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Speaker 2: B Welcome to the last out of the first half
Speaker 2: of the year. That's right, tomorrow's July. That's right, boom,
Speaker 2: she's gone halfway through. Shall we do anything about that?
Speaker 2: It's a halftime stretch. So at midnight tonight, I think
Speaker 2: we're halfway through anyway, at midnight, well just after midnight,
Speaker 2: lul Louise. Soon we'll be playing too at Wimbledon. That
Speaker 2: started once again for your peel that like tennis do
Speaker 2: night workers it ceparly some good early morning sport. Half
Speaker 2: past one, that's happening. So we'll keep you. I will
Speaker 2: remind you that close to the time. Wimbledon starts at
Speaker 2: ten tonight. Brother, I've been enjoying Glastonbury. That was good,
Speaker 2: wasn't it. Lewis Capaldi singing after had Tourett's two years
Speaker 2: ago gets where they sang the whole song for him. Well,
Speaker 2: that was quite heartwarming to see that. Geet was good.
Speaker 2: Good song to Actually, what's that called whisper pop. That's
Speaker 2: what they all do now. They just sort of sing
Speaker 2: these songs of rey soft voice whisper pop. It's gooled.
Speaker 2: Didn't know that. I was looking for a term for that.
Speaker 2: That's softly spoken singing. Anyway, that was good, quite moving.
Speaker 2: It's good on YouTube. I'll watch it again next to
Speaker 2: your BBC or something. They do it all live, so
Speaker 2: it's good. I don't know how they meant it. Just
Speaker 2: big Glaston resently. You look at you think cheapest creepers,
Speaker 2: those aerial shots. I don't know what the logistics are
Speaker 2: of it, where you camp and how you get around
Speaker 2: and watch your week, but gee, it looks like something
Speaker 2: worth seeing. Anyway. That is Glaston Barry. Maybe someone's been there. Anyway. Hey,
Speaker 2: a couple of things happening tonight. Donald Trump, his bill
Speaker 2: is happening, and he is on truth social sending out
Speaker 2: a lot of messages, so we're on to that. He's
Speaker 2: full of his hyperbole. Tell phony Democrats and the Chris Cruise.
Speaker 2: I'm not offering Iran anything unlike Obama who paid them
Speaker 2: eight billion under their stupid Road to a Nuclear Weapon
Speaker 2: j CPOA, which would now be expired. Nor I'm even
Speaker 2: talking them since we totally obliterated their nuclear facilities, obliterated
Speaker 2: as in capitals. The next one, the Trump administration has
Speaker 2: gotten down costs free substantially for the American consumer. There
Speaker 2: has never been anything like this, And thirty one, great,
Speaker 2: big American Bill is moving along nicely make America great again.
Speaker 2: So he's in full flight tonight. I'll be across also
Speaker 2: to Aaron Patterson, the accused Beef Wellington murderer. Shears well,
Speaker 2: they've been sequested the jury. They have said deliberate deliberation
Speaker 2: might take some time, I doubt it. And as to
Speaker 2: enjoying the facilities provided, because there's not much to go on.
Speaker 2: To find her not guilty, you've got to assume she
Speaker 2: went to a Asian specialty shop and accidentally brought death
Speaker 2: cat mushrooms. Now they went to that shop, they couldn't
Speaker 2: find any, and one of the chances of that package
Speaker 2: death cap mushrooms, only one family was killed by them.
Speaker 2: Makes no sense at all. I haven't followed that case really,
Speaker 2: really closely, but I find it closely enough to know, Wow,
Speaker 2: it's a stretch to find her innocent. The only thing
Speaker 2: that might take some long time if there's a number
Speaker 2: of charges, they need to go through them one by one.
Speaker 2: But for me, it would be fairly straightforward decision that
Speaker 2: she was guilty. I would expect them to have deliberated
Speaker 2: for no more than an hour or two hours, but
Speaker 2: I'm not totally familiar with the Australian justice system, so
Speaker 2: I'll keep an eye on that as well tonight. If
Speaker 2: anything happens, you all across that. There's Aaron Patterson and
Speaker 2: the Beef Wellington. They have sat for more than two months,
Speaker 2: I think listening. She's pleaded not guilty to all charges,
Speaker 2: so they've been there for two months the jury, so
Speaker 2: that's what's happening. The judge, Justice Beale, told the jury
Speaker 2: that what was in dispute was where the serving of
Speaker 2: the poison meal was deliberate and whether it was done
Speaker 2: with murderous intent. The judge explained that for the charge
Speaker 2: of attempted murder, the jury needed to be satisfied missus
Speaker 2: Patterson had intended to kill in Wilkinson and the intention
Speaker 2: to cause really serious injury was not applicable. And the
Speaker 2: defense remind the jury and both the totally closing arguments,
Speaker 2: the unders is on the prosecution to prove Miss Patterson
Speaker 2: intensely poison their relatives. An other words, the accused is
Speaker 2: innocent until proven guilty. So there we go. So that's
Speaker 2: what's happening. We won't know what happens in the jury
Speaker 2: room because the liberations are secret um though deliberate. From
Speaker 2: Monday to Saturday. They will go home during the week
Speaker 2: and on they will not go home during the week
Speaker 2: and on Sundays. So there we go. So there is delivered.
Speaker 2: I don't think it takes very long at all, and
Speaker 2: they probably want to get back to their lives and
Speaker 2: their families. But that's a situation. You might want to
Speaker 2: comment on that as well too. Feel free to come
Speaker 2: through first week of school holidays. You might be happy
Speaker 2: about that. If you're a teacher or something, you might
Speaker 2: be not happy with that. You've got to spend time
Speaker 2: taking time off week to look after your kids. Anyway,
Speaker 2: get in touch you on talk. My name is Marcus. Welcome,
Speaker 2: oh eight hundred and eighty Tenny. They are the two
Speaker 2: stories we are keeping track of throughout the course of
Speaker 2: the evening, but mainly it's about the jury and Aaron Patterson.
Speaker 2: By the looks of the Aussie media, they're not that
Speaker 2: confident that they will be coming out proper with a
Speaker 2: verdict tonight. But you know, you never really know the
Speaker 2: other thing too. I can tell you is that we
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Speaker 2: with us on iHeartRadio if you want to be part
Speaker 2: of it. But Wimbledon starts at ten tonight, you know,
Speaker 2: in the meantime getting touched you on to start the
Speaker 2: whole Well, oh, by the way too, they have got
Speaker 2: their helicopter pad and Auckland. This is Ali Williams and
Speaker 2: Ana Mowbray in Westmere. So there are quite strict parameters
Speaker 2: around that, no more than two flights per day and
Speaker 2: ten per month. So they found out the takeoff noise
Speaker 2: would not be unreasonable. Fourteen hundred submissions, thirteen hundred reposed.
Speaker 2: So what's that about? Eh quiet sky Waite to Maitar
Speaker 2: said it was incredibly disappointed by the consent. You know
Speaker 2: they would be if so many people got mobilized. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of people opposed to that. Anyway, that's what's happening,
Speaker 2: and they might sell the properly in two months. Who
Speaker 2: knows what they're going to do. I don't know. Sary
Speaker 2: know that you would, I don't know. If the consent
Speaker 2: goes with the property, if you sell that property, if
Speaker 2: the helicopter can still land, I'm not much if it's
Speaker 2: tied to those people at fourteen past eight. Your thoughts
Speaker 2: on the mushroom trial if you do, if anyone thinks
Speaker 2: that she could be found and is that, I'll be
Speaker 2: keen to hear from you about that. Also tonight, interesting
Speaker 2: week of sport to another loss for the Warriors. Not
Speaker 2: sure if they'll be at the top four at the end,
Speaker 2: but there we go. I wasn't a bad match. They
Speaker 2: came back something wrong in the first half that first
Speaker 2: try hard to come back from that. But all these
Speaker 2: lessons might help them for the pointed end of the season.
Speaker 2: They might think, oh, well, they are the lessons they
Speaker 2: need to learn. So I haven't given up hope on
Speaker 2: that one anyway. But oh, eight hundred and eighty Teddy
Speaker 2: and nineteen nine to text Mark is till twelve o'clock
Speaker 2: tonight if you want to be a part of it.
Speaker 2: Fifteen past date, school holidays, but anything goes if you
Speaker 2: want to be a part of the show tonight. What
Speaker 2: I thought I would talk about or certainly to acknowledge
Speaker 2: in some way because history is important. Today is fifty
Speaker 2: years of TV two. So TV two started in nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy five. I had no idea. I don't know much
Speaker 2: about TV two and what it was like when it started.
Speaker 2: I think they had a soap opera called Radio Times.
Speaker 2: I think I'm right about that. I think I'm right
Speaker 2: about that. Someone else might know. But fifty years of
Speaker 2: TV two, so I don't know if they've done anything
Speaker 2: to actually acknowledge that, but I'm pretty sure I think
Speaker 2: Derek Payne was it Radio Times. Anyway, you might have
Speaker 2: something to say about that. Fifty years of TV two
Speaker 2: and it was very exciting to get a second channel,
Speaker 2: of course, both owned by the government. Yeah, it was
Speaker 2: more kind of youthful inspired. Good to hear Ginny Goodwin
Speaker 2: too talking about that. By the way, the so proper
Speaker 2: a TV two might have been Radio Waves, not Radio Times,
Speaker 2: but I think Radio Waves was one of those ones
Speaker 2: that was on and TV two when it first started.
Speaker 2: Someone will know. Someone might have been on at twenty
Speaker 2: past eight edits Marcus good evening, well that good things.
Speaker 3: Watching at Radio TV two. Sorry, at the end of
Speaker 3: a show, not everybody in the whole or flag and
Speaker 3: everyone would say what a great idea. You know, it
Speaker 3: was real good cv T at the un of a
Speaker 3: show saying good night.
Speaker 2: I think that was I think they might have been
Speaker 2: on both TV one and TV too weird.
Speaker 3: I found TV two But done it? E me?
Speaker 2: What's your memory?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 5: Ah?
Speaker 2: Right, well, no, because I want to know how if
Speaker 2: you well, I wanted well because you're coming through quite
Speaker 2: edimand yeah, I would have thought it would be on
Speaker 2: TV TV one.
Speaker 3: But you anyway, I want some TV TV two fan.
Speaker 3: Was it? Thanks for your summit?
Speaker 2: So that was definitely TV two?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was hopeful watching it.
Speaker 2: Gold Watch Yeah, okay, might be right?
Speaker 3: Can I We played a bit of school holidays. What
Speaker 3: a lovely time kids have got over on these holidays.
Speaker 2: What in the middle of the year.
Speaker 3: I hope the kids, some of the teachers have a
Speaker 3: good time off of school and the migraining kids. See
Speaker 3: today doing the house week and we played the pocket
Speaker 3: money for in the House week?
Speaker 2: How much you paid.
Speaker 3: Twenty back six.
Speaker 2: For how long? For how long?
Speaker 3: Oh? I just don't know who even have got some
Speaker 3: pieces for us from your wife? Really great and it
Speaker 3: was really good. Are they if I always do it
Speaker 3: in school holidays? That's real good for kids.
Speaker 2: To do something good on Thanks for the twenty two
Speaker 2: past day. Wait eight. TV two was originally South of
Speaker 2: Civic Television started with the first telethon, did it really?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have done where the first telethons were, but yeah,
Speaker 2: you might be right there. Wikipedie will tell us we
Speaker 2: are the first telethon, launched the second channel and raised
Speaker 2: over half a million dollars featuring basil Brush. Some of
Speaker 2: you will beat on telethon. Let's talk about telethon. That's
Speaker 2: a good topic. Actually, it seemed like an extraordinary amount
Speaker 2: when we raised half a million dollars and then nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty one it was five million dollars. Oh god, this
Speaker 2: Probably they should make a document of all the telethons.
Speaker 2: I should cut them all together, all the highlights, because
Speaker 2: there would have been many. Because what you don't remember
Speaker 2: about telethon is that every you know, there were five
Speaker 2: or six studios around the country, all broadcasting from that
Speaker 2: crossing now to Dunedin. Of course there we go new
Speaker 2: Total Dunda. So we are talking about TV two and
Speaker 2: telethon since that's where they lived. Since John Ambulance half
Speaker 2: a million dollars, don't know how many years they went for,
Speaker 2: probably about fifteen years or something like that, So you
Speaker 2: might want to comment on that as well. Tonight, Oh,
Speaker 2: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine to text
Speaker 2: A TV two or South Pacific TV as it was originally,
Speaker 2: and also telethons. We'll keep you our dad with the international
Speaker 2: news tonight. Trump is in full flight on truth social
Speaker 2: so I'll keep you updated with that as well tonight.
Speaker 2: What he's doing case any headline grabbers, that's kind of
Speaker 2: the his standard hyperbole he's coming through with. So yes,
Speaker 2: that's what we are on about. As I say, eight
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty ten eight heat wave in Europe, so
Speaker 2: it's in the high forties in the Iberian Peninsula hot
Speaker 2: as heck. The other thing too is that there was
Speaker 2: news reports through today that the Indian government is looking
Speaker 2: at sabotage is a possible reason for that downed EIR
Speaker 2: Indian flight with fuel contamination. I would have thought if
Speaker 2: someone had done that, they would have claimed responsibility. By
Speaker 2: the way, there's also concerns today about Dick van Dyke.
Speaker 2: He's dropped out of an event at the last minute
Speaker 2: and no one knows what's that about. Here's one hundred
Speaker 2: or ninety nine. The other thing to Calvin Crookshank, I
Speaker 2: see he can till he was unwell with a heart attack,
Speaker 2: and I was trying to think, how he can't have
Speaker 2: been that old. Can't be that old? What do you
Speaker 2: mean his fifties or his forties? Peter, it's Marcus welcome.
Speaker 6: Yeah, good eight. I remember the first telethon. Now I
Speaker 6: lived in Auckland then and now it was based in Auckland,
Speaker 6: and I'm sure only christ Church and then previous ones
Speaker 6: subsequent may have gone into Wellington, maybe Hamilton, Dunedin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's certainly. That certainly ties up with my recollection.
Speaker 2: And where was it in Auckland? Was it at the
Speaker 2: town hall?
Speaker 6: I know, I wouldn't have a clue now that sort there.
Speaker 2: Was a real sense of excitement as all that money
Speaker 2: came in at the end. It seemed to be an
Speaker 2: unfeatheredly large amount. Didn't it half a million dollars? I
Speaker 2: can't believe that.
Speaker 6: Everyone that I recall even after that was the right
Speaker 6: at the end on the Sunday sort of night. Yes,
Speaker 6: when it finished there was the lions, Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, bring it bringing a huge total waiting for the lions,
Speaker 2: and then.
