The boomerang kid (18 February 2025)

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Wait, howdy, Marcus, here, how big is on tonight? I'm
going with your co Chris Ward, woman and man team.
I'm not entirely sure of yachting. Yeah, but really it's
all the designers, isn't it. I don't know, coach, I
don't know. I just like the man and the woman.
But that's my thing for that anyway too, So I'll
give you those as they happen throughout the course of
the evening. I think Hamish cuz they are the high

(00:39):
jumpers there also in the canoeist it's an Olympic year.
But you got to go with co and you got
to go with Chris Wood from the EPL. That's my take.
Fight me for that anyway. They'll happen throughout the course
of the night. It is on TV. But this is
from me to you. I've done this for about ten years,
watched on TV. It looks to be one of the

(01:02):
longest nights you could sit at a table for in
your life. I say this quite often. I don't know
why I say it. I don't know why I say
it at all. Actually because it just makes me sound
not mean spirited. But so anyway, you go to these awards,
I watch them.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Also.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
The women look beautiful. The men are on those tuxedos,
and they go in there and they sit at tables
for hours for long that these awards ceremonies look never ending.
I don't know what the solution is, but yeah, I'm
sure it's for the athletes. I'm sure they love it,
and I'm sure afterwards there's networking and YadA YadA yah.
But I will keep you updated for that one. That

(01:42):
for that what for what happens when that happens with
the Halbergs Tonight sportswomen of the Year Lydia Coo. For me,
there's others. There's cyclists, canoe racers, cricketers, tennis players and rowers,
Sportsman of the air. That's Chris Wood for me, because
it's such a big sport. You say, it's hard to
compare that with finn Butcher. I don't know how many

(02:05):
people do canoeal, but it wouldn't be as many as
pay professional football. That would be my take. So Chris
would for me for that one team of the year. Well,
I think the White fans get that for cricket. I'm
not sure when they're a war if when they won
the World Cup was within the window. But there we go.
That's that for me, Coach of the Year. Don't really

(02:30):
know any of them.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Go.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'll go with a cycling I'll go with a cycle track.
I presume that's the father. Is it John Andrew? Is
it Alessa's father? I guess so emerging talent. I'm not
quite sure who to go there.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Go.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I reckon the guy should be that sixteen year old
that ran free fast in the mile, but he's not
there anyway that will happen when that comes to I'll
keep you updated with that too. The other thing tonight,
he's something that might have passed you by. What's happening tonight.
It's the fortieth anniversary, forty years of the east Enders.
That's sluck up for a long time. That was kind

(03:11):
of that was just like Coronation Street of poor relevant.
Forty years they've got. I don't even know if anyone
watches that in New Zealand now. I watched that for
about five years, No, for about five months maybe in
the eighties. I thought it was very good when Dirty
Den was at his peak and that was a great show.

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So there we go. That's on. That's f I don't
even know if you can watch it in New Zealand.
Someone will let me know about that. I wouldn't mind
picking up on that. But forty years of that also,
so that's happening, by the way, you want to talk
about that where you can watch it to be interested
to hear from you about that. I don't know if
it's screened in New Zealand or not, but you might
have something to say about that. Oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty. And the one other thing that I'll

(03:57):
mentioned quite quickly. I happened to go to Countdown and
I'd spend enough money to qualify for one of the
things that you collect, which is a Minecraft thing. I
got home down, I made it, quite enjoyed it. You

(04:18):
make a little cube. And the kid came home from
school and I said, there's this it's Minecraft. He opened
it up and he said there's nothing inside it. I said, well,
that's not the point you make these cubes. He had
zero interest. Altho, I'll be going back collecting the whole set.
I quite liked the whole thing. But there we go.
That's that. The vote from the children. Not very interesting

(04:41):
at all. Anyway, there you go, make of that what
you will. My name is Marcus, Welcome head or twelve o'clock.
I will keep your data with the Halbergs as they
happen throughout the next four hours. In the meantime, I
wouldn't mind talking about the east Enders better or worse
than Coronation Street. For most people it was a bit depressing,
but London based.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Well.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
The thing I like about soap operas is that they
always come up on the chase and there's always a
question about soap operas and there's always four of them.
It's either Emmidale Farm, Coronation Street, east Enders, and there's
a fourth I've never heard of that begins with C

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and they always go on about that. I don't even
know what it is if I have to google it
up now, So there we go. That's the soap operas,
and that's England, and that's forty years for east Enders.
It's called Crossroads or something. Someone will text that through
to me. Can't remember what it's called now anyway, get
in touch with you on Crossroads, east Enders, Brookside, Coronation Street, Crossroads, Emmidale,

(05:52):
oh and holding Oaks anyway, I wouldn't mind some discussion
tonight about a little bit of discussion about East Ends
in the forty years. I don't even know if it's
still on TV here. I suppose people just watch it
on YouTube. If I got that right, let me know.
By the way, if you've got breaking news where you are,
let me know what that was. I was driving to
work there was some drama in a street and in

(06:14):
the Cargill tonight. If anyone knows what was going on there,
cars and ambulances and police and all sorts of stuff
going on. But you know, you never can quite tell
what's happening. So if ayone's got the information about that,
texts it through. Wouldn't mind some information about that, by
the way, And the cargo airport has closed. There's also
severe hunt the thunderstorm issued for christ Church and parts

(06:36):
of Canterbury, so I expect there to be breaking news
tonight as happens. I can also say Ferg Burger's had
extraordinary Burger joined in Queenstown, a dream run for must
be twenty five years. This will be the first bad
story I've heard about Ferg Burger's ever. It was the

(06:57):
burger joint that could do that could do no wrong,
that everyone loved, that refused to franchise, that kept honors
into their core, and now one of the employee has
used a racial slur on the receipt. And I guess
the perse that picked up that racial slurs posted on

(07:18):
Instagram or something, as they're entirely entitled to do, and
it's become a headline news story. Now we've got such
sentences as the burger joint first open in two thousand
and one has been frequented by the likes of Ed
Sheeran and Justin Bieber. I'd just be saying was frequented

(07:38):
by Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber. Ed Sheeran probably looking
for someone busking one of his songs to jump in
there and take over as his his wont but then
police are on. They've stopped him from doing that. Anyway,
Get in touch you when and start the whole war
rolling tonight, Marcus till midnight eight hundred and eighty not
quote you whatt the mood of the countries. If you
want soft or heavy tonight, do let me know. I

(08:03):
was reading a column from the Herald today. I don't
really like going down this road. But they were talking
about the people that should succeed from Christopher Luxen, and
they said there's four contenders. Who are those four? I
presume it was Chris Bishop, Nichola Willis, Simeon Brown. Who's
the fourth? I spent five minutes thinking about that, and

(08:26):
I had no idea who that is? Is that Mark Mitchell?
Sure they wouldn't be thinking Judith Collins had come back again?
Would she? The boomerang kid? Marcus a streaker wore greatly
enlive in the deadly dull Halberg Awards are a Will
Smith like slap. Yeah. I don't know what it is.
I think awards ceremonies have done their day. I think

(08:49):
people just want to get and get out, get the
awards and have a bit of a party. But did
you sit through those? Woo get in touch one, start
the whole ball rolling that sixteen past eight. My name
is Marcus. Welcome here to the end. We'll end up
with a topic, I'm sure of that tonight. I'll say
some things, you say, some things, we say. Some things
will get there eventually. So do you get in touch?

(09:10):
Who are the four continue to take over from Luxen?
I'll chuck that the mix because I'm curious about that.
I'm curious about eastn As. I always thought it was
better than Coronation Street, but forty years today, It's also
just been fifty years of Saturday Night Live, which is
that big American show which key we seem to know about,

(09:31):
but I'm never quite sure where they watch it. I've
never seen on any TV channel and I've been surfing.
So there's been much navel gazing about that, mainly because
of the fact that the guy that is the cut
of the Boss of the Show has done that show
for fifty years with a five year break, which is
pretty extraordinary, from age thirty to age eighty. It's kind

(09:51):
of amazing, isn't it. Anyway, Do get in touch by
Dame's Marcus Welcome head on midnight if there's something else
you want to chuck into the mix tonight. We're a
broad Church. I'm not quite sure we will end up
today or what topic will end up on. Last night
we ended up on guest Cylinders, which I thought was
quite good, So I'm prepared to be as flexible tonight.

(10:18):
So do get in touch eight hundred and eighty Tenadian
nine two nine two text. I would imagine most of
you would be very, very happy if the police are
convening where the father and the three children were sighted today.
I'm not really sure if that's what's happening. There was
a man and three children seen at a lay by.

(10:40):
I don't even know if we call them lay bys.
And that's as far down the article as I got
a lay by. I don't think we call them laybys.
I think we call them rest areas. Yeah, so there
you go on State Highway four. Maybe it's near Kihi Kihi. No,

(11:02):
it's near Tiki Tiki. That didn't land from where he
was before, inland from Peopio. So I'm not quite sure
what's going on there. But they didn't say that they're
gone down and droves to find them. Yeah, he said
he told the police yesterday there'd been a possible sighting.

(11:23):
He didn't know who. Oh yeah, but I don't know
what's happened there. So I've heard nothing that they're going
in there. Oh, they'd get a helicopter in there, I think,
But nothing of significance was found. So they're making a
movie of it. Now, evening, Gillian, it's Marcus.

Speaker 6 (11:41):
Welcome, Hi Marcus, how are you Gillian, I'm good, Thank you.

Speaker 7 (11:46):
Good.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
Do you remember a few months ago when you had
the topic of hobbiton?

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, because people couldn't believe it. I'd always thought it
was a I always thought it was a dud, but
people were raving about it.

Speaker 6 (11:59):
Well, that program inspired me. And I've just got back
from going there. From where do you live in christ Check?

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Okay? So that was a big effort.

Speaker 6 (12:10):
Yeah, And I went there and it was fabulous.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Wow, it was.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
It was really awesome. And they've got one whole bit
house you were allowed to go into and I was
sitting on the furniture because we were told we were
allowed to, and you know, they had all sorts of
props that you were allowed to touch. And so I
picked up the knitting and I poured a cup of
tea and stirred the stew.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
And a Chillian, what age group would you be in?

Speaker 6 (12:43):
I am in my late sixties?

Speaker 8 (12:45):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Because what you said the this egg, I thought, yeah,
that's interesting. And you flew from christ Church to Auckland
specifically to go there? No, okay, so that was that?
That was your trip. You flew there and they picked
you up where you hired a car or No.

Speaker 6 (12:59):
They had a bus that was pretty hate it there,
and then we had lunch at the Dragon while we
were there, and that was awesome. Everybody sat at communal
tables and it was a big buffet and you could
also at the pub you could get cider or.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
Ginger.

Speaker 6 (13:25):
The whole thing was just wonderful and we've got photos made.
One of the few people who could get in there
without having to bend over.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yes because you're short. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
Wow, And it was just a really fabulous place to go.
And I'd go back and art, Well.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'm loving all of this because you heard it on
talk back. You're committed to it, You've gone and you've
loved it. This is what were others on the plane
from christ going up there just for Hobbiton. I have
no idea, okay, I just thought you might have seen
people get on your bus from the airport that were
also on your plane.

