It's almost like Settlers of Catan (12 November 2025)

Costco will open another NZ store, this time in Drury - plus Marcus talks weird sleep schedules and another unfair supermarket parking ticket!

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from News
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Heyjo, let's go at seven past eight. Good evening people.
My name is Marcus Hittel twelve. I hope you're good.
A couple of things just off the bat before I
do go. There's a breaking news story ish, it's breaking
issue news. There is going to be a solar storm

(00:37):
and this is big stuff and it will be visible.
But what's surprising about this is that Transpower has issued
a grid emergency notice and removed some South Island electricity
transmission lines from service. It won't affect electricity supply to

(00:57):
homes and businesses, but will prevent damage if the storm worsens. Yeah,
this is the cabinish event, but smaller scale. So that's happened.
So it's a very high CME coronal mass ejection and normally,
of course, the planet's magnetic field shields the planet from that.

(01:19):
But this is a biggie so if the weather's good,
you should be able to see it with the naked eye.
And the weather's very good down south too, so keep
us posted by that. In fact, I like to go
drop off some fudge at the Sea Scouts and they
were out on the harbor rowing, and as I went

(01:40):
to the harbor there were a lot of kids jumping
off the pier into the ocean or into the harbor.
It's a very hot and fine night down south. Kind
of a tranquil scene rowing the giants. What would you
call it, I don't know, one of those scouts, rowing boats,
a skiff, something like that. But anyway, it was quite good.

(02:02):
So yes, I think if in south then I think
the weather could be very good for an aurora. But
also too there could be trouble with the interference with
the frequency and things like that, so keep us post
if you are seeing something, let us know. It seems
for a clear night, might cloud up a bit about twelve,
but before midnight good good climate, so you should see

(02:23):
something hopefully. By the way, what we talked about last
night has been confirmed. There is going to be a
cost Co and Dreary. I've got a couple of texts
about this. A lot of people are saying why they're
why not where we need to be And it's all
about logistics. If Costco is getting all their gear into Auckland,
it's going to be much easier for them to open

(02:43):
a second Auckland store tapping into Hamilton than doing a
South Island store, so that's the trouble for that. But
hopefully if this goes gangbus is also one will arrive
in the South Island. I know people love Costco mainly
because of the cheap butter. This one will sell alcohol
and I presume the other one doesn't sell alcohol because

(03:05):
of the Licensing Trust, which means that people there will
be paying more for their liquor and if they had
it at Costco would be a better experience for them.
But certainly no licensing struct trust and Drewy so that's
where it's going. It's a mess of store. I think
they've got six hectares eight hundred car parks and you go,

(03:25):
you pay your money to take your chance. You're in exciting,
but that's the situation there. If you want to talk
about that, i'd be if you're angry about that going
not going to Rolliston or Christchurch? What's your thoughts. Also,
apparently there's going to be a bus to the train station,
which is a great idea, but I'm practical as far

(03:46):
as carrying a lot of goods, but oh, I can't
imagine there'd be people with a gold card. I think
a trip to Costco that's going to be quite exciting.
I still have not made it to Costco. I've come close,
but not entirely got the whole way there. So that's
still very much top of my retail bucket list. But
you want to talk about Costco and Drury, I don't

(04:08):
even know. For those that don't know Drury, what is Drury?
Drury was just kind of I don't even know. How
would you describe Drury. It was a rural town south
of Auckland where there was a giant quarry. Then there
was a pub called the Jolly that was very successful
for a long time as a country pub. As the
city kind of arrived and took over. But that's no

(04:28):
longer there because they bulldoze that. But that is dreary.
Terrible name for a town, Drury, because it sounds like dreary.
And if you look at the conurbation that is Auckland City,
it goes far north and far south from almost Hatfields
Beach down to probably or where would you go down
as far as anyway, it stops at Drury. Drury's right

(04:51):
on the literally on the edge of the city. It's
kind of surrounded by greenfields, but that's not going to
be for much longer because it's going south at a
rate of knots. That's where Costco is going to be.
Some of them will probably want to go to both,
but there we go. As you go down the Southern
Motorway and just before you go to the Bombay Hills
that is dreary. So that's the situation. If you want

(05:13):
to talk about costcos, I'm all up for the discussion
about that and the aurora and the geomagnetic storm or
the mass coronal event, which sounds pretty exciting. I think
it will be pretty exciting. He's hoping this is this
net while I'm watching live. Dan doesn't look it. It's
a cut of the kids are in its Sea Scouts.

(05:33):
That's what was the name I was thinking of. Thank
you for that, Marcus. What an amazing fact. We shared
DNA with bananas. Sixty percent of our DNA we share
the banana. This is because the core mechanisms for basics
of function are shared. Have a great note, Marcus. Why
would anyone be angry about Costco not going to somewhere

(05:55):
other than where they are planning to go. It's a
commercial business. Decisions are made of the economy economics of that.
People are angry because there's a cost of living crisis
and they're sick of the duopoli and want to play
cheaper about for groceries. And that's why Costco, I presume,
has been given a fast trek application because the government
thinks they can help with breaking the jewopoly. So that's
exactly why they're angry, because they're paying too much and

(06:17):
they've got no third option. But those people orcland will
have a third option because they can go to Costco
at West City or Costco at Drury. Yep, Marcus, the
last time I spoke to you on nights was in
nineteen ninety six, twenty nine years ago. I used to
work at a call store and way too much ice
cream and frozen ready meals. Pleased you are still trucking

(06:39):
after all these years. Wow, do you want to talk
about Costco? That's where I'm on about tonight to begin with.
There are other topics and the soul of mess solar
ejection here. The weather's not great in Auckland to know neither,
by the way, that would be right, Dan, she's cats
and dogging. It sounded wrong when I said that it's

(07:00):
raining cats and dogs, so be careful about that. There
are wind warnings for the bridge mine. There's always wind
warnings for the bridge ever since that truck hit the
central span, so be very very careful about that. Don't
hit the scene of span because that could be the
city over I think. But we are too. Oh yea
one hundred k wins, so you sit not happening down south.

(07:22):
We want to talk about Costco. I do want to.
And how's the experience been for you with Costco at
the we's city one. I know there's Facebook pages and
people are share what's going on. But has kind of
the shine worn off it? Is it not the great
retail experience that people once thought? Or are they still
drinking the caol aid and loving it?

Speaker 3 (07:41):
All?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
The articles I read coming out of America about Costco
do say it's been an extraordinary thing as far as
revolutionizing retail. What's the fact with cashew nuts? Do you
know the fact about cashew nuts and Costco? You won't
know what that is. I think forty percent of all
cashew nuts are soult in the world are sold at Costco?

(08:03):
Is that interesting? It is to me? Delicious nut? But yeah,
that's a situation. But yes, you want to start the
whole ball rolling, let's go oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty nine to text. Costco does indeed sell half
the world's cashews and it employs two point five million.

(08:30):
The company sources and supports an estimated two point five
million independent cashew farmers in Africa alone. Yep, yep, that's right.
So there we go. That's a situation there. That's big stuff.
That's big with it. Because cashes aren't straightforward to grow.

(08:53):
They've got a big fruit on them. You've got to
break out before you get to the nut. So yep. Anyway,
situation about Costco half the world's nuts, cashew nuts, I'd
go my favorite nuts hazel nutting cash you nut one
two three, So get in touch if you want to
be a part of it. And she was nut Day

(09:16):
last week. I meant to talk about nut to look
through a whole show on nut. I like a brazil nut.
I like a cashew nut, like a hazelnut. Not don't
love a walnut. Yeah, I think that's where I go
with nuts. Don't mind a pecan. Good evening, Leanne. This
is Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
Hi Marcus Costo. I've heard that you have to have
a special card that costs quite about to have text
you walk through the doors. Why is that?

Speaker 2 (09:44):
That's the way the business model works. They try and
sell the goods at cost, so you're paying for them
to run the shop. Buy that card?

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Okay, so you have to team up with someone to
walk through the door and join the place, is that right?

Speaker 2 (09:58):
No, anyone can buy a card.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yes, I realized that. But if you weren't because it's
not close by and you weren't using the place regularly,
can you go with someone who owns a card?

Speaker 2 (10:09):
I imagine so, but I think probably the savings are
so good if you go two or three times a year,
the card would pay for itself.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Okay, yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I've never been, but I think you can wander around
and see what's on the shelves in buy your card.
You just need to. They will let you, and you
just need to buy your card to go through the
to go through the turnstiles.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yeah, yeah, okay, cool.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Are you in Auckland?

Speaker 5 (10:35):
No?

Speaker 2 (10:36):
No, you've got a station.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
No, But you know we've talked loosely about getting a
van and filling the up and coming home sure.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
You must be. I think what people do is they
go on Facebook and look at the bargains and sometimes
there will be things that like deturgent and stuff that's
way way cheap, and you you know, those things you
can store in your garage.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yeah, yeah, true, yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
I mean people strategize. It's almost like settlers of Katan.
You strategize and work out what you're going to buy,
and then you go up there. You get a group
of you together and you get it all worked out.
Then you're sit in your garage and you divvy it
up like a.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
You know, I think top of my list is a
big of cashe is according to you, I'll get one
of those.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, get kilos of Casho's good on you. Well that's
a good call back, actually I said something. She mentioned it.
That's great. Gu calls put a lot of effanity calls.
Sometimes cashoes. I don't know they came from Africa. I
thought they're all South America. Twenty two and a half
million people, Marcus. The car parks at kes Costco are

(11:38):
designed for left hand car drives. Like the USA, they
need to be designed for right hand cars. I expect
there are a lot of accidents Marcus Drury is miles
from the Bombay. Hell, we're not really by the way,
the giraffes arrived after its torturous journey. How dare they Well,
I suppose to what they wants the giraffe, but still

(12:01):
I like the girafts to be more settled. Rosters is
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (12:07):
Yea evening Machis daughter lives in Auckland. She used to
live in Henderson. Roster to go up from christtrictions with
us are quite a bit Rooster got of Costco quite
liked it. But there's a big line of people. With
the food part of it. I think they have nice

(12:28):
chips with chicken, but something like that. Yeah, but yeah,
she's she's got a subscription card because cheap fuel. And
I think they do tires here as part tires here
as well, So yeah, you can get one person poor card,
I believe so here in her partner. So me and

(12:49):
my wife are the and the redisposed when and yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Did you think do you think things look cheap?

Speaker 4 (12:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (12:56):
Yeah it was. It was pretty good. It's quite a
bit cheap of them here here in christ.

Speaker 7 (13:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, well that's I think that's why someone said why
people be because christ Church is desperate. Because I mean
christ Church. You get Rolls. There must be half a
million people thereabouts. I argue you go game busters with
one there.

Speaker 6 (13:15):
Oh yeah, right, I mean Rolliston they reckon. If you
drive through perhaps at least and at night you can
see the lights to Rollston's closer. It's going from one
side to the other.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
It's all going to combine.

Speaker 6 (13:27):
So oh do ride It is most certainly wall. Yeah,
and I think that once or that they did, they
were going to put their bypart overhead Bridge by to
come out or detractive place here by the railway. Oh,

(13:51):
I think that's been tensled by this government because they
didn't want to spend too much money.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
That'd be right. Okay, I'll leave it there, but nice
to talk to you. I'm gonna have the store. It's hot.
Twenty one past eight, twenty three, twenty three past eight,
Calvin ats Marcus.

Speaker 8 (14:05):
Welcome, Very good evening to you. Marcus. As an out trold.
I'll tell you my favorite nut. But what I wanted
to say years ago, I haven't seen them. Must have
gone out of fashion. But years ago you could buy
Spanish style peanuts, salted peanuts in the little packets and
they still had the little brown colored skin on the outside.

(14:27):
They're very similar to what they call beer nuts now,
I think, But anyway, there were a Spanish style. They
were extremely well cooked. They weren't you know, and they're
almost sort of overcooked. But they were absolutely delicious. But
I've always enjoyed the different nuts, which you've already mentioned.
But a couple of years ago in the tron here

(14:48):
is a special nut shop and garden place in the
center of town, and they were selling walnuts and they
were about as the walnut was about the cyl in
the wooden shell. They're about as big as eggs. And
they were very soft, easy to crack open just any
one hand.

Speaker 9 (15:05):
As it were, they were handcrack.

Speaker 8 (15:08):
Yeah, they were fantastic. And Cashew's and all those I like.
I drink different sorts of coffee, but I buy the
Cowboy box or about ten.

Speaker 10 (15:21):
Coffee.

Speaker 8 (15:22):
They like a tube plastic sort of well paper tube
sort of thing, and a hazel favorite coffee. But I'll
tell you, yeah, but there's just so many nuts. But
do you want to know my favorite nut?

Speaker 2 (15:36):
But I really know, I'd like to guess it.

Speaker 8 (15:39):
Yeah, you guess it? Then?

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Is it a proper nut. It's it's not it's not
a joke.

Speaker 8 (15:45):
Oh, you're asking me lots of questions.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Is this joker is actually a nut?

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Well?

Speaker 8 (15:53):
Delicious? Anyway?

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Is it a nut?

Speaker 8 (15:55):
My favorite? It's my favorite. I'll tell it. I'll tell
you what it is.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Well, i'd like to guess.

Speaker 8 (16:02):
Yeah, we'll have a go.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Then I'm thinking about a hazel nut, peak can nut, peanut.

Speaker 8 (16:10):
Those pick and that's like a cousin to walnut, don't they?

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah? And sometimes you get sometimes if you get walnuts,
they can go, they can get rented. They get quite
a sharp taste. Have you noticed that sometimes they're not
they're too much of a risk. I reckon, I reckon,
I know what you'd like. I reckon. I've got it
in two. Okay, you're ready for it?

Speaker 6 (16:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (16:29):
How much do you? How much do you bet that
I've got it?

Speaker 5 (16:31):
Right?

Speaker 8 (16:33):
I reckon. If you've got a right, I'll ring you
up again.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
I've got three nuts, and I reckon one of these
will be your favorite. Is it a pistachio?

Speaker 8 (16:47):
Now they look they look like a little shelfish sort
of thing that it's.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Not a pistachio. No, is it a meceademia.

Speaker 8 (16:57):
They are bloody had Aren't they to crack open?

Speaker 2 (16:59):
You're hard to crack open? Is it a pine nut?

Speaker 8 (17:05):
That that very nice? They used to have them at
the what what is that restaurant? I used to go
through lots and lots that are having any are in
the they said, those pine nuts?

Speaker 2 (17:16):
You know what restaurant was there? Common coke is a chestnut?

Speaker 8 (17:22):
The old chestnuts are very nice too.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
When is it a coconut?

Speaker 8 (17:29):
They are a hard case thing a coconut? Aren't they
going to be? Pretty well?

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Is an almond?

Speaker 8 (17:38):
Now an almond? Isn't it an almond? Is the inside
of the inside of the stone of the of the
apricot or almond? And now the almonds? You're going to
tell me off when I tell you what I what?

Speaker 2 (17:53):
I really it's a donut.

Speaker 8 (17:55):
It is a donut. How did you get that? They
would have to be my top? But even they are
not like they used to be. When I was a
young fellow, Marcus, the doughnuts were around like an orange,
and they were they were cooked and fat.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Of course it's deep and the outside of the outside
of it was almost a black color, wasn't with the
icey sugar, sprinkle on it with slit slit open with
that whipped cream and little dab of raspberry jam.

Speaker 8 (18:26):
But the ones you get now they're nothing like that
they were. And when you used to eat these ones
I'm talking about, you used to finish up all the
icing sugar around your lips.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
It was quite was it quite quite chewy, But it
sounds like it's it sounds quite.

Speaker 8 (18:41):
It was quite chewy. The skin of the skin on
the out side of it, as it were, it was
almost a black charcoal color.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Thinking about that.

Speaker 8 (18:52):
Yeah, they were cooked in those days, like you'd call
it fat or dripping or whatever. But then they all
had to change over due to the different population I think,
which you know, it's all got to be done in
vegetable oil nowadays.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Oh hang on, as you said, sing this is some
sort of anti Muslim thing.

