Rested on the laurel of the lolly (22 October 2024)

A dentist wants Air NZ to ditch the lollies because they're not good for our teeth. Marcus wants them gone for a totally different reason.

And where are we at with greyhound racing?

LISTEN ABOVE 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
I was seated early with my coffee listening to the
news and there was that Tony story about the Royal
tour and the walk about in Australia and they said
some people had made their own crowns, and I thought, wow,
I'm a long way from being that person. If you

(00:34):
wanted to talk about my answer to the Royal family
and say would you make a crown? No, I wandered, wow,
making your own crowns? Anyway, So that's that. I think
we've dodged a bullet with them not getting them here.
I think it's been a very very good thing. Anyway.
I don't want to have a discussion tonight about the

(00:55):
royals pro or anty, but anyway, welcome wallaby sightings. That's
important tonight. It's been a while since we've seen one,
but such gorgeous weather down south is that kind of
whether I expect people might be out and about and
later on tonight at dust people might see wallabies beyond
their natural range. Let us know if you've seen them.
It's one of the important things of the show. We're

(01:19):
pro vigilance on Wallabies. So if you've got something that
you've seen or any other breaking news between now and twelve,
let us know where that breaking users anything goes. Basically,
I'll do the same at you. Also, I'll be finding
out news stories and bringing them to you. So if
you keept it, if you keep tuning for the next
three hours fifty three minutes, you won't miss anything. You'll

(01:44):
know what's going on in the world. But help me
out with that. What if you see anything and gosh lo,
what happened last night with kind of incidents and all
sorts of stuff. By the way, let me know how
Walkland's going to I think there was something happened on
the motorway an hour or two ago that looked terrible,
but I think probably now it seems to have resolved itself.
Do you've got breaking news about traffic or anything that do?
Let us know it's important to us get in touch.

(02:06):
Wh oh eight hundred and eighty Taddy and nine two
nine two to text anything goes. If you want to
set the agenda to night, you are more than welcome.
I hate to say it because I'm not that sort
of person. However, I've seen Christmas decorations out and about today. Ahem, yep,
And I think that's kind of a cheek to confuse

(02:26):
Halloween with Christmas and chuck the ball on the shelves.
But bearing in mind some people say the traditional day,
the traditional time to put up Christmas trees is Labor weekend.
Is that true? It seems very early for me to me,
you might want to let me know about that. Would
you buy one? I don't know. I don't even know

(02:47):
how the live tree shops, what time they open. There's
only two things I know about Christmas trees. One is
there was a really good episode on The Simpsons when
they get to get a Christmas tree. It's a touch
down for a lot of the things that happen in
our lives. The other thing is that, of course Taylor

(03:07):
Swift's family used to own a Christmas tree I want
to say forest, but that's not that. That's a Christmas
fee farm. So that was her childhood. There you go, figure.
I don't know that she's actually writteny songs about the
Christmas tree farm when they had it. And that's probably

(03:30):
the only fact I know about Taylor Swift. Apart from
this fact, there was one time that her and her
friends wanted to go to the mall when she's about twelve,
and they rang up, said they've decided not to go,
so her mother took her to the mall to avoid
the disappointment. And they went to the mall and they
saw all and they saw all the friends, and that

(03:53):
was a moment for Taylor Swift. I'm not quit sure
what sort of a moment, but she's never the same again.
Or maybe she was the same again, but maybe she
looked at live differently from then on. Anyway, ten past eight.
My name is Marcus Hittle, twelve o'clock. So there all
the other topics that pop up throughout the next course
of the three hours fifty two minutes, and you are
more than welcome to talk about anything. You can call,
text or call, text or email. The first thing I

(04:20):
want to mention, apart for everything I've already mentioned, get
it Air New Zealand. Yeah, and there's all sorts of
reasons we can criticize and talk about Air New Zealand. However,
there is a brand new reason and it's a good reason.

(04:43):
At a Needin based dental awareness startup has questioned whether
it's responsible for Air New Zealand to hand out lollies
on flights, claiming they could be contributing to the concerning
state of Kiwi's teeth. You will have an opinion on this.
You might want to ring up and say things like

(05:03):
go go broke, PC gone made sugar police, what next?
You can say all the you can say all those things. However,
I just want to say, and I'm desperate to hear
your opinions on this. I never know how to phrase

(05:28):
what I'm going to say. I think that the significance
of the lollies to air New Zealand has become too big.
I mean, for God's sake, they are the world's most unexciting,
boring lollies you've ever tried in your life, and they've

(05:53):
sworn around and they hold them over you. They send
kids down the aisles with all the kids, let's get
a kid or you go down like they're holding the
Crown jewels. I'm sick of the sweets. If I was
running in New Zealand, how come they've never developed their
own sweets like a Fijoa flavor, a Kiwi fruit flavor,

(06:16):
something a manukah and think capit the ice cream go
on with some really amazing flavors, and then you could
buy those sweets elsewhere in shops and they could become
their own brand. You would need to make them yourselves.
You could, in fact, have got some boutique lolly manufactured
to make them and ready made a song and dance

(06:36):
about them. But those same turgid lollies forever. If you're
going to stick with them, make a thing about them,
make it become a big deal, really celebrate it. Get
some kind of Peter Gordon or some chef to develop
their own ones. Every year have battles which one should go,
which one should stay? And should we get rid of

(06:57):
passion fruit and bring in karma he flower, Should we
get rid of the karmah flower and bring in a
Fijaa and hawks by apple mix. They could do so
much with the sweets, and they wouldn't be so bad
if we wrecked our teeth on them. But at the moment,
they've had those same things forever and they've never done
anything with them ever, So yeah, get rid of them.

(07:21):
I think this guy's got to put a fear a feeling.
Macon Dis is the guy's name. He described the hard
boiled lollies which have been offered to any passes for
more than half a century as a great marketing strategy
with not so great results for public health. I'd go

(07:41):
further and say they're a very tired marketing strategy. You
can't hike your ear feares up on the school highdays
by forty one percent and expect us to forgive you
because occasionally you give us a very unspectacular lolly? Am
I right? Am I wrong? Does ANYON want to say

(08:01):
PC gone mad? It's your chance? Because I think I'm
onto something here. I hate them. I don't hate them,
but I kind of think all the good vibes that
all they give away free lollies, well they get kids,
the little kids walking up and down the aisle handing
them out. See, because you know it's only a matter
of time before one of those kids h's turbulent and

(08:21):
that's not going to be good as it goes into
the overhead locker. So there we go. Your opinion on
this quick smartful ball will light me up. Let me know,
get rid of them or not? And what kind of
example are they setting to the youth? Hard boiled lollies
is your land? Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty

(08:41):
have I got this one right. I'm over it. I
don't think any other airlines do it. That doesn't mean
that they should stop doing it, but also doesn't mean
that they should be doing it. Keep your texts coming
through two people in New Zealand. Lollies terrible for your teeth.
They should be giving floss or something as well. Touch. Oh,

(09:08):
by the way, we know what the lollies are for.
I'm sorry, We're not stupid. We know they're supposed to equalize.
You've got problem equalizing bringing your own sick of the disruption.
And there's such a price gouging airline. That's the other thing.

(09:30):
I mean that Lolly you probably paying four hundred dollars
for on an Auckland and the cargo stretch jeeps a
lot of texts already, but we do understand what they're
there for. Hi, Kevin, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
Well there's laugh a few words.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
You just said.

Speaker 6 (09:49):
Yeah, that's that Lolly's going to job to do, and
that does that job.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
And I don't care what.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
As long as it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Ken Kevin, you settle for things too easily.

Speaker 7 (10:11):
Yeah, that's but there you go.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
You should be going on the rival in your airline
Jetstar and buying your buying something decent, like a Mentos
or something with a bit of a flavor at Glenn, Marcus,
welcome Marcus.

Speaker 8 (10:26):
Yeah, Glen here. I just flew to from New Zealand
to Brisbane on Friday on Quantus and flew back yesterday
on Air New Zealand now the service paradox, and didn't
even get a lolly from Air New Zealand yesterday. But
I must know, and you might notice on the quadras

(10:48):
Friday as a little snack before you got your meal,
they gave us a little bag of popcorn and it
was manufactured and made him Christ you.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Don't get started, don't get me started with lemon.

Speaker 9 (11:00):
Marine m Marine corn flop.

Speaker 10 (11:04):
And it was.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Beautiful, Glenn, Glenn, I still wander the supermarket aisles and
you plumb an in the cargo looking for that stuff.
It is one of the most extraordinary products I've had
on a plane or anywhere at altitude or at ground
level for that matter. The popcorn's extraordinary.

Speaker 11 (11:25):
Oh.

Speaker 8 (11:26):
I was blown away. Everyone was just beautiful and its
quant Us and yeah, and I looked at the packet
and manufactured and chrost juche.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
I'll tell you what. I'll tell you something, Glenn, between
you and me. One night on the show, coming up
to the top of an hour, a guy rang up
to talk about taxis and couriers, right straight shooting sort
of a guy, no nonsense from chrost Jews. He said,
I had called a text he hadn't turned up, and
sometimes he uses Zuber's as couriers to get his product

(11:56):
across down And before he left, he said, look, I'd
like you to thank you for giving us such kind
words about our popcorn. And it was the head biscuit
from the from the Lemon Meringue Pie popcorn factory. Ah,
And you know what I said, and you know what
I said from before I left. I said, I'd like
to thank you very much after I mentioned it for
not sending me any because the worst thing would be

(12:18):
to be sent a whole box of it, because I
couldn't stop eating it. It's that delicious. It would have
killed me. That is fantastic.

Speaker 8 (12:24):
That stuff, Oh, unbelievable. And then you know the service
to meal and everything. I can't speak more highly about it.
And I was so disappointed, actually in my head yesterday
coming back on in New Cem never again.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Because comparing it to Quantus despite the popcorn.

Speaker 8 (12:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just an over booked flight, the toilet
of you. Okay, it was only and.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
That and that and that's so you can't run a
shot his service and expect us to forgive you because
you give us a plane lolly for equalizing. They've got
to do better than that.

Speaker 8 (13:03):
A yeah, and I I think that was slipped terribly.
I used to play a Crossings quite often to Melbourne
and it was always on Quantas. And you know, I've
done the New Zealan things to Japan and all over
the place and everything, and I just think it's absolutely slipped,
slipped down. I know times are a little bit tough,

(13:24):
but if I was so embarressed with Quantas purchasing that.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Popcorn, hang on, Glenn, was a Quantus the popcorn because
I've had it on a New Zealand.

Speaker 8 (13:35):
No, no, I got it. Yeah, a Quantus going over.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Okay, well, well because I've had it on a New
Zealand domestically, so oh jig, Glen. That's but I'm so
excited you rang up about something I've mentioned myself. That
damn popcorn. Gee, it's good. Some extremely good texts I'll
come to those when space allows. Bennett's Marcus welcoming, Good evening.

Speaker 12 (14:02):
I can scrap the lawwies and bring back the cookie
time or the kissava chip. Now they used to give
you the choice of each one, and they're not noticed.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
I think they still do, don't they.

Speaker 12 (14:12):
No, they came to about a year ago. I've got
a few flights out of cross Church this year and
all they give you is a lolly. But they don't
even give it to you on board anymore. They give
it to years you except the door, so you can't
even enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
No, I've flown recently and got the full, the full.
I've been offered all sorts of stuff recently.

Speaker 12 (14:32):
Was that international? Domestic?

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Domestic?

Speaker 12 (14:35):
Okay? Because we're going to Willington and cross back again
last month and then Awkland a couple of months ago,
and you okus Harber Chips, no cookie.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
No, they are there. I'll get some of them. I'll
get some of the attendance to call us. They listen, Ben,
Marcus welcome?

Speaker 13 (14:51):
How's going Marcus?

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Good? Ben?

Speaker 13 (14:53):
Hey, Yeah, I've got outraged about these lollies myself then,
because I've gone over to Melbourne recently and I'm the
same as the last guy, just didn't get them till
the end of the flight.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Well, that's when you're supposed to get the lolli when
you're descending, isn't it. But you get snacks as well,
but you don't get This.

Speaker 13 (15:12):
Is me walking out of the door, so my ears.
What Yeah, so I.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Just the planes landed. Then they're handing you the lolly. Yes,
it's like handing you the life jacket once in the water.
It's actually it's not like that. It's worse than that.
That's like handing you the can't work out what that?

Speaker 11 (15:38):
What?

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Did they sound embarrassed.

Speaker 13 (15:41):
A little bit?

Speaker 14 (15:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (15:42):
I think they almost must have forgot on the descend.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
I've had the other one where they've actually handed them
out just about after they've taken off. I think they'll
have a have a chit chat down in the gelly.