Speaker 6 (13:59):
No, we were, actually we had private trendsfers. Yes, but
the bus. We were picked up in a bus from
the hotel to go to Hobbiton and then to come back.
And our bus driver was amazing lady who gave us
all sorts of interesting bits of information on the drive

(14:23):
from Roadera to Hobbiton. And you know, when we first
got on the bus, she wouldn't tell us what her
name was, But once everybody had been collected from all
the different hotels around Rodua, she then said, Oh, any complaints,
my name is Sheila. Any compliments, my name is Hannah.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
I love a bus. I love that when they get here.
That's good. Oh that's plant. You've done all of that.

Speaker 6 (14:52):
It was all thanks to a night of your show
because I was trying to find a place to go
for a holiday and it was listening to you.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
How many nights did you have a way seven?

Speaker 7 (15:05):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Okay, Well I love got to get there myself. I'm
desperate to get there because I've always thought it was
a dud. But now I seem to be part of
the marketing department. I'm quite keen to get there.

Speaker 6 (15:15):
Yeah, no, you'll love it.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Brilliant Jillian. That's and thank you so much for calling back.
That's a good callback for me. Wow, the circle of life.
God knows why they don't build on the South Island
when the scenery is better, surely you just build one.
I can't work out why they're not doing it.

Speaker 9 (15:33):
Who cares.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
It's not in the movie, or it probably could be. Marcus,
you should create a bluff hobbiton on your land. You
could dress up on everything once you get rid of
the gorse. That is, it's an extremely good point. I've
got emerging winners from the Hallberg emerging talent Tyler Binden
football Coach of the Year, Gordon Walker, Lisa Carrington's coach.
No surprise is there but Tyler Bindon football just don't

(16:00):
google that to say if it's a man or a woman.
Funnily enough, I apologize for ignorance there. It's a new
here in footballer plays a defender for AFL League One
club Reading. There we go. That's a situation there from
East Coast Bays to the heart of Reading Football's defense.
Born in two thousand and five, twenty year old or
nineteen enit's Marcus.

Speaker 10 (16:22):
Welcome, Oh good evening, how are you tonight?

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Good? Thank you will You've got breaking news.

Speaker 10 (16:28):
Oh breaking new. Yeah. So we're in Palmerston North and
I'm just ringing to let Pap other people in Palmerston
North know what's happening with their rates here at the moment.
That is that as I understand it. It certainly affected
several people who we know. The rates if you pay
them by direct debit quarterly, they are due on the

(16:49):
twenty eighth this month, for the last working day of February. However,
with all their wisdom, they have taken the rates out today,
not once, but twice. So a lot of people will
find if they've got automatic payments coming up over the
next few days, or a mortgagey payment coming up in
the next few days, as we have, that their bank

(17:09):
account is not looking particularly healthy at the moment.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
What time did you find out?

Speaker 11 (17:13):
Ian?

Speaker 10 (17:15):
Probably about an hour ago, okay.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
And you've phoned the council or what did you do
with that? You phoned your bank?

Speaker 10 (17:21):
No, no, I phone the council and of course you
get the after hours number at this time of night.
And the lady said, yes, we're having some issues with
the banks at the moment. And I said, well, I
think that I think the banks probably only do what
the keyboard and the city council instruct them to do,
and they're working on it. But I mean for us,

(17:42):
I mean, we've got some savings so that we can
just transfer some phones across, but we've got a mortgage
payment coming out at four o'clock tomorrow morning. And if
we hadn't been aware of this, then of course that
would have bounced, and then that's not good for your
for your banking record and history. So it all makes
a whole the work for people.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Did comes at Palming North tell you how many people
are affected or how did they? He she divulge, some
people have been had the money taken out twice ten
days early.

Speaker 10 (18:11):
I think all the people have had it taken out
twice ten days early. From what I spoke to one
of our friends. They managed to get through to a
different call center person who said, yes, it's a problem
with people who are paid by direct effort on a quarter.
If you pay by a monthly or six monthly. I
gether that that's probably okay, but it's just the quarterly

(18:33):
repayment where you paid four times a year into February
being the next payment.

Speaker 7 (18:36):
That's true.

Speaker 10 (18:37):
So it's not only early, but they've taken twice the amount.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
So what's the effects? What are they doing? Because I
need to do that asap.

Speaker 10 (18:43):
They're working on it.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
What does that mean?

Speaker 10 (18:46):
Well, it means that we're very sorry and the best
we can do is get our team to give you
a call tomorrow. But I pointed out that my mortgage
I pointed out my mortgage payment comes out at four
o'clock in the morning, so what time are they likely
to ring.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Good thing to say too, You've had some good lines
today at you.

Speaker 10 (19:04):
Yeah, that's right anyway, that is, I.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Don't see anything on the local paper which worries me.

Speaker 11 (19:10):
It's only just happened.

Speaker 10 (19:11):
Yeah. I think you'll probably find that that that that
direct gibet would have gone through at the end of
the working day to day, and unless people just log
into their bank account and check their balance, they won't
know about it until the next time they do, so
I imagine that they're going to try and reverse it.
But that's a huge time.

Speaker 8 (19:28):
You can play.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
You can pay a month, so you can play annually.
But this is for people that are paying quarterly ausly
correct flip Okay, I really appreciate it.

Speaker 10 (19:37):
The main reason I was ringing was just if there's
other people from Palmerston North listening, just so they know
that there may be a little bit of a problem
tomorrow or the next day.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Appreciate that end. If anyone's affected, let me know. By
the way, Paraethlete of the Year is Anna Grimaldi. She's
the only one that got the gold. I think at
the Games. I think that was no surprise that she'd
be winning that. The number is eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty hobbitson East Enders and the rates in Palmerston
North still go. It's all go and the four successes

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to Luxe and I couldn't work out which four names
they were throwing around, but now I think it's Willis Brown,
Bishop and Stanford. That's a situation. They're get in touch. Oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine de text severe thunderstorm

(20:29):
issued for christ Church parts of Canterbury. That's hit and
you let me know what that's like. Very hot down
south again, extremely hot, it's clearing the land. Then the
fog and mist came rolling in quite pleasant, actually free
Hobbit and like then I see the airport was closed
for the jets because of the fog rolling in from

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the Fovo Strait. So I don't know what those people
are doing. They're trying to get into town. But get
in touch. By name is Marcus welcome eight hundred eighty
ten eighty But yeah, boy, I don't want to I
wonder what you did without what Gina did with the
other six days. Yeah, it'd be good to have a

(21:11):
bus drive with a few funny lines, wouldn't it. Yeah,
I need three or four. It touch the tone, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Now?

Speaker 2 (21:19):
In fact, the Daily Mail is doing ads, is doing
articles on how bad New Zealand's tourism campaign is. New
Zealand tourism campaign leads to global ridiculous Kiwi's lash the
ad like we're in a clearance bin. This is everyone
must go yep, We've had the digital nomad announcement. Now

(21:47):
we've got this. The attitude of anyone anytime, anywhere is
concerning the criticism has carried as far afield as CNN
and NBC News in the US. Our reaction from Kiwi's
at Home was no less gathing. Summer says it's just
embarrassing this got past the review. Did they get AI

(22:10):
to do it? Another said I had to rewatch Flight
of the Concords just to make sure that stolen the
idea from Murray. Oh, the reporters made that up. Ah Australians,
the target for the campaign, reacted with groans about the
cost of visiting New Zealand. We could fly to Ballei
from Brisbane cheaper than any destination New Zealand, and the

(22:33):
price of petrol New Zina makes road tripping bloody expensive.
If they could turn flights to New Zealand with a
domestic route instead of all the custom customs, passport, pilava'd
be all the tart there all the time. So the
Aussie is a jack of us. They don't want to
be here, they want to be in BALI can't work

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out how Barley can accommodate them all anyway. Twenty three
away from nine have you anything to do with those
rates that rate scandal and Parmeerston North, You might need
to check that EastEnders versus Coronation Street forty years Freestanders
today and the rates and Palmerston North and orbiton and

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now as a travel influencer after the Hobbiton show, they
also this, We sat down had a meal at the
Green what's it called the Green Dragon. It is on
my list of places I need to get to asap.

Speaker 7 (23:34):
But.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
It's kind of in the middle of nowhere. That's my
take on it. Eighteen people now confirmed is injured in
that Toronto plane with a delta airline flipped. Just so
you know. Brad Pitts in New Zealand. Yep, Queenstown and

(24:00):
milf of Sound is where he is, but doing pre
production work in Auckland beforehead in South Yep, there you go.
I had no idea for seem to be making movies
here again, don't they There's a big one in Oyamadu.

(24:22):
Don't need what you'd be filming in Milford Sound? Where
would they be doing that? Eighteen to nine high jewels
at to Marcus Evening and welcome.

Speaker 12 (24:31):
Hey, Cara Marcus job. But are used to living in
the cargo I went went to here, come back to
wist Australia. I'm actually just come out an awful heat
in my son's house and look through it. By the
weekends I'll be back in Wistern, Australia. The okay, bring

(24:54):
you mate, because we're starting to go back to Australia
and become a bunch of winches. Us twos are starting
to go back and winch. I'd beout what the hell
going wrong with our economy?

Speaker 7 (25:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Can you tell me more?

Speaker 12 (25:13):
I go on lawfull, eat a pickle fifty cents for
a can't tap you know, the banks flying by all
the Australian banks.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
Are you fire? Are you five?

Speaker 4 (25:31):
Five?

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Are you flying? Fly out?

Speaker 12 (25:33):
I do work in the morning, but I used to do,
I hope. But I'm just presumingly working here in the
air contact and I come back to you.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
But Jules, what you're saying is you're going to go
back to Australia and tell all the Australians how terrible
the economy is here and no one's going to want
to come here and go on holiday. Is that the
gist of it?

Speaker 12 (25:57):
We are in a way, but no, we may keep
cart talking up. Just just what you see I said
about people. What is going on about going to Bali?
Ballely's crap, mate, you know, And it took me a
long time to go to Bali. I mean went for
a holiday. But the valley is crap. The hero is great.

(26:18):
I'm look, you know, I hear to be talking about Hobcuins.
I'm lucky far away. I might just jump down you
for a rook when Hobton tomorrow go past a lot,
I mate, you know that tourism could could be great.
I had friends, friends that go to where's that El Camino? Yes,

(26:39):
at El Camino in European. Well, I think you've got
you've got hundreds of queues walking in El Camino, you know,
so Hobquin and here i'm's gonna pull over side and
play a safe driver. You mean, you've got the hour
row trail that's becoming well recognized. But you're going to

(26:59):
get a bad wreck because it's really it's I mean,
it's a drama at the moment. You know, you've got
you've got some great stuff with Hobbit and more than
the reason your number one attraction to this country, you
know so well, okay, thank to what I'm saying, were you.
I mean, we're coming and going. We're bringing our money back,

(27:21):
gain one hundred thousand dollars at a time, decking these
young you know. For the economy, well a dollar more
for for a leader of pickle from one. You know,
we supost have a power el economy even our interest
rates over here. Uh should be basically on part of

(27:45):
the Australia. Using he's on part of the Australia.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Okay, it's nice to hear from you. Wow, locking on
there like the sound effects though, and Malcolm as Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (27:57):
Good evening her are we that's fine.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Evening good, Thank you, Malcolm Good.

