Marketing of perceived cheapness (23 September 2024)

Marcus talks Manawa Bay opening right next to an airport, Eddie Low, and because the All Blacks played on the weekend, we hear from Lois!

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greetings and welcome Meato seven. My name is Marcus. Here
till midnight tonight. I hope things are good where you are.
What a weekend. So finally in South End we got
a fine day because it's been terrible. I've had someplace
in South and I've already had four times their average
rainfall for September. We're only three weeks into it, so

(00:33):
it's been free, free weeks. I got quite a lot done,
which was a bonus because it needed to be done.
But yeah, had to get a mate to weld the mower.
Oh yeah, the catcher. Tricky old thing that the spring
on the catcher. Anyway, So I've come back to work
sort of feeling fairly satisfied with what I've accomplished in

(00:54):
the week. And I hope you were the same, by
the way too. So wow, I've realized for me, I like,
there's six months of the year I love, and there's
six months a year I don't like. I like spring
and summer. Anyway, I'll try not to bore you. I
think there's quite a bit happening to talk back wise.
So I'm kind of fascinated by Manoa or Manawa Bay,

(01:20):
which is so I don't know marna Wa Bay, but
there's been adds on the radio for a long long time.
So Manawa Bay is something that the Auckland Airport, which
is a company, has decided to do. They've built a
shopping center by the airport. And when I say shopping center,

(01:46):
it's like Dressmart. Although in Willington they've got a Dressmark
which is called something quite different. I know that because
there the other day it's like dress Smart, but it's
not dress Smart. It's got outlet City. How do you
call something when you're not dressmark out martin yeah, outlet

(02:08):
city anyway, So the Aukland Airport have built something called
Manawa Bay and it's like dress Smart, but it's right
behind the airport, and in fact it's such a big
shopping center from my understanding, there's a car park with
about fourteen hundred car parks and these shuttles to take

(02:31):
you from your car park to where you need to shop.
Now already for me jeopardized, half of me can't wait
to get there, and half of me's thinking avoid it,
like the plague. So Anyway, mana were Bay opened in
the weekend and it was chaos. People missed their flights.

(02:53):
So you've got to wonder the wisdom of the International
International Airport, the company that makes all that money out
of car parking, why they would build something so close
to the airport that would add to gridlock. Yeah, I
don't even know the answer to this. There is someone
in the article of reading is Only Herald that says

(03:14):
quite convincingly that this is what happens when shopping centers open.
There's chaos for the first days, but things will sort
themselves out. But if they have gone and made a
bad traffic situation worse, that's a fail of effort proportion.

(03:35):
Like we're already looking like Hamilton looks like the better
option when you're going to leave, because you've got to
allc and you've got to actually check and then you
got to drive your car to a park and ride
and get the bus and well that freaks me out.
I'm sure it freaks you out too. So anyway, Manawbey,
did you go tell you what's a beautiful part of
the harbor? I can see why they've called it, mana Obey.

(03:57):
There is a beginning let that goes up there, gorgeous
looking and let and they've kind of got some land
there and they've turned into a shopping center. So you
might have been there in the weekend. Is it any good?
Was it traffic chaos? Is this craziness of the highest
level to build an incredibly sought after shopping experience so

(04:19):
close to the airport where people are trying to get
to it. It's never good because you're trying to get
to the airport from Auckland City. It's always a panic.
I think all my flight today o'clock. Shall I leave
at five? I don't want traffic gridlock. I don't want
the old anyway. Good evening, Jillian, it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Hi, Thanks Marcus. Then unfortunate aupan traffic at any time.
I went to Manama, been in thereen at eleven am
off Friday, and I got there very easily. But then
I want to fly and off shops actually of unit
tack shots in them.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, okay, can you can you shout into your microphone
a bit? Oh sorry, it's been already lovely voice, Yes,
got you.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
So it's like a lot of internecial places Melbourne, Perth.
We have these outlet stores. It's not like marks. Smart
is a cheaper option. This is the place that has
some discount ten percent.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
That's all.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Miser Stores is very smart. Once everything gets under control,
everything will be fine. But also traffic.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
But you say that other but you say that other
airports have got things that are similar a retail experience
at the airport. I'm sure those other airports. But no, no,
but sorry, you were saying. Did I get your right
what you're saying? Internationally? Places like Melbourne et cetera.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, Melbourne and Sydney.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, and the difference, certainly in Sydney's cases, they've got
extremely effective public transport to get there, which Aukin's got
and Orcan's got none of that. So to me it
seems like a crazy thing to have gone and done.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
When I'm ex president, I had a five r uly,
so I got bus to the airport store, I had
the store, rosa back and then got my flight.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Stressful, You like your shop, you like your shopping? Did
you buy anything at Marna were Bay? Yes, I said,
there you go. There's meth a terrible phone line, wasn't
it like white noise in the background? Thirteen past eight? Marna,
We bay. Did you give that a go? I shouldn't
like to be compared to dress smart. I think it

(06:37):
is like it's bargains. I don't know what it's about.
I mean, you could you it's stressful enough to go
to the airport. Would you want to go to the
airport then go shopping quickly beforehand? Goodness? My theory with
the airport is to get in and out as quickly
as possible with the least amount of malarking around that

(06:57):
you can actually manage get in touch eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty. I guess was that Auckland Airport Domestic International.
Being at Auckland Airport today, did not see a shopping
center bother. I even had plenty of time before my
bus went. So if you look at the if you

(07:19):
look at the situation there, it is just out towards
Butterfly Creek. I guess that's what you'd call where it is.
So it is very much near the airport. Being how
the airport has kind of a shopping center. It's just
kind of around there, so I guess if you're looking
at it, yeah, it's sort of to the north east

(07:46):
of the runway, kind of above Puhunui Road. We go
across if you want to go, if you want to
go east that way that over prowferf you just get.
You could sort of near Tom Pearce drive, kind of
turn right at the warehouse and you're on your way.
But get in touch if you want to talk eight
hundred and eighty I'll read the texts. How come Wallaby

(08:15):
sightings don't get three nights of TV and news like
Wild Deer. There was amazing that footage of wild Dear
I'd forgotten about that seemed to have come down from
the hills. It was Haul's Well or Kidnedy's Bush. If
you got some experience of the it kind of looked
a bit like that film with all Julia roberts were.
It all kind of gone bad and the soul of

(08:35):
storm and the animals started taking over. It's it's kind
of weird, but yeah, that's right. The animals are taking over.
Get in touch with you and talk. We're talking Marna
were bade. The number is eight hundred and eighty eighteen
eighty and nine to nine two de text If you
do want to come through, looking forward to your input tonight.

(08:55):
Oh that was pretty exciting to wake up Dancy Lydia
cowd won something else too, that's good stuff. Eighteen past
eight Steve at so Marcus welcome, good evening.

Speaker 6 (09:02):
Yeah, these big supermarkets, these big morell don't work.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Tell me about that.

Speaker 6 (09:09):
We haven't got enough people here in New Zealand. You
know they've got that west field, huge parking areas, no
public transport or very little. If you had more people,
a bigger variety of things. You go through Sydney to

(09:29):
the Victoria Park Market, Victoria Market there they have the
whole population in New Zealand through there in a few days.
You get a bigger range, You got more people. We
just we're only a very tiny little country and we're
trying to copy other countries that have twice, three times

(09:52):
four times the population. Yes, we have trouble getting there.
I wouldn't be able to get there from Thames. Impossible
to get out to the open airport using public transport.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
You see. I would think probably they do searched to
see how many people to shop there and what the
demand would be For me. What seems to be the
concern is not that there is a new mall and
it's a mall for discounted goods. But what seems to
have happened is it's they've put a mall that thousands
of people want to go to right next to an

(10:26):
airport which thousands of people want to get to, and
they reckon the traffic can't cope.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
No, we had popular, if we had a reasonable public
transport system, in a much quicker efficient system, well people
would go. But you get two people sitting in a
car in a long queue that will wait four hours
to get into a shop. That's that's nuts.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I wonder how I wonder, I wonder. I wonder how
they'll stop people flying overseas from parking in the Manawa
Bay car parks because that would be hard to police too,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
Because yeah, yeah, you know, like the Auckland has spoiled
out so far, we were all going to sit on
a quarter ego section. You know, it's huge from from
the Bombays all the way up to well Welsford almost
is Upend. It's huge. For the small number of people there,

(11:24):
it's it's it's nuts, and the public transport just can't cope.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
So you're not planning a shopping trip there anytime soon, No,
I'm not.

Speaker 7 (11:33):
No.

Speaker 6 (11:34):
And the last time I went to Auckland Airport to
take a friend here who was flying out to Australia.
Or I just had to drop them at the door
and keep going.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Always the best way when you drop some and kick
him out, check this suits after them and keep driving,
always having to find a parked egging.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
I couldn't. I couldn't. I went round the car park
four times, n give it away. I was going to
see them off. You can go up into the departure
lounge and have a couple of them and watch them
go off. But I couldn't get a park anywhere. I know,
I'm just about it to come back to tents. I
don't know. That's nuts.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Nice to hear, Steve, Thank you, twenty two past eight,
Marna Obey. The experience also the deer in christ Church
is this common? There were deer and Hall's Will that
I think they thought it'd come from Kennedy Bush. Now
I'm pretty sure I've got my geography right because I
did that walk and I came down the Port Hills

(12:36):
and I walked to Port Hills and then I came
down through halls Will Quarry, and I'm pretty sure that's
kind of where they were so yeah, that's what 'ren
about tonight. But that's exciting, is it? And also slight

(12:58):
the end of time z e. With deers wandering around.
When you get those shots of deers kind of jumping
into urban swimming pools, it does look like the end times.
Not that I'm not that I'm an end of life
whatever those things are called, but you know what I'm saying. Oh,
eight hundred eighty Teddy and nine two nine text if
you want to come through. And also your experience at

(13:20):
Manawa Bay. Could someone explain to me what sort of
shopping was there? Good shopping, bad shopping? Is it like Breastsmart?
Is it like outlet City? Just love the name outlet City.
I went to Outlet City in Tawa. Yeah, pretty down

(13:41):
and well no, let's not be critical. Did I buy anything? No,
but I enjoyed the walk from Portida to Wellington along
the Old North Road. That's a good walk, that one jeepess. Anyway,
do you get in touch if you want to talk?

(14:02):
Twenty four past eighth, eight hundred eighty Teddy and nine
two nine to text. Looking forward to what you've got
to say, and we'll keep you update on the news
throughout the course of what's happening throughout the course of
the evening eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine to

(14:22):
nine two detects I've got to come through. Yeah, and
there are other topics I will spread through the evening tonight.
But looking forward to your input tonight, mana a city,
did you get caught? I mean, do you think it's
gonna because I can't see. They say it's gonna settle down.
But if this is the great shopping experience people want,

(14:44):
it's going to put another twelve hundred cars heading to
the airport. But I guess you can't always be too
pessimistic because things kind of do have a habit of
sorting themselves out. But it's kind of alarming to me
that Aucklinn Airport, the company designed with running an airport,
would build a shopping center that attracts many people that
planes have to be delayed because the people out there

(15:04):
to get on the planes. Yeahh get in touch of
you've got anything to add to that eight hundred and
eighty eight ten eighty and nine two nine two to text.
And the deer in a Hall's well watched the first
half of the rugby thought it was going to be

(15:25):
a thrashing. Didn't watch the end. It also is a
restless wig with Restless Leg Awareness Day. It's a big
topic for us, restless leg with a myriad of cures.
So bearing in mind that's floating around Restless League Day,

(15:46):
indescribably painful. People say that it is. But I'll tell
you what. Once you got it, you know you got it,
and it can become something of a Yeah, she's big
stuff if you've got restless leg. Anyway, keep those calls
coming through, as I say, oh, eight hundred and eighty
tendy and nine two nine to text hit or twelve

(16:08):
o'clock tonight, and I'll keep you updated with any it
does happen, to be honest, all those deer in the halls, well,
or where do you think they came from? And what
ultimately happened to that. I didn't read the whole article
right to the end. I'm not quite sure if they've
tottled away, but I can't imagine, dear would really why
would they be coming into the why would they be
coming into the urban areas? Would they be short of food?

(16:32):
A text here says Marcus, I think oh, I had
a text that just disappeared on me. I was about
to read a text about the deer and it's just
completely gone. What here it is again, Marcus. I think
the deer and urban areas are probably more common than
people think. My dad used to live in heim A

(16:54):
Tonguey in the Munoa two and frequently saw deer walking
down the main road out of his kitchen window at
night half past eight tony headlines please.

Speaker 8 (17:05):
Yes, thing's mark.

Speaker 9 (17:06):
So.

