Predicting the year (20 January 2025)

After talking about his holiday and catching up on Auckland's SailGP action over the weekend, Marcus begins the 2025 Predictions game.

LISTEN ABOVE 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be greetings and welcome, Happy Christmas seasons, greetings, welcome to
twenty twenty five. If Zibi by five not a prime,
how are you? So let's get this show back on
the road. Firstly, we are in the end of the

(00:35):
silly season, So what that means is that we might
have a great night of talkback or it might be
sketchy as all get out. That's the nature of the
beasts before February. People's minds are on different things. However,
this is not my first time coming back to work

(00:57):
in January. I enjoy it second putting the kids to
bed at this time of the night, so it's always
good to be here. I know that's not true, but
just to put you straight, I'm here. What would be
the right word, but I'm here of my own volition.
So it's my desire to start the year kind of early.

(01:19):
Although I think probably what happens sometimes ready everyone abandons
it for all of January. I think sometimes this is
when the best stories happen, like those floods a couple
of years ago, and the fire is and all that
sort of thing. So yeah, So what I'm really saying
that is a bit of a preamble to is that
if we you are there is breaking news, let us know.

(01:42):
I don't we all know this time of the year too,
there's not a lot of journalists on the ground, so
you're not going to be left dying wondering listening to
this show. Something's happening, you will find out about it. Okay,
So where you are, if you're Johnny on the Spot,
or if you're anywhere, let us know. If you've got
breaking news, there might and a lot of you will

(02:04):
be at beach resorts, camp rounds away from where you
normally are. There's more people kind of on the coasts
and those knocks. So if there's fires, coastal fires, fires
on the headland, shark sightings, whales strandings, wallaby sightings beyond
their natural range, anything like that, let us know. Because

(02:25):
I think at this time of the year it's even
more important that we provide a kind of a news
service this time of night, because things will happen. It's
a really news rich time of the year, both nationally
and internationally. So if you have got things that are happening,
fights at campgrounds, those sorts of things. Things they think, well, gee, crevice,
that's news. Will he let us know and we'll get

(02:47):
you to where or will follow up We just said
a text through also that might be something you might
want to do. Let us know what's going on. So
if you think it's news, whether of interests, let us know.
Best thing is to text or to call and the
next two or three weeks, well probably two weeks at least.
That's kind of the role of the show to keep
you just up to date with what's going on of
the evening. So people feel part of the community, part

(03:08):
of the world. So that's happening. So yeah, so first
line of call if there is some news, let us
they also too. For your truck driver coming up and
down the country and there is news where you are,
let us know what that news is. Traffic news, diversions,
closed roads, incidents. I think a lot of people are

(03:29):
driving at this time of the year, at this time
I know it's really helpful for them to hear out
here where in fact there are disturbances on the road.
So I've got got a lot of things to do tonight,
and I'm not quite sure what ordered to do them
and as some of you will know, at this time
of the year, we always have our Prediction Show, and

(03:55):
every year for the last five, six, seven, eight nine years,
people have predicted what their thoughts going to happen in
the next year. And what is really interesting about this
is that people are extremely bad at predicting the future.
People are doing okay to predict things like Biden loses

(04:17):
or Trump wins, but when it comes to be the
real out of the box predictions, I think we struggle,
but I'm not giving up. And there are some good
predictions that people have got right. But when you consider
we've got about a thousand of them and the correct
prediction rate is running at about one percent. Even when people

(04:39):
predict things like Crusaders to win the Super fifteen, I
think we've got to aim higher. So don't ring and
call now, but we will be having the Prediction Show.
There are small prizes, but mainly it's for honor and
what is the way we will do it? And when

(05:00):
I say we, I don't talk. I haven't started talking
about myself on the plural. It's Dan and myself. Dan's
the So what I will endeavor to do and it
won't take all of this week, but it'll take some
of this week. So start thinking about your predictions and

(05:24):
the way I've changed it subtly, and I've been changing
over the last couple of years. I mean, I allow
you to do a number of predictions. You've been doing
five predictions. I'm not going to stop that to I
just don't ring yet. This it's about something else or
breaking news. But with your predictions, you can predict five.

(05:45):
But the winner will be the person that predicts the
most surprising thing, the most far fetched, or the most
amazing prediction that they got right. So I'm asking some
of you to really chuck some creativity at your predictions.

(06:09):
I think people enjoy those more. So yeah, that's the
way it'll kind of work, your predictions. So we'll have
a bet of chit chat before that. So, yeah, I'm
not going to get stated of the predictions. It's got
a bit straight onto it. But you think about your predictions,
and what I probably will do is later on tonight,
if you ring up, you have five predictions to encourage

(06:32):
people to start early in the year. Tomorrow you can
have four predictions. Wednesday, three predictions, Thursday, two predictions, Friday,
one prediction, this year is a change because I want
to get a big spreadsheet of predictions. You can also
email one prediction. Now I'm self conscious already I'm sounding

(06:55):
a bit ruolsy, but I want the best for all
of us. I want an exciting prediction show and when,
and I want some predictions there generally historical. So just
to say up later on tonight, you can phone in
with five, tomorrow, four, the next day three, that have
that two and that I have that one or any
old time. You can email me Marcus Slush, what's my email?

(07:19):
I haven't go got that right, Marcus at newstalk z'b
dot co dot nz. I've struggled today. I had to
remember my pass, my swipe card to get into work.
I had to remember where work was. I had to
remember my logan when I got here. That's three things.
And I got to work. I couldn't remember where to
poke the sky remote, so I'm on deck. I remembered

(07:40):
my past word. In fact, I've changed my password because
it was logged out, so I've got a new password
for twenty twenty five. I've worked out where the remote goes.
I've remembered where I worked from because I changed work
just recently the location and I found a swipe card,
so it's win win win for me. By the way,
if you want to text nine to nine two, oh dan,

(08:02):
how are you about predicting by a text? Just one?
But just one text via one prediction via text? Already
unfitting rules here, we'll get this put up on the
Facebook page. All the rules for the prediction show. But look,
it's not like we're missing it on Great Talk because
it is the quiet season and you don't get the
cavalcade of calls you might get later on unless something

(08:24):
big happens. By the way, there is a weather event happening. Now,
I've looked at the newspaper about the weather event, and
you see the herod's gone with a graphic. I don't
know if that's because it's a really big weather storm
or because nothing else is happening. So I'll keep your
cross that anyway. So they were predicting heavy rain six
centimeters of rain I think, and strong weather. I'm all

(08:46):
across that. But if you're somewhere where it's raining heavily,
let us know. But they are talking expecting severe weather. Now,
A couple of things I need to say, and a
couple of things I need to confess to before I start.
I've got some apologies to make, and I've got some

(09:07):
things to say that I think some of you might
find of interest. And I've even got a bit of
a mere culper. And I've never said the word mere
culper before. I'm not even sure what it means. I
did study Latin. It was a long time ago and
a waste of time through my fault. I thought it

(09:33):
was an apology. It seems slightly more nuanced than that.
But I have got a mere culpri an apology to make.
I'm surprised I'm saying this. I'm surprised. I'm going to
say this just straight off the bat. I need to
let you know that that I saw the movie Wicked,

(09:55):
and look, gosh, really have I enjoyed a movie as much.
In fact, I've even seen it a second time, so
I know. Before the end of the year, I was
talking about this movie called Wicked and whether anyone's seen it,
whether it was any good or not. I happened to
get along there to the theater at Waikiki with my
partner and the children transformational. So yeah, if I break

(10:16):
into song, if I start alluding to plot devices with
Galinda or alphabet or things like that. That's where I'm at.
It's been a long time between movies for me, transformational
and the funny thing was I've often been involved in
discussions would say you'd love the musical Wicked. I think
we don't know me. That's not something I'd enjoy, but

(10:38):
happened to find myself there, got part of the hype.
Absolutely unbelievably good. It's not everyone's cup of tea. If
you don't like it, keep that to yourself. If you
haven't seen it, Oh, it was extraordinary, absolutely extraordinary. In fact,
it's taken me down all sorts of deep dives. I've
even gone back and watched the original Wizard of Oz

(10:59):
and that's me. In fact, if I could turn this
whole show into a year of discussing the Wizard of
Oz kind of rabbit holes and things like that, I
probably would. So just letting you know, that's the rabbit
hole I'm down. It's all about Wicked, unbelievable. In fact,
I'll be waiting for the Oscar nominations greenly and if

(11:21):
Orion de Gronde doesn't get Best Supporting Actress nominated and
city to win that, I will be devastated. Although I
think the nominations have been put on hold because of
the fires, because you've got to read the room even
though it's not a room, it's a state. But that's
what's happening with that. So yeah, totally into Wicked. That's
confession number one. Confission number two. I've always been disparaging

(11:44):
about America's Cup racing and how useless it was in
the White Matar Harb because the races were so far
off and you couldn't really see what's going on, and
that the sport was a dud. Watching on TV yesterday
in the day before, it seems to me that that

(12:05):
was quite a success. I think people have paid quite
good money to be there. I don't know what it
was like to sit there in those stands. They're all
there in their capri pads and their straw hats. If
you were one of those people, I'd be curious to
know what the experience was like, because people seem to
love it. Mind, you paid your tickets. You couldn't relieve
you're sort of stuck there, weren't you It was a gamble,

(12:27):
But it seems to me it was a gamble for
most people that paid off. So if you want to
tell me what that was like as the experience, because
I got that wrong. I didn't think they could get
match racing so close to the audience. But the way
they did that, when you come around that last leg
and you finish right at the end of that that
wolf with these teople all the tanks, I thought it
was unbelievable. They may should pull that one off. So

(12:47):
well done to all those people involved, So well done them.
If you were there, I'd be curious to know what
you thought of that and what the experience was like
As a fan. I think we're paying over one hundred
bucks for tickets and you could get a corporate suite
in one of those tenths where I think you got
canapes devils on horseback, and I don't know what the
canapes were. I think if I'm somewhere where there's canapes,

(13:09):
I'd rather have devils on horseback than anything. They're delicious.
Are they prunes and bacon? Loved them? Or melon? I
think they're prunes on bacon. So that's when Mere Coulper
I was probably wrong about the match racing. It seemed
like it was fairly exciting. Although I wasn't there, I
thought it worked well on TV. It certainly worked a
lot better than the America's Cup and the Mediterranean this year.

(13:31):
And my third confession is that this year, sorry last year,
on the show, we had several nights discussing greyhound racing
and fairly passionate calls and a lot of people from

(13:55):
both sides were rearticulate with their concerns and their experiences.
But one and I'd only ever been to one race
at the in Vicago Racecourse, was wasn't which wasn't much,
But someone said on that show, why don't you come
along and attend one of the night meets. Anyway, I

(14:19):
found myself on a Friday night in Fonginui and chee
it's probably dog racing night. I want to go and
see the straight track. So I found myself, got a
bus to the forget what bus it was, might have
been the Tide it's their special name bus and Fong
and went to the dog racing and it wasn't the
straight track. They only used the straight track on a Tuesday.

