Fancy there being a secret floor (21 April 2026)

Marcus talks about getting your car "lost" in ever-expanding car parks, and gets into the history of Carnarvon Station in Dunedin.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Night's podcast from Newstalks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be hope you're drier people. Welcome, hope. I hope
you're not drier people, but I hope you are drier
than you were. Welcome. My name is Marcus Hitd on
Midnight Night. Choose your own adventure to night. You can
actually dictate the course of the show, where we go,
what we do. How are you but to talk about?
Feedbit to talk about? And I'm happy with that. It's
a Tuesday free for all. Greetings and welcome. These other

(00:31):
stuff you want to push your barrow about, feel free
to come through. A couple of things. Top of mind.
Last night, a woman had a car stolen, and because
I am familiar with the phedatic alphabet, I'm pretty sure
it was Romeo November Yankee thirty one. That was a

(00:52):
car that was stole. It was a Zuzuki. Now I
wish I could turn on the microphone tonight and give
you good news about that car. However, someone has gone
on the police dat base. No stolen car has been reported,
so we suspect the car's been towed, which would probably
ring true, wouldn't it. I think you're more likely to

(01:13):
have your car towed than stolen. That would be my take.
So that's what we things happened there. Tell me otherwise
if you've got it. Have you ever lost a car?
I have people friends who have lost cars in big cities.
It happens with small town people. I don't say that disparagingly,
but people have gone and parked a car. Christ Church

(01:35):
is always bad for it. I don't know this was
going to be the topic. I've parked in a car
park in christ Church and wandered round and round to
find it, and it is a despairing thing to lose
your car. And I had the key that could click
the remote, so I've got that high up in my hand, clicking, clicking, clicking, clicking.

(01:55):
I don't know if it was on the wrong level
or quite what it was, but yes, and I suspect
that this person hasn't lost the car. It's been towed.
So that's not a happy update for you on that one.
By the way, that's a good topic of if you've
lost your car, are like forgotten where it was?

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
People have gone to the police station, and it's hard
for the police because they will help you find it,
but then they just drive around. I think flat cities
aren't good for that. I don't know what the solution
to that is. I imagine what you should do. If you're
a going to a new city. There's something he's a
hack for you probably do it anyway. You get out
of your car and you'd actually take a screenshot of
Google Maps with a spot where you are. Do you

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do that? It'd be a key anyway. That's I'm sure
she's been towed, rightfully or wrongfully. I don't know she
was at Blenham. Now here's something that annoys me. I
don't know why it annoys me, but it does. Street
names in cities that are named after other cities, like

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this woman's car got taken from Blenham Road and christ Church.
That drives me crazy. Why when you're designing christ Church
in the streets you think we'll call this Blenham Street.
Because of course, if you're reading this glance and you
think she's lost your car on Blenham, you think, well,
where she back to, Karen Blenheim, and then you realize
it's Blenham Street or Blenham Road. That out of one
of the top ten things that annoying me actually to

(03:13):
be the top hundred, like a Wellington Street in Auckland.
What are they doing? Are they taking the mickey? Why
would they do that? I can feel myself getting quite
worked up about that Wellington Street, Auckland, Auckland Street, Wellington. Sorry,
if it's sort of like London Street Auckland, I'm all
right about. But yeah, when there are other places in
the Yeah, anyway, you might want to comment on that.

(03:37):
You might want to get something off your chest that's
really annoying you. The only thing if we're doing annoying nights,
what I don't like is when people talk about pronunciations
because that like people on the ARC say, oh, I
don't like when people say this, because the language is
evolving anyway, And what happens we do a night and
we say if we do a night on things that
annoy you, and then people come up and say particular pronunciation,

(04:00):
then I'm terrified all night I'm going to say something wrong,
and evibodly I do, and it's normally the pronunciation of pronunciation. Now,
so I said it was choose your own adventure tonight.
But that's the situation. That's the update on the car
but I want to do this more if you get
your car stole and let me know, because we'll see
if we can find them. Because there's more people out
there in cars driving around than there are police, so

(04:22):
you will probably have a good chance of doing it.
Maybe a bit later of him, but you get in
touch eight hundred and eighty eight and nine text. I
just put my headphones on. What's this about? What's this
call about?

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, Dave Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
I don't like it when you're upset Marcus.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
On the exit, but thank you.

Speaker 6 (04:51):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah, pre LinkedIn dazed polls, So I was going to
say they pushed me off, but they annoying me. Now
this business is luxe and business drama where there is
none what was none to create fracture? Does harm any
news media phil filled, I would suggest, and politically motivated.
I don't think there was really any concerns about our

(05:16):
leadership with Prime Minister. I don't think there was anything
there in the first place. Markets and it annoys me.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
There you go, you know how you don't like polls, right.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
Well, pre election based for the markets and at that
time and place is not now, not in three months,
not in or three months prior. It's on the election
day of the election. That's the day that we're really
interested in polls.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
So the only irony is that there's slight hypocrasy for
the politicians because I say they're opposed to polls and
it's nonsense, But they themselves are polling endlessly. Do you
think they themselves should not be able to poll?

Speaker 5 (05:57):
Now, just to clarify who is they?

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Who is they?

Speaker 5 (06:00):
Marcus?

Speaker 2 (06:01):
All political parties are endlessly polling focus groups and polling
to find out how they rating, how they're doing well.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
I would suggest why and for starter, do they not
know or are they not confident in their leadership and
where they are at? And you know they're employed to
do a job by us, the text party.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
But just on that point, because you say you don't
like polls, do you think, well, the political parties themselves
should be able to do polls.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
I think the political parties themselves should know or have
a fair idea themselves of just how they are doing,
how they are fearing, how they.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
Are doing their job, and.

Speaker 5 (06:38):
If they are unstable and in confident in that job,
then perhaps they should vacate because I should suggest if
you're doing a job?

Speaker 7 (06:45):
Would they how would they ask you?

Speaker 2 (06:47):
How would they you asked.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
Me one thing? How do you think your job? How
do you think you're going in your job? I might
suggest you're doing all right, but how do you think
you're going? Do you need a poll to tell you
how you already getting on? I'll suggest your listeners and.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
You're sor Can I just say that if you are
a broadcast on a commercial station or a non commercial
station in this country, you are polled endlessly. We live
and we die. We live and we die of our ratings,
and our ratings are polls. That's what happens. So we
know what it's like because every radio show knows exactly

(07:23):
how many people are listening.

Speaker 5 (07:25):
And how do you think our Prime minister Luxeon, how
do you think he feels himself in a job where
I would suggest this was wholly politically motivated and to
create fracture, perhaps even by Labor party.

Speaker 8 (07:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
I think I think Labor would want lux in there
as long as possible. I think so, I don't know,
without without a shadow of a doubt. That's why they're not.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
Going to ask you one thing, one question for you.
Can I get you to know your colors to the mask.
How are you going to vote? Which way are you
going to vote on the election day? Can I ask
you that.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's too far way for me to announce that yet, Dave,
I haven't seen the policies, but i'll report back to you,
and I don't necessarily know that I would actually divulge that,
although I did take a screenshot of last time I voted,
and one day I might share that with consumed parties

(08:27):
because it's pretty funny. Fifteen past eight, Getting touched jackets Marcus.

Speaker 9 (08:31):
Good evening, getting Marcus. First time caller here. I welcome,
Thank you. I think I might be perhaps a little
bit younger than usual caller ins. But you were talking.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
About you've only heard your yeah, okay for enough.

Speaker 9 (08:47):
You were talking about your lost car in a parking lot,
and I had a funny trick for you, and it
doesn't sound real, but I urge you to try it
the next time. If you point the little doofer for
your car to your head, yes, it will extend its range.
I reckon at least three times.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
I'm aware of that, and I have tried that. And
it's because you're it's because your heads liquid do you reckon? Well,
that's what they say. It's because you were heaters that. Yeah,
I think it does work.

Speaker 9 (09:20):
It must be some kind of something to do with
the medium of your skull and waves passing through to something.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
It's almost, isn't it.

Speaker 10 (09:29):
I thought it's just.

Speaker 9 (09:30):
It doesn't sound real to you. Try it, and I
thought it was the perfect opportunity to call in and
mention it.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Now I have tried that, and I mean that's what
the internet's great for, is telling you why that works.
But yeah, I think it's because the liquid.

Speaker 9 (09:44):
It's got me out of a sticky situation. I'd say
at least twice properly. And I was from my car
and I heard it beeping in the distance.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
The water dense conductive tissues in your skull act as
a passive antenna.

Speaker 9 (09:58):
Is that what it's seems?

Speaker 2 (10:00):
That's chet GPTE. Who knows. But it's good, that wasn't it.
I mean that's because I've done that myself and it
looks silly, doesn't it. Oh yeah, look at hav him.
He's on the internet. But it does work.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (10:11):
And the thing was the person who told me about
it was you know, they're a sort of on the
might I see the hippier side of things. So I
skepticaled at first, and then I tried, and I thought,
what do you know?

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Did you just hold it and press it against your chin?

Speaker 9 (10:28):
I haven't tried that. She said, straight to the.

Speaker 10 (10:31):
Brain, So you hold it.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Did you cover it from the top?

Speaker 9 (10:34):
Yeah, I went straight from the back of my skull
through my eyeballs. And what do you know? I couldn't
believe it.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Had you done a double blind, had you done a
test beforehand without the head.

Speaker 9 (10:44):
Yes, that's the other thing. You try it and you're like, okay,
and then you try it, just said you know it
doesn't work, and you're like, there you go.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
We are talking about losing your cars. I've got a
lot of other topics which I will be sorry to
cut off that last guy. I pushed the wrong button.
I pushed the ad play when I was going to
actually click him on, Bob, it's Marcus good evening that market.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, that you, Bob, when you're talking about losing your car,
believe it or not, I lost my car on the Fury.
How could you do that?

Speaker 11 (11:16):
I thought I was I thought I was thought I.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Was on level three and I went down to level three,
and I wandered around, and I thought, I'm sure I
packed it over here, somewhere, and it wasn't here. So
I spent another ten minutes looking around on the gigging,
finally finally coming to the conclusion that it must be
the deck and Bob. I went up to the deck
and Bob where everyone was sitting in their cars really
to get off with an idiot who was fucking all
the traffic guns, and they all started getting out of

(11:41):
their cars and clapping. I felt such a fool.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
That's funny, because of course you'd be you'd be furious
with yourself because you'd know that it could have been
stolen from a fury. You think, well, it must be somewhere,
it could have been towed it.

Speaker 11 (11:59):
It was on all before, and I was looking for
it on level three.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
And you hadn't You hadn't been abiding, you weren't drunk.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Prely.

Speaker 11 (12:08):
You're right, Yeah, no, I thought I checked it when
I waked up, when I when I when I went
I went to go up steel, I thought I checked
the level and that was the level. I was pretty
convinced it was on, and I thought, well, it wasn't
in this isle. It must be over here somewhere. I
went over there and had look, I wasn't there. Then
I went and finished. I had one of the people
who were trying untying the trucks, and then on.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
The people that I ended up on, and they thought,
I know, You've got to go to the little poor.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
It's hard to know how to respond to everyone getting
under their cars clipping, because you could do a fault,
you could do a fake bow, or you could ignore them.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
I just I just stay the thumbs up. That's my
story for.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
I think a thumbs up as pretty well spot on. Yeah,
I don't think I'd cope with that. So a lot
can hit it on the Love the Fairy. You're looking
forward to the next crossing. Always something happens. Oh wait
eighty nine two nine to de text, we have you
lost your car? People losing your cars when you report

(13:12):
it stolen? Can I just say also too, that we
are broadcasting on frequency modulation in Southland on FM from
hitche Hope. So if you are listening on AM, what
god forsaken of frequency was that eight five six or

(13:32):
something seven five six seven oh two. I can never remember.
I've worked for too many stations. But if you've been
listening on the AM, switch to the FM and tell
me how good it is, particularly if you are in
the provinces. So you might be sort of out the
back of the Hockinuiz or you might be Glumston or

(13:54):
Athel or I don't know where you might be. But yeah,
we are on if M. Now one hundred and four
point or one hundred and five point was on eight
six four. I kind of got it right. So now
we're on one hundred and five point two. So you go,
one hundred and five point six. That's Life VFM coming
in strong from Gore. Yeah, go on, they've got such

(14:15):
a strong frequent that's the that's a Christian station.

Speaker 12 (14:19):
Now.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Police are supporting people to evacuate under a state of
emergency in Gladstone Cartertan due to concerns over rising Little
River levels. So I don't exactly know where that is,
but I'm assuming that there is a suburb of Cartertan.
I don't know Carterton had suburbs. I don't say that disparagingly,
but so I'm just going to look at the map

(14:41):
to see where that is. That's just through now Dwan,
that's right, you've put that through. That's what's happening. So
we think Gladstone, Oh, there's I can see the glads. Oh,
Gladstone is across the river, the Roemahanga River. There's a
Gladstone church. This is Romance Territory where he set the
wheelbarrow record. I think. But Gladstone, you'd be heading between

(15:05):
Cardifton and the coast, so they're evacuating people there, just
so you know. Good eving Lizzies. Is Marcus welcome?

Speaker 13 (15:14):
Laughing at that last story.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
It's funny, isn't it.

Speaker 13 (15:19):
Yeah, Well, I'm not sure if my one was funnier
or Sander, but I hope it's Sandah, it was funny, funny.
But I want to tell you something else. My second
daughter had a boyfriend, new boyfriend or whatever. So we
went off to this big party in town and she
must have driven me there, and then, of course I

(15:39):
didn't pay attention. She put my keys in her car
and went to as a boyfriend. Wow, so in back
and head notes.

Speaker 14 (15:49):
In the car the whole weekend.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
This is quite a complicated story to unpack. And I
think we your daughter went had a so called boyfriend, right.

Speaker 13 (15:59):
Yeah, we went to a big party in the city.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Who went You went with her?

Speaker 13 (16:05):
Yes, her and I went together. She was going to
meet her boyfriend.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Again, you're both you're both going to the same party.

Speaker 13 (16:11):
We're both at the same party. We both went in
the same Karen. She we went to the party, and
then instead of her going with the keys keys from
my car to go home, she took them with her.

Speaker 8 (16:23):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (16:24):
Anyway, so I want to go back.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
So what did you do?

Speaker 13 (16:28):
I think I had to give a taxi home.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
And get the kar on Monday.

Speaker 13 (16:32):
No, she came back with a boyfriend and she drove
it home.

