That's telling off material (24 October 2024)

Marcus talks candles, calendars, baseball, and adults playing video games.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from News
talks'd be part of my prep for tonight show is
to look where the New Zealand cricket team are playing,
which is at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Puney.
But you know, looking around, stadium seems to be in
the middle of no man's name. Putty is a big city,
seven million people. It seems to be on the outskirts

(00:29):
of Putty. For what I can understand, they must be
expecting a lot more growth. Also, I can't see where
the car parks are, and I can't see where the
trains are biggs, all sorts of mind you. I suppose
what I thought was a subdivision about dwipers actually car parks.
I think that might be it, as long as you're
taking the photo for Google Maps or for Google Sky
when in fact a cricket match wasn't playing. Anyway, always

(00:52):
find it interesting to find the stadiums on Google Maps
and work out the angles of the pitch and where
the cameras are focusing on. I'll keep you updated by
one sixteen foto a boundary there also so too. That's
good going Conway on sixty four hour of Vendra nine.
That's the four seven million people, but doesn't seem to
have that many railways in it actually poony, but maybe

(01:13):
E they're underground or maybe I just can't see them.
Hope things are going. Every time I look at the
and there, I always feel sorry for that guy that
couldn't that got adopted out it was five and spent
the whole time looking on Google Maps to work out
where he was from with the railway stations. Thing was
called lion. Found that harrowing because you imagine they're just
going through Google Maps the whole time looking at all

(01:35):
the rail network. Anyway, Now, I hope tonight has found
you in good form, and if not, I hope things
get better by the time I have finished. And if
not better, not worse worser eight hundred and eighty E
Teddy and nine two nine to text markets till twelve

(01:57):
all manner of things we could talk about tonight. I
had some very good emails tonight. One email, because we
were talking last night about sundials. One email has shown
me a digital sundal. You might have seen that online.
It's pretty amazing. It's a sundial from Rio and it's digital.

(02:23):
It's pretty extraordinary. So I'll get them on to Facebook
when I get time to talk to Dan and send
stuff up there. But anyway, there's that. And we were
talking about interesting artifacts that you own last night, and
Summer's emailed the artifact that they own. I don't know
how they've got to have emailed back to them. You
know those spacemen drinks we once got in the seventies,

(02:47):
there were Spaceman drinks that were orange colored drinks and
the plastic Sea three bottle was the shape of a space.
But there was also laser gun pistol drinks. Both of
them anyway, that big in the seventies. And I only
knew they were big because they were to drink that
we would drink that often because they seem to be indulgent.
But when we found the plastic bottles, we would use

(03:12):
those to make candles. I don't know what your upbringing
was like, but for us, it involves a lot of
making candles and kites. We love making candles. Go figure,
you met a kid these days wants to make candles,
you think, well, good on you. Each to their own.
It's all sorts that makes them well. Go around these days,

(03:34):
but it would seem od wouldn't it to make candles.
But anyway, we used to borrow these. We used to
find these plastic containers to make candles with them. But anyway,
what this person has sent me is the wooden mold,
the hand carved wooden mold that was used to blow

(03:57):
mold the plastic spacemen, things of drinks went in. So, yeah,
what an amazing thing that is made my data see
that hand carved wooden. Never thought about that. I don't
know if there would have been one or a number
of them. I presume there was probably a number of
one now i'm thinking about it. But anyway, there's that

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who makes candles. The number two problems with making candles. One,
as you leave them on and you burn the house down,
particularly after a power cut, you forget about them. The
second problem with the candles, particularly making candles, for attempting
to pull the liquid wax down the sink. That's never good.

(04:39):
That's telling off material. Always making candles anyway, although I
remember two months upon a time, and I don't want
to get into nostalgia because that's not my brief. But
when you go to shows, whether it be the ester Shore.
We've talked about these shows this year, just the Cardinals.
When you went to whether it be the Eyster to
Shell or the Winter Show or the Trade Show or

(04:59):
all those shows, there was two things you would do.
One would be those spin pictures. We'd be on a
turntable and had squeeze paint. They look a right when
they're spinning around. They wouldn't look much good when they'd stopped.
It was always a bit disappointing. But often there'd be
places you could make candles with different colors to dip
them in into stamp them. If only just re remembered

(05:20):
that anyway, So thanks for the mail. I've enjoyed that greatly,
both of those. Anyway, that's not going to get me.
Weorried to midnight tonight, So I'm going to start with
some things I need to talk about. How are you anyway? People?
There's breaking news you'll find about it here. First, just
my bit on the America's election. I told you a
little bit about last night tonight. I can tell you

(05:41):
twenty five million have already voted. Don't know how many
would vote in America. Would it be two hundred million,
would that be it's over ten percent probably. I think
that's quite interesting that already actually we're talking about them
going around convincing people to vote, but a large number
have already voted. I was surprised, rised. One hundred and

(06:09):
sixty one million people, so it's twelve thirty forty percent
in it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
How I am Margus, Thank you. Just talking about king
I was so very romantic.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, okues they are, although I think it's children. We
weren't thinking of romance in.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well, you know, I like, you could be stuck at
a and the power goes off, if you as a
beautiful lady and you just forget about the candle when
it's going.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Is that how you burn your house down? You reckon?

Speaker 2 (06:45):
It wouldn't be the first time.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Good on, yen. It's a nice interesting insight into your soul.
And Nemo made us operend he enjoyed that. Thank you cheapest.
Oh wait, one hundred and eighty eight. Tati had nine
two nine to the text. If you do want to
come through, I will take some quick calls on candles.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Andrew Marcus, I was talking to some friends from America
on the weekend about the early voting yes, and they
voted early. They would be considered relatively liberal and left
wing in a very conservative state. Voted earlier, but concerned

(07:26):
about violence on election day.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
A very interesting I hadn't thought of that.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
And they said that they joked because I'm not sure
they had any proof if they joked that the right
wing people are voting early because they're going to be
busy doing the violence.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
God help us, it's going to I was going to
say it's going to be a tough couple of weeks,
but it might be a tough four years anyway. Wow,
that's a really interesting insight. Thank you, Andrew. There we go.
Of course, you vote early because there might be cues
also too, if there's a large people wanted that number
of people wanted to turn out. I hadn't thought of that.

(08:05):
Interesting times. It's the sort of thing you say, is
an interesting times get in touch Marcus till twelve. There
are topics, but also about it. I don't think we'd
talk about candles. Oh, by the way, talking about the
things that children do, and my children don't really make kendles.
But here's a question for you. They do seem to play,

(08:30):
they do seem to enjoy playing Fortnite, and it's a
fairly recent thing for them. And I've watched that, and
I guess the question I'm asking you about that is,
and I've watched I thought, well, I'm not necessarily sure
that I could play it. It looks a bit complicated for me,
with the hand eye movement and the rapidity of it.

(08:50):
Do we have of you out there? Do we ney of
you out there that are adults play those games? I'm
not saying I want to play them with the kids,
but I just looked at that. I thought, they mean
the kids seem pretty compelled by them. How interesting are
they to play as adults. I'm not entirely sure how
Fortnite works. You're all on a bus, it's in the sky,
then you'll jump out and conquer an island. Doesn't seem

(09:12):
to get boring, looks to be a lot more exciting
than Minecraft, which always strikes me and looks a bit blocky.
Don't like the aesthetics of Minecraft. But yes, watching Fortnite,
I'm thinking, well, actually I was tempted. So if anyone
out there plays adult video or anyone out there is
nowult plays video games, not those ones that are endless.

(09:32):
I know that a lot of you obsessed with those
shooting every well, mind that one's probably shooting one as well. Anyway,
you're hearing what I say. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten
eighty and nine to nine two to text, am curious
to hear about that. Adults playing Fortnite don't have to
be a thing or not. Oh now, the women the

(09:58):
Women's One Day International starts at nine pm, so there's
two matches of cricket tonight and the women's game is
at the Sada part El Stadium, Metabad about six fifty
k's north of Poonie to look at Google maps about
that before too long? Video games and adults, if you
play those? I was curious to know if you decide
to get alongside your kids or just play them anyway

(10:21):
and got yourself howked? For me? I think I preferred
the games It didn't require the high level of hand
eye coordination. Well, I guess you get the hang of
it fairly early on. Become second nature like most things,
doesn't it that? And candles, looking forward to what you

(10:41):
want to talk about tonight? Here till twelve oh eight
hundred and eighty teddy and nine to nine two. Actually
from last night. Some of those images of people that
people sent me, of things that they treasure, they're things
that they own. Make it quite a good calendar or something.
That's what I was thinking before I came on here.
But who'd want a calendar? I think calendars they've gone

(11:01):
a like rollerblading. Would anyone buy a calendar for a
gift or they're gone because everything's on our phone? Who
had no need for calendar? Yes, I was thinking about
we could make a zbe Night's calendar, but probably it'd
be useless because I think we've moved on from calendars.

(11:24):
We just kept notes on our phone. I think that's
the way it works anyway. Oh, eight hundred and eighty
to eighteen past eight one three, two, four to two,
Revendra twenty one Conway seventy two Conway just over a
run every two balls, Vendra just under. I'm not talking
candy Crush. I'm talking about these more games that the
kids are hooked on that we all play Candy Crush,

(11:49):
and I think we all play that one that's We've
got to shoot balls in a straight line. We all
love that. It's called ball Crusher. I think you just
get sick of the ads with that King and his
bay they spent flooding. I've got to delete that. The

(12:10):
kids will sometimes download that ball Crusher one. I can
be on that for weeks. Marcus. When I was at
university about twenty years ago, he used to play Battlefield
nineteen forty two of my friends. I haven't really played
that much for a while, but similar skills for Fortnite,
and I recently started that so I play with my
teenage son. I think probably one of the reasons that

(12:32):
want of players I reckon I get destroyed because I
just doubt that they seem to be well. I was
going to say that the next generation, but really, I mean,
you could put probably two generations between me and the kids.
They just seem to have evolved one three seven for two,
rif Intra twenty one, Conway seventy six first and he's
against India Patricians. Marcus.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
Welcome, Hi Marcus. Good to talk to you. I listened
to you every night. I'm talking to calendars. I got
four in my home. I love calendars. Go you, oh yeah,
especially if somebody's gone overseas. They might send you when
they come back that bring you a calendar of what
where they Oh yeah, great.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
So you like the picture aspect rather than numbers below
the picture a.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
O the pictures above.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, that's right. I'm into those two. But I think
probably before too long they're going to be well. Yeah,
I don't know if people are going to keep making them,
are they?

Speaker 6 (13:25):
Well?

Speaker 5 (13:25):
Hope so well? They problem really well as love as
I'm around, because I'm quite old.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yes, well, I like the ones with trains. Aren't the
ones with lighthouses? They're my favorite?

Speaker 5 (13:34):
Yeah, I remember you used to. This is a long
time ago. You used to do all those train journeys.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
It's well at the train calendars Particia, thanks very much
for that. Yes, I think, because I think there's a
lot if you want to collate a lot of pictures together.
I mean, calendar is the one thing you can do
it for, but not much else, you know, I get
in touch. My name is Marcus. The twelve adults playing Fortnite?

Speaker 7 (13:55):
Is that a thing?

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Let me know, Marcus. Roller blading is still in I
see two to four bladers on Tamaki Drive most days.
The men are usually shirtless, which is a little unnecessary.
Jk ork I see that. The first thing I'm thinking
is time travelers. If you roller blading around Tomaki Drive

(14:20):
without your shirt. You're a time traveler, aren't you? Straight
from the eighties? Marcus love a calendar to on my
wall now, I computed, just another way to remind me
of what's on and good to look at. Marcus, I'd
buy a news talk calendar. Wow, I'm thinking of one

(14:41):
with all the artifacts. But you know, be next year,
wouldn't it. Michael Marcus welcome.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
You know, Marcus.

Speaker 8 (14:49):
Just on candles. We brought up five children and we
didn't have any electric light, and we just had as
a family, we had candles for about twenty years to
all the kids at all left home.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Any mishaps.

Speaker 8 (15:06):
One near But now in twenty years and five children,
I have to say, no, nothing, nothing of any major consequence.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
It's pretty amazing. So you was your there's a wicket
in the cricket, by the way, that's all your That's
all your light came from the candles. You didn't have
one of those pump lambs were al yeah, well yeah
those ones with the yeah no.

Speaker 8 (15:32):
We sort of did a little bit before the kids
came along, but it was easier just with the candles,
especially if the kids wanted to go into their own
room and read or something like that. It was it's
easy just to take a candle.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
How are the kids eyesight?

Speaker 8 (15:46):
Yeah, excell my son's he's in his intake into the army.
He was he won the best shot marksmen of goods.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (15:57):
So they're all the eyesights all and none of them
were glasses. They'll eyesights all good.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
It's amazingly we can see when you and you had
them in those sort of holders j Yeah.

