 12 (01:11:06):
Had I had a motorized Mecanoe set and it was
a lot of people can remember Toro tours made over
with port made by PDL. The guy run PDL. He
opened the toy factory over at withtport called Toro. But
the Lincoln International King Engineering set was far superior, far superior.

(01:11:29):
Had psychedelic colors, cogs, motors, you know, battery pack, ford
and reverse. Oh brilliant. You can build a model in
about a half an hour.

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
How can we know? So are you a collector? Craig uh?

Speaker 12 (01:11:43):
Well, I do mccaroe. Yeah, it's a it's a dying hobby.
With the New Zealand Federation mccano modelers.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
Okay, here's a question. What's New Zealand's greatest artifact made
for mecano.

Speaker 12 (01:12:04):
It would be the hop picktor Dridge.

Speaker 3 (01:12:06):
Yeah, it's what I was going to say in the
Huka Ticket Museum. That's extraordinary. Yeah, fair, I was going
to I was going to do a book about museums
and the best art effect in every museum. And that's
what inspired me, because that is brilliant.

Speaker 9 (01:12:19):
Yes, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:12:21):
Do you know who did that.

Speaker 12 (01:12:23):
Guy? A guy over the Westport Way way back in
the fifties. I think, yeah, he had a great collection.
Of course, the old mccanno was made of Liverpool, Yes,
and it all had I've got a real and what
I do is I recondition it. I repainted, I stripped

(01:12:45):
the paint and make that a brighter red, a nice green.
I got all brass, gears, got motors, and I got
about two thousand nuts and bolts.

Speaker 3 (01:12:57):
Okay, I've got quite a lot at home. But it's
sort of a varying quality. Because the French started making.
Isn't that it was rubbish?

Speaker 16 (01:13:02):
Is that right?

Speaker 12 (01:13:03):
It's correct. They're out of business now. They've gone into
liquidation because Lego has taken over.

Speaker 3 (01:13:09):
Yeah, okay, so Lego's got mccano.

Speaker 12 (01:13:12):
No, no, no, the popularity of Lego has taken over mcconne.

Speaker 3 (01:13:18):
It came found meccano, no interest. I brought like a plane,
like a thunderbird plane. But it's it's quite fat, fine
work getting those damn bolts on. It's frustrating as hell,
Yeah it is.

Speaker 12 (01:13:29):
You've got to have a lot of patients. James May,
James May did a production, a film on mccano, and
he gave us, he couldn't believe it, six form students
right to put a crane together. It was so simple,
you know, if you looked at it properly, the planes
and everything. What everyone did was build the outside. That

(01:13:51):
forgot to do the inside.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
What's it? Come on, what's what's your greatest thing you've made?

Speaker 12 (01:13:59):
I've made. I've made a Littlington Harbor doc crane built
in nineteen thirty eight and a scale. It's two meters high,
two meters high markers, turns around and it runs on
railway tracks.

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
Well go you okay, what do you see? Quite a bit?
Trade me second hand shops? Do you buy it?

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
Because no one else much is buying.

Speaker 12 (01:14:22):
It what what what happens in the mccano club here
in christ Church is that someone will go into a
home and he might have arthritis, and he might have
a heap of mladamcano and he'll just say, look, I'm
going to offer it to the mccano club and they
can help themselves, you know. And that's how I've got

(01:14:44):
a lot of it. I've got brass gears. There's a
guy in New Zealand as we speak, and he's working
on it now, probably as you speak. Making mccano gears
to the right scale is what they used to be
way way back. And he's brilliant and he's cheapest ships.
You know, you buy a gear even sit down under mail,

(01:15:08):
you know, brilliant guy, Jeff Clark.

Speaker 3 (01:15:11):
What's your next thing, Craig, you got plans? I am
passionate about McCann I do like it a lot. What's
your next thing here?

Speaker 12 (01:15:17):
My next thing would be making possibly a guy and
ferrous will. Yeah great, you know, with people getting on
you know, platform and everything. I've made an octopus that
goes up and down with cheers.

Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
I'm trying to think some of the great New Zealand engineering. Yeah,
the Dennist and Klin. I'm trying to think one of
the sid of the great engineering. Well, that would be
too long. Some of the great engineering things you could replicate,
I can't work out what they would be, but I
think you're probably Ukraine from Littleton. Seems pretty good.

