On go the crocs (21 January 2025)

Marcus talks holiday injuries, takes more 2025 predictions, and gets to the bottom of the splitting of the atom.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
WHO eight hour Wait Greetings, welcome on him as Marcus
Hettel twelve Hitle Midnight Tonight. A couple of things, in
fact four things, No, I don't know how many things.
A number of things. One here you gon backler list.
Don't even know what the list is. It is the
silly season, okay, remember that it's still early, considerably in January.

(00:36):
As a result, the show is slightly different because people
are in a different mind space. People are either on
holiday or wishing they were still on holiday. For those
of us that have come back to work, it's a
slightly tricky pivot. I don't know how it does for you.

(00:58):
I work eight to twelve, so it always takes me
some time for me to start peaking between eight and twelve,
because of course you've got four weeks off. You're in
a different mind frame, aren't you up early with the
kids and goodness gracious me? So yeah. So just just

(01:19):
it's a slightly different show this week. I think I've
often thought about that, what to do with January? And
we will talk about stuff and we will take calls,
but hopefully it's a bit more chilled out. No one
mourns the wicked, So yes, that's one of the things.
The other thing is, throughout the course of this week
we will take people's predictions for twenty twenty five, and

(01:44):
I've got to do some caveats around predictions. The whole
point of the prediction show is not to get five
out of five of your predictions, right. The whole point
of the prediction show is to come up with a
wild prediction that comes true. And I think, oh my goodness,
I can't believe Johnty predicted that. You've got to be
remind when you ring up with your predictions. Also, people

(02:05):
are listening to that. So youuring up and say King
abdicates Trump gets sick scrusaders.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
One.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's not interesting because people have said that stuff before.
So what unique and interesting predictions. They're all on a
spread oh, a spreadsheet. One of my favorite ones was
the person that rung up that said authorities discover the
remains of Steve Fossy, although I think it was Steve Fawcett.
Now he was a huge figure in the two thousandths,

(02:39):
but that guy must have been Rip Van Winklan been
asleep because Steve Fawsitt was found his plane missing, was
found in the desert. I don't know about Steve Fawcett
because he was one of the first men to go
around the world in a balloon. And subsequently I've realized
why I am so freaked out by balloons and balloonists,

(03:02):
because the Wizard of Oz got to os in a balloon.
And I think that was when that book was written
ninety ohe till I've always felt bad about balloons since.
But anyway, and I once went to the Three Kings
Islands north of a Hipaa or north of the North
Island for a documentary and on that island as a lighthouse,

(03:26):
but also on that island as a helicopter pad that
was built. And as I'm saying that, I'm remembering with
Steve Fawcett attempted to be the first man to helicopter
around the world and specifically for him, had a helicopter
pad built there. Well, it's interesting anyway, he was found

(03:47):
Steve Fowtt. Anyway, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a helicopter
rather than balloon. Someone will know more about that. We
have a strong audience when it comes to aviation. So yes,
if you've got predictions, feel free get to touch them anyway.
You can Facebook message them, you can email you and
you can text them. You can phone those through. There

(04:07):
are someone already liking someone's predicting the return of kung
fu shoes. If you're around in the nineteen eighties, goodness
gracious to me, you could never read it of going
to Sydney without them bringing back a pair of kung
Fu shoes from Paddy's Market. And gosh, we loved wearing those.
I'm sure they destroyed the arches on our feet. But

(04:28):
ugg boots will be doing that as you speak. I'll
tell you what. Egg boots and boat shoes. That's what's
keeping the pidatrists happy. No arch support anyway. So yes,
you've got predictions, phone those through. Also, it is the

(04:49):
City season four news. But also a lot of news
is happening, and if you are the eyewitness to news,
let us know what that news is. You might be
a to campground. There might be whale strandings or shark sightings.
Although interesting enough, I've heard that most of the sharks

(05:11):
sidings are bronze whalers that will be there anyway, so
they're not that threatening, but that's just by the bye,
so I don't know that they need to close all
those beaches they've been doing. Anyway, if you're at a
campground and there's some far on a headland, or some
whale stranding, or some shark siding or wallabies beyond their

(05:32):
natural range or anything like that, feel free to let
us know. So I like to talk to people at campgrounds.
Also nice to keep in touch with everyone. What's going
on from what I've seen a quick squiz around the country.
Things happening locally. There's free heavy rain in the north.
If you've got reports to that, let us know. Coyo,
the town that always floods. I think it's raining there,

(05:52):
but I think they've taken most of the town to
higher ground. The other thing, there's been a fity serious
car accent north of Winton. It's half now north of
inver Cargol. There's road closures there. I'll keep an eye
on that also. If you have I've got reports of
these things, phone that through. That's what we're about at
this time of the year, is to keep keeping people updated.

(06:14):
So yes, that's the information I've got for your check
on the nz TA waka katahi about that. Oh goodness
gracious me, website down for maintenance. Really during the holiday
season you decide to re maintain your website, you haven't
got a backup up there for goodness sake anyway, enough

(06:37):
for me two topics tonight, Well, no, there'd be more
than two topics. I will spread your predictions through. The
first topic I want to hit you is and I
don't want to make light of the person that came
off the Flying Fox because those persons, that person went
to hospital I think in a serious condition and I
can't see a further report on them. But I want
to use that as a topic to pivot to the

(06:58):
topic discussion of your holiday injuries. What are you fallen off?
I don't want to say that because I fell this
holiday and it's a new thing for me. I fell
twice of the same hammock. I love a hammock, and

(07:22):
it wasn't like a drunken roll off. What it was
the rope went twice, So if you imagine me lying
on a hammock, then the rope went so I hit
the ground for about three feet up with my entire
body from the heels to my head hitting the ground.
At the same time, so it was like goodunk, not

(07:45):
very pleasant at all. So I did that. I went
back on the hammock after it was retired. It happened again.
I wasn't injured, or silly pretend I wasn't injured. There
was kids around, but gee, that's a nasty fright. So
I wonder what the thing you have fallen off this
holidays has been? Has it been a hammock? Very easy

(08:06):
thing to fall off, Always good to check the ropes,
and of course always with flying foxes and swings. So
that's topic number one if you want to partake in that.
I'll also take your predictions for twenty twenty five, what
you think is going to happen. I'm sure there's plenty
of international news tonight, obviously to some New Zealand connection
to the news with Trump, I think saying that they

(08:27):
were the first country to split the atom, which of
course was a key with that. Did that I think
was a key with that did that in England. I'm
pretty sure that was the case. Might be wrong there also,
but there we go. There's been a serious extent also
when your plymouth just keep you up to that date
with that. But I can't tell you more about that
because the by the way too, I think probably the

(08:47):
pig of the day for the weather has been bluff weather.
There has been a stunner today, so plenty of people
out and about walking, which is exciting. So every night
I don't want to wear the gloat because I realized
we get a bad a lot of the time. But
it seems to be very good tonight. Oh, Bieber's on
the bong. There's something that didn't make my predictions. Keep
it going. Eight eighty one, Part eight, Sharon, it's Marcus.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
Good evening and welcome, good evening, Marcus. Yes, Ernest Rutherford
split the at him and he was from Brightwater at Nelson,
but he didn't.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Split it in New Zealand, and I don't think is
that correct.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
I'm not sure about that. There's a huge statue of
him out in Brightwater's being beautifully erected out there with
the big brick wall around.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
It was all the.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Information and everything for people to read about it about
where that happens.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Tell me about bright Water? Are you a bright Water Ian?

Speaker 4 (09:43):
I live in Richmond, but it's just a small town
with a tavern and a four square in the fish
and chip shops.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
So you need it exactly.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
Yes, my daughter lives there and she's very happy living there.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
That sounds fantastic. I thought he had a collection also
with Hevlock. But maybe he went to sit all there
and then meant to bright Water or something like that.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah, we'll Havelock isn't that far away.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Maybe his dad was a teacher.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Brightwater's got a beautiful primary school in it and a
bus service. So, like you said, that's everything you.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Need, absolutely everything. We shouldn't say too much about it
because it sounds like the town's about to boom.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
Well, who would know. We'll wait and see.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Nice to talk, Sharon, Thank you so much. No one. Yes,
Born and bright Water. There you go, Born and bright what.
At the age of eleven, the family moved to Havelock.
His father was into flex who isn't and developed flex mills?
Who hasn't? Ben Marcus welcome?

Speaker 6 (10:48):
Yeah, hey MICUs, this som on the holiday injuries. But
just quickly on the innest Rutherford thing. I watched it
inauguration this morning and Trump said they split them. He
never said they were first to split the item, and
absolutely did split the item. So I think it's been
so can out of context like they did split the atom,
they went first to do it, but he never said

(11:10):
they were first.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
So so what happens in his inn as we get
to see we get over excited when someone kind of
acknowledges to something in our wheelhouse. I think the mirror
of Nelson nick Smith got involved.

Speaker 7 (11:23):
Yeah, look, I think. Look, I'm not sure what contacts
Trump was meaning, but from what I got is they
definitely split the atom, but he never said they were
first to do it.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, that makes sense to me. Yeah, it's making us
look at thin skinned around the world and that.

Speaker 6 (11:43):
Yeah, but he just will not all the injuries. So
we stayed in Moreki, lovely spot. I didn't get very.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
You didn't fall off the boulder. You didn't fall off
the boulder.

Speaker 6 (11:52):
As you No, no, no, no, So what we're saying
like wan occer over Christmas New Years Then we went
to Moreki and absolutely beautiful spot, lovely people and my
wife we stayed at it was self contained, Kevin at
the village holiday park there and no, this is a

(12:15):
Morechy yep, this is after we left Walker and we
got there about the second of January. And yeah, coming
down the stairs of us this self contained. Kevin tripped
over and broke your big toe, So it was.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
That sounds like it would be like you try and
get to bed, but you can't. Then you go to
A and E. Is that right?

Speaker 8 (12:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (12:38):
Yeah, so A and E and omor there, and she's
in a moon boot at the moment. So it's not
the best. But hey, where would and stuff? I was
going back, Like I said, it's the only place that
I've seen didn't hike these prices over Christmas news. They
seemed to have the same price year round.

Speaker 8 (12:56):
So that was great.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Look, I'm pretty sure I've stayed there. It seemed to
be quite good when we were there. That would just
be not so long ago. Too. Well, I can't dit
on street? Does your wife need to drive.

Speaker 6 (13:10):
When I'm at work? But yeah, I think she's she's
getting in the agency at the moment, so yeah, that's
not too bad.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
But I think you can get a car with hand accelerator.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
Yeah, but she's probably only in it for about six weeks,
so it's not not sort worth it, isn't it. I
think it's only got about two or three weeks to go.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
So yeah, it was she intoxicated, No.

Speaker 6 (13:37):
No, just simply coming down that happened to be raining
on the second and yeah, she just slipped.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
There's nothing worse that feeling when your misjudge's slip while
your heel goes over it. Yeah, the bad things steps,
aren't they. I'm not saying bend them, but you want
to be cautious around them.

