All I want is a scavenger hunt (2 December 2024)

What are you doing for your workplace Christmas do this year? Plus more stranded whales, and an important fire safety message about phone charger cables.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be greetings, welcome Marcus till twelve. Gosh, the whales
seem to really struggle with Farewell Spit, don't they. They're
washed up there thirty to forty. If you are there,
if you're at the whales stranding, let us know how
that's going. I think traditionally the whale strandings at Farewell
Spit don't go well. They seem to have a big

(00:31):
problem there with the GPS. They get them off, they
come back on, never ends well, I don't think. But anyway,
let's hope the team is working to get them cool
and comfortable. So you've got the updates. If you might
be there there about to see us. Now us know
what's going on there with the whales at breaking news
for us tonight, so you're all across it. If you've
got other breaking news where you, let us know what
that breaking news is. Do not drink your water. Do

(00:54):
not drink your water in way, Matty, that's right night.
Trate levels breach acceptable limits after climbing for weeks. YEP,
boarding water would not make it safe to drink pregnium
women and babies, particularly harmful for them. So yep, that's

(01:18):
not looking good. There were plans to sort out the water,
but oh well, anyway, so that's happening. It's not good
for the water. Oh wait, one hundred eighty. I'll give
you more updates on that as time goes on. Tonight, anyway,
do you get in touch? You on to be a
part of the show. Eight hundred eighty eighty and nine

(01:42):
x one ms Marcus, it'll twelve Yeah, goodness me. Anyway,
I think there's another there's another do not drink water
issue also, so I will look into that too, and
I'll keep you, I keep we'll keep you updated with that.
So yeah, then what are we going to talk about?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Saying?

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
A number of things I would imagine. It's been a Monday. Firstly,
Christmas parties, quick round robin, what are you doing? Not
your parties? But for work? There seems to be a
trend away from drinking the office. Workplace is certainly the
UK experience is pivoting from alcohol to activities. So additional

(02:28):
boozy lunch or boozy dinner are gone. So it's escape rooms, murder,
mystery experiences and crazy golf. I wish every year, Dan
and I want to organize a scavenger hunt, but no
real demand or desire for it, so it seems as

(02:50):
though getting rolling drunk is gone. I think what happens too,
if you've got a workplace and times are tough or
your workers aren't happy, then what they tend to do.
They tend to think, well, my time at work in
the company, I am not valued. And one way I

(03:11):
can rectify that is when it comes to the Christmas party.
I can make up for the wages I perceive of
not being paid though I should have been paid by
drinking that value in alcohol. Now, that never goes well
because you are combining a resentment with your workplace with
copious amounts of alcohol. And probably what happens in the

(03:34):
end is you read the boss the pedigree or something
like that, and come the next year you go to
work and you feel a little bit salty on it all.
It doesn't tend to go well. That's my take on
Christmas party, So be careful of those. I also think
with companies, companies these days want to appear to be
good bosses, responsible hosts, So I think even the Chris,

(03:57):
I don't know what the legal rights of the Christmas party,
I think that they are. I'm pretty sure Christmas parties
are still work events. So if something shifty happens, I
think it's some level worker is responsible. I don't know legally,
but probably from a human human remains, human resources point

(04:22):
of view. You've got to you know, you've got to
be careful. Otherwise people you leave yourself open to subset
litigation or complaints. So yeah, I think that the bosses
themselves are fairly cagey about where they have and what
they can do. The old days, you just be free
for all. You put all the money on the bar
and people would get taxis home at midnight, unbelievably good times.

(04:42):
That's not happening so much now, So there we go.
We are talking a little bit about that. So it's about, Yeah,
it's just about the times have changed. And also probably
companies are strapped, but that would be my thing also.
And also young people don't drink. It's like thirty the

(05:06):
scent of gen Z don't drink alcohol, and companies are
trying to be more inclusive. So a lot of people
don't drink for cultural reasons like their regligion forbids. It
so they're not going to enjoy the old boozy thing.
And also there is the pandemic which has led to
more people working from home. Yeah, and that means that

(05:31):
companies have been offering virtual experiences. So be curious though
from you. Is your company taking a shift? Are you're
doing something differently this year your work party? I will
do another set another memo about the scavenger, I think
we do a good one. The other thing about the
work do I did say to the boss that I
was really keen for a workdo at Hobbiton, But I

(05:54):
don't think anyone else was that keen, So we're not
going to Hobiton. I was desperate to go to work
do it Hobiton, I reckon. That's the role's royce of workdes.
I could see myself putting in ten percent extra effort
for the new year if the company would take us
to Hobbiton. But that's not the way it's going to be.

(06:16):
If you use has got a work party that I
could go to at Hobbiton, I'd like that particular. If
it's on, I'll take the night off, So there we go.
I don't like to do or air begging, but that
might be something. So anyway, welcome people. My name is
Marcus eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine two

(06:37):
de text. But yeah, you work to is that what's
happening with your work company?

Speaker 5 (06:41):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Are they giving up the booze they're doing like an
escape room or a pickle playing pickle ball, or going
tenpin bowling or minigolf. Just quietly, I haven't said this
before an air. I hate minigolf. It's one of those
things that you think is going to be more fun

(07:07):
than it is. First hole's fun, second hal From then
on it's downhill. I once swen And when I say once,
this would be two or three years ago to a
glow in the dark mini golf in Queenstown. It would

(07:29):
be the poorest thing I've ever experienced in my life.
Was just bits of four x two painted with a
dazzle can terrible. And when you got kids, they want
to do something, so it's hard for me because you've
got to pretend you're enjoying it. One of my worst
skills was pretending I've enjoyed something surprising A number of
hole in one that did veryvery well in it throughout

(07:50):
the first four holes, and I got bored, so yes,
I wouldn't I have to do a work mini golf.
It always seems to be an idea who's time has passed.
I've thought in front of about seventy years ago. Now
not so much. So there we go. That's what's happening
fifteen past date. So is your company doing something different

(08:13):
or your place of work? What's the standard lie of
the land when it comes to Christmas parties? It might
be different if you've got a social fund. I don't
know if people still have social funds. Because social funds
you pay a dollar each week. At the end of
the year, you spend it all. You go to the
races at Kaikoda, or you go if a mess of

(08:33):
barbecue at Long Bay, something like that, hire a big
Ara bus. Off you go and your silly shirts. There
we go. Thought we are on about tonight. The numbers
are wait, keep your texts coming through nine to nine
two text. I did watch a bit of the Formula
one today. It's a hard sport to cover, isn't it.

(08:58):
So much happens in such a very quick time. Self
funded archery with a bit of a barbecue afterwards, no
drinks home by seven Marcus this year for Christmas, all
I'm doing is taking all my workers to the beach.

(09:20):
They will be stoked because my workers are farm dogs.
So to hang of a treat, Marcus, we've never had
a Christmas party work. I get one hundred dollars cash
and a gift basket. As there are only two of us,
I appreciate it. Wow, Marcus, we aren't having any work

(09:48):
Christmas function this year because my place of work is
closing down on Friday. To make it worse, some of
us don't have jobs to go to next year, Marcus.
All the primary school teachers and staff having a massive
party at Christmas. A mess Christmas party at Brewtown this
year four hundred odd lots of firms donate to needy

(10:12):
causes rather than a Christmas bash. Oh is that right?
Get out of here, get in touch. My name is
Marcus Hddle twelve oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine
nine Text and new developments in Christmas. I don't even know.
I think the problems with escape rooms. I mean, there

(10:33):
wouldn't be escape rooms for a staff of one hundred,
is there? I'm sure some people think the job is
like an escape room. Any who, Marcus will twelve first
and bear stressed. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine
two nine to text, get amongst it, get at it. Oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty it's a Christmas party. It's

(10:55):
the Christmas party. Some will go well, some will go badly.
Some people go to a Christmas party they won't want
to turn up to work the next day because of
some things they've done. I always think, and I'm always
not sure of advice when it comes to Christmas parties.
I think if you are someone that likes to get

(11:20):
quite elevated and binding an alcohol at a Christmas party,
I think it's almost a good idea to choose like
I don't even know the name for this. I thought
of this often, to get like someone who can shadow
you for the night and just keep an eye on you.

