It was a ham for the ages (October 2 2026)

0:00You're listening to the Marcus Lush Knight's podcast from News Talks at B. Greetings, good evening and welcome. This is the Friday freefrew, which is the freefrew that is Friday. Forting all Northland versus Southland. Nice day in South and finally Vanessa's there with the kids. I'm going to boy there with an 11th birthday party, so they are at the rugby. What are they said about that? It's a exciting game actually. It hasn't been a game down here for a couple of weeks, so yeah, that's exciting. Northland might have just gone over. I'll bring this to school. I still 14, all just done 40 minutes to go. Second half is just started. Nice to look into the sky there. I'm singing on TV, the violet, the sky, the colors, the big sky looking great. Of course, the sun still up down here. How are you? What's happening? Get in touch, Marcus. Watch Marcus till 12. A lot to say tonight. Well, I have a little to say. Now first off, firstly a confession and a reminder and then a discussion.

1:04Firstly, my confession. I'm not a mad Christmas obsessive. I find the season sometimes underwhelming and sometimes stressful and the run up to it. I get better at these things each year. I kind of cope better with it. But yeah, I'm not. I'm not kept in Christmas. Let's just put it that way. However, this is still my confession. I enjoy talk back discussions about the preparations towards Christmas. I feel that is part of my duty. And I take that duty extremely seriously. And tonight, two of the stars have aligned. The first star that aligned was I got an email from Kevin Hyde, Jr. Hello from Australia, Marcus. Kevin starts. I note you always show interest in muttonham about this time of the year. I came across this Facebook page today of a place that makes something you see in which maybe of interest to you.

2:04Best wishes, Kevin Hyde. So if you're like me, someone that wants to order a muttonham, then now is the time to start ordering them. Now, why do I like to mention muttonham? Basically, I enjoy saying the word because it sounds such an oxymoron. Because other than a ham was a ham, never muttonham. I mean, that is the working class ham. So tonight, I will reveal we can get a good muttonham because there will be some people out there that is the taste of nostalgia. Once upon a time when ham wasn't so plentiful in the colonies, we'd have a muttonham. Otherwise, no one is a colonial goose. So you're now as your time to start ordering your muttonham if you want to do that. The other thing that I can tell you, because I said to be a confession and then a reminder my confession was about Christmas, the other thing I can tell you are a reminder about is that today it is 12 weeks to Christmas. And 12 weeks to Christmas, if I Google that and thanks for the reminder, 12 weeks to Christmas, is the time to make your Christmas cake.

3:06So if I Google, when should you make a Christmas cake? They say it's today. I think it's today. Yeah, when should you make a well-appregnancy test, make dinner, when, yeah, anyway, when should you make, see, when should you take creating? When should you take a pregnancy test? When should you take creating? And the day when should you make a Christmas cake? And the first thing that comes up is the second of October. Bake your rich fruit cake starting early. Let's say fruit mature and prevents the cake from coming when you cut it. So today is the day to start making your Christmas cake. So get your one card, your one plus card, and go and get your fruitments. So whatever your fruit, I don't even know what's it called that stuff. It's not fruitments. Anyway, now is the time to start making your Christmas cake. If you're doing that today as we speak, gosh, wouldn't that be an exciting feeling? If you're making your Christmas cake just as the nighttime announcement said now is the time to make your Christmas cake. So now is the time to make your Christmas cake. Do it tonight. Get involved. That's what you want to be doing. Go buy your mixed fruit. Is that what it's called? I can tell you something about Christmas cakes too, because I do the show every year.

4:12People under 50, they don't like Christmas cake. They, flavour palette has changed. They like a macaron or a, what are the young people like? They're not so big on the, or a, they're not so big on the thick, heavy cakes, but you know, there'll be people listing over 50 hours of time to make that Christmas cake. So go do it. Do it. Today is the day that you get Christmas sorted. It was started the countdown. So today is the day to get your Christmas mutton ham ordered, and start making your Christmas cake. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. We're just about to go to try, but we didn't. Get in touch. Mark is still 12, 0, 880 to 80. Now it is the Friday free for all. So tonight anything goes is for, that's the entry level topic. If you want to make your Christmas cake or a mutton ham, they are two fairly strong topics for the show. Wow. Anyway, get in touch. 0, 880. Someone says, what about a hog at ham? You could do that. Someone says, yeah, I love Christmas. So have you made your Christmas cake today? If you have your, if you're a free, well organised, I'd like to hear from you. Have you ordered your Christmas ham? Have you ordered your Christmas mutton ham?

5:14Or a lamb ham? That's what I've been reminded to do. That's how I might process some of my sheep. So 12 weeks away. The other thing I want to mention, and this was a topic suggestion I had thought about, but I was surprised to still get these suggestions of Christmas and mutton ham and Christmas cakes. I was read an article last night before I went to sleep, right? It was an article from America, and it got me thinking, in America, one statistic has gone off a cliff. There's one statistic that's happened in America and people cannot work out why it's happened. And I'm going to tell it to you straight, and I think the same thing's happened in New Zealand. It was a pure research survey. And when I'm going to say this, you're going to think, that is right. What's happened? I don't want to over-hype it, but what I'm going to say, the number of people attending or having dinner parties at home has gone off a cliff. No one doesn't anymore. No one has dinner parties. Just doesn't happen.

6:14And ask yourself, when was the last time you went to a dinner party? And why have we stopped doing that? Have we become more isolated? Is it because we've got TVs and surround sound and we're eating front of the TV? Why are we not having dinner parties anymore? It's just completely gone off a cliff. No one's doing it. I'd think the last dinner party I would have gone to would be 15 years ago. But it's different than Christmas barbecue when you're staying at guests and you know someone's caught the fish and it's on the barbecue. But a dinner party round to someone's house, there we go, you know, around you come, here we go with your fry pan or with your crock pot, you've brought something in you go. Never happens. It's something that as an event has completely disappeared. Is that your experience? Why do you think that is? Very interesting. That's so there's three things to start off with tonight. Mutton, hams, Christmas cakes and dinner parties. Why have we stopped having them? Have a think about that? Have we got smaller houses? One of the reasons I think they've said is we're all too excited on our children. We spend too long fearing our children from place to place. We spend many more hours with our children than we used to.

7:1920 years ago the kids had bring themselves up. You put them in the rumpus room with the TV, the guests had come around, you crack open the cask wine and that would be it. No one's doing that anymore. So the dinner party has disappeared. So I've read some of your comments on that. I'm realizing it's a Friday. We take what we can get on a Friday. The number is 080081080. If you want to start the whole ball rolling, Christmas hams, Christmas, mutton hams, Christmas cakes and dinner parties. Why did we stop going to them? Is it dietary issues? Is everyone these days a glutamaniac or something? Or a... or a... Vigian. I don't know what it is, but no one's having dinner parties. And it's right, two no one's got them. I mean we have people around to dinner on a Sunday people come around. But it's not a dinner party. Mind you we're not big drinkers. I'll by the way too. I'm not someone that talks, I don't know about my relationship with my partner Vanessa. But today Vanessa and I assembled, reassembled, a kit set, bank and under two hours with zero conflict from go to wo.

8:29This double bank I've probably put up in different places three times now. She said, should we put up the bank I said yes. I said, you know where the bolts are, she said yes. I said, you know where the Allen key is, she said I'm not sure. We found the bolts. Every single bolt was there. We found the Allen key and it went up like you would not believe. Probably an hour, twenty minute. We did one thing wrong. And it wasn't it's... yeah, unbelievable. So that's the test of a true relationship if you can do that. Kitset furniture goodness gracious me. So I think I've nailed life today. Anyway, haven't managed to Christmas cake. We haven't made one. Jamie at smarkers good evening and welcome. Me. Yeah, you Jamie welcome. Hey man. Oh, just a mutton him. That takes you like a blast from a blast. I wanted to blast you. 19, 1990, 1993. So I was a 19 year old guy that had hooked up with a solo man with two kids.

9:31And I was trying to convince somebody with a Christmas and they were the whole thing and that just did horror and you should have eight from the last guy. And so we are so you like the white night. I will. Well, yeah, that's a long story, but I tried and the best I could do because I mean a print of. No, well, yeah, and there will not a lot of fatten the system. And then I thought I was trying to convince him and I'll try to hook up because she would have hot and as you're I mean, yeah, you arrived Christmas Eve with a mutton him. And I arrived with a mutton him. I got the girl got the kids became a solo dad. Yeah, and the rest is history. Because you did it. You did Christmas, but you did Christmas to your budget. So you're arriving and saying, hey, I'm a humble worker, but this is a ham. It's a mutton ham, but I'm here. And let's go. I love it.

10:42That's it. It's almost like an episode of Walton's mountain. It's just so moving, Jamie. What did you become a solo father? Oh, Jamie, Jamie, Jamie, Jamie, Jamie, Jamie, Jamie, Jamie, Jamie. Do you mean step five? Five, five, five, five, five plays to be fair? Do you mean a stepfather? Hang on. Do you mean stepfather or solo father? No, no, the first two were my stepfather. Okay, that's all I hear. I've heard enough. Perhaps a good story. Tim, it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome. You know, Marcus, Tim, yeah, you're right about that. Dino thing. I'm about 50. It's gone. I know. And we didn't even notice. Yeah, but I think there's a few things that I'll throw into the mix. I think, you know, 50. So I might when I was 10, my parents used to do it, probably only the kids used to have to do the dishes and all these people sit around and drink and eat and stuff. It was pretty much the host did everything. So they did the whole course and everything that you invite out for dinner. Well, maybe it's a generation thing where nowadays it's actually cheap to dine out.

11:49We're actually busy. So someone basically at home that wants to spend the whole day cooking the meal for the friends. I've always just sort of a, you know, a lot of well. Yeah. But I think that whole dinner thing where maybe it's a big thing to organize people come around. Secondly, it's probably cheap to eat out and you don't have the dishes and stuff. Maybe it's not like that. But I do remember and I mentioned drink driving to Kushe. Yeah, they get you know, I'll German get him and I will be right to drive. They'll go take the back roads out round Bucklands Bay. They'd go. Yeah, but that was the thing. Why not? You're probably right there. I think yeah, maybe international two because you've been in the London you go out. You don't care people around. I'm so maybe it's an international thing to but it's probably yeah. Those days are probably gone. The other thing to bloody expensive to get people around right because back then you could probably be legal and for 20 bucks. They need probably too legal and I'm sure I'm trying and it's going to cost you $120. It's expensive. Maybe two. Maybe that's one other thing. One thing we do is quite cool with just magazine and our friends basically once a quarter we get together and basically everyone does the together that magazine. That's pretty cool.

12:55But yeah, is that is that magazine good is it you will when you say you have it. You don't own the magazine. You will get the magazine. Is that right? Yeah, you're right. See, right? Get some magazine in the just say, yeah, everyone does something. I think it's pretty cool. Yeah, the potluck days and I suppose that's other things pretty cool because it's helps the cost but. Yes, or a congeneration costs also options to eat in out a pretty cool now. If you get if you only catch up with make should go out to dinner. Wouldn't you wouldn't have them to come round because that's right. Both people are working and they it'll take a day to. Yeah, that's right. Maybe, but yeah, good show mate. I've got no idea what a mutton ham is. I've joined late. There's a driving. So what is a mutton ham? Well, it's it's like a ham but it's mutton. What do you think? Well, it's quite good. Yeah, and it's it's a tasted salty give it a go. It'll be in dish makers in eventually 23 past eight. Marcus also you love your respect and kindness towards your partner Vanessa lovely family. Genie, thank you, Genie. Yeah, no, we can put a bank together.

14:00Not many people could do that. That's the true test. I don't think we could be on a reality show doing it. Anyway, someone said people can't be bothered cleaning the houses. What if that's part of it? We've all seen all these home makeover homes and we've got sort of home shame. Because you know, someone's probably got those flash cupboards and the infinity doors and all that sort of stuff. But why don't we have dinner parties anymore? Never. But let me know if you're having them still because I'd like to be part of that. There was that program. Good guesses covered dinner. That was good. Wasn't it for a while? Boy, there was some tricky people on that. Just had alcohol and watch the fights erupt. Unbelievable. 24 past eight. Someone has emailed me and good on them for that. I order high markets. I audibly gasped and my blood pressure shot up when you mentioned those kitset banks. All my interactions with flat pack furniture have been harrowing. Well, we did it with no instructions and not even known if we had the right number of screws and no tools. That's right. People have had to flag dinner parties because no one has parking at their home anymore.

15:02And everyone's self-diagnosed with food intolerances nowadays. So who can be bothered catering to people's special needs? That's right. You have to ring them beforehand and say, are you gluten intolerant? Or are you just intolerant? Are you a saliriac? Get in touch, markets. Or 12,088. Why don't we have dinner parties anymore? So who still has dinner parties? Tell me about that. And who room is the good? Why did we used to have them so much? I suppose it was there else to eat. Now you meet people at the food court, I suppose. Then someone gets in the end and someone has a burger and someone has a pizza. Someone has a tempeh stack with chain as a country we have changed. But America, it's through the cliff. No one's doing it. No one's doing it. The number of people going to dinner party regularly is through the floor. My name is Marcus Heddle. The number is 0880.1080. And 9292.10. You want to come through here till 12.

