No more Christmas cards (9 December 2025)

Marcus has noticed a key part of Christmas no longer happens, and gets some early reviews of the new Fred Dagg movie.

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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. I hope it's school where you are.
My name is Marcus. That's not my only name, of course,
eight hundred and eighty eight and eighty nine two nine
to de text Welcome. So I just had a late
breaking item on trade a bit on. It was weird
because they wouldn't let me be on my computer. I
had to be on my cell phone. Who's done something
outstanding or had something incredibly interesting happened to them today?

(00:35):
Cause I tell you what we're in the situation too.
I've noticed it, you know, suddenly I don't know where
you live, but everything's much busier. I feel there's twice
as many cars on their oad. I don't know who
those people are. I don't know there's people that never
go outside, or there's people that come in from their
country for their once a year trip to the city.

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But suddenly things have got busy, busy, busy, busy. That's good.
Everyone off buying their boxes of favorites. I think most
schools are finishing tomorrow or already or have already finished,
So there's souper bags are full of people buying gifts
for teachers. I'm seeing a bit of that. I'm seeing
a bit of increased tension with the driving, increase vigilance

(01:17):
for car parks. What's that about people getting quite stressed
out about that? Anyway, let me know how your day was.
Feel free if you want to come through and start
with something gentle tonight eight hundred eighty to eighty. There's
the two weeks before I go to Things are getting
kind of loose, loose like a caboose. It's Tuesday, feels
like Thursday. There's breaking news that happens tonight. I'll tell
you what that is. People, I'll keep you across that.

(01:40):
That's the whole plan for tonight. We'll have talk. But
if there's anything important that happens, you will know about it.
So breaking news when that happens. The number is eight
hundred and eighty toen eighty and nine nine two de texts.
You want to be a part of it, looking forward
to what you've got to say. Anyway, here's a question
for you. Has anyone received any Christmas card? Not like

(02:08):
one shonky one from work, but actually a one from
a cousin or an aunt, that's arrived in your letter
box with a handwritten envelope and an actual stamp that's franked.
I don't even know if we have Christmas stamps. Have
we got Christmas stamps this year? I feel that stuff's
completely forgotten. Do they even do Christmas stamps? You see,

(02:29):
once upon a time, the releasing of the Christmas stamps
was quite a big deal. There'd be some new designer,
there'd be a modern contemporary feel, nothing that you haven't
even seen one in. Once upon a time, as a child,
there were two exciting things about Christmas. And I've got
to be careful because I'm actually that age now where
my own nostalgia balls myself and the children. But there

(02:52):
was two things for Christmas that were exciting once upon
a time, and the week or two before Christmas, the
foil tops on the milk bottle would change. They were
normally silver or blue and silver for the homogenized the

(03:13):
Homo milk, I think it was called homogenized or the
Homo that's what they've called it in the day. But
once upon a time, for the two weeks before Christmas,
those metal lids would change and they would have some
sort of Christmas motif on them, like trees or like

(03:34):
sleigh bells, where it was, Oh man, it's the new
Christmas milk tops. What's it this year. I don't know
if they change from year to year. I believe they did.
That might be an assumed memory, but I think every
year was something a bit different. But a boy, oh
boy that in the dull black and white days of
living in the early seventies, once that bright color came

(03:54):
from the top of the milk was a game change.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Ge whoo.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
And the other thing was the release of the Christmas stamps. Wow,
g oh, look at the four cent stamps. Now look
at that cheapest screepers. Boy, pretty flesh design. Now you
just get I don't even know what they are. You
get a pack of stickers from your from the store
and they're not very good at all. They're just yeah,

(04:20):
they look like they are chat Ai. There's three different ones.
One's got one's got a grid of four and three
different it's a grid. The four dollars seventy one, and
of the grid, eleven of them are Christmas balls from

(04:42):
a tree and the twelfth one is a cricket ball.
That's the fourth seventy stamp. And the four dollars stamp.
Eleven of them is Christmas holidly Holly, and the twelfth
is Putakawa and the two dollars ninety one Medikid Committee
Christmas twenty twenty five. Eleven are snowflakes and the twelfth

(05:03):
one is a cartoon of a raid son. Fhow it's
quite interesting. So what the first one says is, although
it's a Northern Hemisphere holiday, even though I don't think
it really rains in Jerusalem snows in Jerusalem. Rather, there
are eleven snowflakes and one a sun, just to show
that we are in the Southern Hemisphere anyway, So it's

(05:24):
reinteresting the stamps. So anyone actually get a Christmas card,
a proper old school one and who sent it to you,
So that would be very interesting. Well to me, it
would be because I'd like to know that, because I mean,
once upon a time, probably three or four years ago,
there were still people out there that used to send
me pictures of the Venetian blinds full with Christmas cards

(05:48):
that family members had sent them. I think in the
last three years, partially because of the repoor performance of
New Zealand Post, there are very few Christmas cards been sent,
so I'm looking forward to that call. And are you
a stamp collector? I don't even think they freak the steps.
I don't think that's stick them. They're just like stickers.

(06:10):
You don't lick them. By the way, it does snow
in Jerusalem. It's not often, but it does happen, so
I think that's of interest to me. I don't know
if it's snow when Jesus was born. I'm not quite
sure about that. I mean, look, I don't want to
I don't want to interrupt with what you see as

(06:32):
your version of it. But if memories, if we write
in most of the cards, I think there was like
snow on the manger roof anyway, So we are talking
about Christmas cards and stamps, and as you're milk when
you might remember the foil tops when they changed color
before Christmas. Very very exciting. Now I've already got emails

(06:57):
about Therma Marcus, the new Arema replacements, A game changes
to myself on every builder in New Zealand. This means
job planning, time frame and costs are going to be
a lot more manageable, our productive all improving into more
employment opportunities. Quote will be more accurate, very impressive. That's
from Mitch. I've also got an email just coming on

(07:21):
from last night about how bad Emmerdale Farm has got.
Apparently once upon a time, which was pastor all kind
of a rural show, has become anything. But your caller
last night was right, Aless. I never had the time
in the past to watch much TV, didn't like keep

(07:43):
up with new films and that world of entertainment. I
don't know even now how people find the time absorbing
so many of the details. Only in recent years Emmadale
has coincide with my lunchtime from gardening. I used to
enjoy the country atmosphere and the people in the main
were more cheerful than today. I don't blame the actors,
it's just the psychobabble from writers that downgrades both Emmerdale

(08:03):
and Coronatian Street. They bring in every imagine of human
being they can is to show the long suffering public
how clever they are, maybe just reflecting society better, but
from narcissistic, sociopathic crawl, homicidal, statistic etc. Just about every
character has been to prison, hospital nearly did. The list
is long. The caste can't even do human now, why

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watch it? Indeed, back to my plants. On a widest scale,
I've noted many programs on Demana full of sadism and
gratuitors violence e g. The Iris Affair with Tom Hollandais.
In the first few minutes it was sickening, trying to
desensitize us. Yes, I'm sure they will, yes, yes, yes, yes,

(08:45):
oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine nine
to text you want to come through. I've never really
watched Emmerdale. What I notice on the chase is often
questions about quizzes and the answer is always Emmerdale. East
End is Coronation Street or Holyoaks? Holy, what's the other one?

(09:07):
Always the brand is going on. I think it's Hollyoaks.
Ever seen that? For a heartbeat, Mike, this is Marcus welcome. Yeah, Hi,
our thanks good Mike, thank you?

Speaker 5 (09:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (09:18):
Oh you know stamps and the old milk bottles. I mean,
for me, this is just magic stuff.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
The top of people will be going that's right.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
I remember that.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
I forgot about it. I remember that.

Speaker 6 (09:31):
But yeah, and the key word is nostalgia, and nostalgia
is gold. Really, I mean, for me, I just love nostalgia,
things that take you back in time to you know,
those great years growing up in the seventies and eighties
and et cetera. I just love it.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Well, it wasn't good for everyone, Mike, But do you
remember the fuel tops.

Speaker 6 (09:57):
Oh? Absolutely, in early eighties, you know, we put the
I mean it used to be in the street. You'd
put your your milk bottle frame holder out with the
milk bottles and coins. But people people used to plunder
the coins, and then it went to tokens. And I
remember it was always for us. It was the the

(10:21):
foil top on top of the sectionable pint milk bottles
was the blue and white striped foil top homoginized. Yeah,
and it was the silver top for full cream. And
also the trim was the green sorry green yeah, yeah, trim, yeah, green,

(10:44):
green stripes.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
I like what you said, Mike. I like the way
you called the milk bottle carrier the milk battle bottle
metal frame holder. I like that.

Speaker 6 (10:54):
Yeah, oh gosh, yeah. I mean it's just it's just
nostalgia and it's beautiful.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
And I think there was an option. I don't think
you had to use tokens all coin. I don't think
it was tokens or I mean, you could use tokens
all coins, provided you have coins that were small enough
to fit in the bottle, because a twenty cent piece
and the fifty cent piece were too large.

Speaker 6 (11:15):
Yeah. Yeah, but back in those days, in the early eighties,
I mean, you only really needed ten cent coins, didn't you.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Absolutely milk was cheape, yeah, but.

Speaker 6 (11:27):
Yeah, that's a beautiful thing. And if you got the
full cream six hundred mil pint bottle, there'd always be
a plug of cream at the top.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, at the top, that's right.

Speaker 6 (11:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, unbelievable, but yeah, that's magic. But also
on the topic of stamps, my mum's nana, who was
born in the late eighteen hundreds, we've still got a
few books of posters stamps that she collected sitting home.

(12:01):
I've never looked into them, but yeah, I'm sure there's
probably some sort of value in those old ancient stamps
are and you know, but who knows? I mean yeah,
but I mean just the total history and nostalgia of
all that stuff. It's just mind blowing stuff.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Brilliant, Mike, Thank you so very much for that. There
we go. The text The text are coming through proud
and strong. Someone has said that Jesus wasn't born in Jerusalem, Yes,
but how far was Beth for the him would be
ten k's it's like saying that. It's like saying that
probably that's saying that, how can I think of this?
It would be like saying that Point Chevalley is not
in Auckland anyway. Of course, the things have changed. Someone

(12:46):
also said that Emmidel farmers no longer called Emmadel farm.
It's just called Emidale. How dare they take the farm
out of that? A lot of people love the old
holly on the milk lids. Brilliant, that's what we want
to go with the release of the Christmas stamps was
right up there with the release of their uniforms. It

(13:07):
was the biggest day. What's the stamps going to be
this year? That always have kind of a religious birth
of Jesus field. Over the years, they would New Zealand afire,
there'd be some puhuta kara, or there'd be some sort
of jandle on what I was doing. Oh a lot
jeep as creepers. We're really breaking out as a country.
This is in the seventies of the eighties.

Speaker 6 (13:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
There'd be some flatterlist or tell us New Zealand Christmas
stamps over the years. It'd be quite an exciting visual journal.
I'm not that person though. I'm not a stamp collector,
but i do enjoy talking about stamps as I enjoy
talking about milk and milk tokens. But I've got a

(13:50):
lot more texts to By the way, a lot of
them were like stained glass windows. I'm just remembering some
of the nostalgia from often that they would refer and
go back to famous paintings from the It'd be famous paintings.
There would be Caravagos or all sorts of paintings from

(14:12):
the Renaissance that they would be used. There were vimes,
They're all sorts of things. Gorgeous Christmas stamps. I think
some of our Christmas stamps were the best in the world.
But all that's gone, and that's progress, I suppose. But
you know, it's hard to get excited about an email,
isn't it. Oh, Google now looking home for the old
Christmas stamps? Delightful. Some of them were like were not square,

(14:34):
but they were twisted, so they're on the they're like diamonds.
They were square but twisted around so you'd put them
on the corner of the stamp like twisted. They'll forget
what year. That was very impressive anyway, get in touch.
You onto about stamps or milk in the different colored
foiled tops. But this year nothing much good at all.

(14:56):
Looked like they've got the office person to just do
them in the lunch break with AI. That'll do.

Speaker 6 (15:00):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
That's the stamps. Could you stay back for lunch and
just sort out the Christmas stamps?

Speaker 6 (15:04):
Yet?

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Done it? There we go, We're off. Is it a
bad thing?

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (15:09):
I think it is that we no longer get excited
about Christmas stamps. I was a milk boy in the
eighties and milk was four cents. Red top was fresh cream,
not green. These days the supermarket has decorated Christmas bags. Yes,
Christmas stamps are available. I got my first card this

(15:30):
week for my cousin England. Last saw her in nineteen
forty eight. Wow, okay, that was quite recent then. Jesus
wasn't born in Jerusalem. I knew as soon as I
said it, though I'll probably get fact checked on that one.
Many thanks for the memory. I'd forgotten about Christmas. Milk
Top's lovely card from our sister in law in the
UK today. I think in the UK they like selling

(15:53):
cards because the weather there's kind of gone bad, isn't it.
You're stuck inside waiting for the Christmas special. If eight
out of ten cats doesn't countdown, I'll send a card
and Auntie Marge, I haven't seen her for a while,
get some stamps. Off we go. Do you want to
talk on here? That's the plat basic plot tonight, Marcus

(16:15):
the other half Jed was a milk when he just
quoted his seventies pint of milk four cents, quart of
pint cream twelve cents, half bike cream eighting cents, grapefruit
eating cents. He's Scottish. The actor is called Tom Holland
and not Tom Holland Days. My apologies. The Milk Top
bottles were punched out of a foiled strip that was

(16:35):
about six millimeters wider than the top. These punch strips
of foil were given away for uses Christmas decorations. We
always seem to have them, and why I talked to
Many of our Christmas cards are hand to livering nowadays.
Peter from Livin, and another person says Jesus was born
in Bethley him not Jerusalem. Why wasn't he born in
Jerusalem because there was no room? Is that right? There

(16:58):
was a census?

Speaker 7 (16:59):
Is that right?