(11:42):
And when they can say, hey, say when you going home.
Now you're not drinking anymore, I think they'll appreciate you
in the long run. And these days, if you're worried,
they're going to say the next day, oh well, I
wasn't even they drinking, just video them, and so these
are some of the things you were saying and doing.
I don't think it would have gone well with your
reputation within the company because you spend the lifetime climbing

(12:05):
the corporate ladder. Bad Christmas party, you do something people
never see you the same for good to say these
are good topics for us. I think we can even
extend that to Christmas. To Christmas party has gone bad?
Or how's this for a topic. I behaved so bad
at the Christmas party, I lost my job. Or I

(12:25):
behaved so badly at the Christmas party I never went
back to the workplace because so embarrassed. Anyway, get in touch.
My name is Marcus Hittle. Midnight tonight. She's not going
well for that guy from the British Masters Chief, Greg Wallace. Boy,
they've all had a pile on for him, haven't they, Greg?

(12:46):
With three g's cheap as he seems like a piece
of work anyway, Oh, eight hundred and eighties, Heady nine
nine two to six monas Marcus Eddle twelve. Anything else
you want to mention talk about say love to hear
from you. If you got break our shepherones it's almost
it's a better word than a sheperone. It's like it

(13:07):
needs to flash a title like a stealth yeah, I
don't know what that is, Marcus. Our work functions always
ended up on K Road, so this year we're just
going to go straight there. Marcus. The last time we
did an activity instead of dinner dance situation, we did paintball.
It ended badly. I got too close to someone and

(13:29):
shot them in the throat. Disqualified. This year back to
the dinner dance thing. I didn't go, but one of
my team did. He was home by eight point fifty year.
People get busy beyond work these days too, so I
think you got to work. You know, the bosses always
want to get home, get it over and done with. Anyway,
enough for me looking forward to what you want to
say twenty past day. It's all about the work parties,

(13:52):
the work functions. Yeah. Maybe most people be happy with
a ham and a dozen beer or a hamper. You
love a hamper, the rustle of the hamper, yep. Or
a minder, someone said, a chaperone or a minder, Marcus.

(14:14):
We've had a work doing over seventy years. We had
a four kilogramm a ham, one hundred bucks and a
fifty dollars petrol voucher, five hundred staff, five sites. Maybe
the text laws have changed. Maybe in the old days
you could have extravagant Christmas parties because there was a
tax advantage. But these days, now that the employment's quite tired,

(14:34):
it's not like people are going to go work for
the opposition because there is no opposition. That would be
my understanding there with work parties Christmas parties four kilogram
ham that's quite specific. Get a Temu voucher or not
a Timu charger. Though that was bad, wasn't it set

(14:55):
light to the house for goodness sake? I thought that
was pretty Did you read that story the fire? Well,
now they knew it was it do I suppose the
far investigators, but still they actually have ten who written
on it. Marcus. The hardest thing with Christmas party is

(15:17):
they have to be worth going to. There are some
people whom I've already seen enough of at work. Don't
really want to see them outside of works exactly. And
I think I was a boss, I wouldn't want people
to encourage I wouldn't want people to socialize outside work.
Otherwise I just started splotting, plotting and firming and forming

(15:37):
little cliques. Marcus won Christmas. We've at ten pin bowling
ended up in a and e in a moonboot for
six weeks. Jamie, it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
Good day, Marcus. How are you made? All good? All good?

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Jamie? What do you got?

Speaker 6 (15:56):
Hey?

Speaker 7 (15:56):
So this is weird, mate, But how our Christmas do
is an April next year? Not lying to your mate.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
That departments the North.

Speaker 7 (16:13):
Race course watching horses, bicking on horses and eatpol next year.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
That's a great idea because people will stay working. It'll
keep you motivated. Are you the boss?

Speaker 8 (16:25):
No?

Speaker 7 (16:25):
No, I'm I'm a worker.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Did they say why they've moved it five months late?

Speaker 7 (16:30):
I don't have a clue, Marcus, because I've only been
in this job for just under three months.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
That's great, okay. And is it a work day. It's
not on the weekend.

Speaker 7 (16:42):
It's a weekend. It's Saturday. I think it's April of fifth.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Oh, that's brilliant. Okay, Well, have happy Christmas for next April.

Speaker 5 (16:50):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Margan's having nice to talk to Jamie twiny away from
I suppose that's the other thing that people do a
day at the races, don't they. We have a big
race meet down here. I think there's always a few
work tents. I look like work tents look like banks.
Normally it's like bank teller's getting on it here twelve.
My name is Marcus. Welcome eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty nine nine to text. I'll tell you what. There's

(17:13):
heaps of excitement for that whale. They're all tops in Dunedin.
That was the one that was found in the Tairi mouth.
It's a whale, right, They've come from all over the
world to dissect that. Oh, speaking of Wales. By the way,
it's Shark Week on Discovery on Sky and I watched

(17:36):
some stupid program last night, Ship versus Leviathan. How come?
And I know that we love moaning about Sky TV,
but you pay for Sky TV, right, And there's a
program on primetime last night. The commercial breaks were as
long as Free to Wear TV. When did Sky start

(17:58):
putting in so many commercials? Seemed indecent to me? Oh
me seventeen away from nine. Someone thinks someone's excited about
that that hip. The text says, right, Jamie's bosses have
been listening to you, Marcus. They're moving Christmas to April,

(18:20):
getting ahead of the crowd. On Friday, we were debating
moving of Christmas didn't go down well, it wasn't my idea,
but people say they should move it to July, but
not of reaction on that one. Hey, lines are free
Christmas parties, people doing them differently. There's just let us
know what's happening for your Christmas party. Oh Marcus, we

(18:45):
have our work do down the strip and christ dute
this weekend booze and food all provided we all get
marry and dance and no way, always a great fun night.
Merry Christmas. Ema, what sort of work you work for,
Emma Marcus. I've been going to drop and send it
for mental health people for twenty five years. We've always
had a Christmas every year. We have a secret center.
There are so many crazy people on the control nobulls, booze,

(19:07):
lull Serra and we have got FM and Dunedin yay
celebrate that and they want a new road over the limatuckers.
Some are reporting that there are more bigger flies. Yeah,

(19:30):
apparently because of the late spring weather conditions. The warmth
and the humidity means there's a lot of flies. So
it's going to be a bad fly season. So that's happening.
So not only have flies had time to breed. The
common house fly can get fatter, so more flies and

(19:56):
bigger flies. I don't quite know what to say about flies. Flies.
I always thought used to be a lot worse, and
there was, so while they're thirty forty years ago we
went to these messi of fly traps in the backyard
that had meat and live meat that got full up
with flies. But you don't see those amounts of flies anymore.

(20:16):
But in those days people had compost and chocks, and
you know it was it felt quite fliesy. I've got
to say, down south, we don't get flies, which is,
don't get flies, don't get ants, dunt get mosquitoes, very
very freeing, no pestilence. Do we want carols this year?

(20:43):
I reckon we probably don't. Most years we just a
little drummer boy. I got sick of it, So I
don't think there will be carols this year unless someone
makes an extraordinary case for it. Normally the discussion goes,
what'sort between a Christmas carol and a Christmas song? And
no one really likes Christmas carols, just Christmas songs. But

(21:07):
I think they've fallen out of it, and where are
the new ones? By the way. No one's inventing the
new ones, which is a bit of a worry. I
think God Taytaker to a Christmas album, couldn't she that
wouldn't kill her? It's probably has just not across it.
So all these topics had more Anything happened anything, and
you might be driving. Some are interesting tonight. Make the effort.

(21:28):
You might be coming back from the whales stranding, and
I will keep you updated with the rescue of those
people in on Mount Cook. Marcus Sky and their commercials,
even doing them during some sports events spoils the continuity
of game. Most annoying some this week and I buy

(21:52):
shares that lucrative hand cart market. What are they talking about, Dan?
Have I mentioned handcarts? Someone said it's an advent calendar,
not an event calendar. I think most people know that
Marcus flight returns. Here's your choice, land back at origin

(22:13):
or crash, burn and die short of a destination. Aviation
safety is the safest mode of transporation, hands down. If
there's a problem, the best places to be on the ground.
As the saying goes, it's to be better on the
ground wishing you're in the air than in the air
praying you're back on the ground. Yeah, you know. Christmas

(22:34):
Carol's good one, Marcus, it's Carol free. We could do
a night of just speaking to people called Carol. They
could be on Christmas Carols, but I don't the interviews,
but I don't know if we get enough of them.
Is that you Carol? We could have a night of
the Christmas Carols. I'd rather the Christmas Carons. That's a

(22:55):
name saying that hasn't gone away in it anyway, Marcus.
Ads are that excessive on sky? I'm reconsidering having it,
and I've had it for twenty five years. They go
on for five to six minutes exactly. There was a
whole porter having skis. You didn't get the ads. It's
get the same show repeated endlessly, and then ah, don't

(23:17):
get me started, and then you can't get you get
rain fade and there satellites out of the sky. Goodness me.
I had the Black Friday sales go because I think
today is Cyber Monday? Is that right?