Speaker 8 (16:08):
Yeah, either a candle stick holder or and at once
stage I had a six candle chandelier hanging from the
roof on a chain, brilliant which sort of lighted the
whole room quite a bit.

Speaker 6 (16:18):
Quite good.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Sounds very medieval banquet, don't it.

Speaker 9 (16:22):
H Yeah?

Speaker 1 (16:23):
We were you mile I miles isolated? Or were you
just chose to be off the grid?

Speaker 8 (16:31):
Now, we worked close to home, close to town. But when
we bought the property, it was about twenty five years ago.
It was going to cost about sixteen thousand to get
power into the property. Yes, and we didn't have that
spare money, so we never had power. Kids came along
and yeah, we just never really bothered.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
And you're right without the did you have a guess
refrigerator you just coped.

Speaker 10 (16:53):
No no fridge, well, no, no, no fridge.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Never had a fridge, and didn't make your own candles,
just bought those big boxes of white ones, did you?

Speaker 11 (17:03):
What was that?

Speaker 6 (17:04):
All right?

Speaker 1 (17:04):
You didn't make your own candles?

Speaker 8 (17:07):
Other kids sort of did it now and again, but
they used to. They used to play with them and
melt WAPs over other bits of wood and make shapes
and things like that when they were younger. Brigant pix
of seven.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Nice to talk, Michael, Thank you so much. By the way,
Conway caught behind out for seventy six from one for
one balls. So there we go. Halftime The Breakers Breakers
trail forty seven to thirty five. I'm looking at the
cricket now on the TV because I've got it on.
I'm not happy. I'm seeing a mountain in the background,
and when I went to Google Maps, I couldn't see
a mountain in the background, So I have to get

(17:41):
back on that and check again. Yeah, there we go.
My name is Marcus Head on Midnight. What have you
got up for it? Adults playing Fortnite or adults that
are hooked on Minecraft. Both those things are of interest
to me. Or anything else. Yeah, it's quite a big
mountain in the back, well, big hill in the background

(18:02):
of the cricket. It's very hard going from Google Maps
to work out the topography of it all, to check
the terrain one on and see what I can see. Yes,
it might be that mountain over there. Okay, copy that anyway,
get in touch. Candles cricket living off the grid. So

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it always surprised how many people actually are off the grid,
or how many people call this show and say they're
off the grid. Marcus at Morton, Timber and Cleveden. Every
year at Christmas, all our tradees look forward to our
calendars and diaries we have for them. There you go.
I guess some companies still make the annual calendar always

(18:46):
a big deal. I'll probably get mailed one or two
in the post and that's not a bad thing, and
get out. If there's the other breaking news you've got
there know what the breaking users are on calendars and candles.
It's like the c day By the way in Wellington,
there are high winds, the planes are not flying. By

(19:07):
seven fifteen. Five flights we're showing has been canceled. Nape.
You've vendom Chrost, Churge, Todong and you Plymouth. Since five
pm have been eleven inbound cancelations, including one Intercestral flight
from Brisbane divoted to christ Church and twelve outbound flights canceled.
Got the long weekend coming up. Met Service has a

(19:27):
strong wind warning in place for Wellington until ten am tomorrow,
severe gale Northwesley's expected gusting one to twenty in exposed places.
Can I just say, also, it's incredibly wet. It's bucketed
down south. I wouldn't be surprised if there's not a
bit of surface flooding all these castles on the road.

(19:48):
To just be cautious when you are driving, because yeah,
a lot of surface water and the roads aren't great
as we all know, and I reckon equiplaning could probably
well be a thing that's happening also tonight. Get in touch.
Adults playing video games? Do you play Fortnite? What's it
like as an adult? I am curious and making your

(20:13):
own candles or anyone's got the interesting candle stories. I
don't know what the interesting candle story would be, but
I'm up for it. Get in touch. Marcus Till twelve
oh eight hundred and eighty ten, eighty and nine to
nine text. Oh, that definitely is the cricket place, I
said it is, Marcus, I still roll a blade. You
Plymouth Waterfront Walkway fifty four keeps me fit, Marcus ironspect

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industrial buildings and there are a lot of topless calendars
on the wall of the workshop chairs.

Speaker 12 (20:46):
Dan.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yes, I was really surprised to be. I was on
Facebook marketplace yesterday looking looking at a white bait stand
for sale on the Matda River, and y's pretty funny
it was. It was I don't know if that's typical

(21:11):
for a white bait stand. I've been in a few,
but not that many. But it was covered and shots
of semi cleared women from where I don't know, I

(21:32):
presume from a calendar. It's not mentioned in the description.
Very funny, almost obscuring the view. It's a good looking
white bats stand actually kind of on the first bend

(21:53):
of the with Toda. I was quite tempted. Yeah, it's
quite It's probably about the twentieth in on the river
before the bend. Joey Marcus, good evening, Hey Marcus, how

(22:15):
are you doing good? Joey welcome, How are you going
all right?

Speaker 7 (22:18):
Yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 13 (22:18):
Thanks.

Speaker 7 (22:19):
I listened to your show a lot on the on
the way home from work, and I'm I am an
adult now, and I play a lot of video games,
a lot of Fortnite and and Minecraft and and you know,
i'd love I always want to call in and talk
to you, but I never have anything to talk about.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
So well, oh god, that's good. I've mentioned something that's
in your wheelhouse.

Speaker 6 (22:39):
Eh.

Speaker 7 (22:41):
Yeah, yeah, But it's always great listening to you talking
to people about So I thought that's aught's contribute.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Howard to it? Howard to Fortnite?

Speaker 14 (22:50):
Are you?

Speaker 15 (22:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (22:52):
Well into it? Like okay with friends of mine from
so that that that we that I met at school
and we've just and it's just a way to stay
connected to people in some ways, and as a as
an adult. It's interesting, I guess, because it's hard to
stay competitive with the young players because they are they

(23:12):
are quicker, they're better reflexes, and you've really got to
you really got to give it one hundred and ten
percent if you want to, if you want to make
it to the end and win the islands and all that.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yeah, I'm glad you're Fran because I've got a couple
of questions to bang at you. It seems to have
taken over the schools, like everyone's playing it. Does it
seem to be the best video game that's ever been made?
Or it's just because it's easy and they can all
talk to each other on the headsets, or is it
actually a very good game.

Speaker 7 (23:40):
It's got to be a combination of things. But mainly
I think what it is is it's freeh see, So
it ducks a lot of people in because you can
download it for free and anyone can play it. And
how they get to it. There's all of these cosmetics
and things that you can buy in the game to
change the way your character looks. You can look like
your favorite you know, TV show characters and think. So

(24:02):
there's and they're really good at constantly changing the game.
They'll change the mechanic to the game. They'll change the
way you can you can play and the way you
can win, so it's always fresh and it doesn't always Yeah,
it's not always the same game. Mechanics are relatively the same.
It's the shooting game you got to win and all that.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, but it's yeah, because even even as there's like
clothing labels, you can buy like a dress and Nike
or dress and Edydaci and all sorts of stuff, which is, yeah,
but that doesn't help your ability to play, does it?

Speaker 7 (24:36):
Not in the slightest, But it's but it's it's the
mind game.

Speaker 16 (24:39):
I suppose.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
You got to because we don't really want to buy
that stuff. You know, you're not buying anything tangible.

Speaker 7 (24:46):
Of course, it's really addictive to that, that whole sort
of in game purchase thing. You know, it's best to
stay away from that sort of thing, especially as a
young person, because it's just the one way ticket to gambling,
addiction and all that bad stuff.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah, that's that's that's that's what my mentor is also
is that you don't want to get involved with that
because they're probably prone to that. But it seemed it
seems to be a bit less gratuitous than grand theft
auto and stuff. It all seems to see.

Speaker 7 (25:11):
Yeah, there's no blood, there's no there's no sort of nastiness. Yeah,
no swearing or anything like that. And yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
It just sustains itself. Are they reinvented and it remains interesting?

Speaker 7 (25:23):
Yeah, they changed it. They change it every every couple
of months. It's the new season, which which just means
they overhaul, overhaul certain game play. And if you're if
you're interested in a player bit of Minecraft, and well
that's just a really good creative outlet Minecraft. If you're curious,
you can just sort of turn your brain off and

(25:44):
let your creativity run wild and build whatever you want to,
whatever is on your mind, like castles and stuff, flaw
land and and all that sort of cool stuff.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
So that's more like a relaxation type thing, whereas yeah,
Fortnite's yeah, yeah, how long has for it's been for
Economa sort of a new comer to this must be
around for about ten years, has it?

Speaker 12 (26:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (26:06):
I didn't even start playing until I was a young adult.
It was probably two thousand. If I had to get
I'll fix it matter first.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Okay, crazy like that, real long, real well, I.

Speaker 12 (26:18):
Could be wrong.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Okay, We'll really appreciate you talking to Joey. That's been great.
So thank you so much for calling Doc Marcus. Welcome,
good evening, Hi Doc. Oh have you got your name right?
I'm calling you Doc.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Stocks Breads brilliant?

Speaker 10 (26:36):
How are we going? How how is he run? This evening?
I hope you've run seven plus day.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
What what's your name again.

Speaker 4 (26:45):
Bread Os.

Speaker 10 (26:48):
My fortnight name.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah, no, full credit to you. That's good.

Speaker 14 (26:56):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Okay, bread Os, yep, But here we go.

Speaker 10 (27:00):
Let me tell you a little tiny story to the world.
It is a terrible game. I'm quite a lot older,
but I used to be a game of years ago,
and I have two young children, and I think what's
happened with the world is that that too captured in quick,

(27:22):
instantaneous things that happened. I don't know if you want
to go back to you know, they used to go
to the spaces and play pac band. You know, that
was a quick, little fun arcade type thing. But now
it's too much. There's too much stimulation for them, right,

(27:45):
they're the talk of before. Yeah, it can be fun,
but if you're spending hours and hours and hours on it,
which I don't allow in my house, Yeah, it can
be detrimental to the youth.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, I was sure people are too over the top
of I'm sure there's people. There are people playing for
hours and hours hours. I don't think that's advisable. I
kind of look back. I can't look back breat dogs
to when TV came out, right, and I reckon. People
were freaked out about how that bad that was, and
you know, they thought people it was going to rock
their minds because it was two passes.

Speaker 10 (28:20):
And make your your square eye.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, and probably before that they thought books or books
would be terrible. You're aways reading books. You should be
out there sweeping, climbing up and down chimneys or something.

Speaker 10 (28:32):
Yeah, but it's like another thing.

Speaker 12 (28:33):
You know.

Speaker 10 (28:35):
Kids these days they literally locked themselves in the room
and they're gone to Fortnite now to be a champion
at that game, which I've got to almost that level
being an adult. I think that's the skills that I
learned temporarily doing those kind of things. But what it is,

(28:56):
there's too many of them. They need to get back
out to the outdoors and need a just live lot.

Speaker 12 (29:01):
You know.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
So you are you really good at Fortnite?

Speaker 12 (29:06):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (29:07):
I have won a few championships postulation. Yes, well it
took a It didn't happen overnight. It was a build
up to when computers were coming out. Like I'm older
than Google, say so, computers were a thing. But nowadays

(29:31):
that's all that kids see is Fortnight Fortnight. All they
want to do is Fortnite. Fortnite, there are other things
that can be achieved.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Are there better games?

Speaker 10 (29:44):
H mate? I have kids in family with you know,
not necessarily, I wouldn't know actually, but you can't beat
the old school ones, you know, bring back the Sega,
bring back there, you know, play Session one.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
I think a lot of those. I think a lot
of those nostalgic games are available on a lot of
those platform warms as well. I've seen the kids play Fortnite,
play pac Man and stuff, frustrating pac Man.

Speaker 10 (30:13):
I reckon, well, maybe playing this pac Man, I'll.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Stick with Tetris. Nice to talk to you. I like
your name too, braid Os. It's one of the best
names I've had on talkback. Breid Ocks.

Speaker 8 (30:29):
You will do?

Speaker 14 (30:30):
What night?

Speaker 1 (30:30):
You just use your Fortnite name, braid Ocks. Who we
got now, braid Ocks? What are you more excited about?
Cliff Richard or Metallica. I'll give you a clue for me.
I reckon Metallica would be a better night out. I'm
not saying the crowd's going to be any younger. Are

(30:52):
be better winding in your way home from the concert
singing into Sandman rather than summer Holiday? That would be
my take on that one. I don't know how much
tickets are. It's going to be at Eden Park, that'll
sell out quickly. I don't know if there's a capacity
for the go two nights. I presume there would be.
Metal fans will know more about that. People in the know.