Speaker 13 (15:54):
I think the young lessons get a bit carried away
talking and they too, they're not giving out lollies.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
There we go, the young less it's been nice to
talk to you. I don't think you get a lolly
on international flights, do you. I don't know. I don't
think you do. It's probably they're scared it's gonna have
some bad thing in it, Marcus. So who'd you talking

(16:20):
on about that lemon meringue pie popcorn? Some time ago?
I thought that no popcorn could be that good. Then
I had some popcorn at a work afternoon tea. I
knew immediately it was yours. It tastes exactly as you said,
And really is that good? That's from Kate. I've never
tried anything like it. And the beauty of it is
it's in a small bag. Well it is on the plane.

(16:44):
Because often with popcorn, two things go wrong. One thing
is the foil bag will rip down the side. You'll
have a little tear, and I'll actually get away from
you and come right down the side. You've got a
lap party because it's all in your lap. That's not good.
The other thing is that it's a bit like chips
from the takeaway. You want almost enough, but not quite enough,

(17:05):
and certainly not too many. You want to be wanting
some more by the end of it. You don't want
to have to actually all that's enough, and there's still
a few more left. You're going to eat those anyway
because you feel like it eaten too much. But the
amount was very good on the plane. That's my take. Anyway,
I got to talk forever about this, so just to

(17:26):
sum up my thoughts, I think the dentist has a
very good point about the lollies on in New Zealand.
But what I think is more important. They've rested on
the laurels of the lolly for too long. You can't
just actually think you're a great airline because you give lollies.
You got to do other stuff as well. And if
you're going to give lollies, make sure there's something quite special,

(17:47):
because that could be a huge marketing. You can imagine
that Silly magazine wants it called Cura, that they can
have an article on the person making the sweets. That
could be the photo shoot of the factory. They could
be developing a new kind of a what traditional New Zealand.
It's hard to know for a traditional New Zealand flavors.
We haven't got many fruits. You don't want to do
a k a kinner lolly. What would you do? You

(18:09):
do like po Toka essence with Karmah honey, I don't know,
or black Doris plums or kind of what we're about
be huge. Have the test kitchen get seven sharp along
for a tasting. They're gonna have a new lolly. They're
gonna get rid of an old flavor. They had to
retire an old flavor, bringing a new flavor. They're gonna

(18:31):
get rid of black Doris, and they're gonna bring in
I don't know the answer, because you feel like I'm
talk back high with all that response about that, Keep
it going, people, if you want to talk about this,
because there's some tremendous texts. Because I think the worm's

(18:52):
turning for you in New Zealand. You don't need anyone
bad on the radio say anything. You never heard any
on the radio something bad ABOUTNY Newzelan because they're all
expecting upgrades. It's kind of what happens in broadcasting. That's
my take on that one. I might be wrong about that.
Actually I got no idea, but I kind of do
feel like that everyone gives them a bit of an
easy serve. Christmas Trees up labor? Was that true Christmas

(19:13):
trees labor? Kidd? I get mistaked about that? Seems early,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Anyway?

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Nine nine to de Textileiner, it's Marcus welcome, good evening him.

Speaker 15 (19:25):
Marcus. I wanted to tell you what I think the
principle is about the boiled lollies. I'm in my seventies
and I remember traveling over seas when I was ten
and we were given boiled lollies, and the reason was
that the swallowing was a boiled lolly, you can't really

(19:49):
chew it and swallow quickly, so you fuck it and
that makes more surviva and you swallow and that helps
with the changing air pressure. So that's why they boiled lolly.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
And Elena with all the kind of in the world,
I think everyone knows that. I think that's what they know.
That what the people are aware that that happens. But
very few, well very few weir lines do it, so
it can't be that essential, can it.

Speaker 15 (20:20):
Will it helps?

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Well, does it? Most people traveling with kids would have
something for them to give them, like gum or something
to help them equalize.

Speaker 7 (20:30):
But yeah, ah, okay, yeah, I think.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
That's the way it happened. But you know, I think
people are aware of what they are. But I think probably,
I think probably the flights are a lot smooth, and
now I don't think the pressurization is quite as bad.
Maybe it is. Marcus, we love your show what's happening
at the big fire in the Fungamino area north of Waikato,
a mass of three hundred hectare far in the area.
Just keen to know as we go duck shooting there
and if your listeners know anything. The lemon marange popcorn

(20:58):
on us in and flights as a game changer. I
was so over in using and I was telling my
wife and my daughter I could want to come back here.
It was just unbelievably good. They looked at me like
I was totally weird. Ross Marcus lemon merang lolly boom Marcus,
popcorn is the worst for flights, the mess it creates
as a nightmare for crew and cleaners. Then it then

(21:20):
in turn causes cleaning delays and people get upset. Marcus
totally agree. I adored that lemon merangue popcorn on in
news in one hundred forever who and not found that
particular flavor goodness Marcus. I checked the lemon merangue popcorn ingredients.
It's atrocious, something like seventy percent sugar. Well, the lollies

(21:41):
had been ninety nine point nine percent sugar. Marcus I
was on last night talking about the hospital service I
got not to me, you weren't. I don't think I
want to say a big, huge thank you to Southern
Cross Hamilton. I was to be in the public system,
but got referred to private for the actual surgery. It
was a great experience, Marcus. It is one of the

(22:03):
embarrassing rules on Quantus. They were giving out KitKat bars. Marcus.
What I don't like about the news and lollies is
the greedy people who take more than one. Seriously, people,
you're unequalizing your ears. Just take one, Marcus. I find
it ridiculous that the teeth people think they outrake the air.
I think it's ridiculous that the teeth people think they

(22:24):
outrank the air people. For goodness sake, it's air New Zealand,
isn't it. It's spelled ear Marcus. This will make you
laugh by eldest daughter threw up in the lolly basket
due to turbulence while handing out the lollies. What's itself
for that? Oh Christ George Brisbane, Oh off to Australia Zoo.
Probably a good evening, Sharky. It's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
Hello, Marcus. I'm driving down state in very area about
ago and that fire is still going.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (23:06):
Yeah, there was a lot of smoke and you can
smell it in the air.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Actually, it's because how does because Chris swamps burn quite covertly,
don't they.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
Yeah, it looks like area.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
I'm only saying that because a guy tixt it through
yesterday that flew a chopper over it, and suddenly the
chopper goes up one hundred meters more into the air
because of the heat coming off that they couldn't see
any flames.

Speaker 5 (23:34):
Yeah. Well, actually it's quite amazing if you Well, from
what I could see out of my beautiful office was
the heat.

Speaker 16 (23:45):
Yeah, okay, did you kick out my YouTube channel?

Speaker 3 (23:50):
What is it?

Speaker 5 (23:52):
Sometimes? Were sharky in this?

Speaker 3 (23:55):
I couldn't remember what it was.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
Yeah. Anyway, by the way, my day passed away, and
so that's why I haven't run it for the last
couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
So I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sorry to hear that,
sharky Are you going? Okay?

Speaker 5 (24:12):
Well, you know what I've come to the realization Marcus said,
my dad was seventy seven h encreatic tenser as you
know it to like six weeks from diagnosis.

Speaker 13 (24:26):
Hemper is a horrible disease.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, and it's kind of a big segue when you've
got a YouTube channel called fun Times with Sharky and
your dad's just had a sad death.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
A Yeah, well I mentioned that on my last that
I put up on Monday.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
But have you renamed it?

Speaker 11 (24:47):
No?

Speaker 5 (24:48):
I know it's full fun Times with Shaky because my
dad said to me, he said, don't change what you're doing.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
Okay, good on him. What was his name? What was
his name, Sharky?

Speaker 5 (25:00):
His name was Ronald Patrick Barber.

Speaker 16 (25:03):
Okay, he was a great He was a great.

Speaker 5 (25:06):
Man, Marcus. He was a great man. And but you
know the realization I sat with him for that last
three weeks and I saw the change in the person
and then I saw the disease just take over.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
Okay, yeah, very very very Yeah. It's not a nice thing,
but you know, I think that's the circle of life.
And I wanted to get upset about it, but he
hit telling to me he didn't want anybody to cry.
He just wanted, like he said, he had his time
and I still had my time to go, So live

(25:47):
my time.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
And what do you do about that?

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Now?

Speaker 17 (25:50):
Shark?

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Are you taking a break or you're going on or
how you got to cope with it all.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
I'm back at work, so I'm doing the courier run again,
back down from up, from back down to tower ranger
in the big truck and trailer unit and and I'm
doing my I'm doing well. That was the first YouTube
posting that I did on Monday or yesterday in the
last couple of weeks, because I think when I last

(26:16):
talked to you, I said I was taking a bit
of a break while I went and dealt with that,
and yeah, but I'm going to carry on with like,
because I don't believe that as much as what do
you call it, you know, the sadness of it all.
I has to continue being a positive person because if

(26:40):
I let that weigh me down, I won't be the heavy, positive,
go forward person that I usually am. And I couldn't
imagine me being anybody else.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
But oh, yeah, you look like I'm not watching it now.
You look like sort of Gris Wiley.

Speaker 9 (26:56):
Ah.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
See, like the truthless missing.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah it looks good. You look like the real deal.
But you're kind of a drag racing type person, aren't you.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
Yeah, yeah, drag facing truck driving, running the avocado watches. Yeah,
I got kick myself, very.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Busy, nice to talk shack, you've gotta run, but fun
times with the SHARKI en z. It's a YouTube channel,
a lot of subscribers seventy nine. Some of the comments
you might like to ring up and say would be
go go broke or PC gone mad. There are calls
friend's in to give it, get rid of their sugar lollies,
to get rid of them because they're bad for your teeth.

(27:36):
I reckon get rid of them because they're just so dreadful,
and they've been dreadful forever. If you go with them, go.
If you're going to do it, do it properly. Put
some love into it. I can't work out why old
the league's father or the other when no one's done that.
It's obvious you sell them at that ridiculously overpriced shop.

(27:59):
Replay the shop at the airport in New Zealand. Sweets
take of the export market be huge, like using version
of toddler own Special New Zealand flavors. Anyway, Marcus, we
don't need to suck sweets on flights. Quantus has something
much better, a little sachet like the alcohol swabs for

(28:20):
cleaning skin pre injection, but instead of alcohol there is
eucalyptus swab inside which you hold on to your nose
and inhaled gently as you need to equalize as your
is perfectly smelled good too. They've had them for decades.
Offer them when needed, Kate. The disturbing thing is how
many people out there think that people don't know what
the lollies are for to worry Marcus, I have diabetes.

(28:48):
Never been offered as sugar free lolly exactly. They hate
you diabetics. Goodness me, what's that about, Marcus? That stuff
sounds like crack? Be careful referring to the popcorn turnaround
was brilliant. Thanks for the recommendation, My pleasure. All about

(29:14):
the lollies on the New Zealand. Are you aware that
next month will be the thirty fifth anniversary of the
fall of the Berlin Wall? Do you recall where you were?
I was in Paris, Paris, France. Get in touch about
in New Zealand and Christmas decorations. Apparently the tree goes

(29:35):
up Labor week. Is that right? That's your wheelhouse, dad,
Yeah it is, but as he's not denying it to
his wheelhouse. That was always great with the Old Home Show.
There was always that story with students selling Christmas trees

(29:56):
on the side of the road. That was some sort
of a raw It wouldn't they have some of the
Kerry and Evans chasing them around the streets. Those were
the days. There are a lot of people texting they
think that handing out Lolli's is a is desensitizing children
to get handed sweets by strangers, which is not a
bad point, but I think that's really kind of working

(30:18):
out every angle of that story. Get in touch, Marcus
till twelve fourteen to nine, Marty welcome.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, Marcus. We treat the europlanes like when you go
to the movies and you just go to the supermarket
first and sort of sneak stuff on and nibble away
at it as you go, exactly what you want. Yeah,
but we don't often fly. We don't often fly the
premium brands anyway. But but yeah, the last time went

(30:50):
to Australia, it was I think it was just bad.
It was all pretty We knew it was going to
be tight, so we just stucked up the peckingas on
the way and the hyac and got whatever we wanted.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
What was your car? What was your carry on snack?

Speaker 2 (31:05):
So familiar? I'm a diabetic extra, I just nothing really,
But the kids don't go They go for well the
youngest ones go for jet planes because I think it's
ironic getting a jet plane on the plane.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Is it is it? Is it ironical? Appropriate? I don't
know why in fact that lollies aren't get planes, but
I quite like the fact they do that put on them.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, anything if they wrapped like a little bit hard
get plane exactly, that could be pretty cool with you.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
Something that gives a nod to aviation, like different shaped
planes or something that's probably not as it's just so
lazy those snacks.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah, you can have like jet planes with the classic
planes over the years, the old float plane.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
And yeah, that's exactly right, sixteen hundred. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
And anyway, Christmas, we've we've we've started the ball rolling
in our family. We did secret standard today really drawing
drawing names out of the hat. But last year I
stuffed it up. I forgot which my one was. I
didn't write it down on my phone, and then that
caused the big commotion and that we had to do
a redraw. Who does the drawer usually the youngest two kids. Yeah,

(32:19):
that pretty trustworthy. The jet plane eat it and I'm
the youngest, the youngest girls actually to the drawer.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yeah, what's the what's the the price limit this year?