Speaker 5 (23:33):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (23:35):
What does that mean? Our Cyber Mondays like Black Friday?
But the sales are online. I did read an article
from America about there's a New York Times reporters investigate
all the Black Friday sales and only four percent of
them work out to be a reduction that's worthwhile most

(23:57):
of them aren't. So a lot of hype and all
of that retail's kind of changed. There's a lot of
skull duggery of those kind of Brisco things when they
say it to sale. But actually you know what I
mean Marcus to people still buy wall calendars. Every cell
phone's got one. Why bother many homes no longer have

(24:19):
war clocks either. I like a wall clock. Christmas Carols
is an awesome idea. We need to go international to
get enough carols. I'll think of it. Might do it
next year, by the way. His interesting story. He says,
hopefully in the UK and Cardiff they are going to

(24:49):
start charging people more for parking.

Speaker 9 (24:56):
If they drive a bigger car. Yeah, we can se
holding on the principle whether it's right if you're driving
a larger or more pavillion vehicle to pay a bit more.
These vehicles take up more space, they may cause more
damage on their roads if they haven't had a pedestra,

(25:16):
and they like to cause more serious injuries.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Charging larger vehicles more for parking would you be opposed
or for that? I guess it appears he had a
big car a small car. Everyone was driving Zuzuki swift
a years bring that on everyone with a double care
by Suzu. You will ring up and say PC gone mad,

(25:42):
stop stop changing? Pulling up and talk about saying stop
changing things. Not a bad idea, I don't think be
hard to enforce. It would be my only take on
that one. And Marcus welcome.

Speaker 10 (25:54):
Hello. I was thinking about years and years ago when
we lived in England. We were English, we didn't have
much funey, but we had a big can per sort
of not a camper fan. It was a band that
you could sleep in and the kids fitted in. And

(26:15):
and my goodness that we didn't have much money. They
would be charging us extra doing that.

Speaker 11 (26:21):
Wouldn't they if they?

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Oh, yes, it wouldn't work for everyone. But I guess
then you wouldn't buy that. You'd buy a sallow and
couldn't cost you too much.

Speaker 10 (26:31):
Well they weren't. They weren't very costly to buy. They
actually were cheaper to actually go and get them to
sort of hire somewhere to stay. I suppose a tent
would might have been cheap per that we found this
quite successful with it and a dog too.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
What was it.

Speaker 10 (26:53):
I can't remember what it was called, but it was
a oh gosh, I can't remember so many years ago,
but it was a camper fan and we fitted in
three children, me of my late husband.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
I'd like to I'd like to visualize what the actual
kind of vein was.

Speaker 10 (27:18):
I don't know what it was called the well known make,
and it had a double open back door, and then
down the sides were two long seats which turned into
two beds, and then the front seat went right across
and you put the back back and made that a

(27:38):
big bed. And then there were two little sort of
netting things came out from the top and the top
bits lifted up and so you could. We sitted in
three children, husband, me and my husband, and the dock.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Was a land driver.

Speaker 10 (27:59):
No, that wasn't your name, and I'm not very good
at at it was very well known. Make it to
a sort of.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Okay, we'll find out Texas if you know. And I'm
going to move on, but thank you. Twenty six past nine,
head on midnight. My name is Marcus, Welcome. I can't
find the report about the homing pigeon, but I will
look into that. Yes, Gary, I'm hearing her. Marcus freesound
news for the Otago Polytech cent Lotago campus staff and

(28:31):
Cromwell lost the stonemasonry course and the brewing course. Yeah, disaster,
that is. It was a ripper Marcus. If they put
parking up for cars, then dry cleaners need to reduce
their hefty prices for extra small blazers. Small people get
charged the same price as all the other big to

(28:51):
XXL sizes. Dry cleaning has gone through the roof thirty
five bucks for the extra small jacket. Emma Well, I
had a very good dry cleaning experience with my Swan dries,
so yes for me, they walk on water. Marcus' Sky's

(29:11):
customer based shrinks with people moving to online streaming, the
need for revenue moves to paid content, trying to cancel
your descriptions with aggressive pushback and wildly discounted deals. Skies
days are numbered, Marcus, funny how it's not reducing the
costs for smaller cars. Extremely good point. Some of the

(29:32):
several people said it'll be a sea of Bedford, and
I believe that's probably right. Marcus. Back in the nineties
at a well done retailer. We hid the Christmas Carols
cassette that we had to play over the store speakers.
There was virtually a court of inquiry. How to find
the culprit? Mic I reckon year on year is a
country we get less Christmasy and supermarkets and places like
that unless it's me, Yes, I wonderful have a night

(29:55):
of Carol's Marcus Lynn here. Christmas parties. I worked at
rices in the Cargol from the seventies, eighties and ninety
It was old Christmas parties were awesome, not so sure
if the directors were impressed. Whever all the stars had
an epstick ball and staff never paid for anything. Very
special times. I'll tell you what I have been when
we worked. When I worked at radio and in ver Cargill,

(30:18):
justin we used to do a Christmas party and it
was called around the Mountain, and you got on a
bus and you went to every pub. I don't know
what mountain we went around. We started the White House,
then we went to a pub in Thorndon Thornbury, which

(30:42):
is no longer there, then to two in Riverton, then
to or Toto, then to night Caps and the Trouble
with that with Christmas parties is that you are trapped.
So if you're on a bus or a boat, you
can't tap out. What was interesting to observe was that

(31:04):
the people took it took them a while to get
drunk or to get married. Then they're in a special
window for about ten minutes when they sort of seem
to be elevated. But it was quite a small and
that was kind of on the bus from Winton to
in Vocargo. It took a long time to get going.
It was good to go to those pubs that are
no longer there anyway, be at your people. If you

(31:25):
want to talk Marcus to the midnight, yes, that would
be my thing if you. I mean sometimes Christmas parties
on boats can be very very good, but you are
stuck there. I'm not quite sure what happened to that
Christmas party in the white of Matara of the weekend.
The police met them with tasers. That sounds excellent or
quite memorable. Andy, it's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (31:44):
Good evening, sul Marcus.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
How are you Andy, very good?

Speaker 12 (31:48):
Thank you good good.

Speaker 11 (31:51):
I was at Christmas party.

Speaker 5 (31:54):
Oh yeay, yay, yeah yay, being very jolly.

Speaker 11 (32:01):
But I work for a regional counselor. I won't say
which one in case we get an O, I, A.

Speaker 5 (32:09):
Or a LA.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
But for those that don't know, for those that don't
know what a lagoima is, that's like an official information
request for local body governments and they can source all
your emails.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
So it's like and is local government official information? I
don't know, Okay, anyway going, Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 11 (32:33):
Know what the actually find it. Yeah, so I won't
say who I work for. But yeah, we went to
we went lawn bowled today.

Speaker 13 (32:42):
Oh, quite good, beautiful day. Yeah it was quite good.

Speaker 11 (32:47):
Actually, I mean we we pay for.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
It because because it's regional counsel you couldn't the rate
payers couldn't pay for your lair up because someone would
get a bit spicy about that, wouldn't they.

Speaker 11 (32:58):
Yeah, I would hate. I would hate for that, you know,
I would hate for the rate payer to pay for me,
you know, drinking at a bowling club. But yeah, we
attends and pieces.

Speaker 13 (33:07):
And played a few bowls.

Speaker 11 (33:08):
And have you ever done.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Yes, I have. I have a long time ago and
and I love tinpin bowling because I love the high
of the strike. And I got quite good at this
year but but but lawn bowls, I don't know. I
don't know about I don't quite know whether it's it's me.

Speaker 11 (33:30):
I think. I think with lorn bowls, you're almost chasing
the same high, like if you experienced the high of
dropping the ball right on top of the jack and
you know you do a good bowl, like you're chasing
that same high. But but the frustration is so real
with lawn bowls. It's way harder than it looks.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Oh no, there's no doubt. It's difficult. It's not okay,
did you work?