Speaker 12 (01:15:49):
Oh yes, yeah, brilliant. It runs along the railway tracks,
it turns around, the whole cab turns around. I've even
got a staircase going up to the cab with shiny
brass you know sidings. Everything I do is polished. La
Brans is polished. I've got a pasture and the man shed,

(01:16:09):
and I've got yellow, red, green, blue, all of its
colors on it. And the booms quite long, and it's
got weight at the bet that goes up and down
as the boom goes up and down. It's just brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:16:25):
Yeah, oh look, Craig. We'll have to talk more about
that some other time, and I hope we'll get some
more damn story. I knew about the story with you,
but yeah, nice to talk to you. I'm mcano adjacent.
I'd like to like it. I love it, but it's
hard work to make stuff out of it. But yeah,
I'm hearing you. Thanks Craig, keep the calls coming through.
But that, Craig, that thing is worth seeing in that

(01:16:45):
Canary Dredge that's an absolute ripper. At the Hoky too,
That's one of the best things you'll see the museum,
not Hoky. That's a ripper. Good museum, great lego, the
old Canary Dridge Ka not c A. Marcus. The Common
Library episode of the Libyan Borrow Box. The game changes.
You can borrow ebooks for things like Kindle and loads
of audiobooks for your phone, all three unabridged and read

(01:17:07):
by real people. So but are they when you say
library apps, are they from the New Zealand Library Service.
That's the question I've got because why aren't they promoting them?
So if everyone's got some more information about that, that
would be of a huge amount of interest to me,
Like a caller about that or anything else. I've read
out of things to say, So let's be hearing from
your people.

Speaker 7 (01:17:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:17:32):
Five September random about Lincoln laid little but enjoyed the
chat about I enjoyed the chat about Macao. We're pretty
passionate that guy. Come on, come on, come on, come on,
Oh are we going to do a sweepstake tomorrow night.

(01:17:56):
There's a question for you what you've used on that?
Since there's more interested in this rugby than ever, I
just if anyone can think of an interesting way to
do a sweep steak. Oh yeah, Libby, the Libby app
by overdrive. Oh yeah, so they have got Libby and

(01:18:21):
borrow box on that library Auckland Library's website. Oh yeah.
In suggestions on how to do a sweepstake tomorrow, we
could What did we do?

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:18:33):
We did it one not so long ago, Dan, and
we had a kind of a twist on twist on
the streaming. What a twist on the sweepstake was? No,
we did something a bit different. It was a sweep
state with a twist we played But was it the
combined score or something?

Speaker 9 (01:18:50):
It was?

Speaker 3 (01:18:53):
Oh, it might have been the football match we did one,
didn't we we had a grid. That's right. It's not
the same with rugby as it be like be like
cow pat bingo and it's Marcus, good evening, welcome high even.

Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:19:10):
Hi, I just ringing up about that you said about
the little boy that want wanted to know how to
get him to give up the blanket.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
Yes.

Speaker 14 (01:19:21):
Now, obviously I would say that it's an emotional attachment
and I don't know how long ago he lost his father,
but it's probably some security thing and some attachment to
his father. And in due course you'll probably get over that.
But I don't think you really want to try and
take it away from him. He'll give it up himself

(01:19:42):
and in due time exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:19:44):
And I wouldn't try and just get it off because
he's off to school, because it would be traumatic enough anyway. Yeah,
I just leave it, not stress about it. That's I
think probably I'm and song with you on that one even.

Speaker 14 (01:19:55):
Yeah, that's what I That would be my take on things.
You know, different, These things affect different people and different
ways and children sometimes it can be quite dramatic for
him to lose a parent. Well, it is dramatic for
him lose your parent.

Speaker 7 (01:20:14):
I know that.

Speaker 14 (01:20:17):
And if he's getting some security out of that, or
just leave him alone.

Speaker 3 (01:20:23):
Yeah, maybe someone maybe someone donto them and saying, oh,
he's got to get rid of that by the time
he gets to score, and that's actually not the case.
So yeah, I'm kind of on your side on that one.
I think it's leave him alone. Let him get on
with it.

Speaker 14 (01:20:35):
Yeah, but that's I was just doing something here and
I heard that over the radio, and I thought, oh,
that would be my take on the situation.

Speaker 3 (01:20:44):
And then again, I don't know about people that had
their blankets taken off them when they are four or five,
how much that scarred them, Because maybe it hasn't affected
people too much. I don't know, because you know, often
you don't remember stuff often, you think often children are
more adaptable than we think they are. He says hopefully.

Speaker 14 (01:21:00):
Oh, I think I think you're right here, but I
don't think you know, have a major I made a
event that you can really direct how it's gonna effect them,
and they've just got to sort of work it out
for themselves. They might move on and move on in
life and give attention to friends or family or other things,

(01:21:25):
but in the meantime that's probably just pure joy or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:21:31):
And when I say boy, I don't know if to
be honest, I don't have it to boy or a girl,
So I'm not quite sure if it's a boy or girl.
I can't quite remember from the text. I might be
wrong there, but yeah, I'm hearing you. I think what
you say is resensible. Yeah, but thanks Evan. I'm sitting there.
None of my kids kind of traps around blankets, I mean,
cheapest creepers. I don't know why. I've always sort of

(01:21:51):
had a a strong sense against those. But thanks that, Evan.
The textas says he by the way, so you are right,
thank you. Marcus Libby app you go to your library
area and then put your card in the user pass.
Oh well, get onto that. That's a great idea. So
you've got to go to the library to get it
kicked off, it seems.

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