The wildest scam call in a long time (14 April 2025)

Glenn starts off the night with a call about mushrooms, but things take a quick wild turn...

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greetings, welcome as we go into the fractioned weeks, Marcus.
I hope it's good where you are. What's happening, got
great hopes for tonight? Kind of hey, something firstly? Is
this firstly to full moon? I was kind of of
the opinion that the full moon was always around Easter.

(00:34):
It is around Easter. Out I don't want to sound
overly confident. I think this is probably as far away
from Easter as full Moon's get if you kind of
get my drift, like five or six days away. But anyway,
just so you know, that's what's happening today. Also a
short week, This week's short week next week. I think

(00:54):
you're probably across there. It's also school holidays. Yes, I've
had every active school holiday day. I think we've overdone
it for day one. Actually factually we've set the bar
too high with activities. But oh well, we live and
we learn and yeah, so and look, I don't know

(01:14):
what to expect what I'm expecting with the shows, and
I could sometimes during the school highways all get to
be disrupted. People's patterns get disrupted. But look at there's
breaking news, I will bring that to you. If there's
anything important happens internationally, I will bring that to you.
But basically it will be talked as it always is,

(01:34):
to be bread honest. In fact, that's even what it
was on Friday. Even on Friday night, I got sorely
tempted to play Wandered through the Hills with you, Maggie,
Fossils and Allen, but I didn't in the end, sorely tempted.
But in the end, wasn't hey something first, up, first
and foremost. It's a very very very big day for

(01:55):
most people in New Zealand who have Sky TV because
the dish is switched on tonight. I don't know when
that's going to be. If someone is more across the details.

(02:15):
SkyTV is preparing to switch to its new satellite tonight.
I've got a giant dish. They put giant dishes in
Bluff because we are on the extremities. I don't know
what they've done on Stuart Island, but yes, and Bluff,
we've got our Our dish has increased the diameter of

(02:40):
I fifty percent, so I guess the area is doubled
it'd be something like that. So, yes, it's switched on.
If anyone knows what time it's going to be switched on,
because I reckon there could be it could be chaos.
It might not be what I would have liked if
it's a Sky had actually contacted me personally, because sometimes
I'm busy night. Sometimes on nights with Sky we act

(03:00):
as their de facto call center, which is fine, but
it's normally rural folk who depend on their satellite dish,
and what do we know about rural folk normally lovely
when it comes to ringing the radio? So the new
dish will be on tonight, I'm not even quite sure

(03:21):
if it says on their website when that happens. How
do we find out about that? Dan SkyTV? So that's
the situation. You've got any information about that, if you're
in the end, if you're in the if you're attached

(03:42):
to them, if you're involved with them, let us know.
I've gone to their website. But it's not that good.
It's all coming up with offers. Of course, it is
as it trying to recruit me as a member at
the closed special offers to get into it. Hello, Satellite,
Is that what I click on Hollo Satellite. It's happening

(04:06):
this week. We plan to switch the sky satellite we
used to be all your favorite entertainment sports to your place.
It's been a big job. Switchover will happen during the
early hours of a morning they're taunting with us and
a week commencing fourteen April. The actual day will depend
on whether and other factors. Switch over will last up

(04:31):
to an hour. During this time, all channels broadcast by
our current sedate will be off here at the same
time while final work has been pleased. Have brought this
to your attention. While final work is being carried out,
we just need you to keep all your skyboxes plugged
and powered onto the wall so everything goes smoothly for you.
And it's got on their website sky Dot, co dot

(04:52):
and zed Ford slash Hello Satellite current switchover status not
yet started, so it could be in the morning. I
imagine the CEO what's her name? She seems like a
WI Live Why she'll come and hit the button. I
don't know if it's a ceremonial thing, but that's what's happening.

(05:13):
It could happen in the morning, it might not, so
you night workers. You might get some disruption as they
bang it on. Sophie Maloney will come in and hit
the switch for the giant dish, so that's hopefully in
the morning. Anyway, I was more excited than that than
I probably should have been. I thought it happened during
the nighttime show. But unless it's not during the nighttime show,

(05:38):
it's early. And of course it's early in the morning
because that's when they need it to be, because they
will be doing it where no one's watching, I suppose,
because you get no TV for a while when they
switch it over. So if you're involved in any way
with that or know anything else about that, that would
be of huge interest to me. And the full moon
close to Easter another topic and other thing that we

(06:00):
could talk about. So, by the way, if you can text,
it's nine to nine two brilliant And actually I just
read listening to the news too. Not many people who
have got their Grand Slam with all the four major
well all the majors, only four or five have done.

(06:21):
It's a world done him. Didn't watch the Gulf sometimes.
I have seen that. I know the course, I know
that famous bridge made of stone. So there we go.
That's exciting for some people that got the time to
watch that anyway. So that's a situation where the sky
that will happen. It might happen in the morning, it
will happen. And one morning this week and tonight is

(06:41):
a full moon, which I would say is probably as
far away from Easter as it gets. It's normally pretty
much right on Easter more than a day or two.
This is a bit further afot you know, if you
want to start the whole ball rolling, oh, eight hundred
and eighty to eighty nine to nine to de text.
The other question I have for you tonight. It's a

(07:02):
slightly complicated question, but for a lot of you, you
will equate Easter with eggs and hot cross buns. But
also for a lot of us that live in New Zealand,

(07:23):
you will equate Easter, as I do very much, with
a abundance of mushrooms. We are in the middle of
mushroom season. My only question about mushrooms, and I'm seeing
some people posting on Facebook with a lot of them,
and I know that you can go to the market
to buy those wonderful kits where you get oyster mushrooms

(07:44):
that come out of the sack and those things are fantastic,
But when it comes to wild mushrooms, because I am
kind of struggling with those slightly. When it comes to
wild mushrooms, if you have land, how do you increase

(08:05):
the chance of that land providing an abundance of mushrooms?
And if you find old mushrooms, is it right to
kick the spores around to get more that same year?
Is it the thing that works for you? So if
you're someone that's got an abundance of mushrooms on your
land and as buckets full for the neighbor and for

(08:29):
your church group and for Scouts and whatever, are you
that person? And how do you happen to like does
stock effect mushrooms? Is it too wet? Is it too cold?
All those things questions I've got to I want to
talk about mushrooms tonight, Not the ones that you get
at the market, when you get that special bag that
you pierce and put water in and water it. I
think that's fantastic, but that's a different kind of topic.

(08:51):
But tonight I want to talk about wild mushrooms because
I think that they are kind of pretty much an
Easter thing for me. So if you've got some discussion
about that. I'd love to hear from you. Yes, Marcus,
we live in rural South and I got them from Sky.
But then new switch over and this is what they said,
what this means for you. We've taken a look at

(09:11):
what the signal looks like at your place to check
the experience you're likely to have after we've switched satellites.
From the details we have, we've identified we may need
to review your setup to help you get quality Sky
service or on new satellite. Unfortunately, we haven't got to
get a technician out to you before switch over. So
in the meantime, if you're paying for my Sky, will
apply a month's credit to cover the cost of that

(09:33):
against your account. Now that is a fair thing to write,
So good on your Sophie Maloney. That's exciting. So people
are already getting a month off anyway. It's all about
mushrooms tonight and Sky and Sky Oh good evening, Glennett's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah, hello, mushrooms named a whole ground temperature that warm
at night, a warm at during the day. Sam then
this time and you get lots of mushines. But what
bagg is up mushrooms. I had a lot, and I
to get minion of the mushrooms and horse mushrooms as
super post fake. If you have a farm, it's super

(10:18):
post fate top dresses his farm. You'll lose. You won't
get mushrooms.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Glenn, could you tell us again what the conditions are?
Warm at night and sunny day.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
You're just gonna have a common ground temperature. But that warm, warm,
warm atmospheric temperature. But as I say, I had a
hill which I need to get million of the mushrooms on.
A new farmer buys the land and he starts top
dressing on a hill. Your mushrooms aren't great.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
So was it not your farm?