Speaker 11 (34:00):
I'm not sure we've stopped counting.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
I think so, Andy. Did it make you feel better
about your work and the people you work with that
you got to socialize with them on a Monday?

Speaker 14 (34:13):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (34:13):
Look, not really.

Speaker 13 (34:17):
They're nice enough.

Speaker 15 (34:18):
They're nice enough.

Speaker 11 (34:19):
I don't I enjoy working with them, but you know,
socializing with all of them at once, trying to make
that small talk that you know, and you're trying not
to talk about work. What else do you have in common?
You've got to find that common ground and.

Speaker 13 (34:35):
Like a bit of a brunch.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
But you know who drives it. There's always someone that
does every year they wanted there's some people that want
their Christmas party every year, don't they because it means
something to them.

Speaker 16 (34:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (34:45):
Absolutely, Yeah, this is driven by one person. I think
it was a reluctant volunte hold. I think she was
you have to do this to the Christmas party this year,
so that one person organized it, and we're very grateful
for that because otherwise, you know, it becomes a bit
of a a bit of a show.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Okay, good to hear from you. Any thank you, Paul,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
Good evening.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Welcome, Hi Paul, Marcus, Hi Paul.

Speaker 17 (35:13):
We're nice to talk to you again.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Must talk to you, Paul.

Speaker 17 (35:17):
Challenge accepted because you said someone would have to change
your mind about Christmas cals.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Oh about it, not about playing them on the show.

Speaker 17 (35:25):
Yes, yes, yes, yeah that's sad.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
No, it's good.

Speaker 5 (35:34):
You.

Speaker 17 (35:35):
But to everyone else it might not be one suggesting
to you. And you said there's been no new Christmas carols.
You're probably pretty accurate in that regard. But there is
one song that I think you should play and let
the audience and your listeners the side if Christmas carols

(35:55):
are a good.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Thing or not, And is it a carol or is
it a Christmas song. It's a song, okay, is it's
a Christmas song, not a.

Speaker 17 (36:04):
Carol, and it's from a thrash metal band and there's
no swearing and it's absolutely hilarious.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (36:16):
Drop Kick Murphy's is the band and the seasons.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Upon us the drop Kick Mercys.

Speaker 17 (36:28):
Murphy Murphy as Murphy Ireland.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Where did you discover it?

Speaker 17 (36:37):
I'll tell you about three years ago?

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Okay, but where now?

Speaker 14 (36:40):
And now?

Speaker 17 (36:41):
My kids say, can you put it on? And it
is funny?

Speaker 2 (36:46):
Okay, I shall, I shall research that, Paul, thank you.
Twenty five to ten lawn bowls. Yeah, I imagine that's
pretty much right in the bread basket of a average words.
Let's go lawn bowling. This year people were a zippy
had like a cheese cutter or something. Out they go
carrying the yards out there. Oh you go, there you go.

(37:11):
Some of says, be where the lawn bowls? Holding pen
for the cemetery exactly. Someone has just said a text that,
oh another there's another there's another aircraft investigation. I think
that's the same one, is it. I mean, I guess
it's good they're investigating what's happening with the planes. Here's

(37:33):
been not trouble with engines though, hasn't there There have
been callbacks and buybacks and stuff. I'm in a very
happy place if I fly it's the end. It's the end.
That's where I am with that. Well whatever. But they
are investigating one from Wellington to Sydney that dropped suddenly.

(37:57):
I don't know why they want members of the public.
Wouldn't evenything on the flight recorder. Simon Marcus, welcome, I
can tell you it's something really good, really good. Thank
you really there you going beautiful? Well, it depends where
you were in the country. Where are you.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
Here, Yeah, it's Friday down the line.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Did you have a wet weekend?

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Oh gosh, you think yeah?

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, so dried up today? Has it?

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Yeah? Bro, bro, I was able to be washing in
today year.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Oh yeah, I got a couple. I got two loads
out and dried on the washing and that was good.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Oh good. Oh. I was just thinking a Christmas song
and it's called a Christmas song itself by just throw
a toll one I like to.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Tell Yeah, is it called a Christmas song?

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Yeah itself?

Speaker 5 (38:59):
Yeah yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
A lot of vol in us and it's sort of
sort of a flute or something that when it starts
at the beginning, it's quite quite quite a nice Have
they ever played on the radio a long time ago?
I think it came to a built known suenty one
or which is a long time ago.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Now it's almost fifty years ago. Now is it old stuff,
isn't it?

Speaker 3 (39:27):
We look at throat, Yeah, oh you say it's some year.
It's I haven't heard it far. Oh, quite a number
of years.

Speaker 5 (39:40):
New.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Yeah, I like energy, so I'm a going to move on,
but thank you for that. Nineteen to ten now Italian
tomatoes sold by several UK supermarkets and Pedicantain tomatoes grown
and picked in China using forced labor. Well, I never

(40:02):
got to worry about tomatoes. They have been picked by wigas.
Oh hell, cheapest creepers. You wonder where the prophet is?
And tin tomatoes sometimes don't what I do. When you

(40:24):
can grow your own, when you get the're cheap. When
you can't grow you around, they're expensive. What's that about?
Nineteen to ten? My name is Marcus, welcome be ending
around with all sorts of topics. Lawn bowls They tried
to speed up lawn bowls, don't then they've got more
brightly colored balls now, I think make it more televisual.

(40:49):
I think it's ever going to take over the world.
Beck at your My name is Marcus. Welcome eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty Yeah, Mike, it's Marcus.

Speaker 14 (41:03):
Good evening, Yeah, yeah, I was just telling you men.
I was walking down to the bus stop about lunchtime today, Yeah,
and there was a dead bumblebee on the footpath and
holding on to it at the front was another one,

(41:24):
and it looked for all the world like it was
trying to resuscitate it. Goodness, and I'm ringing in regards
to that, and maybe other people have seen that, and
there might be some kind of explanation to it.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Did your video it or did you want to leave
them to it?

Speaker 5 (41:43):
No?

Speaker 14 (41:43):
I was catching a bus but that was about a
half after eleven twelve today, and I went back down
about seven o'clock this evening and that both bumblebees were
lying dead on the footpath. So that's as much as
I know.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Wow and are still together.

Speaker 14 (42:05):
Yeah, I was still there and they were both dead.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
And they joined at the mouth.

Speaker 14 (42:10):
Yeah. So, as I say, I'm seventy five years old,
I've never ever seen anything like that in your life.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
No, you seem like you're a fairly observant sort of
a roost.

Speaker 14 (42:26):
Oh well, you know when you get to my age,
you have seen the odd bit. But I mean I
found us really quite curious.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
I wonder I mean, I think brought food to it
to revive it or something.

Speaker 14 (42:40):
Well, not for all the world, it's not the first
time that I had seen a dead bumblebee in that vicinity.
There must be something that there's one or two shrubs
and maybe maybe that they don't agree with the bumblebees.
And I've seen the odd one on the footpath, but
this particular time it was dead on the footpath with

(43:02):
this live one holding it at the front, and it
looked like it was trying to revive it.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
I'm going to see if I can find some more
information about that, Mike, So thank you. Someone else might
have a similar thing. We might be onto something.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
Now.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Ross As Marcus.

Speaker 8 (43:17):
Welcome, Yeah, yeah, good. Hey, we're doing lawn bowls this year.
We did do it go cats last year, which was
a complete disaster.

Speaker 5 (43:33):
Even the possum.

Speaker 8 (43:34):
List and that he didn't even he didn't even drive
the cat.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Why was a disaster.

Speaker 8 (43:41):
We're all sort of like question into each other, and
I was stationarying some guy just coming back and straight
into the back of me like Paul Boar. I got
a bit of whipless and the neat sort of thing.
And then the guy we were going around. Then the
guy just also he got like remote control and he
just went and then he go cat like he was

(44:01):
and running. Pop is, well you're doing We're not even
in the pitch, ye and he says you you to discussing,
we've got we're going to take you off.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
Yea was it was? It really competitive?

Speaker 8 (44:16):
Ah yeas and know yeat and know. But like the
year before we did super Cats and that was great.
They you know, they took you for a course and
you could hit people and sort of do that. But
it was just way more. I guess Supercats had the
bigger track, whereas a dirt track. Dirt track was quite
small and bumpy and when you overtake it was just

(44:39):
like a go cart in the half wide, so it
was really difficult and you end up just leaning on
someone all the time. But yeah, it was. It was.
It was worse word do I haven't been too?

