Always fill from the cold tap (21 February 2025)

Marcus leverages a Friday free-for-all to cover "kettle-quette", giant sheep, and getting an ID card with your photo on it.

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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't be loose like a goose. That's Friday. Loose like
a goose herding cats on a Friday. That's talkback. Don't
know what direction'll go. It's like a squiggle be all
over the show topic wise, that's fine. I've learned to
love the beast. Will be random till about tea and
then npefield kicking. Some will be watching the rugby, some
will be out on the razzle dazzleding dong, some will

(00:34):
be at home, some will be traveling. That's the beauty
of talkback. You're all doing different things, and no two
nights are the same. It's quite a compelling job, actually
talk because you never quite know what you're going to
end up talking about. And it is that mystery that
makes it always enjoyable to tune up for. We'll go

(00:55):
some nights it goes terribly, but not every night. You
gotta be quite zen about it. You go, just strap
yourself and think, well, Ca, Sarah, Sarah, the future is
not ours to see anyway. I think we're singing that
at school that seemed to be a dumb song to
sing at school, didn't it. I'm surprised how much children.

(01:18):
If you had children, they sing a lot, don't they
singing songs at school? Singing the contemporary songs? I never realized.
I don't think we sang as children, But this generation
of children sing all the time must be the school lunches.
How are you all going?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Some thoughts from me, I'll say some random stuff. Firstly,
here's something I do as a unusual when I come
to work. The first thing I do is make a
cup of coffee. But in order to make a cup
of coffee, the first thing I do is empty the
jug completely and fill it with cold water from the
cold tap, because I'm never sure that someone before me

(02:00):
won't have filled the kettle from the hot tap, and
I think it tastes different. I think boiled from a
hot tap taste different, and I think I can almost
tell it. So is that madness an obsessor? Or is
that normal? Where am I on the curve to empty
the kettle before I fill it? Is that normal? I'd

(02:24):
never fill the kettle from the top from the hot tap.
To me, that is one of the great sins. I'm
not saying why the workmates do that? But you can't
be sure, can you? So there we go. That's the
first thing. That's the first thing that I wonder about,
whether people do that also wander away? The second thing

(02:45):
today I went to buy grass seed for the thropple
at the top of the farm. Now, I guess what
amount you can buy grass seed in twenty five kilogram
bags for a heck there? And funny enough, it's about
a heck there that I am regrassing. But I'm doing

(03:07):
it over five years. So my question to you cockies,
how long does grass seed last before it goes in
the ground. Is it viable for five years? Or you
need to use it in a year? I intend not
to get it wet, that's my question on grass seed.

(03:29):
There's a mix, I think, with some different grab and
of clover in there. So I'm quite excited about that, Armstrong.
I'll spread it around with my hand, or I'll use
some of my form history. We learned about the death
row Twell, was that a grass telling thing? The death
throw tell? Is that? What that was? It was all
about the Industrial revolution? First of all, they work at

(03:50):
how to cultivate grass? Is that right? Anyway? So that's
the second thing I was wondering. And the third thing
I'm wondering about right, hold you, I'll get to you
in a sect, Dave. I'll just do my setup first.
Jeth Rowtel, I think was the guy that invented the

(04:13):
horse drawn seed drill. I'm not using the jeth Throatel.
I'm gonna use the Armstrong method. The third thing I'm
wondering about is those cats, the Monique Neko, the cats
you see at restaurants right, and I'm thinking about those
because five hundred were stolen from Gordon Ramsey's restaurant, and

(04:34):
I often look at cafes. I look at those Moniki Nicko,
those cats with a pool that goes back and forth?
How do they work? Anyone taking one apart? I think
I want one. I'm not able to ram Its restaurant
to get one, and I'm curious to know how they work.
I didn't know they were called that the beckoning cat.
They're everywhere these days, aren't they. The Maniki Nicko never

(04:57):
knew that was a name for them, but Dan must
have known lucky cats or cooling cats. I think I
need one my home, Dave, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Marcus.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (05:13):
As good? Good?

Speaker 6 (05:16):
I just thought i'd bring up your made comments about
singing at school. I used to sing a lot at school,
although I went to a couple of Christian schools and
we sung.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Him of course you did here where and hims are
beautiful but slightly creepy.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
Yeah, But in terms of singing hop songs in music
in school, no, I never did that, although I'm plad
they are.

Speaker 7 (05:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Did you sing a lot of Cat Stevens.

Speaker 7 (05:43):
No?

Speaker 2 (05:43):
You wouldn't if you have sung bringing in the Sheaths
or something.

Speaker 6 (05:46):
Wouldn't you, Yeah, something like that. I couldn't recall the names,
to be honest.

Speaker 7 (05:51):
Good tunes, Good tunes.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
I also filled my jugs every morning from the hot
tap ten seconds or so so that I don't have
to wait for it to boil from cold.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh, I don't like that. I don't like any of that.

Speaker 6 (06:09):
Really, Yeah, I can't. I can't imagine that you could
taste the difference.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
You bet you got you got water tuning around in
that hot water cylinder for days?

Speaker 7 (06:26):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (06:27):
And has anyone seen you do that? And have they commented.

Speaker 6 (06:35):
On my own morning?

Speaker 5 (06:36):
You know?

Speaker 6 (06:37):
And this is why I do it. You stumble out
of the edge. You've only got a few valuable minutes
to get ready for work. If I fill it from
the cold tap, that that's a side flick minutes. Whereas
if I creat warm the water from the tap, I
start the jug boiling while it's got the water from
last night. They sit it while I get the sap one.
Then I emptied the warm water and then immediately put

(06:59):
it back on the on the base.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
And it boils very quickly.

Speaker 6 (07:03):
And I can do that and then put my coffee
in my freaking prison before I jump in, so by
the time I get the bridge.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Breast is ready to go and the coffee tastes all right.

Speaker 8 (07:14):
Yes, yes, that's great, he says.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Frankly, googling French press. Oh yeah, ye, that's once you
plunge down, you gotta be careful with those. I think
one of those go bad on me. We're all funneled
up and burnt my arm. But yeah, yeah, well you'll
be gentle because you'll be you would have waited too

(07:38):
long for water to boil, so you be relaxed about that. Okay, Well,
I might take some votes on that day, but I
don't think anyone using a French press would want to
use water boil that's been tuning around in the hot
water clinder for days. But you might want to talk.
By the way, this guy is good. He looks familiar
number twenty two for Canterbury. He looks like he might
be that guy that used to be the Australian one.

(07:59):
The kid anyway, seventeen all he's kicked, always liked them.
I think it's from like Tattor or somewhere, wasn't too
north originally before we moved to Australia. Anyway, get in touch.
One names Marcus, Welcome and how do the old cats

(08:24):
the monique necko work? Because they're the modern version. Once
upon a time there was every window and every cafe
had a bobbing bird that just worked from evaporation. Remember
those those birds that would bob endlessly. Well, the moniche
necko is the modern iteration of those I'm buying. We

(08:49):
would I buy one?

Speaker 4 (08:50):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (08:51):
What if you never bought well, if you never bought
me one for Christmas? Dan, It's clearly the gift for me,
isn't it. I've only just realized I want one. I've
never seen one for sale, either like in a one
two three dollar shop or anything.

Speaker 9 (09:07):
I know.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
We don't buy gift to day. But I mean that
would be something that if you're thinking about I love
him a Nikki n echo and learn about what it
was called today, Rose, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 9 (09:17):
Oh hi Marcus evening. Hey you know the joke thing?

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yes, yes, yes, I always tip.

Speaker 9 (09:25):
It out and start again with cold water. Always.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Well another life, you and i'd be married, Rose, because
that's what you should do.

Speaker 9 (09:34):
Yeah. I reckon too, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Why wouldn't you do that? And the funny thing was
that last guy dave everything else after he said that
I wasn't really listening to because I had such a
strong contempt for the guy.

Speaker 9 (09:48):
Yes, yes, I just think that those people don't really
have much of taste buds or and you think they're
on the run. They don't enjoy life.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
They're on the run.

Speaker 9 (10:03):
No, I don't know, not run, I mean on the
round night. They don't stop. They get up, they get dressed,
they go to work, they get up late, so they
just stressed out and runs.

Speaker 10 (10:16):
That's what I reckon.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
If someone made me a cup of tea or coffee
and they had hot water and the hot jug I
could tell and it would feel it would feel strange
on the tongue.

Speaker 9 (10:26):
No, I quite agree, because I too think it's ay, yeah, that's.

Speaker 8 (10:34):
Wonder what that is?

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I wonder if he is on the run. What if
he is on the run?

Speaker 9 (10:43):
Oh, come on, that would be a head case. But no,
that's a bit out the gates.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Nice to talk, Chiefs have squed was a good try
to ride on the tram lines. Damien Ckenzie's kicking it
is way off, way off. Never quite cope with a
shot clock. Damon Mackenzie always looked hurried. You know, I
want to win the crew sayers HiPE Electric Avenue is
going well for you tonight if you're there at Hagley Park.

(11:11):
Good on christ Church letting them use the park for
a music festival. There would be many cities that would
be as gutsy as that. Well, they might be. I
guess Western springs and lane ways and Wellington's parks are
probably too steep to have a cot to do. Chiefs
are now just smantling. The Crusaders have made them look
quite ordinary. Scored twice thirty twenty nine seventeen. So yeah,

(11:35):
they're going great guns. Oh eight hundred and eighties at
Kathy Marcus Welcome, Hi, Marcus is Cathy. How are you good?
Thank you, Kathy, that's good.

Speaker 11 (11:45):
I'm just calling from Saint Alban's christ Church and it's
a beautiful evening here. I just decided I'm fifty five
and decided I've heard about this electric avenue, so I
decided I'll go for a walk and went round the
whole Hagley Park walk and war what a setup and

(12:10):
excitement and the logistics of who ever organized it is amazing.

Speaker 9 (12:17):
It's just out of this world.

Speaker 11 (12:20):
And I was like astounded what I saw the logistics
that seventy thousand.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Kids would have been there. So Hagley Park has got
Is it all of Hagley Park?

Speaker 3 (12:33):
No?

Speaker 2 (12:36):
The is it the cricket area, the Hagley Oval.

Speaker 11 (12:40):
No, it's the other side. So if we remember sadly
of the Moths Memorial, remember we had that with Dicenter
across that side, so it would be more towards dan

(13:01):
abn O d Avenue and that side. But tep, seventy
thousand people young people of christ Church and twenty thousand
people that were wanting teck ads. That's nearly one fourth
of christ Church.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
What's the avenue? Sorry, I'm looking at the golf course
and I'm looking at the potential guard. Is it that
area between the golf course and park Terrace?

Speaker 12 (13:34):
Yes, of course, okay, yeah, so the logistics there is
spensers right round up, there's toilets, there is the logistics.

Speaker 11 (13:45):
It would be that would cost millions to be able
to there's displays of like three terraces of bands. It's
just amazing.

Speaker 13 (14:02):
Are we for a walk?