(14:42):
This was a Friday, so I went along to the
special kind of got a clubroom with a long kind
of room with glass and windows and a bar and
a restaurant in there, and you're sitting there on a
gorgeous waninoy evening and watch the dogs race. And I've
got to say only stayed for three races, had myself

(15:03):
the roast of the day, which was chicken, which was delicious.
It was a very very pleasant evening. There seemed to
be nothing down market or untoward or sleezy or subterfuge
like about the event. It just seemed to be a

(15:25):
very well run, enjoyable experience. And as I left it,
I felt slightly saddened that that part or those experience
for those people was no longer going to be a thing,
because people said to come along and judge it for yourself,
so I'd gone along. I thought it was an extremely
well run present event. The dogs seemed happy, there was

(15:47):
a variety of owners. It was quite a good deal.
So there you go. That's my confessions, and that's probably
enough from me anyway. If you do want to get
in touch, particularly if you're at that event of the
yacht racing and the weekend, give me a holocaupy curiously
what that was like. If you're at the yacht racing
on Saturday or Sunday. I just probably would because I

(16:08):
saw there weren't screens there. I was just wanting to
know how close to the action you thought you were,
or what it was like from a spectator's point of view.
I know people raved about it when they had it
at Littleton before it was canceled because the Hector dolphins.
So you've got an opinion on that. I'll be curious
about that also. I will promise you we will get

(16:28):
to the brictions sometime tonight, just not yet, just when
I'm prepared myself mentally to hear what you've got to say,
and as you want to talk about other stuff, feel
free to come through. Oh, I will get the text
before too long. By the way, too, we've got Trump's inauguration, Dan,
what time's our time? Half past five tomorrow morning. Some
of you will be getting up for that. I won't be,

(16:54):
but I think they've got indoors now because the weather's
so bad. Mind you. Something that no one predicted is
that Trump would be on stage with the village people.
Who thought the village people still together. You see, there
was a line call for Trump there. He was with
the village building, ymc ably stuck with his own dance.

(17:15):
Didn't he that one where he sort of does the
fifth HANDI things, what's that about? I thought that was
pretty interesting with the ego. No one predicted that, By
the way, a lot of predictions about Trump. No one
predicted that the day before the inauguration he would be
performing on stage with the Village. I presume they're the
original village people who knew anyway, Marcus till midnight the

(17:38):
number is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine
to nine text. I've just got a report to a
text has come through Marcus Weather Event Alert Wendy. I
think it must be we it says Wendy. But I
think they might be a typo WEFD camp from Puddy
Bay Dot Campground north and after two days to reach

(17:58):
rain a tent with two boys, another solid words reign
in the forecast, retreating to retreating a way to weigh
a teta on the Mothball Wild Light Mothballed rail line
to Dargaville. And that's actually the junction of the both
railway lines. It's important railway stop. But there we go.
That's a situation there. So two days heavy rain in
the North. I didn't realize it started so soon. That's

(18:21):
put the bail check with that is anyway, it's the
Doc Campground, Kathy, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Oh hi Marcus.

Speaker 4 (18:29):
Yeah, I just thought i'd give you a call about
the sale GP because we went along yesterday and absolutely
loved it. We just had a ball. It was really
well organized and the racing was extremely close to the
grandstand so you could see everything.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Oh great, And I've got a few questions to ask you.
Did you? Did you? I don't even know tickets were
on sale? Is that something that friends told you about?
Or how did that happen? How did that come about?

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Well, I actually.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
Got them as soon as they became available, So I've
always followed the America's Cup and yeah, so I just
came up on my feed about the tickets and were
them straight away. But one thing I would say was
that the tickets were quite expensive, and I thought that
was a bit of a downer because we wanted to
go both days. But the tickets were one hundred and

(19:16):
eighty seven dollars each for each day, and that's obviously
only for those the races which went for like ninety
minutes so.

Speaker 5 (19:24):
You oh wow.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
And there wasn't a weekend pass that was cheaper, not
that I could see.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
No, it was yah per person per day, and six
of us went, and yeah, we were planning on going
the two days, but just went the one because it
was so expensive. But it was unbelievable how close the
racing was to that grandstand, so you could see everything
pretty much, and you got to see the boats going

(19:55):
out from the viaduct. They were all moored right in
at the viaduct, so you saw all of them going out,
and then we got to see all of them come
back and afterwards and then they'd take them out with
cranes and get ready to ship the moster Australia for
the next right.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
So it's a great report. So with the dial up
on the start, were you quite close to seeing where
they were. At the start, you could see which boat
was first across the line.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
So at the green stand you could see the finish
line exact. The finish line was right in front of us.
The start was to the right of the green stand,
so as you were looking out across the harbor, it
was right in the corner and you had to look
at this big screen and that was on your hard right,
so that was quite hard to see. Yeah, the start

(20:38):
was a bit hard. Yeah, but the rest of the
racing once they got going, and it's particularly the end
and round that last mark that was right in front
of the green stand and yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Because it seemed really close.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
It was and what was even this might sound quite funny,
but they moved those little markers move and they move
their remote control, so the finish line was moving each time.
And then they bring this mark and it because was
in past the green stand in front of you, and yeah, yeah,
I don't know how they moved them.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
But it's hard to know watching on TV what a
real mark is and what to just put on and
post edit because you can see there's lines and things there.
It's hard to work out what's what. But obviously the
sailors know and were the good snacks and drinks and
things between races.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
You couldn't really get them between the races because they're
so fast.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
You know.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
Let's the race was funished, and then the countdown would
come up and it would be like five minutes or
they'd interview someone and then you'd have five minutes and
then it would go again. So you got drinks and
food beforehand and afterwards. But then also what was really
impressive was when the Australians won, they had them straight
out of the water and up in that ceremony. I
don't know how they did it straight away, so there

(21:47):
was hardly any gap between the end of the final
and the presentation. It was really quack so because obviously
people were just going to leave because it wasn't New
Zealand winning. But there were quite a few people around
for the Australians to get their award, I suppose.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
So you were, yeah, I don't know what the name is,
it seems to somebody. So you were sitting there for
ninety minutes, ninety minutes of action and that was it done,
And Dustby, isn't this sick? Could happen so quickly? One, two, three,
four races in a row right, well.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Yep, and then you're out and then you walk past
the boats and they're all coming back, and then they
crane them out two at a time. So we stood
there and watch that, and we weren't expecting to see
all that either, and we just found that fascinating. And
there was quite a good vibele around. The vibe people watching,
you know, then you had drinks and dinner, and yeah,
it was nice. If the tickets were a bit.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, the restaurants will be happy. But I don't imagine
that it'd been a sellout. I don't imagine that make
the tickets cheaper because they could. Could they put much
more capacity in? They probably couldn't put more grand stands
in there, could they?

Speaker 7 (22:49):
No?

Speaker 4 (22:49):
I don't think so. It was pretty impressive to that
grand stand. It was huge.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
I'm always worried. I'm always worried those temporary grandstands are
going to collapse, but that's just me.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
Yeah, we did have a good look at it when
we walked up the other thing as well, Like so
you walked in and there was and there were drinks,
and there was all the merchandise, and then as you
got up into the green stand, they had a DJ,
they had dancers, they had those smoke guns they were
firing out T shirts.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
And oh, you've got to have a T shirt canon, Kathy,
that's a great thing to have a T shirt canon.
I love a T shirt, Cannon.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Yeah, yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
It was a really good event, really well run. So
hopefully we get it back.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Again and you'd buy tickets again.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
Yeah, I would. I'd like to go two days, but hey,
one's better than nothing, right, So yeah, yeah, definitely.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Okay, Well, nice to talk to Kathy, and thanks for
being the first caller to the show for the year too.
That's a yeah, I love that, thank you. Oh eight
hundred and eighty thirty nine two to text done, So
I will talk. We will have predictions sometime tonight. So
what happened on The Simpsons with a T shirt Canon?
So I remember that? That's always my who died? Did

(24:06):
oh more? Moud Flanders dies? Doesn't she? She gets hurt?
That's right. Yeah, there's always a Simpson's story of one
of the great radio standards, the T shirt cannon. Of course,
we always go to the basketball and then the cargo.
There's always I think there's a T shirt. There is
a T shirt cannon. I'm pretty sure there's a T shirt.

(24:26):
Kennon Tretty Away from nine. Dave Marcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 5 (24:32):
In the Focus the Millions.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Thanks for hanging on there too, by the way, there, Dave,
what's it about the megic Millions?

Speaker 5 (24:40):
Yeah, Coracer, we've got sales start this week out out well,
I live in Cracker and it's going to be busy
with all sales start the Sleek at Cracker and the
Magic Williams at l see next weekend as world.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, I saw something on Facebook of that.
So the horse sale place Karaka, they sponsor the race.
Is that the way it works?

Speaker 7 (25:02):
That's right? Yeah.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
Before there been living out of Cracker three years so
now just about and so we've got to quite nice
out of the way go to garden and it's really
nice out of the way, beautiful, it is correct, it's
really really nice. It's got three story house and boys
and it's Crackers really good, good areas that live in everything.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
How'd you find you? How did you find yourself there?

Speaker 7 (25:33):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (25:33):
Just just we shipped Cavato just saw it and sold
their house by auction, got a good got a good price.
But and then it's all the look look foundless house
and then had a correct and then boarded. So I've
been there. We've got a couple of dogs, cats and the.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Garrisons sounds like about. You've got a couple of acres there.
Have you got a land, You've got.

Speaker 5 (26:01):
Lands and it's and it's you can guarant see you
can white drives a cart of the garrison. Dogs sleep
and sleep from They got a couple of couches and
the garrets and and I've got a guy's vegetable garden
and got some plum tree. And you've got some lions
and apples tree going there and some why it's got

(26:24):
a vegetable garden. It's got needing to keep. Buy some
birds seed from my to ten wild bird seed. Put
the trees, keep the birds away from the from plungs
and the apples from their ears. Quite quite yeah, So
it's got nothing we can't be the gardens and the

(26:45):
voyes you made, made the lawns in that.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
It just sounds like sounds like one of those TV
documentary cruise will be wanting to knock the knock on
your door of film a reality TV show. The way
it's going downs pretty good what you got on?

Speaker 5 (26:57):
Yeah, yeah, And we conduck and my son shatters the
holiday Cook Islands best for Christmas, shouted myself and my
mother went to the Cook Islands that we stayed at
there tongue for bats seven days and met up with
the end of minders and security industry back in Zealand
and then in the instrument and then we had two

(27:17):
days of centretivity. The water is so clear, and the
cook and wrote and the Cook Islands and yeah, just
it's just like you know, really waters, really Cook Islands, Tongue.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's just nice special place. It just yeah, are you
get up at five to watch the inauguration?

Speaker 7 (27:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (27:41):
I saw Kid Rock but performed and Carry Underwoods going
to as well too, as well Carry Underwoods to perform
in the years, I saw kid Rock on I come
across them on on Fox TV and he won pretty well.
And of those people, they were they were really really,

(28:03):
really good.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Are on the sparite kid Rock. But what would his
biggest hit be?

Speaker 5 (28:10):
I'm not too sure.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
That didn't No, I don't know his bat cannon so much.
I know he was all there that silly had for
a while, but I couldn't. I couldn't say what his
songs were. His first breakthrough hit was, well, what do.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
You thought some carry Underwood as a singer.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
I don't know. She's got she's got one of those
names and all confused that did she? Did she win
America's Idol?

Speaker 7 (28:33):
I think that's right?

Speaker 5 (28:34):
Correct?

Speaker 7 (28:34):
Year?

Speaker 5 (28:34):
Correct? Yeah? Correct year? Yeah? Yeah, so yeah, looking forward
to I think the number one issue of the border
closing the border down and they've got a good border
that Tom Homan the interview them and all these illegals here,
and that's the biggest issue for the Americans over there

(28:56):
in the states over there, border down.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
You would be going to beat if you get up
at five, Dave, had.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
You probably public public go to there and maybe just
just have looked it'll body come alive on Fox Fox.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
You should plug yourself into Fox the next time, now
is that'll be fantastic. You get all the build up a.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
Fox Fox TV come comes up and next next TV
coming of it. And I thought leading Kelly she was,
she's she's she's a great caesar. She's at the oration
as well, meeting Kelly.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
You should you should have gone, You should have gone yourself, Dave.

Speaker 5 (29:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah. So have you ever been
in a cook on the tour before?