Speaker 8 (19:09):
Well, I didn't say it. You're on the right.

Speaker 11 (19:14):
On.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Well, yeah, there a lot of us from I don't
know if that's the I think people kind of went
for different oils. I think they've gone back now to
dripping and loud. I think that's by confession again, Well.

Speaker 8 (19:22):
I hope it is, and I hope that I live
long enough to get someone to cook me up one,
you know.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, well, yeah, absolutely well I will if you can,
I can. If you can, you are a hard nut
to crag. If you can actually recruit me into that,
into that mission, I'm all up for that. There, Calvnator
or calvinder. Yeah, the old style and old style donut,
that's I think. I've had one recently like that, and
it was good old school. I got texts. I've got

(19:49):
very good texts. I'll get to those. I've just been
flat out with old Calvindra. But if you want to
talk about I really thought he was going to say pistachio,
and I thought that was going to be his one.
It's the King of the Nuts. Oh eight hundred. That
was a ZM secret sound this year was a pistage
show nut. Always up for a discusion about nuts. Has
anyone been to a cashew nut factory. It's on my

(20:13):
a fartal list of factories I'd like to go to.
I'd like to go and see where cash you nuts
come from. I had one of the reading one of
the kids fact books. The World's Biggest cash nut tree
goes for like hectares. I think so, yeah, I like
to see that. I don't know if you grow cashes
in New Zealand, why wouldn't you? Here are the text
about cost goos. Do you have to pay with a
Costco card only? No, I don't think you do. Dan's

(20:35):
been there to get out. Butter Dan, you can pay
with anything, but you have to present the card. Is
that right? Pay with whatever you want, so it's not
like you need a special card. I mean, I know
over your people, why won't they take cash? They take care,
they will take cash. I hope I was a member
for a year when once don't miss it, but don't forget.

(20:56):
You're also get cheaper petrol, so you soon get your
membership money back. Love Costco. It's great. I live within
ten minutes drive and find the fuel savings pay for
the membership. Great deal. Not everything works out better price
when you break it down, break it down, but some
great fines thought sixty yeggs is a bit much in
one go and some thing's brands which aren't even found here,
which is fun. Marcus went to a cashew nut factory

(21:20):
to it and fouquette pouquette a few years ago. Be
beautiful nut evening Marcus, I have in the Auklord, but
have been to do it for two weeks family matter,
and have met quite a few people who go up
for Costco. Even with petrol costs, they still save money
with the bulk buying. I'm quite sure there are others
from out of Orkley go to Costco. I have spoided

(21:42):
with a guy from the Neck that goes up. He's
got a transit fan. He gets all the neighbors and
they pay the gas and up he goes. One of
those jolly helpful kind of neighbour chaps Marcus. I know
sometimes people in the South Isld feel a bit gypped
and think that North Islanders get more well. This year
Cadbury Carramont ball bulls will only be sold in the

(22:04):
South Island. Don't ask how I know, anonymous. Wow, Mike
is good to hear you always. I live in Pakudan
shop at Botany Townsend. I'm not allowed to drive due
to brain surgery, so I taxi there and back. All okay,
I hear all kinds of subjects. Recash you douts. I
buy them but hate them for a few minutes to
crisp them. Walnuts and New Zealand are stale, that's right,

(22:29):
New Zealand has terrible walnuts sort of out luxon. We
need a ministry of what they're so off and you
buy a nice cake or a tort or something or
one of those things, all the bits of fruit jammed
and together. What's that called? Like a Christmas thing? It's flat.
I don't know what it's called. I want to think
it's a name like panforte, but it's not that. It's

(22:50):
flat and squashed, you know what I'm talking about, squash
fruit Christmas thing I'm visualizing. I just can't work out
what it's called. But what's it called? If I do
a Google image, Suitch, I'll be able to tell you.
But often they're spoilt with a poor nut. No, I'll

(23:13):
google it and I can't find it anyway. So yes,
I'm on the war about walnuts through in many a
Christmas for me, So yeah, I don't. I can't respect
it as a nut. Twenty six away from nine handling
his more texts. I've just got out of Google. I've
gone out to google nuts. Marcus Southern Thailand is a

(23:38):
mess producer of Cashu nuts. Due to the growing conditions.
Best doughnuts the beach Kiosk Island Bay, Wellington Fresh every
down the holes the main little balls has added value
for takeaway coffees. Marcus, kesh nuts are not made in factories.
They come from trees. Now by the way, they're turning
down the grid because of the soul of storm. Thank you,

(24:00):
I have broadcast that, but because Calvin's call has save
my night, camped down on the floor of my son's
bad till he fall falls asleep. So a thankless task.
I was trying not to laugh out loud at the
nut guessing someone texts me through donut. I didn't think

(24:20):
of that myself. Just just to confess high denn and
Marcus Kilvina needs to go to his local New World
baker and get some Berlin of donuts. Bus from Costco
would be fun with people getting on with their thirty
six packed toilet rolls, tracer Can tomatoes, Pecker thirty six stakes,
an eighteen kilogram bag of cat biscuits Peter from Costco freelevin, Marcus,

(24:42):
what about walnuts on carrot cakes? Unreliable? What's that thing
that's all crushed down together. It's like a flat Christmas
squeezed fruit thing, Marcus. My nanny was a district nurse
in the fifties and cared for an old man who's
to give her a bag of almonds. One day, she

(25:03):
asked why he'd give her so many almonds. He told
her the score watched almond Chocolate's my favorite. I just
don't like the nuts, so sucked the chocolate off everyone. Marcus,
I've just looked at twelve hundred for me to fly
from Queenstown to Napier in a couple of weeks time. Ridiculous, Marcus.
I've visited natal and Brazil and walked under the biggest

(25:25):
cashew tree in the world. That's what I was talking about.
Two point one acres and branches are propped up by sticks.
Wouldn't have believed it was an ex autradie from Hastings.
I was reimpressed. Peter, Oh, that's a bucketless thing for me,
the world's biggest cashew anyone else being to that world's
biggest cashew tree. I wonder how many years old it is.

(25:49):
I wonder having all the other big ones so they
chop them down. It's called mayor Cairo de Mundo. Yeah,
like it covers the whole block. It's a massive tree.
I don't know how many years older as I'm on
the wrokie pe your page now, Fred that you're looking,
we are talking well eighteen eighty eight. It was planted

(26:14):
eighteen eighty eight. It produces sixty thousand fruits each year.
But they found another tree they think is bigger. Yep,
it's amazing. No one set light to it. You know
what happens with silly things that.

Speaker 12 (26:28):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
It's amazing that trees that survive. But it is a
massive looks like a I don't know what it looks like.
It's a great looking tree. Get in touch if you
want to be on a we're talking about costco. Would
it be a deal breaker for you? Someone said it
might be if I don't know what that thing is
called that squash thing? Anyway, you know what I mean.

(26:53):
I get quite single minded if I can't think of something.
So get in touch if you want to talk. I
wait under eighty eight, text anything and talk about I'm
about tonight, But mainly it's this. It might be a penaforte,
is it? Would that be what I'm thinking of? Anyway?

(27:17):
I've had many one with bad walnuts on the top
because there's sour, stale rented. I think it's a fruit panaforte.
I think I've thought of gosh. I wore myself sometimes
with my single track mind let it go, lush, let
it go. Hey. Yeah, well our fancy old calvinder and
the donut made my night. Be a part of it.

(27:37):
You want to talk twenty away from nine here till twelve,
breaking news when it breaks for every windy Oh, here
we go, here we go. The numbers I've forgot about Lotto,
the numbers thirty eighteen, ten, twenty seven, four and nineteen,
just the one prime lot of even numbers for even

(28:01):
too odd bonus is thirty to the powerball is eight,
so forty five million. Let's hope it's someone that's poor.
So it's disappointing when they go to some upmarket subay
think well, chip is creepers really at Let's hope it's
not splow. I don't know if it's split or not,

(28:22):
but anyway, that's a situation from a minute there. I
thought of buying one today. I was I'd thought of
it in time thirty eighteen, ten, twenty seven, four and nineteen.
If you've got the winning numbers, don't call me, just
party head on midnight Looking forward to your calls twenty
away from nine. I'm all about the Aurora. I'm looking

(28:42):
at the map, so it's going to be a big event,
so a lot online about that. So yeah, we're at
storm level, so it's a solar storm. Yep. This is
on my Aurora Australa's page. I'm looking at so it's
off the chart and NIMA North. NIMA is monitoring the

(29:05):
large ejection. We work with international domestic experts to agree
the events are likely to result in significant impacts. You said,
it's currently experience the second of three coronal mass ejections
that OCURD of the last thirty six hours, and Transpower
has issued a grid emergency noticed has enable limited grid
switching in the South Island to manage impact to electricity equipment.

(29:26):
Disruption to power supply is not expected, so there we go.
So it could affect transmission of the radio. Let us know. Gary.
This is Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 6 (29:41):
Tie March.

Speaker 13 (29:42):
So just one of the kind of I'm just interested
to get your opinion on my opinion. I've just wanted
to talk about the safety of downtown auphone system down
down the downtown area and what the problem I.

Speaker 14 (29:59):
See with it.

Speaker 11 (30:00):
It's to do with.

Speaker 13 (30:01):
The Auckland Transport. So over a period of the last ten,
say fifteen years, is they've moved a lot of the
traffic out of there, and it made it so you
can't get your car into town. And they're trying to
make way for people to go on buses and trains,
which is fair enough, that's what you'd like to do
for places around the world have they hazard and stuff

(30:23):
like that. The problem is, I've made some of the
areas and some of the roads there kind of shared
areas where they have people that can go in and
beautiful little kind of benches and everything else. But with
that vacuum of the cars disappearing, it meant that a
lot of people which you could call the rough sleepers

(30:47):
or people that have mental issues that turn up and
sit in these places all day and so therefore it
doesn't look very presentable and people don't feel safe. So
therefore they go in they see this and they go
it's I don't like it. And then I have some

(31:08):
of my family at work in town and my son said,
I'm just about to go and get some food. I'm
going to run the gauntlets off the meth head to
go and get my food, and it's kind of that's
the opinion of him, and I'm saying he'd be able
to take care of himself, but with others that could

(31:32):
be you know, like just say, for inst my daughters
don't feel comfortable about that. And the problem is when
the roads were full and they were driving in this parking,
people got pushed to the side and walked past the shops.
And because they are not walking past the shops now
there's a less chance of you going, oh, that looks

(31:54):
some thing will pop in. And plus, if someone's sitting
on a small walkway and it's got a lot of
people walking past, they will turn around. The general public
will say, you know, get out of the way. You know,
they'll start moving them on and they won't feel comfortable
because they're in the way. But now they've got all
this seating and it's all open, it's all you know,

(32:18):
filled with all of these folks. It just now is
reverted to. I know that a lot of the shops
closed down because these guys would be coming in to
steal all the time, and this staff didn't feel safe.
They had to put security on the doors. They had
cost them a lot more money to run the shop
and in the end they just said, no, we're not

(32:39):
going to do it. We're pulling the pin. And I
know of one retailer that pulled like five of these
main shops out of Queen Street because of that. And
I think what they need to do the solution is
is to reverse it, to make it back into a
place that you can still drive your car, and then
years to come, when we've got the transport system sorted,

(33:02):
then you could look at it and when we've got
an increase in population instant in your thoughts.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yeah, I am hearing you, Gary, And look, I will
leave that to what the others want to answer that with.
But I do appreciate you coming through and putting your
case through that. Well. I believe that once we come
through this economic dip and the city rail loop is finished,

(33:31):
and we get a more effective policy for housing the unhoused.
And yes, I'm sure that somebody ring up and say
some of them aren't aren't unhused, but you know, it's
hard to unpick all of that. But I think, you know,
and I think the prefect countis number of people going
through Auckland City are good. You know, the number pedestrian
counter is up. But you know, there's been remarkable transformations

(33:54):
of cities around the world, whether it be Sydney or
London or Amsterdam, making them friendly places for cyclists and
the like, and there have been challenges. But I think
it's you know, I think the planning they are followus
following is good. But yeah, maybe it's watched the space. Gary.
I think what is important that people don't just listen
to something and then avoid the area. I think you're

(34:15):
going to judge things for yourself, but thank you for that, Marcus.
The almend comes from the Prunus dulcest tree, which is
a close relation to the peach. Both peanuts and almonds
are not true nuts. Yeah, a lot of the nuts
aren't really nuts because they've grown underground, or like the
coconuts are droup a droop. I think that's something quite different.
A lot of nuts aren't nuts anyway. Nine away from nine.

(34:37):
My name is Marcus Hitdle twelve. Looking forward to your input.
There just has been a quake just near Puttadado. I'll
just look at the results for that. That's just happened
thanks to the texter that text us about that. It's
always good to hear about quakes as they happen, and
I can tell you exactly the details. It was at
eight forty three, eight minutes ago. Now it was a

(34:59):
three point two. It was a depth of ten kilometers,
and it was twenty kilometers north of Tokuoa, which I
think is Putatau. I'll just check on the map for that.
But you widely felt, as they are these days. That's
a situation there. So if you've got some information about that,
let us know. But well, widely felt between Auckland and Topaul,

(35:25):
so right throughout the middle, that's the situation. There might
be someone winning light Owah jumped off the couch and
caused to quake. Who knows the numbers are out for
Lotto as far as numbers go through One and a
half million tickets were sold thirty eighteen, ten, twenty seven, four,
nineteen forty five, and power will one million first Division

(35:51):
two in one thousand and strike four. And I think
it's got it is a must win. It was it
must win. I don't know that. Oh it's not a
must wind. I'll be next time. I don't know if
people were experiencing queues, were they experiencing q's, they were
trying to hype it up and said getting earlier before
this panic buying. Really, come on if you want to

(36:13):
talk Marcus till twelve eight hundred and eighty Teddy and
nine nine to detext if you're a comment on the
quake and costcos and the rough sleepers in Auckland CBD,
which there's no shortage of opinions on and reckons, but
be in touch if you want to Marcus, could you
please do a shout out for my dear friend Bev.

(36:34):
She's on bed rest for six weeks with a crack pelvis.
She loves your show and you make her a night.
Thank you, Barbes from Bunny Thorpe. I hope you're doing
well there, Bev. We're all about you. Thanks for the
getting in touch. Hello, Kate, Hi, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 15 (36:52):
Hell you good?

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Thank you Kate.

Speaker 16 (36:54):
That's good.

Speaker 15 (36:55):
I don't think anybody's mentioned Macedonian nuts from Queensland. Wow
to me, DiPT and chocol Let's play divine ye.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
I don't if you don't hear much about Mecadaima nuts anymore.

Speaker 5 (37:08):
Do you no?

Speaker 15 (37:10):
But they are just absolutely out of this world. I
just think they're just well for me personally. They are
at the top.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
I'd like those with a dark chocolate.

Speaker 15 (37:25):
Yeah, yes, with yeah, and then hazel nuts probably below
that and the other thing I just wanted to mention
as well as I've just watch Robert Robert Irwin's best dance.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Wow, goodness, Okay.

Speaker 15 (37:42):
Well I know he's famous, but my goodness, take all
that away.

Speaker 9 (37:50):
Men.

Speaker 15 (37:50):
Can that young guy dance?

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (37:53):
And she's got the dance button too. I thought it
was a bit creepy when he was with his mother.
He's got Bindi out there, now, has he?

Speaker 15 (38:00):
No, he's got Whitney his still Okay?

Speaker 2 (38:04):
And he got a ten out of ten?

Speaker 17 (38:06):
Did he?

Speaker 7 (38:07):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (38:07):
She's gone? Did I know she's gone? Helen's I watched
that during the news, Helen. It's Marcus. Good evening, Yes, evening, Marcus.