Speaker 8 (16:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah, I think where there was a census yet to
go back to where you're from, and Joseph was from Bethlehem. Yeah,
I'm surprised they don't make more of that when we
do our senses. But of course with the museum's censors,
you don't have to go back to where you're from.
I don't think we're doing censes anymore. I think what
we're doing is just doing something online, which I think

(17:26):
is a disaster, since the central government can't seem to
plan for anything as far as schools and hospitals and prisons.
But oh well, anyway, do get in touch you want
to be part of it, Marcus till midnight tonight I'm
talking about oh right now, I've got other questions for
you for topics just coming strong on the milk basis,
but mainly Christmas cards. I mean, do you still have

(17:48):
a Christmas card so that you could actually stack them
up on your mental peace or on the Venetian blind
because some people used to thread them through. Do you
look at all those cards, you'd say, as you go
around to our aunt Auntie, Sheeta's looking at all those cards
cheap as well? A lot of them might have been
just recycled from last year. I don't know how it
all worked. In fact, you take a day off to

(18:08):
do the I'm doing the Christmas cards today. There'd be
a day you get the Christmas card book out by
one hundred envelopes, address them all, go through the list,
write a special message tweak person, post it away anyway.
Not anymore though, I don't even think people send group emails.
Could always think group emails you think, I'll actually, what

(18:31):
is this are you? Are you like an influencer sending
out the same email to everyone. That's not good. No
one wants jeep as creepers at the time. I'm looking
forward to your call eight hundred and eighty today eighty
nineteen nine to detext his interesting question, Marcus loving the
Christmas stamp chat. Do you think, with the demise of
posting letters, that our stamp albums from childhood statched in

(18:54):
the back of the wardrobe will be worth any more?
Or maybe less wouldn't sell them the way, cheers Nicky.
I think probably stamp collectors have to be over seventy.
I would think probably the number of people involved in
stamp clipting would be well well down. Therefore, I think
the demand for stamps would be less. And someone else
says I have zero sham and pulling out cards received

(19:16):
over the past thirty years and displaying them as they
were received this year. Well that's that's honest, isn't it
for the Christmas spirit? An email here, Marcus, I got
a Christmas card with my photo on it along with
a two dollars petrol voucher from the boss. Made my day.
Looks like he had the mate on TIMU. That's from Zach.
What a good idea. Petrol always popular. You imagine eight

(19:44):
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nisha amish. I don't
think we have any amish here. We are talking stamps
and milk to begin with. These are just suggested topics.
We'll get more, Marcus. My daughter is thirty four. She
has been doing stamp clipping from age of ten. She
has all the family full stamp albums. She goes to
stamp Club once a month in christ Ditch. How many

(20:04):
there trouble with stamps of this country. I think Ron
Briley was like one of the countries leading stamp collectors,
and things an end well for him. But yeah, but
if you want to talk about cards, if you still
get them, who's got the most or who sends the most,
who sends more than ten like proper ones with stamps. Yes,

(20:29):
be in touch if you want to mention that. I'll
keep you updated with youth throughout the course of the
night too. We'll have to drain on the studio and
turn the econ onto boy, it's hot down south. I
don't want to become a weather boy, but a weather boar.
But gee, it's been that big quake in Japan. I'll
bring you more updates from that. Thirty injured, no one killed.
That's been around all day, that story. I always think

(20:53):
it's good when it quake happens. It's not a bad
one and it's not here. It means kind of the
pressure of the earth has been released. But be in
touch if you want to talk tonight. These other stuff
that you want to mention, good do it to be
hearing from your own eight hundred eighty ten eighty heitil midnight. Yeah,
and what the person mentioned. They had long metal strips

(21:16):
that they cut the circles out for the milk bottle tops,
and the remainder was often used by different people as decorations.
I don't know where you'd buy it, or you'd go
to the milk canning factory and get it there, but
you often go to places in the old long strips
of metal with the circles and would be used to
decorate the room, the room. But yes, get in touch

(21:42):
if you want to partake. And oh, well the other
topics too for the night by the way, but it's chuck,
I met your twenty seven past nine. But get involved
if you want to get involved. Who um, But yes,
be in touch if you want to, oh eight hundred
eighty ten eighty and nine to nine to text someone

(22:07):
will Yeah. No, I'm not going to mention that topic
just yet. They mon't save them for a little bit longer.
But if you want to be a part of it,
I'd like to hear from you any other topics you
want to chuck into the mix of tonight. Forty years
since the interaction of GST, So there you go. It
was complicated, but yeah, forty years acause I think forty

(22:32):
years since the law changed, but it took effect the
following October. YEP. Now I think there's some talk is
going to go up to twenty percent in this Hope night.
I don't know if that's fair or not. Actually we
don't think it's a good idea. Anyway, let's take the break.
I've got to turn this econ on twenty five away
from nine, looking forward to your calls for board me.

(22:55):
I've just remembered the other Christmas stamp that used to see.
With that, I'll quite forget children to do the stamps,
which I always thought was good. I presume they were children,
and this they got adults to paint looked like childre
but they always one the great series. You might remember
the great Christmas stamps over the years. So we're on
about tonight, twenty three away from nine. There is any
breaking news were you or if you're coming up for
a Christmas parliers know how that is going, or anything

(23:19):
else that you feel like you want to talk about.
The number is oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
and nine two nine two to text, looking forward to
your input. This day in nineteen sixty. The first episode
of Corrodation Street aired sixty five years this day, nineteen

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sixty Also this day, in nineteen sixty five, Charlie Brown
Christmas made its debut on TV. Also this year this day.
Six years ago for Cardi White Island, the eruption which
killed twenty two yep and the world's first traffic light
was installed near Westminster Bridge eighteen sixty eight, removed for

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a month after gas lake caused one of the lights
to explode. In this day. In eighteen sixty seven, the
first passenger traversed the Littleton rail Tunnel a long time ago.
That's where rail started down in the South. And we
are talking Christmas milk deliveries in Christmas damps and Christmas cards,

(24:29):
and some of you will have a story. I've just
got to get that story out of you. You'll be
a milkman or someone will be out there is the
Aurora tonight or tomorrow. I think with the Aurora, it
is just when it is. I was a milk boy
back in the nineteen seventies in Colwdo. We delivered the

(24:50):
milk with a horse and cart had two roots run
one has a single horse, the other used to the
horse would learn where it had to go. The driver
could often get down to deliver cream or grapefruit juice brilliant. Yes,
I don't think your stamp pelbums will be worth much.

(25:12):
Sometimes on trade me you can look on antique and
collectibles for stamps and there's bucket loads them for about
a dollar. I don't know the good ones, but if
you want to just bulk boy, there's a lot there.
Good evening, Tim, This is Marcus. Welcome, Hi mirca. Howell
are you Tim? I'm okay, how are you?

Speaker 6 (25:31):
So?

Speaker 3 (25:31):
How is yourself?

Speaker 8 (25:33):
Very well? Thank you. I'm down at sunny Marlburn. Just
to look, I think looking at my temperature gaugees thirty
five outside and thirty two inside, and it's quite warm.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
It feels thirty two inside. Most you. I don't know
what's happening with you at all, so I don't think it. Actually, no, yeah,
it's not good anyway anyway.

Speaker 8 (25:51):
But no, Actually, I was ringing about just Christmas holidays.
I've often thought that it would be a good idea
that Christmas was treated the same way as Easter, like
an extra long weekend, because that's the time of year
when we all want to catch up with family, and
sometimes it's not the same place that we want to

(26:12):
go to for our summer holidays. There sometimes it's not
the same. It's not the best time of year to
go and have our holidays. Mine from like you from
the Deep South, and often in the summer holidays you'd
get to And it wasn't until it wasn't until we
all went back to school in the beginning of February

(26:33):
that the summer actually settled down. And we always had
the best weather when we went back to school. So
I think that's the time around about then, and you know,
February March, late January, February March, and we should have
our some holidays.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
But I think what it's missing, if I can talk
to him, what is missing from this discussion is, apart
from the statutories, it's my understanding that most people, including
in my business, can take their holidays whenever they want.
So we don't do we want to start telling people
when they have to take the holidays.

Speaker 8 (27:04):
No, absolutely not. No, that's the point that it seems
everybody's channeled into that one period of time between but
just before Christmas and about two thirds of the way
through January when everybody has their holiday at the same time.
It doesn't make sense. Simon Bridges, I notice comments about
everybody going and closing down, and that's actually it's correct,

(27:27):
and there's no reason why it should we should all
close down at the same time, and it's not actually
the time that we all want to close down. It
just sort of seems to have bolved that way.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
But there's no way you could change it, and it's
you start telling people when they can go on holiday.

Speaker 8 (27:44):
Well, I think it's probably evolved because people have been
told they need to have the holiday time. A lot
of officers say, what, we're closing down from the whatever
in December, depending on what what what what they Christmas
Day falls on. Sometimes it means you get all well
lots of extra days before or after whatever, and coming

(28:08):
back sometime in January. But there's no reason why all
the officers need to close down over that period.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Also, I heard someone from the New Retailer Association saying
they love the holidays because retail is very, very busy
and they need that because people out there shopping and
buying stuff kind of lilas and camp stretches and things.

Speaker 9 (28:31):
Mmmm.

Speaker 8 (28:33):
It's probably more like those later in January and February.
Not probably not the Books of Christmas, but they're probably
not probably not used until later.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Okay, thanks to Jordan. It's Marcus.

Speaker 10 (28:44):
Good evening, I got any Marcus are going good?

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (28:49):
I'm just reminiscing listening to talk about milk. Eye was
a milk boy, which I think some of those things
that's come and gone with health and safety. I guess
I was from a family where my older sister did it,
I did it, and my brother did it. But jumping
on and off the back of the track delivering milk
to letter boxes when people would have their tokens out

(29:10):
or they'd have their regular delivery, that you would, yeah,
have the milk truck driving around and has a fourteen
year old kad. You'd be completely just walking around on
the slippery surface in the back of a truck, boosting
around town. I imagine that probably would exist anymore.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
For Golden What year are we talking?

Speaker 10 (29:32):
Oh, this was twenty five years ago, So what's that? Yeah,
two thousand maybe two thousand?

Speaker 3 (29:38):
What shoes did you charm?

Speaker 10 (29:41):
I would just wear my running shoes.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
Yeah, And the running shoes were much good in those
days where there wouldn't be much much bounce to them.

Speaker 10 (29:50):
Nah, it was probably terrible for the body back then,
but I suppose I was young and managed to handle it.
But I remembered, you know, you're under a bit of
pressure because the milk truck had to move quite fast,
and sometimes I'd get to a letter box and someone
would have left, you know, a ten dollar oat and
the milk would be some weird amount of sol it
was you three dollars seventy five, and the driver would

(30:11):
be staring at me, wanted me to be quick, so
I'd just panic and bit my hand into my pouch
that had all the coins and I just dump a
bunch of coins back and letter box, having not even countered,
you know, under pure stress and panics. So the float
would have never have balanced, probably when at one particular
driver was there, because he just put me under so
much pressure to get going. But my mask wasn't fast

(30:34):
enough to keep up with them. So yeah, it was.
It was an interesting job. It was a couple of
times he was driving too fast and while I was
stacking milk in the back and three or four full
crates of I think it was nine bottles flew out
the door. And yeah it was a wild ride. But
I can't imagine that exists anymore, that job, because it's
probably not good to have kids running around the back

(30:56):
of a truck. It's sixty k's an hour around town.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
Tell me something, Jordan, and you're adding your adult life.
Have you ever rolled an ankle or done anything like that?

Speaker 6 (31:05):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (31:06):
Yeah, many times? Terrible ankles.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Okay. I was going to say, whether you go you've
strengthened them from the milk truck, that was, but there
was the wrong answer. You've clearly ruined them from the
milk truck. Is that right? If you're not got good ankles?

Speaker 10 (31:18):
No, I've broken my ankle quite badly, so it's probably
probably has had the opposite set.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
Probably probably because I mentioned your Sancho's had no ankle
support down you'd go bang bang.

Speaker 10 (31:28):
Bang, absolutely and generally carrying far too much weight as
a young, scrawny little man while the driver sat in
the trucks making berries.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
So was it the flat? Was a flat? Was the
Wellington or a Palmerston north of Flattown or a hellyetown?

Speaker 10 (31:44):
Oh this is koo mu too, So it was a
bit of a ta wow goodness, Yeah, ta hardcore yep.
But yeah, my brother and my sister both that job
before me and after me. But you know, I don't
think that exists anymore, right, I don't think home delivery exists.
I wouldn't actually know, but I don't think it probably does.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
I try and bring it back with bougie single cow
milks that are that are grass feed and but that's
just for that's more a Nelson thing these days. I
think there's like you get non treated local delivery. But
I think, yeah, yeah, we'll find out.

Speaker 6 (32:16):
Jordan.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
I enjoyed that Thank you fourteen to to nine head
on Midnight. It's all about the milk and stamps. I
do want to hear from I want to hear you.
Christmas card brag. Fancy getting a Christmas card from a
relative in the UK. They haven't seen since nineteen forty six.
It's seventy nine years. It's a long time. Get in

(32:45):
touch Heit on midnight, hit'll twelve the Bitter End people.
What do you got?

Speaker 11 (32:51):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (32:51):
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Mark's little subject of
Christmas cards? Does King Charles still carry the addition of
him and the Queen sitting out Christmas cards around the
conwealth when you turn one hundred. Yes they do. I'm
sure they do.

Speaker 6 (33:05):
Well.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
Used to decorate the Christmas tree with colored foil tops
off milk bottles, I red, cream, blue, homogenized. It was terrible, that,
wasn't it, because your house you go away from for Christmas,
you come home and your house would feel of pine
and sour milk. Didn't know there'd be a horse delivering

(33:26):
milk and cowado in the nineteen seventies. I don't even
know if I believe that. See what chet Ai says,
horse pulled milk cart, New Zealand, nineteen seventies, New Zealand.
I got to keep talking if I gotta keep talking

(33:47):
when I type, because if I don't talk, but always
got long gaps in his show as if.

Speaker 12 (33:53):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
In the nineteen seventies, Usina Milkliver involved men bringing glass
bottles and carts your doorstep, using simple rubber plastic hose
pipes or tubes to transform into large glass bottles of
jugs at the farm depot, whilstand at hose pipes. So
no idea, basically chat a, I ate no idea. I
don't know if there was a horse and cart in
the seventies I'd like to see if Prato was it.

