Marcus responds to the Prime Minister's claim that more Eden Park concerts will boost the country's economy, and talks milk and milkshakes.
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Greetings, Welcome on hims. Marcus Hittel, twelve o'clock. I realize there is issues with water and if you've got if you are experiencing that, or you've got some information form. It's the west of Auckland. One of the big pipes, says blow on has it something like that. They've had to shut down a break and a large day matter water made. How big would that be? Part a meter wide mountain road? Hindo Valley, So you know what the affected suburbs are. It's most of the west south of Ranui, west of Glen Eden, including Glen Eden. The first tanker has arrived Archibald Road, Netherlands Avenue. Just one save water, that's what they're saying. If you can avoid using your washing mission and dishwash over the x three four hours, that would be helpful. Keep your showers short four minutes or less. What about a bath? How long should the bath be? I imagine reading between the lines. I don't want people to get in the bath four minutes. I don't think I've ever had a shower longer than four minutes. In my life. What would you do for more than four minutes? Mountain Road is closed in both directions, remain closed for forty eight hours. I don't know. But sometimes in situations like this, what they say is you use water from your system in your bathroom. I don't know what you do. I wouldn't drink it. You don't know what to do with that. You you could boil it, I suppose, and then drink it. But no one that my knowledge has got no what those people higher up we'll have less water or no water. I haven't anyone yet with no water. If you're experiencing water troubles, I find this stuff fascinating. I enjoyed the whole gravity aspect of water supply. Where are the big tanks. I suppose they're up in the white tarkets. They must pump them up and down they come. Goodness me, So the pipe has blowing. The other thing I want to talk about briefly. Actually, they've got a lot of talk things to talk about, so I don't thin there's gonna be much to talk about now. I have to said, there's a lot to talk about. So Christopher Luxen has spoken. I think they call it a stat of the Nation address and one of the solutions is concerts. Yeah, and I don't know how true what he says is, it's my understanding most people went overseas to go and see Taylor Swift because Taylor Swift was in Sydney and Melbourne. And according to people that I know that are in the know, that no people in the know because I'm across the music brands, well not really, but you know management, I think what happens is they probably couldn't have had Taylor Swift in New Zealand because there would not have been enough accommodation. So it's not the concert venue or the residents that are stopping concerts. It's the fact there's not enough rooms for people to stay. Yeah, when Sydney can do it because we've got the Olympics or had the Olympics. But I don't think. I don't know how many people you need to stay. If there's sixty thousand people going over two nights or eighty thousand, you need a lot of rooms. We haven't got those rooms. So it's not the residence kicking up Bobsey Die because of the noise. It's the fact that probably the real big acts don't want to come here because you come here, you want to set up the stage and do three or four concerts, make it worth your while and bring the people up and down the country. So yeah, I'm curious to know what your reaction to his thing about. I also don't know how many big acts there would be that would fill Eden Park night after night after night. Once in a while, some phenomen comes along like Luke Combe's fast car. Gosh that was moving, wasn't it when he sang with her? That might have been my moment for twenty twenty four. Damn where to do those? Didn't we dan remember to our liners for what was the moment for twenty I've just remember what my moment of twenty twenty four was. Ah, Philip, stop the press. Yeah goodness me ya wow, Yeah, that will be my moment of twenty twenty five. So I remember what my moment of twenty twenty four was right there down. We'll get this done earlier this year, because boy o boy, that's hard work at the end of the year, just in Christmas Shop and everything. One of your liners, you're supposed to sound peppy and upbeat Tracy Chapman anyway, So Luke Colmbs. He filled it up twice. We'll end Sharon wouldn't fild up again because I mean, he's God. But he's gone. Adal was she's at Vegas and I think she's happily married now, So maybe there's less desire to travel around the world. But what would happen? Who would be there? Who would go to Whedon Park? That would be with seeing? That would I don't know who it is. Taylor Swift too big, probably Oasis too big. So I think this at the beginning of the year, I want to sound too critical. Sounds to me slightly like magical thinking. So I think they've probably got a fairly happy balance at the moment. I don't know how many concerts they were last year, Pink maybe who else was there at Eden Park last year that they rang up going home from? I can't remember now. I spoke to a lot of a lot of South African people were there? Who was that raving about it? I can't remember who the concerts were a lot of South Africans. What was it? Anyway, someone will remember, But yeah, they're probably enough, probably two or three bangers, that's it. I can't remember the twenty twenty four concerts were at Edend Park anyway, So have you got something to say about that? I'm all very very interested to hear your opinions on that. Who were the people's two nights? And people loved it and they got a wristband and they made shapes for the wristband. Come on, Dan, you know this cold Play? So you got cold Play and you got Pink, you got Luke. That's three. That's enough. Next year? This year, who would you get? Not many? So they can't even a concert there every night. Where there are enough bands that want to come here, they're not enough accommodations. I'm very happy to talk about that. I mean, is that going to solve our financial problems? What I think we should do right was always a maid of mine's idea is that we should choose one town in the country and we should invite the world's best tribute bands to move to that place. She doesn't really stack up, does it. And they could play endlessly, But people aren't going to go to the same tribute band night after night after night, are they? But be a good marketing idea for a town anyway, Oh, eight hundred and eighty, keep your predictions coming through. Also, no, I'm predicted that luxA would say that the answer is in concerts. But yes, and I think people like to go on concerts overseas, to go to Cyny in Melbourne for something a little bit different, wander around, have those coffees with ice cream in or whatever they're called afrigato or something. Anyway, get in touch. If you want to comment on that. You might be an Auckland. You might want to say something about that. Someone says, Chris Luxon has just learned what the public had done for a long time. Counsels are the biggest handbrakes to the country. I don't know if that's necessarily true, Marcus. They were wearing the new movie Becoming led Zeppelin coming out in February, the trailers on YouTube. What is it about? Is it a documentary? Is it a docu drama? I'll see it anyway, Marcus. Coldplay filled I've beaten Park for three nights back in November. Regards Carol, maybe it was an older audience, maybe less people travel. I don't know why Coldplay worked and Taylor Swift didn't work. You might want to comment on that also. Tonight sixteen past Date, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine to detext I don't know how many nights that Taylor Swift had played in Sydney. It might have been more to make it worthwhile, someone will know these annual predictions. If you've got more predictions, I have several through now these are what people are saying and predicting. Marcus. This is my prediction. This is Paul Douglas of Wellington. There will be a gazumpt moon landing in twenty twenty five of a human by some organization individual before one of the were publicized well known soon planned missions. So like one individual or someone doesn't belong to a state will go to the moon. Be like bucketless Bernie, wouldn't it?
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This is bucketless Bernie. I'm on the moon. Do a YouTube, get lots of hits, pay your way anyway. Seventeen past date. My name is Marcus, Welcome head, twelve o'clock oh eight hundred and eighty eight to eighty nine nine two detects Also to I suspect with the economy that probably people don't want to go to many concerts. I haven't got the money. And of course christ Church is coming on tap and Dneden's desperate for concerts. There's been all that money on Forsyth Bar. They don't get much.
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Even the concerts they do book often don't happen like they had the Yes, they booked this, They booked the Lingerie super Bowl and for some reason that didn't go ahead. Sounds bizarre. Isn't a lingerie super Bowl? We live in challenging times. What time's trump up?
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Give you a call, Lisa Marcus welcome?
Oh hi Marcus.
I might be well out of date. I don't keep up with things lately, use days. What happened to Western Springs is a venue in Awkland.
That's a really good question.
Has it been banned or do they not want to play outdoors anymore? Because it was a great natural venue.
They've put seats right up the hill, and I think it's Look, I don't know what's happened. I know the speedway or the midget racings moving away from there, also, so I don't know what's happening with Western Springs. And also too there's the North Shore Stadium that no one wants to use.
It just seems to be a white elephant doesn't seem to be used for anything, No.
But what seemed to happen. I've had a lot of talk back about this, right, it's all coming back to me now, Lisa. Right, there's a place called Victor, I think it's still called Victor, the one downtown, which fits about eight thousand people, and that's perfect. Most bands go there. The bands love it and the audience love it. So that seems to work really, really well. And because of that, some of the Yeah, and because that's some of the slightly bigger venues, like you know, rather doing north Shore Stadium or Western Springs, you better off doing two or three nights at Victor, that's my understanding, because indoors better easy to control.
Yeah, and you don't have the rain problem to But yeah, I was interested in, I mean, and your theory about not having enough hotel rooms. I'm not sure if it works, because I remember one of the biggest concerts at Western Springs was David Bowie and or Bowie and his Serious Moonlight Tour, and it was eighty ninety thousand people, was what I think.
But people didn't travel around the country like they do now. I presume most of those would have been people that bust up around the north that would be my summation of that, because these days people think nothing of getting on a plane from in Vicargo to go to walk and to see pink.
So you thought they.
Would have been more local people that were Yeah, people on buses and trains went to Bowie. I mean I had a lot of people talking about that and kipping in student flat. But we'll find out.
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It's a nice to talk. Thank you. Nineteen past eight Textan calls looking forward to what you've got to say. Western Springs had a massive storm and flooding damage from the anniversary day. Floods still recovering and it's a swamp. They weren't build there again, Marcus, spark Arena not Victor. It was it called Victor at one stage. Marcus and Harry styles play didn't park of the past eighty month or so? Probably, Marcus, do you think the bed to go oh for gold Mine nine over ten years included the pro mining stance. Government's final cut would be about twenty five percent of the total gold in the ground. Well that's going ahead anyway, isn't it so lux and saying Evan Park needs unlimited concerts. Your reaction to that is that something that you think probably would be a good thing. Would you go? And more to that, because I kind of think people have probably done the Auckland concerts and when something comes along, a big act like a Taylor Swift and City, that even seems even more exciting. That's just me.
I don't know.