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yes, yes, number of times, Dave, number of times. Great place.
Although I've always thought they should have gone solar. Fancy
taking all that fuel across there to generally interesting to
power those buses that go clockwise anti clockwise. What a
missed opportunity that wouldn't be to get some giant grid
and run everything on batteries. That's just me sixteen away

(30:05):
from nine eighty eight and looking forward to your comments
if there's something you're desperate to mention. Otherwise, after nine
o'clock probably we will get into the predictions. First shore
of the year is always the prediction year, but often
takes people a while to get back into the.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Sometimes halfway through February get people is So, I didn't
know you're back. I've been back for a month seventy nine. Jane.
It's Marcus. Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 8 (30:34):
Gooday Marcus, here are you going good?

Speaker 7 (30:36):
Thank you? Jane.

Speaker 9 (30:38):
Great.

Speaker 10 (30:40):
A couple of things sale Gp. We were up in Auckland.
I'm just driving back over to akaroa tonight from christ
Church and we were up in Auckland to the weekend
and just managed to go down to the viaduct and
we saw the free bit so just all of the
boats in the ball peen I think they called it

(31:01):
just before that before they all week out. Really awesome,
so great thing for people to be able to do
for nothing. And I just weear they would have been
maybe eight to ten meters away from us for Kiwi's Wow,
And I just thought the organizers just had done such
a good job. They took all the boats out kind

(31:21):
of one by one. The crowd got sort of more
and more excited about it. They kept the kiwi's until last,
and the raw went out, and just for families or
anyone like that, there was just an awesome way.

Speaker 8 (31:32):
Isn't there?

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Because the verdict always been great for could you see
any of the race?

Speaker 8 (31:38):
Not some there?

Speaker 10 (31:38):
So they go out through quite a sort of a
short as like a small exit way, and then you
could see them chopping up and down. What we were
amazed with, Marcus, is how they're really noisy. Okay, well okay,
not not kind of creaky like I sort of thought

(31:59):
it might be some like you know, creaky yachty noises,
but almost like a constant sort of whizzing.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Really okay, the wind was quite strong. It was about
thirty thirty. It's a strong winds. That's amazing. Okay. They
didn't get picked up on the TV.

Speaker 10 (32:14):
Yeah, so that that was super interesting. Then we were
just at he at my brother's house to night and
Donald was up on the stage with the village people
and my niece Hepton. She might have seen something on
social media that she said, there's only one original person
and all the other newbies come in or they done.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Went out of a couple of songs, tell me something.
Were you an awkward for Luke Colmbs? Is that what
you were there for?

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (32:39):
Yeah, we were actually a bit lucky. My husband's that
pert and he works who were hosting some customers.

Speaker 6 (32:46):
So wow, we've got to go up for them.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Well, he must be your husband must be a heavy
hitter if they've flown him up for Luke.

Speaker 6 (32:51):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Was it good?

Speaker 5 (32:54):
So that was good?

Speaker 11 (32:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (32:56):
Yeah, well as good as something can be. I mean,
I just didn't know any of the songs.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
So you would have done you would have done fast Card.
But would have done that, wouldn't he?

Speaker 5 (33:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (33:06):
Yes, yes, yeah, sorry, so yeah, just the just the
one so sort of enjoyment has probably pinned back there,
we because you can't really get into that kind of
thing along mode.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
No, i'd agree with that if you hadn't studied the
album for a couple of listens. Kind of probably you
have to be a fan to really appreciate it, and
there must be a lot of fans to get that
filled out twice. It's kind of extraordinary, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 10 (33:33):
Christ you each airport on the way up there, I
could have had a drafting gate. I could have gone
to the right, look to the least. By the by
the look of them all, it was great.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
And we're talking cowboy boots and hats. They're going full
cosplay right.

Speaker 10 (33:51):
Yeah, more Arion Williams boots than you could that. You
could really fok a stick it and instead of shorts
and begs slung over shoulders, just stereotypical, really really remarkable.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Love you to hear from you, Jane, Thank you so much.
Great keep it going eight hundred and eighty today.

Speaker 6 (34:09):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
And he did the showy from the Cowboy. But how
much beer would that be?

Speaker 7 (34:12):
Too?

Speaker 6 (34:12):
Lad?

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Has anyone tried that at home? It's not so much
as shoey, it's more of booty, isn't it?

Speaker 7 (34:19):
Good?

Speaker 6 (34:19):
Evening?

Speaker 2 (34:19):
All welcome. My name is Marcus. Here till midnight tonight.
I hope it's good where you are. I hope if
you are back at work. It still feels quite summary.
I w in the supermarket before work tonight to get
my supplies and I couldn't believe how summary the people looked. Yeah,
unbelievably summary. And there has been good weather down south.

(34:41):
Were actually spent a we spent five weeks away because
I've spent a week broadcasting from Auckland, and then we
were up further north, up out of Fangaree and we
bust back via avare IV. We're basically or Tucky and

(35:06):
fed Andhuanganui and New Plymouth and Omaha. The old inter
city is not too bad in the end. The South
Island busses are a lot cleaner. The North Island busses
could do with a bit of a up the older
the city, although by the end of it I was

(35:26):
singing One Long Day on the Inner City to the
tune of One Short Day in the Emerald City. That
worked well for me. But anyway, there was good. The
kids were well behaved. I'll tell you what. Though having
a farm it makes been away for a long time
a lot more stressful. But I was pleased to get
to the top paddic and realize that both sheep were

(35:48):
still fine, so that was a great comfort to me.
I left them plenty of water, so they were They
weren't pleased to see me, but they were still alive,
which I thought was I always thought they would be,
but you never quite know what's going to go on
in your absence. So yeah, the old intercity a the
old buses. Goodness gracious me. Cheapers in fact did blend

(36:17):
him to the need in one go, which actually was
extremely relaxing. Twelve hours on a bus. It's amazing on
the bus coming down past Kaikoda to see all that
lend that came up in that quake. Do unbeliever it
would have rowed, but yeah, you see more from the bus,
a lot more relaxing because there's no discussions about where
you're going to stop because you know where you're going
to stop. Only one bus broke down for five minutes

(36:40):
out of Hamilton, but broke down near a bakery. That
was good. The kids loved it anyway. Now let's get
into the predictions. So the way the predictions show works
slightly different because the past years all abrictions have been
worried as top eight national to win, Trump to lose,
YadA yadia. I'm looking for predictions that are slightly more unpredictable.

(37:09):
So if you ring up the show, allow you to
have five predictions, but we will at the end of
this year, we will find the one prediction out of
all of them that seems to be the most prescient,
and that person will win. I haven't fully worked out
my winner from last year yet, but that will be

(37:30):
revealed this week. So yeah, you're five predictions.

Speaker 9 (37:35):
Now.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
The only rule is there's no rules. But don't be
nasty with your predictions. I don't want to ring up
and say such and such will choke because they eat
so much, or something like that. So I've always felt

(37:56):
bad that people rng up and said that they thought
Jenny Shipley was going to die. I've always thought that
sort of when someone Yeah, I only know it's good
to predict people dying when they aren't particularly old. In fact,
I don't think probably picking peer anyone to die as
particularly good as it or though I don't want to
discredit that, but you know you might have some inside information. Yeah,

(38:20):
listening in from Renmark, South Australia, receiving you loud and
clear on iHeartRadio. Cheers mate from filling the Gang. It's
a great email Phil anyway, your predictions and will allow
you to do this all week. If you want to
email in your predictions you can do, but just send
in one. I'm encouraging people to phone and I like
to hear the fear and their voice. I'm already getting

(38:44):
predictions about the Warrior has been top four and the
Tigers top eight. There's Benji still the coach. Oh, they've
got whatsame, haven't they? The why they might go good?
It's gonna be a long season, by the way, I've retaken.
I watched one of the dragons Den the other day.
I was taken by that story on dragon Do I wat?

(39:07):
Should I read it? Anyway? That story on Dragon's Den.
You can get yourself a sports jersey subscription for twenty
five pounds a month and they send you unusual sporting
team's jerseys every month. Well, I thought that went quite
well anyway. People who love wearing sports jerseys, don't they. Craig,

(39:27):
it's Marcus. Welcome, Good evening, Good.

Speaker 12 (39:30):
Evening, Marcus. How are you doing? Happy New Year to you, Craig.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
I like your indergy. Have you put some thought into it?

Speaker 12 (39:36):
Well, I've tried too. Every year I keep coming back
for more, so you must be doing something right.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
How'd you go last year?

Speaker 12 (39:43):
Next question?

Speaker 2 (39:46):
I think you got I think you got one?

Speaker 5 (39:47):
Right?

Speaker 12 (39:48):
Oh, well, I head it down as one or two.
But not enough, Marcus, not enough.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
I did quite well. I had Dick van Dyke not
to die. I had a well known New Zealander to
come off an E scooter, which was I think Simon
Bridges was it. And I had had Lidia koe Get's Gold,
which I should have put money on rather than do that.

Speaker 12 (40:10):
As long as it wasn't Marcus Slash that came off
the East scooter, then you'd be in trouble.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
I have come off a scooter before, but not an
ET scooter. I'm just trying to think what your predictions
were last year, Craig, what number is he don?

Speaker 6 (40:23):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (40:23):
You had Rory to win the Golf Major, You had
Oppenheimer to win the Best Picture, had World War three
to start. You had m H three seven zero found
and cook straight fairy catastrophe rescue was required. Well that
came close.

Speaker 12 (40:37):
Yeah, well there's I think I've given myself a point
for that one, but you're the overall judge.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
Well, I had we had. We had the Intern to
get in touch with us saying the Fairy was canceled.
It was too rough, and said I said to Vanessa,
w what did you book that something? You said, they
have a good magician. I said, but it's the terro
on Faery. You don't book on the caliber of the magician.
Your book on the caliber of the boat, the ship
and the weather. But anyway, we went the next day

(41:03):
and the and the Magician was good. So but I
love the interide. It was a great crossing on the Kayitaker. Anyway,
what are your predictions, Craig, Well, I'm going.

Speaker 12 (41:13):
To this is probably well, probably the least outlandish, but
on his form you could say it's probably the most outlandish.
I'm determined to stick with Rory to win a golf
major until he actually does.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
What's just what do they have world rankings and golf?

Speaker 7 (41:27):
Do they?

Speaker 11 (41:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (41:29):
Yeah, yeah, Well and he's won plenty of majors. It's
just not since we've been doing this predictions.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Okay, so golf, Rory to win a major.

Speaker 9 (41:39):
Yep, that's right.

Speaker 12 (41:41):
And Disley Simpson to be the new Auckland mayor.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yes, well I see she's I think he said he's
going again.

Speaker 7 (41:50):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (41:50):
But she'll yeah, yeah, okay, good?

Speaker 12 (41:55):
And Conclave to win the best picture Oscar.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Have you seen it?

Speaker 7 (42:02):
No?

Speaker 12 (42:02):
No, But I've heard a lot of a lot of
good things of others.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
What's it about it? Is it like papal thing?

Speaker 9 (42:08):
Is it?

Speaker 7 (42:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (42:10):
I think it's about the whole process of the pope.
I think they dramatize at the weeper.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
Is it a musical? I'm only into Is it a musical?
Non money into musicals? Okay, Conclave? Well, Ralph faint, Okay, thrilling,
paple tussle. It looks all right. Okay, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
Um.

Speaker 12 (42:29):
Now I've got Find seven. I keep that one in there.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Yeah, it's finding m H three seven zero again Dan
Dan right to it all doubt. I can't be bothered. Okay,
So we've got so, We've got Rory, We've got Dearsley Simpson,
We've got m H three seven zero, We've got Conclave.

Speaker 7 (42:51):
Is it it?

Speaker 13 (42:52):
No?

Speaker 8 (42:52):
No one more?

Speaker 12 (42:53):
I think and drum roll, Please King Charles to ebdicate.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Okay, because of health or we don't need to know
the reason, but I guess it's unexpected.

Speaker 12 (43:04):
Well, I just get the feeling. I mean he is,
he's not exactly young, but I just get the feeling
of health isn't as good as perhaps they're leving on.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Well you never know whom he might have another side
project as well too, that always happens with abdications, doesn't it.

