Who can we sue (1 April 2025)

Marcus farewells a much-loved mascot, has a question about a new sky dish, and gets to why high school students don't like reading the books they're told they have to read.

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:13):
First things first, April fools, try hardier. But this year
nothing in the paper. A lot on Facebook, I thought,
a lot of companies tried to get a lot of
companies tried to get virality. Oh they want to go viral.
Oh we're going viral. A lot of kind of businesses
most incredibly obvious, incredibly well. I thought that quite late.

(00:36):
The only thing that made me smile was the Suzuki Jimney.
There was something on the Suzuki Jimney user's page or
something like that they had put out a two wheel
version of the Jymney called a Slimney, which was a
two wheel four wheel drive, which was quite good. Kids
thought that was funny. That was funny. Looked at chet
Gptai had generated the image. But that was my take

(00:57):
for that. That was the Slimney. I guess they'd been
thinking about it for a while. But Y's all sorts
of Facebook groups were the pehart if life savers said
they're going to hoverpacks, all that sort of stuff. And
you know what I'm thinking is I'm thinking here, I'm thinking,
I'm telling you what by the looks of the April

(01:20):
Fool's attempts at humor, I saw today it's easy to
sit here and be kind of cynical. It seemed to
me that the putting together and the doing of those
because all of it's done now on protol I don't
know what you do it on. You do it on
your your iPad or your mach You know, you can

(01:41):
chop up images and you can put things together and
you create stuff that's not really real. It seemed to
me that the putting together of these posts had brought
companies extraordinary happiness. I think that's what it's all about now,
thinks about giving those people in the workplace a slightly
kind of elevated mood for the day. So well done
to all of them. But yeah, I didn't have a

(02:02):
belly laugh. But maybe that to me. But that is
April Fold, So there we go. That's covered off. Big
tick for that Big Tick. Didn't see anything that these
any Hell, didn't see anything in the South in times
mine Joe always hard to tell sometimes news from me,

(02:23):
sky has rung. We're getting a new dish. Yeah, so
I rang Vanessa, not me, But we're getting a new
we're getting a bigger dish. Now. I thought I was
right on top of what's happening with Sky because I'm
feeling so many calls for so many years on this show.
Apparently the techs are in bluff and we're all getting

(02:45):
a bigger dish. I got no idea why you need
a bigger dish? Is that because the new satellite wobbles more?
Why would you need a bigger dish? And is everyone
in the country getting a new dish? I had no
idea to the answer of that. Still going to be
all the ads though, isn't it. But we're getting a

(03:07):
bigger dish. Could someone explain to me what that's about
We're gonna get a bigger dish? Because I kind of
felt kind of like I've done all these years of
talkback guys across everything. The satellite was falling from the sky,
yet to get on channels, YadA YadA. I've never ever
people getting the blaster at the back of the dish replaced,

(03:28):
never heard we're going to get a bigger dish. Got
no idea why you need a bigger dish? Could someone
tell me the answer to that? After I was the expert,
They're coming tomorrow afternoon. Ah, well, so we're getting a
bigger dish. I'll be there. Are we getting a bigger dish?
Are we?

Speaker 4 (03:48):
So?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
I don't know what's going on with that. We're gonna
get a bigger dish, So I don't know how much
bigger or why it's bigger. It seems to me if
they're needing a bigger dish. The satellite. The new satellite
can't be as good because it's kind of a bit
more insurance for rain fade. So I'm not that confident.

(04:13):
It feels a bit piecemeal to me. But anyway, if
you've got any comments about that, you know, I love
starting the show with sort of scushion about sky TV
because they got me hooked again back with the Warriors,
even though I tried to chrome cast and I couldn't.
But anyway, do you get in touch. My name is
Mars Away. My name is Marcus HDDL. But eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty and nine two. There are other topics.

(04:34):
I just want to start with this. There's breaking news
throughout the next hours four I will tell you what
their breaking news is. You won't miss out on anything
by listening to this show. But first up, it's the
big addition. We can move on to the metters at hand. Marcus,
one of the Hut City the Upper Hut Cities showed

(04:56):
kangaroos in a park for a rather pathetic April fall
stay joke, Peter, Yes, and I think in Duneda and
they said they had a Canadian moose in one of
the parks. Please don't feed the moose, Marcus. I always
get goose pumps from your Jennifer lush Intro. I love
her powerful voice. When's her birthday, Dan, because we play

(05:17):
it in its entirety on her birthday? September twenty eight.
Seems like a long way away now, doesn't it? September
twenty eight. Oh, I don't think we've ever managed to
remember it. It's always been on the weekend. It's on
the calendar, but it always seems to be in the weekend.
By the way. Oh, there's other stuff to talk about.
Oh yeah, I'm just reading in the ODT for lame.

(05:39):
Oh it's easy to be cynical. The Dunedin Hospital project
had been disrupted by the presence of velvet worm, and
then Needen coastcarn Announce had managed to purchase a brand
new yellow Summarne for goodness, me and Real Wheels at

(06:06):
Warnacker said they had received a letter from Harry and
Meghan confirming their appearance at the tractor show at Warnica
as part of the Eastern Vacation to use England Anyway,
there's been some humor about the new McDonald's at Warnica

(06:29):
and that's been all I've got for you so far.
But most of it's been things like the yellow submarine
and oh there was a moose Dunedin City Council post
on social media there was a loose moose sighted at
Chingford Park with the world's worst bit of photoshop. It
looks transparent the moose. I don't want to be a

(06:50):
a Kevin or a Karen, but imagine a lot of
people you haven't the council got anything better to do
than I think it's quite hard being the council's social
media person because no one really knows what the job is.
You've got to try and engage and try and be
funny because most of the time she's a bit of
a dry remit that one doing social media for council. Yeah,
like you got to be pretty careful with where you

(07:13):
go with that one anyhow where were they? Oh that's right,
I was talking to you about the bigger dish. We're
going to get a bigger dishes. Anyone else got a
bigger dish? How much bigger? Why do we need a
bigger dish? Is everyone getting a bigger dish?

Speaker 5 (07:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
The other thing that was interesting, and I don't know
if this will resonate with anyone, but he goes cookie
Beer has been retired. Yeah, now some of you will
find that surprising, but he's been around for seven for
fifty eight years, and they've killed him. Basically, that's what's happened.

(07:55):
So yeah, that's it. So they were refreshing the branding
of Cookie Beer biscuits and they're dropping Cookie Beer after
fifty seven years. But what is interesting is once upon
a time, and some of you will recall this is

(08:18):
it The Cookie Bear Club in New Zealand once had
one hundred and sixty two thousand members and they received
a card from Cookie Bear on their birthday. Now, I
would like to confess that I myself was a member

(08:39):
of the Cookie Bear Club and I've completely forgotten about
that until I saw this article. Not only that I
also had a Cookie bear Watch, which I still have.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
Now.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
I don't know many people out there. I would imagine
anyone would still have a cookie beer watch, But yes
I have one. I've even got a photo of it
somewhere if I can do a Google search of my
photos photos. But there was I did have a cookie
beer watch. I don't think it was the world's best watch,

(09:14):
and I've done a Google search on it and none
of them are there. But yes, I had one anyway,
so I hope. I mean, why would you choose a
beer as a mascot for biscuits one of the worlds
What actually you got to say is the world's worst mascot?
Actually is quite fond of him. Dum't do you do?
I don't know why beers make that noise either, Why
would they? I'll do a Google search to see if

(09:36):
I can find this. I hope. I have just spent
all tomorrow looking for this damn thing, because I probably
will because no one believes I've got one cookie beer
How do you spell beer b e a rt watch?
No results? Idiots? Phil As Marcus, Welcome and good evening.

Speaker 6 (09:57):
Oh good evening, Marcus? Here are you going good?

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Thank you good?

Speaker 6 (10:00):
I want to just to share when you're beaching cookie beer.
I did an ad with cookie beer nineteen seventy three.
I was ten years old and I was an ad
for Shrewsbury and it was filmed and I had I
was the because I think I was sort of a
round and very believable that I ate a lot of
us goods. I had my finger in the middle of

(10:23):
the Shrewsbury with the jam and I had to pull
the jam out and go and cookie beer. There was
about eight of us kids that had got picked out
of We were at Titerany Primary in our standard for
and I think there was a mother who was a
producer and TV or something. That's why we got the gig.

(10:45):
And the Cookie Beer actor was David Weatherley, who was
a prominent Mercury theater type actor and he was on
ads on he was I remember it sounds funny, but
he was the Mono man, which I guess was the
four runoff of Glad Ramp.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yes, yes, I Valy remember all of this that you're saying.
I even think I vaguely remember you.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Well.

Speaker 6 (11:10):
It was in black and white and unfortunately, I think
a year later more color TV came in and it
wasn't on that long, but yeah, that was yeah, it
was that we got we are paid fifteen dollars fish
and chips for lunch and a box of biscuits for
the day's work.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
And you were fet shamed, were you?

Speaker 6 (11:28):
I was quite well. My nickname was beach ball, so yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know, well I was brought up. My parents had
a dairy.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Of course they did, which which which which dairy?

Speaker 7 (11:41):
Was it?

Speaker 8 (11:43):
Well?

Speaker 6 (11:43):
It was one in to the rangy.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
It wasn't the one that it wasn't the It wasn't
the first one that had the snow freeze, was it.

Speaker 6 (11:50):
I don't remember having a say we're more roll your
own ice cream because the teachers used to come in
from Trany Primary and the state of my father will
have six ice creams pleas and we're not paying for it,
and it's why are you not paying for it? Well,
we're not paying for it unless you want us for cow.
What Philip said at Show and Tell on the school

(12:10):
today about Mum and Dad saving water by bathing together, goodness, So.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
It all takes a dark turn this call. Was it
the end of your acting?

Speaker 6 (12:23):
Well, I've been on Game of two halves and a
few sports things on TV first with Tony Beach and
Martin Devilon. But basically, yeah, I didn't really go much further.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
No, have you seen a copy of it recently, Phil.

Speaker 6 (12:36):
No, I've tried to, like YouTube, will google it, but
it doesn't seem to be anyway. Even when I was
looking at the history of Hudson's and all that sort
of thing, I couldn't quite find it. But just lives
in my memory.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Oh I lived in mine too now, pl thank you
for every much. But that's extremely good call straight away
or stuff. I can't do a Google search anywhere for
a Cookie beer watch, but I will. I will find
that tomorrow. And I thought I had it on my photos.
I've been through my photos of googled watches and I
can't see the watch. But anyway, I'm sure you have
some tangential history with Cookie Bear. Oh eight hundred eighty

(13:12):
ten eighty nine to nine to de text, Marc is
still twelve, Yes, and a lot of people belong to
the Birthday club. But I guess those things don't happen now.
You can email, I suppose, don't you. It's not quite
the same as a letter old to the text, So
he was good that I always doing a game of

(13:33):
two halves. He's some sort of sportsman. Oh, I see,
so they might have taken them on as who was
as kid as a child. Who's in the Cookie Bear?
Do you think that's what it was, Marcus? This is
what the Marlborough District Council posted and I've sent me
a picture of that. Oh and I'm going to look

(13:58):
this up here we go. Oh, yes, there were district
councils proposing to build a laser dome over Blend them
to protect it from seagulls. Yes, they're all very lane
from council and there's a very bad mock up of
what it looks like. Yes, anyway, do get in touch

(14:19):
of what someone says Cookie Bear's name was Hudson. Looks
like Cookie Bear came from the UK. My uncle used
to be the Cookie Bear at Cadbury's and the early eighties,
Stan Reid, Marcus, I'm surprised you're not talking about Bengus
to Bluff twenty twenty five. That finishes the Saurday by
You auction Saturday of twenty cars no reserve rent. I
think every day there's some different group arrives in Bluff.