16:08Chris Mutt and Ham's, Chris Mutt and Kate, who's done the cake today? Oh, there's other stuff you want to talk about. I'm at the end of my, I'm not at the end of my 10, but I'm at the end of my week. So jump in. And some say the dinner party might be coming back to, but yeah, I don't know if that's something you want to talk about also. 0880.1080.9292.10. You're doing it come through. Get your emails going. Yes, yes, yes, yes. 14, all still seems like it's quite a good game of rugby. So the number is 0880.1080.9292.10. If you want to be a part of it. When they might come back, they might not the dinner party. You need a bigger house. You need one of those. Remember there for a while on. And I'm thinking of those pictures. I think of the show, the block, the Aussie show, the block. You watch those home renovation shows for a while there. They're building houses with kitchens and then beyond the kitchen was another kitchen. Like a secret kitchen where you could take with a pots and pans for your dinner party. But look, I'm just not going to them bearing in mind I do work nights. But why have we stopped having dinner parties? It's the discussion for tonight.

17:14And Christmas Ames and Mutton Ames and Christmas cakes if you're making those today. This is the right day. Because today is 12 weeks before Christmas. That is everything. I talk about this to be nice to hear from you 0880.1080. Someone has emailed me their name is Bridge. Hi, I'm the dinner party queen. Have eight for dinner tomorrow night. We live in the country but can ring a drive if we need one. I love it. My guests always bring the nibbles and their favorite tipple. I do the main end dessert. It's the best night great food, great company, best music. I get tired of going out to restaurants and paying far too much for food and wine, bring on the dinner parties, bridge out the coming back. And once upon a time you had special bags to carry your sort of your bottle of wine as you went to someone's house for a dinner party. That's a great thing. And long way this continues a discussion. 28 to 9 still 14 all. I think south it will be happy with the drawer after their season. Remember we're up against the ran fairly shield holders.

18:14Although they have lost it. I'm a familiar with that dinner parties. Oh yeah. 27 to 9. David at smarkest good evening. Oh, hello. Hi, David. Welcome. Hello, Nathan. How can I Nathan? Yeah, yeah, great. I've got a theory. I think people were so like hung up on their cell phones. It's like social media that we're not directly this much anymore. How do you feel about that? I think you're absolutely right. So David, sorry, Nathan just changed that name. So Nathan is what you're saying that we were so bored that what we were doing is that we were going out and having dinner at each other places, because it was a thing to do. And now we're just scroll through different videos on Facebook. Pretty much. Yeah. Thank you. Right. Yep. And that seems to be the reason and people spend more time parenting with their kids now. The kids probably get a lot more attention. Not that I think that's a good thing. When did you last go to one?

19:18We go to the more the time we live in the country. We live out in little river and we're sort of living quite a rural community. So we're still quite connected with like community values and things. So it's yeah. And you country fate would be all right driving after a couple. Is that right? Particularly. No. No, no, no. We're pretty responsible. But what did this woman say that she said we live in the country that can bring a driver if we need one? Well, that be a mate. Sorry. This email before says we live in the country, but can bring a driver if we need one? Who would people? People don't ring dial a driver in the kitchen. Would they just call a mate to take pick up some people? Oh, look, I like the local Kevin like the little river Kevin. They like the purity band. You know, to try and encourage people to go down here. Never meet Ella, you know, see each other. Yeah. So. There it is.

20:18Nice to talk. Nathan. Thanks so much. Peter. It's Marcus. Good evening and welcome. Have a good day. Good to see you. I think it's a great thing about the dinner parties and look up. I think dinner parties are well. You think they're in. Yeah, no, I think I don't understand how people can afford to go and eat out. I mean, so expensive. Yes. You know, and the so controlled, but when you have a dinner party at someone's house, they're so fun. So Pete, tell me about your circumstance. Are you having dinner parties? Yes, definitely. And we live out in the country. And yeah, no, it's a. So how many how many how many would you be having? Well, I'm Bob. I mean, we probably have one a month, you know, we'll go to one. Yeah. Either having one or going to one one a month. Yeah. Have you got. Have you got. If you got. If you got ship cats of meat, have you got home kill? Maybe. But. No, not generally. I mean, it's just about the camaraderie and the.

21:24I'm into it, but people say it's. But what would you serve, Pete? Oh, yeah, no, a chopper or sausage. I don't know what you serve. It's relevant. Okay. So this is not getting together and this is not a good time. This is not a summer barbecue. This is sit down, place settings. This is a dinner party. It's not that formal really. I mean, you know, you don't need place settings. I mean, we have knife in fork, obviously. But I just think they have a real place to, you know, that. I love you. I love your country. What were about you? Pete, I don't want to know too precisely, but is it like cantebrero, taigo or wakata or were about? I know in Canterbury, Struggle's flat. Yeah, okay. But no, I think that, you must go to a few. Well, I work most nights and no, I haven't been to one for 15 years. We go to parties with his dinner. No, there's a big difference. Is there? Okay.

22:24Well, what, dinner parties sort of just more intimate, isn't it? You know, three or four couples, you know, that dinner party parties. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not on that circuit, Pete. I'm not doing three or four couples at dinner parties. I'm not on that rhombus. No, no, you're not wrong age or? No, well, I don't know. Well, we're not the country. We're not the country. I imagine if we go, if we're not, if we're elsewhere, we'd be doing it, but not so much in bluff. We have connections elsewhere that would be on the dinner party circuit, but not so much in our hometown. Well, I don't think it's a circuit. How many couples, how many couples is in Stragolus flat with you? How are there eight people altogether? Correct reply. No, no, no, no, they're quite a click tick. So, you know, they can be from all over the show. And generally, don't have the same couples. Oh, yeah.

23:25You know, for three or four months, six months of time. Are you a museo? No, do I sound like a museo? I don't know. I just thought when you said, oh, I thought there might be someone brings out the guitar afterwards and there's some singing or... No, no, it's just about connecting. You know, people you haven't seen for a while. Did you say Stragolus flat? Is that a nickname for Canterbury or is that a place in Canterbury? Anyway, in Canterbury, it's not a name as well. I've always called it a name. I like it. I'll be using that. Stragolus flat. 21 away from 9. Thanks, Pete. I welcome here to 12. Marcus, just because you're not being invited doesn't mean there are... Well, no, there's a thing when we're hearing a resounding. They're not happening. Great topic, Marcus. Our families have dinner parties. Maybe because cheese is so expensive, not many people have the fondos. Marcus, do you remember the days of the old progressive dinner? That's when you'd go to three or four different houses, with each house catering for a different course. We drove after having a few wines and now we even had accidents.

24:30I used to love progressive dinners. Yeah, that's right. That's what they call confirmation bias. That because that person has gone to a number of dinner parties and in Toxia, between them, not killed anyone. She thinks that no one got killed from people going to dinner parties, which probably was not the case. We used to have mutton hams for Christmas, growing up and older as well. They were tasty, perfect. Dad was a South Suffolk breed on the local butcher would do it for us. I would definitely have it every week if possible. 29. That is a sound of me failing to have made a coffee in the coffee breaks. They're not quite long enough. My gosh, you thought the ad breaks would be that long. Now, here we go. Marcus, our friends quite often meet for dinner, but we each bring a course. One thing I do is go to a cookbook club once a month. Each month there's a theme. And this Sunday is your death row meal, great show, cheers, char. How do we feel about having a death row meal as a theme in lights of what happened in Tennessee?

25:33Maybe they decide on a theme before what happened in Tennessee. If I went to a death row meal, I would be consumed. I was going to die on the drive home. And then people would say, oh, well, you know, people would say things like, oh, well, it was very fitting for Marcus. He had just eaten his death row meal. And I'd be freaked out by that. I'm not superstitious, but I wouldn't mess with a death row meal. It would add completeness for the universe, because they are well, you know. That's what he would have wanted. Anyway. Marcus, if dinner parties aren't a thing, what is this whine-a-caribs session? Were the ripping out perfectly good kitchens to install the latest in duck ceramic induction, blah, blah, blah, and toss the perfectly good white we're out for stainless fridge? And don't forget the kitchen island to take up more room into the cost of your everpriced house. I even use someone to flick their stainless steel coffee machine on by-cell for 400 to buy the same one in black for 1100. People got too much time. Why don't I know what people have got?

26:34I think some people live too far from the sea. I think that's strange things to people too far in land. Get in touch, Marcus. Still 12. Marcus, love your topics. Tonight, I'm based in Auckland. Would love to buy a mutton help. Can you help? Dave, I'm kind of conflict about the button, ham. Because someone's sending the details of a place that does a good mutton ham. But I don't want to publicize that until I've ordered mine. So yeah, I will text you the information and then just you because you've asked so nicely. Because if I talk it up, yeah, no, I can't find the damn email. It's complicated that I'm doing about eight things at once today. Anyway, Marcus, till 12, we are talking. Why does no one have dinner parties anymore? That's something that you want to pine on or talk on. That's the major topic. It's also today is 12 weeks since Christmas, two Christmas. So today is the day you should be making your Christmas cake. Because you can feed it and you can, I've never made one.

27:34I probably have actually. I'll wait 1080 to that E15 to 9 if you want to come through. I've sent that guy the email address for the place to get the mutton ham. Very good Susan. Susan, quick as a quick as a wink. Death throw meal would be worried if a beef Wellington was served just saying. Enjoy your show Susan. Marcus, I think the pace of life seems to have sped up so much. People's downtime is precious and a lot just can't be bothered. If the dinner party happens to be on a weekend night, some might have been working all day and the effort is too much to go out maybe. We used to have dinner parties regularly and like the guy from Strugglers Flats said, it's all about connection, not necessarily of food and during the show. Congratulations to you and your partner on the Happy Construction project. And Keisha, you can't, you can't, we're nights are crazy with kids and food and, well, I'm at work obviously, but yeah, Northland's running away with this match.

28:34I'm one coffee behind. I'm going to, I've bought the kettle. I'm going to make my coffee and I come back and talk to you DB. DB, it's Marcus, good evening and welcome. You did it again. You made me laugh out loud with your comments. They live too far from the sea. What a great. I've always got problems with people that live so too. Yeah, I'm drawn to the coast. You can only live by 169 kilometres from the sea. You can't live any further away. So, DB, can I just, can you just indulge me? Do you think there should be a marker to signify New Zealand's most inland point? There is. It's in Gaston. Just down from DB, I think if you go after this call and tap into your machine, I think you will find that's not entirely correct, but it is an arbitrary decision.

29:37I think Gaston was quite in the middle. Yes, but settlement. But then I think Bannockburn became a settlement and that took over and then since then it's moved. So yes, it's quite contentious. Anyway. So, DB, you're dealing steep and steep with these. Yeah, in light caps, there's a couple of couples that host a regular. Sit down, dinner and my flatmate usually provides a lot of the cooking for it. Oh. And I put it to Huna. Is it catered? Is it catered? Not so much catered, but everyone's really much a good cook. So, you almost invariably turn up with something tasty. Wow. Okay. So, you're not on that circuit. You're not, because you'd be good dinner party company, but you don't go. Yeah, no, I'm excluded because I'm a mouthy trick. But the one that I am invited to, but I can't get.

30:40Look, I know who I am. The one I am invited to, but I can't get to Zappat to eat a Huna. And he has a barrel party most Sunday night. He's turned up with wine and his wife, who's another fantastic cook, puts on the food. And it's very, very eclectic. They run an Airbnb. So, if they've also got people staying at the Airbnb who are of the right type, they'll get invited as well. Wow. And they have some fantastic nights, which he really, really up and explains to me on the Monday morning, just to peeve me off. Why is it called a barrel party, DB? Because they've actually literally got a rather large wine barrel in the middle of their lounge. And they all sit around that and eat. They've got a full size formal dining table, but they'll also congrade around the wine barrel.

31:40Are you not too meldy for that crowd to still get asked, or have you become meldy as soon as you moved away? No, no, I'm of the right personality. The problem with the one in nightcaps is, you want an eye-start to look at it with each other like a married couple. Okay. And they just got pissed off with us and said, look, leave David at home. No, I'm okay. And of course, the thing about nightcaps should have to have a dinner party because your nearest restaurant would be summer in Winton or something, or Riverton. That you'd have to travel to find a... Yeah, hometowns got quite a good pub. Yes, meals. But yes, restaurant. Ooh, yeah, no. Winton or maybe every say, yeah, Riverton. Okay. Nice to talk. By the way, there's loud bangs and invaggled that as the fireworks. I can see them on the TV screen. I can text screen. I can hear them in the studio. Hey Marcus, hey, you hear his by two cents. No money left for dinner parties with the cost of food these days.