Speaker 11 (16:36):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (16:37):
But but Liz, You've got to say this is this
is PC? Isn't it pre cell phone? Because everything was
different in those days, wasn't it?

Speaker 13 (16:45):
Oh? No, No, wasn't It would have been self Tom.
But anyway, what was going on?

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Are you going to parties in your eighties with your daughter?

Speaker 13 (16:55):
I'm not a mate. It's but gesful, Yeah it was.
It was a party for Are.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
You talking about the nineteen fifties or something? When you
go to a park?

Speaker 14 (17:09):
No?

Speaker 13 (17:11):
No, I had nice little cap. What I was going
to say is I want to ask you this because
I'm feeling a bit thick, and I didn't know it was,
but probably am. I can't figure out how election isn't
very upset about the rotten apples and his cabinet because

(17:31):
they're stabbing him in the back. How can he be
the way he is?

Speaker 8 (17:36):
Horse?

Speaker 2 (17:37):
I think he's got great self belief.

Speaker 13 (17:39):
No, what I'm saying is, how can he christened?

Speaker 15 (17:43):
Boy?

Speaker 2 (17:43):
He's got no alternative? Has he?

Speaker 16 (17:45):
What?

Speaker 2 (17:48):
That's politics? Everyone's out for themselves and they all try
and make out the unified and you've got one go
at it.

Speaker 13 (17:54):
And I know you're pretty good on these things. But
all I'm saying is there have been a lot of
them have been totally rotten to him. Leaking is and
I'm just quite impressed about him.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah, well, they're not gonna They're not going to stop.
They're not going to stop leaking either. I think Winston
kind of summed that up. I mean, once they start
and now they're now they're named, and they won't get
a good list position, They're they're gone. Burger.

Speaker 13 (18:25):
Well, I think I've run businesses if I was in
an environment like that, I was in one environment where
two two environments. Because I've run quite a few businesses
where I found out that it's miss start with loyal
so I am just got rid of them. I don't
know how he can do what he's doing. I'm very

(18:47):
impressed with him. I don't know. Am I just being naive.

Speaker 12 (18:50):
With something I don't know?

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Well, maybe some other people might have pied if they
want to text doors. I lost a car for a
week in christ Church, found in a pub car park.
Marcus on Google Maps is a facility you can enable
which automately remembers where you park. Reuse Marcus. I just
got my first three D printed day. Absolutely awesome machine.

(19:12):
Fun fact Marcus, Blenham Road doesn't go to Blenham. Lincoln
Road doesn't go to Lincoln. It's crazy, Marcus. When my
friend and are in our twenties, we parked our car
and Florence and followed signs to the market. To the market,
had a lovely time at the market, so we realized
there were no signs back to the car. Took us
hours to find it. What if any people have actually

(19:35):
lost their car and actually never managed to find it again,
but it was still there, Marcus. Once I lost my
car on Amsterdam car park, car park had six entrances
couldn't find until I received help from a Dutch friend.
Couldn't read Dutch signs, which was the problem, Marcus. For years,
I have put a yellow fluorescent tennispal at the end
of my car aeriel to be seen amongst us sea

(19:58):
vehicles at the mall and super market, car pecks, car parks.
I find my car every time, John Auckland, It's obviously
not one of those aerials that retract, is it? Chorus
fiber network is down in the Monoco area, possibly wide.
It cannot access Internet for vital transactions and able to
find out when the ardite will end. Can you help?
Could you help me? Is that Monaco in Auckland? Because

(20:19):
I know there's another one, Marcus, Your whole body is
made of water, not just your head. Just hold your
hand up above the height of the roof level that's
running car and fres the key. Now there are no
vehicles obstructing the signal. Unbstructed, your key will call the
length of the block. Oh and someone says if lux
and sex any of them will cause an expensive BI election,
not a good look for conserving money. Do we not?

(20:41):
I don't think we. I don't know if we have
BI elections just close to the election.

Speaker 17 (20:44):
Do we.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Marcus range Tike river running at nearly five meters usually
runs about one point five lots of lovely driftwood going
down stream. Have a good evening, twenty seven to nine.
My name is Marcus. Welcome losing your car. Annoying things
and losing your car. That's the plans stand. If you

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want to get in touch, we'd love to hear from you. Oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine to nine to text.
So as you probably realize, there are evacuations a Cartertan
due to rising river levels. Gladstone, Cartertan. It's not a
suburb of Cartertan. It's as the crow flies a number

(21:28):
of kilometers away from it. I'd say three k's away
in a southeast direction, heading towards the coast. But that
might be where Roman was in the wheelbarrow. Yes, that's right.
It's a good story, that one. I wish I remember
all the details. It was a fundraiser, I think, although

(21:51):
I've googled Roman real Bear and it's given me stories
about the Roman Times. No surprises there. Hello, Michael, it's Marcus.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Good evening, Hello Marcus.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
H I'm Michael welcome.

Speaker 18 (22:09):
Yeah, hi, hey, yeah, not so much lost car. But
I had to go to work over and for a
work trip to Europe. This was about fifteen to twenty
years ago, and I always wanted to travel light. I
didn't like to carry luggage in the in the plane
and that and anyway, on the way back, I said,

(22:30):
I'll put everything in my in my checked and luggage
and that actually, without me realizing it included my car keys.
So I ran in Auckland and I'm from Twonger and
waited and waited for my luggage, and after about half
an hour an hour, everybody had gone and my luggage

(22:52):
still hadn't come through. So I went to the counter
or whatever, and my luggage was still in Europe with
the keys to my car. And so here I am
at the Auckland airport, no luggage, no nothing, just the
clothes I'm standing up in and my car's in the
car park and it's all locked up. It took me
about six hours to organize somebody to go back to

(23:15):
my house and had to try and explain to them
where I thought my sphare car keys were because I
wasn't really sure because it's not something that you use
every day, and finally someone found them and had to
drive up from Auckland a couple of hour drives and
gave them my car keys, so at least I could
get home. But I still didn't have my luggage. So yeah,

(23:38):
not quite a lost car, but lost keys.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Hello.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
I suppose it'd be three or four days before your
luggage arrived.

Speaker 18 (23:46):
Yes it was, it was, but at least I had
my car keys now then, you know, even though it
was after about six hours.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
But what I has? Good story, Michael, I think the
airport's got busy with me. You don't hear as much
about lost luggage, do you. I guess that's all to
do with logistics and AI. Would that be right? We're
talking about losing your cars and when I'm in losing
your cars forgetting where you put it on your big
city travels and stuff like that. That's good stories, um Marcus. Oh, yes,

(24:21):
had our car service and the guys gave us a
loan car, went to a downtown car park parked up.
But what was the number of the car? I had
to ring the data? Sorry, mate, what's the number off
your loan car? Felt an idiot? I could see that
happening shupers Marcus not gonna have any sympathy. But national

(24:42):
mp entering the beehive in twenty three would probably be
thinking this sweet for six to nine years. But now
they're going to be gone by political smoker on probably
a lot of debt taken on car, house rentals, et cetera.
They won't get the retirement perks either. That's what you
get for being useless. Thanks for that. Get in touch
if you want to talk. That's the text to said that.
I read it out, Oh eight one hundred and eighty

(25:05):
eight nine to detext anything goes here till twelve tonight.
Chelsea Clinton's done the Boston Marathon, met by her proud parents.
Anyone predict that? And as you put that, I me
as you put that story on Facebook, who cares? Slow Newsday?
If you read the Internet lately, Facebook, who cares? Slow Newsday? Everything? Jeeps?

(25:26):
There must be just people at home looking for the internet,
you know, Slow Newsday? Who cares? They're not a celebrity.
It's amazing a Yet literally by typing a comment, you
are caring because you're interacting with it. Slow Newsday, who cares?
The astronaut ran the marathon too, Sonny Williams. I'll be

(25:47):
in touch if you want to talk on air. Marx
is the name Hendle twelve oh eight hundred eighty ten
eighty nineteen nine text The old tsunami didn't come too much,
did it?

Speaker 8 (25:57):
No?

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yes, Now this is an interesting story too from Dunedin.
There's going to be possible hotel at forsythe bar Stadium.
And the reason we know that is because it was
a secret counselor meeting and a counselor did a reply
all email chain. And he's the same counselor as the

(26:21):
guy that wore the masking tape over his face. Unbelievable. Yep,
he copied in everyone anyway, I don't know if that's
going to be a thing. I don't think that's going
to save the forsythe Barras put it. That's just good
money after bad, isn't it anyway? Twenty to nine Andrew's
emailed he said his car won't be stolen, its manual

(26:45):
someone else. X's Marcus. I've opened the door of what
I thought was my car, jumped and then gone to
start up before I've realized it was not my car,
but the same make modern color as my car. My
car happened to be four cars over. Now I can
tell you too. Someone has called the emergency signal has
gone off. The following emergency mobilon has been sent issued
in a Herbalt, Herbertville and Taradua. After the Wainui River

(27:09):
suddenly rose, there's possibly of debris been in the flood water.
Silafort's warning Civil offense started warning there is a potential
for sudden flooding at Herbertville from the Wainui River which
is suddenly risen upstream. People should prepare to evacuate from
low lying areas such as the campground. If you feel safe,
leave immediately. People in low lying areas should follow instructions.

(27:29):
Prepare a bag, organized to stay if they can with friends,
take your pets, check on neighbors. Do not walk or
drive through floodwaters. They may be in contaminated and contain debris.
If you need a place to go, forty three Seaview Road.
Seaview Road, that's Herbertville Free doctor Seus's sounding name for

(27:50):
a place, isn't it Herbertville. It's right on the coast,
So go from downavert go southwest south of porto ongaho
Oha eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Phillips Marcus good evening.

Speaker 17 (28:04):
Yeahg, I feel a bit privileged to being Aoklan at
the moment, feeling for those people down low North Island.
But yeah, yees crazy yeah on a light and note
which I do have the privilege of talking about here
at the moment. Just that guy talking up before about
his lost car or lost car keys made me think

(28:26):
of quite a funny story from about ten years back
of a mistaken car. I went to supermarket with my daughter,
had a white people move ansand presage. I don't know
if you know the ones. They don't really they stopped
making them a few years back, so they don't see
them around the much anymore. But went into supermarket that
the shopping came back out, both went back to the car,

(28:47):
opened up the door. Daughter walked down, and she's about
five at the time, said Dad, where's my car seat?
And I yeah. For a few seconds, I was Holy Molly,
who on earth could have broken into our car and
stolen the car seat of all things and left everything
else the same? And I looked up and our car
was my actual car was parked two parks along which yeah,

(29:10):
the fact that an identical car that wasn't too common
to start with, least their car unlocked in the car
park two cars down from mine, and we went all
the way in there and almost went to strapper in
before realized what it was. But just made me think.
It's quite a funny story. I'll look back on.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Did you it was your own car locked or did
you not lock it either? Fell Do you not think
that's surprising?

Speaker 17 (29:32):
No, No, I definitely locked mine, and I guess I
guess when I pushed the button it would have unlocked mine.
But of course that's why I didn't think twice when
I opened this one up. So anyway, Yeah, so that's
all I've got to say.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
So I sort of common occurrence, Phil, Thank your good story.
Fourteen to nine, Keep it going, eight hundred eighty ten
eighty hitdle twelve. Losing your car, there's that losing your car,
or not losing it, but losing it, losing it forget
where you put it. Yeah, Particular is a foreign town
and it's got all your goods ad on the Great

(30:06):
European Tour. These are the stuff that we want to
talk about tonight. These are the things are one of
the Osmonds has died. Goodness Allan. Now I don't know
the Osmonds by name. He's seventy six. Goodness for those
that don't know who the Osmonds were in the early seventies,
that is big as ah can't think of a band

(30:32):
there is. They're bigger than all of those bands thirteen
to nine. He's one of the osmands have died, the
oldest of the performing Osmonds. You might know they played
Eden Park seventy five. Of course, there were seven people
in the Osmonds. The eldest two or there's nine children
Mormons and the oldest two children were preferred. What were
deaf I think, and then the subsequent seven with a

(30:55):
band that was the Osmonds, Alan, Wayne Merrill, j Donnie,
Marie and Jimmy. Of course Allen was the oldest. Here's
the one who has died today, Allison. It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 19 (31:05):
Are you seeing any problem in that? Marcro See TV
n Z have changed their website. They've upgraded or something
on there, and you better go in and watch programs
that you missed. But now to go in and log in,
and then they send you a code to your email.
When you put that code and you've got ten minutes.
And then when you put the code and said that,
it's already expired, so you can't get into the TV

(31:26):
ins and to see any of the programs.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Now that sounds like, do you so sure they haven't
built a website that's not going to work?

Speaker 19 (31:37):
Yeah, it's quite unusual. And then when you put your
log on the code within the ten minutes, it just complete,
comes up and valid code has already expired. That code,
so you go back out again, try it again, got
three at tenths left, and then you're locked out.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
I don't know any advice have it?

Speaker 3 (31:53):
Do you know?

Speaker 2 (31:54):
A teenager?

Speaker 19 (31:56):
Not really not to know?

Speaker 2 (31:59):
That's annoying, Dan. What's she doing wrong?

Speaker 7 (32:00):
Is she?

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Does she like me a over clicker?

Speaker 19 (32:03):
It worked the other day, but it's not working now.
I don't know what's happened. Might be my computer now,
I'm thinking that's what I'm thinking, just might be my problem.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
You suffered situations like that.

Speaker 19 (32:17):
It's annoying though, because you're you're chasing your town sort
of and you're giving all.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
The yeah, yeah, what are you trying to watch?

Speaker 19 (32:26):
I just wanted to watch a bit of than news.
When you yourself you missed the beginning of the news.
A little bit of the news here, Okay, I think
nothing really important what you said. That just annoying. I
go to have the library tomorrow. Have a go on
the library or computer. But I don't think it's going
to work there because I won't hit my log in
details there because it's the own personal log and details.

(32:46):
It won't be any help at going to the library.
I don't think.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Keep listening to be people, I'm sure with some advice. Alison,
thank you, Hello, Donor, it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 20 (32:56):
Then Marcus just saying lovely, lovely Allison there, who's battled
a little bit. She needs to persevere and get it sorted.
And I got an email and there were messages thing
for the butt to be an upgrade, conserve your email address.
And I was actually the opposite to Allison. When it
did pop up on my screen. It was so simple
and easy. I was actually super impressed that could pull

(33:17):
that off.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Wow, well she needs experiences. That's good that it worked
for you.

Speaker 15 (33:23):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's there.

Speaker 14 (33:26):
I must have been.