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Well, we're debating that because there's been translation and inflation,
so there's always been twenty dollars, but there was talking
fifty dollars. Fifty Yeah, well, oh we might meet in
the middle into space thirty. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
Thirty seems clumsy as well, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, thirty seems but weird. But one of the reasons
why we go so early is that you can go
on Hourly Express for team and get it in time
because they have a really really really really good point
and you can get for thirty bucks, you can get
probably a cabin finer.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Go if us a lot of money on Timmy. Thirty
bucks on Timmy. That's a lot of money. Yeah, yeah,
organizing a lot You organizing a light party this week?

Speaker 2 (33:17):
No, we're anti light parties. Got Brian pro guy Walks.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
I've scrapers Okay, I didn't have that one. Picked anti
light party pro guy Forks go yep.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
So when I go, I'll make a bit bonfire on
the farm. Have a've called a mega avalanche race where
everyone races downhill at once, but you've got to do
one lap of the bonfire and then keep on going down. Great. Great, yeah,
that's in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
I'd like to see the video footage of that Marty
lap of the bonfire. That sounds good, Joe whennet's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (33:56):
Oh hello, you're a better be linger.

Speaker 18 (34:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (34:04):
I've been texting to you one have you my two?
I'm sixty five next month and my two Dadren loved
you on TV. Goodness, so that made you feel old, bust.

Speaker 9 (34:20):
I know that?

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Did you say? Does that make you feel old?

Speaker 19 (34:24):
So?

Speaker 3 (34:24):
I got no idea how your daughters are?

Speaker 11 (34:29):
Ah, well, the younger one thirty nine?

Speaker 3 (34:31):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 11 (34:34):
Unfortunately I lost my other child at the age of
fifteen on the suicide. She would have been forty seven
this year. Anyway, on a more positive note, I remember
as the troll traveling on the airplane, which was exciting,
and one kid would be chosen to go around with

(34:57):
the captain's hat with the bill lorresm and I had
no idea what that was for. At that time. We thought, oh,
this is okay, but I have a lot of trouble traveling.
I can't fly because my ears just end up, so

(35:19):
it's cruciating and pain.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
I wonder what that is causes that.

Speaker 11 (35:29):
Well, both my daughters and I have got extra narrow
air canals.

Speaker 7 (35:35):
Apparently I was told.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
I've got very narrow. I was told I've got very
narrow canals. I've never met one else in narrow canals.

Speaker 11 (35:46):
Because when of them had teed Grommet's put them.

Speaker 20 (35:49):
On fiction.

Speaker 11 (35:50):
Yeah yeah, but when I've gone to Aussie, I've tried
everything chewing, it's nothing new to lookd air plugs adoptors
suggested through the But I just I won't fly any

(36:12):
anymore because I've been the next twenty four hours, I
can't hear anyone.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Yeah, what about when you go swimming you get water
stuck in your ears.

Speaker 11 (36:24):
I've lett a new word on hydrophobic.

Speaker 9 (36:27):
Yeah, I don't like water.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
No, why would you with your narrow canals.

Speaker 11 (36:35):
That's going to be a thing.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
That's the thing, Joeanne, narrow canals. I don't know. Sometimes
doctors just say there's a conversation starter. Oh welcome, good
any my name miss Marcus. I'll tell you another thing
too dangerous. Cat breeds. There's these things called bully cats.
Are they in the country. I don't know anything about these,
but these are the new things that we had the
killar dogs, but now there's breeds of cats that are dangerous.

(37:01):
Don't know. That's the New Zealand story and overseas story.
What happening in New Zealand is the In New Zealand
there's been they're under some pressure to get rid of
their boiled sweets. A dentist or a guy running a
dental company says, it's a terrible message. He's got a point.

(37:22):
They glorify sugar. Yep, they glorify sugar, he says. In
you're in we're able to create a really unique experience
for their customers that in flight lolly. But you should
consider the context in which that's been delivered, which is

(37:42):
far from ideal. Dry air cabins reduces the mouth production
of salive, which helps to wash away bacteria, food particles
and acids that attack tooth enamel. And people are often
stressed on anxious on flights, which reduces live Actually even
more so, you're giving them a hard boiled candy which
is sugar based. The situation where it's not the optimum

(38:03):
moment for them to be consuming it. And let's face it,
most of us grow out of getting sore reads when
we fly. Think you have something boiled that's not sweet?
What would that be a little bit of leather? I
don't know what the answer is there people, but you
might want to mention that. You might want to say

(38:24):
it's gone too far, PC gone mad or you go broke,
you go woke? Is that what they say is that
the mentra for people these days? Get in touch. Come on,
let's be hearing from you've got breaking news? Will you
only just know what they're breaking?

Speaker 11 (38:37):
Use is?

Speaker 3 (38:40):
And seems we've remember genuine kind of discussion about e
U zine and also the People's Airline. I don't quite
know what they're about. And un less we've stopped done
with the endless obsession with in flight videos, but now
it seems to all be about price gouging during the holidays,
which no one likes. I think it's still government owned

(39:01):
as it one hundred percent?

Speaker 16 (39:02):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (39:02):
Partially? There's some shares as well? Are there ten past
nine Marcus or twelve? Breaking news? I think State Highway
one or the motorway southbound in Auckland has reopened. Just
so you know. But get in touch people lovely to
hear from you. Oh eight hundred and eighty Taddy in
ninety nine to text, get those texts coming through two people.

(39:24):
I see the singer from Iron Maiden has died. I
guess there's no surprises there. He had a fairly full
of life. That guy done some time, I think also too,
and a lot of cocaine. Marcus fun fact. Candy floss,
which is one hundred percent sugar, was invented by a dentist,
William Morrison in nineteen eighties eighteen ninety seven. He was

(39:51):
trying to make something for fears that didn't stick to
teeth like candy apples. Someone is using sugar free lollies.
I don't care what they do when you useual. I
just wish they'd made the lollies a bit better. That's
going to be their thing of that's their quirk. As
an airline, you'd want to really celebrate it. I've often
gone on about this. You'd want to make it local

(40:14):
and you'd want to change it. You'd want to really
kind of have a big thing about it, a bit
of a song and dance about it. But you never
know the way tubulance is going there, handing out of
sweets might no longer be permitted before too long, or
they might make the children wear helmets, put them on
those sumo suits as they come down the aisle. All

(40:35):
Beck's been the end of year two of this weekend,
a match against Japan Saturday night live commentary on ZB
World Series Saturday one pm, Dodgers Yankees. That'll be on Sky,
don't know where else you can watch that people you
might know. And Hindu Festival of Light from the thirty
first of August to second November. Good for fireworks and

(40:59):
just two weeks to the US election and one hundred
and thirty one days until the NRL kicks off and Vegas.
By the way, I don't say this with any form
of I don't say this with any form of well,

(41:21):
I won't say that with comed anyway. But today is
International Stuttering Awareness Day, and that might be something that
you want to talk about because for a long time
it seemed to be fair game to make fun of
people with stutters. I'm thinking of a fish called Wanda,

(41:42):
one of the movies what was particularly offensive about it.
But it is Stuttering Awareness Day, to day and that
might have been part of your experience. You might have
experienced stuttering. You might still be a stutterer or a stammer.
I'm not entirely sure of the difference, and you might

(42:03):
want to talk about that. I don't know what the
solutions are. We've all seen the King's speech. Yeah, of
cose you hear people bring talkback that have God damn
that the stutters. I always think that shows remarkable bravery
to ring up the radio. But good on them. I
guess it's an anonymous kind of a medium, really, So
that might be something you want to and talk about

(42:24):
today Stuttering International Stuttering Day. I wouldn't go to a
whole show on it because I wouldn't know that the
people would ring up. But maybe that's something we could
aspire to overtime. Faulty Marcus, Welcome evening, Marcus.

Speaker 9 (42:39):
How are you good? Faulty Hey, I'm talking about these
ball suitets and things. I can remember my first flight
on any again. I presume it was who it was
back in the sixty seventy. Yeah, I think you're right,

(42:59):
but just cutting to the chase, I don't know that
it's anything about what you've got in your mouth when
we I blew in an open copper plane horse Cedar
from Dennybok to Monturica.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Actually presents an unusual flight.

Speaker 9 (43:20):
I had a friend that had a pilot's license and
he needed to keep his hours up, so all I
had to do was pay for the fuel.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Wit what inspired flight to go on?

Speaker 9 (43:32):
It was neat, mate, it was real neat, straight across
Cabriy Island. It's not how much.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Did you how much did you have to pay?

Speaker 16 (43:40):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (43:40):
I can't remember market. It was back in the eighties.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
I think i'd be like one hundred bucks something like that.

Speaker 9 (43:48):
It was more competed to flying commercial. But but Lane,
he had travel ten minutes in my vehicle to get
to the plane to fly to Maturka instead of traveling
to Pami, which would have been more than an hours.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
Did you have someone to say I went down there?

Speaker 9 (44:08):
Yeah, yeah, relations that's where I came from. But I
was what I've found interesting, Marcus, I was going down
to my grandmother who was in the hospital.

Speaker 3 (44:21):
But that tonight was he Oh someone else's father just
died too. He just spent three weeks looking after him.
Pancreatic cancer.

Speaker 9 (44:31):
Okay, anyway, I'm going back to the eighties. But at
the time I had a three month old daughter, and
which was my grandmother's first great grandhold. And I remember
I can't remember how fast through the flight, but my
daughter's name at the time, the three months old was

(44:54):
her name was Amber.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
You get the story question, okay?

Speaker 9 (44:58):
And she started squawking, and and part turned around with
his d my son and told us to give her
something to suck. Wow, And it was because her heels
were hurting. And what you give her while you're sucking on?
Just give it something to suck?

Speaker 3 (45:16):
And what'd you give her?

Speaker 9 (45:18):
I'm bucking one. Maybe i'd get a bitter ask me
ex wife about that. We see now, I think she's
throlen any.

Speaker 11 (45:29):
For me.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
Faulty Jen, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 20 (45:32):
Hi been Marcus. Are you in a hurry?

Speaker 13 (45:36):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (45:36):
You always up against the commercials?

Speaker 4 (45:37):
Jan?

Speaker 7 (45:38):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (45:39):
Okay, are you in a hurry?

Speaker 3 (45:45):
No?

Speaker 20 (45:45):
No, not at all. Babies can suck on her dummy?

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Oh you don't. I don't think you give a kid
a dummy anymore, do you?

Speaker 21 (45:54):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (45:55):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (45:56):
No, I think I think dummies have I thought dummies
were very much, very much in the in the naughty box.

Speaker 20 (46:02):
Now no good for flying, But you don't put honey
are much anymore?

Speaker 3 (46:07):
Of course did they put honey on them?

Speaker 20 (46:09):
Yes, to soothe them and make them go to sleep.
That rotted their.

Speaker 13 (46:15):
Teeth big time.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
If they've got.

Speaker 20 (46:19):
Yes, they do under the gum. Oh, this cat of
mine is going to get it bashing.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Hang on, hang on, Jen, we don't besh. The cats
reincarnated that cat in a few years. And here I
am thinking you could do calming videos with your very
soothing voice, and you say you're going to give the
cat the besh.

Speaker 20 (46:45):
Now he's playing with me. But anyway, we have this
little battle.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
What's the name of the cat?

Speaker 20 (46:51):
Jen, Blackie?

Speaker 3 (46:53):
Very original, terrible name. What were you thinking?

Speaker 20 (46:58):
Hey, listen, did you hear that they've stopping the greyhound racing?

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Did you know they didn't say that?

Speaker 20 (47:06):
Yes, it was on the news.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
I didn't say that. I said these calls for it
to be stopped after there was a death from spinal injuries,
if I heard it right.

Speaker 20 (47:19):
Yeah, No, just this last news they said they're stopping it.
It had enough and that's it.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
I don't think that's true.

Speaker 20 (47:28):
Yeah, that's what I heard. So I'm celebrating at last.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
No I think I think Winston's looking into it. They're
waiting on a report for it.

Speaker 20 (47:41):
Oh, will you listen to the news. It will come
up again next.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Are you a good listener?

Speaker 20 (47:46):
Yeah, very good. Yeah. I hope they also cancel out
the rodeos that should have been gone years ago. But anyway,
that's all I want to say.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
Thank you, Marcus, hang on, hang on, great racing will go, Yes,
but that's I don't think it's going anytime soon.