(31:15):
You might want to tell me when they were last
year and how was it PEPs even went to see them.
I can't remember last performed in and thenly fifteen years
ago touring christ Church to an organ that's four shows.
By the way, they canceled twenty nineteen because Hetfield vocalist

(31:36):
guitarist he checked into rehab. Looks like he's trucking along
all right. These days they looks fit and healthy, probably
taking up Taekwonda or something that seems to do what
they do these days, so rupping into the martial arts
or something. But anyway, so I would think, and I'd
hope they'd be capacity for more shows. The first concert

(32:00):
they're going to have before Hatfield tapped Hetfield sold out
in twelve minutes. I want to send them the big
day out in two double four. Did I tickets go
and sail on fourth of November at twelve pm. Oh,
there'd be a Ripper concert, they'd be the best concert

(32:22):
eating parks ever had. I would think, well, you're up
against Sharon A and Pink. Everyone loves Pink one. I
love Pink because she's on a trapeze. Goodness, he was flying.
It does look extraordinary. But often think, well, Pink, why
don't you join the circus, you know, if that's what

(32:43):
you want to do. But I know people love the spectacle.
Oh it's great spectacle. Even I was transfixed watching people's
videos they'd posted from it. But yeah, good honor. But
I don't think Metallica would need to get into that
sort of shenanigans, or would Cliff Richard Gray Ox is
an example of why kids should never have Fortnite, and

(33:05):
it says, if AO, that's what's that mean?

Speaker 10 (33:08):
In my.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Something opinion? There's that's your Oh it's an l is it?
It's an LMFAO laughing me, Yeah, there we go. It
might be braydogs texting and even though if people text themselves.

(33:32):
Marcus Call of Duty multiplayer veteran here forty eight year
old mail been playing video games since thirty eighties. Have
an active job, so relex A few hours after work,
new Call of Judy out tomorrow. Cheers Leon, and my
name's Marcus Hddle twelve. We are talking making your own candles,
living off the grid, and video games, particularly Fortnite, which
you've never really discussed, and it's been very interesting so far,

(33:57):
incredibly interesting. Long may that last? Have you got any
breaking use or anything else you want to talk about?
Banging that through quite quickly eight hundred and eighty eight,
Marc is the Ended police have a cute calendar of
their police dogs each year. Makes for a nice Christmas gift.

(34:17):
I suppose. Really the more challenging question I'm thinking of
when it comes to calendars, what can those people, like
the firemen and the dogs people, what can they pivot
to because no one's gonna want calendars for much longer
because you don't need them because on your phone, you've
got a notebook, you put notes on the calendar. What's
going to happen? You get an alarm, you get a warning.

(34:38):
It's much better. It's always with you. So yeah, I
reckon this year if that at whit Calton, stuff will
be much less, much fewer calendars for sale because they're great.
Oh yeah, do you think oh Dan's into bond size,
we'll get damned. The bond side calendar sort of a

(35:00):
low flower, sort of a low hanging fruit of gift,
isn't it the calendar for the person? Something would like lighthouses, trains,
fluffy animals, chimps, chimps dressed up as people. If you
watch that shimp program yet that freaked me out. My
first game was Lemmings, followed closely by the Smurfs game

(35:21):
on my friend's Atari console. Then SIMS games then involved
from their totally addictive also games you'll go to a
store and buy a game of a number of many
different genres to own out right, didn't cost anything. After that,
I like the ones the Sims when you had to
run the won the amusement park, you made the food

(35:42):
too cheap, people throw up on the roller coasters. Looks good.
I did enjoy that. That's brought me back. Pete Marcus, welcome,
hi Pete.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
Just regarding just regarding calendars now they always will be too.

Speaker 16 (36:02):
Will use them.

Speaker 4 (36:02):
I use them because it's could have won the office
and run on the toilet and you know you're so
if you're getting the bloody phone out all the time,
like from a Dutch background and what we doing Holland
is we are? They always have their birthday dates from
the calendar. So you're sitting on the toilet, you can
have a look to his birthday yesterday.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
See is there a Dutch thing?

Speaker 4 (36:24):
Yep? All Dutch people have been holding two times and
they always most people, they always be calendars in the
in the in the toilets, and then they know and
they looking at the phone or where they're doing. They
can never quit look at the boy's birthday today. So
all the families in there, it's very good. And the
office too, you can write down on what bills do
today and you keep any and what's so reckon? Are

(36:45):
very handy.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Still, what do you get given ones? Or do you
buy some particular calendar?

Speaker 4 (36:51):
No, I don't want to just buy them, buy them
somehow when they get it, should someplace you get them.
Just a basic one, not a flash ones of the
painted with the pictures on them. Just a just a
Dutch one, you know, no photos on the just a
blank one pretty much. And you always got the dates
on the calendar the month, that's all you need.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Have you played Fortnite?

Speaker 12 (37:12):
Excuse me?

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Have you played the game Fortnite?

Speaker 12 (37:16):
No?

Speaker 4 (37:16):
I haven't know what's the games exactly?

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Was he looking at your calendar? Our world's passing you by, Pete?
People still looking in the past discussing video games? Who
plays Fortnite as adults? Any good? I'm sure there's plenty
out there doing it. There we go, also to someone said,
here we go, I have moved from playing video games

(37:42):
to board games. I guess to be fair to say
we play a lot of both. We probably played more
board games more so in the winter. Setlers like for Ton,
Ticket to Ride, Wingspan, Pandemic, Wingspans for a good But
kids have very reluctant to pack up the put eggs away,

(38:07):
so it's problematic. Hello Glenntt's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 17 (38:10):
Yeah, hi Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Glynn? Thank you.

Speaker 17 (38:13):
I've got a story about candles.

Speaker 15 (38:16):
Oh great, My, my mum and.

Speaker 17 (38:18):
Myself used to work in a candle factory at Wellington
in the seventies eighties and one night one of the
vats caught fire and the whole factor burnt down.

Speaker 18 (38:29):
It was one of the big fires that we ever had.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
And that must have been something they'll be aware of.
Potentially could happen.

Speaker 17 (38:38):
Oh definitely, Yeah, But back then I think the health
of safety wasn't as good as it was today.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
How was the vet? There was just a vet of
they melted wax and a vet they'd buy paraffin on
from overseas were they then melted.

Speaker 19 (38:51):
That's right.

Speaker 17 (38:51):
And they had all different colored vats, big, like over
a meter of diameters and heated by electric element. Sure,
and there must have been an electrical fault and up
to your web.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
And would you dip some thing and then pour it
into the mold?

Speaker 17 (39:09):
Yeah, they poured the mold and different colors they did
all sorts of a lot of.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Stop oh yeah, yeah, like look like carved yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, yep, sure, okay, wow,
what was it? What was the name of the company.

Speaker 16 (39:26):
And there's Pablo Industries.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
And and and that was the end of it.

Speaker 17 (39:32):
They started off again smaller, but.

Speaker 14 (39:37):
That wasn't far away from where the Jackson is now.

Speaker 17 (39:41):
I think he's probably angel that sort of block along
that area.

Speaker 14 (39:45):
Murama.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Oh so it was a Mirrormar. Yeah, I don't know
Miramar that will, but Mirrama is mainly a residentially Is
there a bit of mixed industrial there as well in
mirm Okay, yeah.

Speaker 17 (39:59):
Yeah, it was an industrial.

Speaker 12 (40:02):
But yeah, it took too.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Days and days all just burned and burned and burnt.

Speaker 6 (40:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (40:09):
Yeah, I'm on the news and in the papers and
what have you.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
So it's Park Road. Is that kind of where it
is? Is that kind of the area? Yeah, okay, and what.

Speaker 15 (40:18):
You would what you would have that been seventeen eighty.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
It wasn't your fault.

Speaker 16 (40:25):
I used to work there after school.

Speaker 14 (40:26):
That was.

Speaker 17 (40:28):
My mom worked.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
My mom now so it was.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
A while ago. Good place to work. Yeah, yeah, was
sorry to said a lot. I've never spoken to anyone
to work in the candle factory before.

Speaker 17 (40:45):
Yuh, there not many people where still still quite a
few of them today.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Still did you pinch them?

Speaker 12 (40:54):
No, of course not.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Okay, okay, allowed to take them with you took them.
I suppose it to be ones that were mismolded.

Speaker 20 (41:01):
Were there well seconds and that?

Speaker 17 (41:03):
Yeah, so a lot a lot of the Marilands.

Speaker 15 (41:06):
Mother used to hand paint some of them.

Speaker 17 (41:09):
Two was like sold painting, you know.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Okay. Now I'm thinking of something, and this might be
more from like a cook Street market thing, but I'm
thinking a lot of people used to make candles and
they had like they must have been cast in a
hollow in sand, so they had sand on the outside.

Speaker 21 (41:30):
Okay, you know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 19 (41:32):
No, No, don't.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Okay, that might have been Peblo's thing. That might have
been a more kind of a hippy thing.

Speaker 17 (41:41):
Yes, who knows, Yeah, okay, but it's always hated.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
What would they?

Speaker 12 (41:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Absolutely, And I think there are plenty of people in
the when the when the they're not used to it.
When the candle goes, that always worries me a bit.
They're going to leave them on and burn the house
down because people just people just put them on that
they'll just drop. They'll burn it a bit until some
drops come off. They'll put it on a wooden dresser
or something and singing up, burns right down and catches fire.

Speaker 17 (42:10):
A lot a lot of.

Speaker 4 (42:10):
These, a lot of these candles.

Speaker 20 (42:13):
People probably won the lights, you know, they were.

Speaker 17 (42:18):
Like statues and all sorts of beautiful candles, you know,
and they when they had more the display thing.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Yeah, and when they hand painted them, they hand paint
them with melted wax or with paint with paint. Okay,
I'm glad I asked that question. Lynn. Thank you. That's
really good. Great candle fire can't find anything online about
I'm not saying you made it up. I just can't.
I'd like to see some probably be a Facebook page
or something for that. A well, who remembers the great
mirror mark in? Oh, yeah, it was the only show

(42:49):
in town. What I just just see what comes up
with the old Google? No, there are other fires on Mirrormar,
but not that one. Good hallo, Brendon, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 15 (43:04):
Oh how you going good?

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Thank you Brendan.

Speaker 15 (43:08):
Yeah, good good, Hey firs all. I want to talk
about how the Australian government are changing their their thought
patterns in their legislation around uh, these these social media
snapchats and tiktoks, on on how it's actually destroying our
generation of children and what they're up to on on

(43:32):
these on these devices where we've got a huge epidemic
happening and with this generation of children on these devices
there are absolutely glued to them night and day, which
leads me into your topic tonight around around video games.

(43:54):
So a little while ago, it was for the children
it was Roadblocks, which was the game, and you could
get Roadbucks, which which is they play the games and
then and then they need to progress to their next stages,
so they need they need to spend money to get
points to do that, so they're just hound The parents

(44:18):
are like crazy to me that to put money on
these games. So these developers who are developing these days
want to be making an absolute fortune. Fortnight's actually the same.
So it's called v Bucks. So you've got to purchase
your v Bucks to be able to progress through your games.

(44:41):
So you can either you you know, the kids either
hound their parents and and and get the money put
on you by their debit cards or whatnot, or you
can all in the shops they sell the v Bucks
cards or robots cards, you know that that parents purchase.

(45:02):
And it's it's it's so, it's so so it's beyond words.
That's all the kids. The kids want is is B
bucks to play Fortnite. And until this country changes, it's
it's tune around and start following what Australia are doing.

(45:26):
Where where you where you're in some serious trouble.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
How much success is Australia ahead.

Speaker 15 (45:34):
Well they're only they're only just talking about it now,
so fair enough you can you can search it and
and they're realizing that these these tiktoks and and snapchats.
Those companies need to start to be held accountable for
for for the mental health and in situations these generation

(45:56):
of children are growing up with.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Thanks Brendan, Jamie, it's Marcus. Good evening, and welcome.

Speaker 11 (46:04):
Good evening, Marcus, and sentence to you. Yeah, they've got
there a little bit misinformed about some of his games.
They're all completely different. So Roadblocks as many different games
in it, and in that you do spend money to progress,
but you can grind, which means work really hard, do
menial tasks, gain points, and you can. You can grind

(46:25):
your way up. But Roadblocks is full of pedophiles, and
they chat to your kids. And I would not recommend
anyone let a kid under the age of thirteen go
anywhere in your Roadblocks Fortnite.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Hang on, I'll just are you like involved in like child?
You know a bit about this, do you?

Speaker 15 (46:45):
Well?

Speaker 11 (46:45):
Roadblocks are something that you play off your phone, okay,
and yeah, so less less of the PlayStation, more of
your phone.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
Okay, So you've got reaction, you've got randoms grooming you.

Speaker 11 (46:57):
Yeah, yeah, pretty much pretty much. Fortnite as a PlayStation
as a game console type of game. You don't have
to spend. Spending a Fortnite gains you zero advantage to anything.
So anyone that spends is buying like a new skin,
which is a new new looking character, right, and it
doesn't improve your game whatsoever. So any money spent on

(47:18):
Fortnite is just visual looks. The game skill level is
the same for everybody who picks up a controller or
a keyboard. You're all the same. Spending makes no difference.
I play Fortnite myself because when my son's away, either
his grandfather's or something, we can communicate playing the game
because because you can talk over the headst and play
the game talk as opposed to the awkwardness of ringing

(47:41):
the cad and going how's.