Speaker 6: That was that that the song was thank you very
Speaker 6: much for your kind nag.
Speaker 2: Then that form of conger line and out there go,
Speaker 2: thank you very much, thank you very very much.
Speaker 6: One guy, one guy that was presenting them was uh
Speaker 6: Pete soon clear. He was one of the main and
Speaker 6: they used to bring in people from overseas and the
Speaker 6: Coronation Street actors, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they should do they should start replaying them. Oh yes,
Speaker 2: oh you put it on instead of that rail journey
Speaker 2: right down the country that slowed to you. They should
Speaker 2: start replaying that. I'd watch the telethon a lot of
Speaker 2: it would be cringe fee. There was always that nepi,
Speaker 2: that that possum and neppis that would be dragged along,
Speaker 2: which always I thought was ge they're supposed to be
Speaker 2: nocturnal Polypostle I think was a creature's name. Anyway, James,
Speaker 2: it's Marcus. Welcome.
Speaker 7: Hello Marcus.
Speaker 8: How you makee GW up?
Speaker 7: In the same year as you and Orcard I remember
Speaker 7: telephon so well. It was just a fantastic thing for
Speaker 7: New Zealand for many years. You know, at the time
Speaker 7: of course television, everyone had televisions and there was no
Speaker 7: cell phone, So everyone tended to sort of congregate probably
Speaker 7: in their homes around the one TV. And I remember
Speaker 7: that in my peer group, but you know, probably many
Speaker 7: years everybody just looked forward to it as such a
Speaker 7: great entertainment for the whole weekend.
Speaker 2: Oh and you stay up all night. O can we
Speaker 2: stay up here? You can stay up there. You got
Speaker 2: three o'clock in the morning, nothing much happening, you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And they had challenges. I always said, you know,
Speaker 7: would challenge the celebrity to do this, and then they
Speaker 7: double the money if they would get precious McK he.
Speaker 2: Was a total live while with it. Wasn't he doing lifting,
Speaker 2: doing headstands or press ups or Yeah.
Speaker 7: And they got Lisa Gibbons down. She came down for
Speaker 7: many years and I think she even met her husband
Speaker 7: one of the stories of tellingion.
Speaker 2: And I think he was a nasty piece of work too.
Speaker 2: In the end, anyway, she got free of him.
Speaker 7: But they were raised a heck of a lot of money.
Speaker 7: So it was always sort of quite intriguing who the
Speaker 7: lucky charity was because assuming they got the line's here
Speaker 7: of it, it was pretty profitable for the charities.
Speaker 2: And what was interesting that because you think a lot
Speaker 2: of people would just be doing false pledges and the
Speaker 2: money would never arrive. But it always seemed as though
Speaker 2: kind of more money turned up at the end, which
Speaker 2: I always thought was quite reassuring.
Speaker 7: Well, yeahs that that that Chap said earlier. I remember,
Speaker 7: you know, you sort of with half an hour to go,
Speaker 7: if they had I mean sort of three million, suddenly
Speaker 7: that a million in the last hour.
Speaker 2: Then the gang members would turn up with bags of money.
Speaker 2: That was always hard. That was good on them for
Speaker 2: not stealing it the money in as well.
Speaker 7: So yeah, so I don't know, I mean, I mean
Speaker 7: it's different times now, but certainly you know, if another telephone,
Speaker 7: I mean, the young kids used to love it. It
Speaker 7: was such a years to say, they'd stay up and
Speaker 7: they'd go into the studio.
Speaker 9: It was.
Speaker 7: I thought it was in Shortland Street.
Speaker 2: I think, I am, I think you are right. Someone
Speaker 2: said that Auckland's. But then I think they're probably moved
Speaker 2: it around.
Speaker 7: Yeah, No, like I thought it was. You know, you
Speaker 7: said that bane of nostalgia. I thought it was. It
Speaker 7: was a really fun fun thing for New Zealand. That telephone.
Speaker 2: Well what it did make it did celebrate the regions
Speaker 2: as well, because every other you know, Dunedin would cross
Speaker 2: to some Dunedin band. It would be some sort of
Speaker 2: flying un band as well, which I think was surprising
Speaker 2: for for uh, for a telethon special. But you know,
Speaker 2: everyone got to play on TV was great.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it was really good. So hopefully you can
Speaker 7: have another one.
Speaker 2: I think people queued up to be in the live
Speaker 2: audience for it too. That was quite a big thing
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 7: And they had the chain. Remember everyone, thank you very
Speaker 7: much for your kind of nation that all jigger around
Speaker 7: the studio.
Speaker 2: James. Yes, I think they call that a conga line.
Speaker 10: That's what it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that a chain, but that's a yeah conger lin
Speaker 2: is quat. Yeah, and there's some at the front doing
Speaker 2: their kicks and then you break over to your own
Speaker 2: congo line. Oh tremendous, Okay, James, wonderful, Thank you. Twenty
Speaker 2: five away from nine, welcome here to midnight. We are
Speaker 2: talking Tell why because fifty years since TV two was
Speaker 2: South Pacific TV. It was called of course South Pacific TV.
Speaker 2: What they started with was was Telethon's well not started,
Speaker 2: but that was kind of I think I think TV
Speaker 2: one and TV two were competitive even though they are
Speaker 2: the same people, so they wanted to get audience for
Speaker 2: themselves as such. Terriots, Marcus, we're talking telethon welcome.
Speaker 11: Yeah, hi, fifty years ago.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I remember the first one and now this after it.
Speaker 12: I know Ben Murphy from Alias Smith and Jones came
Speaker 12: out here and he really gorgeous, yeah, I think, And
Speaker 12: so was Nina Baden Temper from Love Thy Neighbor.
Speaker 11: She's beautiful lady.
Speaker 12: She was out here. But I was just thinking of
Speaker 12: a story when I'm not sure if it was the
Speaker 12: first one or a later one, but you know people
Speaker 12: coming on, singing, dancing, you know, doing their stuff. And
Speaker 12: I remember this guy who I think he might have
Speaker 12: been a strong man and champion or something, but he
Speaker 12: blew up a hot water bottle. That happening well late
Speaker 12: what made me laugh as I was watching. And Britain's
Speaker 12: got talent about I don't know, ten fifteen years ago
Speaker 12: and some guy came on and you introduced himself and
Speaker 12: blunts the Simon Cowell and blah blah blah, and they
Speaker 12: said what are you going to do? And he said, oh,
Speaker 12: I'm going to blow up a hot water bottle. And
Speaker 12: he says what you're And I thought, oh, we've seen
Speaker 12: that New Zealand ages ago. You know, we did that
Speaker 12: all before you did. So it was I thought, yeah,
Speaker 12: we're a head.
Speaker 13: I'll tell you about it.
Speaker 2: Tell you about Alias, because I always get confused because
Speaker 2: it was a show called Alias Smith and Jones, and
Speaker 2: there was a show called Eliza Smith and Jones. But
Speaker 2: Alia Smith and Jones was an American what was it
Speaker 2: a drama or a comedy?
Speaker 12: Sort of a drama. I guess it would be a
Speaker 12: drama because there was Yeah, I kind of have elements
Speaker 12: of both Pete duel and and and a Pete Murphy year.
Speaker 2: So it was I'm looking at that now, I'm looking
Speaker 2: at quite a handsome looking guy, like almost atchcasting a
Speaker 2: Sundance coud look about him.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, and it was it was quite well.
Speaker 12: We had it on New Zealand, tally and So I
Speaker 12: don't know what he's doing now. I know that he
Speaker 12: was in the miniseries of the Winds of War, but
Speaker 12: he's you know, he's I'm not sure if he's still
Speaker 12: acting or retired or whatever. So, but Pete Dial had
Speaker 12: a bit of a trouble, you know, character because he
Speaker 12: committed suicide not long after the of that show. But yeah,
Speaker 12: so you really enjoyed all the telethons are great.
Speaker 2: You wonder how they managed to get such high caliber
Speaker 2: stars down there, be cause I think it's probably the
Speaker 2: last thing they'd want to do. I think Lauren Bacall
Speaker 2: was down for one. I don't know whether they are
Speaker 2: whether they are made to do it or just thought
Speaker 2: it would be a laugh, or quite how they or
Speaker 2: they paid them down here maybe I don't know how
Speaker 2: they would have done.
Speaker 12: That, they would have paid I would just thought you
Speaker 12: would pay. They have to pay them, I don't you know.
Speaker 12: I mean, she's a big movie star from so but
Speaker 12: she her voice is also very appealing to audiences, you know,
Speaker 12: with that husky voice.
Speaker 11: But Kevin Kennedy.
Speaker 12: From Coronation Street was down here for a telethon.
Speaker 2: Who was the guy who was the last guy you
Speaker 2: see with the tragic life? Who did you say he
Speaker 2: was due?
Speaker 12: He was part of Alias Smith and.
Speaker 2: Kim Kennedy was Kivic Kennedy was cull He wasn't he?
Speaker 2: I remember that?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 14: The one thing, sir, I know, you want to know.
Speaker 2: I'm fine, I'm fine, No time for Okay, What was
Speaker 2: the other thing going to say.
Speaker 11: Oh sorry eye was Kevin Kenney. I remember watching it
Speaker 11: and he.
Speaker 12: Went, don't you know how some of the guests that
Speaker 12: go all over the country, they don't just stay in
Speaker 12: the studio. And I remember John Hawks saying that Kevin
Speaker 12: Kennedy went off to down to Pookie Cory and he said, oh, well,
Speaker 12: somebody yet.
Speaker 11: To go there. I thought, I thought.
Speaker 2: Hang on the you remember those things, don't you.
Speaker 10: I know.
Speaker 12: Yeah, So it was all very entertaining.
Speaker 2: Nice to hear from your terry.
Speaker 12: Thank you.
Speaker 2: We hat talking telethon fifty years ago today, TV True
Speaker 2: started otherwise known as South Pacific TV. It was a
Speaker 2: Western sort of comedy alias Smith and Jones, bank robbers
Speaker 2: turned good guys. Someone said the Stuts beer cap was
Speaker 2: the star of the show. Tell me about that, Marcus.
Speaker 2: I think TV three tried to telephon about twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: It was a flop. I love the original telethons. Your
Speaker 2: shows bring up such great memories. Yes, I had a
Speaker 2: slight role in the one that TV three tied tried
Speaker 2: to do and it wasn't great. I just think time
Speaker 2: had passed. Yeah, because the great thing about telethon, there
Speaker 2: was so much cash. You'd love it. Your people, they
Speaker 2: don't want the cash free society. There were buckets of coins,
Speaker 2: there were coin trails. The schools loved it, endless coin trailer.
Speaker 2: Don't even know what a coin trailer is. I'm sure
Speaker 2: the Reserve Bank loved it because I'm sure they'd get
Speaker 2: thousands of thousands of their coins back in they'd been
Speaker 2: down the back of the sofa forever. Marcus was close
Speaker 2: to home on TV too. I seem to remember on one,
Speaker 2: but we'll get confirmation for that sixteen to nine, Good Evening, Dot,
Speaker 2: It's Marcus, Welcome.
Speaker 15: Hello. I'd like to talk about the telethon. I mean,
Speaker 15: I think I've watched everyone that we had, But I
Speaker 15: went over to England in the late on no the
Speaker 15: mid eighties, and I was at a we had a
Speaker 15: fear where different organizations were raising money and Pat Phoenix
Speaker 15: from Yeah, from the Current Nation Street, she opened the
Speaker 15: actual fear and then she and she came round to
Speaker 15: each of the stallholders and sort of said, oh, you know,
Speaker 15: who are you cleepting for?
Speaker 16: Et cetera.
Speaker 15: And I can't remember who we were cleepting for, but
Speaker 15: she said to me, oh your accent. I think I
Speaker 15: recognized that is a New Zealand and I sug yes.
Speaker 15: And she said that she had been over for the
Speaker 15: telethon her and her husband and that they were hoping
Speaker 15: to fail to come over again. So we spoke for
Speaker 15: about five minutes and she was talking about New Zealand
Speaker 15: and how lovely it was. So that was a real thrill.
Speaker 2: Oh that was good that she remembered. That is the thrill,
Speaker 2: isn't it now? She was, well, she was Elsie Tenner.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's right, yeah.
Speaker 2: Spure, I've got my coronations trivia. Right, yeah? What was
Speaker 2: your what was your stall? Dot?
Speaker 15: I don't know, I can't remember. I was helping a
Speaker 15: friend and I can't remember what we who we were
Speaker 15: selling collecting money for, you know, but it was a
Speaker 15: charity fear and yeah it was in Grimsby in England.
Speaker 2: I've heard of Grimsby. What's Grimsby? Famous for fish?
Speaker 17: Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay, fish markets and stuff?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 18: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Fishing port.
Speaker 2: Terrible name for a town, isn't it, Grimsby?
Speaker 19: I know?
Speaker 15: And it's a bit grim as.
Speaker 6: Well, is that?
Speaker 2: Okay? Grimsby?
Speaker 19: Oh?
Speaker 2: Look into that. Thank you so much for that. Fourteen
Speaker 2: to nine Grimsby Grimsby. Oh yeah, that's it is once
Speaker 2: the homeport for the world's last largest fishing fleet in
Speaker 2: the mid twentieth century. It fell because of the cod Wars.
Speaker 2: I think it's a Viking town, is it Grimsby?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Always Coronation Street stars seem to come here in great numbers.
Speaker 2: Must have been part of the contract or maybe they
Speaker 2: wanted to do it, get them out of the North
Speaker 2: of England. Oh yeah, I get in touch. You want
Speaker 2: to talk eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine
Speaker 2: two to text, Marcus till twelve looking foward to what
Speaker 2: you've got to say? Anything else you want to talk about.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's about telethons and I am happy with that,
Speaker 2: So that's something you want to mention. Good eight hundred
Speaker 2: eighty tenenty and nine two nine two to text. I'm Grimsby,
Speaker 2: t boone Marcus.
Speaker 10: Welcome, got a Marcus. Yeah, I've got an old friend
Speaker 10: that you used to do telethons. You probably know Sergeant Scheltz.
Speaker 10: He dressed up, he did the christ ch telethon and
Speaker 10: he was schultzy.
Speaker 2: He would dress up as the guy from Hogan's Heroes.
Speaker 10: That's right, Oh, that's.
Speaker 2: What you that's like a fantastic thing to do.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and he gathered a lot of money too. But
Speaker 10: he used to do cabarets as Sergeant Schultz. He was
Speaker 10: an Air Force personnel officer and he ended up being
Speaker 10: at Hillmorton as a recreation for the patients, you know,
Speaker 10: Oh yep, taking them out.