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Yeah, because I reckon if I went to work do,
I'd get really competitive. It was something like racing.

Speaker 14 (44:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (44:58):
I mean it's really funny because everyone came around.

Speaker 16 (45:01):
Watch for Ros, watch up for Ross.

Speaker 8 (45:02):
He'll he'll, he'll do the than anderdog blah blah. But
I think I ended up getting about to do the fourth.
But yeah, it was some young guy. You know that weighs.
Nothing makes a big difference when you in the goka,
you know.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
So, oh you're making excuses. It was your way to Yeah,
you probably And what's this year's lawn bowls is it?

Speaker 5 (45:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (45:28):
But we're playing on one of those synthetic lawns. You know,
it's not proper graphs, it's just adic one that they
obviously hire out to work and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
You wonder, why could you think there'll be plenty of
all traditional looking for the revenue.

Speaker 8 (45:44):
I think there's going to be a few few Nordy
fellows there one anyway, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
And they'll put they'll put the bar on as well,
will they.

Speaker 8 (45:55):
Ah, Yes, and no, he's got he's got us playing
lawn bowls at pass one next Friday afternoon.

Speaker 5 (46:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (46:03):
We just were knock off at I knock off at lunch.
Common for so yeau, I'll been there twenty years, so
they can give me something to look forward to each week.
But then he's going to take all the employees and
the partners out for tea and a meal at night
time to start to have past five.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
But that sounds like a great well, he sounds like
a great boss.

Speaker 8 (46:29):
He's a fantastic guy, he really is. He's has he's
got really white shoulders, and he's always said to us
guys say, look, if you want a barbecue, you know,
and then the boys saying, oh, we want a barbecue
this Fridays to get into it. Yeah, but he always
puts food on as well because he can't just put
alcohol on. So yeah, you know, you can't. You can't

(46:50):
sort of drangle without eating as well. So yeah, he's
he's a really nice guy. He's Yeah, I've got a
lot of time from a lot of.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Oh it's good to hear. So last year was last
year was it was go cutting? This year's long bowls?
Is that right?

Speaker 7 (47:04):
Yep?

Speaker 5 (47:05):
Yep?

Speaker 8 (47:05):
This year is low on bols. And actually the year
before the two go cadding years, we went to the
Eddington Racers, which was a Friday night.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
Gravely fantastic that that would be the pick of them
for me.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (47:18):
Well he I think he gave everybody like one hundred
dollars each just to spined up. So just use that
a bit. And I said to people, look, just put
ten bucks a place on a horse and you can
go from onnd to free that way. You know, Yeah,
don't put a team back for a one because you know.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
It sounds like your sounds to me like you're almost
a defecto boss Ross. Sounds like you've got the respect
of the workplace as well.

Speaker 8 (47:41):
Oh, most certainly, most certainly everybody's just said, yeah, I'm
just the life of the place really, and and I
like to I like to hype people up and talk
them up about you know these you do.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
Do you mind me asking you what industry it is?

Speaker 8 (48:00):
We make food display cabinets for the hospitality industry.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Brilliant Oka, I'm glad I asked ros. That sounds fantastic.
Like everything you've said, you've actually given me more hope
about Christmas than anyone brilliant. Oh, we'll talk about great
bosses and great Christmas parties I've put on. That's a
more positive thing. Be hard for a boss, because you're
a hiding to nowhere. I feel for my boss every

(48:24):
year having to buy me anything. Absolutely a heart bleed
for them. But they're the're not easy to buy for
yep anyway. But we know that times are tough. But
you know you still want something this to be value,

(48:45):
don't you, Marcus bumblebees forage and a prime to glyphosphate
weed killer. Lately the numpanies are out there where they're
spray bordering the boundaries. Someone said two bees or not
two bees. Racewalking is gaining popularly, Lionel, you could destroy

(49:10):
your staff's will to live by arranging a croquet puddy.
All I want as a scavenger hunt, or like a
orienteering ramble, thing with maps and compasses, or a pub crawl,
even though not being a drink. I saw love a

(49:30):
pub crawl. If you go from venue to venue as
people get progressively sketchier, always good apart from the fact
that you're stuck there and you can't tap Craig Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 16 (49:44):
Can you hear me clean?

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Yes, loud and clear?

Speaker 16 (49:48):
Okay, Hey, So I hope the story makes up for
the time waiting. It dates back to probably nineteen ninety five, right, yeah. Yeah,
So as a young a young trody a border working
in Rosedale, Albany. It was a massive red factory we're

(50:12):
working on coming up the Christmas. It was going to
be the big Christmas puddy. So everybody that had been
working on this massive, massive job had been bodied there,
from the group use to the figures, to the train
news sparkys, everybody. So it must have been at one
hundred trades there, but I was working there. So we

(50:37):
started making barbecues and stuff around about lunchtime as you
do sausages and stuff, and had a little bit of
a fire going there were for the off cuts of
timber and stuff like you do, and yes, osages and stuff.
And as we might get on, more and more trades
turned out. And next thing is, you know, like about
a hundred of them and the fire kept going. But

(50:59):
the actually was inside. They had they had chefs with
chefs hats on on barbecues, couldn't salmon. They had a
what do you call it like a catwalk with what
do you call lady lady dancers.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
On it and stuff, and we was the sad.

Speaker 16 (51:18):
Rosedale down in Albany. And yeah, I think they got
silt valic In at the time silicon you know, so
this is good, very good. But I was thinking quite
young at the time, so not drinking. But I was
only twenty five at the time. So next next of
all these traders there and a uh don't got ramsy

(51:40):
guns on A turned up with and he threw through
or through boxes of stuff into the fire for some
sparks and stuff. And then the fire probably tripled in size,
and it last time to the pullman shed, which caught
on fire instantly. And next thing there's fire engines and
the police and ambulances and lady dancers running away and

(52:06):
there it's probably as to the way they come packed
me up.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Like the way you call them lady dancers. So you
called your fiancee.

Speaker 16 (52:18):
Yep, I already caught them by the time the performance.
She called them fires.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
Are you know?

Speaker 16 (52:24):
I need to leave? So yeah, I got got out
of there, but pretty much out left there's a fire
something turned up.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
So what was the venue? Was it was the venue
a pubble? Was it just the workplace?

Speaker 16 (52:37):
No, it was a workplace where built this mess? I
think it might have been north I don't want to
say words, but there's a massive factory that made Bread
and Rose Road there by kind of not far from
Penman's books and someone someone used to go from ecuse me.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
So someone chucked the ram set nail box of those
onto the fire and they've got explosives in them, have they?

Speaker 16 (53:04):
Yeah, they're ripped because everybody worked in this who used
rampsy guns all the time. Rams turn up, throw some
box of the chargers on there. Hey watch this bo
I just literally yeah, tripled as incredible. So yeah, good night.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
And did they put the fire out quite successfully?

Speaker 7 (53:26):
Ah?

Speaker 16 (53:27):
No, left? Like I said, I called my fiance. I
just wanted to see. And as the fire trucks and
ambulances turned up. Yeah, I went back there the next
day because yes, before Christmas. And there's the tackle and
stuff for the woman stuff but nobody got hurt.

Speaker 15 (53:46):
It's a big joke.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
But yeah, good party, trading party, cray. That's what I
want to hear about the lady dancers. They went good
and bad Christmas parties. And are you doing anything different
this year for your Christmas party? Have they decided to
an escape room or go bowling rather than go to
the bar. I know what people, I mean, it makes

(54:09):
you really question the whole point of a Christmas party,
which I've never really understood, but there's always people that
demand them, particularly if you've got et I think when
we went for the one, I think was involved in
a social club when you put money aside each week,

(54:30):
and that it's always partical who runs a social club
and what they come up with the event and everly
and southing just ends up at a pub crawl you
go around the mountain, and I don't I mean it's legendary,
but a lot of the pubs have closed, and I
don't think it's quite what it once was in the
nineteen fifties perhaps. Anyway, Welcome, My name is Marcus. We

(54:50):
are talking about that and anything else that's got your fancy.
Not I am here till twelve mo. Name's Marcus. Good
Evening Christmas parties, the good and the bad and the disastrous,
and I'm sure you've had plenty of those. The rem
set rep rigand that's a closict Christmas party. When they

(55:12):
asked the reps along love and hearing about that thirteen
past team Jamie Marcus, Welcome, Hey Marcus, how are you
going good?