Speaker 6 (13:54):
Yeah. Yeah, so it was a wooden one, so I
would say if it had have been a concrete step,
you know, it's not normally as stoppery as a wooden step.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
I surely when someone says split the end and they
mean first to split the adam, don't they because can't
anyone split the item these days?

Speaker 6 (14:10):
Yeah, well, look the Americans, they definitely split the atum.
But he give us said that they were first to
split them. Okay, so I think it's been taken out
of context a little bit.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, fair enough to got that to like you take
to I like your take. Some interesting texts and some
texts that make not a lot of people in the
predictions are predicting bitcoin to go up to a certain amount,
but bitcoin is volatile, so probably jump around for a
few years. Someone says, ore the la fires out, yet

(14:39):
hard to know they're always such and such contained, aren't they?
Someone predicts fizzbo dot co dot nz it'll be huge
this year. I've never heard of it. I think it's
probably someone promoting their website. O. Good flurry, good initial
flurry of calls? How many in the flurry? Oh, eight

(15:00):
hundred and eighty ten eight nine to nine two to
text fisbo. Oh it's a real estate platform. Goodness, fisbo.
It's good. It's a good u r l Earl Peter, Marcus.

Speaker 9 (15:20):
Welcome Marcus, Peter here.

Speaker 8 (15:24):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Peter?

Speaker 9 (15:27):
Hey, just this this this discussion around clumps for Slump's
claim it was a bit of a a bit of
a tank twist of the air. I wonder if he
meant that they were the first to use an atomic
weapon which would result in the splitting of the atom. Yeah,
it's just another take on it.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
That was the attention. Did the atomic bomb involve split
in the atom or combining the atom?

Speaker 7 (15:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (15:55):
Oh yes, well, because there's two types of nuclear engine
fish and infusion, aren't there. Yeah, you're right, it could
have been. Yeah, the the existing the existing technology might
be a few ye know, I'm not exactly sure on it.
I know that with that head drawn collider in Switzerland.
They are one of the objectives is to try and

(16:18):
split the atom and try and create I think I.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Think they do. I think an atomic bomb does split,
so they might. He might have been right about that.

Speaker 9 (16:27):
Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, oh yeah, Well, I just that
was just the thought I had. I heard your previous caller, would.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
You would you brag about the Yeah?

Speaker 9 (16:38):
Well, I don't know. He tends to want to brag
about anything.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Fair enough, it's the breg Some would say it won
them the war. I think probably, I don't know what
the historians have said, but they did certainly stop the Japanese,
didn't it.

Speaker 9 (16:50):
And and apparently in his speech he did claim that
America won, but you know where the force that won
both the World War was. So anyway, that's his take
on it, and good luck to him.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, okay, appreciate that. I think that's been a bit
as good as discussion as I expected about that. It
is the splitting or fishing. Fishing. It's a good word, fishing,
isn't it? Of the atom? Ifio n falls Trump a
little bit, holo injuries, we're talking tripped and disscated, little toe.

(17:25):
One word crocs, but he taped it to the two
toes next to it. Good as gold, mate, I wouldn't
think the crocs were a problematic if they're wet, though,
I'm just sure there's a lot of shoe extant to that.
I guess crocs and generals. Well, though, you see more
crocs than jendles now, don't you. I think we've gone

(17:46):
over that peak. I think the jendles in ten years
could be a thing of the past. Personally, I don't
like anything between my toes. I've never really been a
general's person. Although I'm yet to see as many crocs
floating up on the beaches as jendles for a while
there now, I've never crocs float up anyway. Of course,

(18:10):
the kids love them in the hollows because really, easy on,
easy off, that's what you need in it for the summer,
the Kiwi summer, Off go the crocs, On go the crocs.
Probably the catch cry for the summer has been have
you seen my crocs? Dad? We're are my crocs? For
goodness sake? But a science already. Tonight's splitting of the

(18:30):
adem Your predictions for twenty twenty five Interesting predictions? No
one's pretty good retailers to go broke. Yet last year
it was all about the warehouse, which always seemed quite
prescient because retail did have a hard time. I was
in the Briscoes today on a pillow search. Quite successful.

(18:52):
Actually there's a sale at Briscoes. Although the thing the
woman jumped in quite quickly say the pillows aren't refundable.
Who would want to refunder a pillow? Would try pilow
then take it back, although that was taken as red
that you wouldn't take the pillows back. They probably need

(19:15):
a pillow testing machine. It's quite hard to work out
what's the right pillow. Lynn here from Bulls. Well, I
went to Bulls but didn't spend long enough to Bulls.
I'm going back to Bulls. I got the bus from
Huanganui to U Tucky and boy did that take a
rambling route. It was like a two of the small

(19:38):
towns of the South Island. Actually, mart on Bulls doesn't
tell like many were more towns. Palmers to North Sandson.
I think we went to Fielding, did we? But I've
always been quite disparaging about the Lower South Island of
the Lower North Island. But actually it's got some charm

(19:59):
some beautifully maintained little houses. Hold your horses, Lila, come
back to you and if you want to be in
part of the show with your predictions or your talk
of fools, anyone else, come out of the hammergrad of
a bunk. I mean, how many of you have gone
on a holiday and you've gone to the crib and

(20:20):
then you realize you're in the top story of the
bunk and that will hang about? That seems a bit sketchy.
Had a normally think you have a terrifying sleep because
you're gonna be too scared, you're gonna roll out. But
actually what normally happens you sleep fantastically. Love a bunk.
It's twenty four away from nine. Good evening, Lyle, this

(20:42):
is Marcus.

Speaker 10 (20:42):
Welcome, Hello Marcus, and welcome back. It's always interesting waiting
in the queue when the adverts are on, I get
to hear the Auckland adverts instead of the christ Such one.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Is it caused you to change your thoughts about where
you live?

Speaker 10 (21:03):
Not really. I was once off at a job with
the organization I used to work for, and they wanted
me to move from christ Church to Auckland. But I
told them I didn't really want to immigrate, so I
so anyway, So it's just the predictions. I've always meant

(21:24):
to participate in the prediction week, but I've never got
around to it. So okay, so I'll give you a
few predictions.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
How have you gone.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
Most of them? Well?

Speaker 10 (21:33):
How many are you supposed to have?

Speaker 2 (21:34):
You're supposed to have?

Speaker 11 (21:35):
Five?

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Was how many allowed this time of the year? If
you got okay, well have you got that many? Have
you got four?

Speaker 10 (21:42):
I've got I can make it. I can make another prediction.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
I'm curious. So how long it took you to put
the predictions together?

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (21:50):
Not very long.

Speaker 10 (21:51):
I wasdicting last night.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Some people some people's predictions are social commentary disguised prediction.
Like there was one guy that was reopposed to wooden farms.
Did you hear his.

Speaker 10 (22:01):
No?

Speaker 11 (22:02):
Okay?

Speaker 10 (22:03):
But but anyway, So the thing is that I thought, well,
a few of these predictions, I think they've already a
few of them have been sort of canvassed by other callers.
But you don't have to be nostra damists to predict them.
A couple of men and they've got a couple of
sort of wild card ones, but anyway, I thought that,

(22:24):
like a couple of people I think said yesterday that
the Ukraine War will end this year. And you don't
have to be Nostra Darmists to predict that, because they
simply that they simply won't have the United States or
simply withdraw support for the Ukraine. So they're going to
have to be made an offer they can't refuse. Really,
that's one. Yes, as the former good Catholic boy I am,

(22:47):
I thought that the pope's looking.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Pretty oh yeah wow.

Speaker 10 (22:54):
So and he's only got one lung anyway, so it
only had.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
And isn't a cheer like this arose, isn't he?

Speaker 13 (23:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (23:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (23:03):
So I think that we might find that he that
there's a what they called it the convocation of cardinals
or something to predict it, to predict and to choose
a new pope, like that film that Ralph Raye finds
us on who's called himself Rafe. He should be Ralph
but anyway, uh, that's the middle time.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Can't he call himself what he wants? It's his name,
I suppose, So I.

Speaker 10 (23:26):
Suppose all right, But all right, so there's that I thought,
or the alternative could be that he could take the
easy way out like Pope Benedict and and and simply
you know, retire because that.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
That's a little he got shot.

Speaker 10 (23:47):
No, no, no, that was Pope John Paul the second. Okay,
Pope John pulled the second got shot, Yeah, because I
was and.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
He forgave the guy, didn't he which was quite moving.

Speaker 10 (24:00):
Yeah yeah, but he still went to prison though.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
But anyway, when he came out, he made him. Okay,
So is hang on, is benedixter alive?

Speaker 10 (24:09):
Well, well, as far as I know, he was a
couple of years ago. I'm not quite sure. I'm not
as assiduously Catholicism he died as I used to be.
But anyway, oh he's not alive.

Speaker 13 (24:21):
Is he dies?

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Under see him in twenty twenty two at ninety five
years of age?

Speaker 10 (24:27):
Okay, okay, fair enough. Well, also, there's I've got another
sort of more left field.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Hang on, let me just recap. We've got the we've
got the pope dying, and we've got Is that all
you've done? You've just done too so far?

Speaker 10 (24:42):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah sake yep, okay, yep, okay,
so left field, Uh, this is a bit left field,
but a major New Zealand sportsman will be involved in
will be busted for sort of major performance enhancing drug use.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (25:00):
Uh, I just thought.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
That, like an like an All Black or a trek
and field.

Speaker 10 (25:07):
Yeah, yeah, like an All Black or an Olympic athlete
at least or something like that. Okay, and I think that. Gosh,
I think I've had a senior moment in Marcus.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
I can't remember, probably something about or about Yeah.

Speaker 10 (25:25):
I think also possibly the New Zealand dollar might thank
even further this year.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Your heart doesn't seem to the prediction, Lyle, does it really?

Speaker 1 (25:39):
No?

Speaker 10 (25:39):
Well, no, no, no, and I but I you know,
it's good. I think that, you know, two point two
pounds to the dollar is going to look pretty good
by the end of this year.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
And okay, I'll live there, Lar, But thank you for those.

Speaker 15 (25:55):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
If they're groad, write them down next time because I'm
liking those a lot. Tre of Marcus welcome.

Speaker 16 (26:00):
Hey Marcus, there you go.

Speaker 17 (26:02):
Good.

Speaker 16 (26:04):
Yeah, just a comment on your weather and bluff. You
said it was a beautiful day to day yep. Yeah,
Well I love and the cargo and hey, it's been
great down here for a bit. Two weeks.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Oh, I came to town. It looked overcast. Oh come on, yeah, no,
certainly the weather and in Vicago is not what it
wasn't I drove there is a cargo cloudy again? Oh
what temperature did it get to? What temperature to get to?

Speaker 16 (26:34):
Trev Twenty one?

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Wow? And I'll tell you what. Something about the twenty
one degrees and bluff and vcago. It's like it's a
hot twenty one degrees, isn't it?

Speaker 16 (26:45):
Oh? Yes, absolutely. I drove around the country. I drive
a kitchen bus. Then I go to queensbe sometimes and
it's twenty five up there, and I tell you, and
you come back home and it's only twenty and it's
just the hot down here.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Are you the kitchen bus driver?

