Just one of those things (14 February 2025)

What is the feature of your otherwise-perfect car that drives you around the bend?

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus lush Night's podcast from News
Talks at B.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I realized some of you love the Super Rugby, so
I'll keep you updated. Twenty two fourteen Hurricanes versus the Crusaders.
That's on at the moment. That's happening, Cheaper screepers. What's
it called Super Pacific Rugby? I presume, hang on, I've
got myself in trouble here. This is just a pre season?

(00:36):
Is it just the beginning of the season? Gods? Round one, Okay,
I'm glad, I asked glad, I asked round one. Well, well, well, well,
so there was a panic, wasn't it just something to
say as a bit of a thought provoker. Read an
article today which I hadn't thought about. They reckon that

(01:05):
the journey to Mars for humans will be incredibly dangerous
and damaging to our bodies, and some mightn't survive. In fact,
very few will survive. So according to the science, the

(01:25):
chance of colonizing Mars is not great. We can all
think of the exciting things and ways to heat the
planet up with nuclear bombs and stuff like that, but
getting there is not doable as we stand. So all
these pills thing, let's wreck the planet because we can
go and colonize Mars, and not so fast because getting

(01:46):
there will kill us. Henry thought of that so that
you guess that would help help in a spacecraft and
six months later, as long as we all got on,
would be on Mars. Apparently not so it puts all
the sort of the gravity puts all sorts of different
stresses on our body. It's not good at all anyway.
I don't think we're all going to be living on
Mars people. It mightn't happen. We can't get there. That's

(02:11):
not a talkback topic. That's just I need to get
off my chest because of hearing all this rubbish going
on about colonizing Mars. But apparently it's not the go welcome.
I'm here on midnight mana miss Marcus.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Good evening.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I hope your day is going well for you, and
if it's not, I hope it's better in the next
three hours, fifteen minutes, twenty seconds, nineteen seconds, eighteen seconds.
I've got a question for you. I'll start with a statement.
I get so annoyed with my car, so my car

(02:51):
is keyless, so you never know where the damn key
is you don't know if it's in the car, falling
between the seat or in your pocket. But what is worse?
If you want to open the backseat of the car
to let the children in, there seems to be no

(03:12):
fixed number of times you've got to click the backseat
door handle for it to open. It feels like it's
about three or four. I just like a car where
you turn the key and all the doors unlocked. So
that's my Valentine's Day question for you tonight. Because we

(03:35):
all love our cars, what feature of your car annoys
you the most? I have another car, now I don't.
It's the same car, actually the same car. When you
go to the gas seat to fill up, you've got
to pull the button to release the fuel cap, right,

(04:02):
and you can't see the buttons or the logo on top,
so you're just as unlikely to release the bonnet as
open the fuel cap. What's that about? This is a
great Friday entry level. Have a few beersies, bring up
the radio discussion topic for you? The one feature of

(04:24):
your car that annoys you the most? Because I don't
think anyone's anyone's got a car they love all of it.
We've all got bad features in our car. Mine would be,
and it would be such an easy thing to fix.
You change where the fuel button was because you can't
see it. You reach down there, you do the blind grapple,

(04:51):
and you never know if it's going to go out
there and your phone. Oh yeah, the fuel cap still locked,
but your bonnet's up. Oh goodness. The feature of your
car that annoys you the most, you'll have one, and
actually getting it off your chest might make your day
a little bit happier. A lot of them probably have

(05:16):
to do with breaks. That's what we're starting with tonight.
I think this could go good. If it doesn't go good,
sucked in love to come up with something else. Looks
like the crustaders have scored. But the guys. Is he
the guy that's marrying the TV woman? I can never
keep up with the refs and their romances. Anyway, he's

(05:37):
gone upstairs. He's made the square box side with his fingers.
Noally means you gaze nuggly, little guy? Who is it? Who?
Who the hell care is look after this planet? Exactly?
All these people with the Mars excuse my car has

(06:02):
auto stop at the lights. But when you get to
your destination. It stops, and I grabbed my stuff and
open the door and it starts again. I can't think
of any stage with someone into the car to start
when the door opens, especially when you have been driving it. Marcus.
For me, the AC isn't cold enough. It was twenty

(06:23):
nine point nine and upper Hut today and the AC
doesn't quite cut them. Hello, I'm twenty two degrees and
the AC doesn't cut the mustard. It's terrible, Marcus. For me,
it's the Holden badge. I had a Ford and should
have never sold it. Batch Why would you sell your forward?

(06:48):
I think that rivalry goes him or now the Opal
Victoris or whatever. So yeah, get on you get your
dialing fingers. The feature of your car that annoys you
the most. You'll all have something on it that drives
you crazy. And once you factate on it, boy, it's
a lonely road to go down. Oh eighte hundred eighty
ty and nine two nine text first and bestress. You

(07:12):
have to think you have something interesting to say about this,
because you know you ring up, talk bang and go
and put someone go. You'll be on the phone and
go Yeah, Marcus and some Marcus. I think annoys me
at my car is this and you do it and
someone will be at home they think, oh my god,
that's the same as my car. It's annoyed me too.

(07:35):
Then you can email the car company and say, hey, hey, hey,
so I think that annoys your most about your car.
You'll have something to say about that. You want to
get quick, because you know what happens with a Friday.
She starts slow after eleven. It might be standing room only.
I'm just trying to think what annoys me about the
other car, the farm mute. Actually, nothing really annoys me

(07:57):
about that car. I'm just trying to think as I'm
driving it. Oh, the Eircon's not good. I thought I
could play my phone through the radio with the U
s B thing. Couldn't get that working today. Not quite
sure what went wrong there. The phone did three beeps,
but I couldn't find anything to click on. Should have
rung a teenager or Dan. Dan's quite good with but

(08:20):
I feel abou funny ringing Dan just for it stuff.
During the during it feels like, well, Marcus, you're quite right.
My Rare four has the same problem. Problem for that
darn button for the petrol cap with a bonnet one.
That's the same car. It was the same car, David.

(08:44):
Maybe it's just about name the feature you hate and
someone can see if it's the same car. It's the
same day. What was it? Is it, David? The same
day day?

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Is it the end?

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Goodness? I can't remember. I remember that remembered the word right,
it was the same day, David, Katie, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Good Katie.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
Oh yeah, so about my car? Yep, yeah, it's just
it's a great cat. It's a usual for a sextebel.
Amazing cupholders too small?

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Wow? Is it am Are you doing a humble brig?

Speaker 5 (09:26):
Ha ha ha. I doesn't love the car, but I hate
that I can't put anything I'm drinking and.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
That And because you think you think the French would
have a capacious drink holder for a bottle of boujuli
or something, wouldn't you.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
Exactly a big bottle of wine? It's not, honestly, not
even big enough super size can like juster.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Can Is there anything online about it? Does it say
watch out for the cup holder?

Speaker 5 (09:59):
It just says how amazing it is, Like economically, you know.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
It's just got It's no there's no point of cars
good economically if you're parched, if you've got desert mouth.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
I mean, I know, no, I mean I do. I
really appreciate my car, it's amazing.

Speaker 6 (10:19):
But the cup.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
Holders, and maybe I should just what could I do?

Speaker 3 (10:24):
I mean you could?

Speaker 2 (10:25):
You could wear one of those stupid backpacks that people
that take themselves too seriously when they're mountain running where
with a tube going to your mouth.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
Yes, that's that's a good idea. I was thinking destroy
the car and just go on a like cup holders
that I used to put on my boat and I
had a boat.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, you hit it all the persia on the boat, Katie, delightful,
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (10:50):
Erin got my marker's head on all right.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, good good good good goodie good good.

Speaker 7 (10:55):
Good, thank you cars mate. Highlights. I thought I had
the perfect vehicle until you're until your top of tonight.
I'll just figured it out what the worst thing about
my highlights is. And that's the cup holder, which is
on the right hand side, just below the indicator. If
you leave it out and you get in cut to
your knees.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Open, you see how hard will that be? Effect? She's
just getting the charent hang about hang about Bruno. This
is not quite right. It's my knee.

Speaker 7 (11:19):
You just put it in before you You just don't
need it sticking out. I think there's the key thing
and just you the same to one. But I'll tell
you it's a disaster if you if you're tall.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
It is it factory issue, yeah, tectory issue.

Speaker 7 (11:33):
No pectory issue. But it does retract on the petagre
side and the driver side. But when you get in,
rips your knee open, mate, terrible, terrible, but easy solution
is just pushing in. But that's the only fault I
can say about a highlight.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Everything else is what is a Toyota highlights?

Speaker 7 (11:51):
Yeah? High Yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Surely the place for the cup holder is in the
middle where the handy is the handbreak.

Speaker 7 (11:57):
Yep, there's one in the middle as well. And there's
there's one on each side of the driver's side, on
the on the driver and pestare side as well.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
So so many cup holders in a car.

Speaker 7 (12:09):
If you've got two drinks made or three or something
like that.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Who's double drinking in a highlux?

Speaker 7 (12:14):
Oh you never know these days? Good point one cup
of coffee anyway, double drinks?

Speaker 8 (12:24):
I suppose you got your old I don't know what
your double drink would be. You got your sort of
your your powerade, and I don't know what that you'd
be double drinking anyway, Good on you. If you're trade
from a night out on the source, you probably have
your mother energy drink your body with two of those,
you double shoot those.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Oh, this has been This is rich territory. How's kadie
in French case? Let the cup holders? Yeah, I might,
I've got you. I always spake a cup of coffee
in the morning and quite often get in the car
and it's terrible and the cups fall out and they
fall under the accelerator handle. Marcus our wingmerror sometimes closed

(13:02):
as when the doors are locked, but sometimes not. Marcus
Donyone have a cup hold in their car that's big
enough for the Wendy's restaurant cup do The keyword for
that is restaurant Wendy's resta would you call it a restaurant?
Marcus Niss and Navara. For some reason, they put the

(13:26):
rear view mirror right in the center of the windscreen.
Not just horizontal, which is fair, but it's in the
center vertically too. WTF all you can see when you
look slight left is a bloody mess of mirror. Don't
know how I didn't notice it when I first test
drove it. Well, some of those, but when you get
the apps, when you get the old salesman with the apps, Marcus,

(13:49):
I saved up a bit longer and spent a bit
more on a late model AMG Mercedes, and there's absolutely
nothing to complain about other than being stuck behind rav
Four's what a loser? Now by Christ's Church Saders down
by one point. Kick to come from the Canes. Goodunk,

(14:11):
it's over, Canes up by four. There you go, twenty
three minutes to go. Mind you there the guy holding
the ball up like they'd watched the Super Bowl too often.
Let's speed the game up. I just throw it back
and you grab it and kick it. Twenty five twenty
one the Canes Saders, Marcus, I want had to push

(14:35):
box the major damage to a wheel on five o'clock
traffic and from the cars ever, spare wheel, no room
for it, old car. When I turn it off and
the windows were down, I had a minimum or so
of saving grace to put the windows up A min
minute new carras as I turned off, I have to
start the engine in to put windows up if they
were down, oil can errand's WiFi. I'm a double drinker.