Speaker 22 (47:42):
Your day going?

Speaker 11 (47:42):
They say about three words and you can't get anything
out of them because you're teenagers, whereas Fortnite you're.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
The children are quite good on that too. It's quite
nice watching them cooperate playing with it.

Speaker 11 (47:56):
Yeah, I'm almost fifty and I've got no show to
beat them, you know what I mean their action time.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
But it's nice the way they communicate. Also, it's quite collaborative.

Speaker 11 (48:05):
That's that's say, Okay, it's twenty two here, so it's
great for me and my son's communicate. But again, if
you have a child that's under any sort of age,
do not let them play. The most racist, the most uncensored,
the most sexist stuff you'll ever hear is in that game.
There's no moderator. So when your kids playing other kids,
and because it's all working on a server basis, so
Australia and New Zealand work on the same server, and

(48:28):
America and you were, they're all on different service. So
we just play with New Zealand and Australia. If you
jump on the other service, it's too slow because they're
too far away. The Australians in particular, very racist, they
very sexist thing. So if you've got a girl that's
playing Fortnite, they're going to say all the horrible stuff
you can possibly think of. And I guarantee you that
that's just the needs of.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
Are they not normally playing with just people they know?

Speaker 11 (48:55):
No, No, you just random So you just jump on
most of the time if you want to, like, unless
you've got a lot of friends, you just jump on
and random group so you're matched with anybody you know.
It could be Joe logger, and but the just the
chat and it need some moderation on how those kids
are talking to each other because you can put all
the laws in the world about tech took and everything,
but when they're open communication across each other as very

(49:18):
vile stuff. Ye know, that's quite bad. But he also
had another thing about the tech took and stuff, and
there's issues there. So we all have an address when
we use our computer, our phone, in any electrical device
we're using as an address. Now I can change the
address on my phone, my computer by using a VPN
program that bounces my address to somewhere in Russia. Right,

(49:40):
So to ban TikTok, or to ban anything that's an
Internet basing, you have to lock in my VPN. So
now you're going to have to make it illegal for
all of us to change our addresses on our phones,
our computers, all those VPNs, nords and all of that
stuff will be legal in the country because if you're
use them, that you're bypassing the only way they can

(50:01):
stop you from getting to TikTok. So the ability for
any country to do that would be it would be
pretty it would be encroaching on you. And my right
is a way of free speech, you know what I mean.
So once they start doing it and then they have
the censorship of the Internet, they've locked you. And so
now they lock you, and so they'll see everything that

(50:22):
you do. You won't be able to you know, in
my case, I jump on and I might grab UFC
off the internet for free, I'll no longer be able
to do that. You won't be able to watch any
USA programs because you tagged at your VPN and UFA.
So a whole bunch of limiting things. I'm not sure,
not having to sing, sure you could actually achieve the
ability to lock out TikTok. I know governments can talk

(50:44):
about it, but you know they're not exactly the most
up to date people on technology.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
And just with your Fortnite when you are playing it,
when you're playing it with your your sons and your
grandfathers or your grandparents or whatever, are you monitoring them
when they are playing with people that they don't know
to monitor language and stuff like that.

Speaker 11 (51:03):
With my sons, we did when he was playing with
randoms and stuff. So he'd play, I'd be in the room,
but you could pick up on their moods. So when
you're unless you've got them hiding in their room. When
they start saying stuff that's bad, they're clearly with bad people,
you know what I mean, So their tempers, their whole
temperament changes. That's when you just go and check who

(51:25):
are you playing with? You know, and you can manually
ban people yourself. So you just jump on your kids
account and ban these people out. But I mean, you
could ban one, but there's going to be another one
five seconds later. But I would recommend if you've got
a daughter, avoid that thing until she's of such an
age or a little of players who are just their friends,
because boys are horrible. Australian cads seem to be the

(51:47):
single most racist group of people I've ever met in
my life. It's not it's a wild West mate.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Horrible mate, yeah, I believe.

Speaker 11 (51:56):
Well Australia, that's sure. And you're as an adult. They
don't care because there's no consequences to what they're saying
to you, so they will say vile stuff to you, mate,
you know, I mean, that's a while. It's horrible kids
without any sort of filters.

Speaker 10 (52:12):
Wow, you should give it.

Speaker 11 (52:14):
A crack mate, Okay, just for the entertainment value.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
And roadblocks with rubbish a.

Speaker 11 (52:21):
Robots full of pedophiles. That's going to cost your cash.
It's a complete rubbish game. Yeah, I don't understand why
New Zealand doesn't start getting into this programming stuff. So
you get a simple game, just any sort of game
that's on your phone. They all based, They're all pretty
much the same premise. You take time to build a
castle or ford to a group of troops, You go out,
you fight somebody, your troops, diet takes x amount of

(52:43):
time for your troops to heal. You can buy stuff
to make you stronger, better, heal faster. Every dream has
the same pregnant premise, and they're making millions and millions
of dollars. I think Fortnite now outranks all music and
all movies. And this is a game that costs you
zero to actually play.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
And the only right, the any way they're making money
is through characters vanity for their virtual.

Speaker 11 (53:03):
Characters, exactly exactly. And all of these games of the
I mean, these aren't okay, you've got four Dive for
kids and Roadblocks kids, but adults, A lot of adults
are playing these games, and they have paychecks, and paychecks
are going in these games. So your average game on
a monthly sort of to give you give you a
boost in your game. You most games have a monthly
monthly payment that you give and it gives you for

(53:25):
that month a whole bunch of boots that's roughly forty bucks, okay,
and most of the people that play usually get that.
Some of the accounts and some of the games I've
seen could buy a house. Why New Zealand is not
researching or building gaming and getting into that market, I'll
never know, because it's just it's cream money, mate, you know,
once you've got the game, they're buying objects. Was no

(53:47):
real I mean, they're just they're just pixels.

Speaker 1 (53:51):
Madness, Jamie, thank you so much. I enjoyed that. Mounchly
just been a wick in the cricket to one four,
Revendra is out for sixty five. Revendra is out looking disupported,
looking at the camera, walking off, looking sideways. Here's the ball.
What's oh wow? At the ball of the century. It

(54:12):
was on leg's side and took off the off stump.
It seemed to go sideways about a meter as an
extraordinary ball. Yeah, that's a ball for history. That's quite
the dismissal. Quite the dismissal so unbelievable, just for your
Ball of the century, Bold Washington. Marcus in regards to

(54:37):
conversations on candles, if anyone made in those candles and sand,
I've only just thought of those it before. You make sand,
and you pour the wax into the sand, and it's
kind of like a becomes like a dish low candle.
Marcus regards the conversation on candles. I purchased a candle
from the Ricketon markets while I was on a holiday
for twenty dollars for my daughter, who loves candles. She

(55:00):
lit the candle in her room and fell asleep. The
candle burned out the following day. She was coughing up
black flames and which lasted for three days. The walls
in her bedroom altered a black film covering them like
black mold had to be cleaned off of the wet cloth.
At first, we're unsure where it came from. It was
from the black glass jar. The candle had been made
and something for everyone to be aware of. My daughter

(55:24):
is unwell anyway, which is why I brought her a
candle to help with her sleep. She had up in
hospital to clear out her lungs. Wow, it's a bad
reck as an experience. Is that the market at the
park near the river just wondering from you what sort
of advent calendar you're going to go with a sheer.
Are you going to go with the cheese Advent calendar

(55:44):
or the Advent Calendar Advent calendar? And every pocket you
open is another Advent calendar. It's pretty good that one,
isn't it. It exists. I remember talking about this last year.
There's nothing new and talk back. But the Advent Calendar
Advent calendar is something quite special. I can't find it.

(56:06):
I don't know what the world's most expensive Advent calendar is.
But there you go. Get in touch on Marcus hddle twelve.
What's happening. Oh, the marshmallow Advent calendar looks good. That's
what's popped up on my feed. Popped up on my feed.
Listen to the things that we say popped up on

(56:27):
my feed? Where does this stuff come from? If you
got breaking you up? By the way, they haven't managed
to find the wallaby in Tiano. There is a story
in the papers about that. Today they've environments south and
have searched extensively and they can't find that. They think
it might have been released. Yeah. The other thing that

(56:48):
I need to warn you about. The Sun has just
hit peak solar energy. So every year, every eleven years,
it happens. And that's happened. Now I'll tell you more
about this. But there has been a wicket in the cricket.
Have they reviewed that looked like there was no bat
in that. I'm just gonna bring that. I think Washington's
got another wicked I'm just looking at the replane now, alight.

(57:11):
I was walking two I one for five blund or bold,
Washington for three off twelve balls must have been caught behind. Okay,
what was he clean?

Speaker 19 (57:24):
Bold?

Speaker 1 (57:24):
He good? That Washington go wow two O one for five.
End of the second session anyway, So there's gonna be
geomagnetic storms in the next couple of months, leading to
a chance to spot auroras as well as potential technology impacts.

(57:47):
So in May, the most powerful solar storm in two
decades struck Earth and conjured up some of the strongest
aurors in five hundred years. But it's going to happen again.
This is interesting. In nineteen seventy two to twenty five,
Sea mines off the coast of Vietnam blew up BEF
in the US military. Later inquiry suggested the magnetically triggered

(58:11):
minds had been designated by a lash of solar energy. Yep,
So it could affect flights, that could affect all sorts
of things. And let's not forget the Carrington event of
eighteen fifty nine. Yep. And Trump will be in charge

(58:31):
here till midnight. If you want to get in touch
with we are talking adults playing Fortnite and making candles.
There was another sea word we're talking about tonight that's
escaped me. Candles comments, what else? Because with sea calendars,
I've said it's the end of calendars. I love saying
things like it's the end of calendars, But don't be stupid.
How do you say it's the end of calendar? But

(58:51):
I've got no power, Guys, I'm not getting I'm not
benning calendars. So I think it's the end of cash.
How do you say it's the end of cash. I'm
not benning cash. Then people WIGU about what about the
christ Church quake? We would have been We really needed
our calendar. That's what people always say. They go back
to a tough time in their life and take it
back to there our landlines and cash. I reckon we'll

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be calendar free next year. I don't think we have
a calendar in the house because it's always good for
about January. We don't. You're at a holiday January, February years
together and UK you're writing stuff. March you're writing stuff April.
You're not turning it over at the end of the
month May. During July you're over it. That stays on

(59:37):
that for the rest of the year. That's just my impression. There,
good evening, Michelle, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 23 (59:46):
Hi Marcus. This is Michelle from Covery Coast. Years ago
we did a conversation about what a second is doesn't matter.
But calendars I love some. I have nine in my house.
There are works of art in my opinion, That's why
I love them. We love them. Done one, I want

(01:00:07):
to do another one. I want to be brave enough
to do it hugely. I seriously love calendars. How about that?

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Why when you say nine, are they ones you've purchased
like from school kindy fundraisers with kids art on them?

Speaker 24 (01:00:25):
All?

Speaker 23 (01:00:26):
That one over there is from for the fire people
that one over here is the artist's friend of mine
who does that. I honestly love calendars. We buy them,
I give them away as Christmas presents. I honestly love them,
their works of art, and we have them around the house.

Speaker 21 (01:00:47):
Isn't that one fault?

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
You want to say you can make a calendar. I
mean it's not. It's not a really ambitious task.

Speaker 15 (01:00:53):
One.

Speaker 21 (01:00:53):
I did one. I do one.

Speaker 23 (01:00:54):
I do one because I do as a composer as well.
I'm also an artist, and I do I do wobbly photo.

Speaker 12 (01:01:02):
No.

Speaker 23 (01:01:02):
I did a beautiful photo one for my friends, my family,
and that was it several years ago and it went wow,
And I seriously want to do another one, and I
just haven't sort of found the hooks side to.

Speaker 5 (01:01:15):
Do it yet.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
Good luck, Suwart's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 12 (01:01:21):
I mean, Marcus, I'm just sitting here in the country
roading you want dinner, and listening to you about a
MP shows.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
Yes, although he keeps he keeps saying field days. There's
a difference, is there?

Speaker 12 (01:01:32):
Well, a m P is the.

Speaker 6 (01:01:35):
What is it?