Speaker 6 (55:23):
Jamie?

Speaker 13 (55:25):
Yeah, we had this has gone back a fair a
few years now, when I was working for arborist company,
I always say name it Utan, but Deem Lonigan used
to put on Christmas parties at the AHD Showdounds and yeah.
Our goal every year was the time to get kicked
out of if you lift by the whole company or
you imagine all artists, you know, pretty good to people. Yeah,

(55:49):
So anyway, and ah showed me on Dean Lonagan would
hire big Marquee and you could rent like a bet
of it out and in the middle there'd be games.
There was a fishing game we could wind up for real.
There was I was a tug of war, so you know,
then you join them anyway.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
So he so he ran this to different all different
works work companies with Jesus as the Christmas party. This
was his business, right.

Speaker 13 (56:20):
Yeah yeah, this was yeah, part of those things.

Speaker 15 (56:22):
So you can you can.

Speaker 13 (56:23):
See to get pretty loose and you yeah, yeah, yeah,
so walking there as well, I don't know. There was
a jager mister mascot, so that was we were big on.

Speaker 18 (56:36):
Yeah, and then yeah, and then anyway, there was our
mate was on the fishing game proper real make goes
and clicks, you know, the little bar.

Speaker 13 (56:48):
To the road and just tangles that. So make that
game and efence for the night. And I'll never forget
the guy that I was running it on a face
that yeah, and then Tag of Walls and these it
was like a warehouse and crowd. They came over to
us and asked if we wanted to play Tag of walk,
you know, arborously quite skinny people, but extremely strong. So

(57:12):
we ended up trolling the whole lot of warehousing staff
with the tag of war pretty much not banned from that.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
Did you want did you win? Did you want all
the tug of wars?

Speaker 5 (57:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (57:26):
Yeah, we won all the little to the point where
it all like hold my white hand and I haven't
been struggling, you.

Speaker 5 (57:33):
Know, and then we go on.

Speaker 13 (57:34):
Then we're just let go and that all fall over
and I was a good time here. And then the
next day or the next week, come to work and
because my good mate, his dad was one of the
big bosses there, he was talking to Demonigan at the
end of the night, he goes, I've never seen anyone
drink as much alcohol as your company.

Speaker 5 (57:54):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
That's that's that's the Averea.

Speaker 10 (57:57):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (57:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
But Jamie didn't manage to get kicked out.

Speaker 13 (58:03):
No, I didn't get kicked out. We ain't gonna invite
it back. The next year was two years ago.

Speaker 10 (58:07):
Brilliant of course.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Of course the resk have got a high powder rate ratio,
haven't they. They're kind of yeah up and strong.

Speaker 13 (58:18):
Yeah yeah, you're very strong, you know. Oh yeah, most
of the tree climbers and stuff or you know, I'm
working with chainful.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
But you're not like that. But you're not like that.
Not like that? Now, are you? Jamie?

Speaker 13 (58:30):
Now put on since I started going trucked over here
and put on thirty kilo.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Now dirty dirty kilos.

Speaker 13 (58:39):
I reckon in twelve years?

Speaker 5 (58:41):
Oh hell.

Speaker 13 (58:43):
Yeah, yeah, definitely no average anymore.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Are you not up and down the trees in your
spare time?

Speaker 13 (58:50):
No, I know, I haven't even touched the chainsaw, and
I kind of tree down for a mate maybe five
years ago sharpened his chainsaw. Other that ouldn't have touched
the chamber in almost ten years.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
Have you still got it the skills?

Speaker 13 (59:05):
No?

Speaker 6 (59:05):
No, I haven't.

Speaker 14 (59:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 13 (59:07):
Probably when I buy some land, i'll let you know. Yeah,
probably not.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
If you played o.

Speaker 13 (59:20):
Uh yeah, I had one hundred and I mean and
then I was like, I need to U. Yeah, I
need to lose some weight, and so one hundred and sixteen,
so you need to loose them while I'm trying to
get under one hundred and ten.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
You might need a zim pick.

Speaker 13 (59:37):
Yeah, I'll start to go, but I think as the
one time I get to under one hundred and ten,
regard all you can eat Pizza.

Speaker 5 (59:42):
Hut really to go?

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Really?

Speaker 13 (59:47):
Yeah, there's one down the road?

Speaker 6 (59:50):
How long?

Speaker 2 (59:51):
How long is there is there a is there an?
Is there an end date for that? Is it like
next year? Or you're gonna eat pizza Hut.

Speaker 13 (01:00:02):
One hundred and ten?

Speaker 5 (01:00:03):
Eight now?

Speaker 13 (01:00:04):
So maybe a couple of weeks?

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
Oh yeah, so how much have you lost already?

Speaker 15 (01:00:09):
Six?

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
I'll go you okay? Do they do they have all
you can eat pizza New Zealand?

Speaker 5 (01:00:15):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:00:17):
I don't know if they have anymore. They've they've got
two in Queensland. I think it's the only two in Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
And what do they charge for all you can eat?

Speaker 13 (01:00:27):
I think lunch was like sixteen? Wasn't there for an
unsanctioned one a couple of weeks ago?

Speaker 6 (01:00:32):
Hungry?

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
But yeah, and unsanctioned one?

Speaker 5 (01:00:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:00:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's yeah, that was like we were driving
past it, kids are at school. I didn't know should
we go in there? And she's like wait yet, I
was like, yeah, you know this would be a.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
Just go well, you're not going to you're not going
to lose the weight. If you're don't sanctioned, you can
eat buffets.

Speaker 13 (01:00:58):
That was pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Good to hear from you, Jamie dB Marcus.

Speaker 5 (01:01:02):
Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 15 (01:01:07):
Christmas party that I remember vaguely to this day. I
wasn't saying there was nineteen eighty two ish. I'm a
low time fireman for ralways and we're on a local
shunting service in Auckland, says and worry. So we get

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to worry and Christmas Eve this particularly year was Saturday.
So we get out to worry and they're building a
honey in the yard or the railway workers and they
send off down to service all the various backshunts were

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lots of different companies. In those days, railways were still
a thing. So we get to each company who were
having their Christmas party, and each one we bought too
and said boom tye bro have a couple of beers
and so we you know, we serve it all the

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way down those days, the vine almost went out as
far as Malachal City, it was, and there were some
quite big companies and there were some really good beer.
And we get back to Wurriie and by the stage
the honey is ready to be pulled. And we stayed
there as well, and you know, brother, brother, have a
have a couple of a couple of timnis. We finally

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get back to Westfield Marster Gard and my drives. I
don't know about you, but I don't think I'm sober
mother than to one of your other callers mentioned as
some of his partners, and that one came to mind,
and it was, Yeah, it was.

Speaker 5 (01:02:54):
An education.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
It sounds like the perfect and that's the perfect Christmas thing.
It's just sort of spontaneous and the Christmas spirit takes
you on, you know, that's what you want.

Speaker 15 (01:03:03):
Absolutely. But everywhere we went, they were already well into
their Christmas spirit, and we were we really were strangers.
We just serviced their excents or their their sis.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
So were they But they were they were they were
separate railway departments, right, is that what they were?

Speaker 15 (01:03:24):
No, No, they were separate customers, like you know, they
weren't actually, but like the warehouse.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
Understand understand y yeah, And but in.

Speaker 15 (01:03:35):
Each place we stopped, they were having their Christmas doom,
and they just invited a certain part of the family
because Railways as a family, serviced them all year. We
just happened to be the two people on that day
that turned up.

Speaker 6 (01:03:52):
They were brother.

Speaker 8 (01:03:54):
Have a er.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
Yeah, that's what we sure. Those kind of occasions, you
get kind of co opted to someone else's Christmas. But
that's the classic, because that's always good.

Speaker 15 (01:04:03):
Yeah, absolutely, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Nice talk, Thanks so much, dB, keep it going. It's
all about Smiths, Marcus. Remember when people used to leave
box of beer right for the binman? I bet those
fellas that's a pretty good bloody workdos whatever that means.
I were of superstitious. People have a rund derecrunting Christmas trees,
especially what has chosen to crown the tree top. I

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know our family who each year a different film member
gets to choose what goes on top. And news that
will surprise no one. I've never really got the point
about a Christmas tree, never got the point about that, Marcus.
Our work do this Christmas is going to be a

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mini amazing race. Like the TV show brilliant Marcus. It
was the lady dancers running away that made that story.
Well we're lady dancers, never quite sure what they are,
what sort of work do? It was then your markets markers, Hello.