Speaker 20 (33:27):
The The on demand was slightly ugly and hopefully they
will fix that. It's covered some really weird stuff. To
go back to front timing wise, but hey, they'll get
that right. But she needs to persevere or just the
there isn't a right hundred and there's a support line
for TVMZ. She needs to persevere because I feel her pain.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Donna, thank you, Linda, Linda Marcus welcome.

Speaker 21 (33:48):
Yes, the same thing happened to me, but I got sorted.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
How did you get it sorted? Right?

Speaker 21 (33:53):
So they send you the code, You put the code
in and press done and then you press continue, and
it wouldn't work for me. So I tried it again.
I tried it two or three times. On the third time,
I sent a reply to the email and I said,

(34:14):
have tried the code. It will not work. And then
in about ten seconds, I've got another number to put in.
I put that new code in and it worked.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yeah, someone, and I've reapplied it. And then they've sent
me a new number in the meantime. So when I
put that number, it's not the right one because I've
hit it twice. So it's given me. It emailed me
two numbers. That's tense to what happens for me. Yes,
I'm normal to hurry to get it done.

Speaker 21 (34:41):
Yeah, well you've got to just be patient. Put the number,
and if it doesn't work, try again. If it doesn't work,
send a letter, send a reply to the email, say
the number doesn't work. They're need to send you another number,
or they send you that same number again.

Speaker 14 (34:55):
But don't forget to push the.

Speaker 21 (34:56):
Done button once you put the number on, and then
continue and then it usually works on about the third
or fourth time.

Speaker 13 (35:03):
I did it for my neighbor, and I did it
for God.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
You should go around and do it for Ellison.

Speaker 22 (35:08):
I should should really shunt.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
I don't know, but it makes you realize how simple
radio is, isn't it. I mean, it's there on the transistor.
That's it.

Speaker 7 (35:16):
Yes.

Speaker 21 (35:16):
But the only other thing is because I have much
around with how you get your TV programs and everything.
And why do they change things when they're working so well?

Speaker 2 (35:25):
I don't know. I think it's all Spark brought the
rights the Rugby World Cup. From then on, world's got
complicated and nothing really has worked. Thank you, Linda. It's
also JANKI and I use that a word a lot,
but that's yeah. I actually haven't used that website. I
don't think I would. We're having a lot of trouble
with Sky. We got Sky Internet. I don't know why,

(35:48):
because they're persistent, but we need to get a tech
to fix it because it's got to delay on it. Well,
every time Vanessa rings and we've been together for god
that for fifteen years or something, they say she's not
authorized to talk to them. I was asleep. I mean
it was earlier. But you know, while who so obsessed
about authorization, what's something going to do is secretly cantle

(36:10):
their partner's Sky account. It's all about phone. There's no text.
It's not like text them texture problem. Oh, don't get me.
I've had a guts fall. Yeah, and I was always
supported Sky for a for a long time. But no,
not anymore. Terrible welcome, good evening money, Miss Marcus. I
hope it's good where you are people, where you are people.

(36:32):
I hope it's good for you people. Yeah, I think
that's what I'm trying to say. Get in touch of you.
Do you want to talk? Oh eight hundred eighty tendy
nine to nine two text anything else you want to mention?
Good'd be nice to hear from you. Oh eight hundred
eighty ten eighty and nine to nine to two to text.
We are talking about losing losing your car, well misplacing
your car. It's a very funny text about they keep

(36:55):
the discussion going. If you dont want to talk about
that one of the Osmonds have died, you might remember
the Osmond's. I don't think they're to it, but they
have to it. There were nine children at seven sung.
I don't know if they're good singers or not, but
they felt slightly manufactured. Anyway, get in touch you on
to talk Marcus. For those with clear skies, there are

(37:16):
metia showers forecast for tonight. Marcus Tevens did plus now
load shows the added features are probably doing this if
an eight broke wife fix it. Marcus nineteen eighty six
Mount Smart dire straight to concert first time, having four
to twenty. It took me and the wife hours to
find our van now for the concert, walking roundom circles
for ages. Yeah, I always thought Mount Smart's quite an

(37:38):
easy place to get lost in in the middle of Penrose.
TVN did update was not a choice. I didn't want
to reload and sign and again and force a new format.
Not better, just different. But remember it's free. I've got
to fix for tv ANDSD issues by a VCR problem solved.
It's what I've always used to record shows. I don't
think you could. I don't think a VCR is going
to work because a lot of programs aren't broadcast terrestrially.

(38:03):
Tell Allison she needs to be quick with ther emails.
We needed to get two codes before it worked. You
got to be quick. TV did logan has five numbers.
Depending on the font size, the fifth digit drops to
a second line. That's helpful. I'm petsitting in a different
house to mine, putting my email and then the number
code they emailed actually worked. Don't tell you about my

(38:24):
time over the holiday's pet sitting. We had to pet
sit a dog and a frog. No, I made a
mistake and wrecked the story somewhat. We had to pets
it a dog and a tadpole. Well, any guesses what
gave us the most difficulty. It was the tedpole. Surprising,
isn't it. I was surprised, Steve. It's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 8 (38:47):
Him in Marcus, I sort of tell the story about
a friend of mine that he went to go shopping.
He lived in Cromwell and he went to go shopping
in the mall with his wife and so they piked
up and they went in and they said agreed that
they'd meet later. They at the car when I both finished.

(39:08):
So after a while he wandered back out the car
and she wasn't there, and he was waiting, and he said, oh,
well i'm waiting, I'll jump in the car and go
around and see my son. So off he went. While
he was at his son's house, he said, oh, I
better get away and pick up your mother. They went
out and the car wouldn't start, so he called the AA,

(39:33):
and while the AA was under the bonnet and trying
to work up why this car wouldn't start, the police
turned up and surrounded them. The police said what are
you doing and the AA I said, I'm just trying
to get this chip's cargo. And he said it was
not his car stolen And he said, what do you

(39:57):
mean it's stolen. He says, it's my car. It's not stolen,
and the guy said, yes it is. He said, well
it's a is itcly the same as mine. So anyway,
it turned out that the car wasn't his, but his
keys had started it and to get there, but it

(40:17):
wouldn't start. It to leave again and not only that
the car belonged to one of the policemen, and so anyway,
the police, the police drove him back to the mall
and there was his car still sitting on the side
of the road with his wife standing outside waiting for him.

(40:37):
That was quite funny, it was. And they were older cars.
So I gather remember when you hit the old Ford Escorts,
the old Ford courteenas that one key would sometimes start
three or four different cars, and it must have been
worth that. And this poor old guy was he felt
devastated that he had stolen the policeman's car. But anyway, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
That's not a story you could recreate. That's unbelievable for
all that to happen.

Speaker 8 (41:05):
Well it was then is his wife he pulls up
for the police car. Of course, the bees getting out
of this police car and his wife's wondering what the
hicks happened?

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Yeah, like that, Thanks Dave. Keep it going. Twelve past
nine stories of losing your car, almost placing your car
and Sky if you've got our situation, not Sky but
TV INDD plus Marcus. For the last few years Sky
had a weight had a number of customers to save
cost to it to call phone landline O nine five

(41:37):
to five double five double five. As you know, you
wait thirty minutes or more and then use your minutes
on mobile phones. My mate the technician, and they said
they have the eight hundred number. Oh my mosinication and
they have the oight number one hundred number. I said
once to phone Sky to get through to save waiting
using minutes. When I phone got out to trade away,
they asked what can we do for you? And I

(41:58):
told them. And when they said where did you get
this number from? When you phone eight hundred and seven
five nine seven and five nine, the recording says therea
I kind of number has changed. Oh, by the way,
here's something else. I'm just going to drop in. Their
topic wise too, they are trying to work out what
to do with the stadium in christ Church, the old one. Yeah,

(42:21):
maybe they could have the horses there. People go and
watch the horses. It's facing an uncertain future. Apollo Project
Stadium will host its final major event on April thirteen,
when Willington Phoenix take on Western Sydney Wonderer's Before the
counter acclaims the site, so it's over rover. If you

(42:44):
got any plans for apollow where you change the name.
Wouldn't you doesn't sound like a re zesty kind of
a name, but yeah, watch the plan for that too,
and losing your car anything else. That's the plans, Dan.
Get in touch if you're up for it. We've got
an emergency alert for Herbertville. Well, no surprise. You look
at Herbertville and I have done this. Herbertville on the coast.

(43:06):
It's right on the bend of a river. Yeah, it
looks like a gorgeous beach, but looks like a really
flood prone We're looking at it just I'm no geotechnical engineer.
But there's the Wainui River which seems to have a
fairly big catchment, and then Herbertville's on the bend, and
even on Google Maps you can quite easily see where

(43:29):
the river has changed its course over the years. Be
a good pub, the herbert Villain, though, wouldn't it? Or
is it? Well they had the book burning now I'm
thinking loud now I don't think that is the case.
Which pub had the book burning? That was a Hawks
Bay pub, wasn't it a better? Get refect right on
that one. Get in touch by name as Marcus Welcome
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine nine two text.

(43:51):
It was a different pub was the mar Kortuku one
eight hundred eighty Tenny and if you want to talk
about this or anything else nine to nine two text.
Be nice to hear from you. Oh now, I'm trying
to keep an eye on the straight till her moves
the straight of hor moos tonight. It's not even on
the news any were It's all about Kirs Darmer and
the Osmond that died. I think I don't know if

(44:12):
he's the first Osbond and either there was nine of them.
It's held the eldest brother, but they're two elder but
they just went in the band they played Eden Park
seventy five until six sixty played. That was sort of
the last big band that played there for a long
long time, which is pretty remarkable. Sixteen past nine o'clock.
David Marcus, good.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
Evening, Good evening.

Speaker 11 (44:34):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (44:34):
David yourself?

Speaker 10 (44:35):
You good? Hey?

Speaker 23 (44:38):
Herbert bulls out towards the coast.

Speaker 4 (44:40):
We're from.

Speaker 23 (44:40):
Denny Burke and the black Dog sold Burnley just under
the book.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
Now where is that? Where is the black Dog?

Speaker 23 (44:52):
That's at Aumonville, Macota Coue, which is just north McCue,
just north of Norse, northwest of Dennybook.

Speaker 10 (45:03):
Yeah, yeah, that.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Would Herbertville flood prone. You would you know much about that?

Speaker 6 (45:09):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (45:09):
What was that?

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Would hubert Will be prone to flooding?

Speaker 23 (45:12):
Yeah, it's right on the beach at the headset a
couple of floods.

Speaker 24 (45:15):
Go.

Speaker 23 (45:15):
It's got a good pub out the bloody it.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
Looks like it looks like a cracker of a pub.

Speaker 23 (45:20):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
We're right on the beach and yeah it's great.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
It's like a heck of a good spot apart from
the river flooding.

Speaker 5 (45:29):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 23 (45:29):
It's a great, great settlement out there, great settlement. Yeah, no,
it's yeah, it's a great place to go. And yeah,
those two pubs are actually you could go to them
and you could get into a lot of trouble, I
can assure you. But it's the drive homely the worry about.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
That's right. We'll pack your car and forget where you've
packed it. Thank you for that, David Craig. This is Marcus.
Good evening.

Speaker 25 (45:54):
Hi, Marcus. I was just putting the barrel about the
old stadium and the horses. I went on to the
new stadium web site today. I was just looking at
the and you get to see the seating arrangement and

(46:15):
in one corner it's got an area called the stables. Now,
why would you have an area called the stables if
the horses?

Speaker 2 (46:24):
It's crazy?

Speaker 25 (46:26):
Have you ever gone on to this site? If you
just google soup around tickets, it'll show you what seating
is left, and it gives you like a plan. You know,
you just click on for say Saturday or Sunday.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
What's the website?

Speaker 11 (46:42):
Oh?

Speaker 25 (46:43):
I just googled soup around tickets christ Church and it
went to ticket Master.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
I think, yeah, okay, because.

Speaker 25 (46:52):
There's only tickets for say Saturday. But when you click
on it, it gives you like an overview of the
actual seating arrangement of the stand. And in one corner
there's a big air and it refers to it as
the stables.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
I'm on this now, but why would they call it
the stables?

Speaker 25 (47:13):
Well, why would you call it the stables unless you
intended to have the horses there.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
I can't see that. I can see corporate sweets, field club.
I can't see where it says the stables.

Speaker 26 (47:25):
If you.

Speaker 25 (47:27):
If you click onto tickets up Up the top. If
you go on to purchase tickets or whatever, it'll show
you what tickets are remaining. And I think there's eight
formats left or some there's only four Saturday and Sundays
left because friday's a seal out.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
Yeah, I can't it says the stables. Yes it would
you say the stables if they haven't got any horses.

Speaker 25 (47:55):
But look at how big it is. It's huge, and
I'm just wondering if we're underneath for the horses going
to come out.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
They're going to be there, aren't they. They've just pulled
one over us. There's going to be the horses.

Speaker 25 (48:09):
Well maybe not. Maybe they intended to have it there
and then they realized, oh no, we're builtless, too small.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
What else would you it's not historical, is it.

Speaker 25 (48:23):
Well they would have had an area called the stables
if they intended the horses to be there, And now
the intention is, oh well maybe we won't.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
It's called the stables.

Speaker 25 (48:35):
Hmmm maybe some So you look at you.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
The Internet detective, Well look at that you and the stables.
That's amazing. Did you get a ticket? Craig? You're there?
Craig self terminated three one past nine good evening, Dean.
This is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 27 (48:54):
Just a crick sidebar if you don't mind. Marcus who
ran around in a fairy tale saying the sky is falling?
Do you recall do you remember?

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Was it chicken little?

Speaker 7 (49:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (49:05):
That's why I talk. Oh goodah. We were having a
bit of a debate in our quis team tonight.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
Yeah, Who'd I say?

Speaker 17 (49:12):
It was chicken little Yeah?

Speaker 27 (49:15):
And the team thought it was chicken licken. And then
apparently according to Wikipeter and some and some tales, it
can be chicken liten, but it's chicken licken.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
They've got a confused with finger licken chicken licken. No,
I think it's chicken little.

Speaker 27 (49:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (49:27):
That's good.

Speaker 27 (49:28):
So that I was outdated, but that's called democracy for you.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
Hey.