Speaker 13 (01:01:36):
I remember agriculture and podcast and pastoral. I think natural
here in field days and field days. But I've been
to a few and I think that guy was just
in La. He's just taking mystery Creek. Okay, So I've
been there a few times. Biggest field day in New Zealand,
they say, but if you're in the South Island you'll
say the South Island is the biggest one. As a

(01:01:58):
young fellow, used to go to the Highland Games, which
is combined with I think it was combined with the
A and P Show and Hawks play and there were
the Highland Games, so there was tossing the cab and
playing the bagpipes and Scottish dancing and all that. We
were there for the martial arts part of it, and
there was all the sheep sharing in the wood shopping

(01:02:19):
and then there was Horofornure amp show at the Hoophreneur Showgrounds.
There was used to be an Otechi the o Techi
Farmers field Days I think they called it, which was
only a small one, but it was great fun and
the one that my wife might be listening to now
because she listens to the radio just before bedtime and

(01:02:43):
she's fifty fifty.

Speaker 12 (01:02:44):
Conlins were from me. The a MP Show in Blenham,
which was a great amp show and it always had
the steam like a motive, and they go and get
the steam like a motive out and a traction engine,
and they'd drive the traction engine around, had a big parade,
and you'd get all the kids on a piece of

(01:03:04):
rope and they'd try and pull the for the steam
traction engine the other way most times, and obviously the
steam traction engine would win that one, and there'd be
the horsewarding fim kana I think it's called. Yeah, And
they used to just be a great day out, great fun.
But I've been to a few.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
Why would you go with martial arts? Did they have
martial arts at the field day?

Speaker 11 (01:03:30):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (01:03:30):
Yeah, yeah. There was an annual annual tournament which was
held between multiple different disciplines of martial arts. So there
was karate, kung fu, aikido, uh apkido I think as well,
and we were doing taekwonda and also taekwonda, not the
one you see at the Olympics now, And so all

(01:03:54):
the clubs from all the comparts of the country who
come together and we're all just an organized manner fight
each other in the ranks. You go up on the mets,
a brilliant.

Speaker 22 (01:04:04):
Fighting.

Speaker 14 (01:04:05):
It was.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
It wasn't like an all comers brawl, that the strongest
man competent. Because I went to one of those in Darwin.
That was good. It was like any any martial art
was fine. But it was just the last man standing.

Speaker 12 (01:04:18):
I think that's what he was at the pub Rugby.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
That's a different Why is your wife? She was your
wife sixty k's away as she shot through.

Speaker 12 (01:04:29):
She likes it like that. She prefers the gold retriever
to me, the no I'm a I'm a full time
rabbit color, I'm coming rabbits at the moment on the
Caperity Coast where that previous lady called from you do you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
Do peacocks or do you do wallabies.

Speaker 12 (01:04:46):
Or okay, so good question, pretty good question there actually,
So peacocks are not a plague in the Kepity Coast area.
Having said that, Mandy Robinson, who runs the riding Schoot
to Hoo in the airbnb, she's got about tufty buddy
peacocks on their property, you know, and they just shit everywhere.

(01:05:08):
So as far as I know, they haven't sort of
spread out from their family. You stay with, they get fed,
and so that's not an environmental issue one of these. Okay,
So all of these aren't technically supposed to be on
the Capital, the coast or the Jelly area. They they
obviously were released up and rot and they've come down.

(01:05:31):
And there was an incident where somewhere sited in Kaitok
on the rim Atucker Hill Road.

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
Yeah I saw that. I saw that in the news
and that and yeah that caused them concern, didn't it.

Speaker 12 (01:05:42):
Well, we don't want those austral aliens here because they're
just they're actually worse than possums and worse than then
They bloody had to shoot because they.

Speaker 13 (01:05:51):
Moved so fast.

Speaker 12 (01:05:52):
They've played for portions and parts of the South Island
and I'm told that, yes, so we haven't got them
here yet, but inevitably they will probably come across the
terror arrangers rumotacles. We're so smart person will put one
in his car and release it just for a bit

(01:06:13):
of a lark, you know how stupid people can be
about things like that, And so that might just happen sometime,
but I hope not. So we do have a playe
problem of Canada geese on the Kpolic coast here as christ.

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
Oh, that's a that's a big topic for us. People
hate them Oh, I love them.

Speaker 12 (01:06:34):
They very tasty. I go and a shoot as many
as I can. I took twenty two cages of breast
and leg meat to the butcher who turned them into
pepperoni solami. If you ever get a chance eat goose
pepperoni solami, go for that. That's absolutely delicious. He turns
to my goats into meat patties with a bit of time,

(01:06:56):
oregano and marjar marjorn, and they're absolutely delicious. And he
makes venice and sausages for me which are just first
classic next fat them so they're just pure meat.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
You So, what's the Canada geese? What Canada goose?

Speaker 12 (01:07:16):
Here we go?

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
What is what do you say? It makes the Canada
goose into.

Speaker 12 (01:07:21):
Salami?

Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
But you had a longer name than that than you
is Canada goose.

Speaker 13 (01:07:25):
And uh pepperoni Sami pepperoni.

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
That's the way I was looking for here. Look, I
know that Canada geese might be a specious topic, but
we're kind of probably out for Canada geast for this
year because we're big on it back in July. But
that's a really good call from you, Hugh. You're in
the next level. Now you've cracked the stage. You're ready
for the big hour. Hey, hold your horses, Simon with
you after the news, with everyone, after the news. O
eight oh one, O eight oh hered on midnight to night,

(01:07:53):
looking forward to what you've got to say. Catch candles,
calendars and Fortnite. Adults playing Fortnite want to talk. Be
nice to hear from your Simon. It's Marcus. Welcome you, Simon.

Speaker 6 (01:08:09):
Oh good. Remembering cook Street markets I heard you mentioned
as a and oh gosh, you say candles and things.

Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
I had a lot of had a lot of candles
for my memory. A lot of.

Speaker 6 (01:08:25):
Candles, yeah, yeah, oh gosh, and all sorts of stuff
you anything you want today.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
There seem to be a lot of candles and belts
and fudge, yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:08:40):
Fudge, it's right. Yeah yeah, oh it was lovely. Yeah
it was good, good in those days. And the smells
of soup and coffee and leather and yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
Yeah, very special smells. But I guess lot of those
candles were scentered to, weren't they.

Speaker 6 (01:09:00):
Yeah? Were? My mum had one, I think from the air.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
A lot of incense for sale as well. Also to
remember that, yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:09:08):
That's right, yeah, oh gosh, my mom knew a few
people who worked the array. Would your appearance have known
anyone here?

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
Oh yeah, they were done people the Yeah, I'm sure
they would have.

Speaker 6 (01:09:20):
Yeah, okay, years Sandra Caine and oh I think dying
cop and quite a few people, the main sisters Carol,
Sandra Maine. Yeah, quite a few different people. Are you

(01:09:46):
are you?

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Are you opening yourself Simon?

Speaker 6 (01:09:49):
Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah constantly?

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I thought you might have been making
candles or something done something like that.

Speaker 6 (01:09:58):
Oh no, no, I dis remember the may dismember the
and being being of the country market and.

Speaker 1 (01:10:07):
Yeah, yeah they did. I don't know what the other
big craft markets were around the Cook Street Norka was
one of those, you know, all that sort of handy
work and stuff like that in the seventies and eighties.
They might trigger some discussion about something else that happened
around the country, some of those equivalent markets and other places.
We got there because we're talking about making candles, which
I'm very happy to Can you continue to talk about

(01:10:28):
so if that's something you want to go on about
in calendars, it's a very discussion. There might be something
different you want to mention. I'm all for it. Good evening, Morris.
It's Marcus.

Speaker 22 (01:10:41):
Welcome, good evening, Marcus, first time caller.

Speaker 4 (01:10:44):
How are you mating?

Speaker 11 (01:10:45):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:10:45):
Good?

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
Nice there for Morris welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:10:47):
Oh yes, I'm just interested in old early people. Adults
are playing full light. Yes, I was born in ninety
fifty seven, and then in the late sixties into the
early seventies was interesting video games. And about four or
five years ago I've packed up FORTNIGHTE and and I

(01:11:08):
love it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:09):
How did it happen for you?

Speaker 22 (01:11:11):
Well, I've actually happened to my grandsons and and my
son in law was a good way for me to
communicate with them, and so I've been on ever since
and we always team up or I've play solo most
of the time, so I'm always watching out for the
online and then we'll team up.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
So for those that don't know, you wear a head
seat with a mouthpiece that you can communicate with other
people that have logged in the same time. It's just
like being on a phone. I mean, it's quite easy
to communicate, isn't.

Speaker 22 (01:11:36):
It very easy to communicate? But you're within a within
your own group, but it's it's fine, you just go
help a letter. But if you're in a random group
with your microphane on, you're just going to be a
bit careful on what you're saying, and some of it,
as a previous caller that has had said, some of
it kind of be a bit rough. But otherwise that

(01:11:56):
the game itself is quite enjoyable. I do a lot
of I do a lot of traveling, and it's a
good way for me to our mind.

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
And when you so, when you're up there with your
grandson and stuff by that, do you just not chet
about the game? You can chet about stuff beyond the
game as well, can you.

Speaker 22 (01:12:13):
Yes, we do. And it's funny thing about it too.
When we do catch up, you know, face to face,
some of our game strategies just seem to come out. Yeah,
my grandson's but the youngest that play with they are
age nine and ten, and they go all the way

(01:12:34):
up up to twenty twenty five.

Speaker 9 (01:12:37):
Wow.

Speaker 22 (01:12:39):
Yes, there's a lot for me.

Speaker 4 (01:12:41):
I know, people I.

Speaker 22 (01:12:42):
Been worried about the money aspect of it, but as
the previous quarters here, that's it's just to buy your
avatar skins and nothing else. Yeah, but you can you
can report abuse, you can't block people out, so there's
a lot you can control about the game itself.

Speaker 1 (01:12:59):
Are you good at it?

Speaker 15 (01:13:02):
Ah?

Speaker 22 (01:13:02):
It's reasonable. I find it hard to hang on the
Prixie crown, but I do it. Case do you win?

Speaker 1 (01:13:10):
Are you better than your grandchild that's nine?

Speaker 20 (01:13:15):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
For how much? For how much longer? Sorry, for how
much longer? It'll be getting It'll be getting better than
nine year old, won't you?

Speaker 15 (01:13:28):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:13:28):
Yes, slowly? Slant is getting there. Sometimes I take the
back seat. I become the medical officer and and just
go out and revive the moll.

Speaker 17 (01:13:37):
Wow.

Speaker 22 (01:13:37):
Okay, there's a lot of fun, Marcus.

Speaker 1 (01:13:41):
Yeah, it seems to have it seems it seems to
be that the fact that it's free in that communication
angle that seems to make it really sit well with people,
that you can actually have a group talking to each other.
I've never kind of thought of that until tonight.

Speaker 22 (01:13:54):
Yes, you can't. You can't. Can I have a group
of four and you've been surprised, and you've got fish
people that know you. They're trying to get invited so
that they can be next to play the game with you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
Okay, and you I think it's only been the last
week or two that my boys are communicating with others,
friends and bluff. But are you are you when you're
doing it? The four of you? Are you working with
one character? Are they four? Are they four different characters
on the island?

Speaker 22 (01:14:22):
Are four different characters?

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
Okay? But but you're working in coats with each other,
that's correct.

Speaker 22 (01:14:28):
Yes, so you're you're you're similar like a battlefield.

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
I was pleased to see a train there tonight, or
I told the boy off a driver on the railway track.
Train safety is important after all. But yeah, I like that.

Speaker 22 (01:14:40):
Yeah, Oh I know there's there's there's lots you can
do about us. So, like I said, Marcus, give it
a crack nice to hear.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
For, I certainly will. I suspect Vanisa will be in
that before me because she's quite a good gamer. And yeah,
because because even watching it, she'd picked up a bit
more than me. Or your Shields Low, I just can't
how many people are left your shields Low. Great checks
for two very good texts from Gaza. And then there

(01:15:11):
was the guy who was always sealing calendars. He got
twelve months. But this is the really good text, Marcus,
who'd you talk? Well, this isn't the really good this
is just another one from Gaza. He's on a roll. Marcus,
who'd you talk about the end of calendars? I think
it's possible because the days are numbered. I own a

(01:15:32):
supermarket cheese advents didn't sell. I broke them open and
took the cheese to snack on on the root Burn
track with the kids. I can't believe there's for twenty
different sorts of cheese on the Cheese Advent calendar. It'd
be Havarti camm beer that hement tal I love that
one with the caraway seeds in it. It is it

(01:15:53):
mmental anyway? In the air bubbles sixteen past ten, Hello Tom,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 19 (01:15:59):
Good evening, good even Marcus of just lying here on
me up and wait waiting for some to mention the
old handle candle.

Speaker 17 (01:16:12):
Gee.

Speaker 1 (01:16:13):
I've never heard what a handle candle is.

Speaker 19 (01:16:16):
It's just a bucket of damp sand and you just
stick your hand down in the sand and make the
shape and look down each each finger and secure it
with a match and whatever its top and yeah, boy boy,
you wax in and bingo.

Speaker 1 (01:16:34):
It's a shape of a hand.

Speaker 19 (01:16:37):
It's a shape of a hand.