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (27:02):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Have you had Vanessa on the bus? I think she
was up on there not so long ago.

Speaker 16 (27:08):
I've taken a few people down to the tower. Trail
was going crazy at the moment.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Oh yeah. There was some big units walking past our
place today from the campground, going to get themselves. A
couple of bees. And I'll tell you what. When they
get to the bottom end the boarder, they look fit.

Speaker 14 (27:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (27:27):
Yeah, But I dropped them down to bluff to start
the and they're off to the south and.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
There's so there's South Island, there's sobers or something. Hey, terror,
I apologize because we caught the inter City inter City
from Duneda and that down. We thought there'd be more
room on that than the ketch A bus. But I
think next time we'll be on the ketch A bus.

Speaker 16 (27:47):
Absolutely. Yes, we I tooked seven people down to the
who's still in there? Just the other day they were
all starting.

Speaker 18 (27:57):
If you.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
If you're doing duto in the cargo whardies, stop for
a bite to wheat clean Oh yeah. Inter City used
to stop at that tea rooms on the corner. Now
they're stopping at the gas stations.

Speaker 16 (28:13):
You don't know why we stop them on the way
on the way to the need. But I also cleansed down.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
We stop in London, brilliant, good town lums and Trey
have nice to talk to you. Sixteen to nine Helen,
and it's Marcus. Welcome good evening, Hilly.

Speaker 14 (28:25):
Are you yeah, Hi, welcome back?

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Thank you, Helen.

Speaker 14 (28:29):
It's a great you a little great show. You know,
you get better and better and better. So anyway, I
have a prediction, but only one Dan said that was
all right.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Of course your dance stands what he says.

Speaker 14 (28:42):
Yes, Now this thing with the overheating houses, you know,
the the executive the townhouses.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, apartments. I first heard about that in christ It's
forty five fifty degrees. You've got no windows upstairs and open,
no balconies. It's terrible now, now, Awkins, that's shocking, isn't it,
Because you know, because you're buying a house in the winter,
you can't really fare them how hot it's going to
be in the summer.

Speaker 14 (29:05):
Now, I predict this is going to blow up into
a major thing equal to the leaky building.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
I think it might be right.

Speaker 14 (29:13):
Look, I lived in terrace houses. You know, this is
many years ago, so you know, you maybe look at
the past with rose since it's spectacles, but I don't
recall anything like this. These were Sydney and Melbourne mostly,
and I think the difference was that, well, we had
a sort of balcony up stairs that you could actually

(29:34):
kind of go out on, and so that you've got
the eaves, you know, you've got sons not beating in. Also,
the materials that they built that from were completely different,
Like these were good solid brick you know, early early
early urban architecture, good solid brick. They were sound proof.

(29:57):
You didn't hear what was going on in the next
door one. What's happening is they build these things as cheap.
There's anything absolute trash and dark plannings.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
And okay, we're moving a bit beyond a prediction into
a call. But that's great. Tell me something I'm trying
to remember that are heat pumps. Can they not afford
to have the heat pumps calling it? Or are they
just uncallable? Do you remember in the article?

Speaker 14 (30:20):
I think that a lot of people just simply can't
afford the electricity to run these devices, and they shouldn't.
You shouldn't have to rely on mechanical ventilation or heating.
You should get well, you know, you shouldn't have to.
And what happens like, well, up here we can get
we can get electricity cutouts that go up to a week.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Okay, I appreciate that, Helen, thank you. It's a good point.
It's a great prediction, a good point. Thank you. Eleven
to nine Beaver Marcus evening.

Speaker 19 (30:52):
Yeah, good evening, Yeah a beaver are you going all right?

Speaker 12 (30:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (30:57):
They're good. Now, I'm he's got in my hand. I've
got a magazine all about the Lord Rutherford and the
Taranaki connection. Not that Bible didn't realized. They finished up
at pung Row and the house is still there on
the Bowden Barretts family farm.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Wow.

Speaker 19 (31:18):
Yeah, a lot of people don't know a lot of things.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
A lot of this is it out near the lighthouse.

Speaker 19 (31:25):
Yeah, that's the Bailey Road lighthouse, not the cap right house.
I look after the Bailey Boat Club lighthouse. And he
was certainly born down at South Island and the family
came up and living at Pungoo. Who Now, I'll just

(31:46):
read a little bit in the dark here. In nineteen
eighteen he became the first person to split the atom
by firing alpha particles at nitrogen atoms to produce oxygen atoms.
So there's a whole lot of stuff I've got here.

(32:07):
But he actually did die and he's buried back in
London at the Westminster Abbey.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Did the family move to Pangada? Who for the flag?

Speaker 19 (32:17):
Yes, flare, they were all in the big flax business.
I've got all that still out of the lighthouse. But
I've got the pamphlet in my hand tonight, okay, And yeah,
he was in a.

Speaker 9 (32:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Why does that part of Taramaki have two lighthouses?

Speaker 19 (32:37):
Well, the reason being the original one is still operates
twenty four to seven and because it went fully automative,
the government closed the public down because of the semi
valuable gear in there. So the local got together and
got money and they built the lighthouse, which is a
museum at the boat club one.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Is it a replica?

Speaker 19 (33:01):
It's a replica, definitely a replica. But I can tell
you more. I've got it all written down. It's a
big beautiful magazine they've got. And there was a Taranaki
connection hang.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
On, and it's called the Rutherford Lighthouse. Did you say.

Speaker 19 (33:15):
That it's called the Rutherford. Yeah, there's the Rutherford Rutherford Connection. Yeah,
and it's so it's it's the Rutherford Gallery at the
bottom floor.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Would it be easy to launch a boat there?

Speaker 18 (33:33):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (33:34):
Hell yeah. They launched a lot of boats every day there.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Okay, what's like like tennis?

Speaker 16 (33:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (33:41):
Okay, well, fishing pleasure craft and it's very popular. Therefore
all the town people come out with their uts and
trailers and picking up all the seaweed. You know.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah, we only got as fast south as Awakuda. But
it was seemed to be fitty calm. Whither your head
in Taranika seemed to be a good summer.

Speaker 19 (33:59):
Oh yeah yeah. Now I was out there the game
the day, and I go out every weekend, you see.
Okay he he actually Arness. Rutherford earned three degrees while
studying at the University of New Zealand. He had a
BAMA on it and he spent his finals two years

(34:20):
researching the electrical technology and developed methods of measuring very
first currents in electrical circuits.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Nice to hear from you, Pep, I already appreciate it.
Hunter as Marcus, good evening and welcome.

Speaker 5 (34:36):
Yeah, good ay Marcus. I was just listening to you
talking about the Ta and we're actually currently walking along
Eurissy Beach on the Ta.

Speaker 20 (34:49):
Wow, yep, we're heading for what So the plan is
to walk through the night and arrive at the lighthouse
at about ten a m.

Speaker 5 (34:59):
Tomorrow morning.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Okay, so you know it's not it's et beach dot ut.
Yeah that's why you yeah, okay, yeah, So how far
are you from? How far down the beach are you?

Speaker 8 (35:13):
Ah?

Speaker 12 (35:14):
Stephen ca, So you.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Left Riverton, Well, what time did you leave? Like two
hours ago?

Speaker 5 (35:20):
We leave riverdon to eight. There I go.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yeah, so you're not gonna that wasn't twenty.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
K's yeah, big of twenty k?

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Why are you going all night?

Speaker 12 (35:32):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (35:33):
We walked the whole thing and we thought a little
bit of a fun thing to do, so a shop
for the day.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
So when do you expect to finish at Bluff?

Speaker 5 (35:41):
About ten am?

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Great? Okay, Well I won't to see you on my
drive home because I leave at twelve. But you'll be
on the road between et and in the cargo by then,
I believe.

Speaker 20 (35:56):
Yes, hopefully in the action on the beach, and he
seals any people, any guys training their horses or anything
like that.

Speaker 5 (36:05):
Oh, the looks like the coast Guard or certain rescues
out doing his training.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
And a couple of porpoises swam past.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Oh and that porpoise is not hic to. We'd a
couple of dolphins in the harbor yesterday, so they're sitting
out there. Okay. Have you got a full pack or
have you got rid of everything?

Speaker 21 (36:24):
Now?

Speaker 2 (36:25):
You just now?

Speaker 5 (36:26):
I got the full pack?

Speaker 11 (36:27):
Why full pack?

Speaker 5 (36:30):
Well got to carry it to the end, don't you.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Okay? And I won't see you because you won't go
past the house because you go around the back of bluff.

Speaker 8 (36:35):
Or won't you?

Speaker 5 (36:37):
Yes on the back and nothing over?

Speaker 14 (36:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Okay, oh well, tons of luck anyway, and I might
see you tomorrow. Hunter. That's fantastic. Think you did you say, Hunter?
Just before you go? Right? When did you start?

Speaker 22 (36:48):
Ye?

Speaker 5 (36:50):
We started eighty three days ago.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Did you see any dogs at the top, because I
see one of the guys that's running it got attacked
by those dogs. Did you see those.

Speaker 5 (36:58):
Yes, we did see those dogs, and they attacked my
walking partner's pole.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
It's a bit of a worry.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
A yeah, up, well there are pe defenders as well.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Not a nice start to the walk, Hound to thank
you so much for that. Good luck, congratulations as well.
Might see you tomorrow back after the news. Gee, what
an hour. Greetings, welcome on him as Marcus here till
midnight tonight. I hope it's good where you are. Where
you are some great predictions coming through our texts. I'll
get to those before too long, Marcus. Have you ever

(37:34):
heard of kleptocracy? As in relation to Clipton?

Speaker 8 (37:36):
Only?

Speaker 2 (37:36):
I can't find any of my nineteen dictionaries, most of
which I inherited from dead reloves Google it. It's all
about Google now. I would think Summer's predictions Lebron James
officially named in p Diddy tapes, Trump, will unit America,
CHROs Luxe, and will get rolled in a coop Indian
Are you will not make a profit? My predictions forest

(37:58):
and bird launch and and vasis species of the Year competition.
The Canadian goose takes out Bird of the Year and
the inaugural Invasive Species total.

Speaker 17 (38:08):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
It's a long stretch, almost as long as the wingspan
of the Kadian goose, which reads the x MuBe hundred
and eighty three centimeters. Of course, wingspans are important if
you're playing wingspan great board game. No one mourns the wicked.
Oh wait one hundred and eighty Marcus, we're discussing holiday mishaps.
Your holiday falls. Marcus slipped over on a boat ramp

(38:33):
and a halpie in my crocs, snap my little finger
in tendons in half. No alcohols involved, just the crocs
are crocs bed on a slope. If you go the
croc or the general, what would be safer? I guess

(38:53):
the doctors will have something to say about Crocs. I
always thought crocs were pretty clearly what they last a
long time. It can't be a good business model, Allison.
It's Marcus. Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 22 (39:02):
Hello, Jesus Creeven. I think I heard you singing then?
Were you were singing something with Weren't you seen?

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Have you seen Wicked?

