They're not my generation (28 August 2025)

Marcus talks young people and phones, Rotorua and shopping trolleys, the 'One Big Event' Auckland needs, and radio commercial jingles we can't get enough of.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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eight and twelve tonight it might happen. I've seen it
every day for a while now. But if there's great news,
you'll hear all great news, big news, you'll hear about
it first through our big wins and the country too.
They are weather warnings. Tell you what the old press
they love the photo of a caravan smashed to smithereens,
don't they. This is in the Canterbury high Country, tuckapul

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That's what's happened. Caravan's been obliterated. So if there are
weather reports inform us, what are those wind things they
have in America? Dan hoon dogs or what are they
called hoon dogs? Haboobs? Don't think we get haboobs and
you's then they've been all the talk in America because
there has been a haboob. It's not a word I've

(01:38):
talked about. It is now Christmas quiz what is a haboob?
Which is a massive stust storm blanket A haboob? A haboob?
I presume it's an American Indian word, would I be right?
I'll try and turn this into a learning experience for
all of us. It's actually Arabic, of course, it's Arabic.

(01:59):
Looks like it's Arabic, doesn't it. So first topic for
tonight and help me with us one last couple of days,
last three days I've had to go past the local
High School, Big High School, Corid High School. As the
children leave school three fifteen I think it is, and
they walk, some walk to their cars, some walk to

(02:20):
the buses, some walk to their houses, some walk to
their parents. They leave school and they walk right. They
leave school and they walk to where they've got to go. Now,
I don't want to exaggerate, but I would say three
quarters of those people when they leave school, as they walk,
they are on their phone. So once upon a time,

(02:40):
you'd leave school and you'd walk with your mates and
you'd talk about stuff. Oh yeah, and some of it
would be a name, and some of it would be
gentle ribbing, and some of it would be fun and
some of it would be serious. But that was your connection.
You'd walk and you'd talk. Now they walk because they've
been banned from their phones all day. They're all on
their phones. It's what they are doing. Mess it hazard anyway,

(03:01):
because they could and I'm not on their hazard aspect
of it, because they could walk in front of cars,
so be mindful of that. It means probably the speed
limits past school should be even lower because they're all
on their phones with their earphones in. So that's what
they do they leave school and the first thing they
do is to get to get the phone out of
their pocket and they look at their phone and catch

(03:21):
up on TikTok or Instagram, or they hassle each other
or who knows what they do. A lot of it's
probably quite evil, A lot of it's probably quite gentle.
But I don't know. And that's the bit I want
you to help me out with. Have I just grown
old and things have changed? I mean, I don't know

(03:42):
what the similar moral hazard would have been when I
was a school aged person. Everyone was watching TV or
something like that. But yeah, do we think that yet?
It's the right things. We banned them in schools, but
it would be good to get them off their phones
as soon as they get out of school. What should
we do about that? Has has that horse bolted? Or

(04:03):
do you think we need to extend bands of cell
phones to had done it? What do we need to
do with this? Or do we just hope they're going
to grow out of them? Because of all these children,
and let's talk about people sixteen and under. If that's
the first thing they do, if they miss all that
social interaction of walking with mates and talking with their mates,
is that such a bad thing, or am I getting
worried about nothing? So I'm asking you tonight because they're

(04:29):
missing out in a lot, and what are they doing
watching TikTok or hassling each other? I mean, I'm sure
it's quite good. I'm sure there's some great stuff on TikTok,
but it freaks me out. Someone's emailed already, Marcus. It's
a thirty three year old who used to ride his
bike through Cornwall Park every day to and from school.

(04:52):
Quite sad to see all the kids on their phones
and whatnot. So glad I didn't grow up with all
this nonsense. Well, I'm glad I struggle enough as that
up with a cell phone. But imagine you're thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen sixteen. So maybe that's encompassed by the social media band.
Maybe it's encompassed by the school band. But I think
we've sold a whole generation down the road now because

(05:14):
there they all are, straight out of school on their
phones as they walk, and it's not really the right
activity to do when your walk has been on your phones.
It's dangerous and it's antisocial. Comments. Please, you can either
ring me up and tell me Marcus, you're an old
man give up. Or you could say, actually, yeah, I've

(05:34):
got a fourteen year old and doesn't know anyone spends
his whole time on his phone, Because that's probably quite
an important time to walk to and from school. You
could defreg you catch up with others. There could be
budding romance. Who knows what's happening, but on their phones
as they walk. Seems cruel to me. Anyway, If you've

(05:54):
got a comment on that, That's what I'm about tonight.
Haboo hope for you, ohodo correctly, But Haboo is the
name given to the Lockheed s R. Seventy one Blackbird,
the fastest jet. Page used used to love and walk
and talk on the way home till I got a car.
Then it was the car talks while dropping everyone else
home thirty six. Now kids are hopelessly unaware of their surroundings.

(06:19):
Comments on that please to start the whole war rolling.
Is it a bad thing? Or is it a bit
like all those things moral hazards? We just panic and
actually the kids will be fine. The trouble is that
kit the cell phone. It's such seductive technology. You got
the world there at your fingertips. Someone says nothing to

(06:41):
do with kids. Look at adults in any airport departure lounge.
That's right, So the adults are doing it. Why would
we expect the children not to do it? But it
still strikes me has been wrong. It strikes me as
a significant change in children's behavior, and one probably that's
been reckless of us to not prevent am I right,

(07:03):
I don't know. I'm just saying this because I looked
at I thought jeepest creeper. Every single one of them
bar a third A on their phones. So I didn't
say two thirds trouble. When you're broadcast, you've gotta be
careful with exaggeration. They got to fact check yourself. These
are the people that will care of you in the retirement.

(07:25):
Oh my god. Choose your own rest home? What does
that mean? What does that mean when it says choose
your own rest home? Marcus, I make my phone go
black and white at nine after I lose interest. After that,
I lose interest after a few moments. Brilliant. They're not

(07:49):
my generation, but I do wonder about them. Yeah, but
I wonder if it's the same with people would go
home and just watch TV for hours. I think that
was the beginning of the end. Actually, now you probably
like them to watch TV.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Graham.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
This is Marcus Welcome, Hi Graham.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Oh good a market. Sorry, Yeah, I'm in the car
on the way to the airport from me to late airplane.
But listen to you talking about the cell phone. Yes,
and whether the horse has bolted? Mate, it has. I'm
close to seventy one and seventy and I remember, you know,

(08:32):
the days where we spent time talking to each other
and writing letters and you know all that stuff we
we if we take it collected, if we designed the
cell phone and we gave it to the kids, and
it's the new reality for them. They don't know anything else.

(08:54):
You can't turn it around now, aren't we And we
have to make the best of what we have, and
all of the social media, all of the weird, all
of the false information than the true information. You can't
tell anymore. Reality is what is on the telephone or
on the mobile phone. And it's a very scary thing.

(09:17):
We are seeing billions of dollars in scams. The scammers
are getting more and more sophisticated, and people don't know
who they're talking to, who they're seeing, what they're reading,
because it could all be false.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Although we could ban cell phone ownership, the parents could
say okay, under sixteen probably know. And also we could
get them off social media TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, things like that,
which I think was the original attention, because they've proved
to be too addictive for children. And we know they're
too addictive because as soon as the kids come out
of school, they're on the phone to check out their likes.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
That's right that you can have rules, But you were
a teenager once. How good we're abiding by our parents' rules.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
The rules we brought, the rules we broke were adventurous
and exciting ones. I mean, this might just be nostalgia.
This might be you and me as old people looking
back and realizing how much we enjoyed walking home at
school and the fun we had, and we feel bad
that those kids are missing out on it.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah. I think though you can have all the rules
in the world. We have rules about not using cell
phones when you're driving cars, rules about wearing seat belts,
rules about keeping to the speed limit. They're broken all
the time.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Okay, good luck with the plane, Lena Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Oh good evening. Well, I agree past you with a
gentleman that's just called in good. I see children, and
not only children, but young adults walking along the street
side by side with a cell phone going. I've been
to restaurants where couples have sat at tables, and even

(10:57):
people that are with other people and they're playing gamers
on their computer on their cell phones. And I think, but.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
They're adults and they can make their their own choice.
I don't think.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yeah, but the other kids are watching now, the other
people kids on the streets, you're watching it. And the
other thing is they don't speak to they don't speak
to anybody.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
No, you know.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
I have a shop and they come in and they
don't want to make conversation with anybody, and they're still
playing these cell phones and getting onto your conversation about
people going into an old people's homes. Well, I think
nowadays the family structure's gone out the door, and so

(11:41):
many of the families are overseas and the first thing
they want to do is to get their their elderly
family member in somewhere where they think they're going to
get looked after. And they're not worried once they get
them in there. The next time they come and see
them or excited to worrying about this when the will's.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Read Jay Lena flip topic creep. But I hope you're wrong,
Grant MICUs.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
Welcome, Okay, Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Thanks?

Speaker 5 (12:09):
Bret good Man. Hey, my fifteen year old Sun who's
sitting beside me right now, just had his cell phone
drowned in the sink tonight for being on it a
number of times he shouldn't have yay. Yeah, so he
knows the rules. He's lost the phone at the start

(12:30):
of the year. I put an axe through it and
he's blown them again. So it got drowned tonight.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
In the conversation we've had, it's already been drownd has it?

Speaker 5 (12:41):
Yeah? Yeah, Yeah, it's gone. It's gone.

Speaker 6 (12:44):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
So that the conversation was, I said, it's really handy
to be able to contact you, and he said, flim
me another phone. I thought, you wish shite. I'm not
doing this to reward you. So the solution is to
buy him a dumb phone and non smartphone.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
I think that's the answer, because I think a lot
of young people have got phones as the gateway, so
it's handy to contact them if anything goes wrong. Or
if the sports practice is canceled. But they've just it's
the technology is too addictive. It's too addictive for redults,
certainly too addictive for children.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
Yeah, yeah, how he.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
How's he handling it? Grant?

Speaker 5 (13:21):
Vincent? Tell me, how are you handling it? Buddy? He's
refusing to talk. He just said, I really don't give
a ship, So he knows.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Why did you take the SIM card out?

Speaker 5 (13:38):
No, No, that's well we might recover and I don't know.

Speaker 7 (13:44):
But that's.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Tough love. Well, tough love. That's Grant student, Grant a
twenty three er, and it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 8 (13:56):
Oh hi Marcus?

Speaker 9 (13:56):
Hell are yah?

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Good eron? Thank you?

Speaker 5 (13:59):
Good good.

Speaker 7 (14:00):
The whole term cell phone needs to be discarded. We're
smartphones because they're not honestly a fight. Well, they're a phone.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
It's a really good point because probably the activity I
do on my phone least is talk to people.

Speaker 7 (14:15):
Yeah, I do a bit of it because I'm I'm
in a job where I do have to communicate.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
With Well, I'm the opposite. When I'm on phone, it's
like we're talking to people. It's like a bustman's holiday.

Speaker 7 (14:29):
But do you understand what exactly yeah, most people that
they are a personal computer sitting in your back pocket,
and that's that's the whole thing that needs to be
sort of that I'm trying to get through here. Do
you remember when a phone was just a phone? I
mean you might be a generation XT like me. I
don't know how old you are.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
But I remember with Aaron, how old do you want
me to be?

Speaker 7 (14:52):
Well, I'm fusty too.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah me, that's me too, that's right.

Speaker 7 (14:56):
Yeah, yeah, So I remember when they first came in
and they were just a phone. So a cell phone
is a cell phone. But I'm really I'm not torn
on having a controller of a cell phone for a child,
but I think it's up to the parents to set
some roles and regulations around it. And I don't understand
parents that if their child says I want to phone,

(15:17):
I want to phone, what would you give them one?

Speaker 1 (15:20):
I mean when you say parents sit boundaries, I think
parents get better fatigue after a while, because you know,
there's only so many times you have the same discussion
and there's no other support from other parents because they've
all got Yeah, it's just it becomes complicated, doesn't it.

Speaker 7 (15:35):
Well, it doesn't worry back but if they want to
get data or exits anything else, they've got to have
your Wi Fi password. So that's a pretty easy way
to cut it off without destroying the phone. I just
want to mobile data up.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
I also wonder, Aaron, how much of it is predict
projection from adults, because we ourselves are guilty for how
much time we spend on our phone.

Speaker 7 (15:53):
And don't you now, yeah you did right, you are
dead right. I go to Smoko ten o'clock at twelve
o'clock and it's two thirty in the afternoon, and even
with guys as old as me, there's only two guys.
We sit around and talk and you know, just talk
about you know, rubbish.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, it's important though, those connections you need. Yeah, yeah,
you going bluey? How'd that work out with that? You
know how that work out?

Speaker 7 (16:19):
I mean people say we just talk, you know, like
you say, rubbish, But it's better than just looking at
your phone. I'm not saying anything to anybody else, that's right.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
But it's easy to under that because you're not going
to have difficult conversations or anything like that. Because they
had a conversation, someone goes a bit rogue on you
or something like that, but yeah, I'm hearing you. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (16:37):
Do you know what else?

Speaker 7 (16:37):
I find a bit irritating and specip work? I mean
I sound like a really I sound like I'm seventy
or some damn thing. But I mean, I know you're
not communicating by email, But as someone's in the office,
say they are fifteen meters away from you, why would
you email them? I mean, don't leave a paper trail nowadays,
But why would youn't just go.

Speaker 9 (16:56):
And talk to them.

Speaker 7 (16:58):
I don't get that. I just don't get that.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
People emailing you at work?

Speaker 7 (17:02):
Yeah, and they're right next door to me. I said, what,
I'm just sitting over here? Why are you just come
and see me? I mean, if you want to back
it up with an email, that's fine, because you do
need that back up sometimes, you know, as it was
an important thing you want to back up. But if
you just want to raise a point, then say, I'll
send you an email consuming that we would you? Yeah,

(17:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
They're not scared of you.

Speaker 11 (17:25):
They're not scared.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
They're not scared of you.

Speaker 7 (17:29):
Well, I hate to think they are.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Are you the boss?

Speaker 7 (17:34):
I'm not the boss, but I'm quite yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Or even worse, the boss, but you're the sidekick.

Speaker 7 (17:42):
Kind of. But I'm approachable and I'm nice and I
won't bark at you. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
It's like people. It's like people texting with them the
hell phony when they're in the same house as you.
That's bad, isn't it?

Speaker 7 (17:55):
Oh my god, that's awful. Yeah, But with kids, that's
going to be incredibly hard. I mean, the horse is
bolted now, I mean, what the heck.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Do you don't know that it has?

Speaker 12 (18:05):
Do you reckon?

Speaker 7 (18:06):
I mean, I must admit. My daughter was in a
speech contest the other night and she gave us not
even cell phones per se. She's thirtein, but she gave
this really good speech on how not to let social
media all your life. And it was really good, and
she held her cell phone happened, and I was quite
proud of that. She pretty much just said that the

(18:26):
whole crowd is nothing but at all. It's a toll
to make your lives easier, but not to absorb your
cell phone and live your life by She said, you
can't live your life on the phone. You've got to
get out there and just talk to people and experience things.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Or maybe not, maybe this is not the future. Maybe
the future is all on some sort of virtual world.

Speaker 7 (18:49):
Yeah, you hate to think, so, I hate to think.

Speaker 13 (18:53):
So.

Speaker 7 (18:55):
Yeah, she certainly thinks that, and she's still of an
old fashioned like me. She certainly thinks that we should
just be able to communicate with people first. And cell phone,
she said to me, are just a way an easy
way of reaching out people and talking to people that
you can't get hold of in a hurry.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Did you get a good mark for a speech?

Speaker 7 (19:13):
We don't know yet because she was on the speech finals,
so I hope she does.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (19:19):
Yeah, and it was refreshing to hear that.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, let us nowhere and think so much. Hurdle twelve.
It's just about the phones, the amount of It's the
age old topic. But you know, I'm just seeing them
because they can't have phones at school now. As soon
as they're walking home from school, they're all on their
phones as they walk. I bess it's not just getting
old messages. It's just it'll be TikTok, will it? And

(19:42):
I don't know if what's more interesting walking and chatting
to your mates about things or being on TikTok. It
just seems a bit isolating to me. Yeah, But then again,
it might be just a generational change or a multi
generational change. It might be envy, it might be guilt.
Marcus agree with Lean. A lot of families don't care
when you get older and sick. They're too busy interested

(20:03):
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about will's cheapers.

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Speaker 1 (20:28):
NZ just twenty twenty nine to nine O wakes. He
reminds me of weddings too. I suppose we're gonna have
to face the situation that Luxon's gonna buy old Taylor
and what's Taylor's fiance? Call Dan, it's your Taylor and
Travis at all black jusey, I can set help me, now,
can't you? They're going to do it this. I mean, honestly,
we're going to able to see the TikTok of lux

(20:49):
and wrapping up a all black jusy one's gonna have
Taylor written on the other beck and the other on
the backs have Travis written on the back. Whether we
have some lame message like oh, I know this is
not your code, but try fifteen a side. How many
people in the football and football team hundreds are there?
We're going to do it. I know we're going to
do it. There's going to be some sense that we

(21:10):
can get great tourism leveraged by a great present for
Taylor and Kelsey. Is it Travis or Kelsey? How could
you have two first names? There is that? Also's first name?
Is Kelsey a first name? I reckon he's retiring this year.
It is thirteenth years. I was listening to a podcast, Yeah,

(21:34):
I was listening to it. It was quite good, actually
an athletic podcast. You don't hear many podcasts hosted by women.
I'll tell you what it was called. Quite refreshing. Actually,
i'll tell you what it was called, because when was
I listening to it? On the farm the Sports Gossip show.
Madeline and Charlotte digging on this show about the wildest

(21:55):
development in sports. Because their clock was at ten twenty right,
her watch, and everything Taylor does mean something, and the
fact that the watch was on ten twenty means the
wedding could be on the twin of October. That's because
it's always code with Taylor, that's what they're saying. But
that's that's not a game day. But that's they don't

(22:16):
reckon Travis would get married mid season, it'd be too disruptive,
But there might be a family wedding on the twentieth
and then there'd be a biggest celebration after the event.
That's I listened to twenty minutes of the podcast. It'd
go for two hours. They did it on the hop
because they're about to broadcast a podcast. Then the information
came through that the engagement was there, and one of

(22:39):
the women was in the bathroom getting her hair ready
and dropped her straightening eyrons. She was so excited about
the news. So, yeah, it was quite a good podcast,
actually the sports gossip show on the Athletic. But yes,
that's what they reckon. They reckon it's going to retire
this year because it's his thirteenth year. And they reckon

(23:00):
that Taylor Swift will play half time at the Super Bowl.
She's never done it in the past because she'd known
the rights to a back catalog scould have broad owned
at all, so she always said that when she was
free of because once you play the Super Bowl, people
go and buy your back catalog, so they reckon that
she will be playing the halftime show and Kelsey Travis

(23:22):
is that what you're calling him, Dan Kelsey Travis Kelsey
will be in. That will be one of the that'll
that'll be the great American story, that she'll be playing
the halftime show and he'll be playing and win the
Super Bowl and then I'll get married and have children.
They didn't actually say that, but that's what it was
all about. Most of the discussion was about the flowers

(23:42):
and how great that floral arch was anyway, so you
don't have to listen to the podcast now. I summed
up pretty much everything they've said. They were just getting
onto the diamond. I sort of lost a bit of
interest in that. It's not my thing.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
Die.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
I think I think it's an old I'm not quite
sure if it's an old style diamond or an old diamond. Yeah,
that's been rejoiced anyways. See, maybe I have to talk
for two minutes about Taylor Swift. So that's wait for
the twentieth October. That could be a wedding or it
could be a probably an album release. I would think

(24:19):
what I love about Taylor Swift is how triggered people
get by them. It's just like the Kadeshians people boys,
people get triggered. I think there's a word for that.
Is it misogyny? Marcus Kate and I take our twelve kids'
phones off the it's just my testing. Oh it might
be Marcus Kate and I tech take all our hi.

(24:42):
I don't know if that is that a real text?
Down is that someone trying to be funny? No one's
got twelve kids? Have they have got twelve? What are
they said in the other texts? They saydything about their
twelve kids? No, I don't think that's a real text.
I think someone's trying to make mischief. Then, yeah, what
are people saying via text? My kids are on the
early twenties. They never answer their phones. No, no one

(25:03):
answers their phones. My phone is permanently do not disturb.
I've got two or three people can ring if it's
an emergency. But that's how I have it. That's our roll.
Love it Marcus Well Travis might have two first names,
but his new fiance has two last names. It's a
very good point. Wow, I've done great talkback shows on

(25:27):
people with two first names. Like what are some of
those people with like two first names like Elton John
or it's quite common Elton John or Michael Jackson or
Steves anyway. You know where I'm going with that, Diana Ross.
But not many people who have two surnames, do they? Who?

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checkout Lady, this week it'll be the final bonanza of
the Disney disc promo and all stores will literally be

(26:18):
giving them away on Sunday. I don't care what happens
in the supermarket Joopoli, but if for any reason, Countdown
is that what they're called now Woolworths, If for any
reason Woolworth's goes broke, they are exactly their architects of
their own destiny, because that would have to be the cheesiest,

(26:40):
most rubbish promotion I've ever seen. How could they go
against that Smeg Brazier with those techy plastic discs that
has caused zero buzz. I get thousands of texts about
the swag, nothing about Woolworth's. So yeah, on there may anyway.

(27:03):
I have digressed with my Taylor Swift. But that's the thing.
That's the thing a podcast. It's like talk back with
no callers. You just rap it on about stuff. Yeah
have you noticed that cheap as Oh yeah, it's quite
a good one, the Sports Gossip Show. Although I don't
really follow American football. But what's even bigger on these

(27:23):
podcasts is college football. Didn't realize that becomes such a
huge thing in America. Oh gosh, I've digressed about the
cell phones with my tailor Rave. But tell me something,
where are you with this? Not the tailor rave with
the cell phones? Have we been overly judgmental through our
own increasing irrelevance? Or while is it nostalgia and we

(27:50):
are pining for those simpler times and walking home from
school talking to each other? Or is actually the kids
wasting their lives, spend their whole time on cell phones
as they walk home from school and not talking anyway.
The question I'm asking you about cell phones because you've

(28:11):
banned them from school, but as soon as school finished,
they're off them and they're walking down the streets their
whole time on them, almost to a t, every child,
So they're walking in groups, but all on their phone.
I don't know what you want to make of that.
Nineteen to nine anyway, someone's text. I don't know who

(28:35):
Taylor Swift is, but he sounds fast. Yeah, that's right.
Oh wait, one hundred eighty tend he keep those emails
coming through and your calls hit on midnight tonight if
you want to be a part of it, as I say,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two nine
two to text, that's what we are talking about tonight.
They see they happening overseas. I'll bring that too, but
it's about cell phones and you're thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen
year olds. I just think the technology is to addictive.

(28:58):
It's even to addictive for adults, but kids are even
more vulnerable to that because you know it's all there
the world out there cheap, it's visual, it's flip, it's compelling.
But what what was compelling for us when we were
that age? Pretty well nothing. One of the most compelling
things for you as a child, or a chain letter,

(29:20):
a calculator with that boxing game on, or one of
those pens that did three different colors. So as compelling
as it gone, we had trouble getting addicted enough to
those or bubblegum cards. But now cheapest creepers get candy
crash flip eight hundred eighty TDY nine to ninety text

(29:42):
markets to mid I need your calls looking forward to
what you've got to say that to what 'ron about
the other thing too? I chuck a second topic in here,
it's the back topic. A lot of talk today about Auckland.
Who'd the CEO of venues in and saying they need
a bed tax yardy Yadia companies closing all that an
eighth of the shops and the main streets closed. The

(30:04):
question I probably want to ask you now is how
bad is Auckland at the moment? What needs to change?
Because some of us that aren't living in Auckland we
don't know, and some of you probably living in Auckland.
The decline, or the perceived decline has probably been so
gradual it's probably about time that he had a bit

(30:25):
of a look at and thought, actually, here's what's wrong
with the place. Here's what needs to change. I see
the mayor hasn't turned up to his debates. Pretty arrogant.
Got to turn up to your debates, Shiper's creepers. Anyway,

(30:47):
here twelve ray, Welcome Marcus. Evening.

Speaker 6 (30:51):
Good evening, Marcus. You're really good to talk to you. Yeah, mate,
I've listened and followed you.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
For years, followed me weare.

Speaker 6 (30:59):
That's the first h your life journey, you know, not
not not.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Not followed me around town.

Speaker 6 (31:09):
Followed you around personally. But your story. Marcus bringing up
to reply to the thing about the kids with the
cell phones, and you know, we're pretty ordinary, simple people.
We've got a young living with us. He's performed at
school and they do their bit of gaming and that.

(31:30):
But at his school when I go to pick the
kids up, hello Marcus.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, I'm here. When I got to pick the kids
up at his school, When I got to pick the.

Speaker 6 (31:39):
Kids up to pick the kids up at the at
the high school in Gifsbond, they're not all walking around
with phones talking about they don't have the phones.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
So they haven't got them.

Speaker 6 (31:49):
Mate, Well, something might have them. But generally, like my
grandson and all the rest of them come up, they're
not upset for the phones.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Okay, they might be different parts in different areas of
the country. I'm quite I'm quite heartened to hear that. Ray.

Speaker 15 (32:06):
Yeah, well, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (32:08):
Look, I don't know the whole story about it, but
I look around. I don't see it.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
I think gaming is different, and I like gaming because
this community and they talk to each other, they generally
seem to enjoy gaming. It generally seems quite compelling.

Speaker 6 (32:20):
I don't know anything about it myself, Marcus, my grandson
days and the room upstairs. Myself, I don't have anything
to do with it, but I know I take the
boy to school, I bring them home. I see his
mate to come around the bagger or phones going on.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Good, So you've got the two story house?

Speaker 16 (32:38):
Have you.

Speaker 17 (32:40):
Just a rumor?

Speaker 6 (32:41):
Yes? Mate, really deal.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Nice to hear from your ray, Thanks for that. Fifteen
to nine. A thing that compelled me as a kid
was my purple rally twenty. Our parents worried about us
being in front of the TV or hogging the phone
for hours. Most of us turned out, Okay, you actually
went hogging the TV or the phone as soon as
you came out of school. I mean, I might be wrong.
This might be moral panic. Witch, it's moral panic. Anyway,

(33:07):
get in touch. Thanks very nice to talk to you.
Fourteen to nine head or twelve yeh Piah eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty nine to nine to two de text.
You got to be part of it. It's Auckland. We've
never discussed Auckland as a topic, I don't think. But yeah,
I haven't been to Auckland. I went up there for

(33:30):
the RADI Awards, but I got crook, remember, But since
first couple of days of the New Year's haven't really
throw myself around Auckland for a while. So I don't
really know how what the vibers I think a bad texts.
They say it needs some big events. But what big
events will international people come from? They say, sale GP.

(33:53):
I'm not quite sure what other big events Auckland needs
and what big events have had in the past. Maybe
it needs a roller coaster that might be what happens.
Maybe it needs something really significant to bring peace from
I don't know what that is. I don't think we're
going to get the big bands, Taylor Swift, et cetera.

(34:13):
Because there's not the accommodation for it. So I don't
know what Aukland needs. They need some event that's going
to be one of those stadiums that goes through about
a week and people come from all over and it
gets that critical mess. Probably what they should get is
those Ever robots. I think Australia got those. We should

(34:34):
have been ahead of the because people love that. It's
Ever robots or what are they called avatars ebbera fatar
or something that's called marcus. I'm sixty three and I
still love a pen with three colors. Seriously, though, the
topic of some people, young people being almost fearful of
a face to face conversation with a stranger came up

(34:54):
at with colleagues the other day, said and really socially
in career limiting. I emphasized some too, as others are
chady airs. Love your show is always Lisa. I don't
want to scatter again you and throw two many topics
that you are talking about children on cell phones and
you know they've got to be saved from themselves. It's
what I'm saying, is that legititerate? Is that just me

(35:17):
being a fuddy duddy And I seriously don't know, Actually,
I just be consumed or curious about your input on that.
The future of Auckland. Also, what they need to get
Auckland get its mojo back. I don't know what it is.
It feels like it needs to be something. Twenty five
years ago they had the viaduct and they had it
all went to the viaduct. People love that. Or the viaduct.

(35:37):
You go watch sports Cafe and filmed at that wharf.
People love that from all over the country. Now there's nothing.
I guess the trains will do it when they open.
That'll be exciting. But yeah, I'll by the way to
do Today. Also is radio commercials day where we were
the jingles? Is it still? There is nothing like a

(35:58):
crown for lifting up? But there's still no better jingles there.
I mean, that's the one that springs to mind. There's
a couple sneaking up there. Zone and water World always
love that. Haven't heard that for a while. Stone and
water World driving this daisy. That's a late bloomer of
a commercial. Anyway, bang three your favorite jingles, particularly, bring
them up and sing them to me if you can

(36:21):
air is nothing like a crown bring back chatterings. At
least you knew where the kids were exactly, Marcus. Not
just school could dedicted with the phone, adults as well,
unreasonably elderly with a disability, and use a walker, the
old Stan walker. If walking through Monaco City. While walking,
I find everyone walking towards me, facing their phone, never

(36:42):
looking up. I can no longer dodge them. Some force
to stop and they realize they are directly in front
of me. They expect me to move Ork And I've
lived here for seventy eight years and find it difficulty
of the city. Only go when something is on the
key to come to a theater or at the town
hall that I can park outside, But even that is
being made difficult. But I missed the city as well, Marcus.

(37:04):
The most compelling thing when I was younger was aiguy
for on Sunday nights on TV. It was a must see.
If you missed it, you had nothing to talk about
at school the next day. Jeepers. There's plenty of texts
for people saying they've seen high schools and there's no
one on their phones and no one doing that. That's
good news. So yeah, it might be if we were.
And that's a good sign. Kristin, this is Marcus. Marcus,

(37:26):
this is Kristin.

Speaker 6 (37:27):
Welcome Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 18 (37:33):
You are not a fuddy duddy.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Funny old expression, isn't it fuddy duddy? Where does that
come on?

Speaker 18 (37:39):
It's kind of gorgeous, But anyway, you are not. And yes,
here and then the cargol it times walking tow into
town from South City and into town there are young

(38:02):
girls walking together and on these cell phones, and I'm thinking, what,
why aren't you just talking to each other?

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yea, although we do sound judgmental, well.

Speaker 18 (38:20):
I'm trying not to be judgmental, but it's kind of
a little bit sad. Why aren't these young people just
talking to one another institute of I'm talking on their
cell phones?

Speaker 1 (38:41):
You know?

Speaker 10 (38:42):
It's yeah, And.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
I guess if you think of it walking home from school,
it was always quite you know, they're always good conversations.
You had able of a catch up when you meet
you people, someone who'd fall alongside you as you were walking,
and it was always they always seem to be quite
innocent and honest conversations. And you know, it was that
that growing into adulthood and you know, talking to people
about different things.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
I thought it was quite valuable totally.

Speaker 18 (39:07):
And the cell phone thingy, I love my radio, Like
listening to my radio.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
You're not you're not taking your transistor with you when
you're out walking? Are you listening to it?

Speaker 10 (39:20):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (39:20):
God, no, it would be a little bit too tragic.

Speaker 15 (39:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (39:25):
Oh well yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
So anyway, nice to hear from your Kristen. Thank you
for that good stuff. I've got time for one more
before we've got one. I might flick one more in
there if I can, just to get the quota up.
You know, I do get in touch you on a
talk Marcus till twelve esh, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 19 (39:42):
Hey Marcus here the whole failure device debarkle. So when
I was in school, I was basically attending school at
the time that the early days of cell phones were
coming through, you know, when there was three G And

(40:03):
basically I think that the kids have lost the world
who had basic human interaction and it's quite sad to
see that they're losing this natural human instinct of ours.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Yeah, and I guess we won't know how much they've
lost until we see the results of what sort of
adults they turn into. I suspect the kids are going
to be brilliant, but it does consume we've sold them
down the road. By the way, something we haven't talked
about for a while is abandoned super abandoned abandoned supermarket trolleys,

(40:41):
which no one I know can even explain what the
situation there is there. I think the supermarkets must get
insurance for them so they don't care. That's my firm
opinion after discussing this at length on talkback. But what's
happened to do or what they have done?

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Right?

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Get this? This has been reported today they've approved a
bundle of new laws aimed at improving tidiness and safety
after debate over who should pay to collect abandoned shopping trolleys.
Under the new waste law, the council will collect abandoned trolleys,

(41:18):
with retailers given twenty four hours to recover their property.
So be higher rates and more jobs for councils to do.
There were people in council like Don Pattison and Lani
Cariopa who voted against the amendment, believing the burden should
fall on the retailers, are not ratepayers fifty one thousand

(41:42):
to collect the old supermarket trolleys. Some of this could
be recovered via storage and delivery fees after three four
hours of non collection cheapers. I don't know what happens
with supermarkets. No one might be able to explain it
to me. Why don't they go and get them? As

(42:02):
many as two hundred and sixty abandoned supermarket trolleys are
on the streets every month, so someone knows about this.
Like how much would a supermarket trolley be worth? The
cost would be a lot would be five hundred bucks.
So if I was running a supermarket, and gosh, I'm
not intending to do it because it sounds like a nightmare.

(42:25):
Imagine getting the staff. But why wouldn't you if you
ran a supermarket, just have someone going around collecting them
and the troublers is a bit like road cones. Is
probably a moral has an aspect to this, because if
you put a reward for a return trolley, then people
would probably take them to get the reward. So it's

(42:48):
even got a solution to this. I know that some
supermarkets have like a disabler on them, so they seize
up like an old sports person as they go too
far from the supermarket. But some parts I've found rivers
with there's nine or ten in them, and parts of
the big city say, yeah, what's the answer to that?

(43:09):
And where have you seen as a particularly bad part
for supermarket trolleys and have you tried to return them
to the supermarket and just been met with ridicule? So yeah,
supermarket trolley is about time we gave that a bit
of a bit of a leash. As far as the
discussion goes, so good, I note to try and do
something about it. But yeah, why wouldn't the supermarkets do it?

(43:32):
They probably should be charged because in some ways, as supermarkets,
it's their stuff, isn't it's around the streets. You have
thought of this often and can't really think of a
solution to that. So we are talking about young people
and cell phone use, but also supermarket trolleys. Tonight, get
in touch ten past nine to nine ten hitdle twelve.
It is radio commercial radio jingle Day. If you want

(43:54):
to sing one, you are more than welcome. One day,
when I get more organized, we will do radio jingle
karaoke I've just got to isolate them music from the lyrics.
But it could be a good night when we do it.
Stone and water World. What I like is sometimes is

(44:16):
an ad that's got the that you're used to. The
jingle in the ad will play without the jingle. You think,
jeap is where's the jingle? And you remember it because
it's quite effective. Trolleys trolleys, I'm expecting good input about this.
I don't think they're worth anything. I think people just

(44:39):
I think they can't get the groceries to the bus
or something, so they wheel it down to the bus. Brendan,
this is Marcus Welcome, Oh.

Speaker 9 (44:51):
Good even Marcus Evening and shop by that.

Speaker 5 (44:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (44:57):
People would dump well, you know, dump a tolio by
Taxis and stuff like that. Yeah, and then like the supermarket.
Yeah I'll pick it up because oh this is a
dunter boy and Winnington and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (45:15):
But ye really, no one's dumping off trolleys.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Well there seem to be this turn sixty a month
and there to do it.

Speaker 9 (45:25):
Oh no, well okay, well that's quite tour that way.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
How many is that a year? How many is that
a year?

Speaker 9 (45:34):
Oh no, I'm not really good. I'm not great at
mass but I know Moonington. No one's dumping trolley's off.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Okay, we'll find out more. Briton. Thank you, get in touch.
Turns sixty times, ten, sixty two, twenty it's a lot
seventeen and twenty. No, it's more than that. I worked
that out. Audrey Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (45:59):
Yes, hello Marcus. I'm just listening to you about the
trolley and I know it's very annoying when you see
the just left when people take their groceries home in
them and then just leave them on the foot pas
not good. But in Australia they've got a very good
idea where you actually put two dollars in to get
the trolley and you get it back when you put

(46:22):
the trolley back again.

Speaker 20 (46:23):
And to me that makes a.

Speaker 7 (46:24):
Lot of sense.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Yeah, do you get it back?

Speaker 4 (46:31):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (46:31):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (46:32):
How's it come how's it come out?

Speaker 11 (46:37):
I'm trying to remember because it was a year ago
when I last used the system, and I'm trying to.

Speaker 6 (46:50):
Yes, who're doing.

Speaker 11 (46:53):
It's like it's some of the airports as well.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
Look at you with all your travel. Where was this
in Sydney?

Speaker 21 (46:59):
Was it?

Speaker 4 (47:00):
No?

Speaker 11 (47:01):
I'm trying to think where it was up.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
He's up the Gold Coast.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Oh that's helpful. Lord, We thank you there. We got
two calls on trolleys, Marcus. I know someone who has
a contract to repair supermarket trolleys. So supermarkets must see
some value in them, or if there's value in them,
weren't they out there collecting them. I'd love that job.
I'd love to be a trolley wrangler out there grabbing

(47:29):
the trolleys. Yeah, you've got fifty bucks a trolley anyway,
Alistair Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 22 (47:38):
Hello Malcols and Marcus.

Speaker 5 (47:42):
Yeah, yep.

Speaker 22 (47:44):
I like to suggest that people put cardboard boxes and
bags in the boot of the car when and then
people were food and gea in the trolley, walk the
trolley to their car and then offload their freight or

(48:04):
food and put it into the boot. Well, then they
trolley wouldn't have to leave the premises.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
So what's the difference if they didn't have cardboard on
the back of their car. How would that be any different?

Speaker 22 (48:23):
Cardboard box or any box?

Speaker 1 (48:26):
But how would It's a good idea, but how would
that be remembered? What do you mean how would that
be different? If they had a cardboard box and still
take the supermarket to the trolley to their car, wouldn't they.

Speaker 22 (48:40):
Yes, and then upload their food and then put it,
put their food in bags, carry bags and then just
cook cardboard boxes and not to make them too heavy,
and then they can walk walk them into into their homes.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Okay, So if they haven't got the cardboard boxes, they'd
still be walking to the car. They just put everything
in the boot, wouldn't they.

Speaker 22 (49:12):
Well, any any box or any bag a shopping bag.
I'm trying to say, lead them in their boot and
then just threw them up from the trolley.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
But Alistair, I think the problem with the trolleys is
not because people haven't got cardboard boxes in the back
of their cars, because that wouldn't make any difference, would it.

Speaker 22 (49:33):
Well, they can put the food in the boot with
no trolley, no shopping bags, but it's not easier. What's
the shopping bags.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
But the reasons there's trolleys everywhere is not because people
forgot to put boots or boxes or bags and boots,
am I right?

Speaker 5 (49:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (49:53):
Because they punched the trolleys and they just lead them
on the street. It happens every week in Palmers.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
But that's not because of people not having bogs and
boxes and bags in the back of their car. Is
it just because I haven't got a car and they go
into the bustle walking home with it?

Speaker 22 (50:13):
Yes, yes, that's right, like whom in you though.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Okay, I leave it there lest I really don't understand that,
but I like you, like what you've got to say.
There are two trolleys in my short street and Johnsonville
Woolworths have been told at least three neighbors by at
least three neighbors have done nothing to worry about their
plastic discs. Marcus. There is a supermarket trolley that's been

(50:37):
an intersection in a Hall's world for twenty one months.
Every night at three I passed through. There is two
little blackbirds that are playing on it every night of
the week except rainy nights, twenty one months. I'll tell
you what. That's one job that AI won't take over,
and that's the person that collecks the trolleys around the
supermarket car park. I can't see that going the AI way,

(51:00):
mind you, it probably can in some ways, because a
I'll help people to make computersh what's that called internet
shopping more efficient? I suppose so after a while, people
don't go to the supermarket, just tap tap tap at
home is they never leave Graham Marcus, Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 16 (51:20):
I was in England over forty years ago. Well, and
i'll put it. I'll put it generally the puns had
their heads screwed on, which we haven't done yet. Goodness,
you've got to pu you've got a trolley at a shop.
You had to put money in it to get the trolley.

Speaker 9 (51:43):
Yes, and here we ask moaning.

Speaker 16 (51:46):
About the trolleys being around the shop and the around
the around the country, and one of the shop put
it into dear.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
I'm not moaning. I just think there's some information here
we're not told. I imagine the soup. I imagine the
supermarket's claiming insurance for lost trolleys. Would I be wrong?

Speaker 9 (52:11):
I wouldn't know.

Speaker 16 (52:12):
But whether they're sured or not, they've sure got to collect.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
They don't click, they don't click that. They don't give
a they don't give a they don't give a donkeys
where they are. They're never out there getting them.

Speaker 16 (52:29):
Well, from forty years ago, as I say, the poems
were doing that. You paid for your shop if you
and it was enough to make you want to put
the money there you here to get it back.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Thanks Graham. Hello Nikki, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 13 (52:47):
Oh hi Marcus. Just reading about the trolleys. Yes, yes,
let me see rocks and I can say in Christs
they have a man in a van. Yeah, they have
a man in a van who goes around and clicks
all the trolleys around the street.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (53:03):
Yeah, so that is really good.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Latter which one ricketson Willworth? Did you say Peck and
say I love Peck and saves the others?

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (53:13):
Okay, yeah, so that's really good because that helps clean
up the.

Speaker 6 (53:15):
Streets quite a bit.

Speaker 13 (53:17):
Have you seen the person, yes, yes, but they are
not allowed now to come on to your property to
get it. They used to be able to do that,
but they now can't because they are trespassing, even though
they're pracking up their own property.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
There is something on there. There is the on their
website Peck and Save Rickitton. They can include include the
specific location of the trolley and mentioned that it's from
the Ricketons store and they are arranged for its collection.

Speaker 13 (53:45):
Okay, there's a lot of people wheel their their groceries
home in their trolley and then just leave the trolley
out on the street and that's just collected. But I
do remember I saw one other guys and I said, oh, look,
there are several up my driveway. You're welcome to go
and get them there at the people people at the driveway.
He said, no, we can't do that now because we're

(54:05):
a's trespassing. I thought that was interesting.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Why didn't you go up the drive and.

Speaker 13 (54:10):
I put your arm?

Speaker 1 (54:11):
Did I do that?

Speaker 13 (54:12):
I think it did well amount.

Speaker 12 (54:13):
Actually, yeah I would have done that.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
Yeah, feet wearing trolleys sometimes with the wheels.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Absolutely.

Speaker 13 (54:22):
And there was a lady talking about how you pay
for the trolleys in Sydney and you get your money back. Yes,
yeah they do that in England too. Tesco's do it.
And the way they do it is you put your
one pound coin in that All the trolleys are in
the trolley bay and they're all links together. So once
you put your one pound coin and it releases your trolley,

(54:43):
that coin stays in the trolley. When you finish your shopping,
you go back, you return it to the trolley bay.
You you connect the wee link and your coin will
pop out. Wow, fabulous, it's fabulous. Because there are no
trolleys on the streets.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Has it really happened here? Has it?

Speaker 4 (55:00):
No?

Speaker 13 (55:00):
I think it's I mean, would do someone out of
a job, that's the only thing.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Well, I don't think most supermarket have a trolley collector.
Did you see this guy from Ridiculous? Regularly that's his
only job?

Speaker 13 (55:14):
No, No, I didn't. I didn't speak to them about that,
But regularly they are going around Rickittson. They only collect
the step and save trolleys.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
That spirited? Isn't it just the ones the other You
think there'd be a swap of trolley thing going with
the other supermarkets. I'd do that if I was a
supermarket owner, I'd be doing that. Hey, hey John, I've
got a couple of trolleys here. How are you going?
How's things? How's the better?

Speaker 13 (55:37):
Yeah, there's just the one, the one Peck can save
and Rickson though they aren't in the other supermarkets with them.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
That more been to that one.

Speaker 13 (55:44):
No, but they do have k Mart, but the Mart
trolleys are smaller, so they don't collect those. Obviously they
don't sit into their slotter.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Of all things on there, NI could be the country's best.
All that Ricketson one, because there's something special about that.

Speaker 23 (55:57):
More.

Speaker 13 (55:58):
Rickson is always busy.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
Always busy, everything is. They're always busy, always busy, but
very It's always got a great vibe to it. The
it always seems like something's going on there, doesn't it. Yes, Yes,
it's Oh, it's a great we center, you know, always
winding away there. Hit me haircut there once. Actually, funnily enough,

(56:22):
it wasn't a great haircut. But I think often my
bad haircuts aren't because of the place I've been. It's
because I've communicated poorly what I wanted. It's taken me
a long time to realize that. But they've just done
their best. Marcus. Often the Freedom Campus, that Reeds Farm

(56:43):
on Hooker Falls Road and topor bring a trolley from
the supermarket. Yes, all the way from town last river
clear out. There are four retree from the Wakata River. Anyway.
I love how people tell us about the overseas ones
where they dispense trolleys like mind blowing Overseas.

Speaker 6 (57:10):
DV.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Marcus Welcome, Yeah easy.

Speaker 8 (57:15):
I used to drive units in Wellington and it was
amazing how many trolleys could be seen in the back
yards of people's houses.

Speaker 5 (57:24):
Get backed on the railway track.

Speaker 8 (57:27):
So I came up with one of my brilliant ideas,
as I'm known for. They rang up the local supermak
and says, look, you pay me a bounty for me
to go and collect them, and they weren't interested.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
No, because then you'd start stealing them. That's like John
Major had. John Major his Prime ministership in England came
to it because he tried to have a reward for
people reporting traffic cones and then people that didn't work
as people just steal them. But yeah, there needs to
be something, doesn't there.

Speaker 8 (57:59):
But that coin operate coin just operated trolleys. It's also
a lot of kids will hang around the car parks
and they all take the trillers back for the people
and they get recording. Oh okay, and that's quite a
good little earner for them.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
Now where have you seen this? Because I'm liking the
sound of that.

Speaker 5 (58:22):
I was.

Speaker 8 (58:23):
I just went past them all of the seeds I
was reading. I don't know where I heard about it.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
So this is mainly overseas, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (58:32):
Oh yeah, this is overseas.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
As you're talking. As you're talking about those entrepreneurs, I
wonder you don't see much of those window washes intersections anymore.
Do you want if people want them back?

Speaker 8 (58:43):
I certainly don't.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
Let's be facetious TV. It was thirty years of talk
back to get rid of those and okay, now what
do we call that supermarket trolley return bounty?

Speaker 24 (59:06):
Never?

Speaker 1 (59:06):
I'd like to watch that video. Actually.

Speaker 8 (59:09):
Also, there are a couple of headquarters in New Zealand
I think used to have one dollar yeah saying, but
they phased it out. It didn't sort of work here.
But again a Sun trick. There would be the odd
kid who's entrepreneurial, and they would say, I'll take the
trolley back as.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Okay, so people people would pay two dollars to hire
the trolley, but then they couldn't be fair taking it back,
so they just leave it and the kid comes and
gets the two dollars.

Speaker 8 (59:37):
Absolutely, and the trolley still gets back and under two bucks.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
Brilliant beats them doing windscreens at the intersection, doesn't it.

Speaker 8 (59:51):
It's a little bit safer.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
What a terrible job that was?

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Really?

Speaker 1 (59:57):
Okay, where do you think you saw that video? D bix?
I can't see it anywhere because the Americans would love
that with their tipping economy, wouldn't they They're probably all
over that we'd have to pay.

Speaker 5 (01:00:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:00:13):
Not only do I want the dollar to take the
trolley back, but I want to take the trolley back.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
Yeah, that's right. So if you come across it again,
give me a holler on that, because that's of interest
to me, the old trolley return. Of course, that's the
way it's going to go. Someone says, who's got coins
these days? Well? Bitcoin, haven't you got bitcoin? They have

(01:00:38):
the trolleys that require a one dollar coin at pack
and save Hastings the small trolleys only Steve are prime
ministership to ship coming to an end because of traffic cones.
We can only dream some sport tonight too. The Panthers
they play, they play the Bulldogs, but there are The
Panther team is a B team because they're saving their

(01:01:03):
best players for the final eight. So that's exciting. Marcus, welcome,
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:01:09):
How are you good?

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
Tracy?

Speaker 9 (01:01:10):
How are you?

Speaker 12 (01:01:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
Good, I'm just listening. I'm enjoying the show as normal. Good.
But yeah, I can see the coin being good. If
you're not leaving that car park like you can get
your coin back because you put your stuff in the car,
and that's fine. But the ones that are walking from
one end of town and all the way up the road,

(01:01:32):
they're not going to worry about getting their trolley back
for a coin. So I think that when you get
your trolley when you enter the supermarket, there might be
a little code sort of a like a key ring
with a code number on there, and you can pass
it over at checkout, and then if you don't, if

(01:01:52):
you're trolley's not handed back in the next time you shop,
you'll find that you've got a fine on your account
that's added to your groceries. They won't like that up
for a while.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Yeah, I don't even know. I've never taken a trolley
beyond the bounds of you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
Well, I'll tell you what when I lived When I
lived over in one day, I was a single mum
and the kids went straight across the road to North School.
So you walked through North School and you're at one's
a new world. And I used to have like ten
k Jesus spuds in one hand, half dozen bags of
groceries in the other, and the place at bags she

(01:02:35):
used to be bringing into my fingers. And I said
to the lady, can I take that? They got to
know me, and I said I had one in a
wheelchair as well, by the way, and I said, can
I take the trolley back and one of the kids
will bring it back after school. They knew I was
good for it, and it was never a problem.

Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
But I am that's community, isn't it. Wow, there you
go and you can do what you want.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Yeah, but now they're.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
Hard to push long distance, aren't they.

Speaker 17 (01:03:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Definitely, I mean yeah, maybe they should.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
Maybe they should make them harder to push.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
Yes, but you know that's actually the supermarket's property, so
they shouldn't be the other side of town on the
trolley with grot trees. Sure, if you ask permission, it
would be all right. People are decent if you ask.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
Well, I just don't know why the tooth market trolleys
don't spend more they do it ricketson, and they don't
spend more time collecting them. That's what I'd be doing.
They seem to just don't care they've lost them. That's
what I struggle with. Hurdle twelve My names Marcus, Welcome
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty to text Here the end,
the bitter end, oh, Marcus. The movie called the Terminal

(01:03:54):
featured trolley retrieval. Tom Hanks's character got callters as they
returned the trolleys to the trolley station. Marcus, the coalition
has been and removed bitcoin eightym So besides bank transactions,
how well would operators cash up their bitcoin? Don't know
the answer to that. At Pack and Save Upper Hut
has an electronic monitoring on trolley electronic bonder and the
car park trolley lock when they are outside the car

(01:04:16):
pack trolley stay within the supermarket smiley face upside down,
smiley face, smiley face. Margaret make them ten bucks each,
refundal and return so they're free to use. Marcus called
me silly, But how would the two back coins stop
people taking trolley to the bus stop or home? Two
bucks ain't gonna stop at meg Masterton. Anyone else missing

(01:04:40):
the window washers Rajev Marcus welcome, Hey Marcus, how are
you good? Thanks Rajiav.

Speaker 25 (01:04:50):
Hey, I'm just listening to the trolley thing you guys
were talking about. Anyway, So I was going back a
few years ago or spooking as electricians. So I got
called out to the moor House Ave, Pack and Save
and they gotta they gotta what they had at the time,
They had like like a cable running across the building

(01:05:13):
which kind of prevents the trolley on the wheel. You'll
notice that if you go past their cable, it would
just get jammed and it's hard to push the trolley.
So I was anyway, so I was asked them, Oh,
you know, why, why did you know it's a Sunday?

Speaker 8 (01:05:28):
Why you call it?

Speaker 25 (01:05:29):
Apparently it caused a lot of money to make it.
So I was listening to your thing, and I don't
know what the people think. It's quite valuable for the supermarket,
but yeah, I don't know that why they're not collected
some people some supermarkets do. Like the lady who was
talking before, I see that they can say ricking and
as a rain just you know, guy in the rain

(01:05:49):
just cross around and pick up the trolley as well.
So they must be quite expen I.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Don't want to interrupt, but I presume it's probably a
very big, very much a christ problem too, because it's
so flat it would be a problem. I mean, Wellington
or Auckland. You're not going to push your trolley up
a hell. It's going to be insurmountable. But but christ hose,
because it's flat, doesn't it You can just push it
no worries.

Speaker 25 (01:06:10):
Yeah, but that's what I was trying to say, Like,
you know, I don't know whether older supermarket cable, but
if you go past that specific cable, which is like
a low voltage cable which runs across the supermarket, you're
supposed to jam the wheel and you won't be able
to push it so far, so I don't know what
there's are around it, but there shouldn't be.

Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
Would that be you're an electrician? Would that be an
expensive thing to install?

Speaker 5 (01:06:30):
I wouldn't think so.

Speaker 25 (01:06:31):
But if you, if you, if you take the cost,
don't quote me on, but from what I heard that day,
it costs around thousand dollars for a try.

Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
That's why I would have thought.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
I just can't. But I think they might claim insurance
when they lose them. Do you know any can you
ask them next time?

Speaker 5 (01:06:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:06:48):
Well I don't work for the company anymore, but yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
Are you still Are you still in Christ your jiaji
actually burden? Oh brilliant? Oh yeah, anyway, it's good for me.
Thank you. Twenty one away from ten Marcus I've been
wondering when do these people do the cross country trolley dash?
Wouldn't you see them? I've never seen anyone traveling with
a trolley, and not to the They would have to

(01:07:14):
have a special traffic light for trolley people.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
I look.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
One took one round the block to around this once
place at Nelson. It was darn hard work. I took
it back. Thy very noisy, especially when empty. How bad
is it when you get the only wonky trolley in
the bunch of Jimmy is a loud, squeaky wheel that
attracts the gaze of every shopper and staff member. The
squeaker is always accompanyed by a wonky wheel that always
breaks left into the back of the legs of the

(01:07:37):
person next to you in the aisle, And when you
get to check the staff, they say, ha ha, you
got the Amos trolley. I don't know who Amos is,
but when he's the least like staff member. At Willwor's
Ferry Mead, we have a couple of great guys who
washed windsquenz the intersection by the Linwood pack and save
on Lindwood av always with a smile and a joke.
On there were it goes to people are happy, they're
back twenty to ten hit le twelve with the coin

(01:08:01):
lock trolley. It's not so easy. It's not so much
the cost of returning your trolley to retain your cold.
It's the ability to earn some pocket money by returning
someone else's trolley. Is I think that's the point has
been made. There's a professional circuit that do it overseas,
but dB can't find the video. There'll be some rigs
to riches story. Some billionaire in the States that started

(01:08:23):
their job returning trolleys for a dime. Probably one of
those self satisfied people on dragons Den. Sometimes I'd like
to say those people on dragons Den private lives because
they're so smug with someone else's business, aren't they. When
was the last time we saw money make a person
a better quality person? Very rarely? If I can say anyway,

(01:08:51):
this is Marcus, This is Glennis. Welcome, Hello, my friend,
good Thank you Lennis.

Speaker 10 (01:08:57):
That's good Tolly's We live in St. Loops by set Loops,
not far and I'm in a housing complex up a driveway.

Speaker 22 (01:09:06):
That's trolley.

Speaker 10 (01:09:07):
What am I saying? The truck comes up and picks
up all the trolleys and takes it back to the
to the supermarket.

Speaker 1 (01:09:14):
What sort of trolley the ordinary trolleys that I mean,
what sort of what sort of truck it's called.

Speaker 10 (01:09:21):
B I see trolleys. It's got b I se trolley
written on the truck. And it comes up and the
guy gets dirty. He picks up the trolleys, puts them
in his van and takes them back to the shop.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
So you don't see many You don't see many troys.
Dun't around your part of town.

Speaker 10 (01:09:39):
Not really no about Auckland. I was born in Bread
in Auckland City, and my God, Marcus, the bus stops
had all changed from the bottom of Wellesley and Victoria Street,
which if you're in Queen Street you've got to walk
all the way top to the top of Matthew's Church
to catch the bus across the road all the way back.

Speaker 1 (01:09:57):
And that's a fair height, that's two blocks and.

Speaker 10 (01:10:01):
It is a blooming walk.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
And if you get that free bus up Queen Street,
it's so jam packed it's not a pleasant experience either.
You've got to wait.

Speaker 10 (01:10:11):
If I turn into Simon Street on the bus, it
stops up by the library. There's an opposite Meyer's Park
on the left. The next bus stop. Oh no, we
don't stop at the bottom of Wellesley Street. You've got
to get off at the Matthew's Church to cross the
road by the casino to catch the bus two four
en back all the way back down the hill again.

(01:10:32):
And Queen Street is a bloom and mess with all
this construction and you jump over this, you're.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
Craol cl clearness. It's good you're still going to town,
though most avoiding it like the plague.

Speaker 10 (01:10:42):
I like the city because I was born in Pontonby.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
So what are you going to town for? Just for
a lurk?

Speaker 4 (01:10:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:10:49):
I just like being in Queen Street. I find the
shops are friendly, the people are friendly.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
So Glenness. Once the CRL opens, yeah, you'll jump on that.
Oh yeah, but where will you get off?

Speaker 10 (01:11:05):
What was it you had to see?

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
What the city rail loop?

Speaker 10 (01:11:10):
Well, I'm not really into city rails. I like my buses.

Speaker 1 (01:11:14):
Oh yeah, because I think you probably. I think you
probably get the train on a loop and then you
get off at cold Anger, Happy or something. You get
the bus from. It will be integrated. I've got faith
in the transport more than most, although I'm on it
a bit from time to time. Marcus, why don't they?

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
Why is it?

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
I don't understand what you're That text is Jason, Marcus
and Australia have to put a coin in the lock.
When the lock releases, the coins once connected, reconnected to
the other trolleys. People are big on their stories from
overseas trips, aren't they. And I'm going with the homeless.
People have trolleys, they keep their bidding and positioned in them. Tina, Yeah,

(01:12:03):
I'm sure they do. And that's the real problem, is
the homelessness and inequality. But that's probably be out beyond
our scope tonight, if there's any will to fix it.
News from the fashion will Karen walk Head to show
at fashion Week today and her models went over jumps

(01:12:26):
like an equestrian event, which I thought was quite good.
It's quite fun and then in fact some came over
on hobby horses. Crowds seem to love it. Clothes look good,
nice turcoise blue stuff. So well done her. I think
it might have been eddied ass Co Lab, but there
we go. Frency something a bit different anyway. Twelve away
from ten Calvin. This is Marcus.

Speaker 15 (01:12:45):
Good evening good evening Harts.

Speaker 1 (01:12:49):
Thanks, Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 15 (01:12:51):
Join a jingle first, or a trolley story.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
I want a jingle right here we go.

Speaker 15 (01:12:57):
That's the whole, the opportunity to try to found you,
but the way to make stuff. He's great to dry
your plenty barrel boy.

Speaker 1 (01:13:27):
Who's who's saying it? John Hall Garnell or.

Speaker 5 (01:13:31):
Oh no, I don't.

Speaker 21 (01:13:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 15 (01:13:34):
I learned it years ago, googled the sight and the head,
you know, like key we use it. There's a guy
used to play with the Gemni once his He came
from Littleton and his father wrote a renumber of years
ago on Country Canada is a song about as soon
as I cleaned out the cow shed and I'm going
to jump on the tractor and put it on down

(01:13:56):
to the local hall for the dance on said day night.
His cape, the guy cape, his father wrote her. He
was he was a bit of eccentric sort of the guy.
But this website when I hit all these songs by
Kiwi Artist and that song was on it, he had
to play the country calendar.

Speaker 5 (01:14:16):
Thing good in it.

Speaker 15 (01:14:20):
Yeah, so I didn't want.

Speaker 8 (01:14:22):
To learn that.

Speaker 15 (01:14:22):
It had a lot of fingerpicking. For me, it's too
much fingerpickning for my lights.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
But that was a very good version. I just try
I'm just trying to look quickly to see who did
sing it. I mean, I know who was who directed
the end, and who was in it. But I know
that Murray Grindley I think wrote the song. I don't
know who's performed it.

Speaker 15 (01:14:37):
No, it wasn't John Whore I've done pretty soon it wasn't. Yeah,
but just one of the songs I keep remembering and
playing sometimes when on board or something. One of the
millions up?

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
Can you find out? Can you find out?

Speaker 21 (01:14:50):
Dan?

Speaker 6 (01:14:51):
Dan?

Speaker 15 (01:14:52):
Dan's looking at.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
The time because we are talking radio commercials. But at
the time of that commercial, the other big one was
that Dear John one with the guy That was a
famous TV commercial that people seem to love.

Speaker 15 (01:15:06):
Yeah, advertising best take You video tapes. Yeah, I don't
know what.

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
I don't know what happened to that company. I suppose
they went back when he was fifty years old. Dan,
there doesn't say who sang it down? What happened with
that ad? Right, because I did a story where I
did the railway documentary on the Aird. You know that ad, right?

Speaker 15 (01:15:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
It was the Kingston Yeah, that's right, and the film
partly on the Kingston crime and partly up and Pikak.
They just had a stationary carriage just rocked. There was
a fantastic ad, but what's the situation with ads? Everyone
was signed up and there's an old woman in the ad,
an elderly woman.

Speaker 17 (01:15:49):
Yeah, and she.

Speaker 1 (01:15:52):
Wouldn't sign a release for the ad to keep running.
So normally when an ad runs, you know, you get
your pay and then they say we're going to pay
for another another year. Here's another two grand for you. Yeah,
and she refused it and as a result it couldn't
get played again. So that was it. It died because
it'd still be good now, I mean a crunchy bar
is still a good bar.

Speaker 15 (01:16:11):
Well, there would still be a good Yeah, you're right,
it'll still be a great head.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
It's not offensive. But it had Nazis and it did it.
It had Nazis and and I think in the longer
version of Troops, but that was that's that's nothing that
Hogan's heroes didn't do.

Speaker 15 (01:16:33):
Nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
Hang on, Dan's coming to me, What are you saying, Dan? Yes, yes,
I think Murray Grinley, who wrote the song the ad
Man he performed on it, Calvin, I think that's the answer.

Speaker 15 (01:16:51):
No, there's a lot of things I think today and
days gone, but we've just got so bloody peace on us. Well,
I don't know what technic. It's just to my liking.
I mean, I'm nearly seventy, but just so much PC
crap in the world today. You can't laugh at first.
I can't say that to some group.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Of will you where will you move to? Calvin?

Speaker 15 (01:17:16):
The blocks of somewhere and just would be like away,
taking my guitar and just you know.

Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
Write a song about it. Calvin, build a bridge. Oh
I very much, old man shouts at crowd there. Anyway,
we're talking radio. I don't know what the rate I mean,
I don't want to go back to the break my ditches,
but it is radio commercial day. I don't know what
the great jingles of the last You've got to put
a time frame on otherwise you get back in a
really old nostalgia. It sounds like Jim Sutton's in my day,
But there have been some classic jingles of research. What

(01:17:42):
are the ones I like to sing down? I like
the Sand and Water World, I like driving Miss Daisy.
What's the other ones? I like the crown. Nothing like
a crown, putting it up and putting it down. There's
some very good regional ones. The Invo cargo, all Lay,
All Lay, All Lay, the carpet place just across the road,
by the way with the purple cars. Waxies. You can

(01:18:03):
go to Waxies for dinner was always a good on
the radio. You can go to Waxes for lunch when
you could anyway. So in an hour on phones, an
hour on supermarket trolleys, no one wants the window washes
to come back at the intersections. There's a surprise. Wow,

(01:18:27):
that took a long I mean it took a long time.
It's only tonight they reculd that. Actually, probably they did
get rid of them, because I've never had them down south.
But on my recent so'so ends up to the big Smoke,
I've never seen them, so it must have been resolved.
There you go, Ah, get in touch, Marcus till twelfies.

(01:18:53):
It was Murray Grimley apparently that wrote the commercial and
wrote the song for the Crunchy Bar. Yes, still please,
it's still lasted. It'll be the next one they get
rid of. I wouldn't mentioned he wasn't. The underdogs, of course,
lead singer from them. Yep, hey a the rugby leagues

(01:19:19):
on as well, the Bulldogs versus the Panthers. But the
Panthers have changed the team completely. Well they'd have to.
They had two heartbreaking losses and they're down to seventh
on the hit parade. They were going to be in there, well,
they were in the top four, but they had took
those two of those last minute losses, one with a
dropkick and one with a dummy or the other one

(01:19:41):
was a drop kick that was run down, wasn't it.
The other one was a Harry Grant took the ball
and just dodged her and scored. So anyway, keep your
dated with that score. It's five minutes gone and there
is no score.

Speaker 7 (01:19:57):
M oh.

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
So the video is thanks for that person earning money
from coin trolley's five hundred dollars per day. Oh, get
a drone to follow them trolleys with a loud speaker
screaming out thievery Marcus, did you know that directly Benow
the handlebar of the metal trolleys is a metal loop.

(01:20:23):
That's where you hang your bachelor's handbag.

Speaker 17 (01:20:25):
Lull.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
That's the roto chicken, Marcus. The Denny's head has always
been a good one for radio. What's the Denny's head? Oh, Denny's, Dene's, Deanne's, Deanne's, Deanne's, Dene's, Dene's,
Dene's Denny's. You don't know if I remember that one.
Dani's just put it in my ear through the headphones. Greetings,

(01:20:47):
welcome people. My name is Marcus hit till twelve o'clock tonight.
Hope you're good. I hope you're getting better as the
night goes on. It's the radio commercial day. Yeah, that's right.
What are the jingles?

Speaker 6 (01:21:00):
Dan?

Speaker 1 (01:21:00):
Do we make a list of the jingles? We've lost some,
haven't we have the last couple of years. You might
want to If you want to sing a jingle, you're
more than welcome. We are talking about supermarket trolleys and
young kids with cell phones. That's two of the topics
in Auckland. The hope for Auckland, they reckon. Auckland needs
a big event. I just don't know what that big

(01:21:21):
event is. So you probably want to fall Mount Smart
for ten nights with some great act But the people
could come from all over the world. But what it's
going to get people to come from Australia to Auckland.
I can't think what it would be. I mean, basically,

(01:21:43):
in terms of tourism, Auckland's only hope is inbound tourism,
isn't it, And that tends to be motor events or
music or I reckon that sailing's good. But I mean
that's something going to work for a couple of years.
It's It's slightly gimmicky, isn't he. I think people go
for ten years to that. I don't know. It might
be a one and done sort of one, but yeah,
that's the sort of events that Auckland's going to need

(01:22:05):
to area outside money and fill up the hotel rooms.
I can't work out what they are. I don't know
what The hugely successful events in Auckland the past have been.
Probably the best they could do and it'd have to

(01:22:31):
pay for it. Would be to get a State of
Origin match, which is not beyond the realms of possibility.
That would be huge for Auckland. Perhaps the other thing
would be to get Magic Round when all the teams
play in the same stadium. That would not be beyond
the realms of possibility.

Speaker 15 (01:22:49):
I know that.

Speaker 1 (01:22:50):
Brisbane have that for a number of years. But I
think they pay handsomely for the rights for that. But
that Auckland's got to be bold and spend some money,
probably because the stories that out of Auckland are all bad.
The boss of the boss of Greg Fron avenues in
and he wants the bad tax it seems in Auckland
to get more money for Auckland and the Queen streets

(01:23:12):
a lot of eat empty retail shops and stuff. I mean,
it'll come right. This is going to take a while
because the economy is going to turn around. There's no
signs that it is well. I can't see any signs.
It's what Ron about tonight, Get in touch, Marcus till twelve.
That's me. Oh, there's a great ad at a couple

(01:23:36):
of people loving the diamond fusion ad. Don't spend an
hour cleaning the shower, do it in a minute with
diamond fusion. That's right, that's a ripper. Yeah, diamond fusion
never bought it, but I have spent an hour cleaning
the shower. But manely, it's about super market trolleys and

(01:23:57):
children on their cell phones. The fact, as soon as
you're walking home from school, they're straight back on the phone.
They're missing on everything. But I don't know if it's
a problem where it's just a problem perception that I'm
an old person thing. Oh well, to shame of what
they're missing out on. Oh that's a good suggestion for
Auckland a Formula one circuit. Yeah, and look, I don't

(01:24:20):
know the realms of Formula one. I don't know. There
would be set things you would need for that, and
one of the things probably would be the availability of accommodation.
I know that we missed out on Taylor Swift could
didn't have enough acommodation. Probably would be the same with
Formula one. But yeah, I'm hearing you, so that's something.

(01:24:43):
But all these are things that can be discussed at
ten past ten. Get in touch if you want to
talk about these things or anything else tonight. Keep the
emails and texts coming through. So I've got about four
topics there currently. Any of those might be tear fancy,
but yeah, what would what would set Auckland off? I've
always thought they don't make enough of the volcanoes, but

(01:25:05):
I mean that's what it's got that's unique. I don't
know how much volcano tourism there is, but they've never
really tried. Oh, Marcus, I don't remember it was a
TV or radio jingle. What about the one about Missus
Fryer bringing around a Bayer. I think that was a
TV one. The think about the great radio jingles is

(01:25:25):
they've gone forever, and every time you think of a product,
the jingle crops up in your mind. If it's a forkliff,
you'd start singing, there's nothing like a crown, or if
it's I don't know the others, by the way, So
that's what we're on about tonight. Marcus. Years ago on
TV could have been the fair Girl of the Home Show.

(01:25:45):
I think it was a home show. A helicopter flew
over an area spotting supermarket trolleys. They spotted several in
backyards and streams, but the best one, the best was
someone that a fire under trolley. It was barbecuing sausages.
I think it was a home show. I think it
might have been Mike Valentine. I remember that story and
looking back at that comedy, I'm sure it was a
setup with a person barbecuing sausages. That's my inference from that.

(01:26:10):
I think it was students in Dunedin. Marcus, I love
the freedom medical alert.

Speaker 13 (01:26:15):
Oh is that?

Speaker 1 (01:26:15):
Freedom gives you a piece of mind? Freedom gives you
what are the other lyrics? Freedom gives you a piece
of mind? Is it coming up? Danding? Gives your piece
of something all day or night? What's an expert something
something day or night? Yes, so that's a Goody's your
piece of mind as use as your day all night?
So is that two tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:26:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:26:37):
So it's jingles your favorite. You might have some of
the regional ones, because of course we all had different ads.
That's the beauty of radio. What are some of the
great regional radio jingles for car yards and stuff? And
we've got all a all a all a for carpets.
Oh and the other good one in the cargo is
Phoenix Services one stop, Phoenix Services one stop. They just

(01:26:59):
their handy man. I shouldn't they just handy man? But
they do everything. Phoenix Services one stop, the one stop
Phoenix Services, one stop. Fredding with your peace of mind.
You people a lot of votes for that. We're not
it's not really a voting thing, but I'm happy to vote.
Canterbury are over Penwrith for nil two the days it's

(01:27:20):
a caught of it gone. But yeah, they're looking up.
They are dominant Canterbury. But yes, it's a B string
for Penrith. And I can tell you that the coach
looks stressed in the box. Susie, this is Marcus. Welcome
and good evening.

Speaker 20 (01:27:35):
OHI good evening, Marcus. I ring up because I think
we've got to take in your approach to everything brilliant,
modern mold and I think schools are outdated. I think

(01:27:58):
every I think the whole l like the government should
make the whole of New Zealand Wi Fi free.

Speaker 1 (01:28:06):
Wow, I said, what a great idea, and then no
one can get any information. What about what about hospitals?
Hospitals redundant? Oh well, I'm.

Speaker 20 (01:28:17):
Talking about education. I'm not going into the hospital things.
But I think with education like wi fi should be free.

Speaker 1 (01:28:27):
So and I think I thought, I thought you want
to use it in too, be wi Fi free? Oh
that's different. I thought you'd be. I thought you're anti
five g h nah.

Speaker 20 (01:28:37):
I just I just wanted to three Susie.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
Have you been listening to the show.

Speaker 20 (01:28:43):
Not really, I just sort of caught a little bit
of it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:47):
Have you got a radio?

Speaker 20 (01:28:49):
Yes, okay, I've changed it off.

Speaker 1 (01:28:52):
God, oh perfect, that's a good thing.

Speaker 20 (01:28:54):
Yeah, because I'm talking to you that, I'm just talking
about education. I think the government should make the whole
of New Zealand Wi Fi free, and I think that
it would be amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
And I think, hang on, hang on, you think the
whole of New Zealand should should not be Wi Fi free,
but should have free Wi Fi.

Speaker 20 (01:29:21):
Yeah, the whole of New Zealand should have free Wi Fi.

Speaker 1 (01:29:24):
I can understand now, who would pay for that?

Speaker 20 (01:29:29):
Well, we would out of our Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:29:32):
Okay, so the government would fund that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:33):
You copy that.

Speaker 1 (01:29:34):
Yeah, schools, you reckon the schools, get rid of them
and do what with the land and the buildings live
in them.

Speaker 20 (01:29:41):
Well, and instead of kids having to go to school
for six hours a day, schools can become a hub
where you can go there and there's the library with
computers or you know, for kids that aren't safe at home,

(01:30:04):
they can still go there, but it should be more
of a hub and tutoring custom.

Speaker 1 (01:30:16):
When you've got anything to mention about any of the
other topics, because I mean, I like what you're saying,
but it feels a bit dry and a bit pessimistic.

Speaker 20 (01:30:22):
No, I don't think I think it's futuristic.

Speaker 1 (01:30:26):
It could.

Speaker 20 (01:30:26):
Yeah, yeah, I don't feel its pessimistic at all.

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
Okay, you're you're a visionary. Anyone ever called you a visionary?

Speaker 21 (01:30:39):
Um?

Speaker 20 (01:30:41):
Not really, but yeah, I can see what's coming. So
let's embrace it and I can.

Speaker 1 (01:30:49):
Leave it this so as you.

Speaker 25 (01:30:49):
But thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
There's no mistaking good on Ess Baking Cooplan's the taste
you love Cracker. Marcus Turner's carding is great. Give us
your Honda on to give us your ford Lord, yourness
and Maxima doctor. But all a a a, all a
carpets from rob Someone says Drysdale Liquor underneath the new
Market Viaduct. It was the family favorite, the old the

(01:31:11):
slickuster underneath of new Market Viaduct. I mean, weren't there
all the time, and I certainly remember visits there. Marcus
favorite radioheads have to be the Martin Dunn Ones three
Sexy voice in music? Do I know about those Martin
dun Property?

Speaker 23 (01:31:27):
Is it him?

Speaker 1 (01:31:29):
Is he in the one that's into the property revival?

Speaker 21 (01:31:31):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (01:31:31):
Is it him? Mount Roskill's coming back? I think that,
I think I've heard that is no, Marcus. One of
the best radioeads was wikeraka park, rolling in the dark,
racetrack anthem for the place, walker in a hall where
the diamonds shine? What a classic. Freedom gives you a
peace of mind, you know, the safe day and night. Marcus?

(01:31:54):
What about selas your car Selea's your car seleas your
carrot tip to my favorite Marcus, I have the freedom
medical alert jingle, don't we all? What about some of them?
Were some of the great Christie jets that they beg
on the radio out the why Tormot fuel aad that
the woman sings it doesn't want to be known for it?
I love that. It's the longest dad too, isn't it?

(01:32:19):
But there must be some regional ads that are famous.
What about the Boomer? The boomer is the boomer on
the hills above the harbor to Wellington restaurant one. I
think that's been a while back, but that's the Otherwise
we'll be talking about Wi Fi free and you might
want to work that. I don't have a problem with that.
I'm fairy free and easy about what we talk about

(01:32:40):
it as always, actually hobby broadcaster. Isn't it funny how
Quantus made such a huge profit in Near New Zealand
hasn't It feels like Australian economies come back, spark back
a bit quicker. Let's be hearing from you, Marcus. Love
all the ads you mentioned, also the Turners adds. There

(01:33:01):
are a couple of local ones Harrison Garden Center and
Fielding Livey Cafe. I'd like to hear those actually, can't
imagine the Fielding Library Cafe was having a jingle. But
there we go on the downside, a cringe and electrics
advertising and heat pumps the company to a guy with
an appalling voice saying to the tune of amazing grace.

(01:33:21):
Will you remember it though, Mary, that's what the people
will want to know, Marcus. With regards to your suggestion
of bringing the State of Origin to Auckland, it would
guarantee to sell out. However, as it's a midweek game,
it kicks off at ten pm and finished at midnight
with local noise laws, would they allow to finish that late,
especially as the winning supporters would want to celebrate the afterwards.

(01:33:42):
Extremely good point, and I imagine that the State of
Origin is so set in stone they wouldn't move it
to the weekend. They wouldn't move the time slots. I'm
hearing you because very much. It is on at Yeah,
it's on Wednesday every week at ten pm. So it's
a good point. And I mean they've been bad enough
about the Warriors moving, and I wonder how bad they'd
be about moving a state of Origin match to New Zealand. Yeah,

(01:34:05):
it's fair enough to half ask. But you know they
want to grow the game, or do they? They say
they do, but you don't see it twenty three past
ten if you want to mention that, amongst other stuff
tonight big events for Auckland that could bring in the money.
The doray Me Show, USh Crack. When you find your

(01:34:27):
vision lacking, Novus Glass will fill your cracking.

Speaker 5 (01:34:31):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:34:31):
I'm surprised people like, well, no, I shouldn't, sy I'm surprised.
That's good that people like that. It is radio commercial day,
not old. I mean a lot of text about old
TV commercials. That's not the vibe just yet, Kevin, this
is Marcus, welcome good over.

Speaker 12 (01:34:49):
Matt oh oh you mentioned some old commercials. I remember
that she's Chidder nothing fine, better than Chitner.

Speaker 5 (01:34:56):
They can be.

Speaker 12 (01:34:57):
Yeah, that's.

Speaker 5 (01:34:59):
Years ago.

Speaker 12 (01:35:00):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
I often think it's I often think it's good when
people talk about what they've rung up about, because sometimes
they get sidetracked, don't they.

Speaker 12 (01:35:07):
Okay, well the rugby league, okay, yeah, the rugby league
with in around what's going around the world. I think
it's so focused that we live in the sunn Hemisphere,
like down here we never got you know, in rugby
league's big over in Britain, it's huge. We're giving all

(01:35:29):
those guys and I.

Speaker 1 (01:35:30):
Don't care, Kevin. Rugby League in Britain's dying. Okay, they moved,
they moved it to the summer and now it looks
like the NRL are looking to buy the rights to
it to try and rejig it. I know that because
I heard them discuss that on the Meddi John Show.
But the numbers of people are tending it, it's not bigger. Yeah,
it's kind of died. I don't know why. But it's

(01:35:53):
really declined in the UK.

Speaker 12 (01:35:56):
Oh okay, yes, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:36:01):
Yeah, No, it's a recent thing. I thought it used
to be used to be huge, used to be absolutely huge.

Speaker 5 (01:36:10):
Ah.

Speaker 12 (01:36:11):
Or maybe times are changes, Maybe people are maybe people
are changing. Maybe actually, wouldn't you think about it's an
idea for you, Marcus. Maybe people are concerned about the
physical content and hurting shows bodies and they got away
from it. Yeah, okay, maybe they're realizing that people are

(01:36:35):
getting can casts and hurt and when was the last
time we sort of got in the league game. We're
on the hid unit, you know, quite.

Speaker 1 (01:36:45):
Often quite off the but regards they were in going
I'm going to move on, Kevin, but thank you. Someone
might want to talk about some of the points is
maybe I think that rugby leag's in real trouble and
though and the UK they keep having reviews to look
into it, but yeah, it's not going well at all,
and I don't really know what the reason for that is.

(01:37:07):
So someone might want to talk on there there. It's
been on the decline for thirty years, which is a
worry four nil can to we have a pen with
By the way, even the NFL was looking to buy
Super League. It used to be the dominant competition in
the world. Yeah, I think even France bet the UK

(01:37:35):
twenty six past ten. Keep those texts coming through. Oh,
if we haven't talked about the weather tonight. Also actually
Marcus Windy here tonight, muffin time and deneedn has a
good jingle growing up. Megan Turbo, Oh, Megan Turbo. We
have that one wrings a bell an instantly. We had
catchy jingles Marcus for Marcus and Dan, find the jingle

(01:37:58):
for piping hot, plumbers and fang and nui. They changed
them from time to time, catchy and pilot popular. That's
from sins our ghost good emoticons. Can't read them all.
Marcus called the Kofi guys. What do they advertise? The
Kofai guys. Dan call it the co fig What are they?
I don't know what they do? I remember they had

(01:38:18):
really well is it roofing goal the co Fi? Yeah,
you're right, just can't remember it, goll the go Fi
guys twenty eight past is it roofing? I think it's roofing.
But I'd love to hear your regional ones, Marcus. What
Aalcin needs is from anger Toto to erupt. Would be

(01:38:42):
nice if an evening down the beach, watching the lava,
listening to the sonic booms, well the magnum the reports
on the weekend. The magma's still hot, so I know
that because seawater is leeching down into it and it's
coming up hot, which means the Magma's still hot doesn't
mean it's going to blow again. It's exciting to think that.
I mean, there's footprints on there's footprints on Maltapoo from

(01:39:08):
where humans have walked through the larva as it was,
So it's happened in five hundred years ago, I think,
not that long ago. Hold your horse's ray with you soon.
Still four nil can to be over penwrith penwrith b team.
I think this is fifth versus no, it's second versus seventh.
Actually might be third versus seventh. I better check that

(01:39:29):
they move around towards the end of it, don't they
would the n L. Let me just look at the ladder.
Their dogs are third and the panthers are seventh. Oh
in the canterbor of your score. So it's eight zero,
But you get in touch. Full us up. Let's have
your calls. I'd love you to sing the jingles too,

(01:39:50):
if that's your jam, that's the right word for it. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty tatty and nine nine two to text.
If you want to come through, there's something else you
want to mention about what Aukland needs to get it going.
What would be the thing that would bring hundreds of
thousands of people to the city. They need a running

(01:40:11):
of the bulls or something like that. Well that tomato
thing they throw that's poplicate it with Kiwi fruit or
avocados or just thinking. Don't judge me. One of the
best dads on TV is Critter Creek. Almost can hear
where me with that one?

Speaker 14 (01:40:29):
West Pac says more employers should be making key Wei
Saver contributions for employees over the age of sixty five.
Nearly a quarter of Kiwi's are working past retirement case
in points, but there's currently no mandates for your employer
contributions to continue. And I have safely taken my Keywi
saver ouse.

Speaker 1 (01:40:47):
Yes good, I've you still got some left Tony.

Speaker 14 (01:40:50):
Oh us, they're still a little bit in the pot there.
I haven't wasted it all on.

Speaker 1 (01:40:53):
Good So tonight will you get key we save or no?

Speaker 14 (01:40:56):
No, that's right, No, no contribution, But then you know
I'm out of it, so I just have to leave that.

Speaker 1 (01:41:01):
But no other exciting And we don't really want to
use your bulletin to negotiate for different dish. It seems
kind of wrong, doesn't it.

Speaker 14 (01:41:11):
Canterbury the kick went over the conversion. That try was converted,
so there I had ten nil at the moment over Penrith.
And I've seen something interesting in this game that I
haven't seen before, and that is Penrith on the fourth
tackle when they've kicked, they've kicked several times to touch,
which is quite interesting. How I had to kick contestable
So Cannoby, you've had to start from a static position
in the center of the field, which quite interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:41:33):
You never see that, You never see that.

Speaker 14 (01:41:34):
No, it's very seldom saying. This is the first Carton
Senate constant. So what is Cooper Kronk he's got on
his comments?

Speaker 1 (01:41:40):
What's he said? Why are they doing?

Speaker 2 (01:41:42):
That?

Speaker 1 (01:41:42):
Is because he's not short of a comment. Does he
mention anything?

Speaker 14 (01:41:44):
No, I haven't been listening to the I've just been
watching it thinking this is just fascinating watching what I think.
The young Penrith guys are doing a great job. So
it's been quite an interesting game.

Speaker 1 (01:41:56):
Yep, Thanks Tony. Twenty eight away from eleven, Rayot's Marcus welcome, Hello.

Speaker 23 (01:42:02):
Marcus here are you good?

Speaker 1 (01:42:03):
Thanks?

Speaker 7 (01:42:04):
Ray?

Speaker 23 (01:42:05):
Yeah? Remember the old days here with the Cheersdale cheese.

Speaker 1 (01:42:10):
Yes, cheers and Barrow.

Speaker 23 (01:42:13):
We are the word from down on the farm. We
really know geese, we've not been running when Cheesdal and
never failed to please Cheesdale Slutters, didn't he never come.
There's no weight and it's kind of mighty tea. Cheesdal
cheese as fine as chair and made.

Speaker 1 (01:42:29):
Me the Yeah you remember that one, Yeah, I do.
But but to be fair, I don't think that was
ever a rate. We are talking radio commercials, so that's
a bit of topic creek. Next thing you know, we'll
be having my Ditches or KFC.

Speaker 25 (01:42:40):
So yeah, yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:42:42):
And the other one was on the Indo Island, remember
the one Who's on your doorland?

Speaker 8 (01:42:49):
Well that the wire ties that brought that out, wasn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:42:52):
That's right? A very good song, very good son, that was.

Speaker 12 (01:42:55):
I think they made they made an oldp of that.

Speaker 1 (01:42:58):
I don't know if I don't know if it was
quite if it matched up with the experience.

Speaker 23 (01:43:04):
Yeah, but it was because on the days here with
when the theories are running, running the time and running
good it was. It was a good head. But I mean,
nowadays you don't know when they're going to be running,
when they're going to be grounded or.

Speaker 22 (01:43:19):
Are you.

Speaker 23 (01:43:23):
So you missed them?

Speaker 1 (01:43:24):
Old ends here that the have you got another? Where
are you listening from? Ray?

Speaker 23 (01:43:31):
We we had a bit of an electrical storm here
the other day, just a while ago here in Makepole
we got and and and new talks. He beating gets goes,
goes dead for a while there with the electrical storm.
Wow the coach and we've got one belt that right

(01:43:51):
over the top of blackball And the radio went off
about two minutes or a minute and a half, two
minutes before it got back on again.

Speaker 1 (01:43:59):
What's the famous Westport radio jingle? Is there one? Is
there one local retailer that's had the same song forever?

Speaker 23 (01:44:07):
Now they have uh Lynn sometimes runs meadows up there
and the thing there and then Williamson there and the
Monday to Friday they talked of Tony Fortune at the
reefed and but he's just he always gives the weather forecasts,

(01:44:29):
uh Lynn Griffiths the Coast FM.

Speaker 1 (01:44:35):
And what's what that person fall down the mine shaft?

Speaker 12 (01:44:42):
Just curiosity?

Speaker 23 (01:44:43):
I think the s.

Speaker 5 (01:44:46):
There was it was Colne Dwarf.

Speaker 23 (01:44:47):
That was.

Speaker 2 (01:44:49):
The time side mine, the.

Speaker 23 (01:44:53):
Nobson on on on the on the they slooping around
and there, and of course an inconvenience here for them
searching news.

Speaker 1 (01:45:04):
It no word on the old guy that went missing.
They've just stopped looking for him, haven't they.

Speaker 23 (01:45:11):
Well also, no, I don't know whether nice.

Speaker 1 (01:45:16):
To hear from you. Thank you, Ray, keep it going.
Twenty five to eleven, Nigel Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:45:22):
Good evening, Marcus. Was that last call from black Ball?

Speaker 17 (01:45:26):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (01:45:27):
It could well have been just se Yeah, I don't know.
I thought he was from Wisport, but I wasn't listening
that closely.

Speaker 21 (01:45:32):
Sounded like Black Bull.

Speaker 2 (01:45:34):
Have you tried?

Speaker 21 (01:45:35):
Like they make beautiful sausages? Yes, can you buy them
on the supermarket and the Vocago Black Ball Sausages.

Speaker 1 (01:45:43):
Wasn't there some trouble there? What happened with the Black
Bull Sausage place?

Speaker 21 (01:45:48):
I have no idea? Okay, as it closed down? You
mean like did they have a fire or something? And
when they got burnt down? And when out of business
something like that? You mean, or how by an earthquake
or something or what?

Speaker 1 (01:46:07):
I don't like to say. Wasn't there some sort of
I might have in the Black Ballsalami company? But there
was some sort so I think someone got killed or something?
Was that remember about ten years ago?

Speaker 13 (01:46:19):
No?

Speaker 21 (01:46:19):
I know nothing about so they're still in business. So
if I go to Freshos.

Speaker 1 (01:46:26):
Tomorrow, Niger, why do you ask me questions? What would
I know about the sausage company in black Ball?

Speaker 8 (01:46:34):
Well?

Speaker 21 (01:46:34):
I thought when I mentioned them, it sounded like you've
tried them.

Speaker 1 (01:46:40):
Oh when I was there. Yeah, And I know they're famous,
but I don't know where they I don't know what
their distribution and I could look for you where do
you want to? Are you Inderneeda?

Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
No?

Speaker 21 (01:46:48):
I know where to buy them in Dunedin. I know
where to buy them and not every supermarket sales and
I know where to buy them. And I was going
to say that if I went up to Fresh Choice,
I wouldn't find them in the buschery section tomorrow. That's
what I was going to ask you, because it sounded
like the business had gone. You know, it doesn't exist.

Speaker 1 (01:47:13):
Anymore, Okay, much about that.

Speaker 21 (01:47:17):
Businesses come and go. You know, there's no more Inner
Statams anymore, and places like that, you know, and Prussia
and Pike all left. Yeah, we used to make ranges
and dishwashers at the Tiree years ago. You knew that, Marcus.

Speaker 1 (01:47:36):
Now, have you got a jingle for me? What are
the great denat radio James.

Speaker 21 (01:47:40):
Ah, well, the company had done the good jingle. They've
closed down. It was Southern Motor Group. Southern Motor Group
was that was where do all the best looking cars
come from? Southern Motor Court? Southern Motor Court. Yeah, you
get the drift.

Speaker 1 (01:47:56):
Yeah that sounds good because you hear it offerial, even
if the bad ones. You hear it offer enough. You
start singing along, don't you.

Speaker 22 (01:48:04):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:48:05):
But they can't play it anymore because that castles is
no longer there. They shifted out Anderson's Bay Road near
the the rat and fested supermarket, and they've changed their names.

Speaker 6 (01:48:20):
Mind.

Speaker 1 (01:48:20):
Did they've done well with the rats for a while
there there was every supermarket and the country seem to
have rets. I've heard no stories for a year.

Speaker 21 (01:48:27):
Yeah. It didn't give Countdown a good name. Is that
why they changed their name back to.

Speaker 17 (01:48:31):
All with Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:48:33):
I don't know that. It's a good question, because there
was one way, Marcus. There was a second in the
Kumera Sellard too, wasn't there?

Speaker 21 (01:48:40):
Marcus? Can I get onto the city rail and can Auckland.
There's going to be a game changer for Auckland.

Speaker 1 (01:48:46):
Isn't that game changer. Well, it's going to be a
game changer if they get the planning consent right, so
people can build much denser around the stations and it
could be you know, it could be, it could be
all fixed for the next fifty years.

Speaker 13 (01:48:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:48:59):
And how how far right from the Auckland Central Auckland
CBD and a radius how far does it go out underground?

Speaker 1 (01:49:10):
So it comes in and you've got Britain Mart which
is what called what now? Don Is it called White Matar?

Speaker 17 (01:49:15):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (01:49:17):
The stations have changed the name. So when was the
last w in Auckland, ah.

Speaker 21 (01:49:22):
Years ago that I've never been to Britain Mar. I've
only been to the old Auckland Railway station works further
out from the CBD.

Speaker 1 (01:49:29):
Yeah, and that's nothing now that was turned into apartments.
So right down the bottom of Queen Street right, so
where Queen Street meets Key Street with the old post officers.

Speaker 21 (01:49:39):
Yeah, is the Britta Mar where the old Chief post office.

Speaker 1 (01:49:43):
Yes, it is part of the old Chief Post Office.

Speaker 21 (01:49:45):
I think, Yeah, that's what I thought, but I've never
been there.

Speaker 1 (01:49:48):
That's now called the White Matar station. And from there
do you know where Kranga Happy Roads?

Speaker 22 (01:49:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:49:54):
I know Karrenga Happy Road. Is that the next station?

Speaker 1 (01:49:57):
No, the next station. It goes from White to Matar
to t y hotter Chu station, which is up by
our tear center, Okay, and then you've got the Harpy station.
Then you've got the Manga Pho station. So there's four stations,
and between White and Mata and two is one kilometer
and it's two kilometers in direct lineup to clang A

(01:50:19):
Harpey station. So between the bottom one and the top
one of three ks might actually it's not. It's one
kilometer between the bottom two and one kilometer between the
next two.

Speaker 21 (01:50:30):
Yeah, it sounds I'm interested to go and see it
after it's open. Is there only four stations underground?

Speaker 1 (01:50:42):
Look, there's three and Maunga Fo which is the old
mounted and that's in an open trench. Do you call
that underground? I think Baker Street the original underground station
was an open trench they covered up. So yeah, I've
got to be careful with the terminology. But yeah, I
don't think it's a I think it's an open trench station. Laurie,
this is Marcus.

Speaker 17 (01:51:01):
Welcome, Hi Marcus. So yeah, there's one head that seems
to catch the attention on the men or two news
talk lately, and it's an outfit called or Mad Tom's
Mad Tom's Restaurant in Martin. I think it's got a

(01:51:22):
bit of a jingle. Yeah, it's a I've got a
website and they're in the lower High Streets.

Speaker 1 (01:51:28):
Posedly, Uh, it would take a bit of effort to
get people from Palmerston to go up for a fee
to Martin, wouldn't it.

Speaker 22 (01:51:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:51:35):
Yeah, Well, supposedly they're offering the best place for food, drinks, a.

Speaker 1 (01:51:39):
Live entertainment and a game of pool, isn't it.

Speaker 15 (01:51:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:51:45):
Somebody on trip Advisor must have gone in there and
asked for what about the vegetarian menu? And I said
if they could make a vegetarian Maine. I was told
I could get the wedges with a bacon. I'd taken off.

Speaker 1 (01:52:02):
What's the place called Mad Tom's.

Speaker 17 (01:52:04):
Mad Tom Mad Tom's Martin.

Speaker 15 (01:52:07):
Yeah, just.

Speaker 1 (01:52:12):
To breakfast? Yeah, which is what is the white bite
in the breakfast?

Speaker 17 (01:52:20):
I haven't gone right through the menus.

Speaker 1 (01:52:22):
Well, look looks like there's white there.

Speaker 17 (01:52:25):
The name sort of stuck when you I've been I've
been hearing in the last few weeks. I've been playing
the edge quite a bit. So yeah, it's enough to
attract some attention there.

Speaker 1 (01:52:37):
Yeah you can't remember the jingle, can no?

Speaker 17 (01:52:40):
I can't, can't just touching on on phones and teenagers
stately enough. I'm at the stage now where I'm a
I'm a great uncle. Yes, yes, it turns out my
great nephew has ended up playing in a or the
first eleven soccer tournament and Pami with teams from in

(01:53:03):
New Zealand have been playing up at Messy all week.

Speaker 23 (01:53:06):
Uh.

Speaker 17 (01:53:07):
And I've been up there to watch a few games. Hell,
a lot of teenagers around and not a phone to
be seen, and they're great.

Speaker 1 (01:53:13):
That's that's the look, and I suspect that's the reality
to Laurie, So thank you for that. That's the answer.
That's what we need to know. They're watching sport then
on their phones. By the way, Southern Boys, Hi, they
play a little There are Boys High tomorrow for a
final appearance, and then he's in a schoolboy rugby championship.
The other schools I think are west Lake Boys. Is

(01:53:38):
it Westlake Boys? I don't know who the third one is,
so the fourth it might be Hastings, it might be
Parmeston North. But anyway, so that's tomorrow. I think that's
live streaming live if you want to watch it. Marta
Marta Post and Rails has a great jingle.

Speaker 2 (01:53:56):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:54:00):
Marcus. My brother returned from his two year OI five
months ago, lots of bright ideas. Tonight we had a
debate which did get a bit heated. He's actively and
annoyingly promoting that it should be man to treat a
drive with headlights on day and night. Of course this
sounds like a bad dinner. That sounds like a talkback
night dinner. Car headlight bulbs are more experenceive the house
light bulbs. And a question he couldn't answer, what the

(01:54:20):
average life span of car headlights? Someone will know. Oh,
get in touch, welcome people. My name is Do I
tell you what the elections have been heading up? There's
been a big public meeting in Mount Eden tonight, apparently
Hall and Mount Eden. If he picked up for a
public meeting side over concerned about high rise apartments and

(01:54:42):
the loss of special character status for hundreds of villas
and bungalows in the wider neighborhood, you think the people
would be wanting to creck cash in and sell their
house for an absolute rents. And when the quarter acre
section there were some people that were for it, and
Paul Goldsmith was there. So there we go. Because the

(01:55:09):
government wants two million houses in Auckland. Marcus led car
lights would have a ten thousand hour lifespan. Thank you
for that, Marcus. Was a jingle for another station qualified,
but the jingle for the breeze christ Church was a beauty,
very nicely saying not sure if it's still around Garden
City or a friend of mine. There's no place I'd
rather be Garden City or a friend of mine. You've

(01:55:30):
sure got a friend in the breeze. I think that
jingle is used in every They just have different cities.
Harbor City, Garden City, Auckland City, Windy City. I don't
know what it is in chross Church anyway, we've got
commercials are Windy City here a friend?

Speaker 22 (01:55:47):
No, what is it?

Speaker 1 (01:55:47):
What is it in Wellington? Because someone tell me what's
the breeze jingling Wellington? Someone will know, Pete, this is Marcus.
Welcome there, Marcus good. Thanks Pete, thanks for asking real good.

Speaker 24 (01:56:00):
Regarding what you said about the data places where the
train start down Lawtan I think it's just a sign
of times. I've almost on the faith in the world
the same thing. So maybe the developers or the counsels
should say, the people that eventual will get the property
is taken away from them. This indevit, what's going to happen. Uh,

(01:56:21):
maybe they should say, those people, they take those chiptoms away,
we'll give you the pinhouse sweet on the top of that.

Speaker 1 (01:56:29):
Yeah, well they could do it. They could do a
deal with the developers. If you've got a quarter acron mound, Eden,
you know, you get ten million from the from the developers,
they put you on the top floor. You get two
levels for that.

Speaker 24 (01:56:40):
Well, there's one place here and you Plymouth. Few years
ago they used to sell motorbikes, you know with the
memorial monumentage here and you used to be calendar theys
to sell motibikes there apartments.

Speaker 1 (01:56:56):
Thought they're going to talk about a jingle. Yep, yep, yep, yep,
you understand.

Speaker 24 (01:57:00):
So what happened was he said, oh, that's fine, but
I want to I want an apartment in that bill
for free.

Speaker 1 (01:57:08):
That makes sense, And he got it because the only
reason the only way they can pay for that rail
loop is if they get a lot more with rates
and they only get a lot more with rates if
there's a lot more dense housing in the middle of
Auckland makes sense, doesn't it does?

Speaker 24 (01:57:23):
Today is to move on and those hoss there's a
beautiful spot. So now a hundred years gone all the way.

Speaker 1 (01:57:34):
You don't need a leaky, windy villa. Are you sound
quite reasonable? Peter?

Speaker 5 (01:57:38):
No, I reckon. It's finish.

Speaker 24 (01:57:41):
Before top top pen house. Talk fast?

Speaker 1 (01:57:46):
What's your what's the most remembered memorable radio jingle? Where
you are.

Speaker 22 (01:57:52):
Ready?

Speaker 1 (01:57:53):
Like, okay, we'll keep on with it.

Speaker 5 (01:57:56):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:57:58):
Oh, someone's reminded me too. What's the Can someone please
tell us the words to liquid Laundromat? Thanks? Paul T.
Your pile of laundry is done in a flash liquid laundromat.
I don't think there's a second verse, Marcus. The jingle
for Wellington should be well the last one turn out
the lights best, Leo Ward. Although it said the tingle
for Wellington, they've written a tea instead of a j

(01:58:20):
which is weird because the tea's not close to the
j How sad that some guys traveled around the world
for is are we and he's come back home for
a family dinner, and his conversation starters. We should drive
with the lights on twenty four to seven and been
to the Louver or to Stonehenge. Maybe he had What

(01:58:40):
have you heard any good jingles overseas? What would be
curious if someone involved in the advertising industry could financially
equate to what a great jingle is worth? Because I mean,
if at a great jingle for a great campaign must
be worth millions. I mean, jeep as you look at Tina,
look at Tina from Turner's and that Choo shoo Honda Rhonda,

(01:59:04):
and the shares must be through the roof and they
we own don't know, but I'll tell you what. You
get the right song and that white Tomo beautiful. I'm
looking forward to some of the regional famous commercials you're
but slow on those. I'm talking about current ones. I
don't want to talk about get usdntal because it's from

(01:59:25):
the nineteen fifties and that would horrify me because you know,
Jim Sutton was forever doing shows about I forget who
sang it actually overy there. I'm going down that road anyway,
but let's not do that. Get in touch, Marcus still twelve,
it is it is radio Jingle Day. Someone said the

(01:59:54):
piping hot plumbing, Andreina yed, Oh did you is that?
Is that one one of our stations?

Speaker 2 (02:00:01):
Dan?

Speaker 1 (02:00:02):
Have you opened it? Is it good? Is it a good? A?
Is it catchy? Where I wonder where it is? Okay, Marcus.
It's named after a local icon, Tom Tasker. He used
to Oh, this is mad Tom's who used to own
a pub down Martin Junction called Tom's tav And that

(02:00:24):
closed down and moved into town and took over the
old Martin's Men's Club owned by Tom's son grandson. Excellent
pub full of small town characters. You watch out about
small town Our final, oh semi finals. Thanks Doug for
the New Zealand schoolboy rugby Championships Fielding Agricultural High School.
Well well done them versus Westlake Boys High, South and

(02:00:46):
Boys High versus thoth of there were Boys High. Fielding
is co ed and interesting has more abs who've played
one hundred more games for the AB's at any other school,
namely Sam Whitelock, Aaron Smith, and Cody Taylor. Are well
done to the state education system. So despite all those
fancy pants schools poaching players. None of them are there
building Egg High School. Westlake Boys, Southland Boys, I know

(02:01:10):
are boys high and i think Southland Boys is famous
for producing more all black captains than any other school,
and I'm pretty sure that still stands. I'll fect chicken.
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