(14:40):
So it does become slightly same me, same me after
a while. They don't want to say that disparaging, but oh,
I think it happens every year. I get to the
end of the road and they go to the pub,
and I think they take them to town to auction
them at I can't remember the people's names anyway. Yeah,
one and four key weis belong to the Cookie Bear Club.
I think lot if we have the lunch boxes also,

(15:03):
And every time you go to a school fair, he
would always be there handing I think he had that,
but think I had that lollies. I'm not quite sure
why that was, but yes, he I mean, I guess
he was everywhere. Him and Crunchy the clown in the seventies.
There we go. You might want to mention that. And
also the giant skydish that we are getting or we
getting one at home. It's gone from sixty centimeters to

(15:23):
ninety messive thing. They've got good brackets and bluff because
and bluff with winds we get. I don't reckon that's
going to stay pot. I hope it's they've got strong
nails that's been vigilantly tested. Something else that I will
mention tonight they are talking and this comes up all

(15:44):
the time, and it changes all the time. They are
talking about the school reading list. I think it's formed
six and seven. I can't convert to years thirteen or
years fourteen. Makes no sense to me. However, I would
suggest that when you are at school, the books you

(16:07):
are supposed to read are not the books that you
do read. Nothing destroys your love of a book by
being told you need to read this. I think as
I drove to work about the books that I read
when I was at school. Most of them I didn't read,
but know a lot about them because we discussed what
happened in them. But that seemed to be the great

(16:27):
challenge was to not read them. I might have read
one or two books, but most of them I probably avoided.

Speaker 9 (16:35):
Why.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
I'm not quite sure why, because once a book becomes
something you need to read to study, it kind of
takes the joy out of it. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness.
I think we went there. The couple were supposed to
read anyway. So yeah, they weren't transformative to me because
I don't think I read them. I think that's the

(16:56):
honest truth. A school seemed to be more exercise and avoidance. Anyway,
there's some situation lower hut with a road closed. And
here's a story that we are more familiar with. Motorcyclists
reported writing dangerously through christ Church suburbs. That seems to

(17:19):
have been in the past an Auckland story. Now it's
a christ Church story, although there's only two of them.
Normally it's a much bigger crowd, is it not. So
there we go. That's a situation eight hundred and eighty
to Teddy mon Um. It's Marcus, welcome hered at twelve
o'clock tonight. And the life changing books you were made

(17:40):
to read at school. I'd be like, it'd be like
pulling teeth trying to get children read books, wouldn't it
unless you read them all together along in class. I
don't think they'll do that any well, Marcus, Oh my god.
One thing I hated about books English class at school
was it was also serious. Wish they did more creative
writing and reading. Yeah, they kind of suck the love

(18:03):
out of it, I think. And I'd say most awake
with every good, but when you've got to start studying
or reading it for the sake of it, it kills it.
That's my take on it. I'm not and I'm happy
I'm not an English teacher. I think it'd be hard
to motivate people. Free hard getting his children to read.
You can't force them to because it'll kill it for them.

(18:24):
I can think you just try and hope you're going
to discover it themselves. By the way, America's Cup could
not care less. I never thought it would come here,
and I'm not at all upset that it isn't coming here.
How many times we're going to defend this damn thing forever?
Goodness me, what a bit more life and vitality put

(18:47):
back in the Holston Inigans Jonathan's Marcus, Welcome, good morning,
good evening.

Speaker 10 (18:54):
Good evening, Marcus. I've just tuned in and caught you
talking about Cookie Bear. So I don't know how much
people have said so far, so forgive me for that.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
People haven't seen much. But it's on the news that
Hudson's have killed him.

Speaker 10 (19:10):
Okay, well, Hudson's that introduced cookie beer to New Zealand.
They stole it. Cookie Bear first appeared in the Andy
Williams Show in America that ran from nineteen fifty nine
to nineteen seventy and we in New Zealand got many

(19:31):
of those episodes in the early days of TV when
we still had black and white television. And Cookie Bear
was a guy in a suit, of course, and he
used to come on between songs and between acts and
asked for cookies. So he was a comic sort of
character that sort of played alongside Andy Williams. And then

(19:53):
hang on, yep, was it a real beer? No, it
was a guy. It was a person in a suit.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Looked though, didn't it said the long stand. It looked
more like a beer than our Cookie Bear.

Speaker 10 (20:07):
No, it was definitely somebody in a suit, because if
you google it, it gives his name, and the name
escapes me at the moment. But the Andy Williams Show
didn't run for its whole season in New Zealand because
things changed and the show was canceled. But I remember
it well when he came on and he was all
a bit silly at the time. And then the Biscuit
Company in New Zealand stole the idea and everyone thought

(20:31):
it was an original here, but it certainly was not.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Well, you feel quite strongly about us.

Speaker 10 (20:37):
I do, And if you google the Andy Williams show,
it said ran from fifty nine to nineteen seventy eleven years,
but certainly not that many years here. And of course
in the same show, Andy introduced the Osmond brothers.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
And why do you feel that? Okay, it's quite a
different looking character, wasn't it? But yeah, okay, now wow.

Speaker 10 (20:59):
So you know you've got to go back to early
days of television what we have been w in TV one, AK,
TV two, c h TV three and so on. And
the Andy Williams Show featured in the very very early
days of New Zealand television. Wow, and Cookie Bed was

(21:21):
one of Andy Williams's characters goodness completely stolen by the
New Zealand Biscuit Company.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
So much strong feelings around that. Nice to talk, Thank you,
Karen Marcus, welcome. Hello.

Speaker 11 (21:39):
So I remember when I was in third or fourth
form reading The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, and then
it came out as a movie which had a whole
bunch of actors who went on to become very famous,
like Tom Cruise and Patrick Swasey and Rob Low And

(22:00):
I read that book so many times, and I remember
taping the movie on VHS and whatching it till the
tape till the tape right.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Not only if I can say, not only was an
extraordinary cast, but it was an extraordinary performance by all
that cast. It was phenomenal Dylan and they all went
on to I guess some of them were some of
them were children of actors, some of them were acting dynasty.
But they're all extraordinary, extraordinary And I'm still like, I'm

(22:34):
in my fifties now and I still remember that film,
and actually.

Speaker 11 (22:39):
It's on I was scrolling through TV on demand the
other day and it's on TV ins and on demand
at the moment, and I rewatched it just the other day,
the movie, and I still loved it.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah, nineteen eighty three, that was an extraordinary movie.

Speaker 11 (22:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So probably to be Fear. A lot
of my enjoyment of that book came from the movie
coming out quite soon after I read it at school.
But I thought that was such a such a cool,
such a cool coming of age story.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
You know, did you Carol without sounding worthy or judge?
Did you stick with reading?

Speaker 11 (23:23):
Yeah? Yeah, I don't I ever reader. I Like, there
was not a book I would have chosen to be
Feared at that age. But I guess I just got
lucky and had a teacher that kind of you know,
sold it, sold it to me and in my Catin family. Enough,
some of my friends went on to teachers college, and

(23:44):
so by the nineties they were still teaching that book
the school they went on to teachers.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Yeah, if you can find a book that's relevant to
young I mean, I guess that's the challenge. I don't
know how relevant Shakespeare or Jane Austen is, but yeah,
that's the challenge for the people writing the curriculum. It
doesn't seem that relevant to me, but yeah, yeah, yeah,
so yeah.

Speaker 11 (24:06):
I'm sure that lots of us read that book.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yeah, and it's and that's my experience. To Karen, thank
you for the twenty four to nine. I wait to
do the guy still harboring anger about cookie beer? Anyway,
I always thought the Andy Griffith Show was terrible. Marcus.
Wasn't there a cookie beer on Sesame Street? Perhaps there was?

(24:29):
Thank you, Kingy Marcus. I agree with books were required three.
But I do remember reading ketchrom the Rye, which did
teach me something about history. I do not reading it.
I am better informed as a result. One of the classics.
I can't tell you a hand on heart that I've
read Ketcher in the Rye, but I always mind I

(24:49):
have been going back reading the classics when I find
them in a secondhand shop. I'll always buy one of
the classics and read it. But I should and I will.
I'm just waiting for a good read. Get in Touch,
Marcus till twelve the sky dish Oh I low, hang on,
hang on, hang on. I did read This is Someone
Someone's Someone's reminded me of something via text. I did

(25:14):
read Dracula, and I did read The Day of the Triffids.
The Day of the Triffids was terrifying, absolutely get out
of town terrifying. I often wonder if they made us
read that to punish us. Dracula was kind of terrifying,

(25:36):
but not as terrified as the Day of the Triffids,
which was get out of town terror. Maybe I read
that into mediate school. I can't quite recall terrifying. We
read Shane by Jack Shaffer College. I loved it. Shane
was a mysterious cowboy in the world, wisty two up
a ranch. We also read The Day of the Triplets,
which was terrifying. Back at you, who can we sue

(26:01):
for those Sleepless Nights. What a book, what a page turner?
Of course, the cookie beer. Yeah, I'm trying to think
it was. He was pertained all sorts of biscuits, chocolate
chip biscuits and those other ones. One hundred and thousands.
That makes sense, doesn't it? Anyway? He until midnight. Name

(26:22):
is Marcus Welcome the giant skydish? What's that about? Whilere
we getting those China. Chinese military launches large scale drills
around Taiwan. They've completely surrounded it. The joint exercise involves navy, ear,

(26:48):
ground and rocket forces, and I meant to be a
severe warning and forceful containment against Taiwan independence. Yep. Nineteen
Chinese navy vessels in the water surrounding the island. They

(27:09):
were using those lending craft not too long ago. They
got people freaked out. Also, Conrad, this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 12 (27:18):
Yeah, Marcus had got three books to throw at you.

Speaker 13 (27:20):
It was no. Three.

Speaker 12 (27:21):
I was in the fifth form. The first one is
Smith's Stream by Yes.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yes, I think we read that too. Yes, that was
a standard, wasn't it. Yes? That's right?

Speaker 12 (27:30):
Well you were My kind of story is I wasn't
actually much a reader at all was because of this
year that I kind of got into it in a
big way. And the second one was The Wave, which
is might not be filiar to some people, but it's
a book about an experiment in the San Francisco High
school in the sixties. Yes, you would have heard of
it probably.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yes, Them's aout tyranism and fascism.

Speaker 12 (27:53):
Yeah, and about group theory and that kind of thing.
It was really interesting. Yeah. And then the third one
was Black.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Like Me, which really yeah.

Speaker 12 (28:07):
Which was the white kind of like typically okay, I know,
middle aged and well he was he's quite young, I think,
but he tenders his skin darker skin, and he lived
in Louisiana and Mississippi and the Southern States and the
kind of experiences of being an ego well African American.

(28:27):
Right now, here's the real quicker. I mean, I loved
the book and it got into reading a big way.
But here's the thing. Those three books we had a
movie version that we were rewarded with watching at the
end of at the end of the reading.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
The books makes sense, yeah.

Speaker 12 (28:45):
Yeah, And that just got me thinking because you had
the previous caller bring up The Outsiders, which is both
an awesome book and awesome movie, and so yeah, that's
what really and after that that actually kind of staying.
I wasn't much of a reader up until then, but
then I saw kind of what everyone was going on
about me about you should read some books.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
And I think we're teaching it made it easy if
you watch the movie afterwards, because a lot of people
woul start and probably get bored or just give up
because they were busy doing sport or something.

Speaker 12 (29:09):
I would imagine, well, well, yeah, that's right, it was.
It was a busy period in two of other distractions
as well, but that that actually in all three books
because it was like a you know, boys only kind
of high school were but appeals to everyone kills as well.
I mean, the whole topics and everything were fantastic. So
I really am and get it to among the teachers
of that.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
Yeah, that's exciting. You should you should follow him up
on Facebook and thank him or her.