Speaker 15 (01:16:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
And is the wick at the finger at the wrist?

Speaker 19 (01:16:41):
No, the wick's right at the end of each finger.
You poke it down with a pencil in it. We
make them back in the babies and the girl's sounds great. Yeah, yeah,
if you give me to.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
Go, I'll be good for how I see? It'll be
looking good for Halloween too, wouldn't because kind of spooky
looking it would be. Yeah, what's the what's the weather doing? Tom?
Whereabouts is your boat.

Speaker 19 (01:17:06):
Am on cow?

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Anything good happening there?

Speaker 19 (01:17:11):
It still has a milk pond there, beautiful?

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
Okay, you spend most of your time. You spend most
of your time there.

Speaker 19 (01:17:18):
And yeah, the old Karuba Triangle Burier way way in
the back to Carroll.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
I've never heard it called the Karuba Truggle. That might
be the best thing I've heard tonight.

Speaker 20 (01:17:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:17:31):
Well, yeah, we've got the old Total Classic next weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
Where's that too?

Speaker 19 (01:17:38):
After Russell?

Speaker 1 (01:17:38):
Oh that's right?

Speaker 24 (01:17:39):
That?

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
Yeah, Well, not many yactinent this year. I think I
was reading because of the America's cut people overseas, I
read that entries are way down. Okay, yeah, yeah, I
was reading that the other day. They said because a
lot of the people are over supporting the team.

Speaker 10 (01:17:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that should be a good long
weekend here but the old club.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
Yeah, oh I was here from your Tom, thank you.
I want to about the Coastal Cloud. Let's reading something
in the news about it. They said the numbers were down.
I listen every night and play Guild Walls two. Great soundtrack,
good game play, way better than Fortnite. That's from d On,
Good on your Dion. I'm a walk Marcus, as I
alluded to earlier in the week here in my thoughts

(01:18:28):
on the World Series starting Saturday, nine am, New Zealand time,
the Dodgers are slight favorites, mainly due to having home
field advantage. That aside, you could argue on the flip
of a coin, either club could win it at all.
It's that close. Predictions are that this may well be,
in terms of TV audience, the highest rating four Classic
of all time. Both teams have the largest fan base

(01:18:49):
of any other club, especially LA in Japan. I'm picking you.
We ought to win in six, mainly because they've got
a depth in their bullpen both the Yankees and Dodgers,
having Dodgers have impressive batting lineups, meaning will be decided
on the pitching rotation. I feel that New York have
the slide edge there the way it should be of
recompelling series. Give me your thoughts, Marcus chairs Leon from Melbourne,

(01:19:12):
unapologetic Baseball nerd. I haven't got much thoughts. I don't
think I think that New York will win because they're
just probably more used to it feels quite new for
the Dodgers. That's my take. Anyway, I did watch today.
I watched it last night. Actually I watched it. It
was compelling. It was the a series it's just dropped

(01:19:40):
on Netflix. I think it was called The Comeback and
it's about the Boston Red Sox and how since I
think nineteen eighteen, they'd never won a World Series because
of the curse. I forget what the curse was about,
because Babe Ruth had left or something like that. And

(01:20:04):
it kind of in some ways follows on from Moneyball
the movie, when you get into all the numbers and
stuff like that in stats and they got a young
manager who's twenty eight. The Boston Red Sox spend a
lot of money and I think in two thousand and

(01:20:25):
two that'd gone. It's a pretty interesting it's a pretty
interesting series. But anyway, it's the it's the series, but
it's three episodes, and it's the story behind the Boston
Red Sox winning their first World Series since well for
about for about ninety years. And it's good. It's really good.

(01:20:51):
The most surprising thing is in one game, I think
they were down three nil in the final of the
ALCS Final on the Eastern coastal so they're down three nil,
down three to one, and then they dound three to two.
I was surprised to see that they were passing a

(01:21:13):
bottle of Jack Daniels round the dressing room before they
went on at the Yankee Stadium, just to give them
the carriage. I thought, good on them, though, loose you
and it was good, very good, quite compelling for you.
What it's called, but maybe it's called the Turnaround or
the Comeback. I think it's called the Comeback. There's two
of them that st of sort of names. But yeah,
just just come out on the TV now you're Dwight.

(01:21:34):
It's Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:21:35):
Good evening, Hi Marcus, how are you doing good?

Speaker 1 (01:21:38):
Thank you, Dwight.

Speaker 16 (01:21:40):
I didn't actually get the build up in terms of
why you started talking about the World Series in the baseball,
but I heard kind of a tailand.

Speaker 1 (01:21:48):
In thought, I think a guy from a guy had
emailed me about who he thought would win. That the
LA Dodgers would win, because I think he thought they
have the first match advantage with the first match, that
was his prediction, and he thought the pitching roster had
great DEAs. Oh no, he's picking New York doing in
six great a depth in their bullpen.

Speaker 16 (01:22:11):
Interesting because do you know sho O Toney? Yes, yeah,
I think that's the variable that something people are gonna
be really interested in this series. I think the greatest
rivalry is between New York and the Boston Red Sox. Yes,
but the next level is New York versus Los Angeles.

(01:22:33):
So you've got East Coast versus West Coast. So it's
it's that's kind of the traditional line, but there's so
much more kind of intensity in this series.

Speaker 19 (01:22:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
And I think the LA Dodgers, they originally came from Brooklyn,
the Brooklyn Dodges, and they moved. They transposed themselves, didn't
they because people dodging the tram. They called it the
Dodgers because they dodged the trams to get there, I
think exactly.

Speaker 16 (01:22:58):
So you've got that whole rivalry between the Red Sox
and the Yankees in terms of Babe Ruth, and then
you have Los Angeles in Brooklyn, then going to the
West coast. So yeah, it's it's a really really interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
Mixture when I'm looking at the list of all the
winners over the years, right, and there were teams like
the New York Yankees that won it for you know,
seven or eight years in a row. But it seems
in the last certainly for this century, the winners are
much more varied. So it's not you know, it seems
like it spreads around a lot more. I don't know

(01:23:33):
if that's to do the way they get I don't
think there's a salary camp. I don't quite know why that,
but it seems to be a lot more equal.

Speaker 16 (01:23:39):
Now, well, you have like the Saint Louis Cardinals right
out of nowhere, but they won the World Series. So
that's so that's another kind of variable to the next.
But this one coming up. I'm a reasonable kind of
American sports fan, not a great baseball fan, but this
will be really worth watching.

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
Yeah, well, it's certain because I think some of the
last few years have been I thought have been slightly underwhelming.
But you know, yeah, well it's nine o'clock on Saturday.
It starts Texas range Is won last year, Houston Astro
is the year before both of those, and in fact,
the last time any of these two teams when it
was twenty twenty with the Dodgers exactly.

Speaker 16 (01:24:19):
Yeah, you're very knowledgeable.

Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
Well, I watch it. I mean, it's a good thing
that's on in the daytime. Yeah, but that show's really good.
If you watch the Gift, you get a charge. Have
you got Netflix dhite? Yes, it's fantastic. I'll tell you
what it's called. Let me just make sure it's it's
it's just all about two thousand and four in the
Red Sox. But it's a really good It just came

(01:24:44):
out today. Well, I had it kind of the first
time we sort of had anything appointed. It's it's called
The Comeback, The Comeback two thousand and four Boston Red Sox,
and they just it's mainly just the players speaking and
it's nice to see other players have aged and them
looking back on twenty years and the young manager. It's
an incredibly good watch. There you go. I don't normally

(01:25:08):
recommend Netflix shows. A way to skidy one's going to leave
the radio and go watch TV. But I think we've
got to be mature about that. Of course, Pep your
tears is there too. He's the big guy, the big hitter.
They've got the great picture. Get in touch. My name
is Marcus. Welcome h D twelve o'clock if you want
to come through. Well, he's nice to talk about a
baseball once in a while. Oh, here's a nice he's

(01:25:30):
an he's a nice email. And I kind of agree
with it. Actually, I was skeptical about the adults playing
Fortnite topic and the idea in general, but pleasantly surprised
the grandfather playing with his son and grandson sounded very wholesome.
I think it sounds great because there are a lot
of sports you can play with children and it's all

(01:25:50):
fair and equal, because you know, I don't know, I
would always want to be seen with their parents. Sometimes
you've got advantages. You can go and do laser strike,
but that's all of' I don't love laser striphie, but
it's scary to hide and be shot from bowling while
there's on and there's off days with bowling, and the
kids don't like it. They're sitting there and suddenly they're

(01:26:11):
on an off day and all going down the gutter.
I've probably taken a bit seriously, yeah, probably video games
with families a fairy good thing. On the night the
Four Red Sox clinched the World Series, there was an
eclipse and they said it was a wink from the
Babe Marcus. I can't buy poppy seeds for buns that

(01:26:32):
been and now because not available because of drug growers
planting them. Cindy, I don't think drug I don't think
drug growers were planting the poppy seeds. I think that
they were processing them. I don't think it was to
plant them. That's my understanding. That's yeah, because I know
that was a dairy and Willington that sold a lot

(01:26:53):
of poppy seeds and they put the Kibo wash on it.
I love a poppy seed bun.

Speaker 11 (01:26:57):
Though.

Speaker 1 (01:26:59):
Always good to have a bit of chat about the
World Series too. A long weekend coming up to I
don't rightly know what weekends famous for. Is it famous
for school reunions or lego shows and train shows? I
think it might be the letter big weekend for so
I think it's the weekend you go to the cryptomo
the lawns? Am I right? Oh? Do you think that

(01:27:24):
Metallica will work at eden Park? You will have been
to concerts there. They won't have been as good as Metallica.
You've probably been to Aid Sharon or Pink or I
can't think who else was there, But you just wonder

(01:27:45):
how well they would have been, how well that you
think Metallica will go there fifteen years ago? Since they well,
we last performed fifteen years ago. I don't know where
that wasn't all? And I also don't know if there's
going to be a concert in christ Church. So it
just says they're playing Eden Park even es since suicidal

(01:28:06):
tendencies will support So what do you think about them playing?
They think it'll be worth going to see. Will it
be a good venue for them? That's my question to
you tonight? And calendars and Fortnite High is a text high.
I started playing Fortnite as the Babies that are for
grandkids during COVID Purchase three Family PS five still play

(01:28:29):
Will that Else Meet Online? Over this time and the
appearance's grandkids have mostly given it away. I'm sixty nine
level two hundred and a bag of crowns to my name,
lull Wow, it's a good thing there we go fortnite
for the elderly or the elder if you want to

(01:28:50):
mention that. That's what I'm on about tonight, Marcus. I
don't think Metallica should perform in christ because we don't
need any satanic music. It hurts my ears. We don't
have to go. The good thing about music, it's optional.
Good evening, Tom, It's Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:29:05):
Welcome Alry Marcus. I'm just going to tell you the team.
The team you're talking about was Oakland Athletics. That's right, Yeah,
but I think I think they've heard in the dramas
their stadium and the owner, but I can't I can't
remember that exact and then outsid I think he's a
bit too parsimonious in other respects besides picking the team.

Speaker 1 (01:29:26):
Yeah, I don't quite I don't quite know how the
owners of basketball teams make their money. I presume most
of it's from merchandising and TV rights. Would that be right?
Do you reckon?

Speaker 15 (01:29:37):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:29:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:29:39):
Apparently this guy is a bit like Kiwi's. He's got
beet pockets and short arms and ya, he's paying out
nothing on the stadium. But I'm not sure how they
said a lot of merchandise.

Speaker 1 (01:29:53):
That's a huge one. I think. I think the La
Dodgers tell a huge amout of merchandise in Japan now
because of Otani. I mean he seems to be I
mean he's a superstar.

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:30:04):
I didn't keep up with you. I hope what there's
a there's a long form, a long form TV series
on on baseball itself that goes right back to the
nineteenth century to just after the I think the American
Civil War. I didn't couldn't watch all of it, but

(01:30:25):
it's quite a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:30:27):
Where was Was it on YouTube? Or was that on
some other platform?

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

Speaker 9 (01:30:31):
I can't remember. It might even be it might be
on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (01:30:35):
Did you watch it?

Speaker 9 (01:30:37):
Big pattern?

Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
Where did you watch it?

Speaker 9 (01:30:40):
I think I might have watched it on Ah, it
might have been on Netflix. But of course it was long.
It's so long.

Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
It's a it's a Ken Boons documentary. You have heard
about it, right, It's a Ken Burns.

Speaker 9 (01:30:54):
I didn't even get up to World War One practically.

Speaker 1 (01:30:58):
I want to watch that. I want I need to
watch that. I don't know where they were. Where do
you think that would be on I've heard of that
and I want it. Never thought to watch it.

Speaker 9 (01:31:05):
Yeah, I know it's so long. I probably might look
on Amazon. They might be on Prime I'm not sure. Yeah,
it was made.

Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
It was made in nineteen ninety four. Does that make sense?
And it's eighteen and a half hour eighteen and a
half hours long.

Speaker 9 (01:31:25):
Oh, that'd be right.

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
Okay, Dan, it's on Prime Video. How would I watch that?
Oh it's of vailable. Why would it be unavailable? Tell
me it's not what we'll have to do. What I
have to do with pretend I'm in Russia, Candles, Fortnite,
Metallica and the World Series. A text door says calenders

(01:31:47):
aren't dead. My stepdad made of retasteful in suggest of
one of them posing and seen it placed around us
in and sent it out to the family for Christmas
last year. Mini laughs and a few wandering eyes, wondering eyes,
wandering eyes at the family lunch. I suppose on the
calendar soon will be a I won't They just putting
that out there the way it's probably going to go.

(01:32:09):
Oh eight hundred eighty Teddy and nineteen nine to the text, Hi,
Garriot's Marcus, welcome, good to hear from you.

Speaker 15 (01:32:16):
Yeah, mat here you're going thank you, Gary mate.

Speaker 20 (01:32:20):
I usually kind of catch you when I'm driving at
night in my car, you know, going to the VP
to get a pie something. And the last time I
record something pertinent that you were talking about, not to
say you don't talk about pertinent things since I last
told to you. You were talking at the New Year
with somebody who predicted the future for the next twelve months. Yes,

(01:32:43):
and I recently heard and one of the things that
was predicted was willing to me was going to get
the sack. And the recent news was willing to me
is in trouble goodness that was on market, And it
just popped back in my memory that happened coin deeply

(01:33:05):
or did she of something going on there? And so
I guess my question is, apart from the mirror, there's
anything else that you gleaned from these people come true?

Speaker 1 (01:33:17):
Dan, We've got Yeah, some people have done quite a
lot of stuff that we're not. We aren't at the
stage yet to do the We'll wait till the end
of the year. But I guess people's predictions very wildly
and how courageous the predictions are.

Speaker 20 (01:33:35):
Well, I just found the aspect that it was the
Wellington mayor was rather.

Speaker 16 (01:33:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:33:43):
I don't know if that was predicted, was it Dan?

Speaker 5 (01:33:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:33:46):
There was, Gary.

Speaker 1 (01:33:49):
I think I think the predict the prediction was Wellington
City Council replaced by commissioner, no mention of the mayor.

Speaker 20 (01:33:57):
That's the current news. Yeah, correct, But I mean it's
pretty close, isn't it. You know, I just wondered if
you had anything else.

Speaker 1 (01:34:04):
You know, it's very hard to it's very hard to
replace a mere.

Speaker 20 (01:34:10):
No, I understand that.

Speaker 14 (01:34:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:34:12):
I guess my point is that's very close to that production.
Is there anything else that you've seen that it was
close to? Any predictions that were given in January?

Speaker 1 (01:34:22):
Yeah? One of the two Garrett Dan, well known, Lidia
Coe got gold. That was predicted right yep by me
well known you's in and the fools off East Scooter.
I think that was Simon Bridges and that was one
I predicted that's happened.

Speaker 20 (01:34:43):
No, I'm talking about the people that rang up who
thought they were you know, they could come to you,
not you.

Speaker 1 (01:34:48):
Yeah, there's quite there's quite a few have come true.
I'll get onto them, thanks, Garry. I guess we'll ever
go around about the meyor of Willington, didn't he anyway
here till midnight? Moname is Marcus welcome oh weight one
hundred and eighty tendy and nineteen nine two detects. What
have you got up for? It seems to be an
injury in the cricket. The women's cricket is a woman
on the ground attended by people. I don't know what's

(01:35:10):
going on there, will report back. Get out of a
penfold down, must look like a cramp or something like that.
She's cramped up, cramped up men's game. Another cicket, another wicket. Sorry,
the total is two four two four eight sow they
bowled for five not enough after eight balls. Very good

(01:35:32):
bowling from India. I mean that bowl that that ball
that dismissed Revendo was unbelievable. Unbelievable, that ball, the way
it moved, the turn they got on it, by the
way that we people going for the long weekend coming
up too so short week next week. I am excited
about that. Candles, Fortnite, Metallica and the World Series. A

(01:35:56):
text door says Calenders aren't dead. My stepdad made of
retaste from in suggest of one of imposing and seen
it placed around news in and sent it out to
the family for Christmas last year, and he laughs and
a few wandering eyes, wondering eyes, wandering eyes at the
family lunch. I suppose on the calends soon will be
a I won't They just putting that out there the way,

(01:36:17):
it's probably going to go eight hundred eighty Teddy and
nineteen nine to the text, Hi, Garriot's Marcus welcome. Good
to hear from you.

Speaker 15 (01:36:26):
Yeah, mat here you're going, Thank you, Gary mate.

Speaker 20 (01:36:30):
I usually kind of catch you when I'm driving at
night in my car going to the VP to get
a pie or something. And the last time I record
something pertinent that you were talking about, not to say
you don't talk about pertinent things since I last told you.
You were talking at the New Year with somebody who

(01:36:51):
predicted the future for the next twelve months. Yes, and
I recently heard and one of the things that was
predicted was the willing to Me was going to get
the sack. And the recent news was that the willing
to Me is in trouble. That was on back and
it just popped back in my memory that happened coincideply

(01:37:16):
or did she have something going on there? And so
I guess My question is, apart from the mirror tact,
there's anything else that you gleaned from these people come true?

Speaker 1 (01:37:28):
Dan, We've got Yeah, some people have done quite a
lot of stuff that we're not. We aren't at the
stage yet to do the We'll wait till the end
of the year. But I guess people's predictions very wildly
and how courageous the predictions are.

Speaker 20 (01:37:45):
Well, I just found the aspect that it was the
Wellington Mayor was rather.

Speaker 16 (01:37:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:37:53):
I don't know if that was predicted, was it, Dan?

Speaker 15 (01:37:56):
Yeah, there was Gary.

Speaker 1 (01:37:59):
I think I think I think the predict the prediction
was Wellington City Council replaced by Commissioner, no mention.

Speaker 14 (01:38:07):
Of the mayor.

Speaker 20 (01:38:08):
That's the current news. Yeah, correct, But I mean it's pretty.

Speaker 12 (01:38:11):
Close, isn't it.

Speaker 20 (01:38:12):
You know, I just wondered if you had anything else.
You know, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:38:15):
Very hard, it's very hard to replace a mire No.

Speaker 20 (01:38:19):
I understand that.

Speaker 24 (01:38:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:38:21):
I guess my point is that's very close to that production.
Is there anything else that you're seeing that it was
close to any predictions that were given in January?

Speaker 14 (01:38:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:38:32):
One of the two Dan well known litera Coe got
gold that was predicted right, yep, by me well known
you's in and the fools off east scooter. I think
that was Simon Bridges and that was one I predicted
that's happened.

Speaker 20 (01:38:50):
No, I'm talking about the people that rang up who
thought they were you know, they could cover the fire,
not you.

Speaker 1 (01:38:56):
Yeah, there's quite as quite there's quite a few have
come true. I'll get onto them. Thanks Gary. I guess
we'll ever go around about the Meyor of Willington. Didn't
he anyway? Here till midnight? Moname is Marcus welcome one
hundred and eighty taty nineteen nine two. Detect What have
you got up for? It seems to be an injury.
And the cricket, the women's cricket. There's a woman on
the ground attended by people. I don't know what's going

(01:39:18):
on there, will report back. Get out of a penfold down,
must look like a cramp or something like that. Shoes
cramped up, cramped up, men's game. Another cricket, Another wicket. Sorry,
the total is two four two four eight sow they

(01:39:41):
bowled for five not enough after eight balls. Very good
bowling from India. I mean that bowl that that ball
that dismissed vender was unbelievable. Unbelievable that ball, the way
it moved, the turn they got on it, by the

(01:40:02):
way that we people going for the long weekend coming
up too, so short week next week. I am excited
about that. And there's a new article that's reading about
why people itch. Yeah, pretty interesting. Seems to be very

(01:40:25):
misunderstood itching. And they say some people itch for no
clear reason, probably all wan the brain though I'm not
saying that disparagingly. But you don't even know what's going
to be going to find out about that itching. You

(01:40:50):
don't see many backscratches for sale that used to be
a big thing to buy. People didn't it a backscratcher,
they reckon. Scientists are coming some way to unlocking the
secrets of chronic itch. That's hopeful. I don't think we

(01:41:14):
can have a night about itching, but I just sort
of put that out there to show that we are
up for everything. Calendars disappearing. I either probably sell half
the calendars this year they sold last year. They're just
a thing of the past. I'm not saying that they
should be banned, by the way, because often if I
say something's falling out of favor, I'm not saying the

(01:41:36):
other to be banned, but that's just my take on calendars.
Because our phone does everything. Our phone does everything most
other things ever did cameras, watchers, calendars, calculators, radios, TVs.
The one phone has replaced pretty much everything. Interestingly interesting enough,

(01:42:02):
it was never predicted. They predicted there would be phoned.
We can look at people when you're talking to them,
but they never brought it to be one device that
would replace everything. Camera, calculator, compass. He hasn't got a
thermometer of the phone, but I used to have one thermometer.

(01:42:25):
It was a great phone, but not now anyway. The
one thing I think a phone should have is a lighter.
We've got the torch as well. Hasn't a torch, calculator, compass, camera, radio,
newspaper to replace pretty well everything. That's what I'm on

(01:42:45):
about tonight. So I've talked about calendars and candles. Used
to be a big thing making your own candles. Not
many people do it. Now you might be involved in candles.
I'd like to hear if you want to talk about candles, Marcus,
I've brought here we go. This is a classic text.
Buckle yourselves in for this one, Marcus. I've bought a
marvelous telesc topic backscratcher from Temu. It's pink and shaped

(01:43:10):
like a small rate gives the most satisfying scratch you'd
ever asked for. Marcus. A backscratcher is the perfect implement
for cleaning your gutters, easy to pull the debris a
decent distance from your ladder. Marcus, I have missed the update,
but do you have any info on the power outage
in West Harbor Hobsonville. I can't get the Victor website

(01:43:32):
to work, thanks being out for a while. Now I'll
get Dan onto that. My sister told me she was
gonna have a casual Friday at work tomorrow as a
delivery driver. My action had good luck with that, because
what a walker's do on the friday of have a
long weekend? All day traffic, Marcus. Sales of fireworks coming soon?
I find of re annoying people let them off all
hours of the day. They should be banned, they say,

(01:43:54):
ban them every year, but I never do enjoy authorized displays. Much.
Safe for your thoughts, please, Lloyd. Thanks Marcus. Okay my
thoughts are I enjoy fireworks? I don't think any government
will ever abandon them because governments don't like to interfere
with people having a good time. But I think probably
every year less unless people are buying fireworks because people

(01:44:15):
don't have the sections anymore. People have an apartments and
places like that and it's hard to let them off
in public parks. Marcus. Last year I bought a calendar.
Aster's have a one year guarantee. So yes, I'm not
going to start. And I think it's a bit rough
animates and Overseas company trying to start a petition to
get rid of fireworks. Stick to what you know, Paula Marcus. Welcome,

(01:44:39):
Hi Max.

Speaker 8 (01:44:39):
That's how are you good?

Speaker 1 (01:44:40):
Paula good?

Speaker 21 (01:44:42):
Good, hate Marcus. I have an update on the Horizon
scandal post off scandal.

Speaker 1 (01:44:46):
Horizon post of a scan in the UK for those
that don't know. Thank you.

Speaker 21 (01:44:49):
Yes, I was speaking to you a couple of weeks ago,
and I happen to be I have a great job.
Sometimes I can podcast I work many hours, but I
was I looked up the other day just this week
and they as late as the sixteenth of was still
having hearings. So what they seem to be doing is
having the major hearings and now calling back people and

(01:45:13):
questioning them on why they said what they said. I
mean senior people in post office, senior people in fugits,
to some of their advisors. So it's very interesting. It's
still going.

Speaker 1 (01:45:23):
So when's the is it going a day when it's
going to resolve itself?

Speaker 21 (01:45:27):
I think that's a really good question. No, I think
what he's done, so when what he's heard and now
he has more questions before he can make a determination.

Speaker 1 (01:45:39):
Okay, did you say you can?

Speaker 21 (01:45:40):
Everyone's giving their evidence and it's starting to be more contradictory,
and he's actually got some factual data that's come through.
So he's going back to these people and saying, well,
in your evidence of this date on this page, you've
said that, Why in the face of you having now
demonstrated that you knew this, have you done that?

Speaker 1 (01:45:59):
Okay, Okay, that's amazing. Well I'm looking I'm looking forward
the recap of all of it. Did you say you
podcast in your work where you can listen to podcasts and.