Speaker 11 (14:03):
And I couldn't believe that that we had anything like that.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
And you said, oh, you should have brought a You
should have bought a ticket, Kathy.

Speaker 11 (14:12):
Yeah, two nights, two hundred and forty five for two days,
and there's plenty of people having pecnics outside.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
You should have jumped the fence.

Speaker 11 (14:24):
Yeah, I could have. But look, it's just so lovely
to say to have a nice slight in christ Church,
to say a lot of young people.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
And believe with there, Kathy. But thank you, we get
the just Craig.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
Marcus, welcome, aning, how's your Friday going good?

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Thank you Craig for a.

Speaker 7 (14:43):
Good for good.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
I'm at work, but a part of that's good.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Good good, and that pays the bills. Yeah, I was
quite surprised with the guy saying he fills up his
wood from the waterhead. I fill mine up from a
cold tap in the morning. Yeah, well, here's the ad coin.
But what I was reaing about was I fill mine
up from the cold tip, because many years ago I
worked for an electrician as an apprentice, and our job

(15:06):
was and changing the water heater elements and some of
the cylinders and down the bottom of the cylinder you
get a lot of sludge and minerals from the water
just sitting there and building up.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
After a while, it would just turbo charge everything and
be full of all the poisons that they pump into it.
It just be poisoned soup.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
Yeah, you basically got a home brewery of calcium and
chlorine and everything else that's in the pipes and all that.
Most of them. Yeah, but most of the jugs nowadays
are all stainles, steel and stuff like that, whereas a
lot of the older the water cylinders are all coppers,
and you've got basically maybe a little bit of copper
lechen into the water, who knows, but changing the elements.
As you look at that and go, really you want

(15:44):
to make a cup of tea from that?

Speaker 2 (15:46):
But each there are I just thought everyone knew that
the hot tap was just an absolute no no for
the kettle. I just thought that if one knew that
was that's still a good thing.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
Yeah, well some people, but yeah, interesting showal care and
listening is really.

Speaker 7 (16:02):
Good to know.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
But I would never Yeah, I'd.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Keep listening to Craig. No one says, Marcus, you can
get a leg over NEICKI Necho discontinued some of my
pet hates in one phone call, just center everything and
saying the word like, oh, build a bridge, Marcus. Thirty

(16:24):
thousand Electric Avenue in North Hagley Park, not seventy thousands.
I think she doubled thirty thousand because two days, which
is legitimate. Marcus. I've been at Electric Avenue this evening, beautiful,
warm blue sky evening with no wind, crowd, really good vibe.
Just listen to the dudes. Ah, yell, earl cha good
on you. Pete figure about the last one, get yourself another.

(16:46):
The crowd loved everyone. Well, dude, say that's a good thing.
Along they still go. I don't know what the lineup.
For those that don't know Electric Avenue I kind of
hadn't heard from until several years ago, and I can't
say I know all the acts. I don't know Chase

(17:09):
and Status. I know Lab, I know Shape Shifter Goodness,
I know the Prodigy, I know Fat Freddy's Drop, I
know Peaking Dark. They played them bluff. I don't know
all of them though, by the wy, I didn't the

(17:30):
singer from the Prodigy die If they got themselves back together,
I don't know too much about that, but that was
a I guess they always reform.

Speaker 7 (17:37):
Now.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah, I thought he had died, must have. I think
he has. Doing a quick google Keith Flint. That's right,
died tragically, I think, so euphemism for that. But yeah,
that's what's happening. It'll be a big, huge night in
christ Church. I imaginely what i'd do beforehand. I'd be
I'd hide my live scooter so you find one, or

(18:01):
you find one or a flamingo flyd one to get
yourself home. Mind it probably comes up on the apps.
Good on them for going two days. I don't think
you can camp there. It's not like where you put
your tent up. You go home and then you recovery
and then you go back the next day or so.

(18:26):
Marcus won't mention the maker outlet, but we're instructed to
use cold water for taste and long duration of jug
great consistent tust hot water and no go. You should
mention the outlet because I would go there, Marcus. I
filled the jug with hot tap. It tastes better than
cloiter water for the cold tap. That's really strong. First thing. Oh,
you run it for a while, Marcus. What about those

(18:49):
bulldogs that people just stay in the back of their cars.
I don't think there was anything special going. I think
that was just a head on a spring. Oh, they
are great texts about cups of tea and there's a
Lego Miniki echo, but it's Discontinuediko are those cats? I
thought I didn't realize they were a jets because most
food places from anywhere in Asia seem to have one.

(19:10):
So they are taking over. They're probably surveillance devices. I'm joking.
Twenty nine to seventeen in the Rabias very close there.
For a while, it was about fourteen seventeen to the Crusaders.
But now the Chiefs have come storming back. What do
they call them? Clinical and tough and yeah, they've got
something special this year. This team. Well mind, due of
course to Canterbid. They have a great time last year,

(19:33):
but they started season well last week, but this week
they'll be doing well to come back and win this.
Every time I look at the screen, they seem to
be running backwards chasing the ball from technical kicks and
that there was a great kick and possibly a try
go upstairs for that one, your honor, Kerry Marcus welcome.

Speaker 10 (19:56):
Hey makes three rules, mate, The last one's getting a
shocked here. All right, So here's the thing. So cold
water obviously, because you know it's clean cold water. You
know it's clean, and you know get it's fresh water
going in your joke. Number two it's got to be

(20:18):
non plastic, so non plastic. And number three, this is
the most important. When you go to a motel, take
your own jug. Do not use the motil jig.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
You know why? You know why because people people.

Speaker 10 (20:34):
There, ladies out, they're clean.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
I don't think it's just I don't think it's just women.
People wash their undies.

Speaker 10 (20:40):
Yeah, yeah, that's the one.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
How would you wash your undies in the kettle?

Speaker 10 (20:51):
I don't know. Would you half a little?

Speaker 7 (20:53):
Then?

Speaker 14 (20:53):
What would you do?

Speaker 2 (20:55):
What would you do? Because it's a stupid, but you'd
be better doing it. And the bait. What would you do?

Speaker 10 (21:00):
No, no, no, Juke's a good idea and then just
hang it on the would window?

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Would you pour it and stir it?

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Or what?

Speaker 6 (21:07):
What?

Speaker 3 (21:07):
What?

Speaker 2 (21:08):
What advantage does the jug give you with the element?

Speaker 7 (21:12):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (21:13):
I don't know. It's boiling all but and pieces, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (21:15):
But you do you do your elestic and with boiled water. Yeah,
that's why I think. That's why I think it might
be a myth.

Speaker 10 (21:28):
Ye can't tell I've ever tried it.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Asking I think people are better off. I think people
boil their eggs in it. But you will find someone
that's done that too. I appreciate that, Carrie, Just like that.
Twenty seven to nine. My name is Marcus, which is
they're good this year that they scored again Clinical Clinical Marcus.
Hagley Park Electric Avenue. They have two fences around the

(21:52):
venue with a space in between like a prison, and
one hundred security guards patrolling the space driving on golf carts.
I could crack it, Marcus. The waving cats are on
trade me, Marcus. A few years ago, the man from
Del Marti was on New Zealand. He stayed on TV

(22:13):
by using cold water boiled tea had more oxygen in
the hot tap, which gave it than the hot tap,
which gave the tea more flavor. Yeah, I think it's
got little bubbles in the other the tea has more flavor.
He's latent to make the del Margini get in touch,
Marcus till twelve true types of people. Hot tap people,

(22:41):
cold tap people. Marcus, Please tell me you're not using
instant coffee so full of detergent. How could you possibly
when he complain about whether it's hot water or cold
water that's boiled, Chris, question mate, I don't think anyone
actually even mentioned instant coffee, so I didn't say what
sort of coffee I was using. But I resent your

(23:04):
snobbery and your judgment. Mark used to take the whole
school singing on a Wednesday afternoon, a mixture of seventies classics,
kids songs and modern songs. What a delight case, jolly
upbeat song as we know it from Doris Day, But
the movie was made popular from the Man who Knew

(23:24):
Too Much, starring Doris Day and by Alfred Hitchcock, was
actually quite the thriller, and the song was sung to
the children destruck from something malevolent that was occurring hot
tap water and no, no for me has a metallic taste. Glenn,
Glenn is right, so right, so right? Would those cats

(23:50):
that you see at restaurants. I thought they might be
solar powered, but I think they've got a battery in them,
and there's a coil or a soul annoid that just
pushes the magnet back and forward. That's why the arm

(24:11):
waves supposed to bring good luck to Marnikki Neko. Someone
might know more about that. The little cats that you
see everywhere with the waving hair, I don't know how
long they've been around. It'll say on Wikipedia they bring
good luck to the owner. Originated in Tokyo or sometimes Kyoto,

(24:40):
very long history. I think they're starting to be made
of pottery in the sixteen hundreds.

Speaker 14 (24:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Now here's a silly question, right, And I can't answer
this because I'm at work. Are cats native to Japan?
Presume they must be? But yeah, And because it's popularity

(25:15):
in Chinese communities, including China and the US, Maneki Neko
is frequently mistaken for being Chinese in origin rather than Japanese,
and is sometimes referred to as the Chinese lucky cat. Well,
I can understand that because I've never been quite sure
about that, but they are adorable. Let's hope Rob Penny

(25:36):
turns his mic off after the interview today because this
game is a coach killer for the Crusaders. Forty six
seventeen Chief scoring at Will. Just Wow, they've just absolutely undone.
The Crusaders was fourteen seventeen to the Saders and the

(25:57):
Chiefs have just obliterated them about about five tries in
about five minutes. Wow. And yeah, just playing with such determination.
They'll go all the way. This team. They'll win whatever
it's called now, the Pacific Super fifteen. Now, it's good

(26:19):
about this team. They're not saying they can't be in
the fantasy football. How ridiculous, Marcus. When there's a big
event in christ Church, there is no interest brains upon
extra buses. When the University of Hagley Park total shambles
on buses today, Chiefs are on fire. That's right, Marcus.

(26:42):
Just driving home from Carls Junior. Hope everyone has a
great weekend from Wade. Good on your Wade, Marcus. I
think the Miniki Niko might have a wee magnet and
it's poor Marcus. Fangare has no phusical festivals one regulated
Fritta festival inside o Kara Park such a dreary backwater.

(27:03):
I'll tell you something about Funeray when we were there
over this summer. That hunt of us are building is fantastic.
And next to that where you wait for the bus,
which we waited for, there was a room full of

(27:23):
foam things you built with as good as anything I'd seen.
So good on that town. I thought they were doing
great things to make an absolute vital place to go
and visit. It was pumping. Then the bus arrived. Grabbed
the bags on the bus. Brilliant. Marcus. My brother was

(27:46):
a plumber and said, the inside of hot water sort
it looked like clay with all the sediments. To always
fill your jug from the cold tap exactly cases of
boiling your undees. To advise filling from the cold tap.
I reckon, probably yeah, I probably still would do that, Marcus.