Speaker 12 (29:33):
I should. Yeah, okay, thanks, thanks Micaus.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yeah, nice to hear from you. I don't know what
I think Black Black Like Me has probably been slightly
discredited now, I would imagine because that's what it was
a It was a white guy that dressed up like that. So, yeah,
I've forgotten about that. That was all the rage there
for a while in the seventies. So to join some
of these flashbacks around this book, there's that's right, Yes,
there was the key with stuff. Smith Street was often

(29:55):
studied that man alone was you would have had to
read that. Probably that wasn't your books she used to read.
It went into the Rangers. That's right. Anyway, do get
in touch. Yeah, I'll get your texts through too, nine
nine two to text if you want to come through.
JT is writting an invasion of Taiwan as early as

(30:17):
the twentieth have made. That's very specific exactly. I think
I still have PTSD post Trifford stress disorder. Terrifying. There
was more terrifying because it was a book. Anyway, Marcus

(30:39):
read ninetety four a high school made me really love
Geor Drawell with Reriggan Peer and Animal Farm and other
great books. I tried reading Berry Crump and Form five
maybe a Good King Man. My English teachers smissed as
a comic, and to see him when I wanted to
read a real book, Oh wow, Oh yeah, it'd be
hard to inspire kids wouldn't have just read anything or
what I mentioned. Just can't we get that guy that

(31:00):
felt that hatred about the Cookie beer. One hundred thousand
people were in the Cookie Beer Club that received cards
on their birthday, one and four children under the age
of twelve. Goodness, I don't think people have that same
passion for biscuits now. Would they probably be illegal to

(31:23):
market kids to kids like of the birthday club to
do with a biscuit, Probably with good reason. Actually yeah,
I don't fully know how to tailor an interesting topic
for you pertaining to April Fool's Day, but I think
we've acknowledged it, and I think now we can move on.
I don't think there was any great classic for it,

(31:45):
but as I say, I think most of it's now
moved on to online. I did enjoy that one year
there was a BMW giveaway and they said they're giving
away a free car. The first person that turned W
one at all that day before the guide did turn
up and they gave him a free car, and I
thought there's a lesson in that. I don't know what
the lesson is. What was the lesson? Something about marketing,

(32:05):
But there we go. But most of them that I
saw appeared to be local body counsel social media teams
trying to relieve the boredom of a tiring job. I
would think we're not a tiring job, but a hard job.
When you're doing social media for a council, there's probably
some pretty tough days when you're trying to get people

(32:26):
engaged into responding to district plans and things. That's what
they're always trying to encouncils, trying to get people to respond.
They all want input for district plans, and no one
ever wants to do it because you go along and
you advise or give your opinion. But most councils have

(32:49):
firm ideas anyway and aren't great at taking input on board.
By the way, the atmospheric river is on its way.
What's brandoline? I say, when it's gonna hit late tomorrow
Thursday morning. Thursday is the intense one. Be about a

(33:10):
rain for about one or two days. Can't wait, the
garden needs it, looking forward to it. So we're on
about tonight. My name is Marcus, Welcome eight hundred and
eighty nine text Marcus. I read the Outside of z

(33:30):
for zechar Yra in some book about a golden seal.
All our movies. Also one year April Fall's media said
there've been a shark spot on the Hamilton Lake. They
should put one in there.

Speaker 14 (33:43):
I die.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
I guess Terran Saints for hanging on there. It's Marcus welcome.
Good evening, Yeah, good evening.

Speaker 15 (33:52):
I listening about your thing about it's a cookie monster,
cookie beer, cookie beer, Yeah, cookie beer. Okay? Is that
part of a New Zealand famous cookie bread.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
I think it was Hudson's and it became Griffin's or something.

Speaker 15 (34:11):
Oh okay.

Speaker 16 (34:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (34:12):
It was interesting because it was said in the needed
a way like that's a banton that we should give
children presents on their birthday. I think, you know, if
there's a knocked out thing that appearance can say hey
I don't I don't want to get this, that would
be fine for you know, people who don't like giving
their children three presents. Jerry clever marketing quite frankly. But

(34:36):
it's it's sad that we would want to take that
away from children.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
I don't think anyone's taken away. I think that they've
just moved on from the brand. The brand is dead
because it's fifty three years old. The kids aren't resonated.
With cookie beer, so it's over over. Oh wow, I
don't think. I don't think, Terrence. Why do you make
out that are you from a different planet.

Speaker 15 (35:01):
I'm from a different planet.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
You live in this country. Must be familiar with cookie beer?
Are you.

Speaker 12 (35:09):
Not?

Speaker 13 (35:10):
Really?

Speaker 15 (35:11):
No, I'm familiar with cookie time. I think it's our
favorite friends.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
How old are you?

Speaker 15 (35:17):
I'm sixty years old. Not really familiar with cookie beer.
I'm sorry. I only many cookies.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Maybe you have you lived in this country your whole life?

Speaker 15 (35:30):
Yeah, born here, lived here a bit of time overseas.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
And the woods dumpty doo, dumpty doo don't resonate with you.
Dump do do?

Speaker 15 (35:40):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, yeah that reason as well.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
That's what okay, that's what cookie beer would I don't
know what it meant, but dumpy doo was what he
would say.

Speaker 15 (35:50):
Oh okay, right right. But so so everybody's upset because
the brands.

Speaker 9 (35:55):
Died and not and.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
No one's upset.

Speaker 15 (36:00):
Oh okay, that's interesting. I was just I was conversation.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
I think I think people say, well, that's interesting, it's
been around for that long. But what was interesting is
there was a cookie beer club that a quarter of
all New Zealand children belonged to and they would get
a letter on their birthday from Cookie Bear.

Speaker 15 (36:20):
That's a cliper idea.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Yes, but they didn't get a free biscuit.

Speaker 15 (36:25):
It's a shame. Yeah, well that would have been good
marking they did well.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Think it was a good marketing anyway. Anyway, if you
had a quarter of the country signed up for a
cookie beer club, that is good marketing anyway, is it not.

Speaker 15 (36:37):
Yeah, it's very good marketing. Maybe Cookie Time should look
at it and take it up.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
I think Cookie Time does quite well. Have you seen
that Cookie Time shop very well? Have you seen that
Cookie Time shop in Queenstown?

Speaker 15 (36:50):
No, No, I don't have many years ago.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Has it been opened many years? But I mean that's
always crowded.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Oh.

Speaker 15 (37:00):
I can imagine. A business partner of mine used to
a Cookie Town franchise in the Hawk's Bay.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
So yeah, interesting do they do like delivering them?

Speaker 15 (37:14):
He would go around servicing all the various shops and
supermarkets and things like that. I don't know all the
details fully, but but yeah, he owned a franchise for
the Hawk's Bay.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Yeah, I've seen those vans driving around Terrence, thank you.
I've enjoyed that goodness. Oh just started first week of
English student teaching. Certainly lots of interesting discussion today in
the staffroom. Isaac Oh, by the way, this is interesting.

(37:46):
There's more layers to Cookie Bear, and I'm surprised the
strong depth of feeling against him. He was I was
going to say he had a bow tie. I don't think, Well,
did he have a bow tie or did he have
a cravet? I'm sure on the watch he had a
bow tie. Well, I think he's since gone to a cravet. Yes,
he's gone from a bow tie to a crave for

(38:07):
goodness sake anyway, So what I'm telling you is that
this is interesting. Well, I think it's interesting.

Speaker 9 (38:18):
PSH.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Veteran biscuit mascot Cookie Beer could soon be on and
this is an article from ten years ago. Couldsume be
on the Endangered speciesist As Auckland health authorities set him
and others like him in their sights. They're asking for
changes to advertising regulations to stop companies been allowed to
use child friendly mascots and characters on on healthy food.

(38:44):
Cookie Beer appears on many Griffin Biscuits packets, but was
first credit for Hudson's Biscuits in nineteen sixty eight and
a big celebrity in the seventies and the eighties. Goodness me. So, yeah,
they wanted him gone a long long time ago. But
it's interesting it says nineteen sixty eight, did he predate

(39:05):
the guy from the Andy Williams show that that guy
was so upset about? No, maybe not, but anyway, that's
what they're trying to get and they've tried to be
trying to get rid of them. You can bring up
and say PC gone mad. If you're like PC got mad,
they are subverting their choice bog in the nag factor

(39:27):
happening and try to attach them and a brand loyalty
directly to children. Well huge brand lordy of a court
of people signed up to it. So those these things
are cute, nice, they're actually quite an insidious way of
getting to kids and getting them tapped into particular brand Yep,
So there you go. Maybe that's why they've retired him.

(39:50):
But so it's ten years ago they wanted him rid of.
Were talking about that in books and schools, the books
you read at school, and also why the sky is
just getting so much bigger? These are just suggested topics.
There might be other stuff you want to go on about.
I wish I brought my cookie beer watching because people
are sending me text like they don't believe I've got

(40:11):
one that's tomorrow banging around the old shed. By the way,
Daylight Savings will end three m this Sunday. Oh, for
goodness sake, I thought it was about four weeks away.
That means this weekend will be an hour longer. Yeah,

(40:41):
that's right, it will be an hour longer. If you
don't agree with me, I'll fight you on that one.
If you want to ring up and tay it's going
to be an hour shorter, I'll be up for that discussion.
No one really handles daylight savings that well. By the way,
there'll be a lot of excellent on the roads for
the week after, because that just that moving your body

(41:02):
rhythm by an hour will cause much insomnia, sleeplessness, and
irritability for people. Just an hour it'll do that. Mark
my words, What time does it mean I'll be getting up.
I'll get up at the same time, but it will

(41:24):
seem as though I am getting up later. I have
great sympathy for people that work night shift, anyway, I
have a slight sample of nightshift. But you people with
night shift, it's going to pay have it with you,
so don't minimize us. It will take two weeks to recover.
I know that sounds like a lot, but I reckon,
I'm going to talk to you halfway through the next
because feeling grizzly. It'll be daylight savings. Now, some people

(41:48):
say daylight savings. Some people say daylight savings. I'm not
up for an argument. Both are acceptable on the show
because I think you're saving dailing. You're saving daylight every
single day, so it's multiple daily savings of daylight, so
you can pluralize it. By the way, this day nineteen

(42:11):
fifty seven, the BBC broadcast The Spaghetti Tree Hoax, widely
regarded as one of the best April Fools jokes ever.
Free British thing, isn't it April Fools jokes? Cl I
need an excuse to be prank people, now you minver

(42:31):
tell me the year the first beer was brewed seventeen
sixty three, brewed in New Zealand, an attempt to get
rid of scurvy. Every So there we go, oh by headway,
here's the question for you, and they've got a little
bit of a payball on that question about the shop
owners there. Animal here's a question for you people of

(42:54):
New Zealand, and this could be quite interesting. What do
you think would be the shop that's been run by
p people for the longest. There's always a story of
someone setting up this shop after being in retail for
thirty years or whatever. What do you think the longest

(43:15):
continuous family in retail would be? Would there have still
been in the shop rather than different generations. I'll be
curious are the answer to that. You might want to
come through about that. Also, he don't meet that many
of us. Marcus, Good evening, Mikey, Marcus welcome. Oh yeah,
good Mikey. What's happening.

Speaker 17 (43:36):
I've got a Cookie Beer story for you.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
Right, let me just put both let me put both
my earphones on. Okay, yep, bang away.

Speaker 14 (43:43):
Okay. So, so as I know, I was the last
voice of Cookie Beer.

Speaker 9 (43:48):
Really yeah, I know.