I don't know how people think with concerts. I don't even know how people get onto the internet and MEAs to book the tickets so quickly. By the way, Harry Styles, is it mount Smart? And someone said they reckon Western Springs will be the home of Auckland FC. They said, you heard it here first, Marcus. Western Springs Stadium will be the new home for Auckland FC football team. Ponts would be rugby and Western Springs Speedway. He has already been kicked by Auckland Council. You heard it first. You've missed out the word here. You heard it first. Oh wait, one hundred and eighty Eady had nine nine two to text Marcus. I think you're onto something. Auckland has around ten thousand hotel rooms. Sydney and Melbourne have over forty thousand. And that's why Tyler Swift didn't come here. That was quoted. They never it was, It was never considered because there's just not their cause. And maybe because she appeals to younger people, they need hotel rooms because they're over there with their mums and dads. They're not like gonna kip down on someone's couch. I don't know if this is true. That's just what I suspect. So maybe you've got an older act like Coldplay, then people can kind of get one of those couches that goes out of the double beard and put the relatives on one of those. Twenty five past eight Marcus till midnight. Good evening, Anna, it's Marcus. Welcome.
Yeah, Hi Marcus. Hey, just talking about Western Springs. I was there last Saturday night and it was fantastic. It was a huge crowd, wonderful, racing full to capacity.
It was awesome.
Do you know how much that capacity is?
I believe between seven thousand for the speedway racing seven thousand people. But one thing that's amazing. There's grandparents, grandchildren, picnic blankets. There's no nonsense, and at half past ten people pack up and go home.
It's beautiful but wonderful.
I seem we've been doing talkback forever about Western springs and how the speedway or whatever the midget racing is going elsewhere is that now? And it's is that now finally happening? Is it?
Apparently not? There was an article on the paper the other day. Now I shouldn't really comment because it's obviously under a lot of scrutiny at the moment. But apparently it's not.
Okay, it's not.
Yeah, it's yeah. I better not sort of complicate things or say anything wrong. But apparently it's it's and a scrutiny, and it's such a shame because it's such a good venue. It's been here for ninety plus years.
Yes, I don't have problem with motor racing staying there. I think it's a great thing to have exciting things in the inner city. We will relevant this. I think it's quite exciting.
Yeah, and it's such shame. I mean, I went to a cricket match, which I love going to cricket match, and coming out of there there was unfortunately there were people who get too much to drink and touching people's letterboxes and it was just awful.
I know, touching someone's legs, I think, I say lettle Bit they were they.
Were I saw someone kicked someone's letter.
It was awful.
What was this on the cricket?
Yes, it was a.
Cricket match at Eden Park. It was a few years ago. I've never never liked to witness it again. But at Western Spring to see all the grandparents take their grandchildren and pack up these blankets and just go home. There's no police said, there's no nonsense. It's a fantastic atmosphere. You'll have to go before it apparently finishes.
Yeah, I think it's a long time since I've been there at that and but thank you so much for that. Keep your calls coming through concerts and really, have we got it right? Or do we need even park for unlimited concerts because who would you put there? We've probably got it about right. Bobbitt's Marcus, Good evening and welcome.
Marcus. The last time I went to Western Springs and I thought it was one of the best things. Or because a national beds night tortures all at six Sea Top?
How good is that?
How good was that? And I dare say, what made you were saying? That's probably the reason why it's sprint Uh, the sprint cars have been or if not the springt cars. But concerts have been pushed out from there because she had all the your bots that leaned there at night. Oh it's quite little bit of bloody gypsy what have you? And yeah, like you save people's letter box, spend used to stew it alls and whatever?
Is that what the people do when you said people touching people in the box, But I think you did kicking people's I don't know, I mean cheap as creepers. We hadn't even used that leader boxes these days. You think probably people would respect them more, you think so, But of.
Course I get laid with. Laid Park had concerts as well, the same thing all the way down head Laid rode down to the trainways.
What what's Deadlaide Park?
Remember Athletic Park?
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought he's an Adelaide Park, Bob yep ye Athletic Park.
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All about concerts tonight are The other thing too, is it doesn't feel like there's more bends coming along. When you've got cold Play, you got the Rolling Stones, you're gonna waste suspect together. Then what is the fact that Eden Park is restricted from having unlimited concerts holding back a valuable sector of the economy. Because I suspect that the answer is probably slightly more complicated. I think we'll probably go at the numbers right, because a lot of the very big acts won't come here because not the hotel rooms. A lot of the smaller acts are more comfortable with the reliability of the weather and stuff. Going to Spark three or four nights there. People love that. That's where you check your Simon Garfunkles. So they're still alive. I think they probably are. Are they talking to each other? You never quite know. For a long time they didn't. I'm going to saying that because I saw them at Spark. Hello, darkness, my old friend?
Is it?
What of theirs? Anyway? It in part needs more concerts. That's one of the cure for the economy and the fact that it's in a slump. A lot of people live in the country as well, not many coming in, less coming in, more leaving and concerts. There we go, Let's have the meat and park. They're restricted to how many they can have per year because of the local residents. It's a counter by law. The council runs the whole thing, and I think Luxon sees that councils can't say no they need to stop saying lo because they are holding back the economy. But I have the understanding probably the holy back the economy is because they are had enough rooms for people to come right around the country to go to concerts in Auckland and also to there's probably a limit of bands that could play Auckland. That's my thing. You remember christ Chi's coming on tap and deneedn't get to no concerts. They need some twelve concerts per year. Had been six, it's now up to twelve. But I don't reckon you get many, because it'd be refew acts that could fill eat in Park, Luke Colmbs, you got Pink, you got Coldplay, you got Elton John Does he there? I think he might have been maybe Mount smart Oh eight hundred and eighty, Teddy and ninety. Also the water situation West Talk, if you're affected by that'd be nice to hear from you about that. How's the water? How the Love you got? Marcus Metallica playing Eden Park this year? Great concerts. I went to Western Spring early to mid eighties. Dire Straight, Deep Purple, Neil Young, Brent Nelson, would the fur minute shower put a bucket in your shower to click water and use that water for the flushing of the toilet. Use your dishwater for the same use after washing the dishes, of course, dishes toilet, shower, toilet. So I want to probably want to say something silly about that, won't they? Marcus? I went to Luke Comb's on Saturday night at Eden Park. The sound was atrocious? Is that a regular problem there? I know what every content they complain about sound, but I think it depends on where you sit and also if you're of as of a negative temperament, people seem to complain more. What's to sound like an Eden Park? I have not been to a concent there apart from halftime entertainment. Went to Luke Comb's Saturday night in park. Sound was atrocious, terrible. Best thing with the bus from the should of the stadium in back, no problems and free Metallic is sold out in the day. They could do a second show with Ease Eden Pack. Well, they probably still could. I don't know if that's because of the limit of concerts. I probably need some more information about that. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two nine two to text. But tell me about the sound Eden Park is that a real big for those out of Auckland. Eton Park used to be Cabbage Tree Swamp not far from Auckland Central, probably two three four k's three ks, just in kind of an old suburb full of large wooden villas worth a fair bit of money. And the local residents don't love the concerts. They get cricket, they get sporting events, and they get concerts as well, but I think they don't like the unruly behavior. Of course, some people will make money by charging people to park on their front lawn. I think someone that went to Coldplay. I remember her voice. I think she was out kind of who were pie way I was talking at driving home. I think she'd paid fifty bucks. She paid fifty bucks to park on someone's front lan. I think she paid fifty bucks for someone to pick her up from someone's front lawn. We sketch. I can't remember all the details. You have to find a journal twenty one away from nine if you want to talk about that would be good to hear from you. By the way, oh eight hundred and eighty today. The other bit of fact of effect that's of interest to me since the year nineteen seventy five, we are now drinking half as much milk. No one ever talks about that the Great Milk Drought half as much? Why why do we all give up milk half as much milk as we drank fifty years ago? And in Britain one in three are going for sawyer milk, almond milk, oat milk, or coconut milk altogether. Now you can't milk it up, presumably due to the belief that it's better for your health or the planet. There you go, of course, not because it's not because it's better for the planet. It's because it's ambient milk. And that means you can just have it in the scullery or in the pantry. In the pantry and just get it when you need to. It doesn't go off. I think that's one of the big things, is not the fact that it's and not that it's been milk, but the fact that it's just there. It's in your dry goods would you call them dry goods? And you grab the milk and sure you're gonna do. There you go, there's a nut milk. They reckon the new milk. Watch the space. The new milk will be potato milk. Well, you can't milk a potato, but they reckon that's the one that's going to take over the world. Free creamy. It's already available. You can bar There's one brand called Doug, which is a great name for potato milk. Dug potato milk. Yep, you make your own, by the way, I'm gonna give it a go. They wreckon almond milk quite bad for the environment because the amount of water they need. Yeah, Doug is the brand of potato milk. Looks pretty good. I mean, I'm not empty cow. Do what you want. But if you want to, if you want to be, if you want to be on the school up with a great conversation starter, say you've switched to potato milk, you'd be an outlier. I'm ordering some online. Now, where is this company based?
Buy? Now?
The site uses cookies? Can I click on that?
I go?
Okay, Dan, I'm buying milk. I need cookies here, very good. Where do I click on next? What do I want original Barista or unsweetened? I get the unsweetened unsweetened deliciousness for he had to find me where to ask me for my address? I've gone as far as I can. There's number information. Who's got something to say? Oh wait, eighty tenny one of us, Marcus welcome, he'd twelve. I've clicked by now and nothing's come up. Oh yeah, I want to get through Temu. Would you drink potato milk from Temu? I wouldn't. I think it comes from Denmark. That'd be right, well Sweden. There they all are having vodka and potato milk. I can't even read the let I've clicked on something. I can't even read the language. It halsau so mare buoncre for it's on nicart med up till twenty percent robut the language full of umlots and circles. Jeepers, I, madam, a depth. I've got to say. I like people's passion when it comes to milk. Here's a text. I'm gonna go a lot of text. I'll read some, but this is the first text. Mate, milk is a byproduct. You can't get milk from potatoes. It's brain dead thinking otherwise. I am about to change stations. Unisu actually makes sense to make a good statement to the general public, cheapers. How could someone be so triggered by potato milk? It's perfect. I'm not saying we should all go to potato milk. But we're drinking half the milk we used to people doing something different. We've fallen out of love with milk. And that's fine because all of it gets whipped up into milk powder to go overseas as a bulking agent for foods.
We know that.