(14:58):
I always have a water bottle, so if I get
a coffee as well. I have an electric car and
the cover is extra tiny anyway. Also, last service, that
display changed to miles per hour, and Man, I cannot
seem to change it back. I'd like the challenge of
changing that back, Marcus. Total agreement with Mars. Surely we

(15:23):
invest in find new ways to look after our own
unique planet. Mars by all accounts as an absolute shithole,
letting alone getting their ego driven ambition totally misguided. Marcus.
I'm not saying anything about my car doing anything that
annoys me because it went through the warrant last week.

(15:45):
Nothing needs doing, Marcus. My new ranger tells me to
take a coffee break while I'm drinking a coffee. Get
it not see me drinking?

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Gary.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
My car feature annoys me most is when my test
Century Security recorded me in my undies and the car
port one evening. Was great amusement to my kids when
my kids were going through the footage, just as when
it was spotted before my work colleagues. I've got no
idea what that text means, Marc, is the AC auto

(16:23):
recirculation function. If I want external air, I want external air,
not what Toyota thinks best. The thing about your car
that annoys you the most, that's what we've hit on tonight.
Love my Character two thousand and one Ford Falcon XR eight,

(16:46):
the voice on the computer, my husband's tests. I hate it.
We rang Tesla and it can't be changed unless we
pay five k. For goodness sake, what would they do
with five k? Unbelievable. I ended up watching that video

(17:09):
of the whales swallowing the canoeist. Yeah, it was surprising.
There's a fire out of control at Dovedale and Tedes,
But if ayone's got any more updates on that, there's
always fires at Dovedale. This was reported at about five

(17:30):
point thirty. There's the stories about that. If you've got
any updates on that, let me know. Is that contained
that's Dovedale, Nelson, Marcus. There are two streets, one and
Upperhut and one and lower Hut. At a certain point,
my break alert and the car goes off every time.
It's bizarre, Marcus. My car seems to have more sensors

(18:00):
than an aircraft carrying my seat vibrates my bom left
Righters said to alert me that there was a car
or a hazard approaching from the fuementioned direction. Otherwise the
car is great. By the way, I have no petrol
camble leaving the cars knows if I'm there with my
remote and I open the cap with my finger. The
sextually become car bragging. We don't care about your smart features.

(18:23):
Looks like the saders have scored. No, they might have
gone upstairs for there. It might be a replay twenty
one twenty five, Still the school of the Hurricanes, Judith,
what's annoying about your car there? Judith?

Speaker 9 (18:39):
I have a Honda City and you don't see very
many of them about. But you know that doesn't matter.
But the hazard lights on the Honda City are so
hard to find. Oh yeah, where are they cannot find them? Well,
you know it's the steering wheel and they're on that

(18:59):
column there.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's a silly place for them.

Speaker 9 (19:03):
You know That's what I thought too.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Are you using their heads lights quite often?

Speaker 4 (19:10):
Well only once, mind you.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
When you need it. You need when you need it.
Oh that's the thing, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (19:17):
Yes, and so I was driving it along the road
and the hands and lights for going. Talk about drawing
attention to yourself.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
You love hit buttons with my knee that I can't
work out what I've done or undo it, and that's
hard too.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
Oh true?

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Are you near the fire and Dovedale Judith?

Speaker 9 (19:37):
No, I didn't even know there was one there. I'm
in Central Stoke and Nelson love Central Stoke.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Good on you, Judea, thanks for calling back. Hurdle twelve.
The thing that annoys you most about your car? And
you might love your car, but what annoys you about it?
Get in touch Marcus Still twelve. That's a situation there
by the way for you Newbras. How's the old out out?
And about Valentine's? Are busy out there? I think restaurants

(20:04):
hate it, don't they? Couples just sitting into each other's
eyes for hours? Done it much? Looks like to say
that crusaders have just scored there. I'll tell you I could.
That guy looks familiar to I'll tell you who scored it,
pr Pocket Rocket See big crowd there too, Sevarice says

(20:28):
the scorer. I love having all the hair above their ears.
Don't they. What's that about? It's not a here? Could
have we ever been warm too? The old Anthony Dixon? Anyway,
dB Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 10 (20:45):
Good evening. Our household is a two car household. So
my flatmate has Eliza Bushy cult, which is just log standard.
I unfortunately have, well, not unfortunate, because I really like
the vehicle. I've got a Ford. The reason the late
model one that it has European control, which means that

(21:08):
the indicator is on the opposite side to what my
hand is expecting.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Wow, and it drives me not because you're not going
to realign your neural pathways at this age, not with
a vehicle.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
I'm not.

Speaker 10 (21:28):
And so I get my body chained to indicate with
my left hand, and then I have to use the
fat Mad's vehicle. And so I started indicating when the
windscreen again, and when you go to fast oncoming traffic
you get a clean windscreen.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
There's nothing worse.

Speaker 10 (21:44):
Then get back in my own car and now I'm
indicating again with the windscreen.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
And there must be some sort of pre drive ritual
you can go through when you realize when you can
tell your mind what car you're in.

Speaker 10 (22:03):
Yeah, but what happens is when you need them in
a hurry, your body reverts to muscle memory and it
gets tricky very quickly. I had any but yeah, like
I used to drive buses and for some reason, a
little bus my mind could make the change because it's
so different. But when I'm changing and these vehicles are

(22:25):
not the same, like you know, my thoughts are an
suv and yeah, it's it's well different. It's got a
steering wheel that looks like the Starship Enterprises Bridge.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
A great car.

Speaker 10 (22:39):
I can't complain about the car, but this old dog
is defining it hard to learn a new trick, and.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
I can't think of a way you could actually use
a gadget with Macardo to put it to the other
side either.

Speaker 11 (22:55):
No, I'm sure that.

Speaker 10 (22:57):
I could find somebody that would charge me many thousands
of dollars to change them round.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Probably still maybe could drive with your arms crossed.

Speaker 10 (23:09):
And yeah, it's it's just one of those things.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Nice to hear from you, d B. Thank you. Twenty
two to nine. George Marcus, Hello, George, welcome, Hey, Hey, Yeah, George, good.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
Yep A as this Mary George Hey, first time caller? Yeah,
no kidding, Yeah, I'm calling away from Margoy out here
in Oaks, shout out to Yeah, I just want to

(23:46):
shout out to all those heat dresses or the heat
dresses and barbers out there. A bit of a slight
change in the subject from iritable things and beagles. So my, my, my, My,
My brief is barbers and hair dresses. So I'll give

(24:08):
you a short story behind it, a minute short story.
So my local barber who I've been with for the
last twenty plus years, great barber, and then all of
a sudden he doesn't open up on a Saturday, so
I had to sort of go out and source another barbers.

(24:29):
So my thing is, as you do, you'll go around
and look for who it can catchu here, and that
that is my whole thing with barbers. So I'll sit
in a chair, I'll give them a description what I'm
pretty much straight up on the side and the flat
on the top or back in the days they called

(24:50):
it a crew cut, which was standard back in the seventies, eighties, nineties,
right up until whatever happened in two thousand and to
where we are now. So my thing is that hair dresses.
Is it kind of irritable that I give them the
description and they just assume they made you. And for

(25:12):
any listeners out there they've gone through my experience, they
just go off and do what they want to do.
And it's never came out like a cree cut ever.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Is it you?

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Is it your community? Is it your is it your
communications skill? George, You're not managing to actually explain it properly?

Speaker 12 (25:33):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 4 (25:35):
Oh, it's actually not my communication skills. I'll do retra
photise pattern and to what I'm after. I'll even I'll
even go to the point of showing them. I've heard
of Alvis Presley. He had the most brilliant cree cut.
And I don't know what's happened along the line, but

(25:56):
you know, from a standard from the standard cree cut,
which is the number one, trying straight up the site
and flat on the top. Next minute they come out
withers and things like that, and please do not touch
me with that thing, you know. And and I'm sure
there's that there's a few of us guys to go
out there that I've had barbers. The barbers have been

(26:17):
work for a few years and that I've retired and
going through the same dilimmit that I am.

Speaker 13 (26:24):
You.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
I just thought i'd see that.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Story to cut yourself broth.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
I had tried, but it's shocking. I must have just
put a plot on my head and just trim around
the edges.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Well, I don't know about it. I mean, you get
pretty good clippers.

Speaker 4 (26:39):
These days, oh absolutely, but you know doing a you know,
doing a straight up on the site, you know, fading
and what don't you want to call it these days?
And the fat on the top, which you know I
or do you expect to barbers out there? The young
generation that are out there?

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, good George, nice to hear from you. Thank you.
Peter and Marcus.

Speaker 14 (27:02):
Welcome, Hi Peteret, Hey, hey Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (27:05):
Peter?

Speaker 14 (27:06):
Hey, this is not specifically about cars, but it does
relate directly to cars. It's probably a very pistoling point, really,
But at what point piffling a puffling sort of a
point really? But here and here in christ Church and
throughout the country, I know you have these fairly big

(27:26):
underground car parks adjoining shopping malls. Yeah, they actually have
them in christ as well. But but what what always
narks me is that there's no reference ever provided for
we've parked your car. As regards to having some new
numeration on the on the concrete pillar, your parting on

(27:53):
your shopping.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Each car parks have a signed with a number on it.

Speaker 14 (27:57):
Absolutely because you come out, you've been pre you know,
you've been thinking about shopping and all the rest that
you come out. You think we have the hand that
I put my car, and you know, had you been
provided with some sort of reference point, would make the
job so much easier. So that's my gripe.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
Anyway, can you get it on GPS?

Speaker 14 (28:19):
Well, I guess you could.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
I guess you could work underground. That might get screened,
that's right now.

Speaker 14 (28:25):
I don't think it would because I noticed that when
I've got my mobile phone on and I drive an
under those concrete sort of packs, the reception virtually goes
to nil. So I yeah, probably that is the case.

Speaker 15 (28:37):
But I thought I would have thought it.

Speaker 14 (28:39):
Would be so easy to put some reference point, you know,
adjacent to each line of cars, so you would know
where to actually head the woods.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
The one place I did lose my car and a
car park wasn't christ Church, but it wasn't underground. It
was above ground, but it was a it was a.
It was a It was not good.

Speaker 14 (28:58):
Yeah, But even even then, markets they should have reference
to where you park above ground and some of those
big above ground parks as well, because it's very easy
to become disoriented when you come out of a shopping
mall and where the hell part my car?

Speaker 3 (29:13):
You know, it was the devils.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
This was the Devil's Park. And then I wasn't quite
sure if I'd been stolen or I just don't think
it was. Actually I questioned my very existence. It was terrible.

Speaker 14 (29:23):
Well, it's got to the stage where you know, the
age I am, I'm sting thinking, am I having another
senior moment or something? But I hear I talk to
other people younger than I, and they have the same
sort of frustration as at times.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
I have some good conversations. Yeah, I found my car
and I got lost in and Plymouth and Plymouth Lane.
It's the Devil's Park. Terrible.

Speaker 14 (29:48):
Yeah, Yeah, there's some hideous parks in those areas, yeah, hideous. Yeah.
And getting in and out in itself as the mission.
But then having attended to you, to your matters and
coming back trying to rem where they hang you.

Speaker 7 (30:07):
Are part.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
And they wonder why retails through the floor and everyone's
doing all their shopping online.