Speaker 7 (38:14):
Now you notice these eight hundred homeless people in Auckland,
and they don't want them in the CBD and nowhere
for them to go. And there's this theory I believe
it's the able Tiri. I was wondering if maybe they
could use the Other Terri or whatever the name of
the other Fairy was to house the homeless people there

(38:38):
on a temporary basis. It would require some lateral thinking solutions.
But where are these people supposed to go?

Speaker 2 (38:48):
I haven't heard that. Yeah, I haven't hear that suggestion made.
I like that you put that down the bottom of
Queen Street.

Speaker 7 (38:53):
Yeah, so they'd have to get food, but the charity
for probably handing out food anyway, I mean we've got
a real problem.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Well, Costcos they say it gives away a lot of
food to the homeless.

Speaker 7 (39:06):
Here's the ship that they're going to ODNT know what
they're going to do with it, And here's these eight
hundred homeless people. Nobody wants them. They can't really go anywhere,
so why not put them on on the off airy
until we can get some better solutions for them.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Yep, like that lot, Helen. That's good and precise. Thanks
for that. We'll talk more. Major topic for tonight is
Costco and Nuts by all the by all the counters
you Costco and Drew, although I haven't heard it mentioned
in the press releases today. There will be a bus
from the train station out there, so you don't need
a car to get there, which I think is a
great idea because it's not near a transport hub, which
is kind of sad. Whereas I think the one out

(39:43):
west city is you could probably get the don't quote
me on that. Hey, while I'm talking about this and
all these things, people, someone has texted me and said
that a lot of greenhouses tunnel houses for cucumbers and
tomatoes are there, so they will have lost jobs. I
think there's two fifty people employed there and dirty management,

(40:08):
so that's two eighty. Some of those jobs will be
part time, but that's you know, they are big employers.
Retail is probably one of the few big employers probably
left for skilled and unskilled work. So that's a good thing.
And jobs out of the jobs out of the center
of the city, that's a good thing. So yeah, that's

(40:28):
the situation there we're talking about. I also want to
know that someone's been to a cashew factory, can divide,
tell me what happens, Marcus. Did you know you can
buy either a box of dark milk or dark or
milk chocolate macadami and nuts in a box at Wolworths
and Cydney for only eight dollars. I wonder why we
love nuts wrapped in chocolate so much. I guess it

(40:49):
gives the crunch. The chocolate doesn't provide chocolate's good, but
people probably want the mouth appeal. Is that right? If
I've got that one work down? But hereel Midnight, that's
what we're about tonight, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty,
particularly if you've been to a cashew factory. I don't
know how they process them, but someone's been the one
in poo Quit. Marcus, powerball didn't go as now fifty mil.
It must be one on Saturday. I'll be buying a ticket,

(41:12):
but I will still turn up on Monday. That's the answer.
A lot of people text me about that. Marcus. I
tried the pistage show spread to the supermarkets at the moment.
If you like that, track down a Middle Eastern food
store and try the one they may have as gorgeous.

(41:34):
Picks have just released a panut out of the season
with black pepper. Imagine that with tomato, cucumber and avocado. Marcus,
I've got a question. Priscilla Presty's in the country to
talk about her life. That's all good, but how come
she's referred to as Elvis's widow When they were divorced
and she got remarried and he was with Ginger, So

(41:55):
how is she his widow? Adity has been sold to
India for scrap and its due to sale direct to
India this week. Run up on a beach and cut
up so Queen Street hostel, Marcus, where was this dancing
on what channel? I don't know. I don't know why
we're not getting that guy dance. People love that. Yeah,

(42:19):
let's be hearing from you if you want to talk
about all this lot there's not happening tonight, Marcus. Is
it still socially acceptable to flesh headlights that cars without
the headlights on at night? I see on average one
night we're collecking my son from work. I think it'd
optional at night now, Marcus. A bus or trained to
costco is just virtue signaling. Who is going to bolt

(42:41):
by sh to a bulk buying shop to carry this
stuff home on a bus? Ridiculous, Anthony. A lot of
people have kind of fold out trolleys and things. I
think people would do that. I'd do that. I'd only
that will be exciting for an adventure if you're pinchoner
or something you've got you know, you got seven or
eight year I mean, yeah, no, I don't have a
problem with that could be handy for this staff too.

(43:03):
If it doesn't work, you stop the bus. It's not
a major Leim me flexible these things lines three eleven
past nine hre or twelve o'clock. The other thing I
want to talk to you about too.

Speaker 18 (43:13):
This is me just.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Filtering in a second topic for tonight. That is about
the whole situation these days with booking your Christmas camping ground.
How's that worked out for you? We've got trouble with
camping grounds now not been sold to developers and are
no longer camping grounds. But you let me know how

(43:37):
that's gone for you. It's a bit of a plava,
it says. Many of New Zealand's most popular camping sites
are already heavily or fully booked. Yes from boxing days
the tenth or eleventh of January. Only be really lucky
to get something at this point, it says the CEO
of Top ten holiday park groups. Quite good top ten.

(44:02):
So there we go. Stay at the popular Lake topaol
holiday resort could set you one hundred and eighty dollars
a night for a powered tent site two adults and
two children. Just after Christmas. Wow wow ha Heey Beach
and Coramandel, the Mandal one thirty nine a night for

(44:24):
a family of four Nottawaka. The top ten will set
you back one twenty per night for two oults and
two kids at peak time. Didn't realize that pricey, but
they do say you might be too late. You go
on a dot camp site, that might be possible, think
ahead and plan. Well, that's the trouble with Christmas because
you put it off. You don't want to plan it

(44:45):
because you want to be spontaneous. Thirteen past nine, George,
this is Marcus. Good evening. Hold on, George. I'm just
having trouble with my button. George. George, you've just started now,
I'm just talking to you for the first time. Now,
good evening.

Speaker 14 (45:02):
Oh how are you good?

Speaker 2 (45:03):
George? Ten out of ten? Where are you calling from?

Speaker 11 (45:06):
I call it from Auckland the magical Jefflin.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Mj yep magical jeff and m yep yep yep.

Speaker 11 (45:14):
Calling out because you see, every year I go down
and I meet my parents down the Southland can Be
and one time my mother she got footed and their
father obviously chose not to go down there. He's like,
you know you, mother said we're going to stay at home.
Poll understandable. And I said, I tried to say to them, ah,

(45:35):
look we will pull out, you know, and bugging me.
They won't even meet you pull out these days, they
just want to charge the fall out.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
So you tried to cancel the booking and you couldn't
do it.

Speaker 11 (45:48):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. That was actually to BA. I
sort of understand because they say they allocate the spots
and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
Yeah, but they should be able to read. They should
be able to rebook it pretty quickly, shouldn't they.

Speaker 11 (46:00):
Well, you're thinking the peak, You're thinking the peak and
bloody summer and Central Tago. You think they'd be able
to do it. However, they seem to think that we
booked the spot and we got charged.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
And you know, are you talking are you talking Glen
do Bay or like Lake? How we are?

Speaker 9 (46:17):
Actually?

Speaker 2 (46:18):
I think Glenn do the Did you see the Aussies
have just boarded?

Speaker 11 (46:22):
Oh well we know it's not going to go good now,
is it.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
I stayed there six months ago. I thought there's actually
I've never been at a campground where there are food carts.

Speaker 11 (46:35):
Yeah, right, Honestly, Glen is beautiful and then over that
peak it's stunning. You know, you've got you got the lake,
which is a real lake. And for you all the
Aucklanders up here that think they have a lake in
their backyard, that's a bloody pond.

Speaker 19 (46:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (46:51):
Well look well, I mean all the lakes in there,
even up that beautiful. To get the jet ski out
of the jet boat out on you know, it means
how much care she got. But to be fair, I
didn't know.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
I didn't know. You're a knuckle dragger a jet skier.
I mean that's a pretty anti social thing to be involved.

Speaker 4 (47:10):
With, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
Well clarif speaking of speaking of clarifying, the Aussies are
just leased Glen who bay not bought it, so I
should say that in clarification.

Speaker 11 (47:21):
Ah, you got me, honestly, you had me on there.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
From They have to have leased it though.

Speaker 11 (47:27):
Who ended up? Who ended up find the bloody the
hotel there?

Speaker 2 (47:33):
You know, the old It was all a bit suspicious.
It was the old Kadrona. It was never clear. They
fronted someone up. They never seen who it was. I
was suspicious.

Speaker 11 (47:41):
So did it ever fell or not?

Speaker 2 (47:44):
Well, yeah they said it was. It was a consortium
of a terneed an otago people and such and such
an experienced person was going to manage it. But they
didn't say who had bought it. I just said New Zealand,
New Zealand investors so did it And it's.

Speaker 14 (48:00):
Never actually come out which group of investors gone?

Speaker 2 (48:03):
No, never see that says it's going to be run
by one based businessman Barklay. Warren Barclay is going to
run it. But no wood on a hood, which I
thought was suspicious.

Speaker 11 (48:12):
Yeah, look it'll be. I mean some of those boys
are some of those boys and Queenstown and Monica between them,
there's obviously a lot of money there and a great
light with a lot of.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Oh yeah, but that but sounds to me like they're
going to put something that they're going to probably change it,
wouldn't they if they if they're not up front, you'd
be curious about if they're going to turn it into
some sort of high rise.

Speaker 11 (48:34):
It is Wow, the heritage building, Yeah, I mean, surely
is it done well? How else? I mean that that
makes you got probably more heritage than but.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
You could you could say it's shickered. The construction is
all kind of wobbly.

Speaker 11 (48:53):
That made everything the whole era towns like that.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Yeah, I know, I look into whether it. Yeah, I
like it, George, thank you. I don't know if it's
a heritage hotel or not. Seventeen pastart looking forward to
you and put also booking camping ground and if you've
done that, Marcus, your callers idea of sitting up the
aritary fair in Auckland for the homestyat off the streets.
The fairy has already been sold to be got to
India to a special shipyard. It's last faery. Its last

(49:17):
sailing was end of August. Yeah, but still a good idea.
At least someone had the bravery to come through with something.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
Which I like.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Text if you've got them, Marcus. Linda LaGrand hazel nut
dark chocolate has lots of nuts in it, Marcus. Some
people are saying the lot on New Zealand Facebook page
posted twenty minutes before tonight's drawer fifty five million dollars
must be one the screenshot I've seen questioned how they
could know no one won before the drawer? Wow, Marcus.

(49:57):
Can anyone explain why Bluff salmon is sixty dollars a
kilo at Pack and Save in Willington, Mary, I don't
think Bluff does salmon. They do sam and at Stuart
Island ruck here or they do sam in at Akaroa.
So just process there hearing the campground stuff. Average joke

(50:19):
can't even enjoy their own backyard. Cheaply lux and slogan
springs to mind, going for growth, more money in your
back pocket? Lovely campground at Murchison by the buller of
Awesome Marcus, consumerized campsites and wonder it's expensive? What a joke?

(50:40):
I love it when people say what a joke? So
really the way to underline a text isn't what a joke?
What a joke? Kettel twelve, My name's Marcus. Welcome. If
you've seen the aurora, let me know how that is.
Did you one see the giraffe last night? There were
no sightings of that. I don't know what that's about,
but it's interesting. We are talking cost Co going to Drury?

(51:04):
Will that change your life? Costco in general? Nuts? That's
our backup topic. And booking for a Christmas holiday at
a campground you'd be doing well or booked out, abo
all booked out. That's what we're on about tonight. If
there's something else, yep, As you sit in your garage
with your three d printer tonight I can see you.

(51:29):
Here's another question for you. Does anyone out there have
a weird sleeping schedule? Yeah, because once upon a time
people would sleep because they had no electricity. They'd go
to bed at sunset and they'd wait up in the
middle of the night and have a feed and then
go to back for another three hours. Great idea. So

(51:54):
there's always a midnight interval, and sometimes those people would
wake up and they'd write down their dreams, or they'd
write in their diary, or they'd use the midnight wakefulness
for intimacy. But I'm curious to know if anyone out
there is still doing a weird sleep schedule, like sleeping
in two shifts. I reckon some of you might be

(52:15):
doing that. It's a great idea for winter, might be
really beneficial. So if you're a split scheper sleeper, a
split sheeper, I want to know how that works out
for you, because sleep is tricky.

Speaker 8 (52:30):
We all know that.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Twenty one past nine, eight hundred eighty twenty three past nine, John,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 11 (52:43):
Yeah, hey mate, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (52:44):
John? How are you going all right?

Speaker 11 (52:46):
Ay? A you all right?

Speaker 2 (52:47):
It's just one of those nights you know, No, I
don't know. Tell me about that.

Speaker 13 (52:52):
So you're talking about the campgrounds day Yeah, yeah, one
night of Senate car Territory campgrounds.

Speaker 6 (53:03):
Any flooded out?

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Is that round from Nelson?

Speaker 15 (53:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Run the back yep.

Speaker 20 (53:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (53:14):
And it was the Long Drop was backed up yep.

Speaker 13 (53:18):
So you couldn't even you couldn't even use it.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Ye, Like is it like a dock camp ground?

Speaker 11 (53:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (53:26):
You know it was dark.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Yeah. Sometimes I haven't been to criteriatory. I usually Long
Drop And sometimes, of course over the winter the grass
grows over the top, so you've got to re kind
of dig the hole to to break through.

Speaker 20 (53:39):
Oh, we had to do that.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Yeah, I'm here. I'm mirroring here, John, We're not. We're
We're talking more about people having to book them for
Christmas because they're all booked out.

Speaker 11 (53:52):
Oh no, this one was booked out.

Speaker 22 (53:54):
Okay, they didn't even ever toil it for us.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Okay, how many years ago is this?

Speaker 6 (54:02):
John? Oh?

Speaker 22 (54:04):
I mean probably going back maybe years now.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
You got to move on, No, no way, I don't
move on. See John twenty five past nine, Marcus, with
all the police crime, can you keep helping them by
selling foot creams? What's that mean, Marcus. Look at seven
sharp and you'll see why no one saw a giraffe.
It was in an enclosed box, yere. It was a

(54:29):
high box where the salmon came from. Is not really
the point. Sixty a kilogram for salmon is outrageous and
unaffordable for most people. That's not what's outrageous. What's outrageous
with farmed chicken is what they with farmed salmon is
what they feed it. They fed it ground up chicken
feathers and stuff, or ground up chicken. I think it's

(54:50):
pretty grim how they farmed salmon, Marcus. I kept at
Glendubey in August three nights for fifty four was cheap
and lovely modern cheers, Gina, Yes, that's right. I thought
it was good when I was there. No much there.
Actually felt like we're the only ones. But there was
a food truck and quite hard ground to drive a pig,

(55:14):
and to had to go to the old warehouse to
buy some more tent pigs because they kind of as
you hammered them and they kind of just cooled around
when they hit rocks, Marcus, is it socially acceptable to
prep snacks for guests to have a bowl of nuts
next to a bowl of chocolate or would that be
frowned on? Should it just be a bowl of nuts
covered in chock? Do what you want, I'd have them separate.

(55:39):
Costco has two undred and fifty thousand members in Auckland.
I don't believe that. Would it be twenty five thousand?
Would it be tour? How would you find that out?
Sounds like a lot. Sounds like a real lot. Get
in touch. And also, who's got a weird sleeping pattern?
Who gets up in the middle of the night for hours?

(56:00):
That's what I'm really interested to hearing about tonight. Although
I did like John but it said some of these
callers like they're going to break into some sort of
say something unorthodox. You're always terrified of that.

Speaker 6 (56:12):
I am.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
So yes, be in touch. If you want to talk,
I'll tell you what. Every restaurant invere card and there's
not many as posting shots of the my kitchen rules judges,
Manu and Colin dining like bluffing everywhere, so they're doing
a slow go round. Pretty interesting anyway, be a part

(56:35):
of it, you want to talk. Never been a morning person,
always a night out. But since i've been on acc
I can now naturally go to bed at three and
get up at nine, rather than forcing myself to go
to bed at midnight to get up at six. I
remember my grandparents would be in bed at nine. Then
you go to the kitchen after hearing noise. They'd be
sitting having a cold spardan a cup of tea. Yeah,

(56:57):
people are weird with their sleep patterns, but I want
to hear about yours if you're a weird sleeper or
done something weird, So get in touch here on midnight
if you want to talk eight hundred eighty eight, anything
else you want to mention, that's what we're about tonight.
But mainly we're sleeping, so that's what I'm want about.