Speaker 20 (48:12):
Yes, yes, it is.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
The story. Jan The story said the government has been
told it must ban greyhound racing after the death of
another dog. The animal sustained a spinal fracture during a
race on Frodiy. It's the fourth dog to die since August.
Safe campaign manager Emma Brody says the time for talking
is over. That's not saying they're going to ban it.
That's a pressure group saying they must ban it. That's

(48:36):
very different from it been banned.

Speaker 20 (48:38):
No, No, she was talking. The minister was some minister
was saying it. Yeah, anyway, listen to the news.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
I did listen to the I've literally read you the
story that was on the news at nine o'clock.

Speaker 20 (48:56):
Well, anyway, we'll be to dif.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
Hang on, you can't beg to differ about something that's
a fact. Would you be horse racing? Would you bear
horse racing too?

Speaker 21 (49:11):
Well?

Speaker 20 (49:11):
I don't think they should whip them.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
So what should they do? What should they do to
that drag.

Speaker 20 (49:16):
Them as well? And I also hate gambling. All these
people encouraged to waste their money on gambling that should
be banned. I'd been a whole ton of stuff, but
Roe Deos is my favorite thing that I get rid of.
They put a thing around scroton and twist it around

(49:42):
just before they let them out and start bucking, and
so much pain.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
All the things, all the things you say would make
good points, but there would be it would have been
more convincing if you hadn't threatened violence on Blackie.

Speaker 20 (49:54):
Oh it's all right, yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
But you know whatever, whatever, we'll ever hear those threats. Oh,
Gary Marcus, welcome, good evening. Huh Gary here Marcus.

Speaker 21 (50:05):
Yeah, I just have find myself tuning in tonight and
listening to that last caller. I race grayhounds. Me and
my friend race grayhands out of a kenl and Christ Hitch,
and the greyhound racing industry is doing its best unfortunately
it is a sad at a part of racing and

(50:28):
things like that happen. Do you know? For instant last
year across New Zealand greyhound racing seven million dollars for
the rehoming of greyhounds after their racing career is finished,
and they if a dog gets injured or it needs
an operation, the zell And Greyhound Racing pay for it.
So it's not as though the industry is not trying.

(50:50):
So for arguments sake, what happened if the government does
decide to be in greyhound racing, where do the dogs
go and who pays them?

Speaker 3 (50:59):
I think there's a huge demand because it seems to
have almost died in America greyhound racing, but it's gone
from fifty tricks to two tracks and they've got a
huge demand for greyhounds and pets over there. So I
think we're sending a lot of ours over there, aren't we.

Speaker 21 (51:12):
Australia is sending like two hundred of months wow to
America and New Zealand. New Zealand I think sending about
twenty or thirty. As I said, I raised a greyhound
recently and he done a good job for us and
the friends of theirs that training are greyhounds rehomed into

(51:34):
a family in Gore who have three children, three five
and seven. I made sure he retired sound, he had
no injuries. I retired him a few months before he
should have retired. And he's gone to a family and
Gore has three young kiddies, three five and seven, and
they absolutely love him, and I've seen photos of them.

(51:58):
The kids run around them and he chases around the
around the farm and he's going to have a great life.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Fantastic. Hey, what do you think, because I think on
Winston's waiting for the decision, isn't it a decision is
going to be made fairly soon? Right about greyhound racing
in this country? What way do you think it's going
to go?

Speaker 21 (52:14):
Unfortunately, I think it will go.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
I'm inclined to. I'm inclined to, which is just shame
because it's a part of our history and it's kind
of I know people are passionate about racing.

Speaker 21 (52:24):
But it's what I say about is Marcus is when
the greyhound game probably does go is I said, where
do will the dogs go? Who pays for them? And
the people that are complaining? Well, is the harmss racing
industry knows, they will then move on to them.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
That's greyhound racing in New Zealand. I know that we
have races down here and in the cargo, but it's
the same guy that brings all the dogs. He brings
two trucks of them.

Speaker 21 (52:56):
Yeah. Yeah, he does. Your tracks closed at the moment
because it's got problems, but it, unfortunately is I said that,
when was the last Tom ever saw the media TV
one and t TV three do a good story on
grahnd ray thing. They only want to see the bad
side of it.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
But there's always stories of trainers abusing their dogs. Band
for me with mphetamine band for misconduct.

Speaker 21 (53:23):
Was that was like about three or four years ago. Marcus.
There's only one trainer in New Zealand that ruins it
for everyone, and unfortunately I can't name that person. The
other trainer that did ruin everything has pulled his head in.
As I just said, there's one bad trainer in New Zealand.
And you go look at Australia and see what's happened

(53:46):
over there. People have gone to jail and everything. There's
been trainers band for life, messive wines and ended up
in jail.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
So there's more than one trainer that's done bad things.
There's dogs with method but anyway, yeah, there's.

Speaker 21 (54:03):
One trainer still doing it unfortunately, and that's that's ruining
it for everyone else.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
I've seen three different names already, including a female name.
You'd know her too, wouldn't you.

Speaker 21 (54:13):
Yeah, was she got suspended for a while.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
Zip Zipping Sera was the dog's name.

Speaker 21 (54:19):
Yeah, it was there. It wasn't even her fault. Okay,
there's like about four years ago, Marcus, you know.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
It wasn't her fault. The dog admitted anyway, Hey, how
many dogs you got, Gary.

Speaker 21 (54:32):
I've got two pups that are seven months old, and
we would race for probably another another year. But as
I said, if the game goes, where do these dogs go?

Speaker 3 (54:43):
Because you've got you, because you want to have you
that you're planning for the next four five years you've
got You can't plan with your dogs not knowing what's going.

Speaker 21 (54:49):
To happen exactly. Well, you know, there's about three or
four thousand people involved in in the industry, So what happened,
you know what happens? Who's going is the government going
to pay?

Speaker 3 (55:03):
It'll go underground? Will don't you? Guys? Have been meeting
in car parks and stuff and racing the dogs and
kind of top secret locations.

Speaker 8 (55:08):
Will you, I don't think so much.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
You can't bet on that though, can you. That's most
of what it's about. I think what's happening most people,
Most people can gamble each week elsewhere, Gary, That's what's happened,
is it. Most people can go and gamble. I mean
in America you got all sorts of gambling. Now you
can gamble on sport in every state. You never could before.
So of course, I mean, dog racing was successful when
you couldn't really gamble on much, but now you can

(55:32):
bet on anything. Well, I appreciate your honesty, Gary, bet
it's Marcus. Good evening, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 10 (55:40):
I have an ex racing greyhound as a pet. Now
she's four years old, and she raced for I think
two years, and then she went to Greyhound Rescue and.

Speaker 9 (55:53):
That place.

Speaker 10 (55:56):
They take those dogs and they try to find a
good home that's suitable for them, so they don't let
you like, oh, I just want this greyhound, because I
want a greyhound of that color to come into your home.
You might have cats and other dogs that are not
a suitable, not suitable, So they try and place you
with the right kind of behavior of that greyhound with
your living environment. And I thought that was just absolutely amazing.

Speaker 9 (56:20):
And our dog b.

Speaker 10 (56:21):
She is just the most lovable, cuddliest dog in the world.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
Wow, what's her name? Her name is b is it
hows it spelled b e A Okay? And what was
your racing name?

Speaker 10 (56:36):
I don't want to give that because I might say
who the owner was. So with the last call of that,
caught up and talked about other you know, certain people
that owned I don't I don't want to go into that.
What I what I want to say is like, like
I absolutely find like horse racing and dog racing disgusting.
I think that's awful. So I just I just wanted

(56:58):
to say that. I think that's you know, for that's
our own viewing pleasure.

Speaker 9 (57:02):
So I don't like that.

Speaker 10 (57:03):
But the chance to be able to adopt and all
that has come from a racing background and give them
a new home, it was just such an amazing experience
to bring this dog into our world with our other
little dogs and give it a home. These these are greyhound.

Speaker 21 (57:24):
Is just such a lazy dog.

Speaker 10 (57:27):
It's like a It's like a cat that sleeps for
like twenty three hours. It wants to go out outside
for about two minutes and run around the house and
be absolutely spazy, and then for the rest of the
day it.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
Just wants to do we okay, Yeah, well.

Speaker 10 (57:40):
Oh sorry, I didn't mean anything.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
Well I'm not. I'm not quite sure what that if.
That's yeah, but nice to hear from you, Ben. Someone
texted me last night about fireworks and how cruel they
were for horses, and I said to them, well are
these race horses? Is that cruel? And I never heard
back from them. But there's slightly more you wance discussion
than that. But yeah, you might want to mention something

(58:03):
about that, Allison, It's Marcus welcome h Hell.

Speaker 22 (58:07):
The most important question is does wants to actually own
a greyhound himself? Because if he has a cray hand himself,
he won't want a banned, will he. But I just
want to say I think it will be banned. I
think I agree with Jan. Actually it is barbaric and
it is quite hard to rehome these dogs afters because
they're so used to running around after that thing, chasing it.
You can't home it, have it in a place with
cats for predictive because it will m it's got that

(58:34):
it's chase that little thing that runs around there, so
it's very hard to train it not to run after things,
you know, So you've got to be very careful there.
But they don't need a lot of walking, I think
when they're rehomes, they're not dogs that need lots of walks.
They do lie around a lot and just like you
know that, they don't need to have great walks and things.

(58:54):
So they are quite easy to look after, I think,
But they have to be careful who you rehome them to. Yeah,
but when they have the when they have accents where
their long legs, it's very a great risk of them
breaking their legs when they're running, isn't it, Because they've
got those long, long legs, and when they do have
an accent, there's not much they can probably do. So

(59:16):
it's quite I think it's quite cruel. But that's my
feeling on the whole. I think it will be banned though.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
Yeah, have you had a bit to do with it?

Speaker 22 (59:27):
No, no, no, no, I don't mind the race horse
that that's all right, But it's just the dogs I'm against,
you know, the horse racing is that I'm not against that,
but the dog.

Speaker 19 (59:40):
Yes, okay to have in Australia.

Speaker 22 (59:44):
Do you know if they do it in Australia, this
dog one or not of the of their band it there?

Speaker 11 (59:48):
Do you know?

Speaker 3 (59:49):
It's quite big and I think it's just in some states.

Speaker 22 (59:52):
All right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
But thank you Allison. Nice to hear from your twenty
six to ten she wants to ban greyhound racing. It's
okay to besh the cat question, Mark, Jen Interesting, lady
likes animals, but gives your cat the besh Marcus of
greyhound racing was banned, Imagine what would happen to all
the dogs. I know one trainer that there's seven hundred
dogs alone. You can't just not get rid of something

(01:00:15):
if it's cruel because well, you know, I guess you've
got to fade something out. That would be the answer.
But there's a huge demand for greyhound dogs as pets
in America because they've gotten none there, because they've got
no racing much Marcus. That lady doesn't have actual facts
of anything. She said. Sadly, what a hypocrite, jan is
hate animal cruelty? It will best you're a cat I'd

(01:00:37):
be more than happy to adopt a beutiful greyhound if
the so called sport goes down. Band cats they eat
native birds. Yeah, I think probably ten years ago, twenty
years ago, greyhound racing must have realized that the global
trend was away from it and probably had the chance
to do something about it. But if they haven't really

(01:01:01):
nailed that, I don't think interestingly enough. And fong Anui
they have a straight course, so it hasn't got the
turns where the dogs can break their league. I don't
know how successful that's been. I meant to get there
to that. Oh waight t one hundred and eighty eighteen
eighty And what about the sweets on in New Zealand.

(01:01:22):
Oh yeah, the dentists want a bat well, some of
the dentists want those band now. It's not something I
ever thought of. Actually, it's interesting. It might be something
you want to mention also tonight. My name is Marcus
hddled twelve text emails, will love it all. If there's
something different you want to mention also tonight, twenty one

(01:01:42):
away from ten. If you got breaking news around the world,
let us know what that is. The only thing I'm
seeing is State hut. The ride out of Walkland. The
motorway has reopened and there's been a ocean rescue off
Littleton which has caused been quite dramatic. This footage of

(01:02:04):
that beneath Godly Head. The victims slipped must have fallen
a long way. It seems like they've acted quite quickly there.
It's quite perileous getting on that side of those hills

(01:02:26):
between Littleton and christ Church, the porthills, the tracks aren't that.
We'll mark on some of those sides anyway here til
midnight twenty away from ten back on. Yeah, we'll get banned.
I think some end says everyone wants to ban something
that's from n.