Speaker 13 (28:02):
It's going to add in my five cents worth. I
know they talk about fuel in New Zealand being a
dollar more, but you're going to remember, like had I've
returned from Wa after being there for sixteen seventeen years,
came back to family here, Mom and Dad aren't getting
any younger. And our registration PA of vehicles was eight

(28:24):
hundred and sixty dollars per vehicle Australian in WA. And
yet you pay about a dollar forty or dollar forty
to a dollars sixty year leaders depending on how the
cycle was going. Because you always had a thing called
fuel watch over there, so you could really watch out
for when the good days for fuel prices was and
they very wildly. But you know, like here we paid

(28:45):
one hundred and sixty dollars, you know, it was one
hundred and sixty three something like that registration. But one
thing that's really interesting when we when I was there
is our local council. I was in a place called Coburn,
which was about about half an hour south as a
CBD twenty minutes half and now to be down the
traffic and the council there and a lot of other

(29:08):
ones too. Our rate I had my house was worth
what about seven hundred thousand dollars and our rates for
there was about twenty one hundred dollars for the year.
And the council did they say, went, look, prices are
too high. We don't need this nice to have stuff
or flag that. We'll just focus on the rates, roads

(29:30):
and the rubbish. And that's what a council should be doing,
and not focusing on all this other crap that they do.
And just look, people are hurting. Just get what we need.
To keep it simple. Let's not try and build these empires,
and then let's not try and change systems that work.
Just the best thing to do is just if you've

(29:51):
got a process and you're not sure if it's working
for you, chest if it works, tweak it. If you
tweak it, if you need to leave it alone, if
you don't, just people just justify your existence by changing something.
See that all the time. I think there's I think
there's a way for us to keep keep your costs
down rather than actually spending money on I don't know,

(30:14):
a wind wand or a you know, let's let's argue
the point about the name of a suburb.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
But a topic creep here Malcolm, you're going to talk
about coming to New Zealand for tourists, but now onto
wind Wand's and topic creep. But anyway, woo. Flooding in
central Otago, well flooding in Otago. The oddity the od
T reporting this. This is not on my prediction for today.

(30:41):
A lot of news happening down south with ferg Berger
is on their slur to reach the rain is at
parts of the South. A severe thunderstorms hit southern Centraltago
and Kluther police said there's been extensive surfing flooding on
State Highway eight between Miller's Flat and Raised Junction. Sam

(31:07):
I take a different council place. General flood warnings on
rand Fairley and pettierrowa community areas due to reential rain
from thunderstorms. Also, manhole covers in the streets were lifted.
There wouldn't be many manhole covers and I don't know
where they would be. Twenty five to forty millimeters an hour,

(31:32):
flesh flooding, anything but foot nine. My name is Marcus, Welcome,
how are you? What's happening?

Speaker 4 (31:41):
I EN.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Has got an update on the Palmerston North Rates councilors
says fourteen thousand properties affected. I should want it to
be Their website would be Palmston North City Council, Palmiston.
So I should have done this earlier. They'll have a
website with all that on, won't they, Palmston North Council Home.
I'm onto this, Johnny on the spot. Let me just

(32:06):
bring this all up, Dan, if you can do the
Facebook page and I'll do this latest news. Nothing probably
in rates. There's not an alerd on the front of
the website. Curea. How can we help.

Speaker 7 (32:23):
Well?

Speaker 2 (32:23):
I want to find about Ian's rates. Last news Low
Boon remains at Level two water restrictions. Thanks for saving
water party. It's not very well updated. I'll go to
the Facebook page and says anything there but that's bad.
That's parmised and it's all about comms or something like that.
You got to actually inform people. Parmis the North Thiry Council.

(32:45):
Parmis North Thiry Council. Meet rags our waistwater treatment plants,
hardest walk, the cat is the hardest volunteer. Less of
the cat, more of the rates. What about the wind
wand she quite like the wind wand the guys at
a day on the podcast. Yes, so there you go.

(33:10):
I don't know, I don't know where you found it.
That intel end, but that's got me alarmed. My name
is Marcus Wilcom, Edital twelve. Let the debates begin. Hamish
Kerr got Sportsman of the Year, not Chris Wood high
jump versus English Premiership League. Our greatest ever footballer is

(33:34):
our greatest ever high jumper? Well there's Wynton Rufer. I
guess a football and not a high jumper. I wouldn't
want to be a judge, but there you go. The

(33:55):
great question now is well someone's textood as they do?
Went to buy a sandwich and Adelian Queenstown sixteen bucks,
far too dear like other touristy things, Far too dear

(34:23):
like other touristy things. Anyway, I went to nearby Soupermarket
picked up a loaf of bread ham tomorrow for twelve bucks.
Need to stop ripping off the tourists, Mark. I kind
of get the feeling that most of the Aussies have
come to you that, when it comes to his end,
have been here. They've come down the Queenstown stuff like that.

(34:44):
Now they're looking for something a little bit kind of
more different. The thing about New Zealand, it's just like
Australia with hills, whereas Barley Goodness, you get your hair braided,
you go up to oh Ubud, you touch the monkeys,
you go for a surf, you go to Brent Todd's
tattoo studio, wander around in your jendles and your okanoise.

(35:12):
Be more relaxing yourself. Some sarte chicken sticks. Oh, that's
what you want to be doing. That's a holiday. You
come to news edand what do you do? You wander
around Queenstown curing for a food Burghers anyway, So yeah, Internet,
it's seeing and everyone's picked up the story of everyone

(35:34):
go now or whatever that damn stupid slogan is. There's
been some great slogans, there's been some bad slogans. Great slogans,
Put another shrimp on the barbie, that's a good one.
Bad slogans. On what the bad slogans are? They always

(35:55):
say the Clayton slogan is one of the worst. Everyone
must go the pair, even the Aussies hate it. Marcus
hobbiton Marta Marta is forty minutes everywhere hamiltonmal Caves. I
took him out mong and Nui. Yes, but they aren't

(36:15):
beautiful places to drive through. It's just boring farmland. It's like,
oh my god, look at this spectacular. It's just boring road,
boring road, boring road, tin sheep, tin dog, hobbiton. Though
they checked in Tiana or something that would be spectacula
to drive through. That's just me. I'd move hobbiton. And

(36:38):
Chris Ward hasn't got the Halburg. He's been beaten by
Hamish Kerr Chris Ward all day. Hardcom he doing it
this year exactly. Marcus. See there's been another signing of
tom Flicks as children. Yes, yeah, Marcus got to Barley
and get a bad tummy bug hardened up. I think

(36:58):
most of you people got bad tummy bugs, just drank
too much of the Iraq or something. I think Ballei
food's pretty good now, isn't it. There have been sick
and valley.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
You got to be adventurous with tourism. You can't just say, oh,
we'll not going there, blah blah blah. Paul, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 10 (37:23):
Paul, here you go, mate, there you go?

Speaker 4 (37:27):
All right?

Speaker 12 (37:28):
Yeah, good mate.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
I I just want to talk to you about the census.

Speaker 12 (37:32):
You know, like that that census.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
We get that form every year. We don't when we
when when we get.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
It, we get every five we get every five.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yeah, well when we when we get it, there's personal information.
But if it goes in the wrong direction, as far
as I'm concerned, they can get stuff because.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Did you follow in the last time.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Yes, so it is.

Speaker 12 (38:00):
But I'll tell you what next time, I.

Speaker 7 (38:01):
Won't be doing it.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Legal not to do it. Eat up in the big house.

Speaker 10 (38:05):
I didn't give the stuff.

Speaker 14 (38:07):
I'm not going to give it. I'm not.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
I'm not going to give it information if it's not
going to go in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Good on your pol Hello Johnny Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 5 (38:17):
Okay, mate here, I just cheered in, but I found
myself paying a couple of sayings. I don't know if
there's slogans, but I was that maternity would today my
son was born eleven fifty.

Speaker 7 (38:30):
Nine, hanging.

Speaker 5 (38:33):
And he came out and hang on, yeah, I'm still here.

Speaker 15 (38:40):
First leader of the name if, second letter I, third
letter R siren siren good name.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
So Syn was born yesterday, eleven fifty.

Speaker 5 (38:57):
Nine today at midday at midday just before. Yeah, I
was born at the other end of eleven fifty nine on.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
The other end eleven fifty nine at the other end too,
so yeah, wow, yeah, so that's why you're yeah, okay,
so that's brilliant. And mum's doing good.

Speaker 5 (39:14):
Yeah, yeah, she's excellently. He's latched on really well yeah,
yeah on on.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
He's on the wrist.

Speaker 5 (39:21):
Absolutely, and he's here.

Speaker 6 (39:24):
He is.

Speaker 5 (39:24):
He looks like a bit of a werewolf, but he's
pretty awesome.

Speaker 7 (39:28):
How much?

Speaker 2 (39:29):
What's the weight? And I don't I only want it
in pounds.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
Six and a half pounds.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Oh, and the linked only wanted in centimeters.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
I've about forty five centimeters.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Ok.

Speaker 5 (39:40):
He's not a big big baby yet, not yet. But yeer,
look we he came out and I said, oh, he's
just like a board one.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Hey, when was the Jude? When was the Judee? Johnny?

Speaker 5 (39:53):
I was on the twenty fourth, so he was going
to be a pissing but he's turned out to be
an a query And because we had a c section today,
so he's six days here. Yeah, I shouldn't say where
I met him? Had a c section here?

Speaker 2 (40:07):
Who when you talk to it too? Anyway, what did
you want to say about slogans?

Speaker 5 (40:11):
I remember that one Neck minute that came out and
I thought it was a bit of a lame lame
but it's done very well for itself, and of course
it's the unpopular Karen but but yeah, I think ripper
Bonds of Grouse was probably one of my favorites. There
used to be an ad with a song singing ripper

(40:34):
bonds of Grouse was Cork of beauty Cracker. I can't
remember what it was. It was in the nineties. I
think someone else might know, but it was corkor beauty Cracker,
rapper bonds of grouse.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Yeah, so we'll find out what's it doing there? But
when's it? When's the baby home there? Johnny?

Speaker 5 (40:51):
About three days? Yes, oh yeah, yeah. Madam is still
finding it difficult to walk a movie toes and stuff
after the epidural. But it took a long time to
find the right spot. But I'll tell you the staff
and there's brilliant and it's an amazing experience, you know.
I thought it might faint or something like that, but

(41:13):
just wonderful, wonderful people.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
You know.

