New Zealand Today - Video Stores

[Music] this week on New Zealand today a kiwi icon under attack video stores around the country are disappearing and no one knows why but in Papakura mana said that good it's home to one of the last remaining video stores in the world [Music] I spoke to owner Tony Martin to find out what's going on Tony Martin no relation to Ricky Martin sadly no because Ricky Martin is a singer huh and you're Tony Martin but the chants of Tony Martin being related to Ricky Martin unlikely like he's from South America and you're from epic Udo Oh everyone asked me for only 20 Martin Jim but I think the riskless interview just kind of like leave the comedy to me Eragon what's it like being like one of the last surviving video stores their sense of pride there I suppose that we figure we think you're living in this market and I get people coming in from a you know from mangry down to purgatory you should really tell those people about the internet I child knowing about the internet if I can avoid it absolutely do you hate Netflix well it is a competitor but not really I mean it's a Porat I hate for it BAE is still a big issue even today what was the name of that we've said again part BAE what would be the like what was the domain like oh it's just poor no I'm not gonna tell you that it is a very challenged industry these days when we down so as we've got rid of our dog room you got rid of your old dot room yes what are we even doing here well hey we've got a little book he can look for just just for you homemade housewives number two girls of the Tosh of a my mum no probably should give a big mother girl no my girlfriend's giant seven there's a joint so when you've got unpaid fines how do you get the money back I go and knock on doors that seems like quite a brave thing to do well not really I'm walking up to a door and there's lots of being pictures of me but and so you tried to get a rental DVD back from a game pad before yes there was something going on here I don't know if it was a myth doing you don't want to be the guy who died cuz he tried to get a copy of Crash Bandicoot back from a gang pad how much did you just look at your watch what are you on it's just people are you gonna get bored of the interview school it doesn't seem like it's going fine when you're looking at your watch that's all that's interesting yeah I'm sorry there's only one thing for me to do I'm gonna end internet piracy stop engineer pirating your deck that'll teach you okay and we need to get that money back well that'll be a good way of going about it Tony you've got yourself a deal mm-hmm what are we agreeing to I knew what I had to do I had to reclaim the unpaid fines by any means necessary Haggar there's this Michael Davidson I was just trying to track down funds for the UO three dollars seventy five time united video um hired a copy of you home page of deeds I never had them are you pushing my records I'm Chris have you got regal yeah I got records do I look intimidating yeah baby you look cute I look cute yeah I am its Guy Williams on reporting on behalf excuse me despite my best efforts it wasn't enough that's good if it god but it's not gonna keep the industry going what we really need is to encourage people to keep coming in and hiring their movies Tony was right I had to rejoin United video to single-handedly save the industry as soon as I get a DVD player Guy Williams New Zealand today believe they have made a few in New Zealand yeah no I love to investigated a

Channel: New Zealand Today

Views: 163,316

Rating: 4.9306159 out of 5

Keywords: comedy, parody, jono and ben

Id: uloqxB6-YcQ

Length: 4min 1sec (241 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 17 2018