Speaker 2: I see nothing, I know nothing. That was what he said,
Speaker 2: was the I see nothing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he looked, he looked the part two. He was
Speaker 10: good man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think obviously.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 10: He died about fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1: Oh hell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't recall him.
Speaker 10: But yeah, else tonight the christ Church telethon.
Speaker 2: When they have the christ Church one at the TV
Speaker 2: headquarters there will that be right?
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's right Marcus.
Speaker 2: Did you ever go along?
Speaker 10: I was with him? Yeah, I was up. Well, I
Speaker 10: was good friend of him for a while and he
Speaker 10: passed away on me. But would you.
Speaker 2: Would you go along to telethons? Would you go along
Speaker 2: to telethons with him?
Speaker 20: Yeah?
Speaker 10: I was. I was in me thirty saying, oh you.
Speaker 2: Well, what sort of cabre act would it be? Did
Speaker 2: he sing or something?
Speaker 10: Yeah? He used to do the beer festivals, beer master festivals.
Speaker 13: He used to do cabre.
Speaker 10: He was a good guy.
Speaker 2: Would he like to sing songs?
Speaker 10: Do you do do German songs?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 10: What?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 10: You know he used to do the beer festival songs
Speaker 10: and you know that have a I am a cabaret
Speaker 10: type thing and he'd be the the special guests.
Speaker 2: Okay, that'll bring a.
Speaker 6: Brass.
Speaker 10: He used to play the trumpet. Yeah, so it was musical.
Speaker 2: That will bring my memories for some people. I would
Speaker 2: think they remember on Sergeants.
Speaker 10: The audience tonight if they remember Sergeant's.
Speaker 2: Shock yep, well you've asked there but yourself to you
Speaker 2: don't thank you nine to nine if you want to
Speaker 2: come through Marcus till twelve, keep those texts with all
Speaker 2: everything at Telethon related. You might have appeared on it
Speaker 2: as a child, Marcus. I love Telethon. I was dancing
Speaker 2: and Karabushka Folk company in the eighties. We did a
Speaker 2: Russian dance on a recentable dage on Telethon. Love watching
Speaker 2: them on YouTube, gosh, I don't know they were on YouTube.
Speaker 2: People are saying blowing up hot water bottles are a scam.
Speaker 2: I don't think they are. I think it's probably just standard.
Speaker 2: You've just got to actually probably blow them up a
Speaker 2: couple of times to get them a bit easier. I
Speaker 2: think there's been a strong a strong man act forever.
Speaker 2: Power cut it Lake Hawwia. Just so you know, Marcus,
Speaker 2: I went to Kevin Kennedy concert and fung Arda has
Speaker 2: a great singing voice. Cindy Oh good to hear from
Speaker 2: the Korabushka folk dance Company. Marcus st Joseph Cubbs knew Plymouth.
Speaker 2: We did a big and egathon to raise money. Went
Speaker 2: to the TVN studio in Palmston North. There we go,
Speaker 2: that's new information, Palmerston North for a four am slot
Speaker 2: to hand it over. Go there'd be a big day
Speaker 2: for the ar Kayler, Saint Joseph's cubs. Yeah, you take
Speaker 2: your money along. They'll be waiting four hours to hand
Speaker 2: it over for your brief moment on TV. And what
Speaker 2: I remember is for those brief moments on TV, you
Speaker 2: had to watch them because they went video recorders. I
Speaker 2: don't think think said to stay up all I watch
Speaker 2: it live. Otherwise you never see your people. You knew
Speaker 2: it was just because iever he played it. That's what
Speaker 2: we are on about. Marcus. I helped on about three telethons,
Speaker 2: two people that came out with shell, Sean Cassidy and
Speaker 2: Loretta's switt. What lovely people they were, Yes, I think
Speaker 2: there were in other two ways you're either a nice
Speaker 2: person or difficult with telethon Officer Poncherrella. I think he
Speaker 2: was very good. Won the hearts of the nation. Well,
Speaker 2: of course he did. I don't think it was his name,
Speaker 2: Officer Poncherrella. But you know what I'm talking about, not
Speaker 2: the blonde one. By the way, Mainland Semisoft five hundred
Speaker 2: grams more than eighteen dollars obscene price eighteen twenty nine
Speaker 2: for Semisoft. She They haven't said what shop it is.
Speaker 2: It's pricey, Butter Marcus. Is there any news on the
Speaker 2: mushroom Lady Catherine? No, not yet, but all news on
Speaker 2: the on the mushroom woman, what won't be good news
Speaker 2: for her? I wouldn't think, because no jury could find
Speaker 2: her innocent. That's my opinion, which we'll be back up
Speaker 2: soon when the verdict comes out. Feel quite strongly about that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if she gets found guilty, where she
Speaker 2: goes on the Canon of Australia Serial Murderers, but yeah,
Speaker 2: she'll be up there. Hudle twelve Nicola. It's Marcus. Good evening, Oh.
Speaker 4: Good afternoon, good evening, Sorry.
Speaker 2: Marcus, that's fine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just thinking about tells On. Yeah, nineteen
Speaker 4: eighty three, yes, and we had a bike ath on
Speaker 4: from Hamilton to Cambridge.
Speaker 2: And this is forty two years ago, by the way, too,
Speaker 2: so yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so I was sick that day and I
Speaker 4: could not go on the bikeers on because I made
Speaker 4: an amazing crystal garden in science, I was allowed to
Speaker 4: present the thirty bucks of money. But yeah, so we
Speaker 4: went along and I said, okay, were right, all right,
Speaker 4: give us a thirty bucks and there was no way
Speaker 4: I was giving it over until I saw Dot so
Speaker 4: oh god, a company was sorry. He was off the
Speaker 4: young doctors.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'd forgotten all about that. I'd forgotten all about
Speaker 2: the young doctors. That was huge.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he was a personality at the time. And
Speaker 4: I said, I'm not giving the money until I see him,
Speaker 4: and yeah, so he came out and I gave him
Speaker 4: the money.
Speaker 2: Now is this in the Hamilton.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it was actually I think it was the Metropole.
Speaker 2: Okay, And did you bike from the other people bike
Speaker 2: from from to Cambridge? Yeah, if they went Hamilton to Cambridge.
Speaker 2: Did they the hot kids?
Speaker 6: They did?
Speaker 4: They were through saying, but I didn't go because I
Speaker 4: was par I was sick.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of who the hot doctor was. Was
Speaker 2: it Ben Fielding?
Speaker 4: No, it was Oh Shivers, I can't remember now. He
Speaker 4: was the dot.
Speaker 2: Tim Page Steel, doctor Shaw, doctor Nam.
Speaker 11: No, he was a of.
Speaker 4: Lap Why can I remember.
Speaker 2: Two years ago? Mister Dr al Vares Tony alvarus By
Speaker 2: played by doctor Doctor Doctor Tony Garcia played by.
Speaker 4: Dr Garcia. Yeah, sorry that he got through the backs
Speaker 4: out of it, or someone did.
Speaker 2: But I don't know what a crystal garden is.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, you have to grow the crystals and they Yeah,
Speaker 4: so it's a scientific singing. So you put your you know,
Speaker 4: I can't remember either.
Speaker 2: We're waiting forever, we're waiting to even hand your money over. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was the middle of the night.
Speaker 4: I was going to give it over until I saw
Speaker 4: Dr Garcia.
Speaker 2: You don't know how long you waited for?
Speaker 4: Oh probably forty five.
Speaker 2: Isn't it okay? And did you see yourself on TV?
Speaker 2: Or you couldn't with the video recorders that they're probably
Speaker 2: over at the bidding of it now.
Speaker 7: Yes, they were did the school recorded?
Speaker 4: But I felt really bad because I didn't go on
Speaker 4: the bike ross because I was unwell. And then I
Speaker 4: was like, oh, I don't feel good about me. But
Speaker 4: I won the Crystal Gardens I saw.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I didn't see that much thirty bucks? Did it.
Speaker 16: Not?
Speaker 4: Well back then it might.
Speaker 2: Have been yeah, I guess so was the coins?
Speaker 20: Yes, pleasent?
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you Nicholas fourteen past nine, Ryan, it's Marcus welcome.
Speaker 2: Hi Ryan, Oh are you good?
Speaker 13: Excellent?
Speaker 21: I just I was just listening to the talk about
Speaker 21: the old the old telethons, and I remember being a
Speaker 21: kid in Marsterden and for the life of me, I
Speaker 21: can't remember who organized it that we had. It was
Speaker 21: we were plected coins down the main street of Marston
Speaker 21: and we had to stick them to the sidewalk and
Speaker 21: make the longest longest row of coins we could possibly
Speaker 21: be made. And we went out one side the street,
Speaker 21: back down the other and all of those coins and
Speaker 21: went to one of the telethons.
Speaker 2: It's quite significant to go right down the street and
Speaker 2: across the line and back down the other street.
Speaker 21: Well, yeah, without people nicking them, I would.
Speaker 2: Have thought, yes, do you know how much money you got.
Speaker 21: Ryan, I'm not man, I have no idea, but I
Speaker 21: remember the I mean it might have been joyful for
Speaker 21: some people. But that bloody song, you know, they thank
Speaker 21: you very much.
Speaker 2: Yes, that the head and I think you'd wait for
Speaker 2: that song there kick anywhere we offer the congo line,
Speaker 2: go you be here. And I think what happened is
Speaker 2: people just would be so spontaneously seduced by the amount
Speaker 2: of money, they just go out and start their own
Speaker 2: coins to the gang and I'm gonna have a bit
Speaker 2: of this and kind of a friend you would take
Speaker 2: over and people would go out and do their own
Speaker 2: kind of coin trails or go door to door collecting money.
Speaker 21: Absolutely, absolutely, that was a bit of fun.
Speaker 11: You would.
Speaker 2: Sorry, did you go into Avlon to drop the money off?
Speaker 19: No?
Speaker 21: Nothing, nothing, that's.
Speaker 2: Cool, Okay. You probably a topic for local bank, did you.
Speaker 21: I think that. I think that was that was one
Speaker 21: of the places you could drop them off. There was
Speaker 21: like buckets and buckets and buckets the coins.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I do remember that.
Speaker 2: And as someone point out, I think the lions were
Speaker 2: sort of driving around in their cars collecting all the
Speaker 2: money as well. They were sort of the unofficial henchmen
Speaker 2: for it all.
Speaker 21: Yeah, yeah, just see what was the other on TV too?
Speaker 21: They had that that show that'd go around to the
Speaker 21: small towns and then have like like games playing teams
Speaker 21: and what was it called.
Speaker 2: I can't remember, but someone someone will, no, I can't remember.
Speaker 21: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember. I remember doing it a
Speaker 21: memorial park. That was pretty cool. It was like, yeah,
Speaker 21: the whole town was there.
Speaker 2: Are you still in Masterton?
Speaker 21: Oh no, no, no.
Speaker 2: No, oh you sound disparaging.
Speaker 21: Ryan, No, that was It was a nice place to
Speaker 21: be a kid.
Speaker 2: It's a long way from the sea, though, isn't it.
Speaker 2: It certainly is nice to talk Ryan seventeen past nine,
Speaker 2: eight and eighty eight. A lot of people knew it
Speaker 2: was doctor Garcia Marcus Mum and I would serve the
Speaker 2: lounge on Matrisses for tilloth on weekends and hicck attire
Speaker 2: the open fire going all night. Used to make quick
Speaker 2: seas on the open front of a jag set for
Speaker 2: hot tail Myles. I was eight or nine. I remember
Speaker 2: ringing up and donating five dollars, waiting for my name
Speaker 2: to appear on the bottom of the TV screen. Great memories.
Speaker 2: What about sums it all?
Speaker 13: Up.
Speaker 2: That's got the lot, the lounge, the mattresses, hick a tire,
Speaker 2: the fire going Quickxias, jug hot tail, Milo, finding the pledge,
Speaker 2: waiting for the name. That's brilliant. I don't remember doctor Garcia.
Speaker 2: I think I've ever watched Young Doctors. There's like Shortland Street,
Speaker 2: but slightly less medical. I think they just kind of
Speaker 2: swooned over each other, I believe, but we leaped it
Speaker 2: up Young Doctors. That was like Neighbors and Home and
Speaker 2: Away and Young Doctors. Oh, all the great Aussie soaps.
Speaker 2: They sent me very good at them for I don't
Speaker 2: know what. I don't know why they were so good.
Speaker 2: Had the mensic sauce or something good evening Marcus, Sister
Speaker 2: Scott was lovely. She sounds like a nun. Who she was?
Speaker 22: She?
Speaker 2: And who's sister Scott? More Marcus, are you going to
Speaker 2: do a puffer jacket debate this winter? Just asking because
Speaker 2: I'm no longer a fan either. Bulky Hot and Synthetic
Speaker 2: Nile on Bad Combo, Great Topic and previous winters Sinding.
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of the midriff puffer. I've was
Speaker 2: seeing a few people rocking those think I think, Gee,
Speaker 2: that's something anyway, Just cold up there anyway, Welcome people.
Speaker 2: Hudled twelve never owned a puffer jacket. Although I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what. I was involved with the High Country Muster
Speaker 2: today and jet was hailing. Boy oh boy, she was
Speaker 2: a wild day to day. I was lucky I had
Speaker 2: the appropriate wet weather gear and a successful mission brought
Speaker 2: the stock down from the high country. Well one of them.
Speaker 2: That was the only mission brought the ram down and
Speaker 2: that went well, actually dagged and drenched and watch the space.
Speaker 2: Well there was a big size only must be about
Speaker 2: eight months old, because we got him as a newborn
Speaker 2: like last year, like as a rescue lamb. Amazing how
Speaker 2: quickly sheep grow. Actually it must have been September. We
Speaker 2: got him September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May.
Speaker 2: Ohyere ten months old. Anyway, still remembers me fondly. You'll
Speaker 2: be pleased to know. It's all about telethon people on
Speaker 2: this fine day. Although watching it home, all the machinations
Speaker 2: of it seemed unattainable. Didn't think he actually just front
Speaker 2: up there and appear on TV. It just seemed like
Speaker 2: beyond the realms of believability to me, John, it's Marcus
Speaker 2: good evening. Oh right, Hi John, Yeah, gotcha receiving.
Speaker 17: Yeah, sorry, we're here a glutch there. I'm going to
Speaker 17: sue this question. I come over. Nine of the people
Speaker 17: who put in some missions for a helicopter pad were
Speaker 17: against it, and yet it still goes through.
Speaker 2: Because it's not about ah. I believe it's about the
Speaker 2: act that's appropriate for that and the ground that they
Speaker 2: can turn down consent. And they did what they needed
Speaker 2: to do to assure the people that listen to the hearings.
Speaker 2: I'm still talking, John, John, John, I'm still talking to
Speaker 2: ask me a question, and I'm sure they managed to
Speaker 2: allay the fears of the panel that we're listening to.