Speaker 14 (30:13):
Absolutely, And I mean they can send the man to
the moon, but they can't. They can't seem to get
it right, to indicate where your car's parked. So I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
I love that. I love anyone where that says they
can send a man to the moon. That's great. We've
got to have a modern arm equivalent of that by
a set of clippers. Do it yourself, jeepers. We've got
an update for the tornado cyclone. Marcus my Son is

(30:46):
a mechanics servicing large mining machinery. He was heading north
and wistness right towards Tom Price wist of human right
to the path of Zelia. The cyclone I feared for
its life, but it seems it's gone slightly north. He's
safe for the moment. A bit of a worry for us.
Noll from Napier Evening Grant it's Marcus.

Speaker 16 (31:06):
Well, yeah, home, Marcus from a very pleasant talkspay evening.
Deco weekends and Valentine's Day, the lots of people out
and about enjoying. I don't know if it's a coincidence.
The weather could be. Deco week could be could be
Valentine's Day, but there's you know, a lot of people

(31:27):
out and about enjoying the nightlife.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
I can see great, great and try to a call.

Speaker 16 (31:33):
Okay, Now I got an idea for the guy who
you can't find his car. Okay, So a really easy
one which I use all the time if I can't
get that car spot, which I normally would get if
I was.

Speaker 10 (31:49):
In that particular.

Speaker 16 (31:52):
Parking area, is take a photo of where your cameras
and then go back to it. It's the only thing
you need to do.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
How hang on, great, How wide's your photo?

Speaker 17 (32:06):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (32:06):
So yeah, normally it's you set back and you've normally
got something in the background there that indicates where it
might be. It might be a powerpole or a sign
or but yeah, if it's a if it's a parking
building which which hasn't got a lot of indicators on it,
such as level two, you know, section three or whatever,

(32:30):
then that's that's obviously a little bit difficult. But yeah,
often often there's something out in the more outside more
there to indicate that where you've put your car, because
because I often have to put my car somewhere slightly
different too, And and when I do see that pressure
of trying to remember where things are is that you

(32:54):
take a photo and actually, yeah, it could It could
be get useful later on if you if you get
banged by somebody.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Nice to hear from your grant what Peter should have done.
He should have rung up and said he should have
rung up and pretended he'd actually lost his car. Oh
my god, I've lost my car. Isn't that annoying? And
that would have been That would have made it much

(33:22):
more exciting the whole even, Oh, jeep, have you found
it yet? Didn't do that?

Speaker 9 (33:26):
They did?

Speaker 12 (33:27):
He?

Speaker 2 (33:29):
He said, the problem I have by the way crusaders
have won. They've been in the hurricanes thirty three, twenty five.
Should you be a big night on the strip tonight?
It's a good start for them? Did did? Old the
Ozzie wonder Boy? Get on there? Hi, Julie, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 18 (33:53):
I love my car. Do you want to know why?

Speaker 2 (33:55):
I'm I'm sure you'll tell me.

Speaker 18 (33:58):
Twenty sixteen Holden verena X. And if I can't find
my car, all I have to do is keep pressing
the lock on my keys and my car horn honks. Wow,
how about that?

Speaker 2 (34:13):
That's great, yep.

Speaker 18 (34:16):
Yeah, And the thing I don't like about it is
it doesn't have an automatic boot opener, and I've got
arthritis in my hands. I had a hell of a
time opening up that hatch. But that's other than that. Yeah,
my car horn honks.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
And I wonder how you could fix the beck in
the boat.

Speaker 18 (34:35):
I don't know. I just end up throwing enormous shopping
on the back seat.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
So I used the boat.

Speaker 18 (34:43):
Very seldom. But anyway, I just thought you'd like to
know that my dear old nine year old Holden Verena X.
Of course, that's the last of the Holdens honks. It's
horn when I press the lot.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Very good, Judy, I appreciate that. Thank you. We are
talking about the feature of your car that you hate.
We love our cars, but there's things that you think,
how did that get past the design people? What devil's
compromise resulted in that being there? Most of us do
with cup holders and bonnet or petrol cap release or

(35:17):
the voice on a tesla. I've never been in a tesla.
I don't know what that camera as that person said,
they're filming them in their underwear. Your car's filming it
that's weird head on midnight minamers. Marcus, welcome eight hundred

(35:38):
and eighty eight ten eighty. Always good to invent some
new sounds, isn't it. They're just doing the interviews now
with the losing Hurricanes players. Oh it's the Hurricanes, of course,
it's the Winnington team, isn't it. Well it talks about

(35:59):
two weeks to realize the difference between the Hurricanes and
the Highlanders. Fans having five names and two of them
started with the same letter five. It's annoyed me since
the competition started. Marcus. You can get apps now that
can lead you back to your car. What are they called?

(36:20):
That's a better thing? An app? Marcus. The Mars proponents
are deluded. Do they not realize there is nothing there
except a hostile environment. All of the resources need to
live there wor need to come from Earth, therefore depleting
the planet far more than if we're to stay into
our problems at home. It's crazy thinking the Mars people

(36:41):
settlers are idiots. What did you find out? What the
apps called? Then app to find your Car, App to
find your car, then car park Parked, car Locator, a

(37:11):
really simple app that does a simple thing you pinion
a coach where you get your car and then follow
the marker back parked car locator. Download that now, Peter.
It's a great idea. There's an app for everything. There's

(37:31):
even app that tells you what apps you need. That's
the app to get Ford Ranger has lane departure an
engine off whenever you stop. Have to turn both off
every time your cars. Again, too complicated. I just want

(37:51):
a car with a key, not a click click. Russian
drone hits Chernobyl power plant. Shelter protecting the world from
radiation is damaged. Wow, greetings, welcome. So the situation this

(38:13):
is breaking news. I just get some sort of corroboration
with this story. So the Russians have used drones to

(38:33):
attack and hit the Chernobyl nuclear plant, which is in Ukraine.
For me in the USSR, it's a low blow. A
Russian attack drone with a high explosive warhead struck the
shelter protecting the world from radiation. That destroyed fourth power unit.

(38:58):
It goes under say radiation levels have not increased and
they've been constantly monitored. The damage to the shelter is significant,
so I'm not quite sure what the play is there.
That's kind of breaking news cheap as it's pretty unbelievable,

(39:22):
isn't it to blow up the dome over the world's
worst nuclear disaster? Anyway, I'll give this any update.

Speaker 7 (39:36):
Oh what what.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Didn't realize Yellow Jackets was back? Goodness? When did that
come back on TV? Terrify it's on pair?

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Is that one?

Speaker 2 (39:54):
We've got paramount?

Speaker 7 (39:55):
Then?

Speaker 12 (39:58):
No.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Conventually, we're talking about the thing about your car that
anoys you the most. A lot of texts, Marcus, we
can't find our car and a car park? How we
get to Mars? Extremely good point. The sooner Eon Musk
leaves for Mars, the better to find my car as

(40:22):
GPS based and thus won't work underground, Marcus. The a
minus pillar driver's side the bane of my life hides
right hand traffic. Marcus. Have a brand new Toyota c HR,

(40:43):
but there was contemporary hit radio has everything that opens
and shuts except a were screen window wiper. Toyota sees
the rare spoiler pushes water off the window. It doesn't
work at low speed. Love the car, though, Mike, Marcus,
what do they call it? Peak our traffic? When the

(41:03):
cars are still? Sure Russia did it just as they're
going into peace talks. Dave Putin's about four steps ahead
of everyone. He'll play Trump like a kid. Xylophone, Apple
maps on the iPhone of a feature that remembers where

(41:24):
you last parked your car, so I can bide you
back to your car. Not that great for multi story
car parking, though. Now someone sent me something from timu

(41:47):
oh Tu sells an automatic boot opener and for something
on tema to remark will be expensive. Email says Marcus,
this will sort that woman's boot out. Tu sells an
automatic boot open that can be fitted to your the

(42:07):
woman's car for six hundred and twenty three dollars. Easy
to install. Someone who knows cars can do it an
hour or so. We put one in our Santa Fe
well worth it. So how much of that cost you
cost your hundi to get someone for an hour and
six twenty three? So for seven twenty three you can
put a boot opener in your car. Heard hair first,

(42:32):
Oh wait one hundred eighty Teddy and nineteen nine text
Ron Marcus, welcome evening, right Marcus, yep, yep, yeah, Ron,
yep good you can hear me, yes down and clear receiving.

Speaker 12 (42:48):
Good man. Hey, my wife and I've got a Honda car,
each brand new. Every time you get in the car,
on the on the lovely screen that has your radio
stations and everything, and I'm looking at it now, it
says disclaim the driver is responsible for the safe operation

(43:10):
of this vehicle. Use the system only when traffic conditions permit. Wow,
it's bloody annoying because and then it goes on for
further details see your owner's manual. If a connected service
has been activated for this vehicle, its location will be trapped.
It goes on. So every time that comes up, you

(43:33):
have to press. Okay, then you can see stuff on
your screen.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
So is it just one button push? But still annoying.

Speaker 12 (43:42):
Well, yeah, I'm looking at it now, so then it's okay.
So you push every single time, and and now it
says audio function is not available during the fall. Because
I'm talking, your.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Car's taking your car's taking over.

Speaker 12 (43:59):
You're dead right. I said, can you remove it? And
they said no, it's there forever.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Did you and your wife buy exactly the same.

Speaker 12 (44:08):
Car on no ones A Jazz and ones in h
no z R V.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
Okay, so who's got exactly that that standard in all
to did you say Honda.

Speaker 12 (44:20):
Standard in both standard in both these cars. I find
it very annoying.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
So I'm annoyed for you.

Speaker 12 (44:28):
Other than that fabulous car there.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
But that's annoying the same thing each time that drives
you crazy, drive you to drink.

Speaker 16 (44:35):
It does.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
Almost goodness? Okay, Ron, thank you sixty, this is good
sixteen past nine. The thing about your car that annoys
you the most. I'm annoyed by his car didn't sound
that annoying any to push one button though, to be fair,
didn't you Good evening, Bob. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
I'm just wondering if anyone can tell me I bought
a Japanese import what late model one? And I can't
get rid of the I've got. I can get the
radio in English and that, but all the rest of
it's in Japanese. Can I get that off the screen somehow?

Speaker 2 (45:08):
The words? Or is there audio audio?

Speaker 3 (45:11):
It shows me that I'm in Japan driving such and
such a lot. When I'm I'm trying to get the
GPS just comes up in Japanese all the time.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
Just to clarify, is it the words are in Japanese?
Or is there a Japanese voice talking to you.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
A Japanese voice talking to me, and also a picture
of Japan.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
That's both.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Yeah, I feel in New Zealand radio. I'm getting a
New Zealand radio station. Okay, but that's it.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
What have you tried to do?

Speaker 3 (45:48):
Well? I try to two, which I thought would would
have to be able to put a CD, and I thought, well,
let's get rid of everything. But that money goes for
a couple of seconds and then come back again and
it's got phone and it's got GPS and something else
on it. Every time I pushed them, it comes into Japanese.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Bob, how long have you had the car?

Speaker 3 (46:09):
About three weeks?

Speaker 2 (46:10):
Oh, shades of Honolulu. That's quite you, quite annoying. What
is it?

Speaker 3 (46:15):
Oh, it's a Japanese raceos or runoffs or something.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
How's it spelled R A T C T R I is?
Because it wasn't what R A T C.