(34:20):
I actually think it wasn't dangerous at all doing milk,
but the bins were more dangerous. But that wasn't children.
There was a step up from chimney sweeps, was it?
That'll come back? No doubt anyway, Here, tild don't you
want to be part of it?

Speaker 8 (34:33):
Marcus?

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Till midnight? It's all about everything tonight. It's milk, and
it's lids and Christmas and cards. And I know I
sound jestful, but we do. No one's acknowledged that in
the last two years, after all before in the last
two years, Christmas cards have completely disappeared, even though we'd

(34:54):
buy one, probably seven to nine Hollo, caspar did I on? Good?
Thanks cas? What's up?

Speaker 13 (35:04):
Yeah, I'm not too much made about forty five years ago.
I used to do a milk run and there was
none of us, none of us on the back of
the track. But she was a cat and away we went. Now,
the person used to drop off the milk piece to
drive the truck was a guy called Mark Donaldon used
to be a normal way of course.

Speaker 14 (35:23):
Yeah, horse, okay, so yeah, that's yeah, that's correct, old
bullet so yeah, so that's what we used to do
and we wanted to get home early in the morning.

Speaker 13 (35:34):
To watch a test match on TV. Coming Sorry. He'd
have four to eight crates of milk on the cart
and I'd be across the road doing the other side
with carrying two crates to get it done.

Speaker 8 (35:52):
Quicker.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Wow, was the milk one on the monitor? Was it
in Palmerston, north Or? Where was it?

Speaker 13 (35:59):
Yes? Yes, Parmas and Northor was yes?

Speaker 8 (36:02):
Right?

Speaker 3 (36:02):
So no, down Hill's pretty much on the flat.

Speaker 7 (36:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (36:06):
I was on the flat year but the old carrying
foot crates when I was very young was quite tough.
But we just had the man up and get the
job done if we wanted to get home to watch
the foody.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Have you always had good ankles?

Speaker 13 (36:17):
Yes, very very good ankles.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Yeah, there you go. Didn't do you any damage, kesper.
Thank you, Tom. This is Marcus, Marcus, This is Tom.

Speaker 5 (36:26):
Welcome, welcome, right, Marcus, thank you. I saw that horse
down in car around that time, and what I noticed
particularly was they never said any of a horse. He
just started them and stuff at the right time.

Speaker 6 (36:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Amazing, Well, I guess that's the memory with all. It's
probably doing it for thirty years. Hell long would a
horse love?

Speaker 5 (36:47):
Oh that's pretty old for a horse. I had one
myself close to that.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
I'm pleased effect chicked that.

Speaker 12 (36:54):
Tom.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
That's good today. So there was a horse in Covidot
delivering milk. Jamie Emails Marcus and the seventies early eighties.
As a paper boy, I couldn't afford shoes, so I
took the sprigs out of my rugby bit to do
the paper run, then put the sprigs in for rugby games. Wow,
we forgot about spring checks before the games. When the

(37:18):
refer'd run his fingers over here, See they went kind
of the metal ones hadn't got a sharp edge on them.
For goodness sake. They don't do that much so more anymore.
Text and emails, if you've got them, Marcus. We lived
in Q Melbourne in the nineteen sixty nine and nineteen
seventy one. Milk was delivered by horse and cart horsed

(37:39):
you the run. We'd often hear them clip copping past
in the wee small hours. What a beautiful sound that
would be. Click, click clop, cliptick clop, Marcus. Do you
remember the Good Boy Borrows Milk advert released in nineteen ninety. No,
I don't good texts and okay calls. Someone sent me
an article about the last milkman to die, but I'm

(38:01):
sure they're still milk went out there, aren't there? Oh wow?
So a Taradale identity and the last milk when he
was using horses deliver the milk died this week, aged ninety.
This is from twenty fifteen. Mister Atkins was involved in
a house house milk runs with a team of Clydesdale's
in Tarodale for more than fifty years. He used the

(38:23):
horses in the wagon right up to when he retired
in nineteen eighty four. The last day of horse drawn
milk delivery in New Zealand. It feels like a bit
of overkilled using clydes Dowe's to deliver the milk, but
good on him. I had no idea, no idea that
the horses went so recently, No idea. Great text alert Marcus,

(38:46):
love your show. When I was young or used to
do the milk run, the boss had a horn that
made the sound to let you know your milk was out.
But one day it broke, so I went home, grabbed
a little battery powered speaker, tied it to the roof
of the truck and used a microphone to make the
horn noise with my own voice. I still make that
same sound with my voice to this day. Billy Will,

(39:09):
that'd be better for the call, wouldn't it if he
did the voice. It's all about milk delivery today. What's
been a while? And cards for Christmas? Ivan?

Speaker 15 (39:18):
Good evening, Yeah, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 6 (39:21):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (39:22):
Thank you?

Speaker 6 (39:22):
Ivan.

Speaker 15 (39:24):
I just want to relay a little story about when
I used to live up north and the milkman would
come down the road and he had one of those
musical horns that would let you let you know that
I was trying to put the milk bottles out and
anyway we'd we'd always have our milk bottles out on time.
And this was during the winter time, and I remember

(39:44):
Mum had already put the bottles out, and it was
quite dark, and we had this quite strong outside light
that we used to put on. And Mum heard the
milkman coming down the road and she said, oh, there's
the milkman. I'll just put the outside light on. And
my father said, no, no, don't do that, and Mom said, well,
why not. He can't see what he's doing. And my

(40:05):
father said, that's dead right. You might drop some money
and we'll find it in the morning.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
You like that one, Marcus, Yeah, very good, very good,
one of the very good ones. Appreciate that, Ivan, Thank you.
What was Yeah, I think I'm just only just remembering now,
the milkman's horn and it went it was an ear horner.
I got that right. That's what they had to know.

(40:32):
You'd have to run down and put the milk bottles
out there. It used to be in the morning and
then switched to the evenings. Oh, this is an interesting text. Ironically,
all the modern coinage fits inside the old milk model.
Great news in these days of inflation. That's right, because
I don't think the twenties of the fifties would fit
in your Papa. No, but it went right and you

(40:55):
couldn't get it out. We just had it proud of
the lip. It could just blow away so very much.
It was coins. And who's done there? Who's done more
than ten Christmas cards they've sent? Because once upon a time,

(41:17):
of course, you'd send Christmas cards because you wouldn't call
people because phone calls were expensive. But a Christmas card
a nice thought at the end of the year. The
last Christmas card we got from n Z Post it
arrived two weeks after Christmas. Marcus, I remember living in

(41:37):
Tarodale in nineteen sixties and it's into the clipper clop
of the horse and cart delivering the milk. Fond childhood
memories Marcus and lower Hut. We used to have a
colored plastic pig to put around the bottle to confirm
what kind of milk you wanted. They become currentcy at
primary school of specially if you had the whole set.

(41:58):
My brother and I got court seeing them fro around
the nable who had to take them back with my
mother make us apologist to or the mothers before Dad
got home. I remember as a kid in the sixties
and these the bottles and milk box and crates. I
became a milk boy years later, tipping the cold Tipping
the coins out of wet bottles of milky water gave
me water growths on my hands. Delivering the rain and

(42:20):
moon pinder orange was a bonus. YadA YadA YadA.

Speaker 5 (42:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
I remember the fishmonger and an old van delivering used
to ring a bell. Young wives would run out with
flowered plates. Really never seen the flowered plates calls lines
free ah for a claustrophobic nostalgia, isn't it all these

(42:51):
all these memories, if this breaking us will bring that
to you. We are talking stamps and milk. I'm going
to talk more about when they changed the tokens to
colored change the tops to colored tops. It's a little
bit because of course it was a different came from
different bottling milk, bottling plants. I think they were quite regional. Yep.

(43:13):
So I want to say something about that eight hundred
eighty eight nine nine two detext. You want to be
part of it, twelve past nine. Anything else you got,
We're up for it tonight the discussion ooh yeah, But

(43:36):
be in touch if you want to talk on hear
about these things. There's something different you want to mention
tonight on this run towards Christmas. Be nice to hear
from you. I am reinterested in Christmas cards. Maybe someone's
kept them over the years, And the more I think
about it's actually quite a nice gesture, just one that's
done its dash. But yes, so be in touch if

(43:58):
you're to talk about any of these things and lines
there available for you. To come through and work in magic.
And I say there's something different you've got you want
to talk about, then that's good too. We can handle that.
Eight hundred eighty eight and we still don't know what's
on Christmas Day? Do we eat?

Speaker 7 (44:18):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (44:19):
Can't be far can't be excited about that? About now
we get the release. I can remember working in the
original milk station and Anzac Avenue and Dunedin until they
built the new one in Kaikarai Valley. They were owned
by Meadow Fresh. We didn't have plastic bottles back then.

(44:40):
I think once plastic came and the delivery had gone
because there was no point. My dad would get a
bottle of wine from one of his supplies, they would
regive it to our milkman, mister Shepherd, who would drive
up the driveway shared by three houses in Nelson Street
and vert Cargo day deliver the milk. And I do
remember the Christmas bottle tops. I didn't tear it. Do
owe nineteenty to remember the clydes Dale's living milk in

(45:02):
the morning. Even as a kid, I remember being fascinated.
So yes, a lot of people have got re memories
of that. A lot of people got memories. I think
the remember, Yeah, so what do I say? I think
we all remember tokens. Someone said, after the coins that
made milk money thieves rich, you had to buy colored
plastic triangular discs from the local dairy. My voice ak

(45:23):
milk tokens, just putting that out there. That's what they're called.
How's your Christmas party going? Anything else you want to
mention Christmas? E I'm here for so I jump in
if you want to talk about these things, and away
we go. Eighty nine to nine two to text. There's

(45:48):
some dodgy salmon out in Dunedin, ichioa king salmon Christchurch
to need an hysteria monocytogenies, don't need it, don't need it.
I'm looking at the packaging. Doesn't look good, did jull?
This is Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
Get a Marcus. Merry Christmas to you something. Thanks for
your contribution over the year. It's been real great.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
Thank you, Nigel, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
What I'd like to tell you about there's nothing to
do with milk. Because we lived out in a country
miles from everywhere. We had our house cout, which has
another story altogether. But I want to tell you about
Christmas trees. We always had the real Christmas tree, of course,
and the family. It's my two siblings. My dad would
go down to the plane plantation and chop off a

(46:36):
tree and bring it home. But we did this one year.
The mum said, no, that's not near enough, go and
get another one. So we did that. That was no good.
We did the three or four times. So Dad's got
a little bit frustrated and says, robo, kids, we've got
the chainsaw. We put the trailer on the tractor. We
came home with a dozen pine trees and said the
month you picked out the one you want, we have

(46:56):
given up with a slight overreaction, no reaction, but she
got the one she wanted. That they always smelt beautiful
in the home. I love the real pine trees in
the house.

Speaker 11 (47:12):
Looks nice.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
So you have a nice Christmas and I hope it
all goes well. Full of cracker or whatever you.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Nice stuff, Nigel, thank you for that. Oh wait, eighteen
hundreds you know the rest, MICUs. How about the briggy
Christmas letter from friends telling you about the friendliest leer,
how amazing tark one has done at school, or trophies
and how amazing lucinder. Wasn't the ballet recital that's right
used to get like a photocopied one that would be
like a.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
It always required a great sense of self belief to
send those out. I thought, well, this has happened. Of
course Sally's still away. She's doing very well overseas. Yeah,
those ones yahdi yadia. So we are talking about this
and that tonight, and I feel free to part take

(48:01):
at seventeen past nine and keep it coming in spurts
and spits and do whatever you want to use the
word for that stops and starts. I think that's what
we call the calls coming in and do come through.
But I was surprised to find how late. I never
knew about horses going so late delivering the milk. I

(48:24):
guess it was an ideal speed and probably one of
the last things that horses were useful for. I had
no idea before tonight. Oh now, how's Australia's social media
band going? Do you know anything about that? That's rid
of a callback from last night. I've seen no news
about that today, nothing at all. They say there's been

(48:50):
doom scrolling. Oh it doesn't happen till tomorrow, So it's Wednesday.
Hundreds of thousands of strains under sixth where we kicked
off their account on block for making new ones on Wednesday. Yep,
the list may expand if Children My Great to other
platforms not already included. Blue Sky is complying. It's like Twitter,

(49:15):
like Twitter like it once was. They are preparing to
lawyer them way out of it, the Meta and those
they're trying to sue the Aussie government. But good luck
with that. It's not America they have Well, they've got sovereignty.
They can make their own laws, surely. But watch this
space and about the milk and with the horses, be

(49:39):
part of it. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus.
We are still getting our milk deliver to the door
in glass bottles and Raglin dream View Creamurray, Marcus. Christmas
end of the year was also a time when, as
well business maney lists, there are always immense amounts of
next year's calendars given out as goodwill. Oh it was

(50:00):
always he's a calendar, wasn't it. Or he's a calendar.
You don't get calendars anymore, do you, Marcus? I work
and he's in a post shop in a small town.
We are running out of stems every few days despite
ordering large amounts. We are mailing between fifteen one hundred
Christmas cards or more per day all over our country,
in the world for the past three weeks more each year.

(50:22):
I've worked there three years. So cards are back, They're
just not coming to our house. But we have no letterbox.
And every year we used to make our own cards,
which sound really smug, but we did. But the services
that did those were the photos and the manger. They

(50:43):
no longer exist, and that was a great thing. You
dress yourself up as a wise man or whatever. Put
the young ker down in the tremendous that it was
those about five years. I was remarvelb. But no, no
longer they shop closed, No idea why seemed to be
well managed, just opposite. With these studios now actually down

(51:04):
from or l A twenty one past nine. I'm always
keen to try the changing world. I can live it.
We live, and I can tell you what mobile the
gas station they're getting out of petrol with people. They're
going hands free, people free. They're owning forty gas stations
that will all be self service do we know people
in them taking on why tom Old which got the
better jingle? Henderson Key street mana Aua, Highland Park, Parnell, Wigram,

(51:27):
Papa Nui, Cayapoor, Yeldhurst, Madras, Brookfield, Causeway, Masterton and Stortford,
Lodge and Hastings. They are all going unmanned ghost state.
I don't like them. Don't like a ghost station. I
like the person behind the glass. Don't like that that's
happening though. I don't know why. Pete Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
So you paid the sidecar thing on me tonight, will you?