Now that's the economic miracle. It used to be at adding value. Now it's about taking away value and exporting a dry powder. Yeah, so long live the potato. Next to me kumaa milk, Marcus, there is a live stream of a corpse flower slowly booming in Sydney's Potical garden. Fantastic love you show. There was one that bloom not so long ago at the Auckland Winter Gardens, probably eleven years ago, and we were going to see that. We're waiting for the baby to be born, Marcus. All of these alternative milks have tons more water than the type they are trying to sell it as milk has only about five percent almonds and at the rest of it is water. Well, how much water would milk have in it? Really, when you think about it, you said about anything, it's just the majority of it is water. Wait, till they hear about mouse milk. Yeah, fair enough. The reason for the drop in milk consumption is scare mungery, like fel mungery. Milk is no longer milk over processed. Warm milk is awesome, Yes, exactly. Raw milk once upon a time, responsible for half of infant's deaths. Raw milk, yep. Then things changed just what we need even less washed Westies. We're smilly enough, but even we shower for less than just four minutes. Unless you're onion bald. Formance is not enough to wash everywhere. Daffored, he says, I'm no.
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By the way, here's a question for you. How much would you pay these days for a milkshake? Are they still a thing? What would it cost four dollars, eight dollars or twelve dollars? And what would a thick shake?
Be?
Got no idea? And could you get a potato shake or a nut milk shake nut juice? Oh eight hundred eighty tenenty at nine two nine two to text, anyone tried potato milk or potato juice? If you want to call it they call a cow, well, maybe they do, oh eight hundred eighty tendy nine If there's something else you want to meet, you to feel foret in touch here on midnight, looking forward to what you've got to say. Seven away from nine, she's all on. People got no idea what a milkshake would cost her? A thick shake. I have great faith that someone will let me know about that. When's Trump wake up? When do we get more news about him? We twelve hours ahead? Would it be about eight in the morning now any moment when we get more decrees? And I'm curious to know about that. If there's breaking news here, I'll keep you updated about that. Marcus. We are in Henderson on Espelly Road. The water pressure is low. It's like a trickle early night for Tina. Literally there is no alternative. Not worth having a shower. I have a lovely night. He said's right, go the bath because you can run that for longer. Well, that's selfish, although people don't tend to mind about that, because it's not their fault that the water has done. Even it's Marcus, good, evening and welcome.
How are you, Marcus good? Even before Christmas, four dollars fifty milkshake, Little Oni Rah, and now they're six dollars. It's not bad, not bad, cheapest on the island.
What if what for a thick shake?
I haven't dried.
I couldn't afford a sick shakes.
Oh, I thought that'd be six or eight dollars evangly I'm selling entitled Thank you for that. That's good to know. On there we go. Why are we mentioning milkshakes because someone know what they would cost? Get in touch. My name is Marcus Hddle twelve oh eight hundred and eighty to nineteen nine to two de text Our prediction Luxon will be rolled as Prime Minister Liam Lawson will win one race. Greyhound Racing will be given a reprieve. Ozzie will vote and your government and house prices will double them price.
Wow.
Marcus had a creaming soda shake at fucka Maru the other day. Six for a milkshake, eight fifty for thick shake. That's from Bears, ironically a major burger chains. Thick shakes are made from reconstituted potato powder. Lance. But if you do go with potato milk or thick shake, basically we'll just be mashed potato with some lime flavoring. Won't it be tremendous milkshake thick six't eighty Helensville. Marcus. Milkshakes can range in price from five dollars to fifteen dollars, and the value for money is just as variable. A local fruit and veg place that King Seed does a very good milkshake for five dollars have paid twelve to fifteen at fancy restaurant bars. I'll tell you what I've got to stop saying. I tell you what. It's been a long time since I've been to someone's house and they've offered me a milkshake or a nutshake. I mean a nut milkshake because people don't tend to help because I think once upon, oh you have a milk tinkle tickle ticklers, the ice and everything go. It was quite happened quite often, didn't that. You don't get that anymore. And that's because we're drinking half the milk we're used to. Oh good to see, Marcus. Would you like a milkshake? Happen all the time. By the way, if you're looking for something exciting on your toast, there is a new spread that's taking the world by storm. It was invented by two Swiss hikers, and it's called No normal coffee. It's like marmite, but it's made from coffee. Yeah yeah, you make it into drinking heavy on your toast. I'll be into that on toast. It's strong, it tastes almost yeasty. It's not unpleasant, but there's no grit. There you go, a coffee spread for your toast. Good evening, Timmots, Marcus, welcome, Hey Marcus.
Predictions twenty five.
How many have you got?
Gout? A few? Counting?
How many?
Maybe three?
Three or three or fourth person for me to know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So fresh sports, let's go with the All Blacks, say twenty twenty five. I'm going they're going to only lose one Test match this year and they're going to beat South Africa, Eden Park and Wellington Stadium.
There you go.
Second prediction.
I'm just trying to work what their fixtures are for twenty twenty five. You've gone through all that, have you.
Yeah, They've got they're playing frow and three Test matches in the middle of the year and then they play South Africa twice here, Australia once and Argentina way and then their head off to Europe.
England got England three times, to Fiji, Italy, France, Ireland. It's a tough year.
It's a tough year. But I reckon, I'll do I reckon raise his head is head of fish here now he knows what it's about.
Okay, I think you're dreaming. But good, I'll revisit that. Just one loss for twenty twenty five for the all Blacks, Okay, yep.
Yep, okay, one real quick. I think one major leader around the world will resign. I know that'll be but one will resign, could be here in his zan in Australia.
Like when you say leader, like a prime minister or president, right, yeah, leader? Did you say all your predictions were sport us getting ready for another sport prediction? Okay, that was sport. Okay, that's sport. And then there's politics.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yeah, yep.
Five Wayne Brown loses the election to loses the election.
And in the Cavs getting a new mayor because the old miror is not standing again. But that's yeah anyway, so that's interesting.
But yeah, well I think, well.
That means my prediction will be right, yeah anyway, yeah, okay, yep, yep.
And then last prediction, we're going back to sports. Now. Last prediction will be the Black Trinds when the World Cup again. Anyone die, Yep, people will die. People die every year.
Anyone will no one will die.
Oh I think I'm sorry to all my British followers, but I think the king maybe on his last year.
The King, well you see the queen off and that took forever. When did the last time you ever milk shaked him?
Probably when I was five years.
Okay, you're not just intolerant. Your lecto is intolerant. Okay, you haven't had a nut milkshake or anything like that.
Now keep to the smoothiest.
Well, I guess the smoothies a new shake. And that's a good point you've made. See what's a smoothie if not just a shake? Is a smoothies shake? It's all just through the whiz, isn't it. Do you agree or not with Ben Sheltered on Ossie broadcasters at the Melbourne Tennis I don't get involved with the tennis. There's not a clickbait. There a lot of thing egos on both sides of the cordon tennis. I've never known a sport with so much off the ball nonsense. Yeah, but that's sports that involved just individuals. Apart from darts, I think they produce better people, Marcus. I really think milk has got too dear for young families would have an abundance of just my opinion X Dairy farmer David, Yeah, thank you, Marcus Greater You're back. Milkshake today from paramedter eight dollars sixty lime flavored, jolly nice rowdy on the souper yacht. Where was it, mood I used to live in Sweden. Yes, there is potato milk. It was developed by Professor Eva Gronberg Toronberg at Lund University. For English, look at dug drinks dot com. Marcus, thick shake making is a lost art. The only way to make one is to put the syrup and the container first, then one median scoop of thick shaped whip for a light shake. What's thick shaped whip? I thought we just put an ice cream, two for me to even three for thick shape. Top up with cold milk. The milk must be cold to the point of freezing. Hang on, tell me, Chris, what do you mean by a scoop of thick shake whip? What's thick shake whip? I'd like a thick shake whip. It's all particular, isn't it. Milk's not milk anymore. It's just kind of science milkshake whip. Dan, do you know what milkshake whippers.
Have got?
My headphones on? What is he talking about? There's milkshake ice cream? What I'll put these people hanging out in the supermarket. I can't even see a peck pecket of it. CHRISTI a belly you bed tell? Is it something at Costco? It might be for like the Dieries, the Deeryes. They've got a special place they go to. I don't know the sounds of it.
Either way.
The syllable milkshake Johnny Marcus good evening, Oh good.
Evening, Marcus. Kiwi ice cream at miltmal Renoi used to make the milkshake ice cream for six Shakes dairies, and I think Gilmore was Why have a product like that now? But yeah, we used to get those big cardboard teen liter boxes of Seconds from Kirii ice Cream.
I have to work seconds of Seconds ice cream.
Yeah, yeah, Seconds ice cream. And this is back in the eighties, mid eighties. My brother worked there. Yeah, I did one day here when I was about fifteen or something for work experienced Gosh, it was hard, but had about the milk key. But there are many places you can buy two liter bottles if you buy two of them for between six fifty and seventh fifty. I'll find the front shops here in Tonia and usually the spice shops. They have non permanent milks. So there's a I could be wrong. I think it's called dairy Dale, but it's a milk that hasn't been separated and put back together and Layman's terms, So yeah, it's not made for milk PERMEI it's it's still got the milk pat solids in it, and you can buy the silver Top and it's only like twenty cents more. So, yeah, we go there because we're big drinkers of milk, and with baby coming along, yeah, I've been making sure my partner is always drinking lots of it, creamy milk.
Can you tell the difference in the taste?
Yeah, beautiful taste. It's yeah, compared to the we used to just buy what it was, the cheap brand from the supermarket and which is by Blue Top. But now that we've got that choice of my non permeent milk and it's really local.
Is it called dairy Dale?
Yes? I think so a name yep, yeah, not as bad as that. It's some of the names you see for milk over and China. When they're translated, they just don't make sense. But you know, I'm really happy to be buying four leaders for under eight dollars and I don't have to travel far to get it.
Does it say it's non permeate?
Yes, well i'll do it next next time from going shopping tomorrow. I'll send you a picture of it with the what's on the back.
I'll look forward to that.
Very good.
When's the baby?
Jow on?
A few days?
What? And yeah?
Yeah?
Boy?
Another another twenty one days or something?
Boil girl, We have a boy? You got the name?
And yes we have finally yeah, it's going to be yes, And I'll give you a clue. Like from Greek mythology, there were the mermaids and Spartacus. No, the sirens, and they were male sirens, but they sort of dropped out of mythology.
How many syllables?
Two sirens? Is his name?
Siren?
That's his name?
God?
You've ricked a guessing game? Yeah, going to be here to take me through the air of this cooler. Oh it, this is it that?
Oh we can't make make it fast because you guys got to talk about milk, have.
You everyone else? Haven't any else called siren?
No?