Speaker 12 (43:20):
Yeah, well, well, as long as it's not another lady,
that would be quite the quiet story.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
You've had a good summer, Craig.

Speaker 12 (43:28):
Oh, it's been fantastic, It really has. Hasn't been hasn't
been too warm, But quite frankly, I'm quite happy with that.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
You'll cat your christ ch are you?

Speaker 7 (43:38):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (43:40):
I went away with five weeks with just a just
the chemist warehouse bag, with no jersey and no raincoat,
and it was particular, didn't it didn't find myself underpacked,
which I thought was a great success.

Speaker 12 (43:52):
You must be they breed them tough down south, don't they.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
It's just it was just warm, Craig. We read the
weather right. It was where when it was warm, we're
in the warm places. When it was cold, we went there.
That makes any sense? Seventeen past, don't hold your horses.
It's the prediction. Tremendous start from Craig love his energy.
But a showers, but a royalty golf, but a sport.

(44:17):
I don't know what that most outlandish prediction would be
probably rory at the stage anyway, it's the prediction showkeep
up more lines, will become available, don't available, don't call now, Jillian,
it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 14 (44:32):
Hi Marcus. I'm glad you're back.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Oh me too, I'm glad I'm back. I wonder if
my mouth was still good. I'll tell you what, because
what would happen with me about eight o'clock at night?
I would just start talking and they said, goodness, you're
not at work, just be quiet.

Speaker 14 (44:49):
For did I do last year? I think I got
a couple right?

Speaker 7 (44:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (44:53):
But were they?

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Were they exciting ones that you got right?

Speaker 14 (44:56):
Well? I said there was there would be a royal
baby and Princess Eugenie had a little boy.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
That's right. That's a good point, mind you. There's all
isn't there always a royal baby? That's what happens with
them as isn't there isn't it?

Speaker 14 (45:08):
Oh I'm not.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Always okay, but okay.

Speaker 14 (45:12):
And the other one I got right was that there
was a development for Parkinson's disease.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Yes, so that's a good thing too, that's yeah.

Speaker 13 (45:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (45:23):
So And on the personal personal.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
You had, did you have dairy prices will collapse? Was
that you, Jillian?

Speaker 14 (45:31):
No, I don't think that was me.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
My two jillions.

Speaker 6 (45:34):
Did you have.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
A senior royal will die and one will be born?

Speaker 14 (45:43):
No, I only had I only had the one being born. Okay,
so there must be another jillion.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
Did you have a global superstar and entertainment Industryal Emerchi
of New Zealand?

Speaker 13 (45:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (45:55):
Okay, what have been you anyway? What are your predictions
for this year? Jillian?

Speaker 14 (45:59):
Okay, well, I've been pipped at the post because I've
been working on these for a month now.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Goodness, well done.

Speaker 14 (46:06):
Prince William will become the king?

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Okay this year twenty twenty five, William becomes king? Yep, well,
I think I guess we'll know if that happens. There'll
be coronations and things, won't there.

Speaker 14 (46:18):
Yeah, but I haven't put a reason for it.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
No, I don't have to. That's a good brother, that's
unlikely enough.

Speaker 6 (46:24):
You get that.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
That that's a winning that's good.

Speaker 14 (46:26):
Yep. I've got Lydia Co winning the Sportsperson of the Year.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
That's the Hallberg right, yep, mind you. I think she's lady.
Is she Dame Lydia Coe. I think she's got the
honorific right yep, Dame Lydia Coe, she got she got
the female knighthood whatever that's called. The night is yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
The war in Ukraine will end, okay, wow jeep, as

(46:53):
go you yep.

Speaker 14 (46:56):
I've got Taylor Swift will get married to the footballer yep.
And my last one is Elon Musk will be convinced
to buy TikTok Okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
So Elon buys TikTok, Taylor gets married, William becomes king
Lydia Coe gets the Alberg. Is that all of them?
There's one extra in the amisture. We've got them all
and you see perfect? Okay, pressure that, Jillian, thanks so
much for that. You can text your predictions or email them.
Just predict, just text one. We're rewarding people that phone up.

(47:38):
If you phone out, you've got five chances. It's the
most it's the most exciting. Oh, people already predicting dump
to try and office first since JFK in nineteen sixty.

(47:58):
Mind you, of course he is the oldest person ever
to become president, so that would not be an ex
well not it would be. How can I say this
in a way, as people seem to die more often
when they're older, it would be he would be the
most expected to die in office, if that's right. Yeah,

(48:20):
good evening, Marcus. Great to hear you back on it again.
Just agree as there is it. What's your response to
the new Ministry of the South Island. Have a good one, mac, Yes,
we have a Minister of the South Island. I read
that Andrea of Ance column in the paper today talking
about that, and did mention about the airlines and how

(48:41):
trips from in Vericago are not as frequent as they
once were. The direct flight to Wellington's gone, and it
said people in the South have taken to calling ear
news in an Auckland air Just for a point of clarity,
I've never ever heard anyone use that term, so I'd
be curious to know we should heard that anyway, Minister

(49:03):
South Island. What a waste of time that will be
get in touch. Oh wait, eighty Scotty, it's Marcus. Welcome.
Good evening now, Scotty. You are a previous predicting champion.

Speaker 7 (49:14):
Yeah, we had a few good years over the years,
Marcus with a yes.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
Yeah, and you're in there and you're contender this year. Well,
I mean when I say this year, I mean last year.
Obviously because you had some good ones. Do you remember
what they were?

Speaker 7 (49:28):
I think so we nailed the record price for a
breeding ball and it was achieved the nextly two cateigrees.
First of all, it was the col Rain Hereford's down
in Harpo and Wayhadow and they had a yearling sold
for thirty seven thousand, which was a record price. And

(49:51):
then down on the East coast, tell you how Angus
had the top price a record for an on farm sale,
one hundred and thirty five thousand dollar ball.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
Why do you follow this?

Speaker 7 (50:04):
I like previous caller, I start thinking about this for
about a month and okay, and it deserves respect, a
lot of respect for what un markers. So think about
it for a month, we try and come up with
something unusual.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
Okay, because I think you're probably one of your predictions
about your last year's five predictions.

Speaker 7 (50:24):
Were the clown incident involving a police.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
The dramatics involving a clown, the fatality on the New
Zealand bike prowl, emergency rescue from scott based record played
for New Zeland breding bull and stuff closes regional paper.
In the end, it was endy me that closed the
It was our company that closed the regional papers, wasn't
it You.

Speaker 7 (50:47):
Closed some and stuff, closed the Hawk's Bay and they
have plenty weekly publications.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Because there certainly was a dramatic inst involving a clown,
wasn't there.

Speaker 7 (50:58):
Yeah, that was on Muroua beach where police arrested a
clown who turned out to be a Headhunter gang member
driving has Mercedes four will drive vehicle along the beach.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
And Jared Savage, the investigator journalist, starts with the headline
social media post of luxury Mercedes bend on Auckland Beach
with clown mask driver leads to a rest of head
under So that's the void and of course not great
for the warriors. He's wearing a warrior's jersey and a
warrior's jacket.

Speaker 7 (51:24):
Yeah, yeah, not good.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
It's a terrible clown mask. Don't know what the backstory
to it was.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (51:36):
I think they might have been having a bit of
a product that they deal and maybe.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Okay, okay, So that's that's yeah, that's a good that's
a good set of predictions from you. That's a good
year from me.

Speaker 7 (51:46):
Now just just clarify there was a mountain biking death,
but I specifically said it would be on a trail,
and very sadly there was one out at Woodhill Mountain
bike Park where the lady passed away, So I'm not
going to claim that one, no it.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 7 (52:03):
And then the there was the emergency rescue down an
Antarctica on the twenty seventh of June when the irang
zaf sent down a plane to rescue an American.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Wouldn't they do that every year?

Speaker 7 (52:17):
It has to be extenuating circus. It's really dangerous to
land down there in winter.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Yeah, okay, okay, I know it's Toways. A big deal,
isn't it. So that was Scott based on South Parl, right,
it was Scott base A. Yeah, I remember that was
quite a big story, wasn't it.

Speaker 7 (52:30):
Yes, Because literally they only go down if it's a
matter of life and death.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Yeah, ok yeah, okay, it's an oriented story.

Speaker 7 (52:38):
Yep. Okay, twenty fourth or twenty seventh of June, I
think remember.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Yeah, arns F carry out rear Antarctic midwinter medical although
did you specify it's going to be a.

Speaker 7 (52:48):
Midwinter I know, I just said it would be at
some say good and didn't say when I just said
it would be down down there.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
So yeah, okay, I don't know what was Scott based
was it was it meant Murdo.

Speaker 15 (53:07):
I I memory.

Speaker 7 (53:08):
I think he was at McMurdo.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Yeah, you didn't specify Scott. But I don't want to
quibble with you because I think your clown wanted. You
think your clown one is so good, So I'm not
quibbling with you on that. But I think we've taken
a pivot away from five out of five to the
best and the most outland is your prediction. I think
the clown one was pretty good. Hold your horses will
come back. You've got five for this year.

Speaker 7 (53:28):
Right, they're already absolutely yep.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Okay, we'll take this after the break. If you've got
predictions for twenty twenty five, get in touch with me.
You can text all so if you've got breaking news,
I should say that too, get in touch with that.
Nine to nine two, Dennis says Kennedy might have been
the last president to die in office, but Biden is
the only president to die before taking office and stay

(53:51):
that way through his term. That's from Dennis. Good on
your Dennis, someone's predicting Trump and p Dedie having some
kind of duet. Someone's also predicted that Camilla won't see
another Christmas. Wow. And something else is predicting that Berling

(54:11):
and Took will do a Coots and Butterworth and leave
his land for big bucks on a billionaire's boat. There's
good predictions. And Scottie Marcus, so you're five predictions.

Speaker 7 (54:19):
It's of them right, you want them from bizarre to
most bizarre or my ordinary to most bizarre.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
It's a very good question. Should we have someone should
predict how Scotty does his predictions from. Let's start with
the one that you've got a sneaky feeding is going
to come right, let's start with that.

Speaker 7 (54:40):
Well, we're all a bit quirky. So many hours go
from how they roll. So number one a food writer
and he's are all New Zealand. We're not going to
go globe. We're just going to stick to New Zealant.
A food writer or restaurant critic will be hospitalized with
food poisoning.

Speaker 14 (54:56):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
Wow, So like a Jesse Mulligan or something, it's going
to go bad.

Speaker 7 (55:03):
Well, yeah, he's probably one of a few restaurant critics left.
So it's him or someone who writes a food book.
So you're round about laying by on top.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
Yeah, it could be a blogger.

Speaker 7 (55:14):
Yeah yeah, but then can end up in hospital with
food poison. Not be right, But it's just they'll be
in there for a couple of.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Days and there's certain irony. There was ironical for food
right now. I guess it's probably par for the course.
They need out more often than most. It's a good prediction. Okay,
thank you.

Speaker 7 (55:31):
Number two rescue services will be called to the scene
of a bizarre sex act involving a wardrobe or a
four poster bed.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
You see, wonder why you had to go both. Always
think you'd diminister your predictions when when you're Bobby Chwayette.
But it could be both too, couldn't it.

Speaker 7 (55:49):
Well, Yeah, the thought is they fall off the top
of the wardrobe and it falls onto the four post
of bed.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Okay, so it could be both. It could be one
of yeah, yeah, like commergency services called sex act gone
wrong involving wardrobe and or four poster bed. Yeah, okay,
I think we've got that. I think this. I don't
think we've only left any doubt if that one comes true.

Speaker 7 (56:11):
Yes, A New Zealander will be a hero on either
the El Camino or March who Peachu walks or hikes.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
So New Zealand the heroic act El Camino, Machu Pichu. Yep,
I thought you said they're all in New Zealand. They're
all involved in New Zealanders.