Speaker 8 (51:52):
No?

Speaker 4 (51:54):
That's good? Oh you're just wondering. Hey, you get on
the not even letter box. You lot of stuff from
the government, like you become a counselor there for your
for your you know, if you if your papers of
both and stuff like that. You've got a box, have you?

Speaker 16 (52:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (52:11):
Yeah, I thought you must have.

Speaker 14 (52:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:13):
I couldn't do anything.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Everything everything's email these days. Also, I don't know there's
any paper these days.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
You know that government, like you've got a po box
that answers that question. I thought you must have. That's
the reason why you don't have a letter box.

Speaker 8 (52:27):
And I was.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Yeah, yeah, it's performative. We have got a post office
box where everything goes to, but we only go and
get about once a month. In fact, vanessamus jury service
because she wasn't checking it often enough. I didn't think
we get called for jury service because I thought if
you're beyond twenty k's from the court, you don't have
to go. Don't They are broadened that.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
Yeah, I'm not doing sure. I think that things are
changing that lifting that up before you Once you got
sixty five, you didn't saying enough to do jury service anymore.
But I'm quite willing to do Jerry sis because you know, Pete.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
Yeah, you'd be a great duror.

Speaker 4 (53:08):
There's a lot of people that are retired or you know,
and they're going to be a spared time so not
you can't do it when you're working, so you can't
get this service to them. But when you're retired, I
think you've got more time to do those things.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
You'd be fantastic.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
Yeah, thanks for that. Are you ever got good Christmas?

Speaker 8 (53:27):
Anyway?

Speaker 4 (53:27):
And it will have been New Years A very good
job you do for the year.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
Have you been a juror?

Speaker 15 (53:33):
No?

Speaker 4 (53:33):
I went once and didn't do the normal thing. You
show up in the morning.

Speaker 11 (53:39):
You know.

Speaker 4 (53:40):
I had a half our state when at the time
was it's going out almost city or years ago now,
and you line up and then the guy comes out.
It was that he was at the mail and then
I would see they say, oh, do you know this person?

Speaker 5 (53:56):
I haven't.

Speaker 4 (53:57):
I only spoke to him very briefly in the pubs
now again, not as a friend, just sort of very
light conversation sort of thing. And then was end of it.
It was to be honest, and I said, I don't
really know I'm that well, but I just make him
very briefly, so basically hello, yeah, this sort of thing.
I was the end of it. And I never got
called back.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
Well and he go to trial, why you definitely don't you? Yeah, yeah,
and locked away.

Speaker 4 (54:25):
I didn't actually follow a case after that. I'm not
too sure because I didn't find he was a bad guy.
I didn't think into detail, but I think he was.
Actually I thought he was quite a nice guy at
a pub Steen he's seen a genuine just normal Kiwi bloke,
you know.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Brilliant Lauriates Marcus, welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 17 (54:45):
I don't know if you've ever been guilty of this.
I think this is the first year we haven't received
a bundle of the old mouth and foot painting artists.

Speaker 18 (54:55):
Right.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
They were huge for a long time, weren't They.

Speaker 17 (54:59):
Used to send them, send them back as unsolicited mail
quite often, and sometimes you forget and then occasionally, guilty,
you get stuck for a Christmas card opened up and
sent use some of them may but yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
Can I just talk about how much they so their
business model was they send you them all and then
you had to either send them back or send them
the money that. It's kind of a cheeky model, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (55:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (55:27):
And they're very persistent. Yeah. And even if you put
on the endlope, you know, unceilicted mail, do not you know,
continue sending them. That had no effect on them. That
they always if you're on the list, seem to you
would always get them.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
Yeah, there's a something we think of those poor people
sort of they're forced to paint with their mouths, don't
you think?

Speaker 17 (55:47):
Oh yeah, yeah, some of them were quite nice too.
I mean there was a bit of a selection in there,
and I did end up buying them a number of
times as well. But as I was just thinking the
other day. It was this first year they haven't shown up.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
I thought that just about twenty years ago. I'm they
still kept going. Okay, where were they based.

Speaker 17 (56:07):
The supposedly I've still got one of the moilers here
actually uh a new Lynn and Cannard Street new Linn. Hey,
just another one. Marcus on the Christmas well, I think
last night when you're talking about Christmas, Christmas songs, Christmas carols,
I don't know where you put it. You know fred Dagg,

(56:29):
the old star of Wonder.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
Great song, isn't it.

Speaker 17 (56:32):
It's a great But just thinking because as it happened
just yesterday, Jamie McKay was interviewing John Clark's daughter and
there's a movie premiere in Palmerston tonight. There's a movie.
It's called not Only fred Dagg, and it's premiers and
Parmi tonight and it's it's been put together by his

(56:57):
his daughter. Yeah, so it's going to do the rounds. Yeah,
not the title not only fred Dagg, but also oh
yeah huge in Australia.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
He wouldn't he wouldn't fly, so once he went to Australia,
wouldn't really came back, but was huge there with all
that comedy stuff he did, so it's the love of
very clever.

Speaker 17 (57:17):
Yeah, so I think it covers a lot of his
stuff here, but also some of the you know stuff
in Australia as well as his daughter Jamie was quite taken.
He would have regetting not being able to get along
to the premier year as well. So I'll look out
for it to be.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
Why aren't you there?

Speaker 17 (57:35):
I didn't get an indo. I thought Premiers is uly
supposed to get an I wonder when?

Speaker 5 (57:40):
What?

Speaker 7 (57:40):
What?

Speaker 6 (57:40):
What?

Speaker 3 (57:40):
What's the cinema release? Is probably not far away, is it?

Speaker 17 (57:44):
Well, it's say the prem premier was tonight, so it
must be be released. I suppose were the holiday season? Perhaps, Yeah,
I see.

Speaker 3 (57:52):
Many reviews of it or much about it, but not
only fred dag free Premiers today, So it's around, heyts,
it must be starting. It's just he went, so on
that has to be the week at how that goes?

Speaker 17 (58:13):
And where would you put star on? Wonder would you
call it a carol or preapchas? This Christmas song?

Speaker 3 (58:17):
I think he called it a Christmas parody, but it's
not really a parody, is it?

Speaker 18 (58:22):
Star?

Speaker 3 (58:22):
I wonder Star and night Star Glory. She'll be right,
there wasn't long.

Speaker 17 (58:26):
There was a longer version of it as well, longer
in the short of it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Yeah, he must have sold millions of records because you know,
I mean those days there wasn't much to buy but that.

Speaker 17 (58:36):
Wow, yeah there was. When they were talking, apparently John
Clark he modeled his his voice on a I forget
the name. It was a racing commentator supposedly who was
Obviously he must have been around Pami and when he
was at the university, spend a lot of time talking

(58:57):
to him just to get that there was the model
for the Fred Dick voice. Yeah, supposedly this supposedly inspired
by Now there was a comedy duo and in English,
what was his name?

Speaker 5 (59:17):
Peter?

Speaker 17 (59:17):
Peter, Oh, the big tall guy. MEMI brink me at
prison anyway, But anyway, it was just they we're going
to go right into the inspiration of someone fixted through.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
It was it Keith Harby He raised his voice on h.

Speaker 17 (59:34):
No, I don't think it was Keith Hobbe.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
I can't remember all all all of the ones that
they could have had, all the great Palmerston North race commentary.

Speaker 17 (59:45):
Someone I know though, Yeah, Hey, well I'll make a
point of getting on to see that.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
Yeah it was it Peter Cookle you're thinking about.

Speaker 17 (59:52):
Yeah, Peter cook Ye, Peter Cooky and that look more.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
Yeah, Peter Peter Cook's biography. Sadly I was Sadly I
was the only twin I think was his book, which
that was quite a good title, isn't it.

Speaker 17 (01:00:02):
There was a few I mean there was a cleaned
up version it was around, but there was some other
tapes and records where there was the old which is
pretty rich as well. Yeah. Yeah, but for the time
he certainly broke broke the ground in the old New
Zealand comedy side of things, isn't he really at a

(01:00:24):
time and breaking into TV and probably raising a lot
of libraries. But he wasn't well received initially with.

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
Look forward to seeing that, Laurie. Thanks for the head
up on that twenty three to ten, Marcus. Some news
even have been here fifteen years. It doesn't make me enough.
These people are still going back to Fred Digg and Bleaty.
James must be a ki ki we think is cannot
get it my understanding. It's three y k's from your
common residence, the nearest to sup Court. They can exclude
you from jury service. I think it's the same for

(01:00:58):
home homeschooling. I said that Yadi cones each December to
sleep the businesses and employer rrors. Marcus, my wife is
a specialized message therapist and one inso each year she
handwrites Christmas card teache of her clients includes the Whitaker's chocolate.
The feedback it's quite amazing from the recipients. Another text

(01:01:22):
and no punctuation. I don't read those. Now here to midnight,
looking forward to what you've got to say? Twenty two
away from nine ten. Thanks to the text. As I've
checked this, they are telling me that the race caller
that Fred Dagg based his voice on was let me
just check this. They've texted it through the numbers eight

(01:01:43):
hundred and eighty ten eighty was Peter Kelly. Peter Kelly,
and that's true, Marcus. I got the letter to be
called a jurist service at kaikor He several years ago.
We were ushered into the court at the start, but
ten of us had to stand. There is not enough
seats for the briefing. Was that good to turn out?
We got moved back out to the foy for an

(01:02:04):
hour and then got told we weren't needed as the
aqu changed his plea court was booked all week for
the person's trial, so they had nothing ready beyond that
waste everyone's time plus the court system. I'm excited they're
still a court in kai Krhe. I didn't think there
would be. We're talking Christmas cards and stamps, milk delivery,
and jury service. There are more topics leaking into the discussion,

(01:02:31):
and feel clear. How's your TIMU deliveries A getting those
in time for your Christmas gifts? I feel that the
kind of the tides, you don't hear about it as much.
Perhaps people have got all the TAT they need or
thought they need, but you don't know how that's going
for you with your Christmas gifts being touched Hettel twelve,

(01:02:53):
you want to be part of it? Anything else you
want to mention, I'm here for that.

Speaker 5 (01:02:59):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
So yeah, it's opens New Year's Day the fred Dagman
thanks for textas that came through that also eighteen to ten.
I hope. I think it's a mild evening right when
the country is and I think the warmest spring ever
at one point eight temperature is warm with a normal.
It's just fairy significant uptick, isn't it. But yeah, I

(01:03:26):
wonder how much money charities have missed out on since
checks had been discontinued. Don't know the answer that will
work on that one. You get in touch. You on
to talk eighteen away from ten Marcus still midnight eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two
to text. Do come through anything else you want to mention?

(01:03:51):
Feel free to get amongst it anyway. As I say,
Tim Beveridge along from twelve o'clock tonight. But all those
mobile gas stations are now going self run, if that's
the thing. Marcus. My husband at ten years has helped
deliver milk at Rotawaro on the back of a truck

(01:04:12):
at an old Fargo truck as a milk was a
far wey living milk to the area in those days.
People were to pan out or a billy out so on.
The truck had five prem cans full of milk, one
large canful of water towards the end of the run
of the mint was the water in the cans of milk.
So one day my husband's a little ten year old
asked him, way did this? They said to keep the
milk cold. Oh yeah, fair enough, Max. It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:04:34):
Oh, good name Marcus. Just listening to the conversation about
our late Fred Dad. When I was working in Wellington
and now it would have been about nineteen seventy, one
of my coworkers said to me, oh, there's this classic
act on at Downstage Theater. There was a sort of

(01:04:56):
a theater there on the corner of Courtney Place in
Kent Street. It was there for many many years. I
don't think it's there now, and they would have It
was o for artists and you know, like performers. The
performer he put a one man show on and as
I understand it, I think it was the second night

(01:05:19):
that we went. It was either the first night that
he had ever been performed live on stage was the
second night. There was about thirty in the audience. He
came out with his gun boot and he's you know,
the classic singlet and his hat and everything, and from memory,
he just sat on a high stool and he just

(01:05:41):
told stories and it was one of the most hilarious
performances I've ever heard, just a one man stand up show.

Speaker 18 (01:05:52):
You know.

Speaker 9 (01:05:52):
He came out as the character and it was absolutely
incredible where everybody was started talking about it and Wellington.
So I don't know how long the show ran for,
but I do remember it was like, Oh, there's this
guy fred Dak and he's so funny. You got to
go to the show, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:11):
And I just remember that Max, what do you say
seventy three?

Speaker 9 (01:06:18):
No, I think it was a bit. It could have
been a bit earlier that. It could have been nineteen seven,
t around about there. It was when he was just
launching his career, his character, and he did this one
man show. And yeah, I mean Wellington was really buzzing
with this, with this thing.

Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
I've heard about the you know, the beginning shows, but
I'd never realized that the audiences were so intimate. That's
amazing to be about one of thirty that just seen
the first show. That's it's amazing.

Speaker 8 (01:06:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:06:48):
I wish i'd kept the tickets.

Speaker 15 (01:06:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
And then then I think before too long he was
doing kind of involved with country calendar specials. Yeah, and
then was huge and before long it'd left to go
to Australia never to come back.

Speaker 9 (01:07:03):
So yeah, I think that was the launching pad. But
I do remember I'm certainly the theater was called Downstage
Theater Courtney Place in Kent Street. Very intimate audience and
you know, I mean, I just you know, as far
as a one man show, I've just you know, we

(01:07:26):
were just just holding your stomach. It was just hilarious
because we didn't really know what we were in for.
All I knew was my work friends were saying, there's
a guy called Fred Dad. You're going to come and
see the show. You've got to come. You've got to
go to the show. And they kind of talked me
into it, and we were about three or four of
us went together and it was the funniest thing. I mean,

(01:07:48):
from the minute he walked on the stage because it
actually I think he really typified, you know, no insulting
our farmers, but there were a lot of farmers around
in that era that actually were Fred Dad's, you know,
that worked like that and and operate it the same
way he was what he was portraying on this but

(01:08:11):
because a lot funny in this case, but it was
a hilarious show.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
Nice to hear from you, Max, Thank you so much
for that. There might be some footage, hopefully in that
movie twelve to ten ten Away from ten o'clock Hittel
twelve ten beverage from Midnight as I promised, and get
in touchy talking about Christmas cards and milk deliveries, and
that's been very interesting and Alton a man or other stuff.

(01:08:37):
And the fred Dag movie opens New Year's Day. Good
on them for doing that, and I guess the joy
of that will be great footage of that and also
probably interviews with him. I would have mentioned, and that's
what I'll see. I don't know if it's going to
have a TV release. It could well do. They could
have that one or sort of out for that one.

(01:08:58):
So if you got to get involved before the news
at ten, that'd be great to hear from you. Oh, Marcus,
I have a fred Dagg LP. He's been interview by
Rodard Familton.

Speaker 8 (01:09:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
I don't know about that. She keeps playing up for swearing.

Speaker 16 (01:09:22):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
Some of John Clark's Australian stuff is first class, available
on YouTube. Yeah, a lot of his political views are class. Marcus.
I first saw heard fred Dagg at the same Vacunity show,
must or some Victunity show. Must have been nineteen seventy,
nineteen seventy one, Marcus, can you read while it's ten
to the radio TV. Yes, that person means how much

(01:09:50):
money charities have missed out by checks being discontinued. A
lot of people paid directly, don't they. Well, they found
twelve people in call. He didn't know the accused. I
guess that's one of the challenges in small towns. It's
finding people that don't know. That's why I thought that
this whether they have caught trials and kaiko, but you
live and you learn. I guess they must. Oh, eight

(01:10:12):
hundred and eighty ten eight if you want to be
part of it. And nine two nine two is the
text number. I haven't got that story yet because it's paywalled.
I'll just read the headline. It's on the ODT A
passenger rail. I've clicked on it badly. You know, They've

(01:10:37):
got only some stories come up, and I'm having a
lot of trouble with it. People bear with me. A
passenger rail venture between christ Chitchen v Cargo received a
twenty five price drop within twenty four hours of going live.
Rail ticket prices cut twenty five percent after feedback, so

(01:10:58):
clearly they realized what a unrealistic amount that was, so
they have busted don't think it'll be under there will happen.
You don't have to spend three hundred and sixty eight
dollars to go from Invercargol to christ Church one way
and you've got to spend the night in Dunedin. Why
don't you pay for commodation everything. You'd be nothing shy
of a thousand dollars pay a couple of kids along

(01:11:19):
with you. So yes, they've misread the room with that one.
That's not cheap and sustainable. It's about ten times the
bus and three times as long. Do you want to
grab that article if you can, Dan, it's on the ODT,
one of those subscribe once. I think it's somewhere. I've
got a subscription to that. But forget how I used

(01:11:42):
to do it, but didn't make sure I didn't make
it easy the ODT there's paywall papers. I'm not a
fan of you always forget your pass word. Yeah, I
didn't have much fun with the ODT. It seemed to
be very dated technology, miserable then I don't know. Seven
to ten it does say the passenger rail venture between

(01:12:02):
christ chich vcagrasive twenty five percent drop within twenty four
hours of going live, then they add an extra carriage.
The change was made possible adding additional carriage to the train.
Minimal bookings had been made before the price change, and
refunds were applicable for the difference. The train we have
a capacity with three nine zero seats once all carriages

(01:12:25):
come through hillside workshops, including a generator wagon, plus six
s carriages and one buffet carriage. Now people are waiting
for items from Temu. Marcus. I am waiting on items
I brought on Timu on the twenty seventh of November. Unfortunately,
there is currently a two day delaying goods coming from

(01:12:46):
overseas using New Zealand post. I recommend recommend anyone ordering
from TIMU for Christmas order before this Friday. So yeah,
I don't know what that's. I don't know if that's
good advice or not. I am a Timu non starter,
am I?

Speaker 8 (01:13:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:13:04):
I think No, we've got nothing from Timu. I've brought
something from Alie Barber once. I'm too embarrassed to say
what it is. It's not it's not something that you
would think less of me, but it was something I
bought for not for its intended purposes and the purpose

(01:13:25):
I had it for was slightly whimsical. I've often thought
about telling you what it was, but I've decided not to.
So yes, I'll wait my time for that. The big
release of that information. Oh, Marcus too famous, John to

(01:13:48):
the news, Clark and Lennon. I don't know the situation was.
John Lennon is here in the news, probably the anniversary
of his death. I don't think it's in the news,
but I can see it as I didn't see something
pop up today about that it must be done. I think, yes,
I remember one of those places I remember I was
when I heard that he had died, and that's happened

(01:14:09):
today in nineteen seventy nine, I think it would have
been now. A lot of people are struggling with their
deliveries for Christmas. I've got a number of texts come
through about that text or seyes. I've had TIMI things
arrive in four days, no problem. I mainly buy garden lights.
People love garden lights. Easy solution, don't buy tu two

(01:14:30):
dollars crap ruining the climate. If you're worried about the climate,
that is then a emoji of an ape with their
fingers in their ears. Actually it's a monkey ectually chimpanzee. Marcus,
I'm getting nervous. The past that I sent on the
twenty seventh of November to my grandchildren. The Sunshine Coast

(01:14:51):
is stuck in export screening. Come on in z post, Marcus.
Who is expecting a package from China in twelve days?
Uses ships not rockets? I think they fly this stuff.
I actually think it is quite quick quick tu people.
I think it's just days. It's almost like we need

(01:15:12):
a TM correspondent. If you've got some information about that,
how long does it take? Call about that if you can.
And Christmas cards? Who actually still send some? There'll be
someone out there with a Christmas card list. That was
a thing last ten years. It's a vaporated mush oh

(01:15:36):
eight hundred, you know the rest? Hittle twelve? What have
you got? Anything else vaguely related? It'd be nice to
hear from you tonight. What's the concert called Menfield? Just
finding out about that big concert Manfield park Fielding didn't
know they had live gigs. There is it a new
thing with an old thing? Just seeing that on a

(01:15:58):
pop up ad Cora Dragon, the Black Seeds, Jordan like
Midnight Switch. Good on them, there's a golden age for
summer festivals, isn't it now?

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:16:13):
Wait, handed at Teddy on Timu and deliveries and how
long that takes? And Christmas cards and milk deliveries, particularly
with the special Christmas milk east on Christmas, the special
milk lids, the foil that was colored. It's gone so
long ago that it's almost something I just imagine. By
the way, it's not a monkey. It's a shrug that

(01:16:34):
looks like a monkey, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:36):
Dan.

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
Someone says, why have you chosen Selene is your theme tune?
I've never I haven't chosen Selene's my theme? Choke and
promise you that, Marcus, I get stuff throughout a week
from Temu Timu five to nine days, but seems to
be slower with Christmas on the way. The other question

(01:17:03):
I've got for you, who's got any embarrassing household confessions
as far as the amount of stuff you go through
in a week. Willther it be eggs or tomato sauce,
there were any of those sorts of things to say
you want to admit to your family shame. You see

(01:17:25):
some of those people, those big slabs of eggs, don't
you anyway, I'm just curious. Don't put that out there
to change the topic. To give you other topics for
the change of tone, if that's what you want to
do tonight, breathe. As soon as I get so excited here,
I forget to breathe. I think that's a problem. But

(01:17:47):
Temu's on the discussion list again tonight. People worried about
Temu and waiting for stuff. I've also tell you that
most certainly the there's even people on the radio warning
people about retail rage. So there's been great to signs
of that coming in towards Christmas. I think the next

(01:18:10):
two day, with the heat and the economy, there'll be
a perfect storm and there will be some meltdown the
next couple of weeks. And just be wary. Have your
you're diffusing, you're defusing skills ready if you're coming across
something like that retail rage. So yes might be the

(01:18:32):
time to step in and pay for someone else's groceries
if they find themselves told that they can't have enough
money or something like that. Ypia a Hea L twelve.
You ought to be a part of it, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty Steve Marcus good evening.

Speaker 18 (01:18:49):
Of around well. Ten years ago, I had forty people
around New Zealand and ten overseas that I used to
write to regularly.

Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
It's fifty people.

Speaker 19 (01:19:02):
This is not just at Christmas, no Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries,
just friends, old workmates.

Speaker 18 (01:19:17):
I have four overseas friends now in ten years. The
ones that were overseas have passed. There were old people
that I used to know. One lady I used to
write to in Kingston, Ontario. She came and stayed with

(01:19:39):
me for a week and she did a big oe
around the world, and she was interested in minerals, was
a School of Minds museum curator, and I gave her
a few samples of corimantal minerals. A lot of trouble

(01:20:04):
getting them out through customs, but they were washed and
cleaned and certified the okay good culturally. She got married
and had several children. I have photos of her dear
husband and the kids. And I've got a pimpal in

(01:20:25):
Ghana and Akra and Ghana, and I've been able through
a friend in Egypt to get some money over to
help the family.

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
Oh good, this is a different This is not the family,
and this is a family in Egypt.

Speaker 18 (01:20:42):
Right, No, I managed through a family in Egypt to
be able to get money to them through the bank,
and they go down into Ekra or two or three
times a year, and I was able to get money
US dollars down for them to help the family's.

Speaker 19 (01:21:03):
Ekra in Ghana be a long way with.

Speaker 18 (01:21:07):
Coast and Ghana. Yes, it's a very corrupt government. And
he my male always gets open they search it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
How much money do they want?

Speaker 18 (01:21:20):
Well, I suppose over the last or twenty five years,
I suppose I've might have given him about five hundred
years a reasonable amount.

Speaker 3 (01:21:32):
Yeah, they got are the little bits of pieces, and.

Speaker 19 (01:21:35):
They built a a very corrupt government.

Speaker 18 (01:21:40):
A Lidi's brother bought a Newish car and set up
as a taxi and unfortunately he got ambushed somewhere out
in the country somewhere and he was shot and killed
because they thought he was a government official having a
Newish car. It was terrible, But this is the way

(01:22:05):
of things. Have helped with a little bit of education.
I've been able to see in a few books on
New Zealand to them.

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
Now, how would you meet this person? Steve?

Speaker 18 (01:22:18):
Through the Theosophical Society, there was a call for peen
peals around the world.

Speaker 3 (01:22:26):
And how long ago with this, Yeah, I.

Speaker 18 (01:22:30):
Managed to get hold of this lady. She's I've got
a photo of her, and she did actually one. At
one stage i'd get out of the country. She wanted
to come and stay here in New Zealand. That was
all twenty years ago. No, there was no way she
could get out. They were Yeah, politically is not very

(01:22:55):
good there, but it's been good friends in what stage?

Speaker 3 (01:23:00):
At what stage at life?

Speaker 18 (01:23:01):
Is she now, Steve, she's the same age as me,
she's seventy.

Speaker 3 (01:23:06):
Yeah, so she retired or she's still working in some
clothing mill or something.

Speaker 18 (01:23:13):
Well, actually, for quite a while there they had a store,
like at a bizarre store, and she used to sell
second hand just general household stuff, pots and pans. And
looking on.

Speaker 3 (01:23:34):
Google Maps, it's hardly a damn tree in the town,
is there. It's just chances right down to the beach
that's right, looks like a god forsaken place.

Speaker 18 (01:23:42):
It's not a very good place really at all. As
I say, I've learned all off about that through my
friends in Egypt, in Cairo, and you know, they've been
down and seen her and checked out that she was
kosher right at the beginning. And Anna, I've got a

(01:24:04):
really nice friendship doing there. And she says, you know,
you're very caring, aren't you.

Speaker 3 (01:24:09):
Yeah, Steve, she sounds like a oh, yes, you should
go and see her.

Speaker 18 (01:24:18):
It'd be very difficult. I've thought about that, and I
still have a passport. Yeah, very difficult. I think it's
just the way the government is and they don't have
tourism there.

Speaker 3 (01:24:33):
No. Well, clearly look at the town looks boy, you
look down and go boy boy, it'd say it's a
rough looking place.

Speaker 18 (01:24:40):
Yeah, I've had She sent me photos of looking out
over the sea from from where she is, the sunset
looking west beautiful. You know, the the the environment that
they're in is not good, but if you look from
a distance, doesn't look too bad.

Speaker 3 (01:25:01):
You do Christmas cards, Steve, get Christmas cards, not from her,
but you still do Christmas cards.

Speaker 18 (01:25:06):
Five Christmas cards now, two friends around the world, and
I've got my mum here in Orelas. She's got a
Christmas card in a birthday card. She has a birthday
on the Seconday January. So I put the two together.

Speaker 3 (01:25:22):
In ak It's a great idea.

Speaker 18 (01:25:27):
Yeah, but you know, I got one friend down in
upper huts I used to work with and when worked
at a w L and Eldie Nathan's and I've kept
in touch with them with Christmas cards and Birthday cards.
And he's a lovely unit and a high rise and

(01:25:50):
upper hut and we've just kept in touch. He's got
no one in the world, as his wife died or
forty years ago and they didn't have any children. He's
on his own. But no, I keep in touch with James.

Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
And where are you going for Christmas? Steve? What are
you doing?

Speaker 18 (01:26:10):
I'm going to my new friend, Chrissy's brother's house in
Hamilton Christmas Day.

Speaker 3 (01:26:18):
Where is she a friend from?

Speaker 18 (01:26:21):
She's a friend of mine from the friendship club?

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
Place to find a friend of the friendship club? That's
a I mean, if you can't make friends at the
friendship club, where are you going to make your friends?

Speaker 18 (01:26:34):
Well, it's become a bingo club. But anyway, why, Oh,
they just like it. They like the dope. A I
call with numbers.

Speaker 3 (01:26:44):
Oh, you the caller, I'm the caller. Give me some
give me some of your petoy call some numbers for
me or.

Speaker 18 (01:26:51):
Two little ducks twenty two number ten Downing Street, Larry's place.
Of course you get called Larry up and down six
and nine sixty nine, Kelly's eye number one.

Speaker 3 (01:27:08):
So every number, have you got something fun to say?

Speaker 18 (01:27:11):
No, not everyone of them to that? Or twenty four
to two.

Speaker 3 (01:27:16):
Dozen, twenty four? What would be thirteen.

Speaker 18 (01:27:21):
Thirteen? I'm lucky for some thirteen because we're an older group.
We're all still still for sort of talking of pounds,
shillings and pens. So we've got two and eight twenty
eight two shillings and tapns.

Speaker 3 (01:27:38):
Number eight garden Gate. Do you do a number eight?

Speaker 8 (01:27:41):
One?

Speaker 3 (01:27:41):
Fat lady?

Speaker 18 (01:27:43):
Yeah, one one, fat lady, number eight. Our cads don't
go to eighty eight, we go seventy five is the
top top of the shop. Seventy five, seventeen, seventeen, two,
seventy seventy two, seven seven, two seventy two. Six dozen
people wouldn't know what a dozen aren't now.

Speaker 3 (01:28:05):
And you know how long you've been the caller for
fifty one three.

Speaker 20 (01:28:08):
Of the.

Speaker 18 (01:28:11):
I don't know five six years.

Speaker 3 (01:28:13):
Oh you're finding your groove.

Speaker 18 (01:28:16):
And we've got a men's ship going here. And we
have a Monday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and I've been
there with them for seven years for the men. She
made me a life member, said, you're going to give
it a life member of anything.

Speaker 3 (01:28:37):
What are you making there, Steve?

Speaker 18 (01:28:40):
I do all the maintenance of the machine me. We
get donations of all the gear, and I run around
and keep everything going. I know where all the grease
nipples are and had to keep sharp and all the
blades on the sores.

Speaker 3 (01:28:55):
You've made yourself. You made yourself invaluable, Steve. That's great.
I'm going to move on the nice to talk to
you made minight twenty two past ten. Keep it going,
don't I forget to talk to a Bengo caller. I'm
sure there's local very creations on those, are they anyway?
Back at you ten twenty five. A lot of people
consuming a lot of the things that you're embarrassed with
how much you consume in your house. The condenders so

(01:29:20):
far are aoli and milk. Marcus great show, we can
plow through it can great. A large container of aoly
every week where it goes. I do not know, Damon, Yeah,
I don't know how to describe aoli. My husband and
my son love milk would go through two days of
milk a day. They both love bacon. Bacon every morning

(01:29:43):
without fail. Marcus weave the Christmas card for our posty Andrew,
Go Andrew, hand drawn by his daughter Zoey. Awesome card,
Big shower to Zoe. Then they get a card from
your posty, Marcus. My late grandma mother had quite a

(01:30:07):
few of them, and three of them came to a
funeral from abroad. Are there still pen pals around mac Quick?
Clearly there are. I don't really know what the Theosophical
Society are. I think they just didn't global understanding. I
think that sounds like a seventies, eighties, sixties type thing.

(01:30:27):
I don't know. Yeah, what's worked for him, isn't it
too much about that? I think you see buildings around
from the Theosophical Society from time to time, don't you. I
think Thomas Edison was I don't even know what someone
from that group was called, but I'm always and keen
on the show to encourage tolerance of others and other beliefs,

(01:30:51):
but don't know much about it. I think it was
one of those sort of mad American things from the
nineteenth century. Well not mad, but you know people who
think different than those days. In better religions than you could.
A lot of them came from those sorts of times
formed by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Seekers of truth, aren't they all?

(01:31:12):
Hndle twelve My name is Marcus. Welcome text if you've
got them, calls if you can, anything goes handle twelve
pen pals. Mainly it's about letters. The thing I was
excited about was the Christmas stamps. It used to be
such great Christmas stamps, and you'd know them because you
get a lot of Christmas cards, you get hundreds, You
have hundreds of those stamps. Should be so good to
get the stamps for your collection. Now not so much,

(01:31:35):
because they're not stamps anymore. There's stickers and they're uncollectible. Really,
they don't even frank them. These are not complaints. These
are just observations. I'm not looking for things to complain about.
There's enough of that. Yeah, it's not my jig finding
things to complain about. Be in touch if you want to.

(01:31:58):
There is a missing man and puppet toy toy. There
is concerns for his welfare. Police have issued appeal tonight
for so an Auckland man. It was last thing is
Papa Toy Toy home eight o'clock this morning. He may
be disorientated. Ullitoe, seventy two, who lives on Kimpton Road,
has had health issues in May and a peedter bee

(01:32:20):
that's oriented. I'd say that's his first name and surname,
but that's his name. Bullatoe. Last scene wearing T shirt,
black shorts and black sketches shoes. There's a reference number them.
But called the police. They will know what you're on about.
He was in Kympton Road. Are you're missing since ten
o'clock this morning? So yeah, that's just something for you

(01:32:41):
to know about. Seventy two year old and Papa Tooy toy,
white T shirt, black shorts and black sketches shoes. That's
something if you want to talk about that. Now, I'm
interesting you interesting. Bingo calls. So someone said vintage Bingo

(01:33:02):
nineteen sixty nine was number ten Barry John. He was
the Lions first five. I like that number ten Barry John. Yeah,
what's the what's your what's your food consumption? One thing
that you'd be amazed if you confess to how much
you went through. That's my question for you, Marcus. I

(01:33:24):
knew there was a growing problem a out how large
people were, but this year, with many people in more
than supermarkets, I would say seventy percent are well overweight.
It surely can't be all the processed food or are
we eating more takeout than we used to? What does
it have people stopped sport or walking? We would have
a big problem the next ten years if most keep
most people keep getting larger. Thank you for that, Marcus.

(01:33:46):
An average tomato contains one teaspoon of sugar. I've maybeow
and tomato sauced out adding sugar and it tastes good.
What is, on the other hand, is a cemential amount
of sugar, and it's horrible. Do you think it's to
get children addicted? I think children's sorry. I think sugar's
a very cheap filler for things like tomato sauce. Marcus,

(01:34:07):
just tuning in. Have been busy booking our activities for
our four weeks South Island, tenting holiday excitements, building Dad
and Sunday while Mum is at a wedding in christ Church,
off to Ninja Valley Air Force Museum in the Saltwater
Pools Dmitries for Tea one point five weeks till the

(01:34:28):
midnight ferry booking. They'll go and strike if you want
to imput on the show tonight. That's the planned people
of New Zealand. Also talking about fred Dag to his
movie coming up, you might talk about the first memories
that had of fred Dagg. Oh Marcus, So who'd you
talk to someone on Garna? And that it was assumed

(01:34:49):
it was unsafe. I've just traveled to Iran and Afghanistan
had the most amazing experience. People would have said it
would be unsafe, but it was quite the opposite, free, friendly,
kind people felt safe at all times. Would recommend anyone
to visit twenty seven away from eleven here til twelve,
twenty five away from eleven o'clock with you till twelve

(01:35:10):
and I feel like we've gone to the quiet time
for news. But there is news too that's important happening
around the world. I'll bring that to you if I
can find something of interest with our two what's interesting?
I discussed it last night. In the year of doing
this nighttime show and I have been here most of
the year, I haven't had a holiday that we haven't
really had to use the breaking news thing. Other years

(01:35:33):
had to use it almost weekly. So it's been a
week that not much has happened in the evening. But
that's right. We'll take what we can. It's always exciting
when the news happens. Katie, it's Marcus. Good evening and.

Speaker 21 (01:35:44):
Welcome are you Sunday Marcus again. I think the breaking
news for the week is that you just under our
Doom is going to be on the Graham awfil Show
on Friday Night.

Speaker 16 (01:35:56):
Ah do you believe that?

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
I've had people asking, But of course I don't watch
TV in the evening because is that when Graham Norton.

Speaker 21 (01:36:03):
Is on, Yes, don't repeat show, but Friday night when
he has other guests and he's got the sooner A
Dour showed her tonight on television the program.

Speaker 3 (01:36:16):
So does he do two shows? Does he do two
shows a week?

Speaker 21 (01:36:20):
I think he repeats one. I think he repeats one
of them. But Friday night is when she's on with
Just under redn because I think she's going higher places.

Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
Okay, thanks for that. I think on with Alan Carr two,
not the smoking Alan Carr, not the snop smoking out
Alan Carr, the other Calen Alan Carr, the guy that
won the trait. I shouldn't say that there might be
spoiler alert twenty three away from eleven so this Friday
for those that want to watch that on Graham Norton Lockandon.

(01:36:55):
I think most of the interview has been seen on
social media, but I mean most of it's been posted.

Speaker 6 (01:36:59):
Rob.

Speaker 3 (01:37:00):
This is Marcus, good Eveningham. Welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:37:03):
How are you, Marcus? I rang your last lie. I'm
bringing you again.

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
Well, good on you?

Speaker 13 (01:37:08):
Yeah, good on you. How are you very good?

Speaker 3 (01:37:11):
Thank you?

Speaker 8 (01:37:12):
Good good?

Speaker 13 (01:37:13):
Yeah. Yeah. I was a milk well, a milk boy,
I suppose you could call it back in the late seventies,
early eighties.

Speaker 3 (01:37:24):
And hour oh wow, okay.

Speaker 13 (01:37:26):
Yeah, yeah. I worked for a milkman called norm Ormond.
And yeah, so we'd have a week on, week off,
and unbelievably, and I think about it now, I was
getting some really good money. This would have been seventy nine,

(01:37:48):
nineteen eighty, eighty one, eighty two. I was getting twenty
two dollars a week.

Speaker 3 (01:37:53):
Does sound good, doesn't it?

Speaker 13 (01:37:55):
I know it was great money. And interestingly, by the
time year so, I would have been twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
and I had one thousand bucks on them.

Speaker 5 (01:38:06):
The bag.

Speaker 13 (01:38:09):
He'd give me, he'd give me five dollars and I'd
be straight to the hospital store and I'd get a
thick and chunky chocolate because that was the big thing
back then. And and had bank my money and yeah, yeah,
I had a thousand bucks. And he'd tell me, and
then the bank manager. I'd go in there and the

(01:38:31):
bank manage would.

Speaker 11 (01:38:32):
Actually know me.

Speaker 13 (01:38:35):
Andy'd say, ah, you're doing really well with your savings.

Speaker 3 (01:38:38):
We're saving for something, or just say to buy a car.

Speaker 13 (01:38:42):
Uh No, no, I don't just I was just saving, saving,
saving it and you know, watching it grow.

Speaker 7 (01:38:48):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (01:38:48):
And you had blue blue tokens were the four cent
ones for for your milk bottle, and you had a
pink one for the cream. And we used to sell
moon max as well. Has anyone mentioned that tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:39:09):
That was in a glass bottle too? Was that's a
chocolate milk is at moomics?

Speaker 7 (01:39:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:39:13):
Yeah, it was a chocolate milk. And you had a
you had a pink raspberry one as well.

Speaker 3 (01:39:20):
That was in glass.

Speaker 13 (01:39:22):
Yeah, they were in glass. And we and we'd sell
grapefruit juice in a in a milk, in a milk
bottle and in a flagon, and would also sell orange juice,
which was a bit sweet and would sell passion fruit,

(01:39:43):
an orange and a flagon.

Speaker 3 (01:39:47):
I wonder why you were weak about I've never heard
anyone doing week about with a milk run.

Speaker 13 (01:39:51):
Yeah, yeah, well well he had four four milk boys,
so me and a cobber where we'd finish, finish, finish
school and meat him and and we'd do a week on.
Then we'd had to have a week off, what another
two to done the done done our run. But yeah,
I'll never forget one time I could carry eight crates

(01:40:17):
twenty four bottles on on my on my milk cart.
So you had the cart and they had really thick wheels,
so it soaked up all the all the bumps and
all of that, and your crates would all sit on
it and they had a long hand or in a
seamar and I was really I was only pushing it
along there, and I for some reason I had it

(01:40:42):
on too much of an angle and I hit a
I hit a the a bit of concrete that was
up further than the piece that I was on. Yeah,
I lost, lost a couple of crates over the front,
and yeah I got I think I got tops six dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:40:59):
They do here for broken bottles.

Speaker 13 (01:41:02):
Oh yeah, well, well that particular time because it was
a disaster.

Speaker 6 (01:41:06):
So it was a good lesson.

Speaker 13 (01:41:08):
It was a good It was a good lesson, Marcus.
And I think I lied to the bars as well
because I didn't want to look a fall And I
said I was waving out to a comber across the
other side of the road because I didn't want to
say I was the bloody idiot.

Speaker 3 (01:41:27):
How many years to do it for?

Speaker 13 (01:41:29):
I think I'd done that for about four years, Marcus.
But look, look I wanted to tell I want to
tell you something that that's very naughty.

Speaker 8 (01:41:38):
Now.

Speaker 13 (01:41:39):
Now, what we used to do is so halfway through
the run, we'd call into his residence, to his house,
and he'd take all all the all the coins in
and all of that and exchange it and it bring
us out a bit of cake. So this was a
ten minute, a ten minute sort of sort of thing.
There we'd be sitting there and we'd be thirsty as hell.

(01:42:00):
So what we used to do is we'd take the
tops off the flagons and we'd drink, would take a
couple of swings out of them because they weren't sealed top.

Speaker 8 (01:42:13):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (01:42:15):
And then then what we'd do we we'd you know,
there might be a bit of a puddle somewhere and
we'd would would scoop up a bit of water and
put it in the juice. We were naughty. Wow, we
were naughty.

Speaker 3 (01:42:30):
Well do you think you think you would have given
you some just to have it?

Speaker 13 (01:42:33):
Well? Well, well, well no, if if we were going
to have have a bottle, which which occasionally we would
have have a milk, have a milk bottle, of of
of juice, because they were the same size as a
milk bottle, and I think they were about eight cents,
whereas a milk a milk was four cents. And and yeah,

(01:42:55):
we did take it out of our wage. So so yeah, yeah,
those are the memories of And I'll tell you one
more story if you got time, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:43:04):
Absolutely there was one.

Speaker 13 (01:43:05):
There was one she'd put out. She'd always get a
get a bottle of milk and a cream and and
I'd have to give you one cent change with the
foken and and a few coins. But I never even
gave you the one cent. But she obviously kept the

(01:43:29):
telly of it, because because after after about ten weeks,
she put out a sign. I put it out a
piece of paper and she said, you owe me this
bottle of cream for free.

Speaker 3 (01:43:44):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (01:43:45):
So I had to fiss up. I had to fiss
up to that because I had to give away a
free cream.

Speaker 3 (01:43:51):
Great memories, Rob, thanks so much. That's sixteen to eleven.
Fourteen to eleven.

Speaker 16 (01:43:57):
Hello, Hugh, ill me Matters. Here are you you know
ready how this is going to crack you up? I'm
right here. I moved Iron Road just off stay hurry
fifty eight. That goes from say hurry fifty eight to
apper Hut. I'm walking out of my rifle hunting rabbits
as you do. Listen to you on on my ear bus, Cleose.

(01:44:17):
But I've just had my dinner, had a chicken and
then check the was talking about milk runs. Now, I've
ever din a milk round myself with my cousins, Cy did.
But they were good boys. They did the milk run,
you know, the whole great thing that we were not
such good boys and we were doing milk run on
the way home the pub. Only we would take the

(01:44:38):
money and not leave any milk. And so we'll come
home to the pub, We'll just run down these streets.
If you were the Milk Brothers into our pockets. They
keep on running and we're doing what a whole street
like that? So nice to go home with absolutely bolding
pockets and next what's called a misspeit youth?

Speaker 3 (01:45:00):
Were that before we were allowed on the pub as
a youth?

Speaker 16 (01:45:04):
Well, I suppose you were. It was a drinking age eighteen,
you know, I don't know it was twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:45:11):
I think I was just surprised you're not getting doing
the coins on the way to the pub.

Speaker 16 (01:45:17):
I like your style, Marcus. That would have been much
most bitter. But can you imagine starting at the bar
and the Burmer Road turbn not here anymore. It's now
been a major retirement village. I'm staying at Bloomer Road
Pub hanging out a whole pocket full of milk tackers
to get a bit. That's never gonna work, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:45:37):
What was what was the what was the radio jingle
for the Burmer.

Speaker 16 (01:45:44):
Oh man, I'm struggling to remember that, but you know.

Speaker 3 (01:45:48):
We were at the can you remember that.

Speaker 8 (01:45:52):
Now?

Speaker 16 (01:45:53):
It was one I do remember the worst one, but
I can't remember how the jingle went. But now, but
we'd go to the bar, you know, we're at on
so courage and some of us are moving on to
the Ouso Record and other things. He left college and
we'd ride our bikes around inside the pub, and I like,

(01:46:15):
you had a pub well, but he used to have
exposed rafters, exposed beams, and we'd sometimes swing through those rafters,
those beams. It's it was pretty good fun. But that's
what that's what I did when I did the milk run.

Speaker 3 (01:46:33):
One way, kid, you didn't need to.

Speaker 15 (01:46:36):
No.

Speaker 16 (01:46:37):
It was sort of like one of those some punks
of feature when you're a little silly boy in your
brains up properly formed. And I'd like to apologize to
all those people who lives in Kerala from the Boma
Road Kevin All wrote down in nine sorry about that.

Speaker 3 (01:46:54):
You have to go around. You have to go around
and repay it.

Speaker 16 (01:46:57):
I think they've probably moved on now, might.

Speaker 13 (01:47:01):
Yeah, they might not have.

Speaker 16 (01:47:03):
I could and rather bit was the great fruit in
the milk brittle, Remember a great fruit and the milk brittle.
We used to go down at college as well. You
go down to the local touch shop, you know the
college touch shop. You did a I can't remember a
pike of grapefoot juice. And he's right. The orange was
too sweet, but the Great Tree was absolutely delicious, But

(01:47:24):
so have childhood memories.

Speaker 3 (01:47:26):
Nice to hear from your shoe prigiant ten away from eleven.
Hello Ross, ats Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:47:34):
Yeah, hi Marcus tail you good?

Speaker 3 (01:47:35):
Thank you Ross.

Speaker 13 (01:47:37):
That's good.

Speaker 5 (01:47:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:47:38):
I just bring u about being a milk boy. I
was as soon as I and thirteen, the local milkman.
It's like old enough, now you can come work for
me here. I've spent years d being a milk milk
boy and pushing the trolley. I remember we used to

(01:47:58):
the stack of milk would get lifted a dairy out
the back and it would just have a woolf edge
covering it, and I go back there and top it up.
You could imagine that these days the Health and Safety
and Food Food Safety.

Speaker 6 (01:48:14):
At least.

Speaker 11 (01:48:16):
Having having their even a ship fat over it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:20):
Were you in a flat town or a steep town?

Speaker 11 (01:48:24):
Palms and off so yeah, yeah. Then we then it
merged to a part trolley run. Then we did it
out of the side of a van, and then then
it malgamated to a truck and we just ran off
the side of a truck. And you're running off, Yeah,

(01:48:44):
you're jumping off at decent speeds, I think, not that
I can compare myself that. Christian Cullen was a milk boy,
and there's some some of his thing was about running
off and being able to turn its speed and yeah,

(01:49:08):
so it helps somewhat.

Speaker 3 (01:49:09):
Did you know you were really did you know you
were really fit?

Speaker 8 (01:49:17):
No?

Speaker 11 (01:49:17):
I didn't not. I'm old now, because.

Speaker 3 (01:49:19):
You must have been in your day. You must have
been incredibly foot of you doing that every day.

Speaker 5 (01:49:25):
Yeah, yeah, it was, yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:49:26):
Yeah, every day. It was just yeah, I didn't.

Speaker 13 (01:49:28):
You don't realize that.

Speaker 11 (01:49:29):
I was just thinking to my wife, you don't realize
how fit you are until you're not in your loc
not running anywhere. You're not running anywhere. But then I
ended up then I ended up getting the job working
at the dairy factory as well. I mean I went
from being more boy to driving the truck round for

(01:49:49):
the boys.

Speaker 3 (01:49:50):
That was a bit boring, really boring.

Speaker 11 (01:49:54):
Yeah, well yeah it was because you just.

Speaker 6 (01:49:59):
I was just a bit more.

Speaker 11 (01:50:01):
Foot flat and carry on, get out of there sort
of thing.

Speaker 13 (01:50:04):
But yeah, it was.

Speaker 6 (01:50:07):
It was right though.

Speaker 11 (01:50:08):
It was good good after school job. I mean, no,
no one there's no sorts of jobs like that around
now for young kids to do.

Speaker 3 (01:50:16):
And oh yeah, the whole that whole, the whole youth
job markets collapsed, paper runs, milk delivery, all that stuff's gone.
It just seems to McDonald's now, doesn't it.

Speaker 11 (01:50:25):
Yeah, well that's right, Yeah, that's right. I mean I
delivered the dominion as well, that can It didn't have
many to do, but it wasn't worth It wasn't even
now if they dried it off from me seventeen.

Speaker 8 (01:50:37):
Fifty a week, I wouldn't even get out of bed
for that.

Speaker 11 (01:50:39):
You know, it's quite a bit of effort to go to.
But yeah, there's yeah, there's nothing. Yeah, I just don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:50:48):
Yeah, not to hear from me. Ross thinks that a
couple of texts. But this is the theme tune for
the Burma. The Boomer is the boomer on the hill
above the harbor where night and day that people play
from Johnson from Javil to Candala. I thought it was
a very famous jingle at the time. I thought Harry
would know that. Marcus I was just in online on
the Graham Norton Show. I'm not a fan, but she

(01:51:09):
came across very professionally. Indeed, it's from Carol Carol the
cracker Backer late eighties. I was a milk boy in
Levin delivering glass bottle look and orange. Has also worked
week Old, week Off, got sixty five dollars weekly. Keep
me fit MICUs fifty five years ago as a milk
bore Amazing how life goes full circle. Now I'm back
doing it, delivering milk and glass bottles around Auckland chairs.

(01:51:33):
Gave bellavecka Jerseys. What does that mean? This is an
interesting text. Talking of the milkman reminds me the story
I read in the paper about a famous burglar in
christ Church. He would zigzag the road when fleeing the scene,
so the tracker dogs thought they'd picked up the milkman.

(01:51:53):
Very good. Hadn't heard that story. I like that. Television
One attempt to develop a series starring Clark in nineteen
seventy five, but the creative team struggled to find a
form of the executives like typical. The half hour show
The Wonderful World eventually screened in September seventy five, with
Clark Clark playing a range of characters, but despite some
good reviews, it was not developed as a series. Clark

(01:52:17):
later complained that some members of the state broadcaster's management
team did not understand his work, and that its head
of Light Entertainment had stated publicly that he wasn't funny
or that it wasn't funny. The unpleasant experience nudge Clark
and Helen closer to the decision to leave New Zealand.

(01:52:38):
There I think he too, and you seen with John Grenelle.
Then left and never looked back. Really, they loved him
in Australia. So yes, the movie so and thank you
for the guy that mentioned that the movie starts on
Boxing Day and I'm sure there's going to be plenty
of footage of him in that. Yes, Mike, it's Marcus welcomes.

Speaker 20 (01:53:00):
Marcus home from the premiere of Brett dag Knight.

Speaker 3 (01:53:06):
Oh god, I thought, gee, okay, I've forgotten about that.
Ye's on Palmerston North, thank you.

Speaker 20 (01:53:12):
Yeah, yeah, Well Fred was from palmers the North, born
in Farmers the North, so they decided to have the
premier there and is produced by his daughter Laurens. A
magnificent documentary on and he's.

Speaker 3 (01:53:26):
On an icon great.

Speaker 8 (01:53:29):
Probably like a.

Speaker 20 (01:53:31):
Lot of people, and you're more appreciated in Australia. It
was an awesome documentary while we're.

Speaker 3 (01:53:38):
Going to watch Mike. Was he someone that you knew?

Speaker 11 (01:53:43):
Okay, yeah, I was.

Speaker 20 (01:53:44):
I'm sixty one sixty so yeah, I remember, I was
saying to his daughter. I remember getting a T shirt
with the three dag orange T shirt probably when I
was nine years old or something for Christmas.

Speaker 11 (01:53:59):
I mean, in my area, everyone knows the lyrics.

Speaker 20 (01:54:02):
We've sung the song that song now the gun Boots
as their cocktail evening, and then we sung at the
start of the movie similar.

Speaker 6 (01:54:15):
And palm small.

Speaker 3 (01:54:17):
Yeah. And I can't imagine in the day that there
was anyone more famous in the country than him, the
Prime Minister Norman Kirk, than him. I mean, he was.
He was unbelievably successful.

Speaker 6 (01:54:29):
He was.

Speaker 8 (01:54:30):
He was.

Speaker 20 (01:54:31):
It's a very in depth documentary, lot of movie like
home home movie, him taking footage of himself in a
reflection of the door, or his children taking movie footage
of him and stuff like that. He's good friends with
Sam Neil and Lina, Oscar Kinely, all those sort of people.

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But yeah, Sam Neil made quite a lot of appearances
on there, quoting his eighty page memoirs that he had
written and left on his computer because he died quite suddenly,
like when he was sixty eight years old, just dropped
dead when he was dramping in the Grampians in Australia.

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So they were coaching.

Speaker 5 (01:55:21):
After that.

Speaker 20 (01:55:22):
Why a you know, well famous actors and stuff. Yeah,
I learned a lot about him, even though he's he's
ill an icon you know that we.

Speaker 8 (01:55:30):
Grew up with.

Speaker 3 (01:55:32):
And what's the daughter? The daughter spoke at the premier?

Speaker 13 (01:55:35):
Did she she?

Speaker 6 (01:55:37):
She produced?

Speaker 20 (01:55:38):
She's a she's a producer and it does podcasts and everything.
She spoke and we had a question and an answer
says she worked at the top goal evening and different things.

Speaker 3 (01:55:51):
And Mike she was She was humorous as well. She
was like her father.

Speaker 8 (01:55:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:55:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:55:56):
She's very.

Speaker 20 (01:55:59):
She's very articulate and intelligent. Her mother was Italian. She
met her like she had about degrees and masters and everything,
when by the time she was twenty six years old,
she had about, you know, a couple of degrees and
masters and Italian history and all sorts of stuff. So yeah,

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she was awesome having just having to.

Speaker 8 (01:56:26):
Be with it.

Speaker 3 (01:56:27):
Oh, it sounds like it's going to be quite a
successful outsing then, So I think that starts on boxing. Dan.
I think it's got quite a good release, is that right?
Did you do you know about that?

Speaker 20 (01:56:36):
Yep, that's correct. And they optioned some prints there, a
couple of prints that were taken by Peter Bush, you know,
the famous Jusion photographer. Yes, taking photos of red blacks.

Speaker 3 (01:56:50):
Yeah, the all black.

Speaker 20 (01:56:52):
But he he had photos there of John Clark. They
auctioned them last Night Tonight and stuff like that, and no, no,
it's it's a really good documentary.

Speaker 17 (01:57:04):
Please.

Speaker 3 (01:57:04):
They took that to be the first film for me.
There's been for a while in Parmerston North.

Speaker 20 (01:57:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because they talked about John Cleves having
a dig at palmers North when he came, you know,
he called it the suicide capital of the world, and
they wondered how to respond to that, and John Clark
came back to them and said they named the rubbers
dump at Palmerston North after Cleves.

Speaker 3 (01:57:31):
That's right, I remember that year. Mount Clee's Yeah, very good.
Appreciate you coming through, Mike, Thank you for that. There
we go. There's a good bit of background people straight
from the premiere. It starts on the the twenty sixth,
that's on Boxing Day. That's the Fred Dagg movie. You
might have some memories about him also that I don't
know what the track I'll tell you what the track
listing was for that Fred Dag album because it was

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such a huge hit. Yeah, just stand by people. I
just bring that image up of that album because it
was as Yeah. I think it's still one of the
guest selling fred Dagg's hits. Fred Dagg's greatest hits, the
escent of Man Medley, Sportsman sports with the year twenty

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first speech, Farmers, Petrol, how to get It, Larry loves Berry,
Solar Energy. It's pretty good. And I can't see what
the track listing from the Becks, but had all those
great songs on it. We don't know how lucky we
are the National Anthem, Child's Guide to the Universe. They
probably just probably all there on Spotify and I could
probably get it. Did a number of albums, I think.

(01:58:35):
But we have to talk about that also tonight if
you want to be a part of it. And Milk runs, oh,
eight hundred and eighty eighty seventeen past eleven. I was
waiting for someone to verify the story about the zigzagging
burglar quite like that, and the story about the slogan
jingle for the boomer and someone said that Bellavacker means
beautiful cow. That's right to know what that was. But

(01:58:58):
thank you Bellavecker is full cream milk from jewsy cows.
It's the neck of the bottles full of cream. Final
hour for me. We were talking about Christmas cards and
stamps and there's not that excitement with the Christmas stamp
as there once was. Also tonight we are talking about
Fred Dagg. The movie about his life John Clark comes

(01:59:19):
out Boxing Day. He was someone that was really famous
and his ending got really famous very quickly, and then
there was some fuss with him and TVNZ or something
and I forget what it was. No doubt they will

(01:59:39):
deal with that in the In the movie, he was
huge and he put out Fred's Dagg's greatest hits and
seventy six was one of New Zealand's biggest silling albums.
And I think that had Star of Star of Wonder,
Star of Night, Star of Glory, you'll be right and
if you went for the gun boots. But he went

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to Australia, didn't really come back. Loved it there and
they loved him very free clear it did different stuff
but yes, there was some reason that he left TV
ins Head or left New Zealand. So looky, it's the
movie that starts or the movies on Boxing Day, so

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that's what we had to It's a huge number of films,
credits and books. But yes, I'm not quite sure why
he left New Zealand. But you might want to talk
about that, No doubt it will be covering the movie.
So yeah, that's something else you can talk about too tonight.
By the way, social media Australia. The band starts tomorrow,

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but i'll tell you that. Good evening, Raymond. It's Marcus,
Hello and welcome.

Speaker 8 (02:00:47):
Good day mate.

Speaker 22 (02:00:47):
Here's it going good?

Speaker 3 (02:00:48):
Thank you, Raymond.

Speaker 22 (02:00:50):
It's the story, just a little tale about milk runs.
In the mid seventies, I used to work for a
guy called Bernie Dick, and not surprisingly, his nickname was
Movie Great.

Speaker 3 (02:01:05):
It's a great name, isn't it. I mean, yeah, what
a name, What a name? You wouldn't forget it anyway.

Speaker 22 (02:01:10):
Yep, A great man too, sort of tip. I came
from a single parent family, sort of put me under
his wing and I became his main man. So he
used to pick me up on his way through town.
Out to the milk station to load up.

Speaker 3 (02:01:26):
So I just to interrupt and I could visualize at
Raymond Battown, New Plymouth, yep copy that.

Speaker 8 (02:01:31):
Yep.

Speaker 22 (02:01:33):
Yeah, he lived out a worker and the milk station
was out bell blocks. I had to go right through town,
so he used to pick me up on the way through.
And I was a young teenager and pretty hard to
wake up at times. So I had one of those

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alarm flocks or two bells on top and a sucepin
full of teaspoons, and unfortunately that didn't work all the time.
So maybe up with a idea which we ran with,
and that was the tire piece of wall around the

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big toe and roll it out and hang it out
the window. And he used to stop at the end
of the drive. We lived down a back section. He
used to walk down and grab the wall and yanked
until I stirred. So it was quite our case. But
he was a great man and I remained friends with

(02:02:36):
him until I passed away. And yeah, talking about milk runs.
Tonight listened to that book back Memories of Old Moby
Great Stories.

Speaker 3 (02:02:47):
Well, and it was we're probably quite up and down
terrain in New Plymouth. Was it quite steep with carts
going up hills and things.

Speaker 22 (02:02:54):
Yeah, we used to have trolley set hooked onto the
back of the truck. The run was in West Town
through to Vogel Town out to Frankly Park. So I
was I'm sorry uphild down Dale. So I was a
big lad. So I used to get the bigger trolleys

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and he had to work for the money.

Speaker 6 (02:03:19):
But he locked after me.

Speaker 22 (02:03:20):
He's yeah, I have abundoned when actually I moved to
Auckland and I walked down was walking through the Victoria
Park market one day and who was walking down the
stairs but maybe and his daughter. Yeah, he spotted me
and yelled out. So we caught up and sat down

(02:03:43):
and had a coffee. Yeah, okay, mate.

Speaker 3 (02:03:48):
Were fit as heck, Raymond.

Speaker 13 (02:03:50):
Yeah, I was harrier, really fit. Yeah yeah I was.

Speaker 22 (02:03:57):
Yeah, like I built like a racing crayfish back in
those days. But a yeah, extremely fit.

Speaker 3 (02:04:05):
Love you to talk Raymond. Thank you so much that
loved all of it. Hello Janets, Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 23 (02:04:10):
I know, Marcus. I've got a CosIng that I took
out as a listener probably about three years ago. Tickled
my fancy and just because Fred John Clark had such
a wicked sense of humor when he was reminded of
an old army story in nineteen forty five that the

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second New Zealand Division bought a costly street by street
battle against the retreating German army to take the city
of Trieste in northern Italy. Once the city was secured,
the Americans decided a victory parade was in order, to

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be headed by the elight US Marines. It was pointed
out that the Americans had arrived after the battle had finished,
and that the fighting had been done by the New
Zealand New Zealanders. The Italian campaign was nevertheless being run
by the US Army Command, and the people went ahead

(02:05:16):
as and the parade went ahead as planned. In front
came the US Marines with a large banner bearing their
emblem and the words U. S. Marines second to None.
Behind them march the New Zealand is carrying a large
sheet on which was written the words none. It tackled

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your fancy that That's that was his humor, wasn't it?

Speaker 7 (02:05:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:05:51):
Quite dead pan, quite low kilow energy, but just just
always always on point. Yeah, Yeah, I loved it, thanks Jan.

Speaker 13 (02:05:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:05:59):
In fact, I was having to be for my sins
at a oh A workshop yesterday about local government and
by a you know, a highly capable woman that does
that of around the world. But you know, many a
time was mentioned the the John Clark interview when he's

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a politician and it's quite famous and they're talking about
the boat they's talk about say and I think the
lineers were the front fell off it. It's very funny.
But yeah, he was so and a lot of that
stuff in Australa was just a two header interview with
two people with the dialogue was just so extraordinary and
so I summed up politics and all its forms. But

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thanks for that. Jan twenty eight, past eleven. Good evening, Harry,
This is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 10 (02:06:49):
Hello, how are you doing good?

Speaker 3 (02:06:51):
Thank you Harry.

Speaker 24 (02:06:53):
Oh that's good mate.

Speaker 13 (02:06:54):
Listen.

Speaker 24 (02:06:54):
That was that John Clee showed in two thousand and
five when he came through farms to north and I
had an encounter earlier and day with him at the
place I worked. He come into the shop and he
was a funny enough guy on stage, but they're not
like rude, erogant pieces of nonsense to when he was

(02:07:17):
out in private on the street. I can understand why, probably,
but he just come across as very rude and arrogant.
But the show he kept talking about the dead parrot
and all the other stuff they did. And then he
went to the newspaper and told the newspapers all about

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the people that laughed at the wrong places in his jokes.
And then he made that horrible comment, to which John
Clark said, well, we have nade have made the dumb
after him, mount pleased, and I thought that was quite appropriate.

Speaker 2 (02:07:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:07:58):
I always wonder Palmerston North did not make the great
miss of taking what he said too seriously.

Speaker 24 (02:08:09):
Possibly did, but then again it was the way he
said it, because.

Speaker 3 (02:08:14):
I think are incredibly thin skinned for criticism.

Speaker 24 (02:08:19):
Yeah, but here's the point. Here's the point. The reason
he said that it was in the back of a
suicide that took place that one of my workmates found
the young gentleman hanging on a tree. And it was
a real suicide. He was a real student, and it
had happened a couple of weeks a couple of weeks before,

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and of course the word was just getting out on
what had actually happened, and that was actually but on
a real suicide, and his timing was like his jokes badly.

Speaker 3 (02:08:57):
He said, we stayed in a little motel, the weather
was GUARDI, the theater was a nasty shape, and the
audience was restrained to play too.

Speaker 8 (02:09:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (02:09:04):
Yeah, well well I thought I thought we left at blooming.
I thought we left the heads off some of his jokes.
But he had a strange feeling about it. And the
other thing you mentioned Clark and doors and the front
fell off. Yes, that is absolutely brilliant. I've watched it

(02:09:25):
a hundred times, and the look on John Clark's face
every time he said, well the front fell off, It's
just so dead pin and brilliant. It really is.

Speaker 3 (02:09:38):
It's clearly on YouTube, but I think you just go
YouTube the front fell off? Is that right?

Speaker 24 (02:09:43):
That's the one, and it really is. It's what, It's what.
You could watch it a hundred times and never get
tired of the way he just looks at that camera.
It's just he was a genius. He was a genius comedian.
He went he went to Edinburgh a fringe festival, and
he came back with the welly He stole his told

(02:10:06):
Billy Conley's Wealthy Boots song, came back and called it
the Gun boots.

Speaker 3 (02:10:10):
Oh he did too. Of course he did too. That's right,
that's right, Billy Connolly. That was that was stolen, wasn't it.

Speaker 24 (02:10:17):
Yeah, but Billy Connley was dead happy because it gave
him another hit. Yeah yeah, but very very now. I
think John Clark is the comedian's comedian, that guy and
the way he delivered on that, and I mean, you've
got you just got to amaze you. You don't know

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how lucky we are, mate, We really don't in this country.
And he's telling the truth in that little comedy song
in Me.

Speaker 3 (02:10:46):
Although he left. Thank you, Harry twenty four to twelve.
Neil ats Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 12 (02:10:55):
Short story in the way, Marcus. When I was a
young lad, the milkman used to come round. We's harsh,
and he never held a rain, and he used to
walk beside the cast and the horse used to stop
at every house where they had an order, and without instruction,

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it had done it many many times, and.

Speaker 13 (02:11:20):
As soon as he.

Speaker 12 (02:11:20):
Clattered the bottles into the crate, the horse would walk
on again. If he came up and shouted extra, then
the horse wouldn't move because the house wanted an extra bottle.
I remember that, ever, so well.

Speaker 3 (02:11:38):
I wonder if the horses hid me. Did they go
to a field at the end of the day.

Speaker 12 (02:11:42):
Well, what I do know because we were at the
end of the round markers. Yeah, the horse would you know,
walk just gently between every house where they had the order.
It knew the round and as soon as he dropped
the last bottle it used to hurry up and he

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had to he had to do a little hot and
skip to jump on because the whole was eager to
get back. So whether it went to a field, and
I don't know, but the horse you had finished and
it was.

Speaker 3 (02:12:12):
Off whereabouts in the UK? Was this, Neil?

Speaker 12 (02:12:15):
In Hull?

Speaker 20 (02:12:17):
Were all that?

Speaker 7 (02:12:18):
Were?

Speaker 3 (02:12:18):
All of them? Were all the milk? Was all milk
delivered by horses.

Speaker 12 (02:12:24):
As far as I know, Yes, And it had just
changed into bottles because my brother used to say that
he used to come round with cans and I don't
know the relevance, but he used to shout old milk,
new milk, and you brought your container out.

Speaker 3 (02:12:45):
Was this in the nineteen fifties, just.

Speaker 12 (02:12:49):
Nicely after the maybe after nicely after the war?

Speaker 3 (02:12:53):
Marcus, nice to talk, Neil, Thank you for that. Twelve
to twelve denuts, Marcus, good evening. Oh sorry, I put
the wrong side of the deanian Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 7 (02:13:03):
Welcome, good evening, mar How are you good?

Speaker 3 (02:13:07):
Things?

Speaker 6 (02:13:07):
Doing good?

Speaker 7 (02:13:10):
A couple of things. I know it's getting towards the
end of your shift, but I couldn't let John Clark
go by without the talk of the honest car salesman. Sketch.

Speaker 3 (02:13:22):
Yeah, tell me about that one. Well, I do remember.
And look, I think I think that was in the
movie with Timir to Morrison and Lisa Is It was
it called No Way Out to You remember that.

Speaker 7 (02:13:38):
I think it was called Never Say Die.

Speaker 3 (02:13:39):
That's exactly right. Yeah, and he played yeah he was,
and the team went to buy a car off his cameo,
trying to sell him, trying to trying to sell a
very young Timur to Morrison.

Speaker 7 (02:13:56):
I believe in Old Mark to Zephyr, but some of
the lines that he has in it are just so genius.
He's like, when you started up at sounds like a
haunted ship house.

Speaker 3 (02:14:10):
He pretty much steals the movie, actually, because the movie
seemed to be pretty sketchy apart from that, but that
nailed it.

Speaker 7 (02:14:17):
The movie wasn't great, but I think there's another line
where he says, like you could almost get the ton
in this if if you're going downhill with a with
a stiff breeze up your freckle something.

Speaker 3 (02:14:28):
Okay, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's exactly. And the
movie was a strange movie, was a strange road movie,
sort of traced by chased by Americans around and ended
up sort of on the West coast. Didn't that was
with a house exploding.

Speaker 7 (02:14:45):
As I remember it. Honestly, the only time I've I've
seen much of that movie is just for John Clark
scene and that as the honest car salesman and Tim.
I think at one stage, Tim says, oh, I guess
it just says one lady owner, doesn't it, And he's like, no,
this is next Renchel that said the ship dressed out

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of it or whatever. Whole idea of the honest cursousand
was wonderful.

Speaker 3 (02:15:13):
Now, milkman, milk boys, what have you got about that?

Speaker 13 (02:15:18):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (02:15:18):
I was just thinking about back in the day day
they were they had those very big, almost like car
sized tires and they would run around the neighborhood with
the with the milk bottles clinking. But it was always
the more athletic kids that would that would do it.
You know, it would be the the cking team stuff

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or somebody else like that, and they would they would
run around and it was almost like part of their training.

Speaker 3 (02:15:47):
I guess yeah, I think yeah, And I think you
move on to doing the rubbish bins. Maybe I think
that well, I think that was the Yeah, yeah, maybe
you didn't, but yeah, no I didn't do it. I
did it once. Yeah, I helped the mate out then,
but look, thank you for that call. I got to
have the commercials.

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