(57:18):
So you get through with that. Keep those texts coming.
The lotto hasn't been one. It's it's rolling over, so
it'll be on sad day. It's a must go, I think,
so fifty million must be must be one. So that's right,
all that money we sucked out of the economy, it's

(57:38):
part of a mess of probably set us into a
further economic slump. But you wouldn't be complaining if you
won it. I know sometimes overseas, when those big syndicates
have come up that people have kind of technically brought
into them, like into Yeah, anyway, that's a complicated story.
I don't know how you do it here through machine
buying or something. Seven minutes till the breakers tip off.

(57:59):
I'll keep you updated with that score. I think they're
playing the bullets. Well that's what's on their t sh
the Brisbane Bullets, so that's not far away. Of course,
the New Zealand breaker is only three from nine. They've
lost narrowly, but lost neartheless a lot of come from

(58:21):
behind losses or some of those which will be a
concerned for the coaching team. But that's what we're on about.
And get in touch here till midnight if you want
to talk eight hundred eighty ten eighty nuts cost co
The problem with booking a summer camp ground and weird
sleeping patterns, like does anyone split their shifts for sleep

(58:44):
like they used to in the old days? Not a
bad idea if you had a long night, feel free
to mention that. Also, yeah, I'm still waiting for a
weird sleeper. That's what I really want for tonight. When
I have worked the next day, always make sure. I'm
bared twelve hours before getting up for work. Marcus. Olkatt

(59:04):
has irritable bowel, has to eat special and genic protein
that's made from chicken feathers, tasty and healthy for her. Yeah,
I don't think there's so many ground feathers. I do
the groundhole whole ground chicken bits. Someone says, sound gross
to us, but very nutritious. Marcus, I'm consumed about the

(59:24):
proposed congestion charges could add fifty dollars a week to
my family budget. Public transport is pretty awful. My old
dog gets up a couple of times a night, so
I make a cup of tea and read my book,
sometimes a bowl of ice cream. Marcus. Not sure if
this may already have been touched on the show, but
if not, it would be great to hear from anybody
who knows about the guy who's built a pedal bowered
boat and is about to pedal around the world. He

(59:46):
sent me a link for that, but thank you for
that built by the Sea shepherd guy, Marcus. The Southern
drawling your callers has be on edge with a negative,
nervous anticipation. I feel they could be at fborne or
something in a propert seventy second. I think you're right, Marcus.

(01:00:09):
Sometimes I think you say things to wild things up.
This is a quote from Costco in New Zealand. Costco
does not officially disclose its membership numbers, but a company
photo from twenty twenty three celebrated reaching over one hundred
and fifty thousand members. I don't think they could be
because if that's an Auckland, if that's every house has
four people, there's only probably four hundred thousand houses. Would

(01:00:31):
there be forty percent membership? Marcus. My mother in law
sends a WhatsApp to our wider family WhatsApp check whenever
she goes to Costco doesn't order for all of us.
We usually get bulk packs of seaweed for the kids
and quito cereal. Marcus. I sleep for two hours around midnight,
and I'll wake until four and then sleep for four hours.
There's a book called Second Sleep, so we'd sleep patterns

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and nuts all the other stuff too. You're more than
welcome twenty seven to twenty seven to ten. Email twenty
five to ten, Marcus. Everyone isn't told to have one
group of family camping on there property for payment. Commonly
referred to as front lawn camping. Yeah, anyone tried front
lawn camping? I think there's apps for that. You can

(01:01:16):
actually rent out your front lawn. It seems a bit
shifty to me anyway camping. I've got a lot of
topics there, but need your calls tonight too, so you
jump on one of those. A couple of calls I
think seems like they almost might be a bit prankish
and come on, there might be some of you that
are weird sleepers. Wow, it's a pretty interesting text here.

(01:01:47):
Marcus took speed a few days a week for three
or four years on the pipe. Two years. During that,
usually slept every second night for four or five hours.
Glad to stay off the gain. Now sleep's taken a
long time to come right. Can usually get six to
eight hours these days, but still have nights where it's
only managed two to four hour. I was long road
to not being tied to my bones. Have some days

(01:02:10):
now that I feel arrested. Didn't know that was well.
I guess it's understandable, but wow, that's a pretty slow recovery. Marcus.
I live in Dalkland. I've never been to Costco. No
way membership numbers of that high. Well, I think it's
a prize. It doesn't pass the test to me, and
there's heaps of people. No, I don't think it would be. Yeah,

(01:02:31):
So I reckon that's because if they had one hundred
and fifty thousand members, then they wouldn't be building another one,
would they. That's my take on that one doesn't pass
the stiff test. But get in touch if you want
to talk about any of these things. I've kind of
run the risk of putting out two topics out there.
They do say on the first thing that comes up
on AI's one hundred and fifty thousand people, but seems

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high to me. There's an article from twenty twenty three
to the one hundred fifty thousand members after five months. Yea,
that doesn't seem that doesn't seem rational to me. Twenty
two away from ten, if you've got any breaking news
were you'reight here. The weather's pretty average in Auckland to
if there's any flooding or anything, let me know about that.

(01:03:13):
But I do want strange sleepers and nuts and people
have been to a nut factory, the cashew nut factory
and pouquette that's how it's pronounced that and also the
Aurora is happening. Looking at the map on the Aurora website,
it should be visible if the weather's good, right up

(01:03:37):
to a line between about Albaquino and the Mahi Poininsula
everywhere from then south, so it should be visible for
a good chunk of the North Island. Well, I think
the weather's pretty average up there. That's what I'm about.
And Lotto not one. But how come it goes up
ten million to fifty five? It's I just thought it

(01:03:58):
went up a little bit each time. That's happening also tonight,
but twenty two away from ten o'clock. If you want
to be a part of the show, welcome. Be nice
to hear from you. If there's something different you've got,
but that's sleep. I didn't think we have people that
had kind of weird split seat pats sleep patterns. You're
one of those. That's be delightful to hear from you. Yes,

(01:04:20):
And if I've got any other breaking news, I'll bring
that to you people. But eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty and nine to nine to to text, if you
want to come through be a part of it. I
don't think what else I can say. There's an interest
to you. Well, you book your Christmas hams, I'll be
booked out before too long. Ah, make your Christmas cake

(01:04:46):
before it's too late. That's the only really advice I've
got for you now, which sounds a bit lame, doesn't it.
Let me see what the texts are saying, Marcus. We
got a cabin at Hampshire Holiday Park and Warnacker over Christmas.
We booked and paid in January. Got it for one
hundred and ten per night. I see it one hundred
night for a tent side over Christmas. Pay to book
twelve month. It's in advance, Marcus. Second sleep is a

(01:05:09):
good entertaining book. I normally have two periods of sleep,
but that is more age related, Marcus. Before the Industrial Revolution,
people in many Western cultures commonly had to buy phasic
sleep pattern of two separate sleeps per night. Yes, that's
how I started the discussion by saying that before electricity,

(01:05:30):
you go to bed when it got dark and wake
up from midnight snack under candlelight. But that didn't do
that much good. That didn't invent anything, did they. The
costco membership numbers will probably be for people outside of Auckland.
Two people go crazy for the pace. There are probably
members signed up all over New Zealand if they haven't been,
really would you? I think that's quite right twenty to ten.

(01:05:54):
If you want to be involved with it tonight, get
in touch here till twelve. I've done my work with
the topics. You'll work now as to call. If these
topics don't take your fancy, there's something you want to
check into the mix. Someone was talking about tidying up
crank Queen Street with the homeless. Well, it's the problem
for the ages, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Do I remember when I first went to Sydney years
ago eighty six, they were comeless everywhere, and they seemed
to not be there anymore, and there was no homeless
in Auckland or New Zealand. So I don't know what's
happened there. It seems to have kind of switched around
nineteen to ten.

Speaker 9 (01:06:31):
Is that me?

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
I'm just checking your roads because people are saying via
the text that it's very heavy rate in Auckland and
anything they say that flooding is likely. I'm just checking
the highways. I can't see anything. I mean, if anyone
knows of any flooding in Auckland or traffic disruptions. Do
let me know, by the way, there was an earthquake
in the last hour just near Pootardaloo and it was

(01:06:53):
a three point five or something. There's only the one
person texted about that, so it wasn't a major but
people felt it and widely felt in the top of
the Oh, how can I describe where it was felt?
If you if you carve Auckland into fire, if you
carve the north ende of the five bits, that would
be in the that's not quite right anyway from topor

(01:07:16):
to Hamilton. That's where that That's where it was. But
I'm just trying to look about the weather. I you've
go any weather updates, do let me know. By the way,
they're saying because of the heavy rain, it's been a
very bad season for berries. So that's the situation. It's
the toughest season and that's because of the weather. That's

(01:07:37):
my understanding. Trying to quickly read this article. But I'm
so keen about we'd sleep as people. I need to
talk to you about that because that's my thing for tonight.
We haven't talked enough about sleep. But anyone kind of
up all night or sleeping by phasic or anyone got
any great sleep cures for doing a different way about
it by sleeping some sort of I don't know what
you tried to do, but that's of interest to me tonight,

(01:07:59):
as well as the nuts and Costco and everything else
I've mentioned, there might be something different than you want
to talk about. You more than welcome. Remember it's your
show off. There's something you want to mention. That's the
whole plan. So get amongst at eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty and nine nine to text you want to
be a part of the show. Do we have We
didn't find out. I don't think we're that spaceship house

(01:08:20):
that was moving through the South Island and moved to
There was shots of that coming off the intron and ferry.
I don't want to chuck every topic at you, but
I wouldn't mind hearing about that also tonight. By the way,
I've just read online a fairly moving i'd almost say
a eulagi or a fairly moving post that Guy Williams

(01:08:44):
has written about his father who has died, who was
kind of young, had a heart attack swimming, but seen
by all accounts from the post, his son has written
about it to be an extraordinary guy and a great, fun,
loving kind of father. So yeah, it was in the Herald,
and he's only herald that story too. I saw that,

(01:09:05):
so yes, I've just been reading about that. He's only
posted about forty minutes ago. I'm just looking through the
article now about the details of that. Where's the I'm
just trying to see where the part was where they
said how old he was. I want to get that right. Anyway,

(01:09:28):
he said that he loved doing what he died, loved
doing what he does. He does say dead was lucky
enough to enjoy many years of retirement, swimming and biking
with mum every day, hot or shine, hot or cold,
rain or shine. He went out on typical showman fishingly
having a heart attack during a swim with his mates
at the High Ti Club. He picked a soney in
because he said a lunchtime for maximum impact. So it

(01:09:51):
does say a cliche, but definitely died doing what he loves.
That's a situation. There's a very nice post about that. Yeah,
he's seventy two years old for a heart attacks, so
it's there you go.

Speaker 6 (01:10:02):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
Yeah, it's a good story. It's a good host that
when I grew up in Moscow or made on sport.
Oh gee, that's the time. Thirteen to ten if you
want to be a part of it, Marcus still twelve,
how you going? What's happening everyone might be doing there
by phasic sleeps, which I'm a big fan of. Well
not really, but I'm always up for a different kind
of a sleep pattern. But getting touched on took before

(01:10:24):
the news twelve way from ten. Just the aurora update
for you, because there's a coronal mass ejection or a
mess event. There is still just only getting dark in
South and but there are shots people are posting of
the aurora in Dunedin. Looks like the rest of South
Island's raining or cloudy, so that's not happening. In the basketball,

(01:10:48):
Brisbane are thirteen, the Breakers are twenty five. There's just
over a minute left in the first quarter, so it's
been a good strong start of the Breakers. I don't
know the table, but I'll bring that up for you.
But I'm looking for your calls now, people. I need
your calls tonight because obviously it's hard without them. So
jumping if you've got something, if you want to it

(01:11:08):
those things. God enjoy the discussion about Costco. I'm enjoying
whether people are still going or if they got sick
of it. But for the fact they're upening a second
store probably means the business model's going quite well. But
they're building a second stall and dreary most people wanted
one in the South Island, but that's what they're doing.
So if you want to talk about that and talk
about your experience with Costco, I'd like to hear from you.

(01:11:29):
Also talking about people that sleep at different times or
split their sleep, I'd love to hear about that. I'm
looking at the Basketball Leave League ladder. Looks like the
Breakers are ninth and the Bullets, who they are playing,
are seventh. That seems to be the ladder that I

(01:11:52):
can see so far. I thought there'd be more. I
thought there were more than ten teams in, but it
seems like there's not. What there are more teams than that.
But yeah, that's the information I've got for you, not
away from ten o'clock. If you want to be a
part of it, hantil twelve, we'd love to hear from
you sleeping and nuts and Costco and anything else. And
I'll be here right through till ten. Can't wait, can't

(01:12:15):
wait to be here right through ten. As I say that,
I'm pausing the worker who's after me and I can
hear it's Tim beveridge On from twelve o'clock tonight this
day and History. Abbey Road Studio is open nineteen thirty one.
You might have been there. I've seen heapsophies of people
on the predestrian crossing. Outside your mind. I suppose you
can do a tour. I guess it's still there. Jump

(01:12:38):
in and talk about that too, if you want, Sandra.
This is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:12:44):
Hi Marcus. I was going to tell you about the coconut.
They are not the coconuts, the cashery nuts and pout.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
Oh you God, you tell me about that?

Speaker 9 (01:12:53):
God.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
No, I've never heard of that before tonight.

Speaker 19 (01:12:56):
Yeah, I went to the fat tree and Pouchette where
the where the casherwy nuts are per what's her name?

Speaker 10 (01:13:05):
There?

Speaker 19 (01:13:05):
They go on a lovely tree, big big tree, but
like an oak tree. And the flour on the tree
is like a flower that's turned inside out or upside down. Sure,
and the nuts at the base of the flour, I'm
not sure whether they pick them or whether the nut

(01:13:26):
is dropped on the ground. I think it's dropped because
the tree is so big. And then they gather them
and they go into the factory where the it's the
women that sit there, and they crack every nut by hand,
and it's cracked on a on a press that they

(01:13:48):
use with their foot, and it cracks the nut open
and out comes a black ink comes out from the shell. Really,
and then in amongst that black ink is the nut.
And they take the nut out, and that blank the
black ink drops down into a bucket under the under

(01:14:10):
the desk, and the poor women their hands are all
black because of this black ink. And the black ink,
believe it or not, becomes break fluid.

Speaker 2 (01:14:22):
Fort This might be the most interesting cale I've ever heard.
Do they let you touch it? Did you touch it?
Did you touch one of the nuts?

Speaker 9 (01:14:30):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (01:14:31):
You could touch the nuts, You could buy them.

Speaker 23 (01:14:32):
You could eat them.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
And the outside the shell is really hard and solid, Yes, yes.

Speaker 19 (01:14:40):
Hard, quite hard, like a not like a right wornut,
but like a green wornut.

Speaker 6 (01:14:47):
But it's hard. Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:14:49):
They have to pierce it, and it's done one at
a time.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
And so once once the brake, fluid comes out of it.
Right is The nut then is the nut black.

Speaker 20 (01:15:02):
The nut.

Speaker 19 (01:15:03):
The nut then is what you see, what what you
eat that it's cleaned off, washed off.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
Okay, so it's got it's got the black side. It's
got the blackness on the outside of the nut.

Speaker 19 (01:15:16):
Yeah, the black is sort of the nut itself is
in the cashew nut itself is like in a in
a bed of black ink, and the black ink is
becomes break fluid. So they get about probably about the
tea spoon ut, and a half of black ink comes

(01:15:38):
from each nut.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
It sounds like you might have missed something in translation.
But break does break fluid. I guess that makes sense,
doesn't I don't even know what break fluid leads to.
It needs to be viscous, does it needs to be sort.