Speaker 15 (01:05:10):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 12 (01:05:13):
Just having a bit of a bit of a thing
about fly infestations that just maybe have a bit of
a chuckle about one thing that I did one summer.
So I have a hibsolute I don't know medic state
that comes over me when I see flies around the
household and I go a bit nuts. And I think
it started from when I was a child, had one
of those sling shots and I used to have nine

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windows in my room, leave it open in the summer's day,
close all the windows and get all the flies out
of there with the sling shot. But yeah, so you
can kind of get a bit of a sense of
me just you know, flies around the house. I just
go crazy and it drives my wife and kids a
bit bananas with tea towels and stuff like that. So
one summer, while they're away, I decided to get my

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those fly companies and get the house sprayed and just
did it sneakily, quietly on the slide and fifty backs
or something, and it was a glorious summer where the
flies just you know, came flying and then died quick,
smart and no flies all summer. But I can't say
that the troops are too happy with me spraying the

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house with whatever was in that spray. Look, it worked
a tread So it was an interesting little test ped
you know. And I'm sort of like, I'm not a
big fan of spiders either, So I'm like, we've just
boot house and I'm like, every summer it comes around
and I'm tended to give it a crack again, And
I'm like.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
What's your normal go to for flies? The fly paper
or the underturrent or the spray or the trap? Because
trips were huge, wild, big give big trips in the backyard.

Speaker 12 (01:06:52):
Oh, it sounds like a bit of a go I
haven't tried that one. Look, that's the old, tried and
tested detail most of the time. To be honest, I'd
love to try those. I don't know, salt gun or something, yes, yeah,
any treating stuff get into you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
I don't know if the tee taels that ethical is.

Speaker 12 (01:07:10):
It's it's rapid navy, but no, it's it's not their Yeah,
you need.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
You need a designated tetawel for that, wouldn't you.

Speaker 12 (01:07:22):
Yes, you don't read maxing your t tawls.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
Yeah, that's the point I'm making. Thank you very much
for that, Mark, Marcus. Are we about to have another
egg shortage? I would not be surprised if there's a
what do we call the egg shortage? Egg mcgeddon. I
think that's probably going to be a thing. Twenty one
past eleven David's Marcus Good evening.

Speaker 5 (01:07:43):
Oh god, Marcus, you just talking about whales strands that
I saw an interesting documentary on sixty minutes today on
the device. It was was about killer whales and they
had an aquarium in Florida. Here they had three killer
whales doing all these trips point several hundred people, you know,

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doing all sorts of things. And anyway, this particular whale,
he was the biggest pillow. He went rogue and he
killed his keeper. He held her underwater for forty five minutes. Wow,
So he was abandoned. They took him out of a

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show and put him in a pool on his own,
and it was quite a small pool actually, because he
was going crazy in me he didn't like that, but anyway,
to cut a long story short, that sixty minutes investigated
journalists as if the manager of the aquarium, and he said,

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has this whale killed before? And she said, yeah, twice,
so yeah. So he sort of said, well, why didn't
you do something about it after the first time? And
she couldn't answer that, you know, she's sort of a
loss for words. And then they bought this animal specialist

(01:09:17):
on you know, and interviewed her and she said, well,
that whale, if he was a person in that small
enclosure that it's in now, he would be suffering from
a serious mental illness because you could see he was
just he was just crazy in this bloody small pool,
you know. Yes, so it was quite interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
I thought, I don't know why, but I thought they
must have stopped all those killer whale shows. And this
is still a recent thing, is it.

Speaker 5 (01:09:47):
It may it may not have been. It may may
have been an old, older video, but yeah, yeah, but
quite possibly. The hand markers here, well I.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Don't yeah, I mean it's called SeaWorld, is it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:07):
Yeah, yeah, I think it is. Actually, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
It does say that three thousand, seven hundred whales and
dolphins are held across the globe. And thirty eighteen. Orcas
are in SeaWorld parks. So yeah, it looks like they're
still there. It's pretty grim, but I always see there's
huge crowds. Do you up to watch them perform?

Speaker 5 (01:10:32):
Yeah? Oh yeah, there was. There was a couple one
hundred pubs.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
Do you remember what the documentary is called?

Speaker 5 (01:10:44):
It was a sixty minute documentary I think was If
you just type and killer whales, it will probably or
Orcas year. It had probably come up it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
Will be SeaWorld Florida. Is that what it was?

Speaker 5 (01:10:59):
Yeah? I think it was Florady Year. Pretty sure.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
Okay, I look into that day. Thank you very much.
We'll took Walkers, Wales and SeaWorld. I just thought most
of them have been released by I can't believe they
still have them in there. It says SeaWorld is a
chain of marine memo parks in the US, largest owner
of captive killer whales in the world. SeaWorld San Diego, SeaWorld, Orlando, SeaWorld,

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San Antonio. I don't know what the one was that
killed its trainer someone. I've watched that and let me
know about that. Here we go twenty three away from twelve.
My name is Marcus good evening here on midnight Roman
along from twelve. How are you? What's happening? Anyone do
anything interesting tonight? I suppose you're doing a Christmas shopping online.
Watch out for your phone charges from Temu. They'll kill you.

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I'm saying that because it caused a fire in Auckland.
I don't know how they knew it was a Temu charger,
but I'll be careful with that. It sparked a house
fire in Green Hive. Nice looking house or two story
I mean discount online retailer tim who was launched an

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internal investigation for cheap phone charges, sparked a house fire.
The cable being used to recharge your phone had been
placed on soft material. We're overheated and caught fire. It's
a three story house. Goodness, a TIMU spokesperson who knew
there was such thing. A spokesperson told The Herald they

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were deeply concerned and relieved that mister Sparks, that's right,
the name as Sparks and his family are safe and unharmed.
The spokesperson said. While they had not yet received the
purchase details here to verify which product caused the blaze,
tim WU has proactively initiated an into investigation. Our teams

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are carefully reviewing product listings and seller records right to
the USB cables mentioned the news. According to Fire and
Emergency Department findings reported in the news, the fire may
have involved the use of a cable to recharge your
phone while was placed on a soft surface. They say
use following their recommendations to charge devices on hard non

(01:13:26):
flammable services to reduce risk. The person said their partner.
The person on their house said their partner was using
a green flesh and cord brought from the Chinese own
online e Taylor to charge her phone and left it

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between their beard and a pillow to protect it from
their pet rabbit. Wish what's going on? It seems like
the cord been so hot, just caught the bear and
fire it all went off. Was rabbit inside the house?
Spark said his partner had taken a sleeping pool which
hadn't worked, led into her to go outside for a cigarette.

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They say, smoking kills. That might have saved my life.
Well outside the partner who heard the smoke going alarm
go on and rushed back inside a check on the
one year old baby. God's all going on this family.
She apparently saw smoke straight away, went straight and grabbed
our baby and went out. Missus Sparks was gaming in

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the downstairs garage when his partner alluded to the fire
and he ran to the top floor, thinking she had
gone further into the house, opened the door and just
saw pitch black. It was just black as smoke. You know,
you can't see anything ahead of you. Within a second,
I was just covering it. The family and their pet

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rabbit escaped and five crews from Elbowy and Greenhearth arrived
to put out the blaze. Goodness, The family has moved
out while the cleanup and repair process has been undertaken,
and have started to give a little to help cover costs.

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Well hope Tim is given to the give a little.
What a tremendous article. Oh finally, hello, mister m just
turned from AM to FM. Very clear. It is great,
Perie Dunedin. If you are underned and turn off your AM,
go to FM one hundred and six point two. Marcus.

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I brought a smart watch for my daughter on TIM.
It was really good. Into one day she came over
to school and said that a watch was so hot
it was burning her arm. She put it in her
bag and it was fine. It was flat, so we
put it on the charge that got so hot again
We're worried it was going to burst into flames. We
put it outside. We couldn't start a fire, and haven't
tried to charge it since. Is there an update on

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the whale stranding? Too dead high tight at midnight they're
going to try and refloat them. Then there's people there
keeping them wet, wet, wet, wet. I maybe there's good
chats at the whale stranding as you're oh, yeah, how's

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your whale wet all? He's got one whale with your blankets.
Good evening, Christ's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:16:31):
Oh, good evening, Marcus. I switched to IF in half
an hour ago, and you know, like the chickster you
just head as I was dialing. It's crystal clear. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
Wow, that's great.

Speaker 4 (01:16:44):
Okay, I didn't know it had gone to you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
Well, well would you know?

Speaker 4 (01:16:50):
Well not unless you really.

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
Exactly Hey, what's up the top of the dial.

Speaker 14 (01:16:58):
Pattern?

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
Do you know what other rere stations are up there
are right at the top of the frequent I'm just
trying to think of people in trouble finding it if them,
you mean, well, it's top of the die. You've got
used Talk, you've got Used Talk, z'd her on six
point two at one O five point four, you've got
Otago Excess Radio. Then you've got her on four point

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six coast. Then you've got ARI and Z. So it'd
be pretty easy to find, won't it.

Speaker 4 (01:17:27):
Oh it's not. It's not hard to navigate the radio.
It's not that many channels, really, But thank you for that.
And chart record that went on fire wasn't such a
serious event. I was thinking I was listening to a
bedtime story as you read it out. Of course we

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know it's serious, but it sounded like a I was
just thinking, oh my gosh, that would have made it great.

Speaker 14 (01:17:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:17:55):
Story, but it's a serious event, of course, But I
couldn't help thinking when you read it out, I was
going to ask you to say that to protect the rabbit,
they hit it between a pillow and something else.

Speaker 5 (01:18:05):
Did you say between.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
A pillow and between a pillow and a beard?

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
I think, do you mean it was heating up as
it was sandwich between the pillow and the beard.

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
I can't believe they've got the great interview because I've
given them so much information. A lot of people be
too embarrassed to say they're going out for a smoke
or taking sleeping pills. And the kids. You shouldn't be
taking super building and a young baby, should you.

Speaker 4 (01:18:26):
Anyway, it's right what I was going to say about
that charger heating up. I reckon any charger shouldn't be
sandwich between and anything, regardless of being.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
I see the partners using a green flesh and cord
brought from the Chinese own online retailer to charge your
phone and left it between their beard and a pillow
to protect it from their pet rabbit.

Speaker 5 (01:18:49):
Hmm.

Speaker 4 (01:18:50):
May have heated up, and regardless of any brand a charger.

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
I don't know if it was on the floor, But
why is the pet rabbit in the house.

Speaker 4 (01:19:03):
I knew of some people that had a great steamish
giants hopping around the house.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
They are gorgeous.

Speaker 4 (01:19:10):
Yeah, it was massive. Yeah, so I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
Oh well, I'm please. I'm pleased about you got that
on one hundred and six point two, Chris, So thank
you for coming through fourteen to twelve Marcus. Several news
talk ends ed shows have covered the telephone charger cable
fire and blamed Timu very few of so the improper
use of the cable caused the fire exactly. We're team Timu.

(01:19:41):
Eighty seven year old Volkswagen are closing three plants in Germany,
costing tens of thousands of workers. It's happening if we
wear Mac. Thank you Mac. Good evening. Hewitt's Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:19:52):
Ali, Marcus ish the rabbit man from Eco. I've just
been out in the Patican. I've just shot thirty one rabbits.

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
Goodness, where's the.

Speaker 6 (01:20:06):
Will of the Ekitura River which is upstream from what
can I River that comes out to the Why can
I beach on Keperity Coast? And I have to say,
I'm not forget that your rabbits in this person's house.
I don't know if this is a good idea. No, no, no, good. Look,

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I've got a solution for that, but I don't know
if I'm about to dis change my firearm inside the house.

Speaker 5 (01:20:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
Well yeah, I think they has to spend down, you
guys scaring them and shoot their rabbit.

Speaker 6 (01:20:39):
Yeah, and not everybody takes kindly to people coming around
and shooting to tear animals. I mean we're that or
before they're shooting out pits as we don't want that?

Speaker 5 (01:20:48):
Do we know that?

Speaker 6 (01:20:49):
It was somewhere in America, somewhere near Washington, d C.
Somewhere like that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
It rings rings a bell for me. I kind of
I think I kind of know what you're talking about.

Speaker 6 (01:20:59):
There was something waving his arms around like you're having
a shower and singing on a podium talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
I don't know if we call them gingers so dismissively, do.

Speaker 6 (01:21:09):
We Well, I don't know if we could call him
a ganger at all, really, because it's network, it was
probably quite different.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
It was died read, was it?

Speaker 6 (01:21:16):
I don't know. Did you get the email that cent
you about firearms legislation?

Speaker 2 (01:21:20):
Yes? I certainly did.

Speaker 6 (01:21:22):
Yes, and I recalled quite quite heartfelt. It is heartfolt,
and I would love to hear a discussion with if,
of course we count a discussion just on midnight. No.
Have you kicked around firearms legislation all on your talk show?

Speaker 2 (01:21:39):
No, because it's one of those topics that's probably you
get phone treed and you get reasonable discussion goes out
the window quite quickly.

Speaker 6 (01:21:50):
Oh absolutely, it's and you have a lot of topics.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
Like that, well more more more so now because people
take it because people, yeah, because people, everyone's people see
there's a bettle.

Speaker 6 (01:22:06):
Now it's a divisive subject, just like you know, whether
we should buy new rail feries or not buy rail feries.
It's death differences the subject as well.

Speaker 2 (01:22:16):
I think I think anyone thinks the rail faeries thing
was a good deal, they weren't.

Speaker 6 (01:22:23):
You know, it doesn't matter what you're talking about in life,
it's always divisive. They were going to be the lovers,
they were going to be the haters, and they were
going to be the neutral people. And but I think
at this particular point, the gun lobbys are getting way way,
way too much airtime, and they more not quite so

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radical people who are just getting on with their lives
are saying anything. So all you ever hear is the
radical gun people, and you don't hear the other side
of the equation, which is the ninety five percent of
people who are quite happy that their military style. With his
band in this country.

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
Fortunate with the m MP and Winston managed to get
the votes off those people in the conspiracy type people,
and he's done well for them. He's got them a
minister in there is going to change the whole legislation
and it's and I think probably people you know the
government is doing. There's been a lot of legislations have
been changed. It fields about punched drunk because there's so

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much going on, which happens in the first year of
a government, so people are still reeling and then the
economy is tanked as well. That hasn't helped.

Speaker 6 (01:23:31):
Yeah, and it's sort of like while the economies tanked
while we're in the first one hundred days in the
first year and all the rest of it. It's things
are slipping under the radar around form legislation, and there's
some moves that are being made which is deliberate, which
is very deliberate in taking a vanage of situations in

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the political sphere where it really does need to be stopped.
If unless we want to be like America, we can
carry you an arft around the streets and you know
all the restaurant that goes with that. I don't think
you're seeing does really want to be like that. And
I don't really think that New Zealanders know how dangerous

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the gun lobby in Parliament is at the moment and
how the changes that you're going to implement under the
guise of making you feeling safer and are going to
have the opposite effect. Then you know what way you
have the opposite effect? How does how does reintroducing military
style desult withness, the same sort of weakness that we
use in my shootings? How does that make New Zealand

(01:24:34):
safer to reintroduce it back into mum and dad in
the kids hands? It doesn't. And the failure to ban
thirty shot magazines. And I know there's another Thilip pattern
that says, just put on a register, why not just
ban them? Why not just say you can't have a
thirty shot magazine? But again, the gun lobby group KFU

(01:24:58):
who if you're a Minister of Justice, Nicole McKee is
a member of, and Will is a member of this
ex visit for is an advocate for, and it is
in Parliament. And it's just like that movie Advice. Have
you seen that movie Advice?

Speaker 5 (01:25:14):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
But I'm aware of No, I haven't. That's the smoking one,
is it?

Speaker 5 (01:25:18):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:25:19):
The one advice was about the invasion in Iraq and
the Deputy Present of America operated the whole situation so shit,
make it would go you know, the whole method about
with the semester detracted.

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, no, I didn't want but look, i'll
tell you what, Hugh, I think we needed to start
that perps in a different night because I'm just out
of time. I appreciate your calling and thanks for coming through.
But yeah, and maybe the other night we will get
into that. I don't even if there's appetite for people
to talk about the gun lobby, but it's really important
we do. But thanks for bringing that up anyway, right

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before the end of the night. That's it for me.
People back tomorrow night too, So romance along next. Enjoy
the rest of your Monday and all of your Tuesday,
which is just around the corner.

Speaker 1 (01:26:08):
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