Speaker 2: It about livestock and about noise for the neighbors. That
Speaker 2: would be my understanding.
Speaker 17: You go, people complained about the noise. So complained about
Speaker 17: the noise. How come ten percent of the population got
Speaker 17: the go ahead?
Speaker 2: Well, there are strict caveats on how often they can
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 17: Yeah, and I'll bet you they're going to break it.
Speaker 2: Well they won't because everyone will be all the curtain
Speaker 2: twitches will be there watching and they'll be documenting every flight.
Speaker 2: Are you in the area, John, No, I.
Speaker 17: Gotta get bet up with the Eagle healths going over
Speaker 17: my head every single bloody night.
Speaker 20: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Sorry, language, that's annoying. I don't know. I'm never quite
Speaker 2: sure what the Eagle helicopter does. I know that people
Speaker 2: love helicopter rescues and the Eagle helicopter, but you never
Speaker 2: see the reports on whether it's just surveillance to keep
Speaker 2: people aware or they're actually catching people.
Speaker 17: I see a lot of reports on the news media
Speaker 17: at the face that the Eagle Helicopter does a lot
Speaker 17: of good and catching people who have done drive bys
Speaker 17: the Michael Hill. That's another one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, my mind's an unpopular opinion, but it's what
Speaker 2: I suspect.
Speaker 17: But anyway, No, honestly, almost an advt of the Eagle helicopter.
Speaker 17: But I did get fed up at two o'clock in
Speaker 17: the morning of being waken up by it. The reality
Speaker 17: is we've just got too many criminals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh well, yeah, anyway, but that's a situation with
Speaker 2: the helicopter. Pad got a custom of fortune for the hearings.
Speaker 2: They spent bit coin to get it through.
Speaker 17: Yeah, and I'll go to my previous comment, I reckon
Speaker 17: I brought somebody off. When it comes to.
Speaker 2: I don't think you can lead. I don't think it
Speaker 2: leads that. I don't think it leads that they've been corrupt,
Speaker 2: because that's libelous, no indication of that. But I mean
Speaker 2: they just had good people. They had the they you know,
Speaker 2: they would have had their own consult to their own
Speaker 2: people to drive it. I mean they seem to be
Speaker 2: very keen on getting a helicopter landing there. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: I apparently in Sydney there's no private helicopter pads in
Speaker 2: the city in the urban area. So it does seem
Speaker 2: to be a strange president to set.
Speaker 17: It was a very strange president to set because you're
Speaker 17: going to have one helicopter and okay, there was twelve
Speaker 17: hundred people through submissions. Once the helicopter starts coming back
Speaker 17: with the ports, I don't think you're going to find
Speaker 17: it's going to be several more thousand people get really
Speaker 17: upset about it.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if they leave the neighborhood after
Speaker 2: they've realized how opposed the neighborhood is. I'm sure that
Speaker 2: no one wants to be living in a neighborhood. Well,
Speaker 2: you know that everyone hates you.
Speaker 17: That's what it's going to come down to.
Speaker 2: Well maybe, but maybe not. But that's why I think
Speaker 2: often happens. People have these great ideas and they think, oh,
Speaker 2: they get focused and think, well, actually, do I want
Speaker 2: to live the fact that the whole neighborhood's ready against us?
Speaker 2: What ninety percent of them are? That's just my thoughts.
Speaker 2: But you know, I'm not living in Westmere. It's not
Speaker 2: concerned about it. But get in touch if you want
Speaker 2: to talk, oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and watch
Speaker 2: out for those metal straws, crazy things. We're talking telethon
Speaker 2: and if you want to talk about the helicopter paired
Speaker 2: as well, oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine
Speaker 2: two nine two text looking for to your inputs tonight,
Speaker 2: something to them. I've done a telethon for getting vaccinated.
Speaker 2: Did they do a vaccineathon? I think we did do
Speaker 2: one of those, didn't we? It seems a long time
Speaker 2: ago now, although they're still going on about it. You
Speaker 2: notice that on Facebook, Wow text here credits an email
Speaker 2: good Evening Marcus Marcus good Evening. When I was a
Speaker 2: youngster living dneed and approximately ten years old. Telethon was massive.
Speaker 2: The plan was I was allowed to go to my
Speaker 2: mate's place along with other schoolmates to play table tennis
Speaker 2: to raise money for the telethon cause. Myself and a
Speaker 2: few of my friends after school that day went and
Speaker 2: stole milk bottle money. My neighbors spotted us. Consequently, I
Speaker 2: was banned by my parents from going to the table
Speaker 2: tennis gig. I was devastated and never stole again. It's
Speaker 2: a shame we have to explain sending milk bottle money
Speaker 2: to anyone the younger people know. Twenty nine away from
Speaker 2: ten your telethon store wh is please? I wait one
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus, tell your listen is
Speaker 2: to use it all. Turnative to butter if they're worried
Speaker 2: about the stupid price. If they don't need butter, stop
Speaker 2: moaning and find an exciting solution to the problem. Is
Speaker 2: that a fact? We quite like people that moan. I
Speaker 2: thought John was at least going to be living next
Speaker 2: door to them with their helicopter anyway. Oh wait, one
Speaker 2: hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine to text Marcus till twelve.
Speaker 2: A lot of kind of amateur dance groups on telethon
Speaker 2: weren't there that seemed to be a big thing. A
Speaker 2: lot of piets and clear doing press ups. I think
Speaker 2: Kamal was here quite often, wasn't he? What was Kamal's song?
Speaker 2: He was always here. I think for a while Kamal
Speaker 2: model A lot of marching girls. They seem to be
Speaker 2: a big part of it. We don't see that so
Speaker 2: much anymore, do you. Now it's all senior marches. I
Speaker 2: think there were people from Dukes of Hazard, a lot
Speaker 2: of aerobics with league warmers. Anyway, I think you watched
Speaker 2: it back now it all looked a bit hockey, a
Speaker 2: lot of bad huckers. I think it'll be a fevorit
Speaker 2: of people doing the hockey tokey as well. Anyway, put
Speaker 2: ron about tonight if you want to be a part
Speaker 2: of an eight hundred and eighty Teddy and nine two
Speaker 2: nine two to text and the obligatory discussion about the
Speaker 2: helicopter pad. For me, it will be different if they
Speaker 2: actually had their helicopter license. But I don't think it's
Speaker 2: going to be that much quicker for them, because how
Speaker 2: spontaneous can you be when you're gotta get the helicopter
Speaker 2: pint out of bed. That's my impression. But you know,
Speaker 2: I don't think I'll be having a helicopter anytime soon.
Speaker 2: Just as a side you might have watched him at
Speaker 2: Glestonbury last night. To what was surprising is that Rod Stewart,
Speaker 2: the guests he had, he had Lulu and he had Mchucknell.
Speaker 2: He is eighty. I thought he performed alright. Actually Neil
Speaker 2: Young was pretty good. Yeah, he's quite moving. So it's
Speaker 2: quite good that it's on YouTube or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: I thought it was quite good a lot of it actually,
Speaker 2: So yeah, there we go. I don't know i'd quite
Speaker 2: see a documentary the logistics of it, because must be
Speaker 2: incredibly hard to organize. Don't know what they will eat.
Speaker 2: Split Ends performed on telephone seventy five so on thever
Speaker 2: early days, full on makeup, miming a song and this
Speaker 2: is a classic Marcus. Don't forget the belly dancers with
Speaker 2: silly faces drawn around their belly button. Well, I think
Speaker 2: they're giant hats made out of newspaper that covered their
Speaker 2: head so their torsos were their face. Hilarious twenty two
Speaker 2: to ten markets Marcus.
Speaker 23: Welcome, Yes, Hi, Yes, I remember the days of telephone
Speaker 23: in nineteen seventy five. It was pretty Sinclave for Auckland
Speaker 23: and it was Roger Gayscoing for Wellington, Tom Bradley for
Speaker 23: Cential District, Peter Delva crist Suits and the g ourself tonight.
Speaker 2: For Denie Rodney Bryant. Was it Rodney Bryant Mark? No,
Speaker 2: could have been turn your rady off for you please?
Speaker 20: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Did you say Peter Dunn for christ Jude or John
Speaker 2: Donne John done? Yeah, okay, John done speaking?
Speaker 23: Yeah? And also remember the Irish then then editing my
Speaker 23: little bail of shortening shortening didn't mean to make the
Speaker 23: dancers for the Irish dancers tell me about them now.
Speaker 23: They had a song called My Little Man Love Short
Speaker 23: and then so my Little Bay of Love short number
Speaker 23: I reckon I could have gone lot.
Speaker 2: Fair they will they singers or dancers?
Speaker 23: Singers an dancers can by that one answer to the Osmans.
Speaker 2: At the time, Oh they they hem and family.
Speaker 23: Could have been but they are Irish and the Osmonds
Speaker 23: and at the.
Speaker 2: Time were they hit redheads?
Speaker 23: Yeah, very is there. They regret a little bit because
Speaker 23: they thought they could have taken it to them.
Speaker 2: Were they Oh yeah, but they were big news.
Speaker 23: Yeah, so you know it's a lot happening and you
Speaker 23: didn't mentioned well went up to nineteen eighty eight. Judy
Speaker 23: Bailey took the rings after Peter Sink, but they still
Speaker 23: had the same house for the other locations.
Speaker 2: As far as so, who did you think they were?
Speaker 2: Pete SINKLEI for Auckland, who for Hamilton.
Speaker 23: Tom Bradley Central districts that they covered, Hamilton, White Kedder.
Speaker 2: Who felt Evlon Willington.
Speaker 23: Roger Gascon.
Speaker 2: Oh of course, yeah.
Speaker 23: I thought you would have remembered that because you would
Speaker 23: have lived through it like I did. But yeah, you mark.
Speaker 2: The way I go is I let the people tell
Speaker 2: the stories. Otherwise it's just me chatting.
Speaker 23: Yeah, I hear what you say. And you know there
Speaker 23: was Frittish McKenzie, and you know there was Rolf Harris.
Speaker 23: There was even Bill Roling on there doing some preceouse who.
Speaker 2: Was who was doing the press ups?
Speaker 23: Bill Rowling? They thought he was weak, but he couldn't
Speaker 23: have been that week if he's doing press ups on telephone, No,
Speaker 23: that's right, Yeah, so he couldn't have been that week
Speaker 23: after It's just obviously ideology to Mynder and that's what
Speaker 23: it was.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he was sort of ridiculed by a week
Speaker 2: of it and people are trying to make any the
Speaker 2: sort of weak voice and stuff.
Speaker 23: But anyway, yeah, I think I think that was a
Speaker 23: put on because ideology to no More do like the
Speaker 23: opposition part.
Speaker 2: Was Rolf Harris at Tilthon.
Speaker 23: Yeah, he was doing a performance with Jack the Pig.
Speaker 23: H he's doing that performance on me. I don't remember.
Speaker 23: He might have been doing tiny the Kendred and Jawn's.
Speaker 23: I'm not sure, but I remember Jack the Pig.
Speaker 2: Well, two little two little boys had two little toys
Speaker 2: and each other wooden hat. Yeah, horse wouldn't wooden horse?
Speaker 2: Wooden horse.
Speaker 23: Yeah, it sounds like it makes Karl was on me and.
Speaker 5: You on.
Speaker 23: The singers would have been known like Shadow now would
Speaker 23: have been on there at ten across well as Iconic
Speaker 23: and zeal The singers would have been on one of
Speaker 23: the telephones or many of them.
Speaker 2: Have you been back and watching on YouTube?
Speaker 23: No, I've got the feeling that may not have the
Speaker 23: full coverage on YouTube.
Speaker 20: I don't know what.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's edit or not. Like you
Speaker 2: over had time to check it out.
Speaker 23: But yeah, yeah, Yeah, they're normally edited, but I remember
Speaker 23: most of it in the day.
Speaker 2: But I'm sure it's still there in the archives. I'm
Speaker 2: sure they could upload all of it.
Speaker 23: Yeah, but they don't. They don't know. But nineteen seventy
Speaker 23: nine it's telephoned. I was actually on both channels. So
Speaker 23: you know how South South Pacific Talent and Launch Telephone.
Speaker 23: How come it was televised on Talent Tension one Enterprises
Speaker 23: or TV in the z placed nineteen eighty on both channels.
Speaker 23: There's no way out of it, so you had to
Speaker 23: watch it any TV.
Speaker 2: So you can know Laty for you, Mac thinks for
Speaker 2: eighteen to ten, Marcus, check out the amount of supermarket
Speaker 2: and the processes are putting on prices of butter. Cheers Jonah,
Speaker 2: Well that would be the same percentage though. Mark's. My
Speaker 2: favorite TV two era was Son of a Gun Show,
Speaker 2: the launch of Shortland Street and City Life in nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety six. Always remember asking my grandmother where the gang's
Speaker 2: got the money from when they came on telethon with
Speaker 2: big bucks of money. She always says the bank. It's
Speaker 2: quite funny. The butter is sixteen ninety nine, but it's
Speaker 2: semi soft. You needs your head read to buy semi soft,
Speaker 2: wouldn't you. That's part of the fun of butter is
Speaker 2: trying to make it soft when it's rock hard. You
Speaker 2: got some telethon memories, fae. No, you're on Mike Tyson?
Speaker 14: No, can I go back twenty eight years ago?
Speaker 10: Yep?
Speaker 14: On Saturday, Saturday, Mike Tyson is disqualified for Barti Evanda
Speaker 14: hollyfors Ear. Remember that twenty eight years ago today on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Because the fight never happened in.
Speaker 20: It, it was on, it was on.
Speaker 2: I was during the fight, of course.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: I went back to the present, of course. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I remember now, you remember now?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 14: But I think he got disquatified for ever ever ever.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Although he did come back and a fight last year,
Speaker 2: didn't he with that silly social media person, remember, But
Speaker 2: his knees were gone?
Speaker 14: Yeah, but I mean it was nineteen ninety eight years ago.
Speaker 14: I watched telephone, not you go. I watched telephone, stayed
Speaker 14: up all night.
Speaker 6: It was awesome.
Speaker 14: They should have some more.
Speaker 22: Well.
Speaker 2: The good thing it was was in the miserable part
Speaker 2: of the year, like now, when it was all winter
Speaker 2: and people needed something to lift the spirits that worked
Speaker 2: very very well.
Speaker 14: Exactly TV's rubbish at the moment. Well are you rubbish?
Speaker 2: I enjoyed watching Survive Alive? Have you seen that?
Speaker 14: No, I haven't loved No Alone.
Speaker 2: I watch watch a loan failed. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: There was a New Zealander on Alone. It was embarrassingly bad.