Speaker 14 (43:51):
I know at the time they made me sign a
non disclosure of greement to say that I wasn't. I
guess in case something happens where I'd get into trouble
and they would be the would be and these, the
trouble would be thrown off to cookie beer that the
thing ist. Well, I got the story, as I'll tell.

Speaker 18 (44:05):
You is when I went for audition for the to
get the get the job, I went to the recording
studio and I'm won't stand you know, went in there
rent that there's maybe say four people from the eight Agency.
There are a couple of people from Griffin's and and
and the and the record and the and the actual studio.

Speaker 14 (44:23):
Engineer or sitting there. So I go into the voice
booth and I have to read out the thing.

Speaker 19 (44:31):
If I finished, I go, I go.

Speaker 14 (44:37):
Like that, and and then I'm sort of going.

Speaker 18 (44:39):
And then I'm waiting, and I'm waiting to find out,
you know, what they thought.

Speaker 6 (44:43):
And it's a good five or six minutes.

Speaker 14 (44:44):
Well, they're all like, like you know, severn eight people
are all talking in the other room.

Speaker 18 (44:48):
I'm going, I've lost the gig.

Speaker 14 (44:49):
I'm not going to get this a bum sort of thing.
And then I get this, can you hear me in there?

Speaker 16 (44:54):
Monkey?

Speaker 14 (44:57):
Do you think the dumpy dou sounded a big gay?

Speaker 6 (45:04):
It's okay?

Speaker 14 (45:05):
So I go, well, I'm here's here's a titty beer
running around Lilly land with a heckund his neck.

Speaker 6 (45:13):
And he was just there there.

Speaker 14 (45:15):
Was a kerchief.

Speaker 6 (45:15):
Actually it was a yeah yeah, but so I went.

Speaker 14 (45:19):
So the situation from there was a difference that made
it less gay apparently.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
What what was the whole script?

Speaker 17 (45:29):
My key?

Speaker 3 (45:30):
What was the scenario?

Speaker 14 (45:33):
Oh, this is you und whatever whatever it was, you
all the different all the different bikies.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
You know, it would be a regular gig. It was
a one off to do that, and you did. You
covered everything and they would chopping up for different campaigns,
would they No, No, it was it was.

Speaker 20 (45:50):
A good it was.

Speaker 14 (45:52):
It was a couple of years.

Speaker 12 (45:55):
There was a couple of years.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
And is it is it breaking? Have you have you
announced that you were the voice of Cookie Beer before?
Is this common knowledge for people or is it breaking tonight?

Speaker 14 (46:08):
This is I'm just I feel they're going to shut
the brand down.

Speaker 12 (46:10):
That doesn't matter.

Speaker 18 (46:11):
Wow, I'm telling you tonight.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
And we were When was the last time you heard
your voice as cookie beer?

Speaker 4 (46:20):
Years ago?

Speaker 6 (46:21):
Years?

Speaker 18 (46:21):
They haven't, they haven't done Cookie Beer as.

Speaker 14 (46:23):
I mean, that's announced. You're finishing it because of the
kind of finished as, aren't you. But I used to
be a member of like like so many other news dealders.
It sounds like it used to.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
But like I think we joined ironically knowing it was
a bit of a enough thing to do, didn't we.
I mean, we weren't seriously excited to get a letter
from the beer. It was more sort of a how
ridiculous is this? Isn't it? Isn't that the kind of
the mentality could.

Speaker 19 (46:52):
Be fear though the letter was pretty well, you know,
like something in the ma that was actually was actually
you with.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Your name, probably with master Mikey have Yeah. I can
see it now, can't you?

Speaker 17 (47:09):
Dump do do?

Speaker 3 (47:11):
If I'm going to write dump do do, it's a
little bit gay. I's to hear from your Mikey seventeen
past nine, There we go go. I spoken to the
guy on the commercial and the voice of Cookie Beer
Dump Do Doo. I thought what the story was going
to be. They they liked his ad libs so much

(47:31):
they're going to make that part of the script. So
danin pit owners will they been doing this shop for
nineteen years. I'm just trying to think about probably the
shop or the Deiry that's been all the you know,
it's been known for people for the longest. If your
nineteen years. Doesn't seen that long, but I see what
the theme's going with this animal attraction in Cumberland Street.

(47:53):
Never drawn to pitt chops, although I I told you
I went to the guinea pig show, right, the Green
Island Guinea Pig Show on the weekend. Phenomenal. I've never
felt such strong affection for guinea pigs. But the owners, wow, intergenerational.

(48:15):
And there's this one guy that's fifteen and here is
like a guinea pig guru. He's like got his own company,
breeds them. This guy's a savante is the he is
the year like the hawking of guinea pigs. And that
was fascinating. So anyway, although they call them cavies, I
don't know why anyway, But where am I going with this?

(48:37):
I'm not sure. Trish Marcus welcome.

Speaker 7 (48:42):
Oh, hi backus. How you doing good?

Speaker 3 (48:44):
Trish? How are you doing all right?

Speaker 16 (48:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (48:46):
Good?

Speaker 7 (48:47):
Thank you're good. I would just like to tell you
about a family business and Danny Burke, which is now
in this one hundred and third year of operations owned
by the same family. And we've got fourth generations sometimes
fifth generation helping out family business.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
Is it your business?

Speaker 6 (49:10):
No?

Speaker 7 (49:11):
Not my business. It's my brother's business now, which my
grandfather started up in April nineteen twenty two.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
Wow, still going, Yeah, And what is it? Is it
a food or a retail shop?

Speaker 12 (49:26):
Is it?

Speaker 7 (49:27):
It's a fruit and vegetable shop, fruit and vegetables, and
I think it's probably the longest serving fruit and vegetable
retail shop in New Zealand, I think.

Speaker 16 (49:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
And they would have had challenges from supermarkets and all
sorts of stuff, wouldn't they.

Speaker 7 (49:44):
They certainly did. They had challenges from supermarkets. They've had
challenge from earthquakes twice. They've had challenges from the shop
being burnt down three times in the nineteen oh gosh
when it was just after World War two thirty nine
forty three. Yeah, they went through the first Second World War,

(50:07):
they went through the depression, they went through all the earthquakes,
the total rebuild and still up and running amazing.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
And what keeps them and what keeps them? Do they
have to adapt or they just do the old school
things well, just.

Speaker 7 (50:26):
The old school things well. Caring for the community. They're
big in the community, big voice out there, a lot
of sponsorships which I've been doing for over one hundred
years now and they are the two brothers that run
the shop now just carry on with their grandfather's legacy.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
And yeah, and they are they originally from China or
from India.

Speaker 7 (50:52):
From India And no, they're not from India. My grandfather was.
We're all born in New Zealand, so my grandfather and
my dad's father came out from India and then all
of us after that one here and danny K.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
In years, Yeah, one hundred and three years, one hundred
and three years.

Speaker 15 (51:14):
Wow, I'm still dying.

Speaker 7 (51:17):
I know, I know, it's amazing. I don't know how
they do it. And you know, like every day we
have to travel all the way from danny K Parmesan
north to get all the produce and back and then
travel to make your hastings to get the stone fruits
and back. And they've been doing this for over a

(51:37):
hundred years.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
And is there any sign have they got the whole
succession plan worked out?

Speaker 16 (51:47):
No?

Speaker 7 (51:48):
I think I'm not sure what's happening now because the parents'
grandparents and that all had quite a few like we're
all there to help out in that and now the
boys are doing it. And yeah, I'm not sure how
long they're going to be doing it for because there's
not many anyone waiting in line to take over, if

(52:10):
you know what I mean, jobs and are their own
professions now. But they keep going, going and going just
for the people of the community, keep the community spirits up.
Even through COVID, they did big you know, like care
boxers and ah, that's amazing, that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
Many of the families still live in Denavere Caud. A
lot of them actually go and do other things and
the children.

Speaker 7 (52:39):
No, there's a for the brothers are still in Yeah,
so yeah, they're still there. So they still got two
of them working in different workforce and two brothers in
the shops.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Yeah, of really interesting. I appreciate that greatly. Trust it's
called Shires. So they've got a website you're going to
order online as well. So I guess that's the stone
fruit looks great. By the way, bt W. By the way,
people doubting that I have a cookie ber watched, I
do find I feel that out there and I know
that al I'm going to be through old drawers, but
I think I kind of know where it is. Anyway,
that's by the bye markets Market's welcome, good evening my mind, Mark, welcome,

(53:19):
good evening.

Speaker 13 (53:20):
Well sorry, love looks not with the eyes, but with
the mind, and therefore is winged cupid painted blind?

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Do you remember much more? Give it to me again.

Speaker 13 (53:34):
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
and therefore is winged cupid blind?

Speaker 3 (53:41):
Is this? Is this for former English packeting? A college?

Speaker 13 (53:45):
Now it's rosa College fourth form Midsummer's Nights dream, miss Less,
he's so.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Lovely lady with us, Miss t.

Speaker 13 (53:57):
I think she married now I'm probably gonna.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
Marry the teacher. Or that a staffroom? Love? Was it
staff room?

Speaker 1 (54:03):
It was a it was?

Speaker 13 (54:06):
She was yes, whisked away by the first Was steam
coachs really gone from our young ccent minds?

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Really team coachs? During the miss ts wrong?

Speaker 13 (54:21):
I think it was all right for them.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
Then in the six did you act it or did
you just read it?

Speaker 13 (54:28):
We read it because it was very light. It's very light.
It's probably the easiest access of Shakespeare, my contempt. A
couple of contemporaries in the class next door did the tempers, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then then in the sixth we did much Ado,
which was the game very simple and and but you

(54:52):
know some people had to do Romeo and Juliet. I
think it was depending on the teaching you got, how
much they wanted to.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
But I think I think we ended up doing a tello,
which is a dry old read.

Speaker 13 (55:02):
Oh you know some of those things. Look, I've only
read the too that I was compelled to read. And
I've seen a few of the films that have been
based on the thing in the Jiggy's here and there,
and i've seen the mel Gibson the Hamlet.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
And I can't Yeah, all right, what's mel Gibson? Was
he Hamlet? I think that's good. I think you've got
that confused with Braveheart. I think you've got it confused
with have you?

Speaker 13 (55:28):
No? No, no, no, no. He did Hamlet after. I
think he did it after because he made so much
money off the Braveheart thing, he was able to indulge himself.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
I've never seen Braveheart.

Speaker 13 (55:41):
I wouldn't have seen that him when it come out
thirty years ago.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
No, I don't know. I know people love to dress
up for a friend to dress party or the rugby.
With that face, it took me a while to work
out what was going on there. I know people are
very passionate about one of the things in it.

Speaker 13 (55:54):
But yeah, well but look, I was interested to see
about the teacher's response to about whereas both you and
I can recount interactions with with the Bard via high school.
And now it seems to be it might be a burden.
I don't think so, considering all that some of the

(56:15):
great Look you think of the things that have come
out of New Zealand, they're based off off of Shakespeare.
You got that play, remember the Mary Merchant of Venice.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
Yes, and they took it to the globe, didn't they?

Speaker 13 (56:29):
They certainly did, and they filmed it.

Speaker 10 (56:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
It was huge.

Speaker 13 (56:33):
It was massive, absolutely massive, and it brought on along
a whole New Scotty Morrison was in the newsreader.

Speaker 3 (56:41):
Yeah not not the ousie Prime Minister, not Scomo.

Speaker 13 (56:44):
No, no, not the poor fella. But are you speaking
of Australia. God, you can't keep up with the wagon
wheel or the spinning Ferris wheel, of of of pms over.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
There on stupid eyebrows, Howard and the dressing. Remember the
rabbit at Elawarra. I don't like him, never liked him.
Did you see that in the rugby league when Elaori
bit Melbourne.

Speaker 13 (57:14):
Oh no, no, no, it didn't look I was basking
in the glory of the warriors the other night, just
sitting Megarn.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
Well, he came in. He came into the dressing room
to talk to them at the end of the match,
which was the last thing.

Speaker 13 (57:25):
Barn was uplistic.

Speaker 15 (57:29):
I think the twenty five year old confused young men
as to who this hell this fella is.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
Yeah, yeah, just hang on there. I just I just
want to come oa and talk to you about something.
By the way, don Sell and he did the whole
Merchant of Venice and MALTI uh yeah, okay, so that
that's you with the Merchant. Eventna, what did you do?
You did Midsummer Night Dream and then the Virgin of
Men and then what was the other one you did?

Speaker 13 (57:51):
I much ado about nothing, that's right, which I saw
obviously in the nineties when Denzel and Keano did it,
because it was like Denzel, you didn't watch you know,
pretty much Dentzel in my opinion, But Hayes quickly across
to that lady that spoke earlier about Shires and Danivergang

(58:14):
is such a great little town. It is just beyond
charming in terms of it.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
I felt the draw towards that, but more and more
I hear stories about it.

Speaker 13 (58:24):
It's a lovely look. I hope that that road, that
the new over the Hill super Road from Palme to
Woodville opens that up and do like carbs twenty thirty
minutes off that journey potentially, well, well, not so much that,
but a bit and sort of says to people, look,

(58:45):
this is a way to go to swing up to
the Hawk's Bay, stopping stopping doneg the shoppings unusual and
the fact that it's a.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
Throwback is it what they always have? That Christmas kind
of they've got some weird kind of what's the word
for a cave? They got great not what's the word
for a cave? Not a cave, what's the other word
for a cave? But a Christmas you know, you go
into a grotto. They've got a grotto grotto there that

(59:17):
you go and pay to see that. People always talk about.

Speaker 13 (59:20):
They've got a bunch of stuff like they got but
it's got that beautiful ben Z with the most unbelievable
ceiling that's on the protected thing that it's just worth
it to see. That can be brutal because the building
is just you look at it and you go, we
used to do this, Okay, it really is outstanding spot.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
Speaking about Denser Washing. Denser Washington is doing a fellow
in Hollywood with Jake Gillenhrle at the moment, and I reckon,
it's terrible. So yeah, he's he's lost it. They reckon,
here's a production at the moment, So I didn't realize. Yeah,
everybody's done it before. But thank you Mark. Cookie beer
has been dumped and a peck refresh removed from Griffin's

(01:00:07):
Biscuits after fifty seven years. Chocky Chippies, one hundred thousand
stripes and shoes, Well, I always thought it was synonymous
with the shoes breez. I think those hundred and thousand
biscuits there are biscuit crime. Dumb dy Doo also made
its way into New Zealand pop culture. I don't think so.
I don't think I've heard anyone say dumdy doo, just apropos.

(01:00:31):
Nothing related to the beer, dum doo doo. It's not
like a TikTok thing, is it anyway? Nineteen to ten
minamers Marcus welcome, Yeah. Fixing the texts cheapest creepers. I'll
fix your texts. Who get in touch? You on to

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be a part of the show, Marcus till twelve to
what we're not talking about much these days, Liam Lawson
and daylight saving this weekend, daylight saving, daylight savings. You
choose what you want to say. But this weekend's going
to be an hour longer because you turn your clocks back,

(01:01:16):
so you live the same hour twice. It seems earlier.
You can say, oh, it seems early. It is Sunday. Oh,
she seems early. If I got that back to front
always confuses me. Yeah. Gee, daylight saving and no cookie beer.

(01:01:42):
It's all happening, Graham, It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:01:47):
Yeah, Hi, name Marcus is Gramm from selt.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
Great Where about whereabouts in south and Eton?

Speaker 17 (01:01:54):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
Graham?

Speaker 5 (01:01:56):
Right at ground zero one point eight meters below me
level during the mess of mega floods in October?

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
What street would you what street would you be on?

Speaker 17 (01:02:06):
I'm on.

Speaker 5 (01:02:11):
It's uh High School on Bayview Road.

Speaker 3 (01:02:18):
Because I stayed the weekend in the motel opposite the
place they play the softball, which is called Adrian Motel.
Is it near where you are?

Speaker 4 (01:02:27):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:02:28):
That doesn't ring about with me, mate, All.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
Right, hang on, I'm just gonna tell you where more
it is because I don't want to be dismissed about
this because it was now. So it's just by the
surf club.

Speaker 5 (01:02:39):
Well clubs down at the Hocan and I'm about five
one hundred meters in the land.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
Okay, you with that closer. I think the street I
was staying on would have been called it was good
on Saturday, the whether it was terrible on Sunday.

Speaker 5 (01:02:59):
Yeah, it sounds about right. And you were at Green Island, yeah,
ground from.

Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
Albert Street, that's where it would have been. Yeah, there
we go anywhere you want to about this volcano.

Speaker 5 (01:03:12):
Yeah, the volcano you're looking for. It was that little
i senic thing that shut down European airs space for
several weeks, which was better than him and Gouring was
ever able to do. And it's called a ya kayali
yof Wow. It's almost a sobriety kiss that it was
actually an ash volcano. There's not a lava spout like Kilaueyo.

(01:03:35):
It was. Yeah, it was a little mess at raw
and I was quite proud of the little thing. Did
you shut down?

Speaker 3 (01:03:41):
Did you with it?

Speaker 5 (01:03:43):
I wrote a famous poem actually for New zealanm Poetry
Week at the time, called Sonent for io Ki and
it was published by the New Zealand pro Poetry Society,
which was not too bad here, but that's here. Pronounce it.
If you want a better pronunciation, get on the hot

(01:04:03):
phone and bring up by Ork.

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
Hey, was it published your part?

Speaker 9 (01:04:09):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 5 (01:04:11):
It was on the website. It's not there now, but
at the time it was. I wrote that just as
a something to do, and he's yel in part your weekend.
It ended up on the website. A sonent do you remember?

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
Do you remember it?

Speaker 10 (01:04:27):
Not?

Speaker 5 (01:04:27):
Really? Move on to other things.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
I remember writing I'd like to hear a sonent from you.

Speaker 17 (01:04:38):
Oh, I wrote.

Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
When am I I like written in different styles.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
I'd like to do this son it about the volcano.

Speaker 5 (01:04:49):
Yeah, I just said something.

Speaker 17 (01:04:50):
I think.

Speaker 5 (01:04:52):
I think it's the final line of something like that.
I'm so proud of you, the little mouse that roared.
You're a world hero or you're a world superstar.

Speaker 13 (01:05:02):
Take a bow.

Speaker 5 (01:05:05):
There was a fine lines and I don't remember much
or so.

Speaker 13 (01:05:10):
There was years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
Yeah, but I'm not ready to move on. I think
a few people write poems about it. Looking at Google, Yeah,
I think what quarrel can I have with her? What
bleckens all those lovely skies? That's not yours?

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
Is it?

Speaker 8 (01:05:35):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:05:35):
It's not mine? Note no, no. I think it's about
three or four poems that have been written about it
and been published on websites. But mine mine only last
I think till the following year. But it was written
for and published during New Zealand Poetry Week.

Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
Can you tell me? Could you tell me? How is
how does the solent go?

Speaker 5 (01:05:57):
Well, solent can be there's usually fourteen lines can be
sex or six four I think one one style is
I think Shakespearean and the other there is I think
Wagnerian or something like that. I'm not it's a bit
a bit later there.

Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
Well, talking talking when we're talking to such an esteem.

Speaker 5 (01:06:18):
It's an old form of poetry, just like hikers are
very modern.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
I don't like. I don't know if I like a hike.
Well sometimes, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:06:32):
I'm a member of the local Octagon Poetry collectives. So
I wrote poems every months.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
And every health every hell often.

Speaker 5 (01:06:45):
Months. We meet once a months, let's see, called the
Octagon Poetry Collective, and we immediately, and M that's no
deal to me. I just get it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
Have you written have you written a son about talkback radio?

Speaker 5 (01:07:09):
If you yeah, I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
I wouldn't. I just thought I just thought there'd be
a lot of material there.

Speaker 5 (01:07:18):
Oh, I do have a lot of listener I had
you had you've rung up. But no, I just thought
it easier earlier torture. I thought Paul Marcus is probably
trying to find the name I actually trying to remember.

Speaker 3 (01:07:33):
I was actually I was actually trying to think of
the current because I was trying to pronounces a current
volcano that's causing the problem, and its name is because
it's just breaking news, it's just erupted, and its name
is issue in D D H N U K S
G I G A R sundus. That's the one that's

(01:07:53):
causing trouble today, Graham. But I've got to run, but
nice to talk. Thank you. So cookie beer has gone
put out to pasture. I don't even know what's happening
with biscuits. When was the last time an exciting new
biscuit came along? Very rarely? Now everything seems to be

(01:08:13):
chocolate coated and sort of too full on it hasn't
got the subtlety anyone. I've said this before. I'm not
really a biscuit person. I will eat them, but I
wouldn't describe yourself as a biscuit person anyway. So cookie
beer has gone. He's been around since nineteen seventy three,
and one in four New Zealanders belonged to the Cookie

(01:08:34):
Beer Club. Who would get a letter, as Mikey said,
he well, mean you didn't get me letter as a
childhood or you get sometimes a postcard from your grandmother
with five dollars snuck inside.

Speaker 7 (01:08:45):
It.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
Never quite sure why you couldn't see in what the
great forbidden thing of sending money for?

Speaker 17 (01:08:49):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
Because the posters were tempted to steal it? Is that
what it was? I've never fully understood that. Anyway. I'm
not going to lose sleep over it. I'll lose enough
sleep with daylight savings. So there is that. Ah, What
did I learn about today? Something that was quite interesting?
What was I reading about? Thought? Gee, that's of interest.

(01:09:10):
I can't remember. There's something I meant to write down. Anyway,
that's gone. Evening, Pete Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:09:22):
Marcus. Yeah, what do you think about the Miracus Cup
not going to be held in Auckland now. The government's
not funding it and old weighing Brownie doesn't want to
put money towards it either. What's your opinion on that?

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Couldn't kill less?

Speaker 20 (01:09:38):
But that's not very nice.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
No, I'm saying that the fact that I couldn't care
less means to me that I haven't got anything invested
in it being here. I prefer it to be overseas.
All the billionaires are up there in Europe. That's where
it happens, that's where they want it to be. Good
on them.

Speaker 20 (01:09:56):
Yeah, I actually got a bit of a different opinion.

Speaker 3 (01:09:59):
Great's that's important? Good yep.

Speaker 20 (01:10:02):
At the end of the day is that they headed
and Brasilt, didn't they when they had it over there
at Barcelona? They they cost them what they they spend
about one hundred and fifty million two. Wherever they spent
they got one hundred and fifty million out and there
they got two billion back. Is it not a bed business?

Speaker 4 (01:10:22):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
They ways say that, But those figures are never accurate.

Speaker 20 (01:10:26):
Oh probably not. But even say even say they broke
even with what the government and Auckland, I don't thinks
are tough. We all missed them at that are not
denying there at all. But you know we didn't get
the last time because the COVID we missed out. We
had people comings. You can't say didn't they couldn't make money.

(01:10:47):
Well when the COVID was here, they were just be
lucky as they were year ahead. They wouldn't got people anyway.
And I reckon they should have it because one hundred
and fifty million, we've wasted so much money, like the government.

Speaker 3 (01:11:00):
Pete, would you go and see it? Did you go
last time?

Speaker 4 (01:11:08):
No?

Speaker 20 (01:11:08):
I didn't know. I did not know so but.

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
Pete, Pete, why didn't you go? Because boring?