No, we hear lots of them around here, but no, we named them for the Greek mythology.
Siren.
Yeah. Yeah, hopefully he just doesn't lure anybody onto the reef.
No, and I've never heard of it. I've never heard of one.
Yeah.
Have you looked at one of those names websites.
We tried all that, and we tried writing loss and stuff that siren is siren there.
Yeah, yeah, I.
Haven't found it, but I've looked it up on Google and chatch evt all that stuff and found all the great explanations and so on about it. And I just thought the year off. You know, I've got one boy with a Latin name, and and now I've got one of the Greek names.
So here we go.
I think last year in the States there were eight kids called siren.
Ohs always beat us to it.
It's not many, that's not really.
No.
It comes in rank at eight and three and eighty six.
Oh wow, Wow, you know what my prediction will be for.
This year.
I think the price milk's going to go up.
You're probably right, Johnny Tons of like keep us in touch with that. That's exciting. Siren. Oh we had a good name. I'll tell you what something about the name, Sarn. You're not going to not have an opinion about that. Thick shake, whippers, not ice a creament especially for it for proper shakes. Wholesale is only fancy. I was trying to talk about milkshakes and someone's got some sort of secret source. But I don't like the sounds of it. It'll just be some something from some byproduct from the some way mix or something well. I worked in about Burger Bar. In the eighties, we milkshakes, thick shakes with flavoring and Frosty Boy cream freeze. They were hard with to sack at the store. The most popular favor was chocolate, closely followed by believe it or not spearmint. I'm always aware the most popular milkshake flavor is always lying people love. I've never quite but but has it kind of a cult following was beyond a cult following. Looking forward to your calls, people, my name is Marcus welcome, Oh eight hundred and eighty you might just want to stay say hi for the year, high for the year. As we start the first week, realizing most of you are still on holidays, so taking it easy. Get in touch Marcus till midnight h eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine nine two to text. I'll switch to the tennis. Good living, Pete, it's Marcus welcome. Are you there, Marcus good, thanks, Pete.
All the best for New Years, And yeah, I get you and you're great to see you had a good month's holiday for kids and that.
Yeah, I reckon.
As I see you, isn't there in the best city? And you you tell and I see and you put us good.
What's happening there? What's happening with the bus terminal?
And you put us yeah, well what's wrong with it?
Well, they closed the area where used to buy your tickets, the office, so you go to go to Poky arter Ky to get your and there's just sort of angry drug people wandering around.
Yeah, it's bit of a shame.
They moved that.
There used to be humans. They had a busty played there, and they changes the hotel in there where it used to be and then they built that. Basically idea was just the way the modern technology has gone. It's all about, you know, shutting the little back obviously down.
And it was to have a fantastic bus place, the place you go and get the card and everything a waiting room. Now they won't take care well they you know, you got to buy a card to get on the bus. You get the card, and then then you got to go. You run out of the cards, so you gotta get money and you get the I had the rudest bus driver I think I've ever experienced, you know, the classic guy. I went to the money machine to get money to get the bus, right. See, they can run all stories and the smallest start I get for twenty bucks. That was me and the two kids. I give the bus driver twenty bucks when he starts an argument and then did the slow even though with a plenty of notes in his container, gave me just twenty fifty cent pieces. Fifty cent pieces was a real nasty piece of work, and I thought cheapest creepers. Anyway, Apart from that, it was all excellent.
Yeah, but I shouldn't say it, but those bee cards you can call them be cards. They're reckally very good. If you do have one, you got to get in the system.
When you got to top them up, you gotta, I said, I top them up online. They said, yeah, you can, but it's twenty four hours before it's.
Good to go.
Yeah, it's like any think you just gotta you know, you gotta. It's gotta wait, be patient and.
Just they should have tipping goes so you just do it with your with your debit card.
Well, I think I think all done what other city is done. But I think they're trying to put it all through. Ye selling that bea caut I think I'm not do sure it may not awome. The biggest thing is maybe not.
I think all the expending, all the small.
Provinces, I think they trying to use those bea cars. It says, say he's having cash and you actually get half of you actually get your half, your fear cheaper people have cats.
Well, just I just thought that. I thought that mister trick.
There, Now I've got a trick.
It'll actual quite.
Good rather than the hang on, hang on, I say the buses were a disaster, mister trick. It used to be a good system. Now it's confusing with angry drivers.
No, I think you said a bad day, Marcus. Normally the drivers are pretty good. You You always get the odd one.
Of how often do you get on a bus there, Pepe, Oh, not that often.
I'm going to car and then I use it now and again. But soon as I get soon as I get my gold card another year or so, then I'll probably take advantage of that. You know, from nine till three it's pretty much gonna be. You know, you're using in those airs and when you're paying nothing at awful and you will take more winning for that. Going back about the name, sire, and I shouldn't say, I like Johnny de Busy is a good guy, but I reckon, it's not a I reckon, that's a name. The poor boy is going to get a hard time. If that name, why is that?
People is that?
They'll say, oh, he's sorry, he's going to go off again.
Of course that's siren going off. Yeah, that's siren. Of course.
I hope he doesn't get picked up. The definitely were not any that name.
Well, you would have got picked for your name because it's Pete, right, pet.
Because my dad was his name as well. Pete was Peter as well.
Did people tease you because you had your dad's name?
I got given my dad's name that, yes, yes, I basically a name. I suppose not a bad thing.
What did you get teased for?
Oh?
Gee see, because I have a dad's name. I thought that's a for the Almades of Tea.
No, but but I wish them were. The little boy doesn't get picked for that.
That name.
You could say sirring. You never quite know when he's going to go off.
Because I could talk or not about what you use the sirring for?
Wow, would conversation pete? Yeah, I should have asked them what the middle name was going to be.
Might have been alarmed or something. Sorrying alarm.
So you're running your own lines. But that's quite good.
Well, maybe give him the sicken name. They don't take it the wrong way.
Johnny.
I like it.
I like it, and I like people the original names. So I'm team Johnny. But yeah, I mean, but yeah, I asked him. It is brave enough to tell me. So it's good. He's exciting you, baby, good, it's exciting. Recently, pook A Curry, one of the last Kiwi bakes to close down on Auckland, thank you, no customers serve it. What we took about kiwibank Marcus, the average car sold in Australia's down two and thirty mile is wider than the nineteen seventies. Marcus love a nice rum and raisin milkshake. By the way, clothing brand Rivers and Australia's closing down one hundred and thirty six doors will close six hundred and fifty jobs to be quite a well known brand that Rivers. Yeah, shoes and a trouser. I think that was what they did. Anyway, get in touch Janet's Marcus Welcome, good evening.
I bet Marcus, all but quiet on the home front, do you think?
And I think it's all very good.
What did you think of the State of the Nation speech?
Look, I mean it's early in the political year, but I just don't think people were that interested in it. And as someone said, he's lost the room that maybe people aren't. You know, we've heard it all before.
Yeah, and.
I think people more what we're going to we're going to get anouncedent on theories. But yeah, I mean you've got to say something. I suppose people are waiting for you to start the political year and there's going to be he wants more concerts.
I guess it's going to save the country.
Not well, you know, I mean it must be a hell of a job having to come up with something to say at the beginning of the year.
Well, I think he's going to resign. And I think that prediction of that previous caller about a world leader, I think he will be the one.
He'll resign because he thought it was going to be easier.
No, I don't think his heart's in it. I think's he'll probably go for a consulate job in some country that he's chosen from all his travels. It'll set himself up.
Well there, yeah, go back to the private sector, wouldn't he? Who will replace him? Nichola Willis.
That's what I'm worried about. I hope not.
Gosh.
I've thought of all the people that would have got their portfolio taken off them. It would have been here, honestly. But he's added to it by giving her development.
You know.
But I think, Jane, you've also got to play politics. You've also got to keep factions happy, otherwise you yourself will be rolled. It's not just I don't think he's the leader. You can just choose the best person. I think there's probably other considerations you need to make. I think there's factions within parties. You've got to keep happy.
Oh yeah, of course.
But I'm wondering if we've got these deputy prime ministers, two of them, it's usually the deputy that steps in when the last leaves, and so which of the two you know it's going to be difficult, and will it be one of them or someone else in the party, in the National Party.
And of course, just so he's tuning in and getting shocked, there's been no word that he will resign. That's just your speculation, right, But I'm.
Just getting it feeling there was nothing in his speech, nothing new and everything he said, well, i mean compared to Donald Trump. You know, Donald's right on the point, you know, coming up with all the answers and decisions and it's all signed of luxe and nothing's happening, you know, terrorism, Ah, who wants to come here and swim in the rivers, lakes and beaches that are what is there here for them?
I'll tell the one thing that probably will holk tourism is the dollar is so low that it's very cheap to come here at the moment. That's what's kept places going, is that people have come here because it's they get bang for their buck.
Yeah I was thinking that, but still there are heaps of nice places you can go around the world where you'd get cheap than I call Asia. Practically, yes, it's cheap, you know, firm, more fun and exciting and probably not as polluted. Funnily enough.