Speaker 8 (17:06):
I worked in Central Reading in England and deer used
to frequently turn up in the grounds of the radio
station I worked at there, which was quite interesting. There
was a large park nearby, but they certainly were in
the central part of the township of Reading.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Urban sightings of deer, if you've seen them, will let
me know what that about. Also talk about Manawa Bay,
the brand new shopping center which has brought the Auckland
Airport to a halt. Well not quite, but people have
missed their flights because of the traffic. Traffic chaos they
call it, well they always do, don't there. It's always
something chaos, but so many people are going there. The
roads were all just jam packed, and you just wonder

(17:47):
if the job, if your job is the Orcan International
Airport is to run the airport and you built a
shopping more that means people can't get to your airport.
Is that clever? Probably not? So there we go if
you want talk about That's something else you want to
mention tonight, looking forward to what you've got to say.
Curious to know what you thought of that Mono web
Bay experience, because it's been advertised for a long long time,

(18:08):
quite a bit of hype about that. That's kind of
what happens now with shopping is it's the hype, whether
it be cost codes or Crispy Cream Donuts or Popeyes
Popeye Fried Chicken, that people get so such a head
of steam about it they can almost you know, you

(18:29):
do the pr right, you can stop the city. I
guess the situation with Mana Where Bay if it's going
to continue like that or if it's just going to
kind of settle down. But the last thing you want
going to airport is more stress not knowing where they're
going to get there in time. Do come through if
you want to talk about that eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty It says that the story Airlines claim you

(18:50):
man No Bay Mall delays flights as crew caught in traffic.
It's the crew that have been caught. Airlines are frustrated
by traffic injection, a congestion caused by Auckland Airports mana
a Bay Outlets center and say some flights have been delay.
Crew and group handers were caught up in traffic chaos

(19:11):
at the weekend, described as appalling by some visitors to
the new shopping center. Airline and groundhandlers saw staff caught
up into congested roads with summer resorts using bus lanes
and an effort to get to work, Customers were caught
up in traffic congestion. Many were first delayed getting to
park and ride locations and the delayed again trying to

(19:32):
catch the bus to the terminal, said the boards executive
director cath O'Brien. This is the Board of airline representatives.
The new two million dollar plus scene to open on Thursday,
and despite preparation to minimize delays by the airport company,
traffic was jammed at the week in the air was
busy again today with bottlenecks on the main approach to

(19:53):
the airport. Not ideal mono were Byondeer in the city
and christ Church Halls well down from Kennedy's bush. I
don't know how many deer there are on the porthills.
Do people hunt them? I don't know. You got some
information about that. It was amazing footage. The video camera
stuff of it was really airy. So comment on that
if you want to. I don't know anyone's ever seen

(20:14):
dare and Auckland. Have they a Wellington? You wanted to
go on a bush around the outside of it, So
you might have some comment about that. It'd be nice
to hear from you here till midnight tonight. My name
is Marcus Welcome. You know how the way it works,
but you do get in touch. The other thing that
I want to bring attention to, and I've been looking
forward to talk about this all weekend, was the memories

(20:39):
of Eddie Low, the musician who has died over the
weekend and an amazing eulogy on Facebook from his eldest daughter.
And I know a lot of you have seen Eddie

(20:59):
Low perform because he's been around performing in New Zealand
for a long, long long time. I know people even
we've mentioned him before and people said, well I haven't
heard fro him fro while is he's still alive, and
of course he was. He is performing around christ Church
at the clubs and the likes of that, and touring
often nationally and internationally. So if you want to mention

(21:20):
and talk about Eddie Low tonight your memories of him,
there might have been someone that you've seen perform or
met sort of in some ways my memory of me,
he almost seemed like New Zealand's version of Roy Orbison
with the straight black hair in the dark glasses. But
of course I think that he was. He was blind

(21:43):
and remarkably successful. But there's an amazing postage post on
Facebook by one of his eldest daughters and just goes
into his whole life and things like that, because not
only was he a singer, and he hugely successful singer,

(22:05):
it says Eddie. Eddie's talents were not limited to music,
as he was also an outstanding track and field athlete,
training and running with the late Great Peter Snell, gaining
his black belt in karate under the Great sens I
led Monk and becoming an international blind golfing champion, and

(22:25):
his daughter describes her father's strength, resilience and indomitable spirit.
He never thought of his blindness as a disability. It
was just something he happened to have. His only for
fear was that people would think he could do something
because of his sight. But if anything, it made him
even more stubborn, more determined to prove he could do
anything that others could do and more.

Speaker 10 (22:47):
So.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, there we are. I seem to be based in
christ if he was there his whole life, but certainly
that seems to be where he spent his final years.
It says the family will hold a service in christ
Church which we live streamed. A special tribute concert has
been planned in twenty twenty five to honor Eddie's life, music,
and legacy. Eddie Low will be remembered as a beloved musician,

(23:09):
a trailblazer, a man who living at his blindness to
find him, a limit him, and a source of inspiration
for all who knew him. He leaves paying three children,
five great grandchildren, five grandchildren, one great grandchildren's partner of
almost five years, Carrie. So yeah, there we go. So
if you want to talk about Eddie Low also, I'd
like to hear your memories about that twenty one about

(23:30):
him twenty one away from nine always was a big
deal of new Zealand and music TV in the seventies
and eighties. I think Eddie Blow was often often performing.
But do get in touch and talking about Marnaabay, Marcus.

(23:52):
Marna Obay is a great experience. We're entering peak time
Sunday and it wasn't that bad for traffic if you
kept moving. Question, do people want to stop progression in
this country? Those had a tubes of winging a while.
We are lagging behind a development and infrastructure Chris. But
if it's infrastructure or development, it's just a super small

(24:15):
isn't it, Marcus. Funny how there's supposedly a recession but
everyone is either shopping or flying. It's a very good point, Marcus.
I think the deer came from around Victoria Park, around
the bike park. They're all around up there. They'll be
known to swim over to Quail Island Halls well, not
far from the bike park.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Matt.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Someone's asking how the government workers feel been summons back
to work. I didn't understand. I did think when I
was in Wellington last week and I caught the train
from Wellington to Pottador at about ten past five on
a Friday. It was empty, which I was surprised by
and I thought, wow, everyone must be working from home,

(25:01):
but not anymore civil servant. Back to the office. Get
in touch by name is Marcus hadt twelve o'clock tonight,
Idy Low, the shopping center, Manawa Bay and also the
deer in the Endle City. If they're not the topics
for your liking, if there's something else you want to
talk about, it'd be nice to hear from you get

(25:21):
amongst it. I did watch the All Blacks half of it.
A lot of analysis about that, isn't there the obsession
with the last twenty minutes. Now Wayne Smith's getting involved.
Goodness me, it's kind of like you're supposed to celebrate.

(25:42):
Not really, it's the bladders though, after all the Argentina
go and beat South Africa, wasn't it?

Speaker 11 (25:48):
Well?

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Actually, I kind of slightly was expecting that. Good evening, Wayne,
It's Marcus. Welcome, Hi Marc.

Speaker 12 (25:54):
To say, Look, it might be one of the dumbest
questions you get tonight, but you know I can't understand.
Like a while, Becky used to see a lot of
speed bumps prior to coming to a pedestrian crossing, but
now you don't see any speed bumps, but the actual

(26:16):
pedestrian crossing have got like a speed bump on them.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Do you know why they're raised? You mean they're raised?

Speaker 12 (26:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (26:29):
Why are pedestrian crossings raised?

Speaker 3 (26:34):
I would imagine, Look, this is only a guess. I
would imagine because easier for people to see them.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yeah, I see.

Speaker 12 (26:43):
It might be a good point that actually, yeah, that would.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Be my take. I mean, but because for me, the
rules on pedestrian crossings have changed somewhat. It seems like
you can amble over them or just yeah, I don't don't.
I'm not fully well, I shouldn't say this in public,
but I'm not fully okay with how it all works
with pedestrian crossings now, because I think you used to
just stop and people would just you know, stop for

(27:08):
both directions of people to walk across. But now now
you can. You're freer to drive if someone's not on
your half of the crossing. I think, But I don't
know why they're raised.

Speaker 7 (27:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (27:18):
I thought that first, and I thought, well it can't be.
I thought, oh, maybe they've got them raised so you
slow down.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
But I mean it's too late of you.

Speaker 12 (27:26):
It's somebody once since raised, you know. But I follow
alive from me. I haven't been able to figure it out,
but that is a good point that you made about
maybe you see them better.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
How long since they have been raised where you are?

Speaker 14 (27:40):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (27:40):
Well a few years?

Speaker 5 (27:42):
Okay, quite a few years.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
I'll have to check them out, Wayne, thank you. Maybe
someone can answer that for way, and why are they
raised and how long have they been raised?

Speaker 14 (27:50):
Well?

Speaker 3 (27:50):
I watched the end of Emily in Paris cheapest creecause
it was hard work, wasn't it. What happens in the
end she moves to Rome, and Emily in Paris becomes
Emily in Rome. I couldn't quite believe that. So, yeah,
that was a surprise. Guy, someone has said Marcus, I
asked Ai. Someone's asking Ai about raised pedestrian crossings. Marcus

(28:14):
I asked Ai, you are bang on. Raised pedestrian crossings,
also known as raised crossworks, are designed to enhance pedestrians
safety and improve accessibility. Here are some key reasons why
they used traffic charming. Raised crossworks act as speed bumps,
slowing down vehicles they approach the crossing crossing. This makes

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it safer for pedestrians to cross the road. Visibility by
elevating the crosswork to the same level as sidewhek pedestrians
become more visible to drivers. This helps in reducing accent
to nemessis accessibility. Raised crossworks provide a smooth transition from
the sidewalk to the crossing, making it easy for welchair
users and those with mobility issues to across the street

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without needing to navigate a curb.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Don't need me, you can ask chet GPT. Someone's got
all the cards, the collector cards, but no book. You
even got a spare book. Marcus was at Auckland for
the weekend. Popped into Mana Were Bay sad day PM.
Busy but good with a bit of patience. Honestly thought

(29:27):
more chance of playing delays from the chronically slow security
lines at domestic airport. I think it was the staff
that were caught out. The people at the pilots and
the flight attendants were the ones that got caught in
the traffic. And they probably don't go through the so
they have been told to be their hours beforehand. They're
kind of cutting it a bit finer. And what they're

(29:48):
finding out as they can't go through because they're stuck
in traffic. Good evening, Jeff ats Marcus, Welcome, Hi Jeff.

Speaker 7 (29:56):
Here you go Margus. Just a year we lost a
good chain of this weekend with video, haven't we?

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Absolutely? Because I mean he just seemed to have been
around for ever.

Speaker 7 (30:07):
Well, he's a great person. And what I'm ringing for
masters that Magus is that they said they're going to
have the funeral live stream from christ Church. I've been
going on Google and win as the funeral and how
they get onto live stream. One of the listeners might
be able to tell.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Me that hang on will like it.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
I just saw someone who posted on Facebook. Right. Yes,
it's quite a new thing watching people's funerals live, isn't it.
I mean, it's it's quite a nice thing to be
able to do. There's a couple of funerals recently the
last couple of weeks of what and it works very
well to just tune in and see them. It's it's
removing it and that might be the one good thing

(30:51):
that came from COVID is that now people know that
they can actually celebrate someone's life and learn more about
their life.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yeah. Yeah, So just.

Speaker 7 (31:00):
Wondering how to get onto it because I'd like to
see it, you know, I really would, And but I
don't know when it is on, mainly when when there's
a funeral, one of the listeners might know. We'll get back.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
I think there might be something that's said on the
and the article did you see him perform much?

Speaker 16 (31:22):
Big?

Speaker 3 (31:23):
Had you seen him perform much? Or do you performed
with him?

Speaker 16 (31:27):
No?

Speaker 7 (31:27):
No, no, no, But I'm right and many other guys.
I'm the music scene to herself, but a bit small.
But I really appreciate his voice. He did a fantastic
time with many watching. Talking to him after the show
in dreams, he did a tribune to Augustine.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
He seemed to have that voice that was better for that,
that that was perfect for country music. Wasn't it that
sort of he had? He had the chops for that.
That seemed to be what he really excelled at. He
had high opt didn't he could get absolutely?

Speaker 7 (32:03):
Yeah, But I want to just just I've been trying
to I said it going a live stream, and I'd
like to really like to see it, but I kept
not mind having much information or finding it when it
is and in letters, Okay.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
I'll find I'll see if I can find out.

Speaker 7 (32:18):
For you, Jeef, and I'll be listening and see what happens.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Get your pen and paper. Really but yeah, normally that
ye're normally. It's so much of it all happens on
Facebook now, doesn't it? Good evening? Freed ats Marcus welcome.

Speaker 17 (32:34):
Yeah, Mark, Mark's welcome.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (32:37):
I want to say about Eddie Lowe. What a wonderful
guy he was, and he wasn't proud, lovely sense of humor.
He used to come down to our small singing group
a church in New Brighton at Sane Faith and join
us singing. We're all amateurs. But I was to listen

(33:00):
to him and thinking, man, that man is brilliant. He
was just so wonder.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Regular there was he regular there, would just come for
the music.