32:43Even with potluck, so many people have dietary restrictions. We're so time poor and jugging the evenings during the week and then being too exhausted on the weekends. A lot of it's down to the cost of living, I think, 30 plus years ago, with one income being enough to sustain a family, would mean the mums and wives would have time to prepare dinner parties for their social circle. Love your show. Thanks so much for that. Outro and butchers do mutton, ham, try conning them, Kate. And I got my sauce. Marcus just spoke to my southern family and gore a potluck dinner at their place tomorrow night. Four couples. So southern people are great at gatherings, genie. Marcus, I think people nowadays can't cook properly due to takeaways and uber eats. I do worry about that. I do wonder that people probably can cook. Can't cook won't cook. We're talking about the death of the dinner party. It's also 12 weeks till Christmas. You should be working your Christmas cake today. You should be ordering your mutton ham and bringing back and popularizing the mutton ham. I'm excited to see more and more places are making them now.

33:43They are having something of a revival. Although last year I did a ham ham and it was delicious. We still talk about it. Actually, I still talk about it. I surprised myself with how good it was. I think it was the cloves. Was the cloves in the air? It was good. Was a ham for the ages. It's a good start to strong start. Get in touch. Come here during the news I'll be here. I'll wait 188.89 to... We're on my kids at the rugby on the fields at them. Looking, looking, looking. Anywho, be a part of what you want to talk on here. 0880.89292.2 to text. If you want to be a part of it, that's what we are about tonight. So do come through. Get in touch. Heitel 12 o'clock tonight. So yes, anything else you want to talk about? Be nice to hear from you. So get in touch. 0880.080.9292. Whether you're through to midnight, Jim stood along at 12. Looking 40... Like we are talking dinner parties. And Martin Hams. And who's... I thought someone would be making the cake tonight.

34:44Greetings, welcome. 0880. 108... Ah! Yeah, 0880. 108.9292.2 to text. Marcus, till 12. We're talking dinner parties. What's happened to them all? The number of people going to dinner parties has fallen off a cliff. No one's doing it. And why is it... It's happening in America. It's happening in New Zealand. 70s and the 80s, it's all we did in the 90s. Now you go a year and now I ask you to do it. It just doesn't happen. Michael, it's Marcus, welcome. Good evening. Yeah, you can. That was true. I have to do this too. Yeah. Can you say, vital? Did you make your own tube put it? Yeah. You know the sugar is on. It's quite a bit engulfed. How is there a crack? It's really good. I'm going to do this. I can... Yeah, hi, Michael. Hi, my friend Michael has gone to the bathroom. I've been Stephen's here, though.

35:46So someone called before the news could call Michael to talk about dinner parties. Is that person no longer there? He's just gone to the bathroom. Can you just sort the metal of it? Make sure they're put to ear. I can't quite work at what's going on. Anyway, he told 12.9292.1. Marcus, good evening. Marcus, Japan and Korea used to import a lot of mutton to process into hams. This was at least 40 to 50 years ago when large export volumes increased. I couldn't think anything worse than going to dinner parties. I just said to people bragging and boasting about their kids, their holiday jobs, houses, etc. Marcus, I did a ham last Christmas low and slow for six hours on the Trigger pellet smoker. Fill off the bone, melt on the mouth, so, so good. Marcus, I'm going to take the ZB radio talk back on it. I heard you talk about Christmas parties tonight, but I can't phone you as I'm in a hospital with his four hours in the room. I've just had major surgery last Friday night. I just want if you could text me also where I get a mutton ham. Google it. Great show. I will keep it a secret, but where do you get your mutton ham?

36:47Also, what is it? I just do a small ham, definitely with clothes, pint of orange and what he's sweetness, how a sourced a teaspoon of five spices. Anyway. Marcus, one of the pleasures of giving dinner parties 65 years ago when I was first married was that we had beautiful wedding gifts and we had an opportunity to put out the silver fish knives and the crystal bowls and set the table beautifully special times. Anyway. Getting touched by our talking, let me just take my juicy off. Let me play and take a break. We're never going to know what Paul was going to say. He's gone burger. Anyway, rude. He's the 12 Dean at Smarkis, good evening and welcome. Yeah, get out of the market. I'm going to look at dinner parties in my time. I'm 61 in the 70s. They were at late. They were kind of like in summer in the afternoon. And they were lazy with people from business, friends and colleagues that would come over there. Excuse me. And it will be barbecue wasn't that big,

37:50but they were there, sausages and all that. But there was loads of floaties and sandwiches and all that. Lots of kids of our way and all that. And the dinner parties were really cool, but they weren't like dinner party like at late night. That's why I remember dinner parties in the 70s. But no one seems to be entertaining at home these days, are they? They're not doing it at all. No, they're not. When was the last time in your neighborhood you saw cars parked and people walking down the road with a salad and a bottle of wine and a hissing bag. Used to be the sound of the suburbs now you never see it. I think in COVID they probably did that. There was quite a few doing that. And they sort of brought it back up, but it sort of died again. But no, no, you're right, Mark, it's died of death. Can you remember the last dinner party at someone's house you went to?

38:52But that's a street party. It's a difference between a street party and dinner party. Dinner party was like when you had family and friends, colleagues and all that. And that's what my dad used to do. Street parties kind of different. We have locals coming to work. So a dinner party was like, it was more like friends and family and work colleagues. And couple of local neighbors because they were always close. It's a bit different from a street party. Do you know what I mean? So you'd agree it's not happening at all now. Yeah, it's gone. Mate, it's gone. Why don't you stand? Totally gone. Gone bigger. Dinner parties, why do they disappear? 14 past nine, Marcus, till 12. I think there's someone text. I think there's so many couples splitting up and living solo with kids that dinner parties are a bit tricky to organize. Well, yeah, it was a challenge. Marcus, the decline of dinner parties can be linked to the proliferation of TV cooking shows. They've created an expectation of glorious fear that could never be met.

39:55I think there's an element of truth in that. And I think there's an element of truth with also the home renovation shows have created all these sort of palatial homes that people had jealous of. That would be my imagination with that one. Here's what I thought might have been Marcus, well, I'm 0880, Italian 9292 to text. But someone also put out it was a good chance to get out the old dinnerware, the fish knives. I'm still not quite sure what a fish knife does. I guess it's a knife that's, I guess it's different from a steak knife. Also, by the way, today 12 weeks before Christmas. So the second of October is 12 weeks before December 25th. So if you're doing a Christmas cake, today is the day to do it. I don't know why you've got to make it early. Maybe someone could explain that to me. The earlier you make it, apparently, the more likely it is to stay together when you go to cut it with a knife. This is new information. Well, this is newest information to me. So yes, you might want to do it. The 10 commandments of making a Christmas cake. Sometimes when I've raised this topic, people will talk about going out

40:59and trying to buy the mixed, I think it's called mixed fruit for your Christmas cake. And there's said it hasn't been available. So if you've been out there shopping today, which you should have been with your OnePlus card, let me know what's happening. I quite like this text, this text. Marcus, dinner parties just got boring. Imagine you're probably right. And what might have gone wrong with dinner parties is that probably about six, seven years ago, probably people would go to dinner parties and say things like, ah, I'll tell you something. I've been reading on the internet and then they just reveal the full rabbit hole they've gone down, which would be awkward, wouldn't it? Maybe people have become too boring and conspiratorial. Marcus, this month has come over October New Zealand. A small organic movement all about encouraging people to build a habit of inviting people for dinner, because it's so important. Instagram has made it look like you have to be essentially perfect. So it feels like too much work for your house, it's perfectly food isn't mouth to chef. So we started COO to encourage people to invite a friend.

41:59Hashtag come over October New Zealand. Someone said the brandy needs time to soak into the cake before you cut it. Seventeen past nine o'clock, the number is 0880, 1080 Natalie says, lots of parties in my world, lots of dinner parties in my world. And thus in this cost of living Christ's Day of Friends over for Christmas or in this cost of living Christ's Day of Friends over for dinner all the time, literally once a week, so much cheaper than eating out definitely hasn't died. I think this has been having friends over for dinner and having dinner parties. I imagine dinner parties to be the things where they sit down meal and not above it. That's what I'm envisioning. We should have a broadcast of DB at one of his dinner parties. And you might have to, it's up to the new legendary dinner parties. I'll be happy to talk about that also tonight, but you're getting touch if you want to. Someone said COVID and lockdowns didn't help, didn't help anyone. COVID, goodness.

42:59Marcus, the Christmas puddings were similarly aged, similarly aged to what? I don't know what the rest of that text is, but yeah, Marcus, till 12, get in touch if you want to talk on it here. Friday, free, Friday might be other stuff you've got, you are more than welcome. Broad church on a Friday, anything goes. There's been a recall of jelly tips, sort of that tip top. Jelly tips in the North Island, recalled. They may contain bacteria that causes severe gastrointestinal illness. They concern rates that relates the possible presence of basilic serious bacteria that could cause severe illness affecting the stomach and intestines. They sold us six pack cardboard box best before date of 30 September 28. They should not be eaten, throw them out, wall with supermarket across the North Island. The ice creams have been removed from store shelves and were not exported. If you've had one, you'll have diarrhea, six, one to six hours after eating. And you're a cover mostly within 12 to 24 hours.

44:02If you've eaten one called health line, that's the jelly tip in the North Island from Woolworths. Avoid like the plague. There you go. That's a bit of my world, 20 past nine, looking forward to what you've got to say. 9, 23, 23 past nine, good evening and welcome to. I hope your Friday is going well, people. First Friday of October. And you're just 12 weeks to Christmas. So yeah, some of the discussion on Christmas cakes getting ready for that. Today is the day to make them. I think what we've discussed last year is the number of people that are surveyed with the people kind of under 50. And it seems to be something that's probably on its way out. But anyway, you might still be one of those people that makes Christmas cakes and puts them in storage. So today is the day to do it. And I'm doing that tonight, give me a hot. Also some discussion tonight about the perennial topic, which is Mutton Hams for Christmas. Because you might need to start ordering those now. I always do a bit of work to promote those.

45:04So that's a thing also tonight. Now the other thing you might want to talk about is dinner parties. Because dinner parties seems to have completely vanished. That no one's having them anymore. And I'm very keen to talk about that. The reasons why they aren't. Or maybe you're against the trend. And the sort of dinner parties you are having. Someone said that it was because everybody's got so boring. Which, yeah, I mean, maybe you don't want to go and hear people. But because I'm sure there's the dinner party, there's probably a pinninated people that would drive you crazy. Anyway, lines for everyone to come through. I'd like to hear from you. 0880, 1080. If there's something different you want to talk about, be my guest. Marcus, people are time poor. Food is more expensive. And people have become more invested in staying home, more introverted. Rick and mobile phones killed the dinner party. We used to get together to talk up. We used to get together to catch up, talk and laugh.

46:07Now everyone already knows what everyone's doing through texts and social media. We're constantly connected, but we actually get together less. It's a really good point. And probably when you are at dinner parties, people are just showing each other's videos on their phones. All these comments are extremely good. Marcus, I'm a migrant who moved to New Zealand 20 years ago. The dinner party I had locally here is at my home stay family. They invited family members, friends, neighbors, etc. to come, which was awesome. People spent time chatting, laughing and having lots of fun. Nowadays, dinner parties sell them sea. More like drinking parties, which might cause a lot of noise out of the issues. Marcus, the world is so casual now in every regard of dinner parties and the casual thing because it doesn't fit in. Marcus, what if I've eaten six jelly tips? Still hunting down my forever home, sped the afternoon looking at studios up in Simon Street, lovely little spaces, clean. Back in the 90s in Christchurch, when the kids were small, four couples would get together for a means dinner. The men did all the cooking while the ladies just chilled out.

47:07We would take turns to bring nibbles, entrees, mains and desserts. That was the best of times and men really excelled themselves. All the kids would be bundled with a bedroom together, such great memories. Marcus, the cake mature is nicely made in advance. If that doesn't make sense, all the more, there is bits of alcohol involved. Or you might have done some sort of interesting themed dinner parties as well. But yeah, all the lines are free, 26 past nine o'clock, 0880, 1080. If you want to talk about dinner parties or Christmas hams, or anything else. Marcus, been over parties for years. People overstay, get messy, talk rubbish on their phones. Don't help clean up. Who could be bothered? So, maybe it was a lack of manners that caused people to go off them. I don't know the answer, so I'm just curious to know what you want to say about it. But you're getting touched. 0880 to 90 Marcus, or 12. 9292 to text if you want to come through. Anything else you got going on? Oh, by the way, I got the rugby league final on Sunday. That's the NRL that will be between the Newcastle Knights and the City City Roosters.