Speaker 22 (01:02:46):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
I think things evolve. You know, some things we don't
have anymore. We don't have legal cock fighting, we don't
have bear baiting, we don't have animals and circuses. I
don't hear anyone's saying we should bring back the lines
and the chimpanzees to the circuses. So most of the

(01:03:07):
things that we have got ridden of, you don't hear.
You know, it's been the time for it to happen.
People aren't screaming for them bring them back, are they?
God people? Aren't even asking for straws and plastic bags
we brought back that I can hear. There's a quick question,
a bit of a thought exercise. What's the thing you
want unbanned? If you'd unbanned one thing, what would it
be for me? Would be double happies, I think, because

(01:03:32):
no one actually ever asks much stuff to be unbanned,
just putting that out there. Curious to hear from you
about that one. It's greyhound racing and us in and sweep.
The dentists want to get rid of those, and people
want to get rid of greyhound racing because of dogs
breaking their spine. Is it crueler than horse racing? I
don't know. I don't know how you'd measure that. I

(01:04:00):
just think probably horse racing's been a bigger business in
this country and they have more influence in politics. I
certainly think they should get rid of the horses from
the Olympics. By the way, the Commonwealth Games look like
a total dud. Just so you know, this is the
death rattle for the comm Games. There's only ten sports.

(01:04:24):
How dare they They're vacs diving, badminton, beach volleyball, good cricket,
road cycling, mountain biking, rhythm of gymnastics, squash, table tennis,
pair of table dennis, triathlon and paratrethon and wrestling. So

(01:04:47):
no good. I don't know what's happening with field hockey.
Is that there or not? Do I say that's gone anyway?
And rugby sevens and hockey are gone. It's a free,
self suited article that they're just looking at how many
medals we got in those sports. I don't think a
Common Games medal is worth much these days. There's not many.

(01:05:11):
There's not many people in the Commonwealth. Are there two billion?
Is it a billion? Of those are in India? Is
that right? That the way it works? It's a soft
metal Why going to the Olympics? We love those, didn't
we getting?

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
By the way, there's been some fuss about the biscuits
with the King Charles. You cross that story. During an
event the Prime Minister and others were treated to an
array of guests. There were anzac biscuits incorrectly labeled as cookies,

(01:05:58):
a move that could be technically illegal. There are explicit
regulations regarding the use of the word anzac, particularly in
two of food. Anzac biscuits must explicitly be called biscuits
and never referred to his cookies. The use of the
word Anzac and the commercial production cell of Anzac Biscuits

(01:06:19):
is approved. Whether biscuits must be referred to as Anzac
biscuits or Anzac slice, not Anzac cookies. Got somemons o't reacted.
This is shameful, a faux pas, wrong and sacrilege to
the memory of Australian veterans and told him they could
call a cookie when it's an Anzac biscuit. It's respectful,

(01:06:40):
disrespectful to our ANZACs who knew, by the way, what's
an Anzac slice that sounds delicious? And what's the thing
you want? Unbanned skyrockets, Marcus, bring back skyrockets, unbanned marijuana. Finally,

(01:07:01):
Marcus unbiased as I've worked in racing most of my life,
but do people realize if a greyhound is injured Greyhound
racing end Z pays for all the vet treatment, including
surgeries and care until the dog has found forever home.
They even fly them to the States to find you homes.
There is no higher regulated industry than racing. What about

(01:07:24):
someone says unbanned b way alcoholic sporting events? Oh, you
want to take the riot pack, Andrew, it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:07:34):
A INJX slice. Have you ever tried flapjack?

Speaker 22 (01:07:40):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
What if you tried INSEC slice?

Speaker 4 (01:07:42):
Well, I think it's flapjacks and it's God's gift. How
you are you? Make it a bit of butter, rolloads,
golden syrup, brown sugar, Put it in a put it
in a flat tray, bake it. It's like an Antax
slice to say.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
Which sounds chewy? Andrew? Is it chewy?

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
It's pretty chewy gold.

Speaker 3 (01:08:09):
Flapjack. You're calling it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:14):
A couple of teams.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
So it's like, is it like an oat slice? Yes,
brilliant like that. But what's an ansact slice? Is that
the same thing you reckon?

Speaker 18 (01:08:26):
I reckon?

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Okay, we'll find out. We'll ask some of the diggers
what that is? Who I can't stop singing a wiggle song,
which is a worry couldn't been near the wiggles for
a long long time. I keep one of the singing
who's in the wiggle house? Who's in the wiggle house? Today?
I'm in the wiggle house. Thank you for your letter,

(01:08:48):
Paul Douglas of Cory, much appreciated. It's all about darning.
It's taking a long trip. That letter it's gone via Auckland.
Who opened my letters? I thought it must be from prison.
I can't get letters from prison have been opened. We
are talking about the things you want unbanned. Someone says

(01:09:12):
urban bullrush. Bull rush is not banned. Someone wants urban
bike helmet law unbanned. Exactly, Marcus in you they needs
to chewy lolly such as milkshake lollies. Chewing helps the
years when they get blockboard dollies are awful, aren't they awful?

(01:09:33):
They've never been good, and they're so smug with them,
and you say, oh you look look at in these
air Look at you have a selfie with the hostess.
Here's a couple of cups of dollies to take home,
all for your pockets. Annoys me because I could they
have something really special. It was some of those Fijoa

(01:09:54):
flavor anyways, something really special anyway, that's just just a
wasted opportunity for marketing. Have I written them a letter
about that? I think I might have. You can imagine
it's a content you could drive in CUA magazine with
different flavors. You could vote for better flavors, all sorts
of stuff you could do with them. But I know
what are the flavors? White, red, blue, and green? Anyway?

(01:10:20):
And they wake you up to offer you one. I
don't want to sweet. I'm an adult. Should he use
in and ban the sweets? Strong calls to be in
the sweets? Not for me. I just said, you make
them better. They want to ban, they should call what
are we going to talkic should be called what are
we going to ban?

Speaker 11 (01:10:39):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
Although the government won't want to be anythings. They worry
it's going to go underground, like that was the thing
with smoking, wasn't it. They're worried about the black market. Oh,
they're worried about ram raids. They're right about the black market.
I think I can't remember. Good evening, Chris, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 23 (01:11:00):
I think you may have actually partly sold your own
dilemma of what to suck on the planes instead of
a boiled lolly. Earlier I heard you say a piece
of leather, and I thought how ridiculous you were just
talking about things.

Speaker 3 (01:11:20):
I thought I could have done better than saying a
bit of leather. I couldn't quite work out what to say.
There was something you could make or boil up anyway.

Speaker 23 (01:11:26):
Actually, and you've partly solved it. The solution came to
me just now that when you're talking about something a
bit more exciting. I was thinking of things that are kiwi,
like kiwi fruit and stuff, and then I thought of
a dried leather fruit, Like, yeah, fruits is like, we
could do kiwi fruit and other tropical fruits. They're not

(01:11:50):
taking his sugar sweets, but they are sweet, but they're
bit like leather.

Speaker 16 (01:11:54):
I have to say, I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
Chris, thank you. Yeah, Rod Mark is welcome. Yeah, good Rod.
What do you got.

Speaker 16 (01:12:02):
I'm just being down with my mate Shane down the
Long Marino. Massive fire going on down there.

Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
How's that started? Are you living there?

Speaker 17 (01:12:12):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
I mean, obviously it's a swamp. How's that started?

Speaker 16 (01:12:17):
Well, parts of the swamp, but there's a bit of
farmily around the site and apparently someone a little bit
of a cleared off and it's massive. I just can't
get over the size of it. Must be a thousand
Oh well.

Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
Really okay, because I'm looking at it. I'm looking at
this is like this is like sort of a cross
about the same. It's kind of across the motorway from
the drag raceway, Is that.

Speaker 16 (01:12:41):
Right, Yeah, definitely, hemped and down sort of where the
old where the old Mary Mary and the old power
station was in the old bucket line, that sort of thing.
It's just just in from there.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
So is most of the swamp on fire.

Speaker 16 (01:12:59):
No, it's a big area, but it seems to be
the higher ground, the bits that are just above the swamp.

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
Yeah, sure, yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 16 (01:13:08):
Just I can't believe how big it is.

Speaker 3 (01:13:10):
So it's really because there's heaps of flames you can
see from the road.

Speaker 16 (01:13:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, there's quite a lot of people sort
of just spectating.

Speaker 3 (01:13:19):
But okay, I'll talk more about that too, Rod, thanks
for coming through. Thanks for the intel. Our wait one
hundred eighty Teddy nine nine two to text Martin. It's Marcus, welcome,
good evening, Hi Martin.

Speaker 24 (01:13:31):
Today, Marcus. How's it going good?

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
Thank you? Yes, good, oud and clear, thank you. Yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:13:36):
I'm talking about unbanning of things, and it has happened
before with bicycle helmets, urban bicycle helmet wearing in Israel,
they used to have a law and they unbanned it,
and I reckon it's a great idea. If you look
at in terms of double standards. I was reading recently
and I think it was on stuff or something. They

(01:13:57):
said that rugby injuries in New Zealand the total cost
of head injury so rugby is three hundred million dollars
a year every year, and no one has to wear
a helmet for that. So I reckon bikes should definitely
be your unbanned bike helmet wearing.

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
Although I mean I agree with you because all that
happened when they made cycle helmets compulsory is that parents
to let the children bike to skull because they perceived
it was much more dangerous than probably it was. But

(01:14:34):
the thing about rugby isah, well sorry, the thing about
rugby is that a helmet's not going to stop the
head injuries, because the head injuries are from the brain
moving inside the scale. Maybe that might be the same
with bike. No, I don't think they are. I think
I think you do.

Speaker 24 (01:14:50):
Actually probably worry exactly right. No, okay, you're you're exactly right, Marcus.
I've got a friend who's a brain actually, he's a
lecturer in neurosurgery. Yes, and he said it's the same thing.
It stops lacerations on the head, but it doesn't stop
the injury inside the head.

Speaker 12 (01:15:04):
Actually, yeah, and.

Speaker 24 (01:15:05):
If you look the NZTA website, you'll see that more
people guy as pedestrians from head injuries from being hit
than cyclists have head injuries. So actually, all the data
out there says it should be unbanned.

Speaker 3 (01:15:19):
I still think that with the number of with the
arrival of much much bigger cars, these double cab buttes,
these giant cars, and people texting while they drive, it
is very dangerous to have people on bikes in the
same space as people in those cars. So yeah, I
think I think something needs to be done about though.

Speaker 24 (01:15:41):
What about urban like a couple of kids riding to
their neighbors in an urban environment, Yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
They are on well I mean those those people in
those double cab buttes. The townies have got them, haven't they.
And they when they struggle to drive them around the
things that because the roads aren't made for them, they
struggle to park they struggling car. But you know, I
just think we need save a play for kids to
bike to school on the same roads as people in
double care buttes texting, and they have every right to buy,

(01:16:06):
but it seems unfair to me. But yeah, I agree
with you. Yeah, unbettered.

Speaker 24 (01:16:11):
It's not so much that because it's not wrong, but
it's the fact that one is allowed, which is your
serious number of injuries for rugby, and one is not allowed.

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
You know, it just seems hypocritical, doesn't it.

Speaker 24 (01:16:23):
It is somewhat.

Speaker 18 (01:16:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:16:25):
Anyway, that was my ten cents.

Speaker 3 (01:16:26):
Thanks for making them, Mart, and I appreciate that. Come
through if you want to talking about and bending the sweets.
We're talking about Benning greyhound racing, ban, ban ban and
the things you want unbanned. Now, keep the Easter eggs,
but try keep the ladies, but try Easter eggs during
the time, and Christmas sweets during Christmas. They should have gepplanes, cheers,

(01:16:49):
cath What is this guy smoking? What does it even mean?
What is this guy smoking? Get in touch? Here'll twelve.
My name's Marcus. Welcome eight hundred and eighty Teddy in
nineteen nine to text. A lot of people aren't listening
for cly if people get the wrong end of the
stick of discussions, what's that about. I suppose we're all
doing two more than one thing at once, aren't we really?

(01:17:10):
Ten past ten?

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
The comet was disappointing. I think we've stated that by now,
haven't we?

Speaker 16 (01:17:16):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
And seien it? Have they? New Zealand's Best Sausage has
been chosen always an award for everything, now, isn't there
News Eden's Best Sausage Supreme Winner, Wesmere Butchery Pork and Leak,
Traditional Champion, Wesmere Butchery Pork and Leak, Continent or Fresh

(01:17:37):
Category Champion. My Party meets in Willington Venison Cherizo Sausage.
They got the People's Choice. I don't know how legit
these competitions are. I don't know if you need to use
the sponsor's product to begin. Princess Street Butcher and Donedan
got the Rational Pork Sausage, New World Birkenhead, That's for you,

(01:17:59):
Dan Pork, Alipino and Cheese, New World Birkenhead four Square,
martin Borough Beef and Tripled Cheese, Ketamole's Butchery, Kaiapoi Jalipinos,
smoked pepper and Ham Sausage, Gourmet Poultry Champion, Linx Quad.
He meets Dunedin Maple and Siracha chicken sausage, pre cooked

(01:18:24):
Zaroa Meats, Parnell Cheese, Taranaki sausage. I wish you instard
of reading this on board black pudding Pocono bacon, Johnny's
black pudding sausage. Nothing from Invericago. That's the best sausage people.
That's what he is entered to hand out, A nice
cooked sausage. That would be funnish your landing, wouldn't it.