Speaker 27 (49:31):
I'm just on this lost car business. We were in
America for the first time and packed in some shopping
mall and I think it was Las Vegas. We couldn't
find our car. We were looking for that bloody Carfa
and felt like it felt like forever. It was probably
about nineteen minutes or that, because all the bays looked
the same, and so ever since then, I've always taken

(49:53):
a photo of the bay with hopefully some sort of
number or something or the like F forty two or whatever,
so we can find the bloody thing, because it was
the worst ninety minutes either not our car of and
getting very frustrated and annoyed. So yes, I've done it
ever since. Basically in the big car was just taking

(50:14):
a photo of the car on your phone with the
bay number and hopefully the numbers of the spot that
the cars and so I can find it again.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Was it a covered multi level car park?

Speaker 27 (50:23):
Wasn't very much, so, mate, it was one of the
huge American jobs. And yeah, it's just how long did
you spend about ninety minutes? It felt like forever.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Because it's slightly ticky too, isn't it. It's not good. Yeah,
there was actually a start for the episode when it happens,
but it's a terrible thing because anything, oh it's been
stolen or it's been taken.

Speaker 27 (50:45):
Or yeah, or where do we go? And it's you know,
it's a foreign city and we don't know the ropes
and yeah, we just we just felt like complete dolts.
But we did find it.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Was it somewhere unexpected?

Speaker 27 (50:56):
No, it was the thing that we found Marcus. Quite
confusing is all the bays looked the same. There's nothing
to differentiate them, you know, So I don't know. Twenty
days we thought we were in roughly the right area,
and we kind of were, but it just took a
long time to find and and and all the they
just looked the same, so same tame that you just

(51:18):
lost all sense of direction. And yet that was it
was just a horrible thing. So these things, I just
take a better of the numbers. I don't have to
rely on dear old memory because of simply that was.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
One of the better questions from the pub quiz was.

Speaker 27 (51:33):
Oh, there were lots of them. There's one hundred and
something or other questions there. None of them particularly start
stood out, but near that was one.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
That will give me one. I love a pub quiz question.

Speaker 27 (51:45):
Okay, let me think yeah, Okay. So Robert Palmer had
a video of one of his big hits, and he
based the video on his previous big hit, which was
a couple of years before. What was the original hit there.
It's a bit of a tough one. So he's basically
got two songs, which which was which of his big

(52:06):
songs came fierst basically it comes Robert Palmer.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
Yeah, we're talking the eighties, aren't we. I think I
can almost visualize that ninety something that almost visualize the video.

Speaker 27 (52:21):
Yeah, so it's basically it's I think it's some girls
with guitars. That's that's the video that you want if
you know the song. Okay, so that video, give.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Me the one song. I'll tell you the other one.

Speaker 27 (52:37):
You've acentually waked it out.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
That's the key of a good quiz.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
Question was the.

Speaker 27 (52:43):
Second one, and yeah, it's addicted to love was the
first one. So addicted to love was the answer that
you're after.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Very good, Dean like that. Thank you the air wounded
all day with that get in touch away on hundred. Well,
of course, you said, Robert Palmer. I'm thinking and visualizing,
Robert plant. That's where I got underhinged with that one.
So by error, I'll go. People are texting through addicted
to love, but fancy they'm actually having the horses anyway,

(53:10):
not telling us. I was an aucland the tuckapoona mall,
drove up a few levels, parked, then walked around for
an hour or so. I hoped, hopped in a lift
and pushed the floor I thought was the park parked
on no car. I went up and down for half
an hour till finally I took the stairs and found
my car on a floor that the lift didn't stop on.

(53:30):
Oh that's terrible fancy they're in a secret floor. How
could you cope with that? The secret floor cheapers get
in touch one of as Market's work. If you want
to be part of the show. Losing your cars not
having them stolen, just can't work out with It happens often.
I know many people that have gone to the big

(53:51):
city and then lost their car. I think it's mainly
a This will sound disparaging, maybe I won't say it.
I guess the people from the smaller towns it's not
something that Yeah, it must be a learned skill, not
innate skill. I don't know where you learn it. We
are talking parking confusion.

Speaker 28 (54:12):
Marcus speaking of lost cars at Bluewater, the massive shopping
mall in Kent and England. The day that opened, they
had to have a special team of people to direct
people to where their cars may be, and in fact
the next day there were still hundreds of cars in
the car park unaccounted for, because people just simply could
not find them. Wow, it's amassive.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
People must end up walking away, mustn't. They must be
there must be a time after an hour, so you thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 28 (54:38):
It's a massive more surrounded by car parking and the
mall is kind of bluewater.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Sounds like an ocean name for a mall.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
Isn't it.

Speaker 7 (54:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (54:47):
It's got a man made false lake surrounding it. Quite
quite an amazing place, very very large. But the car
park is just huge.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
And this is what year we're talking pre phones?

Speaker 28 (54:59):
Ah yeah, yeah, pretty much it was. It was a
difficult place to navigate around.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Oh well, look at that. I found that it was
in a lake.

Speaker 28 (55:06):
Yeah yeah, that's that's man made.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
Yeah goodness.

Speaker 28 (55:10):
Yeah, it's quite an impressive face.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
And now it's on the teams but green south of
oh okay, south of London Green High is that right?

Speaker 7 (55:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 28 (55:19):
I can't remember the exact side location off the M
twenty five anyway, but year it's it's a very very
big more.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
We'll talk more about that, Tony, Thank you so much
to you had away from ten. We are talking losing
your car and have stories about the Smurfit's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 29 (55:33):
Yes, hello, Hi, bhye, how are you?

Speaker 2 (55:38):
You're good or good? Good? Good?

Speaker 29 (55:40):
Awesome?

Speaker 17 (55:40):
Hi.

Speaker 29 (55:41):
I don't normally listen to your show sadly, but when't
I do it, it's actually quite interesting.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Yeah, and we try.

Speaker 29 (55:50):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not begging you, begging you and they seem.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Like said, no, I think you're quite sincere.

Speaker 29 (55:58):
Oh totally yes, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I am so just just listening to your shape tonight
on the car packing stuff. Uh where people you know
lose where where where they forget where they pack and stuff?

(56:22):
So over five years ago, well I live in Crostridge, sorry,
and over five years ago i've been living. I live
in Sureley in the palms here here that they've got
a big car pack as well. And then and then
I had heard about people forgetting where they packed their

(56:45):
cars and stuff. So I actually put a I'm so sorry,
I'm so nervous.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
I take your time.

Speaker 11 (56:52):
I got all night.

Speaker 29 (56:54):
Uh yeah, yes, So I ended up going to see
uh someone in in oh I had I had, I
had put out a request for I have put out
a request for the bays of of the car parks

(57:16):
in the palms there to you know, like colorate the.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
The bays different makes sense, yep.

Speaker 9 (57:27):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 29 (57:28):
And and then then and they said, oh, they're looking
on it, and and they haven't done it ever since.
And and so you know, like I don't know if
people get you know, lost in their car packs, but
I do feel sorry for the old ones they do,
forget where they park and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, And so

(57:52):
I was starting to think that, you know, listening to
everybody's comments tonight in regards of these lost you know,
where where they park and stuff like why can't they
colored color? How do I say it? I'm like, tolerate

(58:12):
the car park phase and also put numbers on every
car park.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
Maybe somebody would answered that Smurffer, thank you. I think
it's sky City. If you're at the kes you have
at Auckland, you go, you go to that, you come
off your floor. You can take a car that sees
your number, what number you're on. That's a hell of
a place. Goodness me, you lost your money, then you
lost your car. Who'd want that? Twenty three from ten Hollo, Jeff,
It's Market's welcome, Hi, Jeff.

Speaker 7 (58:46):
Well good Marcus.

Speaker 30 (58:49):
At the age of seventeen, I knew we've gone into
such an embarrassing embarrassment situation. I've bought a mark to Zephyr, Okay,
prior to my car, prior to my life at that stage.
I've john to Parmerson North and I think I went
to poly Check up there. Yeah, I did.

Speaker 12 (59:10):
So.

Speaker 30 (59:10):
Anyway, I'd gone into town and I decided I was
going to do something in the shopping center. And I
came out and what I thought was my mark to
wasn't my mark too. But the key opened the door,

(59:31):
and I'm sitting in the seat there and sort of
thinking about other lots of other things, and next thing
the flip and door flew open, and this guy said, hey, mate,
what are you doing in my b car? And I said,
flip a neck. You joking, mate? He said no. I said, hell,

(59:54):
I can't believe this. And I got out because it
was the same car of that model. And I got
out and when I looked about three cars down there
was my car. And I said to the guy criss,
I don't know what to say, mate. I said, just
all I can say was I'm so damned sorry, And

(01:00:16):
he said, and him and his girlfriend they just cracked up,
laughing eye and he said, how did you get into
the car and I said, well, Mike Keith, where did
your lock? And he said, oh my god. So he
said I better change the lock, I think. So anyway,
I got out, got in my car and went home

(01:00:37):
back to Levan. So that that was the most embarrassing
thing that's ever happened with me regarding cars.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
You quite a frightening story, isn't it, because it could
have been it badley?

Speaker 30 (01:00:49):
Well, yeah, god, I said to him.

Speaker 31 (01:00:53):
Hell.

Speaker 30 (01:00:54):
She turned around and said we should bring the police,
and I said, look, there's no need to. I haven't
touched anything in the car. All I was doing was
sitting in there thinking about something. And I said, lady,
don't please, don't call the police. That's been silly. This
was just a fair accident that's happened. And anyway, they

(01:01:22):
saw the funny side of it, and she started cracking
up laughing and he started laughing. He said, oh my god.
So I said to him, take your keys, take these keys,
your keys, And he went over to my car and
he opened up my car.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
How did you have that car for, Jeff?

Speaker 7 (01:01:41):
What's that?

Speaker 30 (01:01:42):
Houle?

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
Did you have that car for?

Speaker 30 (01:01:44):
Sorry could say that again?

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
How long did you keep hold of that car for.

Speaker 30 (01:01:48):
Life till I was twenty till I was nearly twenty one,
and then I went to I Was. I sold the car.
I paid forty hundred dollars for it. There was a
lot of money in those days, and I worked a
lot of hours to get it and I got I
got fourteen hundred dollars back.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Prilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Nice to talk to you. Thanks aut nineteen away from
ten o'clock. A lot of very good texts. I'll get
to those before too long. A lot of people misplaced cars. Hello, Tony,
this is Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:02:24):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
You got your Tony, I've got a.

Speaker 10 (01:02:27):
Doozy for you, mate. I've been fifteen years ago. I
lived in Palmi and on Friday nights, I'd love to
go out and get on the bed and I'll usually
take my car and then I'll just get it right
home and leave the car having the party. Well, one
morning I woke up went back to the party to
find my car, and my car wasn't there. And I

(01:02:50):
asked the people at the party where my car was,
and they said, no, mate, you jumped in your tone
and went home with it. And I scratched my head
for a little bit, and I was saying, oh, well,
what have I done with it? So I thought, oh, yeah,
I'll go home have a look for it. Thinking around
the block of my where I was living, and no car,
and I was saying, oh oh that I hadn't even

(01:03:12):
got mykakies we mukaukay's. I thought have been stolen. So
I went to the police police and I said, no,
here's me picked up and it's not car and bound
I was saying, oh yep. So I had to jump
on my bush white. Spent the next four weeks going
up and down the streets through park. Four weeks mate,
four weeks bake, not a word of al going through

(01:03:35):
every street. I could people on the way home and
I literally give an up, mate, and I just went
and bought another car. Anyway, another four weeks being passed
and I was on my way to a party on
a different side of town and I was biking past
the street. It was a deading street, about one hundred

(01:03:56):
meters and they had a cold sack at the end.
And I was biking past and I've seen the corner
of this falcon, b red falcony catting hold on. I
surely not, so I'll turn around and went back on
my push whit had a bag for a basing.

Speaker 16 (01:04:13):
It, and surely enough, there it is.

Speaker 10 (01:04:16):
I packed us in a cold affect about two blocks
from my house. Keys are still in it, fully unlocked.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
That's a good story. That's a good full full weeks
and then full.

Speaker 8 (01:04:27):
What was you think?

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
Do you do you have any did you have any recall?

Speaker 9 (01:04:31):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:04:31):
Because I used to drink so much that my mate
used to take the keys off me and just take me,
take me home. But on that particularly I was on
would have pilot, so I'll just drive it home.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
Why would have you packed down? What are you going
down there for a sleep with something down the side?
Why would you pack down the sec?

Speaker 10 (01:04:52):
I have no idea. I've never done this street in
my life. It's just that I was looking down there,
going past and going hey because the ex you said
the funny sort of backtail right, and it was a
I was just so happy.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
Then you had two cars? Did you sell the new
one to sell the old one?

Speaker 12 (01:05:13):
I'll give you a one to the You know, hell,
have a good story.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
I can't believe that it would take four weeks to
back around. Party two wouldn't it.

Speaker 11 (01:05:21):
Well, I was.

Speaker 10 (01:05:23):
I was on the other side of the town from
while I lived in Highbury and I was over in Rosalind,
which is the way of the other side of town.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
Brilliant, good story. Thanks Tony. Drove away from ten o'clock
but even clear. This is Marcus.

Speaker 32 (01:05:35):
Welcome, Hello Marcus, How are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
Thank you, Claire.

Speaker 32 (01:05:40):
I just got a funny story. Not long after we
got married, we had of Mark two Zephyr, and we'd
been shopping and I came along the street and I
pop into this car and I said, Okay, honey, I'll
finished in the sky. A strange voice said, and where
are we going? And my husband was part two cars down,
laughing as head off.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
Funny, good thing, A good thing to reply to for
the guy to what do you think? Because nice to Claire.

Speaker 17 (01:06:11):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Twelve to ten chug time, begging time. Oh there we go,
I begging time. I talked too long with the coffee.
Here we go, Here we go, beg at your people.
Thank you for that. Sorry, dB, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 22 (01:06:25):
You were just using a How long was it?

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
How long was I?

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
How late? Was I ten seconds?

Speaker 17 (01:06:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (01:06:31):
Seven and a half Okay, that's right. You're yeah, you're
just using a filter to make it sound like you're
further away from the microphone.

Speaker 17 (01:06:38):
Yep.