Must to hear from you, Jen, Thank you fourteen to ten text Eric the Stanford. Next problems is he's very popular and smart. I am a real milkoholic. I go through four letters every two days. Start with milk on my weetbits. We have six cups of tea with milk, a glass of milk to or three times a day, and a glass of book for going to sleep every fortnight and pitch and day by two letters of chocolate milk should make your own Kiev. I want more concerts. Corn went to Australia and never came here. I'm hoping for a Britney Spears come back to a how is she? These days? We never quite sure of which videos to click on Corn. I'm not quite sure what sort of size venues Corn, but they wouldn't played in park. Would they corn would be more spark arena spark it up, there'd be my assumption they're ten away from at ten o'clock Jan Jan and a giant fan. Thanks for that text. Thick shakes milkshakes yea. Often you go out of someone's place and make you a milkshake. Not so much anymore like a kmart selling milkshake machines. Probably not too busy seeing those are mini waffle machines. The other question from me right, real random one. From time to time in my life I have done a first aid course. In the workplace. They always say who's got a current first aid course? I always say me, you know so, even though I work on my own, makes me walk a little bit taller knowing that I can do CPR and forget what other stuff I can do bandaging. But the question is, because longly go I do first aid courses for jobs or for courses, But how many people on their own free will or of their own volition would go and get it renewed? And how often will they do that? I'm just thinking myself, could I be bother two days learning all that stuff again? Or is the old stuff still relevant? Can I tell you what. The courses are insufferable, aren't they takular? You gotta go out of the room, you got to come back in. And there's an accident. I think it's not really an excedent. There's just the people doing the course with kind of draped over cheers. Anyway, can you do something online? And I guess no one's gonna refuse my help because I'm not current. Oh greetings and welcome this tennis. And I'll try and keep you updated that when I work out what's going on. So that's not my strong suit. Tonight, I shall look into it. How are you going? People? Here's a text and I quite like it, and I hope this will spark some opinions. Would love to know your angle of the exodus of graduates and younger people in general going to Australia. Three of my cousins and a third of my unique cohort are off. So there you go. People, there's a straightforward question from me here, why is everyone moving to Australia. I know what my reasoning is. Oh, I'm not going. I know what my reasoning why people are going is. I'll be curious to know what you think it is, because everyone you talk to, they're on their way, And what's your reasoning or thinking behind that? Because also, unlike sometimes sometimes what happened like in the eighties, I think that people aren't talking of coming back. It seems to be a permanent leave. So if you're doing it, you got kids are doing it or neighbors. What's the reason they are doing it? What do you think the reason they are going? Is it something quite definitive or is it something quite abstract? Well, I guess what i'd say is I guess it's probably well, I don't know, it's the vibe. I guess it's they feel there is more exciting prospects over there and something to do with also probably with housing affordability. Not that the housing is cheaper, but probably can earn more and it seems more achievable for them. If you have something to say about that, and like your calls eight hundred and eighty ten eighty text, Oh my goodness, just be outside seeing the comment it is beautiful? Is that the Jenitor Rush version. Yes, Marcus, the new Dylan movie is exit. Before seeing it, I would thought the lead actor timoth Ay Charalamaye might have been being too pretty to play Dylan. He does data Cardassian, but he was amazing vocals and music originals ricks and wasn't karaoke with watching Christine, Thank you Christine. Lenny Kravitz would be a Brittish concert the last of true rock superstars and still fit and good looking for the ladies regards. Owen had that well, I wouldn't say that he was a hit guy Kravitz, but yeah, I guess he had songs that people liked. But have never understood why we would have event grounds and seniors and un limit they're used to so few a year. How does that even cover the costs and their upkeeping rates? Ridiculous? Marcus Nick here Womad would be extremely powerful with cren Amega from Trinidad and Tobago who voiced extreme of extraordinary and Jamaican roots reggae artist Tronis taking the stage. His music will mash down Babylon with positive vibrations, everyone going I don't have a and for the ones that are, but certainly not everyone or that's in that woman's experience. I would never move to Australia too loyal, hate snakes, spiders and the hate. I like to be okay in the guards and nature without worrying about snakes. I'm not want to follow what others do. Jeckie, I don't know what it comes to loyalty. If the country's not working for you, you go somewherehere it does, don't you? So you Why is everyone going? And when I say everyone, of course for those pedants, I don't mean every single person. I mean more than I've ever gone before. And you might be thinking of going, or you might have family that's gone. I'd like to discuss that, please. I think a lot of it's too is you can't deny or you can't talk down the appeal of cities like Sydney and Melbourne. They are fantastic cities, great population size, great weather well certainly for Sydney. Why wouldn't you go? I'll bother way. Had a job application today, I won't read the guy's name. Questions about your job name from Auckland. It was my last year of secondary school and starting to think about my career options. I've always loved the idea of radio shows and journalism as that sparks great interest for me. I think this has written by chet Gpt. I've worked as a bartender for over a year which has allowed me to develop my gift of the gab. And I am really interested in working a similar field that you do on your Marcus Slash lights for news talks, Zedb. I am wondering how you were able to enter the industry, in which steps you have taken to be where you are today. I'm also interested in getting my into the industry with any role that is needed. Role spelt wrongly if I am needed to work my way up the chain. Love the stuff that you and other news slash radio hosts do, and I'm keen on any work at all. An idea of how to get into this line of work. Much appreciated, cheers. What I like very much about this is he's worked in a bar while he's at school. Well, that's a surprise. He's worked in a bar for a year, and he's decided to be a good talkback host. I don't know what bar it was run for the hills, Hugo. We've got no idea if it's for real or not. I don't necessarily know that an eighteen year old talkback host. Well, it could be for every good is that you, Hugo. Oh the other thing too, that I meant to talk about tonight and I'm throwing everything at you tonight, which I'm not that happy about. I want to sit here and talk for four hours, but I will do it. In the news of the day, today is also the anniversary from nineteen fifty one.
Get this.
Of the tragedy of the Wellington to Littleton yacht Race, which is one of those news in disasters that no one knows much about. Wellington Littleton yacht Race. Twenty yachts started, only one would finish, two totally lost along with their ten crew. I think there has been a book written about that. I don't. I'd be surprised if people our audience remember it. It was seventy four years ago. I'm putting it out there that might be something that can actually tempt you to call ben ats Marcus good Eaving and welcome O.
Hi Marcus, Welcome back to twenty five five my productions I've been taking about the last couple of days. I think one in five nisioners will have the bab the Givens off work. Wow, it's it's a teacher. I've looked up curdsua thin but it's a teacher's only day on it's a military teacher day down there, the first of the students. I think people for teachers, and I think will be people will be either sick or your annually for that day.
So wide time, your day is the Thursday. I think the school. I think my kids go back to school on the Mondays. It's crazy. It's three days and they're offered two. Okay, thank you, yep, by the way, but I don't know how we're going to I don't know we're going to prove that, but we'll just have to do.
Something like that.
Yeah, I think I think business performed this year next year because the way easter falls. It's all you get it, but you get close to to easters this financh year and the next financier you get two. Easter has fallen within the same finance year. So business some paces that improve because of easter trading that will improve the result.
Okay, is this a prediction, this is a comment, Yes, prediction.
The prediction form because business will reform because easter the way easter falls next this year and next this year, next year, the year after.
So so the first prediction is that one and five will take off that day. The second prediction is.
Easter business will better because the way easter falls.
Okay, good, okay, thanks you?
Yep.
I heard in the new.
Zamy Fishes moved to she was on the karaker and who got fourth place in the Olympics. I think she'll get both won the World Champs this year.
Oh good prediction. Okay, yeah, because she was expected to do great things that you want to be disappointed? Okay, Amy Fisher yep.
And the all Blacks to lose against Erika.
In park and that's the hoodo Is it because I'm beaten there for fifty years or something? All but that's a great I like that one, being all Blacks to lose, hudo yep?
Is it?
All of them?
They'll be my four year.
Great predictions being good luck with it. I love the all black one. I can't believe no one else has come up with it because it's one that's yeah, I'll lose, make no mistake about that. It's my idea, Jillian. That's Marcus welcome.
Oh on that Marcus. I don't remember if you remember our phone conversation last year about me cooking sausages and I couldn't get them to cook, you know, properly, and you looked online and found a sausage pan for me.
Oh on ahead. It had a special kind of grooves and it didn't it.
Yeah, you found it online, but it had bad comments and that about it. So I tried different pans and it went on for a while, and then they've got an air fryer. Air fryer, fifteen minutes, perfect sausages.
What was wrong with your paid? Were they rolling?
They were rolling? Yeah, so they were cooking on each side, but they weren't cooking on the sights. So I tried to sort of get like forks and keep them up the right way and all sorts of things. I even used like a metal cup at one point, but I still couldn't do it. So I tried lots of ways. But as I said, I've got an air fryer and all sorties. So I thought i'd let you know.
That's really kind to ring up is the ear fry because I believe I had an ear froll. I've seen shots. You cook on like a tissue or something.
Is that right?
Oh?
No, you just cook on the grill. I've got a plastic grill and you just put them on there. And obviously the way it cooks, it just cooks the completely.
Oh so it doesn't matter if they roll, because the cook is a total cooking.
Yeah, but I'll tell you what I did a roast pork in it a couple of weeks ago. Absolutely gordeous crackle and everything.
People rave about them. Are you're slow off the boat with their one? What brand did you go for?
We got the gotcha the which one we got? In the end, I'm going to tell you if I'm walking here now. Yeah, I had I actually had it for five months and I didn't use it, and then I suddenly got into it as a Russell Hobbs.
You're a good one, okay, and you're happy with it.
Oh, it's brilliant.
I just use it so much.
Now you know you'd have to put anything love in pans or you know, fry up and things like that. So the cakes, but I haven't found that yet.
I'll get rid of your oven, yeah, I think so. Save the space.
It keeps full.
And now anyway, it's a bit dangerous. It keeps to you know, we open it, it falls out. So I've I've asked people who are here. I don't think they've put it in properly. Really, Okay, Yes, it's a bit scary. We put some weight on it. It actually comes away from the wall.
Oh that sounds terrifying.
It's awful.
Yeah, and nice to hear from you, Jillian, Thank you twenty six to whatever. Keep those sticks. Also wise, if I'm moving to australig you can answer that. Ah, she's all on par up a pump pump, someone's predicted. I'll put this one down Winston Peters to reverse the greyhound band. I did say in my opening show on Monday that I did happen to find myself at Panga Nui and went to the greyhound races on the Friday. And it wasn't the straight track, it was the round track. They've got a restaurant there in a long room with lights with windows overlooking the track, and I didn't talk to anyone but sat there and quietly observed the goings on for three races. Because people ask me we did the show about greyhound racings, to go and give it another go.
And it was a very.