Speaker 21 (01:46:07):
Your work, Well, I do a very intense job and
I've been many working so sometimes you know, you need
a bit of a mental break, so I can actually
it not many hours. I can just sit there from
time to time and just listen to something different, just
to clear my head before I carry it on. What
I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (01:46:22):
Go you with your intense job. Well, I mean, I
don't tell me, but I'm always everyone's thinking, what this
is really intense? I suppose every job's intense.

Speaker 21 (01:46:29):
And someone well, yeah, I don't have analysis of a
lot of data, very very technical data.

Speaker 1 (01:46:35):
It does sound intense.

Speaker 21 (01:46:37):
Yeah, And I do use multiple, multiple modern technology software,
so I'm in multiple. They've just given us three new
ones and it's just yeah, So I like the paper calendar.
I'll throw that in there because I am. I am
very computer literate. I do like my because what I
can do is I can have it on the bench
and then every family member can look at it and

(01:46:58):
know exactly where they're at.

Speaker 1 (01:47:00):
In my life, we always change, We always have. We
always get get a whiteboard. This is going to be
the future, but it's never really up for that much. Well,
then people forget to look at the white border. Then
there's a calendar.

Speaker 21 (01:47:10):
So the calendar is great. Because we don't want to
share each other data on the social media. We're not
all on social media. And no one wants to shared
Excel spreadsheets. So I just put it on the bench
and say right and they can have a lot and
tell you that's important to turn up good advice.

Speaker 1 (01:47:26):
Thank you, Paul. It nice to talk again. Max. It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:47:31):
Oh hi Marcus.

Speaker 18 (01:47:32):
I've heard you touching on about the phones and all
the different functions, and I was watching American News just
a couple of days ago, and then I've looked more
into it. Apple have announced on the AirPods it's going
to be released next week. There's quite a lot of
buzz going on the internet about it. They're actually incorporating

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hearing aids in the air pods.

Speaker 1 (01:48:00):
What a great idea. I'd never thought of it. What
a great idea to blake to break that brilliant to
break the audiology monopoly and exploitation.

Speaker 18 (01:48:09):
Well, I've recently got hearing aids. I've got a bit
of hearing damage and it did cost a arm and
a leg. Costs a lot of money. So this is
going to be a really cheerful tenet.

Speaker 1 (01:48:20):
And did you get for it because it was hearing?

Speaker 11 (01:48:24):
No?

Speaker 12 (01:48:25):
No, I didn't.

Speaker 18 (01:48:26):
No, apparently you've got to be Actually they were sort
of giggling about that you've got to be eighty five
and you've got to lose a huge amount of hearing
that you've almost got to be deaf before it. But anyway,
with these AirPods, they're going to release a new software

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update and it's it's called AirPods pro To Software Update.
And what's going to happen is you will be able
to take a hearing test. And I've looked into this
and the hearing test is exactly the same as what
you get at an audiologist clinic what I had, and

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it'll show the graph and then it'll adjust the air
pods to your hearing damage and everything exactly what you
get when you go to an audiologist. So isn't that.
I mean what amazes me is that you know, like
it's taken all these years and somebody suddenly thought, hey,
we could we could build this into into there and

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and so this is the next thing, Max.

Speaker 1 (01:49:32):
Max, Just just so I can understand this because I've
never really used air pods, right, but that's and this
is with the hearing aid or the amplification with using
your cell phone and your AirPods. Would it be using
your phone to pick up the data or would it
be using the air pods themselves to pick up the data?

Speaker 18 (01:49:51):
Look, that is something I can't answer.

Speaker 25 (01:49:53):
Okay, to be honest, I resume I presume it'd be
the airpoddre it'd be the air dance technical Dan, it'd
be the AirPods, wouldn't it they would pick up Yeah,
Dan thinks it'd be the AirPods it would pick up
the sound.

Speaker 10 (01:50:04):
But yeah, there is actually.

Speaker 18 (01:50:07):
C N E T dot com. They have quite a
big review on it and tell you all about it.
So it'll be a NAPP. So so what what what
you'll do is you'll do a hearing test and you'll
get the b BE you know, and then you you
know for the different frequencies, which is exactly what they

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did when I went into the audiology business. Yeah, so
that's going to put i mean, you know, over the
poor old audiologists. They go to university for years, So
that's going to put a lot of the guys out
of work. But it certainly is going to break the
monopoly because and it's going to make it more affordable
for people who are really a little bit stuck.

Speaker 1 (01:50:50):
Yeah, that's really that's a really interesting call, Max. So
thank you for coming through. Found that very interesting. Hearing
aids are bluetooth. Also, my dad can talk on his
phone through his ones. Marcus, car keys are becoming obsolete
due to the fob when we will get napped for
the phone to replace the foe or is there? I
think someone told me that. I think land drovers or

(01:51:14):
range rovers now have just you can open them with
your phone. Yeah, that's right. I was speaking of something
that had a land rover or a range rover. Oh,
I see they've always said the phone or replace hasn't
replaced the encyclopedia. Of course. It's a very good point, Marcus.
Love your show. The phones have also replaced the dictionary

(01:51:36):
encyclop here for album wristwatch, so this is endless cath Marcus.
I think we should talk about shrink flation. I brought
a packet of Tim Thames recently, was a full sized packet,
but the plastic transite had space's only eight biscuits. Don't
buy them Tim Tams. Aren't that good, Marcus, it's bron
want to hear from Levin. I always buy calendars. I
like to write birthdays appointment on them for reminders. It's

(01:51:57):
easy and looking up on my phone. I think normally
phones will prompt you with a reminder, reminder, reminder, Marcus.
Recently I started to we're hearing aids nine thousand dollars.
They're fantastic. I can bluetooth to phone, music, TV and
rechargeable to no batteries. Davo Todd, Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:52:17):
Welcome by Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:52:20):
Hadn't spoken for a while. I just thought i'd give
you a call. I'm actually on a train just heading
north to London. I know you're trained buff oh good
where you hit it, and I'm a bit sad. I've
got it to lead for a meeting, so i just
left things a cross about half an hour ago, and
I'm a bit sad because I've got an app on
my phone that don show speed and I just thought
we're doing one hundred and twenty four mile an hour,

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which I think about town the Cave. It's great service
when it works. But yeah, I just it was actually
about land rovers you just mentioned about the technology. They're
not very popular here at the moment, particularly the older ones,
because they've pushed up all the insurance and where I
lived there quite there's quite a few of them. They

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are just getting in the last couple of years. They've
just been stolen to order, and they apparently were warned
a long time ago about their their keyless system or
whatever it is, and people were just hacking into it,
doing something like if you've got the keys just inside
your house, if you can imagine an English house where
your everything sort of reft at the front door, and

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they somehow scam it and every range, Rover, Land rover
rapped us has insurances have gone up in the UK
about twenty eight percent apparently highest and anywhere in Europe.
That's part of the reason.

Speaker 1 (01:53:38):
I just I just you just cut out with a train.
You said your every keys on the front just on
the front door. Then what did you say there? Yep,
you just cut out as you said about the front year.

Speaker 14 (01:53:48):
Yes, probably because yeah, so people are these gangs. I
mean there's been some done in our street where they
just actually somehow clone the key through the front door
and get into the car and unable to start it.
So a lot of them around us, or just about
every one of them has a lock around the steering
wheel and the pedals internally, it's really become a problem.

Speaker 1 (01:54:12):
So it sounds like a disaster.

Speaker 14 (01:54:15):
It is assurance I mean, I think we've been robbed
just with cost of living. But there's been a big
article here about car insurance. It's gone up twenty eight
percent compared to France, three percent, eight percent in Italy,
and I think it was thirteen percent in Germany. But
they are so I think, you know, I was still
to my mechanic. That's one of the problems. And the
other problems are electric car batteries that are causing problems.

(01:54:37):
But you know, who knows. The insurance companies will claim anything.
Apparently if you've got a lot of potholes, are your
insurance goes up as well by your postcode. But yeah,
it is a massive problem with range roaders more, I
think more the ones that have sort of in the
last ten years.

Speaker 1 (01:54:53):
I was reading a bigartic in America about insurance. When
you're getting car insurance there you can sign something that
people don't know about, which means the insurance company can
track your speed and how you're driving, and if you're
speeding too fast to yeah, you become null and void,
which is kind of crazy.

Speaker 14 (01:55:10):
Well, I mean, insurance is a big thing here, and
you know, if you're not insured, you get six points
and a big fire. They take it very seriously. But
young people trying to drive. I mean when my sons
will first driving in London, it was one thousand pounds
to be insured two thousand you know en z dollars.
And they used to have a tracker in the car,
so the tracker. They all have a tracker in the

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car and a lot of them had bumper sticker saying
sorry about my speed, but I've got a tracker. I
don't like it either, and it's simply to make young
people not go crazy, and then they get lower insurance.
There's a following year. I they've kept to the speed limits,
so you have to have a tracker pretty well if
you want to have any short small it's still ridiculous.

(01:55:53):
But most of them will be on a tracker, young people.
So they plug it into their cigarette lighter and it
tells you it goes back to the insurance company. And
in fact, my son and the last year he's just
changed insurance. He's thirty now, but he had paid by mile,
so he had a little tracker in his car and
I used to nick his car and now he would
call me and say, why have you got my car?
And you're up the road at the shop. So I

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didn't like that very much because often used to nick.

Speaker 1 (01:56:18):
His car surprise. I thought that I thought the trekkers
would be in built in the car anyway.

Speaker 14 (01:56:27):
No, no, well they may be in more modern cars.
You can imagine when you're young, you're buying a two
thousand and six, you know, jo or something, okay, but
you know it's but you know, I watched some of
the old New Zealand Highway cop shows and it still
astounds me. There's no insurance, compulsor insurance in New Zealand.
I think it must be the only country in the
world I know, except for you know, a third world

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countries where probably anything goes, but it's insurance is massive
here and then Todd.

Speaker 1 (01:56:55):
It's kind of famous in my line of work because
there's always the talk back topic you never go to
because it's so joyless, but you'll get responses. And then
there's compulsory third party insurance. But I didn't realize that
we're the only country that doesn't have it.

Speaker 14 (01:57:12):
Well, I don't quote me for that, Marcus, but I'm
pretty sure of live in Australia. My brother lives in America.
You know, you wouldn't want to be uninsured in America,
that's for sure, but yeah, I don't know any country
and it's it's hugely you know over here. I'm sure
the cops in New Zealand have it, but the DVLA,
which is the driving department based in Swansea. You literally

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any cock car following your police car will be scanning
your number plate and I know if you've got a
warrant which is called an mot if you have paid
account your car tax, an ifing insured and not pull
you over straight away if any of those don't come up,
and they're just scanning every number plate scanned as they
follow cars.

Speaker 1 (01:57:51):
Lovely to talk to you, Todd. You enjoy your weekend
and nice to hear from you. Thank you for calling
from the train. I could tell you there's been a
wicket and the cricket I'm talking about the men's cricket,
not the women's cricket. India are one for one, so
one of the openers have gone cheaply. Roy hit Sharma
is out one for one bowld for a duck nine balls,

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not a maiden, not a golden but a duck. Cheepers
who got the wicket? Dan Salthy, Oh that's great. Sir
Gill is now in shump shipman Gil gone average of
thirty six. Goodness me, Marcus, im may shift workers. I
use a giant wall planer for my family to see

(01:58:36):
every shift for the year, and when my weeks are off,
you start a full it the entire year's worth of
shifts on two wall planners. Wow, you haven't done the
old compulsory third party insurance for a while. I don't
like a car without a key. I've got a car
with no key. I don't like it. Just makes me
feel a bit icky. Click and go click click anyway,

(01:58:58):
that's just me. But yes, So one day, one day, Pete,
one day, one day, one day, Son to make a
list of everything that the cell phone has replaced. And
it's a long list. It's pretty much replaced everything. The
torch has replaced the lighter though it probably should. I
think a cigarettelighte would be very useful on a phone
starting fires, especially if I'm naked and afraid on You

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can't take Is that another wicket or was that the
replay of that one? She has a nice ball, clean
bold not the league side wicket. The other one. What
do they call that one? Off side wicket. No it's
not called that, but you know what I'm saying, Marcus.
My grandfather was the original scrooge, but duck. He taught

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me that you don't have to buy calendars. The Gregorian
calendar repeats itself every eleven years. He used to print
out playing calendars of just marking the month and the year.
Our daughter produces a calendar each year for us. Each
month has photos pertaining the immediate family member's birth month
taken that previous year. Use it most days to write

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whatever important things need to do. Remember, all our birthdays
are printed in so that's a bonus. Worked in police
admin forty years ago in London, had compulsory insurance way
back there, not here. Recently, the grandson first car has
had two people crash into him. One had insurance, other doesn't.

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Four thousand damage dorm it four thousand damage their rockets
his premium, neither his fault. But he's under twenty five.
Oh yeah, pretty old, sketchy, old business. The insurance one
don't even know what to say about that. Won't say
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