Speaker 10 (46:28):
Yeah C I is.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Oh, it looks like a tour Suzuki Swrift or something.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
Yeah, we were bigger than than the Swift.

Speaker 12 (46:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Hey, if you listen, Bob, have you been on YouTube
or anything like that or on the internet.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
No, no, no, no, I didn't didn't. You didn't bother
that a lot, because it was only when you mentioned
what when annoys you bet the camp. The other thing
when I lost my car the other day, which wasn't
packed on a car back back on the street and
I couldn't bloody remember where I packed and I actually
stopped an aster cop, I said, and I watched the
three He said, Well, Sonny, he said, I've had the
same problem. He said, well I do is. I just
pushed the baton and see where the light's flick going off?

(47:10):
He said, that'll be we your carras.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
Good bit of advice.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Yeah, and it worked.

Speaker 12 (47:16):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
I thought someone might better come up with an idea
where I get that Japanese off the.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Yeah, I reckon, you've probably got to get on a
YouTube video and what if you've got the internet? Have
you got a cell phone?

Speaker 19 (47:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (47:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeh ye, look at that after I get
up on the new markets.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
No, keep listening because some of the someone are going
to help you. Sorry about that. If anyone can help Bob,
I appreciate it. Someone said to the gentleman with the carriage,
you please advise to download a free language translation from
Google using the app He can understand Japanese, then change

(47:52):
to English easily. Then he can change his settings. A
download a free language translation from Google, use the app
to change from Japanese to English, then change his settings.
We're gonn taking about three weeks. It sounds pretty complicated.

(48:14):
Someone says Bob could always learn Japanese and moved to Tokyo.
It's extremely good advice. Hello George, Yeah, Marcus, I want.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
To talk about adjusting self adjustin carhead lights. But before
I do, I was intrigued by that previous caller Ron
a few calls ago. He sounded remarkably like John Clark
aka fred Dagg.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
What was he on about?

Speaker 19 (48:42):
Again?

Speaker 2 (48:42):
I forget them all? What was wrong talking about?

Speaker 6 (48:45):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (48:45):
He had a problem with a thing, and it was
the sort of thing fred Dagg would have gone on about.
He had it when every time he switched his Honda
car on this warning screen of no disclaimer type thing
came up on the on the screen. Yeah, and it's
just intrigued. And and every now and again you're saying
it's very annoyed. I just thinking of something, John C. Paratry,

(49:07):
you say, you go on about whatever he and it's
very annoying. I can't. I can't imitate, but you sounded
quite like like John, like old Fred Dagg. No, no despair.
I mean that's a compliment.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Yeah, I'll go and we listen to that.

Speaker 12 (49:20):
With that, listen to it.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
He sort of was of thicking. And because fred Dad
used to saying, and this is such and such a
very annoy you know, and you've got you been making
picking the piss out of stuff. Any but a self
adjusting car headlights they man on. They really annoy me
because they I don't know who that's They just don't work.
Have you do you find them annoying?

Speaker 2 (49:41):
I don't know them. Are they in your car? Are
other people's cars? George?

Speaker 3 (49:44):
No, other people's cars withn't you? Because you know, you
hit a bump or something and then they just but
they are just about three or four times before they
come back to normal. This thing following you, that's that's
that's flashing its lights at you. And likewise with the
ones coming towards you. You're driving late at night, and.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
So is it self adjusting supposed to be just that
they just when cars are coming towards Is that the point?

Speaker 9 (50:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (50:07):
But they make adjustments when there's dips in the road,
you know, like like like the roads aren't exactly smooth.
There's all these all these sort of whoopy bits, and
then they start. Some cars are obviously worse than others.
There's probably probably fine tuning things. Is probably almost a
computer program, but they particularly when they just go over
bumps in the road. They they start. It obviously has

(50:29):
some sort of alignment thing that aligns itself gyroscopically with
the road and that, and but of course it's yeah,
it's just not perfect, and you keep getting flashed by
these other cars all the time.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
And when it does have a good technology, it is
not good technology.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
And I'd like to gosh, thinking of Fred Dagg if
he was talking about this, he's saying, if I could
get my hands on the person and government and it'll
be some regulate he'd probably say something like, and the
Peter Plumley Walker affair would look like a Teddy Bear's
picnic or something crass like that. That that might be
a bit crass for your program.

Speaker 9 (51:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Nice to hear from you, George, Thank you, Marcistill midnight
Oh wait one hundred and eighty nine text I had
a Maaster six for ten years and my car was
the same spoken Japanese and showed me driving around in
Japan even though I was in New Zealand, and I
just got used to it. Others would get my car

(51:25):
and see in here. It would drive them nuts. Use
Google Translate on the camera setting with Japanese to English
turned on. Then the instructions are tanzan to English, find
the voice setting and turn it off. Worked on mine.
Took a few hours. You need a teenager. Good callback.

(51:50):
Jerry doesn't got impression of free dagg for any one.
I don't know, Jerry, Jerry did. An impression of Donald
truck was like something I've never heard before my life.
Touched by names Marcus, welcome. Are the A League playing

(52:11):
tonight too? Just kicked off? Or it's a bit of
sport on people? Oh that back to the slow remote.
I should just bought batteries for it. Oh, I found
it straight away. That was good. The button worked for me. Ah,

(52:34):
they're carrying out kids, they're carrying their own kids. A
lot of the carrying out kids these days in football.
What's the kid doing with a dummy? I suppose it's late.
Why the kid's up so late? That to be sponsored
by Turkish airlines. I guess a lot of big Turkish

(52:56):
community and Melbourne. I guess they probably direct flights. Pretty
good crowd. How are you going?

Speaker 3 (53:03):
People?

Speaker 2 (53:03):
What's happening? If you're an uber driving around Auckland US
know around the big city, says know if it's been busy.
I see the retailers having a nightmare of a season.
Yeah through the floor retail? What's that about? I haven't
brought much this year from retail. Most gone online? Ay,

(53:27):
what do I buy? What have I bought this year?
I don't think I bought anything? Lawn mower. Lawnmar brought
the kids some shoes. I didn't know he couldn't drub

(53:48):
his laces, but he's learned that that's good. A lot
of kids have crocs or shoes with Valcrow. Not many
kids have lacers. Actually, tell you what, it's a quite
interesting teaching something to learn the laser because actually you
understand a bit of yourself. How it grows twenty seven

(54:09):
to ten? Do we know where they are on the letter?
I'll just do the what's the if? What's the Australian
Football League's letter called a league? It's right away to
a a league letter. All FC. I'm sick of them.
It's ten verse six. I should be quite close Melbourne's

(54:32):
six people. Hi, Jared, greetings, here you going, buddy good, Jared.
Not like your voice of the tone you came and
warm and strong good, don't you.

Speaker 20 (54:42):
Yeah, no worries here, Hey, I'm just I've just been
listening and wondering about the stuff with like chart park
situation and stuff like that. I mean, like I even
go around to my local petrol bouncer on that and
they've got like numbered systems where you can like go,

(55:02):
like you they basically don't accept you to go up
to the pump any more to like put in what
you want for like your gas. You have to go
and store basically and put the credit in before they
put gas on the pump basically, but their courtin made
it the numbers and stuff like that.

Speaker 21 (55:21):
And I'm just singing with this.

Speaker 20 (55:23):
Whole confusion over like where we're parking and stuff like that,
and shopping malls and stuff like that. It's almosto very confusing.
But I just mean, like if it could be more
simpler when you come in and you may receive like
some sort of docket or something like that that says Hey,

(55:44):
you're on level one or level two or something like that.
It could help life hell of a lot better than
what it is. In the confusion of everything these days,
especially with apps and everything like that. The older generation
can't keep up with that sort of stuff, and I

(56:05):
just think it's it's very confusing for them. I mean,
like for a lot of technology these days, and that
I took my father recently around to a place in
that and we were trying to even find a place
in the hospital in that and it was just, yeah,
very confusing.

Speaker 7 (56:25):
I think simplicity.

Speaker 20 (56:28):
Back in the day, when we knew where we didn't
have all this technology, we found that things were a
lot easier. And I just think these days it's very confusing.
And it's not so much they say we've got all
this technology and stuff like this. You use these apps
on your phone, but hey, what if you can't use

(56:50):
those apps? What sort of position are you put in?

Speaker 7 (56:54):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Jah, Yeah, I wouldn't say as much technology in a
car park. I mean that's pretty old school. But I'll
tell you what. If you go to the casino in Aukland,
then you shouldn't. But if you park your car there,
and jump on the lift. You can take a card
which says or a piece of paper which says what
floor you're on, and that's if you've lost all your
money and had too much to drink, then you able
to find your car. That's how that works.

Speaker 12 (57:20):
Brilliant.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Nice to talk, Jared. There are new collectibles at Countdown
just to drive people mad madder. I can tell you
a bit about them. Minecraft QBS looks quite good because

(57:49):
I thought those Disney character cards were total duds. A
range of three D cardboard buildable cubes, so just a
bits of cardboard. Basically, they'll probably sell you the rack.
You put them in. Forty blocks to collect, each in
the form of recognizable character, creature or block from the game,

(58:12):
from Zuri to Steve to Endeman, Zombie, Creeper, grass Stone
and Obsidian. There are rare ones a central character Mackina
wearing a gold helmet. The launch is already se incredible
excitement from supermarket shoppers around the country. It's about offering

(58:36):
something extra with this weekly shop that engages Kiwi families
and builded seeds of fun and community. She says, just
lower your prices. It's what people want. Are you aware
of what warratahs really are. We used to call them
standards or cast iron fence posts. So why would you
name that for a sports team. Maybe because they're strong

(58:59):
and durable, maybe because they're upright, Maybe because they're useful
for fencing. Please explain twelve to ten. Hello Graham, it's Marcus.
Welcome today.

Speaker 15 (59:18):
I suppose you last night about an issue again tonight.
J Carr comes to mind. They sell a small kit.
It's a keyring type kit that you can buy and
it connects to your car system. You have it in
your pocket and when you come out of the shop,
push the button finds your car. Quite simple. I'm sorry,

(59:39):
I don't know the name of it.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
Hell J car, Yeah, gone, where is the thing?

Speaker 15 (59:48):
It's like a key ring. It's got a small button on.

Speaker 14 (59:51):
It if you push and it activates back to your car.

Speaker 15 (59:56):
It seems like a key loss.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
Item.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
And I so what if you're on the wrong floor
of the car park.

Speaker 15 (01:00:05):
Well, you got to do that first, get onto the rock.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
See I see, I just understand. So it's just like,
what's its range?

Speaker 15 (01:00:14):
Fifty meters?

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Not silly to put one on the kids either.

Speaker 15 (01:00:19):
Well, it wouldn't be silly. You wouldn't know who lose them.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
No, it does work.

Speaker 15 (01:00:23):
It's like your Carol item.

Speaker 22 (01:00:26):
Did you push?

Speaker 15 (01:00:28):
But it activates where your car is?

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Where do you put it in.

Speaker 15 (01:00:34):
The I'm sorry, I don't know. I had not installed one.

Speaker 16 (01:00:38):
Okay, but again, J Car, do you sell them?

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
How much?