Speaker 22 (01:06:40):
I've as you know, I've always had a bit of
a fascination with keys and key locks and stuff like that.
And when I was still only a teenager, i'd already
worked out that with general motors like Foxhall and the like,
they used the same building that's how much the key
goes up and down for all of their cars. They

(01:07:03):
just changed the length of the key, so you had fs, FP,
FK and FT keys were to a different length, but
the little bumps were the same. And every time I
found a key on somebody else's key ring, I would
map the bumps, write them in my little book, worked

(01:07:23):
out what the keys were, blah blah blah. So this
is as you know, I can. I learned how to
pick locks, but I'd already learned how to circumvent a
lot of locks as a teenager. If you just paid attention,
you could just tell. So I was at a party
one night with a friend female. Yeah, well not my girlfriend,

(01:07:45):
but you know, she says, come to this party, I
need someone to be my shepherd. At the end, of
the party. There was this big huddle went down. The
lady's husband had gone home with her khakis. They come
to the party with a car each, but he had
taken her Khakey's home. My friend says, ah DV knows

(01:08:09):
how to pick locks, which instantly gets everybody looking at you,
going and you are what in our you know around us? Anyway,
I'm trapped now. So I got to this car and
it's got a double way for lock. You the keys

(01:08:29):
that have got bidding on both sides of the keys.
I'm just trying to think of what might have that
doesn't matter, whereas I've only got normal keys, Like I
had a big key ring with me because I used
to have to operate a lot of machinery, I carry
a lot of keys with me. And yeah, anyway, one
of the keys opened the door. Another key started the car,

(01:08:54):
and they're still arguing outside this car about how they're
going to get hold of the husband. This is before
cell phones. To tell them to come back and bring
the keys, and I go, you can always drive the car.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
Home, good thing to say, But.

Speaker 22 (01:09:09):
We haven't got the keys. I'll go yes, for the
car is running. And then I got the second look
about how did you do that? And all I've done
really is just try, whereas most of 'ple go I
haven't got a key, I can't get an end of story.
Whereas if you've got any sort of key, jiggle learn

(01:09:30):
in the lock, sometimes it will work.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
I made you be more significantly more difficult, now, is
that right?

Speaker 22 (01:09:38):
Significantly? Because now it's all e tronic and stuff. And
to add to that story, I came out into the
car park one day and there were two cars of
the same model color as mine, and I went, hello,
which of you two belongs to me? And I actually
look at the registration to see which was my car.

(01:09:59):
Otherwise I would have done what other people have done,
try to get into the wrong car, and wondered why
my keys don't work?

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (01:10:05):
So, but in the older cars, yes, I always had
to do on a number of cars because the key
mechanism wore out. You just had to jiggle them and
a lot of them would start. It wasn't the faireous,
it was just real life.

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
How many keys did you have on you?

Speaker 18 (01:10:23):
At one stage?

Speaker 22 (01:10:24):
I think I had twenty three, it may have been
more than that. And one day I realized I'd used
every key on my key wearing once that day because
a lot of people used to have me on. You know,
why are you carrying so many keys? Goes way down.
I'd walk sideways in the buildings, and one particular day
all the planets areligned and I used every key that

(01:10:47):
I was carrying at least.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Once for reasons they were intended for.

Speaker 22 (01:10:52):
I don't know, for genuine reasons. You know, my uncle
rang the apicas. I needed the Mecedes moved. That sounds
so protentious. It was an old Mesids. I had to
spare keys for his car at work. I had to
do something silly. There was just a particular day. At
the end of the day, I went, I've used every
key today, and it was quite something.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
You got boxes full of keys still have.

Speaker 22 (01:11:18):
Yes, Yeah, I never throw a key away. Yeah, I
I have a different idea what they are used for,
and I'm no longer moving circles of what needs they were.
A key use is useful. Never throw a queue away.
You never know what it could be usedful. Yeah, even
if it's to pick your teeth.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
It's a very very good rule of thought. Debby, thanks
so much for that. Glean us. It's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 8 (01:11:40):
Oh yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 10 (01:11:41):
First I'm called to here start to hear from here.

Speaker 14 (01:11:45):
Yeah, I was so busy listening to that, and I
forgot what I was going to talk about. But no,
I remember, now, Okay, let them out worrying. And I
had a We had a mitcha bushy sigma gold, you know,
the bronze gold color. Okay, so k X one three
three one. So I go into the countdown and after
dropping the kids off at school or something, and I
come back out afterwards and I go to my car.

(01:12:06):
There's me car, so i'd go and the key won't work,
and I thought, that's funny. I must have I must
have the wrong key. And we just lived around the
corner from the Source market. So I went home. I
go to walk home to see if I've got the
right key or not. And as I beside my car,

(01:12:27):
there was a white Vand anyway, I walked past the
white vand on the other side of the white vand
there was another gold mitche bushy sigma the same color
as mine, and I thought, oh, that's weird. Anyway, I
put thought that must be my car. So I put
my key in that car and it worked and I
went back and looked at the other car, and I

(01:12:48):
said that the number plate was KX. Our number was
one three three one, and the car beside the other
side of the Dan was one three three three, So
it was a totally different carr. But the weird thing
about it was about a week later I was driving
around and there was another Mitsubushy Sigma k X one
three three two driving around Mount Wellington as well. Who

(01:13:11):
would have thought that could happen? Absolutely unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
It seems befling, doesn't it.

Speaker 14 (01:13:16):
It was so there must have been a batch of
mitche Busy Sigma's gold bronze cars and they all had
the same run of number plates.

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Off, we are talking about losing your car piking for
four weeks. You have his leaders Lessen too. But anyway, anyway,
get in touch. We are talking about losing your car
or misplacing it. Get in touch, Allison, good evening, Welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:13:54):
Hi Michis.

Speaker 24 (01:13:56):
I didn't lose mine for quite that length of time,
but I did lose my car briefly in a rather
strange way. Tell you about it. It was actually I
lost it at home and even at the supermarket. But
and I just came home and parked the car and
popped up fourteen steps that we've got up to the house,
and it was fine. But when I came down again

(01:14:17):
but later, the car wasn't there. Not much not much later,
but it wasn't there. So I thought, this is completely ridiculous.
So I kind of looked around and I could see
the roof of it were on a hill in my
neighbour's driveway down the hill. And what I had actually

(01:14:38):
done was an unusual car because it had a didn't
have a handbrake, it had it on the ground. I
had a foot run and I must have not pressed
the foot break. I think I possibly pressed the clutch
or some such thing, and thought I'd press the foot brake,
and the car went for a little drive and it
went down our steep drive backwards it did. It hit

(01:15:00):
both sides with rocks on, damaged both sides of it
somehow going back to the forwards, went backwards over the road,
trained into a hedge over the road and damaged the
back off and and a tree over the road. Bounced
off that and went on down to my neighbor's drive
and landed in the gutter there, damaging the front so

(01:15:20):
I had managed to damage all four sights in my
car badly. But I found it. I found it, didn't I.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
That's funny, how long ago was it? Because you sound free,
relaxed about it. You must have been mortified at the time.

Speaker 24 (01:15:33):
Absolutely mortified at the time. But it's the car's long gone.
We've got another one now.

Speaker 12 (01:15:38):
But we haven't got another one. But we sold it.

Speaker 24 (01:15:41):
We had to have a whole new backfoot onto it
and get a lot of panel beating done. Yes, and when,
of course they asked who the driver was, so there
wasn't a driver.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Very good A listen, thank you for that. It's losing
your car, misplacing your car. The Mitsi Sigmas would delivered
brand new to a dealer who then registered them. The
registrations were sequential. Those cars, when sold, remained local, not
unusual on a all of you. Most registrations remain captured
to the island into island plate used to stand out.

(01:16:13):
Friends parked the car and they went to dinner. When
they came home, their car had been stolen, they reported.
Six weeks later they went to din it at the
same place. There was their other car where they left it.
They had looked in the wrong street. Six weeks previous,
my daughter did the same thing the car park and
Orkland sho opened, same car and color as hers. Wasn't
until she went to shut the door, realized it wasn't.
Who's got out, locked it back up and found Who's

(01:16:36):
feather down the same aisle. She said she was mortified.
My husband went shopping at Peck and Save Park the car,
came back, couldn't find it, started to freak out, was
about to call me to say the car was stolen.
Then he realized he took his own car and think
he had driven my one, which is light, which is
bright orange and new. His is gray and old. Walked

(01:16:56):
around and passed the car four to five times, then
realized in the Kitchener Street car park and Orkand the
floors are labeled by New Zealand City. The highest levelers
Ka Tire. The lowest is in Vera Cargill. It's been
very helpful to me, but when someone who was visiting
overseas with me, I realized it might not be too
useful to them. I didn't realize that there might be

(01:17:18):
a recent thing. I didn't know that Marcus. I went
to see the Osmonds in Eden Park in nineteen seventy five.
I was eleven years old. I actually won the tickets
on one's EDB by explaining why I like the Osmonds,
I said, I like the way they worked and performed
as a family. Joe, Jojo, there's another story I'm just
looking for. What about that guy with the VC Aregan's

(01:17:41):
going to save your problems? Don't think it will, Marcus.
I lived near a supermarket. I usually just work walk.
One day I drove down and when I came out
of the supermarket, I walked home. Later that day I
went to go and noticed my car had gone. Presuming
it was stolen in my other vehicle, I drove to
the police station to file a report. Driving back home,
going past the supermarket, I spotted my car. Marcus A question,

(01:18:06):
what ever happened to the restaurant on Princess Street, Dunedin
when they had a steam engine and carriage to eaton?
I think it was called Canarvin Station. How did they
take the engine and carriage away? Although he has spelt
stream engine, Marcus. My mother called the AA to break
into her car at the Palms Mall a few years ago.
Is her key didn't work? They came, let her in,

(01:18:27):
wasn't her car? What sort of maniac parks at different
parts of the car park When they go to a
mall shop each time, surely everyone goes to the same
area in same car park spots. This is the way
the universe works, and we all get our own parks.
Everyone knows we leave our cars each time. A boyfriend
I had didn't known a car and just walked everywhere.
He finally brought a Volkswagen Beetle one day he had

(01:18:50):
driven to the local chemist. When he walked out of
the chemist, he just walked home his head for years.
Next morning he noticed his car wasn't packed up. He
rang the police a report it stolen. The police located
Volkswagen in the chemist's car park. All good stories. We're
talking about losing your car. It's a broad topic. And

(01:19:10):
keep going with that if you can. What have you done?
What have you done? Tell me what you've done? Yes,
be in touch people here till twelve oh eight hundred
eighty ten eighty nine two nine two was the text number.
Love to hear from you. I don't know the situation
at herbert Ville. If anyone is there, let us know.

(01:19:32):
If you are there, they're an evacuation older there seems
to be the situation. And get in touch if you
want to talk on here tonight. Marc is still twelve
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine
two to text anything else, love you to hear from
you tonight. Give the emails coming through if you've got them. Also,
people having trouble getting onto the TV in did or

(01:19:54):
the TV in dead app Sarah had the same problem
as Allison had then realized yet to update the app
then the code work. That might be a pattern to
do also too. That might be something you can do.
I haven't. I'm not a n app guy. I'm not
a download guy like that. No word of Jaddy Varance

(01:20:15):
has taken off for Pakistan yet. Seems a bit of
brinksmanship going on there now. I don't know what's happening
in the straits or her moves straight singer, but do
get in touch with your want to talk on your people.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty n nine. And
also to the Osmonds. The oldest one of the performing

(01:20:35):
Osmond singers has died. It's seventy five. That's news out today.
It might be something you want to mention and that's
all good. Sixteen past ten ten eighteen, Good evening, Christ
it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:20:46):
Oh good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 33 (01:20:50):
One of your.

Speaker 16 (01:20:50):
Text has just asked about the Canarvon Station.

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
Indeed, oh yes, yes.

Speaker 16 (01:20:56):
I used to go there from work with my workmates
on a Friday night. That was in the old Prince
of Wales. That was was in a.

Speaker 13 (01:21:05):
Hotel, but it was.

Speaker 16 (01:21:07):
It took three years apparently in about a million bucks
to get the train carriages inside this big complex. And
it was a great place. The meal, live music, and
I worked with a guy that was in a band
called Chelsea Set, very well known band and andedn in
the eighties. And there was the other sounds that played

(01:21:28):
there that I don't remember going to see, but the
sounds of the old bands like the Chills, the Clean
Straight Jacket fits. Yeah, it was a great place and
it burnt down so great state.

Speaker 2 (01:21:42):
So it's not one of the venues that I remember
of this. So of course Princess Street is the one
that goes the other way from the Octagon from George
Street with the Crown Tavern. Is how far down was
it memory?

Speaker 16 (01:21:54):
It was about between the market Reserve and Princess Street,
probably halfway between there and the Octagon or mortarwards on.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
The seawood side of the all the high side.

Speaker 21 (01:22:08):
The high side.

Speaker 2 (01:22:09):
Okay, so where the casino where the casino is now
or further down from that, further.

Speaker 16 (01:22:15):
Down, Yeah, well I quite remember, Yeah, the old Efector,
it's the old Prince of Wales. So I can't remember
whach block that was in. Yeah, but we used to
go there and you could just dine and dance and
all the bands. We only went really because the guy
I worked was played music there all the time and

(01:22:36):
he was in quite well known.

Speaker 2 (01:22:38):
The Chelsea Was he the Chelsea set.

Speaker 16 (01:22:41):
Chelsea said, Yeah, there was four of them, and the
one I worked was he's actually passed away. And when
I started at my work as a young person, he
was one of the managers, so he was always belting
out music on his adding machines. I thought he was working,
but when I went in, he was always tepping away tunes.

(01:23:03):
And yeah, so there was four guys, but apparently there
were some others than even bands there in there too,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
I have I've read most of those history of the
musical stories of I haven't heard read about that, but
looking at some pictures I've just found online, it looks
like the most contrived thing because you've actually got entire
railway carriages and closed in that space and like stations
and signals. I mean, it does look the place for

(01:23:33):
a gig because you're almost stuck in a railway carriage
inside a pub.

Speaker 16 (01:23:37):
Well, you usually at your meal and the carriage, and
then there was a bigger room, a bigger area where
the band was and you danced and that just off memory, it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
Sounds like it worked quite well. So when it burnt down,
it wasn't unloved. It was still at the peak of
its powers, was it.

Speaker 16 (01:23:56):
Oh yes, yes it was. Oh I was in my
probably in my twenties early twenties when it burnt.

Speaker 12 (01:24:04):
Down, So.

Speaker 16 (01:24:06):
It was a long time ago. So whether anyone else
remembers the old canarvan, but yeah, it was took about
three years to build and a million bucks back then
it was quite a lot. So yeah, just brought back
a memory when your texter.

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
Just to get this, just to get this right, because
I'm looking at the image. There were railway carriages, but
there was also a locomotive engine in there as well.
Was there.

Speaker 16 (01:24:33):
Oh possibly, I can't remember. Okay, I think there was
more than one carriage. I would have to look at
the pictures myself. I can't remember the locomotive engine. But yeah,
I guess I was young and off, you know, having
done and oh sounds interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
Yeah, okay, I'm very very happy about that, Chris. So,
I really appreciate you. It does say it closed in
nineteen I think the fire was in nineteen eighty.