Speaker 19 (01:15:48):
Of it's fluid. It's ghastly.

Speaker 23 (01:15:53):
That is ghastly. And I think that's why the cashee
nuts are so expensive.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Yeah, but I don't They're not as expensive I thought
they would be with all that process going into them.

Speaker 19 (01:16:04):
Well, yeah, true, quite true when you think when you
compare it with a mace Damian nut, Yeah, which is
just cracked and there's a nice nut.

Speaker 24 (01:16:15):
Awful.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
The macadamia nuts are quite hard work. My parents grow
grew them, but they've got you've got to dry and
they've got a really tough leathery skin on the outside
which is hard to get off, and then you've got
to dry on trays. They're pain They're a terrible nut.
They're pain in the neck to harvest.

Speaker 19 (01:16:32):
They are, they are, But so are they use cashew nuts?

Speaker 2 (01:16:36):
Does everyone?

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
Does? Everyone?

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
Is this quite a big thing? That's to her because
a couple of people have texted about it.

Speaker 19 (01:16:43):
Well, it's one of the places that you can take.
They invite you to go and look.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
At and then they sell you some nuts at the end.

Speaker 19 (01:16:52):
Well, they sell you some nuts or some produces that
are made from it, like a like cashew nuts, lollies
and cashew nut crumble and cashew nut spreads for the
light peanuts.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
You know, they trying to sell break fluid. I'd love
to buy some brake fluid out of cash. And that's
that would be good for the for the trinket ship
board over sea shelf.

Speaker 17 (01:17:25):
Google.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
That will sound a lovely to talk. What's the word
souvenirs is the word I was looking for. I'm just
watching I've brought up a video. It's kind of fascinating
watching what happens to a lot of work, a lot
of machinery. But yeah, I want to see there's a
Cashew sizing. And it's a hard video to watch us
watching guys talking to her because I watch all the
silly ads in between it. It's a ten minute video
oether they're coming through the through the thing. Now, I

(01:17:46):
just want to see the break fluid and seeing them
crack the nut. Oh yeah, we'll put that and down
the It's interesting. I think I might have gone past
the brake fluid stage? Is there anything I'm looking for? Really? Hey,
back after the news for more. Feel free to get involved.
You know the drill. I will get to the stream
at the color send an asbestos. Also Faith, This is Marcus.

Speaker 25 (01:18:09):
Welcome, Hello Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:18:11):
How are you good?

Speaker 11 (01:18:12):
Faith?

Speaker 25 (01:18:13):
Tuesday's paper I thought somebody would have brought this up
by now can I change just have to you can?
Tuesday's paper, the New Zealand Hill, it had three pages
of New World all over New Zealand in liquidation.

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
I couldn't work out that story. There must there must
be something more to.

Speaker 25 (01:18:34):
That, or that somebody buying them out and republic No,
but it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
It hasn't been in the news anywhere.

Speaker 25 (01:18:42):
It's not as somebody would have last year.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
It was text to me, was it a is it
a provider to New World or is it something?

Speaker 6 (01:18:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
I couldn't work it out.

Speaker 25 (01:18:54):
There is an accommodation. And it was three pages all
over the country because I was reading it right down
in your area and up the north and manuhere was
South moll peppercer blah blah blah, three pages truck of
block liquid as.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
Now I think it might be a a supplier. Yeah,
I don't customer.

Speaker 25 (01:19:18):
Do you think it's already taken over?

Speaker 6 (01:19:20):
Do you think?

Speaker 20 (01:19:22):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
Yeah, I'm just trying to look at that story. I
have seen this story have a sushi provider.

Speaker 25 (01:19:35):
Yeah, but when you talk about liquid Asian and it's
sort of you get them to the feeling that they've
gone bang or something.

Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
That a couple of people who mentioned that face I
will try and get if anyone's got any clarification about that.
I know there's some sushi businesses forty four sushi businesses
that have been pursued by the IOD, but I can't
find any news about that, and that would be a
huge news to if that happened. So that's confusing to me.
So if someone's got some more information, because yeah, someone

(01:20:02):
takes me about that last night. Also, I don't get
the Herald, John Marcus. Welker.

Speaker 6 (01:20:08):
You should get the Herald, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
Yeah, hi John here, Well John, John, Sorry, the Herald
doesn't deliver to bluff.

Speaker 6 (01:20:16):
You do live down that way to Sport, Okay, So
how would I get the Herald online? You can get
it online.

Speaker 2 (01:20:24):
Yeah, I read the Herald online. Now we get that
with our job because we work for the same company.
But I think what she was talking about, right, would
be in the U when you you know, in the
public notices when you've got to print something that is
that it's it wasn't a news story because I've googled it.
It would be in the public notices where people are saying,
you know that this is something that if you go

(01:20:45):
in fliquidation, you've got to do a public notice for
your creditors.

Speaker 6 (01:20:49):
Yeah, yeah, and all that. I'm a retired lawyer, but
I've forgotten all that. Mate, Who did you work for?
Myself in the end, drove himself crazy.

Speaker 17 (01:20:59):
J Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:21:01):
I didn't put anybody in jail. No one got hung,
so we all survived now only on a more serious note,
and it is the legal note. I'm surprised no one's
phoned you yet. Have they about the shot retirements and
resignations and firings in the upper echelin of the New
Zealand Police Department. I mean, have you have you had

(01:21:23):
a chance today and yesterdaya look at it. This was
also on the hair all day.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
It only came out last night. I've read all the
articles today about that, and I still think the journalists
are scrambling to get all the details because it's a
fairly complicated story over what looks like ten years.

Speaker 6 (01:21:43):
Yeah, so, yeah, and all that. Yeah, basically corruption at
the top levels. And who was the woman she was
on She's still on their Gosha memory. My brain for
retention is terrible. Louise Nichols, that's right, and she was.

(01:22:03):
They always say she's she's a crusader. She was on
there today or yesterday. She's a crusader and a well,
you know, well based one. Look, I don't have any
skin in the game.

Speaker 2 (01:22:16):
I don't think she was. I think she's not a crusader.
She was a victim that became became an advocate to
try and improve the police force. I thought that was
the way.

Speaker 6 (01:22:24):
When I say no, exactly, well put, I mean she
was a victim first and then became an advocate. I
called us us shortening it to crusader. I don't mean
in a in a pejorative way. I think she's so tremendous.
But and the whole thing in history has been repeated,
and there's been another young woman who's been bussed around
by as I say, I don't know the names, that
they should be hung out and dried Skimming and all

(01:22:46):
the rest of it. It's shocking. This is they call us.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
John.

Speaker 11 (01:22:51):
You all know this.

Speaker 2 (01:22:51):
But Mcskimming has proved, has pleaded guilty to charges. He's
awaiting sentencing. And that's the charges around the images on
his computer or his police computer. That's where it is
at the stage cost of who was the costa, who
was the boss? I think when he was the deputy

(01:23:11):
he is now has gone to another department. But they
reckon he's gone to ground whatever that means.

Speaker 6 (01:23:17):
Yeah, yeah, no, you're onto it. You're onto it. And
I don't mean to be a harpy here. And it
may not be it may not suit a particular tone
of your late night program.

Speaker 14 (01:23:30):
John.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
Look, I think it is the thing that everyone has
been talking about with a sense of amazement that's happened.
But I think it's happened. With news stories, it takes
a while for people to fully work out what's gone on,
and I think there's going to be more and more
reveals as police. I'm sure what the media trying to
do is trying to talk to the person who was
the whistleblower on that, because she was the one that

(01:23:50):
was on Facebook pages and on LinkedIn blowing the whistle
on that. I'm sure once her story comes out, it's
going to be incredibly interesting, and I imagine that will happen.
I was reading Paula Penfeld's piece down I thought, well,
I wouldn't be surprised if someone manages to talk to
because she was charged. She was charged under a Harmful

(01:24:11):
Communication Act or something like that, but there wasn't a
successful charge. Was not bored, John, Nice to talk to you,
but thank you all. Like the term harpy whatever that means,
get in touch if you want to talk. Here till
twelve o'clock tonight, oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty. I'll
get your basketball school. When it's on the it must
be halftime, but when it's on the screen, i'll bring
that to you. The Brisbane Bullets the Breakers. Oh, eight

(01:24:32):
hundred eighty to ten eighty. I think it's seven versus
nine on the ladder. It's half time. I'm pretty sure
the Breakers are ahead, but I'll bring you the full
details when I have that. Who also, the Aurora is
happening tonight. If you've got any updates on that, let
me know. It could be spectacular, but they could also
be cloud how past ten tony headlines? Please? Oh well

(01:24:56):
that's good. Yeah, okay, they should win that. Jody, this
is Marcus.

Speaker 12 (01:24:59):
Good evening, Hi Marcus, Jody.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
Jody good. Nice to hear from you, Jody.

Speaker 12 (01:25:05):
Hi, Hiri. Home from our squash game.

Speaker 4 (01:25:09):
Wow, listen to you mate.

Speaker 12 (01:25:11):
We we listened to every It's like it's my exciting
thing on a Wednesday after a squash game, and just
want to let you know. We'll actually let the country
know that Kumu Squash Club we we won the pen
and our master's team.

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
Wow, go you who did you?

Speaker 11 (01:25:27):
Who?

Speaker 2 (01:25:27):
Is there a final that you play or is it the.

Speaker 12 (01:25:31):
Is it we we have about ten games, about ten rounds,
and this was the final tonight and we took out
the we took out the championship tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:25:46):
Oh gosh, remember we were okay, well that's exciting. And
and they were the second best?

Speaker 23 (01:25:50):
Is that right?

Speaker 9 (01:25:52):
Uh?

Speaker 12 (01:25:52):
No, werege was the second best?

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
Oh well, you get, you get, I mean I could
see why you're listening to talk about that's a long drive.
We're playing at Remore or you're playing in Coma.

Speaker 12 (01:26:05):
Yeah, we're playing at as we drive up to like
Walkworth and what have you. And if any of the
teammates or any of the other clubs, this thing go coomute,
you know. Yeah, and just well we just put a
little bit of a shout out. We're having Kumu Squash
Club having the Don Wilkinson Tournament this weekend. And that's
a memory of that, the cop Don Wilkinson who got

(01:26:27):
shot in the line of duty about four years and
years ago, No, no, a lot longer than that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
Okay, where was that at?

Speaker 5 (01:26:36):
It was an Auckland.

Speaker 12 (01:26:37):
He was an undercover cop. No one knew he was
an undercover cop.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
And he was the local of the squash club, was he.

Speaker 4 (01:26:43):
Yeah, yeah, he was.

Speaker 12 (01:26:44):
He was a player at the club and we didn't
even know I was fit called my time. But yeah,
just a bit of if I think it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
Is an amazing His name was Don Michaelson.

Speaker 12 (01:26:53):
Is that right, Don Wilkinson?

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
Such wi okay, I look that up and is your
membership good?

Speaker 12 (01:27:02):
Oh, squash is a little bit quiet, but pickleball's going off.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
What you reckon about that?

Speaker 12 (01:27:08):
No, that's for the that's for the.

Speaker 5 (01:27:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've played purckleball. I quite enjoyed it
with the kids, but I did feel like it was
a bit Yeah, I felt there's something a bit odd
about that.

Speaker 12 (01:27:22):
So anyway, yeah, yeah, hey, well just you know, I
for even town come over to come over to Coomute
and we'll see how it's done in the court on
the squash court.

Speaker 9 (01:27:32):
Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
Really nice to talk Jody, and thank you for hanging
on there. I appreciate you did that. I took some
calls before you, so I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (01:27:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
DoD Michaelson Memorial Squash Tournament. Police officers slat on Judy
in two thousand and eight. An active member of the
squash club the police. So you've had funds towards the
trophies Wow, and provided hand sanitizer for the vent and wristbands,
so that would have been during the COVID years. That
post is from thank you Jody twenty six to eleven

(01:27:59):
Tony Marcus good evening, Good, Tony, very good, thank you.

Speaker 21 (01:28:05):
He am change the topic again. You mentioned automation or
maybe some calls and automation, and I've got I've got
a far funny story about that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
I'd like that.

Speaker 4 (01:28:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:28:15):
A relatively close friend of ours won a lot of
money and lotto many years ago and we spend New
Years to give us. I don't see him very often.
And one of my Christians over some fine wine this
year last years, was if I was to buy something
that attainable that you've purchased over the years, that makes
me feel like a lot of winter. What what what's
brought you the most happiness? And he said, Hey, supercars

(01:28:36):
have come and gone, electric cars have come and gone.
Nine thousands said the one thing, the one humble thing
that things be the most toy is my automated Lawnmark.

Speaker 13 (01:28:43):
Wow.

Speaker 21 (01:28:44):
It's like, do you want to feel like me to
buy buy a automated.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
Lawnmarw And that just brings and that's a robot moa.

Speaker 21 (01:28:52):
Yeah, so he you you program it with your phone,
so you program you know the size of your lawn
and around the trees stuff like that. You don't you
don't have to bury the wires anymore. And it's all
just done off your phone and you can log it
at any time and watch your little watch your little
more mowing your lawn and create different patterns in your lawn.
And he said that's his favorite thing now that everything
is bought. So I thought it was quite funny. So

(01:29:14):
if you want to feel like a what lotto winner
by a robot?

Speaker 12 (01:29:17):
Mark?

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
I love this cool Tony just I've got to follow
up question from you that you might and might not
want to answer. Were you a friend for him before
he won lotto?

Speaker 22 (01:29:26):
No?

Speaker 21 (01:29:27):
So I came into his life at about ten years
after holiday home.

Speaker 6 (01:29:31):
And we made the cart Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:29:34):
Okay, And has he done his dosh?

Speaker 18 (01:29:37):
What's that?

Speaker 11 (01:29:37):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
Has he done the dosh?

Speaker 22 (01:29:38):
Er?

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
He has been quite good with it.

Speaker 21 (01:29:41):
He initially brought all the cool things you'd imagine and
told everyone to the whole. He is from a small
town in New Zealand and sort of found out about
it and now he's a bit more humble. He owns
a lot of property. He's got a tearsler, and he's
got a transit van in his finds his life looking
after his properties and painting his properties and looking after
his tenants. So he's done really well. But he still

(01:30:02):
works quite hard, but just on his property.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
Sounds great, Tony, Thanks so much for that. Nice to
hear from you. By the way, speaking of lawns and things,
I have finally gone from a petrol weed eater to
a battery one. Just got sick of them. Just got
sick of the old two smoke And the only two
smoke I've got now is my hedge trimmers. But yeah,
I haven't picked it up yet. I've just purchased it.

(01:30:27):
So I'm slightly going to all battery chain saw lawn
mower weed eater. Unfortunately, the weed eder I think I've
got has got the different battery, but you're the same charger.
But yeah, it's it's good stuff. But yeah, well we've
got an interesting pat in our front lawn. That's not

(01:30:47):
my doing. But I don't know if the I don't
know if the lawn I would handle that. It's quite
geometric it's kind of a bumblebee contingency. So yes, people
stop and ask why you're doing your lawns that way.
I say no comment, but people do stop they think
it's a crop trials. This is from Eswyn. Thanks again

(01:31:13):
for the talkback you've managed to wrote me in with
the Abbey Road topic. We live ten minutes away from
Saint John's Wood which is where Abbey Road is located,
and it's never ceased to amaze where the stream of
people wanting to get their picture taken on the pedestrian
cross so you have to be pretty much you have
to be up pretty early in the morning to get
a picture sort of that on the Abbey Road cover
album album cover not a cover album, that's a different thing.