(01:18:44):
That'd be a bit more interesting. Seems to be a
North Island mainly competition. Oh there's a Kranski at chop
online meets Jenny. It's Marcus. Good evening, Ah, hi Marks,
how you going? Oh Jenny? I like your voice. It's
got an interesting It's got an interesting, relaxed casual manner,

(01:19:05):
hasn't it.

Speaker 25 (01:19:06):
Oh you're pretty chilled mates. I've just come back on
you in New Zealand and we were given chocolates. Yeah
that was last week choice from Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
Wow. I think it's domestic. When you're landing they give
you sweets.

Speaker 25 (01:19:27):
Yeah. Well they did have sweets as well, but they
also had chocolates, little chocolates and rappers and they're delightful.

Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
Did you have a holiday?

Speaker 25 (01:19:37):
Great holidays?

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
Where were you went to Perth?

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
A long way to go, I know it was a.

Speaker 25 (01:19:43):
Long way, but it was quicker coming home.

Speaker 3 (01:19:45):
Did you have family there?

Speaker 25 (01:19:47):
No, No, just went on a tour cheaper.

Speaker 3 (01:19:50):
Did you go to Margaret River.

Speaker 25 (01:19:51):
Yep, we stayed two nights there.

Speaker 3 (01:19:53):
Wow. Do you go to the breweries?

Speaker 25 (01:19:56):
Yeah? I went to the wineries, beautiful place, went to
the chocolate place, scheepers.

Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
Sny sharks. No, it's any.

Speaker 25 (01:20:08):
Kangaroos, that's the kangaroos. Was it hot steady degrees one
day and then in betweenties the rest?

Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
Any bushfires?

Speaker 9 (01:20:19):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:20:20):
Oh, yes, he was all right. Do you go to
an Ozzie Rules match?

Speaker 15 (01:20:24):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:20:25):
Sounds like a good trip, doesn't it. I don't know
what chocolate toa would have been, but pretty nice to
hear from you. Paul Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:20:33):
Gooday Marcus, here you mate, Paul. Yeah, I just want
to talk about the grayhound racing. I don't think it
should be a band.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
Go on.

Speaker 7 (01:20:46):
I just think, you know, it's it's just one of
those things that happened in racing. I'm gonna say I've
been in the racing game. Like horse racing. You can
take a horse to the races and come home with
it settle, you know, and you know it's just it's
just one of those things. It's said. But there's life

(01:21:09):
and it's.

Speaker 24 (01:21:10):
Not come home.

Speaker 3 (01:21:11):
You come home with a saddle because the horse has
broken leg and they've shot it.

Speaker 7 (01:21:15):
Yes did what did?

Speaker 5 (01:21:17):
What?

Speaker 11 (01:21:19):
You know? It?

Speaker 7 (01:21:20):
Body said? That is really really said. But you've just
got to move on. It's life.

Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
But what will happen right for you? Guys? You're involved
in racing?

Speaker 7 (01:21:32):
A I was, but I'm not anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
But hey, have you been have you been to a
race meet lately?

Speaker 5 (01:21:40):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:21:41):
Not for some time.

Speaker 3 (01:21:42):
There's no one there. It's dying. It's dead on the vine. Yes,
I know that, but come on, that's because people are
gambling elsewhere and there's different forms of entertainment that it's
not keeping up.

Speaker 7 (01:21:55):
But come on, it keeps the country going, mate.

Speaker 3 (01:21:58):
I don't think it does.

Speaker 7 (01:22:00):
Oh I think it does.

Speaker 16 (01:22:01):
Mate.

Speaker 7 (01:22:02):
You can't just take because somebody or you've got some
activists or whatever you're talking about. You've just gotta just
got to move on. Just come on, don't let just
some something just because some animal breaks its leg or

(01:22:22):
what to move on?

Speaker 3 (01:22:25):
That's that's an animal that's broken its leg.

Speaker 7 (01:22:29):
Yeah, So so so what do you what do you say.

Speaker 3 (01:22:38):
Well, I think probably if you are representative of the industry,
you kind of your perceptions are abou outdated because people
people are concerned about that sort of stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:22:48):
Yeah, I know that I care for animals. Mate, I've
got I've had two little dogs for fifteen fifteen years.
I love them the bits. I last one three months ago.
Oh mate, it broke my heart. Onto was a wee Bailey.

Speaker 3 (01:23:07):
There's also there's also animal rights to people that people
that think people shouldn't keep animals as pits as well,
but that's a form of exploitation.

Speaker 18 (01:23:16):
Big button.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
There's also groups of people that don't think animals should
be kept as pits.

Speaker 7 (01:23:23):
Well, what I know, I'm not talking about greyhounds. So
i haven't got a greyhound. I've got you know, I
had a I've got poodles and I've still got one
as Monty. I had BALLI I last Bay about four
months ago.

Speaker 9 (01:23:46):
No, no, no, he.

Speaker 7 (01:23:46):
Just said a tumor and had to do the human thing,
you know, and you know, it's it's life, but it's
just got to move on. Don't let some bureau cats
and say, oh that we've got to do this and
we're going to do that.

Speaker 9 (01:24:03):
Let let you know.

Speaker 7 (01:24:04):
It's in the industry quite and racing visit in the industry,
you've got to you've just got a little go Well.

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
Of course they don't have to do anything. They probably
will bend it because around the world greyhound racing seems
to be in a very steep decline. America's just about
got rid of it. I think it's just only in
New Zealand, Australia and England now and what gone.

Speaker 7 (01:24:28):
But why because you're just going to take you know,
people's business away. It's not because people want to be cool.
I just think you've just got to just move on.

Speaker 3 (01:24:45):
I don't know what moving I don't know what moving
on means, really.

Speaker 7 (01:24:50):
What he means, I mean, just let the industry do
its business.

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
The industry, the industry, particularly dog racing's had a long
time to reform and there's continual stories of abuse and
the dragging of dog and live baiting and all sorts
of things. So the industry themselves haven't really won themselves.
And ipplaud it for treading the dogs fairly.

Speaker 7 (01:25:16):
But can't you tell me that that doesn't happen in
the horse racing.

Speaker 3 (01:25:21):
I don't know. I don't know that much about horse racing.
I presume it probably does happen.

Speaker 7 (01:25:24):
It does, it does, there you go, it does.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
But said, okay, I just think you're saying I'm just
going to sick of you're saying you've got to move
on because it doesn't act. That's not really an argument
because people are entitled to their opinion, and over time
people's opinions change. Things that we did one hundred years
ago are no longer considered legitimate things to do. Now.

(01:25:50):
There used to be animals and circuses, right, they're no
longer a thing. It was cruel. There were dancing elephants
and dancing beers and stuff. They've gone. No one wants
them back anymore.

Speaker 7 (01:26:01):
No, But then then then newtn't come back to us,
like saying to where when I'll go to vote? Are
we going to trust the politicians what they're going to
tell us? And then they don't deliver. It's the same ding.

Speaker 3 (01:26:17):
Oh yeah, I don't let you go, Paul, because it's
doing my ahead in a bit with what you're saying.
But thank you, Marcus just came back to the States
on a US air Line delta, if you're allowed to
name them. Didn't get lollies, but a prize treat and said,
stalmonella from the chicken. How do you know? How do
people know so quickly where their food poison comes from? Marcus?
Should they not go out macintosh toffee's favorite? Hearing his end, no, well,

(01:26:40):
I agree it'd be better. What's this guy smoking means?
You're smoking something good? Were you ever a drinker? I
don't think that's what this guy smoking means, Marcus. I
got the comment tonight from the beach at Park Kakaiki.
It's not visible to the naked eye. You need about
fifteen second exposure. Boom, Hi Peter, it's Marcus. Good evening

(01:27:03):
and welcome, Thank you Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:27:06):
That gentleman before me. I totally agree with them. And
the reason why the crowds aren't is big at the
racecourse is due to the track side bringing it to
your living room, your choice if you want to watch it.
And I saw a race at Rickets or a few
years ago Ricket and Racecourse here in christ to Itch

(01:27:29):
and Okay, a horse broke his leg. They covered it,
took it away and they shot it. And I don't
know what they do with the greyhounds. I can't comment
on that. But you can't ban for the sake of
banning markers. Can you be banning Peter markers, you'll be banned.

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
Hang on, Peter. No one's saying, and no one's saying
they're banning it for the sake of banning it. It's
a sport that's dying in America. They've gone hang on
in America, they've gone from fifty dog racing tracks to two. Right,

(01:28:12):
if you look at the number of the number of
greyhound breeders and owners in this country, it's a sport
that's not growing. It's done its dash. And part of
the reason it's part of the reason that it's done
its dash is that people kind of don't like it.
They say it has been.

Speaker 14 (01:28:27):
Cruel, no different to horse racing.

Speaker 3 (01:28:31):
Yeah, that's right, and probably in twenty years horse racing
will go two.

Speaker 14 (01:28:35):
It's silly, bloody hope not. It's well, I'll.

Speaker 3 (01:28:39):
Tell you what I mean, horse racing. There's all I mean.
When horse racing was its at its height, there weren't
really any other forms of gambling apart from the occasional
art union ticket. Now, of course we've got casinos, we've
got loto. People can gamble in all sorts of different ways,
so the industry is spread out and horse racing hasn't adapted.
You go to the horse and I know the horse

(01:28:59):
race is quite often it's full of probably half a
dozen pensioners smoking outside looking at their form book. There's
no one there. The food's good, the drink's not good,
or the buildings are run down. It's terrible.

Speaker 14 (01:29:14):
Yep, I do agree with here, but it's all designed
for track side.

Speaker 3 (01:29:21):
Well, then they've wrecked the tracks. Then track sie wrecked
it because apart from the Christmas totally apart from the
Christmas race meets where everyone gets paralleemically drunk and crawls
around the field, it's the only time the race has
seem busy. You got them either full of drunken work
parties or no one there.

Speaker 14 (01:29:43):
Well, I can't comment on that because I do go
to the old Christmas meeting and I don't see that
sort of thing. But okay, it is many people there.
But during the year, say from about February through too, yeah, okay, September, yes,
is bugger or their track side. You are correct, they've

(01:30:03):
wrecked it. But back in the sixties seventies, I'm seventy
two and Hey, you know that's all we've gone on
the radio. That's racing yep.

Speaker 3 (01:30:18):
And now the radio station rad in PACIFICUS you talk
about and crossing now to the third racer, Trent and
racing this time they come back even to talk back
then across to the dividend dividends. Loved it, but.

Speaker 14 (01:30:33):
No, no, I'm I'm not a big gambler, but I
follow it. And I don't gamble between June and in
July and bit of August. No, no I don't because
I save it for November and November's Cup week here
in christ I love Cup Week. They're too right. Couple

(01:30:55):
weeks good and you get about eighteen to twenty five
thousand out there, rickon and and he's the markers. No,
you can't bloody ban dog racing.

Speaker 3 (01:31:06):
But I think will happen. I think of that bet.
I think it'll just run out of steam. Because what
happens does people change what they want to do? You know,
people doing different things these days.

Speaker 14 (01:31:14):
It's their choice, yeah, and they probably choose to choice,
and my choice. I don't gamble on a machine. You
can't yell and scream at the bloody thing.

Speaker 3 (01:31:24):
Nice to hear from your Peter Marcus, the guy was
right about the broken leag You have to move on,
otherwise you only end up betting, horse racing, pig hunting,
driving cars, and dairy farming. I've been involved in all
the above and still involved in some of them. Believe me,
the largest amount of cruelty is at carving time in
the dairy industry. That's from jacks. Horses are not shot

(01:31:46):
after race datasasses are euthanizedman euthanized humanly by lethal injections.
Peter is talking rubbish. Oh yeah, I mean you enjoy
racing while at last, because it won't be around forever.
Just the economics of it won't stack up forever. The
people have moved on to other things. Sports bilding's huge

(01:32:08):
now and that's what people are punting on. And that's
got its own concerns, but that seems to be the
growth industry. You just see how many time they're advertising,
advertising everywhere now, sports building, look at the league, all
those sorts of things. Look at the names of the
league stadiums. Sure a lot of happening off here tonight,

(01:32:28):
Actually not that much happening off here. I had some
interesting things to tell you from tales from the City today, No,
I haven't. What was I going to tell you. I
did go back and watch season two of that Australian
series Hunted, which I watched in one sitting, which I
shouldn't have been for about ten hours. I thought it
was pretty good. I mean, it's all a bit contrived

(01:32:52):
because they make up they've got CTV footage and they haven't.
But yeah, I know over the years people often said
it's a good show. The British one's a bit British.
I think the other thing about that show Hunted, when
they have people kind of being chased around cities, the
law enforcement people come across as quite I'm likable. It

(01:33:19):
was my thoughts, Marcus. I noticed that next Thursday is Halloween,
and I was wondering if I suggest Monster Mesh is
the intro soul in the day instead of the wonderful
Jennifer Rush. Yeah. I don't do different songs. I'm not
kind of themy up sort of a person because always
sounds a bit twee appep sort of do obvious songs,

(01:33:41):
don't they like Melbourne Cup Day they go I just yeah,
I mean I might have misjudged that one, but that's
kind of not the way I do the things. Voice
thought the answer is to ignore the obvious song. But yeah, Halloween,
I mean, basically from this audience, I know on next
Thursday people will be terrified because people be knocking on
their door. Should be heading out any New Zealand sweet,

(01:34:04):
shouldn't you. That's a trick end to treat. But yeah, Fortunately,
I think Halloween hasn't really taken off in this country.
That's my understanding. And I don't think it's taken off
because people are but freaked out and confused by it.