48:12So, just so you know, that's the thing. That'd be the highlight of the week. And one would hope I imagine it could be a very, very good game. So, your Sunday night for that one. That's on its way. Anyway. Thanks to you, 29 to 10. Welcome. If you want to talk to my name is Marcus, good evening. 0880 to 90 Jim Snedon. We'll be along at midnight tonight. If you've got something that you want to talk about, you want to say that's the plan. Dinner parties and what's happened to them. And of course, today is the day you should be making your Christmas cake, because it's three months before Christmas, or 12 weeks, which is the actual time that you've got to be doing it. To let them settle or do what Christmas people do. 0880 to 80. Tash, it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome. Hey, thanks, Marcus. I think the tics are about come over October. I couldn't resist calling, because this is just such a topic that has been so close to my heart. So, like, more than 20 years, which is when I first started noticing that my generation of friends,

49:15any time they wanted to catch up or, hey, how's it going? The conversation would have all been that being which restaurant, which bar, where do we go? And I kind of realized, hold on a second, all of my friends are sort of either don't have the confidence or are just losing the habit of that actually it's no big deal to have people over for dinner or for a light meal. Because I think the dinner party thing is such an important way of just celebrating in community. That becomes the occasion. But I don't think you get to the dinner party unless you're in a regular habit of just sharing your home and sharing hospitality with people in that space. So, I just thought, you know what, I'll pick up the phone and give you a call. The thing about talk back is we never know how old anyone is, but you talked about what? You're not on a med forties, I'll say that. I'm in my med forties. So, 2005, I started doing something, well, it started as a Thursday night dinner,

50:16and then it became a Monday night dinner. And I've probably done back in the days when you used to put photo albums on Facebook of what everything you were up to. Countless hundreds and hundreds of these Monday night dinners, all just kind of, you know, for me it was about, okay, I want to have a habit of inviting my friends for dinner and going, right, I can do this a little bit of planning. You know, get home from work on a Monday night, make a three-course meal that wasn't too extravagant, have people around for dinner, have some great conversation, and then, you know, tour the lawn into the rest of the week. And that's, I mean, it was a habit, but it was 20 years ago that I noticed people weren't doing it. And I think it's just progress and progress and the other thing that I think people, that's happened, you know, all sorts of different little social things happen around us that we're not necessarily aware of, cost of living years that's perhaps a more recent kind of obsession. But the time for aspects really important, and just how harried people feel at the end of the day,

51:21to then kind of go right, even on a Friday to contemplate, inviting a group of people for a dinner party on a Saturday night, might feel a little overwhelming. But the other piece that's changed is that architecture, you know, and there are so many spaces which have gone from, you know, perhaps being big, open plan kitchen living. Now you've got your kitchen bars and everyone's sitting around there, aren't they? It's all different. Oh, actually, yeah. And the more intensification we get in our cities, the harder it is for people to think about, you know, spaces to entertain. And one of my best-gill friends, you know, she moved into a smaller place, one of those galley style kitchens. And so her social kind of community become sort of a platter club once a month, because she can kind of invite people around a platter where everybody can kind of grab a seat where they can, but it doesn't rely on having, you know, a dining table. And that's a really big shift just in the practical way, you know, that we live.

52:21And I think the other piece that's really important, and somebody talked about it before, you know, they're a migrant and they've been here for 20 years. And there's, I think, some huge social barriers that we probably don't talk about as easily. And just that it is, we're losing, if we think about some of those habits that make for great culture and make for great society, I think we are losing some of the habits of just how we make friends with people, and especially how we make friends with people who are perhaps a little different from us. And I think, you know, we see that, I see that, at least in my neighborhood, you know, where there are large pockets of migrant communities who have different language habits and have different kind of eating, you know, behaviors and have, you know, cultural foods that are unique. And it's a little more of a challenge for people to dive into that as well. But I guess I want us to call in just, I think, as I say, it's so important.

53:21So hang on, do you have an organ, what does your organisation do? Oh, we're not an organisation. Okay. So actually, there's an amazing, like the wine maker in the wider rapper Brent and his wife Caroline from Homefield's wine. They actually heard about come over October because it's been going in the state for a few years now. And the whole premise is that if we lose, if we, the whole idea is that if we lose, the cultural habit of just, of, of getting together, whether it's a casual dinner or a dinner party, if we lose that habit, we lose something really, really big in meaningful and society. Okay. So you see, you see, you see, you see, we're not going to do it. Okay. So it's more of a slogan and people could say, hey, it's come over October. Why don't you guys cut? Because I think people aren't also dropping around randomly like they used to do. I don't know if that's just a south end thing, because people don't do it much down here. But you don't get your random visitors like you used to. You used to always just drop into people. These days you got to text or ask me, that's changed too, hasn't it? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know, I remember, we had that, especially when I was living sort of semi-reward on the Franger Walkland,

54:27we had a great little community where, you know, there was sort of a central house where, you know, for three or four of us that was on the way home and so we'd often stop and after work or for coffee before work in the morning. And I think, you know, again, we've become really obsessed with how busy we are and how time poor we are. And so everybody, I think not everybody, let's not be so binary, but for a lot of people, it feels like an imposition to drop in without asking. And yet at the same time, there are so many people crying out for that kind of connection and they want their neighbours to be the kind of people who, you know, will pop around and ask for a cup of sugar or, you know, perhaps some help with the Christmas cake or, and so, you know, we've got these two, we've got this dichotomy of, you know, people saying that they're lonely and then either, and then this strange sort of loss that's happened over time of actually some of the practices that helped us form connection in community. Brilliant. Love you talk, it sounds like a set you up, Tash, didn't it? It's just an interesting I'd manage to talk about that and she's talking about, come over October.

55:29Keep in touch, Hetzel 12, thank you Tash. Even at smark is good evening and welcome. Good evening all. Good evening, even. You'd be a bit worried about getting served up the beef Wellington, wouldn't you? I think that might be a problem. That feels tainted forever, isn't it? I mean, jeepers, creepers. I wonder if there was another mushroom dish she could have gone with like a beef strogan off or something, but no, because it's delicious. I have to take something along to check for poison. I was thinking you can't eat the blooming jelly tips anymore. No, they've gone. Because tip top are pretty good with product recalls. You don't hear tip top going crockery often. No, that was my favourite one too. I don't know if I've got that one or those anymore. It's interesting because all the ice creams invented the jelly tip. The last one I got was actually half jelly and half ice cream. That's what you want. Yeah, perfect. Normally, it's just a quarter of the top.

56:30I'd rather one that was all jelly. Why is that not a thing? Well, just called the jelly around the jelly tip. Why house this an ice cream tip, just ice cream with a tip the rest jelly? Well, if it was all jelly, then at least you wouldn't get all the ice cream melting out the bottom. When was your last dinner, party, even? I would have been up mannequin or had to check for poison. Matthew, it's Marcus. Welcome. Good evening. Hi, Matthew. Are you there, Matthew? Matthew, Matthew, Matthew. I think there's just checked that he's still there. 20 pairs, 20 to 10 if you want to come through. 0880 today. We'll call him back. Is he there? Matthew, it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome. Yeah. Hi, Marcus. Sorry for that disconnection. I thought myself over and was on mute or off mute or on speaker phone or not on speaker phone. Marcus, when it comes to dinner parties, I was raised from a child, you know, through different families that would go to different houses and do dinner parties.

57:36You know, it was good, but there was a shoulder. But at my age now, 43, I'm finding that. Sorry outside of my windows. I can hear the sirens. What part of the country are you with there, Matthew? A beautiful part of all the hot called Fairfield. We don't often have police. Might just might just be a drill. A lot of people are getting. There's been a lot of people dying violently lately. Isn't there? It does happen. It shouldn't happen. It does happen. They're stopping outside. It's getting louder. That's near the double glazed windows. Like I show you. I've got double glazed windows here and I'll close them. And then suddenly I can't hear the outside world. Oh, it's been a real window to Fairfield. This call, isn't it? You there with your double glazed, but the sirens still loud. And the funny thing is I'm not even having a party tonight. So of course, like in a comedian, waiter police are not churning up to the house.

58:44Do you go to dinner parties free often? I did like I was just saying as a child, I was brought up around dinner parties where we were never brought up around watching television or. Yeah, good. Good to say people that are glued their eyes to a television, but I'm finding at my age now. I really, because as a child, I went to dinner parties. I couldn't never really as a child. You can never really click to what adults were talking about. But I find at my age now, I'd love to have dinner parties around anyone that's my age. And I have quite a few friends and I am. No one's doubting that. Yeah. Yeah. So when I have a dinner party, I always kind of pick the right people. You know, you've got. I say to no, don't they to compose the right dinner party. You know, you want someone about boring someone quite fun. Someone slightly eccentric someone.

59:44Yeah. The way I put it is there's no teenagers around these no children around. So adult company in a dinner party at someone's comfortable house. Yeah. And they'll have they'll have their R18 mouth. And they'll say what they want to say. And it's lots of fun. Nice to hear from you Matthew. Thanks so much. 17 to 10. No dining table. What hell is this? I've heard people gather about all order Uber Eats. This world is brutal and unscivilized. You and right friends for dinner. It doesn't need to turn it to some self-righteous self-congregulatory experience. I think probably the breakfast bars at the beginning of the end. Absolutely relevant points and so interesting. But true. We forgot about our lives till over the years. Everyone is so much busier. And struggle for socializing like we did for years working more and more hours is the big factor. Fish knives are shaped like a padlock. I used to separate the fish from the bones when you cook a fish hole still used to the Mediterranean cuisine. Gemma from Barcelona. What a blossom tarshes. Gosh, she sounds like she's with a piercum. She was extraordinary. Good show Marcus. I really miss the fact people don't drop in anymore.

1:00:48I live alone would love random visits. Sadly, I don't think I can just drop in on others anymore either. Yeah, I don't reckon you can drop in like you used to. It feel like sometimes you drop into someone's place. It's like, you've creed. Some so great social indignity. I don't really drop into people because for me talking to people is like work. It's like to go silent. He total 12. My name is Marcus. Good evening. Oh, 880. 9292. Detects you want to come through. Mutton, ham, Christmas cake and dinner parties. They're the three topics so far for tonight. If you want to add to these topics or talk about something else that's the plan. Yeah, Brian, nobody needs to hear that after a full day of graft. Great conversation for who? No three course dinner is worth that. The fact she called a three course dinner invited parties attend is a red flag of the bad love your work markers. Don't fully understand that. I think I kind of understand a bit of it. So what if you're not on the dinner party circuit? Now, you might talk about some legendary dinner parties you've had in the past where you might have had a theme or you know you might have been become part of a dinner party circuit.

1:01:53I don't know what you would have done. Anything's up for the discussion for me. Be in touch. 12. I'll keep you up to date with news. Don't eat the jelly tips. That's the plan. They're not good. I conic ice cream recalled. They might recover the jelly tip. I mean, that's a standard. You always trusted jelly tip. What went wrong with it seemed like a pretty straightforward thing to make. So yep, it's one of the biggest product recalls. Normally the plodet recalls are just because there's bits of metal or plastic because of blade on the machine is broken. This has got some nasty bacteria. It's been a refrigeration. I'm no refrigeration expert. 14 to 10 back in a bit. I do want to call tonight from someone that's actually making their Christmas cake tonight. Someone said even phoning people off the cuff is getting rarified. Often people have rang me in the first thing that it was apologise for disturbing me. That's right. You got a text that's about to call you. Marcus, during the dinner party era there were a few restaurants or cafes to meet at. Much better in general to go out than cleaning cook all day. Marcus, the afternoon tea trolley is also gone. Butterfly cakes with cream, little colored paper cups sponge.

1:02:58Where would that be if I've never seen an afternoon? Is that in the workplace? Marcus, last dinner party, no one would talk. What does that mean? Marcus, I've had three teenage grand girls staying there the best idea ever. Freeze grapes and eat them once frozen delicious and so refreshing. That's exciting. Helga, it's Marcus. Good evening. Hello, how are you? Helga, good. Thank you. I'm just sad of interest. You're talking about jelly tips and I came on. I sold all sorts of ice creams, tip top, everything for the America's cup. Can tell you something? Tell me more. I am the America's car. I can back from quite higher and I applied for jobs who worked in selling ice cream to the public. I was in a bedding center. I've been company and I sold ice creams from an ice cream paper to fully top on. I was going to ask you about the wardrobe. What sort of like a dress or a pant?

1:03:58No, we had navy shorts, white shirts, aquacolors. We had little hats, big sun hats because health and safety. The winter we had little beanies, we had they gave us big thick coats and we had long dark trousers. We had the logo, tip top. Did America's cup had gone by the winter, hadn't it? No, we were still selling. We started before summer. We on commission or an hourly rate? An hourly rate. It was good fun. I like talking all day so it's good that I like talking. What did you have in your trolley? I had jelly tips, trumpets with popular Memphis meltdown. What was the second one? Trumpets did you say? Trump gets a Memphis meltdown or those types. Tip top supplied but we sold it. What was the most popular? The trumpet. The other, the jelly tap was quite good.

1:04:59We used to have, we used to have. Where's the last time you went to a dinner party, Helga? Well, our congregation had seen parties early in the year with what being the islands. We all dressed up in islands closed or we can be dressed as a Maori. We were in the toilet congregation as we had the theme and we had all the island food and that was all we had. All the tapas, taro, the puddings, everything, island style and we all dressed up so that was fun. What did you go as? Well, we now arrived. I had sort of a lay but a friend who's Raro gave me. I didn't have a lot of it. It was too cold. It was winter. Where's the last time you made a Christmas cake?