Speaker 18 (39:09):
No?

Speaker 22 (39:10):
No, but I sent you for an email last night,
prediction that.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Get yourself there? That is a Well.

Speaker 22 (39:18):
I'm hoping you're going to play a song from Wicked
tonight at some stage. That's what I'm hoping for because
it's Luke Letner's birthday down You said you like darts
and it's his birthday today, and I thought, because you
like Wicked, you'd play a song from Wicked. You see,
that was my prediction for today, from yesterday for today.
Did you see? I did it very late last night.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
How old is he seven?

Speaker 22 (39:38):
I think?

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Amazing victory? That was m Yeah, he's extraordinary.

Speaker 22 (39:46):
He's really, isn't he? For his age? He's fantastic, marvelous.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Well, he's the greatest dart player at all. He will
go on to be And I think I know that
these other players. So you like the movies, don't you? Oh?

Speaker 22 (39:58):
Yeah, I like them. If I like under on the
other lady, yes, so very good. I haven't been to
see it, but I thought you could a song. That's
what I'm hoping for. But you're not going to, are you.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
What I realize is that probably musicals can polarize and
I'm here for talk. But you never know your luck
in the big city.

Speaker 22 (40:20):
Well, Mikey Beeban also host. He loves music and it's
his birthday today as well. Say that as well. So
you're doing it for two people, really lovely, Thank you much,
it would be lovely.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Thank you, Alison eight hundred and eighty ten eleven past nine. Marcus,
my predictions tom Phillips and the kids will be found
and the ten cent piece will be outlawed. Someone yesterday
that Tom Phillips and the kids will be found and
he would open up a wild food restaurant. Marcus, Crocs

(40:54):
are fast, safer than the Jendle, even safer when sport
mode is engaged. That's when you flip the flap up.
I've never owned Crocs. I've never owned Crocs because I've

(41:14):
often believed that people think I'd be the sort of
purse that would wear crocs, which upsets me. No one's
actually said, oh, you'd love a pair of Crocs, but
I think people are thinking that. But I like their
popularity and the utilitarianism. It's just not for me, probably

(41:37):
because I can't work out what color Marcus. I'm just
showing a crazy bunch of callers via my internet radio
after work. I work nights, so while living in the UK,
i'm living in your time zone. Predictions for twenty twenty five.
Have you got my password Dan to get my emails? No,

(41:59):
he's on another call. Predictions for twenty twenty five. Donald
Trump will bring out his own brand of te solution.
Prince harn Meghan will rejoin the Royal family. They will
base themselves rather living in the UK and Australia. Kim

(42:23):
Yong and will step down as leader of the North
Korea following a health scare and being too tubby. New
zeal will record a temperature of forty three degrees, make it
the hottest destination, the hottest temperature in New Zealand's ever had.
Brilliant So your predictions, Oh this is interesting, Thank you

(42:47):
for that, Zachary apparently and nineteen ninety seven, in his
inauguration speech, Bill Clinton also claimed this is a second

(43:07):
inauguration that Americas split the atom. I can't see that
in the paragraph that's been seen by the fondesturymall. It
might be the second email this unit sent. Along the way,

(43:38):
Americans produced a great middle class in security and old age,
built un rivaled centers of learning and open public schools
to all split the atom, and explored the heavens, invented
the computers and the microchips, and deepened the well being
of justice by making revolution and civil rights for African Americans.

(43:59):
So Clinton himself and his second inauguration speech also said
that America has split the which they did, They just
didn't do it first. Gosh, it's been a long time
for things that us in and can be excited about,
isn't it? The atom? And Hillary? No shoes are good

(44:21):
on a slippery boat ramp. If you parked up at
a sulfur point boat ramp and total on, you'll see
people coming acrop it all day long. Some really hurt themselves.
What are they right things to have on your feet
for a slippery boat ramp? Do you ever go down
with a rope? Degrapel down? Marcus crocs have holes in them?
To let out your self esteem. Very good crocs damage

(44:46):
children's growing feet. Not recommended by pediatricians. How would they know?
How would they know? I feel that pediatricians are always
bagging any kind of footwear. I mean Roman sands kind
of being good for feet. Can they I'm curious about

(45:07):
this now, what would be the best footwear on a
boat ramp? I feel there's a marketing aspect for that.
You go on dragons Den, like something with grippers on
the soul. Yeah, the nasty feeling slipping, isn't it when

(45:29):
your body gets shot through even dolphins, and time goes slow. No,
get shot full of adrenaline, doesn't and time slows down
and you've got time to anticipate and expect the fall.
So on about that, the things you fell off in
the holidays, or the injuries you sustain, anyone come off

(45:52):
a hammock or a top bunk. Your predictions for twenty
twenty five. Some of it's already gone, but not all
of it. You might want to talk about that. Also,
updates from your campground or where you are always good
to hear those, anything else random you want to talk about?

(46:14):
Who had some good calls about Ernest Rutherford. Good first name, Ernest.
It's a bit Gloria Valley, isn't it Ernest? Yeah, you
don't hear somebody to you. I say, there's a new
name in the top ten in Australia called Noah. Everyone's
called Noah. Used to be Oliver. Now it's Noah. I

(46:39):
always look at those top ten nameless they never change much.
It's always Olivia anyway. I don't know what that's about. Marcus.
You are the same as me about crocs. But my
daughter bought me a pair of sketcher crocs and they
simply the best after be saying I'd never wear be
seeing dead in them. I don't have a problem with crocs.

(47:04):
I just don't think that people worries me that people
assume that I'm the purse that would like crocs good
evening chairs as Marcus. Hello, welcome Obargas.

Speaker 17 (47:25):
Boat ramps. The good old woolen sock.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
What a great slation you're here.

Speaker 17 (47:34):
You wear your socks. I used to do rowing into
the Meiden, and that's what the massis would tell us.
All the rowers had they wore those rugby socks when rowing,
and I was the cocks one, and I wore socks
as well.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Makes perfect sense. Have you tried that as an adult?

Speaker 17 (47:56):
No, because the ug gun boots or something wrong. Buddy,
swimming shoes, that's the idea. I remember the old Norska moose.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Yes, that's right. I live in the northwear socks, love
them to pieces.

Speaker 17 (48:12):
Well, we're perfect. That's the perfect footwear for boat reps.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Yeah, liking that. That's a great solution. Thank you, Jerms.
The President worked out with a ripple boat ram that
doesn't get the moths. That's a great That's a great
call chairs. I'll put that on the Great Calls of
the Year. Predictions twenty twenty five are Chinese car manufactur
will bring out a ev you aimed at the trading market,
which will outsell the Ford Ranger and the Toyota. Lawson

(48:39):
will start to beat for Starpin Max will leave Red
Bull and race for Rest, and Martin Hamilton will not
do well at Ferrari and retire at the end of
the year. No one mourns the wicked Kelly Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 23 (48:56):
A goodling, Marcus. My prediction for this year is and
I'm going to be hated for it, awkwardly see Aucklandy
c will not make the top four.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
I think you'll be loved for that. I think there's
already quite a big pleasure against the awkn FC, isn't there.
They're just a bit too sort of cocker hoop about
how well they've done.

Speaker 23 (49:20):
Oh, it's just done amazing. Yeah, I just don't think
they're going to make the top four. They have played well,
they've had a few you know, wrinkled the last few games.
But yeah, I don't think they're going to make the
top four. And that's okay for this this.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Season absolutely Now, Kelly, I presume you're a bit more
across this than I am because I've been on holiday mode.
I know that the Phoenix coach said they just had
a lucky start with all the home games. Did that
prove to be true? Have they started losing away or
what's happened to them? Have they lost some players or
the wheels come off, or why are they down a bit?

Speaker 23 (49:59):
I don't know. I think they were very confident and
they're just getting more comfortable, which you would think if
they were more comfortable, they would actually start to win.
But the other teams are Yeah, I think I don't know.

Speaker 5 (50:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
I think there's something to be said about beginner's luck
for teams because no one seems to know much about them,
so you had a bit of an advantage for your
first kind of few games. They are still two, They
are still second on the table behind DLA United, So
they're not doing badly.

Speaker 23 (50:33):
No, they're not doing badly. And I can't wait to
go to the next Auckland Phoenix game up here in
the at Go Media Stadium, so that's going to be interesting.

Speaker 21 (50:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
And just you say they're not going to be the
top four, you need to be top four because the
top four go to the playoffs. That's the way it works.
So they won't be in the playoffs. That's what you're predicting.

Speaker 4 (50:52):
That's what I'm predicting.

Speaker 23 (50:54):
Unfortunately, the guys in the port are not gonna like me.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Great prediction, Kelly, Thank you so much to good new
original prediction. So I'm liking that a lot. Adelaid United,
Auckland FC, Melbourne City Western United, the Phoenix are in ninth.
Don't come right and a good one. I don't know why.
Emotionally I feel more connected to the Phoenix. I just
like the way their coach speaks. But look yeah, I

(51:19):
I know when I was in Auckland for that week
broadcasting everyone I work with all you've got to take
your kids to see the Auckland FC, and look, I
thought about it. We didn't do it, but that's just
that's just horses for courses. We're too busy at the
Marble's buffet anyway. Eight hundred and eighty e Tenny and

(51:40):
nineteen ninety two detext. My name's Marcus, Welcome Hittle twelve,
looking forward to what you want to bang on about tonight. Predictions, falls,
shoes for boat ramps and crocs. I don't think crocs
are inherently dangerous, and I think the podiatrists saying they're
bad is just snobbery because they are a rubbish. Are
they rubber or plastic? What would you describe them as?

(52:03):
My prediction once again for this year is Luxen to
be seen crocs, although I didn't. I walked along on
a tonguey beach, didn't see him there with his crocs
or without his crocs. I also thought that Winston would

(52:27):
start vaping. But yes, you're right, and your previous call
a good old Norse where farm fleck socks, grateful, slippery
ramps last forever. Get them from your friendly rights and
rural store gas store manager Hastings. Yeah, you're right. I've
had plenty of discussions with farmers about their socks. And
I'll tell you what. Once you were up here in
nor Oh, you got the Norse where they say good

(52:50):
thing about farmers. They're always up for a discussion about clothing.
It's a long time on the tractor contemplating their choices. Marcus.
In July, I was water blasting and slipped on wet concrete,
had crocs on, broke my hip into places and still

(53:10):
coming right. It's been a long, hard lesson. I would
never recommend them to anyone. David. Wow, that would be
one of the most sobering texts I've ever read. Were
you on a slope, David? Some kids with them every
day all year round. They have no arch support for

(53:32):
growing feet. Well gosh, well spin our whole life and
shoes with bad no art support, sandals or those flat shoes.
A big support of the norsewear socks. Thank you for

(54:00):
your text in it. I won't read that, but I'm
loving what you're saying. Actually funny enough. They say crocs
are bad for your feet, and boat shoes a bad
for your feet. One time I was in that giant

(54:21):
shopping mall at Parametta in Australia, at one of those
shops that might have been Maya's or David Jones, and
there was a sail on and there was a pair
of shoes that were about five or ten dollars. Clearly
they couldn't get rid of them fast enough. They were
a Kroc boat shoe. I own those. I don't wear

(54:44):
them that often, and as I'm talking about off panic
that I've lost them, but theyre are remarkably zesty looking
shoe and even that rubber tie b it is plastic.
I think Crocs have the most claims for acc Dan,

(55:05):
can we fact check that that's something that people make up,
isn't it. It's gonna be the year of fact checking
for Dan and me because people say some silly stuff.
Two million dollars we spend on Crocs wouldn't be as
bad as mountaineering. They get those people off the hills,
would it? What's what does it say most claims Crocs?