Speaker 2: This is on TV, TV and Z plus. You've got
Speaker 2: to survive in Africa and was a key we guy
Speaker 2: from an a key he tapped on the day is terrible.
Speaker 2: It's embarrassing. I've only watched the first three episodes because
Speaker 2: they come on a Friday. But normally it's in the Arctic,
Speaker 2: but this time it's on the don't know where. It
Speaker 2: is a lot of summer in Africa. The water seems
Speaker 2: pretty toxic. You would want to drink that cheaper ten
Speaker 2: I seven. My name is Marcus, Welcome, Heredill twelve. Hope
Speaker 2: you God, hope you've got if your If you're not
Speaker 2: gonna i'd I've got to get to bed. If you're
Speaker 2: a tennis if that's your thing, I've got the tennis on.
Speaker 2: It's just three people talking now, but it looks to
Speaker 2: be a superb day in England, London thirty five degrees.
Speaker 2: It appears to be they'll be loving that because normally
Speaker 2: that's raining, isn't it. And Cliff Richard's up there entertaining
Speaker 2: the crowds. But looks like it's brilliant weather today anyway,
Speaker 2: So I keep you updated about that. I'm locked alone.
Speaker 2: We are talking telethon because it's fifty years since TV
Speaker 2: two started and they had I don't know if they
Speaker 2: had telethons the whole way through. I don't know which
Speaker 2: one of the first year would be. Would have been
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven, I don't know. It was for the
Speaker 2: Saint John's and half a million dollars seemed to be
Speaker 2: a lot of money. By nineteen eighty one they had
Speaker 2: the five million dollar mark. I think Basil Brush was
Speaker 2: here too, was he. It's always good on the pedal,
Speaker 2: Sharky Marcus, Welcome.
Speaker 10: Kday.
Speaker 19: How are you good?
Speaker 13: Shark bringing back great memories of nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 13: A cub scout actually, and we did a coin trail
Speaker 13: collection thing, and I remember going to Shortman Street at
Speaker 13: like six o'clock in the morning to stand in line
Speaker 13: to be able to give our money in before the
Speaker 13: other people who were dead and I don't know if
Speaker 13: anyone's mentioned his name, but Andy saw.
Speaker 2: Yeah is big on it.
Speaker 13: He was really big on it.
Speaker 2: And of course Andy Shaw the last couple of months
Speaker 2: has died. Are you aware of that? Yes, I was. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he'd been said he'd been sick for a bit of time,
Speaker 2: I think, But you know, he was someone that was
Speaker 2: loved and TV because he's been there from a presenter
Speaker 2: as a teenager, so you know, people were very saddened
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well right through to you know, he was doing
Speaker 13: directing and awful well I.
Speaker 20: Think it was.
Speaker 2: He was a general manager and the enemy worked as
Speaker 2: right up there was one of the big suits there.
Speaker 13: Now, Lisa Gibbons. I guess everybody's talked about Lisa Gibbons.
Speaker 13: She came out from the States and poking up with
Speaker 13: the old mate from Coronation Street. Now forgot his name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think. I don't think that went that
Speaker 2: well from I don't think he was a great husband
Speaker 2: by the sound of things.
Speaker 13: No, it didn't last for all that long because I
Speaker 13: remember he played Gael's husband on on Coronation Street. Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 13: and of course, oh my gosh, I can see him
Speaker 13: right now. It's a lot of weightlifter. Precious Mackenzie, precious
Speaker 13: precious Mackenzie. Yeah, precious Mackenzie. And god, there were so
Speaker 13: many different people who came from overseas to be on
Speaker 13: me on those panels.
Speaker 2: Shaky, Just just a dive a bit deeper with you.
Speaker 2: Where was your cub scouts were in Auckland?
Speaker 13: Yeah, Mungey Bridge.
Speaker 2: Okay, and you came in at six o'clock. Did you
Speaker 2: wait around for a long time?
Speaker 13: I think we were in there at nine o'clock.
Speaker 2: It's a three hour weight and your uniforms, so it
Speaker 2: was a.
Speaker 13: Three hour weight standing out in shortened street there in
Speaker 13: the cold.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 13: And but you know, we were all excited because we're
Speaker 13: you know.
Speaker 2: TV and be really excited. Did you did you get
Speaker 2: on TV?
Speaker 24: Yeah?
Speaker 13: We we Well, the cameras were on us, so you
Speaker 13: know when we were handing over the money and now
Speaker 13: our leader was giving the money and having a talk. Yeah,
Speaker 13: so those sort of things.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 13: The memories of those sitting up all night was the
Speaker 13: well back then in the kerosene heater and going in
Speaker 13: the lounge to keep the lounge warm while we all
Speaker 13: sort of bunk down in the lounge for the whole
Speaker 13: time it.
Speaker 2: Was on and Sharky it would be Sharky would be
Speaker 2: a great it would be a great background for a
Speaker 2: great Kiwi movie, a murder or something that was all
Speaker 2: based around telethon weekend because it's such a it's such
Speaker 2: a familiar and odd thing with everyone just watching the
Speaker 2: TV day and night. I mean it's quite I mean
Speaker 2: it's pretty iconic.
Speaker 13: Well, the other thing you mentioned was radio waves, Yes,
Speaker 13: and I remember radio waves. It was about the radio
Speaker 13: stations and he had a shivvy Sedan. I remember the
Speaker 13: radio DJ had a shivvy Snam and I remember it
Speaker 13: went went somewhere looking for his girlfriend and the radio
Speaker 13: station went off the air and there was all this commotion.
Speaker 13: But it's amazing what you'll remember because at the same
Speaker 13: time I can remember close to Home, yes, which would
Speaker 13: have been on obviously TVs.
Speaker 2: I think TV.
Speaker 13: Yes, Yeah, so you know all those clothes and it's
Speaker 13: Chewey's Chewy nice one.
Speaker 9: Yea.
Speaker 13: I remember Chewy, you know, just thought Oilson. Well, I
Speaker 13: think more of the sort of early eighties stuff was
Speaker 13: oli Elson?
Speaker 2: Tell me something is this is the Cubs? Is the
Speaker 2: Scout still there in Mungoty Bridge.
Speaker 13: No, it burnt down.
Speaker 2: And was it sea Scouts or conventional scouts.
Speaker 13: It was conventional scouts. We used to go to the
Speaker 13: jamborees down at Poka Koe and stuff like that. Yeah,
Speaker 13: you get well, my kids, even my daughters, they went
Speaker 13: to the gil Guides and Mungoy Bridge, you know, so
Speaker 13: we sort of care read it on as as time
Speaker 13: went by. But and my my youngest granddaughter has started
Speaker 13: going to to gil Guides.
Speaker 2: Bridge because it's moved right.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well no that the the the Scout spoon down.
Speaker 13: But the gill Guides Tall is still a mongey bridge.
Speaker 13: But no, they she goes to the one and Papakura.
Speaker 13: But yeah, just interesting that that sort of thing still happens.
Speaker 13: But but definitely, you know, the great memories of growing
Speaker 13: up in New Zealand had to be telephone. Everybody knew telephone.
Speaker 2: There was a classic about scouts turning up every in
Speaker 2: the uniform ale cubs. That's a that's a classic memory,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 13: I've still got my toggle which you used to wear
Speaker 13: with your scarf. I still have my toggle. My mum
Speaker 13: saved that stuff for me for when I got older,
Speaker 13: so I still have all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, funny enough, Sharky. My boys are at sea Scouts
Speaker 2: and there aren't many of those left, but they've got
Speaker 2: quite good one and bluff and that's quite good fun so,
Speaker 2: and I think their toddlers are not.
Speaker 13: Well yeah, well used to get the stitch on on
Speaker 13: on like your bedges, so sort of thingving that your
Speaker 13: mother and sorow them onto your jumper and and you'd
Speaker 13: have your Iraq. You'd pass those those little tests for
Speaker 13: all those things.
Speaker 11: You don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know where the benches are such a big dealer.
Speaker 2: I'm going to run, sharky, but nice to talk to you.
Speaker 2: We are talking Telethon fourteen past ten. Someone said, Marcus,
Speaker 2: I think west Side based in the episode around Teleothon.
Speaker 2: You're probably right, which is a great and it was
Speaker 2: a great show west Side. Of course, the bank robbery
Speaker 2: based at Psmith and Cry that was good too. Marcus,
Speaker 2: could you tell us what channel? Wimbledon fifty ESPN two
Speaker 2: sixty to sixty one. Nothing's happening yet. There was just
Speaker 2: two female tennis players doing a TikTok video doing a dance.
Speaker 12: For me.
Speaker 2: Wimbledon's a bit bloody stuff. I always think they kind
Speaker 2: of overplay their hand Wimbledon, but anyway did to all
Speaker 2: them they can do what they want. Jeff Marcus welcome.
Speaker 20: Hello, how Jeff oh, hi mate. This business of the
Speaker 20: Pacific Mahana rugby team, as far as I'm concerned, taxpayers
Speaker 20: should not be paying UH to sponsor them. I think
Speaker 20: it's up to the New Zealand Rugby Association to sponsor
Speaker 20: them as they want to. They were given an allocation
Speaker 20: of money and they're really in the end. Nobody seems
Speaker 20: to know where all that money went.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts? No real thoughts. So I think
Speaker 2: at all levels, I mean at all levels rugby sponsored
Speaker 2: because it just doesn't pay its way when you look
Speaker 2: at the price of stadiums that councils and governments fork
Speaker 2: out to have one game every two weeks. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't think rugby's ever stood in its
Speaker 2: own two feet very well. It's not self sustaining.
Speaker 20: Look, I'm not saying they're a bad team. All I'm saying.
Speaker 2: But you asked me what I thought, and that's what
Speaker 2: I've told you. I think I think no rugby team
Speaker 2: is self supporting the whole thing. Who the whole thing
Speaker 2: seems unsustainable to me. I look at some of the
Speaker 2: audiences apart from the final of the Super Rugby No
Speaker 2: one's there.
Speaker 20: No, well don't didn't they didn't they beat the blows
Speaker 20: on a game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a material you talk about the funding of it?
Speaker 2: Does Jeff? Sorry, rather that des It's Marcus, good evening.
Speaker 18: It's Marcus. We were just talking about Precis McKenzie.
Speaker 7: Yes, and.
Speaker 18: We had an interaction with him around nineteen seventy eight
Speaker 18: seventy nine when he had brought her was going to
Speaker 18: helens Or Primary school. She would have been about six
Speaker 18: or seven. She's doing athletics and he came along to
Speaker 18: support them a bit. And somewhere I've got a photo
Speaker 18: of her, of her caud giving her a cuddle, which
Speaker 18: he's rather embarrassed about, but I can't find it.
Speaker 20: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: He seemed to be every He seemed to be something
Speaker 2: every child knew because he was always around the school.
Speaker 2: He seemed to be a sort of It's hard to
Speaker 2: think of a more beloved icon than him.
Speaker 20: Yeah.
Speaker 18: He was very supportive of the activities.
Speaker 2: In that because he was He wasn't from out that way, though,
Speaker 2: was it? He was more recent than I think.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know.
Speaker 18: I can't remember why he came. He just came along
Speaker 18: for some reason or other. And you know, he was
Speaker 18: a sort of a athletics evening on that she was
Speaker 18: doing sort of an owned or athletics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you get to meet the guy?
Speaker 18: Yeah, we got to meet him. Yeah, what you'd at
Speaker 18: the early seventies, there would have been about seventy eight
Speaker 18: seventy nine.
Speaker 2: Really, that makes sense, and that's it Helen's rule.
Speaker 18: Yeah, because she was born in seventy two, so she
Speaker 18: would have been six or seven, so it would have been,
Speaker 18: you know, seventy eight seventy nine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I still hear him on the edge
Speaker 2: for a retirement center.
Speaker 10: Old.
Speaker 2: He still seems to be doing well around there. I mean,
Speaker 2: he was the hero of the seventy four Commonwealth Games,
Speaker 2: wasn't he.
Speaker 18: People loved him, he was and he popped up every
Speaker 18: now and again. We used to keep keep an eye
Speaker 18: on him when he came into the news or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, good to hear from him. This things.
Speaker 2: So at twenty five past ten, Marcus till twelve oh
Speaker 2: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty get amongst if you
Speaker 2: want to I zaimpics the other Oh, by the way
Speaker 2: to that Aaron Pennison, the Mushroom Woman. The jury is out,
Speaker 2: but they can only report back during office hours, so
Speaker 2: we won't get a breaking verdict on the show because
Speaker 2: this show doesn't align with the office hours for the
Speaker 2: judge in Australia. I would be surprised there's a verdict
Speaker 2: tomorrow based on nothing except the fact that I can't
Speaker 2: see any way she could get off none of it.
Speaker 2: I can't see a scenario where you didn't kill them.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, eighty ten, eighty, Good evening, Suzette. It's Marcus. Welcome.
Speaker 10: Hi, Marcus, Hi, Susan Hi.
Speaker 25: I was thinking about that mushroom killer over in Australia.
Speaker 25: I think she'll get some sort of like due to
Speaker 25: madness sort of thing, you know, like I can't be
Speaker 25: convicted due to madness or something.
Speaker 2: I don't think you've always played that case though deminished responsibility.
Speaker 25: No, they didn't seem to go down that line, and
Speaker 25: I thought they would have, so that was a surprise too.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised it's just play guilty for a diminished sentence.
Speaker 25: Yeah, it's something like that, But anyway, I'm wondering. Do
Speaker 25: they still have psychiatric institutions in Australia, do you know?
Speaker 25: I'd imagine so, oh, well, she'll probably get put in
Speaker 25: one of those, I would think. I like those two
Speaker 25: two women here that killed the one that killed her
Speaker 25: children and the other one that stabbed her husband in
Speaker 25: the bath. They got put into that syche.
Speaker 2: Remember the case with the bath.
Speaker 25: Yeah, he was having a bath and she went in
Speaker 25: and stabbed him.
Speaker 2: How long ago?
Speaker 25: Oh the year?
Speaker 13: I think.
Speaker 2: Was it in your town? That sounds a bit grim, No,
Speaker 2: no it was.
Speaker 25: I don't know. I'm thinking that's what will happen to
Speaker 25: the mushroom Coller. She'll get off on psychiatric reasons or
Speaker 25: something and going to a psych.
Speaker 2: And she doesn't deserve to with premeditated murder, Yeah, but
Speaker 2: she's mad.
Speaker 4: You know, you have to be made to do something
Speaker 4: if we made, if.
Speaker 2: We made to murder someone, though, wouldn't you Yeah, pre meditate,
Speaker 2: you would say that for anyone, But yeah, I do.
Speaker 25: But something pushed her, and I think it's something to
Speaker 25: do with the relationship with a husband that broke down
Speaker 25: and wanting to get even.