1:06:00I have one. I made bulls. You're a doorknob. You're an under Christmas. Are you? We have. We have cake though. I realise you're okay. It's tell you what's coming up next. We're having a roceteries, but a pig and the other meat on the eighth of November. We're having a minorshore and we're all bringing a plate and we do that about once a year cooked my pig on the spot. Good on you. Nice to talk, Helga. Thank you so much for that. Seven away from ten. What's watching you today about a restaurant in the United States of America? It's a real famous restaurant. They do burgers, but the only burger they do is a pig's air burger. I've never heard of that as a food. They do 300 pig's. They just piggy-ed us three burgers. I'm surprised that nothing was a food that people would eat. Nothing is a thing here. They might have different pigs. We did progress of dinner's out street. They are so good no driving required. Each house was assigned a course

1:07:01from all the derves all the way through to dessert. They ended up with their obligatory cheese and crack as such fun. Must have been a short street. Go on tray. Oh yeah, that's six different meals, isn't it? I called Uber and invited six drivers to a dinner party for that to bring a plate. We had KFC, McDonald's, Chinese takeaways, fish and chips, subway and wine, great time head by all. I get that George said, George, did you invite the Uber drivers? Oh yeah. Or are you an Uber driver yourself? Tell me more about that. I'll be curious to know how that worked. Be in touch, Marcus, till midnight tonight, 0800 AT 1080. That's the plan. Dinner parties and... I've never worked anywhere where they had an afternoon tea trolley. I've always worked solitary shifts. I think that's probably why I haven't experienced that. Be in touch, my name is Marcus. Welcome 0800 AT 1080 9292 to text you want to come through. Don't eat the jelly tips in the North Island. They will make you sick. So watch out for that. That's a thing. Also, Southland has lost the rugby.

1:08:04Northland is now top of the table and they have a home, I think it's called a semi. So yes, get in touch, you want to talk 0800 AT 1080. Marcus, tip top jelly tip recall sounds like sabotage to me. Never heard tip top recall anything. No, never, never, never. And I'm sure that have very good systems. I'm kind of staggered to hear it actually. Rossets, Marcus, welcome and good evening. Good evening Marcus, love your show. Look, I was just ringing out about the dinner parties. I can remember my parents in the 80s, 90s, every weekend, every weekend was a dinner party. And then a potluck party, but my mother was a true provider. And the man there would be 30 people in the house on a Saturday. And the kids would fin for themselves more. Is that right, Ross? So hopefully, hopefully, we would start off the night would be handing out the horse to over us. Yeah. And then as the as the evening went on, we never really, we never really embraced that term.

1:09:07Did we? We never really owned that. No, we didn't. And then as the night went on, of course, and I got a bit older, I would, I would hoover up the, half empty glasses a beer. Yeah. And it was always my job to, of course, empty the ass trace. Yeah. Which was a thing. And I always remember my father telling me at a dinner party, when you have a sit down of these, these parties that, that, um, can engineer head, they potentially, you know, nobody sort of really sat down. I don't think of the table that I remember. But I always remember my father saying, when you're at a dinner party, son, you sit opposite the attractive and next to the interesting. Wow. Yeah. Still remember. Still remember and still do to the stay. And I, and some of my friends, we, we have dinner parties, my wife and I have dinner parties, one more lunch, really. Um, and it's, there's a, for a lot of people, Marcus, I think it's really hard, um, to cater for other people. So we've got two different freeing groups that don't have kids.

1:10:10Um, and they'll tune up at a dinner party or, or a lunch with, um, you know, a pack of a sizzle with some breed roast. Uh, uh, roast. Yeah, funny. And these days, of course, you have a dinner party. You wouldn't be opening the estrange, but the, the teenage you would be making the, um, these days, you'd be making the flip-matcher. You'd be making the express, I caught you'd be the barista, wouldn't you? Totally. The coffee machine goes hard out. Howdy people, six past 10, or let's call that 10. Oh, six interesting discussions talking about the fact that no one goes to dinner parties anymore. Why is that? Is it a good or a bad thing? And why does no one drop in so much anymore? Drop in sound a thing and you don't call people randomly. You got text beforehand, but you want to stir it, and maybe yourself still have dinner parties and what are they like? You might want to remember some of the great ones from the days gone by. You might have had themed ones. Probably the last dinner party I went to, or one of the last. I don't fully remember it was like, it was like a dinner party, but some people just had a fork.

1:11:13Some people had a spoon. It was, it was like a, a dinner party that was gamified. You're with me on this? I guess it was a thing. I guess it was a trend there in the year 2000s. But I don't know if we rolled dice or what. Yeah, it was interesting. But yeah, someone will know, you have different, you'll have different, um, you'll have different dinner parties you'll have been to have done different, different, interesting things. I just, I think, what it was. I can't work out what it was. Anyway, that's the plan. People, anything else you want to have fun on two hours for me. So get in touch. I'll wait around 180, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90. He'll 12. What have you got people? Dinner parties is the main topic. Second topic is the mutton ham. Third topic is crispish cakes, because today is today to make the crispish cakes. And I don't want to be the guy that's sitting here documenting the changing world, but not only have dinner parties gone, but no one much loves a crispish cake anymore. I will. I'll always say yes to a piece, because I like the icing and I like nostalgia. Although what kind of freaks me out is, of course, too. How do I say this delicately?

1:12:17Being someone that does not drink, if I told you that before, sometimes you have a bit of crispish cake and it comes up, but it can't be full of brandy or a trifle and it'll be full of sort of port or something. I don't know that. I think technically it's probably not a relapse, but you're still hanging about that. Yeah, that's kind of not what I was expected. So you'll be a bit a little bit weary of that also, because some of them are pretty full on. They're all hanging off, jeepers, creepers. I know the alcohol is supposed to cook off and stuff, but you think, oh, hang about. Anyway, that's enough of inside information. From me, getting touched, Marcus, till 12, be a part of the show, 0880, 1080. You're still feeling cocky, hope about putting that bank together. Or the double banks. Probably now are 20 minutes. Brilliant. Third, fourth time I've put it together. Hopefully the last, by the way, we thought the kids would love banks, do they love them? Not really. I think parents prefer the idea of banks to children. I think in our day, banks were an exciting rarity these days, they're kind of a common space-saving device.

1:13:24Anyway, come on. Here's the 12th, my name is Marcus. Welcome 0880, 1080, 929, 2 to text. I've had a productive evening tonight. I fixed the bezel on my watch. That wasn't turning freely. I've washed it. I googled how to wash it. Now it turns very freely. How to make bezel roto, rotate more smoothly. Follow by with lukewarm water and a few drop drops of mild dish soap. Been extremely successful. My watch has never looked so good. Anyway, so I am spending the ad breaks wise, the 12 past 10. Come on, be in touch here to the end. And the interesting dinner part is you've been, I guess, I mean, I'm, you know, I would imagine. And I don't want to tell you, say what, I don't want to tell you what you should ring up and about. But I imagine in the earlier days, let's talk about the 80s. Because really when we talk about the 70s, really in this country, it was the 80s, I would imagine there would be some chaotic dinner parties with marriages dissolving and people behaving badly and all sorts of stuff happening. I reckon there would have been some shockers over the years, so yeah.

1:14:24It's not entirely surprising that kind of they are a thing of the past. But some very good ones. But yes, restaurants have replaced them and Uberites have replaced them. And there's no tables anymore or sitting in front of the TV air on breakfast bars. Anyway, that's what I'd be ringing up and saying. If you want to talk that to the plan, make it go. 0800, you know, the rest here till 12. Text email, call whatever you got. Just don't fix. We haven't got one. But you get in touch. 0800, 80, 1080, and 929, 2 to 6, you want to be a part of it. And any breaking news, I'll bring that to you. Although Friday night, I'll tell you what, I was all, I was sad to hear about Kirsty Leigh having died. Because she was someone I remember quite clearly from the 80s. This woman from Christchurch, who was an extraordinary beauty, that became very well known. So yeah, that was very surprising and unexpected. So there we go. That was news through today. 12 past 10, 0800, 80, 1080.

1:15:25One of the countries, the most successful models, I guess you should say, were sort of the first of the supermodels. But you get in touch. You want to be a part of the show, a total 12 o'clock tonight. Full bore me, like me, up dinner parties. I'm trying to think about the dinner party where everyone did something. One person just had one spoon. It was weird. I can't, I was sort of so unexpected, I can't work out why it all happened like that. Good evening Barbara, this is Marcus Welcom. Yes, good evening Marcus. I just had to ring up about your one spoon and your one forked in the party that you went to. Yes. I can remember a few years ago, it would have been late 80s, probably early 90s. And we used to do something like that in the Lions Club, I belonged to. And you used to have a menu to choose from. Yes. And you had to choose a utensil, but you didn't know what you were getting. Some people ended up with knives, some people ended up with forked and they had soup or jelly or whatever. Was it sort of something around something to do with Roman days?

1:16:27I wasn't a toga, but you're quite right. How did we choose something? We didn't know we were true. We didn't know what we were doing. Did we just pick something out of a hat or something? No, no, excuse me, we had a menu. I can remember we had a menu, but it was written in language that you couldn't really understand. Ah, that's right, yeah. And some people just had jelly and some person just had a fork. And that's exactly what it was. Yeah, yeah. We had a couple of those in the Lions Club that I used to belong to. Was there a word for it, Barbara? I think there was, but it just won't come to me. Old ages came the better of me. You sound pretty good to me, Barbara. I know that you don't expect me to hear that, but... Nice to hear from you, Barbara. Brian, it's Marcus Good evening. Hello Marcus. I was driving up State Highway 2 in Lower Hut just now. And there was a black car with no lights on at all. And I was quite shocked.

1:17:27And I didn't really know how to let them know that their lights were on. So I just sat behind them, flashing my often on to bright. But yeah, I wonder if anybody else has got any idea how you tell them that their lights aren't on. It's even rather bizarre to me. I think that standard operating procedure to flash your lights. More and more people with cars have been more complicated drive around with their lights not on. I don't know why, I often see it. And I don't even bother flashing them anymore. No, well this was pretty dangerous being a black car. Would it be a black car make it more dangerous? Well, I couldn't see it when I was coming up towards it. And just suddenly discovered it at the last few seconds. Yeah. I mean, I've had times when I've flashed someone... Two of my lights and flashed them. Then I've realized my own lights haven't been on, which is weird, isn't it? Did they get the message, Brian? After a long time, they seemed to realize what it was all about.

1:18:32Because you don't want to start a road rage incident either, do you? No, it's right. Where were you coming home from, Brian? Anywhere exciting? Oh, just our vintage car club. Wow. What's happening in the world of vintage cars? Oh, we had a death for Del Raleigh a few weeks ago to raise money for the cancer society. Did I? That was New Zealand wide, they did that. When was that? In August. Oh, I see a lot of... When we're driving through the snow, the sun, the sun day, there are a lot of classic cars out of Moscow. Out of the snow, out of the car. But they were going into the snow. I wondered why they actually had... Because there were a Mori-thous, a lot of really old cars. And I thought, yeah, you wouldn't cancel a car rally for snow, would you? Oh, I would have thought they wouldn't let that change. Yeah, I was surprised.

1:19:32Because they were going into the... Anyway, good on them. The car looked amazing in the snow. But it was mainly minis and Mori-thousands, money, the smaller cars. Oh, okay. That was part of the death for the thing, probably wasn't. Anyway, Brian, nice to chat. Thank you for that 17 past 10. Kettle 12, that's the plan, Stan. Marcus, enjoying your show, I think society is rapidly changing or changing rapidly. I remember my first dinner party, it was in 1982. We had our first baby, we invited two couples. They didn't have children. We were so excited to be using our beautiful wedding gifts. About what I cooked, but went well. I also remember going to a couple of progressive dinners. It was through our plunk-it mothers group. Someone would host the entree, then move to the main and different house then on for dessert. The children came too. Usually babies that would sleep in their Moses buckets, early car seats, or across the back seat. They were great fun. Times were simple and people made time. These days, any entertaining is in the summer barbecues are good, but more difficult when you're by yourself.

1:20:32I feel you need to invite at least two couples, but often I get invited back as a soul woman. Wow, you probably don't. Marcus, I've given up telling people that there were 50 lights on in Carpikes. Too many newer cars with the lights down for a time after the occupants get out. I think those dinners we went up with random things was called a dinner by numbers. We had them for fun rays and fun nights for girl brigade, where it was growing up in the 90s. I'm into that. Not really. Well, it's interesting I remember, it's interesting I remember it's the last dinner party I went to. We've got a people's place for dinner, but it's not a dinner party per se. Mystery dinner you will be serving a mystery meal dinner with a guest order from a menu without knowing what those menu items are. You provide a menu with the foods and drinks all given different names. These names you should in some way relate to what the food is and the guests might have fun trying to guess them. If you wish you can include the eating utensils and the list of items to be ordered so the guests will have to try and choose those out knowing what item they will be served. Making for some hilarious meal time to someone ordered soup and no spoon, spruity with chopsticks or even a meal of only cutlery and no food.

1:21:34Ah! And you wonder why we no longer have dinner parties, eh? I'd be eating your soup with chopsticks. Thank you for the press that sent me that. Headled to our dinner parties what went wrong? And why people not... Is it right that people aren't visiting anymore? Is that a thing? Are we not visiting? Texting and calling is all right if I swing by. There's new footage from that plane flight, new footage from a hijack plane. Show panic as passengers realize nobody is flying the aircraft while fighting to save the hero captain. Missing pilot panic. Chee! He total 12 vitamins markers welcome 0800-808-80. Get in touch, he total text 929-292 if you want to call. That's what we're about. Um, 21 past. Oh, 21 past 10, call me now. 0800-808-80 seems like the fireworks in South and were more moderate than last time. Last time there were complaints about the noise.