Speaker 4 (10:55):
No more than my farm. It's just a farm near
me that I used to go up and speak. Did
you have you Did you have right horseman? You has
better for mushrooms and can manure?

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Did you have right to rome? Did you have right
to roam that farm?

Speaker 5 (11:13):
No?

Speaker 4 (11:14):
You know I'm worried about roaming the farm. I used
to help. I used to find a sheep caught in
the BlackBerry and missing there and caught in the swamps
and all that. He didn't mind me coming.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Half new Oh yeah, ye. I'm never quite sure with people,
because I think.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
While it came along, he decided top dress to get
the grass grown a bit better. He went there, used
to be sheep on me, and he changed over the kettle,
so he top dressed, and and you know, one day
I was there and bloody, I got hit my big
lumps and super poss fate falling out of a bloody plane.
The top dress is not just just dust stuff.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Have you have you had a feed this year?

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yes, I've had a feed just today and I've just
picked another bunch bunch today. With the bunch I picked
today was just on the sidewalk. As I was on
my grass birds, I went out my house. Okay, what
exactly what.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
What are are you? And Glenn?

Speaker 4 (12:10):
I'm over and gis them, Oh yeah, okay, yeah yeah yeah.
And I'm in an area where there's all farm lying
around me, and and and and just yeah but yeah yeah,
if you do reread the sports. And I've actually done
those oyster mushrooms too. We have bought the peckings on them.
But I'm nice, but Jesus hard. Yeah, it's easy to
go out and pick them.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Hang on, what's it?

Speaker 6 (12:32):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (12:32):
I like you, Glen. I like your tuber phrase, was
it hard yeacking with the pecks?

Speaker 4 (12:37):
Well, the pets just for all a week you do
you don't really get what I call your money's with Okay,
I think you want to actually get a container and
do what the professionals do and hang out with big
bags of hay and all that and do it professionally.

Speaker 7 (12:53):
You know.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, Well I think that's sort of them for market, right,
you know they're always at markets with those kits that
seems to yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah, but beautifulster mushrooms. But I'll tell you what the
film mushrooms the play that is so much stronger than.

Speaker 8 (13:08):
The ones you buy. You have a bat mushrooms where
you buy in the cuper market.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
You're talking, You're talking a whole different.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
It's like not like night and day. Glenn.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
Yeah, Hey, can I tell you one other things?

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (13:22):
I was the guy that everyone said, oh you're with
an Ai guilty and you didn't scam whatever, hang on,
hang on beautiful in the world thouty out of team
and she's over Munich right now. And about the fider
Munich's that I spent time with her in Melbourne, and
I about the tier Munich to visit here because because
I'm going to be living in Munich with her, because

(13:44):
she's pignant. I got a pigmum in Melbourne and and
everyone says, oh, lean, he's been scared, he's an idiot,
blah blah blah blah. It hasn't been scam because he's
with a thirty out of team, got a pregnant and
she's as rich as ship.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Now what did you say about the beginning? What was
the star of your sentence?

Speaker 9 (13:59):
Clean?

Speaker 4 (14:01):
Well, I was just saying that seven months ago I
rang out, says on going out with a girl whose
beautiful blah blah. Anyone says, oh no, it's a Nigerian
scammer someone You're not going out with a real person.
But in the end, I met her in Melbourne. I
met this person that have been on Facebook for for
about a year and a half. They actually met her.

(14:22):
We spent Christmas year in Melbourne. And now she's over
in Munich and I'm about to go to Munich to
stay up here and hear apartment and she has over
there because he's rich the ship And I'm just saying
that I haven't been scammed at all, and I've got
a pregnant.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah, so how did you meet her on what website?

Speaker 4 (14:40):
How I meet her on Facebook? Yes, so there you go.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
And your physically mean you physically got her pregnant.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
I physically got a pregnant. Yes, I put my you
know what into her you know what. And what happened was.

Speaker 8 (15:00):
How I met It was I had a bottle of
wine from the second wortle More and my grandfather brought over,
which was nineteen threty free and about five.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
Different people say, don't tell it for less than five
thousand Euro or teen thousand American or whatever, and she
was one of them. She advised me. She just says, Look,
she says, off, I'll be watching you on Facebook with
the funny little guys. This ships he does, she says.
So we just develop a relationship like okay, and yeah,
that's how we met.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
And how did you spend with her? In Melbourne?

Speaker 4 (15:35):
To say the Christmas cel But like a like a
month or I came back and she flew off to
knew that to do it because told me, of course,
whatever you're doing, she's on the second year of doing that.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Have you sent you have you sent too much money?

Speaker 4 (15:52):
Well, she sent me five thousand the other day she
sold a horse. She's off. She was born in Delaware?
How much was from Melbourne?

Speaker 10 (16:00):
How much money?

Speaker 4 (16:02):
And married her mother? She thought she's American?

Speaker 3 (16:05):
How much money have you said?

Speaker 11 (16:06):
It?

Speaker 12 (16:06):
Here?

Speaker 10 (16:08):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (16:10):
Here? Lesson she sent me?

Speaker 3 (16:12):
And what does she send your money?

Speaker 5 (16:13):
And better?

Speaker 4 (16:13):
Because I've met her in real life and it doesn't better.
And she's the one that thought I was she she's
I got to meet her. Her father's seen who's the lawyer?
And I got to get sucked out part of the inheritance.
Why she's got to marry some guy older than older
than here because she's got no money, since it was
part of her father's will.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Hang on, part of the father's will.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
Yeah, the father's will was she's got to marry someone
older than there. It's got some economical seats because she's
got no economical seat.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
And then how much does she get to gain?

Speaker 4 (16:52):
Oh, she's got she's got a farm in Melbourne. She's
got she's got a farm a farman in Melbourne with
about four or five horses. She's got a big house
in two houses in Delaware, but one of her houses
and is like it's.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Like jealous clean Glynn Glynn.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
Show five thousand.

Speaker 9 (17:13):
They sold a horse a show pony, which is or yeah,
Glenn the other day got five thousand dollars for it,
and there keeping that one that we're selling the other house.

Speaker 8 (17:29):
Dollars Americans.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
In the meantime, Glint, Glint can just listen to me
for six I got to get to it. In the meantime.
How much money have you sent her just to tie
her over until she until the will comes through.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
Or something like that, but on on on the because
she's spent more money.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
So okay, I'm going to live with there, Glenn. Yes,
So look, I've got incredible warning bells with that guy
that's got scam written all over it, particularly the will
that she's got to marry someone older with great financial sense,
because of course that's made him feel like he's some

(18:09):
sort of financial wizard. Ah, clearly he's not. And wow, Yeah,
if anyone's got any more details for that, Glenn guy,
I wouldn't mind hearing from you, because there's a lot
to unpack in that hold your horses, David, I will
get you, But this is kind of quite important marriage

(18:32):
scam low Once father dies, she will divorce and keep
all the money that guy's getting scammed. He needs to
watch the tender Swing, the documentary on let Fix then
exactly what they do. You're onto it, Glenn, ding Dong,
ding Dong, You are being scammed. She's taking you to
the cleaners. Are you picking up a suitcase for her
on the way to Germany? These scams are always so complicated.

(18:53):
Farm in Melbourne House and Delaware, US some course in Germany. No, No,
no complicated will that has the money held?

Speaker 13 (19:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Why would she just marry someone she met on Facebook
with discussion over why? I mean normally these people with
farms in Melbourne Houses and Delaware, I mean she could
find someone if that was a proviser of the will,
she wouldn't find a go on Gisbone. It's into mushrooms.
Oh boy, oh boy. If anyone's got any more details

(19:27):
about this or a scam that's similar, because that and
the thing is he's cocker hope because he thinks that
he's actually everyone said it to scam and he's got this.
Ah boy, oh boy. Anyway, Marcus, he's getting scammed big time.

(19:47):
Doubt she is pregnant all part of the raw Love
You show Markers. Although I didn't know that scams proceeded
to that level of intimacy. That's what I was surprised about.
So yeah, I can't quite work that one out. And
how she's worked out how much money that he Well,
I guess you could do that through steepest creepers. Marcus,

(20:13):
it's a scam. He will get over there and it
won't be what he thought. She'll probably have a husband.
He's getting scammed big time. Doubt she is pregnant. All
part of the rought, Marcus. The best thing about your
show is you never know which way it's going to go.
But tonight it's a beauty. Well, yes, I know all
about mushrooms. And as an as an aside, well, boy,

(20:36):
have I got the wife? Marcus? Watched Conum on Netflix.
That was a beauty and she's pregnant. Has he got proof?

Speaker 14 (20:43):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Man, scammer bullshit written over at Taylor. You got some
more information about scams and mushrooms. That's what we're on
about tonight. Someone said Porcini. Mushrooms have been bursting out
of the mossy in other regions of christ Church since
mid March, often called petty buns, great chopplin fried with
butter garlic, and smeted with a touch of fresh cream
and a splash of soy sauce, salt and people. Of course. Yeah,

(21:10):
I thought I have a lot more on the land
in Southland, but there's some but yeah, yeah, I don't
quite know what's going on. It's slightly just to be anyway.
I'm looking forward to your calls on scams and mushrooms.
We've got text about that she won't be pregnant. Glenn
has been taken for a ride. Yeah, well do you
think what is it? Is it taking all the money

(21:31):
or it's a drug trafficking thing. But he does sound gullible,
although he did spend Christmas with her, So I mean
it's big stakes, isn't it. When you're gonna watch you're

(21:53):
gonna watch six figures, you're going to want six figures
of money after a scam that complicated Hi and he
has given her his bank account details, possibly has he
received money from her other five thousand dollars would be
the temptation to get the money to get the details
from his account. Yes, Marcus, he high and he has

(22:14):
given her his bank account details, possibly as he has
received money from her. Taking identity money laundering wide open
for all sorts. Marcus Glenn Tell's story sounds very familiar,
like it's a scan that's been played before and publicized.
Unfortunate Glenn Is, it's so excited, he's just not listening.
Really sorry, Kate, Marcus, that dude who's been scanned might

(22:37):
be a properly scanned. Hope he doesn't go and get
married and lose his farm after a quick divorce. Maybe
that's how said scammer got all the property. What's a
couple of thousands expense for them gaining a farm? I
don't think he had a farm. He says she's rich,

(22:57):
she's loaded, but sold her horse to transfer him five
thousand dollars, and he said he's given her about ten thousand,
which probably means a bit more than that. Needs to
wake up up, Marcus. They fly them all over the world,
sleep with them, suck them, and then get them to
take out loans and promise to pay them back when
money comes through. This type of scam is not unusual.

(23:20):
He will end up owning a fortune. Owing a fortune,
I think I think it's interesting owing and owning such
close word with just one line between them is glean
the scammer. That's a good question. I don't think so.
I think it was fairly free with the other person's
mushrooms though twenty one away from nine one of his

(23:42):
Marcus Welcome and mushrooms and scams. It's the night Tonight
and the New Skydish. But yeah, look, if anyone, if
any if anyone can convincingly explo explain to Glean what's
going on with a scam, because it's got so many
layers to it. Good evening, Darren, it's Marcus Welcome, going

(24:06):
to Marcus.

Speaker 11 (24:08):
You know, just listening to this guy talking about this
person overseas that obviously all legit in his eyes, he's
really got to wake up, you know, he's got to.
You know, I'm just surprised how many New Zealanders and
how many people can get sucked into this sort of stuff.
You know, get back to the basics of meeting people

(24:31):
in our own country and getting out and meeting people.
You don't need to find love overseas all the time.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
Well, I guess for people that haven't found it and
they think Mareculus things happens to other people, it's their
turn for a miracle. It's all lined up.

Speaker 11 (24:46):
It's just a joke. It really is that it just
does not happen. You know, that's not what the world's about.
You've got to find love in your own country, with
your own people. You know, there's lots of okay opportunities overseas,
but go over and overseas and meet them, don't.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Well, he has got overseas. He's gone. He's gone over
to Melbourne, which is convinced that's the closest place that's
not in our country. I've just just.

Speaker 11 (25:17):
Wanted to hear that we're gullible enough to accept it.
You know, come on, guys, wake up.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Darren, thank you. Text from uberd Barley, what a show tonight.
Marriage scams are common over here on Facebook and experts
are the targets. The guy didn't listen to your question
to keep talking, needs to wake up. The tit for
tat payments will be used to lure him him lure
him and I don't understand the end person of meeting
over Christmas, but he should run a mile and double
check with his bank and refresh all passwords. Yes, well,

(25:48):
the connection in Melbourne is probably just a Melbourne branch
of the whole scam. I'll be surprised if that person
ends up being in Munich or where of it's going anyway,
mushrooms and scams. That's what we're on about tonight. Nineteen
works out for him. Marcus. Have to agree with Darren.

(26:12):
You may marry anyone from any country. Are married to
a Filipino Robbin for the last twenty five years, So
I disagree with Darren. Of course, in our country you
meet one of your own that could be a scam.
Ever enough, yes, I don't think Darren tall he himself
perps might have been scammed. I thought, yes, it's kind
of a f any judgmental grasp on it. Marcus. I

(26:33):
read a news article six months ago promising a people
for a good job. Promising people for a good job
in the Philippines. They targeted on poorer countries. They were
taken to a compound accommodation place and passport, taken and
trained how to do dating scams. They couldn't get out
until someone jumped to barbed wire woolf fence. The scammering

(26:54):
only took on good looking people and their photos fooled
many victims. I've got mushrooms on my boom in the hut.
You reckon the edible, I'd never say that on if
you don't know what's edable, and you don't just go
and eat them, you don't ask the talk bag host.
You go every confident with mushrooms to eat them. Yeah,

(27:16):
so and this here that Yeah, I wouldn't. I'm not
gonna Yeah, no, I'd be very careful about that because
the amazing thing about mushrooms, I'm not quite sure why
it is, well the amazing thing about fungi, but they
seem to be remarkably efficient at wrecking people's organs if
you get the wrong ones, like, it's not good at all.

(27:38):
So yeah, I'm even loath to discuss it sometimes, but
people love mushrooms, but yeah, I'm not going to go
encourage people to go eat ones randomly. Of course, in France,
where they love the foraging, like in the Asterix books,
there are always out foraging and France you take your
mushrooms to the chemist and one of the services they

(28:02):
provide is whether they're good enough to eat. They will
tell you, which is a brilliant thing. Oh, this is
interesting from John high Marcus that caller is caught up
in a sting, the worst type of scam. The success
of the plan can be measured by the constant denials

(28:24):
by the victim. Yeah, they've got an easy mark with
him because the fact that people have told him that
it wasn't true. Yeah, you don't really know what to
say to him actually, because the no one can get

(28:45):
through to him. But maybe there is some service that could.
I don't know who that is. I wonder what his
bank has said about that high gold discussion. Just had
to pop out and radio on in car. So sad
with scams. We're working in a bank way back in
two thousandth a person transferred forty five dollars, so certainly

(29:07):
wasn't a scam. Oh yes, I did it before and
got no reply, but just thought I would try again
as they've won money and yes agreeing. Oh yeah, Marcus
was a man a few years back caught up with
a similar thing. He's in jail of as he's with
drug scams. Mcjaggue is engaged to be married again. Has

(29:29):
he beaten Elizabeth Taylor's ja Jaga ball yet? At midnight
for a known women and Katy Perry are flying to
out of space on Blue Horizon the day after the
anniversary of the Titanic. I don't think they are I
don't think they are on women unknown women. I think
one of them is that talk show host in America,
Oprah's best mate, Gail. I think she's one of them.

(29:51):
One of them is Jeff Bezos's wife, the helicopter pilot,
So I think, yeah, I think you can disparage them
as been unknown woman, but I know I think they
are certainly people with profile Gails. Yeah, anyway, that's the
situation with that. But thanks for the text. I've just
googled many of stories exactly what Glenn is in the

(30:12):
middle of. It's all there to be seen online, sending mornings.
Just google Facebook scam inheritance and they even meet her. Okay,
if someone could do that for me, because yeah, I'm
pretty fascinated by that. But yeah, I don't know. I
didn't know when overseas and met them and proceeded with intimacy.

(30:41):
So yeah, the sole beneficiary scam, that's not quite the one,
is it. But it's all to do with the will
because you wouldn't I mean, it wouldn't be legally binding
a will. I suppose it could be seven David Marcus,

(31:02):
welcome you again, make you say welcome.

Speaker 5 (31:10):
Yeah, this is a better lass roots. Yeah, I know,
we'll hang on a milstime. I did an agrifold Jacob
rest years yes, and I was pointed down, well, I
come from there anyway better.

Speaker 6 (31:32):
And on the.

Speaker 5 (31:37):
BP service station off the corner where it's across the
road to mine hold gods.

Speaker 15 (31:42):
Ye, well and they got one yeah and not a
problem and point and anyway, you know, to get that
fight that you.

Speaker 5 (31:55):
Oh, you know, you put me on between your external
doors and your windows and then they put your accrepades over, yes,
soot four o'clock in the morning. And when I over
there with the can of it and being around the
safety righty little blogs get look right, plushrooms and had

(32:19):
like Chasin who had a unit over the road anyway,
he saw people stopping jumping over the feet and then
just ship. When I was pissed off because I was
working on convins, I was pissed off because of nipper

(32:41):
based fucking mountain s. I scooped a bit of bloody
flowing it. But then I realized I want to come
back from work. There was something there, so there must
have been quite a few people over so I just
chuffed about it.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
It's good, it's a good prayer. I like it, David,
thank you. I like the fate that you're response about
the mountain saying too, that's something not to hear from you.
About Skins, someone said Glenn's banker will tell him everything
if he asked them. It will be a team of scammers.
It's common happens all the time. Father says his daughter

(33:21):
must marry an older man because she's not good with money.
Jenny marsh, the star of Upstairs Downstairs, has died aged ninety.
I don't know so much about Upstairs Downstairs. It always
seem to be in black and white and fairly kind
of depressing. That might have just been the child's view
of the show. So that's a situation there. Easter Sunday

(33:45):
there's more talk on what's open and what's not open.
Come east to Sunday. That's always a bit of a yawn,
isn't it, with surchargers and the likes and garden centers
going and insisting on being open and things like that.
And yes, there is a lot of talk today about
the implications of dropping the second practical driving test. It's

(34:10):
been a long time since I've done a driving test.
I've got no opinion or knowledge about that for a
kind of and click on the damn thing, but get
in touch to my name is market's welcome twenty past
nine As I say, oh eight hundred and eighty today,
if they want to talk about scams or mushrooms or
driver's licenses or actually I take calls on anything this
time tonight, what's the way and bring up that article,

(34:33):
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine
to text short week, this week's short week next week
and in the middle of school holidays. Situation with the
license is Thus proposed changes to driver licensing should include
a minimum requirement for practice hours. The AA says the

(34:58):
government wants to remove the second practical driving test and
to reduce the number of eye tests required during the
licensing protest Transportments of bishopsy the change room included a
complete alcohol band for learners and restricted drivers of any age.
The number of demerit points to suspend the license would
be halved. AA Road Safety spokesperson said practical tests could work,

(35:24):
but many all said requirements for training and driving practice
not just about passing a test, next about clocking up time,
getting expense. I'm to remove from doing the license. It
was too long ago for me to have any say
on that. If you're someone I don't know how long
it would mean. It's not it's not a million years ago,
but certainly it's last century. That's at least twenty seven
years or twenty five years ago. It had another three

(35:46):
or four years to that, so it's all changed since then.
Peak mushrooms sees. You got a good mushroom story also
to how to foster and encourage the growth of mushrooms
on your land, what you do for that, what sort
of stocks needed wanted not good? I did gather that
about super phosphate wrexams. You got something to say about
that also too, Nevill Marcus welcome.

Speaker 7 (36:05):
You agree, Marcus listen. I live down here, just halfway
between Homby and Rollston, but down here on Waterloo Road.
In nineteen sixty there was an outfit down there, like
a factory type seeing that hired about thirty thirty odd people,

(36:25):
a lot of them women, and they used to grow mushrooms.
And I'm pretty sure they sent them all around New Zealand,
but exported a lot of them to Australia.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
I think in Canterbury. Mushroom farming as it has been
quite a good I mean, there was that member of
parliament the medal is money for mushrooms Burden was it
Philip Burden? Is that the guy?

Speaker 7 (36:46):
I'm not sure. I wouldn't know the name. Even if
you said I didn't know, I didn't get involved in
it at all.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
But no, no, no, I'm just saying that he was
a big kind of a big christ gidch identity for
a mushroom grower.

Speaker 7 (36:57):
Okay, yeah, yeah, it's yeah. There was a good, good
business like it was all year round.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Well, just big big dark sheds, was it, big dark
hedge sheds.

Speaker 7 (37:11):
Yeah, yeah, it was yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
There was a lot of high and horsemen and evil,
a lot of hay and horsemen. You're I think is
what they need?

Speaker 7 (37:24):
Oh okay, right here.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
You don't get them at your place.

Speaker 7 (37:29):
No, we've got toadstools here and pop it up everywhere
at the moment. They've only come up in the last
or three or four days.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
I see a lot of toadstools. Often when the council
kind of get wood chip from their places and relocate
that often there seems to be mushroom or toadstool spores
and that woodchip.

Speaker 7 (37:47):
Oh okay, I have never had any of that, but
the mainly outside the gate on the verge there. There's
quite a wide verge of law on each side of
the road yep, Burkett's Road, and yeah they're growing there,
but they're quite pretty dilimant things. But you can't do
anything with it.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
You don't go anywherey of those I forget because there's
always rules with mushrooms. I never forget what they are.
Never eat the white ones or only it's all about
the undergills. But I can never remember what the rules are.

Speaker 7 (38:18):
Yeah right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's going to
talk about diver's license.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Yeh guffy go.

Speaker 7 (38:25):
You ever got time of course? Ye okay, yeah.

Speaker 10 (38:29):
Well I.

Speaker 7 (38:32):
Got my driver's license when I was fourteen years of
age in Timorary and you had to be fifteen before
you could get your license. That I got it when
I was fourteen because the Zingaree Football club we were
all about fifteen years of age and there was six

(38:52):
eight of us that wanted their driver's license preferably before Christmas,
and my birthdays was on the sixth to January. Of course,
everything was all shut down for the Christmas holidays and
all the rest of it. And I inquired at the

(39:13):
council office for you and they said no, but they
said if you come down to Fraser Park and Timorary
on such and such a morning, about ten o'clock, they
would put you through for your driver license down there.
So I did that and sure enough I got my

(39:35):
driver's license. They wrote it out there on the spot.

Speaker 12 (39:40):
Yeah, and that was that.

Speaker 7 (39:42):
So yeah, I wouldn't allowed to drive a car until
the sixty January. But I still got my license and
not only that, I got it renewed only six months
ago up here in christ Is because I just turned eighty.
I was born in ninety forty five sixty January and

(40:05):
of course the six really just gone by. I turned
eighty and when you turn eighty you have to reset
your license. So I went in to Rolliston and to
the council office you and reseat my license in there,
and they said when I rang up to make the appointment,

(40:26):
they said it was going to take an hour and
a half and I would have to go to the
doctor and get a doctor's certificate first to say that
I was had all me you know, I had a
brain and all the rest of it. So yeah, but
I went in there and they couldn't find anything wrong
with me. And I've got my driver's license, so I
have to get it done every two years from there on.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
See you've had since nineteen fifty nine, right.

Speaker 7 (40:53):
Nineteen fifty nine. Yeah, no, no, I got it in
nineteen Yeah, nineteen fifty nine. It was yes, yes, yes, yes, brilliant.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
Nice to hear from your evil scams mushrooms licenses, bang
bang s, m L scams, mushrooms licenses, throwing them out
tonight looking forward to your own pot. Yeay, but particularly
if you got the can crack the scam, because there's
no knowing for this guy. Man, he's getting smug with

(41:22):
it with his texts. Sean Marcus welcome.

Speaker 12 (41:26):
Yes, never eat mushrooms growing under a tree. And do
you never eat mushrooms that a white gilled and if
you possibly can get them out in the open paddocks
and then you're safe.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
Okay.

Speaker 12 (41:47):
And I tell you a funny story about mushrooms. We
once had to go at the local police station because
they're their cromat in the front of the main door.
Actually grew toadstools one day, really to them growing magic mushrooms.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Yeah, Okay, that's funny, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (42:13):
It may be made for quite a giggle at the time.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
Do you go and gather them much seorn.

Speaker 12 (42:20):
When it can? If they if they don't, I haven't
seen any quantity of mushrooms round for quite a number
of years. But the conditions this year just might come
right for them to grow, which would be good if
it can.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
But we used to get we used to get them
off and just on all the reserves, and I don't
think that they're anymore. And I don't know why that is,
if the councilor using something else, or at sprays, or
they just don't seem as prevalent as they once were.

Speaker 12 (42:47):
I think Certilizer's got a lot to do with thing off.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
Yeah, I think I'm sure you're right.

Speaker 12 (42:54):
Yeah, But if you can find a field of mushrooms,
good luck. Once once upon a time, when I was
living in Whitford, the kids were selling them at a
little roadside store, and anyway, some towneys came out. They
helped the fence and started helping themselves. And they've got

(43:16):
to rebit shitty with him, because from my point of view,
what they were doing was stealing the kids putting money.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
How they handled that?

Speaker 12 (43:26):
They left? Yeah, well they handled it. They shid, did it? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (43:30):
To give them a wind up mine. It wasn't your land,
was it?

Speaker 12 (43:34):
It was my friend?

Speaker 11 (43:36):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (43:36):
Okay, fair enough, good on you, Sean, thank you. Twenty
seven away from ten Marcus till twelve scams, romance scams,
complicated romance scams. All mushrooms are edible markers, but some
are only edible once Marcus. Maybe Glenn should run up
past someone before he sinks any deeper. They have remanu
They know he's manipulative. Who I think what's happened is that? Yeah,

(44:11):
so many people have doubted him now that he's got
sort of defenses built up in the eighties used to
gather mushrooms and the cow and sheep paddocks. Young drivers
need a mutual attitude. Just tonight, driving on Mount Delbert
Road just involved a situation where the young drive a
high speed just missing five vehicles. He would have been
speeding at lest sixty five eighty k this it's crazy,

(44:34):
stops the red light. Just I caught up the driver.
He put his hood on and was with a young girl.
They looked like they're still in high school. They looked
at me and nodded, and I said, wine, you wanted
down a tod him, I'll call the cops on you.
Apologized and sped off free, unsafe, and I was feed
for my life as a road. He's regarding changing driver's
license system, well, yeah, maybe adopt that Australian system. Scams

(44:57):
and mushrooms, mushrooms and scams. Ten to ten Marcus. Twenty
years ago, my grandmother went into palliative care. The penetive
care nurse caring for my grandmother took off with my
grandfather after he had paid for multiple overseas trips for
her and her family. My grandfather paid for house extensions
so he could move in with her. After the house

(45:17):
extension was built, the nurse left my grandfather for a
house painter who painted the new house extension. Well, gosh,
she was adaptable. How are you people? What's happening? Ten
away from ten Marcus to twelve. Let's give my ease
arrest scams and Glenn scam. We don't know it's a scam,
but it's pretty damn certain to scam, because the whole
key of Glenn's scam is that. And he said this

(45:41):
the woman he's met on the internet and met in
real life, and she's pregnant, and her father's will it
says she must marry someone older who's good with money,
because she's not good with money. Now what father, Why
would father ever do that? That's the bit that the
whole thing falls apart for on me, because no one's

(46:04):
ever going to put that in a will. It's from
fairy tales. If perchance you would have all caveats on
your child's money, which I don't think you would have,
you would put financial advisors or financial services or lawyers
there as a ring fence for the money, or you

(46:28):
trickle it out. You wouldn't say she's just got to
marry someone smart with money. How would you enforce that?
It's the it's the most unlegal fascal thing I've ever heard. Anyways,
meet us here at Christmas. She's pregnant. He's seen her

(46:49):
in Melben. She's pregnant, and they're going to live in Germany.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
And he names Tarmika. And it does sound like a
fairy tale, but it sounds like an extremely complicated skill.
She sent him five thousand dollars sent her what he
said is ten thousand but imagine you could prepple that

(47:16):
and scam. It's to be like how much do you drink?
But that's a situation I don't know how it ends,
so I'm curious to enough if you've been involved with
a scam like that. That's why I keep asking. I
think if someone probably could ring up with something very
very similar, it might be powerful for Glenn to hear.
We might save him if I'm getting involved in something.

(47:38):
It sounds as sketchy as all get out. McDonald's and
Autara are testing new chicken wings. McDonald's going to do
chicken wings. They've started doing them in some limited Australian
supermarkets and now it's happening in New Zealand. I can
tell you that to say they're delicious, So they're very

(48:01):
much getting involved with the KFC kind of stuff. McDonald's
is trialing its new mcwings product, but only in a
small number of stores. Orkan food content creator Jasmine Kim
said she found the wings snacks on a secret menu

(48:22):
at McDonalds and the organserv Autara. She said they had
a slight spice triok with juicy inside of crispy coating.
Do you remember the crispy coting burgers. It used to
be available at Meccas. I'd say it to similar coating.
It's kind of like Meccas and their take on Wicked wings.
Another person thought that mcwings were in April Fool's joke,

(48:43):
but was pleased by joke, but was pleased by how
the wings tasted. The three piece chicken wing stack was
tested in Australia last month, and customers raided out the thick, juicy,
super savory and peppery food. One Australian food content gratit
said customers should run for this in menu item at

(49:04):
rest west Ride Mechas. McDonald's He's un spokesperson Simon Kenny
told The Hell the chain was currently trialing mcwings and
a small number of stores. We're always looking for new
menu items and mcwings has been a hit around the world.
The trial helps us test the operational side of things
and get some customer feedback. Can you say the response

(49:28):
so far, I've been really positive. We don't know how
any further details about plans to share at this stage,
so it seems like they're not testing for the food
quality that's already established. They're just testing to see how
to cook them so then they can teach other restaurants
around the country. Probably big at the McDonald's franchisey conference
of a class and how to cook chicken wings. Can't

(49:50):
imagine it's that complicated. You just fry them, I think
in deep fat. Russell, Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 14 (49:59):
Marcus. How are you doing good?

Speaker 3 (50:00):
Thanks Russell? What's happening.

Speaker 14 (50:03):
I'm just an old lady, seven year old, but well,
come from in Chicago, born at in Chicago. I had
a lot of fun down at Riverton, Longwood, Hikia Klick
Bay and No Locks of Evan Gordon that was in

(50:24):
the South and rugby team and Moores Mill was a
big feature of my life down there. Moore's Mill, Rolly Moore,
what's the name Moore? And we had a tramline laid
down into the Longwoods. Oh yeah, and we held old
people there that Wilkinson's and we had a timber idea.

(50:49):
And I used to go on the train from Longwood,
run the round bridge into Riverton to get on to
the school bus to go to onto the train. I
mean to go into in Chicago to the Teach College.
When I was old enough to go there. Great terrors

(51:12):
and they had a box foot factory at Longwood, Yep
which made which made butter boxes, knife boxes, and I
used to have to go and clean up the sawdust.
And we had a dad was a cheese factory manager there,
and they used to get the old horse and Drey

(51:35):
to get the coal from the cold from up on
the rail yard, bring it down with an old horse
down to the back of it into the coal yard,
and I had to steam up steam up the engines
for making the cheese.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
Are you still are you still? Are you still in
that part of the world, Russell?

Speaker 14 (51:59):
No, I'm in bell Kluther now. But consious old memories
from down there is just.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
You should come through with one of romance nostalgia shows
one night, because that sounds like it could be fascinating.
But good to hear from your Russell. Jan Marcus welcome, Oh.

Speaker 6 (52:17):
Good evening Marcus. Talking about talking about mushrooms. Ye, well,
my dad built a batch in the nineteen forties at
Wahkee Wow.

Speaker 9 (52:29):
Well.

Speaker 6 (52:29):
As a child and teenager we used to walk. We
used to walk from Sandy Bay right through and closure
and then up over a steeple down into Palm Beach.

Speaker 11 (52:43):
Well.

Speaker 6 (52:44):
Also dad was a meter reader there for many years,
so he got to know and we got to know
nearly all the residents on the whole island. So it
was very good back in those days. But we don't
want to say is we were allowed excuse me, we
were allowed to click mushrooms from the farm that the

(53:06):
whole to Palm Beach, and Mum used to call them
horse h o is horse mushrooms and they were or no,
they were nearly the size of a dinner plate, would
you believe?

Speaker 3 (53:22):
Yet I don't quite know what they mean when they
say horse. It sounds to me like a horse mushroom
is just a it's just a bigger version of a
field mushroom, that's my understanding.

Speaker 6 (53:33):
Oh, very big, very big they were about and underside
was very nice brown yes, and and and creamy color
on the top, and we just stop and collect them
and don't love a true mushroom flavor.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
Yeah, And I look at from my experience Wi j
from my experience Wig, He's always had tremendous mushrooms, so
you know, yes, yeah, oh that's that's my take on it.

Speaker 11 (54:05):
Yes, yes, yes, but I don't quite know what the.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
Definition of a horse mushroomers. But see how I can
find out about that. Nice to hear from you, Jane,
Thank you. Twenty five to eleven Marcus have been collecting
beautiful mushrooms from my back lawn and my ex wife's
saw a lovely bunch in the local cemetery the other week.
I wasn't game to harvest seven. A week later, they
were still there, dying away. I guess everyone else has
the same apprehension by the way they seem to come

(54:31):
in a different place each year. Brent Fwang and Nui
Brilliant off to Melbourne Freeseter weekend to meet a girl
that I met once in Frily ten minutes overseas. Have
been talking online for the last five months. We'll see
how we go. Hopefully not a scam. Oh, good luck
with that jeapest creepers. Someone wants that people introduce themselves

(54:58):
to their location first to help form a mental picture
of their surrounds. I quite like that, but also think
people like the anonymity of talk back. They don't give
the way where you are. Someone says I thought they
were sacking the orange guy and the election ads. Yea,
I see that's back for local body. What's happening people?

(55:19):
Twenty four away from eleven scams, romance scams and catfishing
and mushrooms and how do you encourage I guess the
thing I want to know is how to encourage mushrooms
to your property? Or is it impossible? And only they
kick the spoor around? But when does that kick in anyway?

(55:41):
Get in touch Marco still midnight here ad twelve.

Speaker 12 (55:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
Yeah, when I say about everything about everything, I'm not
sometimes early milling nostalgia is a bit of a stretch
for me to remain interested in. But that I mean
it could be interesting to some people, but time and
place for that one.

Speaker 11 (56:01):
I think.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
That's my take on that. Yeah, we have a nostalgia
show talk about the early meals that would come and
go here we go at Moore's Mill.

Speaker 11 (56:14):
But not for me.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
But yes, I've got the one ten case speed limits
also and the changes to the licenses. It's going to
set one practical which makes infinite more sense to me.
Do a health start to a parallel park. It's about
all you need to do. Good to go, mind you

(56:41):
the health starts. I mean, now everyone's in manual cars.
It's only that you don't pull up the intersections too quickly.
I think I got pinged with my license on that one. JT.
Marcus evening.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Yes, I went to Wanaka today for the first time
in about ten years and drove over theland this.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
Oh, yes, what is lindislandis goes yeah, from yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
Yep, yep, McKenzie Country down to the upper copy that yep.
And yeah, man, the roads and the amount of traffic
and overseas tourists and canter vans. Oh my god. But

(57:36):
I saw a dead wallaby just out of fairly on
the way that Geraldine.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
As well, on the side of the road.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
Yeah, it had been hit by a car a couple
of hours earlier.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
Is that where they're driving JT? Is that where the
wallaby should be? Or is that beyond where it's supposed
to be.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
No, that was in the containment area. So so I
drive over to lindis and that was all right. But
going down into Otago there there was two cambavans in
front and like they were slowing down to sixty five
for every bend, and then on the straits they were

(58:15):
only doing about eighty five. And if that wasn't bad enough,
all of a sudden we come to almost a complete
halt for about three minutes. We're going along at about
eight kilometers an hour and what do you know, it's
a traction engine and he had his house on house
on the trailer on the back.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
Yep, yep, there a minus yep.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Oh god, it was a total disaster. Yeah. So that's
the first time I've been to Wanaka in ages and
there's no McDonald's there.

Speaker 5 (58:49):
No, But.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
It is really getting big and you know, the populations growing.
I can't believe that one lane bridge. How there's a
one lane bridge between Wanica and christ Church. That's just crazy.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
Is they got traffic lights on it as well? Or
it's a yeah, it's got yeah, familiar with that one.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
It's like it's falling apart. They've got all these plates
they're driving over. I just can't believe that it's got
to that point.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
I mean my observation JT with driving and I came
down from Dunedin today. I had been up there on
the peninsula but a lot of these people in higher cars.
I don't know what language, what country they come from,
because I try not to profile drivers, but you can

(59:43):
tell their higher cars because they've got the higher car
bedge on the back of them. But there seems to
be drivers that come to this country that seemed to
love using the foot brake, like at every corner of
the breaking. I can't work out why would you be
so heavy on the break.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
When you're driving down down health on the Lindas you've
got to get into the root. You go with the yeah,
you go off the floe And it's like they're not
used to driving the ones in camera vans are aren't
used to driving vehicles that are so tall. But maybe
they when they come into the country they need to

(01:00:25):
be told if it's a dead straight road to drive,
you have to drive with a hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
Yes, and just easy. I just say when they're cut
easy on the break, Yeah, it easy. Used to break
the whole time. A couple of times, a couple of
times every five minutes would be great. But I guess
that's probably the wrong thing. Some would take it badly.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
The roads are terrible and the amount of traffic. There's
a lot of full sized trucks that must go from
christ Church to Queenstown and back, and they're doing it
at night as well. Yeah, these huge trucks going on
that road between Geraldine and Fairly.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
Did you get down and back in the day. JT.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
Yep actually made a joke about my mate down there.
About four o'clock today, a bit of rain come and
it felt quite cold, and I said, mate, you're going
to need you change tomorrow, you know that window. And
then I get back home and you're saying it on
the weather.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
There'll be some webcam you look at it's any of
the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
I think, yeah, well, yeah, it's definitely. There's definitely a
chill on the window. And talking to him, yeah, the
Southern talking to him, you know, the guy talking to him.
Wanica said that they haven't had a frost yet this year,
and we haven't here an Ashburton either, but I wouldn't

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be supposed if they get one tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
We'll find out more. JT. Nice to talk to you.

Speaker 10 (01:01:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:01:48):
We're up in the hills in Portobello climbing headwaker and
the wind came in from the south and boy I
boarded a blow blew a guts blew us up the hill.
That was about midday. It was forecast and rained extremely heavily. Marcus,
I am a widow and sixty five. I will not
give out my phone number until I I have met
face to face trying to keep safe. Marcus. I was

(01:02:10):
interested to see the people protesting having to leave Green
Park on the news today. Call me old, call me cold, harder,
but it's leasehold. They got five years warning, they're only
meant to be there one and eighty three days a year.
I think they've not got a case for complaint. Collected
ten twenty liters buckets of mushrooms with a mate, sold
them on State Higway one at Monaco south of lun

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when I was ten years old. Made of killing. Yes,
what I'm saying, there's not those mushrooms anymore. There's not
the amount, But what's the horse mushroom compared to an
ordinary one. I've got my spirit back. Biggest mushroom I
found was as big as a dinner plate. Very nice.
By the way, Glenn started texting abusively since we've said

(01:02:52):
that he might be getting scammed, which probably reeks of denial.
So there we go. Get in touch head or twelve
anything but not old old mills. I mean, I love lovely,
but because it's hard to for me not be able

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to visualize things when I close my eyes, it becomes
becomes a bit of an ordeal to listen to just
just saying.

Speaker 9 (01:03:22):
Yeah, wow.

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
Anyway, Yep, I was prasy. I knew where the I
knew when the rain coming. I had the tent trouble
with the tent. It's very hard to take a tent
down when it's wet because you gotta dry the damn thing.
And I'm not quite I managed to get it down
and fold it up. It's quite a heavy damn canvas thing.
But what I reckon about a tent? Right? If you're

(01:03:53):
you know those heads done a flesh and liquid laundromat?
Could you dry a tent? Would there be a and
I imagine the tent probably weighs twenty kilograms? Could you
check that in one of those pop up laundries the
flesh and liquid lord becauld you dry your tent in that?
Would it damage your teend to want it damage? The
spin dry off? And wonder about that? Because the trouble

(01:04:14):
with a tent, if it's not summer, it's a hell
of it's a bug everything to dry. I think I
sussed it out though, because I've got it down before
the rain came. You love a tent until you don't,
don't you think? Cheapest creepers? Lance Marcus welcome high lance.

Speaker 16 (01:04:35):
Hey Marcus, I don't know much about mushrooms, but I
do know that I'm a fun guy.

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
Yeah, very good. Yeah, is that it?

Speaker 14 (01:04:46):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:04:47):
I actually run up to talk to you about the licenses, mate.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
Yeah, how old are you? Because are you in that system?

Speaker 16 (01:04:55):
Well, I'm forty one now. I've been driving a long time.
But I've got a couple of boys that are sitting
in their license at the moment, and I think that
the license sort of thing should be changed, so it
should be like with motorbikes. I don't think that young

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kids these days should be able to go jump in
a high horse power car and go straight out and
be able to drive something like that. It should be rated,
you know, just say same with the motorbike. You know,
you can't just go jump on a two fifty cc bike.
You've got to work your way up.

Speaker 9 (01:05:36):
You know.

Speaker 16 (01:05:36):
Yes, there's so many young guys out there these days
that jump in high horse power cars and they just
don't know how to drive. E race cars for a living.
And my boys have grown up around race cars and
all the rest of it, so they know how to drive.
But I'd still never give them a high horse power

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car to drive on the road or anything like that.
You know, you'll still give them a little Tweyota Corolla
or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
And I think that there should be although hang on
with the small cars like that to the safety ratings
might be they might be a less safe car, so
the parents are trying to steer them away from that.
Is that right?

Speaker 13 (01:06:15):
Well, yeah, there was that side of it.

Speaker 10 (01:06:17):
Two.

Speaker 16 (01:06:17):
Yes, I agree. You know, you want your kids to
be in a safe car, but at the same time,
you don't want them in it. Like I'm not going
to go give my my sixteen year old a v
A Commodore or something like that. You know me, yep,
I'd let them drive it on the racetrack, but I
wouldn't let them drive it on the road with his

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mates or whatever, you know.

Speaker 13 (01:06:42):
And I feel like.

Speaker 16 (01:06:46):
There should be some sort of I guess ranking systems
so you work your way up, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
But it's also got it's also got to be easily
enforceable and not too much fairing around, because I understand
when the kids these days, you've got to do two licenses,
but people just stay on there restricted because they can't
be bothered and they get turned down too often. Like,
did your guys, did your kids get turned back.

Speaker 16 (01:07:11):
My son's they passed your licenses first time and he's
got as restricted now. But it's going driving course.

Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
It's going from restricted to full license that they seem
to get turned back on.

Speaker 16 (01:07:28):
Yeah, well he he has to sit as full license
if he wants to continue racing cars, because we do
a lot of dirt track racing and circuit racing and
stuff like that, so he has to go through that process.
But it can get sped up at the same time
by doing a defensive driving course and a s good
course and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
You know, what what cars do? You mainly race?

Speaker 16 (01:07:54):
Race all sorts of stuff, mate, GT three Porsches, GT
four Mercedes, dirt track cars are drag racing.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
But is it your? Is it your? Is it your job?

Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:08:08):
That's that's what I do for a living mate, That's
that's what I do on a race car mechanic and
e race car driver.

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
Oh, mechanic yeah yeah and driver yeah okay.

Speaker 16 (01:08:18):
So I do a lot of work for a lot
of people and at the same time I race a
lot of cars as well, and I've got full sponsorship
and all the rest of it, and we do a
lot of different things, and I've raced all sorts of
different cars.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
Yeah, okay, I just trying to work out what the
what the driving deaths per age group in New Zealand are. Well,
I don't know if it's the young people that are
having all the all the crashes. Is that you're understanding, Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:08:51):
Well, it seems to be that there's a lot of
young guys these days that I see around and they're
driving around in you know, twin turbo skylines and stuff
like that, and they're only seventeen years old or whatever,
and it's too much car for them to handle because
they haven't been taught how to drive properly. They think
they can drive, but when they get themselves into a

(01:09:12):
certain situation when they're going too fast, they don't know
what to do. And it's it's a very real situation
of the case of we're giving kids the opportunity to
drive these cars and they're not being taught sufficiently enough

(01:09:36):
how to control them in certain situations, you know. And
that's why I think it should be the same as motorbikes,
whereas they have to work their way up, you know,
like you can't just get your license and go jump
in a race car and think that you know everything,
because you don't. It takes a long time to learn,

(01:09:56):
and it's a lot of practice and all the rest
of it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
You know, how many what percentage you reckon of car
crashes would involve young drivers?

Speaker 16 (01:10:05):
Ohe, I don't know what percentage would be, but I'd
say it it would be up in the forties or fifties.

Speaker 3 (01:10:16):
Because according to what I can see, young drivers is
a percentage of all drivers of all crash involved drivers
for between fifteen to nineteen percent, it's seven percent, between
fifteen and nineteen seven percent, and between twenty and twenty
four it's ten percent. So when you look at the
stats that, yeah, I sometimes that young drivers get a

(01:10:39):
bad rep. But actually when you look at the figures,
it seems as though with all this licensing system, the
younger drives have become much much better. Six away from
eleven and angry, it's Marcus. Welcome, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 13 (01:10:56):
I just want to hear story about licenses, if I
could please my my sunny seven he went for his license.
I think he was sixteen at the time.

Speaker 5 (01:11:12):
Anyway, he went through.

Speaker 13 (01:11:15):
On a trucker, so he's he's always been around the driving.
But he did his test and he failed on the
first run and he was quite disappointed with it. With
it was with it on the way home and.

Speaker 4 (01:11:34):
As our sister, oh still you still have honey. Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:11:42):
Anyway, he was quite disappointed and I said him, I said, look,
you can go back for the second run. The guy
said you can go back in and then our of
the time.

Speaker 8 (01:11:51):
And he said no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 13 (01:11:53):
Anyway, we went home and he said later on, he says, Dad,
could you have a talk to him, to the to
the instructor. I said, yeah, well walk up tomorrow and
we'll have a have a chat with Anyway, we turned up.
We got there and when he saw when he saw

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me and my son, he the first thing he says
was hey, guys, come on in, and.

Speaker 5 (01:12:21):
He knew exactly why we were there.

Speaker 13 (01:12:24):
And as we went into his office, he says, look,
I want to show you something and he says, this
is my board of shame, my wall of shame. And
as we walked into the office, he closed the door
and he shared all the accidents that were that were
in his region. This is in the Masterton region, and

(01:12:47):
he had all the clips, clippings of accidents and deaths
and things like that, and he says, I just want
to make you know before we talk that all these
people here on this wall were the people that I
issued licenses to. Wow, this is I'm not proud of that.

(01:13:10):
So I know why you're here. And you know that
just took the wind own of the sales for men.
And I wasn't going in the hard as bath, so
I was just my son asked me to talk to
the man and I was doing the barberly things and
he shared it with my son.

Speaker 5 (01:13:29):
He shared the story.

Speaker 13 (01:13:30):
He went right into detail and he says, look, I
know you feel bad, but I have to be certain
that you can handle the machine that you that you
got in your hands. And as you can see, this
is my wall of shame.

Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
Very powerful. Only I'm off for yous, but nice to
hear from you. Thank you so much for that call.
I don't necessarily think that we have a major problem
with young people driving. I think the problem is, I
know it is a lot of people driving on they're
restricted because I don't go for the second go around

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to get the full license because I think there was
long delays, fraud or something like that. But yeah, I
don't see every problem with a new proposal. It seems
quite good. You just sit, you're practical once and as
long as you have a clean record for a number
of months, you don't drive with alcohol, and the demerits

(01:14:32):
are harved, you're good to go after you've driven for
that long. So that's something we've talked about. Also, romance
scams with Glenn's situation, which seemed to be a very
complicated scam, but the whole gist of the scam was
that he's met a woman on the internet who is

(01:14:57):
now pregnant allegedly to him, and she's extremely wealthy or
she's about to hear a huge amount of money from
her father, but the caveat on the will is that
she's not good with money. Therefore she has to marry
someone older than her who's got experience with finance. It

(01:15:22):
just sounds fascical. So yeah, if you know anyone that's
been targeted in romance scams like that, maybe if we
could hear how they work, then he might hear some sense.
It just seems a very very complicated. It seems like
a very re complicated scam to imagine, probably with a

(01:15:45):
scam with that much thought on it. They need to
clean this guy out. That's happening also tonight too. We've
also talked about mushrooms and it's mushroom season and your
story about bountiful mushrooms which seemed to be disappearing. That's
kind of the just I get the people aren't getting

(01:16:07):
a huge amounts like they want, and I presume to
do with sprays or I don't know why, but super
foster by something like that. Hi, Marcus White, does Winston
have anything to do with sex education schools? He's an
eighty year old with no responsiblity for education portfolios. Mushrooms

(01:16:29):
have a life cycle. Spores are like seeds, and what
you scatter they grow long, thin thread like underground high fine.
Once a year fruit and that is the mushroom which
has spores that it's skilled to possibly a year from
spreading spores to fruiting his mushrooms. Good on you, thank you.

(01:16:49):
Who is this fun guy joker saying he makes a
living racing cars? I wasn't quite sure about that, Marcus.
If you're driving them on and car, you need to
turn off all the safety rubbish every time you start it.
The sensors get confused. In the computer pushes the breaks
also annoying as the orange light in the mirror. I
don't think you can turn that off. Ormaka airshow canceled

(01:17:15):
four days out due to weather. Thanks for that. Yes, Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Someone said, are driving
instruck this morning? Quote for twenty twenty three there were
eighty six deaths on your own road, and seventy eight

(01:17:35):
were caused by young drivers. I think in any year
there's a lot more than eighty six deaths on the road.
So yeah, I think probably there is some misquote of stats,
but or you might have mis heard that. But send
me where you heard that. And hurdle twelve three hundred

(01:18:02):
and forty one road deaths in twenty twenty three. I
don't know the breakdown of age, but there seems to
be plenty of graphs available to see the number of
and it seems though that young driving has progressively got better.

(01:18:27):
Get in touch, Stephen Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:18:30):
Yeah, you're talking about mushrooms. Yes, I got them for breath,
I got them for breakfast tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
Great.

Speaker 10 (01:18:39):
It's been a patch a year this year. There was
late late March before they started. I think it because
it was so dry. We've had no rains since the
middle of November, so you know, although the humidity was high,
we've not really had much to bring them on. What

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I'm going to do with my onest I got six
very large ones off. My name with lawn is I'm
going to mix them in. I've got some vegs left
over from tea. I'll sweat them down with a bit
of bacon at the vegs and I'll make a white sauce. Yeah,

(01:19:25):
put them on toast. Yeah, I'll make a meal.

Speaker 7 (01:19:28):
Make a meal out of them.

Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
Where you have where are you harvesting them?

Speaker 10 (01:19:37):
I've got well here in teams and they're all over
the place. But I got a neighbor in the corner
who he doesn't like him, so I know he's loan
for him. And I helped myself to whatever grows on
the lawn.

Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
Okay, And how do you how do you encourage them
to come up the next year?

Speaker 10 (01:20:00):
I have no idea. They just they just come different places.
You've just got to keep your eye on them. I
found one area almost down on the coast where there's
a particular I think it's what they call a shataski
marshroom little brown one, and they taste just like oysters. Yes,

(01:20:25):
they're not like They're not like the standard Portabella. These
are small, smaller one, and they taste just like oysters. Oh,
I keep them separate. And I have got a horse
mushroom that I froze from last year. It'll feed six.

Speaker 7 (01:20:42):
It's a huge thing.

Speaker 10 (01:20:43):
It's been all sweated down in any's own juice or
already to cook. But I've got to get a I've
got to get a crowd around it. I just couldn't
need it all on my own.

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
How big would be Steve.

Speaker 10 (01:21:00):
So of the dinner plate.

Speaker 3 (01:21:01):
Okay, it is a horse. There's a horse mushroom, just
a giant version of a porter be a different brand.

Speaker 10 (01:21:08):
Yeah, I think it's a different thing altogether. Attack when
I saw it, I thought it was just a rolled
up ball of rubbish of the paper of something, you know,
And I thought it wasn't so I got close to it.
Oh no, you can come home with me. You used
to be able to get years and years ago, but

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they're year mushrooms are sort of just's. You get good
years and you get bad years. You know, there's hardly
anything but yeah, I always seemed to get one or two.
This year has been very poor. I think I've had
five breakfasts in a row. That's it. Where we're looking

(01:21:54):
at having a very wet easter and probably after that
we might just get a little flash, but it's still
quite warm.

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
I also write Steve, where I've been, Stephen, the blackberries
have been very poor, and I imagine that's because it's
not enough rain.

Speaker 10 (01:22:11):
Also, no BlackBerry this year, yea, no, not not enough
of the pick yet. It's just a poor that, I say,
be in the middle of no the endlessns. We had
decent range. You rain have Christmas to bring them on.

Speaker 3 (01:22:22):
Same down south as well. It's been very dry down
Southland and it's weir this week. It well, yeah, but
it's been incredibly dry. But you're know blackberries at all?

Speaker 10 (01:22:32):
No, not nothing at all.

Speaker 13 (01:22:33):
No.

Speaker 10 (01:22:34):
I did get a nice birthday presence and in the
March I had a birthday and a friend of mine
that lives up on the Crime Ice give me a
piece of smoke.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
Wallaby, Oh great Wallaby is.

Speaker 10 (01:22:52):
Getting away on the peninsula and he smoked one and
it was nice.

Speaker 3 (01:22:58):
How far are the Plinchler are they? Stephen?

Speaker 10 (01:23:02):
Well, as far as we know, they've got as far
as the crime ise at top of the top, Okay, behind.

Speaker 3 (01:23:08):
They're not they're not. They're not on the povincial then
are they not?

Speaker 4 (01:23:12):
As it?

Speaker 10 (01:23:13):
As far as I know, I haven't heard. I haven't
heard from any of the hunters. They're still still going
for the wild pigs goats, but no, none of them
that I know of, fifteen one yet. But they're all
all the way down the east coast and are going.
We are not a power of any a tour and

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eat reckon the one wandered into his studio, didn't. They're
quite thickly down there.

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
God, Stephen, nice to hear from your eighteen past all right,
eighteen past eleven? What's happening? Mircu Spacebrick said, for a
long time, I've been mccrime mushrooms on toast on the
Blue Bridge?

Speaker 9 (01:23:55):
Fury?

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
Didn't they have mushrooms on the Blue Bridge?

Speaker 12 (01:24:04):
Fury.

Speaker 1 (01:24:05):
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