Speaker 20 (01:11:17):
I've seen her once I went there. It wasn't two
thousand over the year. And the head I saw it
then had me red socks and all that sort of thing.
There was an old WI his name, old name Blake
when he was promoting it, And why can't we bring
it back like that? Sure that New Zealands would get

(01:11:37):
behind her. They they've got to push it a bit more.
I think we've got all gone a bit lazy. You know,
it's all too hard, you know, if you've invested one
hundred and fifty million. I'm sure they'll get that back
just and all the people that come here, like mentioned them,
three mentioned out of the GST they'll get from people

(01:11:58):
that come here. I think it's a very good investment
to too hold it here. It doesn't work well, well,
he see a tirer, but I think that covers so
much money. I read it over the years.

Speaker 3 (01:12:08):
Of Okay, don't sound that convinced, Pete, but thank you,
Ron Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:12:16):
Just a little bit of trivial cookd beer news. I've
got a pack of fifteen cookie bear Necks packs and
I'm recently purchased, and they're terrible, terrible little biscuits. And
on the back of a pack of a cardboard pack

(01:12:37):
is a cutout of cookie beer. But you do the
cutting out and then it's another little boning your bullets
and John and all that sort of thing. So he's
still around, being very very well, and look as if
he wants to learn a bit more money for responses.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
Now, where did you Why did you get those? If
you're not get into them?

Speaker 16 (01:12:56):
Well, because I hadn't tried them.

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
So it's a cardboard box with fifteen sealed biscuits inside.
Is that right?

Speaker 16 (01:13:05):
Fifteen little packet.

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I know a bit about that ron.
That's like for the school lunch market, isn't it.

Speaker 16 (01:13:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
Yeah, So he's around, he's not going to be around
anymore because they put it. I think that today they
announce that they're getting rid of him. So i'd keep
those is there a clicktor's item?

Speaker 16 (01:13:23):
But I'll get rid of them before they get rid
of them. They'll go straight into the bin.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
I'll put them on the internet. Max Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:13:31):
Yes, the the idea of of a modified English English curriculum,
modified but not modern. I don't think.

Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
Yes, I'm afraid.

Speaker 9 (01:13:50):
You know, there are too many kids today. And I
know this for sure for having having spoken to to
to so many of them and listen and listen to them.
That their minds are they're playing to the internet and games.
And okay, those games teach them a certain even physical

(01:14:15):
but mental coordination, and they learn things about the world
and the past. But reading, reading requires you to give
over pretty much your whole mind to what you're doing,
to tracking through, going through paragraphs and chapters and burrowing

(01:14:38):
through and uh and trying to pick up on something.
And then of course in the classroom be able to
write about it and talk about it, and I'd seriously
doubt that most of today's teenagers could do that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
So you think that the changes that they're proposed in
the curricut today are not even addressing the problem, or
you think that they are on the right track.

Speaker 9 (01:15:09):
I don't think they're on the right track. It's sort
of it's sort of like back to the future.

Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
Yes, make you're an English teacher.

Speaker 9 (01:15:24):
No no, no, no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't have gone
teaching for all the money in the world.

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
But you just said that You're across it, and you
seem quite enlightened about this. Children don't really read.

Speaker 9 (01:15:39):
There's a certain and there's an encouraging percentage of them
who do, but most certainly don't, and it's going into
an unknown zone I think where you're trying to teach
them literature. The best way to deal with Shakespeare would
be to give them certain scenes or speeches from Shakespeare

(01:16:05):
and get them to learn something of his use of
language and his sense of humor, and there'd be a
lot to be gleaned from that. But actually studying a play,
and worse still, a nineteenth century text, what are they

(01:16:25):
going to give us Dickens' bleak House or something. I mean,
that would be onerous for a poor for for even
a lot of bright kids. It just seems like we're
turning the page back even before my time.

Speaker 3 (01:16:41):
And I'm quite old, yeah, I think, And I don't
know what shaped it. There's some sort of old reckons,
you know, we've got to get back some sort of
someone's got in front of them until we've got to
get back to the classics or something. And clearly there's
no resounding agreement to it. But oh will yeah, but

(01:17:04):
these things, I'm sure within a year or they'll change completely,
won't they.

Speaker 9 (01:17:09):
Well, the change of government might do that. And that's
where the worst thing where where governments chop and change
and they have their fashions and their fads. Yeah, look, yeah,
and things don't get any better.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
Well, and I think the whole study and I've spent
time talking to English teachers about this very recently, and
you know, it's very hard to teach English anymore because
kids don't read, you know that they teach more about narrative.
Anything that's got some sort of narrative to them. Might
even be a TikTok video or something, because you know,

(01:17:49):
it's the way they consume entertainment has changed a great
deal in the last couple of years. Most people spend
most of the time on their phones. Yeah, but I'm
hearing you, Max, thank you for coming through. What do
you got people? My name is Marcus. Welcome, Yeah, CAZy,
he'd see. I think people did lose it some interest

(01:18:09):
after that. Did you lose interest? Yeah? And I think
in some ways that that recent cup that we had
here is more exciting that sale GP better to watch
and people seem to love that. With a little Barcelona,

(01:18:33):
it seemed to be out in the middle of nowhere.
It didn't seem to be that interest. I mean it
was quite remote, a few super yachts out there, didn't
seem to be some friend there seem to be a
fan zone, which I thought always looked at Tray hard.
That's me though. I mean, you might have loved it,
sorry about that, but didn't look at my jam Steve
Marcus evening, Welcome, Hi.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
Steve, good evening, Marcus, heydo.

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
Good, Steve, Thank you Thanks for asking for a good.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
So many topics to tick off with your start. I
love daylight saving. I think day like saving is amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
Would it kill them to just leave it all year round? Farmers? Maybe?

Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
I love daylight saving for two reasons. Historically, I love
it because it happened to be that My wedding day
happened to be on the fifteenth to March before they
actually moved daylight saving, so I got an extra night
on my wedding night.

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
Yeah, that's good, that's forward planning.

Speaker 15 (01:19:23):
I love that, yep, which which is just amazing. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
I get a twenty five hour day, and I've always
loved it ever since. But now I finish work and
I get to go home and I still have my
day to do something with it if I want. And
then winter comes and I get to turn that off
and have an extra hour sleep in the morning.

Speaker 5 (01:19:40):
It's great.

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
Yes. Now for me, I don't start work till late
o'clock at night, so it doesn't really affect me as much.

Speaker 12 (01:19:51):
No, And I can.

Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
See your situation maybe slightly unique, well not necessarily unique,
but a little bit against the grain as most people
I would think.

Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
Yeah, but mind only work four hours a night, so
I consider myself relucky with that. It feels like a
part time job sometimes. Yeah, there we go.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
I knew you had something in common with Santa and
he works one day a year, four to four hours
a day.

Speaker 3 (01:20:11):
Yeah, it was close, like saying to though, it's all
about the preparation.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
Now about the America's Cup. I've got to admit I
went to the America's Cup physically in two thousand and
I've never gone back because no matter how hard I look,
I can never see all those lines on the water
that it shows on TV. And they're really important.

Speaker 3 (01:20:31):
They are important, aren't they, Which.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
Means that it's much better to watch it on TV.
You get a bird's eye view, you get everyone explaining
it to you, telling you what you should be looking at.

Speaker 5 (01:20:40):
And although you.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
Missed a bit of the atmosphere, I think atmosphere is
what you make it. And I think they've done a
good decision by not funding it. I think we've got
better use for the money. And as for the it'll
bring in two billion, we don't have the population nearby.
You can't jump on a rail from France to Barcelona.
You can't get anywhere unless you fly to New Zealand,

(01:21:03):
and it's a damn long way from everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:21:07):
Steve reconcise and good, Thank you, very much for that
eight hundred and eighty two. My story. I was broadcasting
from the Rule News and Yacht Squadron when we were
eight l up in the America's Cup. Where was it?
Where was it we were? It was at San Francisco,
eight and up, I think it was, And I broadcast
each day we were one up with two, and up
with three, and up with four and no up, we're

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five and a up with six and up were seven,
eight and a up the ruins in yacht squadron and
I was there on the balcony, and with a balcony,
there was sort of a room that goes around the top.
And when we were eight and a up and we
started the next race, and I saw much movement as

(01:21:48):
they went and started blowing up balloons for the celebration,
and we never won another match. That's right, the greatest
comeback of all time. We won it the next time.
But boy, that was quite telling. They just planned a
celebration too soon. And jinx that that was my thoughts. Anyway, Tim,

(01:22:13):
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 17 (01:22:15):
You can evening Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:22:16):
You keep him well, Yes, thank you, Tim.

Speaker 17 (01:22:19):
It's fantastic. Okay, So I've stopped shopping I'm making a
something I found on YouTube called peel a pound cabbage
soup on you because kill some kill some pounds off. Now,
I don't know if anyone's remotely interested. Yea, there's some
really right, let me only through out my I've got

(01:22:42):
body bowls and dishes filling up chopped vegetables here. It's amazing. Okay,
one medium cabbage. I put in three onions, three good
sized ones. I've deftly just if I just look at
the shopping list, I put in way too many carrots,
probably over a kilo. I put in a yellow and

(01:23:05):
a green bell pepper. I'm going to put them two
ken of when.

Speaker 3 (01:23:11):
Did we start calling them bell peppers and not keepsican?

Speaker 17 (01:23:13):
Well, yes, so I've just I've wrote my shopping list
off the yes YouTube vide hors watching, So I agree.

Speaker 3 (01:23:23):
We always used to crepsican. But yeah, I see that
now and now they're bell Do they look like a bell?
But yeah, I'm just right anyway, Yeah I shouldn't.

Speaker 17 (01:23:30):
But no, I stand crected on that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
It's no, I mean, but that's interesting that we've changed.
It's only we're using losing the wood kept Okay, so
you've got so I'm back to your head. Were we
at cabbage?

Speaker 17 (01:23:44):
Yeah? Here, and we're walking walking your way down to care.
So you've got two green and yellow keepsicum, two cans
of crushed tomatoes. Now I've gone for the spc ossie
bearing because they don't have any salt sodium in it. Okay,
that's that's crucial for this. So I'm alright. I won't

(01:24:06):
say yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
I like to say sometimes just the sound of it,
wacky Dudelet I always say, say, basils did a bezel?
I think I don't know why? Okay, oregan o yep, yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:24:15):
No, I'm guilty of that. And I'll drop in a
cilent just to really excite people. Yep, ye, candy and
a candy. I've got garlic pounder and what candy and
across tomatoes. Yes, uh, I got some garlic powder.

Speaker 3 (01:24:38):
Hang on you hang on. We're talking about mispronouncing things.
And you said something and I can do or something?
Did I miss one? Good one?

Speaker 17 (01:24:44):
There? No, that's probably just my my eyes are weeping
from honeyon juice. Okay, And I keep and I'm going
into some sort of like I've been maced by the
police or something, which I haven't, but that's probably what
it feels like. Garlic powder. There's no quantity on that pepper,

(01:25:07):
A splash of apple, side of vinegar at the end, yes,
and twelve cups of water ultimately, so oh go. The
start off with one medium cabbage, like a whole head
of cabbage.

Speaker 3 (01:25:22):
Do you put two? I'm just seeing a recipe online
for peel a pound cabbage soup and it's got turkey
in it. Two cups dice cooked turkey. You're not doing that,
are you?

Speaker 6 (01:25:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:25:35):
No, this is the real deal. There's a there's this
classic American lady on there, Greennie something or other, and
she got this recipe from here father, and she's old now,
so he must have been pretty you know, these are
like the early eighties one that they would they would
just advise you to do from like before surgical procedures

(01:25:59):
in that and what you're doing, you're not You're not
losing fat, You're just going to lose a load of
water weight over. You wouldn't really want to do it
more than seven days. So I'm just going to construct
this and cook it through right, bring it to the
boil toil probably the time your showings. Then I'll knock
it off in the slow cooker and let it just

(01:26:22):
do its thing on loaf, have some for breakfast. So
that's what I'll be eating until it runs out in
probably six days, and I'll supplement that with I like
slicing my oranges and slicing a couple of ambrosier apples. Yes,
the key point is, you know you can put chili
powder whatever spices you want, but refrain, if possible, from

(01:26:45):
putting salt in because salt retains makes the body retain
water and you know you so what this does, We're
going to lose weight. It's also a lot of fiber,
so is you're going to mamieve a lot of waste
from the body. And it might be helpful to people
coming in to daylight, say eagens. That's not why I'm

(01:27:08):
doing And I wasn't even aware of that, but that sucked,
But you know it could be a nice thing to
hit those fair few days feeling a bit clearer.

Speaker 3 (01:27:18):
Yeah, and I'm liking what you're saying. Have you done
it before?

Speaker 9 (01:27:22):
There?

Speaker 3 (01:27:22):
Tim?

Speaker 17 (01:27:24):
Well, no, what I've done doing the last month where
it's more like three weeks. I picked up some flank
steak strips at Kiwi butcher up and towering it, and
I've put them in my slow cooker again with heads
of vegetables. And it's for budgetary reasons, but I can

(01:27:44):
get like six days of it, and I can eat
the same thing for six days. It doesn't bother me
as long as it tastes good. And so this is
just a version that's without meat and without salt. You
normally I would put like chicken stock or some kind
of stocking, you know, my other slow cooker.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
I've got a head off because I've got commercial commitments,
but I'd like to hear more about you and how
that goes with you as well. I think by the
sixth day you'd be sick of it, but maybe you
won't be, so i'll hear from you in six days.
I like what you're doing. I like the way you
communicate greetings and good evening, how are you. What's happening?
Cookie Beer's gone fifty seven years? Terrible be a hot

(01:28:32):
suit to wear. I think quite often when you had
a school fear or something, Cookie Bee would tune up.
It's kind of as close as we had to kind
of our local character. That was before the days of mascot.
But they were always fairly lame, but yep, they've got
rid of them. The people in the health sector have

(01:28:54):
been wanting him to go for a long long time,
cause you shouldn't really, you know what it's like. You
don't have characters, covey characters, convincing four year old sweet
more biscuits, pest a power and all of that. I imagine

(01:29:14):
they feel similar about Ronald McDonald. Is he still a thing?
I think probably. You don't ask Ronald McDonald to the
school fair any I think you don't see I think
I want to steer clear of Ronald McDonald. That would
be my take on that they saw the writing on

(01:29:35):
the wall. I think he's gone berger. I don't know
if that's true, but I suspect it is. I haven't
seen him for ages. So about Ronald McDonald House for
all the dironies anyway, get in touch if you want
to talk. Marcus till midnight. There's something else Boom enjoying
all of it tonight. Oh why are all the Sky

(01:29:58):
dishes changing? No one can tell me that we're getting bigger.
We're getting a bigger dish. I never thought Sky did anything,
but suddenly they're changing dishes. Haven't seen that anywhere, or
that that's gonna be a thing that's happening. But yeah,
you might want to talk about that. I don't know
much about it. Also, the mentions are for cookie Bear

(01:30:19):
and the America's Cup and the booklist for English at school.
Much discussion about that. Actual seems pretty fine, I think
if you look at it. But anyway, it might be
something you do want to talk about. Get in touch.
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine to
de text title twelve. It might be something pretty random

(01:30:43):
you want to talk about. I'm up for anything, actually,
so get in touch. Oh eight hundred eighty ten nineteen
nine two to text. Let me just have always gets
free hot. Let me just hold your horse and it's
going to open the dam door. I should know that
during the news I apologize for tardiness.

Speaker 6 (01:31:04):
That's better.

Speaker 3 (01:31:08):
Oh ah, text if you've got them or anything anything
at all. Marcus went out on the sponsorship boat in
Auckland when we lost the cup after Coots and Butterworth
jumped ship. Dreadful time, so many boats sloping, ess, it's
felt seasick and all I can remember seeing is a
glimpse of the boat whizzing by. I do recall wondering

(01:31:31):
how many people kept the bubbles in the glass with
a slot from the other boats TV as much. But
I'll tell you what was an exciting thing for yachting
was when and I was involved in a When was
I involved all a but hazy on the America's Cup now,

(01:31:54):
But it was always quite exciting to go out on
the boat that people paid for that would go up
the coast for when the round the world yachts would
have that was always quite exciting. Is it come around
fung a proa you could see them all, or that

(01:32:15):
arrive come down that coast. I didn't even really know
when they're going to tune up. Was pre GPS and
everything in those days. But anyway, now let's hear from
your people. I want to talk. My name is Marcus
Good Evening, anything goes. If you've got anything excited to
be excited about, Marcus advice from you and all listeners.

(01:32:37):
I have a new skybox I need to install. Show
be nervous. My TV is not a smart TV, but
the agent and the Filipino Archipelago told me I can
connect the box to my Wi Fi. And the fact
that the TV is not a smart TV is not
an issue. It sounds sketchy to me. Max. It's Marcus.
Good evening, Hello and welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:32:58):
Marcus. I am asking about the sky when I got
on the car. I'm just on my way home now, and.

Speaker 18 (01:33:06):
Still asked me.

Speaker 8 (01:33:08):
So, I'm curious as to what you mean by we're
getting a new sky boss, because I'm a sportsmanatic and
I have Sky.

Speaker 3 (01:33:17):
Okay, here's the story. I kmex, you copy. I live
in Bluff right yep. And my partner said to me tonight,
I'll by the way, we're getting a new skydish tomorrow.
They've just rung Isaac Karate with the kids and she said, yeah,
it's going to happen at three o'clock tomorrow. It's going
to be a bigger dish and they're doing all of Bluff.

Speaker 8 (01:33:39):
So when you say this, do you mean like the
aerial the dish on the aeriel. Yes, oh, because it's
really weird. I'm only just I mean I had trouble
with Sky in December and November and I just got
one of those new white sky boxes and he had

(01:34:04):
to fix my aeriel need to get up there. And
I said, well, aren't you going to change their sky
box for aeriel and Net because we've had it for
fifteen years.

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
And he said no, no, we're getting a new one.

Speaker 8 (01:34:21):
So I have got no idea why you're talking about
a Messa's just for the South Island.

Speaker 3 (01:34:29):
I should report. I'llas ago and I see him tomorrow,
mix and I'll let you know. Okay, Yeah, that's interesting
up to a point. Nicole Marcus good evening.

Speaker 21 (01:34:41):
Oh hey Marcus is Nicole former of Vulkland, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne.

Speaker 10 (01:34:47):
How are you?

Speaker 21 (01:34:48):
Will you now, Nicole, I'm back in Sydney.

Speaker 3 (01:34:51):
What suburb?

Speaker 21 (01:34:54):
I'm in Logano.

Speaker 3 (01:34:58):
How's it there today?

Speaker 21 (01:35:01):
It's overcast and a little bit rainy, but that's all good.

Speaker 3 (01:35:06):
Very wet, it was wet. It was very wet in
the weekend. Watching the rugby league at poured.

Speaker 21 (01:35:13):
Yes, well I went to Double Zoo, which I know
you don't like zoos, but I went. I went to
Double Zoo and it was terrible weather and it rained
like I think they got something like one hundred millimeters
or whatever. But we were okay. It was north of
us that was pretty bad. And then we came back
to Sydney and it was sunny.

Speaker 3 (01:35:35):
So it was all good, looks very picturesquely Gano. Well
up the estuary.

Speaker 22 (01:35:40):
It looks lovely, thank you very much.

Speaker 15 (01:35:43):
It is.

Speaker 21 (01:35:44):
And there's a historic place called Glen Lee. So if
you google Glen Lee you'll see that it has some
historic moments in Australia's.

Speaker 5 (01:35:54):
History to do with what.

Speaker 21 (01:35:57):
Oh Aborigines using it as one of the you know,
you can you can go down there and see where
they you know, obviously did their capture of oysters and
stuff like that, and yep, yep, And I believe it
was one of the settlers, you know, the English settlers,

(01:36:18):
first places of coming up for fresh water and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
Good, Okay, Well, but.

Speaker 21 (01:36:25):
Anyway, I was ringing because you were talking about the
America's Cup.

Speaker 3 (01:36:32):
Yes, always, we always seem to be talking about that.

Speaker 8 (01:36:36):
Every year.

Speaker 3 (01:36:36):
We seem to talk about that. But anyway, years, I agree.

Speaker 21 (01:36:40):
So the first great memory I have of America's Cup
was when we won it and we did the parade
down Queen Street and I caught the train in and
the train didn't even stop after Allisley going into the
city because it was so packed with people. Yeah, that
was one of the most memorable experiences of my life.

(01:37:02):
Like I have to say, I remember going into the
city and it was humping with people. It was unbelievable,
such a celebration and so sad that it hasn't seen
anything like that since.

Speaker 3 (01:37:17):
I think that would be the biggest crowd there's ever
been in New Zealand. Would I be right? I'm pretty
sure I am.

Speaker 21 (01:37:21):
Oh god, yeah, I mean I'm telling you, like, I
remember people walking into like there was one hundred beers
bar and downstairs there was like almost like a bottle
that you could go and grab a six pack whatever,
and people are in there grabbing six packs and walking
down Queen Street during it was like that, you know that,

(01:37:44):
you know we're that World War two ended, you know, people,
Oh my god, it was one of the most best things.
I took a day off work to do that, and
then I'll never forget. When my second child was born
in two thousand and two, we went back into the
city and that's when cell phones were kind of photos

(01:38:07):
but they weren't and I think it was tellycom or
someone like that. Had to stand down at the harbor
and you could have a photo taken and then you
could send it via text message to somebody and that
was pretty special.

Speaker 5 (01:38:24):
Wow.

Speaker 21 (01:38:24):
I'll never forget that.

Speaker 16 (01:38:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:38:26):
It was like the early earlyly days, so they would
have been two thousand and two, I'm thinking. And and
I send a photo of my daughter in my in
the in her backpack to my husband who was working
that day.

Speaker 3 (01:38:41):
Wow, and it arrived on his phone.

Speaker 21 (01:38:45):
Yeah. And it arrived on his phone and arrived on
his computer, which was even like even more stunning, right fu.

Speaker 3 (01:38:55):
Yeah, goodness, Okay, are there great memories?

Speaker 16 (01:39:01):
They are.

Speaker 21 (01:39:01):
And I it's very sad that it's not going back
to Auckland. I think it, you know, I think it
adds so much more to the city.

Speaker 15 (01:39:10):
But there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:39:11):
Hey, sorry to focusing on your stuff, okay, Nicole, and
I respect you for being honest about where you're where
you live, right mm hmm. Do boats go up as
far as Legano like fairies.

Speaker 21 (01:39:26):
No, they don't, unfortunately, so you can hire like what
do you call it, like houseboats from Como and they
go down the river. And many people in Ligano actually.

Speaker 16 (01:39:43):
You know, go into the water.

Speaker 21 (01:39:44):
Do their fishing go out towards the heads which is
by Sutherland. Yeah, yep, that's correct, And some even go
as far as you know, out into the harbor a
bit more and do some fishing and stuff. But no,
you can't you. Yeah, it's a shame really because I
think it's an opportune thing to do. But no they don't.

Speaker 3 (01:40:07):
Okay, nice to hear from me, Nicole. Hope we don't
lose you doing daylight savings. Could We're all gonna be
a different time soon next Sunday Sunday is gonna be
an hour longer, an hour shorter one or the other.
It won't be the same shorter longer you think it
to be. Short of moving into window. I think the weeks,
the days and hour. I'll tell you who it's bad for.
The mid dawn host. Who does Who's on Sunday? Who's

(01:40:31):
on Who's that?

Speaker 17 (01:40:33):
Does he do?

Speaker 11 (01:40:34):
Saturday?

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
Friday and Saturday and Sunday? Wow, Oh, the poor guy.
That's a dreadful shift. We'll just get the s gets
the short shift when it goes back. It's a long
time to do. Someone says, with the sky area in
April fool's joke, Well wasn't the afternoon? How come sky
has been so confusing? I reckon it's because I don't

(01:40:56):
do They still get that magazine feels like they've got
no center point of information. A lot of people think
it might be an April fool's joke. Marcus, we've had a
new skydish. Our Toto with the old mate rang about
eight pm the night before him was here the next
Dave re random. But you're not the only one getting
a new dish that's up towards night CAP's way, Marcus.

(01:41:23):
The new dish might indicate they've got a new satellite.
I reckon the new dish indicates is sticking with the
old satellite and it's wobbly, so they need a bigger dish.
You're going to need a bigger dish. And what do

(01:41:43):
I do with the old dishes? Yeah, there's a question
for you. I've seen the whole of them. Fancy having
the voice of Cookie Beer and the guy that was
on the commercial as well in the first hour and
a half. Good evening, Dave, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Dave.

Speaker 4 (01:42:04):
Good evening, Marcus, how are you doing, mate?

Speaker 5 (01:42:06):
Good?

Speaker 3 (01:42:06):
Thank you, Dave.

Speaker 4 (01:42:09):
Talking about the America Cup. There's another situation in New
Zealand here with the racing authority. You know what I'm
talking about with Galloping Dog racing, which they're going to
end at the end of the year. They get big, big, big,
big money sent into New Zealand. You know that, don't you?

(01:42:33):
With en Tame millions and millions and millions and millions
of dollars. I've got a friend that's had horses in
New Zealand trots. He's had great, great, great great horses
blue Driver. But you know why could they not put

(01:42:54):
money into the America Cup Because the America Cup brings a.

Speaker 17 (01:42:57):
Lot of dough and.

Speaker 4 (01:43:00):
You reckon, oh yeah, it does well. Horse racing does too.
And if it wasn't for in Tain, New Zealand racing
would be gone because if you're on trackside like me,
I've got blue Drivers, got all the great trotters in
New Zealand here Alexandra Park, all the racing authority would

(01:43:24):
be gone because you've got horses every two or three
days that are racing. The same horses are racing every day.
So without in Tain where two of them have handed
out and got out of in Tain. But they're putting
millions and millions and millions of dollars in to keep

(01:43:45):
the racing game going. It's a tragedy.

Speaker 3 (01:43:50):
Do you think in ten should be paying for the America's.

Speaker 4 (01:43:52):
Cup well to help them, Yes, a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:43:56):
I would say, you think you should be able to
I suppose you can beat on it, but I don't
know if anyone would.

Speaker 4 (01:44:04):
Well, I would imagine that they're sending billions of dollars
into New Zealand to keep the racing industry going.

Speaker 3 (01:44:15):
Yeah, okay. Do you think I'll go through with getting
rid of the dogs?

Speaker 4 (01:44:23):
She's basically finished at the end of the year. Well,
it's the same dog every three or four days, same
dogs every two or three days. From track side, yes,
people do good.

Speaker 3 (01:44:44):
Do you have many collects, Dave?

Speaker 4 (01:44:46):
Oh? Yes, I punt on them. Yeah, I know a
lot of good horses.

Speaker 3 (01:44:51):
Do you make money?

Speaker 4 (01:44:54):
He'll make a dough on them. But you know, with
with the horse racing, it's it's the same gallopers about
every five or six stage, which is a tragedy. That's
why enttainer there just to keep them going, okay, because
there's no donor for the gallopers because without end pain

(01:45:18):
they would be gone.

Speaker 3 (01:45:20):
Thanks Dave, appreciate it. Sunday this Sunday Daylight Savings happens.
There was a lot of discussion or two years ago
to make it permanent. I don't know if he wants
to go around with that just just means we'd change
it for the summer one. We wouldn't change again. I
don't have a problem without either. I don't have a
problem the way it is, but yeah, i'd like, probably
prefer it to just go all year round. Team news

(01:45:44):
in and should look after themselves. The government shouldn't be
putting money in our hospitals need more money. Watched a
great YouTube video today, include a visit to the Neil
Young's first house, which had a studio at first floor
level recorded after the Gold roach there spectacular location. Have

(01:46:04):
you mentioned Liam Lawson before? I'm interested in how many
listeners put money on the bet the tab was advertising?
What was that? Was that an April Fool's thing? I
think people are expecting him to do very well in
the next race. However, whether that happens or not, I

(01:46:27):
don't know what needs to align for that. I suppose
going to confident to get the best out of his car.
Here's his confidence taken a knock. Who knows, maybe he's
come back more motivated. I don't know enough about what
you need to do to make those cars go and

(01:46:49):
the perennial topics, the America's Cup. I can't believe there's
anyone that wanted the America's Cup to come to New Zealand.
It's always been such a yawn. Marsa says, you can't
race a horse every day, generally a gap of fourteen
to twenty eight days when races. Because I don't know
what he was on about. Get in touch if you

(01:47:14):
want to talk. Good evening in it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:47:20):
Oh hey, Jan, the cone line was a last night.
I'm sorry, sorry to bring that account. But also quick
chop up to Blenham and from christis Blenn. I'll count
a few cones on the way from Belfast basically Reverlands.
Just before Blenham, I counted about fourteen hundred.

Speaker 15 (01:47:40):
About fourteen.

Speaker 3 (01:47:43):
How'd you count there?

Speaker 22 (01:47:46):
Give me something to do on the way out, So
how many did you count with it? About fourteen hundred
between where Belfast played basically christ Church up to Blenham.

Speaker 3 (01:48:01):
And were they mainly well where were they mainly?

Speaker 22 (01:48:05):
There's tots of roadworks up way up further and there
would have been two hundred there just three tarts heeling
and stuff like that. Mainly like there was some some
around rocks and stuff like that, and they're just potholes,
and there's quite a few roadworks on the way up
at the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:48:25):
There probably needs to be an app that you can
count them as you drive past, because I wouldn't be
able to count that many like that. That was pretty amazing.

Speaker 22 (01:48:32):
Yeah, I don't know, I guess so I was. I
was doubling the marp, so I was counting one side
and just double them.

Speaker 3 (01:48:38):
Yeah, and fourteen hundred.

Speaker 22 (01:48:42):
Plus yeah, yeah, give a take a few.

Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
What was most of the roadworks receiling?

Speaker 22 (01:48:49):
Yes, yes, receiling, so they hopefully got finished place the
roadworks after it.

Speaker 13 (01:48:57):
It looks like that anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:48:59):
It always seems to be about this time of the year,
and they finished for the winter. I think, yes, yes,
it just.

Speaker 22 (01:49:05):
Seems to Yeah, Jack's on, but we've got a bit
annoyed and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:49:09):
But yeah, okay, appreciate that, and thanks. Nice to hear
from you. At twenty six to twelve, I think this
would be one of the most ridiculous texts of the
night Marcus ridiculous to have permanent change. The daylight savings
time is based on science, distance and speed of Earth's rotation.

(01:49:30):
If everyone to change in the orientation, then have work
and school everything else an hour or two earlier, Marcus
during that guy who counted forty hundred road cones will
be counting sheep to fall asleep tonight. But that's a
pretty good effort. But that would be something that's what

(01:49:53):
Brock van der Velden should develop. Would be a app you
can have on your phone, you can put on your
where would you put you put on your dash that
would count how many road cones you go past in
the day. I think people would find that interesting to
ring the hotlines, say, well, driven past four thousand cones
on my way to work today, and something cheap as creepers.

(01:50:18):
I thought it would be more by the way. The
other thing that you might be interested is in baseball.
There's a new bat, your torpedo bet. Yep. So I
don't know too much about that. So, yeah, the torpedo bat.

(01:50:50):
You might have read something about that. It's a wooden bet.
I think, well, I think they're all wooden. It's got
a large sweet spot, which gives a player a better
chance of making good content makes Yes, it seems like

(01:51:12):
the pictures have taken advantages, so that the thing. I
don't know why they haven't invented this earlier. I'm just
kind of finding out about that now. The torpedo bats.
If you know anything about that, I haven't kind of
gotten to the baseball yet this season. I normally watch
a fair bit of it, but I've been busy doing
other things. Yeah, but if you know about that, that

(01:51:34):
would be of interest to me. It's fifteen away from
eleven from twelve rather.

Speaker 4 (01:51:44):
So.

Speaker 3 (01:51:44):
Its an MIT physicist who's designed the torpedo bat. I
haven't seen an image of it yet, and now I've
just got a fairy interesting article. But I've been logged
out of that one. Not surprising. I'm sure they'll probably

(01:52:09):
I'm sure it's not like the Major League's going to
ban it because it will probably be good for the game.
I think it's been a three or four topic night,
not like the genius of last night where it was
all about the Cone hotline. It's been for a little
talk about that tonight or today in the meeting. Other
there'll be more tool discussed right that in the media,
I guess they're occupied by other things. So here we are,

(01:52:35):
officially in April. I don't really know what we should
be doing that it's April focused. But I can tell
you that, of course Daylight Savings will start on Sunday.
We will turn our clocks forward back forward, back, which
means that we will live the same hour twice. Which

(01:53:00):
the good thing is the weekend will be an hour longer.
That's the part of Daylight Savings I like is when
it's like a weekend, it's an hour longer.

Speaker 17 (01:53:08):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:53:08):
Although we've got no Warriors match this week because that's
the bye, so that's this weekend. Anyway, I can't think
what else we've got to what else is Easter? Is
April famous for Easter? It's not duck shooting, is it? No,
it's not the oyster season. No, nothing much happens in April.
It's a bit of a dud month. Oh and Zact Day.

(01:53:30):
Of course. I did speak to the boss the other day.
See just so you know, there a lot of people
are taking the whole break between Easter and and ACT Day.
I said, if oh, we got to make a list
of those people. They're not committed to the company. All
these people that always scam some sort of long holidays.

(01:53:53):
It's not how I work to me, it seems I
don't know. To me, it seems UNDIGNI although I imagine
during those days, o jee, weish you're taking the whole
lot off. There's no one around. But anyway, so you

(01:54:17):
get you get the Friday, the Satday, the Sunday, the Monday,
the Tuesday, the Wednesday, the Thursday, then the Friday off.
So you're taking three days off when you get. But
you know who would be so uptight about the holidays
trying to gain them all? Anyway? I think in in
vert Cargo we have a Southland Day as well, which
is on the back of Easter, but no one ever
takes it. I've never known a city that's less excited

(01:54:43):
about their public holt. Well, I just don't do it.
And we don't take off anniversary days anyway, because we
broadcast nationwide. I think I broadcast everyone in the country.
There's no other shows on this time of night, is
there No? I think I go out to the whole country, so.

Speaker 13 (01:54:59):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:55:00):
By the way, when I first started doing talkback on
the station, and I was doing mid dawns, it only
went to Auckland. It was one zed B. There was
Chris Card at eight at night to twelve tonight, and

(01:55:20):
I think that was only in Auckland also, then they
broadened it out. Were you not always surprised me to
go back? I mean just trying to a mid dawn
justin Auckland. Mind. You a lot less to do in
those days, so I've radio a kind of a different focus.

(01:55:40):
If you weren't listening to talk about recording, talk about
what we were doing pretty much nothing. The pubs were clothed,
there was no internet.

Speaker 1 (01:55:49):
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