1:22:34I could hear them here. They look fantastic but no one's texted to complain. This was after, I don't know, I mean you don't know where your fireworks when you get beaten by Northland, but I guess they were planned. I guess we can't just have them when we win. Friday free floor will be nice to hear from you. Daylight savings were of cope. Were we coping with that yet? People feel discombobulated this week let me know. Also first week of the school holidays. How was the Paw Patrol movie have you been to that? Copaganda. I think that's what they call it. Now, here's 12 if you want to be a part of it. 24 past 10 as I've said, but um, getting touched if you want to be a part of the show. Anything else you want to mention, talk about, say. Be nice to hear from you. 0800-808-80. All lines are free, but you might be doing something interesting tonight. Might be out driving for Uber. I don't even know what interesting is these days, but um, well I may not say that like that, but you know, you define your own game of interesting. And kind of themed in a, anything in a party related, but why they have disappeared.

1:23:34Also it's the day for Christmas to make your Christmas cake. 12 weeks before Christmas. Second of October, always that day I'm doing well to remind you. Also probably time to order your mutton hams. But yeah, 24 past 10 if you want to talk. Hit on my, my name is Marcus. Good evening. Welcome. Looking forward to what you've got to say. Text if you can. 2929-2 to text. And anything goes on this Friday, free for all. There's something different you want to mention. Elections hotting up. Or become very complicated with tactical voting. I've noticed. I heard someone saying that, hang on, what was I going to say this? This is what I thought was interesting. Let me just read this figure. I did it out of this earlier today. And now I've got to find it. This particular figure that I will talk to you about. Hold your horses. I'm going to bring this up. I've just got to put a type something into search. Yes, here we go. This is what I wanted to say. This is about tactical voting. From a column today in the New Zealand Herald. The key point to bear in mind is that New Zealanders do not as a whole

1:24:36have a good understanding of the electoral system. After 30 years, the electorate told us not understand the mechanics of MMP. That has shown up in survey after survey. The most recent available survey from the New Zealand initiative in 2020 showed that only 46% of people know both ways a party can get into parliament. So only 46% of people understand MMP. So most people don't understand it. Isn't that terrifying? Or not. I think it's kind of terrifying. But yeah, that's something else we can mention. 27 past 10 tonight. Marcus, I wonder if the pilot door on a plane should be able to be opened remotely by the control tower outside. If a particular code is sent to them by one of the pilots requesting that the door be opened. You haven't fully followed that story, but yeah, I'm sure there be any Christian Vestigates. Dean, it's Marcus good evening.

1:25:36I get a Marcus. Yeah, that sounded like a bit of a weird one, didn't it? But there was something else he said earlier where it reminded me of like going over to people's parents' maps when you were a kid in like the 1980s. And you would know how the household was. Like some places you could just show up at the house and knock on the door and other places you'd just bust on in. Yeah, the good place you would even knock at the door just in your garden and be all. But yeah, much more relaxed. Yeah, well, now we have to even I text people before even all of them. Yes, or right before you phone them. Yeah. Yeah, that's weird. Yeah, that's weird because I could. I mean, if I from you, obviously, but if someone rings me out of the blue, they're like, oh, wow, that's weird. They didn't fix me to say. Really? But then even if you even if you even if you know them or come up on your phone as Steve, oh, should they text beforehand as well.

1:26:38Yeah, you feel cool. Yeah. Why is that? Otherwise, you don't answer. Well, I think it's just we've become more detached from communication. I think that's what it is. But you know, as a kid, there'd be like a fun house where it's like, you know, there's a bunch of siblings in the place or whatever. Just run and you'd be around the whole. You'd always be there. Big house lot of kids, you know, eating the food off the table. Fantastic. 100% and then there'd be other ones who you know, they're a bit like, you know, you have to knock on the door and say, you know, a bit more up to me, free to play. Yeah, but then there was also violent houses as well. And that was big in the 80s. There were some houses that were pretty violent, you know. Yeah, absolutely. Would you drop around to people's houses without telling them you're on your way? These days? Yeah. No, no, 100%. No, never. I love a drop in. I'm going to run, Dean, run headlines, but nice to talk to you. Friday, second of October, the first Friday, I think I'll have the first Friday of spring.

1:27:40That's not quite right. The first Friday of the last quarter of the year, people, how are you? So we started talking about mutton ham. Then we talked about Christmas cake today as the day to make them. And I have yet to get a caller who say, I'm actually making the cake as you speak, as I speak, as we speak. Today is the day, 12 weeks before Christmas, it is today. Surprise, none of the shows are gone bigger on this. So do that. And today is the day to order your mutton ham. I'm not telling you where, because I've got an order of mine first. Now, the other thing is, I was reading an article on American paper and the number of people that go to dinner parties have fallen off the face of the earth. No one's having them anymore. And I think that's true. I think everyone's agreeing with that. Is it a good thing? I don't know. It's a thing though. Would I want to go to a dinner party? Would I want to dinner party to our place? Probably. Only because Vanessa is, I would say that she would be a very relaxed host. I would probably, via towards the pick me on a good day, slightly uptight part of the spectrum.

1:28:46Mind you for me, talking to work. And so, you know, you pick your day. But yeah, no, the big thing. We should do it more often. Going to them always good. Providing you're going to carry on, you can leave when you want to. So that's what we are talking about. But kids make things more difficult too, don't they? Because kids don't always want to do that stuff. Anyway. But now that I'm the proud owner of an 11-year-old and a 12-year-old, he and that has gone quite quickly. So that's right. I don't think the young boys birthdays on Tuesday, so... You know, they get more independent quite quickly, don't they? I'd like them to be able to drive to pick me up from places. But that's not a thing yet. Anyway. So that's some of the stuff from me. So we are talking about dinner parties and anything else. And also MMP. Most people don't understand it. Is that a reason to get rid of it? When I've done my damnedest to explain it to people, but people don't know which vote is the one that makes up the make up of parliament. And I've been banging on this. But, you know, do your research. Because a lot of people are voting ineffectively.

1:29:47They're trying to be clever and they're scoring own goals. So, yes, probably rather than watching the debates, I'd start reading some websites about how MMP works. I'm sure not this audience. I'm sure this audience is fine. That's what's going around in my head tonight. If you want to do a circuit break, that's good. If you want to talk on air, that's good. First time call us last time call us anything goes. The main chances. That's the plan, Stan. But you do come through 0800 808 and 929 2 to text. Just call if you want to go on air too. We haven't got time to research and stuff for other people. So, if you want to be on air, that's the plan. There's problems with your frequency or stuff. Just text it through. And then we can get that one worked out. So, 0800 808 and 929 to text. Marcus, till 12 would love to hear from you. Keep those texts coming. Marcus, airlines just need to trust their cabin crews. Let them have access to the cockpit's code. Marcus texting before calling is BS. Technology is credit to MittyT.

1:30:48Just answer the phone. Nobody died from having a conversation. The modern thing is you call someone. It goes to answer phone. You think, yeah, I can just leave a message. Well, I probably don't listen to the message anyway. So, that is slightly confusing. Marcus, what about potluck dinner parties? Some go to great efforts. Others turn up with fish and chips. But like secret center. Well, these days you'd be excited to get fish and chips with caught at $20 a piece. Oh yeah. Get in touch, Marcus, till 12, 0800 808. There's something else you want to talk about. That's the plan. 25, 1211. What? We go 23 to 11 people, head to a gym set in a long, 12 o'clock tonight. So, what are we going to do about people understanding MMP? You have got a problem with that? More than half people don't understand it. I don't think you can use that as a reason to get rid of it. But, you know, it doesn't make me wonder. And dropping by unannounced and dinner parties. So, amongst some of the stuff we are talking about of the evening. But yeah, all the lines are free. If you just want to chat or something else you want to talk about, bang on about. I think the MMP is probably quite a big one. Because, you know, we try and get into all these complicated discussions about politics.

1:31:50But if people don't understand the basics, it really makes a bit of a mockery of the whole thing, doesn't it? So, there we go. That's something else you might want to talk about tonight. But yeah. 40 years today. Since Dave Dobbins' slice of heaven went to number one. I think it's also 40 years since the movie opened. Just putting that out there. And also your comments, who you think is going to win the grand final. 930 on Sunday night. If you got an opinion on that or a comment on that, get in touch. It's been a fantastic season of NRL. Brilliant. Yeah. Slicer heaven hit number one this day in 1986. The Twilight Zone Day Bood, which I never saw that was before my time. Don't quite know what that was. I know. I know the theme tune. I can tell you about that. Yes. Wow. Also, this is quite interesting. And this is some information I have never known about. Today in history in 1964,

1:32:52the sale of mummy brown paint ended. And the managing director of the paint company apologized with an extraordinary explanation. We might have a few odd limbs lying around, but they had literally run out of mummies from which to make the paint. Supplied been dwindling for decades, and the final tube had been made. The colour was made from resin from a spruce tree white pitch mure and yes, ground up mummies. The depth of the colour derived in part from the mineral, such as bitumen used in the embalming process, and it gave the colour its distinctive hue. It became known as mummy brown, or cup at Mortem Deadman's head. Time to believe it even had to start by the 16th century mummy powder had become a huge commercial export. The illegal trade operated on both the outside, the Egyptian government's attempted oversight, between merchants and foreign buyers and hundreds of mummified bodies. Both human and feline were shipped around to be broken around the world, or shipped abroad to be broken up and ground.

1:33:52The resulting powder was applied to skin or mixed into drinking consumed. Who knew? I don't know if the body presumed the bodies were part of that as well. That's of interest to me, 19 to 11 Marcus or 12 0 880 to the 90 and 929 to the text you want to talk. Here to the bitter end. And MMP and people are understanding it. Good evening, Dean, it's Marcus. Welcome. Hi Marcus. Have you had calls earlier this... Sorry, I haven't been listening. Have you had calls earlier from people who don't know how MMP works or what spots prompting this? I've had calls. My whole career, my whole career from people who haven't understood it. I was just reading. Really? Yeah. Gosh. I've been around for a very long time, as you know, 30 years. I would have hoped that people would go the hang of it by now. So what are the articles I was understanding? The article I was reading said that the most recent survey from the New Zealand Initiative in 2020

1:34:53had only 46% of people knowing both ways a party gets into parliament. Holy crap. That's amazing. Very sad. I would have thought they would have taught this sort of stuff in secondary school. It might be people that... It might be people that kind of important. It might be the people that weren't at secondary school when this came in that aren't understanding it. Well, let's see. That's 30 years of, you know, this being taught. So what a sort of fair proportion of the population would have done about the guts of MMP and just the primacy of the party vote and how important it is. And, you know, you need a seat or five to seat to be able to get into the house. And, yeah, there you go. And, you know, it's guaranteed almost to set up coalition government. Again, this is all very, very basic civics stuff. I guess I'm very disappointed that nearly half the population don't know how it works. Yeah. Okay. I was just curious what prompted it. Not...

1:35:53I'm clear to see this... Dean. Not nearly half the population, more than half the population. Yeah, either way. It's bad news. Only 46% of people know. So more than half the population don't understand MMP. 34%. Yeah. There's really sad. And, Marcus, so I'm clear there's this discussion this time around about votes living. Yeah. And me, I've been doing it. Yeah. And that's the whole point I want to make to us to get into that. Yeah. You can't discuss votes, but if people don't even know how MMP works, do it really. I mean, that's the point. But anyway, well, far as well as doesn't understand it, but thanks for coming through Dean. 16 to 11 if you want to talk. 0880, 1080. Marcus, I normally just send a text and ask if they are home. If I get a year, I send back, put the jug on, then go see them. No need for formal appointments. Marcus, low percentage know about MMP and they want to bring in the 16 year old voters. What's with that cheers? L. Well, the young people understand how it works. They'll be taught it.

1:36:53And by the way, if the thing you don't know about lowering the voting age, if you lower the voting age to 16, that would mean the average age someone becomes a title to their first vote is 17 years, six months. And if people don't vote in the first three elections, they'll never vote. That's what the odds are showing. So it is important getting touched Marcus to midnight. 13 to 11. Marcus, hi, Marcus. Dinner parties to decline. There's people like Dean, tune up and start talking about the mechanics of MMP. Sucks the fun of the room, Barry, from Waimete. Marcus, 16 to be able to vote. 16 to go to jail. Brilliant. Marcus, I normally just send it to, I've said that one. I'll get a minute, my name is Marcus. Welcome. Get the calls through. I'll wait 180, 1080, and 929, 2 to text. Oh. Someone put it to me the other night that if it wasn't a dumb thing to call some of that texting, then first have things got to the... Yes, that's very much.

1:37:53That's what that last guy said. You don't call. You just text, and then you call. Hey, is it right if I can call you? That's the thing. That's the way the world is going, people. My name is Marcus, good evening, all the lines are free. I've been in a party that have disappeared. And no longer visiting and texting. No one's doing anything. Marcus, chucks all night. Heart says the night, brain says the chucks. Love, Kalin. Love the night, love the fairy tale of it all. Sam Walker's back for the rooster's no injuries, going good. Swan song for Mark, no what to know, was a... Biggest player in the game arguably. That'd be my take on that. Will I watch it? Yes, will I be disappointed? No, there's no one to love in the chucks. Cherry Evans, I mean. I don't know. They're not my team. But that's me anyway. Get in touch, Edel-12, 10 from 11. Now I'm still waiting for the person that's actually actively making their Chris. Off you driving home from you are interesting. If you've been out, Karaz and Karioke, if you're driving Ubers,

1:38:56if you want to give us a stay to the nation, what's happening in the town, be in touch. That'd be up for it. And what can we do to make people understand MMP? Yeah, it's kind of scary, isn't it? Oh well, I mean, it's not complicated. But do talk... Oh, any other breaking news, I'll bring that to you tonight, if you want to come through. Let me think, we'll have a look at what's happening, people. Oh, they've got a recall for jelly tips. That's a thing. The world gold-panning championships have been in Cromwell. They're all there at the Alexander Blossom Festival. Quite a lot of international people look like they took it very seriously. A lot of Italians, which was a thing, heard the President speak, Sun J. Singh, he's South African. He was good value, loving the hospitality they are getting. Anyway, he told 12, we want to talk about him as Marcus, got evening. It's 9 from 11. A gem stood along at 12. 7 from 11, people. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.

1:39:56Yeah. Let me think when I get you going with tonight, people. Let me think. Let me have a bit of a look around. Dinner parties. A thing of the past. Although some people are trying to get them, I think they probably work for country fuck. But you might have some comments about, oh God, there's been a lot of talk about that situation in Tennessee today. All of it fairly grim. Had no idea about mummy brown the paint. So I was pleased to read about that. And if you want to get on air, that would be the plan. Love to talk to you before the news. 0880, 1080. I'm looking forward to that movie on Elizabeth Holmes. Two, choose the one from... Thinking about Netflix, no, it's not. This is the founder of Theranos. And they reckon it's unbelievable that documentary. So there we go. I've read books about her to watch documentaries, but this one seems to take the cake. So I'll be looking forward to that.

1:40:56Looking forward to your calls. Five away from 11. Jim's need an at 12. But back in touch, if you want to talk 0880, 1080. Anything else you've got to talk about? That's my plan for you. I'd love to hear from you. 0880, 1080, 9292, detect if there's other stuff you want to mention. Talk about, feel free. And what are we going to do to get people to understand? Or does it matter? Does it matter that people don't understand the MMP? I think it probably does. I think when they actually came up with the MMP, there was supposed to be a more fair representation. But I thought we thought that people would take the time out to work out how it was. And I guess there's no tests. Yeah, Peter, this is Marcus. Welcome. Yes, Marcus. I've been reading the report of the electoral commission, the Royal Commission on the electoral system by Justice Warris. I think a lot more people should read it. There is a brief history written by the Justice Department about our democracy,

1:42:00and about first past the post, and about one man, one vote, universal adult suffrage. And it's brilliant. And it's absolutely no need for the continuation of MMP because it's a party to hang on. Justice Warris, right? Yep. He was the guy that came up with MMP. Well, he may have, but he was voted for the system by the politicians, and he came up with it, yes. But if you look at him, he was against... He was in favor of it. He was, yes. But what he was against, he was against pluralism. And pluralism is the many. So he was not interested in the power being in the many, which is the voters, but in being in the select here at the top. It's amazing. If you read it, you'll find it's unbelievable how we've got to MMP.

1:43:00But it was the Wallace report that came up with it. He was someone on you. And yeah, so it was his report. He was the architect of MMP. That's why he had the overhang, but because of the whole situation in Bavaria, with regional governments. Well, maybe like that, but when you look at it, when you read it very carefully, like a Shakespearean play, you see that he was determined to... I think that's quite right, Peter. Oh, good evening, all people. Welcome, my name is Marcus. I hope it's good where you are. What's happening? Final... Final... Friday, free-frault. So anything you've got, if you want to single issue boards, obsessive, we've talked money about dinner parties. And then I got to talk about a lot of people down... Most people don't understand how MMP works. By the way, that last guy, not even understand how MMP works, he didn't understand that the guy, Justice Wallace,

1:44:00who was behind the commission, was firmly in favor of it. The only thing I think subsequently there've been a bit funny about was the overhang rule that if you get a seat, then you get your percentage. They probably thought there should be no rule with that. So there we go, that's a situation there. Get in touch, you want to talk? Or no, three shell, I guess is probably what the answer would be. 0880, 1080, anything goes for the final hour, looking forward to what you've got to say. Also, you might want to talk about the rugby league that's going to be on Sunday. I'll spare you and not have a sweepstake of that, but I've loved this year's NRL competition. I've loved the quarterfight, well, the semi-finals and all the matches coming up to that. It's like a very long final season, but tomorrow it all gets finished. I think the Aussie rules, the final was last week in the Brisbane teams won for three years in a row. But yeah, 0880, 1080, 929, 10, we'd love to hear from you. Mark is still 12. So let's make this last hour easy. What have you got, get in touch? So that's the plan.

1:45:00Anything else you want to mention? I'm not fuss for the final hour. You might have watched minor leaders debate. You'll be talking about billboards, anything goes for here until 12 o'clock. That's my situation, that's the situation. So do whatever you do, but just talk. Just call. That's what I want you to do. I want you to call me now and tell me what you want to tell me. Mark, as you mentioned, the 40th anniversary of Dave Dobbins slice of heaven made me reminisce. I grew up in West Auckland going to Footrot Flets Fun Park. It was a special treat. I went maybe twice. They had Drivers Town, which is a young teenager gave. Help me gain some skills and confidence before learning to drive. Yes, West Auckland had a Lion Safari Park and it had a Footrot Flets Fun Park. You occasionally see Memorabilly from that online. So there we go. Mark has just finished a ship on the ramp and parmy. Streets a little quiet for a Friday. Good night, no delays or flights on time.

1:46:01And the parcel is 737 freighter has just rocked out on the way to Christchurch with God knows how many Timu packs. If I mentioned Timu for a while, you might want to call about that. People still buying stuff on Timu if you got over your obsession with junk. Or is it good stuff? Have you found the good stuff now? So there we go. That's what I want to talk about. 0880.109. Come on, guys. Give me your call. I'm sick of saying the number tonight. Come on. Make the effort for the final flurry. The more the merrier in the last hour, the more the more the flurry is. I'm quite sure why that is. Some nights go slow. Some nights go very quickly. Tonight was one of those very, very quick ones. Extremely quick. My last hour might drag. But yeah, be in touch if you want to. 11 or 11. My name is Marcus Welcom. Patrick, it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome. How does MMP actually work? Are you asking me? Yes, because I've got no idea. Do you vote? Yeah, I always vote.

1:47:01Yeah. So how do you vote? I'm not a one-on-one. I vote the way my parents were voted, which was national. You know, like, pretty simple. So you've got two ticks. What do you do with your two ticks? Well, I'd like, I, well, there's this thing, like, one of the guys from the other party. And then I like the national party, if you know what I mean. So you go one each. Yeah. Yeah. How old are you, Patrick? 62. Okay. Have you ever thought, have you got a knife? Have you got the internet? Yeah, of course, yeah. Have you ever thought that you should teach yourself how it works before you vote next time? Probably. Yeah. Maybe tonight might be the impetus for that to happen. But just everyone knows guys, I do MMP, MMP, but I think a lot of people, it's like you just said before. You know, at least you're honest to say it. Yeah. Well, how many people just don't understand how it actually works?

1:48:04Yeah. I mean, it's quite simple. I mean, I'm not going to sit here and explain it tonight because a lot of people will understand and be boring. But, yeah, it's not, it's not, it's not complicated. No. Will you vote this year, Patrick? Yes. I think that's the way your parents voted. Normally, yeah. Well, funny, because my mother voted one way and my father voted the other way. So did you follow your father or your mother? My mother. Okay. She was voted national and my father was voted later because he worked at, you know, general voters. Okay. Well, do some really nice to hear from you, Patrick. Thank you. 13 past 11. How does it work? I need to know how it works. I imagine you would. Marcus just back from seeing juicy boys at the Isaac, Theta Royal and Cross Church, an amazing show for beginning to end beautiful harmonies and great entertainment, well worth it. Cheers, Liz. You know what I love about that song, that show? I've never seen that show.

1:49:05So it's going to sound crazy what I say. But I saw, I just even saw the cast sing a song before the basketball. I love Frankie, Vellie, my eyes adore you. I don't know why it's something about that song. Yeah, because I've been doing that to it. I love that anyway. I'll be having that for the rest of the night. Get in touch, Max, or 1214 past 11. Make the effort. Come on. It's very brave. How does it work? I mean, I mean, I just voted the way your mother voted. Goodness. I was going to say maybe you shouldn't vote, but there'd be naughty, wouldn't it? Anyway. It's not my job to explain how MMP works. It's not my job to explain how MMP works. We live in a democracy. People died for it. You know, we fought the Germans. We fought the Germans. We fought for freedom. And you can't work out a simple way to vote works. Shocking. You'd won job. Anyway, I imagine, I imagine even though Patrick doesn't understand how it works, I imagine the outcome of his voting is probably the same. But yes, there we go.

1:50:05I'm sure people, because I'm sure people listening to talk back, they'd be getting involved with a bit of discussion to think you how it worked. That's my take on it. Paul, it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome. Oh, Chudamakis. Yeah. Good to talk to you. Thank you. Chudamakis. I'll make a couple of days as I may, because you were talking about strange food mixes. And I didn't get a chance to call. So I wanted to tell you about my blue cheese and wasabi rice crackers using seaweed crackers, only making a sandwich with them. It's a fabulous mix. So the seaweed, the cracker is just a seaweed cracker. Yeah. And then you put it. Put it? Yes. So you're getting a seaweed cracker and on that you are putting blue cheese and wasabi. Yeah, and then another cheese cracker. And then another seaweed cracker on top, make a sandwich. And then throw it all in the mouth. That's all. Yeah. It's got to be a bit of a taste buzz boom, you know what I mean? Because you got the crack of the cracker too, haven't you, and the softness of the...

1:51:06The reason I asked about the cracker, because I think there are rice crackers that are wasabi flavoured as well, have you tried those, because they would work for you. Yeah, well I used to use those, but they stopped supplying the crackers. Okay. So I'll get my own wasabi. The good part of that is that I can alter the strength. Yeah. Do you have to buy those packets of just seaweed sheets? Yes. Yes. Don't like them so much, but it's with... Actually, it's with thinking on my blue cheese thing. The secret is to get the galaxy cream cheese. It's just the cream, blue cream, cream, cream, blue cheese, creamy, blue cheese, much better. The reason I'm asking is because there was no food at home, but there were some of those sealed seaweed packs for the kids lunches. And I would have eaten six of them today. They're delicious, but you said you did not get into them. But I mean, the taste is something remarkably special about the sheets of seaweed that are salted. Got it, delicious. Yeah. I'd perhaps try them again, because there is the seaweed flavor that I like on those crackers.

1:52:06Well, fully enough, I was slightly involved with a woman that worked in a tachy shop. And, honest, a different story. She has a story for another day. That's not a non-history. I've just realised. Paul, thank you. John at Smarkis, good evening. There's John from Christchurch here. Yeah. One in wanting to know, Marcus, it's... I've wondered about for a while. The music that comes in that ends up, I'm always by your side, it sounds very much like the power of love, but it's slightly different lyrics before. Is it a man singing it or a woman or who? I just think it is the song, isn't it? Well, it's slightly different lyrics to the power of love, as obviously hearing it, at every full hand. And it finishes before, so I am your lady to have a thing, comes after it normally in the power of love. Yeah. What is this about?

1:53:06Well, what got me interested was that, a pair of that Marcelito Pomori, the chap from Philippines, and he sings it as if you're on a radio in Philippines. And it sounds exactly like Celine Dion, at the same height, with this slightly lower. And I just wondered, was the male or female singing this version? Oh, it sounds like a female, doesn't it? Well, yeah, if you could get a chance to hear that Marcelito Pomori, and if you weren't watching the thing on the internet there, you would swear it was a woman, and you'd swear it's probably Celine Dion, and it's a male. Yeah, the version that's played is not the Celine Dion version that I don't know, but it's Jennifer Russia's version. Oh, Jennifer Russia, you're the only, okay. Jennifer. Yes, she was the one that did it first, that Jennifer. Yeah, oh, it's good to know, I have to listen to that one separately, but if you get a chance to hear Marcelito singing,

1:54:06you wouldn't believe a male could sing it that way. Was later covered by air supply, Laura Branigan and Celine Dion. That's right, and then there's Marcelito Pomori, who sings duet, male, female voice. But if you hear him on that, you'd be amazed at a male could sing it that way. Does he sing a duet with himself? He can with the prayer, but on this one he sings a high note of Celine Dion's version, the whole way right through the whole thing. Wow. And you wouldn't swear it was a female. Is he still living on the streets, John? No, no, no. He's actually performing around the places in the world. He's doing very well for himself now, but he gives most of what he gets. He gives to people in need and helping people in desperate. That's the power of love and the power of music, isn't it? Yeah. So, yeah. But if you ever do get a chance to hear it, I think you'll be amazed.

1:55:09You're probably having a busy man probably don't get a chance. Not that busy, John, I've just got a part-time job. Around? Yeah, I just think you would enjoy it. Brilliant. Nice to hear. It's a nice record, John, for you all going listen, not now, but I will. Twenty past eleven back and touch. MMP, dinner parties, Christmas. No one's tonight making the Christmas cake. I think we can officially say that that's done. God help us people. Marks have had to stop buying the packets of seaweed for my grand churon eat. Most of the packs before they even visited it's delicious. Oh, dangra should be banned. Sure, it's high in mercury and salt. I'm sure it's not good for you, but man, that's delicious. Wow. I was doing it in a sandwich, but I forget what that sandwich was, but gee, it was good. Just as if I should write down some of my sandwiches I invent. I just re-remembered that. What did I put? I might have put them with blue cheese. Any hope? Here to 12 of my name is Marcus. Welcome 0880.1092. That was a good flurry. Come on, let's go. Keep going. Full board me again. Let's go. Let's go. Come on. It's not going to kill you to be on e.

1:56:09You can't just always text. We need to have you on. We need the quick bang bang bang bang of people's different voices and things happening in the background. And some of their crazy ideas. All that stuff. Seaweed packets. Anyone harvesting their own seaweed? All this and more. Back in a bit. Is it me? Ah. By the way, two pounds. A litre for diesel in the UK. The most expensive. Well, the first time it's ever been over that price. James, it's Marcus. Thanks for calling in good evening. Yeah, good day. Is that me? Yeah. Yes. How's it going? I wanted to talk about our CBDs. Sure. Yeah. So, in my mind, I think that a lot of focus gets put on the North Island in terms of decennas of the CBDs. We talk about Auckland. We talk about Wellington. I think it's really the rise of the South in the Cargels. It's been rebuilt. That place is flashy. I don't know if you've been down there recently.

1:57:09Have you? Yep. Have you? No. You have? Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Denet and awesomely. Awesome. Where are you? I'm in the knee at the moment. But I actually reside in Christchurch, which I think is the CBD in the country. When do you think I'm forecasting from? Well, I was just hanging out with friend Hamish and he said that you were down and bluff. Yeah. Is that true? Well, no. I'm not broadcasting from the IAM broadcasting from Inver Cargels. So, I do know about the Inver Cargels CBD. Oh, great. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. That's why I couldn't work out why I've been sort of slightly tricky with what you'd line up questioning. Oh, no, no. I just think, look, I work in a job where I travel the country quite often. And I'm in Wellington often. I mean, Auckland very often. I feel I don't know if you're allowed to say this word, but I feel like a gypsy. But Wellington, that place needs a good water blasting. It really needs a good cleanup.

1:58:09Courtney Place, when the sun goes down, feels dangerous. And Auckland is just too busy. Everyone's too, too, you can't even park outside a KFA. I cannot park outside a KFA and go for a coffee without walking five minutes and paying seven dollars. And I think that the Southern CBDs need to be given more, you know, it needs to be celebrated more. Now that we've got the Takaha in Christchurch, I think Christchurch is easily the best CBD in the whole entire country. And if anyone's been there recently, it's actually just the nicest place to be. I wouldn't have put Takaha in the CBD. Yeah, look at it. It is very, very close. I mean, if we're talking about in the cargo, it's not as far away as rugby park as it's almost being like saying it here. What I'm saying is that places like Takaha kill the block, because you might get two matches a week the rest of the time.

1:59:15It's a dead zone in the CBD. I wouldn't have put it there. Well, I tell you, I tell you, Marcus, I actually live in a one bedroom apartment 70 metres away from Takaha. My office that I work at is 50 metres away. So I can wake up in the morning, put my headphones on by the second chorus of the song with my headphones in on in my office. But the stadium there brings no trouble. The only trouble that we've seen here. I'm not saying it doesn't bring, I'm not saying it causes any trouble. I think it, yeah, okay. What's your job? The only trouble that we had was when the Warriors came to town. Gosh, that was a bloody, that was a rough crowd. Let's you go. 28 past 1188, Taddy and 9292, you want to talk here till 12, 0800, 1880, 1080 text if you want to, if you can. Anything else you want to talk about? We are here for that. We in touch. Yeah, as I say, 0800, 8080 or 9292,

2:00:17we're just till 12. You use your boys, good on the mention about that. You keep it going, people. What we want? Quick flurry. MMP, the vagaries of MMP and why people don't understand it. I guess, and I guess now you can't put ads on the TV, because now I'm watching TV explaining MMP. Anyhow. Let's be hearing from you. Hi, Pastor Levin. Now, my one disappointment for tonight is that no one is making Christmas cakes as a listing to the show. Because today is the day, 12 weeks before Christmas, today is the day to make Christmas cakes. And not much discussion about mutton hams. But that's fine. I'll keep banging on about that. Because I know that people will be trying something different for Christmas, and a mutton hams seems to be the new must-have at the Christmas table. Christmas cakes not so much. I guess. I seem to have fallen out of favour. I guess that's another thing too that's probably quite expensive to make. Butter, eggs, mixed fruit.

2:01:17You'd want your one card. I'm not quite sure what the price of a Christmas cake would be. Would it be cheaper to buy one? I can't see how it would be, but I guess the commercial ones. It's all margarine. Would that be right? No doubt. We'll talk more about that later on in the place. Someone said, a slice of Christmas cake with a slice of tasty cheese, a great taste. Yes, that would be to be this. Cheese and Christmas cake, very, very good. Be in touch if you want to talk on your mum's Marcus Wilkham. Now, if there's something different you want to mention, the fact should we be worried that no one understands how mm... Sorry, that's an exaggeration. Should we be worried that so few people understand mmp? 46% understand it. The rest no idea. 28 from 12. Petty, it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome. Oh, thank you, Marcus. I just wanted to say... I agreed with that caller a couple of... I want to go. I went to Wellington after a two-year period

2:02:18and when we drove in the cab around the water, coming into Wellington, I got that same feeling I thought, gee, this is deterioration. It just felt like it was depressed. It felt like it needed a good scrub. I don't know what it was. I got that same feeling. Maybe there's... And you know, they have a one-to-one problem. I think if the weather's bad, it's terrible. But it wasn't. We've been... Yeah, okay, okay. We've been... And it wasn't. It's cold as all-crunch, actually. But... And they have a lot of cultural events there. You know? I just... I looked out to the water and I looked at... There was road routes everywhere, which sometimes you don't... I should be used to that in Auckland. But I don't know. I got that same feeling exactly what that guy said. It seemed depressed.

2:03:20That's what I'd say. Okay. No, I don't know. I've had some fantastic times of ingesting Wellington. I've had some atrocious times. And I guess with... Yeah. But I think the whole Courtney place things. Some pretty sketchy bars there. Yeah, look. I guess I haven't been there for a while. So I'll let my comments... Save my comments. I need to get back there. Marcus Bro, one but butcher made a few mutton hams. They're definitely not coming back and they're not a thing. What's hard to understand? You vote for the power you want and then Winston decide who gets in. Love it and that. Matthew, it's Marcus. Good evening. Hello. Yeah, hi Matthew. It's Marcus. Welcome. Are you Marcus? You know how the referee... The referee... The worries are you not think you should be getting attacked. He is a good ref. Well, I think he got sacked. I think he just... Well, the city has been sacked for those last two matches. Is he... Who's the ref on Sunday? I don't know, but... I reckon that referee did a good job.

2:04:21And he called good. It was the banker that... They left it up not the ref. I see. The final is Adam G. Is the referee and the touch judges are... Tyson Bronfell, Henderson, Chris Butler's running the banker official. So he's not there. Yeah. But when you look at it... When you look at it, the worry is lost narrowly, right? But then the dolphins got whacked by the... by the roosters. So we... You know... In the end, it didn't really matter. We weren't going to make it to the final, were we? Yeah, but what I'm saying, that referee was meant to be in the final, but he got sacked because they're wrong. Cool, but it wasn't his fault. It was the banker who caused it. And also... Yeah, but he doesn't need to go to the bunker. He could override the bunker. And that last one when the guy was... When... Frizel, Tyson was running an escort. That was his call. Yeah, but... Yeah, but still with every free did a good job. Well, I didn't think he did. He...

2:05:21He missed... They'd been concentrating on the escort. They'd been highlighting to the players how bad it was. It was a focus for the refs. It was in the dying minutes of the game. It was kickable. It would have put us into sudden death, and he missed it. Okay. So, yeah, no, yeah. Yeah, I'm not into that Matthew, but thank you. 24-12, Marcus, till midnight. Oh, wait, how did you know the rest? Head of the year, very, very end. Marcus, I was a bit incredulous when that guy asked if your theme song was sung by a man or a woman. If people focus on the words she's saying then they might understand why you played every hour. I heard a song recently called Tipped Toe through the Chippets by Tiny Tim. If you didn't know otherwise, you would swear that was a woman singing. Out of interest, I live in Wellington and this place is seriously lost its mojo. Wow. Got very good friends in Wellington. Yeah, I like it as a city. It's a great city to walk around the hills. But, yeah, I don't know what the answer is there. I'm not seeing many people go to anything at the cake-ton. Now they're talking about all black tests and the cake-tons not mentioned.

2:06:22She promised the last hours of winning was for guns and roses. Nothing lasts forever. Lovely day, even cold November rain. Getting touched, pedal 12, 22 from midnight. Are you doing well this hour? So, I'm liking this. We're getting you in. And why does no one have dinner parties anymore? When was the last time you went to a dinner party and the best dinner party you've ever been to? And ring up and honestly say you don't understand MMP. It's kind of quite subtle. Someone says you have reminded me it's high time to make mincement from my go-to, Alison Holtz recipe, batches of Fritzmeat's department, fresh mince pies from November, on-spell Christmas for us. This is a classic talkback text. MMP, you have three votes. A party vote, a prime minister vote, and a local MP candidate. Wow. So, people just deliberately not understanding it. I don't think he wins if it campaigned for three votes. We know campaign ever said three ticks national. Anyhow, you might want to talk about who you think is going to win on Sunday. Yep, some discussion about that.

2:07:22So, get in touch, Hegel 12, who's going to be a part of it. Come on! Let's go. More, more, more, more. More calls before the end. Anything. You might want to talk about your situation with, how are we with COVID? Seven years since COVID came around. It's a long time, eh? I can't even remember when the first lockdown was. But seven years, taking a long time for people to get over it. For sure, there's still people in hospital with it. Why am I telling you that? Because I was surprised myself to realize it was in the wet market in Wuhan. And I think it was October or November that was seven years ago. 2019. Still staggered by that. Yeah, long time. Anyway, that's just something that I thought might be of interest to some of you. And the three things we've known us tonight, no one's having dinner parties anymore. No one knocks on your door randomly to visit. People you know. I get people locking on my door randomly for, yeah, that's always a bit tricky. But yes, head on mid-dove, you want to talk, 20 to 12. Good evening, Mark. This is Marcus Welcom. Hi, Marcus. I have just one point. I want to hold you up.

2:08:22I am, I remember when I long he was asked by a reporter about MMP and he decided to bring it in after he was interviewed. And I still, because I'm on pretty strong medication, I don't understand it fully, but it's a fairly good system, I think. Well, Sydney's given us a more representative parliament. Yes, yeah. I was on a committee, a political committee quite a few years ago. I find if you just don't put it in a wall, just be moderate. You don't have too many problems and policies. John Key was like that. Yeah. Yeah. John Key was also a good communicator. He could be interviewed and he could talk back. And it sounded like he was listening to the person asking the question

2:09:23considering it and answering it. There's too many politicians now, I think, are sort of robotic. There are some sort of mannequin and two of them. Yeah. Sorry. They send me in browns a bit like that. But I remember just while we go to Terriana Turia, the Mary Lady, she said that John Key was actually listening to the Mary people when he was an abit prognostum. Well, he brought them into the, I don't think he brought them to the college. But I think they were there in a supplied deal which seemed to be quite, yeah, showed an innovative understanding. Mark, you just sort of interrupted yourself. What did David Long say? Well, he was interviewed. He was caught on the hop. And he was, I think he was getting used to being a prime minister. It's just a guess, that's a guess. A very brave reporter asked him about MMP.

2:10:27This happened years ago, he sort of confessed all of it. And after that, they had to bring it in. Oh, can't done it. So it became policy policy on the back of the question. I've got a story saying, yes. Do you remember that happened to Mulder because he used to get caught out by media, isn't it? Well, there was something that Luxon said on radio recently when Kerry would have asked. And I forget what it was. I think it was about, it was about having a referendum on MMP. I think he said and he said he would do that was one of his priorities. I'm pretty sure he said that. I bet a little bit you get on with your program. Thank you for such an interesting program. Lovely to talk to you, Mark. Thank you for your, for the way you conducted yourself on that and your, yeah. You're enthusiasm, not enthusiasm, that's not the right word. But anyway, sense of place, 14 to 12.