Speaker 5 (41:16):
We had to wait a few hours, but so what
it was? It was just brilliant.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
So congratulations, Johnny. That's very special. So yeah, I'm excited
to hear about that. And thanks for calling us today too.
That's Siren. That's Siren's the boy's name. It's not a
common name. That's exciting. It comes to the Siren. They'll
be saying, go to Barley and become the next Chappelle
Corby year and Jeff, mind you saying something without Chappelle Corby.

(41:43):
Finally people are pronouncing your name right, wishes. Before the courts,
no one could get her name right. She now makes
clocks out of risin follow on Instagram. It's not not
very interesting thing. Your sister Mercedes is more interesting. I
have a strong smell of guess, not sure what's happening.
All okay, I guess. I've just checked in with my

(42:07):
family and ran fairly as far as the heavy rain.
When I heard on the IBM news she said it
was so very impressive, twenty millimes and forty minutes. But
they're all okay, cheers Kathy. Yeah, we're staying out of
the streets all full up quick. Queenstown overcharging tourists while

(42:29):
barely paying their staff and outher disgrace well, that's tourism
for you. No one really benefits. So Yef, you're not
coming here. I'm not going to shed a tear. And
then we had some flip their back in the old

(42:51):
camper vans. There's a couple of campavan people. They part
the van outside my house yesterday Monday, Sat. Sunday, got
everything out of the van. What are they playing daft
punk around the world? I thought, well, I mean, okay,
you're traveling, but you didn't have to play around the world.
It seemed a bit predictable to me anyway. Didn't say

(43:15):
anything to them. They moved on eventually. I mean they
had every right to be there, but get in touch people.
It's all about what we need to do to attract
Australians or is there any future? And tourism adventure tourism
used to be good, didn't it, because people come here
for bungee jumping and stuff and that seems to be
off the Well that's not as big anymore, is it.

(43:37):
They just want to ride around the trails on their
ebikes and go from vineyard to vineyard. I don't know
what the next big tourism discovery is going to be.
The slogan should be yeh nah, maybe go to New Zealand.
That's a great one. You gotta be a bit cleverer.

(43:58):
Bearing in mind it wasn't Upstin and the PM Luxon
that came up with a slogan. They were just the
government of and the tourism and as they can't be
given a hard time for such a lame slogan, I
don't think, and she want to hang them over the

(44:18):
colds for that. And then we were talking earlier about
the four people they reckon are inline to succeed Luxeon.
Did you hear about that? Willis Bishop Brown, Stanford Marcus.

(44:38):
I couldn't believe the number of campra Vans and Hamner
over Christmas. The streets were lined with them. You're maybe
they're back? Oh Halberg's Lydia Coe?

Speaker 12 (44:50):
Was she there?

Speaker 4 (44:50):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (44:52):
I changed channels? I shall be stated. Do any think
about Lily Coe? She always seems to be incredibly appreciative
and gracious And there aren't many KEII athletes to get
a shout out from old Trump, but coded I think
she's met him. But she got the trifecta, the gold,

(45:13):
the silver and the bronze at the Olympics, and she's
in the Golfing Hall of Fame. He's in great a
sports person. Probably hope she gets the ultimate Halberg. Well,
they probably won't give the uldipus. I always liked the
person to be there for the for the crowd there,
they get a bit of a vibe if there's someone
that wins the award that's there. Sorry, let's to a

(45:36):
bit of a reset. Topic wise, Siren, I'm not quite
I think lengths. I don't know how long babies normally are. Anyway,
get in touch Marcus till midnight tonight, eight hundred and

(45:58):
eighty ten. Text. Here's what's happening. Very strong rain and
Central Otago, West Otago. They are saying strong rain in Southland.
I'm not picking that. I guess it's coming Canterbury's way also,
so just watch out for that that's been predicted. So

(46:21):
you'll get the deluge and we'll bring information to you
when we can. Severe thunderstorm watch issued for christ Jurich
parts of Canterbury. Maybe they got where that landed wrong.
It seems though it's landing further down the country. Very

(46:44):
hot Muggie Day in Southland today was wearing the chaps
too hot, too hot, like double panting, Marcus zaid has
got so expensive tourists and locals. Last Christmas, the costs
at book a batch was over five thousand for eight
nights on average. At hot spots one site Akada was

(47:08):
six nine for eight nights. Could fly to USA and
back for that with accommodation. That's exactly right, Marcus. It
was Jungles sweating white to the Today. Random side note.
I saw a lamprey in real life for the first
time ever today. Don't get me started about our lamprey
hunting session. Last year. I spent hours up to my

(47:32):
stomach and a river. I'm not quite sure why they
didn't come up the river, but we'll go back this year.
I'll keep you posted on that. By the good text,
I wouldn't mind some texts, some calls. Babies are normally
around fifty centimeters if you if they are a king
for chef to throw it back, Marcus. I'm in North Canterbury.

(47:55):
We had a thunderstorm about six or not this afternoon. Marcus.
Everyone must go as a tagline would be good for
a funeral, feckless for a country with so few public toilets.

(48:17):
Sarah says my slogan has come on over. Our women
are beautiful Marcus, Chris, Lux and God and Nicolin nex
PM not a bidding man, but this is good odds. Marcus.

(48:41):
I'm visiting my aunt marg in a hospice. She wants
to know how did the sea monkeys turn out? Ah,
the sea monkeys were revolutionary. It took a long time
before they hatched. Then I got so excited by how
many we had they and got another set. This one
was in a castle and honestly they survived for about

(49:05):
six months. Then we went away for the bus trip.
I put them in the tide. But yeah, they're very successful.
Show them to all the guests. Most people had never
ever seen in their alive It's a bit like a
ginger beer plant. My mother might start another set soon.
But thank you and love to your aunt marg.

Speaker 7 (49:30):
Ja.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
Nice to hear from you. Marcus had Lightning and Christ
around five pen for about an hour, which appeared to
effect one using in tower near me for at least
three It's good to get some weather backers, and I'm
excited about that. Marcus abstained for the game was another
cringe worthy exported slogan. Was it about winning the World Cup?

(49:55):
That was terrible. Was the point of that or was
it for the There was some terrible ones for the
America's Cup too. Is this Shawn Fitzpatrick thing? Yeah, it
was Shawn Fitzpatrick. It was a telecom thing abstained for

(50:22):
the game. But this is becoming a famous slogan, this
one everyone must go. We just don't get it. But
you tell me why you wouldn't come to your seen
on a holiday if you're listening from overseas, I mean
probably Queenstown's all right for a bit of a You

(50:44):
see a lot of sports teams and things come over
for a weekend, like adult schoolies. But I don't think
you want to, you know, I don't think you bring
the family across because you've got to get a car,
you got to drive around. That's lot of hassle, isn't it,
Because you probably don't want to do that when you're
on holiday and where do you go? And bearing in
mind I love this country. But by the way, I

(51:07):
thought four fifty thousand was quite cheap for a campaign.
Maybe they should I think probably they should have spent
a bit more and got a better slogan. There'd be
my take on that one. Could someone tell me too.
By the way, if flydia Coe has won the Supreme
Halberg before. Actually, I don't see what they're what they're
wearing on the old what channels on Animo? What's number

(51:32):
is that? Fifty one World's Slowest Remote fifty eight, fifty seven,
fifty six, fifty five, fifty six, fifty six might have
stuck for me, Sean Marcus, Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 15 (51:56):
Kid.

Speaker 12 (51:56):
Here are you good?

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Sewan?

Speaker 16 (52:00):
I heard you mentioned Chappelle Corby a while ago. I
was just real life on parked probably sixty seven kilometers
from the house.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Wow, I thought you'd moved to Dublin. I thought you'd
moved to I thought you'd moved to Western Australia.

Speaker 16 (52:14):
I'm about half an hour north of New Zealand's biggest city,
which is the Gold Coast. So yeah, so you're talking
about tourism and stuff like that. They do have campaigns
over here for your skiing trips and all that sort
of stuff over there.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, so.

Speaker 16 (52:35):
Cheap at a fly in New Zealand and do a
bit of skiings and is to go down to central
New South Wales or the Skifield Tier. So another thing
that's getting popular. Ah, these are mad team on cruise ships.

Speaker 7 (52:51):
Good point, don't know what?

Speaker 16 (52:53):
Yeah, So especially out of Brisbane here there's cruise ships
every week and the most popular one is the seven
day one Ago is Brisbane, Brisbane, you Mayor and Port
Vila and places like that. But a lot of them
do the laps around New Zealand, so they go to Auckland, Marlborough,

(53:14):
I think christ shoots in the Sounds and across the Test.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
So yeah, there's no surprises. Ozzies love cruise ships because
they love to just get drink and just talk to
their mates a mate. That's like they sit around and
just addict your in. Yeck, it's perfect for dozzies, just like.

Speaker 16 (53:30):
Going to Barley mate, get him and drunk. And ironically,
the the thing I'm comment about the most is the
price of alcohol New Zealand and that you can buy
it in the supermarket. They like that, yeah, all year
because that's the main story here on the news at

(53:51):
the moment is the price of beer and pubs tax
has gone up.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
So they find they find that they find the booze
cheap in New Zealand.

Speaker 16 (54:00):
Oh ridiculously, chick competitors here.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
Well that should that should have been the slogan shouldn't
it cheap boots?

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (54:07):
Correct?

Speaker 16 (54:09):
Correct, And your text mess is about the Kiwi woman.
I have a lot of other counterparts and stuff like
that who have numerous stories about Kiwi woman on holidays
and work trips. So do you care for what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 (54:26):
What industry are you in?

Speaker 16 (54:29):
I'm in the firearms industry. Firearms, firearms industry, yes, not
a politically correct thing, and a lot of circles hair
or back in your zeals. Yeah, so it's it's growing
big industry.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Obviously manufacture firearms in Queensland.

Speaker 16 (54:54):
Ah, yes, they do there. There is some manufacturing, depending
what you mean by manufacturing, Like there's a difference between
building a firearm and scratch or assembling one with component
I thought, so okay, yeah yeah, and it's the full range.
So I think every small town he has a rifle

(55:16):
range like Newcline used to.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (55:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (55:20):
And it's one of those industries where unless you're involved
with it, you wouldn't really know how big it is.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
Yeah, okay, appreciate that, Thank you, Sean. She's a right
sheet kicker. Tonight Auckland twenty two in the Bedroom eight
to nine hotter on the pleasure Craft. Jk orr k
told friends at parm me about the stuff up with
the rates. They checked us now they came out twice,
not happy over two thousand. It's a big story. Is
a big story. The Palmerston North rates kerfuffle. Nothing on

(55:55):
their website, sorted out coms and Barmeerston. Who's the head
biscuit there? Who's their mayor? He needs to front? Are anxious?
I told Grant Smith, is it? Oh, Grandy, he's been
there for a while. He's been there, japers, creepers, background

(56:23):
of the marketing in the media, what we're doing in
the media. Never heard of them?

Speaker 7 (56:30):
What are you doing in the media.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
He's got on a website that can't be reached. That'd
be right. Fancy someone calling a hot night a sheet kicker.
I quite like that.