(28:11):
Drinking What are the hot taps? And or is less
contaminations of the cold pipe as the guy that said
was change the elements that all the contaminants remain in
the cylinder. Also, most cities have asbestos pipes. Marcus, buy
a waving cat and teach it to make coffee. I
love people that can combine texts forty six, twenty four
Crusaders bouncing back? What if you had gas hot water?

(28:35):
Who has that?

Speaker 14 (28:36):
Now?

Speaker 2 (28:38):
They all thought guests around the house was bad. It
was like bad for for your lungs, the particulates around
the house, your little Maniki Echos Marcus till midnight. How
you're going people? And what about those Chinese ships. It's

(29:00):
all on the back of comments about the Cook Islands
that we're all going to go bad so soon. Here's
an article you don't need to read, the signing of
the year. Reinvent, reinvention of James O'Connor, Well, hardly reinvent
when they're behind by twenty one points. It was a

(29:23):
coaching clinic. It was a coach cler it was a masterclass.
They got banked. There's also quite a good thing. There's
a chiefs hat that you can get that some people
in the audience are wearing. That's like a well, it's
a bit like an Indian headgear. But it can't be
that because that's cultural appropriation. It looks quite good. I

(29:44):
don't even know what it is, but yeah, I thought
that looks smart. Evening Rossitt's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 15 (29:50):
Yes, it's Rossy. We're alogue you know, Woodboard and fifty
years this year. What Yeah, We've got one hundred and
fifty years old this year and tomorrow is our wood
All Horticultural Industrial Psyche each annual show, which has been

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running for one hundred and forty one years.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Great, what's what's the what's the highlight there?

Speaker 15 (30:20):
Well, torture. Everybody brings like dahlias, and they have the roses,
and a lot of people do their home cooking and
home crafty. Kids have the schools and putting and stuff
from the school where they've made out of recycling stuff.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Oh yeah, they love that you trash the treasure sort
of stuff. Yeah, I know that.

Speaker 7 (30:40):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 15 (30:41):
And we have the pickles and then we have the
proof line and we.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Have all the vegetables.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
What's your role, Ross, Well, I'm just I'm.

Speaker 15 (30:51):
On the committee and I just helped try and help
people out as much as I can to put it
in the right places.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Okay, what'd be the population of Woodville? You reckon twenty
fifteen hundred?

Speaker 15 (31:02):
Just about fifteen hundred. It hasn't really ground sits off
left in the Taranaki of course. Yes, so I've come
down and it's been in the family, each family for
a long long time and we just want to keep
that going. And your brother he's been to president for
eight years or something.

Speaker 9 (31:19):
You know.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Okay, nice to hear from your ross. Keep up the
good work. There you go. If you look for something
to do tomorrow Woodville Festival, you know where to find it.
Go for gold. Surprise they haven't got Petty Gower doing
the aftermatch interviews that the rugby has done most things
this week, but forty nine twenty four of the chiefs
clinical Clintinickle and China's got their frigates off the coast

(31:45):
of Australia and the taz Man see not good. You
want a comment on that. That's we're on about tonight,
as well as other stuff. If you've got breaking news
for you and let us know what that breaking news is.
It's kind of my brief at night. I've chosen that
to be my brief to keep people ultra informed about

(32:08):
what's going on. So you've got any headlines. If you've
seen a police chaserything, do let us know. There's been
a instant in Auckland City this evening Lower Albert Street.

(32:29):
Someone had a hand held weapon. I don't know what
they're a handheld weapon as it's been removed anyway. Yeah,
my name is Marcus Headed, twelve o'clock to night, looking
forward to what you've got to say. Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty and nine nine to text. Next

(32:54):
Friday will be the last Friday in February. So there
you go. Almost two months done, years nearly over. It's
going to be a long year with old Trumpo and
charge and it jeepers every day you wake up and
look at the paint of the cheap it's what's going

(33:15):
to go on?

Speaker 14 (33:15):
Now?

Speaker 2 (33:15):
What's happened? Then we've got the asteroid heading towards Earth.
I think we're going to take this one out. I
think we're going to seen something at it. That's the
vibe I'm getting with that one. It's up to about
three percent chance of hitting us. Now, mind you, as
they get further details because the surface of it might

(33:38):
be all murky so they can't get precise images of it.
So I'll keep you posted on that one. Also, hopefully
it doesn't hit us obviously, and I think it's the
people that are killed on impact that would be the
worry'd be the cloud that would block the sun for years,
means the crops wouldn't grow. It could go very bad

(33:59):
for a while, could be the end of the beginning
or the beginning of the end. But dogin touch Marcus
Till twelve oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine
two nine tutor text. Great text that hour, some of
the best texts I've ever seen. Long way they continue, Marcus,

(34:30):
The Chinese are just doing a historical retracing of their
discovery of the world in fourteen twenty one, when they
indeed did send a fleet to the South Pacific. One
of the least accurate books I've ever read, that fourteen
twenty one.

Speaker 13 (34:41):
One.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Once I started reading and cheap One to the facts,
I couldnt believe the book had been written or published.
It was quite the recommended book there for a while
about thirty years ago. Just garbage. Funny enough, we have
been talking about kettle's and kettle etiquet, kettle or kettle
kit we could call that kettle etiquet. Mainly about filling
the kettle from the hot tap and why that is
such an evil thing to do and no one should

(35:04):
ever do that, but people do they haven't thought. It's
got no oxygen in the water. It's all boiled out,
it's flat, the water's unfizzy, so the tea tastes worse.
This uptake of the tea leaves if it comes from
the hot tap. You should never do that. That's me
As far as the urban myth about people cleaning their

(35:26):
clothes and a kettle, why would you. I don't understand
that at all. I'm not gonna be one of those
people that takes their own kettle with me everywhere, but yeah,
I check the kettle, check the lid. Email Marcus, I
totally agree with your regarding only ever using cold fresh

(35:46):
water to fill your jug. When the man said he
used hot water, instantly felt ill. Well, I judged him.
We've always been told to never use the hot water
tap to fill the jug om in my seventies. Regard
to Margaret Piers, I'm sure I could tell the difference.
To Marcus, I'm sure you could. The water is horrible

(36:07):
and christ Church because of the chlawing in it, so
I use bottled water for my cuppa ange Marcus. It
costs more to heat a boiler than a kettle, Marcus.
When making tea. Do you put the milk in with
a tea bag before the hot water or after its

(36:28):
I don't drink tea that often, I imagine i'd probably
put the milk in later. Marcus Nick from White to
the Hair. This past summer at a top ten up North,
I discovered that if you're no cups or bowls, you
can cook your two minute noodles and the jug. It
works perfect well. I've since been thinking about the next
person staying who goes to make a cuppa, and now

(36:50):
I feel bad. Yes, I don't think you should do
anything in a kettle in a motel apart from boil water.
I think some people boil their eggs. Also, I think
that's not good either either either. Marcus Nick from White
to the Hair. This past summer at a top ten North,
I discovered that if you're no cups or bowls, you
can cook your two minute noodles and the juge. It

(37:11):
works perfect well. I've since been thinking about the next
person staying who goes to make a kappa, and now
I feel bad. Yes, I don't think you should do
anything in a kt in a motel apart from boil water.
I think some people boil their eggs. Also, I think
that's not good either either either. O eight one hundred
eighty nineteen ninety two, sixteen past nine. And those cats

(37:36):
with the arms, we've got a name for them now,
Marniki neko. When I say cats with the arms, cats
don't have arms, but the ones just seeing cafes with
the arm that waves considered to be luck. But also
Gordon Ramsey's got a restaurant and five hundred of them
have been stolen. You buy them on Temu Apparently, maybe

(37:59):
that's what the Chinese Navy are doing. Maybe they're delivering
some of the extraordinary numbers of Temu products we've bought.
So give me a call before I get in trouble
by saying something on the edge or off the edge
eight hundred and eighty. Anyone listening anywhere interesting, anyone doing
anything interesting, anyone driving, anyone not driving. If you want

(38:22):
to be a part of the show, good There might
be some other topic you want to chuck into the mix.
I don't know what they are. Tonight, done pretty well
with the talkback, Oh, neighbors, we didn't mention. Also, if
you're someone that's bothered to watch that Neighbors the Amazon
version of Neighbors. How bad was it? Kind of thought
they should let it die when it died done its dash?

(38:46):
Mind you, I'll tell you what. In five days we've
stopped talking about everyone must go luxon, must be relieved
about that world's worst slogan. But yeah, that's the thing
about politics. Four and five days we've moved on to
something else. But jumping eight eight, ten eighty. You might

(39:11):
want to comment on that match. You might have seen
that match between the Crusaders and the Chiefs. I don't
mind if you want to give a rundown of that.
It seems like a Chiefs team that's going to win
this tournament. They were formidable, and Kennedy didn't look like good.
Crusaders didn't look bad either, if I can say, look
pretty good. I remember the Woodville Horticultural Show tomorrow. Also,

(39:32):
it's something to say about that too. And that's kind
of what I've got people topic wise. But if you've
got something you want to chuck into the mix or
get people worked up about, hey, get in touch, cause
you say, what do you got here for it? What

(39:54):
about running your pizza under the tap before you put
it in the air fry? People freaked out about that.
I've never gone near any air FRA. I don't know
anything about them. I'm not going to run a pizza
under the tap. I'm not going to eat reheat old pizza.

(40:15):
That's not the way I go. I think Mwana Pacifica
are playing the reds Now. That's the second match of
the double header. If you don't want to go watch that,
that's on the TV now if you still got Sky,
if you want of those few people haven't chucked away
your dish and disappointment because it failed to work, But

(40:40):
you do get in touch of there's something different you
want to mention. Although I don't even know, I gotta
say I'm not entirely sure. What's the Marcus. We are
sitting doing puzzles, listening to you, Helen Marcus. I'm definitely
gonna miss Neighbors when it finishes. I watch it four
nights a week on Channel two at five pm. Is

(41:01):
that the current one? I don't know they were screening it.
That might be half the problem. Or is that repeats?
Or is that the live contemporary version? Marcus Electric Avenue
has just really started to crank up. I can hear
it drinking in my place six k's away. Angry Marcus.
I never got into the fire craze in my thirties.

(41:23):
I feel like I'm the only one of my age
breaks didn't get into it. They are just a small
conviction oven. Oh I don't think they are. I think
they're like a small fan oven. I think, yeah, I
think you've belittled them a bit. People got sucked into
thinking their fry, but they're more like an oven. Chris
from christ Ditch Well, okay, at Marcus, Welcome evening.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
Good evening, Marcus. I just want to take you back
to the seed drill. Oh yeah, I just realized I've
got the same and issues as too.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
For Hotel, I always thought do you throw tell was
the tool? But I remember we learned the spinning Jenny
and the Yeah okay, but do you throw tell? Was
the guy that chucked the seed drill to the oxen?

Speaker 4 (42:17):
Is that right?

Speaker 9 (42:19):
Well?

Speaker 4 (42:19):
I'm not actually sure whether I thought it was human powered,
but either way it doesn't really make much difference. But
so you were talking about planting some seeds on your
farm or your family.