(55:31):
Is it the most of all claims? What about? What about?
What about more than Jendles David? It's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 8 (55:44):
Good Mark, it's good to see you back a Yeah.
I was water blasting concrete on a very gradual slave
that was nearly nothing, and I turned around to move
the water blaster and my teeth just went out from
under me, like I was a nice unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
Were they new crocs?

Speaker 6 (56:05):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (56:05):
Yeah, they were it in you? Yeah? Yeah, I'd always
brought to my head three peers, I've got none. Now
I've been them all. They should be banned.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
I could you guess that? Could you guess the slope?

Speaker 8 (56:19):
It would have been less than one degrees? It was very,
very almost not there. It was as if I was
standing on ice. They just let go and was.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
It was it? Was it icy? Or it was just mossy?
Was it?

Speaker 21 (56:34):
No?

Speaker 8 (56:35):
No, no, it was a little mcgreen, a little mcgreen,
And I was wanting to clean it up. And it
was unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
And you twisted and slept.

Speaker 8 (56:45):
I turned and landed on my side like I'm over
six feet and on over one hundred kilograms for one
hundred and five but yeah, And when I landed on
my side, I had my shell phone in my pocket.
Yeah I heard this, No, now, I heard the lag
crack and I thought, oh no, there goes my cell phone.

(57:08):
I got my cell phone out and it was good
as gold. And then I went to get up and
there was no way.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
Yeah, did you have to find a friend?

Speaker 8 (57:20):
I had to my neighbor. I couldn't move, I could
not move. It was awesome, awful And yeah, the ambulance
came and they put me out and all sort to
carry on here.

Speaker 11 (57:33):
Yeah, and that was July.

Speaker 8 (57:36):
That was in July, and they operated not no four
and a half hours or something. I got pins and
sprees and plates and yeah, they were at me beachside
the next morning with crutches to get me out the walk.
But doing something right that. It's a bit different than

(57:56):
just having a hip replacement, you know.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
So it's a ball and socket. Did the ball crack
ordered the shank craik.

Speaker 8 (58:05):
The ball brake off the end and then to break
about two inches straded down as well.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (58:12):
Yeah, every time I see a pair of crooks, I
feel what a you want?

Speaker 2 (58:16):
You want to start a campaign because are you so?
Have they have they said that you might get total
mobility back or is it going to always be excuy?

Speaker 8 (58:26):
I'm determined, Team markers, I'm determined to Yeah. Now I'm
right now, I've just started walking without crutches.

Speaker 21 (58:33):
Yea.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
So they're happy with the they're happy with the with
the means and how it's all done.

Speaker 8 (58:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just up to me. It's more
a muscle thing now in your sixties. I'm seventy two.
But I've found all my life. I was sick. They
could have they could have given me a stainless shit,
but my bones are in good neck. That said, it
was better to use my own bones because till you

(59:00):
meet stainless hope, you lose some move you know. Yeah,
but it's coming, it's coming, right, but I'm not looking
forward to the window they film.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
No did they mention crocs?

Speaker 8 (59:17):
No, they never, but that's good.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
They withheld judgment. Didn't say, oh, you know the croc casual.
They didn't say that everyone's in.

Speaker 8 (59:23):
Their own christ Yeah. I can't actually remember, but I
think they might have asked me what I was wearing
on my teeth, so they wouldn't know. Yeah, but yeah,
headed at home, and of course my age and I
don't get accre or anything. But there'll be thousands of
people out there behind them.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
And when you say you're home have you still got
a farm or a bit of land that you've got
to maintain a quarter acre? How are you down to
a small ye?

Speaker 8 (59:51):
Now, now I haven't quarter taking that. Yeah, I just
got the house now.

Speaker 11 (59:56):
Yeah, oh that's good.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
You haven't got a maintenance to get going with a
part because you're not. You're not going to want to
do the old concrete drive again for a while, are you?

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:00:03):
No, no, I'm right aga now. But I've got a
boat and that's got to go. You know, there's things
that I'll never be able to do again.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Well that's heartbreaking.

Speaker 8 (01:00:14):
Oh yeah, they're chucking.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
I would. The sad thing was that you're a bit
of a crock convert with three peers probably around town.
Here I am in the crops. Look at me. I've
got handy on the boat. Chuck them in the boat
there you go.

Speaker 8 (01:00:28):
Yeah. Now, i'd bought them, and I bought sizes too small.
You've got to have the motor size. So I like
just to step under them down hanging and watch them
out or by that, you know. But now I've got
nothing like that. Everything I've got now it's got laces.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Yeah, extraordinary call. I think we probably play that as
an acc David, look, thank you so much for your
honesty and your story. That's like, that's extraordinary. For goodness sake,
How was he chief?

Speaker 21 (01:00:58):
As?

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
I hope they're listening to Kroc hit office, and I
was pro Croc. But that's a call that'll actually tune
you onrogs, won't it. Can you imagine there, Dave on
the boat ramp there is with the Crocs, but chuck
them out, but we'll chuck them in the boat where
you go. Actually might have a look at the bluffoat
rab to see what the people have.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
Boy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
A lot of boats going out, a lot of the
old farmers dragging the old stavies down going out to
the straits, Boy, a lot of boats going and come
about fifty trail, probably more than fifty trailers.

Speaker 11 (01:01:31):
There.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
They got a new boat ramp, not doing anything wrong
with the old one, by the way, But you know
how it goes. No one mourns Steve. It's Marcus good
evening good but frightened by that, not freaking, but sobered
by that guy's call.

Speaker 11 (01:01:48):
But anyway, Yeah, well I haven't told crocs. So I
got into Crocs quite a few years ago because of
where I live and and before they were cool, and
they reach the stage where they wouldn't call them.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
They were mocked and they were pilloried, weren't they.

Speaker 11 (01:02:05):
Oh it's behind the front door. And then your teenagers say,
I'm a Ted doesn't really wear crocs. You know there's
someone else that have left here, and that sort of count.
I went through that stage. But what I really find
the good for And this sounds a little bit weird,
but it's how I lived my life really, because I've
quite a large block of land, a bit of water

(01:02:25):
front of me, and boat and stuff and that sort
of stuff. I have a peer that are really about
ten years old and they've been out in the sun
and so they're pretty rubbery, and I use that to
go out in the boat all the time or even
paddle the morning. And I have another pair which has
got holes in the top, which is more sort of
like if I go down a Bunnings and I can't
be bothered putting my socks on or whatever, I might

(01:02:47):
just go down a Bunnings or to the service shop
for that if it's been raining outside. But gym, the gym,
the gym. I know it may sound crazy, but the
gym is at my partner I had years ago, an
enclosed one. They look more like clogs from Holland, where
I'm an engineer. So quite often come home from work

(01:03:07):
and I've got my socks on. In the wintertime, you
often keep your socks on, and I want to go
out to the fruit trees or fertilize and stuff, and
I don't want to put gum boots on. So I
just put these crocs that I got, you know, they're
completely closed, and she got me a pair for Christmas,
and I was over the moon. You wouldn't think. I
wouldn't think an idiot like that'd be over the moon
because I can go, like I run sprinkles out on

(01:03:28):
all the grasses and stuff and that, and it keeps
on my socks. Try I don't care whether I get
wet on my legs from the sprinklers because they can
drive and that's how I use them, and I found
them perfect, particularly the ones that have been out in
the sun for ten years.

Speaker 17 (01:03:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
Well, if you're one of those people that work the land,
your choice of football becomes important because you're in and
out the whole time.

Speaker 8 (01:03:47):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
Sometimes I don't like gum boots often because you get
too much gorse and stuff comes in them. So I
crop like you're talking about with socks. I reckon that
would be fine.

Speaker 11 (01:03:56):
But I only have the socks on them when I
come home from come home from an engineering factory.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
You see what I thought you were going to say, Steeve.
I thought you're going to say, you wear the croc
and then you wear your sock over the crock a
you're given that when I go.

Speaker 11 (01:04:09):
That would be a pretty good look as the kids
would love that one make. That would be a view
there could go and that might be an It could
be a prediction. Actually that could be one of the predictions. Top.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
Yeah, they killed me, but.

Speaker 11 (01:04:22):
I've found them blooming well for my life because I
would go in and out of the front door and
back door. I'm not a farmer, but I've got to
but but I've got a block. Yeah, and I'm on
the edge of the water. So in the water.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Where about you, Steve Adams, how's that got a bit
of paradise going on there?

Speaker 18 (01:04:39):
Well?

Speaker 11 (01:04:39):
Last time we spoke was probably just as COVID start
as I'm out of Actually I'm Steve from Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
We are you inland? Are you on the lake. Is
that where you're saying you are?

Speaker 11 (01:04:49):
Yeah, yeah, I'm on the lake. Yeah, yeah, I'm yeah,
So I use it all the time hang on yeah
all the time, probably threty times a day.

Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
On Steve did you say your phone? Are you the
guy that spent time and.

Speaker 11 (01:05:03):
Wuhan that's the guy going around.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
You're involved in pharmaceuticals January February.

Speaker 11 (01:05:09):
Yeah, exactly right, the January February of twenty twenty two,
before it all came out. Yeah, my daughter had been there. Actually,
I've lived there five years. And then I'd heard a
lot of stories that were coming from the pharmaceutical sites
and I rang up. And that was before you couldn't
we could talk about it. Then we weren't talking anything.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
Twenty It was not twenty twenty. Twenty twenty was.

Speaker 11 (01:05:34):
Probably January February.

Speaker 5 (01:05:35):
Was it March?

Speaker 11 (01:05:36):
Yeah, that's right, something like that. Yeah, bit of inside
and then we had a couple of guys anyway, Yeah,
that was the guy.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
You've never slipped on your crocs?

Speaker 11 (01:05:44):
No, no, no, no, no no, I never slipped on one.
I used a lot outside. They're pretty much rubbery, you know,
They're they're all outside. Two outside the right side that
goes out to the lake, and I've got one at
the front door. So either way, I got to covet.
I don't wear them inside. I don't sort of wear
them as fashion. And my daughter's get all those little

(01:06:05):
things in them and know, you go everywhere. Actually I
was hat a golf to them in New Zealand golf
Tosrom the other day, and all these parents are walking
around with all these little things and I'm going, oh
my godness.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
Really not like the adults have gibbets.

Speaker 11 (01:06:17):
Yeah, not my cup of tea. It's not my cup
of tea. But but anyway, for me, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Know what gibbet. I mean a kid that got gibbets.
And one of the kids has got crocs like with
a shark fin on it and a shark. But I wouldn't.
I wouldn't know what gibbets to get.

