Always down to hummus (20 November 2025)

Marcus talks smartwatches, and proper etiquette of answering the phone.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be gotch an exciting night. Visit to pack and save.
Went to pack and safe self check out? When to
scan a drink? No barcode? You haven't had that for
way to go all the way back? Swam drink for
another one with a barcode? Go figure? Can I want
to happen to it? But there we go? You were
lost without a barcode, aren't We couldn't care it in nothing.
Try to type in the name of the drink. Oh,
you won't know what it is, will you? There are

(00:32):
type type, type type. None of the cheries are there.
I'm disappointed by that, although were seeing some of the blueberries,
which I'm enjoying. Gosh, you know, you think you buy
one of those tiny pullets of blueberries got You're league
in an army, think all just have one? But you
whole lot? So delicious? Aren't they? You forget how good
they taste? But I think we're on the cusp of
the stone fruit. That's gonna be big for me. I've

(00:54):
realized it's something about four I've only got about three
weeks work left. I'm sorry going to the twenty second,
but maybe four weeks left feels like about October for me. August,
but yeah, already three weeks maybe four weeks, I don't know.
But so it's not long. About time you start panicking
with your beach panic diet, isn't it anyway? How you're
going people house? What's happening in listen to land? Anything exciting?

(01:16):
By the way, if you go to Metallica and enjoy
it and you're a train novice, you don't go to Parnell,
then start grizzling. If you read those articles, what was happening?
Why would they Why were they in Parnell? I half
read that article. I got to earth it. Why were
they in Parnell? What you do if you want to
go to Metallica and yet want to catch the train

(01:39):
is rather than driving everyone. But if we were like
a cat, you do some trained unis beforehand, just to
get the lie of the land, because I'm sick of
people going to this concert thing complaining they couldn't get home,
and we's the excitement. If I was at the best
concert of my life, right and I got stuck in
Parnell and I was forty minutes late, home and it
was raining. I think, well, what a ball that was.

(02:01):
We went to Metallica and it was fantastic and gosh
we got off at part That was probably a mistake,
but there we didn't know what to do and it
rained and we got home. It was midnight but we
got home. Well what adventure? What's this culture now that
people blame and moan and then moaning that the train
took too long and it could have been that Actually

(02:22):
they were just overheard in the conversation, but that's the
tone from the article. Anyway. I don't know what to
say about that. But if ever I am at a
concert and the train malfunctions at the way home, you
won't catch me grizzling. We thought we'd get off at

(02:42):
Parnell and sure there would be a train coming through
and will jump on that back to new Market. But
the train never arrived. Goodness, well, just walk, it's not fair.
Good walk to new Market in ten minutes fifteen, or
walk downhill to Britomart. It's not different. These things aren't difficult.

(03:04):
Your legs aren't painted on a Nissa intoxica, and even
then it would be fun too. Can't work it out,
can't work out what's going on there. Anyway, this is
mister Riddler, So that's a situation where the trains always
someone grizzling. And what really upsets me about this whole article. Actually,

(03:27):
I'm going to riff on this a bit, right. This
is the telling article Riddler and his partner left in
the middle of the band's final song, into Sandman, to
beat the crowd. I'm sorry, but who goes to Metallica
and leaves during into Sandman, one of the most compelling
songs there ever is? But how could you leave halfway

(03:50):
through that song? At what part of that song do
you leave? There is no part to leave, because it
just builds and builds and builds and gets more and
more compelling. I'm not happy with any of that article anyway. Anyway,
They've got on the train at ten to three, labeled
white to Matartle new Market, still buzzing from the gig.
But the train never stopped at new Market, skipping the

(04:11):
station entirely. We never get off at Parnell, I can
tell you a million times. Anyway, they should have kept
on to write to Britamard. Anyway, I don't know if
they's going to be a talk back on that. But
still I just yeah, you gotta be careful what your
own about because if you in life, if you focus
on what goes wrong, you'll miss the big stuff. And

(04:34):
you never leave a Metallica concert during the last you're
waiting for the encore. Surely who'd go? Are constantly realthy
to get home in time? What once every ten years
Metallica paid this will be the last time ever. So
much sadness in that one story. Get in touch Marcus
till twelve twelve past eight and watching the netball They

(04:55):
were good, weren't they twenty to all goodness? I reckon
and this is not me knowing anything about netball, but
I watched the coach on to Onto. Who is she
that coach? What a remarkably composed person she was, with
extraordinary skin looks ages from thinking, gosh, so much she's

(05:17):
been handled the hospital pass. She's taken that team to
Australia and they've come back here and almost won the thing,
then gone to the UK. She has had the worst
possible I mean, it's probably her lifetime dream to coach
the team, but she's been hasn't got there. But she
was at point of the interim coach. She has done
that job with absolute dignity and class. So well done

(05:38):
for her. I thought that was exciting that she's done
all that. But of course she goes well on the media.
She's got such a calm presence to herself. Anyway, that's
my comment on the netball I thought that was amazing
that she coached him and held herself with such dignity
because she was hated. We're not hated, but I mean
there was animossy towards her because you know, it was
and as I say, in the business and unenviable position

(06:00):
she was put in. Anyway, Now, what are we going
to talk about tonight? Well, anything you like. It's the
Thursday free for all. I feel already, but Christmasy, I
feel that we're getting into that more kind of lighthearted
end of the year. So I'm excited about that for
all this so do come through. By the way, watching
one news tonight, the cell phone ban in schools has

(06:24):
gone so well. They're looking at banning smart watches. Now
I've never had a smart watch. I've got good watches,
but they're not smart watches. But I know people with
smart watches and you go to lunch with them or
have a meeting with them, and they're always having a
sneaky look at their rest to see what their messages
come through. Don't like it, don't like it a bit. Anyway,

(06:47):
were's the talk back in this? Well, I'm just curious
to if you've got a smart watch any good or
with banning, because my kid keeps asking for a final
and said, no, I buy you a First of all,
I said, I'll buy your pager. He's got zero he's
got a zero interest in that. It was really edwind
about that. There's a buy a smart a smart watch

(07:09):
zero interest in that, which I'm kind of okay about.
I think it's just the way to track your kids,
which seems a bit creepy. Anyway, you might want to
talk about the smart watch proposed Ben and what you
think about that, and you're real I mean ring me
up and say, Marcus, a smart watch has changed my life,
or ring me up and say, jeeps, creeper, smart watch,
waste of time. I've got no idea. My watch tells

(07:32):
me the time and tells me the date, well even
tell me the date. It's six hundred meters underwater, which
is ironic for guy that won't ever go in the water,
but there we go anyway.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Ye.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
I don't like people and I don't like people in
meetings peeking down to the watch. I'd rather they are
on the phone. At least they're honest about it, because
you can't do it covidly. You're always noticed. Good evening, Blair.
This is Marcus. Welcome, Okay, Marcus, how you ten out
of ten? This end? Blair?

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Brilliant? Brilliant? I just say smart watch. So I had
a couple of twin fifteen year old girls who lived
with their mother, and when the babysitting jobs come up,
one shout of smart watch. One doesn't. So when they
teach during school times for the babysitting job, the one
with the smart watch aways the babysitting job. You know,

(08:23):
of course, of course a bit of friction between the girls.
But because you're not allowed to reply replying class, so
you can lose your phone for two days apparently. So, yeah,
the one, the one was the smart watch was making
all the money, mate, Tom.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
Saying it was it.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Did they buy their own smart watch? You didn't buy
it for them, No.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Look, it was just something that turned And one of
them is a savor and one of them's not my
My twins are talking cheese, mate.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
So the the one that's the saver is going from
strength to strength because now she's getting all the jobs.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
By having God watch, I think that I'm not saying
it gave her a bit more intelligence. But when they
were first born, we called them for and chips. Before
that porn, sorry, because we didn't know what was coming out,
girls of boys. But now I call them chalk and cheese.
You know one one one Stevie he and the other

(09:20):
he we sort of angin. She can take that made
some money, Joey, she'll do it. And she's the one
of the smart watch.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
What's the going right for? As a babysitter.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Him only mates? You can see many five backs for
four hours.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
I thought you were gonna say sey bucks in there.
I thought about it. See that's good, that's great. And
how much is the watch? About five hundred?

Speaker 6 (09:41):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (09:44):
No idea made? I don't buy it. Shandy gave it
to her.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
And it pays for itself.

Speaker 7 (09:48):
Blea.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
It's nice to talk and let's start that discussion. Well,
chalk and cheese. Good evening, Travis's is Marcus welcome?

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (09:55):
Marcus, are you good?

Speaker 2 (09:57):
You're good, good, good good.

Speaker 9 (09:59):
I was just I got one of these smart watches
with I bought a phone combo with a smart watch Sampson.

Speaker 7 (10:07):
I think.

Speaker 9 (10:09):
I don't think it was very good because the battery
dies all the time. You've got to keep them charged up.
So it's a real, real hassle.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
How long does it last?

Speaker 4 (10:18):
About a day?

Speaker 9 (10:19):
Maybe two?

Speaker 7 (10:19):
Spends on how much is it?

Speaker 6 (10:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (10:21):
I would Why did you get it? It came with
the combo.

Speaker 9 (10:28):
Yeah, I got rid of it though I ended up.
I've just got the perfect G shock.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, oh, the old G shock. You love a shock.

Speaker 9 (10:37):
Well, I've got Emmanuel Johnathan. So it just takes the
knocks and charges.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
And that's the answer. You should be funding the campaign
for G shocks. All good, but impossible to change the
time for daylight savings, aren't they?

Speaker 9 (10:49):
That's right? Oh no, I've got I've got I've got
under control, have you? Yeah, you go to see you
it's going to get the bush. It's into the right mode.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
And then I don't tell us it's boring enough doing
it a little. I listed you got to push that
three times, go through the mode, think through it. Yeah, no,
I know that, Travis, Rob Marcus welcome, Yeah.

Speaker 10 (11:10):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 11 (11:12):
I'm a four old trucky and I got a smart
watch when I bought a Huawei about eight or nine
years ago, and the smart watch came with it and
revolutioned my life. So now I'm onto the cheapies that
are advertised on on Facebook and I think I bought

(11:32):
one about three or four months ago. Fifty backs, does everything,
It's waterproof, shows my texts up so I don't have
to look at my phone. It answers the phone if
I want to.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
And I don't know whether.

Speaker 11 (11:46):
It takes pictures or not, but who knows. But for
the money, it's a good looking thing. It's just about indestructible,
and it's as cheap as chips.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
How can you see a text on that small phone?
Does it scroll through? Or how does that work?

Speaker 11 (12:02):
It scrolls through? I mean I just look at it
and I can see that I've got a teach. Then
I will decide whether I'm going to stop, pull over
and look at it a bit more closely. I won't
try and study it, but I'm hitting out a cross
juge now into the sunset with a load of courier
passels on board, and you know I'm not going to

(12:25):
be texting or looking at my watch?

Speaker 12 (12:27):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Are you filmed?

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yes, yes, I am.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
And when you're filmed, you don't want to be on
your phone, do you not?

Speaker 4 (12:38):
Really?

Speaker 11 (12:39):
No, And you don't want to be dropping your eyeballs either,
because the seat goes off and all that. So you know,
it's the joys of modern technology.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I guess almost sounds like you're in a Western movie.
Leaving christ Jurdge into the sunset. I like it, like
the Pony Express, It's.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
A glorious day.

Speaker 11 (12:57):
Left picked in at three o'clock, came to the christ
Church fred Hub drop the trailers picked up another set
hitting north.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
What was living the dream? Rob? Nice to hear from you,
Thank you so much. Twenty to eight, twenty past eight,
twenty past eight. Let's call it that. The number is
oh w eight hundred.

Speaker 13 (13:16):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
I haven't even looked at the text I haven't even
thought about the texts. I suppose you'll be friendly texting
from your phone, texting from your watches. We are talking
smart watches. What about Remember when Apple did those glasses
you could look at stuff on the inside of the nowhere.
Oh Marcus Eyvett Hi Marcus Evitt McCausland jury is the

(13:41):
interim coach of the Silver Verns. Is the co principal
of Tipene Saint Stephen's School in South Auckland, the Anglicant
boys school that was closing the vietn your husband and
the Church of Open as a charter school. She didn't
want to take on the Silver Ferns full time because
that she's a great principal.

Speaker 12 (13:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Where she was, she had Yeah, I was free taken
by her, even on the side of the court. Her
manner was I wouldn't say it was head principally, but
there was certainly some something about her. Marcus, my man
has a smart watch. Sometimes I feel like whacking his
wrist with the back of my axe. He is right.

(14:16):
It doesn't hold its charge. Someone sekes it through Luke
one pint thirty seven. Nothing is impossible with God, Marcus.
Smart watches need to be banned for everyone. They look terrible. Yeah,
you won't find me with one on my wrist, and
the reason is nasty looking bit of kit Marcus. You

(14:40):
should have seen the price has been asked an aukron
last night for a bed even a backpackers was asking
nine nine nine per night. Many were asking between one
thousand and two and a half thousand talk about price gouging, John,
Was that true? Haha? Marcus? Yes, what a bunch of moners.
These are the people that got dropped off at the
wrong train station. No, they didn't drop off, they chose

(15:01):
to get off at the wrong train station. Anyone that's
a basic public transport user would know you. You always
get off at a hub. You never get off at
a random station on its own. You want to be
at the intersection. Twenty three past eight eight is enough?
Hettel twelve, get in touch, oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty hittl midnight. My name is MICUs.