Speaker 16 (01:24:59):
Eight apparently, Yes, just stock memory. Yes, oh yeah, it
was a good place to go. Yeah, we're still went
there on a Friday, and mainly because of one of
our managers played in the Chelsea Set, so looked.

Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
Them up at well, Chris, look, thank you very much.
I found it very interesting, so thank you for that.
I had no idea and I thought I knew trained
and needing quite well. I've researched the Chelsea set. Coral.
It's Marcus, good evening, welcome.

Speaker 29 (01:25:27):
Hey.

Speaker 26 (01:25:28):
When I came to bed earlier and turned on the radio,
or I heard you talking about the technicians at Sky. Yes, well,
since July last year, I have had six black boxes.

Speaker 2 (01:25:49):
Yeah, I do know what you mean.

Speaker 26 (01:25:51):
And this time my tally broke down on twenty seventh
of March, and the technicians come today over three weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
Where are you, Coral, Hoka Tucker? Because I think you're
Sky service person comes down from Nelson. Have I got
that right?

Speaker 26 (01:26:10):
I don't know where they come from, but's crazy. Different
guy came today and he says I wouldn't have to
pay anything and my Sky would be free for a month.

Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
To be free for a lifetime.

Speaker 26 (01:26:27):
And he also told me there was his fault in
the black boxes.

Speaker 2 (01:26:35):
Okay, we're a lot of fussing around for you.

Speaker 26 (01:26:40):
Oh well, it's one hundred dollars every time you get
a technician for them. Yes, and to rink Sky now
it's an No. Nine number.

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
I'm sick of them. I'm sick of Sky. I can
take a high.

Speaker 31 (01:26:56):
Yes.

Speaker 26 (01:26:57):
Well, I actually tried to get a white box, but
because I didn't have think, I can't remember what it
was like Facebook or something Wi Fi or you know,
I couldn't get a white box. So I just said,

(01:27:20):
I said to God today, what how long will this last?
And he says could be two weeks, it could be
two months.

Speaker 2 (01:27:28):
That's shocking. What do you get Sky for, Coral? What's
your passion?

Speaker 26 (01:27:32):
Oh? I love the tennis.

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
Okay, your sport.

Speaker 26 (01:27:36):
Yeah, I'm on the sport, and I love all the
treasure hunts.

Speaker 2 (01:27:42):
And things like a treasure hunt where is that?

Speaker 26 (01:27:45):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (01:27:46):
Well, like.

Speaker 26 (01:27:49):
Sky skin walk Aranch and Mystery of Blind five Branch
the Iak Island.

Speaker 2 (01:28:03):
Yeah, I haven't heard a skin walk a ranch, haven't
trip no Bhi.

Speaker 26 (01:28:09):
Oh they have all sorts of a part. I can
see her and they have flying sources and spaceships and
all sorts of things. Deep cattleman.

Speaker 2 (01:28:21):
Yeah, oh you like that sort of stuff. Okay, Oh
look into that. Okay, thank you. Carl Jeep never heard
of skinwalker Ranch. Call me misinformed? He tel twelve people.
What's happening? Yeah, I had no idea. I've got a
lot of texts. Have I got time to read them
before Tony? Yes, Marcus, dad lost his car at the mall.

(01:28:44):
I picked him up and we drove around for ages.
I asked him to depark behind the mall. Yes, it
was there, Marcus. While on a work trip, I watched
my friend come out of the super Mark. He was
about fifty foot long from where I was and climbed
into sup bar exectly the same as the one we
were and he got after about two minutes evidthing. There
was a very big but smiling man in his car
who said, bro, what are you doing in my car?
My friend jumped big time but did some quick expud

(01:29:05):
He got out, read the face and spotted me fifty
feet up the row and fits of laughter. Freaked me
out big time. Losing your car in a shopping car
park is like losing your car at work. Spent all
evening looking for the car before remembering you came to
work via public transport and vice versa. Our sober driver
opened the car after night out and we sat in

(01:29:28):
it talking and laughing, then realized it wasn't our car,
same car, same keys, just different cars. Smelly hanging from
the rear view mirror, and the car was very clean.
Lull returning from a trip to was arrived at Alkan
Airport around one o'clock in the morning. Felt pretty sure
we knew where the car was parked. Husband and I
had a trolley each and our bags. We kept pressing
the auto lock. No lights showed up. Around and around

(01:29:50):
we went for over an hour. Eventually found that the
battery was flat, that's why the key light didn't show.
Then couldn't get into the car either had to pie
for pay for a full night accommodation at an overtell,
even though it was three am when we arrived. Here's
the good stories. High Ages Ago and Vancouver Canaday friends
were running late for their flight to Toronto and parked

(01:30:11):
their car at the front door of the airport. They
ran inside to check in and assumed each of them
had parked the car. They boarded the flight and settled
and we're having a lovely glass of bubbles. When the
husband asked where she had parked the car, I need
to discover she thought he had done it. They realized
the car was still at the front door of the airport,
with the engine running, keys inside and radio going full blast.

(01:30:35):
The pilot contacted the airport and made arrangements to retrieve
it and park it safely. It was fortunate they had
that conversation, else they would not have discovered it for
some time. It's a good story. Marcau's I don't drive,
but twice my daughter's taking me to the supermarket and
stayed in the car herself waiting I have come out
of the supermarket, got into the passage seat, only to
scare the flip out of the person next to me

(01:30:57):
and myself wrong car, and still they kept coming. Poor
old Coral wanting the tennis which he has missed all
of that, an't she? He Tel twelve it's all about
losing your car. And what a great topic that is
for tonight and the Canarvon Station got to bring that
back brilliant Looking at the menu, Shunters Special dollar forty

(01:31:22):
nine juicy fish and golden batter and chip served at
a basket. Of course it's in a basket. Oh, by
the way, that menu I read from Canarvon Station. That
was a children's menu, The Shunter's Special or an Express
super Dog a mouth watering giant hot dog and better
with a ton of sauce. It's like a tremendous place.

(01:31:43):
Oh and texts of texting reading texts, aren't I m
Years ago my mate was supposed to drive his large
flatbed truck out of Wellington to Upper Hut to pick
some stuff up from me. He stayed at the company
leaving shout and steared, got shickered, couldn't find his truck,
walked into the cop shop to report it stolen. They

(01:32:05):
took him back to the three HD parked. Only the
truck was. He was too drunk from every parked it,
but he drove it back out to the upper hut. Anyway,
I was visiting a Vodaphone storeng K Road for work
and had parked on the side street, then left and
couldn't find my car. I called the guys that work panicking.
They told me to ring the council's tow truck company
that I found my car down one further street along

(01:32:27):
When I was driving along into the Harbor Bridge. The
guys at work thought it was funny to call me
impersonating Auckland Central Police Station, staying like saying my car
had been sighted heading on the approach towards the Orkan
Harbor Bridge, and that they had dispatched ten cars and
AERI units, including the police helicopter detain it. I was
beside myself driving up to and over the bridge. They

(01:32:48):
were killing themselves laughing when I got back to the office. Yes,
it's funny. The canalve and I'm sure I remember the
roof was partially removed to enable the carriages to be
craned up and lowered in very hot with a big
open fire. Yes, I agree with the caller. We had
good bands and dancing high Roman. Just on the subject

(01:33:09):
of Sky, my elderly dad was getting the back around
from Sky rain fade. He told them he had to
pay a technician to come with a mouth, with a
month wait and no offer of discount for loss of service,
on top of being ripped off for years. I rang
them up and told them to take a hike. Even
trying to return their black box was a nightmare. Dad's
now saving a massive chunk of change music sky Sport
now app on his new spa TV. No black box

(01:33:32):
or other hardware is whose Sky sucks? Don't we hate it?
Came out of a quick trip to the supermarket and
I hurry to pick the kids up. One bag, open door,
find the driver's seat through it and opened the driver
it door, got on and put the key, and then
the voice in the front passage seat said, who are you?
Mine was next to its same color, similar model. I've

(01:33:53):
done that, but realizes I was getting into the comit.
You know, I think we've all done it. But it's interesting.
I mean, I don't say, don't call what a lot
of texts, So what we are talking about is particularly
if you're overseas, like you've gone to Florence and you've
packed your cause somewhere or Venice. Where would you pack
your Gara and Venice? Probably nowhere? Anything else sets the

(01:34:16):
spirit twenty four away from eleven he till twelve. I've
told you nothing about tonight. I haven't told you who's
coming up. I haven't told you what dat it iss?
Beverage from twelve on next weekend a short week yip eia.
I think it's Monday eyes. I think it's disrespectful. Run

(01:34:36):
theta to Monday eyes. It anyway, that's tappling. This day
in twenty twenty five, the Pope died. This day. In
twenty sixteen, Prince died. My name is Prince. There's also
some questions what should be done with Apollo Stadium. This
is in christ Church. It's a good bit of land.

(01:34:58):
It seems a shame not to do anything with it.
I just don't know what the answer would be. What's
the sport that needs a field? Maybe rug? I think
the kids went to ead Shearon there. I was sort
of out. It seemed all right for a concert. I
suppose that I want to be at one stadium now,
weren't They won to kah now twenty four from eleven.

(01:35:19):
If you want to be a little chatter chatter Marcus.
I had many a great time at the Canarvin. They
had wonderful brandy steps for dessert. Yes, they did have
great bands playing. Oh this is good. If I can't
find my car, I open the boot with the remote.
You can always see that. What about putting a big

(01:35:39):
flag on your car like those cars in the mind sight?
Would that be a good thing to do? By the way, Oh,
anything goes tonight. YadA YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA ya.
Get in touch if you want to be a part
of the discussion tonight eight hundred eighty, ten eighty and

(01:36:00):
nine to nine two text if you want to talk,
there's something else you want to mention good. I don't
know what that will be tonight, but be in touch, yeah,
feel free eight And also a side topic you might
want to wear it is the Osmond's. I think even
at the time they were really killed for sort of
being squeaky clean and slightly securing. But you know it

(01:36:23):
was the times good evening builders as Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:36:29):
Good evening, Marcus. How a good things carving station. It
was set up by Wilson Neil Group. M and I
ran the bottle store, multimillion dollar bottle store underneath. And
the night of the fire, I was living with my
mom and dad down the other end of George Street,

(01:36:51):
and of US or US five in the morning, got
a phone course, it's from Securityess your alarm's gone off. Okay,
that's fine, and normally it's rather breaking someone pinching gog
or bulls alarm. And I reversed out of Mumstrow Way
into George Street and then looked up ahead and all

(01:37:12):
saw was flames from way on the north end of
town roaring up above Canarvan side just roared down there.

Speaker 12 (01:37:21):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:37:21):
I was pictufied that I had started or at our
shop had started it and what that windows were intact,
so there was no issues with us, And for days
and days we just cleaned out the bottle store. We're
always going to scared the trainings were going to come
through the ceilings, but nothing ever happened. So that's the

(01:37:47):
story of Canarver Station.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
And what were you what were you scared was going
to come through the scene.

Speaker 6 (01:37:51):
Well, we were below the training engines, right below the
training engines, and with a pile we thought the ceiling
white craps on the bottle store and trains come down
on that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
But I got a couple of questions for you. But
was it an old building? Was it an old building
an old free story pub before they did the conversion.

Speaker 6 (01:38:08):
Anyway, it was l Prince of Wales just pass well
the Empire Tavern.

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
I've been to the Empire.

Speaker 6 (01:38:16):
Yeah, that's where the children all that, those all the
groups played. And then the Canalvon station was in the
next block on the same side of the road.

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
What would be what would be there now?

Speaker 6 (01:38:29):
There now is custom signs, well, custom signs, yeah, screen
printing and writs sign writing. But you could get in
from the from the back entrance and Hope Street into
the Canarvon station. In those days it was ten o'clock closing.

Speaker 2 (01:38:48):
I've seen I can see Hope that the triangle were
Hope Street as I found that, I.

Speaker 6 (01:38:52):
Can see that, and that back entrance you did get
in and out type thing. And every time the cops
raided the late Wine Way and I do it was
the senior sergeant of licensing, and you know he come
through the front door, ring the front door. Stuey Wilson
let them in, get all the puzzles up the back

(01:39:14):
through the back door on that level of Hope Street.
And this particular night that door opened, all the papers
went out after hours and there's all the cops standing
there waiting for them. And he was a good cop too,
way nigh door. And I used to tell me stories.

(01:39:35):
One night they raided the place and everybody was in
the little signal box and he told me years later,
I knew they were up there. I knew they were
up there and let them off.

Speaker 2 (01:39:48):
Yes, So that's well, I've just got the Google picture
up next door to the custom sign is this is
the three story building. That's a different building. Is that
part of the that was that.

Speaker 6 (01:40:00):
That was the old Prince of Wales where the Cannard
station was. You got through that front door on the right.
Linda Monroe, she was the sort of a piano bar.
She's pretty good on the organ on that and singing
and that. So she was then and you went upstairs
to the restaurant and that that was over the top

(01:40:20):
of our bottles or the Wilson your bottle store there here.

Speaker 2 (01:40:23):
Oh, sort of been a hell of a thing to
try and get the trained carriages and there was a
locomotive in there as well. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and
it seems to have worked quite well as a venue,
did it, I.

Speaker 6 (01:40:37):
Did well, Wilson. There were when I come back from
England eighty eighty five. I worked for them from from
that time onwards for a few years and they were
doing though other pubs too, like Zuga. Valentine's was the
Old Bowler and they had all the animal elphant heads
and all that sort of you know, African style here

(01:40:59):
you know, Wilson. It was a delete based company.

Speaker 2 (01:41:01):
Yeah yeah, corrective sort of a company, wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:41:04):
Yeah yeah, very.

Speaker 6 (01:41:04):
Very much so yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:41:07):
So the actual pub wasn't destroyed in the fire. They
just managed to get all the railway carriages out and
stuff did then they rebuilt it to day or what
did they do?

Speaker 6 (01:41:14):
Well, basically it was up the steels and along through
the sort of I was in there. Well, the story
was they said that said off went off in the kitchen, okay,
but it was never never proved, I don't think so. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:41:29):
Well he's still in Otago.

Speaker 6 (01:41:31):
Now, Bill stilled boy here boy.

Speaker 2 (01:41:33):
Good on, Yeah, okay, that's what we want to hear. Okay,
nice stuff. Appreciate that. Thank you. I wonder if I hit.
I'm just trying to think what year. Anyway, I know
that's thestud You don't want to go down that road
sixteen away from ten if you want to talk eleven
fourteen to eleven. Good evening, Joan.

Speaker 33 (01:41:50):
Oh, hello Marcus. It's an awful feeling when you've lost
your car or you think you don't know where it is.
Over twenty years ago, I went to the palms with
an elderly friend and we walked around leisurely, and then
I said to Mary, do you want to hot drink
or do you want to ice cream? And had an
ice cream. So we go out, and my god, I
couldn't find my car, and because it was different parking

(01:42:11):
to what it is now, just the newest mall than
christ Church. But and you go in a different entrance
now anyway, And I went back and I said to Mary,
you just sit here, and I'll want to leave her
too long, but I just said, you sit here and
I'll find And I went up to the office. Someone
told me to go up the office and would you
believe from the window there she could see the car

(01:42:33):
park and he was my car sitting there, and you
see they think they'd do different car packs then, but
now you come down Marshalls Road and you come into it,
so and then they've done upstairs parking and all that
sort of thing. But oh, it's an awful feeling. It
really is an awful feeling.

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
Oh you think you're gone mad?

Speaker 33 (01:42:49):
Yeah, yeah, I know. And you know, Mary was so
good about it. I mean we met a long time friend.
You know, she was I mean I'm elderly now, but
she was, you know, elderly then, and it was it
was quite scary. But just to go up to the
office and we're looking at the car park and I
said it was a white hole in the survey and
she Morey said, well, you know, I don't know where

(01:43:10):
to really see it back clearly, but I mean I
knew where to go then because there was actually two
car parks then. But yeah, it's an awful feeling. You
sort of think I didn't think it had been stolen.
I suppose I thought I'd parked it and just didn't
know where I parked it because it was new to me.

Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
You know, what'd you go to flavor for an ice cream?

Speaker 3 (01:43:28):
Joan?

Speaker 33 (01:43:29):
I don't know now I don't know. I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (01:43:34):
Thanks Joan. He's an interesting one. Marcus, my son got
up to go to work and went out to the
street to where his car was parked. He thought it
strange that his car was running, as key wouldn't open
the door was left scratching. His said, I need to
find out his car had been stolen and the thieves
had left an identical car in its place. That's from
Brent eleven to eleven Hope, July. This is Marcus.

Speaker 31 (01:43:57):
Welcome and very grieving to you. Marcus. What a fabulous
program you've got tonight. One story I've got for you
is a friend of mine had sort of starting to
suffer from memory loss and he'd had an accident. So
they took his driver's license off and took his made

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him get rid of his vehicle. So he took to
driving his right on Lama to the pub on a
Friday night. It was Saturday night. Good yeah, So he
drove this particular night, he drove the mower and he
parked it outside and spent the evening at the pub.

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He rings me the next morning and tells me how
this lousy song and so person had stolen his Lawma,
because when he came out after being at the pub
for the evening, it wasn't there, and I'm very concerned
for him. And then later on the afternoon he rang
me up. I went in one door and I went

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out another, so the LAWNMA was still. We lifted pretty good. Yeah,
good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:45:12):
Lovely story, Juddy, Thank you liked all of that. John's Marcus.
Good evening.

Speaker 4 (01:45:16):
Oh, Marke, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:45:18):
Very good? Thank you, John.

Speaker 7 (01:45:19):
That's good.

Speaker 4 (01:45:22):
From the Key Club. By the way, many years ago,
you gave me a key.

Speaker 15 (01:45:26):
Today.

Speaker 2 (01:45:27):
It's good. Keep hold of that excellent.

Speaker 4 (01:45:30):
Yeah, I'm very proud of that moment. I beg you
for it. It was quite it was quite embarrassing. I
keep begging until you gave me one. I think taking
me Hey listen, uh, Luxeon's been getting on my nerves
a little bit, to be honest, and not not just
some I think all them politicians are getting on my

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news this with a free trade deal because uh, not
to be using a fork, but we our country is
in a hell of a state and a slight the
glasses almost full up to the top. We've got no
room for anything. Infrastructure is ruined. You know, schools in trouble,

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the hospitals and trouble, the staffings in trouble, unemployments and trouble.
There's non enough jobs for the population which is here,
the wages that stay still, you know, and then we
want to expire to be more like Indians, he reckons. So, uh,

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it's a big slap in the face as a Kiwi
from that.

Speaker 2 (01:46:39):
Guy who who you're affering was that guy.

Speaker 4 (01:46:43):
Lux And this what he's Look, it's what he stated
today and yesterday, that we should inspire to be more
like Indians. Now this is getting a bit out of hand,
you know, the way he's the guys. I mean, there's
no need to say things like that. I mean that's
basically saying you don't want to be a Kiwi, you
want to be more like someone else. And I don't

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think it's fair, you know, And it's not you know,
enough of those workers and stand up and and what
and why Marcus, why don't we get to say what
I thought?

Speaker 2 (01:47:15):
I thought you're ringing up to talk about his leadership
thing today? Did you have a comment on that?

Speaker 9 (01:47:20):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:47:21):
Yeah, I have been all over it. But I mean
that's just a you know, that's I think that's the
proper mark to make him look like he's strong.

Speaker 22 (01:47:28):
I think it's a big, big havea.

Speaker 2 (01:47:30):
Okay, good on you. John thinks that far away from eleven.
If you want to talk, keep those textas and rippers.
Also eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus, it's Calum.
Your last call about ten forty talked about a bottlestore
at Wilson Neil. Is that the same building name called
golf Warehouse just down the road from John Andrew forod
the looks over the bad Now it's talk about a
place in Dunedin. I think they're originally a Dunedin company,

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Wilson Neil. I think that's where Sam Neil comes from.
That stock good a Marcus. Not quite the same as
losing your car, but someone certainly lost their car with
this story. Twenty years ago, as an apprentice mechanic, the
boss sent me to pick up a car for service.
I got the wrong addressed, saw a Toriota with the
keys in it and thought, sweet as this must be
the one. Drove it all the way back to work

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before the boss said where's the Primera. Turned out i'd
pinched the wrong bloke's car. I nervously took it back,
left the keys and it scarped. Then went fire of
me is up the road and got the actual car. Ah,
Marcus only tuned in half an hour ago. What happened
about the woman whose car was stolen last evening in
christ Church? Was it found? Please? You were trying all

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evening to get it, to help her get it back?
Have you heard anymore? Well, it wasn't reported to the
police on their database, so I presume it was toad
not stolen, which when I think about it, is logical, Marcus.
My wife and I and that's why she wouldn't have
gotten in touch. My wife and I both worked at

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Public hospelan in christ Church, doning at two thirty to
eleven PM. Well, we went in separate cars and she
left to her car running the whole shift. It was
nice and warm when she got out. Wow, how much tank?
How much the fuel of tank would go through if
you idle it for all night. But be in touch
if you want to talk. Another time I had to
rend This is something else. That's another time I had

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a rental car out of town on a work trip
and I couldn't work out how to open the boot.
The guys at worked thought it was funny to tell
me I needed to wave my foot backwards and forwards
underneath the back of the car. So I did that
for a long time. Ver very good. How are you
going people in this land get in touch? By name?
Is Marcus welcome? Here'll twelve Tim's along at midnight midnight, midnight, midnight.

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We are talking about losing your car parking it in
the wrong place. That's the plan. Stand if you want
to talk about that, that's the plan. Eight eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty text if you wanted some very
good texts and talking about the Canarvan station. I don't
know what it was called Canarvan maybe something going on too?

(01:50:00):
That to me, good evening, Mike A's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 30 (01:50:04):
Yeah, hi there.

Speaker 15 (01:50:05):
Yes, I was the original designer and the builder of
Canalvin Station Underneaed.

Speaker 2 (01:50:14):
Okay slip you still got the designs.

Speaker 7 (01:50:20):
Well, it was all done.

Speaker 15 (01:50:21):
With crayon and yeah on the floor.

Speaker 2 (01:50:27):
Because so that the original pub was a three story pub.
Was it within there that it was or was it
a building outside of that?

Speaker 15 (01:50:36):
No, what happened was Wilson Neil that was the first
hotel they bought. They were retailers of lequer and originally
the breweries came in and took away all their business,
so they decided to go retail. They didn't have an
outlet at that end of town, so the opportunity came

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up to buy the Prince of Wales Hotel, which didn't
have a bottle store, but there was a vacant building
next door, and the building next door had a lower
level on Prince's Street that we turned into a bottle store,
but that left the upstairs area that was a level

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with the top floor of the Prince of Wales's next
door and access to that was from Hope Street, which
was higher up, so that meant the street was level
with that floor. On the second level of that floor.

Speaker 7 (01:51:40):
Now, that used to be.

Speaker 15 (01:51:42):
A massive truck servicing area and the trucks used to
drive in there and be serviced.

Speaker 7 (01:51:50):
So we had this big vacant area, so we.

Speaker 15 (01:51:53):
Didn't know what to do with it. So we thought, well,
you know, we could put a restaurant in there, and
we will put some trains in there. Well, I'd been
overseas and seen a lot of theme restaurant in America
and what have you, so we decided, yep, that's a
good idea. I wasn't that fussed on trains or anything,

(01:52:14):
but I got fascinated with them at that point, and
so what we did was we actually to get the
trains in. We had two carriages, full sized carriages. We
had a locomotive which was a small locomotive, and we
had a guards van. Now what we did was New

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Zealand Railways, although Hillside Workshops and the need were absolutely fantastic.
They provided all sorts of things. They provided uniforms, tickets,
ticket dispenses, signals, they provided the railway lines and the sleepers.

Speaker 10 (01:52:57):
We laid the railway.

Speaker 15 (01:52:58):
Lines out onto the street and opened up these big
doors where the trucks used to go, and we ran
the lines right through to the end of the building
and put in the shingle and all the rest of it.
And then we went out and we looked for two
old carriages. Now I've heard a story that I think

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it was King George the Fifth, that I might have
got that wrong, but anyway, there was a royal carriage
and people were I'd put an ad in the paper
and people would ring me up and say, look, I
think that carriage still exists somewhere, And I thought to myself, well,
if I keep on trying and put some news things out,

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somebody will eventually tell me if it does or not.

Speaker 30 (01:53:51):
And then one day.

Speaker 15 (01:53:52):
Someone rang up and they said, I've been to this
farmer's farm, and it was in central Otago somewhere, and
it was central Otago. I found out where it was.
I drove up this long, long, dusty road and at
the end of it was this farm. And I go

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on to this property and go up to the house
and look across into the paddock, and here's this railway
carriage with all of the wheels and everything on it,
everything exactly as it would have been, were full of chocks,
and the outside that some of the timber had rotted away,

(01:54:38):
and some of the windows were not right, and the
glass was broken. And I get up and walk inside
this thing, and it had all of the original fittings
and fixtures inside of it.

Speaker 7 (01:54:51):
All the brass were all of the original.

Speaker 15 (01:54:54):
Lattice brass lamps from on the ceilings. It had the
pressed steel royal stamps across the roof and everything.

Speaker 7 (01:55:08):
It was all there.

Speaker 15 (01:55:10):
So I negotiated with the farmer. We arranged for a
transporter to come in with a crane on it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:16):
How had they got it there? Was it near Was
it near a railway line?

Speaker 7 (01:55:19):
No, no, he must have.

Speaker 15 (01:55:22):
I think the guy just bought it and he didn't know.
I suppose he was going to do something with it eventually.
And yep. So that was the first carriage, and it
was when we got it and put it into the
actual building itself. We restored it inside the building, so

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that was the beginning of it. And then we'd drawn
out all the platforms and everything. And at exactly that
same time, the house for the helenstart Hellenstein's was being
demolished in then Eden and it had incredible lead light

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windows and doors, incredible wall panelings, everything like that, and
old fireplaces, that type of thing. So I went to
this auction and I bought everything, a whole bloody lot.
And I went back to the directors of Wilsonel and said, look,

(01:56:25):
I spent all this money on all these things. I'm
not even quite sure what I'm going to do with
them yet, but you know, I'm happy to keep them
an Valry Sellum or whatever, but I think we can
use it to build a restaurant. And they said, yeah,
what a brilliant idea.

Speaker 7 (01:56:43):
And that's you mentioned.

Speaker 33 (01:56:45):
I heard you mentioned on the.

Speaker 15 (01:56:47):
Radio about the Nils. Well, of course Sam Neil's father
was a director, Major Neil at that stage of Wilson Neil,
and he was very enthusiastic about it, he said, you know,
and so was Robert Wilson and the rest of the directors.
Is a fantastic idea. So that's how sort of all started.

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It was all put out in chalk on the floor.
As to the waiting rooms, there was the area where
people have been talking about the dance floor that was
in the center, so you had down one wall, you
had the actual kitchen, all the ticket offices.

Speaker 7 (01:57:28):
There was a waiting rooms.

Speaker 15 (01:57:29):
There was a signals box with all the original signals
from Hillside workshops that they'd found to help us out.
And of course all the lead light windows and paneling
and everything was used in the big waiting room with
the big fireplace all going and all the rest of it.

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So the craftsmen that came in a lot of cabinet
makers and people like that, and upholsterers did.

Speaker 7 (01:58:01):
All the work on the.

Speaker 15 (01:58:04):
Actual railway carriages themselves, and then we simply built a
tunnel to make it look like it was going out
through the wall so that people really could believe that
it was actually a real train, that actual well, it
was a real train and it was actually going to
go somewhere. And it was quite interesting because a lot

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of people had come in and sit in the carriages
and have their meal and then say to the waitress, well, look,
we've got to go somewhere else, and when is this
train leaving, So they really believed that it was going somewhere.
And the guards van was another one that Hillside Workshops

(01:58:47):
helped us find on a railway siding in some obscure
place somewhere, and it was one of those ones where
the guard had the pot belly stove in the back
of it all the all of the area in the front,
well we can diverted that into was a sort of

(01:59:09):
a special dining area. And that was a nineteen hundred
and eight or something wagon, very rare wagon. And of
course the Prince of Whales in itself was unique because.

Speaker 17 (01:59:27):
That was built in.

Speaker 7 (01:59:28):
Eighteen eighteen eighty three or eighteen eighty six or something,
and the original the original consent conditions for actually getting
the hotel license, they had to have stabling for six horses,
and one of the rules was that if the gold

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miners came from Central Otaga.

Speaker 15 (01:59:55):
And needed a bed or a drink, they especially were
allowed and late. But the only rule on that was
that the singing room that was had the side had
to close down I think at three o'clock in the
morning or something like that. So you know, quite the
whole lot was really quite special, and of course people

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couldn't Yeah, people couldn't comprehend because they had the only
way to get into the place was to walk up
this old stairway into the Prince of Wales Hotel, which
is quite small, and then there was this big archway
because we'd carved through. Luckily, the two floors of the

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two buildings were level and we'd carved a tunnel through.
So we had another ticket office that when we were
fairly strict on what people wore, that we didn't want
people going in in jandles or anything like that, so
we had another sort of ticket office and a small

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restaurant in the Prince of Wales.

Speaker 17 (02:01:06):
And then you went into.

Speaker 15 (02:01:07):
Carnarvon Station, which was of course massive area and at
one stage we served so many meals we had a
carberry as well as an ordinary type menu. We almost
ran it the South Island out of legs of pork.

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At one stage we were serving that many meals. It
was an incredible number. And our winelist, of course, had
all of Wilson Neil's brands on. It was something like
thirty eight pages of winylists it had. If you wanted
to shadow the kem name you vintage, I mean, and

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everything was wholesale plus five percent I think it was.
So it was really inexpensive. Wines, French wines. I think
there was eight pages of different first growth, second growth,
third growth French wines, quite incredible, German wines a whole lot,

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and then every good New Zealand wine you could lay
your hands on. So what you were reading before was
the children's meaning religion. And of course the kids loved it.
They they went there.

Speaker 2 (02:02:31):
You just tell me what year it opened.

Speaker 7 (02:02:34):
Look, look I can't.

Speaker 2 (02:02:38):
Yeah, eighties, okay, so it had gone for six or
seven and once it burned down, was it still.

Speaker 13 (02:02:51):
I was?

Speaker 7 (02:02:51):
I was gone by I'd retired.

Speaker 2 (02:02:53):
Okay, but was four years before that and it maintained
its magic or it's sort of you know, was it
pumping for all those years.

Speaker 15 (02:03:01):
Was it not to the extent that it was originally?
I mean it was just cues of people. I mean
it was just chaos and bedlam, you know, all sorts
of things strange. You heard the gentleman that was managing
the bottle store down below when it burnt down and

(02:03:23):
talked about the police and that. Well, of course, you
know those days in Dunedin. It was a bit of
a wild West and the Lequor Squad did all that
they could to try and control all the hotels.

Speaker 17 (02:03:40):
But there was.

Speaker 15 (02:03:41):
Always there are always ways around things. For example, if
you booked him to have a meal, you could start,
you were okay, you could go past the official closing
time and you're okay if you were a guest of
someone staying in the place. The Prince of Wales had

(02:04:02):
six rooms, so it had a hell of a lot
of guests. But yeah, it was really fascinating. It was
interesting times and it won New Zealand's first Tourist Award
for an Outstanding Tourist Attraction and us on the first
one that it was the National Government that awarded it

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and I flew to Wellington to pick it up and.

Speaker 2 (02:04:27):
Were you were you working for Wilson EEL or were
you a contract that.

Speaker 10 (02:04:32):
No, no, no.

Speaker 15 (02:04:32):
I was the CEO of the liquor division manager, the
executive director of Wilsonel.

Speaker 7 (02:04:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (02:04:41):
So Wilsonell then was a very you know, we were
quite we've been left behind.

Speaker 7 (02:04:47):
I suppose in the elector industry.

Speaker 15 (02:04:49):
They'd originally been wonderful wholesalers to the all of the
hotels and Central Otagon that they didn't sell to the
public at all.

Speaker 7 (02:05:01):
They just didn't didn't do that, and of.

Speaker 15 (02:05:03):
Course the breweries came in and bought all the hotels,
so they were left with import licenses and everything else
to bring in the liquor because everything in those days
you needed a license. You had liqueur licenses, you had
champagne licenses and all the other things. So they decided

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the directors were not going to They were offered many,
many occasions to sells to the breweries, but they decided
no that they felt there was a chance to use
Wilson now because they had a wonderful export division.

Speaker 7 (02:05:42):
Were involved with fish.

Speaker 15 (02:05:44):
They exported eels, so they had asparagus farms.

Speaker 7 (02:05:48):
They had all sorts of.

Speaker 15 (02:05:50):
Really good produce you could use in a restaurant, particularly
the fish side of it. He also mentioned we bought
another hotel called the Bowling Green that we turned into
Zuga Valentine's and I can tell you many stories for
that because I went advertised throughout the North Island for

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stuffed animals and i'd stay in the hotel and wait
for the calls. And I was in Palmerston, North and
I got a phone call from a guy and he said,
he said, oh, I got this magnificent head of this goat.
He said it's got these huge horns on it and everything,

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and he said it's just fantastic. And he said you've
got to see it. So I said, okay, we'll bring
it over and have a lock.

Speaker 7 (02:06:41):
At it, you know.

Speaker 15 (02:06:42):
And I expected it to be, you know, something special.
The only trouble was it had only been killed about.

Speaker 2 (02:06:50):
Three hours before.

Speaker 7 (02:06:54):
And he expected me to buy.

Speaker 15 (02:06:56):
But I was in christ Church and a woman rang
up and she said, I came out from England and
I bought one of our possession with us and it's
a massive bear standing up on its hind legs. And
I thought, okay, well I go around to the house

(02:07:18):
and have a look at it. And it was just massive,
I mean, this huge thing I ended up buying off
her and I had to get it through the ranch
sliders and get a truck to get it out. And
that was sort of the beginning. And then I bought
another one off an antique dealer, a big bear that
was walking along. There was all sorts of things I'd bought.

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We wanted a tree inside the place. So I was
driving along one day and I saw on a farm
this dead tree with all of these branches that were
just fantastic. So I went and bought the tree, cut
it down, put it in the restaurant. We bought a
land Rover, one of those convertible land rovers, and that

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was the reception for them, and that was all done
out and camouflage.

Speaker 16 (02:08:12):
And what have you.

Speaker 15 (02:08:14):
So yeah, really interesting times.

Speaker 2 (02:08:17):
And with the canarvan station. Once that burnt that they
was at that the end of the whole complex, was it?

Speaker 15 (02:08:23):
They didn't rebuild that now, No, Well, the Prince I
went back many years later because I live in Auckland
now and and the Prince of Wales is still going.
But that building next door is I can't remember what was,
whether it's still there or not.

Speaker 2 (02:08:43):
Sidewriters or something.

Speaker 15 (02:08:44):
Now yeah, yeah, yeah, so you know, everything was lost
and it was just dreadful. I mean some of those
the workmanship and they and some of those things were
so unique, especially the King's carriage, very very special, and
you know, lots and lots of things things that were antique,

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things that that Hellside Workshops gave us. You know, it
was amazing how they helped us. And it was interesting
because people said you must have loved trains or something,
and it really I didn't have that sort of feeling
about the whole thing. It was just an opportunity that existed.

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I'd seen a lot of theme restaurants in America, and
I thought, you know, this is a crazy opportunity. We've
got to do this, you know, And so it just
set us circumstances all stacked up together to put it
all together. In fact, we had a conference there of
architects and they asked me to go along and give

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them a bit of a talk about how we put
it all together and everything. And they were a bit
horrified because you know, when I told them I'd put
a chalk on the floor.

Speaker 7 (02:10:04):
And said that where this is going to go.

Speaker 15 (02:10:07):
The Rava lines here and drew it all out and
then walked around and saved at all work and everything.
And the guy just said to me, he said, well,
he said, no architect could have ever designed that because
it's just too complicated.

Speaker 17 (02:10:20):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:10:21):
I'll leave it there, Mike, but look, thank you so
very much. That's been wonderful to talk to you. Able
to move on, but that's tremendous, so thanks for every
much for that. For those who just tuning, we are
talking about a place I've never heard about, a canarvan station,
a restaurant that was in Prince's Street in Donedin from
about nineteen from like an entertain from about nineteen eighty
to nineteen eighty eight. And that's pretty well all that

(02:10:44):
it's possible to know about that. It's twenty eight past eleven.
Good evening, Jim, this is Marcus. Welcome Bargus.

Speaker 3 (02:10:51):
You got Jim there.

Speaker 2 (02:10:54):
Yes, welcome.

Speaker 12 (02:10:56):
Yeah, it's Jim here from Dunedin talking about the Canarvan station.
I work right next door to the When the Canalvan station,
the company called and A Scott Automotive Parts and when
they had the fire in nineteen eighty eight, I heard

(02:11:17):
the seven o'clock news in the morning before we went
to work and they said there it was on fire.
And our boss got caught in at five o'clock in
the morning to go in and before our service called him,
and he went upstairs and one of the beans there,
wooden beans up there was red hot. If there had

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been another ten minutes they were placed for their place,
we could have gone fire.

Speaker 2 (02:11:45):
Wow. And what was what did you say was so
hot though?

Speaker 3 (02:11:51):
That one?

Speaker 12 (02:11:51):
That wouldn't beans upstairs upstairs? Now we had uh downstairs,
then we had the upstairs to the What we had
was the inwards goods and ending the reconditioning shop. And
next that the bosket caught in at five o'clock and

(02:12:14):
the fire service said, if it had have been another
five or ten minutes, Scotts would have gone on fire
as well.

Speaker 2 (02:12:20):
Did they ever find out what caused the fire?

Speaker 12 (02:12:24):
What I understand Marcus went on and on. Apparently I
reckon it was deliberately luck. Okay, that's what I understand.

Speaker 8 (02:12:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (02:12:36):
Now that Yemenia tory before he mentioned the truck workshop
with the Hope Street that was a Target motives trucks workshop.

Speaker 2 (02:12:47):
Yeah, I think so did to beat to that?

Speaker 12 (02:12:49):
Yeah, that's right, and down with Wilson Nils were downstairs
next to us before it was before it's Wilson Nils.
That was a Target Motors truck Pats and what where
the most now that's now I sawgn writing shop.

Speaker 2 (02:13:11):
Yeah someone did say that.

Speaker 12 (02:13:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah that It was nineteen eighty eight and
I got to work later on we had that we
look and open and the open door of the Prince,
the whiles and the floor was it could feel the
water was just was squirlting on the carver.

Speaker 2 (02:13:33):
Goodness, Jim, thank you for holding on, Thank you for
coming through. Color. It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 18 (02:13:38):
Hello, Hi, can just topped in the car to go
home from work.

Speaker 20 (02:13:43):
And who's talking about Canarval station?

Speaker 23 (02:13:46):
It was an amazing place at eight.

Speaker 12 (02:13:50):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (02:13:51):
Yeah, it does sound like it was amazing.

Speaker 18 (02:13:55):
It was absolutely fantastic. I think I had dinner in
the ticket office and the carriage.

Speaker 27 (02:14:01):
I have a feeling in the gas as well.

Speaker 2 (02:14:05):
So could you see that we was the rest of
where was the kitchen? Could you see the kitchen was
an open kitchen. I don't know what that's important.

Speaker 12 (02:14:12):
I'm trying to find and with it.

Speaker 16 (02:14:15):
I think we were aware where the kitchen was, but
it was it.

Speaker 18 (02:14:19):
Was more a place that had atmosphere. It was and
our kids loved going there too.

Speaker 2 (02:14:27):
Were the staff dressed as railway workers, not.

Speaker 12 (02:14:31):
That I can recall.

Speaker 3 (02:14:32):
No my tying.

Speaker 2 (02:14:39):
Okay, you're just cutting out to it, card of it.
Thank you very much for that. Keep in touch of
your talk. Twenty six away from a twelve o'clock twenty
four to twelve Gord, it's Marcus good Evening.

Speaker 7 (02:14:52):
Hi, Marcus good Good. I was in Dunedin eighteen months
ago and I wasn't able to find this Prince of
Wales has a changed its name.

Speaker 2 (02:15:06):
The Prince of the Prince of Wales now the building
is still there. Yeah, hang, I just done my Google Maps.

Speaker 7 (02:15:16):
Is the reason I asked is that we used to
stay in it. We worked in Mani Puri, West Arm
and would come out every three weeks and spend the
spend the long weekend with the Prince of Wales.

Speaker 2 (02:15:30):
Wow, how did you get to Jacobi try How did
you get out.

Speaker 7 (02:15:33):
From West Arm?

Speaker 3 (02:15:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (02:15:36):
Yeah, we came on the ferry to to Vanipuri. I
think it was no Yeah, it'd be right, and I
had my car parked there and we would we would
drive to a heaven.

Speaker 2 (02:15:51):
Have you read the book about about the Power Scheme?
People are raving about it, that history of the making
of it. Have you read that?

Speaker 30 (02:15:58):
No?

Speaker 7 (02:15:58):
I haven't.

Speaker 8 (02:15:59):
Do you know of it?

Speaker 7 (02:16:01):
No, I haven't heard of it.

Speaker 2 (02:16:04):
All the people that love books are raven about how
good it is. It's won a number of awards. The
Middle of Nowhere Stories of working on the Manipurly Hydro
Project by Rosemary Beard. Yeah, B A, I R D.
But yeah, all the it's it's one of the real

(02:16:26):
publishing surprises. I haven't seen a copy yet to buy,
but people people say it's a wonderful, wonderful book. Obviously
Shad Bulk gets more than his more than his fair
mentioned because he's got some good stories from there. But
apparently it's for every good.

Speaker 7 (02:16:43):
Tim was in camps and where Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (02:16:47):
Can imagine that. Were you on the were you on
the Wagganella Gord? Okay, that's the different Okay, Yeah, so
that we were.

Speaker 7 (02:16:58):
We were blasting under the parase.

Speaker 2 (02:17:02):
Okay, just to remember whereabout ste live good? If you're
in Dneeda and are you are you from the North Island?

Speaker 7 (02:17:08):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:17:08):
Yeah, it is still called the Prince of Wales hotel.
But it's a Persian rug shop now, okay, yeah, so
it's still very much exactly as it looked. Next door
where the Canalvion station was as a custom custom signed
sign writers, but it is still there. And the other

(02:17:29):
is a place called art Centia or something. But yeah,
it is still there. And if you look up high
you can still see the name on the building.

Speaker 7 (02:17:37):
Okay, yeah, well yeah, I wasn't able to find it,
and I did find the hotel, I couldn't remember what
street it should have been on. Well. I asked the
staff in the hotel if it was the Prince of Wales,
and nobody knew anything. True.

Speaker 2 (02:17:53):
It's bad, isn't it. You should have runked talk back.
I would have told you.

Speaker 7 (02:17:56):
Yeah, well, I think about o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 2 (02:18:00):
Thanks Gord.

Speaker 1 (02:18:01):
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