Speaker 11 (01:06:33):
Well they would, they would, because I haven't bought one
in my life. But all of a sudden you get
these things turned up and from Timo, that team of
my factory, what the heck are these? It's like a
bag of about sixty and what are you gonna do
with those? Well, no, idea.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Did you say, are you have you got a factory
for Timu?

Speaker 11 (01:06:53):
No, no, no no. I get everything from my kids, I
get to scent and my partner to get sent to
my factory.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
So you see what you're saying.

Speaker 11 (01:07:01):
Nothing goes to the house. Something goes to the house.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
Yeah, I thought that for a minute that you might
be manufactured for Team. I thought they'd be the mother load.
Call nice to hear from you, Steve, sixteen to ten,
Good evening, Steve, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:07:15):
Yes, I have the sandals that I've made myself. They
are KD plastic sandals yep. And I was given two
red band gum boots with the tops of split. I
cut the soles off and KDI sandals are stuck on

(01:07:39):
with contact blue.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
Hang on, you're running a KDI plastic sandal with a
red band soul yep. To get you to go.

Speaker 18 (01:07:50):
In the wet over ten years old. They don't let
go in the wet. The most comfortable in the summer.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
And I've got about twenty piece of unused plastic KDS
at home and they're a bit brutal for me without
the flat soil. But if I chucked the red band
on the bottom. You're a vision. You're a foot vision.
You're a foot visionary.

Speaker 18 (01:08:16):
They work. I've used an Atos contact blue. They stuck on.
I've recut them to the KD shape. They stay. They
they don't let go in the wet. I wear them
in the garden. You don't go for walking them.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
They're not too heavy, they're not borting too much stress
on those buckles.

Speaker 18 (01:08:40):
No, not not at all. Quite flexible and the most
comfortable sandal of their head. These ones are ten years old.
I'm about to make another peer to keep them as
a spear. These are really good. Now.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
I'm not sure we can still buy the plastic sandals,
can you?

Speaker 18 (01:09:02):
Yes, yes, I got I got a well, actually no,
I got them at the Salvation Army shop somebody from
seeking end ones. But I'm not sure whether you can
still get them.

Speaker 13 (01:09:13):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
I think last time I went to a factory in
christ Jutch and brought the last of them. It might
have been I forget what the factory was called, but
I think yeah, I don't think they were making them anymore,
although you can get quite similar things across through Asia
if you go on the website. I think they were
like an international type sandal.

Speaker 18 (01:09:29):
Yeah, yeah, no ones. I've got the originals and there
are very comfortable. Well they're well worn in. They're very comfortable.
When they're brand new, they can be a bit tight,
you know, they to break them in. But no, I
found the over the summer. I don't wear covered in shoes.

(01:09:49):
The feet gets smelly, so but they're better in the sandal.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
Oh that sounds like a visionary's so yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:09:57):
I've even got some Roman sandals, but I find that, Yeah,
they I don't wear them very often because well, no,
they're just very this the soul very stiff.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
Yeah, that's right too. They're a brutal where it nice
to hear from you, Steve, Thank you ten from ten.
I was desperate to ask Steve for a shot of
his jendle redband mesh up, but I don't know that
he runs a phone a bit like you can take
photos with it, which is a shame, because what a

(01:10:37):
mesh up that is. If you'll over fashion week, I'd
think it's a damn good idea. Sam from Humid Fun
at a My Predictions, Whittakers go Bust, Sanitarium forced to
pay text Malaysian Airline m H three seven zero wreckage

(01:10:59):
is found Raiser Robinson loses dance off with Raygun. Trump
turns Glory Vale on a high end resort with no
loss of staff. That is a great text, Razor and
Raygun with a dance off. So I've got a text
which is kind of random. Someone says the Timur Rahman

(01:11:25):
noodle hoodie and matching bucket hat Santa Snatch went off
like a frog and a sock, highly contested and sought
after gift. Did I suggest that? Because that keeps coming
up on my feet. It looks fantastic. If I had
one thing, I'd want those anyway, Get in touch people.

(01:11:53):
I've got a lot of texts too, by the way,
and some of the I've got some very good predict
The predictions are coming through fast and thick and fast.
A lot of people are texting them through that works
email text or call them through h And now we're
really in the bread basket of great text. So it's
good we can mix them through.

Speaker 8 (01:12:13):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
She said, he she said, you did suggest that the
kids loved it. Really, I can't believe someone actually we
hadn't got that on Temu the Raman noodle hoodie. Hello, Helen,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:12:28):
Oh hi Marcus, it's good to hear you back on
the radio again. Now I'm ringing. Just talk about crops.

Speaker 21 (01:12:37):
Now.

Speaker 12 (01:12:37):
There was an article in either that I'm from christ
in our christ jut the Star paper or it was
on Facebook. I'm not sure where I read it, but
crops are the worst shoes for having accidents in. And
this was from acc.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
Yeah, I've got that article in front of me and
you're dead right.

Speaker 12 (01:13:03):
Yeah, yeah, terrible things. I don't wear them. I've never
had a peer and I never will.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
People love them though, people that have them love them.

Speaker 12 (01:13:13):
I know, but do they love it that much that
they you know, I could have accidents in them, and
bad accidents. Look at that poor guard.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
Before, unbelievable. That sounds I mean to break you. And
it seems like it seemed like a lovely unit. Do
you seem like a nice guy? The retirement all ahead
and he's got the boat bed twisted on the croc.

Speaker 21 (01:13:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:13:35):
Yeah, Like years ago, I had to go on the
kid's scooters and I shouldn't have been on it. And
I wrote through the rest to rest at the same time,
because silly me.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
Dark thing, dark thing to do. If you don't mind
me saying so, no, I don't mind.

Speaker 12 (01:13:55):
And the other thing is, I'd love to have it
go on. These are these scooter things, these electric things,
but holy hell, no, I wouldn't.

Speaker 23 (01:14:04):
I wouldn't.

Speaker 10 (01:14:05):
I wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
Dare did you do your Risks repair?

Speaker 8 (01:14:09):
All right?

Speaker 12 (01:14:11):
Yeah? They sindrome. I've got write a bed in my
thumbs now yeah, yeah, no that Otherwise, I just wanted
to tell you about that, the acc thing.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
I kind of thought the genders would be worse than crocs,
but they do say crocs are worse.

Speaker 12 (01:14:30):
Yeah, that's what I mean. I think that I'm read
about that right up. I don't know when it was,
but I as you say, you're there.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
Because I like you. I like you into your effects. Yeah,
I've got the article. I've got an orin z article
from Yeah, just way to bring the article up. They
have the date on it.

Speaker 12 (01:14:54):
There, so yeah, I'm not sure when it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
Was first of October twenty twenty four.

Speaker 12 (01:15:00):
Yeah, that'd be right.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
Two millions so far that year to people fools for crocs.
There would be Steve's repair. He wasn't on a sec.

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
He said, no, he wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:15:11):
No, No gendle related to the sins are decreasing, mainly
because most people have switched to crocs.

Speaker 5 (01:15:15):
I would think yeah, I'd say so.

Speaker 14 (01:15:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
Marcus joint says losing balance or skidding on foot was
the most common way for building sustained injuries in both
jendles and crocs. A twisting movement was the most comdon
way to be injured wearing heels. Ten people were struck
by an animal or person while wearing crocs, causing significant

(01:15:40):
enough injury to require acc One point three has been
paid to four and one point three million paid for
four and only five people who needed to recover from
gendle accidents. The gendle on the number and cost alone,

(01:16:07):
the humble jamble jendle appears to sustain the most damage
to the wearer. So more. Yeah, Hi Peter Marcus, welcome baby.

Speaker 24 (01:16:20):
Marcus and hipping you to you and your family. It's right,
four predictions.

Speaker 13 (01:16:26):
I think it's four tonight, Yes, right.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
Hey, Peter, Well don't you for actually understanding the rules
of it so well, that's unbelievable.

Speaker 24 (01:16:33):
It was only through my friend Gillian and christ as
you've owned in last night. I'll predict there'll be an
assassination attempt on Donald Trump this year. Yes, I'll predict
that King Charles will still be king at the end
of the year. Yes, And I'll predict that gasoline petrol

(01:16:59):
will go up three dollars twenty plus this year because
of the dollar go down. And I'm going to put
that Phil Major will be mayor of christ Church at
the elections. Well, Cycle Lane, Sarah, Yeah, she's good, But

(01:17:24):
I think four's done a little bit of work around
here in christ Church. You know, he doesn't deliver figures
because the figures don't count to anything because they all
come to come to pieces, because they don't get the
box until they get in as governor of the city.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
If there's any city that's going to be right for biking,
it's christ Church, isn't it?

Speaker 17 (01:17:54):
Yes? True?

Speaker 10 (01:17:55):
But why narrow?

Speaker 24 (01:17:57):
He would row both sides when one lane could do
it on one side, he would row. It's a busy,
busy road.

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
Okay, Well, I'm in Forsycle, I'm in for Eempleton, I'm
all in with Sarah. I think I quite like Cycle
as Sarah.

Speaker 24 (01:18:09):
But that's that's fair enough enough.

Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
I know it because I'll tell you what its It
works in two ways of nickname because it means Evee
remembers them too, doesn't cycle wayt sera. Okay, so we
got major bout. Crump gets shot, king remains what was.

Speaker 17 (01:18:24):
The third.

Speaker 13 (01:18:27):
Guess?

Speaker 24 (01:18:28):
Leans to guards at the three dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
Yeah, that's it, okay because the dollars through the floor.
Thanks Peter. I did read an article before I came
to work that said in Australia this year, the price
of a flat white coffee will probably go to ten dollars.
That's ten dollars Australia. That's eleven Kiwi dollars. It's not
of money for coffee, isn't it? Because it's not one
of the core food groups, is it? A lot of

(01:18:53):
people probably want oat milk. It's not milk. You can't
milk a nut, we can't milk a grain anyway, will
be eleven dollars or twelve dollars for an oat milk,
flat white, cheapers, rent wages and the price of coffee
through the roof Climate change. Taylor, Hello, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:19:17):
Hi Marcus, thanks for having me on the show.

Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
Please thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
Well, I just wanted to I was going to talk
about the crops, but then you guys ended up going
on to Christchurch and cycling, and I'll tell you what,
it's an interesting time for local government. I think I
might actually be the only seventeen year old in New
Zealanders into that stuff.