(01:34:26):
Takes a while to bed in, but probably they're confused
by it because of the sheer amount of total junk
that has sold at countdown Kmart and Woolworths, so Countdown
Camart in the warehouse in the name of Halloween, I mean,

(01:34:47):
for goodness sake, how many plastic pumpkins do we need?
Just terrible and at some level all families have got
to rebel against that plastic junk. No one likes it.
No one likes a plastic pumpkin. Had to go back
to the warehouse today to get my wooden coat hangers.

(01:35:07):
They do quite a good wooden coat hanger. I had
to get some more of the wooden coat hangers I
was looking for. Of course I couldn't find them. I
went back to where I brought them last time, there
were none there. Had to look on my phone and
said there was some install Then Vanessa had to go
to the front desk and they said that at the
end of Aisle twenty nine. I went to the end

(01:35:30):
of Aisle twenty nine and there were some black coat
hangers there, but no white coat hangers there. But what
had happened is someone had clearly tried on a giant
hot dog costume and then decided not to buy it
and had discarded it on top of the white coat hangers.
That's why I couldn't see them anyway. Fairy good warehouse

(01:35:53):
experience for me in and out normally see someone at
the warehouse or no, look you at the warehouse day.
That's a surprise. But did notice some terrible looking Halloween stuff,
So yes, that is how lloween. Fortunately our kids don't
they're not into that. That's not something that they do.
Never really have done that. I think in Bluff they's

(01:36:17):
a Facebook group and people can put out the house
as you can go. I think one of the Daaries
dresses itself. Well, there's only two Diaries now with actually
one dairy and bluff. They's a dairy in a supermarket.
There used to be Once upon a time there was
three dairies. There might have been more so, Yes, one
of the Daries does kind of a spooky, kind of
a theme. I'd forgotten about that. Go them eighteen to eleven.

(01:36:50):
All the lines are free, the thing you like unbanned
soir Travis Scott playing Eden Park and Halloween ironic as
are you dressed as a gangster or scaring the local
resids from Lolly's or both? Tell me about Trevor Scott
is he really playing? I don't know about that. And
one of the by the way to one of the
original singers too from Iron Maiden has died or I

(01:37:12):
think he's the original singer bar one maybe Thursday five
through the Edon Park. I'm gonna be a big deal
because there are many chances to play at Eden Park,
so that's going to happen. A lot happens this time
of the year. We've got when's Thanksgiving, all that's ages away,

(01:37:37):
We've got Halloween, We've got Guy Fawkes, We've got the
American election. We've got the Melbourne Cup and three of
those are on the same day, and the Cox Plates
this weekend, and yeah, so that's happening. Ken says. England

(01:38:03):
has never had the America's Cup. There you go, there's
the fact check for you. Eight hundred and eighty taddy
nine nine two to text. So yes, he's right. The
very first race was in England, but was one. The

(01:38:28):
America's Cup is the oldest competition ind national sport and
the fourth oldest continuous sporting traphy any kind. Was first
race for on the twenty second of August around the
Isle of Wight and a race between the New York
Yacht Club and fifteen Yacht the Royal Yacht Squadron. Race
was witnessed by Queen Victoria in the future Edward the

(01:38:49):
seventh and was won by America. This is considered to
be the first America's Cup race, So there you go. Well,
they could always conclude that if they had started the event.
But fair enough. I'll take your point there. Now, what
else do you want to talk about? In the lollies?

(01:39:15):
Look Sharp seems to be the shop to go to
for Halloween. Glad that I don't have to get involved.
There you go, Marcus Hope your predictions are incorrect, and
dog racing as band as soon as possible, and horse
racing in Rodeo's band before too long. Where do race
horses go when they are no longer economical? At least

(01:39:37):
there is greyhound Rescue. I am shocked by the attitudes
of some cause I believe you just move on from
animal cruelty. Love your show regards Jenny World. Yeah, and
I think to the whole thing about animal cruelty is
that I don't even know how way to go with this.

(01:39:59):
But when you watch some of those shows on the
TV channels looking to all those people in America that
own chimps and things like that, chimpanzees is pets, and
a lot of the people make up they've got these
pets because they love them and they love animals and
they're like members of the family. And actually when the
cameras go undercover, what they really are doing is breeding

(01:40:20):
them for profit and terrible conditions. So, as with everything
in the world, there seems to be a huge amount
of hypocrisy and what people say they're doing what they
actually do are two different things. So yeah, interesting, So
there you go or you can't ban stuff. People say, oh,

(01:40:44):
you can't just ban things. But what people need to
do is they need to realize that, I mean, people's
attitudes change. Things change, and horse racing is not the
great loved sport that it once was. Most people probably
have very little involvement with it. And you know, you

(01:41:04):
go to the go to the races and there's a pestive.
It's not a very I mean us kind of nostalgic
people kind of like the old world charm of the racing.
You feel like time travel, going back in time. But
for most people, you know, they like their flesh food
and their flesh wine. You don't get that at the races.
It's all a bit down and dirty. So it's all

(01:41:25):
right to go to once a year. Them just kept
up with the times. So people have moved on. And
also people think it's wrong to use animals for entertainment.
Not everyone, but an increasing number of people. And over time,
attitudes change. But what you've got to do is you've

(01:41:45):
got to address those attitudes realistically. You can't just say, oh,
the animals love winning, because that's just garbage. You might say, well,
I think the animals seem to enjoy it. But we
don't really know, do we I don't think an animal
likes falling and breaking its leg and being euthanized. No

(01:42:07):
one wants that, But there we go. This is all
on the back of the story that there's been a
number of greyhound dogs have died recently and save animals
from exploitation or experimentation or something are asking that the
sport of greyhound racing being banned. I think the governments

(01:42:28):
are waiting a decision on that, and the government won't
want to ban greyhound racing, partially because you're in a
encouraged agreement with Winston Peters, who is pro racing, and
also because the government won woult look like they're a
government that tells people what they can and can't do.
No government wants to ban something that people enjoy. But
you know, it's a sport that's enjoying much less popularity

(01:42:55):
around the world now because of people's concerns for the animals.
And also gambling's changed. There's now a lot more avenues
for gambling. There's sports get gambling, and there's Pokey's and
there's lotto. And we've also got to understand too that
gambling itself is problematic that yeah, we might think it's

(01:43:21):
great Beau's great sport that people in gamble on. There's
also huge downsides to gambling that the racing industry people
are very keen to keep people unaware of. But you know,
it's not always a happy kind of scenario. The whole
gambling people get hooked on gambling. Anyway, enough from me
and the New Zealand lollies, they want to ban those

(01:43:44):
now it's a bad time to be having sweets as
when you're in the when you're in a plane for
damaging to your mouth. Apparently. My take on the lollies is, boy,
couldn't they provide something more interesting? They're a terrible lolly.
They've been the same for fifty years and they're duds.
How would you tell if horses and joy racing and

(01:44:06):
how would you do don't organize races amongst themselves? Do
they or do they? I know what the answer that is.
I've never ready thought about that because ideally want a donkey,
but I'm not going to get the next race. I
don't know where I'm going to get a donkey. They
live for fifty years, then you've got to get two
of them. Good evening, Helger. It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 17 (01:44:30):
Oh hi, I'm the wist In Butchery because I used
to live in Grayland. It's a nineteen Wristin Road Grayland. Yes,
and you can buy all the things online.

Speaker 3 (01:44:45):
Really yep.

Speaker 17 (01:44:47):
And they have a branch up and walk with which
they're they're related, so they have a very old organic
butcher up there too, same same family.

Speaker 3 (01:44:58):
Oh god, I can't think where that road is.

Speaker 17 (01:45:05):
Wistin Roads near Cox's Bay. You know you've got here in.

Speaker 3 (01:45:10):
Bay, down past the past the rowing club.

Speaker 16 (01:45:14):
Yeah, I know, yeah, a little bit further.

Speaker 17 (01:45:18):
But I haven't bought much meat, but I've bought the
chickens organic too.

Speaker 3 (01:45:23):
So it's on the corner of Garnet Road, isn't it.

Speaker 17 (01:45:27):
Yep, that's right, it's still there.

Speaker 3 (01:45:29):
Oh yeah, is that fact? She she cafe with all
the white furnitures through. I've been there. I've been there. Yeah,
I know where we are.

Speaker 17 (01:45:36):
Okay, I share that with the group.

Speaker 3 (01:45:40):
Share that with the group. Yeah, okay. Have you tried
the pork and leak?

Speaker 17 (01:45:46):
No, I haven't. I must go there. I've got sore feet,
but I go shopping and grayl and I go to
Richard Road to fruit World and another bread shop, bred
and butters. So I must go and have a look
have it. I can see what they are.

Speaker 3 (01:46:03):
Nice to hear from your helga. Mm no calls so
far about the vocalist from Iron Maiden who has died.
It's eighty six. I think it's in the first two
albums Troubled Life. It seems incarceration, domestic abuse, cocaine I
think was his drug of choice, and jailed in the

(01:46:26):
US and injured from motorbikes, but performed on stage in
a wheelchair. Sepsis got him in the end. I think
I was sure what sepsis is, but don't want it.
Maybe might take on that one. Nevilette's Marcus, Welcome, Good evening,
high Neville.

Speaker 19 (01:46:45):
Yeah, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:46:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:46:47):
I'm just going to give him what I want to
talk about. A racehorse set I knew very very well
when I was only four or five years of age.
But down in Timroy, where I lived, where I was born,
the dad had a friend that had this horse and

(01:47:09):
he used to train it out of Saltwater Creek just
south of Timroy, and he really he used to load
it up with sandbags when it was very young, and
and train it out there, and and Dad felt sorry
for the horse, but he couldn't do anything about it.
But anyway, I'll cut it short. This particular horse ended

(01:47:32):
up going over to Australia and it got poisoned in
Australia and it got killed, like it was poisoned to death.
And because it was winning all the races in Australia,
So then the what they do do it? Then they

(01:47:55):
cut the heart out of that horse. And that's in Melbourne,
and they in the what's the name in Melbourne? M
did something else with the head and or is it?
But I can tell you the name of it? Well,
I tell you the name of that now? Or do
you can you guess?

Speaker 3 (01:48:14):
Well you're talk about parlep right?

Speaker 19 (01:48:16):
Yes I am.

Speaker 3 (01:48:16):
Yes, So your dad had experience with filip.

Speaker 19 (01:48:20):
Oh hell you yeah, I've said on that horse when
I was only four or five years of age, said yeah, yeah.
And the only like Mum held me on the horse,
you know, and the horse was only young then. I
don't know when then the horse was born, but I
think the horse was only two or three year old when
I was on it. Wow, And that all happened down

(01:48:43):
and on the watch store he had was side there
on the seaside. Uh, and he used to gallop him
up and down there on the sea side of.

Speaker 3 (01:48:52):
The sea Dale. Is it the name of the place?

Speaker 19 (01:48:57):
Yes, between see them, Yes, that's right, you're right, you're right, yeah, yes,
see see. Then it's just sort of it's it's a
way bit north of washed like that, but it's all
the same, the same coastline. Yeah. Yeah, you get to get.

Speaker 3 (01:49:13):
To the sea the race course yourself at all?

Speaker 12 (01:49:16):
Did I do you?

Speaker 19 (01:49:19):
No? No, not really, I I know I hadn't. I'll
only bet on them if someone gives me a shore winner,
and then the sure winner hardly ever win.

Speaker 3 (01:49:29):
So why do people say that. I don't know what
the mentality of that is. When people say, oh, that's sure,
what are They're always wrong?

Speaker 19 (01:49:35):
They are, I know that. But because they tell me
that and I believe them, I get sucked in. Then
I'll go and put ten backs each way on it,
and believe it or not, I have one a bit
of money. I took a bus load of people from
christs Here over to over to the west coast to

(01:49:58):
Camara is it here?

Speaker 11 (01:50:00):
Ye?