Pleasant experience. Was a very well oiled, well run, enjoyable family kind of an event, and people seem to really love it. And I've heard all the reasons for banning the dogs and I support it, but walking away from that venue had a real sense of loss that these people really seemed to have a sport, that really they had done what they can to tidy up. So yeah, I did feel that that needs to be acknowledged and maybe that will get the bann up and maybe that could be just that one course could keep going because specifically built for the dogs and beautiful course. They have the races on the straight course on a Tuesday, So I missed that. But that looks like in the middle of a field. That doesn't look like it's as close to the action as the one I saw Marcus. I know about that race. I was a member of the Royal Port Royal Nicholson Yacht Club and there were two yachts more than the club basin that were part of the race. One was the ral Kaua. It lost a man overboard and never sailed again, except for when two friends of mine motivated their owner to take the yacht out into Willington Harbor. The nineteen sixty nine Willington Arcar Race was similar, but no lives were lost. Twenty two yachts started, only eleven finished. I was on the win a crescendo owned by Brian Barrowcluff, who told me mid race that he wished the boat was ten thousand tons heavier. That is where I been followed by a great white shark three minutes off the steard of the yacht. Forty bears, followed by forty gins consumed at the Achiro pub on a RYE can't call as it's passed my bedtime, my wife for fifty two years. Oh so I can't call as it's passed by and my wife for fifty two years bed time. Sorry to make a hash of reading that second one, just so you know. In the women's semi phone and the tennis in Australia Seblenka six four over Badosa. So that's the first set done and dusted. I'll keep you updated with that one. Keep those predictions going, with some good ones coming through. Marcus will finally findow who called JFK. Winston. Pears will resign from politics once David Seymour takes deput PM role. Powerball will reach its highest level in ended history. I don't know what there's I think it's probably forty something million, be a lot, be enough to not move to Australia. Taylor have you got predictions for me? Please welcome.
Hi Marcus.
Yeah, I've got a couple of predictions for you, Taylor.
How many have you got?
God?
I actually don't know. I've just got a couple of my head. Some of them are political, some of them more pop culture.
I think.
I honestly think jd. Vance is going to be president this year. I honestly think just in the country where you know, weapons are so easily accessible, like the United States, I think Grand fifth Auto six that's going to get delayed by a year perhaps.
Hang on, hang on, that's a video game, not a movie, right, They're not making a movie of the game.
Yeah, game, yep.
I'm just so.
I just realized because they're making movies of like Minecraft and stuff. Okay, Grand When was it supposed to be released.
Twenty twenty five? It was just twenty twenty five.
There was no kind of Okay, there was no Why has it been delayed?
Oh, it hasn't been delayed. That's just my prediction, I think because they've only released one trailer since December twenty twenty three, so that's been over a year and we've only seen one like little released little about it from the company that makes the game. So I think, surely not prepared. I think there's going to be a probably a stop market correction. I'd imagine it would be one of the biggest in a couple of decades. Great goodness me and if I were to guess there's going to be something, and there's gonna be something random like flooding in New Zealand, there's going to be flooding.
Is everybody a year when there has been no flooding?
Oh yeah, well yeah, yeah.
I think you've got a point there. I think in terms of flooding, there's going to be it's going to be pretty catastrophic. Look the way I see it is it's going to be worse than twenty twenty four. And I'm not trying to be a pessimist, that's just that's just my prediction.
I think it was twenty twenty three with the bad floods.
You did cycling, Gabriel, Yep, that is true.
So you said, so you're saying it's worth the twenty twenty four worth of twenty twenty three.
It's going to be worse than probably both of them.
To be honest, Okay, I don't know. If there's floods that much flooding last year. But I've got you down as that, okay, yep.
Yeah, And I reckon, I reckon mortgage rates are lower though I think the ocr is going to go down. Bank's going to put their their rates lower. And I think Guyana bid invade Taiwan. I'm not sure.
Okay, when you say not sure, it doesn't kind of sound like a prediction. But we've got your other five Taylor, thank you for every much for that fifteen away from eleven edit's Marcus welcome.
Yes, Marcus good. Evening the yard prace that you mentioned Bacon nineteen fifty one, I go, comes to mind the yacht that was a lost. Yeah, I haven't, Yeah, I go.
And when we say lost, that means we presume they were never found. There was never any wreckage or any sign of the people's right.
That's right. And I can recall Wellington Radio. I was only a kid at the.
Time, and.
Calling, calling, calling, calling, how you Then I go, I go, please respond, went on for a couple of days, yes.
Because I'm thinking about it, and tell me if my thinking is wrong, because we had the World War and that was a great tragedy. And then for a while you know, we were a country without tragedy for a number of years, and this one seems to be a bit of an I mean, the Valentine's flyer had been, the seaclifire had been. I guess there was tongue awire but later on. But this one must have really stood out.
But this ago one really stood out, especially in the Wellington area years. Yes, yes, it really said, I don't know how many were lost.
It was in was ten on two yachts?
Ten on two yachts, ye yeah, yes, yes, so that's a memory from yes.
So what if they had they would have had radio. I presume they're desperate for some sort of radio signal.
Oh yes, yes, because as I said, I can recall listening to you Wellington radio calling, calling, calling, are you there?
Go?
Are you there?
I go?
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, or something for that yeah, something like that anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It says the yachts that were missing with the Aurora and the Argo, the records of a third husky was found there or Ferro Bay in Wellington.
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
So yeah, so that's that's my memory.
Appreciate that in Thank you so much for coming through Twelve Away from eleven, Marcus, I remember the disastrous yacht race. My father was a radio hammer operator z L two se, z L two se. Some of you will remember him. He and many others scanned the frequencies for days, listening for SAS calls, hoping to make the contact with the crew in trouble. That's from Marge, So thanks for that. So blink who won the first set in the semi final six to four. She's two games up up, she's just broken served, she's three games up, and the second set she leads three to one. I think he had to break a set to be three one up, don't you. I think that's right. Apologies to tennis fans. I've got that one wrong. Tell you what, since the tennis balls went from right white yellow, they haven't changed color again, have they? I see how they predict the score onto the court. I presume the players can't see that. I presume that's just for the people on TV Sex away from living mine of as. Marcus, welcome HD on midnight. Not looking forward to what you've got to say. Oh eight hundred eighty to tend and nine nine two de text. Get a monkst if you've got anything to add talk about say, I think I've been wide ranging with the topics to I've enjoyed it muchly. Yeah, get in touch people, just thinking of mear local news down our way, which is important for you. Looks like Centralo Tago is getting one of those monopoly games which seems to be everywhere. I'm not watch you what the point is, but there we go. A rat has been found on Ulva Island. That's not good. This is the one close to Stuart Island. Dead rat found a trap last week. They've got road and detection dogs there to determine the extent of rat presence. We've also got red activity on trail cameras. Further and monitoring will say if it's a single rat or more, they're disappoint of. It did show the biosecurity monitory was working as it should. Sees one or two rats get there every year because it's close to Arakiura. The risk increased when rat numbers were high on the mainland due to warm weather and food availability. They can swim a long way orround. I think they can swim several kilometers. I think they all swim in like a they don't, well, maybe they do. I think they might bite each other's tails and swim like in the chain. I don't know if I've mentioned that or that's in a book. Actually, don't quote me on that. I know sometimes I say things and people like to sort of retweet it, and that's fine, fine, fun at all. But sometimes I'm realizing you're about to do it, but you do you whatever gets you going. Oh, eight hundred ten nine nine to de text. By the way, I'm here til midnight. That's the good News romance along from twelve. I'll be hateled then then he'll be little. Then I'm not quite sure we're back to a full crew again next week. I presume most people come back after White Tonguey Day and the other day. Yes, next week's going to be pretty petty, I would think. But just so you know, Monday is anniversary Day of those from Topa North Auckland Day they call it, or the Auckland as we're calling it on the show. The Auckland and super Bowl will be on the tenth February. The tenth teams yet to be decided. Kendrick Lamar will have the halftime show and third March for the Academies nominations come out tomorrow. I'm all in for Wicked. No one mourns the Wicked. Looks like Sabolenka has won this. I'll keep you updated with that. I think just about to go two sets up with this.
Now.
Look, I am unsure how many such you need to win in the semi final. I presume it's probably two out of three, but I might be wrong, So I apologize for that. Serving fast one thirty seven clumbers per hour. How are you going, people? My name is Marcus. Welcome well. This little twelve romans along at midnight tonight, so I get in touch of this. By the way, anyone doing anything interesting tonight or anyone listening from anywhere interesting too? I know at this time of the people are out and about too, camping and motor homes and things like that. That's always of interest to me. You've got an update for where you are? Let us know. By the way, this today is measure your feet day. I think it's a day we need. By the way, don't know why people would do that. Maybe make sure the shoes fit. That's one thing I'd like would be all shoe sizes around the world to be normalized. They'd be a good thing for Trump to do. And the Oscar nominations are out tomorrow. What do I reckon? By the way, I think looks like Sabolynka has just won thissid in her fists six four six two walk to each other, big had double tap on the back, whispers in the air, Pat pat pat off. They go shake the touchy umpire, both shake that waves of the crowd does that double tap of the racket lows it kiss lows it kiss, Almost looks like a salute. You gotta be careful these days, Marcus. Chick chick one two chick in from the Mighty Melbourne whilst watching the tennis New Year and New You. I don't think I've ever heard you not know an answer to something. Women are best of three. That's right, job done. It's easy. If you say you don't really know, gives you more leeway, Marcus. My predictions compliance costs will keep rising, and consents and building a local council will get not going easy like they say, Well, farmers will still be the backbone of our country. Marcus think the removal of public rubbishment will be a big problem. Today. I went to put our kindy recyclement out. I had to find the general public can use their recyclement for waste, including dirty nappies. I had to separate a gross backlisting. After a break, I've missed listening and particularly and participating. Kathy Marcus. A friend is a nurse. She gets three times what she got paid in todunger Pass, a freem hotel in Sydney, shares single Marcus prediction that I will end the year engage and you you're and You're invited to the wedding, Sonny or Sunny. I can't wait, Sonny, thank you. I've never been to a listener's wedding. I've come close. Willie Jackson to jump ship to the Maldi Party twenty twenty five. Hello Chris, it's Marcus. Welcome.
I'll go Marcus.
Predictions.
People are moving to Australia just because.
Hang on, I got the wrong I thought you're talking about predictions Australia. Yes, yes, I'm all heir is. Thank you.
The reason people are moving to Australia have been studying it is because in New Zealand our builders are encouraged to build all these low quality houses high density. In Australia, they've got lots of land, So people are getting a high speed, luxurious house instead of a two story unit that's boiling hot on the top floor. They get paid more. There's more of everything. It's like there's more doctors. There's just more of everything. Everybody's there. It's a boom in place. They've got they've got resources, they've got minds, you've got options. It's a huge place.
They've also got huge numbers of migrants and refugees arriving.
That's good. There's more people to so they've got.
Huge numbers, like a milliona year or something.
Yeah, because we need people. People build economies. When we've got no people, you've got no taxpayers.
No, and people don't want to move to New Zealand exactly.
So the thing John Key did that was really good. He went over to US, over to a lot of different overseas current countries, and he sold New Zealand to them. So they all came here and they bought into this New Zealand dream and they're like, wow, this is amazing. Yeah, and all of a sudden it made us look a lot cooler than we actually were. The rockstar economy. And now all Christoph Luxean is doing is just basically stripping everything down and just minimizing government spending.
And that's it.
He's not there's no growth happening.
Well, it's there's the opposite of growth is contraction.
Yes, yes, that's that's right. And because all those people that lost their jobs have all moved to Australia.
Yeah, and you won't get them back when when the economy does go. You can't get those people back. They've gone forever.
That's right. Because I have a cousin who moved to Australia eight years ago. He now makes more money than the Australia in prime minister.
Much money.
He's in Australia.
What's his industry, Chris, I's a high flying lawyer, okay, And and he does and he does law for people.
That are doing big sales. So he's basically a lawyer for salesman for big salesmen.
Are going to say something else because I mean, lawyers have always got big money though, haven't they.
Well yeah they haven't so politicians, but they just don't declare it obviously, But that's another topic. But they're cleared. I'm talking to clear so in other words, but guess what that money that he's making he can still only afford to buy one of those old fashioned townhouses in Sydney right there in town.
Are very like a tearists.
Yeah, but they're a lot bitter than artist houses. Artist's houses just looked like that's somebody some dup leaders.
Well, we don't have a history of building terrorist houses in this country, the Australia and Sydney is it a city suburbs with the railway, they did build those in the great houses, those terrace houses.
And I'll just say this. I've got a friend who's moved to the Gold Coast. He said, everybody's up and up and at them at five in the morning. They're all going to the gym. They're all going over to work. They're knocking off at twelve because it's too hot. So they work different hours over there. They work early in the morning till about twelve and then they just go swimming. They have this amazing life. And there's the houses are built to high spec and they've got really good builders over there, so you're getting a lot, a lot more bang for your buck.
You know.
They're building waterways everywhere. It's like it's like Florida. It's like moving to Florida, and everybody's there and it's and it's just all on and it's all action, and they don't really worry about money because they just because there's plenty of houses, there's not a shortage, there's plenty of land. They just go build another, build another waterway and there's another amazing set of houses and Kiwis are just having a better life style over there, and they're not coming back. And when they do come back, they say it's like going returning to hell. That's what they say. It's like, you know, as soon as they arrive, it's just bad weather for most of the winter, there's crime everywhere. It's just a lot of very positive outlooks. So they're all over there and they just come back here for a little holday every now and then, and then they return. A lot of Keywis they come back and around February because it's so hot in Australia, so they take their holidays in February.
Because and Chris said, is Australia is big downfall with climate chain that it might become unbearably hot.
That is true, but I mean, like I said, they're in the pool all the time. They have pools and beaches. Like a lot of their houses they all have pools, so and they have you know, there is ways around it, and it just just means that they don't work in the peak peak sun hours, which is sort of like twelve to or four. We could say that's there. They're up a lot earlier than us.
Brilliant Chris. Nice to hear from your nineteen past eleven eleven twenty one. Good evening, Steven, is this Marcus? Welcome?
Oh good evening, see you at the Marcus. Just like to talk about Australia. We all know it is a big country and you have choices there climate wise and people and everything. Now twentydd years ago, here we go. My brother we went over to Australia on holiday and he'd liked so much he thought I wouldn't mind living here. But when when he moved back again to live, he found quite a bit of animosities start with, because they objected to him being Achille and taking their jobs. But what he did the very short space of time he became an Australian sit and their attitude towards have altered because he would say, well, look, you had no more say in who your parents were than I had and what my parents were. I have chosen to be an Australian. You people had no choice, and he said, people got I'm well after that.
Goodness? Would he end up? Stephen?
He's in a little place called Capellaba. It's just out of Brisbane and I have been there numerous times. The climate is absolutely the humidity is a zero. The climate is beautiful and warm, and I liked everything about it.
And what's it called?
I don't like if I'm being in a different country. I think he made the right move. And if ever I decided I'm too old now I'm ninety. But if I decided to go out of Australia, I would go to Kapemba. It's not too far out of Brisbane. And Brisbane is a beautiful city. It's got everything you want.
Plus mm hmm.
That's Almo to say about Australia.
Everything plus what.
Went?
I've got everything? Plus what ah.
Easy transport, jobs, opportunities. People are a lot nicer, he said. He's had the odd snake where it's a they're hireless brown grass snakes. He said. People he's able to a quick to criticize Australia about all their wominists, animals that they've got there, snakes and spiders and all that sort of food.
What was his line of Stephen, what was his line of work?
He was in these islands stud it.
And what sorry?
And in New Zealand.
Uh oh you're the planes. Oh you good on you, thank you, great job. Oh wait, Thomas Marcus, good.
Evening, good evening.
That chap that was talking about Australia.
Right.
I have.
A grandson who lives in Queensland with his mom. They've just moved there. I also have family and she's lived. She's on holiday in New Zealand at the moment. And she lives on Perth. Well, two days ago was the Greets and Perth. Now she lives on a very flash home and birth and this lady has got he is going to think what they're going to do with you. This is what's happening in Perth right now. This lady has one of these pumps that cause the place down. Well it's not enough, so she's getting solid panels put on her roof. She's getting another one put in, another cold darn pump or whatever you call it. She can't swim in her swimming pool god water, so hot and that's the perfect Now. I was talking to the other one yesterday in Queensland and she's a smoothed it with a little boy and it's twenty two degrees at night and thirty five degrees during and she's right on the beach in Queensland. Now, New Zealand does need to really think about this, because so they can live and go to work or whatever, they're going to have to run these machines in the summer, not all the time, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Somebody's got to pay for it, and that's Australia.
Tom. Yes, why she put the solar panels on because she can't afford to pay the extra heat pub.
No, she's putting the soul and everybody's doing it. She's putting the solar panels on so she and any extra power you give paper because it goes back into the grid. See, we don't think this way here.
I wonder if she's I wonder if she is power neutral with that solar.
I don't know.
She's She's the third I'm telling you the truth. He she's the third highest lady and Australia and her job and insurance and she lives in Perth and she's in charge of the boushfires, and she's in charge of major she makes decision whether you get paid or not. Wow. And she was in charge of christ Church for the insurance companies. To give you an example, I'm not saying this is going to happen in Australia. She was working in Dubai. That was fifty three fifty degrees during the day. Nobody owns the car and you go everywhere by taxi and everything you need is in buildings. That's how they live in a Dubai with fifty degrees. Now we are supposed to get five degrees warmer, and I won't be here by the year two thousand and fifty. That's in New Zealand. If you can just visualize another five degrees warmer. So I think people need to wake up. If you're going to go and make a life in Australia, you're going to have to live with all this here.
Which is exactly what I said.
Well, Sydney, Sydney, and not yesterday, but Sydney a little because I follow this a little while ago, had twenty eight degrees at midnight.
Yeah, Okay, I think we get the point of Tom. I wonder if she's starting to insurance while she's living in such a hot.
Place because it's money.
Yeh, there you go.
That's the problem. Tom, Susie said. Look, it took me all my effort to say when he said she was the third highest woman in Australian insurance. I was going to say, well, we should put her in touch with Jane, Jane and the Giant fan. But I didn't say that because I'm growing up Jane, Jane and the Giant fan.
Wow.
I enjoy what he says, but sometimes I feel I'm being best over the head.
I love that.
I'm not lying about this. This is not without a word of a lie. They had some very They had some record high temperatures in northern and even Margaret River was very hot. Now I don't know that because I've been there quite bougie, but Perth did have some extremely high temperatures. Half of Australia is in a hate wave, with Perth and Brisbane to be the brunt. Marcus moved to Australia to two and a half years looking for a job.
No luck.
After being laid off for asking for pay rise day three and Brisbane, got a job at one five five thousand a year, was on sixty five a year after eighteen years, loyal to one company. Beck and Rangiora will never return to the slum that is New Zealand. Jamie Mark, it's.
Welcome, Hey Marcus, how are you going good?
Thank you, Jamie.
So.
I don't think well, I don't talk just Brisbane. I don't think it's affordable anymore than what everyone seems to think. Like the medium house price in Brisbane is going to go over a million dollars this year, they suspect, and you know, to register a car now it's like a thousand dollars a year. We did get a discount the Queensland government. But yeah, so, and I've watched we were lucky enough to buy our house in twenty seventeen for like three point fifty and that's well over six hundred. And I've watched people like next next to our neighbors and stuff rent go from three hundred dollars a week to seven eight hundred dollars a week in a matter of seven years. Yea, and yeah, all these can't afford to buy houses in Sydney and inner city Melbourne anymore. They reckon to buy an average house in Brisbane, the average ways you need is one hundred and seventy eight grand. Now wow, So it's like, yeah, I guess I wouldn't go back. But it's just, you know, I think listening tonight, I think Kiwi seems to think it's all roses.
Which it is.
Like I've I've probably pulling on my feet pretty good, but there's a lot of hard work. But it's still pretty expensive. Pictures up there, I think it's like a dollar sixty. Sometimes it gets up to about a dollar eighty two dollars a lead for the ninety one.
Yeah, how long you've been in Australia for Jamie.
I'd be about thirteen years, twelve or thirteen years now.
So if you were doing it now, making the move, it wouldn't work out? Is that what you're kind of saying?
I reckon, we moved over here with five thousand dollars in cash and two kids, and I reckon, if you were to move here now, you would need at least twenty because you don't just like rent just so streets is now and getting hours and stuff is there. Everything's gone up.
You know, you know these houses and these houses in Brisbane you talk about someone was talking about them being free standing houses on their own section. Is that still most of them? Is there no shortage of land in Brisbane?
Is that right?
Yeah?
Yeah, we're in south Side and Logan and yeah they just you know, you just the blocks have got smaller. But yeah, they just you know, you just build a free standing house, three vigiom house. We're like, we got We've got a three bedroom house on two hundred and fifty squares so it's not big by any stretch.
Yeah, you get your cars packed on the road.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The main reason the wife because we just bought up the plan. The main reason the wife bought it was because it was parking across the road and there's a park two doors down with a parking so that was the reason we've got it. So but yeah, it's some oh one city that's different as Adelaide. I left Adelaide today and man, they seem to only do it that city. I only must work on an eight hour day.
It's crazy because quiet.
Yeah, I don't know, they just well I got there the night before and I went in at three four thirty. It was to see if I could get my truck unloaded and he goes on, everyone's got home, gone home. They're not going to be back to eight in the morning. And I was like really, And I forgot that was a big business too to what you do. I went to Wingfield BT and had a shower and just hung out on my truck. We're going to go for a walk.
Yeah, have your wage just gone through the roof, Jamie or just kind of with truck drivers to keep them in the Is that something that you've benefited from?
Yeah?
Yeah.
When I started, because I've been doing interstate now ten years, beat doubles when I started, because we get paid by the pilometer. We started doing it, it was about yeah, forty cents a kilometer. Now it's up to fifty five. So in the matter of ten years it's gone up fifteen cents per kilometer. So yeah, I'm making a good bit. But yeah, these company, you know, we do thousand kilometers the day most days.
I didn't know that truck Dove has got paid by the kilometer.
Just one's on the interstate, So like when you do line hauls, you know.
It now?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just pulled over to chat to you about Nerandra in Nerandra any good? Ah, yes, all right, there's not I haven't actually had a good look to just bypass it. But the truck stop used to be good. It's not good anymore.
Can you does your does your truck tell you how hot it is outside?
Oh?
Now I'm doving a camera if we don't have that kind of technology. But i' still told today I've only had to have your hair con on Dan Screed number two. So yes, not being hot at all.
Have you got anything in the back? What's your load?
Oh?
Just rubbish, just busy rubbish. So heading to the snowy mountains to get there tonight and then unloaded and put take a reel line to go home tomorrow.
I think last time I talked to you before that you're looking at getting a lifestyle block. Is that something that's still on the cards.
Yeah, yeah, I.
Spoke to the mortgage brokers today and hopefully have pre approval tomorrow or early next week, so that should be good.
Yeah.
I can only really we're going to have to move to like Ernangos, like three or four hours out of Brisbane. She'll be able to get five acres though, does your missus Oh, she just does Huber deliveries.
Would could you do it out there?
Now? I should just grow some bedges and feeds some sheep.
Oh, you'd be good to the Morgage broke because you've got the gift of the gab on the phone. That's kind of your thing, isn't it.
Yeah, I haven't spaken too much unt all been through email?
Would you say? Did you say to Anango?
Yeah?
It's pretty dry.
Yeah, cool little town. Nextly, they've got a lot of good stuff going on on the Facebook groups, but different from the Brisbane or the Logan Facebook groups anyway.
What's going off on the Logan Facebook group? What are they up at arms about?
Well, they go kids wearing hoodies walking down the street, make through the car's lost.
You know, they're just a just a classic and what's what's engo?
What do they It's a good way to find a good town. To find their Facebook page.
Yeah.
One of the thing I liked was they had a go kart track that you pay fifteen dollars twenty five dollars it once for fifteen minutes. It was like price is going back. And they had a I think every Friday they have a trade food market where you take it homeground food and you trade it.
You know.
Those two things got me going. I was like, yeah, we're moving.
There is bow hunting there, you get involved with bow hunting.
Yeah, that could be.
I think the farming will be doing. It is probably farming cars and motorbikes.
The dream of five acres of rusting our cars.
Yeah, yeah, you got it.
I will be pleased to know, Jamie. I got the kids to watch all the Fast of the Furious movies. Someone their favorite, probably the last one they watched at Tinda.
To be.
Really, I stopped watching it three. The first one was my favorite. That reminded me of you know, Auckland and Boy Race.
But the one when when the car jump from building to building they got about far fetched, we all thought, but they stuck with it.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. I gave up at three.
Yeah.
I think that was probably the right thing. It was probably the right thing to do. Yeah, nice to talk, Jamie. Thanks so much of that nineteen away from twelve. I don't know why. I mean, they're not car kids, but we just started watching one and then we got caught watching them all and I've never seen a second of one because with the kids, you got to explain that that when Paul Walker dies, I wish I got rid of Jamie. Now, when Paul Walker dies, you gotta explain.
To the kid that's.
That the actor has died, but also the characters die. That's always a great thing to kind of get them to understand. It was tragic, really, But I likable of Vin on Vin Diesel anyway, Marcus only have five million old people were Austraia as many millions to pay textures in This can't compete and we should join there. We should combine. They wouldn't have us, would they anyway? An ngo, I'm clean to look at the Nenango Facebook page. Now I'm worried about Jamie. Now people are asking the question how many k's does Jamie drive a day? I think he said a thousand, but I don't really know. Someone might have been listening more closely. Jackie says, just a a interest, how many cays does Jamie do a dage? I reckon figured out about two and a half.
K a week.
That's what I kind of did the quick myths for I might be wrong with that. Jamie's a sort of rooster would tell us quite honestly what he was on. But it's a different from week. But you know, he's got kids and he's he's walk about a lot of the time. We're just sleeping in that Kevin listening in the back of the track, listing to talk back, having a share at the gas station. Thought about going for a walk, but cident, well, that doesn't sound good, does it. But yeah, that farmer's market sounds good. We take your product the Dango. What's you got there, Jamie? Just some stuff we're growing. I'm excited about the mortgage coming through. Could open an Airbnb for talkbacklisteners. So how you get to the Nango with the Traango?
There?
Hell, gap, Hello, it's me.
How are you good?
Me?
How are you? Oh?
I'm god? Thank you. Well, my great grandparents came from Melbourne.
I came from the Dango. Okay, yep, no, I don't know what part.
Of Melbourne that they came here. I married a man from Melbourne and he was as romantic as an old gun boat.
Really that good?
Eh?
Oh Boring, you know, Boring never gave me flowers, never told me I was pretty.
Really the woman.
Yeah, they're going to be in for a shock. And I spoke to ladies from from Australiers to day as in a supermarket barrow and and she said, no, she's from men and men aren't romantics here either. She was a woman, sure, rage woman. So and my sister went there because over twenty five years ago, because she got cell blains on her fingers in New Zealand and she's been there twenty years. She likes her.
He must have been romantic to you to fall from originally? Was he romantic? Originally?
Was he?
Could he turned it all over the way?
No?
Not really. He would have a neighbor. He was a neighbor and I invited them to a twenty first birthday party and he had an affair with an eighteen year old when he was thirty one and I was thirty, got it pregnant five years later, wrunging me up. Wanted to come back, and I said no, So I do like CHERSI though Marcus.
I went originally originally was he the neighbor.
Yeah, he was a neighbor, but he was from Albourne.
Yeah.
Was he over here working?
No, he came to university to be a doctor and he for mental health or something. But he ended up after he Marrige broke up and his girlfriend left him. She be kids and left him and she went. He went to ketman Do and worked to mental health. I went back to UNI. We did mental health and went to ket men Do. So so it's interesting. Yeah, my grand I didn't meet my great grandparents.
But to fall in love with someone over the fence, it just seems too convenient.
Mind.
There wasn't tinder in those days, was there. That was all sort of and I was very shy.
Yeah, I just wondering about you know me, I hear, I'm a Jehovah's working for someone to not on your door?
Yeah, where do you not?
I was in Central City or about eighteen years. I was living in gray Lynn and going to the Kingdom Hall in Pontomie Road. And now I'm in Evandale, but I was all.
Over in New Zealand.
When I was living in Auckland, there was a the JWS came knocking quite often. You normally have family members with them. They'd only bring their children. I felt like young sons and daughters. Will that be right?
Yeah?
I had a boy called Harley.
Okay, well, but I.
Talk all the time. You're from Auckland, so I talk to everyone and I'll just tell you I had an American grandfather too. And a prediction I've got is I because did you know during from my auntie Tommy in nineteen thirty nine to forty five, the New Zealand woman loved the Americans and one thousand, four hundred married them, and probably there's lots of babies left the side there. And my prediction is that the government will open up and bring all those Americans from California here.
It's a good idea, is I spoke free moving on this show to people that had fallen in love with American servicemen that were on Wrist and Recreation and Masterton. There were some exciting stories there. We talked about that last year.
Just loved them.
The thing is, Hella, are you not shy because you're a JW and you're not a lot.
Of that j W.
When I was young, I didn't get to know about the Bible until I was about twenty four?
Did you did you find it from a door knocker?
No?
My auntie was one, but I became one. As they don't celebrate Christmas, the Roman pagan fiece.
Yeah, I forgot that about birthdays and Christmas. We've got friends that are Jehovah's witness in the doorway. Yeah, okay, but tell me something. So why you're not shy now now because you became a Jehovah's witness.
Well, I just realized in life because I was brought up in the late forties and my father remare and lived in Irenga. Went there in the sixties. No one had a car and so you caught a bus on Sunday and we went for somewhere around town on the family pass and my uncle visited once a year. No one in the sixties and that they didn't go out except on the bus and go to work in the bus. So you were quite isolated, and that's why I became shy. But I became a part time missionary as Jehovah's witness, so that opened me up. But I realized you can't be shy otherwise you're selfish and you're lonely.
So did you go over seas on the mission? Did you go over seas with the mission?
No?
New Zealand, Well, kit Tire and the city and Wahiki.
Island and great barriers. Didn't you say one should be the great barrier?
Yeah, I've been there, but I yeah, yeah, we did there two year we went there too. We'd go twice for a week and playing in their plane clothes and walk in the bush. You know, I find it. We found a home at once.
Do you convert him?
We couldn't find him home, but we found his place and he must have been a helicopter. It was the Australians Free End. He was with us and he went walk about but we found hum It's home that no one knew where he lived, so that was exciting.
You got a book there, Hell, go sit in a podcast.
Do you want me to make a podcast? My son said, I should write a book.
I should a podcast about your time knocking on doors.
Do you think so well?
Love listen?
Yeah, I've been one for nearly forty five years. Bobem Kite tired to the Uneden and my Hickey Island.
I know it's not important, it's not about that. But have you managed to bring a lot of people to you religion?
Yeah? The most mature age was nineteen. I studied with a ninety nine year old Wow, she got baptized at one hundred and one, and others people I started studying with, but they came to the hall or I saw them in the street. They still them at one of Jehovah's witnesses.
Now that I moved, so yeah, how many would have you converted?
Maybe four?
Relevant in a lifetime.
Well, you meet a lot of people, but I moved so much to keep moving all around New Zealand.
So yeah, I'm going to run for Ed's algod. But yeah, lovely.
Thank you.
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