Speaker 17 (33:12):
No, no, he used to come down with his wife
and just sing with us for a while.

Speaker 14 (33:20):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
Amazing the amazing gospel singer, wouldn't he.

Speaker 17 (33:24):
Yes, he bring a couple of children down. But he
was so lovely, such a wonderful man. Anyway, about pedestrian
crossing crossings in Pompei, in I think it's sixty nine eight,
they used to have raised pedestrian crossings. Really, yes they did, yes,

(33:54):
and you can still see the marks of the chariot wheels.
They would be worked out that they were fixed for
the horses and the charis to go over. But when
they'd have storms, it meant that the rain would come
down the streets and the people could cross the world

(34:15):
roken in wet.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
So are you saying there's been Productrian crossings since POMPEII.

Speaker 17 (34:22):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, I've been over them.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Were they striped or was it different sorts of rock
or what was the how were they made?

Speaker 17 (34:30):
It was just storms raised about one foot off the
ground and you're able to step over without getting your
feet wet during the storm.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Well, thanks, so that's something I've learned tonight. That's a
big tick for me, Fred, thank you for that. Twelve past.
Now we are talking Eddie Law and Mana are the
shopping center? Joan ats Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 18 (34:55):
Oh hi Marcus. I've heard Eddie low sing many times
over the years, and it was only a few months ago,
probably fevery match. He was at the Hornby Club and
he sung and I went past him and I said hello,
and I said you sang very well today and he
said thank you. And he had a lovely caregiving was
his partner the last five years and her family had

(35:16):
known him, you know, a long time, you know, and
she started looking after him, and then they become a
couple and she looked after him for five years.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
Tell me something. Was he He wasn't always in christ Church.

Speaker 7 (35:27):
Was he?

Speaker 18 (35:28):
Well, he has been that I know of for a
long time. But he grew up in the North Island.
Of course. It was always beautifully always beautifully dressed. He
had his hair colored color.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Is hair at the Hornby Club. What was his songs
that he would sing?

Speaker 18 (35:45):
He would sing? How great their art? I can't remember
a lot of them, really good tunes.

Speaker 6 (35:51):
He's a very very good singer and perform on his
le with a band.

Speaker 18 (35:55):
Oh, we had the band. We've got four members, got
the drummer and three guitarists, guy on the keyboard, two guitarists.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
And a standard there's a standard band.

Speaker 18 (36:03):
That very very good band. He would yeah, but he
would slaughtered with anybody. This is a very good band.
But I think he can probably well, they were very
professional and we have them on once a month. So no,
he's an excellent singer.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
How long ago was it? You saw it?

Speaker 18 (36:22):
About three or four months? I knew will Bishop now
about two months ago and I was just getting a
few things at the tool and he is Eddie Lowe
and Carrie walking up towards me, and I said, oh, hello,
and they sort of smiled at me and I said oh,
and she said, oh, I've just picked him up from
the airport because he lives he grew up in the

(36:44):
North Island. And that's what she told me. Here, yeah,
ive at oh do you yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (36:52):
I do not too noisy with the planes flying over here.

Speaker 18 (36:54):
I don't like airplanes. I don't like you airplanes, and
I'll never fly on one again.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Ever.

Speaker 18 (37:00):
No, I've never flew to his in the early fifties
and my god, I didn't know that a plane was
going to make that much noise and up like it did.
And I don't like the thought of being up in
the air. And I just I've only done a few
times after that, and I'm just not going to fly.
And my younger brother lives at Wahiki Island and he
knows that I will not, you know, go up. Something
happens to them. I have to descend the car. I'm

(37:21):
not going to fly anywhere.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
You could get up to what you get up to
Wake Island on a bus and a car and a fairy.

Speaker 18 (37:27):
Could you No, I don't like the fairy either. I'm
not really a trebler.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Clearly, what's wrong with the fairy?

Speaker 18 (37:34):
Oh well, I've done this in the past. No, no, no,
I don't fancy that. I'm too old. Now you're.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Oh, do you need to get inspired? Je creepers? Fancy
making blocks like that for yourself? Talking Eddie low Manawah
and Deer in the City because the urban deer and
the halls will were extraordinary. That footage that looked like
that movie with I think it was George Clooney and
Julia Roberts, remember them, and Kevin Bacon. I've got the

(38:01):
right guy. It was certainly Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon,
I mean Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts. And it was like
the end of Times and there was I think there
was a soul of flare and everything kind of blocked out.
You would have seen it. It was all the talk
on Netflix a couple of couple of months ago. It
was a great movie. Leave the World Behind Ethan Hawk.

(38:25):
I think it wasn't Julia Roberts, So I was struggling
to find while we're telling you about that because their
deer kind of wandering around. The deer k moved into
the city. That was sort of the the beginning that
you knew that things were going awry, like the end
of times. They kept gathering towards the backyards of the houses.
Didn't even know. Fear of flying was still a thing.

(38:48):
It used to be those courses. You go to the
airport and the teacher on the fear of flying, remember that,
not teacher, but it'd take you on a plane and
they'd say, oh, go on a plane, this is going
to happen. Fancying up. Somebody surprised how noisey and how
quick it went. I don't know what to say about that.
My name is Marcus. Welcome. All the lines are free.
Talk about Eddie Lowe Mano a shopping center, and also

(39:10):
the situation with deer in the middle of the city,
and pedestrian crossings and why they are raised or risen
rised raised. To be fair, if you've lootened your license
a long time ago, you're always a bit sketchy about
what's supposed to happen on I it is pedestrian crossing,
I should reread the road code. But I think probably
if people on the other half, You're still good to go,

(39:30):
is that right? Anyway, do come through? My name is Marcus.
Welcome he'd twelve blah blah blah, eight hundred and eighty
Teddy and nine nine to text. Looking forward to hearing
from you. You got something different you want to check
into the mix. Brilliant, Let's do it. Something else you

(39:51):
want to get riled up about. Let me just check
the texts Marcus. We live five minutes from the Nelson
CBD and often have deer across the road and through
the neighborhood. Fantastic for the kids. They love it. Council
not so much. They try and call them every year,
but that's a topic for another night. Marcus, I suspect

(40:14):
the Porthill's area from Godly Head to give his pass
would contain about one thousand red deer in an era
of about eighty thousand hectares. Someone said any Low dot
co dot inzed for details of the funeral. Wow, yeah,

(40:37):
Eddilow dot co dot in zed, David's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (40:42):
Him?

Speaker 13 (40:42):
Marcus, can you hear me?

Speaker 7 (40:43):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Yeah, very really good. Thanks for the courtesy of asking
it to very clear phone line. I appreciate that from you, Dave.

Speaker 19 (40:49):
Oh nice one. I'm driving and just just making sure
the hands free is working. Okay, yeah, hey we've spoken before,
but yeah, Eddy Low. I meet him at the Bay
of Islands Country rockbi Still. I think it was about
six or seven years ago. Every year up a pie
here and I was actually I sing it but myself,

(41:14):
and it was my first time singing at that same festival.
And that that same weekend, I meet Kevin Breves, who
just passed away earlier this year, right at the beginning
of this year actually, and also I also met Brenda Dugan.
But anyway, but I actually I was sitting at a
venue and I saw Eddie. He was sitting just across

(41:37):
from me. I was with my partner, and so I
told us as I'm going to go over and say
he lo, and.

Speaker 11 (41:44):
She gets a bit dirp.

Speaker 13 (41:45):
She said, don't you dare?

Speaker 14 (41:47):
So I didn't.

Speaker 13 (41:49):
I didn't.

Speaker 11 (41:50):
I did it for a little bit.

Speaker 19 (41:51):
Now I was like, no, bigaret, And so I went
over and he was actually with a woman. I don't
know if it was his wife. But when when she
got up and sort of went away for a moment,
I sidled roll over and made sure. I was courteous
in the way I approached him, because I was obviously
you know, I did. I didn't want to frighten him,
and just, you know, quietly said, mister Lowe, it's pleasure

(42:17):
to meet you.

Speaker 15 (42:18):
My name's Dave.

Speaker 19 (42:19):
My dad names was My dad's name was Dave. And
he was a big fan of yours, and and and
I just wanted to say hello, and and and just
can I sing this to you? And and and so
I sang him the mobile ads. He's your man, he's
got brade, he's got energy, he's your mobile man.

Speaker 13 (42:38):
I sang the whole thing.

Speaker 19 (42:39):
I went into that he's.

Speaker 13 (42:40):
Got and he's got energy.

Speaker 19 (42:42):
By the time I got to that, but that part
his face was beaming and he was smiling. And when
I finished, he goes, oh boy, that was all right.
That was all right.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
So look I've missed a trick here.

Speaker 11 (42:53):
Dave.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
Did he do the mobile ad?

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (42:56):
So back in I think it was like the early eighties.

Speaker 19 (42:59):
It was back when you know how Morrison was doing
the Backheads and Ray Wolf and Yeah, Eddie Low did
an ad.

Speaker 15 (43:05):
It was a you can can google it.

Speaker 19 (43:07):
If you google Eddy Low mobile ads, you'll hear it.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
And I know the ad really well, he's working in
your neighborhood. He's yeah, just of the one guy running that. Yeah, no,
I know that the mobile ad. I mean, yeah, it
was a great song.

Speaker 19 (43:21):
It really it was.

Speaker 11 (43:22):
It really was, you know.

Speaker 19 (43:23):
And actually and then I doubled down because I went
to that.

Speaker 13 (43:28):
We went over to the R s A.

Speaker 19 (43:29):
And as I walked out, there was someone coming behind me.
So I held the door open and I hear this
and it was Brendan Dugan. And so now we're out
in the car park and he went over to his
car and shells, my partner you and she goes, don't
and I and I walked over to his car and

(43:49):
I said, Brendan Dugan and he goes, that's right. I said,
just give me a moment, and I sang to him
the song that he sang with what's the name, you know,
Jodie Bourne, the If I Needed You, because they had
a big hit with her.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
If I Needed You, which love Jody Vaughn's voice.

Speaker 13 (44:07):
Yep, yeah, yeah, and the same thing happened. That was
well received. He said that was all right, It was
all right, yeah, but yeah, yeah, that's that's.

Speaker 14 (44:19):
I met him.

Speaker 19 (44:20):
I sang to him, and and then then I sort
of got a bit more involved in country music. And
now I wouldn't say he's a friend, but I see
him around a bit on the circuit.

Speaker 13 (44:29):
And yeah, certainly a.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Couple of questions, a couple of questions for me to
you at that play here country festival, music festival. Did
he like sing?

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Then?

Speaker 9 (44:41):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (44:41):
Yeah, well what was this?

Speaker 3 (44:43):
What what was his I just want to know what
is what was the material he's signing in the later years,
what was he doing?

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Was it was? It?

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Was it country stuff?

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (44:53):
Of course, well I I only saw him, and you know,
I get around the country music scene, so that that's
that's what he did. Of course, I mean he was
I don't know if you recalled, but he was singing
with the with the Highwaymen, you know, leading up until this,
and that was him and Dennis marsh and Gray Bartlett
and Brendan Dougan.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
So it was it was country.

Speaker 19 (45:12):
But of course Eddie leant over and dealed slightly out
of the country into more of the sort of you
know crooney, you know that that that that slightly off
country sort of you know, you share him and one
of my reason John rowls more kind of stuff which
isn't exactly country, but but look, yeah, he had a

(45:33):
huge following and he was certainly a voice amongst a
million great singer, great singer right until the end too,
like he was, I think he's singing. I think he's
pretty sure he's thing. It would be both irons vestial
last year and he was still you know, getting standing ovations.
So yeah, great, Well I thought, were.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
You sort of Brendan Doug when you're in him, You're
going to sing Golden Coast? Didn't he sing in the
Chicken Air Golden Coast? Remember that?

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (46:02):
I really really enjoy the the the if I needed you,
the John william zmi Luhra song that such that they
sing that to course him and Joy. Yeah, especially a
sing myself, So that was that was my go to.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
But youre talking about your dead old Dave. Was he
a performer as well? Your father? He just loved the music,
didn't perform himself.

Speaker 19 (46:24):
He was a winger. Yeah, No, he liked the country music.
You know, he's probably probably got me into it as
a kid droving around and dead dute.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
Listening to He didn't he didn't perform.

Speaker 13 (46:39):
No, no, no, not not singing so much.

Speaker 19 (46:41):
He was into the line dancing thing.