Speaker 9 (15:22):
Welcome.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
So, yeah, if you're a teacher or a parent of twins,
how annoying can kids be with cell phones? And or so?
How annoying can kids be with watchers that they're now
looking at banning those because I'm sure parents are driving it.
Because I think I tell you something. I've been a
modern parent. Well, I mean I'm an old parent, but

(15:45):
that's now I mean I'm contemporary. Am I a modern parent?
There's a lot of logistics because kids these days have
so many activities, and the teachers and everyone are communicating
with you that certain activities all through email, that activities
are canceled or such and such as postponed or you know,
the tuch shops strike or whatever, and everyone's throwing electronic

(16:09):
information that you'd be got no where to get back
to the kids. So what do you do about that?
How do you work that one around? I don't know.
I mean, good, dis gracious, we are sinking today, right,
and I want to start us through with once upon
a time. But once upon a time, if it was
wet at school, there'd be a short lunch, said half

(16:33):
an hour at lunch time, and you'd go home at
half past two, great idea. Do that these days, or
they'd be calm again, and there'd be panic. The parents
wouldn't know where to pickup the kid that would't know
what has happened. That's how complicated it's become. Loved a
wet short day. But now you couldn't do that because

(16:55):
the city would ground to a standstill because all sorts
of other things would be set in motion. They'd miss this,
that miss that. Anyway, twenty five past eight. If you
want to be a part of a Hittel twelve. The
discussion is transport, but mainly it's smart watches. Any good?
Should they ban them from schools? Here's something else that's

(17:15):
been banned. Are staggered to read this today? Anyone else
capped this article? I don't even know it was made up,
so I took a screenshot of it. A bar in
Greater Manchester has banned solo drinkers from entering Alibi and
Altrincham has a sign outside the front door. Stay in

(17:36):
the venue doesn't allow people to enter on their own.
No single entry after nine pm. Alibi does not permit
single entry. If you are with guests Tory inside the venue,
please contact them advance of entry. This is for the
safety of all guests. Gosh, that really is the end
of the singles bar, isn't it? The apps have taken over.
You can't go out on your own. I don't know

(17:59):
if anyone thinks that's a good idea banning single entry
pubs or pubs banning single entry? Okay? Quite well? Yeah,
I mean not good for the traveler.

Speaker 14 (18:12):
Is it.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Changing world, isn't it? It's to protect customers. I mean,
let's not get into a panic. Oh goodness. PC god man,
what I do next? No one in New Zealand has
talked about that. He said it was to protect vitigate
risk and protect his customers from being mithered by solo drinkers. Now,

(18:35):
I don't know what mythd means m I t h
e ed. Mythod means to be annoyed by that or
harassed through persistent complaining or fussing, and that one is
customers mithered m hm. And most people have been re response,

(18:56):
have been very excited by it.

Speaker 15 (18:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
So yeah, apparently single people not quite not much good
for bars. He also said if someone on their own
had a seizure or an extent with no one with
them in a late night, busy bar environment, it was
a nightmare for us to deal with. Sometimes you let
people in on their own. The reason why they're on
their own is they've got no one to talk to.
Their start mothering other groups, smart watches talk about with them,

(19:23):
Ben and as I wonder just if there've been life
changing for you, Are they a useful thing? Are they
permanent part of people's kit or are they are fad
Some that have had them from a buy one and
get the other one seemed to system seem to have
loved them. I got no, I'm happy with I mean,
I'm spending a lot of time on my phone. I
don't want to spend time on my watch as well.
By the way, food Stuff's in trouble hummus. It's always

(19:45):
down to hummers, isn't it. There's always a recall of
something shifty happening with the hummus. But food Stuff's fine.
Thirty nine thousand dollars for selling recalled hummus linked to sourmanella. Yep,
it was the tarhini in the hummus. But always hummers.
I don't know why it's so vulnerable to disease or

(20:06):
salourinella or whatever it's got, but yeah, always hummus. It
must be so. Yeah. I don't know what that is
about that. But if all the product recalls fifty percent
are reckoned to be hummus or tahini, you might want
to comment on that. I don't know what you'd say.
I'd be curious. Is a man cunion. It's pronounced myth. Oh,

(20:30):
I didn't know that it's mythed. Thanks for that. I
wondered about that. It's myth. By the way, someone said
that sounds ridiculous, A great way for them to destroy
their already struggling industry. Now I think the bar is
doing quite well. I just wonder if they would have
problems here under the Bill of Rights from banning people

(20:52):
because they're on their own. That seems that seems pridges
to me. Marcus, great memory, first time we heard of
short lunch and years they were great if you couldn't
play sport at lunchtime because the rains shorten up and
get home. But you're right, would grind a halt of

(21:13):
school for those thirty minutes early day. People would be
complaining for they'd be panick, they wouldn't know where to
pick up their kids. It'd be mithed and of course,
and everyone had to be stuck in a classroom. Everyone
was wet with wet wool and Jerseys stunk, didn't it?
Class full of wet wool? I think the short lunch
was the best idea ever. No loan is allowed. Well,

(21:35):
I'm stuffed. Then rest of my life drinking alone at home. Goodness.
See what's an exciting end to the Snipwell, I'm just
watching it now. Thirty eight to thirty nine, two minutes
left to go, get in touch one of you on
air twenty seven away from nine. There's other topics too.
We'll just check some out. I'll just check some ut
you can check something yourself if you like. Mithed, mitherd mithed.

(22:01):
It is use less stuffed day today. Every day to
day day has used less stuff day. It's quite a
big debate online today about whether you should include your
name when you answer your phone or just say hello.
I'm a strong believer in saying your name always. I
say hioer than my name. Although I don't normally answer

(22:23):
the phone. It's normally on do not disturb, And when
I answer the phone, I always sound of it sketchy
to if it's come up with an unknown number. But yeah,
you've got the policies on that. Why would you just
say hello? Are not your name? I get a lot
of wrong numbers because my number's got three of the
same digit, and and sometimes people will dial four or

(22:46):
just two. I don't know why they. I don't know
why they, because funny thing with the wrong number. You
get a wrong number and you tell that the wrong number,
and they always take offense like you're going to prove
to them it's a wrong number. I start think you
have the wrong number? Really well, what number is it? Two? Three, four, six,
two nine?

Speaker 15 (23:05):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, but I don't know you didn't you dull this number?
I know that because I've answered. It always happens. But
no one's even gracious with the wrong number, are they.
It's always sort of like through gritted teeth. That a responsibility,
but it doesn't come easy for people. I think my
next life, I'll try and be ivory really dull the

(23:25):
wrong number put here and twice in my life. Surprisingly
often then gets a lot of people bringing up asking
for pizza. They must have z be confused with pizza
Hut or Dominoes. Mind, you've probably got Domino's. People complain
that people want to ring them asking when you talk

(23:49):
about the compulsory third party insurance, So probably it goes
both ways. Yeah, I'm very much Hello, and my name
on the rear times I answer, good evening neck. This
is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 8 (24:02):
Do you give your full name? I Marcus lash and
that or do you just say Marcus?

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, I say hi, Max, here's Marcus here. Yeah, I
wouldn't say that because Marcus is not there a common name.
I mean, it's it's it's not a real name. But yeah,
I reckon if the chances are they're the wrong number
in the person's called Marcus, but it's a different Marcus.

Speaker 8 (24:25):
Yeah, whether you Fred or your friend or Julious days,
it doesn't know, as long as you don't give your
last night as well. But I mean I always say hello, then.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
You feel I'm waiting for the rest of it. Hell,
that's wronging me.

Speaker 8 (24:43):
They should know who are calling for.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
I felt I felt wrong about that. I think you
need to be reassured, you Hicky.

Speaker 8 (24:52):
It depends on the other person's intent, doesn't it. But
also I mean when I call it, but I've got
confidential on my phone and so no one knows who
the hell it is until I tell them who I am.
What have you got confidential? It's you know you can.
I was setting on your phone so you know when
your phone comes up, it'll display a number on the
other end, or and if you haven't got them, or

(25:13):
if you've got them in your own dress book, it'll
come up with your name. I've got the confidential button
picked and I've also got on my private on my emailicemail.
Please if you don't tell me who you are, I
can't call you back. I hate these ones where you
get you know, it's used to the doctor anyway.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
So if you bring anyone else that doesn't come up
on your phone, who you are?

Speaker 8 (25:35):
That's right? That was confidential private number.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Why are you trying to add mystery to yourself?

Speaker 8 (25:41):
Yeah, they may not want to talk to me and
that's heartbreaking.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Nice to talk and appreciate your honesty, brose Elysis.

Speaker 13 (25:54):
Yes, no, I was always taught to answer the phone
by saying your name. My dad was brought up by
a sort of discipline, aaryan father, and you also had
to answer the phone because he ran a business. You
will had to answer the phone within three rings.

Speaker 11 (26:12):
You know.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
I'm very much with that with Dan if there's if
he lets it go for long than three this Yeah,
I'm a great believer in a quick answer.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
No too.

Speaker 13 (26:21):
My my wife answers the phone after about ten rings.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
How could you live with her?

Speaker 13 (26:27):
But well I don't actually, because that's she lives in Collingwood.
I live in Packle.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Oh. Yes, is your place called Pickle.

Speaker 13 (26:39):
Pack a wall? If you want to be correct.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
I think it's politically I think it's probably then if
it's pronounced. But anyway, yeah, I don't. I'll just try
to work out is it near Collingwood eleven kilometers?

Speaker 13 (26:53):
She can't hear me snoring or grinding my teeth? Wow,
But what I was going to say. The reason I
no longer do that, and it's been a very difficult
habit to get out of, is now I just say
hello because there are so many frightening things that happen
with AI in terms of hang.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
On actually calling what's that? Is it the other phone?

Speaker 13 (27:16):
No, it's my asparagusis aren't they beautiful?

Speaker 16 (27:19):
Well?

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yes, goodness?

Speaker 13 (27:22):
But no. The issue being that when you say your name,
then literally AI is now capable of taking that. You know,
this is Bruce Collins. They can put it anywhere.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah they can't. They can actually and then they can.
They can. They can use that to manufact your voice,
then to wring your kids, and you can be saying
you're kidnapped and to seeing money that sounds like.

Speaker 13 (27:48):
You Sorry, well no, no, no, I'm saying. That's why horrifying.
That's why I no longer say my name. But we
all have to say our name so many times, and
I'm sure you'd be involved in these things where you
have to say, you know my voice blah blah ba
my identity, and that's we're going to a scary police.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
I agree, Thank you, Bruce twenty to nine. Phone answering
eighteen to nine. Pete marcusy good evening.

Speaker 17 (28:22):
You ain't Marcus, I reckon. I agree with viewers that
the people that ring you don't do the stuff you're
able to train me and that sort of thing, you know,
and and they give you your phone number, and I
just say to them, because you know, because they want
to find out your information, where you're live and all that,
and they don't leave a name or phone number. I said, oh,
called minas you leave the name. Can you give me

(28:43):
your name and your phone and the police? Yeah, it's
going straight to card minus.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
So but when you answer, you say hi Pete here.

Speaker 12 (28:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (28:54):
I always say that. Yeah, but I'm saying that people
they want to say, can you give me your phone number?

Speaker 7 (28:58):
And all that?

Speaker 17 (28:59):
I reply, but they don't give your name or or so,
they don't even give it it. Don't even get oh
I get your phone number anyway. But sometimes they will,
they will email me, they will teach you or something,
not take the house. They'll the questions on tray me.
They will say all this and all that, and then
I'll just say to you, I'll leave my phone number.
And then quite often they wait and they don't leave

(29:20):
me these I reckon. It's only the cute toity for
them to they give you the different number as well
in US.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, yeah, what what do you? What are you worried about?

Speaker 17 (29:35):
No, I reckon, you know, because sometimes they come to
my place. This so I've got a phone them. I've
got a little bit of something to say. Well, whatever,
they don't leave you no phone number. You you're given
you all you want to make. They give you nothing.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yeah, if you're hanging, you're giving you nothing. You know,
you have them come around to your house to pick
up stuff.

Speaker 17 (29:51):
Oh, sometimes I do you. But it's an honesty thing.
I've been lucky so far. But but I always make
sure if they don't give me a phone number or whatever,
if I can or whatever they do, well, I'll just
I can't get hold of them. Sometimes you already sold
us to they need, then you can't give me an information.
And always they always ask what they asked me a question.
I'll say, oh, here's my phone number, and then reply.

(30:15):
And then if they don't and I won't reply back
to them.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Good on your Pete. Nice to talk to you, Shane.
It's Marcus.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
Welcome they're doing Marcus.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
How are you good things? Shane?

Speaker 18 (30:25):
I was really a daily post on Tuesday. A C
C is using AI to chicken big clients are well
enough to go to work.

Speaker 10 (30:36):
Wow, Yeah, that's what I says.

Speaker 18 (30:43):
I showed it to my wife and she's going. Showed
it and she said reading she said, wow, unreal.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
That sounds that sounds sketchy and that sounds heartless too.

Speaker 18 (31:01):
Were doing blee the doctor? So the chicken was AI
whether the doctor's rival? Yeah, I realate.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
So how would that work? Are they asking you about? Yeah?
I can't quite work out.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 18 (31:18):
They never don't mean it.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
No, no, no, yeah, I'm just trying to I'm just
trying to think a loud Shane. I'm hearing you. I'm hearing.
I'll look on the I'll look. I just can't see
how how a I would give them any more that
the doctors to forget would give them.

Speaker 18 (31:33):
I don't know, said AI.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Appreciate that. Thank you. Fifteen to ten to nine, twelve
to nine, d On it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Hi, Marcus. I was just out for a stroll and
only caught a tail end of this, and as I said,
your producer, I wasn't sure what it was, but I
have to answer your question. I answered my phone with hello,
my name is on Speaking. But I sat to tell
you a little story about I missed a phone call
from somebody and they no, sorry, A call came through

(32:06):
from a number I didn't recognize and when I answered it,
it appeared to go straight to cut off. So I
rang them back. I'm not sure if you meant to
hang up on me or or what, but this is
my name, and this is you know. You got my
number now to give me a call back. And that
person actually.

Speaker 14 (32:24):
Did call me back, and they live.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
I live in Auckland, they live in Wellington. We don't
we're not having a love affair anything like that, so
it doesn't get a romantic it's not that big a story,
but it was just nice that that person actually that
that person actually did contact me back and say, oh,
thanks for reaching out and getting in touch. And you know, no,
she said, I don't even.

Speaker 10 (32:43):
Know who you are.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
I don't know why I called you. If I called you, so.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
I must have They must have called you by accident.
It was a pocket call. I wouldn't be a pocket call.
But they've they've owned up and they've called. Because if
I've called someone a wrong number, which I just said,
I'd done two, probably more times, and then I'd go
into it that I'd hide under the duvet for about
now in case they didn't call back. It would devastate me.
I don't know why. I hate to I'd hate to
be Oh, sorry, that was me it was a wrong number. Yeah, no,

(33:10):
I couldn't. I don't think I would be men enough
to to confess to that.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
How did they know my number in the first place?
Pocket dial? So you got me think it was a
scam or not?

Speaker 2 (33:21):
So what happened? Your phone rang and they hang up?
Is that right?

Speaker 9 (33:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (33:25):
So phone rang? I was at work. I had to
step out of the office and then to another office.
I answered, and as I answered, the phone cut off.
I work in an industry where I understand how this
can happen sometimes. So I called them back, left them
a nice polite mess.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, yeah, job, you have a flesh job with two
officers that you that you've got. I'm going to my
other office.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
I'm liking that splashes not as slash as yours.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Thanks so much, Dane, enjoyed you and your walk. Grant
Student Grant, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 15 (33:58):
Welcome, Yeah, Marcus. I'll tell you that the two sort
of versions the reason why I have a private number
of for ringing people and why I don't give my
name out with arts the phone. Well, first off, with
the private number, I mean there's a number of reasons.
You know, you might be a shop say that you.

(34:19):
I mean, just everyone's got cord these days, for a start,
and once they know your number, they know your number
that you want to complain about, but you don't want
them to know it's you, so you don't get bad
service next time you go them. There's the first call girlfriend,
which I've had some problems with years ago. You meet
some standing in the line at post office and meet

(34:42):
some nice idea, have a chat for a few minutes,
so we'll give you, give me your phone number, I'll
give you a ring and you know we'll go out
in the date.

Speaker 7 (34:52):
And then.

Speaker 15 (34:53):
After talking them for about quarter of an hour, you
realize it's not really the person I want to go
out on a date with. But the problem is they
know your number, and one person anyway was a bit
of a nutcase and threatening me and be where I lived,
and the police said to be involved. So that why.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Are you asking someone out after for a few minutes
in the post office? Q?

Speaker 15 (35:18):
Well, is that illegal?

Speaker 2 (35:22):
No? But the fact is that you had to get
yourself a boner phone because of the are sketchy dating?
And what did you do for her to start stalking? H?

Speaker 15 (35:30):
Well, I don't know that that was her personality, clearly,
you know, I was just chatting for quarter of an
hour and then I figured out I don't really want
to go out of the date with the first saidable
Look hang on.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
So you asked her out on a date, you gave
me a number, then you realize that she wasn't right
for you? Is that right?

Speaker 15 (35:53):
Yeah? Well, I mean you used you don't say give
me your number, I'll ring you out and I'll see
if you're not in that case, and then you will
go out of the date. So you just want to.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, okay, I thought you. I think you have the
wrong order of things.

Speaker 15 (36:08):
Well, you know, when you're in a qu at the
post office, she was going somewhere and you know, so
I mean quite a few times people meet for a
few minutes somewhere and like the look at each other
and they seem okay of the time that you're chatting
with them and swap numbers and then sometimes it works

(36:29):
out sometimes that it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
That's great. What do you think of grant strategy? And
do you have a bone?

Speaker 7 (36:34):
Fun?

Speaker 2 (36:35):
And why is it a good thing? Seven away from
nine five to nine, Tim, it's Marcus good evening, you get.

Speaker 12 (36:43):
Because it's Tim speaking. I do it Marcus, Yeah, pretty much,
maybe a bit more for more like a HALLI or
good morning, good afternoon, good evening, anyway, one of those variations.
But they had me cracking up before I'll make the
Pope post office hitting in. I've got a visit of
him standing like with a net just waiting like a

(37:06):
go circling good on them. It's a red nods game,
you know.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
I'm sure it's a red flags there for sure, though
I would think but anyway, wow, jeez.

Speaker 12 (37:15):
I wouldn't see my mom down there. But anyway, yeah, no,
So you know, it's nice little bit of phone etiquette
and you know, answered with your name.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Well, there's no reason, there's no reason to be cagy.
I don't think on a phone. It just sounds a.

Speaker 12 (37:29):
Bit suss well, it sounds suspect and you can always
hang up. I mean it was nice, you know thirty
years ago when you get like to have put the
phone down in the cradle. That was quite satisfying. But yeah,
people get intimidated down the phone, and there's no reason

(37:51):
to be. You just hang up and if someone wants
you that bed, they'll call you back. And the good
thing with you know, largely most people are largely on
mobile phones these days, so you get a cool log
private numbers, so if you need you know's the need
to have it monitored, it's pretty easy.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
And most phone numbers you can get. Most phone numbers
now you can google now. They normally all attached to business.
You know, it's a pretty easy find on who that
or for most of them, I reckon.

Speaker 12 (38:23):
Yeah, So that's my thoughts. Paper. If you're intimilated by
the same, don't be. You you're in control.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Nice to head him. We'll be back with more. Who's
got a bona phone? Why have we've got a burn
a phone? Who's pecking three phones? I've never had a
burn a phone. I mean it's again dropped off with
the one phone pocket dialing and the like I've got
bad days with that. The text is are calling Grant

(38:51):
and Mither and I think a bit of sympathy for
that view. Also yeah wow, And of course they have
got your captive audience in the post office because you
have to wait a while. Marcus Murdoch.

Speaker 19 (39:02):
Here.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
The itinery for last night's Metallica concert went off like
a Swiss watch. The pickup was a bit busy and
the team from Palmi loved it. They wanted to kick on,
but after a few red lights of one twenty McDonald's,
all of their head started a nod, so Home Time
worked up with the meg Benny then sent them on
their way back to reality. Happy days. Marcus, have a

(39:24):
listen to my voicemail call me. I'll let it go
to voicemail. We want to do that, Dan, Well, well,
what would it be? Do you think? Yeah? Maybe you can. Yeah,
you check it out first, I think would be the
answer for that one. If it's hysterical, we'll give it

(39:44):
a go. When we first had a phone, it was
the norm to answer with hello and then the phone number. Yes,
we were big on that. Why would we do that?
Hang on Why did we do that? That was big
of the eighties. Hi five six eight two three four seven.
Why did we do that? High two eight two three

(40:07):
six eight three Marcus speaking, Why do we do that?
Because that's the number that rung anyway? Yeah, that was
a thing, wasn't it. Why did we do that? I
can't forget why that would have happened. That was big.
That was really big in the eighties. Everyone was doing it.
It was opera. It was standard operating procedure on wrong

(40:30):
numbers and come and call that. I answered with hello,
such and such here The person on the other end
said his deb there, which I respoted with feeling I
wish was an interesting conversation from then on. This is
also a school of thought that you should never waste
a wrong number. Remember I had one of those research

(40:54):
pranks books, and they always said that if someone rang
up for a wrong number, you'd say, like summer ringer,
bring bring, bring, bring, bring, bring, bring, bring, bring, bring, bring, bring, bring, bring, bring, bring,
You'd answer it. You go Hello, they go, is Steve there?
And rather saying no, you must have a wrong number,

(41:15):
you go Steve, Steve's not that happy with you. And
then you just see how long you can string it out?
What do you mean he's not happy with you? Well,
do you really need me to tell you? And it
goes anyway. So yeah, let's talk about wrong numbers also
and wicky answering messages. Someone sent me their answering message

(41:36):
to call, we'll give that a call now. Actually if
we can dan and we'll see someone sent me their
phone number to ring it to see what their answering
phone number is like, So we'll give that a call.
Not something we do very often. There's a special day
is leading into Christmas. Then I'll ring it and put
it up on the I'm enjoying the ring old school,

(42:02):
the landline tree, so free quick.

Speaker 20 (42:11):
The person you are trying to reach has clinical anxiety.
They are actively hyperventilating right now, just thinking about answering
your call. Please do not leave a message, as it
will only add to the panic spiral you just sent
them into. Take the momage to think about your actions.
Then send a text like a normal person.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
Thank you.

Speaker 14 (42:32):
At the tone record your message.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
No, I won't leave a Message's quite good though, quite
good because it does what it needs to do. It
got you because that's all you want. You don't want
to No one wants to talk to people. I find
that one of the great ironies of living in the
twenty fifth century is that what they thought we would
do is would have video phones. We could talk, or
we could look at each other. We've got there, but
no one uses it. What we wanted to do was

(42:56):
text people. We don't want to hear the emotion of
the replies. So what they predicted with communication as the
exect opposite. We just want to send messages to each other,
which are often misinterpreted because the thing about messages they
have no context or emotion. But we are talking about
wrong numbers and the way you answer your phone. And

(43:16):
for a while there answering phone where the answering phone
messages were all the rage, weren't they? It was a
great thing. Yeah, anyway, do it come through? Which want
to talk? Hittil midnight? Are you aware?

Speaker 21 (43:35):
No?

Speaker 2 (43:36):
Parering Carpety Coast for two hours from Peter Peter's text
that through city, text of the power came back on.
Someone said, what's a burn a phone? Why is it
called a Berna phone? A burna phone is a phone
you have that's like a untraceable So if you want
to use it to do something sketchy, use a Berna phone.

(43:56):
So that's the thing, Marcus Aaron here, do you know
if the road south of Ross has opened yet? I
didn't realize it was closed. I'll walk a qutar hit
let you know on Historic Ross.

Speaker 11 (44:11):
On it?

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yeah, because if we no way around, if you can't
get south, those poor cows, those poor milk trucks, that's
what you say there Historic Ross due to a crash.
Statehow is six is closed being Ross and Khaka Putahi
Road Users are advised to avoid the area or delay
the journey if possible. No detour available. Last updated eight

(44:38):
oh seven. So got it's a long time that spens.
That must be a serious question it thing. So no,
I've got no update on that, but that's been updated
so it's not open. It's good question. And keep your
text and calls coming through. Yes, I would hate to

(44:58):
call Grant's number. By excellence, he probably keep me on
the phone while he works out of he's going to
give me his number. Good point. My grandmother used to
answer the phone with are you there? I'll be curious though,
we used to answer our phone giving out our phone numbers.
That seems weird, doesn't it? Fourteen pasted down. We're talking
about wrong numbers phones in general. And do come through.

(45:20):
You've got an update. What's happening south of our ross?
Let us know, because if you can't get south of Ross,
you can't get anywhere. But do get in touch with
you on to talk. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty
and nine to nine to detext. It'd be nice to
hear from if you want to be a part of
the show. Yep, oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty. Who,

(45:47):
good evening, Ray, this is Marcus.

Speaker 7 (45:49):
Welcome, Hey, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
Right good, Ray, you're.

Speaker 7 (45:52):
Right, yeah, good. You're going on to be a phone calls.
I've got a son over and Melbourne over in the
now one now and he's he's starting over you on
the twenty third. The traffic management he left you. I
left left New Zealand on the tenth from christ and

(46:14):
when I ring them or text them, I've got to
I've got to allow for four quarter hours here for
the time difference. Oh so sure, but here of course.
He sent me a big long Texas and expect expecting
us quite quite a bad buddy cyclone apparently coming off

(46:35):
of some place team who or some plate like that,
and they're going to get a hell of a battering
up and thing that he said, he said, God as
bad as Cyclone Tracy. But you know what, member what
cel Tracy did to day and well.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
All the all the key it took the Holan News
even to go there to reroof it. It seems everyone was
over there, wentn't they.

Speaker 7 (46:55):
Yeah, well that's saying the only two buildings that there
was in New Zealand built, they're the only one that
was standing.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
That was that was messive that cycling heavens having Christmas
Eve New Years are something like that.

Speaker 7 (47:06):
Yeah, well that's what he.

Speaker 8 (47:09):
Said.

Speaker 7 (47:09):
Here's a big one building up. And I've sort of
looked on my phone there on what what the forecast
is going to be like over and Darwen for three
days and just a lot of thunder and lightning. But
they do get a lot of liquor stores. They're just
read up by the equator and but a lot of
this stuff brews up in the in the in the.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Off of it's called cyclone Fena. They're saying that the
northern territories only by what you need, plenty of boozeleft.
There's a scramble for water. It's not like them to
get their priorities right.

Speaker 7 (47:46):
I said him to go out to a departments store
and by lead brutes, and I think you're blown away.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
He sounds like a hard shot. They went and went
to Melbourne. He's in Darwin already.

Speaker 7 (47:58):
He we went, we went, He flew, flew out to
Sydney and he had the three hour way over and
then then got into dow with it and about midnight
on the tenth and he's out of the pace half
an hour and he brought himself a bike up there
and he's done a thing for a white card course
or something, and and he had to take his phone

(48:21):
over to Australian thing and all that sort of stuff.
And he course that he's doing for pre thing there
for the traffic management. That they're playing big money over
the macracy. I was talking to a guy and just
come back from over over in the Northern Territory there
and he shaid up in Karafa there. He shaid, they're
playing anywhere between sixty and eighty dollars an air there

(48:43):
for the things they can't They can't get work, you know,
in the city. They can get people in the cities
in Melbourne and Sydney and and in Percy where there's
penty of people, but like Karatha and Dampier and up
around the Northern Territory and they can't get anybody. They're

(49:03):
playing exorbitant wages for the sop go people, you lollipop people.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
He was he out of the mind. Was he unhappy
here or he just won or he couldn't get it?

Speaker 7 (49:14):
Was great your boys. He came he was working over
the mines here and he come back to New Zealand there.

Speaker 22 (49:23):
Back to you, what is this is?

Speaker 2 (49:25):
What about about your son?

Speaker 23 (49:27):
Nami son?

Speaker 7 (49:28):
He was, he was, he was. He used to work
in the so he was driving doing the traffic management,
neighbor in costage, grid of value and all that sort
of uff.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Yep yep, yeah and g tom Berg Valley Yeah, I know, yeah.

Speaker 7 (49:46):
Because there had a lot of a lot of road
works now up there, and the course it's it's a
blind blind area up and up through the through the
Lewis Path area. So he's going down about four o'clock,
five o'clock in the morning there out of the all day.
But they're only on about fifteen to twenty dollars an
air and the he's he's starting where they release third two?

(50:09):
And if he worked on a on a on a
love of Holary or something he did really up to the
sixty or seventy dollars an air, which is good money.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
You'll be right, you can stay up to three in
the morning. You'll still be able to call him because
we'll just be living at night. Are you'll be able
to get that worked out?

Speaker 7 (50:22):
Yeah, I'll say I'm I'm will on our four where
this for. I don't know what the daylight saving is
over there, but you'll let me know when when the
Daylight Saving finishes and all that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Nice to talk, Ray, Thanks so much for that nineteen
past nine old your horses?

Speaker 8 (50:37):
Is it me?

Speaker 24 (50:38):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (50:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Was he reading the texts? This is a good one
someone has texted through. Just go get back into the loop.
By the way, if you want to be involved with
the show, there are a couple of lines. They're free
and easy. Back in the sixties, my uncle answered the
phone City Morgue is for a good one. That one

(51:00):
if had a funny answer phone message evening Marcus State
Highway six just opened as per below State six Kakaptahi
to Ross open delays road opening to one lane. Traffic
will be escorted through the site. Expect thirty minute delays
and proceed with caution. I think they might be from MA.
That's someone set me through that. But yeah, I must

(51:20):
have just checked just before it came through. So thanks
to that person that's been vigilant with informing me about that.
So there we go. There are delays, but it's open now.
It's a long detail. If you don't get through there,
go go right round through. Hearsten Juannaca and no, thank
your day. I'm just checking on to date. Yeah it
has I'm just has not been on the website. That's bad.

(51:44):
Yr dB Marcus good evening.

Speaker 22 (51:46):
Oh got me my surprise. A technique that I have
developed for answering the phone when you've got these people
that ring up try to sell you something or the
greatest investment since slice bread, and instead of well, in

(52:09):
the good old days, you could slam the receiver down
or some people used to blow a whistle at them,
which only raises that your blood pressure, not theirs. Because
they're used to it, they just go on to the
next number on their phone checklist. What you do is
you say, wow, wait a minute. I'm interested in this,
but I'm in the middle of cocking. Just hang on

(52:29):
for a second, but while I turn the stove off.
And then you put your phone down and you walk away,
and they will hang on to your phone. I've had
one hang on for ten minutes because I could hear
them going hello, hello, hello, and just walk away. And
two things are happening. First of all, they're going to

(52:50):
mark you down as a number not to call. And secondly,
you've wasted all that time when they could have been
ringing other people.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Yeah, but I imagine dB that you're a a storage
by your brilliance, you'll be listening to them for those
ten minutes as well. You're not cooking, are you.

Speaker 22 (53:09):
Well you give them an excuse that sounds reasonable.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
But then then if you got you to the phone
to see how long because you've intrigued excited.

Speaker 22 (53:19):
Even I just walk away many times two hours later
I've gone, where's the phone off?

Speaker 5 (53:24):
Book?

Speaker 22 (53:28):
Yeah, so that's a technique. I don't know if people
ring up cold anymore.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
I think i'd said we've lost there. I mean the
nostalgia for that.

Speaker 22 (53:39):
Yeah, because I get it on a phone calls. I
used to where you'd ask the phone and to go
to an automated thing saying blah blah blah blah blah,
and I would instantly block that number, and after a
couple of weeks it stops happening. And in fact, I
haven't had a phone call like that now for maybe

(54:01):
six months. So every time I get an unknown number
calling me, that instantly reverts to it. Because what happens
is they have a machine that wrecks if you answer,
it tags you as being a real number and moves on.
So it's all done by a computer and then they

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will ring you back later. Well, by that stage, I've
already blocked that incoming number.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
What I do with my cell phone, I just got
my cell phone so it doesn't answer any numbers that
aren't know on my list of things, which is great.
Until there was some I had some bank I had
to call her something and yeah, they rang me back.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
But yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Difficult, but it's a good thing to do. That stopped
all those investment people straight away.

Speaker 22 (54:49):
Yeah, and understandably, yeah, you ring my phone number. I'm
a little bit more switched on to some of the stuff.
Swampy Marsh rang me once for my birthday.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Oh that's good. This is before he moved to sales.

Speaker 22 (55:03):
Yeah, yeah, this is twenty thirty years ago. And one
of the he used to do these phone calls, you
ring somebody and then have them on and he so
he rang me and use one of his voices. I
went to get a swampy and he'd never been tumbled
to early. But of course bringing my house is like
leaving the.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
K g B because they always id always it always
pre record your calls. Just say don't get a dad
like you answering it straight away. God, a swampy?

Speaker 25 (55:33):
Well, he played it.

Speaker 22 (55:36):
I didn't win the prize that day.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
What what he was on radio? Would would do?

Speaker 11 (55:42):
You know?

Speaker 26 (55:42):
What was he?

Speaker 2 (55:42):
What was swampy on?

Speaker 25 (55:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (55:44):
That was yeah, I think it was windy because I
was a Wellington at that stage. He rang another one
of my friends and who had just got a back
pay others through railways. He had this guy convinced that
he was going to have to pay money because the
taxes on his back pay there were penalties the text

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department and the poor guy fell forward playing and sinker and.

Speaker 7 (56:17):
We gave him.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
I assume you'd set that uphead, do you?

Speaker 7 (56:21):
dB sitt, what up?

Speaker 2 (56:23):
You'd told Swampy that your mate that had got back
pay and it'd be great.

Speaker 22 (56:28):
I no, I was listening to just a listening as
a normal listener, but I recognized who was talking to.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
Good stuff debe thanks so much for that. The number
is eight hundred and eighty text no lines freesid uncle.
They will become available as people drop off seven seconds
laughter that that line will become available. That's how it works.
If you're desperately trying to get on. Is bungee jumping
still a thing to do? Where is the longest and
best flying fox in the country. I have the Chase

(57:04):
theme tune as my ringtone. Someone says, ye, Marcus love Darwin,
So do I darn a great place, one of the greats.
Be in touch if you want to be eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty Marcus till midnight tonight. We will
get to in a sec. I used to design call

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center software. One trick to avoid spam call centers is
to answer and say nothing. The silence will be interpreted
as an answer phone and disconnect before routing to the
call center. Muppet, very good, say nothing, You'll be rerouted.
Makes sense. Doesn't. It makes perfect sense. Someone's just texted

(57:49):
through the number three.

Speaker 21 (57:52):
LL.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
That's in reference to I shall find out get in
touch Marcus till twelve oh, the all black teams been announced.
RecA only back to Ione, back to the midfields. That's
happening the midfield. Sorry, Doug, Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 19 (58:07):
Good at evening Marcus a very good friend of mine.
She put a message on my answer phone in a
very sexy voice, saying Doug is tied up at the moment,
but once I get a m untied, I'm sure he
will respond to your message, So please leave a message.
But I had to withdraw that because the first call

(58:31):
I got was from the hospital asking me to come
in from an appointment, and they stutted and stammered through
their response, so I had to cancel it.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Yeah when was it? How many years ago was that?
Do you think.

Speaker 19 (58:50):
It was a wee while ago?

Speaker 22 (58:51):
Yeah? Yeah, try and put.

Speaker 19 (58:56):
Sorry. I try and put some interesting ones on, like
playing music and then saying I'm having a wonderful part
of here. I'm sorry I didn't invite.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
You because you've got a bit. Once upon a time,
the answer phone was a separate machine that had a
tiny little cassette on it, didn't it So you actually
have to buy it yet to record it onto your cassette.
So I guess that was the eighties of the nineties
and it all became part of the internal structure of
the phone, didn't it. Just it was all just done

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a computer thing, software thing.

Speaker 19 (59:28):
Yes, but nowadays I've got it's part of the phone
service that Spark provide.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
Nice to talk, Doug, thank you, Shirley Marcus, evening, it's.

Speaker 27 (59:39):
Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 15 (59:40):
I have two replies.

Speaker 27 (59:42):
Periously, if anybody rings me and they say hello, is
that surely speaking? I never ever say yes, because I
feel I'm a devious and thinking I feel sometimes that
they could be recording that and then put that to

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any question or any consent, and is my voice going through?
So I never say, you know, I say who's speaking?
And the other one I had a couple of years ago.
I had a foreign voice rung up, ring up and
say we're ringing from the computer company, and I said

(01:00:23):
computer computer. I don't have a computer. Yes, yes, you've
got a fault on your computer. And I said, just
a minute, darling, we won a computer. Oh hi, I'm
so excited, when are you going to bring it rack on?
And I just jabbled and jabbled like that so much
that they hung up.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Very good, shirty, thank you for that, Rodets Marcus good evening.

Speaker 21 (01:00:45):
Hello. Oh gee, that was quick.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
It's got to be quick.

Speaker 21 (01:00:49):
Yeah, I just wanted to relate a phone call I
had to make. Way back in nineteen sixty five. I
was working as a toile operator, fresh out of school
here in christ Church and I had a phone call
from the woman. She said, look, we're trying to locate

(01:01:10):
someone in the North Island. His sister has just died
and we don't know how to get hold of him.
We're wondering if you can help us. And I said, oh, yeah,
what's his name for start? And I said what sort
of work did he do? And apparently he worked in
the railways And they said he lives in some town
up in the North Island. I said, well, do you

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know what part? She said, oh, I think in the
middle part, in the middle of the North Island. So
what I did? I got a detail. Then I made
some calls to some of the railway towns because he
worked in the railways, I thought, so Ring Tai Happi

(01:01:53):
or tamar nui, either one. I don't know which one
it was now, but whichever one it was, I said
to the guy at the other end, I rang a hotel,
you see, because I asked a woman if he is
a drinker, and she said, yes, he drinks like a fish.
I thought, well, you'll be at the pub. So I
rang this pub and I said, oh, I know he
drinks down at the other pub down the road. You'll
get him down there, and pub probably, yeah, And anyway,

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I got hold of this guy, so I got him
on the line and I held him there on the
line and I rang the lady back and I said,
I've managed to contact me. He's on the line. Now,
I'll switch you through. Well, sometime later, I was only
a newbie in the job, you know, And sometime later
I got called into the manager's office and he said

(01:02:40):
to me, he said, he showed me the card for
the for the toll, because in those days we made
out cards manually. And he said, did you make this call?
And I thought, oh gee, I thought I was going
to be in trouble because we used to see some
put some calls through for our mates and that, and
we used to give them. You know that we'd say
that the time it was wasn't working, and we'd gap

(01:03:01):
the time down and give them a discount on their calls.
And I said, oh, I've been call and I said,
looked at the card and I said, yes, it's got
my operator number on it. I said, so I must
have made the call. And you said, congratulations. He said,
we can do with people like you. And here he said,
I've had a letter from the lady that rang looking
for this person, and she was absolutely astounded that you

(01:03:23):
managed to track him down. I thought it was quite
an interesting situation. What looked to be going to be
a really, really hard job turned out in the end
then I managed to get it quite easily.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Wow. Oh that's a good story there, right. I appreciate
that there nineteen sixty five, sixty years ago, twenty four
away from ten. If you want to be a part
of it, hit on midnight. My name is Marcus. Welcome
our phones. All about phones seems fitting twenty two to
ten text here Marcus. Some idiot has made the decision
to shut the Northern Motorway between Northcote Road, Northcote Road

(01:04:01):
and Orniwa Road from nine pm tonight nine pm overnight
on a Thursday night. It's a gridline. What the if? Well,
surely it'spir to close the by the way at night
than the day. I don't understand people anger out on
their close roads for maintenance when it's at night. When
else would they do it? Another piece is Marcus Road
from from Ross South open our single lane, expect delay,

(01:04:24):
thank you, Yes we've got that two thirty minutes Marcus
south by the ways a standstill at Papakuta. I think
that scheduled stuff too. I think that's a bit like
the only one Marcus just sitting in for night tuning
in now for bid. It drives my wife crazy they
have the radio on as we go to bed, but
secretly I think she loves listening to you too. Cheers Marcus,
nol Marcus on the first rate. We used to call

(01:04:46):
people and tell them to call mister Lion and gave
them the number for the zoo. Very good. Yes, I
imagine the zoo would have a hard time with their
phone number. A lot of people would call the zoo.
I imagine they get more prank calls and non prank calls.
So I'm surmising we're talking about We started with talking
about smart watches that might be band at school. Then

(01:05:08):
we went into talking about when you answer the phone,
do you say your name? Say my name? And then
we were one of those. A lot of us used
it in the eighties, would answer the phone and say hello,
five two three two six two four three. Why did
we do that? No one can answer that. I don't know.
The answer was a thing, just like paying it forward

(01:05:29):
to the thing now. Once upon a time it was
to recite your whole number as you answered. Got no
idea why it feels unsolvable that? How are you going? People?
What are sitting there and listening? And get in touch
if you want to Romans from twelve we are talking phones,
anything about that and answer phones? When you got your
first answer, phoe machine, the exciting things, all that sort
of stuff. I'll be up for that. Coldplay kiss cam

(01:05:54):
Ceo sales New York apartment for ten point three million dollars. Oh,
I know that's got a bad thing. He's certainly become
the headline for the year, hasn't he. I don't know
how his marriage is going. But be in touch if
you want to talk on you that's the plan. Good evening, Petty,
this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 14 (01:06:13):
Hi, just ring about the heating dog. It's traditionally a
black and white border colleague yep from the They call
them border because the border from Scotland and England, and
that's where they were predominantly was Scotland and.

Speaker 12 (01:06:36):
The water.

Speaker 14 (01:06:36):
A few out to New Zealand and train them up here.
What their ability is predominantly is that they are They
don't bark, They steer sometimes they called an ee dog
and they get with their all inmates of sheep. Well

(01:07:02):
they've done with the animals in the world, and they
steer down and they just by you know, stearing them down,
and they respond to the whistle so you can make
them go left and right. And in the dog trials
you would you would have seen them without barking. Where

(01:07:25):
the bark you get points off and they'll take a
three sheep up a steep face and they're going to
take them around you know, pigs and control them like
that and then eventually get into quite a small pin
which the controller or the farmer then shuts the gate.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
And are you listening to yesterday's show?

Speaker 7 (01:07:55):
I must be.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
How are you listening on my cell phone? Yeah, I
think I think that was what we I think someone
mentioned the hitting dog yesterday.

Speaker 14 (01:08:05):
Okay, yeah, I think that is it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
That's right, isn't it.

Speaker 19 (01:08:08):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
Yeah, I think you're I think you're listening on delay,
which is great. You call up. That's excited that people
still probably twenty four hours ago. That's great. Thank you. Hello, Calvin.

Speaker 10 (01:08:20):
You know, I think my wife is a water college
or she'd just steer.

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
I wouldn't refer to as that, but anyway, Yes.

Speaker 10 (01:08:30):
I'm a brave man because she's not in the bedroom. Yeah,
the couple or a few years ago, there's a Big
Fresh supermarket called Big Fresh grocery store on the corner
Moorhouse and the Drest Street. The people, I think it
was in the paved when they said sometimes when you
rung it up, the lady on the other end of

(01:08:52):
the phone would answer and she said, oh, good morning aunt,
knowing Big Fresh Linda speaking what they thought that Big Fresh.
I didn't think I'm run I didn't think I run
that service.

Speaker 15 (01:09:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:09:08):
Remember the phones that had the handset and you could
unscrew the airpiece and the mouthpiece. Years ago, or like
Donkey Pubeck, I heard stories with two would unscrew the
mouthpiece and they'd put some cardboard in there and then
they hang it up. And then if it was in
an office, you'd bring that extension number and person would
take it up and the Hello and I can't hear

(01:09:31):
you hear it in the air piece and they'd be saying,
I can't hear it. Can you speak up? The sports
would just get louder and louder and louder in the
office because obviously couldn't hit you know, through thee had
a bit of cardboard, you know, the the real older phone.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
I never thought that's quite good, isn't it.

Speaker 10 (01:09:52):
Yeah, put something so you couldn't or put it in
the airpiece so you probably couldn't hear hear the person
or something. But I suppose that pranks that you could do.
And with the older technology, I suppose.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Big Chris Linda like that. Kelvin, Thank you're twenty four
away from fifteen away from ten twelve to twelve to ten. Hello, Steve,
it's Marcus. Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 12 (01:10:17):
How are you good?

Speaker 13 (01:10:18):
Steve?

Speaker 5 (01:10:20):
Okay, So we're talking about answering phones. Yes, do you
know how they answer?

Speaker 14 (01:10:25):
And italy?

Speaker 5 (01:10:26):
No, it's pronto do you know what that means. No,
it means speak now.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 5 (01:10:37):
They don't give their name, they don't give them the number, Pronto,
speak now, do your business.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
It was that a word that was Was that a
word that was invented for the telephone?

Speaker 7 (01:10:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:10:50):
To be here, I don't know, but that's how they
answer their phone, Eslee, pronto, I mean speak now?

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
Is that what you've started doing?

Speaker 25 (01:11:00):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:11:01):
I lived there for two years. Yeah, any it's how
I found out.

Speaker 7 (01:11:05):
Sorry any it?

Speaker 5 (01:11:07):
Oh mate, I should have gone back.

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
What were you doing there?

Speaker 5 (01:11:13):
I bought a place where had what they called an agrituersbo.
It's like a farm steake. We had vineyards, olive trees
and turned it where people come and stay. We had
self contained units and B and B and a cottage

(01:11:38):
in a swimming pool.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
Sounds like you're a hit of your time.

Speaker 5 (01:11:42):
Yeah, well sort of. But you know, then the missus
decided to divorce me, so or turned to customs.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
Was she Italian?

Speaker 26 (01:11:52):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:11:53):
She was English?

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
Oh yeah, similar?

Speaker 5 (01:11:57):
Yeah? Well yeah, but anyway, I just thought i'd tell you.
I thought living listening for quite a few I was
now when I was worrying somebody's going to say, somebody's
going to say it, and they didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
Sorry, appreciate that, Steve. Thanks. About ten to ten drives
me nuts when a business answered the phone Hello, nothing
further than I have to ask you I've reached someone,
or rather rather plumbing just answer properly. So common in
the days of click tolcles. I remember a guy worked
forty years ago. They had a brother in Canada that
would send him shoes. He put a call through to

(01:12:32):
mister Nike. His brother in Canada would answer and say
he was out. The scam was to say if ten
pen was a good time to call back, meaning Nike's
shoes size ten, no cost for that shipping order, no
idea what that means. I recall back the sixtees when
my sister got her first job, my father would quite
leaving a message for it to phone mis to line
and gave the phone under the zoo. We've got that one.
I think Grandma Josey had a landline phone that was

(01:12:54):
a pair of red lips. Now a's a heirloom that
no one wants nor have any use, what any use for?
Watch the heirlooms nine to ten, Now, Susie, it's Marcus.
Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 28 (01:13:07):
That's pure Marcus. That Susie's phoning you. I'm just ringing
to say, this is what someone is supposed to say
when they phone you. When you answer the phone, you
don't have to say anything because the person phoning you

(01:13:28):
is interrupting your day and love phoning you. So the
person phoning theoretically should introduce themselves, say why they why
they are ringing you, and then you can say, then you,

(01:13:49):
because you're the person that theve phone, you can either
accept the call or hang up or say hello. That's
the correct procedure as far as I was taught.

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
Wow, yes, he don have I got the phone and
say nothing?

Speaker 28 (01:14:09):
No, yes, you pick up the phone and say nothing.
The person phoning you should say, like I just said,
cure to remark, it's Suzi ringing. I'm just phoning you,
to say how one should.

Speaker 8 (01:14:27):
Call you.

Speaker 28 (01:14:28):
Because the person phoning you is interrupting your day, you
haven't invited them to phone you. The person phoning you,
it's on them to say who they are, why they.

Speaker 25 (01:14:45):
Are ringing you.

Speaker 28 (01:14:47):
You have no obligation whatsoever to answer that call. And
once they introduce you themselves, then you can say if
you wish is it's market speaking.

Speaker 27 (01:15:00):
I accept a call?

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
Does that work or right for you?

Speaker 28 (01:15:04):
Absolutely? I do it or I do it all the time,
especially today. You don't know who's on the other end,
so I need say.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
I don't think you're quite sure once you've picked up
the phone, how long it takes them to get the
phone to the ear?

Speaker 28 (01:15:21):
Yes, well, I was always taught that it's when you
receive a phone call you didn't invite. Unless you invited
them to call at that specific time, it's an interruption
in your daily life. So the person calling you should

(01:15:46):
introduce themselves, say why they're ringing, and then it's up
to you whether you reply or hang up whatever, Because yeah,
that's how I was taught.

Speaker 2 (01:16:01):
Anyway, I've never ever heard anyone do that. Have you
ever come across anyone else that does that?

Speaker 28 (01:16:05):
Well? My whole fun note does that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
Well, But we do, Susy, thank you for that. Just
coming up to the news. People, be in touch if
you want to call, if you want to Oha eight
one hundred and eighty ten eighty text, if you want
to just think, Oh, someone says so true, Sam, I
don't know what that's referring to someone answered my call.

(01:16:33):
My call once, Hello City Morgue. So immediately replied, I
don't said you to do mortgages. Then the phone went dead. Yes,
the people aren't big on that one because they wouldn't
know if you've picked. Yeah, I don't know if that's
a big thing. I mean, I'm very confused by that woman.
I remember a Big Fresh. There was one in the
christ Church suburb of Shirley, and I heard of a
north older woman who questioned her business a businessman husband's
credit card that said big Fresh shirt, Big Fresh Shirley.

(01:16:57):
Quite good that I never thought about that with the
Big Fresh here till twelve good evening. I answered the
phone by saying, go to the person on the other
end of the phone. This was back when we had landlines.
Go it's not bad. It's a bit informal. We're right
about tonight. Welcome you do what it comes from and
talk about this Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty

(01:17:18):
nine town. Someone says, why is it every weekend on
Saturday all the channels show twenty year old movies. I
can't answer that, but maybe it's got the sunset industry.
It's on its way out. I mean, maybe notick, not
next year, for the next five years surely. But yes,
TV is just trying to make money. They must have

(01:17:40):
thought there must be a market for that. But look,
if you've got there's lines for you now if you
want to come to I'll keep you go day with
the news around the country. Also too Warehouse has sold
one hundred and twenty twelve thousand potentially dangerous toys are
these were a swallowing hazard things with small parts. The

(01:18:00):
bad crash there and tim The road exits are notching
up a bit at the moment, so too did after
a current truck crash on stage ho iedimd. I guess
there are diversions around there. So yes, Huna Nui Hotel
is reopening after being close for every year. Yep, got

(01:18:21):
the country's oldest liquor license. I think they tried to
sell it and they've got someone to actually manage it.
Don't have any money in a country, PA in Canterbury.
Don't know if there's something you can make money from.
But that's what right about. But money, it's about the
phone numbers. So if you've got something to say about that,
I would love to hear from you. As I say,
oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty or nine to

(01:18:41):
nine to text if you want to come through. That's
what right about tonight? So you'd love to hear from you.
Anything else you want to mention, that's good. I can
handle it all. There's any northern hemisphere news, I will
bring that to you. But what happened to the snow
in England? It seemed to have disappeared. Now now let
me think of anything else to sit you light with.

(01:19:03):
I mean, I mean that to set the conversation light.
I guess that was the wrong choice of words. But
you get through ten past ten. So let's be hearing
from you if you do want to talk about these
or anything else. Speaking about car news, there's a new

(01:19:23):
car taking the UK by storm. It's called the Tu
Range Rover. Parents going through the roof in the UK. Well,
it may look swanky and experiens like a rain road,
it's in fact it's a Chinese One of the cost
effect of the price of one of Britain is actually
issuvs the current question. The thirty thousand JQU seven, which

(01:19:46):
has been dubbed the Timu Range Drover, only on sale
from January. Don't know if it's available and new say
it looks good. Huji popular amongst young mums. It's broken
into the UK's top ten selling cars, and people just
looks good, very distinctive front grill, which is that all

(01:20:06):
lines looks very much like a ranger of with the
lines looks excellent. I'm kind of slightly curious about Chinese cars.
I don't necessarily know that in Bluff and in Vert
Cargo there are there are a lot of the latest cars,
so I'm curious enough. That's a car that JCU seven
is one that's been in New Zealand to let me

(01:20:27):
know about that looks great, so you must have so
you might want to mention that. But only way. I
talking about phones and answering phones and your answer phone
message stories. You will have them, so let's hear from you.
I'm just rehydrating and trying to pet myself up. Now
hit the wall. Come on. It was weird that woman

(01:20:50):
that answers the phone and says nothing, and I reckon
that would in reality, I don't think that would work
very well. We'll just start the phone conversation in a
really odd way because most people are used to people
answering the phone and saying hello, yeah, so yes, if
you've got something to say about that also, that would
be of enjoyment for me. So that's what's happening anyway.

(01:21:15):
Do you want to be in touch, Oh, eight hundred
eighty taty and nine two ninety dixts hit or twelve
o'clock to night, then that's when Roman will come along. Yep.
Anything else you want to talk about that is all good,
So yes, get in touch. You might be able to
remember when your first answering machines came out, the ones
had little tape on them. I think it would was

(01:21:37):
in the early eighties. That would be my supposition or recollection.
So if you want to talk about that's also good
and I'm looking forward to what you've got to say.
So there we go. Oh, eight hundred eighty tty and
nine two. Anything else you want to mention or discuss
that would be good and we can handle it. So

(01:21:59):
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine to
de text. Yeah, Hello, Paul, ats Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 26 (01:22:09):
Good evening.

Speaker 7 (01:22:10):
How are you good, Paul?

Speaker 2 (01:22:12):
How you going all right?

Speaker 27 (01:22:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 26 (01:22:14):
They're just finishing up on the way home, and I
thought I had you on the phones and I've got
a little gripe about the phones, the modern era of phones.
They're just root buggers, you know, because they people rang,
especially banks or insurance people. They ring up and they
go hello. You say hello, how can I help you?

Speaker 23 (01:22:36):
Is this?

Speaker 15 (01:22:37):
Paul?

Speaker 26 (01:22:38):
I said?

Speaker 13 (01:22:39):
Yes?

Speaker 28 (01:22:40):
How is this?

Speaker 26 (01:22:41):
Oh it's so and so and so and so from
so and so company. Can you tell me your data
birth to verify? That's sue? I said, you should. Is
it about a policy that I have? Yes, yes, yes,
Well tell me the number of the policy and I'll
tell you the name of my data birth.

Speaker 7 (01:23:00):
Oh I know, we can't do that.

Speaker 26 (01:23:01):
That's competitional information. Well, bloody touchet. How the hell do
I know you're from where? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
Exactly, exactly.

Speaker 26 (01:23:08):
Can I'll tell you what? They go nuts? They absolutely
go spare. Oh no, we don't do that. That's still
on their policy. I don't care about your policy on me.

Speaker 18 (01:23:17):
Who are you?

Speaker 26 (01:23:17):
I need to identify who you are? You might be
a scammer or something. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
you to trust us? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the brumstick.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
How do you resolve? How do you how does it
get resolved?

Speaker 12 (01:23:33):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (01:23:34):
My bank has a there were so many scammers around
the place, and it is they do, especially old people.
They scam them under the phone like it's going out
of fashion. The bank that I have that when they
bring you up they have now changed their policy and
they identify themselves and they say, have you got your
phone on you? Yes, ping, here is my identification code

(01:24:00):
and they read it out and there it is on
your phone.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
And that doesn't it. That's quite that's quite successful.

Speaker 26 (01:24:09):
Yeah, that's that's the ASB bank. They're quite techno. Serph.

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
I think they're good.

Speaker 7 (01:24:14):
Yep, yeah, but everybody.

Speaker 26 (01:24:16):
Else, excuse me, tell me my policy number. It must
be in front of you on the screen. Oh no,
we can't do that. Competential information.

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
Very good, Paul, Thank you for that. Gary.

Speaker 23 (01:24:26):
Hello, hello Margaret.

Speaker 12 (01:24:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:24:29):
I'll tell you about a call I had one time, Margus,
because I rang me up and said to me, look,
you're having trouble with the computer. And I said, well,
that's the faine thing you should say that. I said, yes,
I said, I thought I was had in trouble with her.
So we went backwards and forwards about this subject about
for about fifteen minutes, and at the end I yelled out,
you beauty. And then Jodey said he have you got

(01:24:50):
to No? No, I said, I'm watching the raisers. I said,
my horse just won. I said, I haven't even got
a computer, your idiot.

Speaker 19 (01:24:58):
It's good.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
Have you got a computer?

Speaker 21 (01:25:00):
No?

Speaker 23 (01:25:01):
Of course I haven't.

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
Call Yeah, no, no, brilliant like the logic Gary, thank you.
Seventeen past ten, Hendle twelve out there doing something interesting.
I know what's happening? Is it kind of cranking up
for Christmas? Yet suddenly everything feels about Christmas? E gotta say.
Down in Vacadia, ones emerged from the winter hibernation twenty

(01:25:23):
six degrees this afternoon. So that's going well, although we
need it. Big volcano in Indonesia one hundred and seventy
rescued climbers Mount Simeru. So there's climbers and porters and
gold must be quite a high mountain, don't everyone knows
about that Mount Simuru, East Java. I don't know how

(01:25:47):
how high the mountain would be that it needs guides,
but it's blowing anyway. We are talking about phones and
the way you answer phones, anything on that sort of vein. Oh,
it's three seventy six. It's a high mountain. Mountain for
a volcano? How high is Cock Iraqi? Mount Cock? Can

(01:26:11):
never remember that? Oh yeah, I don't know. I guess
it's a mountainous country, isn't it. Mount Cook Iraqi? Mount
Cook three seven and twenty four, Mount Semuru three seventy six. Goodness,
very close and it's only fifty minutes less than Mount Cok.
There we go, and it's a volcano anyway, that's erupted.

(01:26:35):
That tends to be the international news. It's eighteen past ten.
It is twenty past ten. Email from Christina High. Marcus
went to Sylvia parked. I couldn't believe how busy it was.
Normally in the weekdays it's quiet. People do have money
to spend. I have always got money for Christmas. That
will kick in. He'll be doing the shopping. For those
that don't know, Sylvia Park is a fairly big mall

(01:26:58):
in Auckland. And well, where would it be. It'd be
fifteen ks from the city center. It would be where
there was Once upon a time.

Speaker 12 (01:27:09):
There was.

Speaker 2 (01:27:12):
Horses were there. Then it became an army base for
the Americans during World War Two. Then it became a mall.
Sylvia Park, lovely name from all that's where the Ikea
store is going, not far away now for that that's
going to open, that's going to cause fuss and traffic
and complaints from all and sundry. But that's about to

(01:27:33):
happen also, so just so you know, that's why Sylvia
Parker is alway. I don't know if it's be Auckland's
biggest mall, would it anyway? I don't know where in
Auckland everyone's going now that they've got rid of Smith
and Coey's. That was everyone went for their photographs with
Father Christmas, which always struck me as a bit icky. Well,
that seemed to be the right of passage for people,

(01:27:55):
mainly people that had moved to Aucklands, I thought, anyway,
that's me so yes, it's been the end of the
Father Christmases. There's none at Smith and Coey's, there's none
at h and Jayson Invert Cargo that was always the
go to. I'm not quite sure what's going on. Well,
that's the building gone, so you don't know where they'll
go In Vocago. I think probably people are going up

(01:28:16):
with Father Christmas and photos, haven't They all seemed a
bit too sketchy and mind you with cell phone. It's
not kind of such a big thing as once upon
a time get the phone and waiting for it to
be developed. But now you just get like a text
and a file on your phone. It's hardly the same.
We never get it developed. Rowana, This is Marcus Rowan, Marcus.

(01:28:37):
Good evening, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 24 (01:28:39):
I was just thinking back to the days when our
phone numbers were only they were much easier to remember.
There are only a couple of digits. Our family phone
number was one four our post so we chose one
for as our post office slop number as well, so
it was easy to remember.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
Where was that, Rowan in.

Speaker 24 (01:29:02):
A little place in the king Country called Pipu and
one four And a friend, a friend had wondered at
number seven, and she said she'd be in a shop
or somewhere placing an order and they'd say could you
have tell us your phone number please, and she'd say seven,
and then they'd look up at her with the pen poise,
waiting to write the numbers down. And because there were

(01:29:26):
lots of party lines in those days, and there was
one line that you had to listen to, what if
it was your ring, like three shorts for an eath
morse code or too long for an M and you
only answered the phone and it was you had to
listen to the ring to see if it was meant
for you or for the other lady further down the
road who could listen in, so everybody else's phone call

(01:29:49):
if you're on that same line, if you wanted to
get through to the Exchange, you'd have to pick up
the received and say working, working, and make sure nobody
else was on the line. And in those days the
Exchange girls were quite a vital part of the community, really.
I I remember my mother in law would come around
for an evening meal and the girls from Exchange rang

(01:30:12):
one evening to say that the daughter from Tapa was
trying to get hold of my mother in law. Would
they like me to put the call through to my house.
They seem to know where everybody was at any given time.
So that was a few years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:30:27):
Now it seems amazing now that they do that, doesn't it.

Speaker 24 (01:30:30):
And if they if they saw of the girls on
Exchange said they didn't re threw to people by their names.
There are three of them by their shone numbers. So
if they saw you coming down the street, they'd be thinking, oh,
he comes one four.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
And there would have been an exchange in pure Pire.

Speaker 12 (01:30:47):
Is that right?

Speaker 24 (01:30:48):
Definitely the post office.

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
And that would that would be a town of a
couple of hundred, would it, I guess a lot of
people surrounding rural area.

Speaker 24 (01:30:56):
Yes, yeah, and it went. I think I think there
was one of the last last surviving manual telephone exchanges
before it closed down.

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
Wow yeh. Because we're a part we're an Auckland. We
have a party line. But it was just shed with
one other person. I think the phone still rang. But
there must have been a There must have not been
enough enough. I don't know why they had party lines.
There must have not been enough lines.

Speaker 24 (01:31:21):
I suppose Oh yes, so, but sometimes you could have
up to four or five.

Speaker 2 (01:31:26):
Yeah, that makes it exciting.

Speaker 24 (01:31:30):
Everybody knew everybody else does not? Still you go no, no, no, no,
I'm living down and gone now likewise followed. Family was
a great place I lived the years in the great community.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
You dry? Are you dry up?

Speaker 25 (01:31:48):
There?

Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
Has it been wet?

Speaker 24 (01:31:50):
It's very windy.

Speaker 4 (01:31:51):
It's dry.

Speaker 24 (01:31:52):
The ground is very dry, and the wind is very
drying and very annoying.

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
But you didn't get did you get a lot of
trees down.

Speaker 24 (01:32:00):
No, we didn't know. We was out the power four days.
I think they've got about us either up the valley
about ten k's up the alley. You don't have any
dairy farms, and I don't think anybody had any trees down.
The lines down by kaya township were a couple of
days before us. We thought they've either gotten to fleck
the sweat or we're just not populated enough.

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
Did you did you cope?

Speaker 10 (01:32:22):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:32:23):
Yes, yes, Have you got a Did you have you
got a generator?

Speaker 21 (01:32:26):
No?

Speaker 24 (01:32:27):
No, but I I've got it. Had a good firebox
and cooked tea each evening on the little firebox and
split everywhere, but it was good, and again got a
bucket in the trough to flushed the toilet. No water
was probably worse than no power, to be honest, you know,
we know we were very we've dodged a bullet up here.

Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
Tell you what further by the coaster is that it's
been windy. It's been windy again today down.

Speaker 7 (01:32:51):
South in the garden.

Speaker 24 (01:32:55):
Go inside because we get sick of it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:57):
You see what drives the animals. Man counts your windows
are not just even horses and stuff.

Speaker 12 (01:33:01):
It just goes.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
It just drives you better.

Speaker 24 (01:33:05):
I was being the tea just for me in the years,
and we always said the children, we've got very flighty
when it was windy.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
I think the children get flight at the end of
the year too. I've noticed what I think's three weeks.
I think they've had enough. They're all coming unstuck at
the seams anyway. But yeah, to put a line under that, yeah,
thanks teachers just getting ready for their presence.

Speaker 7 (01:33:31):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:32):
Yeah, twenty seven past ten marks till twelve. Yep, teachers
at the end of the At the end of that,
it's a long year. Gosh, I think it's only nine
months ago actually first meeting the teachers and hearing about them.
Now you feel they've been part of the kids' lives forever.
That's a long way to go, pure period. To work
at one of the great places. Be in touch. If

(01:33:53):
you want to talk, my name is Marcus. Welcome, here's
the midnight I'll be great text. I'll get to those.
We're talking about phones, all about phones. Phone number seven.
Here comes number seven in Big Fresh Shirley. The new
place for Santa Photoes is Sky City. They apparently have

(01:34:15):
a few items that suspiciously looked like they came from
Smith and Coey's. I saw old the commercial mall was
trying to do like a Christmas photo, but it's more
like a family portrait. Thing looked a bit tangential to me, Marcus,
Enchanted Christmas has replaced Smith and Coey's. It's a new market.
It's fantastic. I don't know if i'd like Enchanted Christmas.

(01:34:37):
Have we heard about that? So where the boss Jason
takes his kids, because he was big on Smith and Coey's,
So I'll find it from him. He'll be going out,
He'll be here'll be up to date with he will
have networked and worked at the new place. Or maybe's
kid to renolve for that. Now he'd still be doing it.
And we always went every year to the there was
a there was a church shop and in ver Cargo

(01:34:59):
this old bidn't know what this old bibles and stuff,
but you go out the back and you could dress
up in a manger and it was fantasic. Stick We
went every year for years, and a very common and
I let the young boy dresses Batman, which I thought
was quite good. But you had some great photos they're
very accepting. Didn't ask any questions. But yeah they've gone

(01:35:19):
the bookshop must have gone gone bung. So yeah, it
was Oh the great effort you address as a what
I'd be a wise man, he'd be everything if you
finally just realized how much I missed that. Now I'm
looking at the enchanted Christmas. I don't like it. A
Christmas experience like no other. Right, your letter to sand

(01:35:39):
to paint your own decorations, Instagram and locations throughout the experience.
Bring the family here, there you go, never heard of it?
You heard of that?

Speaker 13 (01:35:47):
Damn No.

Speaker 2 (01:35:50):
You need a cand or making workshop, a snow globe
making workshop. Wow, a faux wreath making workshop. Oh well,
they've read the market right.

Speaker 7 (01:36:02):
Good on them.

Speaker 2 (01:36:04):
Cure to Marcus, I believe the appropriate way to answer
the phone is ahy. I like that for a Captain Haddock.
I hate it when someone calls me on there and
their only idea on my screen is private number. Do
you think radio will outlive TV? Yes, Marcus. Years ago
in South Africa we had a TV show called Loving.
It would have been like shortened Street is in New Zealand.

(01:36:25):
If you happen to call anyone while Loving was on,
people would answer their phone and say, don't you watch Loving?
I have never watched either show.

Speaker 15 (01:36:35):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
I usually say hello when I answer the phone. I
think most people do the same, Marcus, young union student. Here,
Dad and I are tuning in just on your topic
of phones. What are your thoughts, fittings and opinions upon
signing up for everything? Scetting a QR code, having to
verify images to prove your human getting frustrating. My mate
paid for parking ticket yesterday and everything was online. Guess

(01:36:58):
maybe you feel this crunch with your radio show. Oh yeah, whatever,
Maybe you feel weir show with your radio show of
ready listen has disclaimed. I think the radio numbers actually
up quite significantly so since COVID. So they call it
the cockroach industry, Marcus. With the email scams, you can
direct the specific website the answer the scammers with AI,

(01:37:20):
so the scammers just get bobbed down talking to the AI.
Are living Christmas tree is still the same price as
last year. I rejected that expression living Christmas trees. I
think Christmas trees are just Christmas trees. The other trees
are artificial Christmas trees. Marcus. Top of Mount cooked to

(01:37:42):
sea level is how deep the Titanic is sitting. Fun fact, Marcus,
many years ago, my fifty yard sum's getting phone calls
from girls, and when I answered, they would give me
the third degree as to where he was and who
he was with. So I decided to pretend I was
an answering machine. Good evening. This is Paul's answering, So
I'm sorry he's unvailble. Don't please even message out for

(01:38:04):
the beep down and say beep. They would leave a message.
I don't say thank you. They always sounding shocked at
that point when you say, oh, yes, thank you, they
don't hang up. They never knew the warehouse is doing
Father Christmas on certain days sounds three peak warehouse, doesn't it.

Speaker 19 (01:38:21):
But there we go.

Speaker 2 (01:38:22):
It's all the enchanted Christmas. I don't know who's behind that.
I've got to frequently ask questions, but there be a
market for us. Probably go crazy. They've got a low
sensory event. Are you the same as Smith and Cowey's. No,
we have very different We did not purchase any of
their set decorations from them either. I don't know who's

(01:38:42):
behind it. I'll do some more googling. Twenty six away
from eleven. If you want to be in touch, Oh wait,
one hundred eighty we're talking all about phones and answer
phones and party lines. Oh wait, one hundred and eighty eighten,
Or if you want to talk here till twelve, catch
it a bit twenty four to eleven. Christ's Marcus. Good evening,

(01:39:07):
Oh good.

Speaker 27 (01:39:07):
Evening, Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:39:09):
Just talking telephones and answering. I used to work as
a receptionist to Nestlis for a large organization, and I
had to answer the telephone within three rings. Great, so
that was kind of unheard of these days of hanging
on for half an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:39:28):
Now, yeah, that's right, that's right.

Speaker 16 (01:39:31):
But we we had mystery shoppers that would ring the
company to see how you rated.

Speaker 2 (01:39:37):
Wow, so check out how quickly you answered it, right,
like phone versions, Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:39:43):
Okay, yeah, how you answered and what sort of experience
they had. But I had a busy switchboard and I
quite liked that, and I would go off to Telecom
at the time and learn the latest switchboard, and yeah,
it would ring all day long.

Speaker 2 (01:40:02):
It was a public service or what's a business?

Speaker 27 (01:40:04):
Was it a building company?

Speaker 16 (01:40:07):
Really large? But when I was younger and the boss
there would get me to make all the toll calls.
They couldn't dial a toll call, even just like a
few hours down the road. They would ring reception to
perhaps get dal Kluther on the line for ringing from Dunedin. Yeah,

(01:40:31):
so it was quite an interesting time. I had an
art system beside me as well for track drivers dales
reps and they both go together and lots of phone
calls come and it made the day go really fast.
I did other works as well. But yeah, what I
annoys me now when people rang from a company or

(01:40:52):
you rang them, they don't say who they are, or
you know, if you rang them and I say have
I rang so and so say it was the supermarket
and they don't, Well that's probably wrong to choose them.
They don't you ring a business and they don't say
who they are.

Speaker 2 (01:41:10):
No, that's that's annoy a lot of people.

Speaker 16 (01:41:14):
Yeah, so, yeah, things have changed a lot. I mean, yes,
answering the phone within three rings was the desired time
to answer it.

Speaker 11 (01:41:24):
By no.

Speaker 16 (01:41:26):
You know, I could have about six or seven phone
calls all coming in at once and I had to
quickly answer everyone. And it was usually pen and paper
and just write down who was on lot what line
and apologize for keeping them waiting and get back to
that one and just stick them on hold and just
work your way through a whole heap of them until
you dealt with them all.

Speaker 2 (01:41:46):
What year was this, Chris, Ah, this was in the.

Speaker 16 (01:41:52):
Well all through. I had nearly twenty years service, So
it was in the eighties.

Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
Okay, thought it must be in the eighties.

Speaker 28 (01:42:01):
Yeah, and this.

Speaker 16 (01:42:02):
Started in the seventies when I was just relieving first
that had that job. But yeah, waiting nowadays drives you nuts.
But people that don't that ring you and don't say
who they are that's calling from a business annoys me too.

Speaker 27 (01:42:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:42:18):
So anyway, phones have changed so much and that the
kids laugh now if you tell them things like that
that you had to answer it within three rings and
you would be checked up on by mystery shoppers and
mystic callers that the company put in place mate properly.

Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
Nice to talk, Chris, thank you for that. Hello, David,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 25 (01:42:43):
Yeah, I Marcus talking about phones. I've got a problem
that is really unusual that maybe someone can help me with,
and that's that I use mobile data through my phone
and I tether it to a tablet. But for the

(01:43:04):
last for thirty hours where I live, which is on
the outskirts of Wanganui Southwest, I haven't been able to
access the internet. Up until yesterday it was fine, but.

Speaker 28 (01:43:28):
I rang the.

Speaker 25 (01:43:33):
Service and they couldn't see any problem. I went into
the shop today and they told me that there was
They rang the technical part of two degrees and they said, well,
there's work being done on a tower in southwest Wanganui

(01:43:54):
that shouldn't make any difference to your reception. But I
still I can only have internet if I'm making a
phone call. Okay, does that make sense to you?

Speaker 19 (01:44:10):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
Yeah, I'm not good on this stuff. I'll see if
anyone else I'll kick that to touches.

Speaker 3 (01:44:17):
So what what?

Speaker 2 (01:44:17):
What have you actually got a question?

Speaker 21 (01:44:19):
Have you?

Speaker 2 (01:44:19):
What's the thing you want to know?

Speaker 25 (01:44:23):
Well, I'm sixty one, I don't I'm not big on technology,
nor am I. Yeah, and I'm just I'm just wondering
why it is that I'm able to have an Internet
connection while I'm on a phone call to someone through

(01:44:44):
on my tablet or on my phone. But when I
stopped talking to that person, I cut the line. I
don't have internet connection. It's just got me baffled.

Speaker 2 (01:44:56):
Dan, is it something I should say? Yeah, it doesn't
make any sense to Dan either, and he's googled it. Yeah,
we're trying hard, but someone else might phone range. You
might know more. Yep, it's going to come right when
they fix the tower, is it.

Speaker 25 (01:45:14):
Well, it shouldn't make any difference when they're doing work
on it. Nice, I was told. But yeah, I don't
know what.

Speaker 2 (01:45:22):
I can appreciate your frustration, David. It's contagious. We'll see
what others say. I don't know. I don't know, don't know.
I like a landline, the modern stuff that it's complicated. Yeah,
bar bar seventeen to eleven if you want to be
a part of it, Hittle twelve. Good evening, David. This

(01:45:44):
is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:45:47):
Hello, Marcus. Been enjoying the show tonight out of parmist North,
the Quick Birth they called from me today, Just enjoying
the guy that was talking about the internet connection. I
suggested to him as if he's thinking that it may
be related to the cell phone towers, and if he's
in Monganui, it sounds like he's hot spotting his tablets
through his mobile on the network on the cell of

(01:46:09):
the network. He might just consider driving across town and
seeing if he can get reception hooking onto one of
the other two degrees towers and see whether or not
he can maintain his connection, and if he gets it
in another quadrant of wan and New he then he's
isolated it out. That it maybe is to do with
the repair work on the local toil where he is.
I've had problems with two degrees before with towers, and

(01:46:32):
it sounds like that maybe a way that he could
check it tomorrow. As if he takes his tablet in
his phone and just says if he can maintain a
connection on Internet with a hotspot on another part of town.

Speaker 2 (01:46:42):
Yeah, that sounds very practical what you're saying too. And
that sounds like I could give him some sort of clarity,
won't it.

Speaker 6 (01:46:48):
Yeah, Well, it's just the way of isolating things out
without being too technical. As he goes across town and
he's still having problems, well then it may be something
you know a bit more more and more detailed on
the phone. But two degrees I find is it's about
ninety percent reliable these days. They used to have dropouts
and they used to get a love of signal problems
where they're because they didn't earn all of their towers

(01:47:11):
a couple of years ago, and they were used to
hijack on the hijack there, used to piggyback off, of course,
one of the other network. And so now I think
they are trying to get their own towers everywhere, but
they do hit holes, but there'll be a way of
doing that anyway. But the other thing I was just
going to ask you. I was listening earlier and I

(01:47:32):
was enjoying the guy that was calling in his son
had gone up to daw and I was mentioning about
that big storm up there and as in the cow
and I have an half on my mobile called Windy
dot com. I don't know if you've looked. Yeah, did
you check that tonight after that course over there?

Speaker 2 (01:47:50):
I don't. I didn't. I just checked the headlines. I
didn't think of that. The headlines were recommending people buy
water not beer, because I think the trouble is if
you get thirsty drink and then you can't kind of
risky yourself.

Speaker 6 (01:48:02):
We're going up in Dow and I think there's more
beer than water anyway up there.

Speaker 2 (01:48:05):
But yeah, I'm looking at Windy dot com now.

Speaker 6 (01:48:10):
Well, well, one of the things there is they've got
a screen called weather Radar and when I brought that
one up, it actually gives live feeds. I don't know
how they record it, but lightning flashes and if you
put that screen on, you can actually see the intense
lightning storms going on just north of Darwin in that

(01:48:30):
low that depression which is down and around I think
nine eights at the moment. But that screen is an
amazing one. And also the satellite screen which put the
weather radar on and you can see it's a very
dark looking storm. But the lightning flashes is the amazing
screen and it's on the weather radar layer. If you

(01:48:51):
turn that on, and Windy's got some great stuff. If
you turn on the webcams. Have you ever used the
webtam feature on Windy.

Speaker 2 (01:48:59):
No, I haven't.

Speaker 6 (01:49:00):
There's a button there you can turn the thing on
and it will show you webcams all over the world
which are live and broadcasting over the last twenty four hours,
and there's one in Darwin and if you click on
it you can actually see the weather recorded over the
last with the webcam and it's a very handy one.

Speaker 9 (01:49:21):
Even around New Zealand.

Speaker 6 (01:49:22):
If you're thinking you're going to a coast or something,
I want to see what the local weather is at
the beach, you can. You can turn on the webcams
and you can actually have a look. And I've used
it a few times and they just see what the
weather is that's coming in off the Tasman because it'll
give you about an eight hour heads up as to
what's going on with the incoming weather because you can
actually see it on a on a recorded piece of web.

(01:49:44):
But it is a layer.

Speaker 2 (01:49:47):
Can I just say with that that cyclone it's it's
just off Bethist Island. It's going to be a direct
hit on Darwin and the winds can how do you
tell how fast the winds are in the middle of
that look like it looks like it's going to be
very strong anyway.

Speaker 6 (01:50:02):
Yes, Yes, And the thing too is that that other
layers so it turned on. Those are there twenty or
thirty lightning symbols just north there up the peninsula and
the flashes are going off on spring.

Speaker 2 (01:50:15):
Which button was that? I didn't actually catch that when
you said it.

Speaker 6 (01:50:18):
Well, when you have Wendy, you can get it on
your laptop. Yeah, yeah, it's or weather radar.

Speaker 15 (01:50:24):
It's it now.

Speaker 6 (01:50:25):
Yes, ye see see all the lightning flashes, you see
them all going off.

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
Yes, Beth is dialing.

Speaker 6 (01:50:32):
Yes, it's an amazing and it's a free app.

Speaker 24 (01:50:36):
That's things.

Speaker 6 (01:50:36):
There's there's a purchase version, but the free app is
astounding because you can see all of these various bits
of information. You can see all the ice of bars
and the wind strengths and the wind patterns. The satellite
views are great because they give you the cloud cover.
So if you want to see, yes, what's on the tasmum,
they'll give your heads up as to whether we've had
a sunny day coming up or a bit of cloud

(01:50:57):
in the sky. And the webtam one is a fantastic
little button may use at many times if you want
to get a look at what's going on with the
low for weather. So even if you've got friends and
got friends in Canada and he you know, is in
an area where there's snow and there's webcams around where
he's living, and I can turn the webjams on you

(01:51:18):
can get an indication of what's going on the snow
and the steafields and things that it's a great piece
of kit and it's free.

Speaker 2 (01:51:24):
Miaic thanks so much. Course, I've got a great r.
Wendy dot com. How at Windy dot com. Wendy dot com,
How easy is that to remember? David? Thank you? Nine
to eleven Just to come to the texts, there's some goodies.
Two degrees is upgrading every single one of its sites
from Chinese Huiaway hardware to Swedish hardware. From Erickson, David said,

(01:51:45):
when I go anywhere else in town, I have connection.
Another text of markets I'm visiting in fung Anui and
couldn't find couldn't hotspot to my Chrome cas today. That's
from Betty. Please saw that. Tell that guy to put
his phone on flight mode for ten seconds and then
back to service again. It might reset it to the
cell tower he could fly try restarting his phone. They're

(01:52:06):
putting your hardware on the following two degree site moving Huawei.
Thank you Joe for your text. If she's asked it
not to be read on here, but it's really kind
what you've said, and I hope things are okay for you.
Eleven I seven good evening. Welcome people text here, Cure

(01:52:29):
Marcus as it ever just star. I hope you and
Dan as an award winning show are saved for the
Christmas coal and your hobby occupation with many more years
as an aside, Do you have your Christmas hoidly eates
for this year? When I need to have my predictions
ready for? And how will the quiz night work? I
don't know when I am going away. I believe it's
let me have a look at the calendar. Yeah, I

(01:52:51):
mean you take your hold at too. It you just
seeing I'm looking out for the kids, don't you. I
mean that kind of ingest. But you know what I'm saying.
I think my last day will be the nineteenth, and
I imagine i'll be back on about the thirtieth or
the twenty. Food I can't remember what I've put away
for So that's the situation. As far as the Christmas quiz,

(01:53:13):
I haven't quite how to work that out yet. I'll
be thinking about that and your predictions. You want those
ready for the end of January or viganery I think
you might be calling that. So that's happening around talking
about phones, everything about phones. I really asked the question
about phone watches. Are they any good or smart watches.
I guess they are, Marcus. I brought in new Sampson.

(01:53:34):
I keep getting notifications from samps and giving me deals
on new phones. I don't want this. I just want
to use my phone. It's annoying as hell. I don't
know how to get rid of that. People. Someone might
I don't. Windy app is great? Thanks, wasn't Darwin? Twenty ten?
Locals talked about when, not if, another cyclone Tracy would happen. Marcus,

(01:53:57):
So what's the answer. Bring back landlines? The digital stuff
is prone to faults Cyclone Tracy. I had an email
from someone that told me they could finally talk about
the Sorry I'm pausing a lot at boring, but they

(01:54:18):
finally talk about talked about being able to work as
Kevin Crue going back to get the people out. It
had been under embargo, embargo, umbargo. Yeah that's right, Marcus.
I was looking about in Gambia, South Australia when South
end Cyclone Tracy struck. We didn't really know for a
while as used then was an instant like now and

(01:54:40):
was Christmas then? On fifth of January? Do you remember
the Tasman Bridge has to happen?

Speaker 15 (01:54:45):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (01:54:46):
No, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:54:48):
There was more about that anyway. Oh yes, it says
during the evacuation following cyclone Tracy quandas Bowing seven four
seven carried a record breaking six hundred and seventy four passages,
sitting a world record for the most people ever transported
on a Boeing seat, even for seven at the time.
I just believe there's another email for that guy about

(01:55:13):
the fact that stuff was released. He could talk more.
I can't find it, but sorry about that. But yes,
sixty six fatalities in cyclone Tracy. It was much later.
It was Christmas Day or Boxing Day. But for those
who don't know, there's another cyclone about to hit Darwin.

(01:55:35):
I don't know how serious I think it's going to be.
I was just to quick news search for that. Yeah,
they are saying. I was reading this people. Ossie's been worn.
There's a heighth level of threat. It's trouble cycon Feder
turn directly towards the coast on Thursday. Upgraded to category two.

(01:55:57):
It's expected to swing and heads south and it couldn't
tensify up Wind's up to one three five killing meters
per hour. We'll take you a direct hit on Darwin.
That's happening. Also, Janet's Marcus, good evening. You sound far away, Yeah,
you sound far away? You are are you?

Speaker 27 (01:56:19):
And when we were on the farm, we had one
of those wooden boxones where you go long short, short long,
and our code was short long long short. You have
to ring the handle to get the exchange, and then
you ask them where you where where you want to

(01:56:42):
go and they put you through. Yes, good old.

Speaker 2 (01:56:46):
Days when you were jan when you were tuning the handle.
That was so the people at the exchange would know
which place that was coming from. Is that right?

Speaker 15 (01:57:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (01:57:01):
All which line because of course party line. So there
would have been lots of farms.

Speaker 2 (01:57:08):
On what was your ring? Long long long short long,
no short long long short short long long short.

Speaker 3 (01:57:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:57:19):
I had to be careful because if you did it wrong,
you had to get someone else and you take someone
else's and that would all get puned up.

Speaker 2 (01:57:30):
Now you're going to say something about your father? What
we're going to say there? Before interrupted?

Speaker 27 (01:57:35):
Ah, He quickly changed it to an ordinary landline. He
hated the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:57:41):
Did he quite a pist guy, old man, isn't he?

Speaker 15 (01:57:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (01:57:47):
Very very private. He didn't like Hiven business. Conversations because
he was also a real estate agent and like insurance agent,
so he didn't like himn business conversations on a party line.

Speaker 2 (01:58:08):
For anybody to live, you wouldn't want that, had the wall.

Speaker 27 (01:58:14):
Yeah, after war, what he went off to ward a
lot about it, No, not much. He did tell one
story about coming up the hill in Italy and at
the top of the hill he looked up and there
was a German standing at the top of the hill,

(01:58:36):
and he looked down to get his gun, and when
he looked back up again, the German had gone. It
was a very close shape and.

Speaker 2 (01:58:47):
Wasn't And Jan this has not me being critical, but
was it a was it a mirage?

Speaker 10 (01:58:55):
No?

Speaker 27 (01:58:57):
No, that was the Germans. They had to Dad was
in the tanks for a while. And I said to
my sister, of course Dad would have killed a lot
of people in those tanks. And she just refused to
believe that our father could ever kill anyone. I see,

(01:59:17):
what do you think he went to war for Wow,
trained to kill, that's what they have to do. So
she refused to believe her father would ever kill anybody
because he was such a softie. So he struggled on
our farm of course mom had to do all the

(01:59:38):
hard work sending animals off to the.

Speaker 2 (01:59:40):
Works and all that because I was because it was
because it was send them to be Well, that is
quite that's quite a moving thing. You've just said that,
because and you wouldn't have known him, You wouldn't have
known him before the war, but your mother said that
he was it was a softie before he went. Anyway,
it wasn't the war that had softened him.

Speaker 27 (01:59:58):
No, No, he got picked on in the army, but
that some of the bullies in his regim. And yeah,
they sort of had to look out for him because
he was too soft and he'd get picked on. He
told me about that, didn't tell me any details. And

(02:00:20):
then he got put over in the Goat Canal and
protecting that area from the Japanese. And he, of course
when he is brown as a berry, very brown in
the summer, and they went around with no tops on,
was so damned hot he head and the mosquitoes were

(02:00:43):
like jet bombers.

Speaker 2 (02:00:46):
And was he a part time farmer and part time?
Was he a good real estate agent? Very good one
of the would be his kind nature.

Speaker 27 (02:00:57):
Very honest men.

Speaker 2 (02:01:00):
It helps that helps in real estate that doesn't it.

Speaker 27 (02:01:03):
Yeah, absolutely the end life and sure yeah you protected
a lot of people, a lot of families, and everyone
thought very highly of them, and you know we all
loved them dearly. Anyway, before I start crying again, already started, Jan,

(02:01:27):
change the subject. Have you tried its chocolate scotch and Goose?

Speaker 8 (02:01:34):
No?

Speaker 27 (02:01:34):
Have you totally recommend them?

Speaker 2 (02:01:37):
Okay? I always like a biscuit to talk to us
about them in case someone's going to write this down.

Speaker 27 (02:01:44):
Yeah. Well they're like shortbread and that kind of a
thin layer of chocolate on one side, and you get
them in a smallish packet and just what they just
sort of fills that gap with just something sweet to
finished the meal or have a snack, you know, like now.

Speaker 2 (02:02:06):
And what's it called? What's it called again? Jan?

Speaker 6 (02:02:10):
Uh?

Speaker 27 (02:02:10):
Not chocolate scotch?

Speaker 3 (02:02:15):
Good?

Speaker 2 (02:02:17):
Thanks so much for that, Jan, enjoy your biscuits. Hello, Tina,
this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 29 (02:02:23):
Hi Marcus. This is Tina.

Speaker 2 (02:02:25):
Hi Tina, Hi, Hi Jan.

Speaker 29 (02:02:28):
Hey, I'm a Longanui. I have a tablet and two
days ago I had no internet connection and I checked
all my plugs and whatnot. Go okay, so I had
a look on Facebook and my message popped up and
it said you have no Internet connection. Click here for help.

(02:02:54):
So I clicked there, and the sign said your Wi
Fi turned off. Go to settings and turn it on.
And so I clicked on setting and a Wi Fi
page turned up.

Speaker 13 (02:03:11):
Put it on.

Speaker 2 (02:03:12):
In a way, I went, there might be there might
be Dave's problem.

Speaker 29 (02:03:19):
Yeah, I don't know how it got turned off, because
I'm the only.

Speaker 2 (02:03:21):
Person I've heard that happen. I've turned it off. I
don't know how it's happened.

Speaker 29 (02:03:26):
Yeah, so I thought i'd been my two cents, and.

Speaker 2 (02:03:30):
Okay, I appreciate that too, Tina, thank you, thank you
so much for that. Keep those texts coming through too.
First time I've agreed with jan A great biscuit. Wow,
she might be the biscuit whisperer removing stuff about her father,
wasn't it removing? Yes, those biscuits are delicious chocolates. I'm

(02:03:54):
gonna have a look at a picture of one think
I've ever seen. I don't think it would be for me.
I don't really like chocolate on a biscuit, chocolate Scotch finger.
I don't like a biscuit called his finger either. Let
me have a look at them no Ah through Presbyterian
looking biscuit, isn't it anyway? I like the artists parody

(02:04:16):
that there's a lot of things I don't like about
that chocolate biscuit, the summer, no good to they all
meld together, Marcus. I stay well away from Scotch fingers,
Yvonne good.

Speaker 10 (02:04:26):
Evening, Oh hello, Marcus.

Speaker 24 (02:04:31):
My dad worked on the railway on a lot of
the time on night shift, and because he needed to sleep,
you know, through the day, none would have us kids
in the kitchen and she would she made this box.
She had this box go over the black phone and that,

(02:04:52):
you know, just to cut the noise, to cut.

Speaker 2 (02:04:55):
The noise then like a muffler.

Speaker 24 (02:04:59):
Yes, yes, it did seem to work that. And when
I got you know, one of my jobs and I
got employment, I worked on a big called switchboards, and
that you know, ten line switchboards and they were carded
systems and probably about fifty or fifty class extensions and

(02:05:24):
you had to plug them in like you would have
done on the exchange. And I can remember on the
on the odd occasion, you know, probably more than what
I would have liked, and that you would disconnect the
wrong ones, you know, because there were so many crossing
over one another.

Speaker 7 (02:05:45):
Ye sure, and that, yeah, she had.

Speaker 24 (02:05:48):
To follow them through with your fingers and that, you know,
because they were different colors.

Speaker 13 (02:05:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (02:05:55):
And then and then each month you would get the
jolly toll account because you had to write the tolls
down on the pad when people ran down to us
that reception to put through the toll calls, and we
had to marry the the tonge amounts to who made

(02:06:18):
the call. Oh, look at tokus ages. There was pages
of the jolly stuff.

Speaker 20 (02:06:24):
You know.

Speaker 24 (02:06:25):
We used to write it in pencil. Here's the things
you remember?

Speaker 2 (02:06:32):
What are we talking?

Speaker 25 (02:06:33):
Vout?

Speaker 2 (02:06:34):
And how long did you do it?

Speaker 22 (02:06:35):
Oh?

Speaker 24 (02:06:37):
Several times in that Oh you know, I left school
fifteen probably, oh, no, god, in the in the nineteen
nineteen eighties. Yeah, it was before then because my daughter,

(02:07:03):
my daughter was born in nineteen seventy three, and I
was I didn't work on a switchboard then, and before that,
you know, I worked on a switchboard.

Speaker 4 (02:07:15):
So yeah, so it was.

Speaker 24 (02:07:16):
Probably you know, late sixties, early seventies and that where
I started on the switchboard and I ended up you know,
sort of progressing if you like. Sorry, the different phone
systems you know how they sort of developed and we
ended up having consoles and they would push buttons and

(02:07:40):
they were a lot easier to you. You know, I
worked in busy places and that, you know, and you've
that with everything. Good afternoon such and art such and that,
good afternoon such and such, such and that, and you
look back now and you think, blood, yeah, hell, you know,
what did I do that for? Here? But you know

(02:08:04):
I did love. I loved my job.

Speaker 2 (02:08:06):
Next, you know here, you're not doing it still now, Evan,
you're still working?

Speaker 24 (02:08:12):
Oh hell, no, no, no, I've been I've been retired probably.

Speaker 23 (02:08:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (02:08:18):
Well when I say retired, i've been none being a
fit over. Well, you know, I'm being a fit over
twenty years of the morning now here.

Speaker 2 (02:08:26):
Oh, nice to hear from evon thinking.

Speaker 1 (02:08:29):
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