Speaker 16 (42:35):
I'm worried.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
I think we call it a farm, don't we.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
Okay, I'm worried that you're not going to have a
very high strike rate because because you hadn't prepared a
seed bed and I have, Oh you have, but if
you broadcast them by hand, are you going to get
even distribution.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
I'm going to just go around and I'll see where
it goes, and i'll be in a knack and I've
got plenty for the area, so I'll go back and
forth a few times.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
And I heard you say that you was thinking about
getting yourself a tractor.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Nah, I got off that.

Speaker 4 (43:16):
Ah, yeah, because I was going to say that attractor
is ready for implements on your three point hitch. Apart
from that you've got, you want to get one with
a bucket on the front that you can also use
for forks, so you can do a bit of earthworks
and that. But yeah, you might. The other thing I

(43:38):
was going to say was you know how how heavy
the world's herevious sheep?

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Was Oh, it's a really good question. Now don't tell
me how heavy as I'd like to guess about that
the world's heavy iss sheep, how much of that weight
would have been it's pelt.

Speaker 4 (43:54):
Hardly any Because the reason why I got onto this
was because of the Wiltshire sheep, the sheep that don't have.

Speaker 8 (44:00):
Wool they have here it look terrible.

Speaker 4 (44:03):
I've been selling for twenty twenty thousand dollars for the
rams over the last few weeks that I'm wanting to
I'm asking people out there what impact on New Zealand
farming is these wallless sheep going to have. I mean,
apparently they have bigger sheep, and because they're not growing

(44:24):
the wall, they put the meat on quicker. And I'm
thinking there's so much less work once you take away
the sharing, the crutching and the paving and all that
that the number of sheep and the national flock may
start increasing.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
They say they are the sheep of choice for the
modern shepherd that you and me.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
Yeah, because it takes away, it takes away it sounds
to me like three quarters of the work. There was
a farming country calendar a homeward I think it was
on the east coast of North Island, and the farmer
was getting quite old, like he was about sixty five,
and he said he went to the wallless sheep because
it just to reduce the workload so much.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Am I I'm still you had me on guess how
heavy the world's heavy A sheep is? Am I right
to assume it's the wolfshirt breed of sheep.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
No, it's Marco Marco Polo sheep is that named that
because he was the first person to spot them.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
So it's kind of in Mongolia or China, is it?

Speaker 9 (45:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (45:32):
And it's almost looks like you go sojt me to
tell you how many ken.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
I'm going to say one figure, okay, and I want
to be within ten kilograms of it?

Speaker 7 (45:45):
Have you got it?

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Kilograms or pounds? Okayg sixty five?

Speaker 4 (45:57):
Hell? No more than that?

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Really?

Speaker 7 (45:59):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (46:02):
Really it is one that you sell that a one
hundred and twenty two and that cheapers.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
The twenty those special tipping cradles A when you're crutching
them and stuff as one hundred and fifty. There was
a pol is one hundred and fifty kilograms.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
No, it's way more than that.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
Cheapers.

Speaker 4 (46:25):
Some of them stand one point three meters at the shoulder.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
You sure there are sheep? It's not a cow with wool.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
The farmer at Homewood Station in the North Island there
that's actually a station that's got a restaurant on it
and a chocolate, small chocolate factory that he actually describes
as sheep as miniature cattle, because it's because all it's
being grown for is the meat.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
They've got big like an ibis the marc apollo sheep?
Don't they've got big horns?

Speaker 7 (47:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (47:05):
They are a huge out and.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Sure not how much? What's sheep and the goat? How
do you know they're not a goat?

Speaker 4 (47:13):
Oh? There is a difference, Okay, I was just looking
at that, and apparently it comes down to the goat's
got a beard, yes, and the tail and a goat
points upwards, whereas all sheep the tail points downwards.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
Difference is it turned on fifty kilo?

Speaker 4 (47:33):
No, three hundred and fifty six for sheep? Yep?

Speaker 2 (47:40):
It's the size of two John Lomu's.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
And the biggest cattle beast is one point six ton plus.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
Wonder how heavy the biggest goat would be.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
Apparently there's a hybrid between the sheep and the goat.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
Shot or a deep deep is the gep? Is it
a deep yep?

Speaker 4 (48:03):
Flip?

Speaker 2 (48:04):
I've never known such a well researched all. Okay, Well,
so they'll mate or was it done in the lab?

Speaker 7 (48:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (48:12):
They make that they're infertile, so it's a bit of
a dead end.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
But there is such a thing as a geep. How
do you get them?

Speaker 4 (48:20):
Then they they could naturally, so you have have one,
but it's not it can't breed from the.

Speaker 7 (48:31):
Well.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (48:32):
As a supplementary subject for later, you could talk about
backyard fires, because I'm about to light my brazier.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Oh, the old Graham braz Yet what are you burning
in it now? Have you made it yourself from an
old guest thing or one of those sort of sishy
ones you bought at the.

Speaker 4 (48:49):
Just a homemade one out of bricks and stuff?

Speaker 2 (48:52):
What are you burning batteries?

Speaker 4 (48:55):
I'm burning just bruanch wood that have harvested from my
own land.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Brilliant. I'm going to go for headlines. Thank you so
much about half past nine alistair headlines please? I reckon
it would be good for tourism for someone to breed
and us in the world's biggest sheep. I wonder if
you could do that, because I'd pay money to go
and see it. So we've got a little farm, a
little farmland, and you're struggling. I mean, why don't we

(49:24):
go with the world's biggest sheep say we had more
sheep per head of population. Anyway, I can't believe it's
that big. You and how it's leagues would cope, Marcus.
We've always wet down scones and bread to refresh them
before you reheat them. Can't see why it wouldn't work
for pizza. By the way, Yes, free, good, good evening, Marcus.

(49:49):
How about the shout up for the Tiaro Helen's vill
A MP show which begins tomorrow morning. Thank you? And
the problem is probably quite right. Why do they call
it a fryer? It doesn't really fry things, does it?
Are there any Marco polo sheep in New Zealand, there's
a question. It sounds like the sort of thing you'd

(50:12):
see at the a MP show. Someone trying to introduce those.
I don't know what the meat would be like. Maybe
someone's eating them. Maybe they might be wild, you might
hunt them. It's said to lack the muttney flavor of
domestic sheep meat. Yeah, Hi, jiff ats Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 7 (50:29):
And welcome well hi here first time on.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Nice to hear from you, Marca.

Speaker 7 (50:36):
Polo sheep one. You wouldn't have it as a pit
in your garden. They are monstrous, that's big.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
You think someone would be up to the challenge, wouldn't you,
just from a tourism point of view or something. I
don't know. You've got massive horns.

Speaker 7 (50:56):
I don't think they'll stand being able to stand the climate.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Here, Ah, it would be too hot.

Speaker 7 (51:03):
Yeah, they're living up him alas A.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Do you know something about it?

Speaker 16 (51:11):
Well?

Speaker 7 (51:13):
They used to be a bit of a hunting guide.
And I had a very good friend up An Orphand
who had went over to Tajikistan and shot a big
mac apolo ram. And when I say big over a
meter with the shoulder and brought back nounth it looks

(51:34):
it's a fantastic sheep. But like I said, the sheep
that they they don't have bulgar yet. That's the real
and that was the other one.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
They would be the only sheep that you would hunt
as as game, wouldn't they. I Mean, I've never heard
of anyone hunting a sheep like that, But I guess
the Marco Polo sheep is extraordinary.

Speaker 7 (51:56):
Actually, no, there's quite a there's three or four different
sheep up in there via Gali another one, but I
just I don't know them all. Been off or top
of my head at the moment.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
Did he eat them?

Speaker 15 (52:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (52:12):
They well, they eat them. They usually one of the
hungry for meat all the time.

Speaker 14 (52:20):
But like that.

Speaker 7 (52:22):
But the other thing too was the Wiltchure nineteen seventy five.
I had the job on a station where they meant
and the owner of the station went to England and
imported I think about twenty micropolo wilchter sheet from England

(52:47):
and I had a job of looking after them for
a year. They do have wool which they shed. When
they're shedding it, that's when the time to kill them
because they're fat. And like you said, these the Wulchure

(53:10):
originally had horns. The was called the wilchair horn. But
while they were where I had them, they didn't be
slowly breathing away from the horn the horn side of it.
But they are a fantastic sheep and I had I

(53:34):
had one round It was one hundred and fifty k
so they can't be big.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
The I had some wilshere grazing or the ones that
didn't get shown, but that the wall came off on peches.
They looked terrible. That's what I thought.

Speaker 7 (53:47):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
Yeah, look it looks like they've undergo. It doesn't look
good at all.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 7 (53:53):
It is actualle, but they shed their wool. But I say,
when I while I'm shitting it, that's when you grab
one and cut a straight and put them the freezer
and start eating. They are very very nice.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
Well, the mate that was hunting the Marco Polo. They
wouldn't be an elusive kind of a they'd just be
a kind of They wouldn't be like a deer would
they're a tar, They'd just be kind of. They wouldn't
be hard to They wouldn't be a formidable fire, would they.

Speaker 7 (54:23):
You're hunting it around twelve thousand feet okay, Like I said,
you're getting up and to times where you were gasping
for breath in a high altitude. Okay, they they live
like I said, they live at twelve thousand feet above.

Speaker 9 (54:46):
No.

Speaker 7 (54:46):
I know the one that my friend shot in Tajikistan,
he took out at fourteen thousand feet, so you've got
to climb. And most of those, whilst the sheep in
that area all live high up because as with a

(55:06):
with their foods, and.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
For those that haven't seen that, the horn comes out,
it's every wide horn at the base, isn't it. It's
almost kind of the width of the head.

Speaker 7 (55:15):
Yeah, yeah, no, that that's tremendous base that the weight
the shield weighted them or the horn. They must have
a hell of a strong neck, those rams.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
So I imagine they're not they're not domesticated anywhere. I
know that you're not the expert on it, but that
would be our supposition. If they're that strong, you couldn't
contain them.

Speaker 7 (55:35):
No, they they're not domesticated, no way. Even they just
the locals up there just well they sort of basically
predict them to the hunters and they and.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
The way they stand, they almost look like a goat.
They're quite a tool looking animal.

Speaker 7 (55:55):
Yeah, they're a tool looking animal, but goat and a
mark bollow. Now when you see them close together, not
a hope.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Now it says the longer horn was one The longest
horn was one point nine meters.