Speaker 19 (01:50:01):
Yeah? And we left to know that it was sex
one morning and got over there in time for the
first race, and yeah, and somebody told me to back
this particular horse in the last race, and it was
horse number seven, and seven and eleven were always my

(01:50:23):
favorite numbers, you know, So I thought, oh, well, so
I kept some money for the last race, and I
put I think I put twenty five dollars each way
on it. That's what I had left, fifty dollars. And
this thing come in and paid, it paid. I think
it was just over a thousand bucks. Yeah, so I

(01:50:45):
was loaded. Then everyone was so happy for me. On
the bus back home and all the instrument called in
somewhere and shattered them the drink. It's one of the
pubs on the way.

Speaker 3 (01:50:53):
Oh would you call them? We needed to have those
details that tell a good story.

Speaker 19 (01:50:57):
I'm not sure where the hell it was, but it
was a pub on the way home. It wasn't. It
wasn't the first or second public when you leave. It
was after we got up over the pass.

Speaker 3 (01:51:13):
Who were the crowd. Who were the crowd you organized
to go across.

Speaker 19 (01:51:17):
Littleton Workingmen's Club?

Speaker 3 (01:51:19):
Oh yeah, one of the men's club.

Speaker 19 (01:51:21):
Yeah. Well, one next thing I've said that wrong, but
we could get away with it. The Littleton Club, that
is the what everyone calls the Littleton Club, is not
the Littleton Club. The Littleton Club is still there, it
still operates. It's a club with no windows, and it's

(01:51:44):
a long club, and it's a rifle range. And that's
the little that's the Littleton Club, the top club. It's
just called uh little hang on and getting myself backed up.
But the Littleton Workingmen's Club is the rifle range one.
And the Littleton Club is as you know, it looks

(01:52:05):
out over the ocean and the Littleton Harbor.

Speaker 3 (01:52:08):
So if you're a rifle range in it and not
in the Littleton Club, but the Littleton the other one.

Speaker 19 (01:52:16):
Yeah, the Littleton working Men's Club has got a rifle
range in it. Really yes, yeah, and you and you
find live ammunition three O three.

Speaker 3 (01:52:27):
Rifle what was it got there?

Speaker 19 (01:52:30):
That's what it was. That's what I was designed for.
Rifle range. Yeah, you know, not many not many places
in New Zealand would have a rifle range, were they?

Speaker 3 (01:52:39):
No all.

Speaker 19 (01:52:41):
A lot of Femen used to use it. They loved it.
I was president of the Littleton of the uh Seafarer
Center for years. I was president in the Littleton Club
as well, but the Seafarer Center.

Speaker 3 (01:53:00):
And were you at sea?

Speaker 19 (01:53:03):
No, no, no, no, no, I've never I've always had boats,
you know, big boats and little boats. No, I've never
been to sea as a pay job.

Speaker 3 (01:53:17):
Yet you should say yep, well.

Speaker 19 (01:53:22):
Yeah, I still go to see quart of it. But
he'll I'll be eighty in next January, so it's not
far away.

Speaker 3 (01:53:31):
And any reviews of the Riflemen's Club, of the Rifle
Club there, you didn't know. I can't see it.

Speaker 19 (01:53:42):
Oh and this is closed up, but it will still
be there because it's no good for anything else. Like
there was no windows in it that you couldn't even
put what it was like a tunnel, you know?

Speaker 3 (01:53:56):
Someone let un know about that? Old investigate food about
that and ne will thank you at the age. Yet
it must have been young when riding far let must
be like about minus ten Welcome people market till twelve
getting touched you eight hundred and eighty Teddy and nineteen
nine to the text, whatever you got up for it,
got the coffee mix wrong, tonight, ready for bed, well man,

(01:54:21):
good to go for about three in the morning, but
just got the mix of it wrong. Cheap as bet
catcher Evening Marcus Filap won the Melbourne Cup in nineteen
twenty nine. Marcus still file up a few weeks back
in the Melbourne Museum. It's been retexted and looks fantastic.

(01:54:42):
Great exhibition, Phil Marcus, Welcome evening.

Speaker 6 (01:54:47):
Hey getting Marcus. I've got mixed views about the horse racing.
I know, having grown up on a farm, it's pretty
impossible to get a horse to do something it doesn't
want to do. But it still seems that it mean
what they do to it, what they do to them.
I thought of what beck, I thought, what did your name?

Speaker 18 (01:55:07):
Horse?

Speaker 6 (01:55:08):
And I'd let you register that horse name, and you know,
and the race callers would call it for a race,
and I was thinking, my favorite is he's hitting me again.
I've got a few more here, so that's that's the
told my list I've got. They'll treat me as I fall.

(01:55:31):
There's a little man on me. Are we there yet?

Speaker 18 (01:55:35):
What's the hurry?

Speaker 6 (01:55:37):
I'm not enjoying this. I need to poop. I've got
a blister. I'd rather be glue. I'll be sausages by tomorrow.
I identify as a cat. This race is fixed and
all their wives are taller. But I think that the
two good two favorites are He's hitting me again and

(01:55:57):
there's a little man on me. I think those those
two are my my favorites. For race horse names.

Speaker 3 (01:56:03):
I think you have to call it something to pass
the board. They didn't realize until the caller was until
Sheldon Mirtha or someone was on to it. But there
we go. That's good, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (01:56:12):
Yeah. Yeah, I'd like to actually with one of my
comedian friends and actually do a call a race, do
it as a skiff, yes, and those will be the race.
I'm quite quite proud of some of those.

Speaker 3 (01:56:30):
I because my attitude to racing is because I live
in Southland and racing is such a big part of it.
I mean, I just enjoy it because it seems to
be I enjoy the nostalgia of racing. And I'm also
very much aware that I'll go to as many race
weeks as I can because I know, even the twenty
five years I've been in Southland, you know so many
racecourses have closed. It's consolidated and it's not gonna be
around much longer. So enjoy it while you can. But

(01:56:53):
you tell the people about that, and they you know,
they defend it to the end because it's all that
because no one likes change. But it's it's a very
it's a very it's a very un funded, it's a
very underfunded, downbeat looking product these days. I mean, they certainly,
you know, they'll put a they'll poured a couple of

(01:57:14):
race cars out the back for the kids and stuff
like that, but it very much is the preaching that
they converted you still have, yeah, very much.

Speaker 6 (01:57:24):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I think the
horse racing a little bit like some other sports, very
can be very majestic and a very regal event, you
know when they're done, done right, but a look bit
like the It's not as extreme as the bullfighting, but
the bullfighting, you know, used to be the uniforms and

(01:57:46):
the the I mean, you know, there was it was
a real performance, but obviously that's even more harsh to
the animals, and yes, probably needed to end.

Speaker 13 (01:58:00):
But there's a few others.

Speaker 6 (01:58:01):
I mean, the polos can be quite an amazing spectacle.
But yeah, you know when you see those horses fall
and you just think enough, I can really well and
enjoy this.

Speaker 3 (01:58:15):
A scott Park once for the guy's birthday, had a
private room there and classic Southern story, you know. It
was racing day and they had a lingerie show, not
for the horses can but in the meantime a horse
had fallen, so there was a lingerie. Yeah, the women
were in lingerie, but the horse had fallen, so the

(01:58:37):
horses on the track. There were the curtains up around
it before they euthanized or shot the horse. In the
meantime there was a lingerie show going on with people
sort of parading in. That was bizarre and I think
it's probably Yeah. Anyway, nice to talk to you, Phil,
Thank you, good evening. John AT's Marcus, welcome ten to twelve.

Speaker 18 (01:58:58):
Yes, I don't know what the time was on the
chatams a little bit later than you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:59:02):
Are you on the chatams.

Speaker 18 (01:59:04):
I'm calling from the chatams.

Speaker 3 (01:59:06):
You're on your Nice to hear from you. Thank you
for ringing.

Speaker 18 (01:59:09):
No, good Mark, I see your horses. We're horse people
on the chat Yes, grandparents are you know? Not myself,
but grandparents and my father they were race horse racing people.
And yeah, the horses loved to race, all right. And
when we were in it for the money, it wasn't
like big steaks or anything. But you know, the horses

(01:59:33):
would train themselves, you know that they'll be seeing the
other horses down the track and they'd start pacing and
they knew what it was about. They loved it. And
we didn't race them hard though. It was just a
couple of races a year at Christmas and a couple
of race days and.

Speaker 3 (01:59:48):
It was you have races.

Speaker 18 (01:59:50):
There were the oldest race race horse race track in
New Zealand. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:59:57):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:59:57):
And obviously obviously obviously it's it's not harness racing, but
it's it's you've got.

Speaker 18 (02:00:04):
Jock, we've got into harness racing. We have got into
it lately. I haven't been to the racers for a
few years, but yeah, amazing.

Speaker 3 (02:00:15):
Is there a story about the how the first horse
got there?

Speaker 18 (02:00:21):
No doubt there would be, But I don't know about that.
We used to trade with a lot of our horses
come from Ossie back in the day, back in the
sailing ship days. We used to trade potatoes and that
sort of thing. And yeah, one about Yeah, that was
our main I think one of our main places for
getting horses. Well, yeah, we New Zealand was like that.

(02:00:43):
I suppose plowering paddocks and transport.

Speaker 3 (02:00:47):
To many Many of the mainlanders come across. Do A
lot of people attend the e racing event every year.

Speaker 18 (02:00:58):
See people come across. But yeah, it's the whole island
pretty much turns up hundred of us.

Speaker 3 (02:01:05):
Wow, and me something to the horses just roam wild
the rest of the year.

Speaker 18 (02:01:12):
Pretty much some people. No, there is some keen horse
horse people here and they look after some nice horses
for sure. But yeah, they come in most slightly four
or five months, three or four months before Christmas and
start training. Yes, with my grandfather, he had a horse.
He had a horse, I think it was called Island Cracker,

(02:01:33):
I'm not sure, going back into the eighties, and the
horse would never really run, won a lot of races,
and then it was quite old, and they trained quite hard,
I think, like up and down the beaches and what
have you held training and then they sort of put
it out and then it trained itself, and then they

(02:01:54):
talked to the races and it kicked the ass. It
just won year after year like until it was like
seventeen or eighteen Wow, this year. Can't train them too
hard to spoke, But anyway, it was my little garn.

Speaker 3 (02:02:09):
And do they hate John? Does the tabar put a
tote on it or is that not official for that?

Speaker 18 (02:02:16):
No, we just have a I'm not sure how they
it's like you can't bet on horses. Just lucky sort
of thing.

Speaker 3 (02:02:26):
Okay, understand. And they have no trouble getting they have
no trouble getting enough people to ride them.

Speaker 18 (02:02:33):
It can be Yeah, you have to get some people,
get people some of them. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (02:02:40):
I like to get out Yeah, I'd like to get
out there sometimes. John, Nice to hear from you. I
think it's hap past twelve where you are, not for you, Karen,
it's half past eleven where you are, care and it's
ten to eleven where you are, Karen. Thanks John, Nice
to hear from you. The other sporting event I've been
to a number of years is they always had an
exciting horse race in Tiano where they had down the
main street there. They had two horses going head to

(02:03:03):
head harness down the main street. Fantastic went for a
number of years, but it got a bit sketchy. I
think that I think I actually think they might have
closed it down because the safety concerns. I think one
of the horses went into the crowd one year and
one year it became freef we wet and that was
a bit sketchy as well, but great event just yet.

(02:03:26):
I don't know where who organized it, but but yeah,
it went for years down a street. They put sand
and bear I don't know they put sand. They put
barriers down the side of it. But you'd have jewels
and you could bet on it. But I think you
bet for money and then you got auction and buy
stuff towards the end. I'd forgotten about. That was a
great event. It was a really good event. But must

(02:03:51):
have stopped about ten years ago. Great town, Tiana if
you get there anytime. Anyway, it was a brilliant event.
But yeah, that's gone, and I'm gone soon too. That's
almost time for me, people. Pretty effortless night for me. Actually,
I'll take one. Why no, we've got well to be fair,

(02:04:16):
you did say to that gentleman, must have been minus ten?
Made me laugh, Well, exactly minus ten. Old farlebbe no
one's bench. In the episode of The Simpsons with the
when Bart brought a greyhound for Christmas, they actually went

(02:04:37):
to the races to get money on the dog for
a sure, tip, but that came last, so they brought
the dog as a present for the others. Sends us
little helper. That's right, and we learned a couple of
weeks ago that sends us a little helper. It's parent
was called Shee Biscuit, which is a clever name. And
we learned all of that. I will return tomorrow for

(02:04:58):
the Wednesday free for all. In the meantime, if you
want to email me Marcus at news Talks, there'd be
doc dot inteed enjoyed all of that.

Speaker 1 (02:05:12):
For more from Marcus Slash Nights, listen live to News
Talk Set B from eight pm weekdays, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio.