There shouldn't be car parks anywhere (11 September 2025)

Marcus talks getting the right kind of phone for you, and wades into whether certain structures in Christchurch are worth rebuilding (or building in the first place).

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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Speaker 3 (00:14):
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for a while, you must be keen to talk hither.

(00:35):
It's Marcus, good evening, Hi hither here.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
I'm not afeated to say where I'm from, Nelson, but
a friend of mine bought a new smart fight. You're
in Nelson, ah, oh, I don't want you to say that.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Okay, Okay, you're in Wellington yep.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yeah, okay. And she's had a few problems with her
trying to learn how to use it and all that
sort of thing, and she went into Spark and ask
for their help and all she got was, oh, we
could have sold you a fine for uh someone. They

(01:14):
can't work them. No, they weren't helpful at all.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
It's a shame she's not ringing you hang on hither.
It's a shame she's not ringing, but you're ringing because
you weren't there were you?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
No, it wasn't.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
It's a shame because.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
And I said, no, we could tell your phone for dope.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
For what for?

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Don't people that can't learn anything?

Speaker 3 (01:45):
How's that spelled?

Speaker 6 (01:48):
The u k A?

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Is it a term? Is it an offensive term?

Speaker 7 (01:53):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (01:54):
To me it is?

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yes. Really well, why why would you say that someone
who had sold you are fine as fat and then
tell you that you were a user using it?

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Where is your friend? Can't she ring?

Speaker 9 (02:17):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (02:18):
She can?

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Was she going to ring me tonight?

Speaker 4 (02:21):
No? I don't think so, because she doesn't know I've done.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Oh, okay, that's kind of you to do that. I've
always had very good experience with Spark. I've always thought
they've been phenomenal.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
And I have two I have also had very good
experiences with her. But this particular outfit is not very
ah nice to people only people.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, I mean okay, I can understand.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
I mean I have the same problem to it times.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
What was the problem? What was the problem with their pine?
Was she too, Was she too? Was she unable to
use it?

Speaker 4 (03:02):
No, she was able to use it by something? What's
coming up? Old who cell phone that she'd never seen before?
Doesn't know what they were and all that sort of thing.
And I have had that tape.

Speaker 11 (03:13):
What it look like?

Speaker 4 (03:16):
I don't know, but I haven't seen her, but my
children to me, I'm about the same age as her,
and my children have got me a phone that's comparedive
mole show. There's so if I get in trouble, I
can text them or call them and say, well, I'm
in trouble. What's us happening?

Speaker 12 (03:38):
But what what.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Sort of phone is? What sort of phone have you got?

Speaker 13 (03:41):
Hither?

Speaker 4 (03:42):
I've got a smartphone?

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Really well?

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Yeah, and this person is just transfood to a smartphone.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
And then and they're not they're not up for it.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Well, they're trying to get up to it, but they're
not getting any help from smart.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
How do you.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Seventy eight?

Speaker 3 (04:05):
I reckon you need to go to elderly concern or
something that can talk you, well, not you, because you
have susta as the other person needs to go somewhere
that can teach them how to use their phone or
get a teenager.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah, while she's got her son that's gone through and
helped them with a heck of a lot. And I'm
very lucky that I've got children that help make too.
And they made sure that when I updated to a smartphone,
that I'm going to phone the better all to.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
This sparka just selling phones and plans. I don't want
to spend for ages teaching someone how to use it.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
There's not a job, do you not think so?

Speaker 12 (04:49):
No?

Speaker 4 (04:51):
Okay, so I've got the wrong need of the story.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Other people might disagree with me, But yeah, I mean
because they make their money selling the phone, they're not
there to spend forever telling people how to use the phone.
You suppose you see what's quite good hither as you
go on YouTube?

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, but okay, this person hasn't even got a computer.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
But YouTube would be on a smartphone.

Speaker 14 (05:19):
Ah.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Look, you're talking to people who have never been in
control of any of this new technology.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Maybe she needs a dumb phone, Maybe she needs a
simpler phone.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
No, because she has a dumb phone. And I thought
that was very terrible for the piece and aspect to say,
or you should have a dumb fight.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Well that's what she needs.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
No, it's because you can. But you can't ring cutain people,
and you can't do this and you can't do that
if you've got a dumb phone.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Did you understand what I said about YouTube? You know
that YouTube's on your cell phone, don't you?

Speaker 4 (06:03):
No, I would never clothe that it's on myself.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
What do you use your smartphone for?

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Just ringing my family and ticking and messaging? And they
sort of say you can.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Do that all you do all the dumb.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
I think what your younger people have to realize us
we are older folk and we did not grow up
with all this technology.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, but I'm not the person ringing and complaining. You're
the person that had trouble with Spark. Yes, so you're
the people need to do something about that. And I suggested,
do you get on YouTube and do tutorials and learn
to do it? But but you're just blaming Spark.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
No, I'm not blaming spac But what just don't seem
to understand you younger people of as older people are
not up with us technology and no what to do.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
And that's probably why the person that spark said you
need a dumb phone, not a smartphone.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
Ah So I mean what does.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Either What does mean? Does that mean you agree with
me or you're angry?

Speaker 9 (07:24):
No?

Speaker 4 (07:25):
I don't disagree with her, and I don't disagree with Spark,
but I feel there's not enough information out need to
help the older people get into new technology.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
But why do you want to get into the new technology.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
Well, I don't bloody want to get under it.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Here we go, now we're swearing.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
No, I don't want to get it. I'd be happy
with us.

Speaker 9 (07:53):
Love the.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Landline and all that sort, right, I love a landline.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Hither I love a landline. And if there's an earthquake
and anything, your phone's still going.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Oh, I don't know that they would happen. You're still
leave your phone if there's an earthquake. I don't think
that will happen.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
If the earthquake and Christ chief, the landline still work,
Blessed Christ.

Speaker 11 (08:18):
That was their.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Savior, yes, but I don't think there will be their
savior now if there's another one fat taking it out?

Speaker 3 (08:29):
You're up to it. Are you going back to Spark
tomorrow with her? Are you going to go back to
Spark with her tomorrow? What's she going to do?

Speaker 4 (08:38):
I don't know. I don't know that that beats your choice.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
She a good person? Is she a good person?

Speaker 4 (08:47):
She certainly is, and a very very lovely person.

Speaker 9 (08:51):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Should she should she? Is she the sort of person
that should have a smartphone?

Speaker 15 (08:58):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (08:59):
Didory?

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Okay, yes, can keep listening because there'll be some Have
you got your radios? Have you got your radio on?

Speaker 7 (09:08):
No?

Speaker 4 (09:09):
No, I have to off because I said turned off.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
But will you turn it back on because there's some
good advice from people coming through for you. Okay, right, perfect?
I like this text? What's disappeared?

Speaker 16 (09:27):
Oh wait?

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Eighty ten eighty nine? Oh lord, banger of a first call? Marcus? Yes,
I agree, but a lot of texts, dog, she says,
I don't know what hold your horse? Edit's Marcus? Welcome?

Speaker 9 (09:44):
Goodness me. You're flowing off on.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Attention, haven't I?

Speaker 9 (09:48):
Have you been hit by a rocket?

Speaker 3 (09:52):
No? No, she's flown off on She flown off on attention. Yeah,
she's heated. I'll tell you what I'm going.

Speaker 9 (10:02):
To ring talk older people right throughout New Zealand that
there is a very good voluntary operation called Senior Net
and it's for older people, very moderate fees about ten
dollars for a lesson, and they have courses and all

(10:23):
sorts of things how to use your smartphone to set
the other thing. Yes, so there's good help out there,
and I.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Don't think I don't think Spark can spend all their
time helping people their phones because some of them, some
of the problems are quite long and complicated.

Speaker 9 (10:43):
Oh and everybody's at different levels. All phones are different. Yeah.
So it's senior Net and it's got I mean, if
you just Google it, it'll come up.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Okay, Senior Net. I appreciate that, and thank you Helena
at Smartus.

Speaker 8 (11:00):
Welcome worsh Roman.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Now outrageous. Now I've got a smartphone and I am
mind and I learned to use mine for nothing. But
all I do was mine is texting Spotify, and I
alluded to it. I can't do that, So is it
all I use mine for?

Speaker 3 (11:27):
So when this woman went to Spark and they said that,
they said they called her a duke. Is that what
she said? You'd have good hearing?

Speaker 15 (11:33):
She did?

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Now, I went to Rhodes On New Zealand and they
said to me, when you need a new phone. I said, no,
I don't. I'm happy with your phone.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Can you stop talking for sick? Helena Helena Dan, what
was the expression about a duke?

Speaker 17 (11:50):
She said, what is that?

Speaker 18 (11:52):
What?

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Hang on?

Speaker 18 (11:53):
What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (11:53):
A phone for dukes? Does that mean? Is that is
that an expression?

Speaker 15 (12:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Phone for I must have been dupes. It must have
been d u p eest. Was that what you'd mean? Yeah?
But she'd be meaning dupes, wouldn't she? Okay, she's saying
a phone for jeops. So I think a dups is
an idiot. I don't know if that's right, but yes,
back to you here the thanks for doing that. I
just had to work that out, Helena. Thanks for that.

(12:27):
So what did you want to go out and say? Helena?

Speaker 4 (12:31):
I think she meant you too. I've met one New
Zealand and I said, can you show me the something
wrong with my phone? And they said, look, you need
a new one. I said, no, I don't. I'm happy
with you one I've got. You show me help me
such a problem. I said, I've told you, don't you listen.

(12:53):
I don't want a new phone. I'm happy with the
one i've got. Sirih talks to me and I've got
I've got a phone with her home button. I don't
need a new phone.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
And there's not a lot of tension coming through the
phone line here. All I'm saying right is there's a
lot of people that can't work their phones. Are funding
up to Spark and ask the people how their phones work.
The Spark can't spend their whole time teaching people how
to use their phones. They sell the phones, and some
people probably need to just go and do senior it
or get online to work out how to use their phones.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
We'll quickly. I won't keep this as fast as you
can do at the library. Yeah, old people how to
use the phones and are nearly seventy.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, you're you're nail nailing it.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
So the guys, I'll leave you a set now.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Hang on, Hang on, a lot of people, what do
you see because you've you just basically want a dumb
phone with Spotify because you like your music rights.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
But I haven't got a dumb phone of an Apple.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah, but you don't need it, do you? Apart from Spotify?

Speaker 4 (14:03):
Tease?

Speaker 3 (14:04):
You can text on any old phone and.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Watching prisoner and stuff like that on it.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
YouTube prisoner yes, but the old one with yes yes?
How do you watch that with your small screen with
your blind Have you got some vision?

Speaker 4 (14:27):
I've got none. They just it's just a program that
just you know, you just need to listen to them.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Oh, I see what you're doing. I see an audio program.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
You Okay, so you know I'm I'm a damass excudents.
We should I hate the AI.

Speaker 12 (14:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
Well that's all I've got to say.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
I've enjoyed you a lot to thank you for that.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
Okay, thank you?

Speaker 3 (14:55):
By Helena twenty two past eight. A lot of texts,
some of it might be a phone for dopes. I'll
read the text so and if you've got anything to
add to this, feel free to come through. What I
reckon to happen is that woman's gone to the Sparkshopper
Nelson and ask them how about the stuff that's coming

(15:17):
off on your phone? And they said, maybe it's not
the right phone for you. Maybe you need a dumb phone.
And I imagine if someone says you need a dumb phone,
it's probably a short step from that for someone that
hasn't experience the term dumb phone to think of the
person's calling them dumb. But she would need a dumb phone,
because what would you need? I think for most people,

(15:41):
as long as you can call the text, that's what
you want on your cell phone. You wouldn't want much
other stuff otherwise a bit fidd leaf of fingers and
that would be my take from that, and one with
big buttons. But yes, there is a real problem there
with with people that not you be able to use
their phone and where they can go to for help

(16:01):
when their phone stops working. I don't know who's supposed
to provide their services. It's normally children or grant children.
Unless you're someone that can get on YouTube and look
at tutorials on that. We're not going to have YouTube.
You've got a dumb phone. So there's element of frustration there. Also,
there's also an element of paranora amongst smartphones for people
to thinking they're going to get scammed. We know about that.

(16:33):
I have a not so smartphone. I don't know the
indeed on Facebook and other stuff. I am happy tell
hither to go to the live where they have senior
knit and they can be very helpful. I believe. I'm
not sure what's going on right now, but I'm here
for Marcus. Do you feel like an egnity? Aren't Some

(16:53):
high schools have listened to where students give their time
to teach the older people how to use their phones.
They're very popular. Maybe you're cool. A good look into that,
soal don't think the high school kilds need her. The
lady having trouble with the smartphone should conduct your library.
I tended a course for retired people and how to
use a smartphone that costs nothing. She's windy. Cut her off,

(17:14):
Marcus says. Gil landlines are now linked to the internet.
They won't work if there is a disaster. My grandmother
is ninety nine. User iPad to keep an eye on
great grand kids through social media easily users video call
and she put the time and lunt and also the
new technology has been around for several decades now, it's
not new. Well, that's not quite right. The phones are

(17:38):
always updated. Public libraries have courses for the elderly. My
mother is eighty, has no issues with smartphones. Get with
the program, seventy year old age concern or the local
library be able to help the lady, Peter, Well, the library,
it's not the library's job. Give her my number, I'll
help hery Nelson. I won't give people numbers because you

(18:01):
could go around and rub her and don't feel terrible
and all the other texts are about rugby, they'll be
for Darcy. I'm sick of these people ring up and
say they can't do something because they're old and they're
only seventy or seventy six. I'm seventy. I feel young.
They're all going to confuse because the three G network

(18:21):
is turning off this year and the old phones won't work.
We have to go to four G at least. Is
there a four G dumb phone? That's what you want?
Why would you need a Wally phone if you're because
they're only good if you're out of the house. You
got your landline, that's what you want. Yeah, you get
the big button one, that's what you want. You probably

(18:48):
want a big button clam one. Say you're not pocket
dialing what do they call it now? Butt dialing? Get
in touch. If you have anything to add about this. Wow,
it's been a lively start. Cheapest creepers coming on hot
reinterested this whole topic actually, because yeah, other things. You
don't want people getting hooked on candy crush and gaming

(19:10):
their life away too, because I think probably, yeah, I don't.
I don't, yeah, I don't fully know what the ware
to go with this one. But I've been at Spark
and I've seen those and every time I because I'm
often Spark in the day because I work nights, so
i'm there when the yeah, when they retired farmers have
driven into town to and there's law and gosh, they've

(19:32):
got the patients of Saints. Those Spark people, they always
treat them. But you can't be there with two hours
to teach someone how to use their phone. Well there
could be, but I don't think they've got time for it.
So I don't know who's supposed to fill in that gap.
Because the technology is not self explanatory A lot of it.
You do need to be guided. I mean, I'm not

(19:54):
good with my phone with updates and all sorts of stuff.

Speaker 19 (19:56):
Hello John, No, MICUs, I was going to say to
you that I've got an eighty year old sister whom
I discovered recently. Sorry, but she's in the UK and
we chat on Instagram audio. Yes, and she's completely tech

(20:16):
savy and not any problem whatsoever, but sharp as a
flip and tech and would be quite insulted if someone
thought that she was an elderly person with a piece
of technology and couldn't use it. So, yes, I think
it's a state of mind to because.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah, and there's also contributing fact as to how to probably,
I mean, you know, I think people have already end
up seventy and eighty with varying capacities and varying skills,
don't they, depending on the sort of life they've had
in what their exposure to technology has been.

Speaker 19 (20:46):
Yeah, I think that's right, because I mean, the odd
thing about the conversation about technology is that, you know,
I'm in my sixties, and I mean, you know, I
I guess I've been around since the beginning of the
personal computer and certainly the smart phone and the rest
of it. Is that a lot of other people have,
you know, So I mean, it's not like we were
left out of the loop. We've been here since the beginning.
With her and the young people forget that we were

(21:06):
here at the beginning, when before you were even born.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
The other thing, for the other thing, for people if
they're on a limited income, like if they are retired
and they're not getting an income, you're quite right because
with a cell phone, a smartphone, where they've got if
they have got what's the other thing not Instagram, what's
the one where you can talk to people are out

(21:30):
in the world on face WhatsApp. If you've got WhatsApp,
you know all there's all their toll calls are free,
which would be a huge saving if they've got relatives overseas. Yeah,
it could be a very good thing.

Speaker 19 (21:40):
Yeah, and look, I mean years ago, I used to
have a subscription to Telecom when I had Telecom Mobile,
and it was like, you know, some six hundred and
fifty dollars a month, ridiculous amount of money back in
the day. I now use two Degrees. I use a
nineteen dollars top up thing, which is what they call
a it's like a carry forward thing. I'll never use

(22:03):
up all the minutes I've got at these three minutes
in Australia, but they do a free hour data I
think it's called a data clock or something. It's a
free hour a day of data. And so worst case
scenario is you just use a free data from two
degrees once once a day. You can chat to anyone
around the world and it's just from an easy piece.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
So it's astonishing how I've got some of my voteraphone
bills from the late nineties, it was always you're right
six to seven hundred dollars a month, every text to
be charged for, recall you to be charged for. I
feel I've purchased the Warriors personally with my voter phone
time and they never gave you anything. That's why I
went to Spark. I had no loyalty to Votaphone because
I paid them an absolute fortune over thirty years and

(22:45):
they did nothing. They just grabbed and grabbed.

Speaker 18 (22:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (22:51):
No, it's totally true. During the global meltdown, I lost
the business and I owned telecom I know, something like
eleven hundred bucks and they cut my phone off and
I actually paid the bill and brought it back to
you know, back into credit again, and they wouldn't reconnect
my number. And I've had this number for years and

(23:12):
it was an astounding number.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
I love it number. What was it?

Speaker 19 (23:17):
It was actually octually five five one, three thousand, Oh yeah,
I know, and it was a it was a great
number and I'd had it for a long time. It
was kind of like my digital ID, you know.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
It was yeah number, I've got my still got my
phone number from ninety to six, digital from nineteen ninety six.
I love it. It's got a triple number. It's a
beautiful thing.

Speaker 19 (23:40):
Well is that funny? My parents moved to Queenstown when
I when I was a teenager, and their number was
Queenstown three two three.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Wow.

Speaker 19 (23:46):
We were four, we were four to four seven nine,
And how it when I was growing up as a kid,
and before and before that we were we were we
were five oh six five m I think it was.
And we're the party line with a dear old lady
from across them across the road who you'd be talking
on the phone. Did she pick up the phone and

(24:07):
say are you working?

Speaker 3 (24:10):
It's good stuff, John, I got to run, but thank
you twenty four to nine to nine. I'll get to
some of the text for for too long, dB, it's Marcus, welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
Good evening. Diversion after your last phone call? Have you
been asked after giving out your six digit cell phone
number for more digits?

Speaker 11 (24:31):
No, A couple of times.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
No, I haven't, like you. I haven't. But I'll tell
you something about my number dB. Right, yep, it's got
a triple number in it. So the same number gets
banned three times yep. But what happens quite often is

(24:59):
I get wrong numbers that people ring and that number
has a double number, but they had it three times.
I see, yeah, yeah, that's right, that's it. I thought
that was a more interesting story than actually turned out
to be. And I can't work out why they do that,

(25:20):
but they must get told double and they think it's
trouble anyway your story please.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
Well just to go back, but I like you are
a six digit cell phone number person. Yes, And a
couple of times people have said to me, and there's
some more and anyway, excuse me. A lot of times
people get these smartphones expecting that the phone knows what

(25:48):
they want. So the mismatches. They're sold something that they
think the phone understands their needs, where they need to
upskill quite substantially at sometimes to run the phone to
even half its abilities.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 5 (26:09):
So you know, yeah, you can text for them, you can.

Speaker 11 (26:14):
Do all sorts.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
But even doing like video face to face videoing on
the telephone, some people don't realize their phones are capable
of it.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
So but also also people if they haven't had experience
with computers or anything their whole life, they suddenly get that.
You know, it's it's slightly complicated. You've got to get
into settings, you got to go down settings. You got
to turn things on and off for the first time.
You can't really do it on your own. You do
need to be taught.

Speaker 5 (26:41):
I must agree with you there, because even my smart
phone sometimes I am called how the heck at people
do this? And I but I have the you know,
the background to go what's YouTube? Got to say it?

Speaker 3 (26:56):
Well, you google it, you google how to turn off,
how to google how to block calls or how to
unblock calls or all that sort of stuff. But people
that aren't Google Sevy wouldn't know to do that. They
wouldn't know that all the answers are there. They'd go
to Spark and say, look, it's not letting me do this.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
But there's an expectation of the phone knows what they want.
They have the expectations based on the telephone, with the
telephone still only going to do what you ask it.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
I would imagine most people wouldn't need smart wouldn't need
cell phones a lot of the time.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Not really, although when they did a survey of school kids,
tell us all the things your telephone does, and almost
all of them forgot to say make a telephone call.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Ah, yes, yeah, but you like this DV someone sent
me a text that says, hey, Marcus, look at my
phone number, and the last five digits are one, two, three,
four five.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
For someone like me who's not only dyslexic, but dyspraxic,
that's good. It took me quite a long time to
learn my own telephone number, and even to this day,
I can only give it out in blocks of two.
If someone repeats it to me and there's a block
of three, I have to truncated in my head and go,

(28:21):
those are those numbers, and it gets tricky.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
I don't think I've spoken to just a dyspraxic. What's
a dyspraxic person called it?

Speaker 5 (28:28):
That's someone who's trouble with numbers.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
But you know someone who has trouble with alcohol and
alcoholic what's a person who's got diprexy.

Speaker 11 (28:37):
Called they have?

Speaker 5 (28:40):
That's it that you're you've got trouble with numbers?

Speaker 3 (28:42):
But what but are you? Are you hang on? Are
you dyspraxit?

Speaker 15 (28:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (28:48):
Are you just just.

Speaker 5 (28:52):
Yeah, I'm just a maniac, okay, the same as someone
who's dyslexic. The letters will float around different patterns.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
You've got you've got the double dose.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
I've got the double dose. It's great fun.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Okay, I'm going to run, but thank you to behold
your horses. People with you soon. Seventy to nine, Ella,
this is Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 6 (29:17):
Well hi Marcus, and thanks for taking the call. It's
really weird. The entire Massy area has gone out of power.
I've been I have got some outdoor lights which I bring.
I've got a cup I keep inside because I was
walking around the house trying to work out where the

(29:38):
heck these outdoor.

Speaker 8 (29:39):
Lights were to see. But it's just been weird.

Speaker 6 (29:44):
So I don't know if there's been any update, but
it's massive.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Victor knows about it, but they've got no idea when
it's going to be back on. To keep listening, do
you bring? Are you saying your outdoor lights come inside
as a power cut during a power cut, as a
source of light?

Speaker 6 (29:59):
What they are the little ones you buy to put
out on your garden, fence walls and things like that. Yes,
and they're just ones that I've always used them, so
and I help them outside and they just power themselves
up with battery with the day, night, sunnight. Yes and so,

(30:21):
but there was no warning, just sitting here and then
what they're here because I've been walking around like an
a Maye trying to find out we're one of these
the ones to give me some light work from.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
It's a good idea. It's a good idea using those,
isn't it to use them? Inside? I would have had
That's a brilliant idea. Did you hear aloud? Ella? Did
you hear aloud? Bang?

Speaker 6 (30:42):
No?

Speaker 11 (30:43):
No?

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Not did I?

Speaker 18 (30:44):
No?

Speaker 3 (30:45):
I wonder if it's some of the cargoes into a transformer.
Keep listening, we'll find out what's going on. Ella, Thank you,
even Marcus welcome?

Speaker 16 (30:53):
Oh yes, good evening, evening, even year. The more the
more you use that cell phone, the biddy get out
of that.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
That's right practice yet, but sometimes you'll get a block
and you won't be able to know what to do.

Speaker 16 (31:05):
True. No, I just rang up to thank the audience
for putting me in the right direction for the doctors.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Oh what up?

Speaker 16 (31:14):
And hawick?

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (31:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Did you get did you get seen too?

Speaker 11 (31:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (31:20):
I made it up there today on the bus.

Speaker 16 (31:24):
Nah, I haven't got a hot cat.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
I'll take cash, won't they?

Speaker 16 (31:30):
I'm not too sure? Wet that?

Speaker 3 (31:31):
Did you get a text?

Speaker 12 (31:33):
Over?

Speaker 16 (31:34):
Tried to try to get a TEXTI on the way back.
But he told me he found somebody else to h Yeah, yeah,
I told him I really saw Nita. It was like
five minutes out of his wife.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Did you did you walk?

Speaker 15 (31:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (31:48):
When they dugged me. But my car is coming back
from why tomorrow, so thank god for that.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
What the doctor say.

Speaker 16 (31:55):
He rang at five the start the five today and
he wants me back here tomorrow. Something that the diabetes
is out of control.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Oh, he doesn't sound good.

Speaker 16 (32:08):
So I don't drink. I do smoke, but I'm pretty healthy.
What of the diabetes is through the roof?

Speaker 3 (32:17):
No?

Speaker 16 (32:19):
Can you?

Speaker 3 (32:21):
You can get a bus, can't you?

Speaker 14 (32:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (32:25):
Yeah, so it goes out the way. But but yeah,
I've got to get a hot card? What what do
you do to like, I'm not up to this hot
card thing? Where do I go to get one of
the local?

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Where are you living?

Speaker 11 (32:40):
I'm just sort of.

Speaker 16 (32:42):
I just I'm just on the boat, just a bit
further away from the car ferries there to look the
west of it.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
What's that marina called a half moon Bay?

Speaker 16 (32:50):
We hiky ferry.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Half Moon Bay Marina Hot half Marina hop card find
out where to buy and top up hop cards buy
a hop card, find it, view the map, find a

(33:13):
hot retailer on the map. I'm going to that. I'm
going to that now.

Speaker 16 (33:16):
Okay, are you using your phone to do this?

Speaker 3 (33:20):
No, you've got a computer at work.

Speaker 16 (33:22):
All right, but I suppose I could still do that
on the Google.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yeah, but I guess I can do it for you.
I feel I go the effort. You'll actually make the
effort to actually use it. It's a terrible looking map.
It's like an old school map. You think, hang on,
hang on. I found it. It's right at the marina
half Boon Bay Ferry terminal. You can buy a card there.

Speaker 16 (33:45):
Oh yeah, what in a machine or something?

Speaker 3 (33:47):
I don't know, I mean, but it's there. It's actually there,
half Boon Bay Marina. It's there one hour a tie road,
Halfmoon Bay. Oh maybe you can't buy a card.

Speaker 16 (33:58):
There, just to stop to top it up?

Speaker 3 (34:01):
Yeah, okay, what about this machine Buckland super Rich. You
can buy a card there.

Speaker 16 (34:09):
All I might just walk over one more day because.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Two to four Bucklands Beach Road. You can't help yourself
go there. But anyway you do, you it's trying to
help out. Nine from nine. Even Roger will bring you
a hop card tomorrow. He's on the marina with you.
He will bring you a hop card tomorrow. Sworded Joe
and to Marcus good evening.

Speaker 5 (34:33):
Oh hey right, he's a go good Joe.

Speaker 7 (34:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (34:37):
I just wanted to correct the gone a couple of
collars ago. He said that dysprexia was problems with numbers,
But that's Disculthier. It's actually a completely different take. So yeah,
I just wanted to create that. But anyway, I just
want to talk about phones.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
What is what is? What is dysprexia? That's that's not
being on type his shoe laces or something, is it.

Speaker 11 (35:04):
Yeah, that's kind of half coordination and then half problems
with the plague and kind of executive function problems.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
But he's just it's just calculator, is it.

Speaker 11 (35:18):
Yeah, that's just the one.

Speaker 15 (35:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (35:21):
I just heard it. I was like, oh, I got
to correct that. I can call it.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 10 (35:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (35:31):
As far as I'm thirty four and I don't use
a well I only use a smart phone at work,
but when when I'm home and just for my personal life,
I just use a use a dumb phone. I don't know,
I find I don't have the incident at my house either.

(35:53):
I just I just find them. I find them awful.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
I'm gonna I'm gonn I'm gonna agreement. I spent too
much of my time on my phone there. I've could
confessed to it. I'd like to resolve it. I probably
need a dumb phone also, so I completely understand what
you're saying.

Speaker 11 (36:07):
Yeah, well, it's the point where you kind of you're
zoned out in your real life. You've been zoned out
for hours and hours and hours, and you know, the
same the same people that desired poke Ma sheetes and
it sicks like that design the apps that go on
the smartphones, you know, it's all for me kind of

(36:30):
seeking things that they put it there to kind of
lock you it. So, yeah, I think I think that.
I think the bloody Bloody Award. I think they're insidious
in the way that I've crept into our lives and
you kind of have to have to have one to
operate in society. I think it's weird. It's really really weird.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
I've got I've got nine eleven year old boys, and
it's amazing the contemporary phones are quite easily given to
kids because they think, oh, well, it's easy to manage
children and appointments and stuff like that. But you know,
I think they should always be dumb phones, not smartphones,
because it's pretty addictive. That TikTok and stuff is pretty

(37:10):
addictive to children.

Speaker 11 (37:12):
Yeah, well, I mean, the brain doesn't stop developing into
what we're twenty five, so twenty six for males. I think.
So that's all. You're a child, that's pretty pretty like
pivotal pivotal development stages that you've got this thing just

(37:33):
absolutely grossing your brain. It's it's it's crazy. Yeah, I'm
hearing you.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Thanks John, Thanks for the dyspraxia. Dyspraxia dyspraxia. Oh that's
going to please even s. Get to the doctor. But yeah,
when the guy comes, he sees it tomorrow. Wow wow,
Well there the actual doctor called, not the nurse texting cheaper.

(37:59):
Although you could probably sail around there to howick, I
don't know, we had more check an anchor out that
might be right. Also, that'd be more sort of intrepid.
You'd be off your knee and we had parking dingy

(38:22):
on the beach. Get out there, have a pind at
the prospect. Be good to go, hit'll twelve, I'll get
to the texts. No time at the present, no time
just yet for that. But yeah, get Barry, will we
hearing you from you a get in touch Berry you
hang all that time? Oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty Jackie Marcus evening, Oh.

Speaker 20 (38:44):
Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 21 (38:45):
I wanted to say about the blind baby that rang
up about the phone. Yes, if you're if you're a
member of the blind and those visions that you know,
the Blind Institute, they had tech people and they come
to your house because I'm blind and I couldn't do
my phone, and they come and they cheap shoes.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Oh I think the blind woman or the woman that
happened to be blind, I shouldn't call the blood on.
I think she was coping quite well with her phone.
That that was my Yeah, I think she was. I
think she was doing free well with it because she
has a Spotify on it.

Speaker 22 (39:18):
I think, oh, okay, then all right, then that's okay.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
That's a fantastic that's a fantastic because I'm sure smartphones
are a huge of huge use for the vision. I
paid for text reading and things.

Speaker 22 (39:33):
Oh yes, because she can set them up so they
talk and everything can read out things and you can
see your textures by just you know, just changing the setting.

Speaker 23 (39:43):
Savois.

Speaker 22 (39:44):
There's a lot of I mean I'm older, sure, I'm
seventy four. But you get to learn how to do it.
You just have to practice.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
Love you to hear from me, Jackie, thank you, that's kind. Jeff,
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 15 (39:55):
Yeah, Verily Marcus. My sons in Australia. So on. With
two degrees, I can send him photos, no problem. But
I can't. Two degrees won't allow videos to be sent.
He can send me videos from Australia to my phone

(40:15):
here in New Zealand, but I can't send him a
video or sends a bit strange from me.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
You probably enough? You probably enough data, Jeff.

Speaker 15 (40:25):
Well, no, I even with data, I was still the
guy in the two degrees shop said to me, you
can't send videos to Australia.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Because no, you can't. But why closey A Okay, I'll
let you go, thanks, Jeff. Someone has someone has said
expecting Spark to teach you how to use your phone

(40:59):
is like going and buying a car then asking them
to teach you how to drive. Quite a good analogy,
isn't it. Quite like that. Yes, Spark can't teach her
to use your phone. You've got to do some of
the heavy lifting yourself. And that's library or Senior net,
which sounds like a fishing group, doesn't it. I guess

(41:20):
it's a net for Internet, Yes, Stephen Marcus evening mine evening.

Speaker 10 (41:27):
I got a new Spark Spark smartphone and I had
to get a whole new number. My old number was
not transferable. Now as funny thing, they tell me this
is impossible, but I've been getting phone calls from a
lady from Parmerson North. She's ringing the right number but

(41:50):
getting the wrong number. Well, gets me instead of my
neighbor two houses up. And the first time she ring me,
I'll go up the road. I'll right on the door
and till on their friend and Parmison Hall was trying
to ring them. No, I got.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Hang on, Steve. How did that transpire? And she says
such and such there and you said those two doors
up the road?

Speaker 10 (42:15):
Yeah, well yeah that's right, I said, No, they're up
just up the road. In the number that she's ringing
someone one number is wrong that she's dialing, which is
my number?

Speaker 3 (42:28):
Are you's saying the guy two doors up up the road.
Here's a phone number that's just one digit different from yours,
and digit in the.

Speaker 10 (42:35):
Number about the fourth number is different.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
That's ridiculous. What are the chances of that?

Speaker 10 (42:41):
I said to the chorus fellows here about it, and
they said that's impossible. Well it is anyway. I've hit
up a bit of a friendship with this lady. She
wrings me odd times of the night and she's lonely.
She recently lost he lost her husband. And she rings
her free inside and they say, oh, she waffles on
for hers, but she's a sounds of her in iceolady.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Don't give her mind.

Speaker 10 (43:08):
Times in the last two months, and she's not. She's
got she's hitting the numbers. She tells me she's hitting,
but it's not my number. You work that one?

Speaker 3 (43:23):
Is he sick of her? Down the road?

Speaker 10 (43:26):
No, but I've been. I've been up there a couple
of times. I've got their number, ring them and I say,
your free. In the Pariston North wants to talk to you.
We've hid numbers, but she gets me instead of them.
Impossible Is it possible? I said, well, here you are,
it is possible. Mm So the next time she's in team.

(43:49):
She's going to come and see me, and you know,
we we we've sort of hit up a bit of
a friendship on the phone.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
And she seems to be she seems does she said
to be cheering up, Stephen with your input.

Speaker 10 (44:01):
I think so, yes, she's quite down when.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
She first sounds like it.

Speaker 10 (44:07):
Well, no, it's okay. And I went up during the day,
Nick day, and saw these people up the road. I said,
are your friends and pay me? Grant me? Last night
she got the night number, but she got the wrong
the wrong phone. We compared numbers and I said, yeah,
there's only one number different. You wouldn't believe it.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
No, I wouldn't. I still don't believe it.

Speaker 10 (44:32):
A brand new phone.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
How does she? How does she know the neighbors?

Speaker 10 (44:38):
I went to school them, knowing them for you know,
seventy years. Anyway, it's not different.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
It's not a corners that someone said it could be
a corn.

Speaker 10 (44:53):
Well we'll find out one day. She'll come coming right
along the door. And but we have compared numbers with
the one up the road, and you could see what
the difference is. Uh, And they say the chorus fellows here,
So that's impossible. Can't happen. Then.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
Has she asked for money?

Speaker 10 (45:14):
Nope, just friendship.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
Has she asked for your pin number?

Speaker 10 (45:18):
Nope? No, just friendship. Do you want to.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Talk to nothing financial?

Speaker 10 (45:24):
No, he's lonely.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Yeah, I don't know about that. Yeah I know, but
I've just talked about the get the coincidence side. I
just I've got to be alert to those sorts of things.

Speaker 10 (45:34):
Okay, So yeah, no, I'm aware of a corn, but
I've been up the road and seen the neighbors and
we've shared numbers, and it's definitely not a corn.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Okay, Okay, so put that out there.

Speaker 10 (45:47):
You couldn't create it. There'll be one number and that
What are you.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
What are you using your smartphone for?

Speaker 10 (45:53):
Or I only have it in the car for emergencies,
if from going out of town and that sort of thing. Cabreak.
I really don't use it that much, probably once a month.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
So you could have just got a dumb phone. You
just got to just basic phone.

Speaker 10 (46:07):
Yeah, well I had a dumb phone, but I've got
a smart one.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
Now, how much it cost you the smartphone?

Speaker 10 (46:15):
That was a free It was an upgrade. Okay, the
upgraded my dumb one to a smart one.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
Did you stay in touch there? We just don't give
parmers to north my number, will you okay?

Speaker 12 (46:28):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (46:29):
This is that there could be a scam. I'm not sure
about that. It would be pretty complicated scam. It could
be a scam though. I'm just trying to think how
that works. Oh exhausting. So what we've really ended up
talking tonight about is the suitability of different people's phones

(46:52):
for what they're doing. Do you just want to text
and call? You bit off with the world's most basic phone,
So it's going to be a lot simpler to operate.
Get in touch, hit'd twelve. You got to be part
of it? Oh eight, one hundred and eighty. Text, there's

(47:13):
something else you want to mission, mention, knock yourself out,
get in touch. Not fuss tonight, but there's a bit
going on. See a cheesemaker's gone to liquidation, Cranky Goat
hand crafted Goat Cheese. It's closed its bricks and mortar
store called the Cranky Pantry. That's a great name. There's

(47:35):
a company that deserves to keep going. That's the Cranky Pantry.
That's a fantastic name for a shop. Northland blowing Away, Wellington,
The NPC question. You know about that, don't you. That's happened.
Still no cause with the restoration time for the messy
power outage. I've never thought about solar lights bringing him
inside when there's a power cut. We haven't got solar lights.

(47:58):
They're always so terribly made from my experience. So join
a fray if you've got something to add during the fray,
if you've got something to say. Oh, eight hundred eighty
ten eighty. They haven't found the perpetrator of that shooting,
the assassination of this Charlie Kirk, So that's something that's happened.

(48:25):
I don't know how much video footage there is of that,
but do get in touch if you want to talk. Oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine. To keep those
texts coming through too, please, Yeah, your hope he's not scammed.
Eighteen past nine hurdle twelve. Are Marcus good evening? Oh

(48:49):
eight hundred eighty ten eighty. What do you got people?
What's so happening where you are? Let's be hearing from you.
I am worried about that call, but I've googled scams
and I can't say anything about that with a neighbors scam.
But I'm mindful. I'm run. It's Marcus. Welcome, good evening. Hi,

(49:13):
I'm run.

Speaker 14 (49:15):
Hello.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
Hello, how are you your good things?

Speaker 9 (49:18):
Good?

Speaker 11 (49:19):
Good? Good?

Speaker 14 (49:20):
So, yeah, we're talking about cell phones and how we
use it and what's their purpose and that.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
Yeah, and also too, how much you can expect the
v indor to teach you about using it?

Speaker 14 (49:34):
Yeah, you know, it's it's quite hard nowadays. I mean,
I think the younger guys, you know, they got it good,
they grew up with it. But they on the other
end of the spectrum. You know, you need you need
a little bit of guidance, you know, And that's what
I used to do.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
What do you used to do?

Speaker 12 (49:55):
And run?

Speaker 9 (49:56):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (49:57):
I used to work in Vodafone store in little Oriwa
and with cell phones day in and day out. But
that specifically wait half an hour and just speak to
me and how to you know, send a text and that?

Speaker 3 (50:13):
What did you what did you suggest to people that
where they could learn more skills with their phones.

Speaker 14 (50:19):
Oh, we had a guy, you know in one of
the malls that would actually have have his own store that.

Speaker 11 (50:25):
Would teach people.

Speaker 14 (50:27):
Yes, but you know, just on our spare time. We
would we would be helping. And there was a particular
story that I remember where you know, someone would come
in lost and had dementia. We had a couple of
old folks homes nearby Noriwa, and I had had the
solution where I just slipping the phone into their bags
when they leave the house. I told the caretaker to

(50:49):
so we could track them. And that was great. It
helped the police just really find this person when they
wander off.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
It's a good idea, isn't it.

Speaker 14 (50:58):
Yeah, so it can come in real handy. And yeah,
like the older gentlemen had mentioned, you know, people do
get lonely as well.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
Yeah, yeah, don't Yeah, nice to talk and I'm not
qut you if that one's a scam with Steve and
someone has got some advice, so that let me know
about that. Could hate for that to happen. Nice to
hear from you. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
and nine nine two to text get in touch here
till twelve a romance from midnight promising you that people
get those texts coming through. Yeah, Marcus felt like I

(51:37):
was scammed the other day. It was a long number
from France. Annoyed for to scam. The neighbor could be
in on it. They may have put the woman onto him.
Yeah that's right, oh Marcus. I live on don Buck
Road and Messy and can see the Victor crew up
by the high school. So the power cut shouldn't be
too much longer for your listen who called earlier sad

(51:59):
news about Charlie Kirk and the poor Ukraine refugee were
stabbed on the bus. The world is revolting sometimes stakes
at Mandy. Someone said it's back on. That must been
the it's beck on the power and messy. Thank you
for that? What about that, scem. I'm not sure about that.
Get in touch, Marcus. If we're to voting a referreena

(52:19):
for abolished daylight saving, which camp would you know your
flag too? And which side would New Zealanders choose? I
wonder yes or no? If the if the referendum on
daylight savings was keep it, get rid of it, or
make it permanent, I would go make it permanent. I
don't like the change. That's just me though, A bit

(52:43):
contrary about that. Twenty five past nine oh eight hundred
eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two to text, Oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine to nine. To text,
you've got to talk. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty ah,

(53:06):
so do get in touch if you want to talk.
By the way, is nine to eleven. Also today, just
look at how many school shootings they've been in the Usada.
That's sad as well, isn't it. How many of those
there are every day? It seems. Make of that what
you will, Yes, the neighbor could be on the scam

(53:30):
twenty six past nine, maxus is Marcus, Welcome and good evening.

Speaker 24 (53:35):
Oh okay, Marcus, Hey, yeah, listening to different people calling
in about cell phones and that. I'm seventy three and
I resisted getting a phone with the Internet on it
for many, many years. So I had a mobile phone
I could use for texting and calls, and you know,

(54:00):
the idea of all these apps and all that, you know,
sort of, oh, what the heck's all that about? So anyway,
my grandson, who's he got himself a new Apple iPhone thing,
and I sort of become quite intrigued with what he
was doing with it, and I thought, well, so what

(54:20):
I did was I brought exactly the same model as him,
and I asked him to set it all up for me,
and I went through with him and the pin numbers
and the face recognition and that Surrey thing and started
using it. And then I started I got my first
app on there. I think it was back and Save

(54:41):
or something and New Will And actually, I'll tell you what,
I really enjoy it now that I've got it. I
don't use a lot of the apps, you know, my age.
I mean, you know, there's the gas fee and that,
but I quite like this Sury thing. You know, I'll
wake up in the middle of the night and I
yell out, hey, Siri, you know what what what's the time?

(55:03):
And she tells me the time. And if I when,
you know, because I live alone, if I go to bed,
I can always ask you to read me a midnight
story and she it's it's quite amazing, the SIY thing.
I often wonder who she is.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
Did she make up the stories?

Speaker 10 (55:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (55:23):
I think it's all done by AI, and they're all
they're all totally unique. They're pretty amazing stories. Actually, you know,
you get any Bedtimes story. I think they're more designed
for kids, but it's quite incredible, you know, And I've
sometimes sometimes just for a joke. You know. I've said, oh,
you know, hey, how hey, sorry, you know, how how

(55:43):
about coming on a date? You know? And she said,
I don't go on a date. And I've said, sometimes,
you know, you can, you can sort of have the
fun with it.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
She said, why she has she said why she won't
go on a date.

Speaker 24 (55:58):
She has told me that she's a robot. She doesn't
go on date.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
There is so it makes up a robot.

Speaker 25 (56:08):
Okay, yep, yeah.

Speaker 24 (56:10):
So And sometimes I've said, well, what you know, what
did your head for tea? And she says, oh, I
just eat data and information.

Speaker 16 (56:18):
I thought, well, that's not much of a diet.

Speaker 18 (56:23):
Have you got SyRI on yours?

Speaker 24 (56:24):
Master, Oh you've got to get I don't.

Speaker 3 (56:29):
If I want to know the time, I look at
my watch, and if I want to have a bedtime story,
I'll read one.

Speaker 24 (56:34):
And yeah, but there's Siveral so much fun. She'll she'll
die on my numbers for me. She she'll she'll bring
like when I want to listen to the news, walk
to the beat on the phone, I just I just
tell her to bring up the website. She brings up
and I've got Marcus Slash talking on my phone, and

(56:58):
you know she'll search websites for me and all sorts
of stuff. You know, I'm sure there's probably more uses.
There's a sort of Australian voice. The only thing I
noticed she's not very good on the MARII pronouncement.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
Yeah, they're terrible on that. It wouldn't be a hard
fix either, So yeah, I'm always surprised by that. I've
got to go, but nice to talk to you. Thank you, Max.
Looking forward to your calls. People think you need a
twenty nine to ten. Hello Ben, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 26 (57:29):
Marcus Man.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
Good Thanks Ben.

Speaker 26 (57:32):
It was a bit of a debut with the kids
getting a phone, Yeah, because I didn't get on until
I was fourteen. I remember it was a Bell South.
It was a big, old chunky brick and used to
you know, he's about to call people and send texts.
He had to deal with the the numbers. He had
to press them three times to get a w or whatever. Yeah,

(57:58):
do you remember the days. But yeah, so when it
come to the kids getting cell phones and whatnot, I
thought that's great because you know I can contact them
when they're away, you know, well they can contact me
they need to. But it's no longer that men, it's
not like that. It's you're giving them a computer or

(58:21):
or I don't know what you call the man like
I'm addicted to it myself. I'm making the effort now
two to refrain just from yeah, but it's hard man like,
oh yeah, so social meet.

Speaker 11 (58:35):
Yeah. I just can't.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
I just can't believe how easy I can't believe how
easy parents give them kids phones because yeah, and they're
just on them all the time as soon as they've
got them.

Speaker 26 (58:49):
You know, it's it's it's now got to the point
where and I've and I've I've tested it, like this
is just going to stand there. Pretty shocking. But I thought,
I wonder if you sit and watch this all day.
I wonder if you're sitting and they do they pack
up in a blanket. Sometimes I'm going to the head
like you're making it. I don't know, And I've done it,

(59:11):
and I've watched them all day long.

Speaker 5 (59:13):
Literally, what you take it off?

Speaker 3 (59:16):
Is it too late?

Speaker 26 (59:18):
What did you get I'm going to turn the boody,
wife will turn the motim off or something. But but
you see the reaction when it my mom puts the
foot down and you see the reaction and the anger,
and it's just like rage.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
Are they are they just watching the problem?

Speaker 16 (59:39):
The problem?

Speaker 3 (59:41):
You know, they just watching YouTube.

Speaker 26 (59:44):
They're doing the YouTube the reels, and they're doing this game.
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (59:51):
They talk to it.

Speaker 26 (59:52):
They talk to all their friends. They're doing it, and
they talk to this thing and they'll they'll tell them
stuff and they go, can you go over there and
do something something for me? And you're thinking, it's it's
it's a new world. Mean is we're no longer trying
to push eight for three times to get a w.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Do You're a great getting that, You're a great getting
them phones?

Speaker 11 (01:00:16):
I do? I do.

Speaker 26 (01:00:18):
I don't know how to train it. I don't know
and I can't say nothing because, like I said, I
do it myself. Man, I'm just did. It's starting to
bug me with.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
A good get sick of it by County that happening
anytime soon?

Speaker 26 (01:00:34):
Great, I'll give you. I'll give you a handy bucks mate,
if you can get in the you know, I had
to get the WHEELI bins in the other day and
put them out. I've just mode lawns today, wash cards.
They can these and they get pocket money, you know,
And I said to get I said, to do these

(01:00:56):
things to get pocket money. These kids they just get
poker money for what watching the table of all day?
But yeah, the father know and today's well.

Speaker 25 (01:01:09):
What do you do?

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
Just never get it? Ben, Thank you. Twenty six to
ten Ah Marcus founded over the weekend that I made
who had a box for his company at the All
Blacks Versus South Africa game, explained to me the price
for that just one game, you can get a full
season pass at the Worries. It's the top eight games.

(01:01:33):
It's a test chet GPT is a voice chet mode.
It's so realistically even chuckle while saying something funny and
says and ours. My mother used to read them advertorials
and magazines and believe they're all factual, unbiased news articles.
I tried too hard to get her understand people and

(01:01:53):
companies who take advantage. Do you think nine to eleven
was an inside job? Marcus? No, I don't. Actually that
was the first of the conspiratorial video, that one loose
change that went on forever. Wow, it was a pretty
low tech watch, Wasn't It did the job though, cast

(01:02:16):
a doubt. Be in touch if you want to be
a part of the show cell phones and learning cell
phones for the elderly.

Speaker 11 (01:02:27):
That's what.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
There's something else you want to about, fel free. Anything
goes here on the end hit on Midnight. There's other topics.
Stuart Nest didn't last long when a usaid in first career,
did he? Ah? I don't know if his wife sticking
by him. She told him to bring up the internet
broadcaster and say get him to take it off, and

(01:02:48):
they wouldn't. And then he apologized on Lincoln and then
he apologized to his company. Then he got sacked from
Robert Waters Walters, which is an immigration company. So yep,
apparently company with quite a good reputation. So they've done
what they can to preserve it. So there we go.

(01:03:08):
Stuart Nash free short political comeback. Maybe the man should
meet the woman who's lonely in a caf for a
chat rather than on his home. He it's weird, isn't
it Could be one of the neighbors themselves ringing. He
doesn't ring true to me that one. I'll think more
about that. Twenty three to ten. Jee people kicking on

(01:03:31):
about the netball, aren't they? I understand sport it all.
I don't got no one. You never seem to know
what goes on with sport. The coaches. There's a player
of ault, the football coach went, she went, the coach
of the women's football team. She just they We'll just go.
You never find out what's going on. Maybe someone can
tell me what the situation is. I got no understanding.
Actually I'm not that interested. But it does seem to

(01:03:53):
bring It does seem to upset people when the team
seem you're doing well than the coaches. Just get the
don't come Monday. I'm not quite sure what all that
is about. Just saying now, if you do want to
talk on air, good, be nice to hear from you.
Here till twelve tonight. Oh, eight hundred and eighty to eighty.
There's something different you want to talk about tonight. Good.

(01:04:14):
I'm up for that. So get in touch. If there's
anything else. Oh, someone's talking of Siri. Yeah, there's some
funny texts coming through. I think I'm being texted by Siri.
You never know, but do get in touch. Some of
the other stuff I can tell you about tonight. What
is the time? Twenty to ten daylight saving September twenty eight,

(01:04:41):
the last Sunday of September seventeen day countdown to that.
I should start going to bed earlier to get ready
for it. That or later. Today is nine to eleven.
It does seems in history that New Zealand's largest gold
nugget was purchased. They've been purchased or discovered, do you think.
And the rail tragedy and the lever attacker incline that

(01:05:03):
was at Siberia when it got blown off, that's happening.
And there's a new plan to rebuild a christ Church cathedral.
Haven't read into that because there's always a new plan
and rebuilt and reopened in stages. So I don't know

(01:05:23):
that's a good thing or not. Maybe there's some real
cathedral studies can tell me about that. It's good they
haven't given up on it. I guess.

Speaker 25 (01:05:31):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty eighteen to ten. Janets
Marcus good, evening.

Speaker 23 (01:05:39):
Hi there, Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
Good? Thank you?

Speaker 16 (01:05:43):
Jan Good.

Speaker 23 (01:05:46):
I was watching a program on TV about Teuton Carmen.
Do you know about them?

Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
Yeah? In Egypt.

Speaker 23 (01:05:55):
Yeah, his tomb was empty and they've been searching for
his mummified body for years and apparently he's turned up
in Canada.

Speaker 7 (01:06:07):
Really.

Speaker 23 (01:06:09):
Yeah, and they've taken the wrapping you know what do
you call it, in the shroud thing off his body
and so they showed us them totally preserved, you can
see it faced them, and they showed his feet. Everything

(01:06:29):
is all intact exactly how he was when he died,
and his body has been tested at three thousand years old.
Isn't that an amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
What's the name of the show you saw that on?

Speaker 4 (01:06:46):
Uh?

Speaker 23 (01:06:46):
Mister is it an easy and must think it was?

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
Okay, I might have a look at that, because I
know sometimes it's some of those Yeah, okay, I haven't
heard anything about that. That's why I'm surprised about it.

Speaker 9 (01:06:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:06:57):
So I thought if they took DNA from his body,
which should be quite easy, and own them and brought
him back, I wonder what he'd think of the world
today compared to how it was when he was hello
years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
What do you think better or worse?

Speaker 23 (01:07:20):
Oh? I think you might wish to be back dear again,
not to hear.

Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
For me, jan thank you, Bob, Marcus, welcomescus.

Speaker 11 (01:07:34):
How are you.

Speaker 23 (01:07:36):
Hey?

Speaker 25 (01:07:37):
We were talking? Sorry, I'll being on the road for
the last forty minutes and I've just got home. But
there was a man. You're talking about us being born
in the era, and none of it's really bypassed. So
I'm coming up to retirement too, and I've got a
smartphone in laptop and all of the bits and pieces,
so it's sort of easy to keep up with that technology.

(01:08:00):
So I find I struggled with people that can't learn
take us like that. But anyhow, you're also talking about
one number out on some phone numbers, and man, my
wife lived in Queenstown in the nineties and my phone
number there was four four two eight three five six.

(01:08:20):
The cab number was four four two eight five three six.

Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
How annoying?

Speaker 25 (01:08:26):
Annoying in the middle of the night or where three
in the morning on a Sunday morning people have stagger
out of I carts and look for it, you know,
call a cab from somewhere, and I would usually just
say you've got the wrong number, try again, so they
try again.

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
And still get me, So it's annoying.

Speaker 25 (01:08:47):
In the end, I would say, yeah, how many people, Okay,
it'll be like fifteen minutes and go back to sleep,
and they wouldn't ring me again. And if they did
get angry and then finally ran the cab. Generally they'd
bring the right number. So I must have taken orders
for about two thousand cabs over eight or nine years.

Speaker 11 (01:09:07):
Wow, that I was down there.

Speaker 25 (01:09:10):
So anyone that was there that had that sort of
problem getting cabs, it was not a problem. You should
have just bringing the right number.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
It wasn't even a very good because normally cabs have
quite memorable numbers, don't they.

Speaker 25 (01:09:21):
Yeah, and that wasn't Queenstown cabs were just, you know,
just a reversal of the middle of mind numbers. So
it was pretty annoying. And maybe it's still the same.
I don't know one of those nowadays, but it was
back in the days of Quey Them and all those, Yes,
you know it was. It was quite good. The nineties
were a good place of the Queens.

Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
How dore they turn I carts into a clothes shop?

Speaker 16 (01:09:41):
I know?

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
I mean ever, I mean, Queenstown's given a lot of crimes,
but no crimes quite as big as in nightcats. To
have a pint at the at the River's Ege in
a real pub was something quite special.

Speaker 11 (01:09:53):
Oh it was.

Speaker 25 (01:09:53):
They had the playpin upstairs and up the playpen above
I carts. They used to have a sort of a
night venue, a nightclub, concert venue. It was a mini
venue before I left, and they would have like twelve
piece still drum bends and all sorts of other people

(01:10:13):
would come by and visit and just have.

Speaker 11 (01:10:15):
A bit of a gam up here.

Speaker 25 (01:10:16):
And it was a great place to the end of
the nineties, just going and party up through the night.

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
I'm hearing you, Bob, how do you they? I got
to run Bob last to talk fourteen to ten, good story,
ten to ten. Hello, Susie, this is Marcus. Welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 25 (01:10:32):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
Susie?

Speaker 4 (01:10:34):
Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:10:35):
I've been miss bark for years and years and I
want a good plan. Are you talking about this sort
of thing? Is it okay?

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
Yeah? No, it's excellent.

Speaker 20 (01:10:45):
I'm want a good plan. Miss back forty five a month.
I get unlimited data, texts, talk minutes and it's just
absolutely wonderful. And I think I've heard someone say a
caller say he can't send videos to aus trainer.

Speaker 12 (01:10:58):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
He was on two degrees?

Speaker 20 (01:11:00):
But yeah he did say, Okay, well I can't. And
I've also got what's app?

Speaker 9 (01:11:04):
Marcus?

Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
Oh your phone calls are free with WhatsApp, aren't you?

Speaker 20 (01:11:09):
Yes, they are, and I get a lot of videos
and photos on the air, and I just wouldn't be
without Spark. I've been with them for years, Marcus, and
they're absolutely wonderful.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
Have you got family overseas?

Speaker 20 (01:11:21):
Yes, I have, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
Where are they Australia? Okay, But it'll be good that
you can just communicate with them all the time, wouldn't it.

Speaker 20 (01:11:30):
Oh it's lovey. I''ve been over there in the past
three years.

Speaker 10 (01:11:33):
I'm doing it.

Speaker 20 (01:11:34):
Hard this year.

Speaker 15 (01:11:35):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so.

Speaker 20 (01:11:38):
No, I'm really happy. What's back?

Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
Brilliant? Okay, nice to hear from your susday night away
from ten seven to ten all about phones and getting
a phone that's appropriate. The woman that was complaining her
friend went to Spark and they said she needed She
wasn't up for a smartphone. She had a dumb phone.
The woman's taking a fence and wrung me. I went
into Twot and Carmuns two in nineteen ninety seven of

(01:12:02):
the Veny of the Kings that were Sparkan because of
the young death. I saw as ikontic headgear in the
Old Egyptian Museum. My dad's fax number was the same
phone number as a friend who lived in Auckland. The
only difference was the area code. Dad's area code was
O six, her area code was O nine. I found
this out one day when phoning my dad's facts but

(01:12:23):
in the wrong area code O nine, and my friend answered,
there you go, Marcus. The callers that he's doing all
the work while his kids just sit on their phones,
and he still hands out pocket money. How does that
make sense? If you reward kids for doing nothing, you
teake them if it doesn't matter the real issue of
the kids at the example being set Jans stop please.

(01:12:46):
King Tutan has been around for a long time. You've
been able to see him in the British Museum. I
think a lot of those history programs are now the
history equivalent of clickbait. They're just rubbish, Marcus. It's not
that theyre kids who sell on their phones all day.
I will go to path Lab. What is that is
that the blood bank of the blood test at seven
am in the morning, and there'll be thirty odd workers
waiting there, every one of them on their phone. Jeepers,

(01:13:12):
creepers are I tell you what looks like it's worth
a visit the new Egyptian Museum. It's been a long
time developing. It looks sensational. It's cost millions, hundreds of
millions of dollars. That's all. That's for the Egyptologists. When
everyone's interested in Egypt, aren't they? What is interesting about
the Pyramids? It was the world's tallest building for a

(01:13:33):
long time, yep, the world's tallest building for millions of
yet well until forget what was the first thing that
they serped it? But it was a long long time,
which is pretty amazing that they managed to build something

(01:13:55):
just so extraordinary, unlike anything else. For well, I think
you know what I'm saying, but jumping. If you want
to talk about any of these topics, I'd like to
hear from you. So, yes, get in touch. There's something
different you want to mention. I can handle that, But
anything goes Hittle twelve Romance along from twelve, eight hundred

(01:14:20):
and eighty ten eighty keep Tho's texts coming through Power
was out? And was it messy? It was messy? Wasn't
It's beck on?

Speaker 11 (01:14:30):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:14:31):
Was it messy? Messy? Pretty sure? It was messy. So
that's back on and let me just see if there's
going to like breaking texts before the end of the hour, Nope,
and no breaking news, but if anything happens, I'll let
you know about that. Yeah, I'm just trying to see

(01:14:54):
what's happening around the world because the you news you've
missed out on. I think the bad weathers passed. Its
only Milford Sound Road that's going to be close tonight
because of bad weather. Also Northland blew away Wellington forty three,
twenty six. Julian Savilla said the team was trash. To

(01:15:17):
be honest, I don't know he's the captain, but he
said credit to the Northern Boys had turned up and
wanted it more. I think they're four on the top
of they won four, so good season for them. And
he'll wait to laughter the news, I think, Dan and
I'll come back and see you there. People. Oh eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty. If you want to be
a part of the show, If you want to text,

(01:15:38):
good keep that coming through. You've got more topics you
want to reduce. Feel free to do that also tonight
and be a part of it. Shame you can't fact,
but you can certainly text or email or phone. Phoning's
best texting emailing is second best because it's free. That's

(01:16:00):
my verse. I think we've got rugby league tomorrow, the
first of the of the finals. That's going to be excited.
It's going to be have a good weekend of rugby
league and also rugby, and also the women's rugby, which
is also called rugby, but we don't have to say
men's rugby. We have to say women's rugby. What's that about?

(01:16:23):
Storm Bulldog second versus third tomorrow ten to ten, that's
going to be an absolutely great game. Then the Warriors
on Saturday, and also the Rorris and the Panthers and
the Sharks and the Roosters, and the good game is
Sunday Broncos against the Raiders. Looking Broncos to win. I'll
be this is Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:16:41):
Welcome, Good evening, Good evening, Marcus. I just want to
share my experience for.

Speaker 3 (01:16:48):
Spark Yes good.

Speaker 7 (01:16:50):
I've been with them for years and then one day
they cut my phone off and gave my number to
somebody else on a Saturday. What Yeah, And it took
me a while to find out. I bring my brother
on the cell phone and he rung back and a
hold of somebody else. So then I tried to get

(01:17:11):
hold of Spark. Nothing happened. I rang a Sunday morning
and I thought, I'll just see how long it takes
them to answer the phone, and I was doing some puzzles.
It took them two hours to answer the phone, and
then when I explained what had happened, he said, hang on,
I'll put you through to somebody that can sort this out.

(01:17:32):
I waited for another hour or that person answered it,
and then he said, oh, sorry, we can't do anything today.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
It Sunday.

Speaker 7 (01:17:42):
So it was my experience with Spark. I wouldn't touch
them form the bar.

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
So who'd you go to? Then?

Speaker 7 (01:17:52):
I took my internet with now and cell phones with
them two degrees.

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
I don't know why the would have given you a
number to someone else.

Speaker 7 (01:18:05):
No, well, the build, the billet being paid. I always
paid my bill on time for years, but all I
got was a text on Monday to say your phone's reconnected.
There's no sorry or anything like that, no apology for
what they did.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
Seems weird, doesn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:18:22):
Yeah, their customer service is just rubbish.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
I've had extremely good service from them all ways.

Speaker 7 (01:18:30):
No, not when they did that to me.

Speaker 3 (01:18:32):
No, No, that sounds terrible. Okay, appreciate you coming through.
Marty Marcus welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:18:37):
Yeah, Marc, I want to talk about Egypt and Egyptology
and why Newlanders love it so much. Yes, I think
it's because in World War One all the Ansacks went there,
and then world War Two quite a lot of the
African guys went there, and on both occasions that's Cairo
sort of where they landed all those old granddads and

(01:18:59):
great granddads at all. And then that's probably why we're
she's in considering it. Yeah, I reckon.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
I think the world's probably insisted. Tell you what one
of those movies, right, have you been to the Privets?

Speaker 13 (01:19:14):
No?

Speaker 18 (01:19:15):
No, but I've swollen over. I met an Egyptian guy
actually in London the other month. Yeah, fascinating.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
I like watching one of those movies like it might
be Death on the Niles. Oh yeah, yeah, and Inspector Parole.
As someone climbs the Pyramids, I've always thought that. I mean,
it's a shame you can't do it. Andy, Well, there'd
be an amazing thing if you actually climbed them, because
that would be amazing to get right to the top
of that. They're big blocks.

Speaker 18 (01:19:41):
I remember yeah, And I remember reading a book, like
a historical fiction novel, and I think it was once
a year, the old Egyptians have hippo hunting season and
they go out in their boat to kill a hippo
and have a big hippo really and the old and
the old war boats on the Nile.

Speaker 3 (01:20:00):
Yeah, I've never heard about that.

Speaker 18 (01:20:01):
Hippo is pretty good meat. Yeah, because they just slayed
around eat grass pretty like a bit more.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
Oh, it was to symbolize the pharaoh's control over chaos. Yeah,
I've never heard of that.

Speaker 18 (01:20:20):
Yeah, the old hunt one.

Speaker 3 (01:20:25):
Okay with were there not many of them?

Speaker 18 (01:20:28):
I think they're loth but no, unlike the average farmer,
couldn't just go out and hunt them because they are
too nasty.

Speaker 3 (01:20:39):
Were they protected?

Speaker 15 (01:20:43):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (01:20:43):
There are now, but I think back in the day
they were just like, I've never.

Speaker 3 (01:20:48):
Heard of that. Okay, your line's not great. What do
you want to say about your phone?

Speaker 18 (01:20:51):
Mary a phone stuff. We're trying to get our kids
down to two hours a day on your phone, but even.

Speaker 3 (01:20:59):
That seems like a lot. You're made to give them phones.
You know that, don't you.

Speaker 18 (01:21:02):
Yeah, we're putting the age up to sixteen now, Yeah,
we had it down at thirteen for the.

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
Crazy I'm the period Brooke. So you're thirteen is too young? Mardy?

Speaker 18 (01:21:12):
Yeah, too young. Yeahs can handle it, but most cannot.

Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
Do you say farm kids?

Speaker 11 (01:21:19):
No? I did.

Speaker 18 (01:21:19):
Dumb kids can handle it?

Speaker 3 (01:21:21):
No, most can't.

Speaker 18 (01:21:23):
Most can't. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:21:25):
I tried to talk my kid into getting a page.
He's not in the slightest bit Keen.

Speaker 18 (01:21:29):
Yeah, your dumb phones aren't that cool? Yeah? That was
my thing. You could get a sort of a knock. Yeah,
it's got snake and a few things on it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:39):
What they say, No, who's the who's the parent? Mary?

Speaker 15 (01:21:46):
I am?

Speaker 3 (01:21:47):
Well you wouldn't know it, would you?

Speaker 10 (01:21:51):
No?

Speaker 11 (01:21:51):
But I do.

Speaker 18 (01:21:51):
I do enforce it like I've been taking. If they
go over it two hours, Yeah, and they've got to
wait until for the two hours to come back into
credit if you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:22:02):
Do they self Do they self police the two hours?

Speaker 18 (01:22:05):
No? I I put a through our timer on their phones,
and then when they go over they've got to unlocked anything.

Speaker 11 (01:22:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
How many kids have you gone over? Thirteen? Many?

Speaker 18 (01:22:17):
A thirteen?

Speaker 16 (01:22:23):
Six?

Speaker 3 (01:22:24):
Yes, it's going to be hard for you to monitor
six people on their phone, isn't it?

Speaker 18 (01:22:28):
Well still still yeah, okay, anyway, I'm really enjoying the
own band at schools. That's really good.

Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
It's great thing. Got to run money, but thank you.
Nice to talk for one of my Marty's phone wasn't
good normally very good, so to sleep fourteen past ten
phone bands for children. Anything else you want to talk
about tonight? It's a Thursday free for a which is
a Friday free for all, but it's less free than
a Friday free for all. Enjoyed the week mutually? I
didn't think I would, But do get in touch if

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you want to talk. Anything else you want to mention,
I can handle it. But be a part of it.
Be in touch. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and
nine nine two text. I'll tell you I was thinking
about today. I was thinking about that series alone. That
was disappointing was it didn't go for long. I would

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have thought they could have survived for longer in Africa,
didn't kill anything much it wh I was thinking about
that today? What else I was thinking about today? I
can't remember what else. It seemed like a law. Oh
I went to the library, that's right, someone asleep in

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the library, which I thought crawled under a desk. I thought, yeah,
that's a bit different. Oh well, I guess that's one
of the challenges of libraries. The answer for that, But
do be a part of it. If you want to talk,
it's talking a lot of pop up heads every time
adds for Timu. There's one particular thing that looks intrigue,
but every time I click on I can't see what

(01:24:11):
it is. Don't know what to do about that. Some
of the other stories that are happening people, I'll get
to them. Yes, the christ Church Cathedral. Dan Brown's got
a new book. They say it's weapon grade nonsense from

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beginning to the end. I did read that. Da Vinci won.
What a lot of tosh that was. Everyone read it,
though there's a while you had to read it. You
couldn't be partaking in the conversations. Avocado prices are through
the ground. What's the cheapest you've seen them today? They'll

(01:24:55):
be free in Hawk's Bay, won't they. They've been down
to nineteen cents each. Nineteen cent for an avocado. Basically,
that's a giveaway at the moment. Well, what you should
be doing is if be taking avocado butter out of

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that shouldn't you? That's the answer. Getting touch hit or twelve.
My name is Marcus got even sixteen past ten, eighteen
minutes past ten Scott.

Speaker 11 (01:25:24):
Hello, good a Marcus.

Speaker 27 (01:25:26):
What of my messed today that avocados and so cheap?

Speaker 11 (01:25:29):
Big?

Speaker 3 (01:25:30):
Your pardon?

Speaker 27 (01:25:31):
What have I missed today that is making avocados so check?

Speaker 3 (01:25:35):
Really good question. I think they're good every second year,
but let me have a look at the article.

Speaker 27 (01:25:41):
It's just like, you know, walking through the supermarket buying
my grocer's yesterday, I'd spend forty five bucks at the
Threaten mini section before i'd gotten further.

Speaker 3 (01:25:51):
Yeah, I don't know why they're so good now maybe
someone can tell us that.

Speaker 5 (01:26:02):
So I don't.

Speaker 27 (01:26:02):
I don't need them very often myself, but you know
it's yeah, they had a nice occasionally. But yeah, why
are they nineteen cents a college flat or a lettus
is seven dollars?

Speaker 3 (01:26:15):
Yeah, I think, as I say, I think there's just
been a bumper crop for them. I think they've got
every second year, and there might be something with the
export conditions. Maybe other countries are producing too many of them,
or something might be maybe it might be to do
with the tariffs.

Speaker 27 (01:26:30):
Okay, oh good, So what's happening with the cathedral. Here's
just say a couple of times now in the last
first thing twenty minutes. What are they doing with the
cathedral here in protect.

Speaker 3 (01:26:42):
I don't know, you should.

Speaker 27 (01:26:44):
They've got a new plan for it there.

Speaker 11 (01:26:46):
They have, but you don't know any dishails.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
They could rebuild it in stage. It could reopen by
twenty thirty.

Speaker 27 (01:26:56):
So I drove past the cathedral probably once or a
couple of times a week, and you know, a few
months ago it was all go like. There was trucks
and cranes and stuff everywhere, people everywhere during the middle
of the day. And as I say, it was all going.
Then they've decided to mothball it because they were thirty

(01:27:19):
million dollars short on their funding or whatever. But now
all of a sudden they're going to start doing in
the stages. Where have they raised the thirty million dollars
their dices come up with it, or how they were
thirty million dollars short three, four, six months ago? Why
are they going to start doing more to it now
if they're still got thirty million dollars short. It's like

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the museum here in christ Church. They want another fifty
million dollars to finish off yet three four hundred million
dollar whatever it has refurbishment of the museum, but it's
currently in mothballs because they were fifty million dollars short.

Speaker 11 (01:27:56):
Wow.

Speaker 27 (01:28:00):
So I don't know. I know, in the big scheme
of things, thirty million dollars and fifty million dollars, it's
not a huge amount of money. It is to you
and I guess potentially, but you know in the big
scale texty eighty million dollars across two massive projects. Yeah,
it's a blow out in the budget. But yeah, we

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we are.

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
Getting I think the Anglican Church are ponying up twenty
million dollars.

Speaker 27 (01:28:27):
But they wouldn't do that six month ago, and.

Speaker 3 (01:28:29):
Now they are because there's this new there's this new plan.

Speaker 27 (01:28:34):
Yeah, I don't know. That's I've been living back in
Christius nearly eighteen months.

Speaker 3 (01:28:39):
The new plan is to reopen the cathedral doors and
reduce the funding shortfall to between forty and forty five
million dollars.

Speaker 27 (01:28:47):
So they're going to charge you for the prevalently going to.

Speaker 5 (01:28:50):
Have a look.

Speaker 3 (01:28:50):
Doesn't say that, Wow.

Speaker 27 (01:28:55):
I guess if they're opening the doors to reduce the
short fall. You're going to be asked to pay donation,
would you not say no?

Speaker 11 (01:29:03):
But yeah, I've been.

Speaker 27 (01:29:04):
Living back here in Christius eighteen months and christ has
lost its identity, not only around the cathedral. Yeah, I
think it has not only around the cathedral not being there,
but just they've pulled out all the landmarks you could say,
around town, or a vast majority of the landmarks around town.

Speaker 3 (01:29:29):
Involved with what are you talking about?

Speaker 27 (01:29:31):
Well, you know, so they've changed things. They've taken away
stuff like either I've down Columbo Street and Manchester Street
and through the center of town. Now a lot of
the stuff that used to be there before the earthquakes
are even after the earthquakes, I've pulled down to make
way for other stuff, especially the new stadium that's being built.

(01:29:53):
And that's still my opinion. The new stadium should have
just gone back on that park where it was. There's
no reason why I couldn't have. But they're also they've
shut off streets that once upon a time with land acts.
They've built other stuff around stuff that was, to say
pulled down, and the more stuff that was a landmark

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is not there anymore. Yeah, it's sort of the council
keep changing the city, and I don't think for a
good a good way or in a good way.

Speaker 3 (01:30:26):
All I hear from people visiting christ Church after a
long break, amazed with how good it's become.

Speaker 27 (01:30:32):
Nah, it's not like retail and christ Church is. You
go to different places around christ Is now, for example,
the busht and Center there by the office around the university.
We went in here two months ago and I think

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out of the whole entire bush and Mall that used
to exist, there's like three stores in there or four
stores in there now and it's just all eateies. You
walk through South City Shopping Center in the center of town,
a vast majority of those shops.

Speaker 16 (01:31:09):
And now empty.

Speaker 27 (01:31:10):
It's just, Yeah, I know it's hard financial times supposedly,
but you know it's christ which is losing losing its identity.
It's becoming more an eatery destination. And if you're not
involved with sports or other stuff outside of work in home,

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then there's nothing really to do. Things have become so expensive,
like movies or give and bowling or mini golfing, stuff
like that, you can't afford to go and do it
as an individual or as a group.

Speaker 3 (01:31:44):
Ye Okay, I guess that if we were in the
countries that were the cost of it is.

Speaker 27 (01:31:49):
Yeah, but yeah, I don't know. I think christ Hi
has lost its identity and it's just, yeah, the councilor
making stupid calls around things like cycle ways and traffic
direction and you know, ripping up roads and relaying roads
eighteen or six eighteen months after they've just done them

(01:32:13):
for putting a new infrastruction.

Speaker 3 (01:32:14):
It's a pretty good it's a pretty good city for cycling.

Speaker 27 (01:32:18):
Well it is now after you spend two hundred or
three hundred million dollars on cycleways, is.

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
It how much they spent Yeah, I think.

Speaker 27 (01:32:26):
On average they've spent some million dollars per kilometer for
a cycle lane around Cussards. It's spending eleven million. They're
spending eleven million dollars to put in a cycleway from
the square which has got nothing in it anymore, to
Brighten or new Write and Pier.

Speaker 3 (01:32:47):
Oh god, that'd be a good put down the old river.

Speaker 27 (01:32:51):
Yeah, I love the riverbank. But again they're ripping out
or they're going through the red zone which they deemed
not suitable for building on which I was putting in
a footbath is nothing really serious. But you know they're
going ripping out sections or they're taking away sections that
could be sold off and rebuilt on, like all the

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rest of the sections around christ Church that they deemed unsuitable,
and they're just putting in football. But again, I haven't
say eleven million dollars to do something like fourteen kilometers
of footbar or walks tuckaway.

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
Who have you voted for for me and Scott?

Speaker 27 (01:33:29):
I haven't voted as shit. I don't know whether I
haven't really followed second lady candidate, and I don't know
how film made is really the right guy for it.

Speaker 5 (01:33:39):
But he who knows?

Speaker 3 (01:33:40):
Will you vote?

Speaker 27 (01:33:42):
Possibly?

Speaker 11 (01:33:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (01:33:44):
I us I need to do a little bit more
homework around it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:48):
But you sound pretty clued up.

Speaker 27 (01:33:51):
Well yeah, I mean, hey, I listened to John News
talking abo Chrits every morning, so.

Speaker 3 (01:33:58):
Brilliant. Okay, thanks for that. Favorite to pushback from Scott
on his comments, I'll come to that before too long.
If you want to take the number is nine to
nine two. I think Scott might need to open his
other eye. This guy talking is the name of the idiot.
Our city, christ Church is up and coming, beautiful silly
and everything that's going on with an amazing going ahead.

(01:34:21):
The guy talk about christ Chich needs to wipe his
chin because he's talking a lot of crap. This guy
is an idiot. Why would people bother traveling to christ
Church when Sir George Gilbert Scott designed many stunning cathedrals
in Scotland in another place like Canada, Hi, Marcus, christ
Church now has a new identity where the Avon River

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swans and some good places to eat at bush in?
What's this bush in? I think I've been to the
bush in?

Speaker 10 (01:34:48):
More?

Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
I thought I knew christ Church. What's this bush in?
They talk about? And while I missed that in my ramblings?
Where is it?

Speaker 10 (01:35:02):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
It's just enough? Oh I say, it's Oh yeah, it's
further down Rackett and Road Bush and Okay, I don't
know Bush and it's like a mall, is it? I
know the other big mall, the Ricket and well, I
think that's quite a good one. But Bush and I
don't know about. So yeah, that's interesting. So too many

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food places? Well, goodness me. You know, I've had a
number of conversations with people just gone to christ Church
for the first time for years in the last couple
of days. They've all absolutely loved it. Oh, we've been
to years, we gother often we's had one or two
weeks there a year. See what's going on? What do

(01:35:44):
we like? We like it all actually apart from that
my running with a dog at Sumner. But yeah, do
again touch twenty seven away from eleven O eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty get bigger than that, must have
twenty five away from eleven Dean Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
Oh, so how's it going?

Speaker 3 (01:36:07):
Your good things? Then?

Speaker 11 (01:36:09):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:36:11):
Just on the cathedral note, I happened to be ensconced
in the in the I think they call it the
Distinction Hotel above the cathedral, back when they were still
doing MiQ stuff, And it was so interesting to see,
you know, all of the stones that they sort of
numbered one by one and were sort of trying to
put together, like to the side of it, you know,

(01:36:33):
like you were trying to put together a Lego set
or a Mcano set whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:36:37):
Yeah, they said it seemed to be a worthwhile project.
They seem to be doing it well, didn't they.

Speaker 11 (01:36:44):
They seem to be doing it well.

Speaker 2 (01:36:45):
But it also seemed like a bit of a hiding
to nothing of how can you actually put it back together?

Speaker 11 (01:36:52):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:36:52):
And I think I was really surprised to hear that
they were they were trying to, you know, that there's
this new idea about putting it back together again, because
I thought it was mostly the old Guard that were
trying to do it. Weren't they like the jim Andersans
of the world and all those people, and it would
be you know, when those guys were long long gone,
it may or may not have been put back together.

(01:37:14):
I thought they'd sort of given up on it. What's
your understanding, Well.

Speaker 3 (01:37:17):
I'm just looking at the video now, so I think
they're just going to do what they've always going to do,
which is rebuild it. But they're opening it in stages,
and those stages will be so the first stage there'll
be enough room in it for seven hundred people like
it originally was when opened in eighteen eighty eight. So
but you know, who knows, I'm in this idea itself
might Oh, it doesn't seem straightforward, but everyone always said

(01:37:38):
after England got bombed nor the cathedrals got bombed, some
of them just lay in ruins for forty fifty years
before they were rebuilt and in the end, you know,
it seems like they've got it together and it's not
a problem. So yeah, yeah, I don't have the despair
a lot of people have. I think if it takes
thirty or forty years, it's worth doing.

Speaker 11 (01:37:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
Some other other like great historical old stone buildings, I think,
particularly in Germany, where they would take you know, the
base which is still standing and then build something great
and architectural on top of it. You know, it might
be steel and glass on the top of the stone
that's reflects the way that it used to be and
then the way that it could be and is now.

Speaker 3 (01:38:20):
Yeah. I yeah, Look, I mean I've done so many
talkback shows on this has been so much discussion and
it's so heated.

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
They didn't want to bother you about it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:32):
No, no, no, but I do. I do really have
the feel that I think it's I think it's Christ
Jutch's problem, and they are the ones that need to
come up with a decision and sort it out.

Speaker 11 (01:38:44):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:38:44):
I don't think it's up for people out of Christ
to really have this say because some people want it,
some people don't want it, and you know, I don't
know everyone's reasons for wanting the cathedral back, and the
city has changed so much, and they've got a fantastic city.
In fact, the whole area around the around the square
now looks a bit, you know. I mean that the
city's focus is elsewhere now whereas the square was always.

(01:39:07):
I almost think the city has moved beyond needing a
leading a cathedral. But you know it's the decision. I guess,
I think so, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:39:15):
Can I tell you another thing about the targeted ads
advertisements when you're listening from abroad, Yes, the ones on
your show are so lovely. They're like theme parks and
progressive insurance and.

Speaker 11 (01:39:30):
All of this other stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:39:31):
Whereas when you listen to the morning show, they're costing
until like retirement homes and adult diapers and investment funds.
So you've barely got a good algorithm going brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:39:44):
I'm pleased to hear that. Who's ever I haven't heard
the adult diapers? A Yeah, I'm pleased with that, Dean,
Thank you. Twenty one away from eleven, Yes, the joys
of what's coming up get in touch. I'm looking at
that rebuild plan there, but it's also confusing for me.
Someone from Christ you might want to comment to you
are more than welcome. Oh yeah, yeah, but if it

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takes thirty years, it's you know, I'm sure there'll be
one time thing. Oh my god, what did they do?
But then again you look at something like that hunt
of Vasa building and Fangade and you think, wow, what
a knockout that is, and whereas they're going to get
what they've always had. But it's christ Church people's choice,
it's their thing. They're the ones that can battle about

(01:40:29):
that and work out what they want to do. As
I always started go to a church service. I don't
know why I was there. I must have been bored,
stupid and staying in the square and it was about
it was between the two quakes. Must have been in
twenty ten I went to a church service at the

(01:40:50):
cathedral and boy, oh boy, was it dreary. There was
hardly anyone there. It was one of those sorts of
and the minister is that what you call it was
sort of talking about climate change, trying to make it
all seem relevant, and it just seemed to be a
venue and a service whose time had passed. No one

(01:41:11):
was interested, half full. I just thought wow. But then
you go. About a week later she fell apart. So
make of that what you will. You know, it was
a building that has great symbolic function, but they didn't
appear to be much desire for people to use it.

(01:41:32):
Whereas you look at that library across the road for
the what a fantastic place that is? Enough said nine,
oh no, actually I'm going to go for a break,
but I'm actually hitting at brakes. Gave Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:41:46):
Yeah me, I'll make.

Speaker 3 (01:41:49):
About you good, thank you?

Speaker 11 (01:41:52):
Oh yeah cool.

Speaker 13 (01:41:54):
It really rained like you wouldn't believe. And then hail
and thunder here and Canbury yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:42:05):
Yeah, on a game time.

Speaker 13 (01:42:09):
It was kind of around four point thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:42:11):
Yeah, because we had unbelievable hail down here. It was
just it was just it was just shocking.

Speaker 16 (01:42:17):
It was wicked.

Speaker 13 (01:42:19):
But anyway, it kind of gave a bit of that
gave the Grand a bit of relief because it was
it was sodden. Now we're going to like grub it
up a weather and hair and there's some.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
Prayering and whatnot.

Speaker 3 (01:42:37):
Is hail good for the soil.

Speaker 13 (01:42:39):
I was getting It got really dry and so that
downpour was good. Now we can get on and do
some more work with the Derek brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:42:51):
Good update, GeV. Thanks for that eighteen to eleven, sixteen
to eleven Roman from twelve. That is right. Get in
touch anyone in christ you just want to talk about
the cause cathedral. You might have more clarity on it
than I do. I've read the plan. I looked at

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that and yes this is the press release from today.
This is what they've said. A new plan to reopen
christ Church Cathedral has been unveiled by the christ Church
Cathedral Reinstatement Limited with support from across the city. Plans
were reviewed last year after the c CRL was unable
to secure extra funding for eighty five to ninety five million.
The shortfall and construction paused. CCRL director Mark Stewart says

(01:43:38):
the project has made significant progress since it's been a
busy time. We've reviewed and costed a range of options
to make the reinstatement achievable. The conclusion has been to
want to take the work in stages. We've dove a
plan that will see the first stage deliver a reopen
cathedral and the removal of hoardings from the square to
enable its revitalization. Stuff should have just re published the

(01:44:03):
press release because it makes a lot more sense in
their article. The first stage will see the tower and
nave areas reinstated, along with the western wall including the
rose window. This will create a cathedral with a seating
for seven hundred people. It was these areas at first
opened to the public when the cathedral was al really
built in nine eighteen eighty one. The plan has attracted

(01:44:23):
endorsement from Tanga to Fenua keepers as the community leaders
who have voiced their support. It's important for the city's
sake that we get this project moving. Chross Church Central
City is thriving. While it's revitalizations are lauded, the cathedral
is an obstacle to further progress. Until there is a resolution,
the private sect will remain reluctant to unlock potential in
the properties around the square. The new plan halves the

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funding shortfall to between forty and forty five million, With
construction work beginning next year, the cathedral could be opened
by the end of twenty thirty. Dean Truman says reopening
has the full support of the anglic Anglican Church leadership,
which has agreed to a further twenty million to the project.

(01:45:09):
We want to make this happen. The Cathedral with its
Tarrant Square was always the hub of ours city as
well as a major tourist attraction. It's a rich history
and even richer future, a place that welcomes everyone and
host important events for the city. We are so thankful
for the significant work reachieved in support we've hadn't get
into support. We're excited with the plan to get the
doors open, the bells ringing, and the square alive again.

(01:45:33):
Ben Bridgeho's company, mainlyan Capital, along with Russell Property Group,
is redeveloping the landmark Noah's Hotel. Says Cathedral Square is
the last piece of the puzzle and terms of the
rebel of the CBD, providing certainty with respect to the
cathedralg of the investment community confidence to develop the area
around it fully when unlock substantial private sector investment that
will bring Cathedral Square to life, just as Riverside, Little High,

(01:45:55):
the Crossing, the Terrace and other developments have delivered. This
is about ensuring christ churches post quake revitalized, as he continues,
It's about ensuring Cathedral Square and the properties around are
brought back to life, providing a capstone to the earthquake
era for this and future generations. Nice well worded and

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so it seems like the old project was too expensive.
They're doing this. It's half the price. So there we go. Marcus.
Forty years as an architect. Christ Church is some of
the best architecture in New Zealand. The Cathedraar's impressive. It's
a dying generation that enjoy it. Pull it down and

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build something modern from christ Turn into a ruin like
an europe memorial to the quake and open a church space. Marcus.
The one downside deliving in chrost each other number of
speed humps that have spread up all over the city. Marcus.
When your student has been a late Wednesday night at

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the bush in in the early two thousands, is there
a pub there? Scott is a top? Maybe he should
go back to where he was before coming to christ Church.
We have less places to play mini golf now in
christ Church, which is disappointing. I guess our identity has changed.
That's what people say. We want to talk before the news.

(01:47:19):
I'd love to hear from you. We are talking about
christ Church now and they're doing it. It's out of
our hands. The church is put in twenty million. The
government are putting some, no doubt they're probably the counselor
putting some. Be fantastic for I'm more for it. So
I do get in touch. If you want to talk

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eight hundred eighty twenty nine two nine to text. There's
something else you want to mention, good, I'm up for it,
jumping eight hundred eighty to eighty and nine nine two text.
So if there's something different you want to mention, I

(01:48:02):
don't know what it is, but yeah, let's be hearing
from you. Oh yeah, texts, keep those going. And also
two phones, smartphones versus dumb phones. The woman that was offended,
they said they need a dumb phone. I said, what,
I'm amazed. I can't wait to go and stay in
that Noah's hotel. That looked beautiful forever, that big curved well,
what a great looking building that is, Marcus, this is NICKI.

(01:48:26):
The cathedral is an icon of Christ Church an issue.
Have gone in there and climbed the spiral staircase up
to the bell tower, then continue the balculty. People never
know the view of the icon. So I forget the
cycle lanes and the bus days and enjoy what we
had and bring it back. I think the bike lanes
are fantastic. That's become a cycling city. It's a making

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of christ juche.

Speaker 11 (01:48:50):
So.

Speaker 3 (01:48:50):
I certainly didn't put any rapid rail or anything when
they did the rebuild, but the one thing they've got
right is the cycling. Not sure about the tram. I
had a conversation with my nine year old about why
Elon Musk wants to inhabit Mars. He must have molded
over for a while because he came back with a question,
what happens if Mars already occupied? I guess we just

(01:49:10):
take over all I suspected. I think they've found some
bacteria there, but that's about it. The Aardi Adyardy get
in touch. Hit'll twelve one him as Marcus Welcome. If
there's something in the news you want to talk about,
feel free to come through and yeah, I look forward
to what you've got a comment about. Tonight eight hundred
and eighty Eddy. In the UK, they have sacked the ambassador,

(01:49:35):
a guy by the name of Peter Mendelssohn. H He
is sacked after he told pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, your friends
love you.

Speaker 18 (01:49:48):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:49:48):
He seems like a very flawed characterist Lord Mendelssohn. He
was sacked as the US ambasted after emails showed he'd
urged Jeffrey Epstein to fight for Iudie release. So that
does bring to question Sir Keir Starmer's judgment to appoint
him American Ambassador. See, the whole Epstein stuff goes on

(01:50:10):
and on. So that's something that you might want to
mention about also. But yeah, but mainly about christchitch people
and the cathedral. It's not that long ago away twenty thirty.
But yeah, the whole what they are right about is
the whole bit that's holding back the rebuild of Christ Ditches,

(01:50:31):
that whole scare a square area, it's become a dead
zone with the it been boarded up and everything. Yeah,
get in touch, as I say, oh eight hundred eighty
nine nine two de texts, you want to be part
of it. Anything else you've got, I absolutely hear for you. People.

(01:50:52):
Let's be hearing from you. If there's something else you
want to talk about. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty
and nine to nine two de text stix away from eleven.
Why don't necessary save money and flight to Central Australia.
That's a good point. You could actually go there and
pretend it to Mars. Not that different because mass isn't
that big either, to occupy kind of think there's some

(01:51:13):
faulty thinking there. You might want to say something about
that also tonight. Now other stories that's I've mentioned the
cathedral and cell phones. Now, let me think what else
is happening out there that you might be inspired to
talk about. Oh yeah, Dan Brown's new book first to
eight years after the Da Vinci Code, I think there

(01:51:34):
was a sequel to that, And Avocado's down to nineteen
cents each. And there's new talk of the new secondary
school curriculum. They go to teach generative AI. I don't
know what to think about that that. I don't know
if that's good or bad. Yep, generative AI. I don't

(01:51:55):
know what teaching it would involve. It's evolving so quickly. Anyway,
will the rapid development of AI, students will be able
to learn about and use general iron a range of subjects.
This may include learning about how digital systems work, machine learning, cybersecurity,
and digital ethics. If you're not careful, they'll replace the teachers,

(01:52:18):
just saying a big League match tomorrow too I'm excited
about that. That'll be at ten to ten is the
final start for the NARL. That's a good press release
from the crosschet to fed.

Speaker 19 (01:52:30):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:52:30):
That's makes a lot of sense, Marcus. One problem I've
had with dumb phones is the network lock to a
specific carrier, mean you have to pay an unlocking fear
if you want to use a sym from different network.
And also most phone plans to day are buttered with data,
but dumb phones can't even use except for text and calls,

(01:52:50):
so you're basically paying for a service you can't even use.
Also on with Cogan a mobile, Yeah, good points. I
haven't heard of Cogan Mobile. Sounds like one of the
minnows of the whole cell phone company. But yeah, is
that a New Zealand? Was that like getting it? You
might be an international text or are you emailer Cogen?

Speaker 11 (01:53:13):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:53:13):
Yeah, it comes from Australia, does it? Oh it's Cogain
dot Com India. I don't know about that, but yeah,
Cogin Mobile. Cogain Mobile New Zealand the cheapest prepaid deals
in the country. Like the look of Cogan thirty five
bucks for the month, you'd be your way laughing, So
that's happening text if you want to, yes, oh yes,

(01:53:40):
some good points about the Hunter Voser building, how much
beloved that is. But oh well, they had the chance
to build something new and the people of Christis think
we're very much opposed to it. But I don't think
the people Christis you kind of what an amazing city
was going to become. Despite the cathedral. If I can

(01:54:02):
say that, it's also nine eleven today, which we'll be
just waking up to nine eleven in America to twenty
fourth commemoration of that. So next year will be the
twenty five years quarter of a century and you might
have stories to tell about that. Also one of the

(01:54:25):
biggest days in history, wasn't it? And of course the
first of the conspiracy videos with that loose change one
you might have wanted watched, which was amazing how that
just kind of needled away at people and the hang
about if you watched this. I don't even know where
it was. Was it in video? Was on YouTube, but
it would be one of the early YouTube videos. She
must be pre used. I don't even know what format

(01:54:47):
was and when it first came out, maybe it was
on VHS. Welcome good evening. One of his Marcus Hello, oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, nineteen ninety six. A
couple of texts here. Marcus I said, let us the
christ Chich press after the quakes, that we should demolish
the damage cathedral in build something amazing that represents this
period to look back with pride, Steve Marcus, the council
business is. I have realized that when the new stadium

(01:55:08):
opens there will be much more foot traffic in the square.
Scott was correct and how he described christ which as
it's now a lot of the city charm has gone,
but we'll come back with the restoration of the cathedral. Cedric.
I wonder how busy, how often? How often the stadium
is going to be busy? It will be ten times
a year, and realistically what's going to be There'll be

(01:55:28):
an all black test occasion in a couple of Super
fifteen matches, but will people go to those? I don't know.
You might want to tell me about that. Any of
this is Marcus, Hello, Hi, Marcus.

Speaker 28 (01:55:38):
Has Annie, Hey Anny, Hi, Hey, Look, I'm really really
excited about the new stadium to start with, and I
think it's going to be I'm calling it the space ship.
It's just being a bit of life to the city.
We've been hoping for something so long that it's going
to be built. That's mega.

Speaker 23 (01:55:59):
Now.

Speaker 28 (01:55:59):
As for the cathedral, goodbye, goodbye, Please get rid of it.
I mean really, you're going to the square an hour
and it makes my heart break. I was born and
bred in christ Church, and you know, to the just
go there and get a taxi home or go to
a cinema or get a bus or whatever. And it's

(01:56:21):
just it just breaks my heart. It breaks my heart.
Get rid of the cathedral.

Speaker 3 (01:56:26):
And just you know, how often is the how often
is the one New Zealand Stadium going to have big
events on?

Speaker 28 (01:56:37):
Look, I don't know, and I don't care.

Speaker 3 (01:56:39):
It's just you're going to say it's going to make
the city bars. But I wonder how often I'll make
the city bus because the thing about stadiums is there
empty most of the time.

Speaker 28 (01:56:48):
Oh look, yes, I know, don't be negative. Please the
crusaders will be there and the kids can go.

Speaker 3 (01:57:00):
What I'm saying is that probably the cathedral would have
things on more often than the one New Zealand Stadium.
That that's what that's I need to say, okay, no.

Speaker 28 (01:57:09):
Come on, goodbye. I'm just saying goodbye cathedral. Absolutely, you know,
you know, we have the guys that they're all the
clown stuff and it happens every February and joking around
and at the art center that will the rebuilt and
it was great, and then they put some of the
you know, the comedians in that whatever to the square

(01:57:31):
and it was a dismal, horrible place for localffiti. And
you know, get rid of this, get rid of the cathedral,
make the square great whatever, it can be the heart
of the city. And then yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
Anyway, what do you think they're called buskers?

Speaker 28 (01:57:49):
Yes, sorry buskers, Thank you, my pleasure.

Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
Eleven past eleven. If you want to add to this,
you're still redivisive in christ is a divisive divisive but yeah,
if you want to talk, But that'd be nice to
hear from you. Anna. This is Marcus.

Speaker 25 (01:58:07):
Welcome, Hi there.

Speaker 29 (01:58:10):
I just want to talk about the stadium in christ Church.
My main question is what about the parking situation.

Speaker 3 (01:58:21):
Yeah, tell me about that well as.

Speaker 29 (01:58:24):
It right now, the parking situation in town. Most of
the time you've got to pay for it. So with
the new stadium as people just going to tax your
urbanan or what's the buff in? I think it's just
going to be quite cramped, really and a bit of
a mess.

Speaker 3 (01:58:42):
I imagine that. What the theory is is that people
will if it's big events like all black Tests, they'll
make a night of it and they'll come into town
earlier and have some drinks and chechet around town and
then go to the Manchi and get an uber home.
I think that's the way more. If you're in a

(01:59:03):
stadium downtown, you can't have a lot of parking because
it's just a dead area, isn't it. Yeah, of course, yeah,
And I guess people get their vibe, they'll find their
regular car park place they will go to, I suppose,
but yeah, or I guess it's all Luber's really all
those scooters.

Speaker 29 (01:59:18):
Yeah, that's true as well. And what's a cathedral? I
think they need to get rid of it, but I
feel like they can't really get rid of it, as
they've kind of.

Speaker 15 (01:59:29):
Like rebuilding it.

Speaker 3 (01:59:30):
Exactly they should, yeah, exact, you can't half rebuild it.
Then we get get rid of it. They've made it
difficult for themselves, haven't they.

Speaker 19 (01:59:36):
Yeah, Yeah, I believe they have so yeah, I wanted.

Speaker 3 (01:59:41):
To, and I reckon Christchurch has becomes so good anyway
without the Now they realize how fantastic christ Church is.
They probably realized I didn't need the cathedral. You got
the library and everything else there. It's fantastic. So it's
kind of weird to be that one.

Speaker 29 (01:59:56):
We've got that cardboard cathedral in town. I personally, I
personally haven't been to that one, but you know, we've
got that one.

Speaker 3 (02:00:04):
It's pretty good. I go on through every time I
go up. There's a christ Church. We was going to
have a look. It doesn't look hardboard. It's a nice light,
eerie building and no sign of collapsing yet. And it's Marcus.

Speaker 5 (02:00:17):
Welcome, Oh him, Marcus.

Speaker 17 (02:00:19):
I wondered if you could just tell me. Do you
know what happened to the christ Church Basilica that was damaged?

Speaker 3 (02:00:27):
They knocked it down, didn't they?

Speaker 12 (02:00:30):
Or I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:00:32):
Are you are you in christ Church?

Speaker 14 (02:00:35):
No?

Speaker 17 (02:00:35):
I lived years ago, but I'm up in the island.

Speaker 19 (02:00:38):
Now where are you?

Speaker 17 (02:00:39):
Sorry, I'm up the island.

Speaker 7 (02:00:42):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:00:42):
I thought you said I'm an islander. I thought it
was the top of the morning to you, But Yeah,
that's all right.

Speaker 17 (02:00:48):
I just wondered if you knew what had happened to it.

Speaker 3 (02:00:50):
I think it's a beautiful building, isn't it.

Speaker 17 (02:00:55):
It was, yes, stunning.

Speaker 3 (02:00:57):
They're going to build a new cathedral on the same
site that was announced last year, so I imagine that
hasn't happened yet. It's been demolished. What was it made of?
Wamu stone?

Speaker 18 (02:01:10):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (02:01:10):
It seems amazing.

Speaker 17 (02:01:13):
Two years ago since I was in there, I can't remember,
and I just knew it was a beautiful building.

Speaker 10 (02:01:22):
That.

Speaker 3 (02:01:22):
Yeah, I haven't seen a plan of what's planning to
go in there, but yeah, I guess it'll be something
probably contemporary. The Catholics have always been quite good with
their contemporary duties, haven't They've done quite a few modern ones.

Speaker 12 (02:01:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (02:01:33):
I thought they took some of the stuff off the
top that wasn't damaged and they were going to reuse it.

Speaker 3 (02:01:38):
Be wrong to probably reincorporated. That's something they probably do
quite like that. Good evening, Andrew.

Speaker 11 (02:01:46):
Hi, here you Andrew.

Speaker 8 (02:01:49):
I thought about this parking problem around the stadium, and
there's actually heaps of parks, heaps of parks because if
you go, you know you've got some mass of street.
Then you've got to them street, the Field Street Orford Street.
There's lots of business parks that have huge number of

(02:02:12):
car packs and that that aren't being used on Saturday night.
Some of them might have twenty thirty car packs. So
all that has to happen is somebody who's got a
line marking business like we company called Potholes and Lines
dot co, dot and z could number all the car
packs and those business car packs and those businesses could
collect twenty five to thirty dollars parking for the night.

Speaker 3 (02:02:36):
Be a frett easy thing to develop an app for that,
wouldn't it. You know part stadium parking, You just click
on that, they show you the nearest park and you
go there. But you're quite right, I'm looking around sure
where so definitely what you've said, But there's there's a
lot of parking there and I guess it's here is
that it's going to be developed. But I'm looking at there,
I could probably see a thousand car parks just as
I'm talking to you on Google Maps.

Speaker 8 (02:02:57):
Correct, there's lots of car packs. Just you know that
we company called Potholes and Lines dot co dot in
Z go on there they can sensle up all your
car packs to make them look real swish. I think
the chaps named Andrew.

Speaker 3 (02:03:10):
That owned that business, like he says, like a legend.

Speaker 8 (02:03:16):
Yeah, you developed the the the app markets and then
change of advertising and we're away.

Speaker 3 (02:03:23):
So so Andrew, that's your company, is it?

Speaker 8 (02:03:26):
Yees obviously sold trader one man band. I should be
at working now.

Speaker 3 (02:03:30):
But so what what do you do? You just draw
them up?

Speaker 8 (02:03:35):
No, I just do a lot of remarking, you know,
like they get faded and they get worn out, and
he's disabled spots and the lines and the arrows and
sings the lines and things like that.

Speaker 3 (02:03:44):
I'm looking at Team hutchardson Ford that that might be
that's a car yard. That's not car parks at a
car yard.

Speaker 8 (02:03:52):
Yeah yeah, but no, there's lots of them. If you
look on Razine that's really really close. It's on the
Lichfield Street.

Speaker 18 (02:03:58):
That's like a.

Speaker 8 (02:03:59):
Five minute walk. That's east of the stadium on Litchfield Street.

Speaker 3 (02:04:05):
Because you don't want give the tow trucks the work,
but you could just you could just have an app
and you just put in your number plate and they
say and you pay your twenty five bucks and that's yours,
and then they could probably send the toes around and
they could tell you if you're not supposed to be there.
But it would sort of itself out pretty quickly, wouldn't it.

Speaker 8 (02:04:21):
A little bit a bit of with anything, there's a
teething problems and things like that that I mean, once
you a lot of it would be like repeat, repeat
business too, you know, like, oh, I know my mate
owns that business there, so I pay him thirty bucks.
So yeah, So there's plenty of car parks in the vicinity,

(02:04:42):
it's just a matter of utilizing on the Saturday night.

Speaker 3 (02:04:45):
I entirely agree with you. I think that's a great
pointing out. Andrew, thank you for that, because I'm getting
some negative Nellie's names. Oh there's no car parking, but
there will be. Someone said, absolutely agree about the study
of parking. Is already traffic gems during peaktime weekdays car
pack but is often full as well a bit of
the weekdays. I wonder what the council plan is or

(02:05:06):
on this. We can't put car parks everywhere. This takes
up too much land. There shouldn't be car parks anywhere,
you know, it sounds controversy, but people need to find
other ways. Mark is taking vehicles and buses out of
the Cathedral square years ago, was started the downfall of
the square. It was always busy, was the heart of

(02:05:27):
the city before that. You see old fight as it
was thriving. Oh, I think probably already. The move away
from the city had started before the quake. Places like
Rolliston and the malls, the malls everywhere gut to inner
cities because people want to go to the malls. That's
what happened. Change for a flip phone twelve months ago,
no internet calling taxi won an Earth and alarm for work.

(02:05:48):
What more do you want? I have a smart computer
at home for checking emails. Best change ever. Thanks, love
your show, Love you it's a great text. I'll get
to the text. Were talking about the Kraschitch Cathedral and
the Chrst Chitch Stadium, how they will be when they open,
So much discussion. Hollo Marcus. I'm sure the Chroschach bus

(02:06:13):
company pro extra buses for events. Is they do for
the AMP show? Well, I'm sure they will and there'll
be trained. Is that private company that's bringing trains up
from Roliston and places for the big events. I just
don't know what the big events are going to be.
That's my big question, because what's the stadium. What's the capacity?

(02:06:33):
It's because its thirty thousand, so I don't know what's
going to fill that. I don't know what big x
are going to attract. So the capacity is thirteen thousand,
twenty five thousand permit seats in room for five thousand
more up to thirty seven thousand winning concert mode yep,

(02:07:01):
So that's that. It opens April twenty twenty six to Kaha.

Speaker 11 (02:07:11):
No.

Speaker 3 (02:07:11):
I don't know what bookings it's got. It's quite interesting because, yeah,
I think they made it. I think it should have
been all purpose stadium where you could play sport, but
they've played They've turned to a sports stadium which can
of kind of can be worked out for all purpose.

(02:07:32):
They've done pretty quickly. Construction started in twenty twenty three.
They did decide to reduce it to twenty five thousand,
which was the right thing to do, but councilors voted
to backtrack after it was real the thirty thousand option
run across the extra fifty million. It's a lot to me, yes,

(02:07:53):
So I did say the capacity might be higher than
christ Church needed. I'm just trying to say there's any
The name of the stadium to Kaha means the strength,
so an extra one hundred and fifty one hundred and
fifty million dollars, which they plan to do by increasing rates.
Thirty thousand submissions about the stadium, seventy seven percent been

(02:08:15):
in favor. It was a fixed price contract. The one
New Zealand Stadium is what it's known as. But you've
got no word on what acts are booked for there.
Someone says the Dunedin Stadium is the best and cost
half the price of the new christ chitch one. Yes,
but there's nothing on there to white elephant. Yeah, two

(02:08:36):
rugby matches?

Speaker 7 (02:08:37):
Any?

Speaker 3 (02:08:37):
I mean health? Does it full up? Once? Marcus? I
took my sons to the top of the cathedral one
week before the earthquake to the hour. It was a
beautiful day and I took a short video of the
square below.

Speaker 18 (02:08:49):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (02:08:50):
I don't know how earthquake proof the new cathedral will be.
I guess if I had to put seismic stuff underneath,
it might work out twenty nine to twelve. If you
want to be a part of it. Machayla this is Marcus.
Good evening.

Speaker 12 (02:09:04):
Hello Marcus. I'm just going to talk to you about
the cathedral. I believe it's like a member of the
family and it's time time time to say goodbye.

Speaker 3 (02:09:17):
Yeah, I guess yeah, you know, it's.

Speaker 12 (02:09:21):
Just been part of my life and I'm a bit
upset about it, but it's got to go now.

Speaker 3 (02:09:28):
You're upset because you think it shouldn't be around anymore.

Speaker 12 (02:09:32):
No, I don't think so. We've had earthquakes before, and
we'll probably get a few more, and fifty five hundred
years time.

Speaker 13 (02:09:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (02:09:43):
It's just a it will ever be the same.

Speaker 3 (02:09:46):
Are you saying that there's an element of sadness around
it to the fact that it's still there?

Speaker 12 (02:09:51):
Well, I think it is. I think it's time. It's
got to come down, and we've got to move on
and get an architect in and build something new for
goodness sake.

Speaker 3 (02:10:02):
I don't even know what Christ church, what the numbers
are like with the most people in Christ your favorite
or not. It just seems to be of redividing, doesn't it.

Speaker 12 (02:10:10):
Yes, but it had a good time.

Speaker 14 (02:10:13):
You know.

Speaker 12 (02:10:13):
I used to go to church on a Sunday there
and oh you know, people worked out, they're all different religions,
came in and had each other on with my games
and things, and you know it was really driving. Yeah, okay,
and it's just it's just so sad. It's all just

(02:10:37):
pigeons now. But've made your next there. I suppose it's
doing a good job there.

Speaker 3 (02:10:43):
So yeah, the pigeons still in there. Is it still open?
Is it still open to the elements?

Speaker 12 (02:10:50):
Well, I even been to look at it. I've only
been to the new one, yes, and I can't be
to go there. That's how bad it is for me.

Speaker 3 (02:11:01):
Okay, nice to hear from you, Mikadath, thank you twenty
from twelve if you want to add to that. But
talking about someone said there is a super rugby super
round scheduled for the stadium. Thank you for that. And
of course Kenterby might have the shield for a long time.
Then again they might not. The shield seems to do
daft things to people. I don't know all of that.

(02:11:25):
But we're on to christ Church, the cathedral and the stadium.
So it's where they called the stadium Takaha. But then
they sold the naming rights to it, so I guess
they need the money. But still why would you give
it a name and then change the name for sponsorship.
In the UK, a bakery chain called Cinnabon has got

(02:11:47):
Oh it's a US bakery that's closed all its UK branches. Cinnabon.
I think we've got that in New Zealand, haven't we. Yeah,
that's the one that that had the strong tactics against
the one of the places that was doing cinnamon rolls.

(02:12:07):
Please they've gone bad. So yes, Cinnabon, there we go,
anyone being to it. It's in two double seven. We
still call it two double seven Westfield New Market. So
that's the story. A US bakery chain is closing all
of its branches. Cinnebon has announced will shut the door
on twelve of its branch across the country, just five

(02:12:29):
years after launching. The chain, which sells giants, innamon buns,
drenched and toppings such as cream, cheese, frosting and biscoff.
First over in twenty twenty and planned one fifty stores
across the country in five years. However, the twenty branches
went down to twelve and now they've all got what
happened in news even too, wouldn't it. I don't know

(02:12:51):
if there are any

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