(01:31:35):
You may know this, but the wall outside the Abbey
Road studio has painted over every couple of years whenever
the itchings and scrawling of the fans take over. It's
out of facade and guaranteed the fans we bears as
the paint drives to get the message on the wall.
As the Highway Code dictates, they always give to way
to the pedestrians on the crossing, but always get waved
across with indicate they're getting their picture taken and don't

(01:31:57):
want me in the frame. Now, I think there's some
interesting things about that album cover because I think there's
someone in that that wasn't supposed to be or was
not in the band. You will know that we beatle
people out there, but yeah, I've read articles about that.
There'd be a Wikipedia post about that. I'm looking at it.

(01:32:17):
Now here comes the son of Courses on that. Yeh
blah blah blah blah blah. The front cover was a
photograph of the group walking on a zebra crossing, based
on ideas that McCartney sketched and taken on eight August
sixty nine at eleven thirty five that morning. Photographer in
McMillon was given ten minutes to take the photo while

(01:32:37):
he's still on a step ladder and a policeman held
up traffic behind the camera. McMillan took six photographs, which
McCartney examined with a magnifying glass before deciding which would
be used. In the image selected by McCartney, the group
walks across the street and single file from left right,
with Lenen leading, followed by Star McCartney. Harrison McCartney is

(01:32:59):
barefoot and out of step with the others, except for Harrison,
who is dressed in den and the group are wearing
suits designed by Tommy Nutter. A white Volkswagen Beetler's to
the left of the picture park next to zebra Crossing,
which belonged to one of the people living in the
block of flats across from the recording studio. After the
album was released, the number plate LMW twenty eight eight

(01:33:21):
one F was reportedly stolen from the car, and two
thousand and four news sources published acclay made by retired
American salesman Paul Cole that he was the man standing
on the pavement to the right of the picture. That's
a good, isn't Wikipedia great? Twenty one to eleven Hendel twelve?
I have put it. Someone has texted, Someone has texted

(01:33:43):
evening Marcus. The aurora is going off above Queenstown. Huge
green and red waves can be seen with a bear eye.
That's from sewn Shawn of the Dead. I have posted
an image from what's that camera called round shot?

Speaker 8 (01:33:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:33:59):
No, it's way better, So we'll change the one we're
posting now. Can you can you tell me what the webs?
What do I type into the computer. Round shot, Dan, No,
he's answering a call. Round shot camera. You go round
shot Queenstown, Queenstown round shot. Yeah, copy a copy. If
you just put Queenstown roundshot, it comes up. It's updated

(01:34:21):
twenty minutes. It's looking great. It's going off. So it's green.
It looks like it's divided with green and green and
then yeah, it's amazing, it's all green, then all purple. Yeah,
there's a big aurora. She's happening in Queenstown. People go outside,
tell your neighbors. Get in touch Marcus till midnight. It's

(01:34:44):
seventeen away from eleven. You're Laurie. This is Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:34:47):
Welcome, Hi Marcus. He supposely those the soul storm you
can have quite an effect on GPA signals.

Speaker 2 (01:34:57):
Oh yes, yeah, it'll bring the planes out of the
sky one day, I reckon.

Speaker 9 (01:35:04):
We're strong enough.

Speaker 6 (01:35:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:35:06):
As it happened, we mentioned that Abbey Road record cover.
The lens used was a it was a hass a
black camera they used as it was a fifteen millimeter
white angle. So, as it happens, I'm just about to
put one of those on trade me. Hey, wow, I've
got funny last week I put the sixty millimeter lens

(01:35:31):
and that's I sold that. Yeah, but yeah, so it
was always been used as a example of what a
great lens. The fifty millimeters white Eggle was.

Speaker 2 (01:35:44):
How long have you had it, Laurie, Well, it's an
ext lens.

Speaker 9 (01:35:47):
And survey lens, this one. I use it for aero photography.

Speaker 8 (01:35:51):
So it's.

Speaker 11 (01:35:53):
No, no, no no.

Speaker 9 (01:35:54):
When when eventually the different outforts closed down, I sort
of took a sort of redundancy with the equipment and
caried on doing what I was doing. Yeah, so so yeah,
they bought it. It's the same lens that was the
the astronauts took to the Moon did a lot of

(01:36:17):
that photography, you know, with the early shots basically, so
there was a fifty mill as well with the they
had the little crossiers as well.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
I thought you would be in one sort of survey
group that you'd rather putting on trade me you'd have
someone someone desparate for it.

Speaker 9 (01:36:38):
Well, there are a number of them around on eBay
and stuff like that. It's yeah, it's just one of
those things. I wasn't too sure here would go on
trade with the other lens. I thought that might might
wait for a while, but a guy snapped it up
pretty quickly, and so it seems to be a bit
of market and some classical cameras right now. People get

(01:36:59):
some people going back to them for the good quality,
good quality lenses. I mean, I'll be a bit surprised
the different things uh uh I've put on trade me
in the last couple of months and that, you know,
they seem to be selling pretty quick. Yeah, old primises
and the different odds that ends that that lenses.

Speaker 2 (01:37:20):
But you know, she's a great How will you past
the primus?

Speaker 9 (01:37:25):
Oh well it was it was one of those little
folding ones uh an optimus, yeah, which was they were
a white Spirit one when they were quite a fierce
burning thing. Funny I put it on. I was surprised
there was There was about four or five of the
same brand on trade me. So they seem to be
selling pretty well. They they were, I mean if they

(01:37:49):
go well, they was the Optimist brand, but they they
were a fierce burner and if you wanted to, extremely noisy.
But they must be still popular with campus. You know,
if you've really got a ball of something big and Harry,
it's it's the one to use. The it was interesting
on YouTube because there were an unusual one. There's no

(01:38:11):
pressure pump. You can actually YouTube's got about five different
movies on.

Speaker 6 (01:38:18):
Had to light them up.

Speaker 9 (01:38:20):
But I'm surprised to find apparently the the Russians like
that design, and they apparently copied them quite extensively as well,
so they made knockoffs and and so they are pretty
popular in all different parts of Europe.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
What's the process with the pribers. What's all that pumping do?
Is it turning the liquid into a guess? Is that
what it's.

Speaker 9 (01:38:46):
Under the pressure. Get it pressurized so that it will
burn a bit higher, Yeah, and bend as a vapor. Yeah,
I mean you've got to You've got to preheat, preheat
them till they so the stuff actually vaporizes. But with
the optimist ones, they don't actually have a pump, so
you actually started off slow with it and and get
a flame going and it regually splutters into life. And

(01:39:09):
then if it's got something on it, it gradually builds
up hot, hotter and more pressure on its own.

Speaker 2 (01:39:17):
But all the tramp is now just have the guest canisters.
Don't know that seems of revolutionized tramping around One of
those stupid primises you've got too, I suppose your old
school are Is that what we're going to say, Well,
I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (01:39:26):
What I was proud. I just said what the demand
for them was, because but I think the people if
you really want to really want something that's going to
cook your meal really quickly, if you've got a big
pot to do, I mean, I take remember this one.
You can get a big pot of pippies down the
beach and sickness thing underneath it and boil them out

(01:39:49):
of no timeh So whereas you know, even if there's
a bit of a breeze around, so get these little
guest ones around, the modern ones a bit of a draft,
they get snuffed out. Yeah, reason really, but I mean
it's funny with things knocking them off. Actually, the Russians
actually they made cheap copies of the bread cameras as well.

Speaker 17 (01:40:10):
So so.

Speaker 9 (01:40:13):
The old sweet Swedish items seemed to anything that was
a good design, the Russian seemed to coffee off.

Speaker 8 (01:40:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:40:23):
But hm, but it's a classical label, isn't that the
old heavy road?

Speaker 2 (01:40:30):
Oh it's a ripper. Yeah, that's a ripper. I'm god,
I reread that. I found that interesting. Thanks Laurie. By
the way, two shots of the Aurora and Bluff. There's
print of cars Ocean beach looking at it looking great,
so go to have a look at that here to twelve.
It's all about you remember that. Seven past eleven, eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty Shane ats Marcus. Good evening, Yes,
sir Mark, and so are you good Shane? Yeah, yeah,

(01:40:54):
allow and clear receiving.

Speaker 18 (01:40:57):
Yeah, I've just arrived and awkward to my usual light
shot Monday nights to Friday night, and I probably won't
get onto at five six o'clock in the morning, probably have.

Speaker 22 (01:41:12):
Five and a half way six asleep, I have lunch
with my part and when she jumps in from work,
and then probably I'll go back to a bed about three,
so a half past five when you actually up for dinner,
and I'll go back to work at half as six.

Speaker 2 (01:41:29):
Oh that works quite well then, does it.

Speaker 22 (01:41:32):
Yeah, it's not too bad.

Speaker 18 (01:41:34):
You don't say it much of my life. Waste of time?
You're sleeping.

Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
So are you a truck driver or have you just arrived?
When you say you've arrived in orc and that's where
you go with a truck, Is that right?

Speaker 22 (01:41:46):
Yeah, that's right, Cot.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
Okay, Yeah, good to hear from you. Okay. So it's
nice for your partner that you're up for lunch.

Speaker 4 (01:41:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:41:54):
Yeah, I cooked lunch, so you cook it, yeah mate.

Speaker 2 (01:41:59):
Yeah, she cooks dinner. Yeah, sounds perfect. What's the weather doing, Shane,
sounds like that's your window windscreen?

Speaker 12 (01:42:06):
Is it.

Speaker 22 (01:42:09):
Like the hazard lights going blocking part of the road. Yes,
windy and raining.

Speaker 11 (01:42:15):
All the way up.

Speaker 2 (01:42:16):
Okay, appreciate that's so nice to hear from you. So
it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 5 (01:42:22):
Oh, good evening, Marcus. I'm good to catch up with you.
I don't believe I've spoken with you before. I just
got a bit of a shop this morning. I received
a fine for parking and living Pack and Save. And
my husband has a good friend, Donald listens to you,
and he informed him that there have been other living

(01:42:44):
places that have been people have been getting fines for
parking over an hour in the supermarket. But I've been
shopping at Livn Pack and Saves the year and doing
my main shop and spending anywhere between three to five hundred,
you know, per shop, because we're a family of five,
and I was just you know, parked in my one
of my usual parking spots, and and I'm on a budget,

(01:43:08):
so I was going through encapsulating up, you know, my
my spending and never thought that I would get a
fund of eighty five dollars for being over an hour
and I spend so much money with them. I'm just
absolutely shocked. You know, it's tough enough these days without you.

Speaker 2 (01:43:26):
Yes, so did you spend all the time you were
parked there inside the shop? Absolutely, it's outrageous.

Speaker 5 (01:43:33):
That's insane.

Speaker 2 (01:43:34):
Could you go into the shop and ask them.

Speaker 5 (01:43:37):
No, because what they do is they've obviously got cameras
because we've got a photo and my daughter was in
the car as well, so it wasn't like nobody was
in the vehicle. And I've only just received it now,
I haven't gone back into the shop.

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
But oh so you receive it via letty. You don't
receive it when you're shopping. No, No, yeah, yeah, I
mean I'll find out from others, because I mean I
know there are people that have gone and done other
things and have got tickets and they're still cropped, but
they will have video footage if you arrived and did
you pay cash or did you do it electronically?

Speaker 11 (01:44:11):
They will know that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:13):
Yeah, that's outrageous. And it's from the Auckland company. Is
it Security Holdings or something?

Speaker 23 (01:44:19):
Is that right?

Speaker 17 (01:44:20):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:44:20):
That sounds right.

Speaker 6 (01:44:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:44:23):
So I'm just absolutely shocked. And I won't be shopping
at Livima and no, and I won't.

Speaker 2 (01:44:28):
I won't either. I'm outraged for you.

Speaker 5 (01:44:31):
I'm outraged. If anyone you're what, sorry, I'll be spreading
all the word. If anyone from living.

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
You've got you've got the bit between your teeth. I
can hear that.

Speaker 5 (01:44:45):
I'm coming to them.

Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
So you're a slow shopper, Sue.

Speaker 5 (01:44:50):
I go through and I calculate them, you know, as
I go to make sure I stay within my budget
and looks a good deal, because I do a shop
for a family of five for like a fortnight.

Speaker 3 (01:45:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
Will you tell them next time when you're not going back?

Speaker 15 (01:45:11):
Are you?

Speaker 22 (01:45:12):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:45:15):
H will you tell? Will you go and tell them?

Speaker 5 (01:45:18):
I'll send a message to them via their complaints and
communication online here. Yeah, but they probably won't do anything
about it. As usual, they're just kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:45:29):
Oh, yeah, you know their owner operators. Do you know
who owns it?

Speaker 3 (01:45:33):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:45:33):
No, are they involved because normally, as supermarks, they try
and sprinkle some money money around the community. So this
is this is this is terrible for them.

Speaker 5 (01:45:46):
Yeah, I'm not impressed.

Speaker 2 (01:45:49):
Gwen Bailey. Gwen Bailey is the owner. That's the Peck
and Save mini. It was a mini. It took an
hour to get around.

Speaker 5 (01:46:02):
Yep. I look for the best budgets and borne.

Speaker 2 (01:46:07):
Just down the road. And Gwen's father was a grocer
and previously ran New World Havelock North and you World
live in Gwen Georgia Dad the bus in two thousand
and six and took over in twenty fifteen, convening the
White Price store into New Zealand's first Pack and Save many.
Gwen and her family student three girls, love living in
the hot Offenoa, enjoying the beauty of the ranges and beaches.
That's me to give the people that live in the
lowest prices every day. Well, that's outrageous for you to

(01:46:30):
for her to bill you. I can't believe that.

Speaker 20 (01:46:33):
Oh, I know.

Speaker 5 (01:46:34):
I was absolutely shocked because I've been shopping there the
other one that I go to, because I find that's
the only way I've been understand my budget. But then
to be given a fine at eighty five dollars just
because I was in their shop. I'm like, pretty pretty
brassed off.

Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
He spent an hour in a mini supermarket. Mm hmm, yeah,
it does say mini stores would allow customers to pop
in and out quickly. It's not you, is it.

Speaker 5 (01:46:58):
No, I'm not a quick in an outshoper.

Speaker 6 (01:47:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:47:02):
I did my main shop there, so yeah, I must
have that. I do. Get some los just stand up
buying all of that. I know, I am too. I'm shocked.

Speaker 2 (01:47:14):
But what you must do and you've you've been honest
with me. You haven't gone and done anything else with
that hour. You're sound straight up? No, no, no, no,
you need to keep me in touch with what goes.

Speaker 11 (01:47:25):
On with this.

Speaker 2 (01:47:26):
Okay, we'll do and and you know, because I mean,
that's about pretty bad publicity for them, if that's true.
I mean, that's their business. But that's outrageous.

Speaker 5 (01:47:35):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know where. I don't know
why people would want to part in there, because it's
not like it's in the main business area on the
main street there. It's just.

Speaker 2 (01:47:44):
We should we should run hours ago because we've got
a lot of people wanted to talk about this. Tell
me something, did you? It was just done electronically. Is
that how their cameras when you drive it and drive it?
Is that how they ticket people?

Speaker 5 (01:47:55):
Yes? Yes, yes, I mean and they've got facial recognitions,
so if they want to check that I was in
the store and came out, they will be able to
do it by camera.

Speaker 2 (01:48:03):
But you need you need an apology. They need to
make good with you.

Speaker 6 (01:48:06):
It's not just.

Speaker 2 (01:48:09):
Nullifying the ticket. That's outrageous.

Speaker 3 (01:48:12):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:48:13):
I'm like, I'm looking at I'm looking at the Scoty
little shop. Now, there's not even many. It's a small
shop to spend an hour.

Speaker 11 (01:48:19):
And.

Speaker 5 (01:48:21):
I know I'm pretty picky about getting the best thing
from the back of that I can, because I spend
a lot of money when I do go. Yeah, just
by the railway track, that's slone yep.

Speaker 2 (01:48:34):
An hour. Yeah, Okay, what time of the day was it.

Speaker 5 (01:48:41):
It was like in the afternoon. Yeah, it was about
probably about two, between two and three. Maybe I'd have
to go back and have a look at what time
I had. I'm looking for some of the appointment.