Speaker 7 (56:31):
Yes, it's a New Zealander will be the hero. Yep,
this one. I'll keep the folk of Fonger praor just
north of walk On Happy Golf Harbor Golf Club will
be sold.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
So what's happening there now? I see it's always in
the news. Is it just kind of waiting for it
to sell? Is that what's happening?

Speaker 7 (56:51):
It's it's dormant. The current owner is a property developer
who thinks he can put in houses up there. That's
what they're being a nine hundred and ninety nine year
covenant on it and its own residential recreator so recreational
recreational part planned, and that he's probably got about nine
thousand objections if it goes to the environment.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
One might be cocker hope when Penley opens and stops
that car strangled spanner that But yeah, it's interesting. I
spent a bit of time there too, So.

Speaker 7 (57:20):
Did you live there, No, I don't we but we
often travel up there and play golf next door. It
fonger Peroa and golf armers. A lovely course and it
will be brought back to life.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
How many golf how many houses you've been on a
golf course?

Speaker 5 (57:34):
A lot?

Speaker 6 (57:34):
How eight?

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Would it be fifty acres?

Speaker 7 (57:38):
Yeah, it will take between forty seven and about fifty five. Okay,
so they could fit twenty thousand houses up.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
There, okay, just people couldn't get anywhere because the traffic's
bump and a bumper. But okay, so what's your prediction
the golf course will be sold?

Speaker 7 (57:53):
Yeah, but it will remain as a golf course. Okay,
it'll just be brought It'll be brought back to life
as a golf course.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
That's a good thing. Okay. Was it a good golf course?

Speaker 7 (58:02):
Lovely? Yeah, beautiful golf course.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
Better than the other one.

Speaker 7 (58:07):
Uh and it's day it was it was up there,
that's you know, subsequently been surpassed by like the Carry Cliffs, Carrington,
Jack's Point, all of those ti Ai. But it was
a lovely, lovely course. Okay, just this respect to life.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
There's two golf courses there's fun Pro Golf Club, and
there's Golf Harbor country Club. And that's the one that's closed.

Speaker 5 (58:34):
That's the one that's closed.

Speaker 7 (58:35):
Is still still up and running. Lovely little course, lovely
locals up there.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
X I have played the Golf Harbor country Club. I
just done. Was trying to remit on some sort of junket.

Speaker 5 (58:43):
Two.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Okay, good, good, good good, Okay, hoving have we done
three or four?

Speaker 7 (58:48):
It's four?

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Okay, And finally.

Speaker 7 (58:51):
A New Zealand husband and wife will shoot to fame
as comedians without even making one public appearance.

Speaker 5 (59:03):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
Well, it like a YouTube type thing. Yep, what TikTok?

Speaker 7 (59:11):
Could be Facebook or it could be YouTube shorts.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
Okay, so you've got someone on the mind, you got
someone in mind.

Speaker 7 (59:19):
They've got a bit more work to do yet, and
they've got to be discovered. But if they do, they
will be instant heroes.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
Okay. So it's people you've got. It's a man and
a woman, a husband and wife.

Speaker 7 (59:27):
You've said, husband and wife.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
Yeah, brilliant.

Speaker 5 (59:29):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
The great production, Scott is so thank you so much
for Edred the spirit of the competition. The first show
there is the prediction show. We one of your predictions
for twenty twenty five this year. Of course, some of
them don't protect things that have already happened. That's not
within the spirit of the competition. And the prize, which

(59:51):
we don't know yet, will be to the prediction that
seems to be the bravest or the most extraordinary, not
just predictions like crusaders lose. So if you get the
gist of that one. Someone's prected that this year kung
fu shoes will make a comeback. It's got to be

(01:00:12):
the air of the kung fu shoe comeback. Made the
same one last year, but got a better feeding this year.
Someone says, a travel right will dying a plane crash.
It's a bit like the food writer dying at a restaurant,
isn't it. Well, we keep that one going. What's the
other that's a bit like a clown dying at a circus. No,

(01:00:33):
it's not. It's like a clown dying going to a circus.
Because someone's predicting a volcano and orcand will erupt. Hello

(01:00:53):
Sarah at the Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
Hello. I've got a handful of predictions.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Have you got five?

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
Have I kind of explained it quite well. You feel
quite comfortable with your predictions.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
Yep. The new men were too gorge for it doesn't open?

Speaker 7 (01:01:10):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
When's it predicted to open?

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
I'm not sure, but it doesn't open this year?

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Okay, so you might be a part of that, are
you not at all? Okay?

Speaker 7 (01:01:22):
Does it?

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
I'm just trying to work out when it does open.
It's not the gorge right either. It's over the top
a yes.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
If someone replacing the gorge, I don't know what it's called.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
I think I'm cut with called the Manawa too. Tara
Ua Highway to Ahuaturanga completion due for completion by the
middle of twenty twenty five. So your prediction is good
because it's supposed to open the middle of this year.
You're saying it's not going to open, So I'm happy
with that as a prediction. Thank you. Ye's good.

Speaker 7 (01:01:49):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:01:50):
Mike Costing leaves for b breakfast job.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
Well, where do you think you'll go?

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
I don't know, but I just just got this feeling.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
What's given you that feeling?

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
All these things the job for a while, and and
k talk has been let too part of the job
last year, So yeah, I think he'll leave yep.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
Middle of the year or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
Something.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
I think that was also predicted last year too. Obviously
didn't happen, but yeah, there we go. I'm not privy
to any just saying I'm not privy to any contract talk,
so I've gotten no discussions or no knowledge upon that.
So we'll put that down there, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
Yep, CDs might comeback.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
CDs yep. How will we judge whether that's true or not?

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
I'm not sure. Have a great increase in the sales?

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Okay, see should we say CD sails through the roof?

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
Okay, good, yep. Trump, maybe Mike Mike Hosking might open
a CD record shop, mightn't he?

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
And you multi terasing? Now Trump Canceil's future elections and
becomes a.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
Dictator Trump Cancel's future elections. Well, I guess we'll know
sooner if that happens. He's toy he's toyed with that prospect.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
I know he wants to be a dictator. I'm sure he.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Maybe wants to become a monarch.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
Or dynasty.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
Yes, yeah, okay, Trump Cancel's future elections.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
Yes, it becomes a dictator, and the other one has
been taken. Next, Prince William becomes king. Yes, yes, I
know all the rooms when I was looking at the worst,
because I've been looking on for a better week.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
What do you think is your best predictions for the
b breakfast job? I just wonder why he would Did
you predict last year? Did you predict the compulsory registration
of cats?

Speaker 7 (01:04:05):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
Yeah, did you predict Winston Peter dies?

Speaker 7 (01:04:12):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
I wouldn't have seen anybody died.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Okay, someone prected Winston Peters to dies or as disaber
and can't work?

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
Oh yeah, maybe that was me. I desire you have worked.
I'm not that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
No, okay, that's fine. No, that's fuinny. Anything goes. Oh,
keep in touch here and we'll let you know how
you go. And I guess too. If Trump becomes a dictator,
will certainly know about that. But thank you for that.
I'm just trying to look at who's the worst predictor. Yeah,

(01:04:50):
there were some pretty funny ones reading back over them.
Andrew Bailey will be promoted to minister inside cabinet. That
was someone's predictions, Jim, because someone could have really precked
what happened to Andrew Bailey making the loser sign with
his forehead and the fingers. Great prediction Alert. Someone Hans

(01:05:15):
has predicted that Donald Trump will be the first president
in space. I could see that happening. Donald Trump will
announce He'll be the first US president in space. I
will go to the moon. Markets Marcus good evening.

Speaker 16 (01:05:38):
Him, Marcus, how thank you, Mike. I only had a
couple of years practice it. This is the first time
I got one. I don't know how many you gave
me the last year, whether it's two or three. But
I predicted the iceberg would creator vortex.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Yes, did you predict an iceberg off New Zealand or
of vortex?

Speaker 7 (01:06:01):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:06:02):
The iceberg would move south, which apparently I found out
later as very rare and ended up over an undersea pinnacle,
and according to British scientists, created a giant vortex.

Speaker 5 (01:06:16):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Wow Wow.

Speaker 16 (01:06:23):
I also predicted the monkey pox, the.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
Brand new pandemic out of Africa.

Speaker 16 (01:06:29):
Yeah, and I even had the animal right where it
was sourced from. And I predicted that the Ukraine wooden aggressive.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
I've got your predictions slightly different. I've got a twenty
three agrounds near South America. Greats giant vourtex. Why t
Matar Harbor declared Eco disaster's own.

Speaker 5 (01:06:49):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
Trump jailed for contempt but free during riots.

Speaker 5 (01:06:54):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Remote contact made with aliens, Trump declares them illegals. It's
quite funny and brand new pandemic out of Africa to
do with monkey Yeah, yeah, monkey pox.

Speaker 16 (01:07:10):
It's either two or three I got so that's not
a we got you too.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
It's pretty good. It's pretty particularly with that giant vortex
when I like that one. Yeah, what are predictions? What
are predictions for the shar.

Speaker 16 (01:07:23):
Well, I'm even more out there now. Okay, the planet
will give a shudder. This is not an earthquake. It's
the whole planet will shudder. It will temporarily change magnetic north.
There may be earthquakes that come or tidal surgers come
from it. Who knows that the whole planet, and it

(01:07:46):
may only be detected by machines and scientists.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
What would cause it to shudder?

Speaker 16 (01:07:54):
Something wrong with the orbit?

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
Define wrong with the orbit because the orbit sentence. There
have to be some giant external gravitational force to do that,
wouldn't they?

Speaker 16 (01:08:04):
No, No, it has as a pattern of glitches in
its orbit over the millennium, and I think there's one
coming up, can.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
You sense okay, okay, good, thank you?

Speaker 7 (01:08:16):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
So yep, okay, A shudder shut o for the planet yep, yep.

Speaker 16 (01:08:21):
A novel cheap source of energy will be revealed in
New Zealand. I've got inside knowledge on this because I'm
working on something in the old shep.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
You have a discovered perpetual motion, have you?

Speaker 17 (01:08:34):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:08:35):
No, no, no, just a percentage of energy increase.

Speaker 6 (01:08:39):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
Okay, so novel new Are you going to be the inventor?

Speaker 16 (01:08:44):
Oh well, you know you need help when you're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
This, understand. Okay, good, thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:08:48):
Yep.

Speaker 16 (01:08:51):
There will be a major drop in the birth rate
of shore birds around the world bird flu not necessarily,
it could also be rising sea levels and the shudder
and the planet causing time.

Speaker 2 (01:09:08):
Okay, okay, that's up with a shutter of course. Okay,
major drop and rate of shore bird's birth rate.

Speaker 6 (01:09:16):
Yep.

Speaker 16 (01:09:17):
I'm seeing it on the beaches.

Speaker 6 (01:09:19):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
What island? North Island?

Speaker 16 (01:09:24):
Yeah yeah, yeah, prist to Auckland.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
I've been back a week and the seagulls haven't found
my car again, which is interesting because last year they
were on it most of the time. So I don't
know what's going on there, but i'll tell you what.
The couple of ducks outside two of the young lad
ten young. The two have grown up to adulthood, which
I'm happy about. But anyway, okay, how many more have
we got?

Speaker 16 (01:09:45):
We've got two more and undersea volcano forms me at
New Caledonia.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
Okay, that's a great one, thank you.

Speaker 16 (01:09:54):
The last one I don't want to say over the
year because it'll give people ideas, but I can say
it to your producer. It's quite shocking.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
So what can he do with it? Tell you later,
So you don't want people to copy it, or it's
to do with you don't want people.

Speaker 16 (01:10:17):
That's right. I don't want to be the wrong responsible
for this happening.

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
Ah okay, okay, well okay, well I'll share it with you.
We've got a secret prediction from Mike. Thank you, Mike.
You hold on. Dan'll talk to you and take your
secret prediction. Just that you know, in all the years
we've done this, it could be five years, it could
be ten years. It's the first time we've had a
secret prediction. And yeah, I think it's probably a good

(01:10:43):
thing that we've kept that prediction.