Speaker 10 (01:19:41):
But when I was in.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
Christchurch would have been in September. I was there for
about five days, and because I didn't have a car,
I ended up renting out one of those e bikes,
a line bike from christ Church, and that was between
is them where the university campuses and the airport, and
you have to go through Memorial Driver here to go

(01:20:04):
through Burnside, and goodness me, the scariest thing of done
in my life. It was like, even though there was
no traffic because it was pretty much nighttime, it was
after eight pm, it was good. I just felt like
I was going to trip over or something. Because the
problem with these e bikes is that almost all of
them that you find, they're supposed to have helmets attached

(01:20:24):
to them, but people just nick them and so you
just lose. You just kind of have to risk it
and use a bike without a helmet, which I could
never do. It's just something scary. But of course I'll
just go back to the CROs here. You know, I
just thought you'd appreciate the irony that. Funnily enough, my

(01:20:46):
GP he wears crops. He was actually wearing them at
my appointment yesterday. And I mean, you know, you know
this after that acc reporting about how dangerous they are,
and you know, I'm going to be honest, I do
find them quite stylish. When you agree, do you think
they're quite stylish?

Speaker 21 (01:21:05):
Or were you?

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
Taylor?

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
I was born in two thousand and seven. Yeah, so
News Talk zb's youngest listener probably.

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
I think that's something. I don't know, if that's not
something to brag about it, I don't know, don't disparitingly,
but yeah, yeah, could you get help for that?

Speaker 8 (01:21:26):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
Could you get help for that?

Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
Help for what?

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
For being zb's youngest listener?

Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
I don't know. I think that that's something that I'm
going to leave up to you and and whoever else
you know I managed to get in at this time.
But you know, I do like the content. I think
it's quite good. Normally, I look whatever of the program.

Speaker 2 (01:21:48):
There's a couple of things. Where do you are you?
Are you in Christchurch?

Speaker 21 (01:21:51):
Know?

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
Where are you normally domiciled?

Speaker 3 (01:21:54):
I live in Hastings. I live in Hastings, but occasionally
I'll go to christ Church or Wellington for just events
that are happening and I'll end up staying there.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
Can come armageddon.

Speaker 3 (01:22:09):
No, no, well the last time I went to armagn
it's more and this is gonna girls, is going to
press off your audience. Model United Nations. That's the things
I go to. Wow, Yeah, take a bit of a
break from it because it's a it's a bit of
a it's a bit too expenses, so I think I'll

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take a break.

Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
So I didn't know what that I mean. I got
seen to something at school like was a model Parliament
and one of the guys, the other guy we was,
did it up in Parliament? What's the mode of the
United Nations.

Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
It's like it's it's like a simulation of the United
Nations and how they function within committees, so things like
the Security Council, but also the planteries, so like the
the huge General Assembly. It's a simulation of that. And
it's a whole bunch of people my age, normally high
school aged children, and I normally go to the probably

(01:23:08):
the biggest model U n which is in Wellington. It's
a huge event. They have like a big opening ceremony
at Parliament. Last year they had Carl Bates and the
one before they had the Minister for Youth Development.

Speaker 2 (01:23:23):
And so do you need to be nominated by schools
or can any unit go?

Speaker 3 (01:23:27):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:23:27):
Anyone, anyone can go.

Speaker 3 (01:23:29):
You just you just send it an application and you
you can you just go there. Everything's kind of at
your own expense, so I mean, you have to pay
accommodation costs. You do have to You do have to
pay for your accommodation. There is an event fee as well,
because they sort out your catering. They sort out, you know,

(01:23:50):
getting the event fees and things and whatnot. And of
course you're going to fly for everything that's outside of
the event, so your food, your drinks. But there's been
some really great opportunities I've gone from it. Last year
I was able to go to the German embassy to
New Zealand and with a group of probably two other

(01:24:13):
people and we met the German ambassador. We you know,
we asked you some questions. It was a nice visit
to the German embassy as well. So there's lots of
opportunities that you get also, not just in the event,
but outside of it that they provide. But goodness me,
I mean it's such an amazing event.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
I'm glad I asked you that. Have you got Have
you got a career Plannerre you planning to go down
that road? Is that what the plan is for you?

Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
Well, I'll be honest. I mean, you see some of
the stuff in the United Nations and you think, well,
is that something you really want to be on that
side of Like there's a there's a lot of things
that I you know, find about that institution that are
quite flawed. A lot of it I think is very good,
but a lot of it I just think, goodness me,
I don't really want to kind of put myself in

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those shoes.

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
But you'll be hitting to Victoria will.

Speaker 3 (01:25:08):
Probably yeah, well what he is cheapest? What it gives
me to this scholarship.

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
But Victoria unieds wore all those people go all that
sort of stuff. That's where you want to go. There's
some degree that that wrap around for that, and that's
where you want to be headed, right.

Speaker 3 (01:25:21):
Yeah, absolutely, And of course you've got the Youth Parliament.

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
I think that's what I was many years ago, and
that seemed to be that seemed to be the Yeah,
pretty geeky.

Speaker 10 (01:25:32):
Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 3 (01:25:33):
I mean I was thinking of putting a name for
it as well.

Speaker 10 (01:25:35):
Oh you should, yeah, absolutely, you know I'll get a
reference from you. Sorry, is there?

Speaker 13 (01:25:40):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
Roman? I forgot who's presenting.

Speaker 2 (01:25:44):
Brilliant Just so you know, people, someone in tope or
played nine dollars twenty for coffee, so it seems to
be up there already when you spend that money trying
to hit the golf ball onto the lake. Kind of
very good coffee on the kaitaky just between you and me.
I love it and try and ferry, but Vanessa plunked

(01:26:05):
the kids in front of them. Augitian and I stood
by the side to watch the Magician, But desperately I
should have gone out of the second floor to watch Wicked.
I just didn't think there'd be time for the whole
movie to play for the journey, but that's where I mate.
But the food was ruvery good. What do I have
to anything? So I forgot what I had because you know,

(01:26:29):
one's was critical about the indryl and food thought it
was great. Suet's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 15 (01:26:34):
Yeah, I'm Marcus. I've been wearing Birkenstocks for about thirty years.
I weather Jendles and my children or where the stuff.
But we've got that supports on them. And I was
just wondering curious as to know whether your other listeners
are we're birkenstocks. No one to mention them, but they're absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Incredible and they certainly seem to be the sandal of summer,
didn't they?

Speaker 15 (01:27:01):
Well, you know you can wear them in spring an
autumn as well. It's just yeah, they're credible.

Speaker 2 (01:27:07):
I want to know about the birkenstock is when the
soles dilaminate, when they need to be repaired, right, Yeah,
whether people have gone or gone bought the bits online
and done that repaired themselves, because it's a fine line
whether it's worth repeering or buying a new peer? Have
you resold yours? Often?

Speaker 13 (01:27:28):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:27:28):
Not really. I just keep you ones really out of it
and they can actually so I think.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
It's about ninety bucks to resol them from good because
how much are they about one fifty for a new peer?

Speaker 14 (01:27:37):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
How much they are?

Speaker 13 (01:27:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:27:39):
About that?

Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
Yeah, Yes, that's a fine because you get about three
years out of them, would.

Speaker 15 (01:27:42):
You, Yeah, you get about three years out of them.
No more really, but.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
Your feet, your feet get excited when you're about to
go in them, don't they They're suck because they fit
so well.

Speaker 15 (01:27:55):
Well it sounds like you with them to.

Speaker 2 (01:27:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, Look, I have a variety of shoes
because I have a variety of different moods. But yeah,
I'm I'm not a stranger to them. And even now
I can see my actually crinkling away to gain I'm
just trying to think I've got any peer at any
any peer at the moment. I've got an old peer
which is ready for the cobbler. I spent a lot
of time at the cobbler, and I'll probably get those

(01:28:17):
ones re done, I think. But they've got the back
strap in the trouble. The ones with the back strap
you quite often end up just slipping your food foot
into them, so the backstrap's kind of redundant.

Speaker 15 (01:28:31):
Yeah, I've never had back straps, so they really wear
the jendles. But as the same my kids that wear them,
and they wear the skirts.

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
So I yes, there was extras. Yeah, I've got a
long boring story there I'm not going to tell you about.
But I was in the Birken Stop shop in our
brief stop on the bus the inter city between Blenheim
and Dunedin, and I was looking for a new style
of burke and stop the wrekovic. But the man looked

(01:29:00):
at me like as an idiot, and then the kids
wanted to get to the playground for a short stop
on the bus, so I didn't stop and talk from
any longer. But yeah, you know those young shop assistants,
you asked for something that you want to buy because
you've read about it, and they look at it. You're
like like you're more on I thought, well, actually I
do know my boke. Anyway, got to the playground, didn't

(01:29:23):
miss the bus. The rekovic is like, God, it's like
a clog. I don't Yeah, I'll bore you about it.
So nice to talk to you. Thank you, Bruce, it's Marcus.
Good evening.

Speaker 13 (01:29:35):
Sorry you're talking to me.

Speaker 2 (01:29:36):
Yes, if your Bruce, I am, I beg your pardon.

Speaker 13 (01:29:39):
No, Birken stop. Absolutely fabulous and I think it. I
think what you're talking about is that because they've got
the cork souls, your feet just sort of mold to them,
if you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:29:52):
I think that's the principle isn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:29:55):
Well, it seems to work.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
Well, it's quite a fit, and of course too and
you'll appreciate this. There'll be no shortage of cork these
days because the victors aren't using it, are.

Speaker 13 (01:30:04):
They No, And we don't get any corked bottles of
wine anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
But I tell you what it was. I thought that
would never happen, the screw top, but it seems to be.
I don't drink wine, do you?

Speaker 13 (01:30:18):
Only a bottle every night?

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
Okay? And most of them would be screw top?

Speaker 24 (01:30:24):
Yeah, yeah, remarkable how quickly that took on a.

Speaker 13 (01:30:28):
Uh yeah, but the I think the Birken Stop shoe
is the most comfortable shoe that I have found.

Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
Yeah, i'd agree with you there, How at what stage
of the what stage of the bottle are you at tonight?

Speaker 13 (01:30:44):
Just finished?

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
Brilliant? Well, congregs for that. I got to run for news, Bruce,
but thank you nice. I'm full of them at I'm
finding those shoes at the shoe for pet Mintea with
the phone call tomorrow, Marcus. Good to have you, Beck.
I'm a big fan of Archie Slides and Jendles. They're Australian,
reasonably priced and comfortable.

Speaker 11 (01:31:05):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
The purse that paid nine or was twenty for the coffee.
It was a little hole in the wool cafe only booth.
All the cafes were busy, surprising this one wasn't, but
we still had to wait. Well like that situation. I
hate to bore you with my travel stories. We were
getting the bus out of the inter city out of
Huanganui eight o'clock ten part eight fifteen. Must have been

(01:31:28):
on a Friday, and when you get to the inner
city you get put your bags on first. Then there's
about fifty minutes of firing around as they wait for
everyone to turn up. So Vanessa went off to get
the coffee and we went to because it was market day.
It might have been Saturday morning. I think it was
a Friday and that it was a Saturday morning. So
Vanessa went off to the market Day to get ourselves
some coffees. And then I went back and the driver

(01:31:54):
said I'm ready to go. I said, but it's early.
He said, it's good to get away early for cheap
as creepers. What about my coffee? Anyway, I was too
scared to go back, so Vanessa went and got us
further up the queue. For the coffee. Anyway. That's how
that story went. So we got the coffee, got away
about ten minutes early, which was surprising. When you left

(01:32:16):
late fifteen, you leave late fifteen. Yuse it's good to
get away early. I thought world jeepers anyway, because I
thought that story was slightly more interesting than happened. In
the telling one of those quite humorous bus drivers, they
had a lot of funny things, he said, I can't
remember what it add some well worked one liners. I

(01:32:37):
can't remember what they were. Should have written them down.
I've noticed that a lot of the bus drivers have
their kind of one or two humorous things. They say.
All the drivers were every good struck, a bad bust, dride.
I won't go on too that that says it been
spirited Marcus. I don't find crocs comfortable with the crop

(01:32:58):
branded mellow sliders the most comfy. She were like walking
on clouds. Will be a youth Parliament this year. Contact
their local MP for further details. What was his front handle?
Was it Taylor or Taylor to be a surname? Would
it it wouldn't be his first name? Would't it Taylor?

