They all vote neigh (21 October 2024)

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be welcome with ey. My name is Marcus, seven
past eight. I hope it's good with you. Are just
on the baseball. Hey, if he always watching the baseball,
I'm pretty sure it's people to watch baseball intently. But
it seems now and I don't know if you've picked
this up, because I saw one of the pictures he
had try They said he had problems with his pitch
Colm and I couldn't work out what it was about.

(00:32):
It's quite a subtle game to watch, but pitch coom
right in baseball is a new thing that speeds up
the game because normally the catcher communicates to the pitch
with what pitches he wants pitched, and it involves a
number of signs. It's like a sophomore. But there has

(00:53):
been trouble with people stealing the signs and telling the
batsman what pitch is coming. Famously with the Houston Astros
a number of years ago when they actually hit rubbish
bins to signal what pitch was coming. And I think
they lost their title because that anyway, long story short,
what happens now in the s of the games I've
been watching, if not all of them, I've just been

(01:14):
made aware of. This is what happens is that the
catcher has something on his wrist which is a computer,
and he pushes a button of what sort of picture
is like curveball bottom left, and he sends that and
as the picture walks back to the mound, he hears that. Amazing,

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So it stops cheating and it speeds the game up.
And baseball's become a very quick game because there's a
stop clock now on the pitching, and you're also limited
how many times you can attempt to steal base And
suddenly a game that went for three hours is an
now an hour and a half. It's become a much
better watch. And with a pitch it's called PitchCom And

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what also, because so many of the great baseball players
are now from Central and South America, you can even
send it in different languages. It will translate. You could
send it in Spanish, and if your pictures English, I
mean American speaks English, they'll receive that in the American
So fascinating, how much that go Fascinating how that baseball

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they realized the game was going off the tracks. It
had become too long and they shortened it, and the
audiences have been much much bigger and technology, they've got
the they've got the review cameras now where you can
go and review the review the pitches to see whether

(02:45):
it's a strike, could review the whether it was a
whether it was a base stealer, whether in fact the
batsmanth or the base keeper got the ball, and whether
the picture whether the runner got to base or not,
and you can actually then refer that to the third umpire.
And they are exist in a building in New York.
So what is fascinating is that baseball, which is probably

(03:06):
the most famous and most successful of commercial sports, they
know how to read the audience and if so many
people are staying away and not turning up for the game,
they can refresh it. And they've made the game much
much quicker. And yeah, PitchCom I never thought it would work,
but they tried it in the lower ranks and now
they use it and I think most matches that's my

(03:26):
understanding certainly at them. And by the way too, that
the the LA Dodgers will go to the final, which
is exciting because it's Tarani, the greatest batsman we've ever seen.
And next year he will pitch as well. And the
other thing. While I am talking baseball, and it's not
my job to talk baseball, But I watched a delightful

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show on Netflix last night. I forgetting what it's called.
It only takes half an hour, and it's a baseball
fan and oh gosh, I can't even think. I think
it's I don't even know what city it is. I
think it's in Pennsylvania, and I'll better check that. But
he's a guy, right, and he's a baseball supporter and

(04:11):
for the Phillies, and they've brought a new player for
three hundred million dollars, and he's having a really bad season.
So three hundred million dollars for a brand new player.
He's having a terrible season. He's terrible in the field.
He can't hit. He's on a dead he's on a
dead run. He hasn't hit the ball for matches and
matches and matches. He's dropped heaps of catches in the field.

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And this guy, there's one guy who's seeing a therapist
and knows what it's like to struggle, says, I know
what I'm going to do instead of booing this guy
every time he comes out. We're all going to stand
up when he arrives at base, arrives at the at
the pitching plate, and we're gonna stand up and give
him a standing ovation. And they managed to convince everyone

(04:55):
that goes to the matches in Philadelphia to do this.
And the guy comes out and everyone stands and applauds him,
and he gives him a lift, and the guy goes
on a tear and just hits home run after home
run after home run, and it's just like night and
day and it's a beautiful little show. It's for half
an hour. It's on Netflix. I'll find out what it's called.

(05:17):
And I just happen to find that The Turnaround it's called,
and it's wonderful and it just shows everything about sport,
but more importantly, it shows how one fan can make
a difference. Yeah, and I said, yeah, very very good.
The Turnaround really good. Loved it. The guy must have

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a YouTube channel. He's kind of like a super fan.
He's got a YouTube channel, decides to get everyone to
stand up and cheer the player rather than Bagham and
has a remarkable feat. It's kind of a metaphor for life.
I supposed trade Turners. The guy's named Fred a million dollars.
It's a it's a beautifully shot film. To go and
watch it if you get a chance. I think it's

(06:03):
just dropped like the last day or two, and then yeah,
it's three free moving and then the next year, which
is twenty twenty four, and they haven't done so well.
They get him onto the field to welcome the players
on and Trey Turning gives him a big hug. Yeah,
it's a lovely, lovely thing. Anyway, that's my baseball rent,
because the great thing about working nights is you get

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to watch a lot of mid well, the great thing
about working nights and when the weather is not good,
which has been most of the second half of the year,
you get to watch a lot of baseball. And now
I've got a dream final because we've got the La
Dodgers with a Tarani there on form betting gonna be
fantastic and Mookie Bets. I'm not quite sure who they'll

(06:46):
go up agains because I think the last match is
still decided, but anyway, that's still happening. So that is
baseball anyway. Get in touch. My name is Marcus hid sorry,
but there was a bit of a rent, but it
was good for you to get that off my chest,
all that sort of stuff about technology and sport and
when technology is used right and yeah, I never thought

(07:08):
baseball would do that where the where the keeper could
communicate with a picture electronically, but seems to work for
every Well, so that's baseball and yeah, and that movie. Anyway,
what are we going to talk about tonight? Well, all
manner of things. Oh, by the way, just why I
have got this inherited the sporting audience. Having been someone

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that in my youth had watched a lot of live football,
mainly at Newmarket Park, but then at mounts Smart during
the nineteen eighty two campaign to go to the World Cup.
I enjoy the discussion about football and Auckland. So if

(07:50):
anyone went to that match on the weekend, let me
know what it was like. Obviously Mount Smart's not going
to be the premise forever, but be curious to know
what you thought of the experience, because I mean sports
become kind of what life's about for a lot of people.
Isn't it to get your own franchise you can support?

(08:10):
That could work quite well for Auckland. I just be
curious to know how you were, how you thought it went,
did it seem genuine or did it seem a bit contrived?
But if you went along to that match in the weekend,
let me know what you thought of that too, Oh
eight hundred eighty Totty and nine two nine two ticks.
There's a lot to talk about and baseball if you
want to ment you think about baseball and technology. I

(08:32):
think there's great contrast you can make between baseball and
how they make the game better for the fans and
rugby where you could say that they probably haven't got
the fans first and foremost in mind when they change
the rules. Oh, eight hundred eighty Teddy and nine two
nine two ticks. Market Store midnight, Get your calls, get

(08:53):
your texts through, because it just dropped, like the last
day or two. That thing the turnaround? Has it?

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Dan fact checked me. So I had sometimes on a
Sunday night, you know, if any of the kids are gone,
a bit of a catch up on TV. However, I
looked through it of a deep dive to see the
things I haven't watched. So there we go. Anyway, get
in touch by name's Marcus, welcome, oh eight hundred eighty
ten eighty, And if you went to Aukland f see
what that experience was like. Also, anyone taking off work

(09:22):
to watch the final of the baseball because it could
be very, very exciting. Because he is Some said, well,
I think he's the greatest foot The greatest baseball player
has ever been Otani. He's only batting this year, but
he's a great picture as well. But if you went
to see the Aukland f C Fest as the Brisbane Raw,
let me know what you thought of that. Also, So

(09:42):
there we go, oh eight hundred eighty eighty nine to
nine two. There's a million other things to talk about tonight,
to talk back sky. Speaking of the sky, everyone's gone
quiet on the comet. The comet is a dud. These days,
with the computers and with the Internet and all that
sort of stuff, it's too easy to hype something. But
the comet was over hyped. It's been so long since

(10:04):
we've seen a good one, Like nineteen ten was the
last time we got a good one. Helly's ignored this one. Duds.
It's harp to get one in our lifetime anyway. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty Teddy and nine two nine two
de texts with it till twelve. Marcus Dodgers and Oani
Versus Yankees and Aaron Judge broadcasters dream that's from Sean. Yeah,

(10:28):
Aaron Judge, it's one of the absolute great bets. But
those form has been off a little bit in the postseason.
I think he's come back in the l I might
have come back to the last match to two, but
Ye're quite right anyway, eighteen past eight. Welcome here, t
Toll twelve o'clock. I'll keep you updated with news around
the world. Also, if you've got news that's updated or
updating breaking news for us, let us know. Nacho, it's Marcus.
Welcome and good evening.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
Hey Michaels, how you doing real good?

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Natcho? How's yourself all right?

Speaker 5 (10:54):
Not nachba, just.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
Join Tom with my daughter. And yeah, I heard that
you mentioned Oklan Nepsy and I went to the stadium
on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Wow, tell us tell us you thoughts.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Well, you know, I'm from Argentina. I've been living here
since twenty eighteen and since that moment I missed football
for US. Obviously a cultural phenomenon. You know, it's way
more than a sport here, it's only a sport, and
it's a sport for those who can't do rugby kind

(11:31):
of right, yes, so poor football is check on the side,
but it is, you know, after all, the most popular sport.
And I thought it was awesome. You made one thing
that it was very interesting you mentioned this, and that
is a very very good question to ask. It's definitely

(11:54):
not genuine in the way that I would define genuine.
But what genuine was the the enthusiasm from the people,
the joy from the people for having a team. I
think I'm maybe I'm just projecting, but I felt, you know,
I was talking to people from other places from I
remember I had someone from India on there, a couple,

(12:16):
and then next to me, I had some Kiwis from
not from Oakland. They just came from Northlam because they
loved football, and I just could see that finally it
was I would say, there was a desire for this,
you know, and it just happened. Let me just talk

(12:36):
together the business.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
This is great. Let me ask you a couple of questions.
With the many Argentinian supporters.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
There, there were many I saw T shirts. And now
it's confusing because with MESSI you know, but then I
know there were groups of Mexicans, groups of Chilians.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I tell you what if every time
I say sport, I'm an order of the Argentinian supporters,
whether rugby or mainly football, because the patient is so fair.
You can see their face lights up. Nice. Are they
any South America can players on the team.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
There's only three. There's a new Uruaiian Guyrmo May he's
a forward, and then there's two midfielders, a Chillian guy
and a Columbian guy, Reno. And I don't know, I think,
yeah they I think that they played the other two guys.
They played a Belgian guy in the midfield. He was

(13:29):
pretty good. That I had to say as well. The team,
what they brought together pretty good. You know, the combination
of experience and youth, and it's maybe I'm just riding
this high train marks I gotta.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
This is what was the experience of was the experience
of getting there?

Speaker 4 (13:51):
All right?

Speaker 2 (13:52):
You found you why you went by train or you drove?

Speaker 4 (13:55):
No, we drove that was that's funny. That's a funny thing.
We drove there and then we came in walking very easily.
Everyone was super helpful, nothing like you know Gentina, you know,
and Argentina. Ah, you know, if I take my daughter,
I also take a gun.

Speaker 6 (14:10):
You know.

Speaker 7 (14:11):
Yeah, just just a joke, just the job.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
But yeah, I went there and they were offers to park,
you know, and then I just transferred ten dollars to
someone for parking. That was funny.

Speaker 7 (14:27):
You know, they do that in Argentina as well.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
They just asked for money, but not a transfer. So
that was an experience, but it was easy to get.
The offer of food is all there. Of course it's
a bit deer for those who, you know, depending on
your income, but it's it's good. And I got to
tell you when I was getting there and I was
with my daughter. My daughter is only three years old,

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so I had the roar of the stadium from the
first goal. I missed that first goal and it was
I just got goose from solo. It would I was
found for a moment, you know, it was beautiful that.

Speaker 8 (15:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (15:05):
I think maybe the love for the team is not genuine.
Maybe the you know, there was a portion of stadiums
that was jumping and singing. Probably they are paid, you know,
because it goes very.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Much just a section a square you know, so probably
they are paid. But you know, besides all that, again,
I felt like the love for the sport, the love
for being able to leave that moment in Oakland, that
was very much genuine and I gotta tell you, I
loved it.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Okay, two full up questions not show to you. Will
you go beg every week? And if you go beg
every week, will you sit in the same place and
become part of a bit of a thing that's going
on there.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
That's a very good question. I go, I go. I
don't know if I will because I worked on the
weekends and I wake up and I actually woke up
Saturday at three am and Sunday I had to cup
again at four so it's a bit tricky, but I

(16:11):
could definitely do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I I was
hoping I could watch you know, professional football, the A League.
It's good. I've lived in Australia before as well, and
I you know, I've seen other matches before and yeah,
I mean it's good level of football. Also, the facilities
are really good here, so you know, there's a lot

(16:34):
of room for improvement, and there is also the resources
to improve. Unfortunately in a country like Argentina, there's like
a roof. You know, your talent can only go so
far because the circumstances around don't really accompany. But then
you know, in Argentina we have other things. Clubs in
Argentina are like civil associations, so you know, they are

(16:55):
like social clubs for real. There are members who vote
and decide what happens. So all those clubs are very
much ingrained in the lives of the people. So when
the people go to see the stadium, to see the
third team in the stadium, they not only go to
just watch football.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
I'm gonna live with the natche but thank you so
very much for that love you stay in touch with that.
That's great. That's a great report on that one. I'm
pleased you like Mount Smart. Not everyone likes where it
is or how to get there, but you get used
to it. Talking about technology and sport and the FC,
the Auckland FC, how they were at Mount Smart Stadium.
I think the idea was to get another stadium built somewhere.
But a fairly good sell out crowd over twenty thousand,

(17:38):
Well that's a lot for a football match in Auckland. Oh,
by the way, he's something that I did notice today
there was an ad on TV and they were saying
I couldn't quite work out what it was, but it's
talking about the end of flybys. There's a couple of
things interesting on I hardly ever watch TV, but there

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are two commercials that were of interest. When was the
end of flybys? Could someone tell me about that and
what you're going to do with all your flybys and
what you're going to buy with it, because there must
be a bit of money if they're actually advertising to
wine the whole thing up. So how does that work?
I thought there might be some bargain z for some
of you. I don't think you can consolidate your flybys,
They're not commutable, but if I'm cold, explained to me

(18:22):
how that works. I kind of sensed an end of
bonus bombs bonds vibe with that one. So the end
of flybys and the other thing I thought was kind
of interesting. In this time of the year, Animates the
Pet Shop have started a campaign to get rid of fireworks,

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and part of me thought, big call for a commercial
organization getting involved in trying to get something banned. And
the last person that was outspoken about fireworks was the
warehouse and they took the moral high brow and said

(19:04):
they're going to stop selling them. I just whether they're
regretting that considering their fiscal returns don't look that good.
It looks like it's touch and go whether the warehouse
is going to be around. So yeah, I suppose Animates
to be fair, they are a pet shop, so they
know their market. But I thought it was a strange
thing to get involved with. I went to their online petition.

(19:28):
They haven't and they have a huge number of signatures,
about two thousand. But I think you can get your
pets to sign it as well. They are taking poor prints, ah,
I don't know. I suppose that could be quite powerful
at Parliament, or the poor prints of dogs, so you

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might want to work that as well. Oh wa eighte
hundred and eighty year twenty nine two nine to text.
And if anyone could tell me what happened to Jed's
coffee bags, I'd be curious about that also because they
seem to have gone wandering. They've disappeared from the shelves.
It's funny when you get used to buying something they
disappear from the shelves. You never quite know why. On
what's going on there? Why did they put that one

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to bed? So if you know something about that too,
but all the lines are free, it'd be nice to
hit your head on midnight tonight. My name is Marcus. Welcome,
Oh Marcus. Not sure if you fish, but you have
any tips for fishing? Just driving home for another three hours.
And obviously I'm not going to ask about the comment
because I went back on the comment for about three

(20:31):
nights and just nothing cheapest creepers, So you can't get
talk back on a comment that doesn't exist. So you
are so excited Tuesday Wednesday, I thought this is going
to be the night talkback people looking at the comet,
and now the media has gone completely quiet on it.
And it's a bit like the Aurora. What I don't

(20:52):
like is people should put shots online, but the shots
are done with kind of magnifying telescopes for complicated cameras
and just running down to the beach without anything like that,
you just can't see anything. So sorry for anyone, I
apologize as if I sent you on a full errand
with that, Jane AT's Marcus. Greetings and welcome.

Speaker 10 (21:12):
Yes high Marcus. Just to let you know Australia, they
don't have fireworks, but they have public displays, so on
a special event they would put on a proper public
display where everyone goes to watch. So I think they
could do that in New Zealand. I think fireworks in

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amateur hands is that's when we give to trouble.

Speaker 11 (21:36):
Isn't it.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, although I'm also going to say that the number
of times I've been to organized events, right, yep, they're
not very good. Well, and I don't think I don't
know that fireworks are bent in Australia. I think that
varies from state to state.

Speaker 10 (21:55):
I think, yeah, well because of the bushfires.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Over there, no, some states you can have them.

Speaker 10 (22:03):
Well I don't know about.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
That, but yeahs making Tasmania Act. The Northern Territories you
can have fireworks right and you can have them in
the Northern Territory on July the first for Territory Day
without without without a permit. But yeah, as I say, look,
people think, I mean, I think eventually fireworks will disappear.
But I don't think any government wants to be seen

(22:26):
to be the kill Germ or the kill Jow and
destroy the party. But thank you Jane Pauline it's Marcus.
Good evening.

Speaker 11 (22:34):
Hello, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Hi, Pauline.

Speaker 11 (22:37):
Fireworks. Guy Fwks found in the bottom of the Parliament
buildings in England. So we celebrate his trial? Is that
what fireworks is about?

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Are you being cute?

Speaker 12 (22:51):
No?

Speaker 11 (22:51):
Because he was left the leader gang got away.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Hang on, Pauline, do you do you know what Guy
Fawkes is about?

Speaker 4 (23:04):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Are you thinking it? I mean we're not celebrating, we're
celebrating the guy. I mean it's of no relevance to
us whatsoever. Agreed, But I think they're not celebrating Guy
Fawkes himself. They're celebrating the fact that the gunpowder plot failed.

(23:26):
But you know you'd know that, wouldn't you.

Speaker 11 (23:29):
Well, can I say anything?

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Why not?

Speaker 11 (23:32):
When I was growing up many many, many years ago,
on Guy Fox, everyone created a guy and they put
her on a bonfire and they burned him.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (23:44):
And that's why I think Guy Fox is from England?
And why are we celebrating? It's the only thing I
can think of that we celebrate buying something with money
and then burning it. You know, now, what was the
other thing about it?

Speaker 2 (24:04):
It doesn't have to be compulsory, though paul does it.

Speaker 11 (24:08):
I like public. In fact, I want to thank Jane
for her cool.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Because okay, falling away from nine o'clock eight hundred and
eighty Teddy nineteen ninety two to text if you want
to come through, Yes, I think everyone knows what Guy
Fawkes is about. I mean, if we want to be
cute and saying, why would we celebrate this? Look at
you know, let's just assume there's an understanding about what
it's about. Good, because I think I do the same

(24:38):
explanation every year with people calling him guy Fox. What's
forks obviously, isn't it. I think people are liberally mispronounced that.
But anyway, Craig Marcus, welcome, good morning, How you do.
How are you doing after an evening? Real good? Thank you, Craig.

Speaker 7 (24:55):
Yeah, yeah, I'll come off night shift, I know.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Executive, and I pity you because there's nothing. Don't you
hate shift work? Anyway, Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 7 (25:03):
Yeah, yeah, I'm surprised your last call it in good
play about Halloween as well being and then the holiday
from another country as well.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
I'm thinking I'm thinking that the same these people that
are complaining about the same people that complain about when
we decide to commitment to celebrate Matariki because they said
that's not us as well. But I'm thinking, well, you
can't win. But anyway, what what country do they live in?
Then I don't don't, I don't know, great, I don't know.
But yeah, anyway, I was going to ring.

Speaker 7 (25:29):
Yeah, all I was going to mention at fireworks was
I just enjoyed Years ago we had the rockets and
all that, but then they got rid of the rockets
because they were too dangerous. But now they go these
things where they shot out flaming balls of fire. At
the end of it, it's like, well, you've got from
one dangerous thing to something even more dangerous. But yeah,
that's about all I really want to talk about fireworks.
But Harris baseball, guys, I mean, I've been watching it

(25:50):
for years. I've been to few games overseas was it,
and I just find it absolutely fascinating. But I do
agree to you sometimes it does drag on a little bit,
but we'll shift.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
They've got great pictures and there's no hits that becomes
quite But I like it when there's exciting running between
the bases and stolen bases and stuff. But you know,
I think they'd be real purists that just love a
great picture that pictures a perfect game.

Speaker 13 (26:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (26:13):
I like some of the pitchers, especially when you see
how they managed to curve the war around that and
you're like, you think it's going one way, next minute
shoots off in the different direction. It's like wow. But yeah,
I've always found it's quite interesting. Not so much a
fan of softball, but I've really gone into baseball over
the last probably ten so years. I've been watching it
quite often, and yeah, I have to watch that document. Interesting.

(26:34):
You're talking about the turnaround. I think it was you
producive I was saying, So that should be quite interesting
to watch.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
I think good on you, Craig Marcus. You were correct.
Public firework displays are just supporting, boring and just a
little bit flowery. Nothing like blowing the lawn up. Marcus.
Over the Australia and New South Wales, Craik at night
was Queen's birthday and winter was fun on a frosty night.
Then the cool joy in New South Wales government banded

(26:59):
like if you're living in a powder box and you're
giving giving off sparks, Yeah, I think probably it's it
would be an opportune to have Guy Fawkes in Australia
with the bushfires that they have and the amount of
dry matter that's ready that tend to dry anyway, if
you want to talk about that too. But the thing
I found was interesting was the animates themselves. A business

(27:22):
had got involved with it. I just wonder if that
makes good business sense. Looked slightly questionable to me, and
that might be something you want to mention. Also, Oh
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine nine text
Marcus Comet not a wild goose chase. You picked the

(27:43):
wrong nights. I went out four nights. Last night was
first clear sky, cloudless night sky was wonderful and got
to see the comet tail. It last great to see,
but not with naked eye looked through someone else's camera.
I haven't listened to talk back today. But has anyone
mentioned the tea word after a weekend of sport? They

(28:03):
normally do so, as anyone mentioned the tea word after
the yachting in the cricket and that tea word is
ticket taate parade? Is that something people want because normally
if there was a while there, there was a while
there In this country every time we want something that
we need a parade after nineteen ninety five where everyone

(28:27):
tuned up in Queen Street and then subsequently not so
many people. I don't know if you want a ticket
tap parade or not. I don't want a ticket tate parade,
but I know often when World Cup winners, whether it
be in rugby or yachting, have come home, people have
demanded that, and the victorious athletes have then had to
put themselves in sponsors gear on toyota uts and go

(28:48):
up and down the main streets of cities right around
the country. Is that something people duddo? Also with that
event opposite the gas station and Great South Road, several
people have texted me and set across there is where
the police train or where their dogs squad is or
something like that. So perhaps it is a training exercise. Yeah,

(29:15):
she is not happening. There's fires, there's everything, but a parade.
Who wants a parade? You wouldn't get the athletes back
for a parade. I don't think that'll be sort of
a sconce partying in the Northern Hemisphere. Marcus, I call
my girlfriend baseball because you never play without a diamond.

(29:39):
They are the same company animates overseas owned. I own
a small independent pet store in Auckland where are a
dying breed being pushed out by the corporates. But we've
been in business for two years now and hope we
can survive for many more. It's crazy, but extra ten
more customers will make all the difference to a weed
little stall shop, local ty what's your shop? But that's

(30:02):
the thing I want to know about animates and overseas
owned company starting up a petition to ban fireworks. There's
a lot to unpick there, and I don't know what
people think about that. I guess it's for them. It's

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an easy way to get publicity. It's an easy one
for them to say they care about pets, which I
think we all do. But also too, it's a kind
of a complicated thing fireworks and legislation because governments don't
want to be seen to be the fun police, because

(30:47):
it never goes well when you start banning stuff that
people enjoy. And of course not everyone might enjoy it,
but enough people enjoy it that it's probably something that
the government won't ban. So I know government ever has,
but I mean over the next twenty years, fireworks will
be phased out because I think one of the things
is there's no where to go to them off. You

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can't go to the beaches and the reserves because you're
banned there. You can't go to the Manga and Auckland,
the volcanic cones because quite rightly they are banned from
fireworks because they always catch fire. So I think what
will happen is over the years is there's nowhere for
people to go because a lot of people now live
in apartments. So I think it'll probably die natural death.

(31:32):
And that's and I'm totally fine about that. It runs
its course. It runs its course, So that's something you
might want to mention also eight eighty ten eighty nine
to detext And how do you want to commemorate as
a country the winning of the America's Cup? How many

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times have we won it?

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Now?

Speaker 2 (31:54):
Ninety five, two thousand, twenty seventeen, twenty twenty four. I
think it's the five times. I think ninety ninety five
we wont it overseas, and then we had the big
ticket tape. Two thousand we won it, and two thousand
and then three we didn't wint it quite as it
were lost it there we didn't do a lingilud stolen

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on our sailors. Yeah, and some people are still sore
about that. But it'd be great if you're yachtsman and
going into negotiations this week, because they can. Yeah, if
you're part of team Musing, I think you can probably
name your price, because when you've got billionaires at the
table offering your money for a vanity project, your negotiation

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price goes high. Get in Touch, Marcus Still twelve oh
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine text. I
think with fireworks too, they're only for sale about the
three days beforehand. But yeah, just what you think about
animates getting involved with a petition, I think it's really questionable,
just like when I think the warehouse came out about
three years ago and try to take a moral stand

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of saying we're not going to sell fireworks, yet they
sell it all other junk that's causing fat kids and
all sorts of stuff. But you know, so once you
start taking moral highground on products to rocky Road, there
we go. Oh wa eight one hundred eighty thirteen Parts nine.
If you've got other stuff you want to mention here

(33:23):
for it, hit'dll twelve. Come on, by the way, something
having to Jid's coffee bags. They've disappeared from the shelves.
Kind of said, when something you're kind of fond of
just goes with no explanation, there should be a magazine
that tells you what they're fading out. Otherwise you have

(33:43):
to get on riddit or the trade me message boards,
which I avoid, like the plague and Campbelltown and New
South Wales. There's a plan underway to save a cockatoo
trapped inside a shopping center for four weeks. It's a
good story. Surely it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 14 (34:06):
Hell Marcus, I'm calling you second time in the week,
which is unusual. But however, I really also I spoke
about the team. But tonight I thought a lot about
the commentators, who was comparing the race itself was very
very well explained and technically explained. They weren't just saying

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they were going up and down. They were explaining the weight,
the height, the trouble. They went to the materials they used,
and I thought the lady and the gentlemen were extremely
clever at their commentary. But I'd like to know where
they both came from.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah, it's funny because often they That's what I don't
like in sports commentary. They never tell you who the
commentators are or show you a picture of them. I
think one of them was Peter Lester, would that be right?

Speaker 14 (34:58):
Yes, yes, I got his voice.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
And the other woman appeared to be a sailor from
the United Kingdom, which they must have put on there
to balance that up a bit more because it seemed
to be one sided, and she was a great supporter
of England. I'll see if I can find out, because Peter,
Peter Sayler was a great, a great yachtsman in his day.
He was the world's okay champion. Yeah, but look, I'll

(35:20):
find out who the woman commentator was. And I don't
know why they didn't. I don't know why they didn't
make them the lead commentators because they were very free good.

Speaker 14 (35:28):
I thought that this was the best commentary that we'd had.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
For a long long time, agreed, because of.

Speaker 14 (35:34):
Their information they were giving out and not only just
talking about the water, but they talked about the weight
of the keel and the wings and the difference and
they were very very clever. And I don't I heard
any of us captain say Angeley say where you were
a kiwi so I'd expect that kind of commentary, So

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I'd like to know who he was.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Did you get up to watch the final yacht race?
Because I missed that one?

Speaker 14 (36:01):
Absolutely everything?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Okay, you watched you loved, you loved it.

Speaker 14 (36:05):
And eighty four and I absolutely love it.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
You probably want to parade, would you?

Speaker 14 (36:10):
I would want to parade. I want everything.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
I'm greedy, Okay, fair enough that generation, Shirley. Thank you.
Shirley Robinson double gold messaged midlist for Great Britain. She
was the commentator, Shirley Robinson. Please Shirley Robinson OBA first
PRIs Wonder went two Olympic gold medals, so go her,
Well done her. Shirley Robertson. Not Penny Whiting as someone

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rung up and said, no, not Penny Margaret being Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (36:37):
Yeah, micaus, I think it would be ashamed of. Then,
you know, the products five weeks. It's just something that
I've always done. I do my kids in there, you know,
let a few off on go FORWKS night and then
again on New Year's and you know we just bought
the Little Family Boxers. I think they're quite dear. Nowadays,
there used to be about thirty bucks, but they are

(36:59):
about one hundred now. But you just you just put
your pets inside and you just be curious and just
let your neighbors know. I'm going to let off a
few fireworks, you know, between sort of nine thirty and
ten tonight. And it works quite well on now day.
It's just you get the people that are leading them
off all night and continuously, and it goes for weeks

(37:19):
and it just sort of reach it for everyone.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah, yeah, that does annoy, but it all depends sometimes
when in the week the guy Fawkes falls also because
people like to gond less out in the weekend. You're
gonna tell it for three days, so yeah, I'm hearing you.

Speaker 15 (37:33):
Yeah, yea.

Speaker 6 (37:34):
So you know, it doesn't help when you've got to
get up for work at five in the morning and
people letting them off at three am, and I think
it's a bit rude, but it'll be the same demand.
But hey, just on the America's Cup, I reckon it
was a great event. Like I got up and watched
it early in early hours and get up for an
hour and watch it, and there's so much better than

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what it used to be like when I used to
watch it as a kid, you know, the race used
to go for hours on end. These races, you know,
they're over and sort of forty minutes and they're well
explained and you get to hear from the crew of
the chase boats and it's just a lot more in
depth and like, yeah, it's just a it's a lot
better than what it was.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
They certainly cut the time right down, and most days
they had racing too. I remember in the year two thousand,
I think in Auckland, it was months before they got
the yachts out. It just was just the weather and
play ball. So I'll tell I mean, most days they
had racing, which was great.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (38:31):
Yeah, And it's just watching these boats speed around and
hot on top of the water and there's just nothing
fels like it. Like you know, you've got sailboats and
there's all these different regrettit regrettas around the world and everything,
and it's all the same, but these are different. These
are like special. There's just yeah, there's just nothing like

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it except for the Maeric's Cup.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
It soem to be amazing to get to go on one,
because I mean that speed must seem unbelievable. I'm not
quite sure how practical that is to get a ride
on one, but I'm sure people would pay top dollars
to do that.

Speaker 12 (39:05):
I think you're thatt to be, but.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
There's always time being. Thank you, Johnny Marcus, Welcome, Hi Johnny.

Speaker 15 (39:13):
Good evening, mate. Yes, I rang about the animates petition. Yes,
I'm always keen for a petition for a good cause.
And I'm also in full agreement with you about governments
overstepping the mark and you know, just deciding what color

(39:34):
under where we want to wear or whatever. But I
do have a problem with the behavior of people with fireworks,
like most people, like the last caller, I get upset
when people wake up wake us up at three in
the morning. In our neighborhood. It's quite prevalent around this
time of the year. And we've got those that save
the fireworks for kids birthdays and that's all good. But

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the three are he wants to know.

Speaker 16 (39:58):
Good.

Speaker 15 (39:59):
Agree, I'm preparing the rabbits for the incoming fireworks because
we picked up two bunnies, Bucky and BC, the other
night from the.

Speaker 12 (40:05):
S p c A.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
And they did the kids name them, No, they came
with names already, Johnny. Yeah, the names are the names
of duds, Bucky and and Busy.

Speaker 15 (40:26):
They're black, they're beautiful, and I've got a boss and
a buck and a busy. But yeah, look the we've
got them outside, and I don't think they're too worried
about the fireworks. It's it's more than stray cats. But yeah,
I'm going to be sort of getting my dogs inside
during the fireworks a few days, keeping them inside and

(40:49):
keeping a close on on the bunnies, just because we
don't want skyrockets landing.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
And no, would they be good in a precious suit?
Could you put something around them to make them feel
animals like a precious suit? Don't they?

Speaker 15 (41:03):
Of course when COVID came out, we saw the great
plap trap inventions coming on TIMU and how you could
put your baby into like a purse speaks bubble and
carry it around on you. And precious suit for dogs
and mean, how normal can you get?

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Here's a sock for a rabbit. Couldn't you have nice
tight socker?

Speaker 16 (41:20):
Going?

Speaker 15 (41:23):
Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (41:24):
I hope, I hope they survived, Guy Forks, Johnny, thank you.
Twenty seven past nine, Shirley Robinson, There we go shirty
Robinson at the yachting Marcus, you can't lose with horses
signing the petition. They'll all vote nay, very good, Marcus.
Fire works. My gym and shepherd bark non stop from

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the beginning of November every night or the tenth of December.
I live in pok A call he, I'll be signing
the petition.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
John.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Well, let's just remember too that pet owners themselves aren't
the world's best at keeping dogs quiet. I think all
of us have been in neighborhoods with dogs that bark
endlessly once their owners go to work. So yeah, I
mean the thing, the thing I don't the thing I
don't really understand. No, this is not going to sound
like the thing I understand what New Zealand, obviously, with

(42:20):
our makeup of people from different countries, has changed rapidly
and for a lot of people fireworks are a huge deal,
and not for guy Fawks, because basically guy Falks is
not a big deal to anyone, let's face it, the

(42:41):
actual guy fawks. But you've got Diwali and you've got
Chinese New Year, and I don't ever know what happens
with that. I don't even know what the legalities are
that of those but people celebrating Diwali and Chinese New
Year or Core New Year, I think they can rememorate
celebrate that as well. Those people probably want to let
off some steam, and maybe they should have the rights

(43:02):
to let out fireworks as well, because I'm sure they
buy them and stock wi them and I don't have
the problem with them doing that. That's part of the
community now and that's probably a good thing. But I
don't know, I don't. Yeah, it feels like the whole
thing needs to be revisited. But bearing in mind, this
is a government that's not going to ban anything.

Speaker 12 (43:22):
They were.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
They were, well, we're a country that was going to
ban smoking, and they decided not to do it because
they were worried about the black market, where you could
make the same discussion and that same kind of argument
for fireworks. Couldn't you anyway get in touch one hims
Marcus Hddle twelve, Enduring this scush at the America's Cup,

(43:47):
they were much shorter. I certain think it's the world's
greatest sport.

Speaker 6 (43:52):
But.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
I think probably every three or four years is probably
about fine. We kind of relearn it and get back
in But once again, but terrible time frame for Also,
I don't know how many people have watched it, but
I think TV three did a fairly good job or
the stuff. I'm never quite sure who was putting it on,
but the fact you just watch it on your phone
or on the computer, that worked extremely well. That was

(44:18):
very good. Good band with the good something obviously put
some thought into it. They never glitched. For me, I
thought it was very very good, So no complaints there
didn't have to be threatened for like download a package
like you did for the Rugby World Cup. Shouldy Robertson?
I think it might be Robinson, Yeah, it's actually Shirley Robinson.

(44:45):
So someone's texted me it's Shirley Robertson, not Robinson. Well,
in fact, actually it's Shirley Robinson. So why people do that? No,
hang on, I've made a mistake because the the BBC
news story, it's got on the headline Shirley Robinson on
her love of sailing, and the next line it sees
Shirley Robertson. So I do apologize. That's my fault. There
one article, the name's spilt two different ways. That's AI Now, Marcus,

(45:11):
I have approximately two hundred and Marcus, I have approximately
two thousand, eight hundred and thirty nine Flybys points equates
to roughly four hundred and seventy eight dollars. What will
you do with it?

Speaker 12 (45:27):
So?

Speaker 2 (45:27):
I want I want to know whether your spare your
your Flybys money, what that money will buy you? And
let's see this off. Tell me the great things you've
ever the greatest things you've ever bought with your with
your Flybys money. It's something that never really spun my wheels.

(45:47):
I'm sure for you some of you it's a great deal.
Be sad to see the beck of it. Oh eight
hundred eighty Teddy nine two nine to text Marcus. Brilliant
fireworks display last start at Trustadium Way, Takai, west Auckland
for Dewali. Displays like that. Displays like that better than
doing them privately. I always think the Splazer, but hit

(46:08):
and miss sometimes the amateur hours. Sometimes they're quite good.
Flybys had them for two years in Cambridge. Total waste
of time. You can cash them in and convert to
enz dollars to spend a new world. I've done that.
Fifty squillion got me a packet of frozen peas. Who

(46:31):
needs frozen peas. And here's an announcement too that will
be of interest of some of you from the dairy community.
TiO Spearings, the former CEO c the former Fonterra CEO,
has died died after short illness. This is the email

(46:51):
I've got or the mention I've got from Amsterdam. It's
with great sadness that renounced the passing of To Spearings,
who died unexpectedly on Saturday in the Netherlands after a
brief illness. Too had more than thirty years experience in
the dairy industry, including CEO of the Fonterra Corporate Group
in New Zealand, acting CEO of the Dutch Royal Friezeland
Foods Derity Cooperative and Chair of the Global Dairy Platform.

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Most recently was co founder and chairman of the Purpose Factory,
a Dutch base foundation and consultancy focused on global sustainable
development goals and business transformation innovation. His legacy and the
impact he had on those he worked with and who
knew him will be remembered fondly at this difficult time.
Tio's family has requested privacy. They appreciate the outpouring of

(47:36):
love and support from around the world. During the sad time,
A private memorial service will be held in the Netherlands.
Is that it interesting? It shows the nature of this
country where we can remember. I mean, it almost seems
as though the boss of Fonterra was probably the most

(47:57):
important job in the country after the promise. It wasn't it.
There was Ta Sparring, there was that guy Norgate, the
Taranaki guy, and there was the American guy or the
guy that had come from Sugar Andrew. Forget his last name,
it'll come to me. So yeah, so there we go
that he was a extremely well known chief. Marcus. I

(48:21):
pop into New World often, so I always scan my card.
I get it transferred into New World dollars. I've had
about three hundred fifty dollars so far in the past
few years. I go away, so no loss or deliberate
spinning to get them. I go anyway, Marcus, different subject.
I stopped for a bike plan on a quiet street,
no bikers at all. I entered the road and the

(48:41):
district was not happy, as she thought she had rights
over a car. She was on a footpath. Don't fully
understand the dynamics there. First met Shirley Robertson at Haaling
Island in nineteen ninety three helped her lift to europe
class dinghy onto the roof of her car at the
end of the regatta had gone on to it has

(49:03):
gone on to become a legend in the sport world.
Sailing female Sayer of the Y in the year two
thousand Catherine Marcus good evening.

Speaker 17 (49:11):
Yeah, hello Marcus, I'm ringing you from Lower Hut And
I remember as a small child the hills, particularly the
Eastern Hills, would be burnt every November and huge great
black scars on the hills. You know, they lasted for
months and months and months.

Speaker 4 (49:30):
Wow.

Speaker 17 (49:30):
And many years later I was working for the New
Zealand Fire Service National Office in Wellington and our fire
chief there was a fellow called Brian Armstrong who was
a very capable fellow, and we went to Parliament. We
knew we couldn't get fireworks band, but we got the

(49:51):
sale of rockets skyrockets to the public band, and that
seems to have sorted the problem out quite well.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Seems to have absolutely.

Speaker 17 (50:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
Every time I look at the and as the winds terrible,
it seems as though the headliner is always quiet night
for firefighters, like they seemed to have a fairly good
time of it without the rockets.

Speaker 17 (50:20):
That's right, that's right. So that sale of rockets, you know,
it was quite a long time ago now, but it's
all the.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Different thirty five, forty years ago, would it be?

Speaker 17 (50:28):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's amazing, isn't it. While I was
waiting for you, I was thinking, gosh, how long ago
was it?

Speaker 10 (50:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Anyway, and so people just I suppose it was all
gorse in there anyway in those days, was it?

Speaker 17 (50:42):
Well, it became all gorse because you know when the
native was burnt off, Yeah, it was the gorse that
came up as a sort of nurse crop for it all,
and then it would get burnt again the next year. Yeah, okay,
so we had gorse on those hills for a long
long time.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
I was expecting here from the fire service tonight, So
I'm excited by that.

Speaker 17 (51:02):
That was a long time since I worked to the
fire but it was. It was a night out for two.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Week four I can imagine, Catherine. Thank you very much
for it. That's good information. Twenty fifteen away from ten
Marcus till twelve and doing it all yeah, and TiO
Spearing I'm sorry, I kind of when I'm saying his name,
I'm alost saying a Dutch way and every time said
I don't think I've actually got the intonation right. Tea
Spearings I think was his name, but he has died.

(51:28):
Seems as though we won everything in the weekend, didn't
we even the silver ferns? Yeah, sixty four point fifty
across the stair in the Constellation Cup forh nomenal turnaround
set themselves up for a great shot at winning the

(51:48):
Constellation Cup just a third time. After making a dream
start of the full game series at Wellington's tes b
Arena on Sunday night Spark on Wednesday. Why do they
make it a full game thing? We don't want to
draw that, do We had a five day camp in
Napier following the England series and played a number of

(52:09):
metchiganst New Zealand men's team in New Zealand A. I
think it was just time together. They said they got
them focused so well. Do amazing for the women's cricketers too.
Out of the park man. I saw them on something
on the team singing after that. It was beautiful. Marcus
there were lots of fires on the we Omata Hills

(52:31):
all year, as well as November, all beginning at the
road's edge. They would presumed to be from car passengers
throwing cigarette butts out the window where I was A
lot of told that somewhere by arsonists, again from the roadside.
Fires were so common they had fire breaks up the
hills and the fifties week kids were given heavy wet

(52:52):
sacks and clambering up behind the fire and beating out
remaining embers wouldn't be allowed today. They used to have
regular gorse burn offs of the mistake and belief this
would prend fires. Once I left the gorse to function
as the nursery for out of plants the gorse and
fires by the way too. Actually this is just some
random it's International Narcho's Day. I was thinking about that

(53:15):
earlier today when I read about that International Narchio's Day.
Where was the first place in New Zealand you experienced
them doing Nacho's Because I haven't been around for one
hundred years. I don't think they've been around for fifty years.
I couldn't remember where the first place was. There's probably

(53:36):
some cafe in Wellington, but what Narchos became was a
very easy dish to make, which was just a pile
of dry corn chips covered in melted cheese and cream cheese,
and that was pretty much Yet either be beans involved
there wouldn't theyre? The first few were quite fun to weep,
but from then on it was hard work. Became a

(53:57):
soggy mess.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
The first place, well, the first place in New Zuend
you experienced Narcho's. Would they be around for forty years?
Maybe it would be about then. I couldn't find anything
on Wikipedia, but there's a while there in the eighties
then everyone did Narcho's, great plate of them to share

(54:22):
with a whole group of people going out. It will
it will, no doubt spurn some memories for some people.
It would be a good thing, probably the easiest thing
ever to cook. I don't even know if it's cooking.
It's more melting is melting cooking. I don't know what

(54:42):
melting is, but that's the cooking of Narcho's. And funny enough,
the guy the first call of a night that rang
up about to speak about UKFC, that lovely Argentinian. His
name was Narcho and I could launch the topic then,
but I thought they would get topic creep. No one
wants topic creep on a Monday Friday's more than night

(55:05):
for topic creep. Frustrating. Sixteen past ten, Mike, it's Marcus.
Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Thanks.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
Mat.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
Yeah, just a bit of concern. I can hear some alarm,
like a civil defense siren, and that's just along the
valley a bit from where I am. It's accompanied by
a woman talking over a broad speaker, sounding like inside
the tunnels. What were the motorway tunnels? And she's saying,

(55:36):
turn off the motors, stay in your cars or something
something like that. So there might be some sort of
emergency crash or something happened there in the tunnels.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
So, Mike, are you on the motor are you in
a navian.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Property, faboring property?

Speaker 15 (55:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (55:52):
So you can hear you can hear a siren and.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
Then the siren stops. It's the same as the civil
defense siren wailing one and then the siren stops, and
you can hear a voice saying the same thing over
and over like a recording.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
Wow, that sounds like a real concern.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
I can see flashing tower lights. There's no movement on
the motorway.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
So you're north of the Puho tunnel or south of it?

Speaker 1 (56:20):
How fair?

Speaker 2 (56:22):
How long's how long has the siren been going.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
For since I turned the radio, or.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Like five minutes or twenty minutes?

Speaker 12 (56:31):
Five minutes?

Speaker 1 (56:32):
Yeah, yeah, I just thought that pop that through to you.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Really, Hey, I really appreciate that, Mike. If there's anything
else that you hear, or when the traffic starts moving,
I'll let us know. But just before you go, Mike,
the woman is saying. It's a pre recorded voice. She's staying,
do not panic. What she's saying just stay in your cars.
Is that the entire message I.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
Can hear clearly is saying, tune the motors off.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
Turn the motors off, and stay in your cars.

Speaker 7 (57:03):
She's staying at the moment.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Can you can you take you on? You want the
noise canceling?

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Well yeah, i've got to speaker pointing to the tunnels.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Yeah, if we can hear it again. Just sometimes with
noise canceling it doesn't work. But just how often does
it happen?

Speaker 1 (57:21):
It's a sorryn going now, No.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
It's all canceled here, Mike. I really appreciate that. Thank you.
If anyone's got any more information about that. Sounds like
there's something happening in the Pooh Hooy tunnel, and the
Walker Katahi website says has tunnel closed, Wait for police,
Wait for police, wait for police. Notice. Someone said, caller

(57:51):
Marty says they've closed the road for maintenance. There might
be a police training exercise. You kneel, it's Marcus, good evening.
What did Neil have to say? What's poor communication? Seems

(58:13):
that it might be a training exercise on the Puhoy tunnel.
A lot of training exercises today. Someone said they've advertised this, Marcus.
There was report on Zidbulliat this is a training exercise

(58:33):
going on at the Johnson's Tunnel. Yeah, it's a great
text about Narcho's before we went to that sudden development
with the motorway. First place in using your experience Narchos.
I can't remember where it was. Someone says, I first
tried Narchos nineteen eighty seven and Palmeister North in a
cafe called hard Rock Cafe, not the legit international one

(58:58):
Mexican canteena Mexican our Mexican conteen, and went into nineteen
seventy one so we have seen chose for the first
time Mexican restaurant and Todonga Marcus the way from Fonterra
long when they's just spread it around the paddocks and Fox,
I'm not sure if they.

Speaker 8 (59:17):
Do that now.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
She is all happening first place for Nacho's Haunted Place.
Animates in their petition. Just think it's a bit cheeky
when you do a petition like that with virtue signaling,
it feels like it's driven by a PR company. Doesn't
feel genuine to me. But there we go. I've mentioned
it can't quite well. Look at Tahi says it's closed
for maintenance, but actually clearly there's an exercise. Stephen Marcus, Hello.

Speaker 13 (59:42):
Yes, yes, Marcus. You know they've gone to the hill
middle of tonight between nine o'clock and three o'clock tomorrow morning.
Is a file service exercise.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
Okay, wid you hear that.

Speaker 13 (59:55):
It's been on It's been on Facebook, it's been on
the news for the last three or four days about it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Well, you think they do that on a Sunday morning,
wouldn't you that on a weeknight?

Speaker 13 (01:00:04):
But well, Monday night is normally the nights.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Oh of course, Okay, okay, so are you in the area, yes,
you flat? Oh yeah, okay, I appreciate that too, Stephen,
thank you for coming through. He's the notice overnight closure
State Away one Silverdale walk With on twenty first Monday
October using a Transport Agency WALKO or TAH. He is

(01:00:33):
dizing motors for a foreclosure to both northbound and southbound
on State Higway one between Silverdown Walkworth from nine till
three wal could get you be working with fins and
indied polace of stage of the Emergency Serize and the
Johnston Hill Tunnel. During this time, light vehicle will be
detoured by High Biscus Coast Road Old State Ahway one.
Overweight vehicles will be able to not be able to

(01:00:53):
use Grand Drive and Oddywood due to wait restrictions. The
emergency services are part of an ongoing program at both
the Johnson's Hill Tunnel Waterview Tunnel in Victoria Park tun
and enable emergency response teams to practice, review and update
emergency respond to protocols. The closure is weather dependent. There's
a surprise and may change from advertised dates. Please take

(01:01:17):
care and traveling through our work sites and work watch
out for a pro REDUCEI to speed ahead of Tempory
speed limits and fill the direction of traffic measurement signs. Well,
I won't do that because the tunnel's closed, Marcus. First
place had Narcho's was Midnight Expresso on Cuba Street nineteen
eighty nine. Yeah, first place to try Narcho's. Oh wow, Marcus.

(01:01:46):
I worked in a Mexican restaurant in Dominion Road in
Mounddan called Little Mexico around nineteen eighty ninett eighty one.
Narcho's on the menu, as was chicken mole chocolate, which
I thought was totally weird. Wow, Marcus. Most haunted place

(01:02:09):
is the part of Spookers where the Gray Nurse lived.
You can't go in there. Plus the White Tomo Caves Hotel.
First experience of Narcho's Enchilada Restaurant, and Hamilton along with
a fever of tequila. I think there was another. Also,
there was a Mexican restaurant on Dominion Road called Spices.

(01:02:32):
Maybe it was there. Suddenly everyone was eating Narcho's and
someone's correct is the word mole or mole at I
don't know how that's the chicken and chocolate snack, which
is a weird one. She's all happening. What a busy
little night with everything going on with tunnels and armed
defenders and house fire, the Comet didn't amount to much.

(01:02:55):
I don't think anyone saw it just with their own eyes.
They needed assistance. So that's sort of a fail because
we're supposed to see it with just our own people.
That hasn't happened. That's the comet. Auckland FC they started
their competition in the Australian A League. That's happened quite quickly.
They played at Mount smart Ont said to we've got

(01:03:18):
twenty four thousand people there, so that went good. So
if they can make that a fortress and continue that support,
I think people have all going to be craving for
a regular gig to go to like that. I think
the NPC is providing them with any enjoyment because it's

(01:03:39):
just not that sort of competition you go to a
week every week. Now it's every second week. So yeah,
good on them. I hope that goes well for them.
So that's that. Also, the end of Flyby is that's
about to happen. Is that a hassle to have to
spend your own spare money? Are you aware of that?
They're advertising on TV, so they're clearly winding it down
in a dignified way, and I thought good on them

(01:04:01):
for doing that. Also, talking about animates, the pet shop
that have started a petition to get rid of guy
fawks and fireworks, Yeah, I think that's a little bit.
I've got thoughts about that, not strong thoughts, but thoughts

(01:04:23):
overseas company coming here, let's have a petition. It's just
pr for them. Didn't work well for the warehouse. The
warehouse decided to ban the sale of fireworks. I'm not
saying it's the beginning of the end for them, but
certainly it made them look desperate. And I think we've
seen in their returns they're not a company that's going
great guns. So there's that also, And today is International

(01:04:45):
Narcho's Day. I was asking the question, we're in the country,
you first experienced them, and when they don't know what
narchos are, get a pile of corn chips and some
mints and cover them with melted cheese. I don't even
know the thing. It might be an American invented thing.

(01:05:07):
An American soldier came in late at night north of
the border. The chef was low on ingredients. So he
tossed some tortilla chips and with shredded cheese and pickled jalipinos,
and the dish was a hit. The guy that invented
it Ignacia, Narcho and Naya. Of course, it was named

(01:05:30):
after his nickname, and it wasn't long before Nacho's become
a household term gain popularity in the seventies. So there
we go. Some of those dates that people of text
about the late eighties, late seventies, early eighties would ring
true to me, Marcus, Like, you're a huge fan of

(01:05:52):
American baseball and I'm looking forward to the four Classic
aka the World Series starting this week. It's the matchup
the MLB bosses were hoping for between the Yankees and Dodgers,
and should be ratings bonanza. I'll give you my pick
later in the week, and what should be a great series.
If I may a correction, I do apologize if I misheard. No,

(01:06:13):
this is right, But the Houston Astros actually kept their
title in twenty seventeen, even though they did cheat. The
club was heavily fined, lost draft picks, and some of
the coaching staff involved the chanting scandal where summarily filed fired,
can't wait for the opening game on Friday. So the
reason I was talking about the astros cheating is they'd
bang the bins. They were reading the catcher's signs to

(01:06:37):
the picture, and they're banging tins to indicate that there's
always been scandals about people reading the signs. But now
I've realized watching the matches that the way that the
way the keepers or the catchers communicate with a picture
is they've got a computer on their arm and they

(01:06:58):
type in what pitch they want curveball, bottom left, and
then they push a button and that goes through true
and the picture hears it in his ear. It was
only because the guy in one of the matches stopped
his pitch because he had to adjust the He had
trouble with it, not to take it up to get
it rekind of rebooted. Had no idea it was there.

(01:07:22):
But baseball's done amazingly in the last couple of years
to speed up the game. What they've done is they've
got a pitch clock, because otherwise the pitchers would get
involved in kind of highly superstitious kind of workout routines.
It took forever. They've also stopped the number of times
you can attempt to steal bases. It's made the game

(01:07:45):
much much faster and much more of a spectacle. Lines
free for your calls. Welcome, Marcus. The reason I remember
having Narchos was my cousin took my sister and up
for dinner a small cafe on Dominion Road, Mound, Eden.
Can remember the year. Anything on the menus just ordered
the same Narcho's been for the provinces. I felt ignorant
and slightly embarrassed, Mary Marcus. The Cambridge Hotel in Cambridge Terrace, Wellington,

(01:08:11):
haunted as hell, longtime resident. All the longtime residents have
seen apparitions, Marcus. Let's not forget the first caller of
the night was named Narchio. That's right. But the thing
about Narcho, he is a good talker. I couldn't get
a word in to fail him down. At the end

(01:08:32):
of his call. I couldn't say, oh, by the way,
why are you called Anarcho? Funnily after day is International
Narcho Day. So yes, I was all prepared to come
in with that topic segue, but didn't do it. But yes,
it is a coincidence. On Narcho Day. The first caller
is called Narchio. Good evening, Garriet's Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:08:54):
The thing that tirked me was last time they came
over here and they asked for lots of money from
local councils. And the thing that kind of upset me
was as a local area, basically our proportion was to
re donate probably about ten to twelve million dollars as

(01:09:16):
a local board going towards New Auckland City to pay
the bill. And the thing that really really ripped my
undies on it was that if you took that money
that they took there, we would have been able to
put a new astro for the rugby club, the tests

(01:09:41):
club half among A to a new location, and we
could have put a roof over the netball club, and
we could have made a new gymnasium for the gymnasium
people that basically they were renting a factory and had
spent one hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year for that.

(01:10:03):
I thought we could spend money so much better as
a local board than it was, and it just went
with this, well, I don't even call it sailing now.
It's kind of like it's kite surfing, and it's just
absolutely since that happened and they just basically ripped us off.

(01:10:24):
We have got no money back for that whatsoever as
an outlying council, and there's no legacy. And just think
how many people would have had some use of our
local money for our ratepayers money rather than that paying
ninety or one hundred and twenty million that I think
was in the end towards the Irishman's Race, and when
it started, at the very beginning, it was all self

(01:10:48):
funded and all of a sudden, we're meant to hand
out money because it's going to be all economically great.
Well it doesn't.

Speaker 4 (01:10:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
I always think there's a lot of creative accountant and
forecasting when it comes to America's Cut predictions. They seem
to and always when they're trying to work out the
fund stadiums, build viaduct harbors and stuff, they always say
it's going to return about ten times more money than
ever does and people, I don't know. We've got a
strange attitude towards the America's Cup. I always think we've
been seduced by it. It blinds our decision. Well, I've

(01:11:18):
got to throw stuff at that it's a great sport,
but really it's Yeah, I mean yeah, I don't disagree
with any of what you've said. I think it was
probably I respect Grant Dalton and I think that he's
just out to win, but you know he's he's taken
on the billionaires and he's eating them.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Yep.

Speaker 12 (01:11:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:11:37):
And I think you know, if you were actually put
it this way, if you're Taylor Swift here in Auckland
would probably generate more money having two CITs here. Anybody
from the whole in New Zealand comes down our hotels,
that would be for him.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
And I always get criticized on this show about it,
but I think the America's Cup is a terrible spectator
sport because you can't watch it. It's not a baseball.
It's much better on the TV. Therefore, why would people
travel to watch it? Because you know it's five miles
off Shaw normally.

Speaker 7 (01:12:07):
Yep.

Speaker 18 (01:12:07):
I was originally and the two thousand, I was on
the one of the police boats and I went out
there and had to police everybody. Yes, and at that
stage there it was still not a spectator sport. No,
it was horrible. It was really horrible. It was a
disgusting thing to go and watch spin about three you know,
you get two meter swells and the wind blowing around
and they'd come past you at a distance and.

Speaker 5 (01:12:30):
You were you had terrible.

Speaker 18 (01:12:33):
Oh it's like it's like watching something like an underwater
hockey and there's that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
It's terrible when you see they've they always got fans.
I hate the fans. And there's a lot of people
down at the down at the near the wharf, even
at Barcelona, and they're in a tent or you know,
and they're watching it a screen and there's always the
camera going past them, always going to make stupid kind
of waving shots to the camera to create a bit
of hype. But they're just they're watching it on a

(01:12:57):
TV screen. They're not watching He'd go halfway on the
world to watch something on the screen. It's madness.

Speaker 18 (01:13:04):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's I think had its day
when we went right at the beginning. It was kind
of because we were taking it off the Americans that
had it for all of its life. That was kind
of and the Australians got it and there was a
bit of a fight. Interesting then, but after that, no, no,
I'm so excited that we won.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
I like the sites and the technology of the boats,
but I always quite liked that with the Australian boat
with the wing keel and then the bulbs. I mean
it's always you know, you look back at it and
there's there's been some interesting stories it's generated, but it's
not coming back here. And I'm surprised how, I mean people,
because how long have we been following this for? Was
Perth nineteen eighty five or that's when we already got

(01:13:45):
excited when Australia was it? When it was?

Speaker 18 (01:13:47):
Yeah, I think because we had it and then we
heard to two thousands, didn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
Michael Faye challenged it in eighty seven. I think that
was all through the courts when they had the catamaran
against Dennis Connor's single hull. So it's I mean, what's
that It's been going on for forty years?

Speaker 18 (01:14:03):
Yeah, and I think it's just it's still it's day
and it's it's had its had its moment, move on
it and like you said, and the other thing too
is that everybody's spectator sports are changing as well, with
everybody having to pay for TV or you have to
pay for it and actually get to watch it, so
it's I think everything's moved a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
So yeah, I don't I don't necessarid know, the yachts
people are particularly nice person not nice people. When Russell
Coots didn't show much much loyalty, did he?

Speaker 18 (01:14:33):
Oh no, he fell followed the dollar. They always will.
They'll sell their soul for them.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
We want to hear sell your soul, Marcus. All these
people moaning about the cost of the America's Cup, which
wasn't funded by the government this time, but yeah, the
public didn't moan about the Rugby World Cup in twenty
seventeen when the government tipped in three hundred million for
the All Blacks and now which is the rich man's sport. Uh, fairpoint. So,

(01:15:01):
speaking of culinary history, I am very curious to know
where you for the great Narchio's takeover. And I always
thought probably they were Mexican. But there was a time
in New Zealand in the eighties, perhaps the early eighties,
perhaps the mid eighties where everyone was hitting Narcho's and
there was no reason. I mean, this is not a

(01:15:21):
surprise because they were so easy to cook, because basically
what it was was just corn chips with melted cheese
over the top. So suddenly all these PEPs probably you'd
call them cafes where where I think probably having a
shift wasn't a high priority. They'd always put on narchos

(01:15:43):
and for while theyre at university. There be a lot
of you. It's all we ate and I'm curious, as
I asked in the last down, where was your first
experience of that. There's been some great texts coming through
to remind me of all sorts of places around the trap,
so you might want to bang on about that too tonight.
Also talking about fireworks and guy fawks and the fact
that animates the Pet Store have started have started a

(01:16:09):
petition to get fireworks banned, which is a noble thing
to want to do, but I'm just not quite sure
it's what they should be trying to do overseas company
coming here, let's ban fireworks. I think it's more about
getting some pr and tough times. Am I right? Or
do you agree with that? Yeah? And some guy ran

(01:16:33):
up before about animates pets. I don't know if the
same the vets. I don't have the same the vets
is the same thing as the pet shop, but it
could well be so Yeah, that's what we're all on
about tonight. People. I'm waiting for a call about flybys.
What are you going to do with your spare flybys money.
You've only got three months to spend, two months to
spend it, so I've set something you're planning on doing.

(01:16:58):
Give me a call about that as well, and then
there might be something entirely different. You want to talk about.
A good weekend of sport. The America's Cup has happen
and we've won that again.

Speaker 4 (01:17:07):
Great.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
People are very excited about that as they should be.
Good evening and it's Marcus welcome, is it me? Yeah, hi, en,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
Good evening, Good evening.

Speaker 16 (01:17:20):
I thought I'd just turned up because I thought about this.
If fireworks didn't make that noise and didn't land on
people's roofs, which has happened to me when pets are
really upset about it, you know, perhaps we could have
fireworks that didn't make those zoom noises at the end

(01:17:44):
they make them, make them noise, and just stuck to
sort of sort of garden ones you could have in
your own garden that just the explosion.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
Because they got rid of the bangers in the rockets,
but you could have explosions of light just without the bang,
and then everyone will be here.

Speaker 15 (01:18:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
I don't disagree, and I think it's a good point,
but I think what will happen and as they'll make
more and more restrictions, and already the amount of gunpowder
and a fire worker is a lot less than other countries.
But in the end they becomes a disappointing people stop
buying them. I think that's probably the idea. He's probably
got ten years left. But nice to hear from you,
and thank you, Ralph, its Marcus. Good evening and welcome and.

Speaker 19 (01:18:25):
Welcome to you as well. You were sounding desperately.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
I thought you got to get to buy I need
the calls.

Speaker 11 (01:18:35):
You know.

Speaker 19 (01:18:35):
I think sometimes people just get bloody lethargic, because of
course they of.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
Course they do. They lie asleep and they're happy that.
We always learned that. But you know, you always try.
You always want to come up with a magic topic
that everyone will talk about, and you can't always do that.
So but thank you for ringing.

Speaker 12 (01:18:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:18:51):
Well, anyway, I was watching the final of the America's
Cup and I listened to the guys on the that
do the com commenting, you know, on the various boats
on that and they were talking about part to disiplation
with people this morning. I think it was all the
other morning or boat, but the various places where people

(01:19:14):
could go, and apparently they have big blocks of land
where the public go like that, huge big concrete block edifices,
but not buildings, but they can shelter in there and
watch all around the all around the shore. And apparently
thousands and thousands of people can do that as well

(01:19:35):
as also watching the screens and the other things. And
I don't quite know. It seemed that when they were
quite far out at sea you had to watch TV
because you really couldn't see the boats. But you know,
it was thought. I thought it was quite well put
together everything and especially with the crowds for the Kiwis

(01:19:57):
and the British folks, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
The fan zones.

Speaker 19 (01:20:03):
Yeah, that was all screen stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
I think there were I could I couldn't work at
how far away the race course was from the from
the shore, or maybe about three or four k's off
it to me.

Speaker 19 (01:20:15):
Well, when they finished this morning, oh sorry, the other morning.
It was a repeat this morning of yes of the final,
and he said they were all surrounded by the boats,
and he said, well, this is going to take us
probably another quarter of an hour twenty minutes to get
back to the heart or so it had to be
you know, a distance out, and they must open in

(01:20:38):
the race in the open seas as well, but they
can move it around with their electronics and stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:20:44):
That's right, It was very good.

Speaker 19 (01:20:46):
I loved it and bringing it back. Oh, I think
you were talking to somebody earlier on saying, and I
don't know it was a member of your staff, were
just a punter, but we both agreeing that you didn't
think it would be coming back to New Zealand. And
I was really inquiring, is that why are you had

(01:21:07):
this privilege knowledge that none of us have got, Because
I think it would be good to bring it back.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
Oh, I think I think Grant Dalton has said that
it's unlikely too, because I had to take it overseas
to keep it going because he got money from Barcelona
to put the event on and that's where the rich
syndicts one of the events.

Speaker 13 (01:21:25):
So yeah, sure, yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:21:28):
But those those people that protested, are they the equivalent
to our Green Party or something?

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
Those people those people that were are.

Speaker 19 (01:21:37):
They the equivalent to our green party. She coming over
here and taking all our very lovely you know scene
we and tourism spots. But they must have made a
fortune out of it. Yeah, people everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
Not quite with you there, Ralph, but thank you. Nice
to hear from you, Jamie Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:21:57):
Hey, here you go. And I remember that take a
take parade they had would have been ninety an hour
a month. Took me school went as well. It was
quite of a big deal.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
I couldn't work. If they're clost they might have closed
schools for that day.

Speaker 12 (01:22:13):
Because I grew up in Freeman's Base, so we were
very close to it. And what in Freman Yeah, and
and then it must have been the last one. Then
as Connor was and I was working at New World
there a Victoria Park market and he came in and
asked me for some hot dogs and a can. I'll

(01:22:36):
never forget it. I don't know what he was talking about,
because that was wanted to be famous people. That was
the one to work the supermarket to work and yeah, yeah,
it was funny.

Speaker 2 (01:22:51):
And you can imagine, I can I can imagine him
asking for hot dogs and a can. Something dear Connor
would ask.

Speaker 12 (01:22:56):
For Oh, yeah, it was, Yeah, it was pretty I
was pretty out there. Yeah, I remember TV Zyllaan say
that'll come in and do the shopping and well, but
it was Cup Villains back then was really quite a
happening place. And I'm trying to think about it, and
I guess it was like it was before the internet,

(01:23:17):
so there was nothing else to do. We used to
walk down there. Schools used to go school trimps down
to Cup lad you know. I mean the wet Bread
race that showed up.

Speaker 2 (01:23:29):
That was when when those around the World yachts used
to come into Auckland and you can see them all resupply.
That was fascinating. That was that Round the Yacht Around
the World yacht race.

Speaker 14 (01:23:38):
That was.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
That was an unbelievable event. I think that was more
exciting than the than the America's Cup because you could
you could see the sailors frantically kind of. I mean
when the boats came in, it was a big deal.
When they left, it was a big deal. But you
could see them sort of working on the yachts and
they talked to you. It was a that was an
amazing thing down there when that was happening. That was extraordinary.
It was a great event.

Speaker 12 (01:24:00):
And that was and that was sort of around the
same time that we had won the America's Cup. Yeah, yeah,
was all sort of going on.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
Peter Blake was the famous skipper. I think of a
couple of times might have been slightly earlier.

Speaker 8 (01:24:12):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
Maybe like in the early eighties. I think there was
this sort of the Golden and even Simon le Bond
came and from Jurine Jury and he was on a
boat called Drum that came into the country as well
in Around the World yacht Race.

Speaker 12 (01:24:28):
Oh okay, but yeah, I thought, like the Cup, now,
I guess that we had.

Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
Nothing, nothing, nothing else, nothing all on TV. You watch anything.
He didn't even have sky TV A lot of the
time said watch whatever.

Speaker 12 (01:24:47):
Yeah, and keep one commentary and'd be going on about
the spinnaker in the water and then get it out.
And then I'll never forget. I think that Cup village
when when they were bailing them the boat out and
the wide manner were buckets for anything they could.

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
Have, but it sunk the and and David, yeah, begging
the boat, that's right, and then begging it because this useless,
bloody boat. Because Dean Barker was his name here, that's right, Yeah, because.

Speaker 12 (01:25:26):
I remember Mum being very upset when they when they
weren't going to win it, when that boat was almost thinking.

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
So you're you're in Australia now, any commentary at all
or not? It's it's disappeared over there. Do you hear
anything about the America's Cup in Australia?

Speaker 12 (01:25:42):
No, only a few key mates and any of my
oldie mates. They would have no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:25:49):
What hasn't got much coverage over there?

Speaker 12 (01:25:54):
No, I think it's I think it's a there's too
much to choose from now. You know why why you
watched the America's coupan You could watch baseball. I watched
one raid. Oh man, it was boring. He I was like,
like the TV s think the call was cool, but
I think back in the day it was better when
the waiting stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
Look, I agree, at least in the other day you
could see people. Now in the yachts, you could just
see the heads bobbing up and down. That's all there is.
You can't even see the people.

Speaker 12 (01:26:26):
Yeah, and then you have Peter Berling and say something
how good the race was, But he knew it was
kind of already. I mean, you knew what he'd read
the same book every day. I think, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:26:42):
I don't disagree that. I mean that they're not characters
in front of the camerarad it's just all very polite.

Speaker 4 (01:26:47):
Oh yep, yeah, yeah, I don't know what.

Speaker 12 (01:26:52):
So it was probably because I was, Yeah, I was
just before COVID in twenty nineteen, and we went the
Cup for it and I said to Mama, I'll come
next time if they win it again. But then it
went off shore and now I don't think I'm bothered
going home to that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
You know, will you and watching on your phone?

Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
Now?

Speaker 12 (01:27:13):
Yeah? Yeah, And it was I don't know. The Cup
Village of Old wasn't in twenty when we were there.
I guess I hadn't started yet, but it wasn't the
Cup Village. I remember. It wasn't pumping that when I
first turned eighteen, and it was a place to bed.
It was probably the if you're rich, had a boat
with the ticket, if you had a little boat, was
a ticket to be in the Auckland Harbor in the

(01:27:35):
late nineties or early two thousands.

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
Were you at the moment? JB just then mkay just
where I was.

Speaker 12 (01:27:44):
I'm McKay just coming into the car. Now I've been.
I don't even know how to say it. The place
care hard harder than today. Yeah, in between ither Mountain
either and Charters Towers. Is slowly making my way home
from there.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
What are you delivering?

Speaker 12 (01:28:03):
Oh, you wouldn't believe it. It was plastic? Uh yeah,
pol of fame, plastic and bags to make fights. So
they make all up there, they got to. Yeah, they
make a lot of irrigation fights for all the farmers
and the mines and stuff. How long?

Speaker 2 (01:28:23):
How long is a trip?

Speaker 12 (01:28:25):
I'll pack that stuff up from Brisbane and I went
up there over the weekend and then now I was
delivered that this morning. So it was two days to
get up there. And now I'm bringing rubbish back down
from Towns back into Brisbane.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
So it's a five day round trip.

Speaker 12 (01:28:42):
Yeah, it would be about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, four days.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
Was it hot? Did you did you spend did you
spend any time at Mount iSER?

Speaker 11 (01:28:52):
Now?

Speaker 12 (01:28:53):
It was about four hundred k's towards Towns on the sudden, Man,
I was hot yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:28:59):
I's going to ask you about that. How hot?

Speaker 12 (01:29:02):
I don't know because my truck a team to term
what I'm going to say, touched the window and you go, oh,
I'm not getting out there. Okay, I wonder why my
hair COM's not working. You'll get out. I was definitely working.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Swing don.

Speaker 12 (01:29:16):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:18):
Got it on the map. Got on the map. Looks
like a god forsaken place. Nice to talk, Jamie, Thank you.
David's Marcus, Hello and welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:29:26):
Yeah, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:29:28):
I enjoyed the America's Cup.

Speaker 11 (01:29:30):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
I would have watched probably every contender match and the
race off for the America's Cup, seen the offs Britannia and.

Speaker 5 (01:29:41):
Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
I'm wondering where we're going to go to next, because
I think the Bulls and New Zealands caught to sort
of we'll throw it down here and give what sort
of boats we're going to race etca. And after three
or four years, I'm yeah, I'm going to be keen
to watch it again.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
And I think we've already accepted except that Anyos will
be the challenger of record. I think that's that was
pretty quick to do that. So they're big.

Speaker 3 (01:30:08):
Well, there was a bit of an upset. You see,
we're all picking and as was I Ethily and spittle.
But anyhow, now Russell Crowe has a movie I fairly
enjoyed at The Pope's Exorcists, a great.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
He is a great actor. He is a great actor.

Speaker 3 (01:30:27):
That's fantastic. Get to know two ways about it. Now countdown.

Speaker 6 (01:30:30):
When they went to change their brand to.

Speaker 3 (01:30:33):
A herey ACP, well to call it Wolworths. You know,
I sort of got a lot of shopping at Wallworths
will countdown and I got the card. I sort of
updated it membership card Marcus, because I figure, well, you're
saving a dollar here or a dollar there, and you're
only getting it if you're a member, and you've got

(01:30:54):
to slape your card when you're sort of paying for
your your groceries.

Speaker 6 (01:30:59):
So I think we'll bugg it it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
Why not.

Speaker 3 (01:31:02):
You've got to click about two thousand points to get
fifteen dollars was off, and it takes a long time
to get the two thousand points.

Speaker 6 (01:31:10):
But it is what it is, and I figure, well,
you're better off.

Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
To have it than not.

Speaker 2 (01:31:13):
I think I think it's I think it's a dud
because I signed up and then I couldn't remember my
password and I've stayed and I thought, well, you know,
I would have just preferred a card and the wantlet
because then the woman asked me for a pass word.
I was here outside in the cure about five minutes.
And now I don't know what it is. I've got
to reapply, but yeah, I've had a good experience with it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:32):
Well, these ear points as a racket, because there can
they just say, oh, we're no longer accepting or you're
not not getting them anymore. I mean it's a bit
of a that's a racket, you know. It's like the
knives and fork so I used to give.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
Away at a will New World, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:31:49):
You've gone so far backwards for them, and then.

Speaker 2 (01:31:53):
Yeah, I have no time with those things. Dave, have
you got flybys because they are advertising you until the
thirty first to spend your fly fly bys dollars?

Speaker 3 (01:32:04):
No, mate, I wouldn't buy. I love flying, but I
never did that. I couldn't be bothered with that. The
only as I say, it's only because I did a
grocery shop and rat the time a countdown that I
felt that, well, I'm going to say that few bove
here and a few dollars there, I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:32:21):
Going to go date, but nice to talk. Thank you.
Noel Marcus, Hello are you well?

Speaker 4 (01:32:26):
God?

Speaker 2 (01:32:26):
Good, good, good God.

Speaker 5 (01:32:28):
I was a lady friend of mine the other day
and she'd been having trouble with her father. Now I
have been there, stuff going on, bits thicker than watering,
you know. She went home and looked it up and
the same actually comes from the blood of the Covenant
is given the water of the womb, meaning covenant must
be Jesus. The blood of Jesus, being a Christian is

(01:32:50):
more important than your family from the womb.

Speaker 4 (01:32:54):
And that she so.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
I mean, people have been taking it to me in
the opposite of what it really means, specially the mafia.

Speaker 5 (01:33:05):
You look it up, it's easy. I couldn't believe it,
and I looked it up. Sure enough, the blood of
the Covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.

Speaker 4 (01:33:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:33:17):
Mmm, so makes you think, although I must say mankind
being tribal and going back the blood of the family was.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
So hang hang on, because you're a lively sort of
a rester, right, Can I just back up the truck
here and say if you're an agreement with me? But yeah,
it means the opposite of what people think it means.

Speaker 5 (01:33:41):
Right, absolute opposite.

Speaker 2 (01:33:43):
Yeah, the total opposite. It means it means the relationships
you make yourselves are more important than the ones that
you don't choose.

Speaker 5 (01:33:52):
No, the blood of the Covenant, which is presumably Jesus.

Speaker 2 (01:33:57):
That's what it says. The blood of the Covenant is
thick in the water the womb. The saying means that
chosen bonds are more significant in the bonds with family
or water of the womb. More directly, it means that
relationships you make yourself are far more important than the
ones you don't choose. So, yeah, it's the opposite.

Speaker 5 (01:34:16):
Yeah, it's amazing, isn't it. Yeah, I'm sitting in the
back of a car in Helenville sleeping a lot with
my dog.

Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
You could become a real boar where that will actually actually, no,
the blood is not thick. That does not what the
blood is thicker than water means actually mean the opposite
of that. Why why are you in sleep with your car?

Speaker 5 (01:34:39):
I'm in Helensville. I've got to be here in the morning.
I'll just come up from Autorm So I'm standing in
a French place because of the bloody bomb parts. When
I'm out of the car.

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
Yeah with them, Yeah, okay, is that all right? For
you've got a pillow. It's good of a pillow in
a car.

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
I've done it a lot with them. Just ledge man.
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm going to go up towards Welsh
then come back here. More of saving time, money, petrol.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
Not a court appointment, is it.

Speaker 12 (01:35:10):
It's about moving.

Speaker 5 (01:35:11):
Into helln for oh God, place place for my campus.

Speaker 7 (01:35:15):
Then then oh good.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
I hope that goes well for you. And just remember
if they if they give you any Gypt, just say
bloods thicker than water.

Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
I will say word, take that one out.

Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
But what what is a covenant? What is a covenant?

Speaker 5 (01:35:27):
The covenant is the blood of Jesus. That was his covenant.
I will shed my blood to save your sins. That's
the blood of the covenant.

Speaker 2 (01:35:37):
It's not a word of it's not a word I've
ever used. Covenant.

Speaker 5 (01:35:42):
It's the covenant of the death of Jesus. And so
it is actually a Christian saying, if you.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
Look up your covenant, a covenant is an agreement.

Speaker 5 (01:35:54):
Yeah, that's the agreement Jesus side for our salvation.

Speaker 2 (01:35:58):
Copy that copy, that's the covenant. Yeah, tell you what
you'll be one of the more interesting calls I've had
for a long time. And talk back.

Speaker 5 (01:36:08):
Well, I went and visit the ladies REMORTI lady in
the family to getting on a back. She went home,
looked up the meaning, said, Aha, you guys, you're not
born putting them my friends and there they so I do.

Speaker 2 (01:36:21):
Yeah, blood stickad than water.

Speaker 5 (01:36:24):
Yeah, gangsters will tell you you and your dog good
on your ill.

Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
I've enjoyed that muchly twenty to twelve to twelve, twenty
twenty to twelve to twelve twenty. My name is Marcus, Welcome.
What about Narcho's. Where was the first place to experienced nachos?
The easy? And they'd make them, that's what they do.
They'd make them in a microwave. The whole cafes that
just continued. They just chucked the They just chucked the

(01:36:51):
mints in the bowl. They chuck it, and then they
chucked the grated cheese on top of goun the microwave.
It's all coming back to me now. In your first
five or six chips were fine because a crisp, and
then it just became a kind of a soggy mess
of beans and stuff. I think I'm right Grant Dalton

(01:37:13):
said if the am Cup isn't held in New Zealand,
he said it would be either go back to Barcelona
or the Middle East of the dirty petrol money. He
also said the Cup would be held every two years
and a spending cap on all teams AC seventy five
will still be used. Marcus Grant Dalton was on Whitbread
and the Volvoe Global Racist for more than twenty eight years.

(01:37:38):
The coverage of the Cup was excellent. Would have been
fantastic of Jimmy Spittel and Francisco Bruney on Luna Rossa
in the final against New Zealand. The races against us
In were pretty mundane, reelight winds and New Zin won
so easily almost looks like Team in z through a
couple of races to give the sponsors more coverage. Yeah,

(01:37:58):
I'm not necessarily saying that to the although they came
off the falls. But I guess you could have kind
of you could kind of Jimmy, that couldn't you please
people texting would realize that what I hastle that boost
countdown card is worth at work. I'm just on my
app now I can't work out how it works get started.
You get started into your email? Do you have a

(01:38:23):
war with the account sign and using the same email
a dress? Well, I wouldn't it want it hasn't been
a good experience for me. This continue. We've found your
account into your existing password. Reset my password, resee your
pass word will also update your war with account password. Continue.

(01:38:46):
We sent a password reset link to your email address.
Please check your inbox or spam folder. I should have
done this years ago. Inbox. Every time I see inbox,
I think inbop that Hanson song? Is it either an inbox? Oh? Inbox?

Speaker 20 (01:39:03):
Is that just me?

Speaker 2 (01:39:05):
Terrible song? By the way, bop inbox? Who in box?
Reset your password? Inbox? What happened to Hanson? Forgot your password? Marcus?
No worries? Will there be worries? Reset my password? And
now I won't remember what it is. That's the trouble

(01:39:26):
you password. I'm typing that and now, just because you
might be experiencing this or password must can oh yep,
oh yeah, pass We must include two of the following
up upper case, lower case, a number, a special character.

(01:39:48):
Oh please don't do this to me. I have to
write down straight away when I confirm I can't remember
what it was. This is my life with these stupid
past words three set. We're now going to put it

(01:40:13):
straight into my Sorry, but that's not going to put
straight into my what's it called boost password? Boost, countdown, password, countdown?
At password? I think I'm in Now I'm going to
type that in there so I can remember it is. Oh,
now I've typed that wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:40:32):
I'm in.

Speaker 2 (01:40:34):
Please, I've done that. Thank you people for tolerating that
for me. I've just seen on the Usual and Radio
Facebook page that Mark Bennett has died now, and I
don't know why I wasn't alluded to that, so, but
that's not what that's about. He worked and maybe it
has been mentioned on the show today. He worked on

(01:40:56):
zb doing Drive in nineteen eighty seven and it was
well known for radio, and I'm pretty sure he is
well known and TV also trom me. This person, tremendous person.
You will know him one zed b ZM FM country radio,

(01:41:17):
I Rady Pacific, great man, it's just news. It's just through.
I should have looked for that earlier, and then I
didn't check on that radio page. But oh, you're one
of the greats. I'm sure he was a continuity announcer
on TV. Also, so you remember the face Mark Bennett
huge smile anyway eighty you said he had nine two

(01:41:39):
nine two detects nine away from twelve. Marcus, what is
the boost card at Walworths of the Orange Everyday rewards?
Isn't it called a boost card? I've put the wrong
thing boost count down from a past word of script
at Walworths and there as well, so my search function
will find it. Thank you, good evening, Shelley, It's Marcus. Welcome,

(01:42:05):
yeah high shallow right, yes, good, thank you, that's good.

Speaker 8 (01:42:10):
Right your rewards card, remember it used to have your
one card.

Speaker 2 (01:42:19):
The onesie card.

Speaker 12 (01:42:20):
I like that. That was good.

Speaker 2 (01:42:21):
That was easy to card for.

Speaker 8 (01:42:22):
The countdown out. Well when it changed to the rewards,
you just had to put your number of your one
card and it just changed it all over for you.
But how it has that the little animated person who

(01:42:44):
you can ask a question? Yeah, request a card. I've
got a card as well, because you won't believe how
many places you go into and their computer things not
work them properly, or your phone won't bring up the barcode,

(01:43:06):
so you've got your back up.

Speaker 2 (01:43:07):
Card so they will give you a physical card will
they yes, yes, and they denied me. Okay, that's interesting.

Speaker 8 (01:43:15):
No, no, make sure I just hadn't not long. Got
one from my partner about three weeks ago. And the
other thing is then use it at BP on a Wednesday,
because you got your ten cents off later, but you

(01:43:37):
get a point for every dollar, and on a Monday
on your phone, you've got to actually boost it.

Speaker 19 (01:43:49):
That's where you get.

Speaker 8 (01:43:50):
All the points.

Speaker 2 (01:43:52):
Do you think it's all becoming a bit complicated.

Speaker 12 (01:43:55):
No.

Speaker 6 (01:43:56):
No.

Speaker 8 (01:43:57):
As soon as you get the hang of it, and
you open look at your on the phone and across
the bottom at head home screen and specials, you look
for the rewards and it will bring up what's coming up,
like during the week, and it might be two hundred

(01:44:19):
and fifty points for a little bottle of cream. See,
I do my shopping by buying points, so I get
fifteen dollar vouchers and go on a road trip free
bees often.

Speaker 2 (01:44:32):
Oh like a dream, clients, I have to do that
contract where I'm off for you, but thank you. I'll
look at the website. Thank you. Chris Alo Marcus welcome,
Oh hi Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:44:41):
Just a quick comment on the fireworks. It just occurs
to me that you know, we've got to a huge
amount of effort to get rid of all the rodents,
you know, the weasels and the rats in the States,
et cetera, and try and boost the native bird population.

Speaker 1 (01:44:57):
You know, we build.

Speaker 20 (01:45:00):
Zeelandia and we've got mantsrew Sam's Island, We've got all
these predator free areas, and then right in the middle
of the nesting season, right smack bang in the middle
of it. And I know, I know that's all going
on now because I see a lot of the seagulls
around here doing bit are romancing. You know, right in
the middle of all.

Speaker 1 (01:45:17):
That, we have guy fawks.

Speaker 20 (01:45:18):
And as you'll know, you know, you disturb a nesting
bird once and it will just abandon the nest and
it will abandon the eggs. Now, I just can't see
the point of going to all the trouble of trying
to boost native bird populations and then we turn it
around and set off fireworks. Not just one night, but
you know, people tend to do it over and over.

Speaker 2 (01:45:39):
Yeah, fair point, fair point, Chris, take your point. Thank
you for making it too, And no doubt they be
a bit more discussion on guy fawks remaining things I
worked with Nachi. He's a good work regard to both.
Thank you for Moe. I hate passwords all too hard,
and you are meant to have a different password for everything.
I'll just keep going to town and buying the stuff
I need. Morve Collins, I'll move Collins from mccleans Island.

(01:45:59):
Marcus Cleveden Kennels and Cattery and Cleveden do free boarding
for cats and dogs at fireworks time, so you don't
need animates.

Speaker 4 (01:46:07):
I put.

Speaker 2 (01:46:09):
A good use for old cards is to pick locks,
get in touch people I who want to talk quickly
and also too. I've got time to talk about Mark Bennett,
but that that is a he worked with me, rady alive.

(01:46:29):
We had he I did eight seven to ten, he
did eight till two. I think great till one and
was tremendous broadcaster. I don't think it hadn't always done talk,
but was right into it. He did real estate as well.
I think I think he did real estate with his wife,
like eastern suburbs in Auckland. I think he was doing
I'm pretty sure I've got that right. It's all on

(01:46:52):
the Facebook page, but he's an't radio. Facebook pages membership only,
but everyone there is mentioning him. He also was on
FM Country, no doubt there being no bit or something
in the paper. But did what on Z'DB in nineteen
eighty seven doing drive? I don't know who would have

(01:47:15):
replaced in nineteen eighty seven? Would it be John Cordery?
Chords might have been, but it was on TV also
I think on TV too it might have been a
continuity announce. I don't fully know the details there as
I have just found out about that Marcus countdown or
should I say Woolworth reward card is worth shopping right
for the checkout Gal told me how to use it properly.

(01:47:36):
I'd never have known how the boost system works. So
on a Monday, boost them all. So it's quite complicated.
Then if you shouldn't having a shop for that week,
you will then be ready to get points you didn't
know about. Of course, who wants shopping to be so complicated?
Have to boost? I've loved you all people. By the way,

(01:47:57):
the men's nipples replay from replay from last night of
course it is boy did we get thrashed? Eighty four
thirty four it's the.

Speaker 1 (01:48:07):
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Speaker 2 (01:48:10):
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