Speaker 14 (56:46):
Near Marcus welcome, Yeah, Hian Marcus, I just sitn't three
there before you mentioned a bit sea monkeys? I just uh,
I wondered where do we go to get these sea monkeys?
So there are obviously Southern listers on for kids to

(57:07):
make or something, but yeah, would I buy them in
Christis or how do you go there?

Speaker 4 (57:12):
Getting them?

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Okay, whereabouts do you live?

Speaker 14 (57:17):
I live halfway between Hornby and Rollston, five miles each
each way to five miles Rolls five miles to Hormby.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
You've got a kmart a cam Art? Yeah?

Speaker 14 (57:30):
Oh you maybe I've I've never been to one, but
there maybe one in Homby.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
The one on Ricketon? Could you get to Ricketon?

Speaker 14 (57:38):
Yeah, that's no problem.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
Would you park? Where would your park?

Speaker 14 (57:42):
I don't know. I hadn't ever been a rico for years,
so just turned eighty. Yeah, uh we while back so yeah,
I don't go far? Ready for the home?

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Go to kmart.

Speaker 14 (57:54):
Camart?

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (57:57):
Is it one of them in Rolliston?

Speaker 2 (57:58):
Yes, he's saying, no, there's one of them in Ricketon?

Speaker 14 (58:02):
All right? Yeah, oh yeah, I could find me way
in new I suppose or what there's not one on Hornby?

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Who am I?

Speaker 4 (58:14):
What are you?

Speaker 2 (58:14):
What do you want them for?

Speaker 14 (58:17):
I want to find that where I can buy these
sea monkeys?

Speaker 2 (58:22):
What about if you try the toy World and Hornby?
Could you ring them tomorrow? Just by Kyle Park?

Speaker 14 (58:28):
Yeah? I could do yes, yes here yeah, no, I've
got grand kids you see and love them?

Speaker 10 (58:35):
You can.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
You can't see him for about two months, but they'll grow.
You can train and do tricks and feed them.

Speaker 14 (58:46):
They're a plant.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
No, they're an animal thenkey, they're a monkey of the sea.

Speaker 14 (58:53):
Yeah, so you don't have to put them in the
sea for them.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
To They sell them with a tank.

Speaker 14 (59:03):
Coky, this really h don't know whether I want them there.
They're not having them anyway. I'm going to pass them
on to the Yeah. No, I'll still go ahead and
do it, and I'll let you know how I get on.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Have you been to the night markets at the hornby
roof of the Hornby supermarket there?

Speaker 4 (59:21):
No?

Speaker 14 (59:21):
No, I don't go out at night.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
I mean no. Are you not to drive at night?

Speaker 14 (59:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, of course.

Speaker 4 (59:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (59:29):
I've just got my lunch the other day.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
It sound like it doesn't sound like you can drive
at night.

Speaker 14 (59:34):
No, I don't know, No way I would know. I'm
always inside about four o'clock in the afternoon night and
my first stubby about then, and I have three or
four stubbies and then I have my dinner.

Speaker 10 (59:44):
You know, what, what do you drink?

Speaker 2 (59:47):
Christ It's better No, I drink.

Speaker 14 (59:50):
Spats really yeah. Always been a space man, Yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Really drink space really, drink spats, lose your mates.

Speaker 14 (01:00:03):
Yeah, well they would never have. And I've got anybody, mate.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Why don't you get a bigger bottle rather than cracking
four studies?

Speaker 14 (01:00:14):
I don't know. I just get You can get a
twenty four pack of Stubbies for about thirty eight bucks.

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
But it's cheap bottles.

Speaker 14 (01:00:26):
You get a pack of them and they are about
fifty six bucks.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
So that's why you're not driving at night, because you're
on the source.

Speaker 14 (01:00:34):
Yeah, that's right. I need no way or either everybody.
You're not going to lose me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
That's a great idea. So then you're not four o'clock.

Speaker 7 (01:00:43):
Or a clock.

Speaker 14 (01:00:44):
Yeah, and sometimes when it gets to one o'clock in
the name oh Faddy hell Elizabeth Clott, and I thought, no, no,
I'll wait till four.

Speaker 12 (01:00:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
In this hate, you could give yourself a bit of
dispensation started earlier, couldn't you.

Speaker 14 (01:00:58):
No, No, no, I won't do that because I'll say
to myself, well, every second day, I'm going to start early.

Speaker 5 (01:01:05):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
I like your discipline. Never, if you ever travel the
sea monkeys, let me know. I'll send you some pit
post and Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:01:18):
About those and not fish? What we were talking about?
You know, getting them.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
The sea monkeys.

Speaker 8 (01:01:28):
It's the sea monkeys. I remember quite a few years ago,
I think here in New Zealand, giving these things to
the children as they were growing up, and they never
came to anything. They just died.

Speaker 13 (01:01:45):
Gotta wait.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
I think you've gotta wait a long time. You gotta
wait months before they appear. And you think that just
when you're about to throw them out, you can see
these tidal dots moving around.

Speaker 8 (01:01:55):
But they got a bit bigger than that. But then
nothing happened. So but maybe they've got better nowadays that
they were understanding.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
I just was amazing thing she happened to them, because
the eggs are just in an envelope. They must, you know,
they must. You just had water and they hatch.

Speaker 8 (01:02:20):
I didn't once. I never did anything like try three
times for the children and then gave up on it.
But maybe my children have grown up now, so maybe
they are sending things. But I just wanted to warn
people that they might be a bit disappointed.

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
That's why I was persistent, and because I knew this
was the path of disappointment. The kids got gone through
the her that I'm going to catch these and night
and day I looked after them, moved them around their
house to call the spots. They couldn't have wished for
a better guardian to bring them into the world, and
they rewarded me with months of happiness, months and months

(01:03:02):
of happiness. She's hot in here fifteen to ten. My
name is Marcus. Welcome. So now the ossies are ridiculing us,
and the ad about everyone must go by the way.

(01:03:22):
Lydia Coe has won the Supreme Award. I don't know
if she's won that before. I'm just looking through the
article about that. Coe's victory sees her name as the
winner of the Supreme Halberg for the second time after

(01:03:43):
she first lifted the honor in twenty thirteen, and Sportswoman
of the Year for fourth time and the first time
since twenty fifteen. Those two wins came at the expense
of Dame Lisa Carrington, who also enjoyed incredible twenty twenty four,
which yielded three further gold medal strict sooner status as

(01:04:04):
New Zerland's most decorated olympianne. There you go, fancy turning
awards into an award. Sir Murray Halbig Legacy Award, Michael Heinard.

(01:04:26):
Don't know who that is. Leadership Award Marcus Daniel Tennis.
All you need to know are there are the four
women from the rowing team now a canoeing team up
there have been interviewed. Someone said, Patty Gower, what an

(01:04:48):
absolute disgrace at the Halberg Awards. Why would that be
a disgrace? Marcus? I agree with the guy who posted
on Facebook regarding the tourism campaign. He said it sounded
like a clearance sale. Everything must go cheers CHRISTI yeah.
I think there was a few number of people that
were sort of anti the National Party that jumped on

(01:05:09):
it fairy quickly and kind of what happens if you've
got a type font and something like that that people
what they do is they they'll turn it against you.
That's the mottom. They'll meme it against you, they'll memeify it.
I think if you follow that being unveiled on Sunday,
you could see on social media all sorts of people
were making their own versions of the poster. But advertising

(01:05:32):
companies should know that and should do anything they can
to avoid that. Unless they wanted that happen deliberately, they
might have someone has texted through and said that should
be Parmeston North council slogan everyone must go, which quite
funny tookally after what they've done with the rates. Marcus

(01:05:53):
enlists with those sea monkeys. Make sure it's warm water.
You start with hope that helps from Tracy Marcus. Yes,
I must agree, Patrick, I was a disgraced Idea Awards,
total disrespect for the talent in the room. Thanks Ray
from christ Church. Was he bad or is it just
that you're a conservative person who was doing a bit different.

(01:06:20):
Let me know about that. There's an enthusiastic sort of
a rooster and I'll tell you what they're trying to.
It's desperately difficult try to make sport interesting because the
sports people themselves are fairly kind of monosyllabic. They don't

(01:06:42):
really set the room alike, do they. They always, oh,
we're well, there's Richie mccauy. He looks thin and it
looks like he's doing a lot of running. Anyway, do
come through if you want to talk. My name is Marcus.
Welcome o. Wait, oh, here's a question for you. If
you have been out and about and spent times with

(01:07:03):
tourists visiting news in and what Have they told you
they think of it good or bad? Have they said
that they enjoyed the experience, or have they said that
this was bad or that was bad or the accommodation
was expected? What what have been their major gripes the
tourists you've spoken to. I just would like to hear

(01:07:25):
you talk about what's what's the thing that's ruined their holiday?
Because it's face, we're not in undated with tourists at
the moment. There aren't many here at all. He was
pretty bad Scottie, So that seems to be the scandal today.

(01:07:46):
Is Patrick Gower of Paddy Gower at the Halberger Woods.
I didn't see it. I don't know what was wrong
with that. I saw an image of him seem fine
to me. But you might want to say, I think
he's just a polar writing sort of guys. And here
is that what happens? I mean a lot of people

(01:08:07):
are going on to ons haircut, but you know that's
that's not a problem.

Speaker 7 (01:08:11):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
Also? Forty years of EastEnders, anyone hooked on anyone to
go to battle and say how much better it was
than Cora Marcus when my brother visited her to do
with friends from Dallas. They're appalled with the portions of
their hungy. The group of eight left hungry and disillusioned.

(01:08:33):
Is there an all you could eat hungy?

Speaker 7 (01:08:35):
There?

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Probably is, is there? Marcus met two young people traveling
around New Zealand. They were loving being here but not
happy with the difficulty getting visas to come here. Working
visa is almost impossible to get and one was very
keen to immigrate, but no chance of getting residency. And
we want immigrants, right, Dave Penny, it's Marcus, good evening, welcome, Hi, good.

Speaker 9 (01:09:01):
Penny, and just bringing up cause we met a futurist
wife fishing over the weak and been turning to them
and for them. They were talking about the freedom camping
and how New Zealand's become a bit frustrated with that.
But they were talking about most of the freedom camps
that they'd stopped at in New Zealand were actually full

(01:09:24):
of New Zealanders who were the ones pooping and dumping
their crap, and so they feel like that's the blame
for something that our own country is doing. Whether that's
true or not, that's just via theory. And also there's
a site that he was telling me about which is
that you google when you come to New Zealand about

(01:09:44):
we're not to park or we're not to stay. And
just in Tartanaki, the only places that it said it
was safe for your vehicle was in party notes sorry
Waverley and then there was no other stop in Tartanaki
that was seed that it was safe to park the
camp even without being robbed.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Wow, so they it doesn't feel that Robbie Taranaki does it, no,
but they were.

Speaker 9 (01:10:12):
So they were robbed in Wellington where their van was
smashed and stuff grabbed out of it. And then so
then they joined this group that they were linked to
and it told them the places that they could camp
in New Zealand. But like I said, and the whold
of Tananaky, it was only Waverley that was deemed save.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
Okay, that's interesting. It's interesting also that the freedom campers
are back too.