Speaker 13 (46:43):
Funny, drag me.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
A lot, it's got a run.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Nice to talk, Thanks so much at twenty seven past nine,
you know the drill eight and eighty Marc's I lived
the sub of Tote on the way of head Deer
on our front lawn. A fellow stare got caught up
one of the neighbors kids swings and died. I love
listening to the stags croak and the raw. I think
I've read that right. I wondered about it. With trampolines

(47:09):
and slides and stuff, and they get caught in the
old swing. Yeah, that's right, the swing set jeepers. I
reckon these days in America, people leave like swings and
tramps out because you get a bear jumping on those.
It always goes viral, don't they get your hits up?
You are surprised to hear that old Wayne Smith living

(47:31):
on the Gold Coast. But he was key. We threw
and through sir Wayne Smith. It funny when they said
he was living in Australia. I hang about, hang about.
It's not what I expected to hear. Someone said, this
is it, this is it? Red deer raw fallow deer croake.

Speaker 20 (47:58):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Totaling a deer in the front law and they must
come out of the com Isah. Someone said funeral for
Eddy Lowers in christ Church and it's live stream and
four on Google. I don't quite know what that means,
but thank you, and here t'll twelve o'clock or to
talk about Monowa Bay the shopping center. That's yeah, I

(48:26):
don't go. I'm condoslantly baffled. Why shopping centers? Why the
people thought shopping centers would work near airports? I guess
what airports have got have got fairly good roads into
them out of them, so maybe that's what it's about.
But it caused traffic chaos on the weekend. That might
just be at the end of winter and something that
people are excited about. But here till twelve. My name

(48:49):
is Marcus. Welcome, oh eight hundred and eighty tad and
nine two nine to the text. You do want to
come through with it till midnight tonight. Anything else you
want to talk about? Am here for that people twenty
six to ten, and I'll bring information to you about
anything else that we've got happening. Be nice to hear

(49:10):
from you talk about that, whatever that is. M Now,
let me think what else I can chuck at you
tonight to drag you out. It is Restless Day Restless
Leg Awareness Day. I mean, ten years ago you never
heard of restless leg or RLS, a disorder that caused

(49:36):
an uncomfortable sensation off It brings about urge to move
the legs. The feeling of RLS is described as a burning, itching, jittery,
or creepy, crawling feeling running throughout the lower limbs. Although
any talk back after on a restless leg, people say, Marcus,
you've got no idea. It's a pain. You can't describe.

(50:01):
It's only been around since twenty twelve. But they've had
Restless Leg Day and you're supposed to discuss it on
this day. But people drives people up the wall. I
don't mean that in a good way. Appear it's very,

(50:21):
very difficult. So if you were to mention that restless leg,
you might be up pacing the house with restless leg.
It's worse than cramp. I've had cramp well often. I mean,
don't take this the wrong way. I don't don't mind
cramp because you know that the feeling is going to

(50:42):
be you know you're going to go back to normal.
Well that's a very comforting feeling of of them thought
when you know it's temporary. Hello Rossett's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 14 (50:52):
Yeah, hi marcass If there was a song that Eddie
Lord did for when the Pipe Romind remember the Pope
river Mind.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Is after, Yeah, of course, yeah I do.

Speaker 14 (51:08):
And he did a song called a working Man about
the twenty nine, the twenty nine men that never were
going to see daylight again, working underground. It was a
lovely song of very touching.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
Where did you Where did you come across that?

Speaker 21 (51:25):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (51:25):
We saw it when it was first played at air
on TV, but we've got the Well it's not actually
a record.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
I have to I have to be very very very
tell me you didn't tell me you didn't pirate it.

Speaker 14 (51:38):
No, no, it's a flaming CD. I boycott of CDs
most of my life, and I've always played vinyl. But
there's another one here. He did knock Knocking on Heaven's Door.
I do remember playing it, but I can't remember how
good it was. But I know he's going to brought beautiful,

(51:58):
beautiful vibrato. Yeah, absolutely, and very polished.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
Yeah, I just thought I didn't know he did a
song about because I know there's been a few songs
about Pike River. There was one called twenty nine Diamonds Alsodium.
Are you familiar with that?

Speaker 9 (52:18):
No?

Speaker 14 (52:19):
No, but this was about the twenty nine men. Well
you might be putting a spin on at the end
of the night with it or something that. It was
very touching and it was played on PD at the time.
I forget what her name was now somebody Peter Whistle,
wouldn't it was, yes, yeah, yeah, So if anybody that's

(52:42):
listening in Graymouth would probably add their bit towards that,
no doubt.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
What what tell me about watch your situation with CDs?

Speaker 6 (52:53):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (52:53):
I hated them. They really annoyed me because a Sony
music hadn't attempted with the whole system and everything. It
had been less the way it was. I think records
vinyls coming back in a big way even now, and
I love it. I plaid I'm a die hard vinyl
man through and through. There you go.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
I like how you see there's some conspiracy in it
that Sony's done something they shouldn't have done this. I
love about you people. You're not just into vinyl. But
you think that the other thing was sort of a
history took a bad, a bad direction because OF's some
sort of conspiracy.

Speaker 14 (53:29):
Well no, no, they thought it's not a conspiracy. But
they they thought they found the answer to the cassette tape,
and it was it was instead of being a compact cassette,
it was going to be a compact disc where everybody
could record on it. But in the finish it all
turned to custard. And I think that's why now they

(53:51):
want Sony. They demand that people, all these people at
pubs and everything. That's why jukeboxes I think had gone
Sony want a percentage depending on how they're a room
that you're you're playing music and you've got to pay
them so much money per month.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
I don't think it's I don't think it's I don't
think it's Sony that gets the money. I think it's
the Australasian Performing Rights Association. It's called OPRA. They get
the money.

Speaker 14 (54:18):
Oh well, okay, well maybe I've got it wrong there,
but yeah, so I own all my music. I don't.
I refuse to play rented music. I Spotify, which don't
always have the stuff that you want anyway.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Could you guys are so strong willed and strong minded?

Speaker 14 (54:37):
Well, what's wrong with vinyl?

Speaker 2 (54:38):
What?

Speaker 9 (54:38):
What? What?

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Why?

Speaker 9 (54:39):
Not?

Speaker 16 (54:39):
What?

Speaker 11 (54:39):
Why?

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Is that nothing? But I'll tell you what. Vinyls on
vinyls on the around because CDs came around, which was
all sounding digitized, and then it went to Spotify and
you could just download it. If we didn't have CDs,
we wouldn't then have because you listen to Spotify.

Speaker 14 (54:54):
Know, yeah, I did something free. But when I was
a boy, everything was on vinyl, if anything was on record,
and that's what we really used to and that's why
I've played around with and that's what everybody has. Everybody
listened to Elvis Presley on vinyls. Actually he came out
on seventy eight.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
Yeah, anyway, Okay, Well I've got how many records?

Speaker 11 (55:19):
Have you got?

Speaker 3 (55:20):
Ross? Like four thousand or like ten records?

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (55:25):
Oh, I guess about maybe five hundred LPs. And well
I've got a juke box you see. Really I've probably
got about four or five hundred and forty five because
it only holds one hundred.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
What's the record you find yourself playing the most?

Speaker 14 (55:40):
Oh, shut up your face, what's the.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
Respect you don't jeer. What a great song that is
on your is shut Up your Face on your jukebox?

Speaker 2 (55:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (56:01):
What else is on your jukebox?

Speaker 2 (56:05):
Yep?

Speaker 14 (56:06):
Good?

Speaker 20 (56:06):
So on.

Speaker 14 (56:08):
I can't think of them all as there's so many.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
Charge you makes twenty cents for your jukebox.

Speaker 14 (56:16):
I managed to work. I managed to fix the coin.
It works on two dollars coins.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
Yeah, so when people come around to your place, they
got to pay for the music, do they?

Speaker 14 (56:28):
I'm not always, but I'll tell you what. It makes
a good money box. You can You wouldn't. You wouldn't
be able to rip it off. It's too heavy. It's
four people just about break their backs. Try that really heavy? Yeah,
good jeck, good money box.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
What's the mad do you hey?

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Got it?

Speaker 3 (56:46):
And no respect? What do you think you do? Why
you look? It's not so bad. It's a nicer place.

Speaker 14 (56:53):
I gets them going every time.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
Well, we all know it's one of the great novelty
singles ross shut up your face? What's the mad do
you hey? Anyway? I think Austrated a lot better for
novelty singles than is England Dead? With a Newcastle song?
And shut up in your face? What's the matter you Hey,
high bike ats Marcus.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
Good evening, Oh good evening.

Speaker 15 (57:19):
Mister lushious. Mike's ringing from Wellington.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
Nice to hear from your Mike.

Speaker 15 (57:25):
I just i'd share something as the fact that I
picked up a I was never really a big fan
of Nylone, but I picked up some of his vinyl
about ten years ago and I thought, good, this guy
is very clever.

Speaker 18 (57:43):
Right.

Speaker 15 (57:43):
Anyway, I hunted him down and he was living in
Hornby I think it's Hornby out of christ Urge and
he was playing at a pub there and I thought
it would be nice to get the signed by him.

Speaker 13 (58:00):
Anyway, I met up.

Speaker 12 (58:04):
I met up with.

Speaker 15 (58:04):
Him and what a lovely man?

Speaker 3 (58:11):
Is that your thing? To get albums signed? Is that
something you just do?

Speaker 9 (58:15):
No?

Speaker 15 (58:16):
Not really, It's not really something that I do. But
I mean it's a bit of New Zealand history absolutely
and and and like it was pretty special to meet
the man.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (58:30):
I think it was in a band called Three Blind Mice.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
He was It was his first at schoolers in the
Sundowners with John Rowls as well. But the album you
would have had, would that be because the Voice of
a Million or presenting the Golden Voice of Eddie Low
or Eddie Low things. I think nineteen eighty yeah, I
did five albums. It seems ninety one.

Speaker 15 (58:56):
Yeah, but you know, I mean a bit of a
funny bug er.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
I mean sorry, I think we can allow bugger these days.
It seems though, it seems like we lose losing better
with swearing listening to to your call?

Speaker 10 (59:11):
Is there a short time ago about vinyl and CDs
and and and and and and cassette.

Speaker 15 (59:23):
I've got all of them, right, I've got cassettes, c
ds by actually starting collect cassetts now because I've got
a nice cassette player. And and although I kind of

(59:43):
still got the side of the c d's in the vinyl,
you pick up quite good money for vinyl. And I mean,
you know, right, but the actual I think I'm an
analog man, and and and the thing is about that
cassette is the fact you can hold it in your hand.

(01:00:06):
And I think and there's a lot of danger people.
There's a lot of news music coming out now on cassette.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:00:15):
I think that mushroom and is it mushering from Dunedin?

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
I think is flying some Christ I don't know, but yeah,
but what blocks flying man? What treats me is that
that caller before they think, oh well, I'll just go
with one, I'm just gonna have vine on nothing else.
When your attitude is more reasonable, you're into the music
and you'ren't really you're not too fast what it's on?

Speaker 15 (01:00:41):
Not really?

Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
That's right, that's what I'm saying. That's I mean, that's
the thing. Isn't it? Good on you for being reasonable?

Speaker 12 (01:00:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (01:00:48):
I mean, you know, music is music, and and I
actually I picked up a short time ago a record
player that that's in the glove box of your car.
It plays forty five all right.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
There?

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Ah really with.

Speaker 15 (01:01:13):
Okay with a needley, had a needle, we had a stylust,
got a stylist, and how on earth? It kind of
doesn't skip, but it never skips. But it's fun to play.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
Is it recent? But a kid, where'd you get it from?

Speaker 15 (01:01:30):
And it's not recent? It's real old school okay?

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Wow?

Speaker 15 (01:01:34):
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, But like it was before, it
was before cassettes went in the cars. When we had vinyl.
Vinyl was vinyl and they only had the radio, and
so there was a company that manufactured them, and I mean,

(01:01:57):
you know, forty five, so you've got to switch it
over and everything, and you know it's just a bit
of fine mate.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
Yeah, I agree. Mike was seving get some more calls
it that. The next day it was nice to hear
from your also restless leg texts Marcus. The airport company
angered me. They have compulsory acquired farm land and housing
supposedly for airport use, and used it in money making
activities instead of airport expansion. Now they add to our
pre travel time, which is the opposite of what they

(01:02:31):
should be doing.

Speaker 14 (01:02:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
I kind of agree with you there by the way.
I love CDs who are invented by Phillips, compact and functional,
unlike clunky, damage prone vinyl. Regards Owen, I think that's
probably the thing about violent. It took us fifty years
to realize how to not ruin it, and it's too
late for most of us because most of the records

(01:02:53):
already ruined scratched A Texas is I have assigned Eddie
Lowe album Country Great, signed in nineteen eighty two, and
a photo take with him at a fright. He was
a friend of my ex husband. We all had dinner
together and enjoyed it showing had drinks with the Master
Show and from Anui nineteen eighty two, pulling and tacking legs.
You have to get a bed and walk. Restless leg

(01:03:14):
night Walker keeps me up for years until Doc put
me on. Gavi Penton fix it instantly. I think different
people have different fixes for restless leg. I have to
turn you off, Marcus. Talking about restless leg is like
talking about it. So I'm going to be unable to

(01:03:36):
sleep now. Wow, Kathleen, it's Marcus. Good evenings, even you, Marcus,
holl you good, Kathleen, thank you.

Speaker 22 (01:03:45):
Yes, I've missed. I've missed a lot of the talk
about Eddy Low, you know, over the weekend. I'm believed
there is there's been a lot of people phoning in.
I've missed some of that. I didn't really know much
about Eddy Low until a couple of years ago with
the iih Hea Country Music Festival and a couple of
things I went to and he was there and always

(01:04:07):
had a very pecked venue, of course, and realized with
an amazing voice, you know he had, how beautiful it
was it is was, you know? And yes, and I
recently went to the Highwayman concert and this was just
one a couple of months ago and Eddie Lowe was

(01:04:30):
not well enough to be there. Whoever, as I left
the concert, which was great threat Gray Bartlett and Brendan Dugan,
and I forget the name of the.

Speaker 5 (01:04:42):
Other Marsh was it.

Speaker 20 (01:04:46):
Was now?

Speaker 22 (01:04:50):
It wasn't Dennis used. Dennis Marsh was there as well.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
I think I think the great Bartlet ba to Tony Stevens.

Speaker 20 (01:04:58):
I think it was.

Speaker 22 (01:05:00):
Anyway, as I was leaving Manhattan to grab a CD,
and I was pleased to come home and play my
CD in the car as I do, and Eddie Lowe
was singing is singing several songs on that CD from
a previous Highwayman concert that he must have done. Anyway,
one song to me really stood out, and that was

(01:05:23):
and I really like you to try and hear it
and play it if you can. It's a very old
so called over the Rainbow. Do you remember that song?

Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
I do, yeah, And I don't that I'll be playing
the music tonight because.

Speaker 22 (01:05:35):
It's but anyway, if you could hear it, you'll understand
what I'm saying. His voice just at the end, it
just keeps going higher and higher and higher. I couldn't
believe the range of his voice at the end of
that song is so beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
This pie here? Where's this thing at the pie here?
Carry on?

Speaker 22 (01:05:58):
They have a Pie here country music festival every year.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
Yeah what venue?

Speaker 22 (01:06:04):
Oh, I haven't been for a couple of years past
at some some of the hotels and that there, and
they move around, they move around all the different you know,
like all the different bars and that this entertainment at
all different bars, and you moved throughout the weekend to
who you want to listen to.

Speaker 14 (01:06:26):
I've never heard of it, haven't you know?

Speaker 22 (01:06:29):
This country music this music festival all around all around
New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
I've heard of country music. I've heard of Captore music festivals.

Speaker 22 (01:06:41):
Yes, it has one likes as the hop has.

Speaker 9 (01:06:43):
You know.

Speaker 22 (01:06:44):
Pong Mataria is the hop where they have the country
music festival too, and your Hoky Anger and that and
the different entertainers move around to the different or weekend.
You buy a weekend pass or just a day pass,
I guess, and you just follow whatever music you want
to follow. Okay, and you I was there, Eddy Lowe

(01:07:06):
was there anyway if you could listen to that, fine
you or listen to him singing that song, I think
you'll yeah, It really does capture the beauty of his voice.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
Thank you, Kathleen. Keep it going people, twelve past the
twelve past ten. I've got it on the computer. I
just can't bring the know why I can't hear it.
I'm not not gonna hear something in the piffles, but
I've pushed all the buttons anyway. It's not important, but

(01:07:39):
Restless League is also important, and the Monowa development at
the airport, and also seeing deer in an urban environment.
What about Willington? What about Hamilton? You see deer wandering
through the streets. It was amazing what happened in christ Church.
I'd like to hear talk about that if you want
to say something about that. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.
And also talking about Eddie low who died over the

(01:07:59):
weekend that was announced. Marcus just tuned in for Monday
Night Unwind. Did we get a famous call again from Lowess?
For gotten about Lois? If so? I watched the summary
this week, please I think she should be flying to
the camel this week and put high up in the
coach's box. It was pretty underwhelming, wasn't it. Marcus? Please

(01:08:23):
inform people that Restless League sindrome is cured by magnesium.
Marcus Manawa Bay has been built with the aviation country
Club golf course used to be. That's great information. When
did that golf course? Enda knows about that? I'd be
curious about. I'm curious about golf courses that no longer
are golf courses. Goodness to me, ask and you shall

(01:08:46):
get Lois ats Marcus, good evening, good, good Lois. What
was your take on the weekend's performance of the All Blacks? Please?

Speaker 5 (01:08:57):
Well, can I talk about any low fish?

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
Of course you care? I'd love to hear from you.

Speaker 5 (01:09:01):
Yep, yeah, you know, any best choice ever come out
of this country. Yeah, I agree, hed he go, yeah,
I've seen him many, many times, many times. It's just
a shame mad.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
So you saw her mainly and it seems to just been.
You've seen him mainly in christ Church, have you?

Speaker 5 (01:09:22):
No, no, no, no, no no no, it's a New
zeal And he goes, he goes to up Hat Cozy and.

Speaker 14 (01:09:28):
Okay, because I love the Upper Hatney.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
I see you've only seen him at the Upper Hat
Cozy Club.

Speaker 14 (01:09:34):
Right, yeah, in the in the in the north voland
yea yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
That's what I love about him is that he loved
performing and was able to perform right to the end,
to which I think not many people get a chance
to do. And I love the fact that he was
able to do that.

Speaker 5 (01:09:49):
Yeah, yeah, I been true, Yeah yeah he did. You
could see in the last few times, the last couple
of times said I still want. You could see that
his health failing.

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
He looked, he looked thin towards the Some of the
last videos I saw of her too, also looked like
he had been done.

Speaker 15 (01:10:08):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:10:10):
Yeah, now all breaks, are you still there?

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
I'm all I'm all waiting for your verdict.

Speaker 14 (01:10:20):
Lass in Sailand.

Speaker 13 (01:10:23):
I thought you might have run away.

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
No, I think I think you're right. I think they're not.
I think the coach is not very good.

Speaker 5 (01:10:31):
Yeah, no, no, no, they only won that game. That's
weekend by the scandie. If that, if that ARSI ka,
they've got those conversions.

Speaker 19 (01:10:43):
Though we would have been they would have been us.

Speaker 5 (01:10:48):
We have three points.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
And they're the ninth best team in the world. And
now Argentina have knocked over South Africa. We might even
come sick and in the Rugby Championship we will.

Speaker 5 (01:11:01):
We're not sick and we're not sick and we're weigh downs.
How they work out? They said, I think someone who
you worked that out. I wouldn't know.

Speaker 3 (01:11:11):
No, I said, we mightn't even come sick, and which
is terrible if Argentina beats us. So it's the coaches
it has fault, Lois.

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
I think.

Speaker 5 (01:11:20):
I've sticked to Mike. I'm sticking to my guns. I
don't think you should have been in in A very
good coach was crusaders here, but it's not.

Speaker 13 (01:11:32):
It's not good enough to go to all bricks.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
I guess, Lois. You can't now say he's got no
international coaching experience because he has got that, hasn't he.

Speaker 6 (01:11:41):
Well, he's got it now.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
But it's so good, is it?

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
People keep going on and on about Damian McKinsey. Is
he does he too? He's too undeciphile.

Speaker 18 (01:11:51):
I don't know why.

Speaker 5 (01:11:53):
I don't know why they're going on about Damien McKinsey.
I wouldn't have clue. I donk this anything. Well, was
Damien McKenzie.

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
Apart from the coach, who would you drop from the squad.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
That well?

Speaker 5 (01:12:07):
Oh no, I wouldn't drop him, but i'd kick him
out of here.

Speaker 14 (01:12:10):
The captain okay, not is he not kept?

Speaker 3 (01:12:14):
Is he not kept it like enough?

Speaker 9 (01:12:16):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:12:17):
I don't know. No he's not.

Speaker 5 (01:12:18):
He only got the job. He only got the job
because Scott Robinson putting there?

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
How do they say his name?

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:12:29):
Are you going to go to the March the match
on the weekend?

Speaker 16 (01:12:34):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:12:34):
And no, I've never been into the kitchen, never been.
I like listening to the rugby, but I don't go
in there.

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
No, okay, that was the right. I mean it seemed
for that second Test in South Africa when Fozzy Head
that had got going, well didn't it. The team came.

Speaker 5 (01:12:49):
Together Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I don't know if he
if they did get rid of him. I don't even
know who they put me.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
Looks like Wayne looks like it looks like it looks
like Wayne Smith's angling for the job again.

Speaker 5 (01:13:06):
Well, yes, yes, yes, yes he could go.

Speaker 13 (01:13:12):
He's good.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
Okay, yep, oh, I'll look for you. I look for
you Verdic in the next week. Lower thanks for twenty
one past ten. I Lowers seems quite resigned to it.
But yeah, she's cooled down after the third loss and
it well not the third loss, but jeepers Marcus my
cure for restless League is go stare with beer feet
on something really cold, like frosty glass and ice pack.

(01:13:37):
Make sure it's so cold you almost can't stand, and
do it for a few minutes. Seems to calm the inflammation. Marcus.
That sounds like the copper bracelets golfers by the ward
off arthritis while wives tale Marcus, I get restless league
when I'm too hot. I have to feel cold to

(01:13:57):
get to sleep. Maybe Motet and the hangers should be
moved to the airport too. Is there a muse dedicated
to aviation anywhere else in New Zealand? So it's restlessly
against the Rugby and Manawa Bay? What's the airport doing
getting involved in retail? The rotch of success that the

(01:14:18):
pilots couldn't get to their planes in time, and deer
in urban areas. And Eddie Lowe who died in the
weekend in his eighties after a short illness. That's all
the information I've got for you. He was eighty one

(01:14:42):
for a cancer battle voice in a million. They called
him also an extremely good blind golfer and was a
runner that trained with Peter Snell. Unbelievable. I almost thought

(01:15:07):
we needed some more kind of TV shows about his life,
because his daughter writes like a phenomenal life would try everything. Marcus,
I agree with lowest terrible coach, too fluffy and airy fairy.
She's ahead of her time. Two very average rugby teams
that made each other look okay on the scoreboard. Damien McKenzie.

(01:15:29):
Damien McKinnon needs to go as well, Marcus. The new
North the new Auckland Airport runway, which hasn't been given
the go ahead yet, is planned to run a parallel
to the existing runway, but northwest of Manawa Bay through
what is currently Nixon Road. Good, No one'll ever get

(01:15:54):
to a plane. I we've got two runways. Hello, John,
it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 9 (01:16:00):
Oh, good evening, Marcus. How are you tonight?

Speaker 11 (01:16:04):
Good?

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
Thank you John, thanks for asking. Very good, good, dangerously good.

Speaker 9 (01:16:09):
Yeah, it's been a very sad weekend for me losing
Eddie Lowe. I've known Eddie since he was about fifteen
years of age, well, no, seventeen years of age to
be exact. I have a vision impairment as well. I'm

(01:16:29):
not blind, of course, but I don't have enough sight
to drive a car. Put it that way. I met
Eddie the very first time up at the Blind Foundation
Institute in Parnell, Auckland, and I was fourteen years of

(01:16:50):
age and I went to well From school here in
Christchurch because it was the sight saving class, and then
Cashmere High School. Sadly I didn't do well at Cashmere
High because of my soul, and so it was suggested
I go to Auckland to the Blind Foundation there and

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that's where I met Eddie. He was in the same
dormitory as I was. He was about seventeen at the time.
I was about fourteen or fifteen, and I got to
know Eddie really well. He would play with guitar and
would all sit around and listen to him singing and
so forth. He was very good. Eddie in his early

(01:17:37):
days joined a band called the Quinn Tickies and that
was an Auckland band there and at one stage even
John Rolls was the drummer in that band. And there
was a young lady, another blind lady in that band,
also singing, and her name was Lynette. And because she

(01:18:01):
was an Elvis Presley fan, and so was Eddie a
big Elvis fan. He wrote a song about line. It
called From Auckland to Graceland.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
It's a beautiful song, right title?

Speaker 9 (01:18:18):
Yeah, from Auckland to Graceland, beautiful song. I could actually
email it to you, but you don't usually pray attachments
to you on the ear. No, No, that's all right.

Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
I might hold you over because I'm quite keen to
hear someone just just just I don't know if it's
approper for you to ask these answer this question straight up.
But going as a fifteen year old up to the
Blind Institute and Parnell to board there, right, was it?

Speaker 21 (01:18:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:18:47):
I was boarding up there?

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
Was that a happy place? Because here so much my
institute and things, you know, they're not being worked well
staffed or or good places. Was it a good place
to go?

Speaker 9 (01:18:59):
It was a good place to go. But I got
very homesick Marcus living here in christ Church and I
was only up there for about nine months. My parents
were prepared to sell the home here in christ Church
to live in Auckland and for me to stay there.
They sent me out to Auckland boy's grammar and I

(01:19:22):
did prep it back at the Brian Foundation at night
time and so forth, and they taught me Braille in
case I was going to go blind. But none of
that ever happened. Still the site I was born with,
I still have the same site hasn't changed, which is
really good at seventy nine years of age now because

(01:19:44):
I think.

Speaker 3 (01:19:45):
Eddie logot some site I think is that what I
was reading?

Speaker 9 (01:19:49):
When he was about eight or nine, they did an
operation on his eye, as left eye, and he got
about three percent site back in his left eye, which
meant he could see light and day. He knew light
and day, and he could even see one or two colors.

(01:20:09):
But that was about all. He was a very talented man.
He played other instruments besides the guitar. He played the
trumpet and the piano and so forth, And yeah, he
was very very was the.

Speaker 3 (01:20:29):
Music classes at the Blinders did that? Was music a
big part of the curriculum with Sony people have that
aptitude that are blind. Was it something that was taught?

Speaker 9 (01:20:39):
What was that again about did they teach music?

Speaker 3 (01:20:41):
Did they teach music at the blind shoot?

Speaker 9 (01:20:44):
Well, a lot of them were all ready quite talented
and playing instruments and singing, and they would take it up.
Of course, when you're blind, you listen to the radio
more understand. And they loved the music. They love the music,
they really do. And Eddie was just one of those.

(01:21:05):
There was another blinds out of there, Crawd Papish and
CRD Pepish became a saxophone player for Johnny Devlyn's Devils.
He was part of the Devils. You've heard of Johnny
Devlon in the Devils, Yeah, CRD Pepish he was blind.
Then we've got Richard Hare that plays the piano in
the electronic keyboard, totally blind. And they've all made records,

(01:21:31):
and he's had a radio program of his own on
the local radio station here and I paneled for him
and so forth.

Speaker 3 (01:21:39):
Just hang on there, John, don't go. I just got
a couple more questions to ask. It's going to the headlines.
But don't go anywhere because that would be bad. Back
with you, John, Just did you know about did you
know about his sporting, his running and his golf? I mean,
did he live in christ Church for a long time?
Can you tell me a bit about that?

Speaker 9 (01:21:58):
He lives He lived up north, but he came down
to christ Church to live. He's been living here or
probably ten years or now. And I don't know much
about the sporting side of Eddie, but.

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
I do know he.

Speaker 9 (01:22:17):
Was so busy singing around. It were different working men's
clubs here in christ Church, and he was also became
a member of the New Zealand Highwaymen. You've probably heard
of them, the Highwaymen.

Speaker 3 (01:22:32):
About that with Yeah, someone spoke with Brendan Dugan and
Dennis Dennis Welsh ye Welsh.

Speaker 9 (01:22:43):
Yeah, And he was actually singing right up to almost
the end of his life. He after his wife Bunny died.
That was a tragic event because they were on tour
an Australier at the time, entertaining over there. When poor
Bunny passed away and he came back to christ Church

(01:23:07):
and he eventually got another partner. And of course, of
course being blind, it's very hard to live on your own.

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
And well that's a remarkable thing too that he did reminage,
you know that he managed to I mean that must
give you a great comfort. He managed to perform for
so long, right to the end and didn't have to
go into a home or anything. I mean, that's.

Speaker 9 (01:23:33):
Did he Yeah, okay, towards the end here in Addington,
christ Church and when he went into hospital on Friday night.
He passed away sadly on Saturday morning at the age
of eighty one.

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
He was.

Speaker 9 (01:23:50):
A lovely fellow. His voice is the slogan says on
some of the advertising, A voice and a million. His
voice was so sincere and loving, you know, such a
great voice that Eddie did have. It was very sad
for me. So, as I say, I've kept in touch
with him all the time that he was in christ Church.

(01:24:14):
I would go to his shows and talk to him.

Speaker 3 (01:24:18):
And you'll go to the funeral, will you, John, Yes,
I do want to go to the funeral. Do you
know when it's on? Because quite a few people wanted
to watch the live feed. Do you know when that's
going to be on?

Speaker 7 (01:24:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:24:29):
No, I don't, No, I don't, and I've got to
find that out.

Speaker 3 (01:24:34):
I think it might be four. I think it might
be four o'clock Thursday. Job And thank's that nice to
talk to you, Kelly ands Marcus, Greetings and good evening
and welcome to the show.

Speaker 23 (01:24:42):
Thank you. I'd just liked to let you guys know
that I've known and been very blessed to know Eddie
for a very long time. I meet Eddie when I
was nine years old and I'm nearly forty six.

Speaker 20 (01:24:55):
Wow.

Speaker 23 (01:24:57):
So he used to call me, I proudly say his
youngest band club menmber Eddie made me and Bunny made
me a little card that I used to He told
me that I was the youngest at the time, which
was amazing, And every time I met up with them
all the time at all the shows or we meant
to visit and stuff, he would always introduce me as

(01:25:19):
that his youngest fan club member, And you know, I
just feel so blessed to be able to have been
a part of his life. He definitely taught me that
when words fail, lyrics speak. And the best advice he
ever gave me was that whatever you do, you have
to put your heart and soul into it. And I

(01:25:40):
used to say to him, how do you feel like
singing beautiful songs? Because they always touched my heart and
I was even obviously a lot younger, but he said
everything he sung he sung with his heart, so he
felt everything that he sung.

Speaker 3 (01:26:00):
Killy, where did the love of him start?

Speaker 23 (01:26:03):
Right back when I was nine, I used to have
of people that worked on planes E fem and they
were friends with my mother's and also I looked after
his sisters little boy Michael as my first job. So yeah,
I've been very blessed to be along the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (01:26:24):
For how many years? Did you say?

Speaker 23 (01:26:26):
You've known him since I was nine and I'm now
forty nearly forty six.

Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
Okay, So where was he was he in Australia? Was
in Christjcher Where was he living most of that time?
Was he moving around?

Speaker 12 (01:26:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (01:26:39):
He was moving around, but like when he came back,
he always caught up with the same friends group and
we were lucky. Like I knew Maria van Ham and
she used to make some of his clothes and she
also did close for John Rowles as well. So I'm
very blessed to be in that circle of people that

(01:27:00):
knew him. But he was just such a lovely man.
I mean, I've got a young boy that has vision
two and not long ago, probably about five months ago,
six months ago, he had to chat to my son
and told him like anything as possible, and he took
that fear away from him that he was different with
the Imme song. And he was telling us how he

(01:27:23):
wrote the song in Canada, and you know that there
is no difference. If anybody says anything, you just prove
them wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:27:32):
It's a long time to keep that sort of aeration
of his fans too, because I mean, I mean that's
a long time to keep it going.

Speaker 23 (01:27:40):
Yes, Oh, definitely, definitely. He used to send me postcards
and all sorts of things and as CDs and stuff
like that. I was very very lucky, very lucky. But yeah,
it's been a really tough my heart is broken now
he's gone.

Speaker 3 (01:27:59):
Would you see him perform a lot over the.

Speaker 23 (01:28:01):
Years, Yes, yes, definitely in the later years when I
was allowed to go to the pubs and things, I
definitely go every time, Like I've been to every concert
I could.

Speaker 3 (01:28:11):
Possibly go to, and mainly mainly it would be and
cozy clubs and things.

Speaker 23 (01:28:16):
Would it Yes, Oh yeah, there's a lot of Like
the hornby the hornby Wee Kingman's Club was the latest,
like a lot that he went there, like the last
recent ones that I seen him, and James K Theatre
and places like that. But yeah, back when I was younger,
it was like the country clubs and stuff.

Speaker 12 (01:28:35):
Okay, well, yeah, so very very blessed.

Speaker 23 (01:28:39):
I mean I've got a photo on on my Facebook
at the moment of when I was nine and in
one of like a few months ago when he was
looking well still and I'm just so proud to be
able to say he's my favorite.

Speaker 3 (01:28:51):
And it was, and it was and it wasn't a shock.
You knew that it was.

Speaker 23 (01:28:55):
He had been done well, right, I knew he had
been and well, I've kept in contact with him the
whole time, like I literally haven't stored in my phone
as my favorite. Okay, Well, and I picked him, And
you know, it was only a couple of weeks ago
that I got to tick back from him. Man, I'm
just so blessed to have that, you know, it was
just amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:29:14):
Love you talk, Kenny. Thanks so much for that, Marcus.
I'm sure that Elo was given an accolade in the
usas he sounded so much like Roy Orbison. You don't
know how much he took. And I know he was
in Australia. Sidney looked like, yeah, I do know there
was Roy Robison tributes. I don't know if you did
that before those performances in the USA. I'll find out. Hi, Dave, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:29:36):
Good evening, Marcus. How are you doing right?

Speaker 3 (01:29:38):
Really good? Thank you, Dave.

Speaker 2 (01:29:40):
Great. I'm a very good program so far tonight, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:29:45):
Thanks to.

Speaker 2 (01:29:46):
I'd like to talk to you a little bit about
Eddie Low that I knew him. I'm in my early
seventies coming up to my seventieth, but I know Eddie
from when I was twenty years old. He played every
Wednesday night at the Paper Tavern in paper Kurra, and

(01:30:09):
this is was a leader to him going to go
for the Golden Guitar Awards, and I believe it. I
might be wrong in this, but I'm pretty sure I'm
right that he was our first recipient of the gold
Guitar Award. And with that he toured New Zealand. When

(01:30:31):
Charlie Pride first came to New Zealand, his first show
in New Zealand was accompanied by Eddie, and after that
the whole tour was finished. Charlie Pride took him back
to the United States and through that he then went
with another chap in the country music scene called Buck Owens,

(01:30:54):
and he took him to Canada and he made an
album in the USA and Canada produced by buck Owens.
Then he came back to New Zealand and like people
have said, he's visited workingmen's clubs, cosmopolitan clubs, and I
had a good chance to really talk personally too. Idiot.

(01:31:17):
This Papaka Taven and spoke to him of where he
was and he said, how did you get to know me?
And I said shortly while. It was actually through my
folks with him collection of country music, and then through
all of that and wherever he had played. I lived

(01:31:37):
in Timaru, he came to Caroline Bay and played in
that festival, and then in other places I've seen him
and afterwards I've had a talk with him. In the
Dreams that people talk about was his tribute. And he
actually wrote to Roy Orbison's or got it, made a

(01:32:01):
contact to Roy Orbison's wife to get permission to sing
the music of Roy Orbison. And this is on a
if I'm right here and saying this, which I'm pretty
sure I am, was an anniversary to the death of
Roy Orbison. So for that he wrote or sorry didn't write.

(01:32:25):
He spoke to Roy's wife at the time to get
permission and to actually she sent him all the music
that was required for him to do the show of
Inden Dreams, which was recorded and produced in christ Church.

(01:32:48):
Then after that his Voice to a Million sort of
came about.

Speaker 15 (01:32:54):
At the early.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
Stages of that when he was singing that so many
people in the music industry heard of him singing, but
wasn't sure who he was, and then one person came
up with that saying he's got the voice and familia.
And I'd like to say thanks very much Eddie for

(01:33:17):
the years and the time that he spent and shared
with all of us. Like everybody has said tonight, he
was such a loving person. He was very giving of
himself to everybody who wherever he was and were ever
he saying to everybody applauded and gave him me the

(01:33:38):
accolade and the best wishes that they could give to it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
Nice stuff, Dave, thanks for coming through. I just see
on his Facebook, on his website he performed with Johnny Cash,
Charlie Pride, Tom t Hall, Freddy Fender, Kenny Rodgers. So certainly,
and some of that would be in the States, and
some of that would have been in his innet imagine
when he was doing here as support. Hello Lowler, it's Marcus, Welcome,
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:34:04):
When that guy was speaking before, when he grew up
at the Blind Place with Eddie Lowe, he mentioned about
mister Pappish. He taught singing at New Covent Fields High
School in nineteen fifty nine, and he taught us this
French song guarde almus eager toy.

Speaker 21 (01:34:26):
I won't sing it.

Speaker 14 (01:34:28):
Yeah, and he was very good.

Speaker 20 (01:34:31):
Also in nineteen fifty nine, that was the introduction of
paye because I was a new premouth at the time,
and before that you had massive tax bills and people
didn't always save enough money to pay their tax. So
that was introduced after the thirty first of March nineteen
fifty nine. Did you know that?

Speaker 3 (01:34:53):
No, what's that got to do with it?

Speaker 14 (01:34:57):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (01:34:57):
No, those are the two things that happened in nineteen
fifty nine.

Speaker 3 (01:35:01):
But what I understand, I understand you understand not with
you now, ye pop yep up.

Speaker 20 (01:35:06):
Mister Peppish And the time was nineteen fifty nine and
he was.

Speaker 3 (01:35:11):
Your music teacher at New Plymouth Girls.

Speaker 19 (01:35:13):
Singing teacher.

Speaker 20 (01:35:15):
He could play the piano very well, and yeah, he
talked singing. Possibly he might have taught music, I'm not sure,
but it was singing. So yeah, that's all I rang
up about.

Speaker 3 (01:35:33):
Yeah, says he originally from you Plymouth. A lot of
thanks for that. They ended up moving to Australia. Claude Peppish,
But it's all very interesting. Have you got something to
add to this getting touch PEPs before or after the news.
Either's fine either either either or other other. Marcus update

(01:35:59):
on the AFL Ossie rules Sydney Swan's and Brisbane Lions
and the Grand Final for the Saturday. Wow, that's a
real movement out of the heartland from Victoria or Western
Australia or South Australia. Now it's in Sydney, it's in
New South Wales or Queensland up there in the AFL

(01:36:22):
Sydney Swans and Brisbane Lions in the Grand Final for
the Saturday. I thoroughly enjoyed the primary games this week
with amazing sudden turnarounds and the grab of victory. I
think I'll be cheering for Sydney Swan's for my very
happy friends. Some have been lucky enough to get tickets
cheers so so I presume even though both the teams
are one teams from New South Wales and ones from

(01:36:43):
queens it will still be at the MCG. That would
be my understanding. There are a lot of information about
when Eddie Low's funeral will be, but he has got
a website called Eddilow dot co dot nz. I think
most of the information is there Eddielow dot co dot nz.

(01:37:05):
I think one of the daughters is posting a lot
of information. Do you get in touch? Marcus Till twelve,
eight hundred and eighty to nine to the text good
you think Allison as Marcus Welcome, Hi Ellison.

Speaker 16 (01:37:17):
Hello, Yes, Eddie low What a fabulous entertainer he was
two thousand and five he came to the christ Church
Town Hall Legends unleashed with John Grenelle and Susan Prentice
and him taking off Roy Orbison. You couldn't believe.

Speaker 18 (01:37:33):
How good he was.

Speaker 16 (01:37:33):
And also I must admit say also the other two
were very good as well. And after they've got we
still wait and got the autograph up, they've still got
the bit of paper here love from any live. But anyway,
the three of them start signed at the bit of
paper from the It was wonderful concert.

Speaker 3 (01:37:52):
Here John Grennell, Eddie Lowe and Susan Prentice.

Speaker 16 (01:37:58):
Wowan was doing Patsy Klaie and John Gronell was doing
Jim Reeves anything that was doing Roy Orbison. But couldn't
there three of them all just fantastic. I came away thinking, gosh,
you wouldn't know the difference between you know, the originals
and the way they did it. They would just look
the part, the whole three of them.

Speaker 3 (01:38:19):
Yep, because because John Hare he only died a couple
of years ago too, didn't he. We had a couple
of nights on her he died two and he was
christ judge as well. He lived there too, didn't he.

Speaker 16 (01:38:29):
That's right, yep, yep, that's right. And he does a
lovely one Welcome to My World. Yeah, that's the one.
He does that one really well, that one.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:38:39):
Had you seen him since then? Ellison?

Speaker 18 (01:38:43):
Well?

Speaker 16 (01:38:44):
And also I went to see said John Rowls one
night he had a concert here in christ Church and
he had a special guest come halfway through and I
didn't know any know, came on that night, came on
to the stage and saying that night as well. But
that wasn't that wasn't planning to come on. I was
just going to see John Rolls and halfway through he's
got a special guest. Wow he came on again. That

(01:39:06):
I've seen them twice and yeah, yeah, fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:39:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:39:12):
One mentioned on the TV one news was it. I
was quite surprised that I might have missed it, but
they didn't mention it on our knews at all did
day about Eddie Low I don't think, well.

Speaker 3 (01:39:21):
You see what I think someone is that within what
happens with the news cycle, Allison. I think it was
first and ounced Saturday morning, and that's when there runs
when he reporters on. So then by the time Monday
comes around with a bigger bulletin, it becomes it's sort
of news. Well yeah, yeah, I guess in some ways.
So it's a shame because I don't know if I
don't know if they put together a video package on

(01:39:43):
TV and Z because it's important because it's someone that
is incredibly well known.

Speaker 15 (01:39:48):
Is any performer incredible?

Speaker 16 (01:39:49):
And he's still performing right up quite recently. Wasn't even
though he had ill health anything? You were still performing
with a high woman. Wasn't he going around with the
other two, the Dugan and the other ones? Yeah, three
and four of them? Wasn't there in that one year?

Speaker 3 (01:40:03):
I think there was something on TV and Z news.
It seems as though there was.

Speaker 16 (01:40:06):
I think on Saturday that's going to be stream live.
You can watch it, can't you. But I don't know
when it is, but we'll be able to watch it
live stream or something. I think isn't that you can
watch it on your computer.

Speaker 3 (01:40:18):
I think it's on Thursday.

Speaker 16 (01:40:21):
Oh good, I'll look out for it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:23):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:40:23):
Yeah, my pleasure. Thursday, Ellison, there we go. Ten past eleven.
A funeral service which will be live streamed, will be
held in Chrost Church. What do you think about live
streaming of funerals. It's one of the things that we've
got from COVID. But there's a couple of people recently

(01:40:44):
that have died that I've known a little bit, and
you know, probably who I would have gone to the
funerals i'd lived in the same place where they where
the service was. But Jeet's been a a nice thing
to go and watch. Good evening, Graham, AT's Marcus welcome?

Speaker 2 (01:41:04):
Yeah, hi Marcus.

Speaker 24 (01:41:05):
I've got a bit of an unusual story for you
regarding Eddie Lowe. So nearly two thousands, and I could
have start off. I'm a big fan of the boss
Bruce Springsteen and it's his birthday today. Anyway, I was
outside doing some chores and I heard this quiz question
about what did Bruce Ringston get arrested for as a
young man? And I knew the answer of that. Of

(01:41:26):
course I raised and fired and rang up my local
radio station. The answer to that was he had jumped
the fence at Elvis's place to go and see Elvis.
He wasn't there, and that's another story. But because I
answered the question correctly, I won tickets to go and
see Eddie Lowe's Roy Orbison Tribute shover New Plymouth. And

(01:41:49):
I think the connection was is that Bruce Springsteen had
inducted Roy Orbison into the Hall of Fame. So anyway,
my wife wasn't into that sort of music, so I
got ahold of my mum and she was keen on that.
So we went up to New Promise and saw the
circuit that he was doing around the North Island, the
Roy Elbison Tribute show, and it was just truly amazing.

(01:42:10):
And Roy Elbison would probably have one of the hardest
voces I think of any artist to emulate, and Eddie
Lowe just did an absolute fantastic job of that. And
you know, it had screens up with showing video clips
of Roy Elbison and a bit of a documentary about
his career and the tragedies that withell him. But honestly,

(01:42:32):
the job that Eddie Lowe did for that tour around
the New Zealand was just absolutely stunning.

Speaker 3 (01:42:41):
Wow, Okay, yeah, is quite too of that to America.
There's someone the head. I'm not quitteure I for your
head or not taking that show to America.

Speaker 2 (01:42:52):
You might know.

Speaker 7 (01:42:53):
No that I don't know.

Speaker 24 (01:42:55):
I don't even know if he went as close as Australia.
But it was certainly a show. Well, we've seen it,
and I think your previous career even made mention of it.

Speaker 3 (01:43:04):
Yeah, how old is today?

Speaker 24 (01:43:08):
Actually I should know that, I should know that answer,
but I.

Speaker 3 (01:43:12):
Have He'd be seventy, he'd be seventy four or something, wouldn't.

Speaker 15 (01:43:15):
He at least?

Speaker 3 (01:43:16):
Yeah, he's still going strong because I know that he
looks after himself. But I think, yeah, but he had
a seventy five day. He had some health set bags,
didn't he.

Speaker 24 (01:43:28):
Yeah, he's I think he's skipped away from a lot
of the things that have seen men an artist go
down a bad road. Interesting. On one of his albums,
he mentioned sitting in the back of a U Hall
truck going somewhere and listening to oy Orbison to you know,
he was a big fan and that's what he did
the induction for Raw into the Music Hall of Fame.

(01:43:53):
But it's just funny that the whole thing need me
to go and see Eddie Low.

Speaker 3 (01:43:57):
Yeah, it's a great where Where are you are you?
Whereabouts are you from?

Speaker 24 (01:44:03):
In South Erankee?

Speaker 3 (01:44:04):
So I went yet one week came from That's the
early But I didn't know it was the geography. Graham
nice to talk, thank you, twenty past eleven, glorified on
he hung at it to Tom. I never thought i'd hear. Yep,
anyone going to october Fest six million will go to
that six million, the world's largest folk festival. Oh it

(01:44:36):
was just beer. You might want to give me a
story of Octoberfest. Yep, those giant mugs of beer. I
don't know there was a folk festival. I thought it

(01:44:57):
was just a chance to drink and we're suspenders. Yeah,
Pete Marcus, welcome anyway. Mark you've been to October first?

Speaker 11 (01:45:10):
Yeah, I've been here two times, one year after the other. Well,
the first time he was in London there and he mate,
we said I will go there just as a four
day trip. Time he left went over there.

Speaker 15 (01:45:22):
And that that was really good.

Speaker 11 (01:45:23):
The first time is just I shouldn't sail. I got
absolutely drunk. We had a tent there, but I've forgotten
where the where the river is. It's all the Kiwis
and OSSI say, I forgotten the name that place. But
then you capture train into the October barbs and all
you do. There's all these tents. There's one tent there
for the Ossy's and the Kiwis. You go on a

(01:45:43):
table and you drink and you know, you said a
good basically good time. It's this big Feiress wheel there
and uh roller coaster. That's really good. So that was
all right. So the first time I didn't take me camera,
I know nothing, because I knew it would have lost
it all broken or something.

Speaker 2 (01:46:00):
So that that was that.

Speaker 11 (01:46:01):
That was a four days basically just wasted you having
a good time. And then and I thought, oh, I
mean we went for a tour around Europe and our
itinery was is October versus part of it for two
days stopped there, so I saw the second time and
then I had a camera then, so so basically did
a replay what I did the first time. So it
was a really good part of the thing. If you

(01:46:23):
go to you don't do the Ah, there's two things
you got to do. October bbs and he goes you've
got to run off the balls. I did both of them.

Speaker 3 (01:46:30):
So you your camp and the campground, you catch the
train to the October feast. Is that what you do?

Speaker 21 (01:46:36):
Yeah, you do.

Speaker 11 (01:46:37):
There's a big river there, just camps off. I've got
the name of the camps right now. But everybody goes there.
It's just the basically you put your tense up there
and you people just get that's about thirty odd years ago,
so I spoke. It's all the same.

Speaker 9 (01:46:49):
I know.

Speaker 11 (01:46:49):
That's basically you just go to Everybody goes here, don't
know where it is, and you just basically just catch
the train, the train there to there, and then you
just go to the October bed BBS there, stay toll
closed down and catch the train back. Then then over
and over again too. You get sick of it and
go home pretty much.

Speaker 3 (01:47:10):
How many handles? How many handles of beer did you have?

Speaker 21 (01:47:14):
Ah?

Speaker 11 (01:47:14):
I don't know, Marcus. They had a few of them,
that big big Stein glasses. You know you have been
two or three of those. You've you've dunk a for
a bit of beer, and uh yeah, that's it's a
really good atmosphere. They just they basically what they do.
They got heaps of chicken and they salted. They know,
they know how to market. It's everything's got salt in it.
They just make you drink more.

Speaker 3 (01:47:32):
Beer was there for maybe, although you have hot dogs
freakin for its, But but it's chicken.

Speaker 11 (01:47:38):
Is it a chicken? And those things they are what
you call them, what you say to and I've forgotten
those things too. They seem to eat the salty things.
But ever you eats, got salt in it. They just
want to drink, and you drink more and more and more.
And that's there they market and said, that's what they say.
Sell so many pints. What they call it the leaders,
that's what they sell. So many leaders of beer over.
They don't call them leaders. They call them those big steines.

(01:47:58):
There's big there's big glass handle things, you know, and
it's quite nice to gym and ladies. I shouldn't say it,
but they're all big ladies and they can have they
can have about four or five of those things. They
carry them around. They basically, I shouldn't say it, but
you've got to be big ladies to do that. You've
got to they got to put all there, we go
stigns on the tables and you.

Speaker 3 (01:48:20):
Went back well, and you went back the next year
as well.

Speaker 11 (01:48:23):
Yeah, I wasn't planning because the first time we went
there would just just be a one off. Not many
people go twice there. Maybe somebody they go there every
long as they that over in London where they did,
they might go to every year. And I haven't know
how many times I'll go theren Raw. But second time around,
I was on the part of our European tour, was
in our itinerary, so it was just part of our itinerary.
So just a coincidence we went there. I went there

(01:48:46):
the second year do the same thing again that that
that that time round, I just basically I just did
it as a replay, so I may sure I've got
plenty of photos, which I still have now. But the
first time around, I said before, I never took any
photos because I didn't know you was going to wreck
my camera. I would have dropped them the beer or something.
So it never took me camera the first time round.

Speaker 3 (01:49:04):
I've never had any interest it all. On the October face, Pete,
it just looks ghastly to me.

Speaker 11 (01:49:10):
Oh no, it's got phone markers and now you go.
You're young, you've got to do those things.

Speaker 3 (01:49:15):
I know people love it. It's the right if it's
the European right of passage. But was the music performances
as well?

Speaker 11 (01:49:22):
Oh yeah, no, it's a really good atmosphere. It's in
the Big ten. They speak singing, they have the music
via any bands there, and they just basically just have
really good atmosphere. You just drink and laugh. And but
the second time I went there, I wasn't that happy
because the first time he went to win, they didn't
like you going on the tables and dancing on the tables,

(01:49:45):
telling you get off in the language I go off table.
And then the second time around, I don't know what
they did, but they buddy put some sort of a
it's like some sort of a it's true, this is
a true story. They sort of like put some sort
of tear gas and you just lost your breath. I
don't know what they did. They put something in the air,
so you just you just lost oxygen pretty much, so

(01:50:07):
you're pretty much you lost control. And the next one
you you just sort of ship what's hitting there? Next
monet you just see wherever you fall off the table,
so you just you just don't walk aside. I'll never
forget that.

Speaker 2 (01:50:18):
So I didn't.

Speaker 11 (01:50:18):
I don't see. It was the way of getting you
off the table.

Speaker 3 (01:50:20):
And I thought, were you quite were you quite keen
on dancing on the table?

Speaker 7 (01:50:25):
Wow?

Speaker 11 (01:50:26):
Did you get up there? There's pretty much I took
you off. I sometimes you get too many on the
table and a sort of health and safety thing and
they get you off here and then it's some sort
of gas in the air, and I know you sort
of lost your oxygen.

Speaker 3 (01:50:37):
You just seems extremely guess it seems a bit extremely're
guessing you're a team of the October Feast.

Speaker 11 (01:50:43):
Oh, and it's something there.

Speaker 2 (01:50:44):
I never forget that.

Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
And you should go back again, Pete. I reckon he
might be ready for another visit.

Speaker 11 (01:50:51):
No, I don't know. I don't be in there. Done that, Marcus,
there's good good.

Speaker 1 (01:50:53):
I reckon.

Speaker 11 (01:50:54):
Anybody goes you go and do that thing. You got
to do it for a young one.

Speaker 3 (01:50:58):
Nice to hear, Pete. Mark is only the Lonely thing
by Robison has great sound. Apparently he loads versions of
beauty as well. Thanks Charlie, get in touch. We're talking
about Oktoberfest as well as everything else that's on the
cards for tonight twenty eight to twelve oh eight hundred.

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Royalbison did too, and he did it, didn't he? Robison?
Two are the Rolling Stones? Is that famous concert in
Vert Cargol where a member of the Rolling Stones was
disparaging about in Vert cargo But that was supported I
think by Roy Orbison and Ray Columbus and then interesting,

(01:51:51):
I'm pretty sure that's the fact. But yes, get in
touch if you want to talk on air, and the
october Fest surely wouldn't guess you if you get not
the Germans cheapest Marcus loved Oktoberfest sounds like the core
described the Stoke travel Oktoberfest of the campground by the river,

(01:52:13):
grapefruit premium beer. The Germans love their snuff too. What
a week it was. I think everything in the world
I'd least want to do Oktoberfest will be number one.

Speaker 4 (01:52:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:52:33):
I don't know that gone on running with the bulls either.
Actually that's just me time and place. But does sound
kind of rowdy, but yeah, I mean if you want
to dance on the tables, wow goodness, And they get
these guys say they put something slippery on the table,

(01:52:54):
isn't they say they guessed them paranoia A they're guessing you.
It says like verdigo, George, it's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 21 (01:53:05):
Good evening. It's talking about restless leg.

Speaker 2 (01:53:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:53:09):
Yeah, Well, from.

Speaker 21 (01:53:10):
About two thousand and six to twenty twenty two I
had an increasing problem of restless leg. It got to
the point where I couldn't sleep at night. I had
to actually get up watch t UV at three o'clock
in the morning for about an hour while it's settled
down to finally go back to be to maybe a
second dose that same night, do it again until and

(01:53:34):
the other thing I had was really bad night sweats.
I'm not giving you two things, and they would soak
the pajamas, absolutely soak them.

Speaker 2 (01:53:42):
But if go and get.

Speaker 7 (01:53:43):
Changed maybe twice to night goodness.

Speaker 21 (01:53:46):
So in twenty twenty two I had a triple bypass.
I've never had restless leg and I never had night
sweats again.

Speaker 3 (01:53:59):
So what was it a condition related to you? Was
it a result of your heart condition?

Speaker 21 (01:54:06):
I can only presume that because after that I never
had the again. I've tried all sorts of stuff to
try and cure it. You know, you take magnesium and
you take these tablets, you take Disprince Esprince Cody, whatever
you know, to try and knock it back. Nothing really works.
It's a nervous thing, and your leg just twitches and

(01:54:28):
you and you get your other leg and you just
try and start down.

Speaker 3 (01:54:31):
I thought it was a neurological condition. I thought it
was in the in ther head. I'm not saying it
didn't exist, but it was something to do. He No,
I think, George. I think you'll find that most people
would say it's a neurological thing. This is this is
only one.

Speaker 21 (01:54:46):
I don't really care what they say for.

Speaker 2 (01:54:48):
Me, hang on.

Speaker 3 (01:54:49):
I'm only saying, after having sat in this chair and
done endless talk back about it. A lot of people
have said it's a bit like Parkinson, that it has
some neurological basis for it.

Speaker 21 (01:54:59):
It could well do, and that is causing your muscles
to twitch. Yes, and so your leg is were in
to pull up and down inside the under the lit
sheets and go sideways and twitch sideways, and it just
wants to go all over the place, you know, just
the one leg, the left. It was always a left
leg doing it, so it was very one sided, and

(01:55:20):
I just you couldn't control it, so you couldn't sleep
because this leg was deciding it wanted to go for
a walk inside the bed. But all I'm saying is
after I had my triple bypass, it's never happened again.

Speaker 3 (01:55:32):
Oh you would have been pleased. You either been repleased
about that.

Speaker 20 (01:55:34):
That was a.

Speaker 21 (01:55:38):
Yeah, you got that one right very much so. So, yeah,
it's one of those things. Now I have heard all
the other conversations, and yes, I can agree that before that,
I would agree that maybe it's a mineral deficiency and
nervous thing, nerves in the brain or whatever. But all

(01:55:59):
I know is that for me, mice for me. Once
IDE had the heart operation done, that situation disappeared. I
can't I don't know if it was a blood float
issue because the blood flow is restored, you know, and
then there was everything was getting Did you not see blood?

Speaker 3 (01:56:19):
Did your night sweats go?

Speaker 21 (01:56:21):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:56:21):
I'm pleased to hear that as well.

Speaker 21 (01:56:24):
Wow, I just couldn't believe it. I tried so much
with the doctors over the years. I'd even take pajamas
with me in a plastic bag and say what's the
story of this. You're saying pajamas and they didn't want
to know.

Speaker 3 (01:56:36):
You know, it's like that, it's a full on thing
to take cheap as well. I just got you're not
going to mentionine your desperation.

Speaker 21 (01:56:44):
But wow, But then then all these experts, you know,
you go to a doctor and you presume that they
know stuff. But maybe I'm you know, this is a
bit out of the box and I don't want to
try and deal with it because it's.

Speaker 3 (01:56:59):
You know, well you got there in the and they
fixed in the end, didn't they.

Speaker 7 (01:57:02):
Yeah, they did, yep.

Speaker 21 (01:57:05):
So I'm just saying that's what the issues I've got,
but that that part of it's been cured and fixed
and it's been really great. I'm just saying, well, listening
to your conversation tonight, that for me, once the heart
operation had been done, which took a while, and you know,
you recovered, I never had an achieve twitching leg again
after all the years I had it, and there's nothing

(01:57:27):
I could do to stop it. And it was so
frustrating at the end. Before they had the heart operation,
it got really bad and you'd be up maybe two
or three times in the night, just trying to get
the same leg to settle down, and you'd get up,
go to a cup of tea, you know, I sit
down and watch some stupid TV like Bonanza or you

(01:57:47):
know all these old TV movies that you saw as
a kid, you know, and you watch all these on
TV until your legs set to settle down, and you
go back to bed and try to get to sleep
to happen again.

Speaker 3 (01:58:02):
No good records. George will leave that, David, thank you
not to talk. Twelve to twelve Marcus. That new show
could start, that new more The Housewives of Aorny Hunger,
upmarket Ornie Hunger, the new dress Smart or if in
Willington think of it as outlet city, which is a
city of outlets. I mean, I don't know what happens

(01:58:28):
in retail, right, but you have places like dress Smart
that used to be end of runs and samples and
stuff like that. But I think now what they do
is they just make two ranges of clothes, one for
the outlet city, one for the other stores. I reckon
there's a bit of a rought going on, not a raught,
but you know it's I don't know what it is actually,

(01:58:50):
but people will go there perceived there's going to be
a bargain. Say, if you're reduced price by twenty percent,
they'll probably spend twenty percent more. It's a marketing of
perceived cheapness. Well, I haven't read an article on that,
but I can imagine there'd be something written about that.

(01:59:13):
But I seem to be the same clothes like that.
There's a dress smart and Hornby. I think we last
time were in christ Church. We drove back there. I
think we've got the kids. Some shoes tell you something
about kids shoes. They don't last free long, which is
fine because the kids grow, But boy, shoes are they

(01:59:38):
wear out quick these days? Don't They like three months?
And they're pretty much warm through. I don't want to
be that pair in that's moaning about the quality of
children's clothes. But cheap the shoes might make them go barefoot,
and they don't sort it out like just the soles
are worn flat. Marcus. As soon as I put the iron,

(02:00:03):
I says, I was put onto iron tablets. Restless legs stopped. Marcus.
I went to Octoberfest for nineteen eighty seven, got the
train for Monte Carlo. Was a big trip for white
Ikiwi boy train empty at the start and full up
on the way. The biggest party is still to this day.

(02:00:24):
Four days on the steines, the biggest glass I've ever seen.
I think New Zealand's had a few attempt at attempts
at Oktoberfests with varying success. I think they are but
full on. Huh Octoberfest. It's a great name. Octoberfest anyway.

(02:00:53):
Nine away from twelve we're talking Eddie low Manawa shopping Center.
Urban deer like those shots of the deer and hall
as well. Ahem, I love the shots of the deer.
I readd the article about it. People deer spotted running

(02:01:19):
a muck and suburban christ Church. What happened to them?
It's a good question. One guy's got a hole in
his wall. Three deer running amuck on Sunday. The unusual

(02:01:48):
occurrence might occur, might become more frequent as housing continues
to expand into rural areas, said John Furlong from the
North Canterbury's Dearest Dog Assization. He believes the animals made
their way to subburbs looking for food from surrounding farmland.
They look down the hill and seal these green sections
that are full of good tucker for them. He said, Oh,
it's good to go to the deer's talking. Oh that's

(02:02:08):
quite a good quote. The whole in the ceiling outside
Palmer's bedroom window was about a foot wide. He was
puzzled when he arrived home and first saw the damage,
which was smelly too. After seeing desh cam footage of
one of the animals outside the guinea bush, rode he
shouldn't a lot of deer antics. They tried to go

(02:02:29):
through the window. One deer did a roll over the
bottom of a car. This paca. The christ Church Council
Police all received multiple reports of deer on Sunday, but
had no further sightings for six pm. Fur Long believed

(02:02:52):
the animals had returned to the forest and farmland area
of Porthole after roaming the suburbs looking for good. It's
wondered there's not much foot on the hills and with
spring growth coming through, they look at the backyards as
an ice cream parlor.

Speaker 10 (02:03:05):
Well.

Speaker 3 (02:03:08):
The deer appeared to be a couple of years old,
equivalent to human teenagers. Furlong said, geez, goodness, guy from
the deer stalkers, I've never seen such good quotes. He
goes on to say deer sighting in suburban areas had
happened in previous years, orbit not running down the streets
and over in people's properties. He believed the city expenses

(02:03:29):
of farming there will be likely to be more. You
might have bam become calling gee. This guy needs his
own talkback show. Bill Water, member of the Summit Road, decided,
he said, grazing wild deer renuisance because there's five on graus,
young plant and the bush itself. The recent port fire

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may have destroyed some of their habitat cheap as the
animals were assumed to be wild because they didn't have
any ID tags or belonged to farms in the area.
And SPCA treats us treat all animals with respect and compassion.

(02:04:11):
What about feral cats?

Speaker 1 (02:04:13):
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