Speaker 7 (56:11):
Yeah, that's right. It's a new take a going round
the curl. There's they measured them around the curl and
they are they are a magnivers an animal. There are
the number one sheep in the world. Wow, Marke Apollo, See.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
If I'm glad you've rung. I found that first thing,
so thank you so much for that. They're not a hunter.
To extition, twenty five thousand Americans had paid a hunt one.
The numbers have been declining because they have been hunted
worldwide population of ten thousand. Oh, you wanted domesticate them,

(56:56):
wouldn't he? They'd be That's what lux and should get onto.
The sheep may be crossed with domestic sheep provide larger
cuts of len and meat. Never really thought to much
about different breeds of sheep. I suppose you go down
that line. I mean, it could get pretty interesting, couldn't it.
I don't even know where sheep were. I don't even
know much about sheep pre domestication without every continent. Well,

(57:17):
I know they're not an Antarctica. Someone might know about that.
I'm also trying to think about cats in Japan. Are
the endemic there? All these questions strip me on a Friday.
But what about a petting zoobit with giant animals? That
would be something people need to think outside the square
for tourism, Like a giant sheep and a giant goat
and a giant pig. I guess they wouldn't be good

(57:39):
to pet. By the way, the Chiefs must have scored
five tries and a five try blitz. That's pretty outstanding.
A lion's free if you want to come through, Marcus
till twelve, eight hundred and eighty ten, aage looking forward
to what you've got to say, get in touch. And

(58:01):
also whetting your pizza. What are you doing whitting your pizza?
Strange thing to say, isn't it. This is with the
air fryer. But mainly the major thing, first of all,
is all about filling your kettle from the hot tap. Well,
no one likes that. I can't believe that guy wrang
up a bit of that on nationwide radio. So that

(58:25):
might be something you want to say. Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ty nine, text anything else you want to
mention good. You might be doing something interesting tonight. I
don't know what interesting is, but I'm up for the discussion.
Also discussing those cats with the arms that swing, Marcus.

(58:46):
I'm listening to you in bed trying to shake your headache.
Did I hear you say there's an asteroid heading to Worth. Yes,
it's all about this asteroid called twenty twenty four, because
that's what it was discovered. I presume it's not here
yet according to the Astronomy magazine, and I reckon that

(59:08):
sounds like a pretty good place to go to for information,
doesn't it. New data has as dramatically shrunk the odds
that this astro and wold will hit Earth, but astronomers
will continue to study it. They thought it was going
to hit in twenty twenty three, so twenty thirty two.

(59:35):
The estimated risk has fluctuated over the past few days.
Today NASA announced the fresh observations that the past two
nights had reduced the chance of an impact to point
zero to zero point two eight percent. Why is that
not on the news? As more data comes in to
further afine the orbit, it's likely that this will continue

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to shrink. That's right. So what happens is as they
get better telescopes on it. Because it's imprecise to do
with the surface of its the asteroid and how much
light it can reflect, so it's all a bit fuzzy
to begin with. So once they've ready zone and on it,
they can see it's true boundaries, it's true size, and
truly work out its orbit because it's pretty easy to

(01:00:21):
work out it's abit. All you've got to work out
is what direction it's going and at what speed. I
think it's the only information you need. Actually, I don
think if you need the size of it, but if
you know that, then you know where it's going to go.
Says Anything over one percent sets off an automated alarm
and dedicated tracking program. And as such, even though the

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risk remains, Smallness and other agencies around the world have
been training all eyes on the enveloper to better understand
its future path. Right now, they think it's between about
forty to ninety meters wide. That size would mean it
would be the equivalent of a seven point seven megaton.

(01:01:04):
It the same size as the Horn nuclear test dropped
on Christmas Island in nineteen sixty two. It fits into
the range of size and energies that Sign has described
to the Tunguska impact in nineteen oh eight, which flattened
trees and blasted reindeer but killed no people. So we

(01:01:25):
have suffered blows like this with a little loss of life.
So it's not a planet killer. So although it's got
a tremendous out of energy, with a direct it could
devastate a city, but it's no coincidence that Tunguska, the
largest asteroid impact and recorded history, struck an unpopular area

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that describes most of Earth, given that seventy percent of
it is ocean. Good evening, Barbit's Marcus, welcome. Oh goodnay,
how are you, Barb not bad? Thank you?

Speaker 9 (01:02:00):
Oh good. Look.

Speaker 17 (01:02:01):
I'm just ringing about the stop disappointment I made about
three weeks ago, singing this was good. Gee. I've only
had to wait three weeks because you know, because every
now and again the doctor won't give you a repeated
prescription and left you. I got to see you, so
I said, oh, this is good. So off I go. Oh,

(01:02:22):
I didn't sleep last night. I was right, and I
was going to sleep, and my appointment was at eight
and anyway, so I didn't have much sleep. So I
get to arrive at my appointment this morning at eight thirty,
and she couldn't find me on the reussses on I
hadn't got you down here for an appointment, And I said, yeah,
I definitely made it. And I said, in fact, they

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were going to send me a text to remind me,
but I said I never got one, so that's okay.
So she looked further, and then she says to me, oh, no,
your appointments not till the twenty first of March. Can
you believe that? That's seven weeks? All I want was
repeated prescription of my medical I have to have well

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every three months, I have to have a repeat prescription.
And so that was seven weeks. It's going to be
seven weeks all up. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Is that When does your prescription run out?

Speaker 17 (01:03:22):
Oh, it's already run out of the front. But anyway,
they she you know, said that she'll get the doctors
write a script, which they text me about four point
thirty today to say that the centers of the chemist.
But that's okay. I'm wanted to see them about other things,
but anyway, that's that's okay. But I just think it's

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just it's pretty scary out there that you've got to
wait seven weeks gin an appointment to see your doctor.
I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
Did you say that you didn't go to sleep because
you're worry going to miss the appointment? If you have
an alarm.

Speaker 17 (01:03:56):
Clock, I hope, but I don't know how to I
don't know how to work it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Yeah, you need you need an alarm clock.

Speaker 17 (01:04:05):
I happen to land clock. I live on my but
I don't know how to I don't know how to
work it. So yeah, and I was frightened. I couldn't sleep,
so I still awake at three o'clock this morning, and
I got up at five.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Just bring us. We'll give you a wake up call. Really, yeah,
or ring Dan?

Speaker 7 (01:04:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Well, I mean you kin'd of. You can't be not
sleeping because you can't walk work your alarm.

Speaker 17 (01:04:30):
Oh really, I didn't know that you did that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Well, well, I mean for you it was. It's not
a general service we provide, but but I'll do it
for you. That's heartbreaking. You stayed up all night.

Speaker 17 (01:04:42):
I don't know. I couldn't get to sleep as way
i'd sleep, and I miss my appointment.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
Yeah, what shitty are you in, Bob?

Speaker 17 (01:04:50):
I'm in tower on now.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Okay, Well, next time you ring us and we'll sort
you out. We'll give you a wake up call. That's
the service that we might provide. Neil, Marcus welcome, Hello.

Speaker 18 (01:05:04):
Make did you say Neil?

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (01:05:06):
Yeah, hello Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:05:08):
Sorry, I.

Speaker 18 (01:05:10):
Was just putting my teeth in.

Speaker 7 (01:05:14):
Marcus.

Speaker 18 (01:05:14):
You said we could talk about anything, so i'd like
to mention something which might be of a minimal interest.
Is when me and my wife were in Bluff, there's
this wonderful sign post with all the cities on the
weld in it, and being a silly old man with
nothing better to do, I took a reading on the

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sign to London. And when we got back home, I
got my map out and plotted out and it comes
out in northern Spain.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
Or did you look at the direction?

Speaker 7 (01:05:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:05:52):
Yeah, yeah, And I took a reading on it and
it's pointing to northern Spain. How did you take a
reading with a compass?

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
They're always they're always taking the sign up painting it,
so I wouldn't be surprised if they've put it in inaccurately.
I think the distances were wrong.

Speaker 18 (01:06:11):
Also, I don't know about that, Marcus, but I thought
it was quite funny. But it's only something that a
silly old man would do.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
But I think I think others have done that as well,
because I think as someone went there and measured the
distances and the distances were all skew with as well. Evening, Paula, Evening, Marcus,
how are you, Paula? I am excited to be going
in for a weekend.

Speaker 7 (01:06:37):
Me too.

Speaker 19 (01:06:39):
Hey, while I'm ringing up about why you used cold
water and not hot water. And the jug was when
I was young and my dad was taking out our
hot woolen water cylinder. He saw all the crap in
the bottom of it, and he said, that's why you
don't use hot water.

Speaker 9 (01:06:57):
You always use cold water.

Speaker 19 (01:06:59):
So that's why I've always grown up knowing you had
to put cold water in the jug, not hot water.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
But I presume when you're getting the hot water out
of the tap it comes out as they come at
the top of the bottom of the cylinder.

Speaker 19 (01:07:12):
I have no idea, but that's what I was brought
up on that because the cylinder was full of crap,
your hot water came out.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
But yeah, and I also think the pipes from the
hot water cylinder are copper, which you have the potential
of tainting the taste of the water.

Speaker 13 (01:07:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:07:32):
Maybe.

Speaker 19 (01:07:33):
And on the other note of doctors, I could wring
my doctor tomorrow and make an appointment for the next
day and get in. So I rung up at eighth
CD that morning and wanted to see him urgently. They
have a few urgent appointments you can get on the
same day.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
Yeah, and I'm sure too. They will triaze you if
you're feeling particularly unwell. They will put you up the
pecking order, won't they so imagine it.

Speaker 19 (01:07:58):
Would work, Yes, yes, but I've never had a shoe.
I don't like those big places like the palms and
all those places that have where you can walk in
and you've got to wait hours and you don't get
to see your like that paul aide that run before.
She's got to wait till six seven weeks.

Speaker 17 (01:08:15):
That's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
Yeah, there seem to be some sort of communication breakdown
there because I can't work out what would take that long.

Speaker 19 (01:08:22):
Oh, some doctors do. When you're in those big places
that have you know, more than one doctor and them.
There is a lot of people. My friends will tell
me if they want to see the doctor, they've got
to ring up and get them, and they won't get
them before a month to six weeks. And if they
really think they've just got to go and see whoever.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
Okay, Okay, interesting information, Paula, thank you for that. Eighteen
past ten texts if you've got them, Hello, I've emailed
what I'm up to on this Friday night? I can't wait.
Say where's email? Oh, I've just got pinned emails? What
does that mean? Twenty second of February. It's my birthday.

(01:09:07):
But I always think about the christ Church earthquake. I
was in Willington Hospital recovering from any replacement. I wanted
out of there and to go home living willing And
by the way, we're on the motorway and turn on
the radio on our car to hear the news about
christ Chuch. It was all over the TV news special Women.
We Got Home. I was one of the last orthopedic
surgeries around that time, and Willington as some of the
surgical team were secondered to help with surgeries in christ Church. Marcus.

(01:09:33):
The Chinese cats are almost perpetual motion. They have two
opposing magnets at the lowest mechanical part of the poor spring.
That is when the poor appears to be its highest
point as it swings by. The magnets and belly repel
each other, and that scenes of poor ford or backwards. Therefore,
it takes for a little power to keep them going.
Some battery powered pendulum clocks use the same technique. They'

(01:09:55):
very clever. Still outraged for that call, who said his
wheelbarrow was borrowed and damaged. I think we need to
organize it. There'd be vigilante group and go sort the
dude's neighbor out. Really calm down. Good evening June as Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:10:16):
Yeah, look as sweet bit different. I was in the
need and last week then and saying with my friend
and I took her into town to get she's got
a Spark cell phone.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
I love a cell phone. Story with spark Yep, yep, yep,
Spark cell phone yep.