Speaker 15 (01:00:45):
I had the J Car book here, but I cannot
find it in the book. I've been looking for the
past hour.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
Well, go you to help you on the J Car book.

Speaker 15 (01:00:56):
It's the catalog book.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Oh, for goodness sake, where do you get those?

Speaker 15 (01:01:00):
I've got it right here in my hand. J Car
celebrating forty years electronics one.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
E've been around for forty years?

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
Surely like?

Speaker 15 (01:01:13):
And the book has about seven about seven undred pages
in it. The book in my hand as I speak
to you, you got an index seven Yes, index to everything,
seven thousand products wider than twenty two new ones far.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
See if carlocaters in the index.

Speaker 15 (01:01:32):
I've tried it and I can't find it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
I've been through the whole book and the index.

Speaker 15 (01:01:38):
Yeah, yeah, in the index. I've been right through the
whole thing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
I ask you where you got did you get that from?
Did you get that from the shop?

Speaker 15 (01:01:46):
Yes? For J car members, which they call NERD members.
For them, it is a free book. What do they
call them otherwise nerd j car nerd picks nude members
in the er D and if you belong to the
club or have one of your cards, you get the
book for nothing. Other worse that costs you five dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
They call them nerds.

Speaker 15 (01:02:10):
Ed nerd picks. It's because a lot of the stuff
that J care head and I'm not being naughty or
whatever to them, but it's nerdy stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
You see it. Graham Nerd perks Marcus sky City coordinated
color cordat all their underground car park levels. Does the
Mercury Theater still exist on Mercury Lane or do they
wipe it out to build the k Roads trains. I
think they restored it. I think they made quite a
big song and dance about that. Karrang happe leave an

(01:02:44):
ear tog tag in the car, will find your carrier
in the world, Hi, Marcus? What muppets? The Warrior Tara
is a state flower of New South Wales. Simon do
they name that after the standard?

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
One of the best things I saw today. I didn't
even click on the article. It's a dangerous way to
wear your aeroplane seat belt. I don't know who it
was some legend. They were sitting on their plane seat
with their knees and legs pulled up tight and the

(01:03:26):
seat belt went around their shins. What was the point
of it?

Speaker 7 (01:03:31):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
Did you read it? It's a great Yeah. I don't
know where I should? I wish where did we see it?
What would I google to find a dangerous way to
wear a seat belt? Dangerous? Here's the article The seat

(01:03:52):
belt had to keep you help you sleep on a
plane has been branded extremely dangerous. One method is popu
on TikTok is. I got a log in. Someone's texting
me About the between a nerd and a geek. A

(01:04:13):
geek knows more and more about less and less. A
nerd knows less and less about more and more. Result,
a geek knows everything about nothing. A nerd knows nothing
about everything. Did you know Tesla car cameras upload ah
everybody of every cow in the world to Tesla cloud,

(01:04:35):
of which Elon has full excess, And people who park
the carr and current remember where the park should be
driving in the first place. Marcus the yep. What three
words is amazing to find places. The whole world is
divided into three square meter blocks identified by three unique words.
Can pinpoint anywhere and find again, and you can navigate

(01:04:55):
back to It applies to anywhere and everywhere. You can
find your way to the middle of no ideal if
you have no sign or markers and not sure where
you are. Of views of sees what I've fund a
place like a stare of the mark I want to
come back to, but not surely where. It is an
amazing app for sure. What three words? What three? Is

(01:05:18):
the number three? Not the word three? Debbie Marcus welcome, Oh, hello,
Hi Debbie.

Speaker 6 (01:05:27):
Hi, We're talking about annoying things in your car? Yes,
was it your question?

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:05:35):
Okay, Well, the annoying thing in my car is like
you turn the radio what and it goes down? You
turn it down, it goes up and it's just it's
quite it's annoying.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Why is your radio doing that in your car?

Speaker 6 (01:05:53):
I don't know that really, just like pull it out
and jump on it. But I don't know, I don't
know why it's doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
Is it broken?

Speaker 6 (01:06:00):
You're really annoying. So that was just, yeah, that was
it annoying thing for the.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
Carbi is your Debbie, is your car radio broken?

Speaker 6 (01:06:12):
I think it might be. I don't know what's wrong
with it, but it's it's Yeah, it's annoying.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Okay, get the drift for that one, Debbie Marcus. The
most the only thing in my car is the clutching
guest at, Kathy Marcus is the annoying backing sound of
my Hyundai Tusk. And it's hardly a truck drives me nuts.
Your cars make too much noise. They're always beeping, aren't they, Bob?

(01:06:38):
What's the winner of be might sometimes I left the
engine on, so that's probably quite a good thing to
beep about if I opened the door. Yeah, anyway, too
many things beep? Now, what's that about? Oh? The Countdown

(01:06:59):
collectibles are bits of cardboard you fold to make minecraft stuff.
I hate to say it, I thought I was slightly
disappointed to see they were cardboard. I think they would
have preferred them to be plastic. And if wang Nui
is a Wanganui District Council will establish a citizens Assembly

(01:07:21):
of forty randomly selected volunteers. Citizens Assembly originated in ancient
Greece and the commedies in Europe, the United States Canada
in Australia to help navigate tricky and devisive topics. Fortunately,

(01:07:43):
forty randomly selected residents representative of the Wanganui district demographics
will meet up for five three hour sessions. They get
five hundred dollars each. Don't have a problem with that.
They're trying to work out what to do with pools.

(01:08:08):
Doesn't show they got much faith in their council though,
no faith at all. No score on the football just
about the end of halftime. This is the Phoenix with
versus the Melbourne victory in Melbourne. Marcus, I always parked

(01:08:34):
my car directly opposite the T side written shop and
I dote to to a central car park. I have
never lost it in the four years I've owned it
and been silver. It can be hard to spot, Marcus.
The USB plugged for the chargers, so hard to get

(01:08:57):
to slash design fault. Fifteen past ten. Hello Louise, it's Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
Good evening, Oh evening, micaus.

Speaker 13 (01:09:07):
Yeah, annoying things in my car. Tooth one is the clock.
I can't see it if I've got my weird It's
right on the left of the dashboard.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
Crazy to Cola.

Speaker 13 (01:09:22):
Yeah, stupid and it's just totally stupid. And when I
bought it, I said to the guy, I really want
reversing sensence. He said, oh, Nana, Na, you won't need
and you've got a reversing camera. They're wonderful, raving on
useless every time I try to use it, the sun

(01:09:42):
shining on it, you can't see it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
Have you washed where it is because they can get
a bit dirty and dusty?

Speaker 13 (01:09:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not that.

Speaker 12 (01:09:54):
It's just.

Speaker 13 (01:09:56):
I find it useless because it always seems to be
it always seems to have the sun on it and
I can't see it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
I I've never had that with the reversing camera.

Speaker 13 (01:10:06):
Well, oh I hate it. I wish i'd not listened
to them and just put in the resversing senses.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
You still could? You still could?

Speaker 23 (01:10:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:10:15):
I know I don't have money at mine will Yeah,
if I'm going to keep the car overall, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
We might give a little Lewis thank you text. Where
does it seems my daughter made up those minecraft cubes?
They're remarkably strong. Here's one that we're going to identify
with my annoying car feature is the intermittent wiper speeds
are too quick on the lowest setting, but the next

(01:10:44):
developer is too slow and there is no in between.
We're going to identify with that. My annoying thing in
my car is the cup holder. It's behind the gears
stick and makes it hard to get my coffee. Wish
it was between the seats. Of course, it should be

(01:11:05):
between the seat to we actually go to put a
coffee between the seats. Here's a text that's pretty confronting. Oh, Marcus,
our annoying car features We're now dogged in a massive

(01:11:27):
vomit in the car of the transmission gears stick part
after driving over the Lindus. It's seeped through within five minutes,
and then the car wouldn't start. We were stuck in
on Madama for a night watching it get towed. Wait
for it to get towed. Three point five thousand damage,
but amazing to stop the car going into gears so quickly.
I'm amazing it happened with spilt coffee, et cetera all

(01:11:50):
the time. Ah, some good texts, we'll get to those soon.
Twenty four to eleven, Hello Sally, welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:11:58):
Hello Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:11:59):
How's you annoying car? Sally?

Speaker 24 (01:12:02):
Oh, it's not good there's multiple problems I've got.

Speaker 14 (01:12:06):
Yep.

Speaker 24 (01:12:07):
So my senter console it moves, it slides like a
nice glide really and yes, it's very annoying. It will
just do it randomly.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
Is it broken?

Speaker 24 (01:12:23):
No, it's a feature.

Speaker 16 (01:12:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 24 (01:12:26):
It's a slide, but fancy, I guess I don't know
how yeh yeah. And then my window wi pos will
just turn on by themselves when they when they are
on auto. And have you ever been at the slotlight
and those guys with the window wash come along? Ye,

(01:12:47):
well he did that to me.

Speaker 19 (01:12:48):
And my window when nuts and oh it.

Speaker 24 (01:12:53):
Was an audio.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
Well bake it care? Is it Sally?

Speaker 24 (01:12:56):
It's a mad stuffy Yeah. Yeah, that was annoying. And
he thought, I hope you didn't think that was me,
because it was just it's on order. So they're going nut.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
So as soon as it starts raining, they come on ornamentally,
do they?

Speaker 9 (01:13:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:13:13):
Okay, because I keep them on order. So year when
it rains, it just starts yet going. And then yeah,
so that's one another thing. And the last thing is
about my husband just he always drives of his window down. Hi,

(01:13:34):
that's annoying.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Oh, that's not a part of the car. That's your husband.
That's annoying. Yeah, yeah, it's not the car. Sellie tweet
to away from eleven. Couple of texts Marcus, where to
put my hand bag when I've got pestages of my car?
I lift the lid on the center console and put
it in there. But the lid needs to stay up then, Marcus,

(01:13:55):
I don't like lead assistant feels like it's trying to
take over. It can be turned off, but only for
that drive, Marc's the thing I heard about my car
as the air con doesn't work in only the driver
side window goes down rough in summer, but can't be
bother getting it all fixed. Nathan, The most annoying thing
about mike car is a narrow gap down the side

(01:14:16):
of the car seat where you can never clean properly.
It's also where you can never get your phone, where
it falls out of your pocket.

Speaker 7 (01:14:26):
A lot.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
Here's a text along the lines of not knowing where
you've parked the car. Got off the train at nearly
midnight in a cold and wet night to find the
car park empty. Once the panic hads obsided, I remembered
i'd driven in due to the inclement weather.

Speaker 3 (01:14:41):
Sigh.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
Not Sis and Simon, but Sis and they're driven to
Whooper caught the train home. Just been to the circus
and fung are a amazing Kelly, and my god, I
don't know what circus that is, but there you go.
You're John Ats Marcus. Welcome and hello, Hi John Good,

(01:15:05):
Thank you John.

Speaker 7 (01:15:07):
Good.

Speaker 21 (01:15:08):
I'm just calling you from Spain.

Speaker 14 (01:15:09):
Actually, oh god, thank you.

Speaker 21 (01:15:11):
So yeah, long time listener, first time caller.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
Are you always in Spain?

Speaker 7 (01:15:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:15:21):
I lived there. Yeah, so whenever I dropped the kids
off at school and stuff, I always put on talkback.

Speaker 25 (01:15:29):
Wow, okay, yeah, I'll just ring up to see if
anyone's talked about Alice Robinson today.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Tell me about that.

Speaker 25 (01:15:41):
She's the New Zealand skier that got the silver medal yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
Yeah, tell me you follow there or is it a
connection to you or what's that about?

Speaker 25 (01:15:53):
Yeah, my wife's Austrian, so you know, they're mad about
skiing and so we're always, you know, watching it. It's
the finals this week, so she was she was absolutely
wrapped that Els did so well.

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
Look, I probably saw that article and didn't even read
about it. Are the World Champs on or something at
the moment that what's happening.

Speaker 25 (01:16:15):
Yeah, it's a downhill and it's an amazing achievement because
you know the Austrian or the Europeans and the Americans
normally dominate this, so you.

Speaker 21 (01:16:25):
Know they do too.

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
Yeah, that's right. So because I've always think we're doing well,
but when we do well, it's always in the trick
skiing or the snowboarding and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
I think probably was Coburger the last one that did
good in that.

Speaker 25 (01:16:40):
Yeah, I'm not too sure O. Anyway, congratulations to her here.

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
I'll do some research, John, thank you. Alice Robinson has
made history, winning New Zealand's first Alpine Ski World Championship
medal silver and the Giants stalin behind the athlete from Italy.
Prior to this, the best result was Robinson's fourth place

(01:17:06):
in twenty twenty one and slalom Skia Claudia Riga in
ninety six in Spain. Well that's of interest to me. Good,
thank you for that. That's welcome, thanks to Spain. Dropping
the kids off at school. My car is annoyings after

(01:17:29):
replace a seapet on the back seat will cost fifteen
hundred dollars. Marcus, my car speaks Japanese. You can tell
by it's time that it's angry with me, but I
don't know why. Evening, Rob, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:17:43):
How are you Marcus?

Speaker 4 (01:17:44):
You're good?

Speaker 3 (01:17:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
Good Rob? Thanks good?

Speaker 7 (01:17:46):
Good.

Speaker 21 (01:17:47):
Yeah, I was working tonight in my food trailer.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
Oh good, yes, yes, what you say food trailer not
food truck.

Speaker 21 (01:17:56):
Yeah no, well it's a food trailer. Yeah, it's a
tandem and it's yeah, so I've got an avenue in
the era to two deep fry is a hot plate
and yeah yeah, I was at Yeah, well I was
custom made. I designed it myself and got it custom made,

(01:18:19):
and so so it suits what I do.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
Yeah, what do you do?

Speaker 21 (01:18:24):
Well, well I will look look I do catering and
I do takeaways as well. So so look, and this
is where we're a lot of food food trailers. You know,
when I put it together, I've done it side flexibility,
so paid for itself. Yeah you know, I mean if

(01:18:44):
I sold chips and hot dogs, I'll be broke.

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
Is it covered the trailer?

Speaker 21 (01:18:49):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's enclosed, you know, four sides,
and and I've got I've got three three hatches I
open and it's quite flexible. So I had I was
had a an event tonight, but it wasn't anything to
do with Valentine's. What was the event, Rob, Well, Well,

(01:19:11):
it's an event where a couple of motorcyclists they visit,
visited me in town where I've got a permanently spot
and they and they like like the food I've produced,
and then they made up an event called Bikes and
Burgers and and hundreds of motorcyclists turn up from all

(01:19:32):
around the place.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
Okay, yeah, so whereabouts are you?

Speaker 21 (01:19:37):
I'm in Palmerston, North and yeah, so once a month,
the first Thursday of every month, we have an event
called Bikes and Burgers in the square right, and we
get motorcyclists from Hastings, Wellington, want and New Plymouth live in,
We're all around coming there and then on the burger's

(01:19:58):
side of it, and they and we've got seventeen sponsors
on board who each donate sort of fifty dollars worth
of product, So so eight hundred fifty dollars worth of
three three merchandise. And you know it's free to into.
You just get a raffle trickt and it draws made.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
And what's the name of your burger? Outfit. Rob, that's
what I think. You're just wanting to know.

Speaker 21 (01:20:19):
Oh, you're going to give me some free advertising.

Speaker 2 (01:20:23):
I mean I didn't ring up for I'm just curious
to know.

Speaker 3 (01:20:27):
Okay.

Speaker 21 (01:20:27):
Well, well the name of it is quotation.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
Wow, good name.

Speaker 7 (01:20:32):
And yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:20:33):
Well, well you know I'm the merchant and and I've
got a price on all my goods, and and you
know you're the customer, and we've agreed on the price.

Speaker 7 (01:20:41):
So there is a quote.

Speaker 2 (01:20:44):
So it's called quota. It's called quotation burgers, No.

Speaker 21 (01:20:48):
Just quotation, quotation food trailer. And I don't only do burgers.
I do a whole range of stuff. I do fresh salads.
I have a baker who does fresh fresh baking for me,
so I outsourced that.

Speaker 12 (01:21:02):
I support him.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (01:21:05):
Yeah, so it's look at you, ol.

Speaker 21 (01:21:08):
Well I was farming for twenty six years. I just
went stale. You know, it was just getting to be
a bit of a choice. I needed a bit more
of a challenge.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
What's your sid I found you? Now, Facebook's where you're
at all right.

Speaker 21 (01:21:22):
Look, look I fly under the radar a little bit,
you know. I mean, I mean I've got my competitors
and they're going, oh, well, I've got six thousand followers,
I got ten thousand followers, and all of this. I'm
just not into it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
I just you know, what farming were you doing?

Speaker 9 (01:21:38):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:21:38):
Sheep and beef and venicson farm manager?

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah. Where are you normally? Are you
normally in the square?

Speaker 7 (01:21:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:21:47):
Yeah, Well I've got a lease spot there, and I
think as a business. You see, because the whole hospitality
has changed markus is the whole landscapes changed. So I
have a lease spot there that I play, pay a
lease to the local council. But i also do a
lot of like birthday's, wedding, annual, general meeting, sports events.

(01:22:11):
I'm just on my way now. I won't sally. I've
finished at that event and I'm going to live in now.

Speaker 10 (01:22:15):
But for the next next two days.

Speaker 2 (01:22:18):
What's your signature burger?

Speaker 21 (01:22:22):
Well, I'd have to say it's my my my American
pickle burger. That's quite popular. But but you know, yeah,
look I haven't Well, if you say signature of that's it.
But all the burgers are good. There's no trend in
that they all sell good.

Speaker 2 (01:22:43):
It's pretty frustrating. There's not a menu on your Facebook page.

Speaker 21 (01:22:46):
Oh look look, I know, I know people.

Speaker 17 (01:22:49):
I know.

Speaker 21 (01:22:50):
Look look look I'm not I'm not that sharp on
that sort of side.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
Then for my list for my food pilgrimage, So how
many were you one day a week in the square?

Speaker 4 (01:23:00):
Is that right?

Speaker 9 (01:23:01):
No?

Speaker 21 (01:23:01):
No, look I gave them maybe three or three time
times two at two or three. But I also I
serve as little villages, little country villages out on the
out and out in my region, and you know so,
so I've got flexibility.

Speaker 16 (01:23:18):
I operate it at.

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
Lots of them.

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
What's your strangers burger?

Speaker 16 (01:23:24):
My strangers are.

Speaker 12 (01:23:30):
Well?

Speaker 21 (01:23:30):
Will I do a venison burger?

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
Brilliant? Okay, Rob, thank you for very much. You've intrigued me.
I will be there, Katie, thanks for hanging. It's Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:23:40):
Welcome, oh Hill and Marcus.

Speaker 19 (01:23:42):
I was just reading to see if you saw the
Crusaders one tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
How does it work?

Speaker 19 (01:23:48):
They were Rollington. They beat Wellington absolutely amazing game. It
truly was. You know all the chansy ones, you know
recent and what's the name they got? He just ran
all over the field. But Wellrington started well but can

(01:24:09):
right back into the game. It was a very good
game and at the moment otago A leading to orties
in Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
Thanks very much for that, Kdie Pete, Marcus, Hello, there
go Marcus. Good Pete.

Speaker 7 (01:24:26):
But I've just gussed it.

Speaker 11 (01:24:28):
I got back in.

Speaker 26 (01:24:28):
But I'm just what's happened to Chernovya with Russia with
that drone? I think Putin what he's doing now is
he realized he's got Trump on his side. I think
after what's happened with that drone, I hope Trump face
to Putin pull his head in, because he's a nasty
piece of work, that Putin. He really is, Are you there?

Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
Yeah, it's it's hard to fathom what's going on there.
I mean, it's become very complicated anyway.

Speaker 26 (01:25:01):
But since went by and he wouldn't have tried that,
But now I think he realizes, well because I think.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
I think Hesket's almost saying it's a Dune deal. Well,
once you say it to dune deal, then you can
do anything, can't you.

Speaker 26 (01:25:16):
That's basically what here Lensky is saying, is he waited
until he wouldn't have done that when Biden was in,
But now that he realized Biden's not there anymore, he's
starting to realize that Trump's pretty much going to give
him a lot more.

Speaker 7 (01:25:31):
To what Putin wants.

Speaker 26 (01:25:33):
And I'm hoping after what's happened with the Chernobyl, Trump
steps and real fast and really jumps on that Putin
anymore or then and you'll be going back to your borders.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
Nice to hear from your Pete carry Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:25:46):
It was interesting. Hey Rob, Rob, stem's a good dude
from Lavin.

Speaker 2 (01:25:51):
Where about Yeah, I don't know, but go to this
Facebook page. It's called Quotation, not quotation food cart, just quotation.

Speaker 22 (01:25:59):
Okay, I'm taking the kid up that way tomorrow, so
we'll here, we get it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
Is it for sport?

Speaker 17 (01:26:05):
Na?

Speaker 22 (01:26:05):
I would have getting out of the house tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
Okay, okay, yeah, if you go quote, if you go
quotation food cart. But but the last time he post
was February the ninth. It's not that on to social media.
But yeah, I reckon. That's I don't know where you going, Livin,
but you find.

Speaker 22 (01:26:23):
Out and it's called Hey this suki fist Marcus. A
couple of years have strove me crazy, and you you
unlock the car. They're all like this, apparently, unlock it
the driver's door. You get in and if anyone wants
to get in the.

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
Other door, got to get me started, don't get me.

Speaker 22 (01:26:45):
So you unlocked the figure on the right hand side,
just see.

Speaker 4 (01:26:48):
And it was all right just myself.

Speaker 22 (01:26:50):
But when the kids want to fame and get in
the car and they have to get in there and
do this, And if anyway, I was talking to a
mate or he got in the cart last year and
he goes, oh, you know, you just click the button
a couple of times on clear ring, or you turn
your keys twice in the to unlock it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
What sort of car is it?

Speaker 22 (01:27:11):
This lukey swift sport? Apparently the standard ones a lot
then as well. So if you just do one click
and only just does the driver's door to clicks.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
Who's got time? Who's got time for that single click
double click? I don't like it.

Speaker 22 (01:27:30):
When you've got kids and the yanking at the doors.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
He got the kids with their unhappy face saying come on, dad,
open the door.

Speaker 3 (01:27:37):
Yeah all right, carry thank you?

Speaker 12 (01:27:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:42):
Annoying as hell. It's good this quotation food. He's got
good food. He's got a good petter to rob on
the old Facebook page, I'm looking at the burgers now
does a fresh seller it. What do I people say

(01:28:03):
a fresh shall as opposed to what else? Well, it
looks good. They are like a fish, like a cheap as.
It's good food. Just hard to see him menu, Well,
that looks like there's one there. Just got photos with

(01:28:24):
their prices. Looks like he does breakfast like eggs and
chips and everything too. Wow, was just as chips and
hot dogs. You go broke, straight shooter. That's what you want,
hit'd twelve the things in the car that drive you mad.
Rob's food is great, Cindy, that's what we want. We

(01:28:49):
want Cindy's approval. Brilliant quotation World strangers name. It's not
a food cart, it's a food trailer. Here's another email
that I meant to mention earlier. I am nearly eighty

(01:29:12):
and finding the internet and mobile phone rather pricey. I
was wondering perhaps if you could raise this question one night.
I am with one New Zealand and the prices are
all going up. I only use internet for emails and
trade me. I like looking around the site. I don't

(01:29:33):
mind if it's not fast, and my phone has not
used real much. Perhaps a couple of call today I
listen to z'd be every night. I live for eight pm.
When you're on I live alone. I have read little
people to talk to, so I go to the supermarkets
have a chance to talk to someone. Sometimes old ages
really lonely. So what I don't exactly know what your

(01:29:57):
question is. I only use the internet for emails and
trade me, so I don't know what they'd be better
off on. I don't know if there be some limited
charge thing. I'll try and think about that a little bit.

(01:30:18):
I don't really understand the way that question goes. Do
you understand that, Dan, You've haven't got the email.

Speaker 7 (01:30:23):
Have you?

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
You want the cheapest possible home internet plan? I don't
know what that would be. Maybe if you can see me,
I don't know if you're still listening. I don't know
if you can send me another email Lily and tell
me how much you're paying. Now, if someone could let

(01:30:52):
me know what would be the cheapest internet provider for who,
that would be of great intel. Just use the phone
for a couple of calls a day, only use the
internet for emails and trade me. If you use the

(01:31:16):
Internet on the phone or computer, that would be a
useful information to know. Also, I should have read it earlier.
I don't know how much Lily's paying. Good evening, Ruth,
it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:31:35):
All right, Good evening, just a suggestion perhaps for Lily.
I have just done this myself. I was using prepay.
I refused to do it monthly built for the Internet,
it's just next reas I don't want. So I've been
using pre pay, but I have just signed up for
forty five dollars per month with Spark. It's called post pay,

(01:32:00):
and it includes five gigabytes of data and unlimited text,
unlimited buecles, et cetera, just as normal. So thank's forty
five dollars for a monthly bill, which is half of
what you would pay normally. But you know, you get
five gigabytes of So if she was to go into Spark,

(01:32:21):
she probably have to switch to Spark, go in store
and check it out with them there.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
What's the name of the package, Ruth.

Speaker 9 (01:32:31):
It's called just post post pay post pay, so you
can pay it online or through via internet banking, which
I don't even do. I refuse to be part of
the system that way one of the rare ones. Or
it can be paid online. It can be paid online,
or it can be paid in store. Now this would spark,

(01:32:53):
so she would need to go and someone would or
she would someone would need to take it into a
Spark store and sign up for post.

Speaker 3 (01:33:02):
Pay and.

Speaker 2 (01:33:06):
She can do her phone calls on that also, can't she?

Speaker 9 (01:33:09):
Oh yeah to Australia as well as New Zealand's.

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
Okay, I just wonder, did you know what the cheapest
one New Zealand one is?

Speaker 14 (01:33:24):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (01:33:25):
To be honest, I don't, but forty five dollars a
month post that is? That is the cheapest I can
think of. Okay, if you're not if you're not a
high user, but I mean it is slower. I mean, yeah,
the Internet's a little bit slower and ra but I
mean that if you're not a high user of Internet,

(01:33:47):
that has got to be forty five dollars a month.
It is manageable.

Speaker 2 (01:33:53):
Yeah, well, she she's eighty. I think she's is that
recent or has it been around for a while.

Speaker 9 (01:33:58):
I am not sure how long that's been. But I
queried that myself in store because it was actually costing
me more the way I was ring it, unfortunately, but
I was doing it, you know, dribbed and drabbed as
I needed needed to top up my phone as I
could afford it, But they said to me, look that

(01:34:18):
they showed me my data usage and how much I
was actually spending a month, and they said, well, we
can do this cheaper for you on post pay for
forty five dollars a month unlimited internet access well five gigabytes.
So we say it is the max even use.

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
Because I imagine it'll be cheaper than what landlines used
to cost a month.

Speaker 9 (01:34:41):
Oh my god, I can't even remember.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
No, I can't.

Speaker 9 (01:34:46):
Isn't that terrible? Honestly? I got yeah, not, I can't
even remember. And we all had landlines. I know you
and I probably have about the same generation. But yeah, no,
I can't even remember what affod it was. It forty
something a month.

Speaker 12 (01:35:03):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
I guess in some ways it might have come cheaper.
Thank you for that, Ruth. Marcus. My GPS needs to
be updated. It's annoying when the GPS doesn't recognize new
motorways around christ Du. It's also not sure how to
upgrade the latest version suggestions for Lily High Phoenix. It's Marcus,
good evening.

Speaker 11 (01:35:21):
Oh good Indian Marcus. The most annoying thing I had
on my my nineteen seventy four Kingswood, h Q was
the bloody.

Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
Tobar because you'd walk into her October.

Speaker 11 (01:35:36):
Because once you had a turba, when everybody had a trailer,
they wanted to use your car. Yeah, whenhout on their car.

Speaker 2 (01:35:48):
Tobar is quite rare in the seventies.

Speaker 11 (01:35:51):
No, they were quite rare in the eighties.

Speaker 12 (01:35:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:35:57):
So yeah, yeah, So like the main guy, Ah, you
are turba, can you turn my trailer? Says okay, And yeah, we.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
Wanted one that have a trailer without a tobar.

Speaker 26 (01:36:11):
Yeah, that's why I go.

Speaker 11 (01:36:13):
That's why they've got a big bolt underneath the toba itself.
And this is a main steel machine, you know. And
I only seventy four kings with HQ, and I took
the bloody turbar.

Speaker 2 (01:36:24):
Off to stop people asking you.

Speaker 11 (01:36:30):
Yeah, yeah exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:36:32):
So what I did was I just dropped it in
front of me and seize a Toba.

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
Brilliant, good Phoenix, thank you. Eighteen past eleven, just DoD
some research for Lily. There is a service called Skinny
Jump and this is subsidized not for profit. To be eligible,

(01:37:00):
they've got to be a family with children, a job seeker,
a senior people with disabilities, refugees and migrant communities, or
those in social housing. They're re aware with their websites
that it's for people that aren't great with the internet

(01:37:26):
or not great with data. It costs five dollars and
will last you for thirty days. It doesn't roll over,
but for five dollars you get thirty five gigs gigabytes
of data, no contract or credit checks, and the modem

(01:37:52):
comes free of charge. You can rend you the plan
six times each month up f an ximum of thirty dollars.
It does say you do phone calls that too, then
doesn't it? So you can't make phone calls on that?

(01:38:20):
You could you do your phone calls on a prepay
for ten dollars a month. That might be the way
to do that. Yes, it's not perfect, but certainly it's
free cheap for that five dollars for your emails and
you trade me farthing. I have been six dollars. Hey,
twenty three past eleven. My name is Marcus. Welcome here

(01:38:40):
to the end, looking forward to what you've got to say.
You're five dollars for thirty five weeks, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty Marcus, I've just joined one New Zealand
sixty five broadband ten dollars landline five dollars a month
for Motim for a year. Then Modim is mine cell

(01:39:01):
phone same as Spark forty five a month. Please tell
Lily to contact Age Concern. She can get a visitor
or come and spend time with her weekly. Age Concern
exists to help elderly people who are lonely. They will
love to help her. Cheers. D one has a deal

(01:39:27):
on mobile four gigabytes of data entry plan for thirty
bucks with a discount of five dollars for twelve months. Marcus,
I am on one New Zealand. My flex prepay is
forty bucks a month with ten gigabytes and as going
bonus Dart up to ten gigabytes with each month and

(01:39:47):
daily deals seven day a week Spinner which is making
some ten gigabytes for seven days with seven ninety or
two minutes for seven days for five dollars, which you
can buy. I thought of this pricing schedule was quite complicated.
Be free for pensioners. That's crazy that she's panicking about that.

(01:40:18):
Come on, Winston, welcome people twenty five past eleving mine
of as markets good evening, Oh, eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty. The thing that annoys you most about your
car Valentine's Day, the wrap up of that losing your car.
Who's lost their car? I often come across people, particularly

(01:40:38):
people in smaller centers. I'm often hearing people talk about
going up to christ Jute or something and losing their
car and spending hours looking for it and having to
go to the police. I think, what places like christ Church,
there's no kind of well, I guess people knew to town.

(01:41:01):
You wander around, it becomes tricky. But christ Chi seems
to be a place where people lose. And I guess
too with christ if you've only visited there a little
few times over the years after the quake, a lot
of your reference points will go. Michael, it's Marcus, welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 16 (01:41:19):
Here, Marcus, good evening to you. Have you been to
tour Care to where?

Speaker 4 (01:41:24):
Or Turkey?

Speaker 16 (01:41:25):
But they've renamed the country too care No, Yeah, I
would love to go there, but you know Turkish airlines?
Do you know the country's airline? They're planning the world's
next longest NonStop flight, like Auckland is Stanbul, and I
reckon it's going to be twenty hours and it's seventy
thousand kilometers and it's one of the countries in the

(01:41:46):
world I'd love to go to.

Speaker 2 (01:41:50):
So are you Are you talking about this because they're
the sponsor for Melbourne Victory. Is that why they're in
your mind?

Speaker 5 (01:41:57):
No?

Speaker 23 (01:41:57):
No, no, they wil of Aviation and but the Turkish
air Lines is looking in the network and are doing
flights to Sydney and Melbourne. But the also thinking of
Auckland and if they do that, they say that will
be the world's next longest NonStop flight, longer than Sydney London.

Speaker 16 (01:42:15):
If that happens, would there be a market for it?
I reckon they would because.

Speaker 23 (01:42:22):
The country goes back, you know, thousands of years, and
it's just I reckon Kemis would love to go.

Speaker 2 (01:42:29):
I'm just trying to think what the back. Yeah, I
just tried, because there's not a huge Tish Turkish population
in New Zealand.

Speaker 25 (01:42:35):
No, but.

Speaker 23 (01:42:37):
This is the same I like looking at YouTube learning
about places around the world, and this is so interesting
to I reckon it'd be really interesting to go there.

Speaker 2 (01:42:45):
Are they? I mean the an airline I've never heard of.
They're on a recent airline they're probably the national care
and been around forever, is that right?

Speaker 23 (01:42:52):
Yeah, they've been around around a long time. But you know,
you know how like Emirates and Guitar and as big
ones are trying to expand more so there's Turkish and
I think it'd be great if they come here.

Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
Yeah, And I didn't realize this. I've just got the
article of New Zealand Herald. The Turkish Airlines one of
the world's biggest carriers.

Speaker 16 (01:43:12):
Yeah, and I think I was reading too that if
they do the autumn flight, they won't they call it
billy fright, they won't carry that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:23):
They won't carry what.

Speaker 16 (01:43:25):
They said, it's billy, you know, the billy threat, Like
they won't take freight, you know, make the flight. Yeah,
like this tambull looks great, anchor looks great.

Speaker 2 (01:43:43):
Did they say about a cost.

Speaker 16 (01:43:46):
No, No, not yet. But but I think I think
I'd love to go there.

Speaker 2 (01:43:52):
I've never kind of even I kind of picture it
on the map.

Speaker 23 (01:43:57):
I looked at the rough flight route sort of goes
over India and Iran and sort of over the sort
of north of UAE and in a sort of cuts
that way.

Speaker 2 (01:44:12):
So be flying from New Zealand across Australia, across Indieu
up there year. Okay, so it's it's certainly not nearly
as far as Europe, is it.

Speaker 7 (01:44:21):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:44:22):
No, I thought it'd be like really huge, but it's
probably eachtra two couple of hours north, longer than Dubai
or Doha.

Speaker 2 (01:44:32):
Yeah, you're quite right, it's not. It's not a million
miles away from Doha.

Speaker 23 (01:44:36):
No, but it's one flight. With the new aircraft that's coming,
the A three fifties one thousand soon in the future,
you'll go from point to point anywhere in the world one.

Speaker 2 (01:44:46):
Flight because of their lightness.

Speaker 23 (01:44:51):
Oh just modern technology and in lightness and fuel and you.

Speaker 2 (01:44:58):
Know where's it? When's this is the A three fifty
you're talking about.

Speaker 23 (01:45:01):
A that's what I think that A fifty one thousand,
which they would the he's on the Auckland route.

Speaker 2 (01:45:12):
Yeah, I don't know about flights. No, I guess you
could amuse yourself now. I mean, these days you've got
the experience is so much better with all the movies
and things you can watch.

Speaker 23 (01:45:23):
A I know, you know when I first started flying
now on the old seven four hundreds, everyone had to
watch the same movie. Yes, those little air timees on
and then over time. You know everyone, it's the it's
TV in the secret front.

Speaker 2 (01:45:40):
The range is eighty nine hundred nautical miles. I don't
know how far it would be, but obviously it's that
the right distance.

Speaker 23 (01:45:48):
I've seence the Auckland Istanbul was just the seventeen thousand kilometers.

Speaker 2 (01:45:53):
Okay, well, that's a really interesting I've never thought of it.
I'd never thought that they'd be I never thought in
some ways that one of the world's biggest de lines
would be Air Turkey. So that's fascinating. Michael really enjoyed that.
Thank you. It's good Chat. Twelfth Jon Marcus.

Speaker 17 (01:46:07):
Evening, Oh hollow Marcus. I've just come home from a
lovely evening at the Wrangular RSA. I live in christ
Church and we had a Valentine's Ball and Valentine's evening
at the Regulars and it was very nice.

Speaker 13 (01:46:22):
What was the guy?

Speaker 2 (01:46:24):
Yeah, the young guy, yep.

Speaker 17 (01:46:26):
Young guy there who we've heard at the Paper rs A.
He's fourteen and he does Elvis with the sound of
Elvis singing in the moon.

Speaker 2 (01:46:37):
About that sounds that sounds terrible A forty year old
Elvis impersonator.

Speaker 17 (01:46:45):
No, but he No, he's not well. I've had older
men that have done their elvis. This young guy name
just so good. His name is Zach and he was
there tonight for an hour singing. And then we had Anthony,
who's one of our favorite men that plays around the
clubs and he's playing three or six at the Richmond

(01:47:06):
Club on Sunday over the afternoon, and Tiair. But we
had the lovely couples there dancing and some doing rock
and roll, and it was just a lovely evening of
couples together. When I wasn't with on on my own.
Some must run your own. But it was just a
lovely evening of music, people, lovely supper and it was
just nice. I've just got home.

Speaker 2 (01:47:26):
Do you know what zechsuonomers?

Speaker 17 (01:47:29):
No? No, I don't can't do anything nice?

Speaker 2 (01:47:34):
Eh all at work?

Speaker 12 (01:47:37):
No?

Speaker 17 (01:47:37):
Do you do anything nice for your Anissa for.

Speaker 2 (01:47:40):
Times day watch the space?

Speaker 6 (01:47:43):
Oh? Okay?

Speaker 17 (01:47:45):
Is that the end of my call? No?

Speaker 2 (01:47:47):
You got anything else to say?

Speaker 17 (01:47:49):
I don't know. Oh, it's so warm. They said it
was going to be eighteen degrees overnight, and it's just
so pleasant. They're so still out there and you come
out of the ari saying it's hop in your car
and it's just so lovely temperature.

Speaker 2 (01:48:02):
Are you still driving me?

Speaker 12 (01:48:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:48:05):
What do you mean?

Speaker 17 (01:48:06):
Do you think I'm really old?

Speaker 2 (01:48:07):
I thought you might have been drinking.

Speaker 17 (01:48:11):
No, no, no, no, I'm seventy seven on next Thursday,
and I'm still driving and I'm still doing a bit
of dancing and I'm still.

Speaker 2 (01:48:21):
Did you get a good seat? Do you get a
good feet at their angu?

Speaker 17 (01:48:24):
Well? We did have something in the restaurant. Once we've
got our table, sort it out, and then I didn't
know on the weed ticket we had. We paid twenty dollars,
but there was supper, so I had a little bit
and I had that out at nine o'clock. But it
was a very very nice evening, lobbly, really nice. Was
so then I put the radio on the way home
and bring you up.

Speaker 2 (01:48:44):
Was there trouble with the season because you said a
bit funny about that?

Speaker 17 (01:48:48):
No, no, no, it's just that we get there the
ones we knew were coming to get a table and
just put our CARDI or your jacket on the seat,
and we were just going to some of us were
going to go in the restaurant. We've got there early
and have something to eat, so we just you know,
just organized where we were sitting, and good flow there
and everybody was enjoying themselves.

Speaker 6 (01:49:10):
It was lovely.

Speaker 2 (01:49:10):
Suspicious minds, What do.

Speaker 17 (01:49:13):
You mean suspicious? They play that? Anyone think I've been drinking?

Speaker 2 (01:49:18):
Did Deck do suspicious minds?

Speaker 1 (01:49:21):
Yes?

Speaker 17 (01:49:21):
He did, he did. Yes, he was very very good.
He's very tall, and it's after people news about the
middle of last year. He was on the first time
we'd seen him. And he's just such a talented, lovely
young man and he's got a sister who sings as well.

Speaker 2 (01:49:37):
I don't like I don't like a young guys doing
Elvis because it's not even Elvis's generation. I think it's
a bit creepy to me.

Speaker 17 (01:49:43):
Oh, and that wasn't creepy. He's very very good, very good.

Speaker 2 (01:49:48):
I can't see it. Hang on finished with you yet,
I can't SE's what website will I find them on?

Speaker 17 (01:49:54):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:49:54):
That he might be on the ring or rs A website.

Speaker 17 (01:49:57):
Could be could be because there was a couple in
the camper van and they'd seen it online and they
die a beautiful dancing, beautiful rock and roll and they
come from the North Island and they were there so
a lot of people here. We didn't know. It was
a good night. Really, it was lovely.

Speaker 2 (01:50:11):
Well, spend the night in the camper van.

Speaker 17 (01:50:13):
Yeah, they were going to park when a lot of
cars have left. This finished about half off ten. They
were going to go into the car park. A lot
of the clubs and the Pepper are saying, all those
places you can park up in your camper van. You've
got your own toilets and things, and then you might
use the club to have a drink, have a meal,
and you can stay as long as you you will.
You stay there for nothing, and we've got power points
and everything. I don't think to pay anything towards power

(01:50:35):
You didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:50:37):
It was Anthony from Reminiscence.

Speaker 17 (01:50:40):
Yes, he is our favorite music and he's playing on
Sunday between three and six at the Richmond Club. Also
on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:50:48):
Zach very good. Zach Johnson is the Elvis impersonator.

Speaker 17 (01:50:52):
Gosh, you can look everything up.

Speaker 2 (01:50:54):
Well, it's hard. I had to go to that damn
website look up the ball and everything like that. Right,
I wouldn't really call it a ball as such. I
mean it seems to be just a sort of a
din and dance at the A.

Speaker 17 (01:51:05):
Yeah, well, or not to dine and dance. They just
said all the Valentine's it was just the music, even
for us just to go and see Anthony as we
do and the guy that does Elvis. But I mean
some dressed up like in long dress, isn't it was
like a ball but no, everybody was.

Speaker 2 (01:51:21):
Very dressed up as a long dress to go to
the RSA.

Speaker 17 (01:51:25):
Well that was because it was a Valentine's evening at
Valentine's ball. But I didn't have a long dress on.

Speaker 2 (01:51:31):
So they still do the ode, the ode, what's that is?
The going down of the sun. They we neither they
should age, nor we should wear at times. We should
know that thing they do at the RSA, that little thing.

Speaker 17 (01:51:44):
They say, oh yeah, yeah, no, not not tonight, didn't
they No, But the pep has been sold because there's
not so many of these old men now and they're
not funding what they used to, and it's been brought out.
But so for our country music on the first tund
of the month and the pepnera news the bar and

(01:52:06):
what they normally do. But then in the year's time,
I don't know what's going to happen because it's been sold,
so I don't know what's going to happen to the building.
And it's quite a reasonable building. But the Asays are
dying out now because all the old people are, you know,
getting older and love them.

Speaker 2 (01:52:22):
It's a bit of a worry. It's a bit of
a worry what they're going to.

Speaker 17 (01:52:24):
Do with those Well, it's a good building. I hope
they don't, you know, I hope they use it for
something because it's a good building. It's been well kept
and you know, well looked after. But I mean something
has just changed and you can't do anything about that.
Times change and that, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:52:40):
Yeah, any video, I can't see anybody. You get in
the it sounds like you're getting in the bath, Joe.

Speaker 17 (01:52:44):
Are you no, I've just washed my face makeup off.

Speaker 3 (01:52:48):
Sit in the lounge, Okay, good on?

Speaker 2 (01:52:51):
You jan't thank you?

Speaker 12 (01:52:52):
Jay?

Speaker 2 (01:52:52):
So you're having the bar it's a bit risque. Zack Johnson,
for goodness, say yeah, I don't know. Have a forty
year old doing Elvis? How's old? Justin Biebe? He's struggling,
isn't he?

Speaker 13 (01:53:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:53:05):
I read stories wandering around RSA. Zach Johnson, Yes, recording
a trap We can't get out should be the story
about the RSA's goodn't it? Because I love you too much? Baby?
What can't you see? Marcus? You can change the door

(01:53:31):
lock and car to either just unlocked driver's door or
all doors on menu on dashboard tells you in the manual. Really, oh,
that's tomorrow sorted. I won't be doing the lawns with me,
new moa. Are we doing that to all doors? So

(01:53:52):
hold on my weekend.

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