Speaker 2: And I think I she had inherited money and it
Speaker 2: was alone, should let some of them. It all got
Speaker 2: messy with money and paying back and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Just people's thinking goes in such a way they can't
Speaker 2: see a clear way out of it and they start doing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she's not going to get.
Speaker 25: Off, No, definitely not. But I think she's definitely mad
Speaker 25: fear enough from a nursing perspective.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, well you'd know. When I say you'd know that,
Speaker 2: I mean you'd know from a nursing perspective.
Speaker 25: Yeah, I do from my training.
Speaker 2: Brilliant. Okay, great, Trump's anything. No, he's gone quiet again,
Speaker 2: is he?
Speaker 16: No?
Speaker 2: Trump's gone quiet. Michelle emails. I don't believe she's set
Speaker 2: out to poison or kill those people. Plus, there is
Speaker 2: absolutely no motive. I'm confident she'll be found not guilty. Well,
Speaker 2: she said killed them if she went googling for poisonous
Speaker 2: mushrooms and went to buy them, then bought the dehydrator,
Speaker 2: then dried them, then served them to her guests and
Speaker 2: told them she had cancer, to Entyson to come around,
Speaker 2: and then got rid of the dehydrator and hid her phone.
Speaker 2: It had a separate colored plate, so she didn't eat it.
Speaker 2: I can't think of one thing that will lead to
Speaker 2: her innocence. She meant to kill them, and it was
Speaker 2: deliberate because the plan only worked really if they died too,
Speaker 2: because you know, if that all died, what if she
Speaker 2: got away with it? No, she wouldn't have. But the
Speaker 2: fact that someone survived, there was a witness to the
Speaker 2: meal makes it less likely for her to get through
Speaker 2: with it. That would be my take on this one.
Speaker 2: So despite ninety of the submission has been opposed to it,
Speaker 2: they are going to get their helicopter. Marcus, is the
Speaker 2: concord really making a comeback? I haven't heard that. I
Speaker 2: think it's one of those stories. It's always around, like
Speaker 2: flying fairies, fairies on the water. But yeah, good evening,
Speaker 2: Jackets Marcus, welcome.
Speaker 19: Good evening, Marcus. How are you doing good?
Speaker 2: Thank you, jack It's good.
Speaker 19: Until I'll do a quick call about being mushroom trial
Speaker 19: and one of her previous callers who commented on it, yeah,
Speaker 19: I've got a name. But she's saying that the lady
Speaker 19: will likely be sent to a mental institution. Yes, there's
Speaker 19: a zero chance of it. She hasn't had any insane place,
Speaker 19: she hasn't brought up any mental health during the trial.
Speaker 19: There is zero chants that they'll put her in a
Speaker 19: mental institution, no need for it, nor should they. No, No,
Speaker 19: it was pretty meditated murder planning some pole. She knew
Speaker 19: what she was doing. She'd planned it all out, and
Speaker 19: she planned it to her tea pretty much except for
Speaker 19: her person surviving.
Speaker 2: But even if that, even if that person didn't survive,
Speaker 2: it would have been very hard for her to get
Speaker 2: away with it.
Speaker 19: If I went home and they somehow died their house
Speaker 19: and you know, it still would be tracked back to her.
Speaker 19: But I don't know what her band was to escape
Speaker 19: the whole thing and get off scott free. But it
Speaker 19: makes you just don't know about the Internet trail of
Speaker 19: police been able to search up her search history.
Speaker 2: But even without the even without the Internet trail, she
Speaker 2: cooked that food and they would have known it was
Speaker 2: death camp mushrooms because the autopsy, and she would have said, well,
Speaker 2: she got mushrooms for a health food from an Asian
Speaker 2: food shop and no one else had died, So it's
Speaker 2: unlikely that just going to be a packaging era and
Speaker 2: just one packet in the world is the death cap mushrooms.
Speaker 2: So I even then can't see how she would have
Speaker 2: managed to get away with it.
Speaker 19: That is, there would honestly be no defense that would
Speaker 19: stand up in court or even throw any hint of
Speaker 19: doubt that she could have thrown up the course even
Speaker 19: if the best lawyer that way, I wouldn't have been
Speaker 19: able to spend it in any way. They could have tried,
Speaker 19: but there's been no converting to jury or judge because,
Speaker 19: as you said, there's those valid points and at the
Speaker 19: end of a day, the icing on the cake was
Speaker 19: her Google history.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And she killed them and killed them knowingly and deliberately.
Speaker 2: She didn't want to make them sick. She wanted them dead.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and that was an intentional act.
Speaker 19: Makes them the sick is one thing, but you know,
Speaker 19: go now of your way for the research, preparing them,
Speaker 19: giving yourself a different plate. You know you knew what
Speaker 19: you're doing one hundred percent. There is no you can't
Speaker 19: play insanity on that either. It's not a spur of
Speaker 19: a moment psychosis. Things prey planned. I'm not sure how
Speaker 19: many days before or weeks before, but plans, you know, tivity.
Speaker 19: She knew what she was doing. There's no psychosis or
Speaker 19: mentalth element to it.
Speaker 2: I wonder what a more successful tactic for her would
Speaker 2: have been.
Speaker 19: I'm sure there's many other ways. I'm sure chat GPT
Speaker 19: probably could have given her a better way.
Speaker 2: But I'm just trying to think. It was very hard
Speaker 2: these days with search histories and cell phones and the like.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's very hard to kill people in the
Speaker 2: way you get away with it. And also CTV footage.
Speaker 19: Yeah, it is, it is is. Yeah, best generations. Sorry
Speaker 19: for the last ten fifteen years before technology, there's no
Speaker 19: getting away. Even with encrypted phones, encrypted apps, you're going
Speaker 19: to be found out by or another. If you pay
Speaker 19: cash at a staught by a cell phone, it's still
Speaker 19: going to track you down.
Speaker 2: There's readily you can do. And this is someone that
Speaker 2: manages to actually have no digital footprint, but that's probably
Speaker 2: very hard.
Speaker 19: These days, it's virtually impossible. I'm sure it's virtually impossible.
Speaker 19: You're going to end up on the Internet somehow, whether
Speaker 19: it's Google, Gmail, Yahoo, whatever, you know, there's always going
Speaker 19: to be a footprint of someone.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't expect the deliberation to last long, would you.
Speaker 19: I didn't expect it to last this long at all.
Speaker 2: No, But maybe they're just maybe they're just want a
Speaker 2: bit of a break and have a nice meal and
Speaker 2: stand the hotel. Maybe they've got two months and it's
Speaker 2: just like, well, let's have a bit of a treat,
Speaker 2: let's have a dinner tonight in a glass of wine,
Speaker 2: and then tomorrow we'll start talking about it. Maybe that's
Speaker 2: their attitude.
Speaker 19: Good well be. But also it's a landmark case, so
Speaker 19: they've got to cross all the teas and don all
Speaker 19: the eyes, and they can't be any doubt. There can't
Speaker 19: be anything that a lawyer can use to overturn this sentence,
Speaker 19: so it's going to be air tight. That's probably why
Speaker 19: it's taking so long. Shouldn't have taken this long. Ear tight.
Speaker 19: But I'm sure they're just crossing everything.
Speaker 2: So two died or three died, two died.
Speaker 19: I'm personally not sure. I don't keep half of the number.
Speaker 2: So then, and so I guess there's also charge of
Speaker 2: attempted murder with the person that did survive, So it's
Speaker 2: probably there's probably got to go through three or four
Speaker 2: different scenarios as well, which will take a bit of time.
Speaker 2: Surely three three three died and three died and one
Speaker 2: attempted murder, so that takes a bit longer.
Speaker 19: I guess yeah, I think don't they have to do
Speaker 19: each individual charge for you know, so you know, we're
Speaker 19: ear tired on this person, we're ear ted on that person,
Speaker 19: and then if there's any the first person, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 19: but I'm not too knowledgeable of justice system, but at
Speaker 19: the end of the day's taking a while. Should be
Speaker 19: pretty clear cut and it's just hope justice served.
Speaker 2: Thanks Jack. Yeah, if she gets not if she gets
Speaker 2: some not guilty, then the academy, you know, I meante
Speaker 2: it'd be more events would come forward and then have
Speaker 2: a retrial. I guess for the bozo sho'd walk away.
Speaker 2: I think it's very unlikely. Glenn's texted Market texted Marcus.
Speaker 2: I was on telethon late eighties in a band called
Speaker 2: fan Club. Although quite well known, We're on after Johnny Farner.
Speaker 2: I was little distracted by his backing dancers, just quietly
Speaker 2: at from Glynn. Didn't know Johnny Farnman was there. The
Speaker 2: voice Kevin Marcus. Welcome, Yeah, good evening.
Speaker 8: So Marcus, I'd like to talk about the proposed change
Speaker 8: in Powerball lotto.
Speaker 2: Yes, please, thank you.
Speaker 8: Okay, so I can go back the last thirty nine draws,
Speaker 8: So you just worked the way through this. So at
Speaker 8: thirty six draws back, I can go there that there
Speaker 8: was you know beyond that, thirty nine I don't know,
Speaker 8: but thirty six, at thirty six draws back, there was
Speaker 8: a winner, and then five five draws below that there
Speaker 8: was a winner, and then there was another one the
Speaker 8: next draw. So he obviously got four thousand. Then it
Speaker 8: goes ten thousand to the next draw or ten ten draws,
Speaker 8: and then it goes eight doraws draws, and then it
Speaker 8: goes another eight draws. So what they want to do
Speaker 8: is put up extra powerball and have mega jackpots. Yeah,
Speaker 8: well that's just damn crazy because in that in the
Speaker 8: last thirty six draws there's been six millionaires and apart
Speaker 8: from one, the other ones would be probably just about
Speaker 8: double figures, just about all of them.
Speaker 2: I think they want more, bigger, more dramatic first prizes.
Speaker 8: No, No, it's a they want to have a megapool
Speaker 8: by putting an extra extra ball in. Then you've got
Speaker 8: to pick seven winning numbers and they want mega mega jackpots.
Speaker 2: But that's because it's getting yeah okay, yeah, but but.
Speaker 8: The thing is, yeah, that's what I heard they said,
Speaker 8: because it's getting.
Speaker 2: Drawn too often, too often successful.
Speaker 8: Not losing money, So why why worry about it?
Speaker 2: Because when it goes for a mega prize, then you
Speaker 2: get all the extra publicy because people radio shows are
Speaker 2: speaking to statisticians. What's the people love that I've seen
Speaker 2: amount of money because then they can really fantasize about it.
Speaker 2: I think that's right. That's why I reckon happens.
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, so what about the families that can't afford
Speaker 8: it and they see the big jackpot? You're going to
Speaker 8: spend money they haven't gotten. The kids are going to myself.
Speaker 2: Well, that's gambling for you. I mean, it's gambling after all.
Speaker 2: Probably no one really should be spending money if they
Speaker 2: can't afford it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but the drawer of the big jackpot would would
Speaker 8: just automatically put.
Speaker 6: You into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's I mean, lot is really problematic from
Speaker 2: a gambling point of view. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, Marcus, they have in the last
Speaker 8: thirty six straws six winners. You know, that's better than
Speaker 8: somebody winning an awful amount of in a jackpot and
Speaker 8: only having maybe one winner in that thirty six straws. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and now you've got six, Well, is it better to
Speaker 8: have six millionaires running around?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 2: Because people think are a million million?
Speaker 20: People?
Speaker 2: Are the big about that they can really fantasize about.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but I mean reality is reality, and times are tough,
Speaker 8: and you gotta you know, all the people, all those
Speaker 8: six people at one I'll tell you what. They wouldn't
Speaker 8: be wanting to change anything a bit.
Speaker 2: Do you buy a ticket every week.
Speaker 8: Occasionally?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: But yeah, I mean it's just you know, it's the
Speaker 8: more people that win, the better. And I mean, you
Speaker 8: know there's a lot of families and you'd understand this
Speaker 8: that the last draw was thirty million. Well, there's going
Speaker 8: to be the benefit of the families that are going
Speaker 8: to benefit from that amount of money, You're not you know,
Speaker 8: they're going to share it around obviously.
Speaker 21: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know it could be Marcus that could be
Speaker 8: in that family, and I only guessing there could be
Speaker 8: three or four offspring that might have brand new homes
Speaker 8: coming up, you know, So isn't that worth it?
Speaker 2: I think they just want the really big prizes. That's
Speaker 2: when the hype kicks in and people start talking about
Speaker 2: That's my view. But yeah, I mean I don't want
Speaker 2: to you know otherwise you imagine, well just you, if
Speaker 2: you want as many what is as possible, you may
Speaker 2: as well give everyone the prize money back. It'll twelve eleven,
Speaker 2: I seven name as Marcus. Good evening, looking forward to
Speaker 2: your calls telethon and Lotto and mushroom case. We were
Speaker 2: falling on the final oal for tonight. Love to hear
Speaker 2: your thoughts on the mushroom case. Get why and it's
Speaker 2: Marcus welcome.
Speaker 9: You know Marcus this I don't know who works for
Speaker 9: a lot of but what a stupid idea of putting
Speaker 9: an extra powerboll in the draw. I mean it's not
Speaker 9: going to create a more any more interest. I mean
Speaker 9: there's one chance at the moment, and thirty eight one
Speaker 9: shot and thirty eight million are picking six numbers in
Speaker 9: the powerball at present. And the only reason it's not
Speaker 9: getting so big as usual is because the way times
Speaker 9: are at the moment, a lot of people just buying
Speaker 9: a ticket where they wouldn't normally have bought a ticket.
Speaker 9: There's nothing wrong with winning formillion or as the four
Speaker 9: million is up for grabs every week, that's that's four thousand.
Speaker 9: If you don't want to buy a house, that's four
Speaker 9: thousand every week for the next twenty years if you're single.
Speaker 9: And a month ago when the draw was worth it
Speaker 9: got up to seventeen million for the powerboll And a
Speaker 9: woman who didn't even think about power, even think about
Speaker 9: buying a lotto. She was just out shopping with her
Speaker 9: grandson and her grandson wanted something at the supermarket that
Speaker 9: she went and bought a ticket and she won the
Speaker 9: seventeen million, and a few draws ago it was worth
Speaker 9: thirty million. And just that somebody in in Chicago and
Speaker 9: another person in Wellington, they just bought a ticket each.
Speaker 9: They weren't thinking about the big money and they got
Speaker 9: fifteen million dollars each. And it's just trying to make
Speaker 9: it harder and hoping that'll go to a big price
Speaker 9: is just ridiculous. When the last time it went to
Speaker 9: fifty million, they capped at fifty million. If they want
Speaker 9: to make excitement, don't cap it. Let it get up
Speaker 9: to one hundred million or one hundred and fifty million.
Speaker 9: When it got up to a fifty million last time,
Speaker 9: it had to be capped and the people were queuing
Speaker 9: out supermarkets. They're all over the shopping centers and it
Speaker 9: had to be won because it was capped at fifty million,
Speaker 9: and when it was drawn that night, nobody got the
Speaker 9: first division, the second division. I think they paid out
Speaker 9: on a third or fourth division and everyone got eight
Speaker 9: thousand dollars each or something. So what's the excitement? And
Speaker 9: that people are getting sick of? But they know when
Speaker 9: it's capped, a lot of people are going to win.
Speaker 9: So you're not winning fifty million the dream, there's no
Speaker 9: dream there. You're winning about eight thousand dollars. Is that exciting?
Speaker 2: I guess it's the competition. They can do what they like.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but everyone knows from past experience when they cap
Speaker 9: it at fifty million and it has to be won,
Speaker 9: you don't have you don't have to get six numbers
Speaker 9: and the powerball. You could get three numbers in the
Speaker 9: powerball and share the prize with thousands of people. So
Speaker 9: you know you're not going to get your fifty million.
Speaker 9: You're going to share a You can win as much
Speaker 9: on gambling on the horses. You're not going to get
Speaker 9: your fifty million because it's capped. If they want to
Speaker 9: make excitement, don't cap it. They'd go to one hundred million.
Speaker 9: One hundred and fifty million, and then it has to
Speaker 9: be struck with somebody with the right sex numbers plus
Speaker 9: the powerball.
Speaker 2: Will you stop it can't be Will you stop playing it?
Speaker 2: Will you stop playing it?
Speaker 9: Stop playing? Well, I've taken a Loto ever since the
Speaker 9: start I wrote from thirty something years ago. I've taken
Speaker 9: at every draw. But I mean, I don't always take powerball.
Speaker 9: I just I'm quite happy to win a million dollars
Speaker 9: because I'm single. A million dollars is if I don't
Speaker 9: buy a house. If that's a thousand dollars every week
Speaker 9: for the next twenty years, if I live that long.
Speaker 2: But you just talked about how it's crazy to have
Speaker 2: an extra ball, will you still buy a lot of
Speaker 2: that way?
Speaker 9: Well, the extra ball doesn't worry me because I don't
Speaker 9: look at it. There's one chance in thirty eight million,
Speaker 9: and an extra ball is one chance and forty two million.
Speaker 9: Because something'serned. I've got one chance in four million. There's
Speaker 9: only four million people that would probably buy it. Think
Speaker 9: it may be less because children can't buy it. I'm
Speaker 9: only playing against three million people, so I've got one
Speaker 9: chance in three million of beating somebody else. But I
Speaker 9: don't look at it as zeros as warty million or
Speaker 9: thirty eight million. Got a completely different way of looking
Speaker 9: at things, COVID.
Speaker 2: I mean what they say, they say what their head
Speaker 2: biscuits is a lot of en says. Ticket sales the
Speaker 2: highest they've ever seen, meaning Powerball has been struck more regularly,
Speaker 2: more regular wins, more regular wines means few of the
Speaker 2: more exciting megajackpots, like the fifty million that draws extra
Speaker 2: expotential ticket sales. Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the last fifty million drawed. There's thousands of people.
Speaker 9: I went to see market. I couldn't even go shopping
Speaker 9: because it couldn't get in the door. Everyone was queuing up.
Speaker 9: And that was the last one. I think everyone got
Speaker 9: eight thousand dollars. Thousands of people won because they don't.
Speaker 2: They sold a lot of tickets because it had got
Speaker 2: that high.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but you don't. You don't have to fix six
Speaker 9: numbers and the winning powerball because if nobody ficks it,
Speaker 9: it got so high, and nobody fixed six numbers, and
Speaker 9: nobody had the correct powerball with six numbers, So I
Speaker 9: think you only had to have three numbers.
Speaker 2: And correct powerball, So you think it's a mistake.
Speaker 9: Well, it's stupid because the excitement was fifty million, and
Speaker 9: since that happened, people aren't really caring about because it terminates.
Speaker 9: You can win with three numbers in a powerboll and,
Speaker 9: so you're sharing the prize. You're not sharing fifty million.
Speaker 9: You're getting eight thousand dollars or six thousand dollars or
Speaker 9: five thousand. Because you don't have to pick six numbers.
Speaker 9: Everyone shares the next division down, the next division down.
Speaker 2: Do you think these people don't know what they're talking
Speaker 2: about a lotto? Do you think they're idiots?
Speaker 9: I think they're talking later that I mean, I mean,
Speaker 9: like I said, I've been taken ever since it started,
Speaker 9: since it started, well since the last five years. I've
Speaker 9: kept the tracker.
Speaker 11: I've picked five.
Speaker 9: I've picked my own numbers. I've picked five of the
Speaker 9: six winning numbers just for their ordinary power, just with
Speaker 9: the ordinary lotto, not with the powerboll I'm just interested
Speaker 9: in winning a million, So I've picked five numbers twenty
Speaker 9: six times. Like if you pick five numbers and the
Speaker 9: bonus number, you get around thirteen thousand to twenty thousand.
Speaker 9: But because I've picked five numbers of the correct six
Speaker 9: numbers five of the main numbers. Well I get is
Speaker 9: six hundred dollars every time?
Speaker 20: Is it?
Speaker 2: Is it your biggest win?
Speaker 9: Well, that's all you get for picking five numbers?
Speaker 2: Is it your biggest one?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 2: What's your biggest win?
Speaker 9: Years ago, Reigning went home and I picked two numbers
Speaker 9: on each box, and I asked a brother picked three
Speaker 9: numbers in each box, and asked some other pick three
Speaker 9: numbers each box, and we got five and a bonus
Speaker 9: and got thirteen thousand, eight hundred.
Speaker 2: Well will that mean?
Speaker 17: Will that be more?
Speaker 2: Have you one more than you that you paid?
Speaker 19: No?
Speaker 9: No, I reinvest and I've lost more than of h
Speaker 9: of course because of one nothing big. But I mean
Speaker 9: once you win a million, I mean, there's nothing wrong
Speaker 9: with a million. If you're single. That's one thousand dollars
Speaker 9: every week for twenty years.
Speaker 2: I reckon, you've put so much money into over the
Speaker 2: years that you'd be crazy that you're hopped and you
Speaker 2: couldn't stop now because you think it might be your turn.
Speaker 9: No, that's not the reason. I mean even I mean
Speaker 9: I haven't spent a million dollars. No, I wouldn't even
Speaker 9: spend a half a million dollars. I wouldn't even spend
Speaker 9: one hundred thousand dollars. You know, it takes a lot
Speaker 9: of gambling to spend that sort of money. But I
Speaker 9: know joggers are going to the casino and they've lost
Speaker 9: more than that in just a one night at the casino.
Speaker 9: Loto is not a bad thing. It's just that they've
Speaker 9: got the wrong idea. If they really want to attract people,
Speaker 9: don't put.
Speaker 2: A cap on it.
Speaker 9: Make the people. They have to pick the power wall,
Speaker 9: they have to pick the six numbers. Don't cap it
Speaker 9: at fifty million. Let it go to one hundred and
Speaker 9: fifty million, two hundred million. Then people will be chewing
Speaker 9: out every week. They'll have people who've never bought a
Speaker 9: ticket before will be chewing up because they know they're
Speaker 9: not going to have the share it. They're going to
Speaker 9: have to pick the exact numbers unless another person puts
Speaker 9: them the famed and you're still getting a huge amount.
Speaker 2: Nice to hear from you, Wayne, think you someone I'd
Speaker 2: like to pick up some of those points. I think
Speaker 2: it's these. They probably study it, they can do what
Speaker 2: they like. But I don't play lotto. I might play
Speaker 2: when it goes to fifty million once probably once every
Speaker 2: ten years. That's where I come in. Then we always
Speaker 2: have the DISCUSSI about how much would give away. When
Speaker 2: it gets up to give away eighty percent, I think, well,
Speaker 2: actually whire we bothering and then it gets complicated. Go
Speaker 2: back to one draw on a week. Get rid of Powerball.
Speaker 2: They still have Kino daily. Keino Marcus high Marcus. I've
Speaker 2: had three months in Europe. Mo neeed to walk the
Speaker 2: Camino in Spain. It's my last night away and I'll
Speaker 2: be back at Wellington tomorrow. It touches a few days
Speaker 2: ago stately home outside the Cambridge, UK my friend I
Speaker 2: walked along the English country footpaths and through woodlands to
Speaker 2: get to the Walpo house. And if you're listening to
Speaker 2: you and your callers from the other side of the planet,
Speaker 2: k love each other. Jesus. Thanks Kay well one police.
Speaker 2: She had a fantastic time. Quite envious of you on
Speaker 2: the Camino, So well done you. It's a great email
Speaker 2: to get get in touch about the mushroom trial. I
Speaker 2: don't believe she's set out to poison or kill those people.
Speaker 2: Plus there's no motive. I'm confident she'll be found, not guilty,
Speaker 2: literally over my dead body, while do you have individual
Speaker 2: portions of beef Wellington? Why did you concoct a cancer
Speaker 2: story to get people round? None of it's good? And
Speaker 2: then maligning the Asian food shops for selling your magic,
Speaker 2: for selling you deathcat mushrooms jeepers. Marcus g That man
Speaker 2: is a marvel. I've played Powerful from day one on,
Speaker 2: Marcus about three times and nothing over eighty dollars. This man,
Speaker 2: your talk to appears to win all the time. I
Speaker 2: don't believe his his wins anyhow. I follow race horses.
Speaker 20: Thank you.
Speaker 2: You like to say that it's one thousand dollars a week.
Speaker 2: I think you wanted me to push a bit deeper
Speaker 2: on that. Oh Hi, Susanne, it's Marcus. Welcome.
Speaker 22: Hello Marcus. Look, I vebantly sorry. I've got a bit
Speaker 22: of a kind of qroaky throat happening here. But I'm
Speaker 22: vehemently opposed to what the last man said about let
Speaker 22: the powerble get as high etc. As like it should.
Speaker 22: I missed out on the earlier bit of the conversation,
Speaker 22: so this may have already been explored, but I actually
Speaker 22: have a firm belief that if they tapped it at
Speaker 22: something like about twenty five million, and the dropdowns into
Speaker 22: the lower division would actually generate more interest with people.
Speaker 22: It's absolutely ridiculous to think that your average like let's
Speaker 22: just say Joe blogs or Joan blogs me win fifty
Speaker 22: million dollars wouldn't have a clue what to do with it.
Speaker 22: But as they got two point five million or five million,
Speaker 22: that's perfect to spread out amongst family and things. And
Speaker 22: the Lottery's commission have not done the odds on that
Speaker 22: sort of analysis. They are just presenting to government, let's
Speaker 22: do this, and the greater good would come from having
Speaker 22: more regular winners. Sorry, I haven't let you even talk yet.
Speaker 2: I think the way it works when it gets really high,
Speaker 2: they get so many people buying tickets, they make a fortune.
Speaker 2: It's all on hype. You need to get those big
Speaker 2: things because then people start talking about it, and even
Speaker 2: people that don't buy a lot of they're anxiety. You're
Speaker 2: going to buy a lot of only well, what's happening.
Speaker 2: It's fifty million. Jeepers, creepers. Even I get hocked on
Speaker 2: there because fifty million would be an extraordinary amount of money.
Speaker 2: You could do everything. I wouldn't have a problem spending
Speaker 2: fifty million.
Speaker 22: Oh really, what would you do, Marcus?
Speaker 2: Oh I wouldn't have a problem with it, good man.
Speaker 2: Oh No, I wouldn't at all. And but I I
Speaker 2: I'm not thinking I'm not going to buy because it's
Speaker 2: too much money? Would you know it? Would I have
Speaker 2: no problem spending it.
Speaker 22: I'm just like kind of looked back to that man
Speaker 22: who won twenty eight million being a supermarket person in Hamilton,
Speaker 22: and like he's now bankrupt and.
Speaker 8: What has you?
Speaker 2: He got married quite quickly afterwards.
Speaker 22: Didn't he, I believe. So, yeah, some gold diggers out
Speaker 22: there for sure.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I look at yea and they've got the machic. Yeah. Look,
Speaker 2: look that's a whole lother I mean, it is gambling
Speaker 2: after all. They want people to get addicted. But yeah,
Speaker 2: but nice to hear from you, Susan, Thank you, good evening, Patria.
Speaker 2: Sure it's Marcus.
Speaker 5: Welcome, good evening, Marcus. Lovely to speak to you to
Speaker 5: talk about the mushroom case. I've been following it from
Speaker 5: Australia and today I was watching and the judge is
Speaker 5: given a directive on about five subjects there only to
Speaker 5: discuss well, I couldn't having trouble with my eyes at
Speaker 5: the moment, so I couldn't see what the five subjects
Speaker 5: were on the screen. But anyway, she's awesome to talk
Speaker 5: all about these subjects. And she said that if they
Speaker 5: don't agree each one with each other, it would have
Speaker 5: to probably come into a hung jury. So did any
Speaker 5: of the listeners hear that.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 5: It has been going on over nine weeks now, and
Speaker 5: of course every question she's given, she lies on every question.
Speaker 5: But then recently she said she suffers from virtual depression,
Speaker 5: so that might have been another thing to cover up
Speaker 5: all the lies. I don't know, but I feel glad
Speaker 5: for her. A strange husband that didn't go. I bet
Speaker 5: he's pleased now.
Speaker 2: And although the children would have lost their mother because
Speaker 2: she'll go away for a long time, So I mean
Speaker 2: it is tragic.
Speaker 5: What are the children the day before? So they wouldn't
Speaker 5: be there as witnesses, and.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the family. The kids won't have their
Speaker 2: mother because she'll be in jail for a long time.
Speaker 5: Well, I the way it's going, I don't think she's
Speaker 5: going to be found guilty.
Speaker 2: Of course, you'll be found guilty anyway. Here are the questions. Okay,
Speaker 2: is did very much? Patricia? Patricia, Patricia is I've got
Speaker 2: the questions for you that you couldn't see. I'm going
Speaker 2: to read them to you.
Speaker 6: Okay, oh, good, good good?
Speaker 8: Ye?
Speaker 2: Did question one? Did miss Patterson cause the deaths of
Speaker 2: the lunch guests? If the jury is satisfied that, it
Speaker 2: can move on to element two number two? Did she
Speaker 2: do it deliberately? If that is satisfied, then the jury
Speaker 2: can ask question three, did she do it with intention
Speaker 2: to kill or cause serious injury? And if the panel
Speaker 2: is satisfied of that, it can arrange the final element,
Speaker 2: did missus Patterson commit the killings without a lawful justification
Speaker 2: or excuse such as self defense? Well, it's very clear
Speaker 2: the answer to all of those, isn't it. Yes she
Speaker 2: caused the death, Yes, she did deliberately. Yes she intended
Speaker 2: to kill them. No, she couldn't say there was an
Speaker 2: excuse of self defense because her life was in danger.
Speaker 2: So I think the way that is very clear that
Speaker 2: it's guilty.
Speaker 5: Jurisdiction. From the judge to the jury today, I had
Speaker 5: to talk about it. If they couldn't come, if need
Speaker 5: to agreement, it would become a u A hung jury.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever had beef Wellington. Judge said,
Speaker 2: have you ever had beef Wellington? Beg your pardon, dear,
Speaker 2: have you ever had beef Wellington?
Speaker 5: Beef Wellington? I'm ringing from Carpody Coast here.
Speaker 2: Brilliant, that's what we need today, Patricia. Yes, Patricia was
Speaker 2: asking you have you ever cocked beef Wellington?
Speaker 16: No?
Speaker 14: I haven't.
Speaker 5: And I'm ninety four today.
Speaker 2: Happy birthday very much?
Speaker 5: Wow, lovely day?
Speaker 20: And did you people coming in?
Speaker 5: Lots of flowers? And I had another lovely friend came
Speaker 5: in who'd been away for about four or five days
Speaker 5: up until WRONGA yes, and she arrived back and Wellington
Speaker 5: Diday and she was around well, the biggest ever seen,
Speaker 5: got all the lights on the candles, you know the
Speaker 5: automatic little lights you light, and took the photos and
Speaker 5: she's got me holding the cake with ninety four on
Speaker 5: us right now.
Speaker 2: And are you in a village or you on your own?
Speaker 2: Are you a home?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 5: No, no, I'm in my parents' family home.
Speaker 2: Great, well, the office of your parents aren't still there?
Speaker 5: No, they'd be into the hundred.
Speaker 2: Now, Oh, you do it anyway, and you move around
Speaker 2: all right?
Speaker 5: I beg your pardon.
Speaker 2: Do you do you move around all right?
Speaker 5: Well, no, I've got something wrong with the legs, and
Speaker 5: they told me it's age related. So I'm eating well
Speaker 5: and quite happy with my friends and bringing all my
Speaker 5: friends and jip and you know, keep the language going.
Speaker 5: Lived there for a long time.
Speaker 2: What were you doing in Japan?
Speaker 5: Beg your pardon, dear.
Speaker 2: What were you doing in Japan?
Speaker 5: I was on a cultural visa, yeares, But I wasn't
Speaker 5: allowed to work, you see, So my father shouted me
Speaker 5: over there, and I did the language at the university.
Speaker 5: So that gave me the book grammar to go on.
Speaker 5: But I speak a lot now of what do you say?
Speaker 5: It's not not book grammar colloquial, but anyway, I have
Speaker 5: a lot of fun with it, and I wring them
Speaker 5: every week. I've got quite a lot of friends, and
Speaker 5: they've been over in the past, and they came, you know,
Speaker 5: every time I needed them for my father's funeral and
Speaker 5: my mother's funeral, and also when my husband died at
Speaker 5: forty nine, they came again. And then they said after that,
Speaker 5: we're coming next year for you, And I said, oh no, no,
Speaker 5: I won't know you're here. They said, no, we're coming
Speaker 5: when you're alive. So I've been going back when I
Speaker 5: could Now I coun't now, but been going back many
Speaker 5: about five times after living there, and they've been coming here.
Speaker 5: So every time they came here, then they said, well
Speaker 5: now it's your turn, you see, So I had to
Speaker 5: keep going. But the only thing is now I've trouble
Speaker 5: with the walking. But as they said, it's age related.
Speaker 5: But I've still got a good appetite. So I thought
Speaker 5: that's the main thing, isn't it. You can eat?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 2: How old did you live, Patricia? How long did you
Speaker 2: live in Japan?
Speaker 19: For? Oh?
Speaker 5: Over a couple of years there? Oh great, yes, been
Speaker 5: everywhere all over the place except the north part of Japan, okay,
Speaker 5: But the people were marvelous, really great.
Speaker 2: Oh lovely to hear from you, Patrician. Happy birthday to you.
Speaker 2: Back on the text, Marcus, I have it unlucky Fred.
Speaker 2: He spent twenty dollars a week on lotter, but it
Speaker 2: started to save the money and spend a thousand and
Speaker 2: one go on each year. Instead he got a thousand
Speaker 2: worth of tickets and won nothing but bonus tickets for
Speaker 2: a while. In the end, he didn't get a single
Speaker 2: cash prize for his one thousand dollars. Marcus the guy
Speaker 2: repeats himself nine times over the Loto cap by but
Speaker 2: by the way, nobody accusing lotto shocks to buy tickets anymore.
Speaker 2: It's all brought on the my Lotto, h lucky shops.
Speaker 2: It's all on the my Lotto site. Done in less
Speaker 2: than a minute. Also no caps. Did it go to
Speaker 2: a billion dollars? Marcus the mushroom killer is guilty as
Speaker 2: I'm not sure at homes. But the evidence speaks for itself.
Speaker 2: It's not what you know, it's what you can prove
Speaker 2: in court. I had the privilege, I mean, seal one
Speaker 2: too good at the conclusion of nine to any one's
Speaker 2: telethought telethought. The Avalanche studios written Basil Brush were also
Speaker 2: on the bill of the will In and Extravaganza. Only
Speaker 2: one of those two hung around afterwards for the autographs.
Speaker 2: Needless to say, I didn't get to meet kiddy of
Speaker 2: it when the lights went off. Did have a met
Speaker 2: ivan owen boom boom, so many cues and say, oh,
Speaker 2: it's so much money, Lowell, And they are buying a
Speaker 2: ticket as a form of syner And I've heard it all,
Speaker 2: including that it should be divided to give more win
Speaker 2: as a cut. Go big or go home exactly. You
Speaker 2: want a big prize, No one wants it to spread
Speaker 2: it out for people. People want an indecent amount of money.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent thinks she's guilty. She's sold sony lies
Speaker 2: along the way. She's done multiple factory resets on the phone,
Speaker 2: and there's also a missing phone or two. She threw
Speaker 2: the d hydrond and nine of the foraging mushrooms and
Speaker 2: changed her mind, different colored plates, lies about councer phony
Speaker 2: Asian grocery store, a unanimous decision, worries me. I'm worried
Speaker 2: about the one dura who's on the fence. Then there's
Speaker 2: a polkinghorn mentioned, but that is what it is. You
Speaker 2: might have something else to say on this because it cold,
Speaker 2: it feels like it might be international news. Mainly, it's
Speaker 2: just about the heat and it'll catch fire soon europeucking
Speaker 2: just to mention that on Andrew O'Keefe from Deal and
Speaker 2: o'deal he's got to hand back his order of Australia
Speaker 2: because he got on the old glass barbecue. He's gone burger,
Speaker 2: he's been to rehab. They should let him have it.
Speaker 2: Good evening, Jonathan, It's Marcus welcome, good evening telethon.
Speaker 24: In the eighties, I worked at Tillivers and New Zealand
Speaker 24: based at Evalon and if you will recall and your
Speaker 24: listeners will recall, they had four people on the panel
Speaker 24: at the time. The big stars were kept at the
Speaker 24: prime time and then some of the minor personnelities from
Speaker 24: TV were on at other times. At one point They're
Speaker 24: One of the guest panelists was Keith Quinn and another
Speaker 24: guest panelists would teeth was a local Wellington actress called
Speaker 24: Donna Akisteine. Now Donna was well known to Wellington theatergoers
Speaker 24: downstage theater that sort of thing, but she really had
Speaker 24: never been on television before and she was obviously lapping
Speaker 24: it up and enjoying every moment of being on television,
Speaker 24: and you could see that Keith was just maybe getting
Speaker 24: a little bit irritated. Anyway, they had a challenge and
Speaker 24: some but he bought on a barbecue set and they
Speaker 24: had to cook tripe and onions and they challenged one
Speaker 24: of the panelists to come down and try the tripe
Speaker 24: and onions when it was cooled. So who decided to
Speaker 24: come down from the panel, Donna akistine. So she went
Speaker 24: down there, loving being in the camera, obviously irritating Keith
Speaker 24: a little bit. And when she tried it, you could
Speaker 24: see her face not really enjoying it. But they asked
Speaker 24: her what she thought of it, and she said, in
Speaker 24: a lovely French accent, or pretend French accent, Oh, yes,
Speaker 24: it does have a certain genes Sea choir. And by
Speaker 24: this time Keith was fed up and he said, been
Speaker 24: to Spain, have you?
Speaker 3: Donna?
Speaker 2: Ah, very good. Don't know if Keith Quinn comes out
Speaker 2: that when in that story, does he? Jonathan, No, Keith.
Speaker 24: Keith, he did. He did come out, actually, but he
Speaker 24: was just you could tell him. Donna was just, you know,
Speaker 24: trying to hold the limelight a bit too much. And
Speaker 24: Keith doesn't suffer fool slader. You would know him as
Speaker 24: I do, and he was just getting a little bit
Speaker 24: fed up with your hold getting the camera.
Speaker 2: Nice story, Jonathan, Thank you, good evening. Michael, Hi, Hi, Michael.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I wanted to talk to you about the mushroom trial. Yes,
Speaker 16: I suspect, strongly suspect that she's guilty, but I don't
Speaker 16: think they're going to reach the level of excluding reasonable doubt.
Speaker 2: How could there be reasonable doubt?
Speaker 16: Well, I think that there's she obviously lied about a
Speaker 16: whole lot of things. But then I mean, like the
Speaker 16: fact that she lied about the cancer, it's not really
Speaker 16: adding to the likelihood of guilt because I mean, she's
Speaker 16: actually set herself up to be suspected, where she could
Speaker 16: have just said, we'll come together to talk about her
Speaker 16: stomach stapling. You know, that's not actually I think you.
Speaker 2: Had tried to get them and they wouldn't come, so
Speaker 2: she had to come up with a good thing to
Speaker 2: talk about, who was going to look after the kids
Speaker 2: when she died or something?
Speaker 16: I think, Okay, the other thing about I mean a
Speaker 16: lot of the things that a lot of the things
Speaker 16: she did to cover up her traces, taking the dehydrated
Speaker 16: to the terp, the clearing the phones. You know a
Speaker 16: lot of those things look really bad, but they could
Speaker 16: also be explained by her just knowing that she's under
Speaker 16: suspicion and panicking and doing stupid things.
Speaker 2: So she hasn't killed them, then who has killed them?
Speaker 16: Well, she has definitely killed them. She's not even disputing
Speaker 16: that she's killed them. She's just claiming that she did
Speaker 16: it by accident, So that the first thing, Yeah, the.
Speaker 2: First question was but she can't she can't kill them?
Speaker 2: Makes sing because because she got you can't get those
Speaker 2: mushrooms at an Asian food store.
Speaker 16: No, No, she admitted foraging for them. She admitted foraging
Speaker 16: for mushrooms.
Speaker 2: And I thought she made out she'd brought them for
Speaker 2: an Asian food store.
Speaker 16: At one stage she talked about that, but then she
Speaker 16: admitted that she had done foraging for mushrooms. She accepted
Speaker 16: that that's how she must have. They must have been
Speaker 16: in the beast Wellington.
Speaker 2: And the individual portions a different colored plate.
Speaker 16: That's yeah, the individual portions, I mean that's not particularly damning,
Speaker 16: but the color the other plate thing is certainly raised
Speaker 16: the suspicions, but I don't think it's beyond reasonable doubt.
Speaker 16: And the other thing that she did, which was the
Speaker 16: strongest thing really for you know, for the likelihood of guilt,
Speaker 16: was that she didn't get sick or seriously sick and
Speaker 16: that but she explained that by being beliemate, that she
Speaker 16: vomited it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the the toxicology show that she had not
Speaker 2: had any mushrooms.
Speaker 16: That she had no mushrooms at all death caps? Okay,
Speaker 16: but that could that have been explained by vomiting quickly.
Speaker 2: Well imagined you'd absorbed it because it was a while
Speaker 2: lad that she vomited, wasn't it.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: I mean there's a lot, there's a lot for the
Speaker 2: jury to get their head around. I mean, it's complicated,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 16: It is complicated. And it's also like, if she's found
Speaker 16: not guilty, it's almost a green light for anybody to
Speaker 16: use death cap mushroom.
Speaker 2: And it would be a total outcry out the Aussies alike.
Speaker 2: I mean, there would be a total outcry.
Speaker 16: Yeah, it will be real, be a real concern. But
Speaker 16: I can still but they can't. You can't find somebody
Speaker 16: guilty because it's going to be you know, because it's
Speaker 16: going to set it dangerous.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 16: You can only find on whether you've excluded reasonable doubt.
Speaker 16: And I really don't think you're going to get a
Speaker 16: unanimous guilty jury on excluding reasonable doubt. I think it
Speaker 16: will be either not guilty or it'll be a hung jury.
Speaker 2: But you certainly think she's guilty, right I do?
Speaker 9: I do?
Speaker 16: I think, I mean, I think that there's a high likelihood,
Speaker 16: But yeah, I just don't think they're going to I
Speaker 16: don't think they're going to get there.
Speaker 2: I mean, the juris, like you and me, are probably
Speaker 2: the same. They think, well, you know what cheap is creepers,
Speaker 2: She's as guilty as anything.
Speaker 16: Yeah, And if I was on the jury, i'd be
Speaker 16: I'd be thinking that I think she's done it. But
Speaker 16: I don't think I could have concluded reasonable doubt.
Speaker 2: It's not reasonable doubt you have coming up with an
Speaker 2: extraordinary doubt. Isn't it that that that that there's there
Speaker 2: could be a unique taught sort of situation that means
Speaker 2: it was an accident.
Speaker 16: I think that that I'm not sure if the one
Speaker 16: thing that they could really find, you know, really strong evidence,
Speaker 16: and I'm not sure if they if they got there,
Speaker 16: I was following it, but not closely enough to discover
Speaker 16: whether they proved that she had actually gone to those
Speaker 16: locations and foraging those exact locations that were on that
Speaker 16: that were targeted, you know, that were I don't think.
Speaker 2: I don't think they could get the details for that year.
Speaker 16: That would I think that's what they needed to get
Speaker 16: to really prove that she had intentionally foraged for deathcats.
Speaker 2: Nice to talk, Michael. I guess we'll find a result tomorrow.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm expecting. That's it for me. People, Romance
Speaker 2: along next and enjoy your July white rabbits and all that.
Speaker 2: I will catch you again tomorrow.
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