Speaker 5 (01:10:34):
Well, she wanted to get the ordinary phone was spark.
She used to have one with the phone and she
had to have identification, and isn't it ridiculous? Her identification
is on her super card with her name and photo,
and it wouldn't take it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
Oh, for goodness sake.

Speaker 5 (01:10:55):
Isn't it? All she wanted was the phone and have
them both together. We had to, they said to her,
she'd have to have a life. That's what she hasn't got,
or her fast sport, which she's not really now because
she's eighty three. And she was still upset and strength.
And then I went to the on the Monday for

(01:11:19):
the post of us and they were just horrified there
and she has to get two photos the booster certificate
and so was in which is sixty dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
Oh, for goodness, Oh are you an Alex?

Speaker 5 (01:11:40):
Yes, love Alex, and yes that I tried to it
on last night, but something was wrong with phones. And
I've had lovely, lovely neighbors, the Naden and the cargo
and now here you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
Get good neighbors and Alex nothing to complain about it.
Summer every day not been lovely. Here we need to know, ay, Jane,
tell me something when you say your friend was looking
for an ordinary phone.

Speaker 5 (01:12:12):
She wanted used to have one, but it was with
voter frae.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
What's an ordinary? What's an ordinary phone?

Speaker 7 (01:12:19):
You know? Just the.

Speaker 5 (01:12:22):
Home line, you know, the whole a landline.

Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
We call that a land line. She want a land line, okay,
the land line.

Speaker 5 (01:12:30):
And wouldn't you think it would be just simple for
them to just say, well, yes we can do that.
That's fine when she's got but she's having trouble using
the cell phone, you know, when yeah, she's just watching
the wrong buttons.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
And well everyone deserves a landline exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:12:50):
Well, you know she got her ID there on that.
Here we go, car that's the only and they told
her that was her identification and that would be fine
for anything she needed.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
I reckon people will text me and say that age
consume would be helpful.

Speaker 5 (01:13:09):
Yes, yeah, is it right? Well I'll get her to
do that and our help her.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
I mean, I'm happy to drive up if you need someone.
But I'm not that good at things. You've been off
of a part of crumple.

Speaker 3 (01:13:22):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:13:23):
She doesn't get out much, and that's why she.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
Need to phone a landline to save you for people that.

Speaker 7 (01:13:29):
I go out much exactly, and so she can ring
her doctor.

Speaker 5 (01:13:35):
She's not sure how to, you know, look up for
phones and it's quite different to mine.

Speaker 7 (01:13:40):
It's a very different phone. I tried to work it
out for a but.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
So did you get the right did you get the
right ID from the post office?

Speaker 5 (01:13:51):
Well, she's in the process of doing that. She got
to go and get two photos as the chemist in
the name.

Speaker 7 (01:14:00):
In there with her birth certificate, just for.

Speaker 19 (01:14:05):
A land.

Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
You know, are there scared she's a money launder. I
can't work out what the concerners.

Speaker 5 (01:14:13):
She's not going to go anywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
You have this walk so I'm fair to be able
to get photos because you probably feel uncomfortable about that.

Speaker 5 (01:14:19):
Well, it's just the incovenience it takes to go and
throw it, or I'll go down there, but it's just.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
Are you gonna drive all the way back down from
Alex down there? Don't I be doing that the whole time?

Speaker 5 (01:14:32):
No, I'll go dow ending quite often.

Speaker 9 (01:14:34):
And the cargo true.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
Okay, I'll keep us posted on that. Joone, Joan, Joane.
If you don't got the information or advice, I'm sure
your text that through a phone that is age concerned
the right thing to say. I should send Dan down.
He needs to do more of that pastoral stuff. Get
down there libraries once we're not going to senior class.

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Marcus were always told to fell kettle from the cold
tep because the copper be in the hot water pipe.
Not sure if it's true, I'll always fell from the cold.
I might get a bumper sticker that says that always
fell from the cold tap. Good evening, Helen, Marcus. Welcome, Yeah,
evening Marcus.

Speaker 13 (01:15:18):
Just thing about the landline I've been heard in so
ridiculous in all my life. I bought a new a
landline phone a couple of years ago, one or two
years ago.

Speaker 7 (01:15:30):
There on.

Speaker 13 (01:15:31):
There were advertised on the internet. But anyway I got
I got this through Barrels. Barrels one hundred percent. That's
that's the name of the firm. And I just said
that I, you know, I wanted a new landline phone
and they ordered me one in and there was none
of this nonsense. I don't know what's all that's about.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
There's a couple of brands barrels. Is there a shop
called barrels.

Speaker 13 (01:16:00):
Yes, Barrels one hundred percent. They've got a door and
sung today.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
That wouldn't be called barrels, would it.

Speaker 13 (01:16:06):
Yeah, b A W E W L S. It's the
no shop they've got store in Fanny but Harvey Norman's
or one of those other places. But I don't know
what that carry on is all about it all, but
they are available and nine if I had to go

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through any of that nonsense.

Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
She don't have a driver's license or a passport if
she's if she's ain't old, it's crazy. Nice to hear
from you and Dawn Marcus welcome, Hi drn Hello.

Speaker 16 (01:16:38):
Marcus, how are you at Sdawn from Besley?

Speaker 9 (01:16:41):
Of course.

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
What would I remember?

Speaker 16 (01:16:46):
Oh we went shopping, you know, down Fraser Cove and
we went to all the shops and we had a
lovely time.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
Anyway, Marcus, did you and I go shopping?

Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
I wish, yeah, I wish to Where would we go shopping?

Speaker 16 (01:17:03):
Because your birthday is on the food of your I
I'll tell the whole world, and mine's on the fourth?

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
No, almost twins? What year, dorn?

Speaker 16 (01:17:13):
Yes, forty eight?

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
You're joking me too.

Speaker 16 (01:17:18):
You're not forty eight born in forty eight sixty five? Yes,
that's better. Trying to pull the wall open my eyes again?
Are your Marcus?

Speaker 9 (01:17:28):
Now? Listen?

Speaker 16 (01:17:28):
Listen, listen, listen, listen. About these telephones. I moved into
retirement village with my landline because I don't have a mobile.
We put it in the connections you know that they
all have in these flash places. Nothing happened. It wouldn't go.

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So my girlfriend went out and they said that we
needed a special connection to get it to go. For
good fake off. We went, changed all the fittings. Phones
still wouldn't go. Reading the phone company told them nothing
was happening. This guy said, oh, send you one of

(01:18:10):
these in the post and I'll send you. Oh, for
goodness sakes, anyway, A long story short, we got a
woman who actually knew what she was talking about. And
you know the fiber box that is in the house.
Not really, Oh well, it's what it's for, fiber. I

(01:18:32):
don't know. I don't understand it anyway, But anyway, all
the retirement villagers.

Speaker 7 (01:18:36):
Have got them.

Speaker 16 (01:18:37):
She said, have you got one of these fiber boxes?
And I said, scrambling under the curtains, yes, the herald is.
And there's a switch under there that you actually plug
the landlines into. And bimbo, for.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
Goodness sake, what would they think of next? A little
fire box? I'll tell you what you have door, and
your phone line's beautiful. I don't think I've ever heard
anyone sound as youthful. That's brought in nineteen.

Speaker 16 (01:19:04):
Forty eight, seventy nearly seventy seven. Man, I can't believe
it themself.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
Years sixty and.

Speaker 16 (01:19:12):
Listen and listen. I've been a Type one diabetic on
insulin since nineteen eighty two, so forty two years on insulin. Wow,
and now I'm wearing a disc. Do you know about
the discs?

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
I know it's always changing.

Speaker 16 (01:19:33):
Oh the disc that goes on your arm that reads all.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Your Yeah, it's read by a cell phone, isn't it.

Speaker 16 (01:19:40):
No, you can get a little reader. You don't need
a cell phone, a little special machine. Press the button,
go over the disc. Bombo, got an instant reading?

Speaker 15 (01:19:55):
And what do you do?

Speaker 7 (01:19:56):
Then?

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
What do you do with the reading? Then you do something?

Speaker 16 (01:19:58):
Do you well your panic? Yeah? Do I need more insulin?

Speaker 3 (01:20:02):
Do I need to eat?

Speaker 17 (01:20:04):
Can I go out? No?

Speaker 16 (01:20:05):
I can't? Can I I eat this?

Speaker 3 (01:20:07):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
Bombo?

Speaker 16 (01:20:09):
Oh, oh, you imagine forty two years of that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:12):
There, don't grizzle. You sound positive? You got your girlfriend.

Speaker 16 (01:20:19):
The beans and that alarm clock business that would do
my head on. I mean, there's a book that comes
with an alarm clock. How to set the.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
Why is she buying an alarm clock she can't use?

Speaker 7 (01:20:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 16 (01:20:35):
Because our power went off today and I had to reset. God,
dear Bombo, push this button, push that button. But you see,
I got a black pen because you can't read the
little things that they put on for little old ladies.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
The others are how the others in the village? All right, Oh, well, you'd.

Speaker 12 (01:20:55):
Be the lead.

Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
You'd be the leading light, though, wouldn't you. You'd sort
of lead the chance of dinner and stuff.

Speaker 14 (01:21:01):
No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 9 (01:21:04):
No.

Speaker 16 (01:21:04):
I stick pretty much to myself and mind my own business.

Speaker 17 (01:21:07):
Do you do you really endure?

Speaker 16 (01:21:09):
I enjoy that?

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
Can they tell you what meals you're having all months?
Does it like that?

Speaker 16 (01:21:14):
Oh no, you've got to that's you've got to pay
if you have like fresh meals and yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:21:21):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
You have special dietary concerns, would you with your diabetes?

Speaker 9 (01:21:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:21:25):
Yeah, oh oh yeah. It goes on and on. Everything
your buy has got sugar in it. Everything your touch
has got sugar in nut. Even your fruit. You see,
even though it's natural.

Speaker 2 (01:21:36):
They're not putting fruit and sugar, now, are they?

Speaker 16 (01:21:39):
It's natural sugar and still put your sugar evils up.
You can't go out and have half a dozen plumbs.

Speaker 9 (01:21:46):
Ure and you love one?

Speaker 3 (01:21:48):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:21:48):
I'll tell you something, I'll dawn. I reckon. Considering now
to nineteen eighty two, your technology has come a long way.
So I guess we have got to be grateful for
the advances they've made in the medicine for diabetics.

Speaker 16 (01:22:00):
Absolutely brilliants the frame of mind. Never know that because
I started out with those horrible little needles that you
had to draw up the insulin with. Now it's all
fresh pens. Just go bomb, bomb bomb, and that's here.
It's pretty incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
I'll go ahead.

Speaker 16 (01:22:21):
Joined tonight. It's been wonderful, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
You've been a revelation. Just to know that you're there
with your in your room. That's great with your bombo,
get in touch eight Mirket's Market's welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:22:35):
Good evening, Yeah, ill, Marcus is my here. Look it's
not only Spark that I've the name of the identification
one New Zealander've got a friend Gin and now we're
both in our eighties. She went in with her cell
phone to change a plan and to certain plan was

(01:22:55):
going to be slightly cheaper, but the assistant, and this
was in the Vada phone shop, demanded identification. So she
produced her community services card with her photograph on it.
Oh no, that's not good enough. You've got to have
your driver's license or your passport. So we didn't get anywhere.
But she does have a passport, say or take that

(01:23:18):
and then just see how we get on.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
So Mike, can I just drill down with you a
little bit? This community service car? Who produces those?

Speaker 7 (01:23:28):
I understand it's a government thinks she's also got the
age concerned on the.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
Give any services card would come from a governor department.
It would be legit, wouldn't you.

Speaker 7 (01:23:38):
Well, it is legit. This is what yet they wouldn't
accept it is actually in the shop one. It's one
news on it now of course he is.

Speaker 2 (01:23:52):
Okay, that's got me worried.

Speaker 7 (01:23:57):
It's got me worried, whether it's some new regulations come in.
But just as I say, this was only a few
days ago, within the last week.

Speaker 2 (01:24:05):
Okay, I appreciate that, Mike, thank you, And that's good evening.

Speaker 20 (01:24:12):
Yes, good evening. I'm trying to go to sleep, but
I had to wring you.

Speaker 16 (01:24:16):
These poor people who.

Speaker 20 (01:24:17):
Haven't got a driver's license or a passport, I would
like them to know that you can go to the
AA or post and you can ask for the form
for a Kiwi access card. It is evidence of age
document and it proves your identity and that you're over eighteen.

(01:24:38):
And the card is issued by Hospitality New Zealand. Is
an evidence of age document and I'm just going to
keep it until I lose my license and then I
pull it in.

Speaker 2 (01:24:49):
So where do you go for it again?

Speaker 5 (01:24:52):
AA?

Speaker 13 (01:24:53):
Or post.

Speaker 9 (01:24:57):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
Okay, so the Audio Association or the and what's it called.

Speaker 20 (01:25:05):
It's called a Kiwi Excess card and it's an evidence
of age document. And here's your photo on the card.
And apparently that replace that can replace your passport or
your driver's license.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
It's legit. Everyone recognizes that.

Speaker 5 (01:25:22):
Yeah apparently.

Speaker 19 (01:25:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:25:24):
Also they told me at the AA and I got
an email. Well I found out about it. I got
an email. It's an age concerned sort of thing that
seems out emails to older people every so often. Okay,
I'm eye you see. I don't know how long I'll
be driving for.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
You can got to bed now and I appreciate that.
Thank you. Steve Marcus, Hello.

Speaker 4 (01:25:47):
I can see you. Nobody, Christ good mate.

Speaker 8 (01:25:51):
Some've been listening to for the callers ring up a
little bit of one incidence spark and then I ask
it for photo. I d I'm going to get a
replacement sitting the other day and asked me the same question.
Said it's not and he said, know that the reason
for either drivers or into a passport is because a
lot of mobile phone numbers are linked to internet banking.

(01:26:12):
So that's why it has to be either tranvers.

Speaker 2 (01:26:16):
And that's to do with money laundering, is that right?

Speaker 9 (01:26:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:26:20):
So you know if you log into your have your
NAP on your phone for internet banking. Yeah, sometimes you
go and it'll say it I'll send you a one.

Speaker 4 (01:26:27):
Time code to your mobile.

Speaker 7 (01:26:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:26:30):
That's the reason that you know, Fords or people trying
to get into people's bank accounts. That's why they're so
stringer nowadays with mobile phone numbers.

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
Okay, that makes sense. Although this person was doing something
for a they just want to landline. But I can
understand that that might be the process that they have
now for everything.

Speaker 7 (01:26:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:26:52):
Maybe because it runs on an account sort of thing,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
Yeah, No, that's good whatever, that's good. That's good information, Steve.
I appreciate you coming through that. That does make sense.
You got more stuff to talk about. Eight hundred and
eighty Tenaian nine. By the way, well done, christ Christ
Church have put on a dance tram for Electric Avenue,
as they should. You can dance electric tram on your

(01:27:17):
way to Electric Avenue. Finally someone's done something to make
those trams seem relevant. Welcome Christeners. Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 14 (01:27:28):
Hi, Marcus, just wanted to follow up and the lady
who's talking about the Kiwi Excess cad, I think you
called it. I think it's the same thing. I had
an issue with an older relative and lost a F
posscard and didn't have a driver's license or a passport,
so we went through a process to get the old

(01:27:48):
eighteen plus card, which I think she's saying, this issued
by hospitality in New Zealand, so it's probably replaced the
eighteen plus cads now called the axcess cad, and that
covers everything that yet required for any ID because it's
got a photo acxis, it's got a photo idea on it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
So who puts that together?

Speaker 7 (01:28:12):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (01:28:12):
I can't remember it, to be honest, I remember going
to New Zealand Post, but I think back in those
days I had to go to a I had to
go to the court as well. But the humorous thing
was about it is that he also didn't get any
paper statements from the bank. So in order to get
the f POS card, I went to the bank and said, look,

(01:28:34):
I've got all this, but I don't have proof of
street address. And luckily I was knowing to the teller
and she said, well where does he live? And I
gave the street address and then she said just a minute.
She walked off, entered it into the system, printed off
a bank statement for me, handed it to him and said, okay,
do you have proof of street address now? And I

(01:28:55):
handed the statement back over the cameras.

Speaker 4 (01:28:57):
That there it is.

Speaker 14 (01:28:57):
So he got his card.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
It's all got free coplict, hasn't it?

Speaker 14 (01:29:04):
Yeah, but I guess I guess it was the the
previous callers. Just explain why, and I can understand that.
And the thing is, if you want to get around it,
you can.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Well yeah, although I guess to if you're elderly and
you need transport and stuff like that. But yeah, thank
you for that. Chris Marcus and mike' say fed on
community card. No they don't, thank you. Shane Marcus, I'm
totally blind and went to my back the other day
and they asked for ID and I said, don't have
any and then they said what about your driver's license?

(01:29:36):
I said, no, I don't have one because I'm totally blind.
And they turned around and said, do you have a
gun license? Marcus, retirement is going up from sixty five
to sixty seven. No, it's not. I certainly don't think so. Anyway,

(01:30:01):
Josh Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:30:02):
Hello.

Speaker 2 (01:30:04):
Have I got you there, Joss?

Speaker 14 (01:30:05):
Or have you yes?

Speaker 16 (01:30:06):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
Yes, I was so busy this. I've got two landlines.
One in the bedroom. Oh well, one in the bedroom,
I can't take that outside, but the one in the
kitchen I can and it's Spark. And the one in
the kitchen the kids said it's awful, it's too noisy.
So I just went down to Noel Leeming's the other

(01:30:27):
day and just got a new one. So I mean,
why does the trip lady have all that trouble? She
just joining us or something.

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
Maybe she's just moved house, that's what I mentioned. It happened.
She must have just gone to a unit or a
home or something, and she wants to get a landline
for it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:44):
Oh, it sounds so strange, because you know, I've never
had any bothers And just went down and about seventy ye.

Speaker 2 (01:30:53):
But you already had your line, didn't you?

Speaker 7 (01:30:55):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
I have, Yes, I've always had that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:59):
She wanted to get a phone and the landline put
into the house. That's what she had the trouble with.

Speaker 3 (01:31:03):
I think I wondered why you know she had that?
Because I Spark and I got direct present that just
goes out every month.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
Yeah, okay, why were you so noisy? Why couldn't the
kids hear you? Were you begging around?

Speaker 3 (01:31:16):
No? No, it was just crackly.

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
Did you have water in there or something?

Speaker 3 (01:31:20):
I had it for years, you know, it was getting
on but it had about three years I think, and
they said give a new one. And they kept saying
get a new one, nagging me. So my three daughters
so down I went and got a new one at
Noel Evenings and it's about seventy for two.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
I went back and bought one of those old cell phone,
old landlines where you ring the numbers. Gosh, it took
a long time to phone anyone. It took minutes, is it?
And then it was engaged. You had to ring back again.
You go right round with a number with the finger
in the hole.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
Or oh that one in the bedroom. I don't use that.
That's just in case anybody rings me urgently. But oh yes,
you got to go around and around and round it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
Is it one of the bedroom an old dial phone?

Speaker 5 (01:32:05):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:32:06):
Around?

Speaker 7 (01:32:07):
What color?

Speaker 19 (01:32:10):
Uh? Cream?

Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
Of course it's cream. And the dolls problem the dolls
kind of a light brown.

Speaker 4 (01:32:15):
Is it?

Speaker 7 (01:32:17):
Uh? No?

Speaker 3 (01:32:17):
I big your pardon. The whole thing's dark.

Speaker 2 (01:32:19):
Blue because you said cream dreaming.

Speaker 3 (01:32:24):
It's it's just I going the same as the one
in the kitchen.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
Let's take a long time ring talkback on one of
those old oh eight.

Speaker 7 (01:32:34):
Zoo zero.

Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
Well, now long it would take to ring talkback on
one of those old eighty, Well take at least a minute.
Can you be engaged? One thing I say about driving
Miss Daisy that that guy rang about loving their jingle.

(01:32:58):
Every time it comes on, I feel a little bit
more upbeat. I'm not sure who wrote that, but boy
like they've written a banger there. They could be performing
there at Electric even you I reckon they have the
whole room dancing. Now I'm driving with Miss Daisy. Hello,
Thomas Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:33:19):
Good evening. This business of.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
How are you Tom?

Speaker 7 (01:33:26):
I am I've just been in the hospital. I've just
been at the hospital together chick hob to get a
what I was in Parmiston two days ago for a
checkout from.

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
The knick up, for a chick up from the knick
up or from your body for the body. Oh yeah,
and what's has it gone well for you?

Speaker 7 (01:33:50):
No? I'm one hundred percent now it's taken over a year.

Speaker 2 (01:33:54):
Brilliant, you're standing lively.

Speaker 7 (01:33:57):
Yes, it's it takes about a year to get on
top of this open heart surgery and the volve.

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
What they do they have stints or did they replate?
What have you got?

Speaker 7 (01:34:12):
I had a stint beforehand and I ended up. I
ended up with open heart surgery at Wakefield Hospital and
the main valve replacement?

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
Wow do they make them?

Speaker 5 (01:34:27):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
They picked valves and what are they?

Speaker 7 (01:34:30):
Pig valves?

Speaker 2 (01:34:31):
Cheapest creepers.

Speaker 7 (01:34:33):
I even got a wedding cart. I even got a
card on it.

Speaker 14 (01:34:37):
You got a what.

Speaker 7 (01:34:39):
I've got an identification card for the valve?

Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
What does that mean?