(01:33:19):
Could be someone's predictions Marcus petrol below two dollars, lowest
cow numbers nationally. That's a good prediction. Port Tolong at
a double throughput. He then in debt reduced one third.
Lachlan to win a race Formula one. It's a great text.

(01:33:46):
Marcus Alpine fault quake, Winston Peters dies, asteroid fatality, Black
Knikes win the league and world share market reaches all
time high. Someone else's predictions another Trump shooting Casey Costello demoted,
David Seymour attacked aircraft crash in North Ireland. Unemployment numbers

(01:34:09):
at ten year high. Cheepers. Someone said, Zia must be
doing okay if there's no product recall in midsummer. Marcus,
the best sandals are TiVo. I don't wear any others

(01:34:32):
in summer, and they are nice enough to wear to work.
They might mean Tiva or there's a TiVo as well, Marcus.
One of my team retired from work in October. I
asked her for a list of gifts she might like
to save buying something she wouldn't use. She wanted krocs,

(01:34:53):
so I bought her some and got a wee pack
of Gibbets. Gibbets that were native using birds recuute. I
don't have crocs. I've got big feet, and crocs would
make them look enormous. Gilly Marcus, I'm camping with my
mother in law, Mayor Mark Ryan. It's so painful. She
makes me listen to you, and she wears crocs. Able Marcus,

(01:35:24):
I'm wondering if the Croc people are having extents in
our genuine crocs with their cheap plastic ripoffs. Perhaps the
tread on his crocs were worn. Marcus. My husband slipped

(01:35:46):
itself for point last week and split his knee and
elbow open evening Marcus, I have a crocs working hospitality.
I have a Crocs working hospitality as a chef. They
are non slipp ad midly. I do play. I thought
it inside, but very comfortable. Never had any trouble with slips, fools,
everything else. Regards Carol, Carol the crackerpacker. Marcus, we need

(01:36:11):
to hear fifteen years ago and need he died after
my crops slipped on the shoto of a river. I
went down between the rocks. Can be very dangerous to wear. Marcus.
I'm sixty seven. When at college we used to retreat
our Roman sandals with tire rubber.

Speaker 8 (01:36:27):
Mark.

Speaker 2 (01:36:27):
You're talking a load of croc predictions, Doc Martins to clothes,
Dave Grolt have another child, Zoos and you's in to
be given ten years to close tanggy fruits, to make
a comeback, chatterings, to make a resurgence. I'll tell you
what I've enjoyed watching sometime in the holidays is a

(01:36:48):
food truck in America. All right, I've got no idea
what to state it's in. And you take along a
bag of corn chips or cheetos. I think Cheeto's are
big these days. You know what a cheeto is, or
twisty or your cheesels. You take along the big bag

(01:37:09):
like that, and the guy grabs the bag, and it
is a guy, and he makes us slit along the
long side of the bag on the edge, and then
fools that bag with the different meats like halal, chicken,
guyra whatever that is lamb, and then the toppings on top.

(01:37:34):
So the bag of chips becomes the vessel. It almost
seems like it should be illegal. It seems so fantastic.
So you go to the dairy, buy yourself a bag
of CC's or what's a form of cornship Dan you'll
be into cornships. What's the ones they like, yes, Cecs.

(01:37:56):
What's one of the other ones. Dorito's, that's the one
they like it. Pagget Dorito's. You take your Dorito's long,
you won't get chili Dorito's. You hand it to him.
He just slits it down from end to end and
full and that becomes the vessel for your that's the plate.
For goodness sake, I've watched that. If I've watched that
for an hour, I've watched it for ten hours. I'll
tell you what state it's because someone might want to

(01:38:17):
go there on their food trip. It'll be in my feed. Yeah,
I never see anything like it. I don't know if
it was. I was worried that the beggar Chips was
gonna melt the plastic. It's called Flavor Hive. It's a
food truck in Alexandria, not in Egypt, but Virginia. I

(01:38:44):
don't know how big Alexandria and Virginia would be. But
he's got over a million followers. Yeah, mainly it's Dorito's.
One guy took a tray of donuts. He topped that up.
So yes, I know that we're getting more and more
food trucks, but I've never seen anyone do that. I

(01:39:07):
don't know if I'll be planning a trip to Alexandra, Virginia,
but it would be. It looks like a nice city.
It's on the Potomac, which is where Captain Scully landed
the plane, isn't it. This won't look what the population is,
because I wonder how many people would to one hundred
fifty nine that's Hamilton size.

Speaker 24 (01:39:29):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:39:33):
Yeah, I don't know much about Alexandria, Virginia. It's only
seven miles to Washington, d C. I could go there
and watch the national the football team, not the band.
Will you learn something every night with me?

Speaker 12 (01:39:47):
Don't you?

Speaker 18 (01:39:48):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:39:48):
Is there right, Marguess? We are looking for your predictions,
and you're what did you fall off this holiday? I
fell off the hammock to I didn't fall off the hammock.
The hammock fell off me. The rope. The knock came
away twice, and I fell horizontally. I didn't like full

(01:40:08):
leg first or head first. I felt like a plank,
quite unpleasant. So yeah, there we go. That's my story.
So I'm wondering, and I don't want to make light
of the person that fell off that flying fox because
that's had a terrible But that was how I thought
that would be an interesting discussion. Yeah, so what did

(01:40:30):
you fall off? I think you get to a certain
stage or age where you start looking at flying foxes
and swings slightly hesitantly. By the way, well known people
that came from Alexandria and Virginia. Stuart Copeland, the drummer

(01:40:54):
for the Police, and Mama Cass from the Mummas and
the Puppas, and Dave Groll and George Washington and David

(01:41:15):
Lynch and Jim Morrison and Richard Nixon. Didn't see any
of those queuing up for the food truck. But ye,
it's worth watching on social whatever they call it now.
It's a great but they just use the bag looked.
Is this something that most people have known about, Dian
or is it new to you too? Yeah, yep, No

(01:41:41):
one mourns the wicked Marcus good evening false economy repairing
a birkenstock. You can get the ever ones, which you
can wear in the water. At least ninety bucks to
resol a leather one. The world demand for these huge
is huge. And he's an Agent's not able to secure
all styles and available globally. Just had a four day

(01:42:03):
experience in Orban Hospital. Myst staff were wearing crocs, urk
and stock style Arizona double strap best world seller. There
is a medical closch style that a lot of surgeons
were good to have you back. I don't know about
the Arizona Arizona double strap, but yeah, I'm hearing you.
I've got some plastic all and one molded ones that

(01:42:26):
have that have a lot of plastic nubbins that come
off the bottom of the soulder about assentimet a long
that mold your feet and you walk in them and
after about a kilomity you're in tears. It's that painful.
God knows why I bought them. Must have been at

(01:42:48):
a high income moment, but terrible things. I just want
to reiterate. The first week of every year, we do
take people's predictions for what's going to happen in twenty
twenty five. The way that works is you come up
with a prediction that four predictions will do for tonight.
But it's the most surprising prediction becomes true was the
one that's celebrated. So you don' want to have predictions

(01:43:10):
of other people have come up with and you want
interesting predictions because you go to remember the people that
even listen to what you're saying, so it's not just
like someone gets shot or something like that. But yeah,
that's the way we're going to I'll tell you more
about that in the next hour. Forty days until the
NRL starts too. In Vegas. You haven't seen much pre
chat about the Warriors, although I think it was sad

(01:43:33):
although expeeded for Tool who to to retire and look
and I hope we see him around the game more,
not if he wants to do that. But what is
this the fact that old Captain Mannering disappeared. We don't
see much of him anymore. But anyway, Merle, it's Marcus.
Good evening and welcome Hello Marcus.

Speaker 21 (01:43:52):
This is Merle here. Just want to put a little
plug in for Mother Nature who made their bodies to
wear beare feet, which is so much better for your
whole body, your spine or your body is way better
off wearing bear feet. And most people don't consider it.
And there's no marketing, isn't it, because well there's no

(01:44:16):
money and is there, But it just takes a little
bit of time to adjust your feet, especially at this
time of the year in the summer, we bare feet.
I wouldn't wear them to the supermarket. I'd put some
sort of shoes on.

Speaker 2 (01:44:28):
But you know, well there were some places that are
quite anpty bear feet, aren't they?

Speaker 21 (01:44:34):
Well, who is that the people that are trying to
sell shoes.

Speaker 2 (01:44:38):
Well, you can't go to the movies, you got to
wear shoes.

Speaker 21 (01:44:43):
Yeah, and seat and tire places. Yeah here, but you
people must give it some concern.

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
It's a tremendous feeding working walking bare feet.

Speaker 21 (01:44:55):
Yeah, but like skinny dipping or anything.

Speaker 2 (01:44:57):
That's really inter yeah, of course, like skinny dipping. Okay, well,
thank you. By the way, this is a news story
that just got my attention. The country's only scheduled flights
to Norfolk Island will in this year. Ere Chathams is
withdrawing flights, weak demand and costs. So there we go.

(01:45:27):
So I presume that to get to the Norfolk Island
you'll have to go virus. I presume there's still a
flight from Australia. But that's I know. For a long time.
I mean, people love Norfolk Island with that continuous is

(01:45:49):
it called a continuous dinner. I think it's called a
progressive dinner, that's right, not a progressive dinner. They love that.
But I presume there's still flights from Australia. It's always
been a bucketless thing for me to get that, although
I'm not quite sure anymore. Quantus direct flights to Norfolk

(01:46:10):
three times weekly from Sydney and three times a weekly
from Brisbania, So that's what's happening. But yeah, that's a
shame couseus. It used to be a great place for
the newly weeds and the nearly deads. That was always
a saying, wasn't it. In Fetuary did a talkback show
on the Norfolk Island, the most common things people would

(01:46:33):
say would be progressive dinner and the newly weeds and
the nearly deads. Most calls would say that and cheap lego.
People would often say, So that's that. That's Norfolk Island
no longer. I guess probably when Norfolk Island was a
big thing, there went some many other places to go to.

(01:46:54):
Now people kind of got the world out there heaven there.
Flights to other places have become a lot more exciting.
What's looking good for the dairy farmers, strong production, low dollar,
high process a rare sweet spot. There you go, people

(01:47:23):
be excited about that.

Speaker 1 (01:47:25):
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