Speaker 5 (01:10:46):
Cover it up.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
Because you never quite know where those predictions are going
to go. So Jessic and Film, we have got a
secret prediction. I'm totally sure what to do with that one.
Scott Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:11:03):
Welcome back, Marcus, lost time, call us first time predictor.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Well, brilliant, lovely. Okay, that's good. That's it's new territory few.
How do you think you will go?

Speaker 6 (01:11:13):
Well, I don't know. I'd lie. Well, one of the
predictors is an a particularly happy one, so I should
probably hope that I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
Okay, So predictional alert, because you've got on a happy prediction,
like something catastrophic or someone well known dying.

Speaker 6 (01:11:30):
It's an I guess one one is happy and the
other is relating to sailed infrastructure.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
Okay, great, okay, let's have them in order please.

Speaker 6 (01:11:41):
First one, Taylor Swift will announce pregnancy.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Okay, great, it's a good thing. It's exciting for her
and exciting for us. They'll be an album out of that.
Great yep.

Speaker 6 (01:11:50):
And secondly, one of the cook straight theories will think wow.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
Wow, I don't know what, I don't know. I don't
know what to say about that. I came across on
the kar taking. I was quite impressed by it, although
you know, as soon as you get on the ferry,
the first thing announces the till's not working, then the
toilet's not working. So it does seem as though they
are at the end of their life. Okay, cook straight
fury to sync, thank you, yep.

Speaker 6 (01:12:19):
And that's it.

Speaker 7 (01:12:20):
Oh, this is it? Just the two.

Speaker 6 (01:12:24):
That's all I got.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
I don't want to no brilliant, brilliant Scott, that's good.
That's good. And with two that's brilliant. You don't need five.
It is the Prediction Show for twenty twenty five. Good evening,
all minamers, Marcus, welcome hit on midnight tonight. A slight
change in the Prediction Show this year. We're looking for
you've still got five goes, but we're looking for the

(01:12:47):
most exciting prediction that comes true. So if other people
already rung up and said Trump gets shot or abdicates,
or the queen and other queen's already gone. If something
happens like that but it's already been done, there's not
much point predicting that in Otherwise it becomes a but
same me, save me for people listening. So what new
and interesting prediction. I don't want to to. I don't
and turn this into a dreary thing by it's giving

(01:13:09):
you too many rules. But yes, what you are trying
to do is to come up through your creative genius
to predict the most unbrittable thing that's going to happen. Yeah,
someone said Michael Laws will become the mayor of Invercargol.

(01:13:30):
That's a pretty good prediction. Will it happen. It could
well happen. If it happened, would it be surprised? Would
you be surprised? But yes you would if someone pricked
this from this early in the year to very good prediction.
So that's what we're about tonight. You've got five chances

(01:13:53):
to ring through. If you've got five predictions, so cover
the field. You can text them through as well. There's
will be some great ones coming through on the texts
ill with the Phoenix. It's still one nil against them.

(01:14:29):
Louise's two predictions Harry and Meghan to separate, Nicol Willis
to become New Zealand's Prime Minister Marcus did you or
was a list of brick last year that Jimmy Carter
would die at aged one hundred. It did happen. I

(01:14:51):
don't think there's anything surprised about something that one hundred dying, though,
I guess it's probably the least surprising thing if you
could say that, Paul, it's Marcus. Welcome, good evening, evening night.

Speaker 7 (01:15:01):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
Thank you, Paul.

Speaker 15 (01:15:04):
Nice to hear you bag, thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:15:08):
Hey.

Speaker 15 (01:15:08):
Look, I failed on all my predictions. I can tell
you what they were, because you're going to cross examine
me anyway. I said Trump will lose. He didn't. Your
Blacks would win every game, and they didn't. There was
two earthquakes over seven points I think point that didn't happen.

(01:15:29):
Labor leader is still there, and constant floads in Auckland,
Well that hasn't happened.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
No, the year before that was the year before was
the floody one for Auban, wasn't it?

Speaker 7 (01:15:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
I can still I thought there'd be two quakes over
seven What was the biggest quake last year?

Speaker 15 (01:15:47):
You said seven point five? I think did I think?

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
Did I make you put a figure on it?

Speaker 17 (01:15:55):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:15:55):
You said seven point five because because it's just an
obvious thing that's going to happen at some stage. So yeah,
I just failed at that, but I'm back.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
You don't but you said, hang on, so whether you
did you bring up and say there'd be an earthquake,
a big earthquake, and I said it's got to be
ser earthquake and I said that to be seven point
five to count. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just looking back
at the earthquakes from last year.

Speaker 15 (01:16:27):
I think the biggest one was like.

Speaker 7 (01:16:30):
Like five, So where was it?

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
No, there was none. It's interesting looking back in it
because there was there was a big one in twenty twenty.
There was five big ones. In twenty twenty one there
was a six point six, and twenty twenty two three
over six, and twenty twenty three. And I can't see
any in twenty twenty four, mind you. Maybe the Wikipedia

(01:16:54):
hasn't been updated, but it seems though there was no
big quakes last year, which is none on journey, which
means probably the big one's due.

Speaker 15 (01:17:04):
I think I've got mess. Anyway, let's try again.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
Five point seven was five point seven was the biggest
last year, which is unusually unusually calm?

Speaker 15 (01:17:15):
Yeah, true, yeah, okay, anyway, I'll start with her. So
I've gone a bit left field. Talpo blows up.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
Okay, wow, yep, Prince.

Speaker 15 (01:17:30):
Andrew gets a Saturdinay assassinated.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
Well, you're really going with the big stuff okay, yep, No.

Speaker 15 (01:17:36):
I've been thinking about it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
Why would someone why would someone assassinate him?

Speaker 15 (01:17:43):
I think he's a mark?

Speaker 7 (01:17:45):
What I don't?

Speaker 15 (01:17:47):
I don't really think he's a very nice person at all.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
No, but there's other nice people that people don't think
they've got to assassinate. He's kind of irrelevant now, but
he'll put that down. Okay, did you say he's relevant?
Did you think you think he's a muppet?

Speaker 7 (01:18:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
Okay, nice choice of word.

Speaker 15 (01:18:04):
Sorry, Hipkins. I still think he resigns because I don't
think I can win the next election. Okay, Wellington will
have a big earthquake, and you're really.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Into your disasters, aren't you. Andrew gets shot, Hipkins leaves,
and then Welling there's a messive quake.

Speaker 15 (01:18:29):
It's going to be a good year. And I didn't
call it rocket lamb, but I thought of a rocket
that just keeps lost, just keeps going wow, and they
can't find it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
Okay, so rocket breaks free and they lose it.

Speaker 15 (01:18:50):
Yep, it just keeps going.

Speaker 6 (01:18:53):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
I like the sounds of that maybe some foreign body
might take over the control of it.

Speaker 15 (01:19:01):
That's what I'm thinking. And and further to that, I
think the banks globally go down.

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
Well, you've got a cheery kind of forecast, haven't you.

Speaker 15 (01:19:12):
Yeah, I know, but you know, I hope it's going
to be a good year. But and there's certain things
that will be good now, but.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
Predicted, predict the worst, hope for the best.

Speaker 15 (01:19:25):
Yeah, one hundred markers and everyone's going to be happy.
Everyone's going to be fine.

Speaker 5 (01:19:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
Okay, Wellington blows top or blows banks, crash at Prince
Andrews shot and the upbeat well, what was the upbeat one?
He had one of the Hepkins resigns as well. Okay,
oh no, I like it, Paul, thank you. Someone's texted.

(01:19:58):
Tom Phillips will hand himself and he won't be jailed.
He will publish a book about the last two years
and also open a restaurant that sues wild bush food.
Very good prediction, Very good prediction. Number two. Trump will
visit in Zidi as a bungee jumping into himself. Plus
his hair piece falls obviously hits the water. As punishment

(01:20:19):
increases in shipping tariffs, we start importing more from Russia,
give us the name numbering in ninety six. They're good.
Good predictions. Mighty Marcus, Oasis disband and Trump goes ballistic.
Adam Marcus, good evening, Good, Adam, thank you.

Speaker 18 (01:20:40):
I got three predictions. I think Elon Musk is going
to drop the number one Space one of the world men.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
He's no longer going to be the world's witches man.

Speaker 11 (01:20:53):
No, I don't think.

Speaker 7 (01:20:54):
I don't think you'll be.

Speaker 5 (01:20:56):
Okay.

Speaker 18 (01:20:57):
I think I think that that we do to Tesla
taking a four. I also say that I can't remember
my other I think there's going to be a bowvine
outbreak in the UK and in Europe, leading New Zealand's

(01:21:20):
dairy prices to skyrocket. And I believe that it's like.

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
Some sort of count disease like foot and mouth or something.

Speaker 6 (01:21:27):
Is that what you mean?

Speaker 13 (01:21:27):
Yeah, yeah, something like that.

Speaker 18 (01:21:29):
That they're going to PRIs dairy, dairy and meat industry
around cows and that which lead New Zealand, being so
far away, to lead our industry to actually increase. And
I think that China will have the highest GDP.

Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
Wow are they far away?

Speaker 18 (01:21:54):
I'm I'm not too sure. I think that they are
quite a way away, but I mean, like compared to America.

Speaker 2 (01:22:01):
But so it's not per person as a total, right.

Speaker 7 (01:22:07):
Yeah, as a total.

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
Okay, so you UIs is number one and China's number two.
Your predictions for twenty twenty five best prediction wins. You've
got five chances, so we want them to be interesting
rather than just something about products getting shot or not winning.
I'm very good there. I keep them coming. There's some
belly laughs, as there should be. This is how the

(01:22:38):
breaking news. I'll bring that to heavy rain and north
and really heavy rain. By the way, a lot of
people are reporting that Megan markl and Prince Harry are
distressed after brutal tech takedown by Vanity Fear. I read
that article. I think it was too bad. I don't
believe everything you read. Anyway, getting touch here till midnight tonight.

(01:23:01):
My name is Marcus. Welcome good evening, Nick.

Speaker 13 (01:23:05):
Hello, Marcus, welcome back man.

Speaker 2 (01:23:08):
Oh thank you Nick. Nice to be back.

Speaker 18 (01:23:11):
Yeah, I am.

Speaker 13 (01:23:13):
Speaking of coming back. I just got back two days
ago from the first time going up there the Cuddy
Cuddy Peninsula. Sounds sounds like I got back in just
in time.

Speaker 2 (01:23:24):
Were you camping.

Speaker 13 (01:23:26):
Yes, yeah, I say yes, I'm going to be honest
of airb and being and a little well look at you.
Oh now, now I've got a four month old baby,
so things have changed.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
Did you say it was the container?

Speaker 17 (01:23:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:23:43):
Yeah, Well you know how people are doing. Farmers are
lands lands worth more than dairy now, so they're all
converting to cool nbav's up there?

Speaker 2 (01:23:52):
What Matti Bay on the other side.

Speaker 13 (01:23:57):
Yeah, Mattie White, Cuttle Bay area.

Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
It's while it sounds sounds beautiful.

Speaker 7 (01:24:05):
Oh so good.

Speaker 13 (01:24:06):
So I'm ringing up with my predictions.

Speaker 5 (01:24:09):
Yes.

Speaker 13 (01:24:10):
My first one is that they're going to stop the
manufacture of wind turbines globally.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
Wow, good luck with that. Okay, next are you saying
are you saying because they kill birds or because Trump
doesn't understand them or why? What's your reasoning?

Speaker 13 (01:24:32):
Not recyclable, not reusable? Yeah, it's just people think it's
clean energy, but it is for now until it's the
next generations, you know, problem to deal with?

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
This sounds like this sounds more like a talk back
called it a prediction. Okay, So wind turbine manufacturer to stop.