Speaker 7 (01:10:35):
Yes.

Speaker 9 (01:10:36):
So when we were in Waverley there was four vans,
partly because I've got a Freedom Camp there and when
they were fishing, they were talking to.

Speaker 4 (01:10:45):
Me about it.

Speaker 9 (01:10:46):
But they were saying that they're a little bit confused
because they came here a couple of years ago before
COVID and they said the only people that they ever
seen destroying those camps were actually New Zealanders that were camping.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Okay, that's not my experience, but penning up. Nice to
hear from you, Thank you for that. That's good to hear,
good and tell. Fourteen past ten text went to a
favorite central Northlne and walk a few weeks back, cars
and vans all with smash glass shame, lots of crimeer
on top or over Christmas vandalism out of control. Marcus

(01:11:24):
I help out in a cafe in Westport, having heaps
of visits in and all have just raved about being
his in and loved the West Coast. That's from Daryl.
Marcus presently in a camping ground and Raglin. Every day
a steady stream of tourists coming and going, all in
motor homes. We chacked of quite a few and they
can't all speak highly enough of their trip. Wonderful whether

(01:11:46):
people friendly? Are the motorists curteous? Some booking to come
back next year to do South Island. None have griped
about anything. Cheers Linda, Thanks Linda. So what are the
tourists been saying? Also, the Halbergs you want to comment
on the presentation of hope of that kind of a

(01:12:09):
hiding to nothing hosting. They either don't notice you hate you.
It's a mugs gig that total mugs gig. Oh eight
hundred and eighty eight Any Marcus till twelve anything else
you want to go on about? Great? Also East Enders
loved some calls about that. Always up for the caussial

(01:12:32):
with the East and it's forty years old today you
can watch it on UK TV or probably on YouTube.
Curra to Marcus up over moa flat for the rock
spread to Tapanui Gore trip tonight. Oh yeah, Gow was

(01:12:54):
a shambles. Needs a haircut total Opposite to his co
host Im Maculate, Well, you can't comment on someone's hair.
I mean that's that's base stuff. H What would you
be coming on someone's here? I mean credit where it's

(01:13:16):
Joe but cheapest creepers. We're better than that, aren't we.
It's like a school hit master. But I did I
ask Skinny. It's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:13:33):
You know Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:13:37):
I'm a volunteer at like Road of Kiri, which is
a camp site in Taraneki and you know, there's heaps
to two us to go to new and its it's
safe as so, I don't know what the other person
was talking about. Safe people.

Speaker 8 (01:13:54):
Where is that?

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
Tell me about that lake roto.

Speaker 7 (01:13:57):
Lake Road to Kerry?

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
Is that ka.

Speaker 6 (01:14:02):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Oh yeah r O t O k A r E.

Speaker 7 (01:14:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:14:11):
Is that is that?

Speaker 7 (01:14:12):
ALcom?

Speaker 2 (01:14:12):
Is it is that one made by a dam?

Speaker 12 (01:14:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:14:15):
Well it's just a lake okay, a natural raake. Yeah.
And there's people down there intense and go walking at
night looking at kiwi and oh.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
You've got it it is it predator proofed?

Speaker 7 (01:14:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
Oh it looks beautiful, good good bush.

Speaker 7 (01:14:33):
Yeah, And I quite quite often take people around to
see the kiwi and yeah, it's quite good down here.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
Trouble so that would be like four hundred meters how
many kiwis would be and they're not many, like ten y.

Speaker 7 (01:14:50):
They actually think we were over populated this. They think
there's about three hundred in there, cheap as creepers. Yeah,
so there's a heap in there.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
So how big would it be? Like it's only about
a mile by a mile, is that right?

Speaker 7 (01:15:03):
I think it's about two hundred and twenty hecties off
Hambur could be wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
Yeah, they've got three hundred key we in there, so
you'd see them quite easily, so.

Speaker 7 (01:15:12):
Long as you go careful and there's not too many
people down there here And what are.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
People doing that? What are people doing the lake? Are
they on boats?

Speaker 7 (01:15:21):
On boats and jet skis?

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
Okay? Oh yeah, we should be in the jet skis
there for morons.

Speaker 7 (01:15:28):
Unfortunately, that was part of the conditions that they were
able to turn it into a reserve because it was
always used for creation. But everybody complains about the boats
and the j skis.

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
But it'd be nice if there weren't any, wouldn't it
It would.

Speaker 7 (01:15:44):
Be Yeah, it would be But that's just part of
the deal they come up with the council when they
decided to turn it into the reserve.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
Are most of where are most of the tourists just
seeing that? Are they that aren't from us end? Where
are they from?

Speaker 7 (01:15:56):
The majority? You'd be French and German. There has been
quite a few, quite a few Dutch and Swiss down there.
Pretty much all nationalities down.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
There in the traveling and campavans?

Speaker 17 (01:16:07):
Are they camper vans?

Speaker 7 (01:16:09):
Will backpacking?

Speaker 4 (01:16:10):
Yet?

Speaker 13 (01:16:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:16:15):
The Germans don't like our bread.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
Wow, I didn't think you got to say that. That's interesting.

Speaker 7 (01:16:22):
Yeah, I find interesting because I always say him, you
don't like how bread and they all just start laughing.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
Hey, skinny, great conversation, Stata.

Speaker 7 (01:16:29):
Yeah are you fat?

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
Are you called skinny because you're big?

Speaker 4 (01:16:33):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
The opposite, Okay, okay, Lake rochard Agi was the one
that's good, the damned one. That's the one that's the Yeah,
that's what I was thinking of. But that's all right.
That's I was confused by that.

Speaker 7 (01:16:47):
Really curious, very peaceful and friendly place.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
It's probably one of you. It's probably skinny. It's probably
one of your best bits to see a kiwi in
New Zealand.

Speaker 7 (01:16:57):
By the sound of things, Well, I reckon it is.
It's probably twelve months now and I've taken a lot
of people around for months. Yeah, I'll be two or
three groups a week and it's probably twelve months and
to have been able to show anybody well when we've
done the complete loop normally normally see four or five.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
Do you put red plus red cellphone over the over
the torches.

Speaker 7 (01:17:21):
That's what most of yours going to read red light
bulb one pay Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
And you're not playing you're not playing bird calls. That's
frowned upon, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:17:31):
No, yep, that's found well yet, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
I'll tell you something skinny, especially if you've got kids
with you to go kiwi hunting. When there's no kiwi's
there's always a bit of a downer.

Speaker 7 (01:17:45):
Yeah. Yeah. Well if I get halfway around and haven't
seen any I sat for in quite second because I
say we should see them, so I sort of take
it to harder.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
But if I can't, you should be talking, you should
be talking down. I'll be saying, well, look we probably
won't see a kiwi, but you have a lovely time anyway.
And then look at that there's a kiwi.

Speaker 7 (01:18:05):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
Because elf as Elfham wouldn't be much chopped for tourists,
would it.

Speaker 7 (01:18:13):
Altam itself is not. No, this is probably twelve thirteen
k out from Elfham. Yeah, but it's it's very peaceful
and it's it's pretty it's not well marketing that because
they don't want to heap for people going out there
to disturb it. Yes, so it's pretty much reasonably quite.
I think it's on Camper Made or one of the

(01:18:34):
one of the apps like that. That's about it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
That sounds like the Devil's work that app I don't
like the sounds of it. There's no cabins or anything
there is there no cabins. No, what's that building on
the hill, the big hall, what's that?

Speaker 7 (01:18:48):
That's that's the volunteers center where all the stuff's kept.
And then there was toilets and an information center. Tore
it down the bottom and they're building a new information center.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
Talking about this before, but it's one of the great things.
Are you getting any incursions of ferrets or anything getting
it over the.

Speaker 15 (01:19:07):
No.

Speaker 7 (01:19:07):
We we had a little infestation of mice, probably cloy
twelve months ago, but we've since wiped them all out.
So they don't quite know how they got them. They
think and more dropped over the feat or something like that,
well away from well away from that areas where people
go normally.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
So yeah, it's weird, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:19:29):
So the only way they think it could have got
them possibly was being dropped by a bird or because
that the whole Prince line gets walked every day.

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
Yeah, because you don't want branches coming down it, because
in a little mice will run up today.

Speaker 7 (01:19:42):
Yeah, yeah, it's got a it's got a hot wire
and if you think falls down, it seems the arms
off and people go running.

Speaker 4 (01:19:47):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (01:19:48):
So I think it happens if there's a slip or something.
People are out the hours of the night. China, this
is great.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
And do you live in Eltham yourself?

Speaker 7 (01:19:55):
Skinny halfway between Eltham and Stratford, Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
I'm liking all of us. Okay. And if there's too
many Kiwis, do you trap them and then take them
somewhere else if they're breeding so well, or you'll just
let them find the right numbers.

Speaker 7 (01:20:10):
Last year, last year they bought they bring the dogs
and every year to sniff them out yep, dp dogs
and they couldn't find enough to take out for some reason.
They but they have to be a right age and yep,
right weight, and they just couldn't find enough to take out.
And that's what I think. We're overpopulated this year okay.
And the dogs are coming into the month, y were

(01:20:30):
the next month, and I hope you're going to take
out fifty so and they go down to Warrington and
up up Mount Tarnaki.

Speaker 2 (01:20:37):
And because Wellington, Wellington's going quite well well. The ones
in the hills around Market.

Speaker 7 (01:20:41):
And places like that are Yeah, yeah, I've heard that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
And Skinny, do you charge for your tour or you
just do that? As as Volley on the spot, you.

Speaker 3 (01:20:50):
Just do it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
You've done it for the joy, do you?

Speaker 7 (01:20:53):
I do it for the joy because when you see
the smile on their faces, it's worth every minute of it.
And you're not allowed, not allowed of charge anyow. People
who have tried that, and that's not what I'm about.
I do it for the pleasure and the enjoyment have
shown people. Because I've seen that many It's just vitually
another bird to me unfortunate. But yeah, see the look
on people's faces and new reactions. I've got friends on

(01:21:16):
Facebook now from all around the world pretty much. If
everyone is to go on the wheel trip, I have
places to stay that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
You would what other birds are in there?

Speaker 7 (01:21:25):
You see?

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
He yep, that's the stitch birds.

Speaker 7 (01:21:31):
Bird yet more pork Robin's Riflemen settle back.

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
To Okay, I feel bad because we're in there and
the holidays we didn't get. I don't even think about that.
We've got the bust of wealth them but didn't stop.
So next time I'm going to run Skinny what headlines,
But look I've enjoyed you muchly. That's great. Texts people.
There's more about the rates, Marcus, we're too late. Two
lots of rates taken by the Palmerston North City Council today.

(01:22:00):
Quite the panic when we realized all our money was gone.
Just checked our accountants been retuned in full and we'll
now rate and the actual day of the twe hath
the feb for them to take our money. Marcus Gower
was shocking. He looked right, but what he said and
the way he conducted himself was terrible. Was not professional
at all. That's from David. If they're talking about everyone
must go, the advertising has worked Marcus Repetti Gower. It

(01:22:25):
looked like he was unprepared and ed libbed a few times.
Maybe he was a last minute ring and he couldn't
decide whether Sophie Pasco was a dame or not. His
co host Laura mcgaldrich had to carry him and seemed embarrassed.
Patty's excellent Juanist. But this was not as bag at all. Cheers, Steve.
I didn't see it, and I imagine you people have
been slightly too rigid. Perhaps he was just going for

(01:22:48):
a sort of relaxed kind of ambiance. Maybe that's what
they wanted. She might want to comment about that he's
the host of the Halbergs, So yeah, maybe they were,
because otherwise it's just all those sports boffins. It's the
same three people always doing it, so they might have
wonder broaden the appeal of the show. I'm surprised Guy's

(01:23:09):
still committed to broadcasting, because I don't know what the
viewer figures are like, especially with the satellite falling to
earth crisis. In the wine industry, were we worried about that?
Wine makers dreams are in tetters. Over the last decade

(01:23:31):
of annual consumption of wine shrank from twenty one liters
to fourteen letters, and domestically produced wine is half from
thirteen point seventies to seven point five liters. No one's drinking,
so there you go. Marcus, whatever angle Paddy was going for,
he didn't put it off. I found him annoying it

(01:23:54):
to know from me for next year. Marcus banned jet
skis and leaf blowers. I had a session on the
broom the other day and I thought vaguely about buying
a leaf blower, reminding myself, it's not the thing. But yeah,
I don't come across them very often. I don't think
they're a bluff thing. I think bluff has its own

(01:24:16):
leaf blower when it blows a howling gale. Also, tourists
coming to New Zealand, what are we doing wrong that
the numbers aren't up? And what are they saying to
you about their experience? Germans hate the bread. Really, I
thought our breeds were German inspired. And no one's drinking white.

(01:24:42):
I shouldn't say no one's drinking wine. But the wine
figures are way down and a lot of the wineries
will go under and no surprise, caught a huge expansion,
particularly around Marlborough. So that's going to be tough. But

(01:25:02):
I know what they're going to do with the land
and all those poles.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
That's what I've got. If there is something else you
want to talk about, be lovely to hear from your
ma name as Marcus, welcome, Come on, give us your
best shot tonight. There's been some discussion, and it's not
discussion I tend to encourage, but they're talking about but
one of the columns in the Herald talking about the
people that if lux And goes, who will replace him

(01:25:27):
as leader of the National Party or as Prime Minister,
and the article seed four names spring to mind. I
presume they are Chris Bishop, Simmeing and Brown, Nikola Willis
and Erica Stanford. No one't got any comments about that
if you want to get political. Never met any of them, actually,

(01:25:53):
and maybe they wouldn't want to do it at this
stage with everyone around the world grizzling about everything, it
might be a poisoned chalice. You might be spending four
more years in opposition, so getting much about that too.
That's about everything for me, twenty one away from living
my name as Marcus. Welcome, Come on, oh wait hend
eighty ten eighty hobit's going well? Will you well? Will

(01:26:14):
you are hope Hamilton's not too hot. The crickets aren't
making too much of a record. I did hear the
cicada's the key key here today. They were going well,
they're going good, but jumping Marcus till midnight, oh eight
hundred and eighty. If there's another topic you want to
kick into the arena, good, you are more than welcome,

(01:26:39):
be good to hear from you. You ban jet Skis.
I don't know. I think you want to ban jet Skis.
That would just encourage them. There's a sacre sort of
person that likes jet Skis, don't they allowed? Well, well,
each to their own. I wait, he read eighty ten

(01:26:59):
eighty paul AT's Marcus, welcome, Hey MICUs, how are you
not talk to you? I talk to your superl Hey.

Speaker 18 (01:27:09):
My daughter has been in Germany for a couple of
years and she's just moved from there to the UK.
Who are in a partner, And it's funny that you've
just brought up the fact that bread in Germany is
so good, or a caller did. I don't know, but
she wrung me facetim me one night and she goes, Dad,

(01:27:31):
the bread here is just absolutely brilliant and it's cheap.
And I said, lot's different and she goes, it's like
the bread were used.

Speaker 7 (01:27:44):
To do.

Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
I'm like, okay, is it like is it like a
brown rich Vili? I can't kind of. I haven't been
to Germany. I don't know their bread.

Speaker 18 (01:27:57):
I don't know either, Marcus. I haven't been there, but
someone must know. She said, it's it's just you toast it.

Speaker 7 (01:28:06):
You can still.

Speaker 18 (01:28:08):
It's it's the bread flavor in everything about it. It's
crunchy or it's soft, and I don't know what they.

Speaker 4 (01:28:16):
Do with it, Marcus.

Speaker 18 (01:28:17):
I was just hoping that someone might be able to
come in and go this is what it is.

Speaker 7 (01:28:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
We'll find out, Paul. I'll fly that flag breed in Germany.
Come on Germans shoe Marcus welcome, Yeah, are their shoe?

Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
Hello, Marca the rabbit man. I've got to see a
radio terrible okay, Marcus. There, I've got a fantastic like

(01:29:03):
a brig you stay from kicking save in parapher I
was looking for something in the multi grain grid role
thing and I found a te can say baked multi
grain life is just fantastic, but some lovely seeing that.

Speaker 7 (01:29:19):
Nothing like that.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
There's nothing like a good life for Brian, is there?

Speaker 4 (01:29:22):
Well you wet some nice battle on Nils, some on
the money and yeah, yeah, I'm up on the hills
again tonight and I've just finished mccoming from I started
to pour with Raine. So now I'm getting the booby
for a bit of a sleep and they'll be back
into it. That's the thing that I'm concerned about is
and I don't know when you it was on your radar,
but during the holidays, when working on a holiday. On

(01:29:44):
the sixteenth of January, the Act launched the in the
Ministry of Justice launched the review of the firearms at
Firearms Review and it gave people until the twenty eighth
of February to put in these submissions. So from today
you've lookedally got ten days too putting your submission about

(01:30:07):
firearms legislation. Now PFOO, the Council of Licensed Firearms Owners
of New Zealand are driving that. And of course Nicole
McKee is a spokesperson for pro through and is pretending
a lot of clubs gun club things. She hasn't been
doing a lot of consultation with the public. And you
will notice it's been no public meetings he account all
or anything about the gun legislation. But she's only consulting

(01:30:30):
with gun clubs. So back in twenty nineteen, sixty five
thousand people find the petition to ban military style firearms
in New Zealand. And I know they're not banned. People
from Capri who are listening to this because they are
still available the best control shoots, anti collectors and importance.

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
Yes those special licenses, yes.

Speaker 4 (01:30:51):
Tecual licenses. So they have been banned from the hands
of the general public under an A category thing and
you can't get the high capacity magazines which terrorists use
for mass killings. Now HOFU, led by Nicole McKee, has
got four objectives in it in the rewrite of arts

(01:31:12):
to abolish the firearms Registry. So we'll go back to
what it was like in the nineties. We had a
firearms regius be for a class rockers up to about
ninety eight PERI or eighty six, and then the National
Party abolished it. And then we went through the whole
period of time with the police not knowing who had
what done and then being surprised when people like the

(01:31:35):
guy in the shootout in napier Land moderna Yeah, did
the shootout and found he had like about fifty military
style guns. And the guy down at Marijuana David Gray,
David Gray, he used military style weapons. And there have

(01:31:56):
been other mess shootings in New Zealand and then there
was the mass shooting. A port at Australia moved immediately to.

Speaker 2 (01:32:01):
Ben Australia has been hugely successful.

Speaker 4 (01:32:06):
Hugely successful. They banned military style weapons over there and
they did not have another match shooting for thirty years,
they just tended and.

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
They've had one in twenty eighteen and that was it.

Speaker 4 (01:32:18):
And that was it. And we the National Party led
by Jim Bolger and Coalitionion Party with Winston Peters failed
to ban military style assault weapons after the Port Arthur
massacre and that's why the terrorist was able to do
the terrorist thing and c If the National Party had

(01:32:39):
been proactive, then we wouldn't have had those military style
weapons on the street in twenty twenty nine, twenty nineteen, sorry,
twenty nineteen, and so the National Party is responsible for that.
And then there was also a review of the magazine rules,
of which Nicole McKee was Air Advisor to the Minister
of Police at the time, and she was only one adviser.

(01:33:00):
She hides behind the fact she was only advising and
couldn't influence the outcomes.

Speaker 2 (01:33:04):
But Nicrole McKee is like that, I can't talk forever
about this because obviously other people wanted to talk. Does
it seem like there's going to be changes with the
review because I would imagine that the way that the
National ratings are, they're going to be desperate not to
do anything too popular, too unpopular or too reactionary. So
I would imagine the majority of people want the gun

(01:33:29):
restrictions kept the same. Or titaned.

Speaker 4 (01:33:34):
Hofu and the Koma Ki are working to reintroduce military
sold weapers, and if people don't sign a petition now
the next ten days to bar military soul weppers, Nikoma
k will reintroduce military soul weapers as sporting apparatus.

Speaker 7 (01:33:53):
Shoe.

Speaker 2 (01:33:54):
You obviously know a bit more than me, but I
would say the government would be very unlikely to want
to do that because it's going to show that act
the whistles pulling the train, which is they don't want
to they want to check that perception. But it looks
like Luckson's been propateered by both Seymour and Peters.

Speaker 4 (01:34:12):
Oh totally, absolutely, totally, And I would agree with you
if the National Party had a tracked record in this
parenol leadership. But they canceled the smoke legislation, which was
world reading and we are world leading our firearms legislation.
If they can cancel the smoke legislation, then they can
certainly can cancel what has been held up as groundbreaking

(01:34:37):
firearms legislation which Barack Obama cannot get done in America.
Could not get done in America, but we got it
done on New Zealand. And now GOFU and the Cool
Macky and the Act Party are going to dismantle that
and we're going to have military style assault weapons back
on the street again. You mark my words, and please
sign the petition which is the Justice Department website and

(01:34:59):
get military style firearms banned again in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:35:04):
Love you to talk to you, Quth. Thank you so
much for that.

Speaker 7 (01:35:05):
Ten.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
I'll your horse's Graham with your ten away from eleven.
Oh wait eight Teddy, Hello, Grammats Marcus welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:35:13):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:35:14):
Thank you.

Speaker 17 (01:35:15):
German bread, sir, Yes, we had. We had a German
lady stay with us a few years ago uh In
crossed and she had German bread. We also bought some here.

Speaker 9 (01:35:28):
It's in a tin.

Speaker 17 (01:35:30):
And when I say that tin like a cardboard to tin,
not a metal one. And you had to open open
it with a type of opener. But the only disadvantage
and using the bread it was extremely hard and you
had to cut it with an electric knife.

Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
Had she bought the bread and the paper tin with her, No.

Speaker 17 (01:35:53):
She was able to get it from a shop here,
in Crostchurch who sold international foods and what did what
tin was it?

Speaker 3 (01:35:59):
Then?

Speaker 17 (01:36:01):
Well, the tin the top of the the container on
the top was tin down the sides was like an
oval ten which is not ten. That says she is
very strong cardboard.

Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
Okay, because you can't call it ten made a ten ten?
You can call it a cardboard.

Speaker 4 (01:36:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
That's weird, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:36:17):
But it was very very nice, very hard and you
could toast it, put gym or whatever on it, but
we had to cut it with an electric knife. I
remember doing it very nice.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
You don't know what it was called?

Speaker 4 (01:36:31):
No, I don't.

Speaker 17 (01:36:33):
That's quite a long time ago, twenty years ago.

Speaker 4 (01:36:35):
But yeah, it was nice years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
Okay, I'm desperately hungry.

Speaker 17 (01:36:38):
About Yeah, at least fifteen twenty years.

Speaker 2 (01:36:42):
Okay, we'll find out, Graham, thank you, Marcus. Is the
German bread made with spelt flower makes a very wholesome bread?
Is the brand made out of beer? They used different
wheat in the UK and Europe. Don't knock leaf blowers
out the school caretaker's best friend. We're also talking about

(01:37:07):
the Albergs. A lot of talk about a lot of
talk on this show about Petty Gower's performance as the host.
I haven't looked at o Reckally probably has done a
great job. But I'm getting texts, Oh this is funny.

(01:37:28):
Someone's texts they said this, Read this without a doubt.
We've gone backwards when it comes to TV presenters, how
buring the World's the worst ever. Bring back professional presenters
like Peter Williams. Peter Williams spent his lifetime reading the
news and not believing any of it. Anyway, get in
touch people. My name is Marcu's edel twelve jeepers. There

(01:37:54):
was some discussions to note about the Halberg's and the
hosting of that if you want to comment. Also to
I'm finally getting the text through about Married at First
Sight Marcus. I know you won't be watching Married at
First Sight, however, it's amazing at the content. TV three
is broadcasting at seven pm these days. Skimpy lingerie last night,

(01:38:17):
for one, please discuss. I don't know if you need
the word skimpy for lingerie, do you? I think isn't
most lingerie skimpy? But anyway, I think I think I
think Married at First Sight is kind of the only

(01:38:40):
thing that people still watch. But they've got to try
and get it more sensational every time. So yeah, I
don't watch it. I know that people find it, watch
it with a sense of incredulity about what happens. But
I think it only happens on Married at First Sight

(01:39:01):
because they get incredibly unsuitable people to go on TV
to do it. Yeah, I mean they are the human
headlines and they've fallen full of alcohol. Who knows, but
that might be something you want to mention. Also, we
are talking tourism and the tourist that comes and is
in and the reasons why they're not coming in big droves.

Speaker 7 (01:39:22):
What do we need to do.

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
Differently, what we need to change? What are they telling
you about their experience? There is their n Patty Gower,
Marcus m a if merrit at first Sight last night
was like watching soft pawn. There you go fancy having it?
What do they have as sort of a was it
like especially revealing show? You wonder about the people on

(01:39:48):
it because they're not getting paid and they become content.
I mean it's kind of crazy, Marcus. The Halberg's Award
last Awards night was a good presentation tonight. I know
this will surprise many, but I missed Aunt robertson not
appearing grunts an unsang hero, I reckon after managing to

(01:40:12):
avoid three recessions in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty
three by keeping our GDP blah blah blah and our
unemployments so low. Marcus penny Gower incredibly bad at hosting anything,
let alone something serious. He needs to have a change
in occupation. You don't know why people are so down

(01:40:34):
on him, Marcus. I don't watch Married at First Sight either. However,
I have found the stuff summaries great humorous reading. Marcus
Married at First Start as revolting. I don't think we
do a local version anymore, do we?

Speaker 4 (01:40:53):
I quite liked.

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
No, I won't say that I watched a bit of
that local one when it happened. Samuel Good evening, it's Marcus, welcome, Hello,
how are you good? Thank you?

Speaker 7 (01:41:05):
Samuel good good.

Speaker 11 (01:41:07):
Hey, it's going on about this tourism business. I'm a
tractor of the mate in the Amanda near Missus. I
had every day with people behind me in front of.

Speaker 15 (01:41:19):
Me and.

Speaker 7 (01:41:21):
Mate.

Speaker 11 (01:41:22):
It's it's shocking, not necessarily Australians, but yeah, it's it's
pretty uh, pretty scary stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:41:31):
Do you know, how do you know the tourist sails
because they're on high cass.

Speaker 11 (01:41:36):
Uh yeah, you know obviously they've got the snicks. They're stickers,
but yeah, snap wrinkles and easy wrinkles and yeah it's
it's you ask any tructor over around the country really,
especially with the desert ray show at the moment, and
you know between so they eight miles here and they

(01:42:00):
just put out WILLI nilly and really, to be honest,
they just put out and hope that hope for the best.

Speaker 2 (01:42:07):
Do you think they're distracted by the scenery or they're
chasing times on Google Maps, or they're in holiday mode
and not really concentrating.

Speaker 11 (01:42:16):
What do you think it is with them, to be honest, Marcus,
I think and Kiwis are pretty bad for it, to
be fear. Over the years that I've been driving. To
be honest, people just hate sitting behind trucks.

Speaker 2 (01:42:32):
Oh, I see what you're saying.

Speaker 11 (01:42:34):
It's whether they whether they just want to see what's
in front of them literally or just don't want to
see the the behind of a truck. They just hate
sitting behind trucks and and whatever rest they can take to.

Speaker 7 (01:42:50):
Get get out of it.

Speaker 11 (01:42:51):
They'll do it with you know. Yeah, it's quite you're
asking any trucktor o around the country. They'll sit behind
you for k's and then become a dangerous spot. They'll
just pull out.

Speaker 2 (01:43:02):
And I presume the higher cars probably quite a lot
of them are under powered as well.

Speaker 11 (01:43:10):
Yeah, yeah, well you get the old persion and the
Beamer or the miracle and know just you know, put
the foot down and they're literally gone and seeconds. But yeah,
it's I mean being the tractor over it's at the
moment it's pretty scary with the with the digit road track.
Well on the here's the road, it's the same, you know,

(01:43:32):
But I think it's it is getting a lot worse.

Speaker 5 (01:43:36):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (01:43:37):
What does that closure the desert road meant for you?
Is it a lot more traffic on the road you're on?

Speaker 5 (01:43:42):
Is it? Is it?

Speaker 4 (01:43:42):
What it is?

Speaker 15 (01:43:45):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (01:43:46):
Yeah, I mean end of the day, I think it's
just as quick going from wery to to to Auckland
coming out at eight mile and took away there. But yeah,
it's yeah, it's getting it's getting pretty bad. But people
not going sit behind trucks and I think he was
just as guilty as it to be.

Speaker 2 (01:44:07):
Okay, Oh Samuel, thanks for the report and keep up
the good work. I appreciate that fifteen passed even I
know Marcus Welcome, good evening. Eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty Married at first sight chucked out into the mix.
Why do you keep watching it? It's like a roodex,
isn't it. Let's face it, No one's gonna happily ever
after on that show. It all goes bad. The other

(01:44:27):
story I've been kind of slightly following is Splash Palace
in Hastings. Number of visitors down there down fifteen thousand
on the previous season, and I can't quite work out why.
It seems as though it's because it's been a wet

(01:44:48):
and cold summer in Hawke's Bay. So you always thought
that was a beloved kind of a swimming pool and
they've closed it early. It's kind of weird, so maybe

(01:45:08):
someone's got some understanding of that. This season from December fifteenth,
twenty twenty four, there's only been one week where the
temperature was above twenty four celsius for two days, so
it's been a rubbish summer in Hawk's Bay always all
that's where they are the best summers, although someone's takes

(01:45:32):
me through and see it was thirty four degrees there today.
The other thing, the other news days have been very
heavy rain in central Otago. The ODT are doing good
reporting on that. It's been unlike anything that they've seen.
According to the people in Beaumont. I hope the brand
new bridge is fine. A small nameless creek topped its bank.

(01:45:59):
There's massive hail and massive rain, so I don't quite know.
Seems to be kind of localized. It was supposed to
be christ Juts that was preciclarly the bad whether it's
all happened, and Beaumont and Raised Junction. I'll tell you
something I've watching on TV. What with this golf where
they play that indoors that looks like the worst thing ever.

(01:46:21):
Have you seen that They've got a ball and they
had the ball at the screen. Then they continue to
play like like it's a video game. But there's some
quite good like Rory Macroy and all sorts of people
are playing. I don't know who's behind it. I guess
it's a lot cheaper to cover the new cameras everywhere,
so I guess the future of golf is going to
be no golf courses. Is that something people have talked
about because you see those golf virtual driving ranges opening.

(01:46:46):
I thought they'd be a damp squib. People seem to
love them. I don't know what happens to the ball.
They had the ball at the screen. The ball just disappears, like,
can't work out where that goes. Maybe someone's got something
to say how that works. I don't understand it. You might, yeah,
the ball disappears. He's a nice text. Marcus. I brought

(01:47:13):
sea monkeys. Only one survived after six weeks. He still
brings me joy, living stone, you know, quite like watching them.
Marcus just hid about five minutes of medium rainfall here
in Warnaker. Maybe it's still on the way. Needed grass
dead and crispy. He I was worried about the grass.

(01:47:35):
Had to get the old manager up to have a
look it up. It seems to be all right. There
seems to be enough up the top. Hopefully there's a
bit of rain tomorrow. That's all I've got my hope
set on because here we certain need grass growth down south. Marcus,
I thought those virtual golf courses. The ball hits the

(01:47:57):
screen and falls down to the ground and then tracking
software predicts how far and where the ball goes so
it doesn't smash the screen. Is the screen soft?

Speaker 7 (01:48:09):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:48:09):
This is this story, Marcus. The Hastings Council owns Splash
Palace and put the prices up to forty five dollars
per adult and thirty five dollars per child, making it
unaffordable for most families and other out of control council
we have millions of debt. Well that's huge. I had

(01:48:31):
no idea they'd be that expensive. Well, no, it's a
big complex with hydroslides and stuff. Splash Planet, I don't
call it Splash Palace. Got Splash palaces there in Vcago one,

(01:48:51):
and that's got its challenges. Splash Planet prices. I'm just
going to confirm those prices because it seems exorbitant prices.
Splash Planet, Yeah, you're right, forty five dollars for thirty

(01:49:13):
No one's got because you want to go to the
pools every day in the summer. Oh, that's just bad.
That's just bad leadership. Where the family passes, there's no
family passes. They've killed it. I don't know what's there.

(01:49:36):
I don't know what the attractions are doubled. Oh you've
got some slides and stuff. Oh, I got a lazy river.
Oh you've got carts and stuff. There's quite a lot
of things there, but you know, you've only got a
small group of people that want to go there every time.
So yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:49:57):
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