Speaker 7 (01:34:48):
Well, it's proof that what I've got inside me. Wow,
you can have there's four valves in the heart and
you can have up to three of them replace replaced.
I wouldn't want their phone anyway, Marcus. Can you hear me? Yeh?

Speaker 2 (01:35:12):
That unclear?

Speaker 7 (01:35:14):
Right? This Vodafone does a pension. These people who have
got line lights there must have plenty of money. Vodafone
has got a pension and rate for telephones unlimited Texas.

(01:35:35):
You can form anywhere in Australia, anywhere in New Zealand
and it costs you twenty five dollars a month.

Speaker 2 (01:35:43):
That sounds realistic.

Speaker 7 (01:35:47):
And I don't know why anybody would want for long life.

Speaker 2 (01:35:51):
Well, I guess it's I guess it's like most people.
We are resistant to change. We don't do anything different.

Speaker 7 (01:36:00):
And that's Saint John's emergency. I'm not being negative here,
that's In John's an urgency. Alarm is only good for
your property. I have an alarm and I can't think
who it's from. But I've got an alarm that I
can take outside anywhere. I can take it trout fishing,

(01:36:23):
I can take on my steeper anywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:36:26):
Goodness, and.

Speaker 7 (01:36:30):
I've got it. I've got it beside my bed. Now,
which is a better idea?

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
Hello? Would it take for them to arrive?

Speaker 7 (01:36:41):
Oh? Within twenty four hours of breaking? And I can't think,
who does it?

Speaker 2 (01:36:46):
You want to be quicker than twenty four hours. We
want about ten minutes, wouldn't you?

Speaker 7 (01:36:51):
You mean no? You talked, You talk to the operator
and they talk and they put you through to the
ambulance and everything. Oh yeah, I've already used it. And
also being there head, I don't know if it's spenting
a thing, but being z sends you a bank statement

(01:37:11):
every month. Yes, and Contact Energy will send you a
bank statement that you got to pay two dollars a
month for the bank statement. Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
Are you still going trout fishing?

Speaker 4 (01:37:28):
Tom?

Speaker 2 (01:37:30):
No, I've no.

Speaker 5 (01:37:33):
It's taken me.

Speaker 7 (01:37:34):
I'm going to go back to it. It's taken me.
So back on my bicycle. I've been on my bicycle
for four months.

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
And what's what's what sort of set up you got
on your bike there?

Speaker 4 (01:37:48):
Tom?

Speaker 7 (01:37:49):
Just a mountain bike?

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:37:52):
I used to race them. I used to race the bicycles.

Speaker 2 (01:37:56):
We're from New Zealand. What sort of racing racing bikes
on a vela drome or road bikes?

Speaker 7 (01:38:06):
Road bike?

Speaker 2 (01:38:08):
What distance?

Speaker 7 (01:38:10):
Oh? Anything up to one hundred k'soe?

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
That was me.

Speaker 7 (01:38:17):
I'll tell you man, just before you boat and people
will be listening to this. But there's a man in
New Zealand who holds the record between and I used
to train with this man and ride with him. He
holds the record between Auckland Railway Station to Wellington Railway

(01:38:38):
Station nineteen hours. His name is Brian Lambert is not
around anymore. He did it on a steel bike, cold
pies and flat coke.

Speaker 2 (01:38:54):
What year he doing.

Speaker 7 (01:38:56):
Madam?

Speaker 2 (01:38:57):
What year did he do it?

Speaker 9 (01:38:59):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:38:59):
It was last century. It's on the internet. This man
is a genius.

Speaker 2 (01:39:09):
I'll tell you something. I'll tell you something, Tom. Yes,
this is Man to man media right.

Speaker 7 (01:39:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
Last month someone broke that record, did they all?

Speaker 7 (01:39:24):
I never knew that.

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
And it was a nausy. Oh Australian. Australian ultra distant
cyclist Locklin Morton smashed ninety two minutes off the record
of the week at the weekend. He did in eighteen
hours twenty six minutes.

Speaker 7 (01:39:42):
Oh, well that chap who does the chap who's on
your radio station and he's normally on at night. Yeah,
he lived in Masterdon and he knows. Brian Lambert, I'll
give you. I'll give you an idea. Brian Lambert on

(01:40:06):
a Saturday, this is a joy ride. This is just
going out for a bit of a joy ride. We'd
ride from Mastering over the Room Attackers. He would pick
a framed up upper hat that we go through the
back of the acer Terras and they go down to
Power for Arm, up to Pyecock Hill and back to

(01:40:28):
Upper Hoty. We'd drop his mate off and he would
go back to Masterden. When do you think of that?

Speaker 4 (01:40:35):
Wow?

Speaker 7 (01:40:37):
And if a young boy out there's considering riding for
New Zealand, people are going to get surprised from the tellament.
If the young boy out there is considering riding from
New Zealand, and this is what Brian Lambert would tell
them before he would train them. They had to do

(01:40:58):
no less than twelve hundred ks a week. Twelve hundred
case a week.

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
What's that divided by seven? I don't know, one hundred
and seventy a day. It's a lot of caves, yes,
And that's.

Speaker 7 (01:41:19):
What he would tell them, and as not many would
come and see them. You have to do so these
young boys who led in the Olympics all that. You
imagine how what the mileage is?

Speaker 2 (01:41:33):
Were you racing in your twenties? Tom, Will you discover
it later on?

Speaker 7 (01:41:38):
I was an alcoholic for well, discovered it right long.
I haven't had a drink for fifty years.

Speaker 2 (01:41:46):
Maybe thirsty I was.

Speaker 7 (01:41:49):
I was bad out of every city often from where
are we from Howick to the city. I could only
drink in the north Shore, Oh the city.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
I was bad out, couldn't drink at the prospect is
that the prospect of howard could you drink there?

Speaker 7 (01:42:11):
I can't remember that, but in those days there was
the occidental the Queen's Fairy. They used to have an
early opener on the on the wharf.

Speaker 2 (01:42:23):
The schooner was one mm hmm, the Schooner teven.

Speaker 7 (01:42:28):
No, that wasn't there when I was there.

Speaker 2 (01:42:30):
That was the nearly opener down by the wolf.

Speaker 7 (01:42:33):
Yeah, but it wasn't called that thing, bitch, it was. No,
it wasn't called the schooner. There was only one pub
on the wharf, and all the warfers used to drinking.

Speaker 2 (01:42:47):
That pretty sure that was the Schooner teven.

Speaker 14 (01:42:49):
But you might.

Speaker 2 (01:42:52):
I don't want to get an argument with you. We
did you were fighting drunk?

Speaker 7 (01:42:57):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:42:58):
Good fighter? Mm hmm, good fighter.

Speaker 4 (01:43:03):
No.

Speaker 7 (01:43:04):
Well, I never would give up.

Speaker 2 (01:43:06):
I had to put down.

Speaker 7 (01:43:11):
I'm very big handed, big hat, big handed and stubborn.

Speaker 2 (01:43:16):
Opened in nineteen seventy two, the Schooner Tevin. What year
were you around?

Speaker 7 (01:43:21):
Oh? I was in the our train for Vietnam and
I was sixty nine. I was okay, sixty nine.

Speaker 15 (01:43:33):
I was.

Speaker 2 (01:43:36):
Ah, did you did you put down the bottle and
pick up the bike?

Speaker 7 (01:43:42):
Yes? I'd changed my whole life for iron everything and
and I never got empty, any trouble with the lawn nothing.
I was witty court citizens, I was, I was the officer.
Wow citizens.

Speaker 2 (01:44:00):
Yes, were you on the darts as well? Darts cigre it?

Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:44:08):
No, that would touch doors.

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
That will be the blessing. That's what saved you.

Speaker 7 (01:44:15):
Yes, No, I never touched people.

Speaker 2 (01:44:17):
Are so when you came back fishing, I don't know
what's stopping you. What's stopping you? You got your bike,
you got your alarm?

Speaker 7 (01:44:29):
Yes, well it's it's I'm going to do it. I
just wanted to give this enough time, and it needed
over a year.

Speaker 2 (01:44:40):
How did you get to Parist and off to your
chick ap? Do you ride your bike or do you drive?

Speaker 9 (01:44:45):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:44:45):
I went to the shuttle, the space shuttle.

Speaker 7 (01:44:47):
Yeah all right, Oh yes, those are great people, a
great people.

Speaker 2 (01:44:54):
Well you never kept an audience, there, wouldn't you told?
I suppose you talked the whole way?

Speaker 12 (01:44:57):
Do you?

Speaker 7 (01:44:58):
There was nobody in the band, just me and the driver.

Speaker 2 (01:45:05):
How can you say they're great people if it was
just you?

Speaker 7 (01:45:08):
Because something I've been over before.

Speaker 2 (01:45:10):
It's a good service that way.

Speaker 7 (01:45:13):
Yes, do you know what market? Just before you go?
I know I haven't been a great person in the
last twelve months.

Speaker 2 (01:45:23):
But just before Tom, Tom, you said a lot less
grumpy after your big news.

Speaker 7 (01:45:29):
I was sitting next to a man and Paris, the
Norse Hospital. I was waiting to have an acle sign
and I can't get this man out of my head.
And this man was told by the heart surgeons, all
the heart people that he wouldn't qualify. Or I don't

(01:45:50):
know this man. I've been normal boy. He was sitting
next to me and he was told by the heart
Surgeoncy that he wouldn't qualify for the operation. And I
was waiting again to get an aco silent and I
had a I had just had it done. I didn't
tell him that I had to watch what I was saying.

(01:46:13):
And this man was some tears and he was crying
and reserven to me. And this man hadn't told his wife.
He said, how am I going to tell my wife?
How am I going to tell my grandchildren? And I
have been thinking about this man.

Speaker 2 (01:46:34):
Well, why wouldn't he qualify? It's a heartbreaking story, but
why wouldn't he qualify?

Speaker 7 (01:46:39):
Yeah, you've got to cross all you have to cross
all the boxes. Waitfield hospital. He's the number one heart
charge and an Australia and New Zealand. And he told
me they took the paddle of people and wait your

(01:47:00):
hospital put me off the Wellington Hospital there was over
a thousand people waiting for operate for this type of operation.
And he told me, I tacked on the right boxes
you have. You can't faire on anything. Your lungs to
the actress, the main actors. I even had a brainstet

(01:47:22):
the actress into your throat, the main actors into your throat. Oh,
everything everything to do with You've got to You've got
to have lived healthy.

Speaker 9 (01:47:38):
You have.

Speaker 7 (01:47:39):
I'll give an examples. The man who took me to
Parmis the North Hospital for my check out. This this
is after the operation. He has a brother who will
not give up smoking and he's got to have the
operations that I'm having and he will not get it.

(01:48:01):
And he he's he's waiting to see them and he
will not get this operation. If you're slapping now, and
he has to to survive, he has to have this operation.
You need to look at yourself and say, well, I
need to give me some laugh. They're not good for me.

Speaker 2 (01:48:23):
Good leave it there Tom, it looked nice to hear
from you. Thank you for that.

Speaker 1 (01:48:27):
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