Speaker 13 (01:24:51):
Yes, A major New Zealand volcano.

Speaker 2 (01:24:55):
Eruption Okay, any ideas.

Speaker 13 (01:25:03):
Before my player was born, I would have said Taranaki
because they'll be sick to watch. But now it's somewhere
far away. Let's go now one of those, one of
the random Auckland ones. Yeah. My third one is a
new light bulb is going to be invented in terms

(01:25:26):
of not LEDs the next whatever that. You know, it's
not up to me to invent a production.

Speaker 2 (01:25:31):
I wonder, how, well, know a big light bulb we
invented and suddenly take off over the world. Probably could
go that way, couldn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:25:39):
Hey watch the space?

Speaker 17 (01:25:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:25:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:25:43):
My fourth is New Zealand Textiles go Global.

Speaker 7 (01:25:49):
Well a text up.

Speaker 13 (01:25:50):
Probably flax comes back global as a major, major production,
and you know the uses you have, it's pretty much
like HEMP. But yeah, that's my fourth one, you Ylla
in Textiles Global. And my fifth one pretty much a

(01:26:11):
numbers game. Cameroon gets its new leader since it hasn't
had a new letter since nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 2 (01:26:19):
Is a dictator a monocule?

Speaker 7 (01:26:21):
What is it?

Speaker 13 (01:26:23):
No, it's I think he's presidential Prime Minister Paul Bayer.
He's got to be like one hundred now. Is a
mcgarby kind of thing. I think he's a nice mcgarby.
There is a thing he's still in power. Paul Bayer,

(01:26:43):
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:26:44):
What you're right about the Yeah, nineteen eighty two to
the is born in nineteen thirty three is ninety one.

Speaker 13 (01:26:59):
Oh yeah, so that's my fifth one. I think Cameroon's
going to get its first new letter since nineteen seventy two.

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
Great, predict Great have you been to Cameroon? No, I
just like random facts, has a baby kept you awake
in the container? You all about the flex and Cameroon
and light bulbs. It's been a busy night.

Speaker 17 (01:27:19):
No.

Speaker 13 (01:27:20):
I come from generations of pictures with random facts. Oh okay,
I'd like to think outside of the square. Welcome back, Marcus,
and I hope you have an awesomn year.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
Nice to hear from you, Nick, Thank you, Sandra, Marcus,
welcome Hi Sandra.

Speaker 8 (01:27:34):
Oh, welcome back Marcus. You great to have you back.

Speaker 7 (01:27:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:27:41):
Now I've got four China expands in the Pacific to
another base. It's Geary number two. Live exports face with
public opposition and they will not start or only go
for a short time.

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
Tell me that one again, because I'm having trouble understanding
that no exports exports of sorry, yep, okay, okay.

Speaker 8 (01:28:17):
Three large asteroid dangerously goes dangerously close to Earth?

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
But missus, how close? Is dangerously close?

Speaker 8 (01:28:30):
Nearly in our atmosphere?

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
Okay? Wow, this is close? Okay, what's happens? The live
life exports will continue then get stopped. Is that what
you're saying?

Speaker 8 (01:28:40):
Yeah, yeah, they may go have they may start them,
but they'll only go for a very short time because
of public opposition. Volcanic activity around Taupo region.

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
Be a bit more specific. It's going to blow. You're
just saying, not quite right.

Speaker 8 (01:29:11):
Well, I don't want to be the skiwed.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Okay seriously, but yeah okay, yep, okay, okay.

Speaker 8 (01:29:21):
Well Copo is going.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
To blow, sure, okay, type to blow?

Speaker 7 (01:29:24):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (01:29:26):
Yeah, and that's it, Thank goodness.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
Okay, okay. And when you say China is going to
open another base in this Pacific? Have they got a
base already? Have they that we acknowledge?

Speaker 8 (01:29:40):
Well, they've got a ship heaven may based in. Is
it the Cook Islands or is it it's not. I
think it's the Cock Islands.

Speaker 5 (01:29:53):
It's I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
I try and stay clear.

Speaker 7 (01:29:56):
Of the.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
I try and stay clear of the.

Speaker 8 (01:30:01):
Someone may correct me on that.

Speaker 12 (01:30:03):
But they've got a.

Speaker 8 (01:30:06):
Green meant to have a shipping base there, military ship,
and I can see them wanting to expand in the Pacific.

Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
Okay, I'll live with this sound of it. Thank you
your prediction. I'll tell you what. Our predictions have got
much more negative. That might be a sign of the
times that people are more downward thinking. But your predictions
for twenty twenty five, I am looking forward to them.
How do you remember to say? Twenty twenty five? Isn't it?

(01:30:43):
Although in every worry about running out checks because we
don't run out chicks anymore. I guess some countries still
have checks, do they.

Speaker 5 (01:30:54):
Not us? Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:30:55):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (01:30:55):
Talent eight sharky Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:30:57):
Welcome, gooday Marcus, good heavy bed. My first two predictions
to do with overseas. First one is your mate seventeen
will be found.

Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
What did you say you.

Speaker 11 (01:31:14):
Three seventy or whatever it is. It will be found
and the voice cockpit recorder will reveal.

Speaker 7 (01:31:23):
That it was a failed high kicking wow.

Speaker 11 (01:31:29):
And Kim Jong un will have a medical event, a
stroke possibly, and that will render him unable to carry
on ruling North Korea and his sister will be appointed
as the leader.

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
You're not unlikely because he's a heavy smoker and she's
kind of you. Okay, I understand that happening.

Speaker 11 (01:31:54):
Yep, yep. And here in New Zealand, a well known
New Zealand entertainer will die in a car accident in
the in Queensland and everybody will be absolutely saddened. And
the there will be a earthquake, but I'm predicting the

(01:32:18):
earthquake is going to be on the East coast and
it's going to be around the edge area. And the
last one is, now, what did I think it was?
That the New Zealand dollar will drop, it will flatline.

Speaker 2 (01:32:39):
Okay, give us some again because sometimes you hear me
stuck on. What was your first one?

Speaker 11 (01:32:45):
The first one was the plane will be found and
the voice the voice crop was Kim Jong yep. And
the third one was a well known New Zealand entertainer
will die in a motor vehicle eccellent in Queensland.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
And how well how well known?

Speaker 11 (01:33:05):
Oh, very well known, one, very well known, and it
will be a shock. And the next one was the
earthquake thing was going to be in there are plenty
in the each communrea and it could be something to

(01:33:26):
do with white iron. And the last one was that
the New Zealand.

Speaker 7 (01:33:34):
The value of the New.

Speaker 11 (01:33:34):
Zealand dollar will drop dramatically and almost flat.

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
It feels like sex predictions. It's five or sex five? Okay?
One who the entertained?

Speaker 11 (01:33:46):
Why in Queensland, because that's where they are going to
be promoting what they were doing at that time.

Speaker 2 (01:33:57):
Have you got someone in mind?

Speaker 11 (01:34:00):
I'm not going to say yeah I have, but I'm
not going to say because you know, I want to
see that if that prediction becomes real.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
Do you know they're a bad driver, They're not driving
the vehicle. Can you tell my producer off here who
it is. I won't mention it on here, okay, Oh.

Speaker 11 (01:34:20):
No, I'm not going to. I'm not even going to
mention the name. But but we'll see what happens by
this time next year.

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
If a well known does die queens And, will you
ring and let me know if it's the one you
had imagined.

Speaker 11 (01:34:32):
If there happens, I will, I will. I will ring
you on that day and say, well exactly what I thought.

Speaker 2 (01:34:38):
Okay, brilliant. When will they know who's Turing, Queensland. Have
I come up with mine yet? I've got ten, so there,
I come up with them throughout the year. Have I

(01:35:05):
got k see he's going to become organic, go free range? Okay,
I'm going to had that last year. I just don't
know what mine are. Mine are Round the Bays canceled,

(01:35:31):
Luxeon seen and crocs. Pablo the Russell mccare is found,
Coronation Street, will end proof on Earth that Freemason's built
the pyramid just to bring in the conspiracy. Conspiratorial types,

(01:35:55):
Pacific garbage patch catches fire, that's the Guya. Trump wins
Nobel Peace Prize, Spice Girls, Very Hatchet, reuniteful Global Tour.
I forget why they fell apart. I was reading about

(01:36:16):
that last year. Dick van Dyke Lives. We're talking about
your predictions for twenty twenty five, what you think is
going to happen. But bearing in mind a lot of
the predictions about earthquakes and assassinations have already been taken.

(01:36:39):
I'm looking for new and original predictions of what you
think will happen in twenty twenty five. You can text
those through email, and you can phone them through if
you can phone them through your allowed five predictions. You
don't need five, but some people like to prevaricate, so

(01:37:00):
get in touch. You also might have an update for
the weather in Northland. This is good predictions from Yoda
because they're quite specific. Luxe enrolled by Mark Mitchell. Internet
goes dark for forty eight hours. Worst recession since the thirties.

(01:37:24):
That means it's the worst of all time apart from
the nineteen twenty nine one warehouse closes by June. Massive
power cuts cripple the country. I have two predictions for
twenty twenty five. And Oblisk will be discovering us in
creating scams and superstitious groupies. And one of our largest

(01:37:45):
volcanoes will collapse, causing countrywide panic and sparking a blame game,
but will inadvertently under unearth a remarkable discovery that will
change New Zealand's historical timeline. He's a lively one. Trump

(01:38:06):
will become a major shareholder of TikTok. Putin agrees to
fight Tyson Fury. Gloria veiled a host's Next World Dart
Championship retirement village scandal breaks out at Sherlock Holmes. What
is Sherlock Holmes. Someone's prit en Z breakers to finish

(01:38:33):
last and Pope Francis to die. By the way, someone's
printed the dessert pie will win the Bakel's Pie Awards.
I don't know if that's happened before. I think it
might have.

Speaker 5 (01:38:45):
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:38:49):
Vans and Tiawa Mutu might have won the Pie Award
with a apple pie. I was really pleased to go
past them on the bus or the second bus after
the first pass broke down. Yeah, they won the Bagel's
Pie Award, I think, and I think it was an

(01:39:12):
apple pie twenty seventeen. No, they won three awards, but
over they won the Best Award with the steak one.
I'll fact check that. Oh, they had a gingered pear
and peach and pear pie with quantro that won it.

(01:39:37):
I'll check that, JT. I'm looking forward to this. It's Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:39:40):
Welcome, good evening, hallelujah, and welcome back.

Speaker 2 (01:39:45):
Thank you, JT.

Speaker 17 (01:39:47):
That call about an hour and a half ago, Simon.
I've got some worries about that boy. He was the
time he rings in, he sounds totally stoned.

Speaker 2 (01:39:57):
Oh okay, yes, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, okay, I'm hearing you.

Speaker 17 (01:40:02):
He rings in and he can hardly string of sentence together.
He seems to do it on a regular basis.

Speaker 2 (01:40:08):
And yeah, well yeah, okay, yeah, fair enough.

Speaker 17 (01:40:13):
His predictions were completely out of this world as well.

Speaker 2 (01:40:16):
Well, he just wants his teeth fixed, which is fair enough.

Speaker 7 (01:40:21):
Have you got.

Speaker 17 (01:40:23):
Of the show?

Speaker 2 (01:40:24):
No, it's not the purpose of the show, that's right.
Have you got some.

Speaker 7 (01:40:28):
Yes?

Speaker 15 (01:40:28):
Five?

Speaker 17 (01:40:29):
First one, Costco announced as the christ Church store.

Speaker 2 (01:40:34):
Where are Where was it going to be? There was
talk of Lincoln or something, was there.

Speaker 17 (01:40:39):
Rollingston? But yeah, I think it'll be somewhere close to
christ Church.

Speaker 2 (01:40:43):
I don't think they put in Rollston, they'd be crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:40:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:40:48):
Number two I failed to convince you want to take
me to Costco. It was going to be my great thing.
So that was unfortunate. But anyway, okay, Costco South Island.

Speaker 7 (01:40:56):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
Number two.

Speaker 17 (01:40:58):
Government halts the school lunches program.

Speaker 2 (01:41:02):
Good prediction. I can see it happening. That's that's too
expensive and we can unafford it.

Speaker 17 (01:41:09):
Yeah, they're all pinching and meals transported from Hamilton nationwide.
Number three socker Papa Skifield doesn't open because they don't
get any snow.

Speaker 2 (01:41:21):
Or winter because it kind of work. This ship came late,
didn't it. But it did happen.

Speaker 7 (01:41:24):
Yep.

Speaker 17 (01:41:26):
Yeah, they got it like two thirds of the way
through the season. They got about a meter over about
five days.

Speaker 7 (01:41:31):
Yep.

Speaker 17 (01:41:32):
Number four Silverfern Farms takeover Alliance Meat Company.

Speaker 2 (01:41:37):
Can you tell me a bit about that?

Speaker 17 (01:41:40):
You know, the freezing where it's company from South when
they're struggling, they'll probably merge with Silver Fern Farms.

Speaker 2 (01:41:47):
Okay, that doesn't see Yeah, Okay, that makes sense, doesn't it.

Speaker 17 (01:41:52):
And number five Chris Lux and What's wife gets her
own TV show?

Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
Cheapers doing what.

Speaker 17 (01:42:03):
It'll probably be something to do with property or something
like that.

Speaker 2 (01:42:07):
Have you got have you heard rumors?

Speaker 17 (01:42:10):
No, she likes to put herself out there, so does she.

Speaker 2 (01:42:23):
I've seen her in the magazines. I haven't known how
much that she's got. I think she likes to dance.
Is there is a dance background?

Speaker 7 (01:42:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:42:31):
You might be right, Just there's a side I wouldn't
I wouldn't mind. I think, OK, have my announce opening
one and Lincoln.

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
Oh really, there's no prediction.

Speaker 7 (01:42:45):
That's not a prediction, is it.

Speaker 17 (01:42:48):
No, that's just that's just by the bye.

Speaker 2 (01:42:52):
Because you're really quite good on the fast food stuff.
I thought you'd have an entrone and fiery prediction.

Speaker 17 (01:43:00):
No, No, I noticed the government's scaling back the navy,
though I won't. One of my predictions was going to
one of my predictions, they're not going to replace a man.
One of my predictions was going to be the Judeph
Collins has lost at sea. You remember that, the Aussie
prime minister that was lost.

Speaker 7 (01:43:19):
In the cerf What happened?

Speaker 2 (01:43:21):
Whatever happened with that?

Speaker 17 (01:43:24):
Yeah, they never found his body.

Speaker 2 (01:43:26):
But it was not skullduggery, was it? But was always
suspicion about it.

Speaker 17 (01:43:29):
It's just the sea.

Speaker 2 (01:43:32):
It's I like to swim though.

Speaker 17 (01:43:35):
What was his name, Harold Holt. It seems unbelievable that
you could lose the prime minister.

Speaker 2 (01:43:41):
Yeah, some of these mind you we lost, We lost
for seventy but he was swimming. It was it was
in Melbourne, wasn't it.

Speaker 17 (01:43:51):
Yeah, on that south coast of south of Geelong there,
I think it was.

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
I have watched that. Have you watched that? I've watched
that on that show Hunted where they get always en
up in Geelong? You've watched Hunted? No bad show? Actually,
I quite enjoyed it. Okay, JT. Thank you that they're
good predictions. Harold Hold, I've forgotten about that just disappeared.

(01:44:17):
Bingley Bay on Port Sea convinced the group to stop
at a remote beach for swim before lunch knew the
beach like the back of his hand, rough conditions, got
caught in a rip. It's been quite a bit of

(01:44:39):
time with the holidays at Piha. Terrible weather, terrible weather.
In fact, there was a lot of those west coast beaches,
Carrie carry pieh that there was. You know, you got
to hand it to them, those if life savers were
all out there and all with with just no one
swimming up from the south west, crazy waves like knowing

(01:45:04):
much at the beach. For goodness sake, someone's pretting the
first arrival of illegal boat people. Prison will be burnt
down and Elon Musk will visit ar Tierroa. Someone says,
Lydia Coe will have a baby and the Kiwi burger

(01:45:27):
will become a regular at macas Do I think I've
had a Kiwi burger? Your predictions for twenty twenty five
as many as you like, as long as there's no
more than five. It's the best prediction that wins, that
becomes true. Yeah, it's not about playing the percentage game.

(01:45:54):
That's my take on this one. Market's Marcus welcome, thanks
for calling. Good evening, Marcus are good. Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:46:00):
Mark right.

Speaker 9 (01:46:02):
My first prediction is that Marcus flush become mayor of
him the cargo this year.

Speaker 2 (01:46:07):
That won't happened, but thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:46:08):
Yes, okay. The second one is the two stuck astronauts
on the space station will be there at least a year,
possibly until twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:46:18):
Okay. I haven't followed that. How long they've been there.

Speaker 9 (01:46:22):
It'll be Dune will be a year. And there hasn't
been an update for a while on what's happening.

Speaker 2 (01:46:29):
Were they stuck?

Speaker 9 (01:46:32):
I just think they gooing were unsure about the reliability
of the craft to get them back down, Okay, And
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:46:40):
Think that's right.

Speaker 9 (01:46:40):
That's rights to get something up there.

Speaker 2 (01:46:47):
They can be recovered, can they?

Speaker 9 (01:46:50):
They can? But I think it's a matter of probably funding,
and I think a lot of the attentions of all
the other space industry is more commercial other priorities in
space station.

Speaker 2 (01:47:05):
Space space SpaceX is working on it, I think, is
that right?

Speaker 9 (01:47:10):
Possibly?

Speaker 2 (01:47:11):
But yeah, Okay, so what's your prediction. Yeah, your predictions
that they'll stay up for how long?

Speaker 9 (01:47:22):
I think at least a year?

Speaker 2 (01:47:23):
Okay, it's good prediction, twenty.

Speaker 9 (01:47:26):
Six, but at least a year. The third one is
the biggest bit of space space debris that we've seen
will hit New Zealand.

Speaker 14 (01:47:33):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (01:47:34):
Wow, So that could be asteroid or man made.

Speaker 2 (01:47:38):
That's the biggest bit that's ever hit an area in
the world, or the biggest bit that hits New Zealand.
WI hit New Zealand for.

Speaker 9 (01:47:45):
New Zealand yet okay, which would still be a big
But anyway, there.

Speaker 2 (01:47:51):
Haven't been many meteorites. It's like about nine or it's
not very many at all.

Speaker 9 (01:47:56):
I think it'll probably be more man made because it
is getting quite cluttered, quite clud about the air and
all the you know, all the precision went to where
they've put them up in the grid where everything goes.
It's getting quite quite clouded up there. The fourth one
is that there'll be a wrong for death caused by

(01:48:18):
a robotic worker helper in the home rest home or
service industry. So like for a customer or employed from employers,
a robotic worker.

Speaker 2 (01:48:27):
Are there robotic workers out there?

Speaker 9 (01:48:29):
Now, yeah, there is, yeah, in rest homes in New Zealand. No,
mainly in Japan from Asian countries, so I think some
in European countries they go around dispensing pills and doing
stuff like that. Also in restaurants, they're quite popular overstays.

Speaker 2 (01:48:47):
And they're not walking. They look like sort of androids
on wheels, are they.

Speaker 9 (01:48:51):
Yeah, they're kind of on wheels and that. But they're
also got android robotic concubines now modern the small sense,
but you know what I mean, very real speak.

Speaker 7 (01:49:07):
Okay, So I think.

Speaker 9 (01:49:08):
There'll be something going wrong there. And my last prediction
is someone will come out a human being. They'll they'll
be dumped by the AI chat lover or partner for
being incompatible.

Speaker 2 (01:49:26):
So the AI chat partner will do the dumping.

Speaker 9 (01:49:29):
We'll do the dumping. That's quite popular overseas now.

Speaker 2 (01:49:35):
But it's just a program. It's not it's not a robot.
It's just a program that talks to them.

Speaker 9 (01:49:40):
It's an editor, and they kind of learn as they go,
and they learn about the person that they're in the
relationship with, and they you know what I mean, like
you know, AI keeps learning.

Speaker 11 (01:49:50):
I'm quite unpopular.

Speaker 2 (01:49:52):
I'm sick of and nonsense. Probably I can say, yeah,
they had enough, but.

Speaker 9 (01:50:01):
What have had enough here? Because you know obviously yeah, yeah,
I just think they'll probably just think the give us
and pull the plate.

Speaker 2 (01:50:10):
It's a very futuristic prediction. Run through them again to
make sure I've got them all right, Mayor of the Matago, yep,
So restat it's stuck.

Speaker 9 (01:50:22):
Yeah, big, it's got a space. Their boring at New
Zealand yep. Wrong for death by a rabbetic robotic worker yep,
and the human becomes a mark.

Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
Appreciate the thought you've put in those ere excellent. Yeah,
I've said I won't run for I started run once
and that was it. So I'll treat my word on that.
I won't be running again with it. But thank you
you went to know that. So the predictions, and yeah,
perhaps more serious predictions this year than other years. Then
we might be able to tell something from that and
the fact the world has suddenly got more serious? Would
that be right? Maybe we're in for a serious year.

(01:50:56):
Maybe we're not. We hope not. However, have you got
some predictions to make for twenty twenty five? I have
no trouble saying twenty twenty five. It feels like it
is twenty twenty five. Get in touch. Also looking for
weather reports from the Far North been free Wit predictions

(01:51:16):
for twenty twenty five. Shortland Street will end. I think
I've predicted that myself. Coronation Street will end. I've that
myself too, King Charles will die or stand down. I
guess I'm looking for ones that are newer. Marcus My
predictions for twenty twenty five. Mount Taranaki claims the lives

(01:51:37):
of three climbers and one in the group of four survives.
What a very good time in Tallanaki. When I was
in the holidays on the bus trip, extremely good. Managed
to finally enjoy the wonders of the buffet at Marbles

(01:51:58):
New Plymouth Institution. Vanessa had gone tramping with some girlfriends.
I had the kids as well, so that was just fantastic.
No mean, nothing like the kids in a buffet. But
like all of Taalanaki was there. By the way, a

(01:52:20):
runner involved in running terror a trail has been attacked
by wild dogs. It always seems to be a problem
in the Far North of the wild dogs. So yeah,

(01:52:43):
and it's something they don't often. Well, they've never managed
to resolve. This was a big headline last year as
well was the wild Dogs of the North and also
Auckland and Corimandel in the firing line for the storm
early tomorrow. Let me just check this endz into update

(01:53:07):
on the road near the fudge farm. I don't believe
the fudge farm is probably still there, is it. I'll
just bringing up the details now for you people. I'm
not there's no longer alert, so I presume that. I

(01:53:29):
mean the exit was earlier on so they managed to
have cleared that away, I think. But there are rain
warnings for the north also, so just check you with
Apparently someone text earlier had been at the campground at
Puddity Bay south of Bland Bay and they said they
had two days of rain and the forecast from all

(01:53:51):
they're out of it. I think there's probably a limit
to two days to camping in the rain with kids.
But yes, our five weeks away we didn't come across rain.
And by the way, when I say five weeks away,
I worked the first week. I just broadcast from Auckland.
That's the way that worked for me. So it spent
most of the last three days getting the lowns mode

(01:54:14):
not helped by an electric mower that takes an hour
to charge. Man gives me a chance to watch TV
in that hour, but still it is a problem. I'm
thinking of going a robotic not myself, but with the mother.

Speaker 1 (01:54:31):
For more from Marcus slash Nights, listen live to News
Talks thet B from eight pm weekdays, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio.