You could smell the cones (17 December 2024)

Marcus picks up last night's ice cream chat and covers off Christmas scams, drones, and solar panels.

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Greetings, Welcome. My name is Marcus Hurdle. Midnight tonight at seven.
It is Tuesday, the seventeenth of December, that's right, one
week till Christmas, and I hope the show has found
you in a goodish space, if you know. I hope
things get better by the time I shuffle out of here,
which will be about midnight just before. So welcome here
to midnight oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine
to nine two de text. A bit of an open

(00:35):
slate tonight. A couple of things I want to talk about,
something probably you'll want to talk about. We'll meet in
the middle, hopefully not meeting the muddle, and we'll see
where we go. So feel free get your fingers dialing.
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty. Firstly, scams. We haven't
done scams for a while, and sometimes I think, well,

(00:56):
scams low hanging fruit. But I know this time of
the year no one wants to be scammed, and I'll
speaking of someone just dealing this. It seems to be
a lot of scams going around. I like to talk
about scams because then people become scam aware. A lot
of scams going around involving your motorcar registration through email,
stuff like that. If there's something new or different, let

(01:17):
me know what's happening in the scam world, because some
of you take great joy and busting all markets. I
got scammed, I nearly got scammed. So the sort of
scams I want to hear about tonight as anyone getting
any chet ai scams where people are pretending to be
the voice of one of your relatives, that would be

(01:39):
of interest to me. Anyone got any particular Christmas scams?
People selling Christmas trees on marketplace that don't derive anything
like that, because the thing about Christmas and the time
of good chair, it's always a time that people might
want to chance their hand with a scam. So you
got some information about scams, I'm all up for those.

(02:00):
Enjoy the discussion. I like people's passion for a scam.
If I've been about two years ago on holiday, has
some money taken out of our bank, But Vanessa was
on til we rang the bank and we waited for
twelve hours, and the next morning we found out the
money had been returned. I never know what the scam was.
It was one of those mean a PayPal scam, but

(02:27):
I would imagine every year I get closer to being scammed.
There's sometimes is everything converge. I think, hang about, what's this?
Should I reply to that? Should I send some money?
What's going on there? I do find that my personal
psychic scam umbrella is getting thinner every year. Does freak
me out slightly. Actually, I've always thought the banks would

(02:51):
defend me, but I'm not convinced about that. So scams
is one of the topics tonight. It's particularly with new
scams and different scams. You've got something to go on
about that, let me know, oh, eight hundred and eighty two.
And the reason the other thing I wanted to talk
about was insurance because reading an article today to say
that you don't get insurance coverage if you are driving

(03:17):
wearing gendles, and by all accounts, that is fake news.
And then I thought about the claim that often here
on the talkback show, they I've never bothered to investigate,
and people have often told me on air that if
you don't get your house is chimneys swept every year,

(03:38):
then your insurance is void. And a bit of a
bit of a quick Google search about that today as
I did prep for my show, and it seems from
what I can see is that's not a criteria at all.
It seems like insurance companies are quite reasonable. And if
you have a house fire because you use your chimney

(03:59):
all the time and have never swept it, they could
probably void it. But in the article they say quite
sensibly that you mightn't get your chimney, you might use
your fire that often, so therefore you wouldn't need to
get swept as often. So there we go. Often in
my life I've heard people say grand statements when it
comes to insurance, like you won't get insurance if you're

(04:21):
drive in generals, or if you won't get insurance if
you don't sweep your chimney. Reare these things are false,
by the way I have it. Emails about New Zealand's
first soft serve ice cream machines last up we had
a very good show people talk about soft serve ice
cream in New Zealand and the first soft serve machine

(04:42):
that was at Codylan's dairy up there in TITEBANGI well,
someone else has got in touch with me today they
had the first soft the first soft serve right, the
first soft serve ice cream machine in the mid seventies.
It was a tailor freeze machine for the restaurant Cafe

(05:03):
ice Cream Parlor at Hamilton Lake Bracket seven days license
to print money and they said they spent a lot
of time cleaning it. The downside was the cleaning of
this machine. Ron with an engineering background would take hours
into the evening of particular care sterilization with a testing regime.

(05:27):
As always conscious of customer safety. He was asked by
that milk company to promote this new product in Singapore,
which went well despite the hot conditions. Your callery spoke
of the heating pros of the tailor machine and contents
which are off putting. He was certainly knowledgeable, so I'm

(05:47):
quite interested in the spread of soft serve ice cream
throughout the country. That might just be a backup topic
you can mention since it went so well last night,
along as insurance and scams for this Tuesday. Now there
was something else was going to mention, which I'll get
back to before too long. And the number is I say, oh,

(06:08):
the other thing too right, someone, This is like post
bag with Selwyn too good. But someone also has emailed
me right, and there's an advertisement for KFC and the

(06:29):
advertisement is for the KFC bucket, and the emailer is concerned.
It's an ad And there's a group of young women
loving a bucket of KFC, and the young lad signals
to them that he wants the bucket, and the women
say the bucket of chicken, and he indicates, no, just

(06:49):
the bucket. He needs that to move sand to make
a sand castle. And the women that are the life
savers hand the young boy the bucket, and the email
from Nylan Allen goes as follows, Hey, Marcus, have you
noticed the KFC TVD where a boy gets a KFC
bucket from a girl but does not in anyway express

(07:11):
his appreciation, either verbally or in his body language. Not
a very good example to other children. Well goodness, did
that cause some fuss in the newsroom? Where to deep
dive into the commercial? Looked at it forensically from frame
to frame, and what we've decided it's quite as short

(07:32):
add I think it's just a fifteen seconder And a
lot goes on in that ad, and I would imagine
the young boy is a victim of editing that to
cut from him being handed the bucket to him doing
the sand chain to build the boat. Someone else might
have some comment on that, and I'll be eagerly embrace
you about that. But yeah, do you think the child

(07:53):
on the cafc ad was particularly ungracious when he received
the bucket? I don't have too much of a problem
with it. But there we go. That's something else you
might want to bang into the mix tonight, Marcus. I
would have thought I had my first snow freeze at
Woolworth's in Kilbernie in the late sixties. She surely couldn't

(08:15):
get a second night on a snow freeze. When did
I get my first snow freeze? I think it was
Mister Whippy, which I never really loved, to be fair,
I was always a bit sketchy about snow freeze ice
cream alright, So hang about what's that about? It always
seemed to me to be slightly anyway. Marcus just spotted

(08:40):
a flock of Canadian geese flying due north over West Auckland,
probably heading to a pond in Hellersville. Wow. Marcus. Our
late night shopping in Lower Hut from nineteen fifty six
onwards was a soft served cone from woolworth So Woolworths
must have gotten to that cheapest creepers. Actually, I think

(09:01):
I'm going back now. I can visualize it. Can I
visualize soft serve ice cream? I think I can. I
guess it was the tailor machines. Did they clean them?
I've got no idea. So suddenly I feel I've got
five or six topics out there bouncing around, and no
one first to start with the discussion. So if you
have something to say about these topics, Also to va two.

(09:23):
Some of you will have close connections there. You might
have spoken to Vanoa two. You might have family there.
If you've got some comments about that. It was quite
close to Port Vila, just ten k's deep off the coast.
Multiple buildings have fallen. Forty five news enders registered in

(09:45):
Voha two and more expected to be not registered. So
if you've spoken to Vonah two, do know what's going
on there? Obviously to a lot of your people from
Vanuha two will be in New Zealand. A lot of
people work. By the way, the people from Vanoah two
have got an interesting name which I've forgotten. They are

(10:11):
called Knee Vanuha two. Or knee Van. So yes, so
there are plenty of knee Vondoha two people in New
Zealand or knie Van in New Zealand. If that made
any sense yet, it's an expression I have any come
of terms with that. Well, but Cernayway spent that year

(10:32):
living in Crob were a lot of people from Vadoha
two nie Vonoa twoins Marcus. The kids smile was his
thanks realistic ad that's from Cindy. There you go, Marcus.
I've had an email scam twice the last month claiming
that if I don't pay nineteen hundred to coin account,

(10:52):
they will something something with my iCloud account, which I've
never paid. Marcus. Biggest scam of power companies that pay
you four cents per killer what hour for your solar power,
then we sell it for forty four cents four hundred
and fifty percent profit. Mind you, it's cost it's not
costing you anything, is it apart from your panels? But

(11:15):
the sun's not costing you anything. Well, that's free. Getting
touched by name's Marcus. Welcome hitdal twelve. If there is
something else you want to mention too. Insurance and insurance
myths scams and soft serve ice cream for a second night.
They'll be breaking news when that happens. By the way,

(11:37):
if you might have noticed looking closely at the ad
for the KFC bucket, the surf lifesaver who gave the
bucket is also at the end of the end end
of the ad on the sandboat with a small child.
So in some way the small child has shown us
thanks by incorporating the woman into the whole process with
the boat. Sometimes I think people that email me are

(12:01):
just from the advertising agency is trying to create some
discussion around what they're talking about. Mark, as a friend
of mine, sees most ice cream containers and using the
soupermarkets do not say ice cream on them. Why wouldn't they?
But please discuss I'll be in for that as well.

(12:25):
This sounds like another conspiracy to me. And maybe it
does need to say ice cream on the top because
people well tiptop ice cream two liter. All the ones
I've googled up say ice cream on the lid like
an look. I've done an image search quite quickly. Boys

(12:49):
and Brier, ripple ice cream, chocolate ice cream, Goody Goody,
gum drops ice cream. In fact, I'm struggling to find
one that doesn't say ice cream. So there we go.
Hocus pocus limited I doesn't say ice cream, probably isn't anyway,

(13:11):
twenty past eight. My name is Marcus Hitd on Midnight,
looking forward to what you've got to say tonight. There
is something different you want to embark on. Yes, even
we'll talk about the drones in America. That seems to
be a popular topic at the moment, not that anyone
really knows what's going on apart from probably nothing. Be
across it, be a part of it. Eight hundred eighty

(13:32):
ten eighty and nine to knowne to to text keep
us updated with breaking news. It is this summer. It's
a time of fires and strandings and Wallaby's going where
they shouldn't be. If you are across any news or
no oney news as well with the newsers, yeah, I'll

(13:54):
be pretty keen to hear what you've got to say
about that. So that's what we're on about. My name
is Marcus. Welcome eight hundred eighty ten eighty. Now there's
some ice cream the tip top moments Neapolygans is frozen dessert. Yes,

(14:18):
so there must be some definition to ice cream Bruce,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Welcome, good evening, Marcus. I was interested in what you
were saying as well, like how some people can define
it on their packaging as ice cream and others can't.
According to the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, ice
cream is a frozen sweet food. It's made from milk

(14:44):
or cream products. It must contain at least one hundred
grams per kilogram of milk fat and one hundred grams
per liter of food solids. So that seems to be
the answer that it's a.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Lot of milk fit and milk fit's a good thing.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Well, I think, so, okay, okay about solar panels and
you said, well, you know that doesn't cost you anything, Well,
actually it cost me twelve thousand to put ten panels
on the roof. And when it started, I was being
given seventeen cents perokin of what hour, and now I'm

(15:22):
being given seven cents hour. So you know, I understand
that if you know, it's difficult for them to make
profits if they're paying too much, but it's kind of
a big margin.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
How much would those you said you spend twelve thousand dollars?

Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yep?

Speaker 3 (15:41):
How much would those twelve thousand dollars panels cost now.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Oh gosh, I'm probably.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Left but significant amount list.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
I'm not sure, mar because I haven't checked.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, okay, I'll be curious to know because I know
that what's happening now is places like Africa is that
power usage just way way down and they couldn't work
out why. But they've just gone and looked on Google Maps,
and everyone's all Google Everyone's got solar panels. The price
is so low that people are cutting giving up on
the giving up on the power companies and just getting

(16:19):
solar panels. It's been huge and the numbers are quite
extraordinary about what's going on with that. As far as
people generating their own power from panels, it's kind of
made a quantum leap.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
The silent solar evolution has seen Pakistani's erect the equivalent
of thirty percent of the national grid in six months.
Farmers who depend on tube wells, which pull water from
aquifiers for irrigation, are often diesel powered. We're putting up
panels too. Diesel sales in the country drop thirty percent.
It was to be this Mulu ice cream. They can't

(17:04):
call it Mulu ice cream. In fact, it's called frozen desserts.
And that's because with the Mulu ice cream, which you
can't call ice cream, what they've got is they just
put them. They just put a milk base and then
rather than a ten percent fat, they just add vegetable fat,
which is cheaper, so it can't be labeled ice cream.
I haven't seen the Mulu, but you might have tried
the Mulu Mulu frozen dessert. It's not much cheaper than

(17:30):
jip job, but it's full of fat. Proudly made in
New Zealand. You can't call it ice cream. Mulu vanilla
flavored frozen dessert, reconstituted skim milk, sugar, vegetable fat. Ooh,
it freaked me out already just reading about that. Anyone

(17:52):
tried the Mulu. Dave Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 6 (17:58):
Get Marcus. I remember the frozen yogurt years and years ago.
My earliest memory of ice cream cream free would be
ice cream Charlie's in the center of christ Church. There
they were the tubs of like cream freeze with raspberry
and cream and you get like a wooden pedal to

(18:18):
eat it with up in Noah's Hotel there and those
rose garden, you know the sprays from the rose you
know in the center of city there.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
You sure it was called ice cream Charlie's.

Speaker 6 (18:34):
Yeah, that's what we always called it. And he used
to rock back and forward in his caravan and serving
up the ice creams and the tubs of I don't
know whether he's still there.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
But it's a pink caravan, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (18:48):
I don't know. It used to be white, I think.
And he used to balance from one foot to the other.
It's sort of like a dancing sway. Just he used
to get a rhythm on and where always kids used
to laugh at that. Hey, Markus, what you said about
the soul panels and Pakistan really surprises me. Pakistan it
just doesn't seem never seems to me to be that advanced,

(19:10):
if you know what I mean here.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
But hang on, you've got your iPhone if you're in
Pakistan with a cell phone, right, and you can see
that Chinese solar panels are so cheap you just pass some,
chuck them up bypass. The electricity company Curtas they couldn't
work out why the demand for electricity has just plummeted.

(19:34):
Then they got on Google Earth and seen everyone's put
up these solar panels making their own power.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
That really well, it doesn't surprise me, but it does
perhaps where a bit with mister Trickey or the government
has in supplying homeowners and others with solar panels.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Cheaper than fencing. Now, Helen, it's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (19:58):
Good evening, Good evening.

Speaker 8 (20:00):
I'd like to just talk about solar panels in a
dusty environment. I also like to mention something about Pakistan
at the end of this.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
I think you've rung the right show.

Speaker 8 (20:11):
Yes, well, that's that's great. Now I don't on a
really really dusty road in Northland, and there are thousands
of kilometers of these unsealed dusty roads, and so I'm
wondering if there's anybody out there who's had experience of
solar panels in the rural area where you know, you're
limited on tank water and very dusty environment, so you

(20:34):
can't be up there washing down your panels all the time,
and how and how that you know that has a
bad effect gone on the efficiency of the solar panels.
So somebody out there, you know, what are you going?

Speaker 3 (20:50):
Hang on, Let me just take a breath, Helen, because
I'm into you and what you're saying.

Speaker 8 (20:53):
Right, Okay, thank you?

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Just pause? Yes, could you just give them but a
quick squiz with the hose?

Speaker 8 (21:02):
No, I'm on tank water and I don't have it's
not electrically driven. Plus you have to be so careful
of your water.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Okay, So you can't go up there and just give
a quick scull.

Speaker 8 (21:16):
No, I can't.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
I can't.

Speaker 8 (21:17):
I'm pass climbing letters. So I was just wondering, how
you know, if it's anybody would.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Not would not? Could you not? Would rain not come down?
And you can? Have you got any gauges you can
check out how much voltage is coming through and stuff.

Speaker 8 (21:29):
No, I'm really untechnical, but sometimes we don't get any
rain for weeks and weeks and several.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
We're about you say you're fun today it does nothing
but rain?

Speaker 8 (21:41):
No, no, no, no no. Sometimes like sometimes we don't
get any rain between November and February. That's been in
a dry year.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
But think how much sonya again, I'm sure what even out?

Speaker 8 (21:53):
No, I don't know anyway, I just wonder how that
would that would affect the sandals. Now about Pakistan. I
was watching food videos for a while and I was
I want something, and you know it was a I
was watching in this said Pakistan and there was this

(22:15):
very switched on woman, you know, wearing saris and to everything.
She was showing these ovens that she'd made, very proud.
They were beautiful ovens. What show was this on YouTube?
And the person that was interviewing has said, how did
you learn how to make these? Since she said I

(22:37):
found it on Google?

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, wow, there you go. So good story.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (22:43):
So so Pakistan maybe is not as backward as as
one might think.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Oh well, there's great adaptation and evolution comes when there
is financial restriction. People are given the means to purchase
something that can change their life in a positive way,
like buying solar panels. It's quite exciting. Tricity used in
Pakistan dropped by thirty percent just because people are going

(23:11):
up buying panels. I don't know whether they can save
money by putting it back into the grid or quite
how it works. So I don't know that. Hellow Malcolm Marcus,
welcome years.

Speaker 9 (23:19):
Hello Marcus Marcus. Earlier I heard reference to Mulu ice cream. Yes,
my father at least a building to the Van der
Geeson's in Hamilton in the sixties when as children we
we often received large tubs of ice cream from Kandigeson.

(23:45):
This was in the hey day, the beginnings of of
what appeared to be a very successful business. But I
haven't seen it in really recent years. But I do
remember the free stuff.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
I don't know if it's still made by them, the
Mulu stuff, because I said, I've googled up. It looked
like quite a budget kind of the packaging's gotten. It
just looks like it's just it doesn't look like a
flash brand.

Speaker 9 (24:13):
So I think early on it was quite a competitor
to another company called Roscoe or another brand name called Roscoe,
which I don't think is well and truly gone, probably
taken over by Tiptop or.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
And since it's made by much more dot co dot
nz okay, yeah, that must be a rival. I don't
have the Van Giesons are still in it, are they?

Speaker 9 (24:41):
I have no idea.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Probably not a very famous sounding name in the ice
ice cream trade.

Speaker 9 (24:48):
Yeah, but it was. We thought it was pretty good.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
There what flavors?

Speaker 9 (24:55):
Oh, I think it was pineapple.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
And ch'd like a plineapple ice cream?

Speaker 9 (25:01):
Yeah, and oky pokey I can remember.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Brilliant, but you're Malcolm, Seriously, is this woman locked in
a basement? How is she not experiencing rain for up
to four months at a time. Slightly concerning. I think
she's got spr solar panel remorse. I think she's put
them up there and she's spent the money. Now she's
just worried about the dust road. I mean, bless her,
but flip, I mean you imagine that particular sort of misery.

(25:32):
You've brought solar panels in the roads dusty, and every
time a cargo's bars, you'd be thinking, oh, well, I
hope that does dust's not falling on the solar panels
because like it's going to rain for a while.

Speaker 10 (25:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
I think there's probably some people that can handle solar
panels and some people that can't.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Just if Y I.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Haven't just a full disclosure here, I haven't got solar panels,
but I reckon i'd be really keen to get them.
I didn't think you could actually put your power back
into the grid yet. Even that you can do that,

(26:10):
you should be able to put it at different times
and get a different spot price. Though, if y I
Helen has called back, Helen hasn't got solar panels. She's
thinking about it, but she's worried about the dust. So
basically Helen just wants to complain about the dust I

(26:32):
think on her road. I've never lived on a dusty road,
so I don't really know what to say about that.
But yeah, she's not happy. So that's what it's more about. End,
good evening, Welcome.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
Afternoon. Yeah, Marcus, whilst as I talked to you, and
it's nice to hear them. This Charlie's ice cream you're
talking about before in christ Church, Yeah you're there. Yeah,
they're still an Mr Street and you know they make

(27:11):
their own ice cream. But the old father that used
to run it he passed away. Of course, there was
been going about seventy years, this Charity's ice cream in
christ Church, who was in Kesher Street many years ago
and stuff, and he still produced a lovely product.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
It's a slightly funky taste, a slightly.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
No, it's slightly. It's real nice.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
It's real nice and every slightly sort of creamy, kind
of out of the cow taste to me.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
Well, I'll tell you something. You know how they had
I was meant to ring I meant to ring you
the other day, you know when they had the conference,
the labor conference here at the convention center, which is
where the ice cream thing is. They all came over
the head to try and get some quick because you know,
things are tough. They all came across there to get
a wee bit of cream for their coffee. People walking

(28:10):
across the true story, true story, they come across and
get a wee bit of cream because things are tough,
and there was no cream for the coffee, and.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
And yeah, they should have come across to get an
ice cream from there to get the approval of the.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
Protra some some some dead. Some they still in the
glass dish. They still do this glass dish. Have you
ever taken your door to dem a glass of ice
ice cream and a glass dish with a wee bit
of biscuit? You know the way of biscuit, the old Yeah,

(28:55):
I tell you what's that? Market? Christis is up market? Mate?
You left it?

Speaker 3 (28:59):
You know the tasting, The tasting wasn't liking.

Speaker 5 (29:05):
Oh well, you go to McDonald's ice cream from your van, right,
you stick to McDonald's.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
I've never heard of McDonald's ice cream. Men. Once upon
a time you could just agree with everything. These days,
there everyone wants a fight, don't they? The internet has
done it. You want to fight about anything? Hello, Joe's
Marcus welcome?

Speaker 11 (29:33):
Oh yeah, I want to talk. I was going Charlie
the core has just been on. He got quite a
few things wrong. They don't see in a glass dish
anymore because fever are stealing. They were stealing the glass dishes.
But they also don't have cream freeze anymore. They only

(29:58):
have the special recipe of ice cream, which they don't
give any information men, because it's speechial recipe. And the
woman that runs it now she lives here and Rangulora
and comes in every day or on the summer, so
I don't think she goes in the window at all,
but she's she's an Arma Street. But it used for many,

(30:21):
many many years. It was in Litchfield Street, the corner
of going on the corner of Manchester High Street in
Litchfield Street, opposite the Majestic Theater. Because I remember my
mother used to take me there when I was a child,

(30:42):
I got the name ice cream. Charlie is one of
the early owners and has been going for over a
hundred years. And mom used to take me there when
I was a child, and then When I grew up,
I took up bike racing, road cycling, and at the
end of a cycle, before I went home, I always

(31:05):
went to ice from Charlie and Letsfield Street.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
We're a successful cyclist, Joe.

Speaker 11 (31:14):
Yeah, well yes, or no. I was training on a
bike because of my It was most of the three
coups of speech coass training is done off off the ice,
and I did a lot of cycling and running on

(31:35):
the Keshmir Hills and I had a tremendous success for
many years. Represented New Zealand, won some world titles.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Okay, and the glaces dishes went because they're getting stolen.
Is that correct, Just so we can can feel what
in said? Is that correct?

Speaker 4 (31:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, okay, thanks for that, Joe. Keep it going. People
twelve away from nine one name is Marcus. Welcome. Keep
those texts coming through. Sydney has been going for a
long time. The original guy was a guy called Sally.
Muhammet arrived and he was it in eighteen ninety four.

(32:19):
And that's probably why they called him Charlie, as was
the way once upon a time, different name Sally called
him Charlie. Goodness me. He once moved to Ringi Ora,
isn't they wonder whey they stare? The caravan Marcus. The

(32:40):
caravan of ice cream was called vanilla iced, slightly icy
but with a bit of cream and raspberry sauce. Marcus,
lushy New soul of farm being built in Puknui in
the Far North is on a gravel road, so I
think a few house punnels will be fine. Mitch. Good

(33:01):
on you, Mitch Marcus. The best real ice cream came
from I read in white Danish to light kiosks back
in the addies long gone, like Narnia and herbal tobacco.
They're all the rage. They are, those Danish delights. You
could smell the cones from miles away, smell smell kind

(33:21):
of sickly, but they're quite Yeah, whe would happen to those?
Goodness me, it's like in my day with the ice cream.
But yeah, they were big to Danias. I think that
was it was it like a North Arland thing, like
a giant cone, like a giant triangle. Danish delights with
the kiosks, and I think they're mainly women that worked

(33:42):
like in a Danish kind of a uniform. Well, a
New Zealand version of what a Danish uniform would look
like like a milkmaid. Forgotten. They even were a thing
once upon a time. But these days now they're gone
the same way as greyhound racing, haven't they no more?

(34:03):
Murray Marcus good evening.

Speaker 12 (34:07):
High markers. I've been making ice cream and products like
ice cream for fifty years.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Oh wow, wow, so.

Speaker 12 (34:15):
Some time ago, many years ago. I don't know if
you remember the brand called Georgie Pie or a take
you quick past food outlet. Yeah, we used to make.
I used to make all the software for them for
their machines and the and the.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
Takeaways from where did were you?

Speaker 12 (34:36):
I was a little ice cream man. It's actually called
the American ice Cream.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Oh, for goodness sake, okay wow, And a.

Speaker 12 (34:42):
Little business in new markets. And we used to get
to the fresh milk from down the road at that
area company and they bring it down and cans and
we would add the sugar and what we call stabilizers
to the mixture and pasteurize it and pack it all
up then run it off to all their stores.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
And the reason we're talking about that last night is
because the McDonald's have such huge problems with the machines
and they take four hours to clean because they're called
tailor machines, which seem to be was that what they
used at Jewelsy Pie and you had to use.

Speaker 12 (35:15):
A similar machines, a similar one. Okay, it couldn't take
that long to clean. I mean, I think clean my
surnames Taylor, but no relation to understand.

Speaker 7 (35:25):
But no, they.

Speaker 12 (35:26):
Shouldn't take that long to clean. Really, it's like an
ice cream factory. It takes longer to clean an ice
cream machine in the ice cream factory, but there's similar machine.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Why are those soft sup machines so vult Is it
easy to get listeria? Or someone going on?

Speaker 5 (35:44):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (35:44):
What is that what the paranoia is about?

Speaker 12 (35:47):
No, because the milk, when you're in the end of
the day, you've got to get rid of all the
milky residues out of it so that nothing can start
to grow. And where the problem comes Swiss, you leave
foother near for bacteria. Bacteria will grow right, and and
it's easier to cleaner a machine in a factory. It

(36:07):
is in some of these take away places, you know.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
I can't even remember the old Georgie Pie soft serve thing.
They did an ice cream and they did a dessert,
did they.

Speaker 12 (36:19):
Yeah, well, they they had a soft served machines and
they used to serve them, you know, just like ice
creams like you do McDonald Power.

Speaker 9 (36:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (36:26):
And so because offter is a lower fat content and
ice cream.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Is about four percent as lower did you say, yeah.

Speaker 12 (36:36):
Ice cream has got to be ten percent to be
called ice cream line? Okay, foster is a lower fat product,
but similar sugar product is an ice cream mane.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (36:46):
And they call it soft serve because designed to come
out of those machines as a soft product, rather like
a scoop of a hard ice cream when you're buying
ice cream, you.

Speaker 13 (36:57):
Know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
So you could say that soft serve is a healthier product.

Speaker 12 (37:02):
If that is your croteria for a healthy product. Yes, okay, yes,
but ice cream is pretty good too, and.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
A seft serve and American invention.

Speaker 12 (37:17):
I believe it did come from the USA, yes, And.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Mainly the sense of discovery would be the machine that
would make.

Speaker 12 (37:25):
It right, partly that I mean ice cream machines and
ice con factory could make it, but obviously you want
a sport machine in the retail situation, and probably McDonald's
probably pioneered that sort of thing because they had the
technology and money.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
Yeah okay, but yeah, a lot.

Speaker 12 (37:46):
Of companies around the world, different companies make these machines.
And then, of course, mister whippy as one goes very
well out of it, does you did you?

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Did New American get brought out Murray?

Speaker 12 (38:01):
Yes, we finally sold it, solved it out the business.
We became a second just brand in New Zealand at
one stage.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Because it had it had some big discoveries too, didn't it.
What was your inventions? You invented some significance.

Speaker 12 (38:16):
Goody gun drops one of my inventions.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Yeah, well, well done for that, and.

Speaker 12 (38:21):
Then Pmphis meltdown of another that was later that was
in America, that was tip top. But yeah, I guess
the American is best known for their goody gun drops?

Speaker 3 (38:31):
And did that take it? Did that go international after
being invented?

Speaker 9 (38:34):
That?

Speaker 3 (38:34):
Did that become a global brand? Because it should have.

Speaker 12 (38:39):
That flavor was really just the local one and not
as quite as good as it used to be these days.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
But why did that not take over the world because
it always seems to be so incredibly appealing.

Speaker 12 (38:50):
I don't know, it's very much in New Zealand. Thing
you remember Muldoon loved it.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
Did he tell you that?

Speaker 8 (39:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (39:01):
He stes the shop at there and and actually mentioned
the fact the borders.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Goody gun drop really because he came across from Hatfield Beach,
wouldn't he yeh after mowing the lawns.

Speaker 12 (39:13):
Yeah he.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
Yeah, nice to talk to Murray. Thank you so much.
There we go. I don't even think good he got
what year was? Goody good? He gun drops and vented Murray?

Speaker 12 (39:27):
Oh golly? Uh in the early agies.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Yeah, okay, I don't think i'd been around that long,
So thank you for that. Brilliant Always enjoy it. Just
coming up to the news. If you want to talk,
feel free to come through. My name is Miller. Was
a good hour. It all happened, didn't it. Solar panels
and the invention of ice cream.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Ooo?

Speaker 3 (39:48):
And Dusty Rhodes and what about the Danish de lights
did I don't even have it was that good When
they had the brand new mall opened in southern Viicago,
they had a Danish de Lights there and people thought
they'd seen the future. Yeah that's right. People still talk
about it. Danish de lights there on Ellis Road for
goodness sake. Yeah, yeah, you can keep your Brad Olson's

(40:12):
we're the guy that taught that. We talked to the
guy invented goody goody gun drops, ice cream, cheapest creepers.
You know what did you?

Speaker 10 (40:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Wow? That's and Muldoon loved it. Fidget's spin to get
in touched. My name's Marcus. It's all about I feel
we're having the calls tonight we needed last night. But
what about the Danish delights? You make? The whole key
to the Danish de lights is you'd make your own
cones and these giant waffle things and the smell of

(40:44):
those cones would waft down the street, and you think,
cheapest creepers. I feel like one of those. I think
that's how the whole thing was all about. The smell
was a whole ice cream that was based on the
attracting people from the smell of the cones. I'm pretty
sure if there's one in Vicago, I'm pretty sure they
run the don't what happened to them? They disappeared just
like that, Just like that, the scoops of ice cream

(41:07):
and then cream on top of it. I feel like
it was an eighties thing. Ice cream nostalgia. It's the
only show in town.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
Sometimes I watch a lot of those YouTube videos of
food stools in India, a lot of if it's there
to make ice cream, they put they smash up ice
so they put things in drums and they roll it
around for goodness sake. Anyway, we are talking about Danish
Delights and soft of ice cream and solar panels. If

(41:45):
anyone's got information about solar panels and dusty rhads for Helen.
We were talking about Danish Delights. We were talking about
Danish Delights bakery. There is one at the Art Attacky
Visitors Center, which is one of the last by this
that's closed because Scenic Drives closed right in TITANGI seems
like one of the last. Every said, there's a picture

(42:10):
of the woman that she looks like she's wearing like
a Danish I like, it's like a milkmaid's out I
know that sounds wrong, but it seems to be like
a milkmaid's outfit. It sounds six, is it? Well, yeah,
but you didn't see meaning a milkmade's outfit. I don't
know what the what's the male word for maids? Dan
milkman now is supposed to be a milkman, Jamie, this

(42:30):
would be right in your wheelhouse, is it?

Speaker 14 (42:33):
I'm so excited? Market is you really shod my memory
on this one? So my memory, I hadn't thought about
this in twenty twenty five years maybe, And I think
here's my memory right Mountain longan.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
UIs you're at the hot pools, Yes, you are.

Speaker 14 (42:52):
You come out of the hot pools, and then across
the road you got your Danish delay and I think
it was Danish delay, but it was the waffle tone
and they had you know, the big iron yaffle yep
yep grid things and they'd pour the vetter in and
they'd made these bottle things and I guess when they
came out they rap they killed them around the thing

(43:13):
to make them the nice owe shape, and then they'd
chucked the ice creaming for you and you'd say caramel
sauce or chocolate sauce and you'd walk out with it.
It scene how big these things were. My memory anyway,
I would have been ten years old maybe, so who knows?

Speaker 5 (43:30):
You know.

Speaker 14 (43:32):
That was my memory?

Speaker 3 (43:33):
And Jamie, can I just also say that it was
a really wide cone. It was almost like looking side on,
it was almost like at the collectoral triangle and they
put a giant step of vanilla than a giant scoop
of chocolate ice cream and then filmed it full of cream,
and I reckon even in those days, it probably would
have been about seven dollars fifty am I right?

Speaker 14 (43:51):
Well the mum or dad was paying, I don't know,
And I think the issue was that you'd get to
the bottom and by then the ice cream had really
soaked into that fresh law and it was just a big, sloppy,
sloppy mess.

Speaker 10 (44:04):
But I'm sure it was amazing.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
You really have to have trust in your children to
carry that off, because even a basic ice cream with
a lot of kids is not is not an achievable thing.
But to do to do that before it collapses, that's
a good ki at.

Speaker 14 (44:17):
A Yeah, I lived at the hard ways appearing now,
but I think it was that one in the day.
I imagine you wouldn't be getting in the car, You'd
be looking, you know, down the block to the end.

Speaker 15 (44:27):
Of the road.

Speaker 14 (44:28):
You'd be jump you'd be sitting at the beach there
with your eyes streaming your mess, and then you don't
wash your.

Speaker 10 (44:33):
Hands in the water.

Speaker 14 (44:34):
And it was a lovely day right there was from
a pretty solid memory.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
Could you smell the cones from the hot poles? Probably could?

Speaker 13 (44:41):
Absolutely didn't say you didn't say.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
That, Davie. We can't make You've got to tell the
whole story.

Speaker 14 (44:46):
Okay, you colle This is why you're joining my memory,
whichause just exactly it, because you can sell it from
a block away, right, And so all the kids are
whining to all appearings abound's get them waffle cone, waffle cone.
It's like the cookie places around your stays in town,
right where you smell the cookie places halfway up the block? Yes, yes, yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
They've kind of gone, haven't they. Those cockies and missus.
There used to be sort of big machines that made
cookies on the main street.

Speaker 14 (45:16):
Yeah, it's still on on Queen Street. But I couldn't
tell you about the story.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
Is ye what year we're talking. You're saying you'd be
forty five now and this was twenty five years.

Speaker 14 (45:27):
Ago, the early forties. Yeah, that would have been I
guess mid nineties.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Someone says it might still be in Mount Morgan and
we would that be right?

Speaker 14 (45:38):
Oh, I hadn't been there forever. Yeah, good question.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
We'll find out Jamie and joryed you enthusiasm, Thank you.
Someone said there's Danish light, but there's also Copenhagen Cones,
which sounds like the happy follow. You know, there's a
person that invents that, then there's a person that comes
in after it. Copenhagen Cones sounds slightly more double on Tawndery,

(46:03):
doesn't it if you know what I'm saying. Wow, I
think we're on a bit of a topic. Now, well
maybe you never really know. Do you get in touch people?
Marcus mountain Monganui was Copenhagen Cones. I loved them with

(46:26):
strawberry sauce on top of meg Delicious. I make my
own virgionais in the waffle cone from what's now Woolworth's.
It's gone now, sadly, Sally Oh, she's referring back to
Copenhagen Cones. She's not referring back to Woolworth's. That you've
got your sentences in the wrong order. Mine do not
being critical. Marcus mount Monganui still has Copenhagen Cones. It's

(46:50):
busier than a one armed paper hanger from Bagdad. Can
you say that, Marcus and mount Monganu the ice cream
shop is over the road for the pools. It's called
Copenhagen Cone still there in a amazing You know what,
I'm going to support that because every man in these
dogs going gelato. Aren't they all opening up these gelato shops.

(47:13):
People aren't going late at night drinking, They're just going
out to have gelato in the middle of the day.
It's crazy, Marcs. I'd love a Danish to light end
in ice cream. Marcus, not ice cream, but arrived to
mum and Dad's start for a quick visit. Mum had
made old school Russian fudge made with sugar nut condensed books.

(47:36):
She gets mum Award of the Year? Are we giving
that out this year? Marcus? Longtime listener, even longer time fan.
Did you know the service of the year receives more
energy in one hour than the humans used globally in

(47:57):
a year. Solar pedals Marcus. I personally enjoy goody goody
um drops, but I can't read it clearly enough.

Speaker 16 (48:12):
Lolled.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
I'm going to get that joke. When do they start
making smaller tub sizes? The world's gone crazy? What's your
number to text? We'll call later. Have more thoughts on
other subjects, kindly the party a pen man. I don't
know what that means, but all the lines are free.
My name is Marcus welcome, and solar panels. Who's gone
and how are they going? For them? Who's gone? And

(48:34):
got them? Are you putting it into the GrITT? Are
you're making a fortune. I've got a mate that's got
solar panels and he's got an app on his phone
so he can be out having a coffee and he
can show you how much power is generating which works.
I mean, it's all right as a conversation technique. You
wouldn't want to go to that well too many times,

(48:55):
but yeah, you can sit there and look how much
you're putting into the grid. So get in touch about that.
Not looking good in Vanua two. By the way, you'll
have heard that in the news Bill had caught a
bridges closed again a keeping history in bridget All contort

(49:15):
of has been closed after suffering it's second technical issue
in two days. This is pretty sad, isn't it a
censor issue? And Martin, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 10 (49:30):
How are you the same good things?

Speaker 3 (49:31):
Martin?

Speaker 10 (49:33):
Good good? We are one of those soler zero customers.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Wow, oh is it the bad company that went bad.

Speaker 10 (49:41):
Yeah, well they've just gone into liquidation. I recently found
out where you signed up for ten years the contract
with them and paid them ninety nine dollars a month
and then had yeah, savings from your solar panels.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
So it was a subscription model, yeah kind of.

Speaker 10 (50:03):
I mean there is a couple of out there that
do the sell on solar panels and you're buying our
right and save your money. I can't remember the name
of one of the company's, but I think they're self
carpet as well.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Yes, yeah, I'll see good for that.

Speaker 10 (50:20):
Yeah, but we we looked at it and we thought, well,
for the amount of money at our house, because we've
got a sizeable house. You know, some of our months
we have been as low for our soul bill as
one hundred dollars. So if you add that plus the
monthly fee of ninety nine dollars was sold, I'm not

(50:42):
sure how that's going to go now they're in liquidation,
but that's probably cut our power bills in half. And
I don't get wrong, I'm a lot of greenie, as
the elf saying goes, I mean, I've got a classic
we oil burner in my garage. But the fact that
if I can save the family some money in the

(51:05):
power department, it's been been quite good. And I don't
have the f on my phone. I don't look at
what savings I've been having. I just look at the
bel every month and look how much I'm saving. That
with regards you know, is the.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
Fact that they have gone into liquidation. Could that be
to your advantage because they've given you the panels and
you've got to pay them off. That that would work
in your favor, would it?

Speaker 9 (51:25):
Well?

Speaker 10 (51:26):
Yeah, that that has been my little bit of a
worry because you know, you think about what the liquidators
are there to try and recoup the money that they've lost.
So are they Are they going to come and see
me and go, hey, by the way, you've got some
solar pinels that we own?

Speaker 3 (51:43):
No you and you own them, don't don't you?

Speaker 10 (51:47):
Well that's something I'm not one hundred. Yeah, it's interesting.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
So how so you pay one hundred a month and
how much are you saving?

Speaker 10 (51:58):
I would say we're saving on average two hundred dollars
a month in POWERLSE.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
So it was a great business model. Why didn't it work?

Speaker 10 (52:07):
Wow? It's like all business they say that you business
can tail within the first two years if it's not unproperly.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Yeah, okay, it was Harrison's was the carpet and the Harson.

Speaker 10 (52:22):
Yeah yeah, I mean you've got the that please forgive me,
I've gotten their name. But the government department there, the
lady was in charge of giving the loans for the
clean green images, and she's recently got in trouble for
offering soul zero alone for one hundred and forty million

(52:44):
of taxpayers money, and it's they're sort of trouble. So
you wonder how they ran the business.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Have you enjoyed generating your own power?

Speaker 10 (52:57):
Honestly, I could say that it hasn't really given us
much thought. I think it was more the dollar savings
that it was going to give us that we looked
at more than the fact that we were generating our
own power.

Speaker 9 (53:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
I mean, I think because I think people once people
get right into it. I mean, you're apart from this
is a bit of a heck up, isn't it. But
I mean it does seem to be quite exciting thing
to get involved with.

Speaker 4 (53:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (53:23):
I mean, we've got the large battery in our garage
and you know, as that means that we put power
back to the grid and it saves us money as
a household. I think that's more important than anything else
for the average easy on home versus the clean green image.
I think it's actually about their bottom dollar.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
But did you did the battery come with you one
hundred bucks a month as well?

Speaker 10 (53:47):
Oh? Yeah, the whole setup they came up. They had
a contractor. They installed six panels on the roof, ye
to which we had a discussion about positioning. And yeah,
they come in and and to be fair, the team
that did the installation, they were brilliant. They listened to
my individ wants I suppose, as you could say, and

(54:08):
I said, I wanted it here for this reason and
that reason. And you know, they were great to deal
with and overall, saving us money is what it was
all about. It to me, it wasn't it ever about
clean green, which it was. It was to save money
in my pocket.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
Cecilia Tarrant was the woman whose name you're thinking of
that stepped down from the Green Investment Finance done for
a loan. I think that's it was the battery that
they put in there. Was it one of those Tesla
wall batteries. Was it or was it? Was it a
look alike?

Speaker 10 (54:41):
I think I looked like it actually, Funnily enough, it
looks like an ars little white cupboard in my carriage
which I parked by my clonking Va next to. But
it's a very clean cupboard. You can open it up,
you can look inside. It doesn't look like the Tesla
and all the day that they shown the Haunds Harrison's there.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
Okay, And if you had electric car you could charge
it from that battery as well.

Speaker 10 (55:06):
Well. I would still have to install the charging bard unit,
which averages around about I think it's like pay two
thousand dollars for a charge in it for the average
say MG from China, and then you've got to pay
a registered electrician to install it into your house. So

(55:28):
I've told that the average cost is around about five
thousand dollars in total. You can charge off your car
and actually if your car is correctly suited, you can
actually backfeed once you're fully charged into the grip on
that as well.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
And there's a power How many years are you supposed
to pay you one hundred bucks a month? Or is
that forever? Or is that paid off? Or is it
a fixed term.

Speaker 10 (55:53):
It was a fixed seven of ten years, and we
were I think we're about three or four years into
it before this liquidation process happened.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
So you had them about seven grand, right.

Speaker 10 (56:04):
Yeah, but I think it's still cheaper than the twenty
twenty five grand Harrison's model.

Speaker 3 (56:10):
Yeah, that makes sense. Nice to talk to you, Martin,
Thank you very much. I'm still pretty interested Danish lights,
if they still make their own ice cream, and how
much it would cost to buy those in a cone.
I think there's one. Someone said there's one in Napier.
See it when I believe it? Well, ever, when I
see it? Oh wait, one hundred eighty ty and nineteen
nine to text one of us Market's welcome Marcus. Apparently

(56:33):
studiuing batteries out of China are the new cheaper rechargeable batteries.
Do your callers know more about them? Get in touch, Marcus.
We stayed in airbn B above Copenhagen Cones and through
and there were always queues down the footpath. Wow, we're changing.
Well now we look at us in our airbnb's above

(56:54):
the ice cream place. So yeah, how much is the
Danish delights in napi If anyone gets parents behind the
public toilets on marine parade, that rolling surf that comes
in take your legs from under you do get in
touched you on tour, But this in solar panels to hire.

(57:16):
That was a good business model didn't work, maybe grew
to I haven't I didn't bother you. Clicking on of
those articles always seemed a little bit unexciting when you
change after while the articles. You click on that, and
now we can It's not linear news, is it? Shannatt's Marcus,
good evening and welcome.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Yes, how's it going you?

Speaker 5 (57:39):
Good?

Speaker 4 (57:39):
Thing?

Speaker 3 (57:40):
Is I've got your name right, Shara?

Speaker 2 (57:42):
Yes, yes, Shan Shan.

Speaker 8 (57:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
Hey, I came across a scam recently. I'd probably follow
it under employment scams. Apparently what's happening is these days,
people who are looking for jobs online, there are companies
posing as genuine company is giving out jobs, and what

(58:07):
they're telling people is they are a tourist company. They
have to go online, create an account on a so
called website which they have spoofed and made it for
the people they want to scam, and sadly, all the
students and people who are looking for jobs go on
that website create an account, and then they have to

(58:28):
look They have to sort of look for clients who
are going to book tourism and flight tickets and stuff
using that website. And what the company does is they
make people recharge their online accounts. It works like you
have to pay real money to have some online credit,
and using that credit, you can then put it put

(58:51):
advertisements out so that you can look for more customers
who can book those flight tickets through that website. It's
quite complicated how it all works. I'm sorry to confuse you.

Speaker 3 (59:02):
I think I just wanted to shout out. I think
you're explaining it free.

Speaker 10 (59:04):
Well.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
I hate the fact that they are exporting people looking
for work to take money off them. So yeah, the
actual way they're getting money is because you have to
put some credit into legitimate website. And so it's when
you're putting that credit in, or it's when you're putting
your details and they scare, yes, how much money are
they scamming people of shan.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
Thousands and thousands of dollars. I have seen people losing
eight thousand dollars. Someone even lost sixteen thousand dollars. So
I'm quite amazed how it works and I'd happily name
it like in fact websites like ali Baba, you know
you use that to buy stuff off market from China,

(59:44):
and they are using platforms like that and they would
take money from you in offshore accounts which are not
in New Zealand but in another country, so that once
the money is out, it's gone and it's not easy
to track either. So I just wanted to make people
aware that if they're looking for jobs, just don't fall for.

Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
That shan they how have they originally come across the
is it online job? Where are the people coming across?

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
Yeah, so they'll come across advertisements, especially on Facebook these
days you will see that on Marketplace, people will post
web advertisements saying looking for quick cash, want to work
from home, click on this link and get in touch
with our team. So totally I would say avoid those.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
At And then are you talking to someone? Is there
actually physicals? Just via text?

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Does it? Yeah? Mostly why a text? Or on that
website itself, they will they have their own chatting platform
on the website itself where you can communicate with the scammer.

Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
And they will.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Portray that they are real and you'll be surprised how good.
The website will look but it's all a scam.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
And they show did you fall for of your head
friends that have fallen for it?

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Yeah, I had friends who had fallen for it. In fact,
one of my friends, he was looking for some stuff
online and he had it in a shopping card of
some website and then he received an email somehow saying, hey,
we'll give you fifty percent off. Open this email and
just scanned the QR code and it will take you

(01:01:18):
straight to the checkout. And what happens is the moment
you use another phone to scan the QR code, they
will take control off your phone straight away, and you
know you're gone, like everything on your phone is gone.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Appreciate the cal Thank you very much for that, Mike Mircus,
Good evening, Welcome, Hello, Hi Mike.

Speaker 17 (01:01:40):
Oh good Michaels. Sorry, I just don't scan. Suddenly an interest.
One couple of years ago, I was sort of looking
at a bit of a change and a green card one.
I've noticed a effort online for a green card to
work in a United States. I'll apply for that, so
I look pretty legitimate. And I rang a number and

(01:02:01):
they answered and at Sam that's looked the real deal.
And I was basically today handle everythrink to green card, visas,
paperwork a lot, and I thought, this is me. And
then the guy on the line said to me, this
American guy of immigration said to me, oh, you know,
there's a lot of jobs right across the fifty two
states of America.

Speaker 5 (01:02:22):
So I know.

Speaker 17 (01:02:25):
By that TV show Hawaii five oh where it got
its name from. It's the fiftieth state in America.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
That's why why they called it for Hawaii five oh.

Speaker 17 (01:02:36):
Yeah, that's where it got its name from. It really
the why five oh?

Speaker 6 (01:02:40):
So I knew that.

Speaker 17 (01:02:41):
So I said to him, no, mate, there's only fifty
states in America. And then I smelled all that the
fact that you're working for immigration, you're you're doing visas
and green cards. You don't know, as an American citizen
how many states there are in America. So I said,
from this is a scam, you e roll. You know,

(01:03:02):
he made a critical mistake and he hung up on me.

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
Wow, that's a great cool. I had no idea about
that too. That's brilliant. Other Hawaii fiver was some sort
of some sort of CEBE radio term twenty two away
from ten Jan Marcus.

Speaker 18 (01:03:17):
Welcome, Hello Marcus. I a couple of days ago I
decided I wanted to buy two ho A balls for
my grandchildren for Christmas. So I went on the internet
and I saw this website people a company called O thirty.

Speaker 12 (01:03:40):
So I.

Speaker 18 (01:03:42):
Added these two balls to my basket things and that
was all I wanted. And then they said it was
free delivery, but if you paid four dollars sixty nine
then they would expedite shipping. So I thought, oh, yeah,

(01:04:04):
one want to get at the Eye Christmas hopefully, So
I paid that and completed the transation. Never looked at
the confirmation email I got from them, you know, all
the details, And for some reason or other, I thought
I'll go on to trust Pilot and see what people

(01:04:26):
say about this company, which I should have done before
I did it, of course, and the reports were absolutely
at the horror anyhow, So straight away I went into
my I had looked to see what they'd charged me,
and they these two balls. They were thirty six dollars

(01:04:48):
forty nine each, New Zealand, and they had charged me
one hundred and something dollars and they said I had
bought four balls, which I didn't. I wanted two single
balls and in the colors I stayed. Then they charged

(01:05:08):
me another fifty more dollars for these two extra balls,
and then they charged me twenty nine dollars service fee.

Speaker 5 (01:05:18):
Wow.

Speaker 18 (01:05:18):
So yeah, so it ended up these two balls that
I bought that I could have bought a new Zealand.
I since found out for nineteen dollars each. One hundred
or something was for that. But I year and another
one who's who you should avoid at all costlessly. I

(01:05:43):
bought a new cell phone, and I was trying to start,
you know, to put all the information, and I couldn't
get my emails to work, and I was getting desperate,
and this just answer. People popped up.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
Oh yeah, I think I've heard about that too. I
think we've heard just answer.

Speaker 18 (01:06:02):
Yeah, okay, yeah, they're pretty year. I got the of them.
I got all my money refunded, but not without a fight.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
Now tell me how they just answer scam works. I
charge a lot of money, don't they?

Speaker 18 (01:06:17):
Oh yeah, it comes up you to speak to a person.
They charged you two dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
That's right to join.

Speaker 18 (01:06:29):
That was okay. Then it was going to cost me
fifty nine dollars to speak to an expert and I
was desperate, so that was okay. So I picked I
paid for that, and nothing happened. So I never got
any got nobody.

Speaker 15 (01:06:47):
To speak to.

Speaker 18 (01:06:48):
So I went back through it again to try and say, hey,
where and they've got the same thing. They wanted you
two dollars to join, and then they wanted fifty nine
dollars to speak. So I got out of that and
I went into trust Pilot and discovered exactly the same thing.
So I said them, I wanted my money back, and

(01:07:10):
they said no, they wouldn't give it back to me.
And they pointed out that there's lots of little things
that you don't notice, yes, and what they would and
not only did they charge me the fifty nine dollars,
but they charged me sixty nine dollars as well, and
that was a month, we see, and that if I
hadn't noticed, that would have been ongoing every month. The

(01:07:34):
sixty nine dollars. Hell, okay, yeah, So but I got
my money back. I went to I went on Crust
Pilot and reported them and they got involved and hello,
I got all my money back. So it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
So you got you got your money back from just
answer as well?

Speaker 18 (01:07:51):
As yes from just answer with the strate Jen, with.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
This trust pilot, where have you heard about is that?
Where have you heard about that?

Speaker 18 (01:08:02):
They review company?

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
Yeah? Well I see that now.

Speaker 18 (01:08:06):
Yeah, they're very good.

Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
How would you say? And they're not a government thing,
they're just a private organization, is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (01:08:14):
Yeah, yes, So quite often I'll see something I want
to so I go and look on there, and if
you look up that thirty you'll see that those terrible,
terrible reports there are from them. They're absolutely appalling. And
I'll be lucky if I ever see anything.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
So your balls, which I see they're advertised at thirty
nine dollars each? Right, how much for the two how
much for the two balls? Or thirty six forty nine?
How much to get everything? How much to get the
whole stuff?

Speaker 9 (01:08:48):
Was it was.

Speaker 18 (01:08:52):
Thirty six times two for the first two balls. Then
they chant fifty four for another two balls, okay, and
then they chant me twenty nine dollars something for the
service speed.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
So it sounds like about one hundred and fifty dollars
all up? Would that be about right?

Speaker 18 (01:09:09):
There's something like that. And I'd protected them and said
I want my money back, and they said no, you
can't have it back. They haven't seen it, and they're
both to be expedited shipping.

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
So that's a bit of a it's going to be
it's going to be an unhappy thing come Christmas when
you are giving the grandkids that, knowing with all the
trauma that's caused you and that it's probably you've been
ripped off, and yeah, it's not good, is it. I
would tell them no, I mean you wouldn't, but you'll
know that.

Speaker 18 (01:09:40):
Yeah, I should have known. I when I had put
the report on trust Pilot, I said, I wish i'd.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
But look, Jenner, the thing is because I've been out
shopping today because I've got a boy's birthday on Thursday.
But the around the shops to go to there once
was because a lot of the places you can only
buy stuff online. Now that's right, So you know for
people like grand for people, it's the retail experience is
becoming the norm, isn't it.

Speaker 18 (01:10:10):
That's right. Yes, I do a lot of my shopping
online because because I'm elderly and I can't get out sontly,
I buy a lot of my shopping online. But I
had learned through experience. I've been caught a few times, yes,
and with a scam were one scam I got caught

(01:10:32):
with us. I bought a diamond painting from what I
thought was a New Zealand website and I paid one
hundred and something dollars for two diamond paintings. And it
turned out that they had assumed the name of a

(01:10:53):
real New Zealand and they'd stuck a dot in the
middle of the email address.

Speaker 3 (01:11:00):
Okay, so you.

Speaker 18 (01:11:00):
Didn't notice it wasn't writing, so I lost all that moment.

Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
Oh, I appreciate your honesty, Jennet. Thanks for the water.
I just want to get in before the break for
a bit of alert on the traffic. And it's Marcus.

Speaker 15 (01:11:10):
Good evening, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
Hi Aenne.

Speaker 15 (01:11:14):
I'm just traveling south on the Auckland Motorway, just having
come over the bridge, and I noticed there was a
little bit of a pile up going north. One O
three cars or whatever had had a bit of a
mishap on the median strip, so there's a bit of
a backlog, so people just need to be patient with

(01:11:35):
going north. So it's the inside lanes. The outside lanes
are probably going a little bit more quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Perhaps.

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
Northbound on the Harbor Bridge.

Speaker 5 (01:11:49):
Yep.

Speaker 15 (01:11:49):
So that was just about say, five minutes ago.

Speaker 3 (01:11:52):
Appreciate that and thanks so much, and it's Marcus. Good evening,
High End.

Speaker 19 (01:11:58):
Hello. I thought i'd bring up because I had a
stand with Netflix. I got my coffee in the morning
like I normally do, and sat down and put Netflix
on to just look see what was on, and nothing happened.
It just didn't work, and I thought I'll tried again later,
and I did.

Speaker 20 (01:12:18):
And it didn't work.

Speaker 19 (01:12:19):
So I phoned up. I think I phoned up tried
to get hold of Netflix, and I couldn't get hold
of it, and then the next thing I did was
to I put it back on again and it still
wasn't working. So I phoned the bank, and the bank

(01:12:42):
told me that I played it with my credit card
and is it being paid and it was a stamp.
So I just had to settle for that and it
did come back. But you know, if I hadn't been
aware of the fact that I hadn't been able to
find out that was being paid by and by them,

(01:13:04):
you know from one account, I would have they could
have taken over my taken money from me because I've
got so many different places. I been made to up
the credit card because for some reason, I don't know
why I did it on a credit card, but I
just thought i'd warn other people.

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
So what was the actual scam?

Speaker 4 (01:13:25):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
It was when you're paying for your Netflix? Was it?

Speaker 21 (01:13:28):
Yes?

Speaker 19 (01:13:29):
I I paid for it, and they must have found
out that I'd got a credit card to pay for it,
and they said I hadn't paid for it. So that's
why I wasn't given my you know, I wasn't giving
my things I watched in the morning. So I found
a bank up and he said, what's happening about the

(01:13:50):
lip and they said, no, it's you. You have been
paid it if your credit card you're up to date.
This is a spam. And so I don't know whether
they do so how could they?

Speaker 21 (01:14:01):
How could I?

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
How could they turn off your your Netflix? The skimmers?

Speaker 4 (01:14:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 19 (01:14:07):
So I don't know how they do these things. But
they did, and so they told me to go ahead
using the same thing, and so far, so good. This
was about a week ago. But I didn't know they
could span from using your credit card.

Speaker 3 (01:14:25):
No, I don't know. I don't know how that works.
I don't know how that works out at all the
Netflix game. I can't wait.

Speaker 19 (01:14:31):
No, I'm hopeless of knowing why. But this the bank
didn't The bank didn't seem that worried about it. When
I say worried, they didn't seem surprised about that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
I guess if I get some more information about that inn.
But thank you, because that's confused me. That's got me baffeled. Yeah, no,
we're all bareful about I can't get how that could
work out. Marcus, my son, turned twenty one on Thursday,
Good Day day. You are my boarding to live in.
It's a bit close to Christmas for my liking, but
that's the way. Marcus wondered if you to help me.

(01:15:05):
Regarding pip and oil. I bought a small bottle from
the chemist warehouse. You've had callers saying they get no
mice by putting around your property. My question is do
you delute it in the spray bottle? Just use a
drop or two? Paul? Did we talk about them? Wasn't
it for something else? Was that about birds?

Speaker 9 (01:15:29):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
What was it about?

Speaker 5 (01:15:30):
What was there?

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
Someone said that some oil, but it was quite it
was something a leaf oil?

Speaker 5 (01:15:36):
Something?

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
Was it clove leaf oil?

Speaker 5 (01:15:38):
What was that for.

Speaker 3 (01:15:41):
It was specific about a leaf. We haven't done ants?
Have we?

Speaker 5 (01:15:49):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:15:52):
Was it clove leaf oil? Remember that there was? If
anyone can remember what there was a leaf oil that
people were saying you could use for something. It was
something leaf. Did you have to have that? Guy kept saying,
you have to use the leaf? Have I got that?
Have I got that one worked out?

Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
Someone?

Speaker 5 (01:16:11):
Don't know?

Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
Hold your horses, people, if you're there, I'll get to
you after the break? Was clove leaf oil? Was it
was something more that someone was using an extract? What
was it to get rid of? If it wasn't birds?
Oh damned if I can remember what it was? Was
a couple of weeks ago, we're talking about some sort
of leaf extract for something. I can't think what the
topic was for. Don't just send me any names of

(01:16:34):
any leafs. You have to be listening to the show
a number of weeks back to work out what it was,
because I've completely forgotten. Are we talking scams? Ginich? Marcus welcome?

Speaker 7 (01:16:44):
Yeah, Hi Marcus, Good evening Eve. Then I just wanted
to share my experience six years ago when I started
UNI here in Auckland and I got a like a
scam call for immigration, and in the beginning I thought
might be a very genuine call, and the guy was
telling me that, and he actually and unfortunately the scammer

(01:17:09):
also miss scammer holding my old credentials, my details, my
personal details, and he went in me that, hell, look
you did the mistake at the airport that you mentioned
your wrong date of birth on immigration arrival.

Speaker 3 (01:17:21):
Wow, okay, wow and ah, And.

Speaker 7 (01:17:25):
That actually was actually happened somewhere in the like after
six or eight when I came to New Zealand. And
then I was, oh my god, again I have to pay.
And the guy was pretend telling me you need to
pay five thousand New Zealand dollars immediately so we can
we cannot, we can't devote you otherwise if you fail
to pay me failed to pay the fine, so we

(01:17:46):
will deport you immediately. And I was big worried and
I was don't know what to do. I told you, hey, look,
I can transfer the funds. And I was in I
was in my lecture and I just came out for
my break and immediately got a call. And because of
my awareness and alertness, I thought, hang on, where mister
immigration from my understanding Immigration always is to communicate through

(01:18:09):
the email how the people actually is calling on the
phone and they're asking me like to pay the fine.
So that was actually alert and immediately then I was
like playing with the camera and then the scamra hang
up the call. Then I went to the police and
then I went to my student counselor and that was
a big investigation was done and then later on we

(01:18:31):
just like immigration and the police. They realized there's so
many student being scammed and they transfer the ample of
money to the camera. It's called immigration scam and they
used to target only with the international students. So yeah,
so that was actual and they actually mentioned on their
website as well, so immigration never calls. If something called comes,
please contact the immigration, the police are all the kind

(01:18:54):
of things. But that was my experience, my first experience.
When I was when I how would you details, I
have no idea that was and he said that, he
said your data bird and date to what actually was
correct and he said, you mentioned that data, but it's
incorrect form and that's why it is a mistake. Is mistake,

(01:19:16):
it is not there is no uh uh. We can't
tolerate it. Zero tolerance all immigration requirements, so you need
to pay the five thousand dollars immediately. And then I realized,
my god, is something is that? I was so tense
and then I realized, oh, immigration have called. They always
communicate to the email who is a person access calling

(01:19:38):
me asking this kind look to pay the transfer immediately
and all everything. And then I said, hey, look, you
can give me the COUM number. But the person he
immediately he hanged up the call because he realized, might
we am aware alert? And then yeah, so it's luckily
I did not being scam, but my other students, like mother, friends,

(01:19:59):
they are being scam and they transfer the funds to
the scameras.

Speaker 3 (01:20:04):
Not to hear from me. Something that's good to about
all these ones, to thank you for that. Oh wait
a one hundred and eighty eight ten eight nineteen nine
to text. Someone said, Marcus, it was clothes guy rang
about your seagulls on the I thought it was seagulls
on the cars and clothes.

Speaker 21 (01:20:20):
There was.

Speaker 3 (01:20:22):
Patn't oh yeah good, we're not going We're not going mad.
Dan's gone to the potty. Transcript It was about it
was clove leaf, wasn't it for the clove Bud, And
it was for the seagulls, a and dogs and insects.
He keeps saying, you got he keeps saying, you gotta
get clothes, Bud. He was quite particularly the particular of

(01:20:42):
a guy when he got sort of a out of
it unit, keep a st warehouse. What was he saying?
Cloth Bud saying clove Bud? Mark is you're gone, cloth Bud?
And then what you do with it is springing around
his car? Roger the Roger? Is it not the ROGERA?
Is it the Roger Riser? I think the guy that

(01:21:03):
makes his own pizzas this guy called the Roger Eyser. Right,
he'll go. This will be the trippiest call I've had
all year, This guy called Roger. He'll go to get this.
Some of you haven't listened to talk about before. This
is something the joys you've missed out on. This guy
called the Roger Ezer will go to a supermarket and
there'll be a pizza that will be like what was

(01:21:24):
the example, like smoked chicken and cranberry pizza and the
deadli sections. I'll buy that pizza. Then he'll go round
the supermarket and buy more cranberry sauce and more smoked chicken,
and he'll rogerize the pizza like amplify it for imagine

(01:21:44):
why you do that. So it would be almost like
a pizza was a template for what he was going
to make, and he'd roger eze it and make it
like exaggerated in size. Good ay, Marcus, clove, but oil
used for ants and spiders. I remember the bloke regular.
So since you kept my mum company on her death bed,

(01:22:06):
cheese Nick a nice Nick, thank you. Wow. I don't
know what to say about things like that. Yeah, Wow,
it was a different Roger, wasn't the guy that Roger
raises pizza. It's like a bad thing to say, doesn't it.
Good evening, Steve, it's Marcus. Welcome good a gump this week,

(01:22:33):
Jump jump.

Speaker 21 (01:22:35):
I was going to say goody goodie gum drops Marcus. Instead,
I'll start you off for a bit of a laugh.
About four years ago, one of my kids tell her,
one of our kids came back from from living overseas
for a trip, and anyway, my daughter is a bit
of a sweet nut, so she got into the goody

(01:22:57):
goody gum drop. So we had in the freezer. So
that was all right. Anyway, we had a couple another
couple of new tubs there, two letter tubs of that
took toop one. And anyway, after she'd gone for a
couple of weeks, my wife and I decided, oh, let's
have some ice cream after a barbecue. So anyway, we
got got a new tub out. What we caught was

(01:23:19):
a new tub and I looked inside and I couldn't
find any goody good gun drops at all. And I
said to my wife, I said, you've been into this
tub of ice cream? Said no, no, and I said,
well it's it's a brand new tub. And I said,
there's there's no goody good he gun drops. And so
I phoned my daughter up and I said, you wouldn't
believe it. I said, after you left, I said, a

(01:23:40):
couple of weeks ago, you know you were here. And
I said, you got right into the good you got
it gum drops. And I said, now we just got
a new tub out, and I said there's no good
he good gun drops in it. And there was no
reply on the other end of the phone, and I said,
are you still living? She said, and she was just
cracking up. She actually got in there and took all
the good he got a gun out of the ice cream.

(01:24:01):
I just couldn't believe it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:04):
So she done it because you so delicious.

Speaker 21 (01:24:09):
Oh yeah, she just loved the I know what it's like.

Speaker 3 (01:24:13):
I can see what that's like.

Speaker 21 (01:24:15):
Yeah, but she never admitted it before she left. So anyway,
she's never lived that one down at all. So but anyway,
back onto a more serious thing about solar panels. Yes,
I've got a we built a house afire and towering
two years ago now, it was just over two years ago,

(01:24:37):
and we had eighteen panels and it's a five killer
watch system. And I've got two lithium iron batteries with
it as well, and I can stack them up to
five batteries. So at the moment that the two batteries
that are quite sufficient to do what we're doing. There's
only the two of us at home, and it's about

(01:25:00):
a three hundred square meter four bedroom home. Batteries are
each very very compact. There's six hundred mil by three
hundred mill by two hundred and fifty mils. So we've
got two of those stacked on top of each other
neatly in the garage and with the cold control system

(01:25:22):
mounted above it, but we can, as I say, we
can stack up five higher if we really want it.
The how we run the system is that the dishwasher
come on. I'm with Contact Energy and from nine pm
to twelve pm I get three power. It's a system

(01:25:43):
that they've put us on which just works fantastic for
me anyway. For our house, the dishwasher comes on from
nine till twelve so that can work any time at
once that's PM. We've got a three hundred liters hot
water cylinder that's electric and that comes on automatically at

(01:26:04):
nine pm to twelve pm, and that doesn't need to
come on again at all during the day. With just
the two of us at home, the hot tub comes
on or the SPA unit comes on between nine pm
and twelve pm. Heats up totally to thirty nine degrees
and once the sun comes out during the day, the

(01:26:28):
timer won't start until about ten am, so it'll allow
if it really wants to it can come back on
it at that hour of the day. But I work
it manually as well so that I can control it
as to you know, when the sun's out. If the
sun's not out, I actually manually turn it off and

(01:26:49):
the same with the air conditioning. I've got quite a
bit of air conditioning in the house and I can
run that between nine and twelve as well. Otherwise it's
very efficient. But I've just got a power bill now,
which is from the thirteenth to November to the twelfth

(01:27:09):
of December. And this might shock you bit. My power
bill for the month was nine dollars forty five cents,
and in July, in the middle of winter, the power
bill went up to forty nine dollars and sixty six cents.
So I think the important thing is too is too

(01:27:31):
oh with the house, we've got double glazing. We've also
got the gas pumped in between the glass, and also
I had them coatd with silver as well, and that
way there it reflects the heat from the sun outside
and it also reflects the heat inside. So I figured

(01:27:53):
the extra four thousand dollars that it cost to put
the soop the the silver coating on the glass was
definitely worth it. But the thing is for maintenance. It's
been an excellent system. I haven't had a problem with
it at all. I can give you the name of
the system if you know.

Speaker 3 (01:28:13):
That's fine. You know when you get those three hours
free power of an evening. Why can't you just charge
your betttery with those that free power?

Speaker 21 (01:28:21):
It does, oh it does, yeah, it does that as well,
so it recharges the battery as well. So it you know,
you've just got to make full use of it, like
as I said, the hot water sonder. You know, once
you have guests come and stay, of course, and then
you can you know, use use a bit more power,

(01:28:43):
but not a hell of a lot. But but I
you know, I get a paidback of eight cents a
killer whatever for you know, putting it back into the grid.
And it's not a hell of a lot, but it certainly,
it certainly you know, pays its way like that. But
the only maintenance that I really do is I wash

(01:29:03):
down the panels with a long soft rush and using
approved detergent or solution to clean the panels with. And
I do that about every six months.

Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
But putting aside the putting aside the silver and the
gas of the double glazing. How much did you sol
the panels in that system and the bat trees cost?

Speaker 9 (01:29:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:29:26):
They eighteen I got eight es, I said, I had
eighteen panels across me eighteen thousand and which I paid
up front, so I'm not paying anybody off for that,
but I'm you know, my payback is it's like, you know,
when I'm only paying nine dollars forty five, I would
usually probably be paying about two hundred hundred and fifty bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:29:47):
Yeah they have have they got a light span those panels?

Speaker 21 (01:29:54):
Yeah, there is presumably that I just can't recall what
that detail is, but it's the same as all the
rest of them. Anyway. Yeah, that's been an excellent system.

Speaker 3 (01:30:09):
So yeah, appreciate that. See, thanks so much for that.
Treve Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:30:16):
Yeah, Hi, Hi, that's your day.

Speaker 3 (01:30:19):
Good, thank you.

Speaker 22 (01:30:22):
I just wanted to say I was listening to your
program last night about the homeless in one Ganelly. Well,
this guy in Perth, he came over from Cambodia. He's
quite an intelligent man and he beat the system. Now

(01:30:42):
he's got a family over in Cambodia and everything. And anyway,
he made ten grand just off the street and even
the what do you call those those guys that walk
around the street to try and keep more in order.
I'm trying to think of the name. But anyway, he

(01:31:04):
made ten grand within three months. Outside war worst and
people were giving them vouchers and everything.

Speaker 3 (01:31:15):
So now, okay, Trev, I didn't talk about the homeless.
And last night.

Speaker 22 (01:31:23):
Is this Marcus flash? What are you talking about the
problems in Wanui?

Speaker 9 (01:31:31):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:31:36):
I no?

Speaker 12 (01:31:38):
Oh yeah I.

Speaker 22 (01:31:39):
Thought you were.

Speaker 3 (01:31:39):
No, I know it was last night, bigger pattern.

Speaker 22 (01:31:44):
Like last night.

Speaker 10 (01:31:45):
I was.

Speaker 22 (01:31:47):
Listening to your show.

Speaker 3 (01:31:48):
Yeah, no, I wasn't talking about that. Someone else might
have been.

Speaker 22 (01:31:51):
In the you weren't specifically talking about it, but a
couple of words came out about Wanganui and everything, the problems.
I haven't there.

Speaker 3 (01:31:59):
So you were saying where about to your calling from
per okay, because it might have been after midnight, it
might have been the the news. But you're saying that
there is someone in Perth.

Speaker 22 (01:32:13):
Yeah he's gone back to Cambia now, but he's made
over ten thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:32:19):
Do you believe?

Speaker 18 (01:32:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
Okay, yeah, So now we're saying that the people that
are homeless are making ten thousand dollars and that people
are giving.

Speaker 22 (01:32:28):
No, they're not because well of them don't have the
What would you say, I'm trying to be polite to you.
They wouldn't have the ants to you know, do it right?

Speaker 3 (01:32:47):
What you're saying there's one homeless person that's made ten
thousand dollars.

Speaker 6 (01:32:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:32:54):
Yeah, But in New Zealand it's a different sort of
kettle of fishess. I mean, look, I'm going to make
that in New Zealand, he's a different operairies about three
daggers and everything and tracks and everything.

Speaker 5 (01:33:11):
And he's that lan.

Speaker 22 (01:33:12):
He's got stuff to sell old tracks and that you
can't even get rid of anything. And he's telling me
everything over here has just come to a standstill.

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
Well, said, has been very bad economic data out today.
It's not looking good. It's very grim. There's been bad
economic data coming out today. It's not looking good. It
seems for every grim people are leading the economy shrinking.

Speaker 22 (01:33:40):
Oh, the heat's going to Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
All the young people seem to be going more going
to Australia than ever have been there before.

Speaker 22 (01:33:49):
Yeah, and they're getting jobs.

Speaker 13 (01:33:50):
Mate.

Speaker 9 (01:33:52):
How does it go?

Speaker 3 (01:33:53):
How hot is it in Perth today?

Speaker 6 (01:33:57):
Uh?

Speaker 22 (01:33:57):
Thirty? Well I'm in a place called Norsemen are good,
but here it's only thirty degrees really, yeah, it gets
up for forty sometimes.

Speaker 3 (01:34:17):
Norseban's like Norsebane's way in the way.

Speaker 22 (01:34:20):
Yeah, but I'll tell you this.

Speaker 7 (01:34:22):
Have you got a mother?

Speaker 3 (01:34:23):
Have you got a gig?

Speaker 5 (01:34:24):
There?

Speaker 22 (01:34:24):
You just what's what's a block of land here?

Speaker 3 (01:34:28):
Really your farmer?

Speaker 9 (01:34:30):
No?

Speaker 12 (01:34:31):
Okay, just a person.

Speaker 22 (01:34:35):
Home in Australian and I's to live in New Zealand
for a long time. But I bought a block of
land here for four thousand and five hundred. I mean,
it's ridiculous how the prices have gone up over there
in the.

Speaker 3 (01:34:52):
Middle of town. Are you near the golf club or
whereabouts the Norseman? Are you.

Speaker 22 (01:34:58):
Uh up by the mine?

Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
Okay, well yeah, be pretty dry on the land, wouldn't it.

Speaker 22 (01:35:11):
Oh yeah, everything's really dry here.

Speaker 3 (01:35:15):
What do you spend your days doing? Sorry, what do
you spend your day doing?

Speaker 22 (01:35:22):
Just doing a bit of work on the property?

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
Brian, good to hear from your true Thanks for calling
now one of our reporters. Right then, whatever reporter's trying
to get across the Orkham Harbor Bridge, is that right?
And it's goodlock. That's because of Siedeled maintenance or because
of that crash that Ben Defender earlier? What's it because
of Dan fender bender or the crash? We don't know,

(01:35:45):
but okay, so because of the fender bender on the
median strip. That the tails right back through the tunnel,
So you want to avoid that, you want to go
upper Harbor. That would be my vibe there a six
away to eleven. Hello, Darrel, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 17 (01:36:00):
Yeah good.

Speaker 20 (01:36:01):
I was just trying to get a story out of
the summer of Evandale is at nineteen eighties and earlier.
I worked in a service station part time then, and
he was always a quiet guy that came up there
for his paper each Sunday morning. But I've got a
couple of stories out of him. But I got told

(01:36:23):
later on that he owned the local old folks home
and didn't charge them, and he owned a lot of
the property in Evandale. He used to go along and
pick a couple of the cigarette butts and tournament's rollies.
But he was always a nice guy to me. Well,
Sean scored other people know about him, but I believe

(01:36:46):
he owned He gave a lot of heavn Dale in
the eighties and nineties, and yeah, he was always quiet.
It was never abusive to anyone. I think there'd be
more people out there that knew a lot more than
what I do.

Speaker 3 (01:37:01):
So did he live on the streets till gave the
appearance of living on the street.

Speaker 20 (01:37:05):
No, I believe lived on the streets. But he just
used to wander around picking up a cigarette, bunts and
bits and pieces. But away paid, always paid for the
newspaper in the morning. Left it's fifty cents there if
he was there earlier.

Speaker 3 (01:37:20):
Than I was. And where did he sleep?

Speaker 20 (01:37:25):
Oh, various spots around even but yeah, he was always there.
Usually had a had long hair and a oilskin coat. Yeah,
I'm sure it.

Speaker 3 (01:37:39):
Was because of course there weren't many people homeless in
the eighties either.

Speaker 20 (01:37:44):
No, but I'm definitely sure people out there wouldn't know
about him.

Speaker 3 (01:37:48):
Well, we see if what people say the next our Daryl,
thank you for that. Just coming towards the news people
at eleven, the motorway, the tails way back in the
under the tunnel, so you avoid that people. That's both ways.
She's strangled. You imagine you wouldn't know what time of
day it was just in radio and you're living in
westos which is eight hours behind. I think I'll be confused,

(01:38:11):
BUTU I'm ptty sure we didn't talk about foging we
last night, but it could have been on the news.
Hope your Tuesday's going all right. Funny on weekend, is
it when wind's down you see people wandering around the
city with sort of giant boxes of per rochet and
people getting ready for the whole Christmas spirit. So yeah, anyway,
look forward to talking to your Max. It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 23 (01:38:30):
Oh good evening, Margas Seasons greeting in you too, Thank you. Look,
I would like to just talk a little bit about
these drains in America. Now we're sitting on the Zealand
here looking at YouTube, CNN, ABC, all the different media
channels and the YouTube. You know, I think it's quite

(01:38:52):
a consume.

Speaker 5 (01:38:55):
Not for us here.

Speaker 23 (01:38:56):
We're you know, we're we're we're at the other end
of the earth sort of thing. But recently, I mean
only just I think it's just yesterday or today. Airtime
Patterson Air Force Base, which is one of the main
Air Force bases, are no higher for the you know,
for the they were shut down for three to four

(01:39:19):
hours because of countless zones flying over the air Force base.
I mean, that's bizarre.

Speaker 3 (01:39:27):
It's not really bizarre because you can have drones.

Speaker 23 (01:39:31):
Oh yeah, I've got a drone myself. But what I'm
saying is, like you know, like from my perspective, it
takes one person to operate a drone. Now, these reports,
I think they're pretty reliable. They're in the mainstream media,
I mean seeing then, and they're pretty reliable. They there's

(01:39:53):
there's actually footage people filmed them with their cameras and
there's dozens of these things going over. Well, that would
mean that you've got dozens of operators. So I've been
I've been really the interests that they've had a congressional
emergency congressional hearing on this, and they had the head
of the FBO Wheeler, they had him there and he

(01:40:16):
just said, they just do not know who's operating, where
they're coming from, and what this is all about. They're
very concerned it could be a foreign adversary. And some
of the legal side of it is that people, the
legal experts are saying, well, we can't shoot them down
because if they shoot them down and it's a foreign adversary,

(01:40:38):
it could be a declaration of war. So there's a
lot of legal problems going on with this issue because
the laws are kind of a little bit behind, Like
you know, for the technology has jumped ahead of what
the law are, and so a lot of the congressmen
are saying, hey, we need to urgently update our laws

(01:41:02):
concerning drones and even like the police, they're sheriff's department
and that they're not allowed to go running around shooting
them down or chasing them because it's meant to be
under the IF is it the FAA that that regulatory body.
So there's there's a lot of legal problems with this issue.

(01:41:22):
But you know, for for a major air force base,
you know they use these aircraft to shoot the foreign
things down. For them to all be grounded for three hours,
I mean that is that is terrible. So in other words,
there was there was an attack coming and there's recordings

(01:41:45):
of air traffic control out there that are telling the
pilots or watch out for the drones, go around the
other one go around again, because there's drones were the
air force base. So you know, was that put the defense?
Where's it put the homeland security of America? And people
are people are there are scared because of what happened,

(01:42:06):
and I eleven it's them.

Speaker 3 (01:42:08):
Why wouldn't I I mean people are well, I think
there's conspiracy theories that it's going to be that it's
some sort of alien invasion and that's going to give
the state more powers. You've got to there's a lot
of people, yeah, correct, in the state saying it's to
sigh op saying all sorts of things because because because
there's paranoia and the market's huge for that, and all

(01:42:29):
those conspiracy theories love it when when everyone's denying, we're
not exactly saying what's going on, but people saying there's
also there a lot of drones because a lot of
people are looking in the sky and there's always sort
of a lot of stuff going on the sky.

Speaker 23 (01:42:43):
Yeah, oh absolutely. I mean the amount of flights in
America is phenomenal, isn't it. See how many aircraft they
haven't any any one time in the sky?

Speaker 12 (01:42:52):
Correct?

Speaker 23 (01:42:53):
But these these are definitely drones, the ones in New Jersey.
I mean, I've locked at a lot of reports. A
lot of them are flying just over the tops of
trees and they're not helicopter's. Some of them they reason
they can't hear them, but there's you could be reasons
for that with windblowing the wrong way and all sorts
of things.

Speaker 3 (01:43:12):
But there's also there's also people like podcast, well known
podcasters that aren't journalists going on and saying they're genuinely
consuming things like that, which is kind of you know,
I mean, people are going to follow that sort of stuff,
aren't they. I mean, you've got a podcast, you're scared
of information, aren't you say? Oh, well, get what's going
on here? You're getting people interested in listening to it.

(01:43:34):
But I mean it's all it's all free, it's all free, unverified.

Speaker 23 (01:43:40):
Yeah, but I would you think that CNN would run
a story that there that the Patterson Air Force Base
in Ohio, which has got goodness knows how many staff
and airmn would they run a story? Do you think
that that the Air Force base has been shut down
three hours because of these drones and they don't know
where they're coming from.

Speaker 3 (01:43:59):
I mean, I guess that there's a lot of talk
about drones. There's also what a suggestion, people think, we'll see,
let's get some drones and see what we can do. Also,
so you get idiots that would be following the speculation
and everything, Let's see if we can shut down and
see what we can do. Also, so there'd be kind
of copycat people doing stuff. And I would imagine it
probably happened what happens in your end. We had drones

(01:44:20):
have closed Auckland Airport before. I remember that when there
were drones flying within the.

Speaker 23 (01:44:27):
I think there was one in some them cut there.

Speaker 3 (01:44:29):
Yeah, there was one that was in the in the
land in the in Mangani, in the landing area for
Auckland National Airport. They had to close it down. So
imagine it does happen from time to time.

Speaker 14 (01:44:39):
Yeah, I know the law.

Speaker 23 (01:44:41):
Hereers you can't be you can't fly them with them
four kilometers of a airport and you're not allowed to
fly them over residential houses too. So I just used
mine for fishing, so you know, dropping the line out
a bit further than then you cast it out.

Speaker 3 (01:44:59):
So it was twenty twenty one that was a drone
with spotted thirty meters from a plane at Auckland Airport
and the flights were suspended imporarily.

Speaker 23 (01:45:08):
Yeah, no, that would be not good. No, you wouldn't
want them nre.

Speaker 3 (01:45:13):
But mix I also on this show get a sense,
you know, when people are getting information from different channels,
someone will say some of the people, what about the drones,
why don't you talking about the drones? And something like that,
and I realize that people are tapping into some stuff
and there's a lot of discussion on TikTok and social
media about things, and people these days really love to

(01:45:33):
pick up what's going on in the States. Could were
obsessed about it. So I have sense that people are
really they're keen to talk about the drones and also
are really upset that people aren't talking more about it
because I think people are being neglectful of a story.
But until there's facts, you can't really do much.

Speaker 23 (01:45:53):
No, I agree, you've got to you've got to base
everything around evidence. I like watching YouTube. In fact, I've
never ever looked at TikTok. I like watching YouTube stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
But you know, I think that's YouTube are probably pretty
much the same. I think TikTok is a little bit
how longer your things can be. But yeah, I'm hearing you.

Speaker 6 (01:46:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:46:14):
Unfortunately, there is a lot of conspiracies and there's a
lot of rubbish that gets put on because it's all
driven by advertising. And of course the more views, if
you monetize, the more views, well, the more do you make.
So people put anything on so they can make more money.
And you know that that's something to bear in mind.
I think when you're watching social media is that oh,

(01:46:34):
you know this guy is you know, it's all driven
by money and advertising. So but I think that what
I'm seeing there concerning the air Force base being shut down,
I think that that appears to be a for real scenario,
and it does appear as though it was more than

(01:46:56):
one drone. It was twenty or thirty of the things
flying around all over the place. So I don't know
how that would ever work unless there's twenty mates.

Speaker 3 (01:47:08):
In the articles where they name the number of drones
that they just see a number of drones, I couldn't
see any number that said how many.

Speaker 23 (01:47:15):
I just saw some video of it over the air
Force base taken from the cell phone, and there were
recorded recordings of the air traffic control talking to the aircraft.

Speaker 3 (01:47:31):
That will but what people have speak thead some of
the responsible people speak there there's drone activity because there's
been some chemical leaks and they're detecting chemical leaks, and
there's been some really fearm angering stuff that people have
put out there about that, which which is just not
based on fact, and that when you start speculating, I mean,
it's pretty irresponsible.

Speaker 23 (01:47:50):
That that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:47:51):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 23 (01:47:52):
I do agree. You've got it's like it's like with
court cases and it you've got to have good, good
evidence in a court case. And I think this is
what it comes down to, this good evidence and because
now with AI, it's incredible what can be generated. Yes,
I saw a video of Winston Peters on Facebook telling

(01:48:15):
everybody to invest in crypto will and he's sitting in
his office with his suit and tie and everything on,
and there was a link to some scammy crypto thing.
Well clearly it wasn't him, but it was so convincing,
and they had been generated by AI. They're just taking
the sample of him with his suit on, his faith

(01:48:35):
and that and I generated this thing. So yeah, there's
going to be a lot of deception like that. And yeah,
we just said at the way through it and try
and find it. Oh what's real and what's not?

Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
Remember two, we're half a world away too. It's not
a figure. This is an America. So yeah, staying you
laid in some ways makes nice to talk, delightful, Thank you.
I'm really happy to keep talking about the drones. If
anyone's got anything sort of concrete or sort of concrete
as I said that twice, but sort of concrete we
can talk about because I don't even know where the
discussion goes because people, oh my god. We go to
what the drones? But what do we say there's no information?

(01:49:12):
Do we say they might be drones in New Jersey
and people don't quite know what they are doing, So
we'll fill in the dots and speculate something conspiratorial? And
where do those discussions go.

Speaker 9 (01:49:28):
So far?

Speaker 3 (01:49:29):
Tod I talk so talking about the Danish delight, the
ice cream eighties that was big, still exists. Never quite
knew where the ice cream came from. Maybe someone knows.
The other thing we're also talking about tonight is scams.
They're back a lot of stuff on scams and solar panels.
Also the situation Vanuatu. Flights in and out are canceled.

(01:50:01):
So I don't fully know why that is because I
I don't know if we'll be sending aid up there,
but I guess that might be something they would consider.
And I imagine if that was a situation, they'd be
flying stuff up or medical personnel. I've heard no reports
about that, but twenty three past eleven, there is something different.

(01:50:21):
You want to talk about great. I look forward to
hearing from you. My name is Marcus Welcome oh eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and known to known to
detect hit or midnight. Yeah, get in touch with there's
something differently if you've got breaking news or anything else
you want to talk about, would be nice to hear
from you tonight with you through until twelve, and get
in touch with these other news you want to bring

(01:50:43):
to our attention or talk about. Yay, looking forward to it. Well,
that feels very much like a part for well, it
feels very much that in the next three or four days,
two or three days, the news will ready wind down
as far as people heading off and we go into

(01:51:04):
the silly season when there's no news. Yeah, of course,
probably for the next four weeks. People just do best
of the way. It seems to work, isn't it. But yeah,
get in touch Marcustom midnight and just don't think. One

(01:51:25):
of the other big stories of today, I'll find them, yeah,
eight hundred and eighty known to detect. If you want
to come through some of the other stuff that's around
that you might want to mention. Let you know what
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(01:51:46):
Day must be the first day of flight also first
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you know, New Zealand actor David Wiley has died. He
was a Lord of the Rings. And Donald Trump wants
to end Daylight Saving zir I don't quite know why
he's got that as well. Jeepers, Glenn Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:52:11):
Marcus, huge fan, Thank you very much, first time caller.

Speaker 3 (01:52:15):
Nice to nice to hear from me.

Speaker 4 (01:52:17):
Ben, thank you.

Speaker 13 (01:52:19):
I hey, big week last week. I haven't heard anyone
put two and two together, where you know, like Asad
being taken to Russia and number two was you know,
the South Korean military coup. You know, those those are

(01:52:42):
two things. They are quite interesting and you know the
world's going into a weird place with those. Both those things.

Speaker 3 (01:52:50):
I think, although are they what are they unrelated?

Speaker 13 (01:52:54):
I don't, well, well, well all happened in one week.

Speaker 3 (01:52:58):
Yeah, and I think South Korea was a coup. It
was an imposition of martial law that they turned down.
Isn't that right?

Speaker 13 (01:53:06):
Martial law declared? Or because the politician didn't get his way.

Speaker 3 (01:53:11):
Here and and now he's going to be what's the
word when you summarily bring them to trial impeached.

Speaker 13 (01:53:22):
I guess, well, and that was voted down and and
he's gone away with it.

Speaker 3 (01:53:29):
I just thought, then they decided to impeach him if
they decided not to.

Speaker 13 (01:53:35):
Now, my understanding is that on the second term. Yeah,
I'm sorry, but I could be wrong. But my understanding
the first time they tried that, and at the same
time it didn't. But either way, it doesn't look good.
And you know, Kim John U is pointing at Duth
Korea going, hey, I told you so, democracy is isn't

(01:53:59):
the right way to go?

Speaker 3 (01:54:01):
Well, would they even know what was going on in
North Korea?

Speaker 13 (01:54:05):
I would edge, and he played it at big time.

Speaker 3 (01:54:09):
We play up so much stuff you don't even know,
you know, I don't even know how much stuff they
would they would, how much news or how much awareness
they would have in North Korea when so much seems
to be so extreme.

Speaker 13 (01:54:21):
He would jump on that. Surely it's you know, South
Korea democracy. You know, Oh we are saying, you know,
all that kind of great, you know, and sure enough,
look at look at them now. So yeah, it wasn't
a good thing. And then yeah, Asad did the first
release on Telegraph. I think this morning, you know where

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he is now and why he's in Russia, and you
know I didn't plan to leave, you know, Syria. It
all plays up to a bad place.

Speaker 3 (01:54:56):
I still think that. I'm looking at all the articles,
I still think that impeachment still might be on. And
in South Korea it is fairly confusing. They've issued a
second summons to him for impeachment, so I think it
might be going ahead. And the arrest the commander of
Marshal law also. But I'll tell you what I was

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thinking before that last commercial break. The twenty twenties for
New Zealand and for the planet. You know, we look
about the nineteen twenties with a depression. The twenty twenties.
It started with twenty twenty with COVID, where four years
into it go to five years into it, we've gone
into recession. It's been a bleak decade, isn't it?

Speaker 13 (01:55:36):
It was very good.

Speaker 3 (01:55:37):
Sorry, it's a really bad decade. I'm thinking about my
kids to the young it's the only decade they've really
been aware of, and it's a real dud.

Speaker 13 (01:55:46):
Can I ask, are you sending your kids to public school?

Speaker 3 (01:55:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:55:51):
Of course, Okay, all right, that's interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:55:55):
Well, there.

Speaker 3 (01:55:58):
Would be no other choice.

Speaker 13 (01:56:01):
Yeah, I Unfortunately, I'm having to fork out twenty five
grand to to go away from a lot of the
box that's happening in our.

Speaker 3 (01:56:13):
What you're talking about, are you're choosing to you don't
have to, you're choosing to.

Speaker 13 (01:56:18):
Uh, yeah, there's no Yeah, I'm having to. Yeah, unfortunately
I'm having to choosing.

Speaker 3 (01:56:22):
I imagine there would be state schools you could send
your kids to, aren't there.

Speaker 13 (01:56:28):
Well, anyone that's listening in Qumu would know that. You know,
we've we've put a huge population out here in Qumu
without any high schools or anything. And yeah, no, it's
it's yeah, you're right that I am selecting to go
to a private school. But because I can't, I can't

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make it happen the you know, forty minute commute to
to make it otherwise.

Speaker 3 (01:56:55):
Okay, nice to hear from Midland. By the way, too,
I'd have no inclinations, say kids to private schools whatsoever.
It would be as far opposed to anything I believe
in as anything. How we're I've got to also say
that an invert cargyl in Bluff, there are no private schools.
To my knowledge, I think there might be a Seventh
Day Adventures school Jehovah's No, I can't. I think it

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might be Jehovah Witness school and a Brethren school. But
when the Brethrens don't even believe in the radio, so
I'm not going to send the kids to a Brethren school,
are they. I think there's a Brethren school. But nice
to talk to you if you want to be in
touch with the show. Gosh, it's got a bit twisty
in the last dow. It's good though, get in touch.

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It'll twelve Marcus seven after shocks and Vanohar two between
two pm and six people of about six on the scale.
Thank you for that, but yeah, I'll get more information
if we've got it on Vanar two. I don't know
what the latest is, but it seems though fairy serious there.

Speaker 2 (01:58:02):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:58:04):
I think Dan was telling me earlier. The medical facilities
are all outdoors because of the hospital itself is in
a state of collapse. No, they're worried that it might
so they'll be very very worried about after shocks. So yeah,

(01:58:24):
some of the other stuff you might want to mentioned
talk about tonight people something other stories that are making news. Yeah,
Donald Trump wants to end daylight saving and I can't
quite work out why. He says inconvenient, very costly to Americans.
He says daylight savings time is a small but strong constituency,

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but shouldn't and the Republicans would work to end it yep.
Observed by a third of the world's countries. However, the
US have long advocated to the end of it, people

(01:59:09):
saying the end of daylight savings would be brighter evenings
or someone to make it permanent and steered. I don't
want to switch around. So that's something in fanta me
to learning tonight that a Hawaii five O was named.
It called Hawaii five oh because the fiftieth state. YEP.

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I thought that was pretty interesting. Now they have manufactured
Christmas Dinner flavored scones, which is pretty interesting. Isn't it
tastes like stuffing? So that's of interest. We also want

(01:59:57):
to talk about drones. Have anyone's got to think interesting
to say about drones or something like facts or even
someone who can tell me what they think has happen
with all the drone someone that's gone down the rabbit
hole with that, because I've got no idea. People get
alluding to the drones, but no one's told me what
it's all about. So it's kind of a frustrating thing.
They what about these drones, but not what they think
people think that they are doing. Get in touch with

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that also tonight. But as I say, Marcus till twelve,
Jim is said, along from Jim, sorry, Tim Beverage along
from twelve. Sure, but do get in touch. You've got
to talk eight hundred and eighty eight and nine to nine.
Two detects are looking forward to what you want to
talk about. There's something different you want to mention tonight.

(02:00:45):
There might be something Christmas Eve related. You might be
Coreen and give me an update on what's going to
happen in South Korea. I wouldn't mind a been of
a scene setter for that. Let send to a story
that's changed angles a number of times. And also too,
do you think the twenties, the twenty twenties we are

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and are going to be the worst decade we experience.
It certainly seems that way at the moment. And I
don't like to get too down about stuff, but the
twenties flip, and of course it rained for six months
down south that hasn't been good either, so the weather

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has been terrible. Also, I hope this is not the
new normal. Does someone send me a YouTube video?

Speaker 10 (02:01:38):
Why?

Speaker 3 (02:01:41):
But get in touch of you on a talk As
I say, Marcus Toll midnight tonight. I've enjoyed the show.
It's gone quite quickly, which is always good. Now why
someone sent me a oh you know that to me
graphic videos? I want to watch those when I'm at
work if you don't mind. Why haven't they shot a
drone down to find out what is going on? You

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mean a member of the public or the already probably
wouldn't help this story. Good evening, Jordan, it's Marcus. Welcome,
Good Jordan.

Speaker 16 (02:02:16):
Yeah, I understanding about drones or but I think they're
a very interesting thing. And as with all technology, there's
good sides and there's bad sides. Look a good side,
you know, the exploration is photography, it's sports filmings all that.
Obviously you've got the bad sides, which is invasion of privacy.
And if you watch some of the footage from the

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Ukraine War, then watching some of the C four drones,
they're pretty terrifying.

Speaker 3 (02:02:44):
Yep, it's otty cool.

Speaker 9 (02:02:47):
Yeah, that's an.

Speaker 16 (02:02:49):
Interesting you know, before technology, there's there's always good sides
and bad sides. That's a very interesting topic to talk
about really.

Speaker 3 (02:02:56):
But what's the paranoia with the drones in New Jersey?

Speaker 16 (02:03:02):
On a New Jersey what's going on in New do they?

Speaker 3 (02:03:08):
Oh, well, there's been in the past month, there's been
huge paranoia and reporting about a number of mystery drone
sightings and it's led to all sorts of conspiracy theories
taking off, so that there appears to be there appears
to be drone hysteria, and they've talked about missing nuclear

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material in an impending alien invasion and they think the
drones are all a sign of that, and the federal
government of down they.

Speaker 16 (02:03:42):
Want to believe type of thing. And you know, people
won't to have stories and explanations for things. I think
putting it down to alien invasions and nuclear warfare with
drones that's a big step up from what it could be.

Speaker 3 (02:03:57):
And that but that seems to be where the media
goes now amplifies things. What happens is someone sees something
that could just be planes, and there'd be someone with
a podcast that puts their version of what they think
it is, and next thing, you know, the whole discussion
becomes kind of far fetched and nonsensical.

Speaker 16 (02:04:16):
Do we know what type of drones are being sighted?
Are they well, some drones, Are they just commercial drones?

Speaker 3 (02:04:23):
Some people say it might just be planets or commercial
flights have been misinterpreted as drones because people aren't used
to looking in the sky.

Speaker 16 (02:04:30):
As a twelve year old who brought a drone first
birthday and he's just flying it around, it could be anything.

Speaker 3 (02:04:36):
And even on Timmy, you get some pretty interesting drones
with some predicing lights these days that do some pretty
interesting things exactly.

Speaker 16 (02:04:43):
And the price of drones now they've come down massly.
You look back five years ago, if you wanted a
decent enough drone that can fly around outside and take
pictures and whatnot, you're looking at a good five grand
And now you can get one that can do that
for two three hundred bucks. So really, anybody has access
to these drones.

Speaker 3 (02:05:02):
One of the conspiracies with the drones in New Jersey
is that it's called Project Bluebeam, which involves a supposed
government plot to fake an alien invasion and spark panic.
So they're going there and saying Oh, well, you know
it's something to do with that also, And I don't
think Donald Trump's been particularly helpful with the comments he's made.

Speaker 16 (02:05:22):
Oh yeah, Donald Trump' see's a character. You'll say anything
to get attention.

Speaker 2 (02:05:26):
You've got to love the guy.

Speaker 16 (02:05:27):
But he's got some interesting ideas and comments that he says.

Speaker 7 (02:05:32):
But he's a good watch.

Speaker 3 (02:05:33):
He's certainly not shy of having his reckon on anything.
Nice to talk Jordan's Marcus. I work with insurance companies
a lot, with flood restoration. I know that some companies
don't pay out on leaking pipes, et cetera. At holiday homes,
some policies say have to turn water off if not

(02:05:55):
living at the house. Wow, where would you turn it
off at the front at the said thing? Call at
the front of the house. The Toby. They even known
quite what they called the Toby. Marcus, the National Security spokesperson, said,

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all the drone investigations have found legitimate commercial drones, hobbyist drones,
fixed wing aircraft, and a star nothing at all nefarious.
So it's good they didn't shoot one down. Marcus, there
is a strange object flying around. Surely the national radar
system would show up something if anything was there. Well,
that's right, As most people have said, if people start

(02:06:45):
talking about unusual drone activity, then people that don't normally
look to the sky start looking up there and see
things they wouldn't normally notice. That seems to be the
whole phenomenon there. Anyway, Marcus, could you please let listeners
know that even if they only have a small number
of fly by points left, they can be donated to

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charity eg. City Mission, Lifeline, Habitat for Humanity and more.
Forty five points equals five dollars, only takes the moment
to do online seems a great way to use up points.
It's a good point for many. So if you want
to use your extra or you spare flybys points because
they're can sing it, go online. I'm just trying to

(02:07:31):
work out the website you've got to go to. I
don't know where you go to to do it, but
go to your flyby thing and make them to charity.
It's a good idea. Oh by the way, if you're
going away on a holiday, I reckon it's a good time.
Here's a timely remort. Ear out your tent. A lot
of tents can get quite kind of Scody over the winter,

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cant they get molded them or something like that. So
I reckon it's a good time to probably ear out
your tent. That's my advice to you for tonight, just
putting that out there. If that's something you want to
go and do, you'll thank me on Boxing Day.

Speaker 1 (02:08:10):
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