Speaker 2 (01:48:54):
Oh, you know, I think they've got to make good
with you. I think that's appalling. Actually looks small from
the front, but it's quite a deep shop, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (01:49:02):
I lost a small site and size compared to the
so usually shop between and living.

Speaker 2 (01:49:11):
They've got to make good with that. So you email
and were keep in touch with me, because that's outrageous.

Speaker 5 (01:49:17):
Okay, thank you for me.

Speaker 2 (01:49:19):
No, no, no, I'm not. I'm not normally frustrated by
callers because normally you think there's something else, there's something,
but you sound straight up and I think that is
I mean, you were there? What does it sound like?
Stupid signing of this stupid shop free peraps.

Speaker 5 (01:49:33):
Somebody said there was a sign up but that you
need to like get us stop and read it. But
when you're in a car, you're just kind of zip
into the car park. You don't really kind of because
you probably brush somebody else behind you if you're parked
up there.

Speaker 2 (01:49:47):
But still, I mean you were just there for shopping.

Speaker 5 (01:49:50):
Oh no, really quite shocked this morning?

Speaker 2 (01:49:54):
Yeah, what are you supposed to go go? I mean,
what if you're a slow shopper? How how else could
you do it? You can't go mid shop and say
I'm going to go move my car.

Speaker 5 (01:50:05):
Yeah yeah, or maybe maybe that's trying to time so
that you can't stay talking in the aisles.

Speaker 2 (01:50:09):
Maybe did you do much of that?

Speaker 5 (01:50:12):
No, but it's even more embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (01:50:14):
So you went on the phone and stop on the
phone for half an hour, just went and shop right.

Speaker 18 (01:50:18):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 5 (01:50:19):
I was just looking for the best deals because you know,
everybody's on a tight budget nowadays.

Speaker 2 (01:50:25):
And so and when you say, when you start to
go to partapatomer, have they got a peck and save
as well?

Speaker 5 (01:50:29):
You can go to yep, and they don't.

Speaker 20 (01:50:31):
They don't.

Speaker 5 (01:50:34):
Limit your out that you can part there.

Speaker 14 (01:50:36):
And I'm aware of.

Speaker 2 (01:50:37):
Well, especially if you're a slow shoppers outrageous, so you
stay in who's outraged? Sharky Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 26 (01:50:48):
Marcus. Maybe if that lady contacts food stuff you offer,
but it's the landing.

Speaker 27 (01:50:54):
And upland.

Speaker 26 (01:50:56):
To deal with that issue. Yeah, I was on about
three different things of your subjects. But did you say
I was raining heavily and caddy caddy Yeah, yeah, oh
that's good for my avocado orchards.

Speaker 2 (01:51:09):
Then yes, where are you?

Speaker 26 (01:51:12):
I'm actually just leaving Aukland. I've just done my career
pick up in Pinrows and I'm just goin to past
Peperka getting back down to tell on her to drop
off in Teller on her. But you were talking about peanut.
So while I was over in Australia getting my licenses transferred,
which is a whole other story, I bought back the

(01:51:36):
Macedonian Us for my wife, the five hundred grand bags
they were. I brought back five bags and each bag
was eight dollars Australian at colds. So I bought those
back because she likes them. And then you were talking
about Costco. So my wife generally goes to Costco every

(01:51:57):
sort of six weeks from Caddy Teddy up to Henderson
and gets the butter and all those essentials that we
need down that way, which are cheaper than going anywhere else.
And thirdly, sleeping hours. So last night this morning, I
got home at four o'clock and I slept till eleven.

(01:52:21):
Then I got up for a couple of hours. I
slept from one till two point thirty, and then I
started at the yard and then Mount Monganui at six
o'clock tonight. Okay, and then I'll repeat that That's what
I'm doing at the moment, five days a week.

Speaker 2 (01:52:39):
Aren't you moving to Australia to drive over there?

Speaker 11 (01:52:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 26 (01:52:42):
Well, I went over there, got all the licenses done
everything like that, and now the mines company have made
up to swing about. They don't want to take on
any Kiwi drivers into half the seabree nice.

Speaker 11 (01:52:56):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 26 (01:52:57):
I was quite peased because I was very excited, and
I'd spent a lot of money going over there doing
all the license thing and getting a Medicare card and
and my bank account sorted out over there. It's not
very easy getting that license.

Speaker 18 (01:53:11):
I can tell you that.

Speaker 26 (01:53:12):
You know that you can't just with a couple of
bits of paper like you could hear.

Speaker 2 (01:53:17):
Okay, you start your terrible phone line sharky, but good
luck with that, and please stay in touch two lines free.
I will get to you. That's outrageous. Nineteen past eleven,
your curriots, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 14 (01:53:30):
I'm absolutely outrageous. Do you know why, Marcus? No, because
I'm going to pay that eighty five dollars?

Speaker 2 (01:53:39):
Are you her partner?

Speaker 11 (01:53:41):
No?

Speaker 23 (01:53:41):
I am, Oh wow, I'm going.

Speaker 14 (01:53:43):
To pay that eighty five dollars. We have to pay that,
and I'll tell you right now. You share this slow
shopper so I can clarify and triple clarify. She takes
that long to shop.

Speaker 2 (01:53:58):
Believe me, have you paid it yet?

Speaker 7 (01:54:02):
No?

Speaker 14 (01:54:02):
Her just came in the maddle this morning and she
showed me and I'll I'm like, what five dollars? So
I rang Donald tonight because he lives live in Donald
knows it all and he is awesome and he's got contacts,
and he said, well, there is a sign, but it
takes a couple of minutes to kind of read it,

(01:54:22):
and there is another big one on the wall. But
we're still going there and shopping as she does. She's
not going to order a sudden read a sign on
the water sheet.

Speaker 2 (01:54:31):
But I just thought that ticket people if they went
and did something else. I thought that of a way
to make sure they went the whole time in that shop,
because that seems unreasonable to me.

Speaker 14 (01:54:40):
Yeah, well, she was definitely in the and on actually
going to bring it up on Google wes on Google
Mats with the timeline and showed that she's in there
the whole line, because Donald said, make sure that we
grab a receipt, and which hopefully she's got when I
touch up with her, and hopefully we've got all our
backs right. But as you say, he's been a contractor.

(01:55:03):
They may they may just say, oh, you know, heave
it up with the company.

Speaker 2 (01:55:08):
Yeah yeah, thanks for getting in touch, but keep us posted.
Twenty three past eleven, Pete Marcus welcome, Yeah, Marcus.

Speaker 27 (01:55:16):
You's got your pillow.

Speaker 2 (01:55:23):
This is just well who's running your material? That's quite funny, Pete.
I felt I felt terrible. It was just a bad
time of the night and your story did put me
to sleep. But the cheapest screeper, I think I kind
of knew i'd heard the story before. I thought, tell
us your story, that'll get us through. But clearly I
wasn't engaged. Next thing and I'm asleep.

Speaker 11 (01:55:44):
So anyway, that lady will get little off.

Speaker 27 (01:55:49):
She goes and sees that owner. It was all about doing.
Those contractors were the smart parking. Here they are, they did,
they do their job, and he's here. She'll get off
on that one. Go approach the owner of that back
and save whatever it is. She'll get off on that.

Speaker 2 (01:56:06):
But it's have you ever had have you ever had
a ticket from that crowd there?

Speaker 22 (01:56:10):
Peepe?

Speaker 27 (01:56:13):
I don't want, I don't want you to afford to
sleep again, market, but actually will. But going on about
those those two German Air Force beer buses. They went
over and you plumb up yesterday morning and the afternoon,
probably at one. I'm just looking in and now I
was in my office here and I heard them flying
pretty low. They didn't take my roof off, but they
were done by the windy pointing and they were very low.

(01:56:37):
You could hear them, you know, they say, yeah, so
they were. They definitely must have went went up the
west coast and went along the coast along here, and
they must have they did a bit of a circle,
they did.

Speaker 11 (01:56:47):
They did.

Speaker 27 (01:56:48):
They must have went over the city, I think, but
they did fly pretty low. I'm looking at the photo
now on my on my laptops that year, but they
did fly over definitely.

Speaker 22 (01:56:57):
Yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:56:59):
Hey, I heard that there was another two of the
same planes that flew from christ to queen Queenstown, which
I hadn't realized.

Speaker 27 (01:57:07):
Well, they probably would have done the loop, I'd say
they would. They would have gone up the west coast,
which they would have done, and then when they would
have done, would have gone up the all for whenever
they did done exercises, you know, I only would have
flyn back down the probably down the east coast.

Speaker 2 (01:57:20):
I would think, Okay, anything about nuts.

Speaker 27 (01:57:24):
Cashiw nuts. Yeah yeah, I like the Cashi nuts with
their expenses. Each time I eat one of that's just
ten minutes gone, so I slowly eat them.

Speaker 2 (01:57:33):
Have you gone to if you do, go to Costco?

Speaker 27 (01:57:37):
No, Nolan, you plumb up for years, So I wonder
we'll go. We've got a sister up there. When I'll
go up there next time i'm going, I'll go, difit,
we'll go and have a look.

Speaker 2 (01:57:45):
Nice to talk, Pete, thanks so much for that. Twenty
six past eleven, some has just texted me free heavy
rain of track has a truck has just jet knifed
across the state highway to between Katti Cutty and Todonga.
Expect delays, emergency services arriving now. That's from Dane. Will
check it on Wa Kortahi. That's just happened. Sorry, not
on the so your head of ented. Ta's that's happen.

(01:58:06):
And I think the breakers must have won. I'll give
you a school when I can in its Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:58:12):
Oh thank you.

Speaker 17 (01:58:13):
Those couple were here players. I spotted them today going
up towards Kai Kurra on the coast. There they were flying.
Damn low I wouldn't want to be a parachute torna.

Speaker 2 (01:58:24):
Did anyone see anyone jumping out of the where? Did they.

Speaker 6 (01:58:29):
Okay?

Speaker 17 (01:58:30):
At that speed and only would have been two hundred
meters maybe by the ground. Yeah, yeah, they're quite impressive.
I tried to have photo but dropped my phone at
kick you actually.

Speaker 2 (01:58:44):
Are your trucky? Is that what you're doing?

Speaker 17 (01:58:47):
Yes, I was yeah, yeah, quite impressive. Yeah. And the
other person is talking about trying to get his license
in Australia. I didn't find it too hard at all,
but it depends on what here are. And I just
took a letter over saying that driven multi combination vehicles
said to state multi combination. This was in southust Australia,
so I do understand that time in the law up.

Speaker 2 (01:59:10):
But you've that I think that guy'd moved there for
all money. So I surprised to hear him still driving this.
So next time he's on his lines a bit better
and I'll try and get some more dates. But thanks
for that. Nice to hear from you. Happart to live
and niel As Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:59:25):
Right.

Speaker 28 (01:59:25):
So this is a bit of a boring story that
when I get to eat of foods in a six.
At Christmas time, we used to get a large box
you know those large boxes you see at the supermarkets
for of Necadamian nuts, chocolate, raisins, just a whole bunch
of food, you know in Joe's or packets. Well, and

(01:59:53):
of course I keep the chocolate Macadamius for myself, but
I gave half the box some fat mates for fat
mates coach this then and also to my then brothers
theirs twice I gave her the ordinary Macadamias and I
think they gave it both sets of cashes in a jar.

Speaker 2 (02:00:13):
And did you say this is eater and nuts eat foods.

Speaker 28 (02:00:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:00:17):
Where were they based? Wirie and still there.

Speaker 28 (02:00:24):
I think they moved fitted down the road there, but
only for transport reasons because mostly they had struggles with
getting transportation potatoes from south of Auckland into the factory.

Speaker 5 (02:00:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (02:00:41):
I think they might have done some sort of logistical
change inside work there.

Speaker 2 (02:00:45):
Okay, appreciate you coming through, Neil. Thanks for that. Keep
it keep it going, Pep. We are talking about the
outrage with that part car park. I can't believe it
because if you're shopping the whole time speeding that money.
Someone says, in solidarity with so ibby boycotting packets save Lavina,
will tell all my friends and family to drop doing
so disgusting. Where did the partnering though?

Speaker 17 (02:01:06):
That?

Speaker 2 (02:01:06):
That surprised me? That furthered the course. But anyway, Jan,
this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 20 (02:01:14):
I did Marcus. They shouldn't pay that afy five just
protested and it's going to do them an awful lot
of damage. No publicity, why I'll find.

Speaker 2 (02:01:28):
They I think that's why they're ringing out. Don't normally
like to people sort of ring this shape, but that
did seem that seemed unreasonable to me.

Speaker 20 (02:01:36):
That's terrible. That's why we need to have fair go
come back.

Speaker 2 (02:01:40):
Of course we do. He's not doing much either, older,
is he that guy Kevin Will? He'd be great back on,
get him back on, it'd be great.

Speaker 20 (02:01:49):
Yeah, definitely. And honestly, I spent in our shopping easily.
Taxi is always waiting for me.

Speaker 2 (02:02:00):
Would wouldn't you get another taxi?

Speaker 5 (02:02:04):
No?

Speaker 20 (02:02:04):
They come at a certain I'm pre arranged because it
all has to fit in with fair enough enough. Yeah,
you can't hold them up, and you usually do. But anyway,
so no, why rush you cover time and decide what
you want.

Speaker 2 (02:02:24):
It's complicate these days with labels and things, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (02:02:27):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (02:02:28):
Thanks Jen, Hello, Chris, Welcome.

Speaker 6 (02:02:31):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 23 (02:02:33):
I'm the talk of the supermarket. The supermarket charging for
the you know, the extra time in the car back
I got, well, I got to get stunk for it
and pay it. But I've been visited a pharmacy to
drop a script off at a mall. At a mall pharmacy,
drove in at eleven am, dropped the script, went back

(02:02:54):
at two am, at two pm, and I've got a
notice saying you were there for three hours.

Speaker 2 (02:02:59):
Wow, I see what you're doing because you repeat visit
clich and the matrix.

Speaker 23 (02:03:04):
Yeah, because they just quick you're going and they click
going out. So I mean there's zero hour. Was going
to pay anything. So I just emailed and said, look
at your camera a bit more closely. Cars parked a
different place, and it came and went twice. And but
the whole point is they refer to it as a fine. Well,
only a court can imply can impose a fine. So

(02:03:25):
it's just the language. It's just a bit of a
con I think. So it's a prime it's a private company.
And it's like Marcus Lush putting a sign on his
front law and saying, if you stay here more than
ten minutes, he's going to find you.

Speaker 2 (02:03:35):
Well particular school town, like a school town like levin
the Bielavian Facebook page, and that I mean that you
don't want to. You don't want to. You don't want
to annoy your customers in a small town because geo,
what the grapevine? Ge know what the grapevine works? Quickly,
they'll be bad for that exactly.

Speaker 23 (02:03:53):
Well there, I mean there's twoshes. You wonder if if
the supermarket itself approached the parking company because there is
a problem they might be a problem of commuters or
even staff staying too long. I mean that's possible. Or alternatively,
the parking company go to all the supermarkets and say
we can make it back for it.

Speaker 2 (02:04:10):
Yes, and they might and they could and they could
well pay for the.

Speaker 23 (02:04:13):
Right exactly exactly, which is which.

Speaker 2 (02:04:17):
Seems a bit sleazy anyway, doesn't it.

Speaker 23 (02:04:20):
Yeah, we need an investigative journalist to get stuck into this.
But I mean, the language they put it looks like
an official ticket from the police department. But it's not.
It's just a private company, and I'd be very surprised
if anyone would ever I mean, what are they going
to do is take you to court for four dollars?

Speaker 3 (02:04:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:04:39):
Okay, appreciate you coming through and support too. Chris outraged.
I've liked Levin not anymore. Christ's Marcus.

Speaker 5 (02:04:46):
Good evening, Oh, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 16 (02:04:49):
I was just thinking of a parking ticket I regret
paying a few months back. It was Wilson Parking and
Dunedin Center City Mall.

Speaker 5 (02:05:00):
Yep, you might familiar with that.

Speaker 16 (02:05:04):
I got paid for parking with shopping because I first
thought it was over parking.

Speaker 12 (02:05:09):
But it took two weeks to.

Speaker 4 (02:05:11):
Arrive in the mail.

Speaker 16 (02:05:13):
In the d X mail, you get four weeks to
pay it and you get three weeks to contest it
from the date of issue. The two weeks had already gone,
and I tried to email them. I ran Community Law Center.
I tried to recall everything for that day, and I

(02:05:35):
remember what happened. I parked near the entrance and I
got out of my car and walked across the road,
first into the mall opposite in Albion Lane two. Because
my neighbor was in at the hairdresser and I was
going to meet her for coffee, so I rushed in
to see if she had finished, and then I rushed
back via the front entrance and into the mall in shopping,

(02:05:58):
and I ended up getting pinged for exiting the mall,
which is where I out of my car and walked
out of them all. So I was trying to recall
everything that happened. Two weeks later, I remember trying on
tops in the posty shop and the girl and the
remembered me because I went in to see her. And

(02:06:19):
I actually went in and bought one beck and and
brought one. But I was in the health two thousand
shop where I get my magnesium and yeah, so I
was still shopping, even trying on clothes. But I went
to the bank to pay it because I tried to
wring them to pay it, and it's hard to pay them.
To end up talking to someone in the Philippines, and

(02:06:42):
the three girls in the bank said I wouldn't be
paying it. But I know what Wilson's are like. I've
seen them on fear Go so many times. They sleep
on a I was worried that I would have a
fight on my hand because I didn't really have any
receipts in that so in the end I paid it,
but I regretted it. But Wilson Parking were always on

(02:07:04):
fear go and but I've found the notice. So I
went back and walk around the whole car park and
I've actually found the photos I took. There's one small
notice behind a tree that you can hardly see, as
if if you're going to exit the car pack, walk
out of the car pack leading into the luck of
store next door. I don't know if you're familiar with that, and.

Speaker 2 (02:07:28):
M and it's can Chris, Chris? Were you in the car?
The car park was the car park for the mall, right.

Speaker 16 (02:07:36):
It was for the whole mall in this and the
New World supermarket.

Speaker 2 (02:07:40):
Sure so. And you didn't go beyond that.

Speaker 9 (02:07:43):
I did.

Speaker 16 (02:07:44):
I that was my downfall. I tried to let them
know what I had done. I parked near the entrance
and instead of going through the mall, you can exit
by any exit or even through the stairs. But I
crossed the road to see if my neighbor was finished
in the head.

Speaker 2 (02:07:59):
They would they would then need to physically have you
film you, leaving them all wouldn't they to make that
prosecution stick work it out.

Speaker 16 (02:08:07):
Well, that's what I suspect has happened, that they've got
me on camera leaving them all and I went back
through to the main door. She was wasn't quite funnished.
So I went into the mall and tried clothes on
and did some things and stuff. So, and I probably
I would have been in the supermarket as well, but

(02:08:29):
if I bought just a couple of things, I would
have thrown the receipt away, so I didn't even bother running.

Speaker 2 (02:08:34):
The headdress is at Albion Places.

Speaker 16 (02:08:36):
It the heirdresser is opposite the road and l sorry
Albion Lane, Albion Lane, just right beside the number one
shoe warehouse just.

Speaker 5 (02:08:48):
Across this road.

Speaker 2 (02:08:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, he's got on Google Maps. Is Albion Place.
It's not much it's not much o here lounge for
he care market is it?

Speaker 3 (02:08:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (02:08:57):
Okay, yeah, So instead of I turn, I couldn't ring
her because she was on a headdresser. So I've done
that many times.

Speaker 5 (02:09:04):
Then if she's ready and she's for given me a
bit longer and she would come over.

Speaker 16 (02:09:11):
But yeah, so they are obviously watching on camera, you exit,
and then the signs aren't up around it. I found them.
I went back and photographed everything I could find, and
I tried to contest it, and I was just run
out of time because you only get three weeks. Well,
it takes two weeks to arrive in the DX mail,
and you've got to recall what you were doing that

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day exactly if you haven't written it down, and what
you bought, or if you bought this cat food or
milk or something. And so now I get a receipt
for everything, even if it's the two things. I get
a resceept. And I went and saw the girl in
the posty thing and she remembered me trying on Marino tops.
I tried two different ones on, and yeah, that's still shopping.

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Because I was a potential customer. I went back and
bought one of those tops. And I buy my magnesium
in the health shop, which is in the morning as well.
But well, and packing you freak out about fighting them
because they how much?

Speaker 2 (02:10:11):
How much was the fine again?

Speaker 20 (02:10:13):
It was eighty.

Speaker 16 (02:10:15):
Two or eighty five. Now I've been throwing out with
the figure when that lady was talking about eighty or something.

Speaker 6 (02:10:21):
It's a lot.

Speaker 12 (02:10:22):
I think so fair enough.

Speaker 16 (02:10:25):
One time, about two years earlier, I overpacked at Christmas
time by short time, so I paid that because that
was my fault and I overpacked, and I thought this
was for overpacking and time, because I hadn't even known
anyone to get one pack packing and not shopping at
stead on the ticket.

Speaker 2 (02:10:43):
So you weren't even there longer than an hour.

Speaker 16 (02:10:47):
I I'm not sure how long I was there for
because they oh, hang on, they sent me the they
sent me the photo. No, they sent me the photo
of exit and enter it and entering and exiting. I
could not read the times on them at.

Speaker 2 (02:11:02):
All, so both of you and the carry you as
a pedestrian.

Speaker 16 (02:11:06):
The photo of my car and the number plates that
was so tiny, and I blew it up and went
to my micro camera to set that would work to
photographs the tacker to read the times on those photos.
You could not read them. No one I knew could
read them because I am so minute in the photos,
so that they weren't disputing the time. They were discuting
their nice packed in didn't shop. So yeah, they are

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watching you.

Speaker 2 (02:11:33):
Let us know how that works out for you, Chris.
I'd like to know the update on that one.

Speaker 16 (02:11:37):
Eight it months ago and the girls in the bank
transferred the money and they said they wouldn't be paying it,
and I regretted it. I tried ringing the Community Law
Center and I was running out of time. I couldn't
get anyone, so I regretted paying that one instead.

Speaker 2 (02:11:50):
Appreciate you coming through, Chris. I can't leave it there,
but thank you. Sixteen to twelve.

Speaker 22 (02:11:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:11:55):
Just back to that Levin Carpak situation. If anyone's got
any more comments on that, she went to shop at
the supermarket, She's just shopped there. She spent three to
five hundred dollars. It's outrageous. I don't know to see
one out there, would they spend an hour shopping in
the supermarket. What did she say? She does? She likes
to consider everything pro'ba be better be in an online shop.

(02:12:16):
If you've got some comment to make about that, that's
the topic will end with tonight because I think that's
pretty damn interesting. So get in touch. Got about twelve
minutes left if you want to be a part of
it till the end, come on. Eight hundred and eighty
eighty shopping, shopping, shopping or anything else you want to
mention for the night. Be nice to have a strong finish,

(02:12:36):
strong finish. But that's I'm generally outraged by that because
there's no solution to it, because you want people to
take as long as it don't people take a long time.
But yeah, get in touch people welcome hddle twelve. That's

(02:13:00):
what we want to talk about tonight. That's the final topic.
So yes, get in touch, come on ye for the
final bit. If you got a copy on that or
anything else that's happened tonight, I would love to hear
from you. Oh eight one hundred and eighty ten eighty
if you want to text nine to nine two, anything

(02:13:22):
else you want to mention, good, I can handle that. Yeah, Barry,
this is Marcus.

Speaker 28 (02:13:30):
Welcome and hello, yeah, Hello, YEAHI Marcus.

Speaker 2 (02:13:35):
What did you want to say?

Speaker 24 (02:13:36):
Yeah, just about that poor lady, she'd be shopping you
a long time, and that that guy that owns that shop,
welcome to the House of shame. It's incredible. She should
never have to pay that fine. And I think that

(02:13:57):
people are listening should boycott that supermarket. That's all I've
got to say.

Speaker 2 (02:14:03):
Thanks, Barry, Have you got anything to add Come through people.
I'm not one to try and damage people's business, but
that seemed to be unreasonable if that's their attitude, especially
because if you're a supermake in a small community, I mean,
you're the pillar there. You need to be available full
sorts of things for fundraiser and charities and all sorts

(02:14:23):
of stuff. You're only as good as your reputation. Hello
Roster is Marcus welcome?

Speaker 23 (02:14:30):
Yeah, Hi there, Marcus. You know, I think that's quite
obscene because I tell you why, My wife's disabled and
we've got the parking. They've got a disabled parts right
out the front there, and if you need to use
a wheelchair, you're not going to be there for five minutes.

Speaker 22 (02:14:46):
No.

Speaker 2 (02:14:47):
I imagine there's a number of situations. You've got a
couple of young kids as well that are tricky, or
you're slow with the walking, or you've got to read,
or you haven't got much money and you want to
try to work out. You've got to add up your
numbers the whole way to make sure you've got enough
to pay for everything.

Speaker 23 (02:15:06):
I think what's actually happened. I think it's done with
AI because I got hauled up at the world worst
one here just across the road because I'm not allowed
to drive. I had a stroke earlier on this year. Yes,
and I went down to buy a mini chainsaw from Bunnings,
which was just a little way away, and well, obviously
I haven't got a car to put it in, so

(02:15:27):
I took it round the supermarket with me. So they
hauled me up over that and I don't know whether
they thought, well, maybe you've been shoplifting. But then when
they stopped me and pulled me over, I said, what's
the problem, what's wrong? And they said, what have you
got in that bag?

Speaker 8 (02:15:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:15:42):
So what we're what city was it? And Ross? Oh?

Speaker 17 (02:15:48):
Timaru?

Speaker 23 (02:15:48):
Yeah, yeah, we've got a new supermarket and new complex
just across the road from where I lived, obvious at
Harvey Norman Are.

Speaker 2 (02:15:56):
I've seen one the other day. Are those new one
arm chainsaw is good?

Speaker 20 (02:16:02):
Yes?

Speaker 23 (02:16:03):
Yes, Ryobi all Ryobi gear is brilliant. Your batteries go
and they last forever.

Speaker 2 (02:16:10):
Look down good until Ross. Thanks then, thanks for your
advice for her eight away from twelve. If you want
to add anything to that, Yes, the more calls would
be great because I've fond of this real really interesting.
I don't want to be so you know, I'm not
someone that's I mean, I'm a realist, but I think

(02:16:31):
that's pretty clearly wrong if you're going to be there
for an hour shopping, because it's a big shop. Especially
live in it's like an inver carget at the sop.
They're not a rural folk coming. I'm amazed how much
food they eat. They've got giant trolleys full of stuff.
They've got your dog food on the bottom. But yeah,
that's people take a long time and now is not

(02:16:54):
unreasonable in the supermarket. I'm sure there's people that do
use supermarket car parks wrongly and if they get caught
fair enough, if they go and do something else. So
they just go and do go to to see the bankkill,
Go get these shoes, go go to the cobbler. Greetings
Marcus from beautiful career. Cooler here but lovely autumn colors

(02:17:15):
on the deciduous tree. Is great country to visit. Most
of the cars are Hyundai. Funnily enough, go well so
similar comments from TEXTA. I would like your calls if
you want to comment. Finally, I've got seven minutes left.
You want to comment finally about was it front handle?
Was share Sue. Also, if you want to mention the

(02:17:38):
aurora before the end of the night, that's happening. I'll
do a final check on the website and the camera
and Queenstown Roundview. Was it round shot?

Speaker 11 (02:17:57):
On it?

Speaker 6 (02:17:58):
Got it?

Speaker 2 (02:18:01):
Queenstown has got a really good aurora camera. Just go
Queen's Queenstown round Shot. What a great line from Pete tonight?
Have you got a pillow? Pete won the show?

Speaker 4 (02:18:13):
Didn't he.

Speaker 2 (02:18:15):
Line of the night? You got a pillow handy? But yeah,
I've got six minutes if i'd like one or two
more calls before the end. Tim Beverage long from twelve,
You've got a pillow handy? Hard nut to crack? What
about calvin favorite nut donut? Should have seen that coming

(02:18:36):
from a mile away. You won't catch me out next time?
Oh ready for bed mess of yawn right at the end,
I apologize for that my fault time management. Now, David,

(02:18:59):
this is Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 14 (02:19:01):
I'm this whole party things. I live outside of me
one but it Wilson's to be doing this forever. And
they put up an obscure sign And who owns Wilson's Parking?
A Hong Kong based Chinese company.

Speaker 2 (02:19:20):
I don't think this was Wilson's. I think there's a
new crowd of the market called systems something in an
office an ORCA. But it's probably still overseas company. But
I think this is a different situation.

Speaker 14 (02:19:30):
This one. Just the whole thing is just a fraud.
You know, it's like it's like an AI thing. You
walk in, you walk out, you get pinged, but they
don't know where you went after you walk out, on
what when you walk in.

Speaker 2 (02:19:49):
You know, it just seems it just seems wrong to me, David.
But thank you, Andrew. Good evening.

Speaker 10 (02:19:55):
Good evening, Marcus. It's Andrew, the audio enthusiast guy here again.

Speaker 2 (02:20:00):
Good thank you.

Speaker 10 (02:20:03):
That's that's nice to hear. Hey, I've just got a
bit of recent some experience in a packing sack myself
in Manekow City. So the company that does it up here,
because you've got to remember they're obviously employed by the
supermarket owners. Now, they obviously they do it for a reason, right,
to stop people that perhaps work in office blocks or

(02:20:24):
other places from parking there all day because they might
have to paid parking. Yeah, we all realize that basically,
So this went up in Auckland was Smart Compliance Management,
which is a company in Penrose, and I got nailed
for three hours for being in there for three hours,
and I thought, really, now, look, I'm a single guy.

(02:20:46):
I'm not going to go shopping for three hours. It
just really wouldn't interest me that much, you know. So
the only thing I can think is I went. I
went to maybe the food hall which is across the road,
but I definitely didn't leave my van there because I
wouldn't have been bothered to walk over, to be honest.

Speaker 11 (02:21:03):
But what did happen?

Speaker 10 (02:21:05):
I read recent I don't know if you're aware or
if it's come up. I had a short period years
away from the radio listening there was an instance and
was it Upper Heart? Was it at the McDonald's And
there was a woman had been in two or three
times in a day?

Speaker 2 (02:21:21):
Okay, And what happens is is a lot of time
with that Andrew sometime, did you go in twice that day?

Speaker 11 (02:21:32):
No? I didn't.

Speaker 6 (02:21:34):
It's possible. Sorry, it's possible.

Speaker 10 (02:21:35):
I went in and I went I think I'll go
across the road and have dinner and then I come back. Now,
I'll get across this quickly because we've got no time.
What I did do is I rung the pack and
say I mentioned about it. I said, there's no way
I would have been there for three hours. And the
girl said, no, not likely. She said, bring it in
and the manager will get it dealt with by the

(02:21:56):
get it removed. So I'm still waiting for that because
obviously they'll send you a reminder in twenty eight days now.

Speaker 12 (02:22:01):
This was on.

Speaker 10 (02:22:04):
Data breach was thirteenth of October, so I guess I'll
find out in the next few days whether it did
get dealt with or not, because I'll get a reminder notice.

Speaker 2 (02:22:13):
But let us know when you do, too. Andrew, I'm
out of time, but thanks for everyone tonight. I've enjoyed
this greatly and we had a laugh, and it's the
major thing. I shall return tomorrow. Tim is along next.
Enjoy your Thursday Moments Away good Night.

Speaker 1 (02:22:28):
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